Class Notes

Hi, girls! We would love to share more news. At our age, friends and special memories are precious and just what we need for brighter, happier days ahead. It seems news this edition is slow and sorrowful.

A loving and devoted daughter, Noel Sipple lost her mother at age 98 just around holiday time. We also extend our sympathy to the family of Ethel Hill who died in 2014. Sweet Ethel’s sister recently responded to a letter to Joan Akers Rothgeb. This is a reminder that we should leave information with our records as to where our family should send such news. For instance:

Send to Class Notes or the UMW Office of Alumni Relations, located at 1119 Hanover Street, Fredericksburg, Virginia 22401.

Kathleen Sprenkle Lisagor recently called her suitemate, Beverley Sulpice Purcell, upon hearing the news that she and her husband Bob had lost their son Bobby to bone cancer. He was a Citadel graduate, a Marine, and U.S. Air Marshall, leaving a wife and two sons. Bev has taken

17 classes to France through the years and continues to teach French at George Mason lifelong Learning Center along with her husband, who teaches History.

Heartfelt sympathy is also extended to Kathleen’s first cousin, Patricia Sprenkle Davis ’65, who in the same week lost her younger sister to cancer and her husband, a Marine she met at UMW, to complications from Agent Orange.

On upbeat news, Joyce Wilborn Lacy and husband Lou are expecting their ninth grandchild.

Pat Mackey Taylor is planning a trip to Rome, and Nancy Powell Sykes is moving to The Chesapeake in Newport News.

Betsy Williams Brothers, Reba Calvert Bayliss, Marsha Arlott Wooster, Lynda Puckett Howell, and Liz Kennedy Thomas Slate spent a week in June at the Brothers’ cottage in Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, sunning and planning their October 13-22 trip to California. They began the trip in Santa Barbara, California, at the lovely home of Marsha and Jimmy Wooster, while visiting El Presidio, Old Mission, and the County Courthouse. They toured the Ronald Reagan Library and Museum which was quite interesting. They left Santa Barbara and traveled up to Carmel, stopping along the way in Santa Ynez, Solvang, Harmony, and viewing the gorgeous coast of San Simeon and Big Sur. They spent two nights in the lovely Adobe Inn in Carmel, walking around the town, shopping, and doing the 17-mile drive around Pebble Beach & Monterey Peninsula, then drove on to San Francisco where Lynda joined them. They stayed at the Handlery Hotel at Union Square, ate at lots of neat restaurants, toured Alcatraz, and visited the Palace of Fine Arts and Legion of Honor. They finished their trip in the Tiburon Lodge and had dinner with two of Marsha’s sons and their families. It sounds like a wonderful MWC gals get-together! Who knows where they’ll go next?

We want to stay in touch. Please update addresses and send news. Without your support there will be no notes! PEACE and happiness for 2016!