Class Notes

I continue loving being your class agent! If you are not getting news updates from me, it’s because you are not on the mailing list. If you want to be, please email me at pcweisser@yahoo.com and I’ll add you! I look forward to hearing your news and passing it onto our classmates.

This fall I got together in Louisville, Kentucky, for the horse races with classmates Linda Cline Holden, Carolyn Shockey Moore, and Sue Wooldridge Rosser for a long weekend. We had a fabulous time and agreed that none of us has changed in the last 50 years! After spending Christmas with my daughter’s family here in Atlanta, I traveled back to Germany (for my 5th trip in two years) to visit with my son and his family for the New Year. Ann Moser Garner wrote that she and her sister took an eight-day bus trip to Ontario including a train ride through the Agawa Canyon. They hiked to the falls and surrounding area and enjoyed some wonderful German food at the Lake Shore Resort of Salzburger Hof in Batchawana Bay.
Suzanne Mason Haff wrote that she and her husband celebrated their 46th wedding anniversary in 2015. The met in grad school at UVA. They have two children, one grandchild, and another grandchild on the way. Joyce Ward Dunn wrote that she was elected Mayor of Carolina Shores in the fall of 2015 and is looking forward to the challenges that job will hold. She spends her free time knitting with a group of women, serving on her HOA board, playing Mah Jongg, and serving as a Guardian ad Litem for her county. She sees her sons and their families frequently and is planning a trip for them all to Hawaii this summer.

Bobbie Barrett Crisp wrote that she is still enjoying UMW since she still lives in Fredericksburg and fondly remembers her time as a day student there. Jan Yates Berls and her husband Dick celebrated their 50th anniversary last June. She feels lucky to be married to her best friend and her golf coach! They traveled to England and spent nine days visiting many of the places they had loved when they lived there, then on to Switzerland where they also had lived. They rented a chalet while they were there and enjoyed the spectacular Alps.

Alice Funkhouser Flowers’s husband George had a tough year. He was diagnosed with cancer and started chemo and radiation in July. He was in treatment for six weeks, then his system rested for six weeks and he was operated on November 9. He is now cancer-free! He is back to teaching courses online and Alice was able to return to work. I’ve had sad news from two of our classmates. Susan Cutler Oertel wrote that her husband died in November from cancer. Pat Sprenkle Davis’s husband Ron died in September after suffering a long illness of a combination of PTSD and Lewy Body Dementia (an atypical Parkinson’s). This past year two of our classmates also died. Lee Henry Madley died in May from complications from surgery and MaryLou Skeeter Murray died in September after heart surgery. They will be missed!