Class Notes

Frances McDonald Mary Washington reports that her mother, Jeanne Veazey McDonald, who graduated from Mary Washington in 1946, died in January.

Sheri Gates Brindle writes that after 10 years without a fixed land base and over 17 years after they moved from their last house, they closed on a house in Lake Havasu City, Arizona, in October 2014. They have spent the last 15 years living first on their boat and then in an RV, so this is quite a change. Lake Havasu is a dammed lake along the Colorado River System, about two hours south of Vegas and about two hours north of Yuma. They have loved the desert southwest for many years and finally decided it was time to settle down out here. Their older son and his family live in San Diego, so they are close by without the expense and hassle of living in Southern California. Their younger son and his family live in Germany, so there was no moving much closer to them. Lake Havasu is quite a boating mecca, especially for the Californians who flock there every weekend. The big tourism feature is London Bridge, as in the last London Bridge built over the Thames in London in the early 1800s. London was going to take it down so the founder of the city bought it for $1.00 and then paid for the cost of dismantling it and reassembling it in Lake Havasu.