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1955

Christine Harper Hovis
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Hope 2017 was a good year for all of you. However for us Californians it was not. There were and still are at least some small fires going right now mainly in the southern part of the state. We did have heavy fire fogs here for a few days but it now has cleared nicely and we did have a nice Christmas.

I had a great talk with Sally Hanger Moravitz. We talked about lots of things. She mentioned she and her husband were taking a cruise to the south after the holidays and lots of other things but unfortunately my mind has been so connected with our state problems that I will count on talking to her later on. Sorry, Sally our fires was scary to say the least.

Polly Stoddard Heim traveled east in September for the wedding of Kelsey Heim. A second son was born to the Ben Brook family. They now have 4 greats – 2 of each.

I got a lovely Christmas card from Dorothy Booth Sanders. She and her husband traveled this past year to Florida, northern Michigan, Poconos, Tennessee, and Boston and New England. In addition they enjoy theater, concerts, and of course seeking eating new places to eat featured on Diners, Drive-Ins and Drives. They like to grill new things like 12 veggies and fish and Dottie has protected the Kentucky Hot Brown with asparagus instead of tomato. Dewey was unable to do any full marathons this year (still 82 total) due to a knee injury in January at the Ocala Marathon. He has done half marathons and 5K’s but still feels he needs to do more. There was a lot of information about their children, however I ran out of space and it was wonderful reading about them, they sound wonderful.

From Anne Rohrbach Culwell. She says time flies. She has 2 new great-great grandboys this year. She was supposed to go to the Chickasaw Nation in June but she fell and was not moving too swiftly since there would be a lot of walking. She has a hitch in her “git along” with a slight fracture in her left wrist.

Great note from Beth Crawford (Not sure she has a different last name??). She mentioned that when she was waiting at a bus stop, a mother and her little son got off an incoming bus. The two women talked. When Beth found out the woman went to Mary Washington a while ago they had great fun talking about memories of UMW or probably Mary Washington.

Joan Darden says it’s a wee bit cold with about 3-4 images of the white stuff. Awfully early for that in VA. She says she’s hanging in there but not quite as spunky – maybe 85%. She still bowls, plays golf, bridge and pooling. She tells some sad news. Marian Miner’s obit was in the paper in early December and she believes it was from Alzheimer as the paper read that donations could be made to them.

From Joan Kleinknecht. She is doing Bingo and find doing six cards easy for the brain. She is not a fanatic, Heaven’s forbid. For the fun of it. She learned how to play Texas Holkem from six ladies that reminded her of her days at MWC and really fun to share Poker with. She spent time with a lot of students and had a good time with many of them as I did with all the girls that came to my store. I am sure I still miss them as Joanie does.

Phyllis Melillo Shanahan says she got down to DB on a Sunday it was lovely had warm weather after 3 storms in Ct. She was delayed by some skin cancer bouts but all is well so far, she seems that all she does is go from Dr. to Dr. but she can’t complain. She gets good reports from all. She has one new “Great grand” baby. Alice is her first!

Nice card from Patricia Seibert Siegel they are still going strong and getting along every day. She and I too were surprised about the death of Mark Sumner. We had memories of the both of us going to the theatre every night when we had a play going in. She was also to see a picture of Debby Klein who gave us a lot of help.

Anne Strickler Doumas was a pleasant visit for us last May when our family came to Fredericksburg for our graduation visit. We had a pleasant luncheon and visit and shared memories of UMW (or MWC?).

Nice note from Ann Dunaway Criswell. She and her husband are still dividing the year between California and Virginia. Floyd appreciates the water in the Bay Area but not the traffic and exorbitant prices. She appreciates the summer in Virginia.