Class Notes

Barbara Forgione Tansey and husband Bruce welcomed their first grandchild, a boy, born to daughter Lisa and husband Eric in March 2012. A month later Barbara and Bruce learned that Bruce had stage-4 cancer, and he passed away in June. Barbara plans to relocate to Chesapeake, Va., to be near Lisa and her grandson. Our sincere condolences go to Barbara.

Gaye Gregory Elliott enjoys retirement with husband Stephen, taking classes and attending lectures around Richmond, and exploring her family history. When she sees Mick Jagger she reminisces about my dad driving us to Washington, D.C., for a Rolling Stones concert. We could see them, but we couldn’t hear them with all the screaming!

Ellen Grace Jaronczyk of Williamsburg hosted a large Thanksgiving family gathering. Her parents relocated to a nearby facility that offers more care, and Ellen hoped to have more time for adult literacy tutoring.

Gretchen Gregory Davis and husband Gene sold their Chesterfield, Mo., home and moved to an apartment in St. Charles. They purchased a larger condo in Summit County, Colo., and plan to relocate there with their cat and two yellow Labs after renovations are completed this summer and Gene’s planned July retirement. Gretchen serves on her HOA board in Colorado while winding down volunteer work in Missouri. Son Greg completed a graduate-level program his company offered and was selected as a lead engineer on the project he was working on.

Anne Sommervold LeDoux and husband John welcomed grandson Sean, born in August to son Justin and wife Cari, who moved into a new home in December. Anne and John’s other son, Matt, and wife Shannon live in Arizona, where their daughter, Grace, is in kindergarten and their son, Cash, 2, goes to a Montessori school. Anne traveled to Tanzania and spent time in the Serengeti photographing wild animals in January 2012, and she traveled around Israel in October. John continues to do consulting work, help at church, and play golf.

In spring 2012, Patricia Piermatti took a Victorian Society trip to Wilmington, Del., to tour the Alfred I. duPont Nemours-Mansion and Gardens and Joseph Shipley’s Rockwood estate. Last fall, Pat attended the annual Victorian Days celebration in Belvidere, N.J., and took her annual trip to southwest Florida, where she visited the Ringling Museums in Sarasota, saw her first live Nutcracker performance by the Miami City Ballet at the Naples Philharmonic Center, and heard a piano performance at the Barbara B. Mann Performing Arts Hall.

Susan Duffey DiMaina, a retired high school English teacher, still substitute teaches. She serves on the board of a nonprofit that serves a Zambian village, volunteers at a community food site, and sits on the board and maintains the website for her Northern Virginia neighborhood’s civic association. Husband John works at the International Monetary Fund. Daughter Caitlin graduated last year from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Mass., and was working with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps in L.A. to help provide housing for the homeless.

Faye Carrithers Roberts and husband Claude moved to northern Florida in 1984, and Faye began library work in 1985. They celebrated their 40th anniversary last year and have five grandchildren. While speaking to library groups as executive director of the Florida Library Association, Faye reconnected with Athene “Tena” Poulos Harris and met Jody Campbell Close ’60.

I lost my mom in December, barely seven weeks after losing my dad. They were both WWII veterans, and their cremains will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery later this year.

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