Class Notes

If you would like classmates to know what you’ve been up to recently, please email me your news at pcweisser@yahoo.com. Also, if you did not receive this news from me in June, it’s because you are not on my mailing list. As many of you have moved, retired or changed email addresses, you may have forgotten to give me the update. I’m still in Atlanta, but looking forward to a cruise from Rome to Malta in July and a 32-day cruise around Australia in October. Susan Spatig Schmidt ’64 will be joining me for that-it’s been on both of our bucket lists for a long time.

Evie King Cox wrote that she and husband Herb retired in 2005 to the Northern Neck of Virginia. They live on about 5 acres of land on the Coan River. Life is pretty idyllic there with oysters under the dock and crab and fish off the end of the dock. They both do a lot of volunteering as it seems to be the case with their retiree friends. They travel a bit and are getting ready to go to Maui with their son, Mark, and his family. A lot of travel is between Lynchburg and Sewickley, PA, where Mark lives. Pat Davis has moved back to Virginia. Her new address is 694 Anne Lane, Aylett, VA 23009.

Linda Patterson Hamilton writes that she and husband celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in April with a trip to New Orleans, where they explored the French Quarter, sampled wonderful seafood (plus beignets and chicory coffee) and ended with a Mississippi River jazz cruise.They also recently vacationed in Key West with her sister, Liz Patterson Vawter ’72. They are still enjoying Colorado with their five grandchildren and their parents, and occasionally her devotional meditations are published in quarterlies such as The Upper Room and The Secret Place.

Susan Ford Irons writes from Yorba Linda, California where they have lived since 1976, loving their new granddaughter Chandler (their only child’s first child) who is close by in Irvine, wedding plans for Tyler (otheir son) and McCall for October (yes, they did things a little backwards!), family visits from Jim’s side in Pennsylvania over the summer and a river trip through Europe in late August.

Sigrid Irmgard Daffner writes that life in beautiful Carmel, Ca. is great, especially in retirement. After teaching German for many years, even a year at Mary Washington College, she reports that it’s nice to concentrate on herself. She is taking a memoire writing class that brings back and sharpens her memories, recovering even those she thought she had forgotten. In the group they read their weekly writing to one another and in that process they have become extremely close. Alice Funkhouser Flowers wrote to say her husband George died March 24, 2017 after a two year bout with a very rare and aggressive form of cancer of the esophagus.

Lee Smith Musgrave wrote that she visited Hilton Head Island, Savannah, and Charleston in March with a neighbor.

Margaret Cobourn Robinson writes that she and husband Kenny  (+ 11 friends) went to Hawaii in January.  He crossed another state capitol off his bucket list…now down to 13. They then boarded Pride of America to tour other Hawaiian islands. The night after their ship passed an active volcano, rocks fell & covered up the flow so it was no longer visible at night. Lucked out. Luck ended there…in June, she fell going into the garage (one step) and fractured the metatarsal bone in left foot and broke big toe on right foot. Meg passed on news of Barbara Hagemann Hester who slipped on the ice in December.  After an operation on her shoulder and months of therapy, she is now therapy-free and able to drive again. Nurse Ben will be back at the gym.