Class Notes

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My husband, Jonathan, and I participated in a memoir-writing workshop this winter. One week I wrote about Josiah P. Rowe, former publisher, owner, and editor-in-chief of The Free Lance- Star, because he was an important mentor to me when Leah Headley Samuelson ’63 and I were co-editors of The Bullet. He celebrated his 85th birthday and has retired from the paper. If any of you has memories of Joe, The Free Lance-Star, or The Bullet, please send me a line or two to include in a paper I’ve written for him and the next edition of this column.

Ann Reardon Crowely Rowe and husband Mack are happy in their round wood house nestled in the Virginia mountains near the college town of Charlottesville. Annie continues work on her novelization of a haunted house in her home city and had a great year selling books on Amazon. Mack enjoys honing his watercolor skills, and he’s hosting a show of his creations, Rowebots. Annie’s younger daughter, Jeannie, visited Ecuador this spring. Annie’s friend of 50 years, Charlotte Hudson, known to friends and family as Sue, died in the fall. Sue and I shared a small apartment at Bailey’s Crossroads, Va., after graduation. Annie hears from Nancy Pida Remmers of Florida, who participates in art shows. Daughter Debbie recently won third place for a color monotype at Florida’s Flagler County Art League.

Carolyn DeCamps Dunaway resigned as supervisor of technical services at Chesterfield County Public Library in 2005, and over time became interested in Biblical archaeology. She has participated in excavations in Jordan and Israel, and planned to return to Jordan in January for her third season at Tall el-Hammam, an immense mound northeast of the Dead Sea believed by some to be the site of the ancient city of Sodom. She is pursuing a master’s degree in Biblical archaeology and is active in her church, with Bible study, and with friends and her two stepdaughters.

Mary Russell, Alice Eckenrode Alkire, and I continue our occasional mini-reunions. Cynthia Whitaker Finnelly and Dan Weinrich plan to join us when they travel from Cary, N.C., to a concert at Wolf Trap in Vienna, Va. In November, I visited gardens in Argentina and Uruguay, where I lived in the ’80s. I plan to take lots of short family trips this summer and a garden tour to South Africa in November.

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