Class Notes

Laura Lowe Collins, husband Jim, and daughter Devorah went on a 7,000-mile, eight-week singing tour that started in Rapid City, S.D., and hit Fredericksburg, Laura’s hometown of Loudoun County, and everything in between. Eldest daughter Stephanie is a graduate of the Art Institutes International in Minnesota. Laura and Jim have granddaughter Madison Marie Collins, daughter of middle son Michael, who serves in the South Dakota National Guard.

IIona Kassey took a summer family cruise to the Bahamas to celebrate the graduation of son Warren, a freshman engineering student at Cornell University. Younger brother Aaron is in seventh grade and plays football and drums. Both parents teach in the private sector. Barbara Moseley has a son and is still trying for the self-sustaining farm life, while slowing the horticultural business and starting other endeavors. Niece Briana Wilson is a sophomore studying biology. Barbara gathered some of the following news from classmates.

Sameena Ahmed of Potomac Falls, Va., works at SAIC. Debbie Sharp Fitzgerald and husband Mike are enjoying an empty nest in Washington State. Cyndie Hammond Sosnowski has two children and works for the school system in New York. Pat O’Hara Wykoff of San Antonio is a grandmother. Vicky Nichols Wilder and husband Marty took a three-week trip on the Royal Clipper, visiting Venice, Italy; Corsica; Spain; Morocco; and Portugal – the unexpected gem. They acquired new friends and the title of “Mr. and Mrs. Royal Clipper” for their singing-and-acting shenanigans. “What a way to celebrate those big birthdays!”