Class Notes

Warm greetings to you all! I regret that I didn’t hear from many of you, so I have little news to share at this time.

I did hear from Carole Whitehead Bolt Hylton, who wrote:

I was Carole Whitehead in 1964 when I graduated from MWC. Van Newman was my roommate all four years. After graduation I married Paul Bolt who I met at a MWC mixer in 1962. Paul was an engineer who designed warheads  for the navy at the Dahlgren Navy base. We had two sons and resided in Fredericksburg where I worked at Fredericksburg Christian School for 26 years,
first as a teacher and then as elementary principal. We spent many years traveling all over the country in our travel trailer visiting many beautiful national parks with our two sons.  We took a cruise to Alaska which we both enjoyed immensely. My husband died of Alzheimer’s which was a very difficult journey. I then moved to Waynesboro, Virginia to be near my son, his wife and two grandchildren. I started attending Wayne Hills Baptist Church and in Sunday School class I met a gentleman who had also lost his mate to Alzheimer’s.  We began dating and then married in 2010. We enjoy each other’s grandchildren, our church activities, and traveling.
Carole Whitehead Bolt Hylton

I presently am recovering from knee surgery, brought on I’m sure, from pushing our rather large snow blower this past winter. I foolishly would give it an extra shove with my right knee when the machine struggled to get through a hidden layer of ice beneath the snow.  I have begun to take issue with the picturesque way Robert Frost describes snow in his Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening.

In February my husband, Phil Deitsch, and I had had enough of winter and headed south to visit family for a few weeks. On our return to New Hampshire, we spent the night with my Mary Washington roommate, Ann Carney. Ann and her husband, toy expert, Noel Barrett, of the Antique Road Show fame, live in rural Carversville, PA. Ann and I had not seen each other for over thirty-five years.  We had a fabulous time.  Noel and Ann live in what once was a three-story, stone hardware store. Their renovations include a kitchen, designed and authentically furnished like an old soda fountain found in the 1940’s and 1950’s. It is awesome! The entire third floor is filled from top to bottom with antique toys.  My husband and I slept in a loft overlooking the third floor toy museum.  I was assured that at midnight the antique Punch and Judy and almost life-size NYC Rockettes puppets wouldn’t begin fighting or dancing.

I encourage you all to get in touch with folks who were your friends at Mary Washington. It was amazing to talk about old times, sharing stories that both of us barely remembered, and some stories, one or the other of us didn’t remember at all!  That’s probably a good thing!  Write when you can and share your memories or what you are doing now. We all love hearing from you.

Warmest regards,

Susan Rowe Bunting