Class Notes

Luisa Freeman has been in the energy efficiency (now climate change) industry since graduation, and is a senior principal consultant at DNV GL. She has worked for utilities and government agencies around the world, from Thailand to Dubai to Barbados. She and her family – husband Joe Preston and son Sam Freeman Farvardin – are now relocating to Nashville, TN where Luisa will be supporting a project for the Tennessee Valley Authority. She is sad to be leaving the DC area, friends and family after a 25-year stint, but is also looking forward to going back to the hills of Tennessee where she completed her graduate degree. Son Sam (age 20) is a talented glass blower and is working toward a degree in scientific glass. Husband Joe continues to fly (where they met 10 years ago) around the country in his tech industry career. If you find yourself in Music City, Luisa says to please look her up!

Parker Curlee wrote, “After years of reading alumni notes, I decided to share my post-graduation activities. After graduating, I attended William & Mary’s MBA program. After professional stints in Chicago and Philadelphia, I’ve lived in Richmond since 1984 and am married to Lisa, a 1978 graduate of Radford University. I’m President of Guarantee Insurance Services and have a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth, who is on track to graduate from Longwood University this coming spring with a degree in English Literature. I’ve kept up with Ron Bennet who is living his dream retirement in central Florida.”

Margaret Kay Watson Stone emailed, “I keep saying I am going to send in some news then in a blink of an eye, I am off in another direction. I do enjoy reading our class notes each time the magazine arrives. My husband, Tim, retired from the U.S. Navy in 1995 and we settled in Auburn Alabama. He is an Auburn University NROTC graduate and we like being in a college town. I worked in the Planning Department for the City of Auburn for 10 years and then took a position with Auburn University Museum of Natural History. I currently coordinate the outreach activities for the museum including 30+ conservation-based education programs in east central Alabama rural schools each year. It is very rewarding and I learn something new constantly as I am surrounded by faculty and graduate students conducting amazing research. I share my office with a small zoo of mostly reptiles and often foster animals that college students obtain and then lose interest in. My best to all our classmates!”

Linda Reynolds Thornton, who is Associate Director for Business Systems Analysis for UMW, shared some sad news about a Class of ’79 member, Anne Meaney Leckie ’78 said that Elizabeth “Liz” Greathouse passed away in March 2016 in Washington, DC.

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From Victoria Humphreys: I am pleased that Frank has retired after 33 years at UPS.  He has started a new career as General Manager of Built to Last outdoor furniture in Moyock, NC.  This will be our first Christmas in 33 years where he’ll be around to enjoy the holidays with us!  Our daughter, Meredith, is a Special Education teacher in Campbell County, Virginia.  I expanded my firm and hired an Associate two years ago as part of my slowing down/retirement plan. She enjoys the practice of family law as much as I do.  I have been in touch with Sally Harrison Higgins a lot in the last few years and she continues to be busy with her own company, Higgins Resources, but is also branching out in other directions.