Class Notes

We enjoyed time with our grandchildren and took a couple of trips over the summer. I particularly enjoyed Oshkosh, Wis., and the annual AirVenture, where we met two of the original Tuskegee Airmen. The summer ended with a trip to Myrtle Beach for a weeklong celebration of a “significant” birthday of Carolyn Collins Vass ’69. My sister, Grace Hines Sorey ’70, and her husband traveled to Sri Lanka in August to visit their daughter, there on assignment with USAID.

This fall I was asked to fill in for our regular organist at St. Peter’s. I continue to play piano but hadn’t played the organ since my Mary Washington days. I took organ lessons freshman year from Jean Edson. I now have a renewed passion for organ and have been asked to play again.

Dianne Friedhoff Blais writes, “Since I skipped a year at MWC, I feel I don’t really belong in your class, but I do.” Dianne ran for a Virginia House of Delegates seat in November 2011 and got over 25 percent of the vote.

Andrea “Andy” Sosnowski Coyle writes that she and longtime friends Carol Maupai Dunham, Nancy Parham Katz, and Janne Frost Arceo still get together. Seems that the friendships forged on Willard third front are still going strong.

Janet Hedrick has returned to Alexandria and will continue to work with the Buffalo Bill Historical Center as Eastern regional development manager. Janet and Sharon Richmond Janis will work on our 40th reunion.

Do you have a story about something good you can attribute to your education or years at UMW? Please share.