Class Notes

By the time this is published we should be a few weeks away from our 50^th Reunion!  Hopefully, all of you will be there to celebrate this momentous occasion.  It still does not seem like 50 years have passed but unfortunately it has!  Our class gift to the Talley Center (at this time) is approaching our goal of $50,000.00.  Thank you, thank you to all of you who contributed to this most needed cause.  It is certainly a gift that should make a difference to many UMW students in the future.

A great time was had by eight of us who got together in November in Gettysburg.  The group included myself, Lee Howland Hogan, Bettie Brooks Reuter, Mary Pat O’Donnell Wiegard, Susan Johnson Gillette, Deb Walker Orsi, Donna Accettullo DeNyse and Kathi O’Neill. For three days and two nights we laughed, and reminisced about the wonderful times we had together.  Long time friendships really do mean so much at this time in our lives.  We are all looking forward to the reunion.  In December I met Genie Hamilton Roper, Class of 1971, for lunch in Ashland.  She and husband Hart live in Richmond, have 3 grown children and both are retired.  We had 50 years of news to catch up with each other!  Kathy Thiel had a bit of a mishap while golfing in Scotland this fall and has been laid up with a very damaged elbow.  However, she told me she is doing much better and is even doing some putting and chipping!

Please send news!  It is so wonderful to hear from those of you who do.  Here’s hoping for a Happy New Year to the Class of 1970 and hoping to see you at our rescheduled reunion, Sept. 5-7, 2020.