Class Notes

Lucas turned 4 in April and had a bounce house party. He takes karate lessons and started in March at Montessori preschool.

Lois Gaylord Allen was to become a great-grandmother in July, thanks to oldest granddaughter Giana. Gay and husband Howard are hospital volunteers. Gay has served on the boards of Salem County Mental Health and of Child Care Review, and she supports the Humane Society. Her own menagerie includes six cats and three dogs. Since an October 2011 hip replacement, Gloria Winslow Borden had progressed to using a cane. Her hip was fine, but she’d been sidetracked by osteoarthritis in her feet and carpal tunnel in her hands. Still, she attended the graduations of granddaughters Michelle from King’s College and Kristie from high school in Stockton, Calif. Both girls are Beth’s daughters. Cliff’s family is also in Stockton. During Fourth of July week, the entire family celebrated Gloria’s 75th birthday at Lake Tahoe. She took an October cruise to New England and Canada, and a Thanksgiving road trip to the Biltmore. Caroline, Gloria’s oldest daughter, and her husband live in Thousand Oaks, Calif., and work at Oaks Christian High School, where daughter Jennifer is a student. Their twins, Kate and Beth, teach at an elementary school nearby. Gloria’s youngest daughter, Cynthia, an athletic trainer, and husband Rob, a coach, moved from Houston to San Antonio.

Jane Tucker Broadbrooks’ husband, John, had a July visit from son Jon Karl, communications director for Illinois Realtors; grandchildren Tucker, Anna, Virginia, and Jeff; and their 95-pound chocolate Lab. Wife Catherine was with her parents in Tennessee helping her dad recover from surgery. Tucker, 15, is in the marching band. Anna, 12, likes to cook. Virginia, a Girl Scout, is into glitter and sequins. Jane and John spent Thanksgiving with them. John loves being a landscape architect even more now that he works from home. Jane heard from JoNeal Hendricks Scully, who moved to Richmond, close to one of her sons, after her Charlottesville home of 25 years burned. Read more about JoNeal on page 45.

Ann Brooks Cousoubinas watched the lights go out on the George Washington Memorial Bridge during Hurricane Sandy, and power outages left miles of New Jersey shoreline dark for days. Paramedic son Gregory worked with the National Guard for 22 days straight.

Audrey Dubetsky Dowye works out and does water aerobics. She and daughter Tiffany went to Hawaii. Tiffany and husband Rick flew to the UK to spend Christmas with daughter Cynthia, who’s pursuing a master’s degree at Oxford. Audrey’s other children are fine. Mary Carolyn Jamison Gwinn lost her mother in 2011. Mason, her 12-year-old grandson, is in sixth grade and is taller than Mary Carolyn.

Marcia Phipps Ireland and Gary toured Michigan’s Mackinac Island in June, took a September cruise down the Rhine with friends, and followed with a tour of Switzerland and Italy. All four grandchildren are doing great. Kristen’s oldest daughter, Caitlin, was studying in South Korea for her junior year.

Celeste “Pug” Shipman Kaufman and Alan, as coach, had been preoccupied with the University of Alabama golf team, which placed third at regionals. They visited Vero Beach, Fla. Alan has recuperated well from prostate cancer and, after taking a stress test, had quadruple bypass surgery and was given a good report. Pug said he plans to make this his last year of active coaching. The team went to a November tournament in Kauai, Hawaii, and will play in the September Topy Cup in Japan. Pug volunteers in the University of Alabama Hospital’s palliative care unit and takes Zumba. Her children are fine. Jeff’s boys are at LSU; Smylie is a junior, Luckie a freshman. Julie’s son, Austin, in his second year of grad school at Alabama, runs distance track. Her daughter, Francie, is a junior at Alabama. Sarah, the youngest, is a high school freshman. Tommie, Pug’s youngest, is a professor at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. The entire family took a summer vacation in Nassau. Pug saw Pamela Raumity Lareck in Florida last spring and planned to see her again this year.

To celebrate Julia Coates Littlefield and Mo’s 50th wedding anniversary, the entire family, including two children, three grandchildren, and Julia’s sister, Lucy, came to Lexington for a June weekend, golfing and dining at the restored Southern Inn. The celebration continued in July with a condo weekend in Belfast, Maine, with Scott’s family and the Littlefields. Julia said Ann Johnson Maxwell and Tom moved to Lexington but kept their house in Bedford, where their kids assemble on weekends.

