Class Notes

Fannie Davidson Gray has been reconnecting lately with some other alums.  She says that it was cool to catch up with the Jill and Andrew Salp while they were all briefly in San Fran and she also hiked with Kari Ellis (93) while in San Diego (there was a man hunt for a fugitive AND a massive snake sighting on our hike and then hours later part of the cliff we had been under collapsed making the news. She’s also been messaging with Ken Fulk trying to get him to be her date for Reunion.  Fannie still lives in Montclair NJ where Stephen Colbert has been actively trying to avoid her for the last 4 years.

David Janes – has taken up a new position as Senior Advisor, Office of the President, at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University in Okinawa, Japan.

Karen Hatwell- After MWC, she completed graduate school at UMass Amherst and received a PhD in chemistry in 1999. She had a two-year postdoctoral position shared between the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Basel (Switzerland) and taught college for seven years (Swarthmore, Vassar, and Stevenson University). She’s been working for the US Food & Drug Administration for the last 10 years and is currently Senior Advisor for Chemistry in the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition. In her free time, she volunteers with several organization: Dogs XL Rescue, Girls on the Run, and Bike MS, as well as for my local neighborhood. She continues to keep fit through rock climbing and running. She’s now living in Silver Spring, MD, close to family and hopes to attend our 25th reunion in 2019. She can be reached on Facebook.

We’re all looking forward to seeing who can make it back to UMW this spring for our 25th reunion! Wow.