Class Notes

Sandy Wise Conran’s mother-in-law, 94, who has dementia and heart problems, lives with Sandy and husband Tom. Sandy’s been on a leave of absence from work to care for her. What they thought would be a three- to six-month endeavor has turned into 19 months and counting. Son Chuck is a sophomore studying civil engineering at Virginia Tech. Daughter Laurie is a freshman studying occupational therapy at Pennsylvania’s Elizabethtown College. She’s in a program that combines bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in a five-year track.

A group of us who lived together in Willard freshman year – Katie Kulp Jones of Roanoke, Va.; Patty Churchill Shippee of King George, Va.; Elisa Devorshak Harvey of Sandy Spring, Md.; Bobbie Dwyer Leon of Ellicott City, Md.; Ellen Stanley Booth of Arlington, Va.; Nancy McEntyre Kenefick of Springfield, Va.; Colleen McCahill Turley of Fredericksburg; and me, Lori Foster Turley, of San Diego – spent a September weekend in Cape Cod. We stayed at Pam Clapp Hinkle’s Woods Hole, Mass., cottage and took the ferry to Martha’s Vineyard for a day. Karen Snyder Boff of Marietta, Ga.; Katrina Ray Landis of Annapolis, Md.; and Babette Thorpe of Swan Valley, Idaho, were unable to join us.