Class Notes

Class of 1974 Shout out from your Reunion Planning Committee!! WHAT A FANTASTIC 45^th REUNION, it was a blast, good to see all of you, and for those who did not  make it, you missed a good time and we missed you, so start planning right now to make it to our 50^th.  Pam Smith McGahagin, “Wart” writes, “I’m retiring from 45 years in broadcasting at the end of July and looking forward to lots of new adventures ahead! the first one is a trip with friends to Scotland and England for 3 weeks in August, where we’ll be hiking in the Shetland Islands and the Orkneys, then driving around the Cotswolds. After that, who knows what may happen?  Reunion was so much fun and a trip back in time, always good for the soul. Barbara Wilson Conley, Solomons, Md.,  Trisha Powell Westcott, Fredericksburg, Va., and Susie Paddock Stumpf, Pensacola, Fl.  sent in the following, “We haven’t all been together since 1975, when we each got married…..far too long a time! We are now retired from teaching and have 13 grandchildren between us.  Thank goodness for our cell phones for trading pictures.  Our visit to the campus in August was a real eye-opener; some things haven’t changed, yet the new buildings are amazing!  We were let into Betty Lewis, now apartments, by some new students….no changes to that former dorm.  We then walked into the open doors at Ball and set off the alarms, but it was just the painter and us.  Our old rooms now have AC, but are otherwise just the same.  As we posed next to the marble statue of Mary Ball in the rotunda, the painter informed us that she is actually Joan of Arc!  What!?! We will continue to get together every year from now on and our friendship from the 70s will only grow stronger, for sure.”