Class Notes

Life is good in Atlanta, except my children are so far away. My son and his family are in Oberammergau, Germany, for the next two-plus years on assignment with NATO. My daughter’s family is in San Jose, Calif. I spent Christmas in Germany, visiting monasteries and castles, and hiking the countryside with grandchildren, ages 6, 4, and 1. In February, I visited grandsons, ages 3 and 1, in California, returning in time for a tennis weekend in Big Canoe. I’m still playing lots of tennis (my knee injury sophomore year slows me down a bit), and I’m in three book clubs. Remember to send me your email addresses as they change.

Patty Boyette Taavoste’s sons were in New Jersey for summer. She was in Alaska in June with her cousin, as she turned 70, and cruised with her brother in Anchorage. She stayed at Marriott’s Sea View in September with husband Heino. In October, she went wine tasting with her Alaska brother and cousins in California, and attended a wedding, with more family, in Miami. Karen Marsteller Nash’s children threw a party for her 70th on a Newport harbor cruise vessel.

Caroline Smith Parkinson and husband Jim live in Richmond. She’s a part-time priest associate at Richmond’s St. James’ Episcopal Church, consulting for parish search committees and vestries, and serving on the Virginia Theological Seminary and John Marshall Foundation boards of trustees. She visits children and grandchildren. The whole family celebrated her 70th with a long weekend in Williamsburg.

Barbara Wohlfeil Weatherall traveled to Europe in September, visiting Zillertal in Austria, taking the train across Switzerland, and stopping in the Dordogne region of France. Louise Stevens Robbins took a food, art, and music tour of Tuscany in fall. She’s a volunteer consultant with the Red Cliff Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa as they work toward a library and immersion school, and as an editor with the Simpson Street Free Press, a Madison, Wis., afterschool program. She celebrated her 70th in January with son Greg and his family, including grandchildren Cole, 14, and Harper, 12; her Madison son Patrick; and a host of friends. Penelope Partridge Booth had been helping with grandsons ages 11 and 13 in Needham, Mass., and grandsons ages 6 and 10 and a granddaughter, 7, in Apex, N.C. She planned a river cruise between Paris and Prague in May with her retired sister.

Janice Helvey Robinson and Rob of the Atlanta area get together with children and grandchildren Katie, 14, a high school freshman; Abby, 6; Samantha, 4; and Will, almost 2. They took a western Mediterranean cruise, rented a southern Italy condo, and visited Jackson Hole and Vail. They planned to spend time in Annapolis, Md., for Rob’s 50th Naval Academy reunion. They visited Janice’s sister and her family in New Market, Va., and traveled to Yorktown, Jamestown, Williamsburg, Mount Vernon, and Montpelier last year. They enjoy church, choir, movies, golf, puzzles, and bridge.

Diane Copty Fadely’s husband, Milt, passed away unexpectedly in February.