Class Notes

Joan Morgan Bolton and Stu, married 48 years, have three sons and four grandchildren who live nearby in New England. In 1999, Joan retired from 22 years teaching public high school and is in her 14th year of tutoring ESL in Windsor, Conn., public schools. She earned a master’s degree in education at UNC, Chapel Hill, studied in Mexico City, and was a training officer for the Peace Corps in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. After marrying, she lived in Spain for a year, then attended the University of Maryland. Her husband taught in private schools in California, Texas, Michigan, Arizona, and Connecticut, and they saw much of the U.S. They enjoy their grandchildren and camping in Vermont.

Hermie Gross Fox took a train trip with her sister in June through Switzerland, visiting Zurich, Chur, St. Moritz, Zermatt (and the Matterhorn), and Geneva. Afterward, they spent a few days in London. Hermie broke the radius in her left forearm – she’s left-handed – while trimming roses  in a raised planter bed. She had a misstep and fell backward onto the patio. She was in a cast for weeks, had therapy, and could use her left hand again. Her daughter, a middle school special education teacher, lives in Houston with her family, trains rescue ponies, owns two horses, and shows in hunter/jumper classes, as does her middle school son. Her son-in- law works for Noble Energy. Hermie planned to take them to Oahu for the holidays. Her oldest grandson graduated from college and works for a computer company. The two youngest grandchildren are in middle and elementary school. Son John, who owns the marketing company Quiver, and his family live in Irvine, Calif., about 30 minutes away. Granddaughter Taylor teaches for Teach for America in the L.A. area. The two oldest grandsons play high school water polo. The youngest is in elementary school and plays soccer. Hermie planned to travel next year to Glacier National Park in Montana and to Paris in fall.

Peggy Wood Wright built a three-story, six-bedroom house in Midlothian, Va., with her youngest daughter and family. If anyone is in the area, she has a guest bedroom to share. One of her eight grandchildren graduated from college and is in Northern Virginia, one graduated and is in Maryland, five are in college, and one is in high school. Peggy goes to monthly high school alumni luncheons in Virginia Beach.

Edna Evans Morgan lives near Virginia’s Zion Crossroads. Her grandson, in his second year at U.Va., is in the marching band. Edna traveled to Hawaii in September, stayed at the Hale Koa Hotel, and visited Bill Evans’ sister. “Red” Rosanelli Metzger spends May through October at her New Hampshire home, winters in Richmond, and takes annual trips to Rome. I got a call from a New York law firm that Nancy Hawkins Lockhart passed away in March 2011.