Class Notes

My husband Tom and I have been busy. Living in Mobile offers interesting social, recreational, artistic, cultural, and volunteering opportunities. We attended many parades and white tie and tails balls during the weeks-long season of Mardi Gras, which originated here in 1703; the Port City Second Liners Masquerade Ball benefiting their non-profit Mardi Gras organization; the Bald Eagle Bash fundraiser for the Weeks Bay Foundation; the SouthSounds Music Festival featuring three days of the best new Southern musicians and artists; and several University of South Alabama basketball games. We enjoy Gulf Coast living by eating our fill at crawfish boils and making quick trips to Dauphin Island. We explored more of our new home state when we traveled to Montgomery, Point Clear, and Gulf Shores, Alabama, for Tom’s engineering conferences. We participated in the Funky Monkey Fun Run, our first 5K together, and I volunteered at and Tom ran in the 10K Azalea Trail Run, considered one of the country’s premier road races drawing participants from around the world. In May we took our first real vacation (no work!) in two and a half years and stayed at (for the eighth time) Sandals Ochi Beach Resort in Ocho Rios, Jamaica. My brother James came to visit us on his summer break from teaching at the Perkiomen School in Pennsburg, Pennsylvania. We’ve only been in Mobile for 18 months, and Tom’s company asked us to move back to Atlanta so Tom can once again head up Roadway Projects in Georgia. Now we’re house hunting again! When we’re settled, I hope to get involved with the UMW Atlanta Network and connect with area alumni. I’ll keep you posted and look forward to staying in touch and hearing from anyone and everyone interested in sharing their MWC/UMW memories and stories. Please email me at charjung@hotmail.com.

Christine Harrison Casey ’92 was promoted to Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship for Transitions LifeCare (formerly Hospice of Wake County) based in Raleigh, NC. In her role, she will supervise two full-time team members and is responsible for the agency’s unrestricted goal of $1.5 million. She will be a presenter and is teaching one of the pre-conference courses at the NC State-wide Philanthropy Conference in Durham, NC, in August. She was very sorry to miss the reunion but hopes everyone had a good time and stays in touch.

Ken Stuck ‘90 and Wendy Stuck (Scott ‘92) reside in Newport News, Virginia, with their two children and a rescue dog. They will celebrate their 23rd anniversary in August 2017. Ken is an Archaeologist with VDOT, and Wendy teaches Spanish in Newport News Public Schools. Their daughter just graduated from high school and is off to college in the fall. They volunteer in their kids’ schools, in church and in Boy and Girl Scouts.

Ken Lopez just wrapped up a four-year term on the UMW Board of Visitors. One year ago, they had the distinct honor of helping to attract and hire UMW’s 10th president, Dr. Troy Paino. Ken lives in Old Town Alexandria where he walks his nine year old triplet girls to school each day on his way to work at the company he founded 22 years ago, A2L Consulting. This year, he attended his 25th reunion and once again roomed with his old roomies Doug Stanley and Rene Rios.

Helen Heath Thompson Mosher (’92 dropout with alumni status) enjoyed hanging out with Mike Smith ’92, Douglas Stanley ’92, Tevin Chaney ’92 and a host of others at reunion weekend, and particularly enjoyed ribbing Jeff Miers of the Rabble Rousers about beating them in Battle of the Bands in 1989 with Rex and the Texans–but it doesn’t matter because they’re still playing and sounded fantastic while Rex and the Texans is scattered about, with Chris Johnson ’92 in Philadelphia and Sean  Michael Dargan ’90 about to move to Stanford from Madison Wisconsin, for his wife’s fellowship. Helen discovered that she and Angel Gooch Tankersley ’92 lived in the same dorm freshman year. They had no idea despite knowing each other locally for more than two years. Helen’s older son, Kieran Shaw ’15, has been promoted to Ticket Services Manager at Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC. (The best part of that announcement is that Kieran is the reason I didn’t get back to MWC in 1992.)

Rachael Crout ’92 and her husband Eric attended the June class reunion, toured the campus, and enjoyed seeing the familiar buildings that sparked some great memories. They were happy to see that the new buildings were constructed honoring the traditional architecture. They met Barbara Elwell Charmichael, her husband Jim, and Tevin Chaney for dinner at the Irish Brigade. Renee Rios, Ken Lopez, and Doug Stanley joined them to jam to the ever-great Rabble Rousers.

Amy Libert and her husband, Karl Liebert (‘93) live in Burke, VA. Their son, Kal, is at ODU, and their daughter, Morgen, will be a senior at Lake Braddock. Amy and Morgen attended Awesome Con in Washington DC, celebrating their inner geek and meeting some of their favorite sci-fi celebrities. In July Amy and Karl got together with Edna Coste Borchetta (‘92) and her huband Gene, Suzy Cole Ferger (‘92) and her husband,Kevin, Jennifer Peterson Riggle (‘93) and husband Curt, and Amy Larsen DeCarlo (‘93) and husband Mark.