Class Notes

I had lunch in March with “Red” Rosanelli Metzger, Beth Poteet Pollard, and Angela Walton Barksdale at Angela’s Richmond home. Beth traveled to Maine and Nova Scotia last summer. Her husband, Oliver Pollard Jr., is a retired judge and accomplished artist. Angela traveled to Istanbul to visit her granddaughter during her junior year abroad and to the Grand Canyon with two of her children and another grandchild. Red left Richmond to spend six months in New Hampshire. She visits Rome annually with her son, Father Joe of Blessed Sacrament in Norfolk, Va., and recently traveled to New York and stayed at The Homestead.

Peggy Wood Ayres lost husband Ed last year. She has eight grandchildren, ages 16 to 22. Six are in college, with two set to graduate this year, and two – a sophomore and a senior – in high school. Carol Petley Toone stays active with swimming therapy, book clubs, and teaching ESL in Culpeper, Va., and recently joined the Madison County Historical Society. Her grandson, a 2012 UMW graduate, works in Boston.

Dean Murphy Gilmore lost her husband in 2010. She has three children. Dean has a cottage in Nags Head, N.C., and works at the Y two mornings per week. She took a Caribbean cruise with her husband for their 50th anniversary and has cruised twice since with her sons. Elizabeth “Boo” Rountree Duke, a retired math teacher who still tutors, is Dean’s neighbor, and they play cards together with friends. Boo’s children live in North Carolina. Dean is also in touch with former teachers Fran Powers, Jean Harris Overman, and Barbara Martin Reighart, who lives in Florida.

At least three classmates live at Westminster-Canterbury in Richmond – Louise Robertson, Ruth Estes Tanner, and Anne “Stokey” Saunders Scott. Jeanetta Bishop Patane and Anne Henry Brugh live in a retirement community near Roanoke, Va.

Beverly Almond Tucker, Suzanne Borke Grasberger, and Louise Hanselman Bowman attend the Montpelier steeplechase races every November. Louise’s son is a Benedictine priest in France. Lorraine Coppen Turner retired from a long teaching career at St. Joseph School in Petersburg, Va.

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