Class Notes

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Helen Grantz Fortner and husband Luther have enjoyed living in Westminster at Lake Ridge, VA for five years. Her late brother Walter and his wife Barbara Kraft Grantz were frequent visitors. Following Walter’s passing, Barbara decided to move to the facility. This summer she visited family “out west”, prepared for sale her home in Virginia Beach, and is now settling into her apartment at Westminster.
Jean Durham Busboso enjoyed the class on World War I given at Oxford University in September by the Roads Scholars.
In November Mary Montague Hudson Sikes and husband Olen visited Sedona, Arizona where she took an acrylics workshop in the Sedona Art Center. During October she and her family toured portions of Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Sikes taught an oil/cold wax workshop in Hilton Head, SC in September, and she will teach another oil/cold wax workshop in West Point, VA in January. Her acrylic painting, “Point of Entry”, won third place in the Metropolitan Richmond Artist Association’s annual judged show at Crossroads Art Center in Richmond in November.
A new edition of her novel, Hearts Across Forever, was released by High Tide Publications in April 2019. Artful Angels, a hardcover book that she wrote and illustrated, was scheduled for release by High Tide in late 2019.
My husband Clifton and I enjoyed another visit to Alaska in August. Unlike the cruises we had enjoyed, we decided to travel the state by car, and with another couple we visited more museums and cultural centers in depth. Hoping to see the “northern lights” we spent several hours at a park in Fairbanks one night, but the expected event did not “show up” until three in the morning, some time, after we had returned to the hotel. It was a memorable trip which we were glad to have taken.
In the fall we were absorbed in Clifton’s recovery and rehab following spinal surgery. Expecting more improvement, we are looking to yet another cruise, this time to the warmer parts of the world.
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