Martha Spilman Clark and Paul have nine grandchildren. Fifteen of their 17 family members came from Texas, California, and Peru for Christmas. Johnny and family left in December. Janie left with Jared and Alexandria in January. Billy, Yashmin, and their three daughters live across the street. Paul led five leadership-training courses during the last half of the year.

Joan “Joni” Whittemore Loock said tourists have returned to the beaches, and their condo has been rented steadily. She and Jim had a quiet winter and spring, mostly playing golf; made their annual trip to Wisconsin to visit Jim’s family; and continue their annual trip to Mexico. Joni was to have a knee replacement in January, when son Curt and family were to visit, and hoped to be in superb shape for a March cruise to Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti. Joni and Jim’s oldest daughter, Mandy, sold her Virginia Beach restaurant, Blue Turtle. Mandy had knee surgery and spent Christmas with them. Kristen and the girls planned to come for spring break.

Barbara Gordon McNamee’s husband, Bob, plays golf and attends dental meetings. Barbara volunteers teaching water aerobics at the College of William and Mary, coaching synchronized swimming, and as secretary to the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Board of Directors. She went to the Olympic test event in London, the Masters World Championships in Italy, and the Pan American Age Group Junior Championships in California. Bob went with her to the International Swimming Hall of Fame Diving Grand Prix in Florida. They had their annual family beach week in Nags Head, N.C., with Karen and Tony, Buster and Margie, Lynn and Stephen, and Chris and Yougne, and their children. Brad and family could not attend with 16 grandchildren. Tony’s oldest son, Brandon, married Krissy last year.

Mary Massey and husband Jack Meimers are in good health and took fall hiking trips to Delaware beaches and Maryland state parks with their dog. They went to a July get-together with Jack’s family in Walla Walla, Wash., and planned to attend the biennial Appalachian Trail Conference in North Carolina.

Barbara Barndt Miller and husband Wayne Seeley spent Thanksgiving in Pennsylvania and went back to New York for their third winter in the cabin, adding a chimney and stone fireplace. Last year Barbara moved Rosie the pony to the New York farm then went back to Pennsylvania for the Devon Horse Show and the National Show Hunter Hall of Fame induction, and to award the annual Ralph D. Miller Perpetual Memorial Challenge Trophy. In summer, they gardened and cut wood for winter.

Eleanor Markham Old’s Arthur and new wife Martha were organizing their Fredericksburg home. Parker, Eleanor and Arthur’s oldest grandson, graduated from Maury High School and is in his first year at Virginia Tech, where he is a fifth-generation Hokie. Tyler, the youngest, a Maury High senior, was accepted to Savannah College of Art and Design. Jim has a new job as the Norfolk area director of operations for Conley and Associates. His wife, Beth, is the Norfolk area care manager for the Amerigroup Disease Management Centralized Care Unit.

Sally Warwick Rayburn and Jim travel in their Winnebago RV. Sally saw Barbara Lewis Leddick in October. She and husband Ken are fine. Phyllis Hartleb Rowley and Jim took a three-month world cruise. Highlights included riding elephants, seeing polar bears and pyramids, and visiting the Great Barrier Reef and Taj Mahal.

Anne Saunders Spilman is well. Ann Watkins Steves and Bob drove north to visit their children, then down to Bridgeport from Rhode Island. Irene Piscopo Rodgers and Don took the Bridgeport ferry to meet them. Sally Steinmetz is retired but misses teaching; belongs to the local college group, Longtime Learners; and sings in the college chorus.

Patricia Brown Wardlaw’s house was spared during Hurricane Sandy. She lost her mother last March at 100 years old! Pete’s oldest son, Chris, and wife Ryoko visited Patricia in summer, and she visited son Rob and wife Toni Lynn in Naples, Fla. Charlotte Wohlnick Wiggs and Archie sold their antiques shop in March, took trips to southwest New York, spent August in Holland, were in Connecticut and Massachusetts in fall, and visited granddaughter Molly, Tracey’s daughter, at MIT. Tracey retired from Procter & Gamble in October.

Our 55th is around the corner. Can you believe it?!