Class Notes

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell appointed Stephanie Hamlett of Richmond to the Virginia Freedom of Information Advisory Council. Stephanie is executive director of the Virginia Resources Authority, which provides financing for local governments and serves as manager for the Virginia Transportation Infrastructure Bank. Stephanie, previously deputy counselor to Gov. McDonnell, has children Kristen Spain and Sterling Grotos and son-in-law Josh Spain, who all live in Richmond.

Eleven 1981 graduates who were unable to attend Reunion Weekend at Mary Washington in June got together in September for a late celebration of our 30th reunion at Mike and Katrina Ray Landis’ Annapolis, Md., home on the Severn River. Mike and Katrina, who is CEO of BP’s alternative energy division, returned to the U.S. from England about a year ago. They traveled across the Atlantic last summer on their 55-foot sailboat. Babette Thorpe, who came from southeast Idaho, where she lives with her husband, traveled farthest for the reunion celebration. She is land protection director at Teton Regional Land Trust. Karen Snyder Boff, who traveled from Marietta, Ga., had surgery at Emory Hospital in May to correct an abdominal aortic aneurysm and was almost back to normal. She has a small business called “Clutterfree.”

Ellen Stanley Booth of Arlington, Va., is vice president for communications at National Geographic. Ellen and husband Bob’s daughter, Mariel, models in New York and attends NYU. Elisa Devorshak Harvey is a regulatory consultant for medical device companies and a part-time veterinarian in suburban Maryland. Husband Brian was doing well after suffering a heart attack in April. Son Duncan is a sophomore at Middlebury College in Vermont, and Elisa stays busy with 17-year-old son Alex and their cat, dogs, horses, and chickens. Nancy McEntyre Kenefick teaches in Fairfax County. Katie Kulp Jones is a school media specialist in Roanoke, Va. Patty Churchill Shippee has a daughter in high school and another at U.Va. Also there were Colleen McCahill Turley of Fredericksburg, Bobbie Dwyer Leon of Ellicott City, Md., and Pam Clapp Hinkle of Plymouth, Mass. Everyone greatly missed Charlotte Clare Snyder, who passed away unexpectedly last summer.