Class Notes

By the time you read this article, our 40th reunion will be a memory. Thanks to Janet Hedrick and Sharon Richmond Janis for serving as our reunion class representatives. Keep those emails, cards, and letters coming!

Rod and I will celebrate our 30th anniversary in June and plan a trip to Belize to snorkel, kayak, fish, and drink delicious rum concoctions. We also look forward to our annual week of R&R with family in North Carolina’s Outer Banks. I helped at a florist shop for Valentine’s Day and started painting classes in the fall. I was looking forward to chatting with classmates, including Virginia Davey Addison, Anne Bevins Cooper, and Jeanne Coats Black, at the March reception for the Richmond Alumni Network.

Susan Regan of Virginia retired from a career in education as a teacher, principal, and director of personnel. She is secretary of her condo association. Last year she took a cruise to Alaska and visited Seattle. Ruth Siko retired from Roanoke City Schools. Debbe Heiman-Hughes lives in Northern Virginia. Bambi Creighton Willis is rector at St. Asaph’s Episcopal Church in Bowling Green, Va.

Mary Driehaus Schwem is director of academic services for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s campus in Cheyenne, Wyo., where she’s lived since 1984, courtesy of the Air Force. Husband Bill retired in 1994. One of their daughters works for the law library at Ohio State and one is a nuclear engineer for Idaho National Laboratory. Their son works for the National Institutes of Health in the Philippines.

Sharon Richmond Janis planned to retire after nine years as innkeeper at the Delaware Inn at Rehoboth and relocate to Greensboro, N.C. Barbara Lee Brand’s son was to marry in June in San Francisco, and another son and his wife were to come from London for the festivities.

Thanks to all who contributed to this issue. Keep sending updates on yourself and classmates.