Class Notes

Anna Austin Ware is gathering local stories about the August earthquake in Mineral, Va., and writing them up to put in a folder in Sudlersville Memorial Library. One was about a friend who touched a button in the dentist’s office and thought that was what made her chair move. Anna, herself, thought she was having a stroke and got up to take two aspirin! Libby Phillips Roe visited Anna recently and said there were two sisters from Mineral there, one of whom was an elementary major and one of their classmates.

Elizabeth Cumby Murray continues to play bridge at Sherburne Commons and was looking forward to Thanksgiving, when grandson Andrew and his wife and two children, whom she hadn’t seen in a long time, were to be on Nantucket. Marie Kennedy Robins spent a delightful fall vacation at Anna Maria Island, which resembles the old Florida, with a slow pace and no high rises, and is bordered on the west by the Gulf of Mexico. Marie’s son-in-law, Robert Wagner, was named Maryland’s most distinguished school principal for 2011.

Phyllis Quimby Anderson finally has a great-grandchild and was expecting another one in December – both girls! She went to two of her granddaughters’ weddings, one in April and one in September, so she might have three great-grandchildren soon. She went to the USS New York October reunion in Virginia Beach with her daughter and two sons. Hank passed away last year, and Phyllis said it seems that more widows come each year. A highlight of the weekend was dinner onboard after a tour of the ship, and Phyllis was glad to have made it up several sets of ladder-type stairs and back down backward! She still plays bridge, sings in the choir, does volunteer work, and planned to start a hand-bell group again after Christmas.