Class Notes

From Jane Walshe McCracken:

Marsha Arlott Wooster –  Married to her high school sweetheart for 53 years and lives in Santa Barbara, CA. They have 3 sons and 7 grandchildren, living in San Francisco and Greensboro,NC. Marsha and her husband spend 2 months in NYC each spring, then two months on Skaneateles Lake, outside of Syracuse.

Nancy O’Neal Robinson –  Nancy stays busy and one of her fun activities is called “Show on the Road”,  short comedic musicals she helps produce  for senior residences. She also holds some offices in Lions and a favorite thing there is chairing the Student Speaker Contest. Family keeps her and her husband returning to the east coast, so they have been able to include visits  to  Jerry & Ann Tench Huml or Ken & Sandra McGregor Craig.

Susan Taylor Pitney – Sue left UMW in the middle of our Junior year and married her Marine officer husband with whom she first lived in California and subsequently all over the world when her husband left the Marine Corps and went into International Business.  They returned to the US when the oldest of their five children was finishing high school and she has lived in San Diego ever since. When Sue’s husband died from leukemia from Agent Orange, she, with her oldest son, ran the company for several years. Now she is retired and enjoying visiting her children and 16 grandchildren, and traveling to some of the places they lived years ago. She traveled to our reunion in June and enjoyed getting reacquainted with some “old” friends!

Barbara Hauser Scott – Barbara  is still living in New Jersey, although she was selling her large home and moving to something smaller.  In 2000, she moved to Paris for a year and was able to visit 12 countries, the trip of a lifetime. She put her adventures together in a book, then never did anything with it. She, like so many of us, is happy being a grandmother and makes time for Book Club, Mah Jong, writing, swimming, and enjoying life.

Linda Taylor Horciza – Linda lives in Petaluma, CA. After graduation from Mary Washington, Linda moved to MA where she first worked at Harvard University and then received a graduate degree there to prepare her for teaching in San Jose, San Francisco, and Petaluma.  She met her husband, a native of Czechoslovakia in a folk dancing class while living in the San Francisco Bay Area and they had three children. Sadly she list her husband in 2015, but living near her whole family , including eight grandchildren, keeps her busy as they see a lot of each other.

It was fun being back in Mason for the Reunion last June – not that Mason looks much like it did when we lived there as sophomores! In fact, the whole campus is quite a different place, but still beautiful. Emily Lewis, Ann Tench Huml, and I shared a suite with Joan Akers Rothgeb and Mary Lott Haglund right across the hall – shades of senior year in Ball.

From Kathleen: The Class of 1962 reunion in June was a resounding success, with nearly 20 loving members of our class able to attend. We were thinking of those of you who could not make it.

Our hearts go out to Julia Shumaker Bailess, whose husband has passed since our reunion. If you have a death in your family,  an illness,  or a change of address, please let your class agent or UMW know.