Class Notes

Ruth Pharr Sayer and I had our long-planned reunion this winter. We met in the entry hall of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on a rainy February day and had lunch at a Madison Avenue restaurant. We chatted for two hours about college memories, our present lives, and mutual acquaintances. Ruth looks fantastic and keeps busy with real estate work, her family, her life in Princeton, N.J., and summers on Nantucket. As I wrote this, she was traveling in Paris. We hope there will be more mini-reunions and ask anyone in the New York area to join us.

Beverley Jackson Johnston and Jim, married 44 years, have lived in Fort Worth, Texas, since 1979. They spend several summer weeks at their home in North Wildwood, N.J. Children Anna and Jamie are grown, so their dog and cats accompany them to the Jersey Shore. Beverley is a prize- winning amateur photographer. Tennis, travel, and college courses keep the Johnstons busy.

Betsy Moseley Garrard works in Lynchburg, Va., at a foundation supporting the Mercy Care Centre school in Nairobi, Kenya, where she’s taught twice. Once a primary school, a high school was added and three classes have graduated. E.C. Glass High School in the U.S., where Betsy taught for 30 years, is Mercy Care’s sister school, and students raise about $5,000 each year to support the Kenya school in one of Nairobi’s poorest areas.

Jean Rhodius Austin and husband Tom have lived in the San Francisco Bay area for 25 years, but they travel to Nantucket in the summer. Children Tommy and Karen graduated from Stanford University, married native Californians, and each have two children. Jean was in the medical technology field, then took business and computer courses and became office manager for a start-up company in Palo Alto. After she retired, she and six other women decided to explore some of the world’s more exotic areas. They’ve visited Tibet, Bhutan, Borneo, Thailand, Indonesia, India, China, Sikkim, and West Bengal. Tom works for Clarks of England shoe company. They live near award-winning home designer and contractor Iris Harrell ’69.

Sally Clay Crenshaw Witt and husband Sam were expecting to be grandparents and enjoyed furnishing baby’s guest room at their Richmond home. My former suitemate, Sharon Haythorne Stack, had lunch last October with Helen Clarke Calhoun, Linda Frederickson Boudman and her husband, Jean Sheehan Boucher, and Carole Sue Shelton Lattimer in Hampton, Va. A few days later, Helen, Carole Sue, and Sharon drove to Charlottesville and tailgated with Sharon’s daughter, Ann Stack Harrison ’86, to cheer on U.Va. against Georgia Tech. On her way to San Antonio for an aunt’s 90th birthday party, Sharon thought about Ann Dunman Mewborne and husband Bruce. She looked up, and there were Ann and Bruce, on their way back from South Padre Island, Texas.

Helen Vakos Standing and her husband spent the winter at a Panama City, Fla., golf community. They visited with Becky Spears Wright and husband Nick, who were also in Florida for golf. Helen talks often to Sue Parker Burton, who has lots of grandchildren.

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