Class Notes

Anne DePorry McGrath lives and helps with her grandchildren; fourth- and fifth-grade math are a challenge. Photography takes up much of her spare time, and travel revolves around photographic spots like Mexico; Ireland; Tangier Island, Va.; and St. Michaels, Md. Anne is still active with the ElderStudy Learning in Retirement group and lives close enough to UMW to attend lectures and music programs.

Judy Townsend Bainbridge and her husband toured Spain and Portugal in the fall. Judy taught a winter class on Greenville, S.C., as a mill town for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute program at Furman. No papers, no tests, no grading, just 70 interested people…a professor’s dream! She continues to write a biweekly “Heritage” column for The Greenville News. Mary Towsend Bates earned a master’s degree at George Washington University and was asked to march in the May 2012 academic commencement procession on the National Mall, attended by about 25,000 people. Mary was one of 16 Emeriti Society members leading the procession.

Meredith Busby Frank and husband Jim like southwest Virginia, where life is slower but there’s still lots to do. Daughter Helen Powers is the afternoon host of Monticello Media’s Charlottesville-area WZGN. Meredith has been in touch with her roommate of three years, Claudia Broom Hendren; their senior-year suitemate, Georgianne Tunsion Andrews; and her sophomore roommate, Charlene Creekmore Wiser, who went to U.Va. her last two years. Meredith asks if anyone knows how to contact Joyce Anne Pugh McCoy. Meredith also reported the death of Patty Sue Hess Griffith. Patty spent three years at MWC and her final year at U.Va., majoring in medical technology.