Class Notes

Ted and I continue to thrive in beautiful northwestern North Carolina. I’m almost recovered from my second neck surgery and hope I’m running out of cervical vertebrae for the surgeon to operate on. In March, we visited my parents, who are in a Florida nursing home specializing in dementia. We stopped to see Ted’s youngest son, Doug, and fiancée Sarah in Gadsden, Ala.

Lynn DeWitt Fogel and husband Joe of Stone Mountain, Ga., planned a June trip to Italy. She has taught for 31 years in Gwinnett County, and Joe has been with Southern Cathodic Protection for 27 years. Son William, 24, invented the Easy Edger lawn trimmer. Son Matthew, 27, works for a healthcare company and is pursuing an MBA at the University of Colorado. Lynn visited her brother in Lynchburg, Va., last summer and saw high school friends.

Helen Row Mullins of Jolo, W.Va., sings in the Southwest Virginia Community College Choir and travels, especially to see her three grandsons, ages 13, 6, and 4. Their mother, daughter Julie, has a cake business in Fredericksburg. Daughter Karen is a graphic artist at VCU. Pamela Veague Krauss retired from social work; husband Ken is an adult cardiologist at New York University Medical Center. Daughter Ashley, 26, studies art history at Barnard College. Son Alex, 22, studies photography at State University of New York.

Anne Sommervold LeDoux is retired and travels – to Southeast Asia, Russia, Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary! She and husband John visited grandchildren, ages 4 and 2, in Arizona. John travels around the country teaching and is a consultant. Son Justin and new wife Cari live and teach in Caroline County.

Bruce and Barbara Forgione Tansey, married 41 years, spent Christmas with daughter Lisa and her husband in Chesapeake, Va. Barbara is active in her women’s club, and Bruce is an avid golfer. Last year they traveled to Florida, New Orleans, and Branson, Mo., and also to Holland, Germany, the Czech Republic, Austria, and Hungary.

Vince and Frimalee Kaplan Nowicki of Woodbridge, Va., traveled to Tunisia in 2010 and enjoyed the Roman ruins, markets, and mosaics. Last year they traveled to the Caribbean, South Africa, Vietnam, and Cambodia. Vince works for the U.S. Department of State, and Frimalee is on the condo board.

Gene and Gretchen Gregory Davis of Chesterfield, Mo., love to ski near their Colorado mountain home and celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary last summer in Keystone. Gretchen chairs the boards of the Miriam Foundation and the Leadership Advisory Council for the College of Education at the University of Missouri. Gene was named among St. Louis’ top doctors last year. Son Greg of New England works for the Department of the Navy.

Congratulations to Kathi O’Neill Argiropoulos, who was appointed to the UMW Alumni Association Board of Directors. She also was approved to teach a class for the Episcopal Diocese. Daughter Demi graduated in December and works at an Arlington, Va., marketing firm. Son Jack completed an Enterprise Rent-a-Car management-training program and took a technology start-up position in New York. On an August church mission trip to near Cape Town, South Africa, Kathi and Demi worked at a crèche, Jack assisted with school sports, and they worked on a house for children orphaned by AIDS. Kathi enjoyed a November trip to Cancun, Mexico.

Walt and Anne Howell Wood have two grandsons, ages 13 and 1½. Anne, a master gardener, won her first blue ribbon in a daffodil show last year. She attended her 45th Suffolk High School reunion and had a mini-reunion with Beverley Clare Coates ’68, Jan Desmond Melluzzo ’69, Carol Greenwood Trejo ’69, Doralece Lipoli Dullaghan, Loretta Horgan Nagle ’69, Darlene Greenhalgh Hines, Cheryl Ulmer Nashel ’69, Judy Farrell Bechtold ’69, Tanya Belt Nickson ’69, and Kirsten Mackey Fleisher.

Brenda Kay Schutte Flohre, a realtor, and her semi-retired husband of Virginia Beach have three children and five grandchildren. Martha Veasey Sawyer and husband Roger traveled to Las Vegas and Washington, D.C., and sailed the Eastern Caribbean. In September, Martha attended her 45th high school reunion in South Boston, Va.

Dave and Kathleen Horstkamp Beach of Littleton, Co., live near children Stephanie, David, and Melissa and their families. Kathy and Stephanie authored Madison’s Mixed-up Flower Girl Magic and Aiden’s Amazing Ring Bearer Act, for ages 3 to 8. Kathy is writing a middle school novel, studying pottery, has been entering triathlons since she turned 60, and does yoga with Dave.

Bob and Laurie King Myse moved into a new Florida home. Bob golfs, and Laurie plays bridge and tends the flower gardens. Patricia Piermatti traveled to Florida and also made a pilgrimage to Israel. She is historian of the Woman’s Club of Upper Montclair, N.J., and the group’s 1924 clubhouse was to be added to the New Jersey Register of Historic Places. Ellen Grosskurth spent junior year at the University of Madrid, and she returned to Spain last summer. She teaches ESL in a suburban Philadelphia-area elementary school and is in two Scrabble clubs. Children Veronica and Alex live nearby. Brenda Jennings Louthian’s grandson, Clay, was born in August. Daughter Lindsay was married last November, and her husband had two sons, so Brenda now has five grandsons.

Our sincerest condolences to Tina Kormanski Krause, whose father passed away in 2011, just short of his 91st birthday. He introduced Tina to Mary Washington, drove her down from their hometown of Pearl River, N.Y., and loved the school as much as she does. Tina has been a school librarian for 21 years, the last 11 at The Potomac School in McLean, Va. Husband Paul, vice-chairman of the New York law firm Wilson Elser, manages the Washington, D.C., office. Daughter Lindsay is a corporate secretary in Philadelphia, and Megan is a marketing manager in White Plains, N.Y. They have two grandchildren, ages 1 and 3. Tina sees Kathy Thiel, Kathy O’Neill Argiropoulos, Gabby Pagin, and Mary Pat O’Donnell Weigard.

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