Class Notes

Deona Landes Houff writes and edits for The News Leader in Staunton, Va. Musician son Chance graduated from high school and works full time.

Lisa Bentley Brouelette is a sergeant in charge of training and special events with the Kirkland, Wash., police department, where she’s been for 14 years. She dates a University of Louisville professor. Lisa’s son graduated from Western Washington University, works for Boeing, and plans to marry his college sweetheart. Her daughter, an NCAA rower, is a Western Washington University sophomore.

Catherine Gibbons Kunkel, a Chesterfield County kindergarten teacher, has taught for 21 years. Daughter Katy is to join UMW’s Class of 2017. Daughter Emily, a high-school student, is involved in theater.

Sigrid Skrivseth Houston and husband Scott live in Maryland. Sigrid directs her church’s children’s ministry, teaches English as a second language, and substitutes. Daughter Erika, a University of Delaware senior, studies English education. Son Tim, an Eagle Scout and Towson University freshman, studies music. Michael, a 10th-grader, aims to become an Eagle Scout this year.

College sweethearts Joanne Bartholomew Lamm and Chris Lamm of Pennsylvania met the first day of freshman year. Joanne is in manuscript collection at the Carlisle Barracks Military History Institute. Chris works for National Account Service Co. Daughter Becky Lamm ’13 majored in international affairs. Son Tom studies military history in the Virginia Tech corps of cadets. Son Stephen is in the high school marching band and track and field.

Kaye Bost Pennock has taught economics and personal finance at Stafford High School for 23 years, was named Virginia’s 2012 Outstanding Economic Educator, and was exploring teaching at the college level. Husband Rick is in the Fredericksburg Police Department. Son Kyle is an officer with Stafford’s Rappahannock Regional Jail. Daughter Lauryn is at Germanna Community College and hopes to transfer to UMW to complete a business administration degree.

Sidney Griffith Keith received a master’s of education in instruction and curriculum with a specialty in secondary science from the University of Florida. She teaches high school Earth and space science and American Sign Language. She and husband Mark, brother of Jennifer Keith Jones ’87, moved from Richmond to St. Augustine, Fla., 10 years ago. The Keiths’ son, Ian, is deaf and has a movement disorder. Mark wrote No Dad, It Does Not Involve a Hippopotamus, an e-book of stories about raising a special-needs child.

After 18 months of breast cancer treatment, Sara Jones Uzel was training for a half-marathon. She and husband Mark have an Arlington, Va., consulting practice. Son Mallory is at UNC Wilmington. Daughter Camille is at North Carolina State. A young man named Wes joined their family last year and goes to UMW, so they finally have a third-generation connection!

Julie Clark, procurement manager at XO Communications in Herndon, Va., traveled to India to work with her outsource team. She recently biked 60 miles to raise $1,600 for MS and 200 miles in the Register’s Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, and hopes to complete all 400-plus miles with her Iowa cousins.

After graduation, dancer Jolie Long trained in NYC and earned an MFA at Florida State University. She returned to Virginia to direct the Chatham Hall dance program, then became a professor of dance at Brenau University in Gainesville, Ga. Jolie recently reconnected with UMW theater professor Jean Hunt and saw a performance in honor of ballet professor Sonja Dragomanovic Haydar.

Katherine Aaslestad and John Lambertson of Morgantown, W.Va., met at MWC. Katherine teaches history at West Virginia University; John teaches art history at Washington & Jefferson College. They have three children, Morgan, a Goucher College senior; Raef, a University of Richmond freshman; and Alaine, a high school junior. They sometimes see Abas Adenan and Eileen Brown Adenan ’88 and their girls.

Renee Allen Kuntz works for the federal government and lives near Baltimore. She and husband Scott celebrated their 25th anniversary in North Carolina’s Outer Banks, rang in the New Year running a 5K, and had tickets for opening day at Camden Yards. Renee belongs to UMW’s Baltimore/Annapolis Regional Alumni Network, sees Kathy Goeller Booth at work, and ran into Sigrid Skrivseth Houston in Annapolis.

Our son Sean graduated college and works in Seattle. Daughter Lauren has another year of college here in Wisconsin and hopes to teach. I work with high school ELL students. Husband Scott is finishing his Ph.D. in military history. Hopefully, he and Lauren will graduate together. I connected with Jessie Jones Lease and Alice Feely Wilson and her husband of Milwaukee.

Hope to hear from you next time!