Class Notes

Hello, classmates!  I hope everyone has been able to stay safe and healthy during this pandemic.

Since we’re all in the same age bracket, I’m sure many of you have been voluntarily isolating yourselves as I have. I, Armecia Spivey Medlock, spent the summer as a virtual nana to my two older California granddaughters, ages 7 and 5, tutoring reading via Zoom for an hour each weekday. I’ve also been walking and doing outside Zumba. If you’d told me last summer that I’d be doing Zumba outside in summer in the South, I would have said you were crazy! But my gym has a spacious parking lot with shade and lots of fans, and we can dance socially distanced. I’ve also enjoyed summer water aerobics at our community’s outdoor pool. I’m in a virtual Bible study and will teach virtual Sunday school this fall.

Our daughter is expecting her first child in mid-December, which energized me to make a long-overdue T-shirt quilt for her. I hope to have the quilt done by the baby’s arrival, but I’m not saying anything about it to my daughter in case my timeline slips. Quilt-making is a whole new territory for me, so time will tell!

I hope that you, too, have found interests and activities to occupy your time during the pandemic. I’d love to share with our classmates how you’ve been faring and what you’ve been doing. Who knows? Perhaps something you’ve been doing may inspire others.

Reunion Weekend is set for May 14-16, 2021. I hope by then we’ll will be in a position to belatedly celebrate our 45th in person. Here’s to seeing you there!