Class Notes

Terry Clement Mouser of Louisville, Ky., is retired and has five grandchildren, ages 11 to 16, and 6-year-old Maltese Snowball.

Elizabeth “Beth” Moses Mathes is starting a business writing books about personal and family histories. Her first book was Homeward Bound: A Boy’s Life in World War II Era England, a story of Englishman Peter Ritchie. Beth was learning to produce books, deal with copyright issues and ISBNs, and find the right graphic designer and printer. She moved back to her hometown, Ashland, Va., three years ago, and bets that stirs up Randolph-Macon memories for many of you! She asks classmates to write in to UMW Magazine.

Donna Sinclair Seward, Catherine Wilson, and Claudia Bischoff Vroman traveled to China last year to celebrate 50 years of friendship. Highlights include Shanghai, a Yangtze River cruise in the Three Gorges Dam area, the Terracotta Army, climbing the Great Wall, and visiting the Forbidden City and Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Their journey ended in Hong Kong. Catherine and Donna get together with Sandi Lawhorne Green. Catherine visits Robin Williams Blair in Northern Virginia, where they all live. And they visit Claudia in Virginia Beach.

Patsy Monahan Holden is retired but works part time at a counseling agency. She and husband Mike visited friends and family in the Carolinas early this year. They planned a river cruise from Budapest to Amsterdam in September for their 46th anniversary. Last year they went to Italy. They travel from their home near Houston to visit their triplets and their families, who all live in Austin. Patsy hears from Florence Bishop at Christmas.

Nancy McDonald Legat and husband Dan of Lexington, S.C., were to celebrate 47 years of marriage in June. They have three daughters, three sons-in-law, seven grandchildren, and one great-grandson, all in the Columbia, S.C., area. Nancy and Dan travel, like movies from the ’40s, walk, read, and babysit their “grand dogs.”

Laurie Newman DiPadova-Stocks’daughter’s son, Max, 7, was on Jimmy Kimmel Live early this year. Max has brain cancer and has undergone five brain surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation since age 4. The suit Jimmy Kimmel wore on the show was auctioned on eBay with proceeds donated to the MaxLove Project. “How Max is doing is how I am doing,” Laurie said. “As long as he is doing OK, I am doing OK!”