Class Notes

Elizabeth “Betsy” Carswell and Carol Wayman planned a December wedding. Elizabeth is a public interest advocate for a nonprofit and a division chief at the National Geospatial- Intelligence Agency. They are renovating Elizabeth’s Capitol Hill row house, and Elizabeth is doing online grad work in geospatial intelligence through Penn State.

Monique Gormont Mobley and husband Scott are enjoying their Wisconsin empty nest. She works with high school English Language Learner students, and Scott is pursuing his doctorate in history, after 30 years with the Navy. During their 25-year marriage, they moved 13 times, including a tour in Argentina. They’ve called the Midwest home for six years but probably have another move ahead of them.

Linda Burch, who retired in 2006 after 34 years in medicine, puts her historic preservation degree to work at James Madison’s Montpelier in Orange County, Va. Kathy Shenkle lives in Alexandria, Va., on one of George Washington’s farms. She is retired from a military historian career that included service with the Coast Guard, Navy, Army, and Air Force and eight years producing exhibits on World War II veterans at Arlington National Cemetery. She earned a master of divinity at Oral Roberts University in 2002 and served as a pastor for two years. Now Catholic, she teaches music, drama, history, and religion to children, sings in several choirs, plays keyboard in a band that performs at nursing homes and churches, and composes and arranges music.