Class Notes

Mary Powell Lewis found no news from our class in the last issue of UMW Magazine, so she decided to start the ball rolling. Mary graduated with us but was also already enrolled in medical school at the University of Tennessee. A day student living in Fredericksburg, she never really got to know her classmates. She credits her MCAT scores, which were high enough to get her into medical school, to the excellent teaching of biology professor Hugo Iltis. Psychology professor Raleigh Drake also made a lasting impression on her.

Mary married Australian Stuart Lewis, now deceased, in 1954. They both specialized in orthopedic surgery in the Newtown Square, Pa., area. One of their four girls, Caroline Bradley, lives in Spotsylvania, Va., and Mary has four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. She had the pleasure of addressing a Mary Washington class several years ago when they received their rings, courtesy of Isabel Gordon Swift ’42 of Fredericksburg, former director of the MWC Placement Bureau.

Mary sends congratulations on the excellent alumni publication, and is always amazed and gratified by the changes and plans.