Class Notes

This column is being written before Reunion Weekend, but with the wonderful planning, I’m certain everyone had a great time! I enjoyed talking with classmates while calling around to help us get the highest participation possible. I discovered one we’d lost touch with – Nancy Hicks O’Dea, who left after junior year to finish and pursue a higher degree at American University. A bit of sleuthing by Cynthia Whitaker Finnelly found Nancy in Northern Virginia.

Beth Taylor Schreiner and I live in Northern Virginia and got together for lunch in March after talking about it for years. Beth and her husband bought a starter house and now that their three children have moved out, it’s the right size again. They lived abroad for several years in Bangkok, Thailand; Vienna, Austria; and London. Beth is active in U.S. Masters Swimming competitions, traveling around the U.S. and Canada. At reunion time, she was to be in Sacramento, Calif., for the high school graduation of her grandchild, who is valedictorian.

Kathy Friedman Levinson, a private-practice family therapist, and husband Sandy, a retired vascular surgeon, live on the water in Rowayton, Conn., which Kathy describes as a mini Nantucket. David in Breckenridge, Colo., and Karin in Los Angeles often come home to visit. Leah Headley Samuelson does fundraising and landmarks properties with Historic Pueblo Inc. She and husband Gordon stay in touch with their two grandsons in Michigan via Skype.