Class Notes

Due to major computer problems in February, I lost lots of files; if your news didn’t make it into this issue, please resend it! Also, please send updated email addresses as you move or retire. Only two more years until our 50th! Stay in touch so we can have a great crowd at our reunion!

I have two new grandchildren. My daughter had a son, Sutter James McBroom, in November, and my daughter-in-law had a daughter, Caroline Elizabeth Weisser, in March. Both families live in California, so I still travel a lot. My son was in the Middle East again, so my daughter-in-law was alone with the baby and a 3- and a 5-year old. Her mother was with her for the birth, and we planned to help until my son returns. Most of us turn 70 this year, and the aches and pains come more frequently, but I’m determined to continue playing tennis another few years.

Susan Ford Irons and husband Jim, a golfer, are retired. Susan attended her 50th high school reunion in Newport News, Va., and met former classmates in Mammoth Lakes, Calif., for Fourth of July, in Palm Desert in December, and in Hilton Head in April. They took a river trip from Amsterdam to Budapest in May 2011, and several friends they made then joined them on a trip to Italy last October. Son Tyler lives and works in Southern California.

Martha Jones Burke ’66, Nancy Buchanan Perry ’70, and Nancy Coates Wilson are retired, rang in 2013 with their husbands at the Asheville, N.C., Grove Park Inn, and belong to a dinner group started more than 30 years ago. They’ve also traveled with their husbands to Charleston, S.C., Savannah, Ga., the Outer Banks of North Carolina, and Cape May, N.J.

Pat Hartman Brownlee went to California after graduation to teach school in San Diego, met John, a Marine, and married. They live in Trabuco Canyon, Calif., and have four daughters, all but one of whom are married, four grandchildren, and six granddogs. They all live close and get together a lot. John is retired and Pat is semi-retired with Mary Kay. They travel a lot and got together with Kathy Burke House and husband Bill of Frederick, Md.

During a weekend in Charlottesville, Helen Hutton Smith and Donna Gates Mason celebrated the 70th birthday of Joan Peatross, who recently retired from Martha Jefferson Hospital. Joan’s daughter, Cameron, and husband Travis were also there. Joan and Helen have known each other since second grade, and Donna was Joan’s MWC roommate.