Class Notes

By the time you read this, our 35th reunion will have taken place. I hope you had a wonderful time! I’m sorry I missed it. As director of fundraising development for one of the country’s best libraries, I had to be at our signature fundraising gala. This is my last Class Notes submission as class agent. Between hectic work lives in Connecticut and aging parents, who live a day’s drive away, my husband, Jim, and I want to cut back on volunteer activities, with one exception. I’m an avid outdoor cyclist and participate in several cycling fundraisers each year. It’s been my pleasure to be your class agent. I look forward to reading about classmates in the years to come.

Anne Leckie retired as executive director of the First Nation of Na-Cho Nyak Dun, a self-governing First Nation in the central Yukon area of Canada, in September 2011. She and partner Mark spent 18 months visiting Europe, the U.S. East Coast, Hawaii, and Mexico. They took a three-month, 10,000-kilometer winter road trip from Yukon to Todos Santos in Baja California, Mexico, which they were considering making a winter home.

Bobbi Rollins Johnson was with the federal government, where she met husband Loren, for 17 years. They built a house on former farmland her parents bought in Hanover County, Va. Her sister lives next door, and her brother plans to build and retire there. Bobbi does genealogy research. Son Joey earned a degree in physics and astronomy at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff and is pursuing a Ph.D. in physics at Arizona State University in Tempe. Bobbi keeps up with “roomie” Elizabeth Somerville Hutchins ’78 and said, “Libby was the best thing that happened to me at Mary Washington, and I am eternally grateful for her friendship.”

Isn’t that the truth about so many of our MWC friendships?!