Class Notes

We finally moved into our new home in a 55+ community last December and were unpacking and getting settled. We’re having a deck with a gazebo built behind the house and completing our landscaping in preparation for our home to be on the Soleil Garden Tour in May. We’re involved in cooking clubs, game nights, and dinner outings, and look forward to exploring more of the area.

Anne Sommervold LeDoux’s husband, John, plays golf in Myrtle Beach and does consulting work that requires travel. Son Justin and wife Cari teach and live nearby with their son, Sean, 17 months. Their other son, Matt, and wife Shannon live in Arizona with grandchildren Hannah, in first grade, and Cash, 3. Anne traveled to Peru – her first trip to South America – with friends last May, visiting Machu Picchu. In March, Anne and John planned a trip to Greece and to cruise the Adriatic Sea.

In February 2013, Frimalee Kaplan Nowicki cruised around the Galapagos Islands with friends. Last July she and husband Vince visited wineries and Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado; rafted and hiked in Canyonlands National Park in Utah; and went to Frontier Days and the rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyo. In September, they traveled to France and visited wineries; olive oil manufacturers; Roman ruins; the mental institution where Van Gogh painted some of his famous works; Avignon, known for its Papal Palace; Albi, home of the world’s largest collection of Toulouse-Lautrec works and Europe’s largest brick cathedral; and Carcassonne, a medieval fortress town.

Barbara Forgione Tansey sold her Tennessee home last July and moved to a single-family condo in a Chesapeake, Va., adult community near daughter Lisa and grandson Bodie. Gretchen Gregory Davis and husband Gene achieved their dream of retiring to the Colorado mountains, where they hike, bike, and ski. Last April Gretchen became president of their Dillon, Colo., homeowners association and joined the Keystone Owners Association’s board. Son Greg works for defense industry contractor BAE. Gretchen’s dad, 93, still travels and last April took an around-the-world cruise. He was a hit when he spoke at a Royal Bank of Canada series last October about his experience with the Cuban Missile Crisis and has more speaking engagements. Gretchen’s sister, Cookie, won an Emmy for her involvement in Ballet Austin’s Light/The Holocaust & Humanity Project.

Martha Pickard Zink and husband Rip of Kiawah, S.C., maintain homes in Ruxton, Md., and Bethany Beach, Del. Rip goes to the beach daily and golfs. Martha bikes, golfs, gardens, paints, sews, plays bridge, and is in book clubs. Last August they traveled to Utah and Colorado, visiting Arches and Canyonlands national parks, Durango, Telluride, Crested Butte, and the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. In November, they cruised from Venice to Istanbul, visiting Croatia, Athens, and Ephesus. Son Matt is busy with mortgages; wife Amy is in real estate. Their children are Hannah, in third grade, and James, in kindergarten. Matt’s brother, Doug, builds and renovates in Charlottesville.

Edith C. “Dibby” Clark took a cruise early in the year with her mother and her sister, Anne Clark ’69, from Miami to Lima, Peru, with stops at Key West, Grand Cayman, and Panama City. They visited archaeological digs and restorations at

pre-Incan sites outside of Salaverry. Edith took the Year of Faith Pilgrimage to Rome, Orvieto, and Assisi, visiting churches and the catacombs. During an audience with newly elected Pope Francis, he twice passed within arm’s reach. During the Institute of Catholic Culture’s Year of Faith pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she followed the locations and events of the Gospel of Matthew, on the Sea of Galilee and in Jerusalem. She visited Masada and Qumran, and swam in the Dead Sea. Last summer, Edith built up her landscape design and four-season garden business. She walked with Vietnam veterans in a Memorial Day parade, completed house renovations, and visited her mother and sister for her mother’s 94th birthday.

Peggy Hall Brown, Lynn Hammes Rayher, Mimi Webb Stout, Lynne Royston Wine, and Judy Wiener Winters, all retired in Virginia, met for lunch recently in Charlottesville. Lynn Amole Horng and husband Albert of Hatfield, Pa., were renovating a house they bought four years ago in Philadelphia. They have children Dunstan, a data manager; Debra, who’s pursuing a Ph.D.; Aidan, who earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Drexel University; and Abe.

In 2011, Rochele HC Hirsch moved from Atlanta to Singapore in February but returned in November to the Los Angeles area, where she lived until February 2013. During that time, she wrote Relationship Chemistry: Understanding the Unspoken. Her business includes relationship/transformation consulting. In February 2013, she drove cross-country, visiting friends, including Professor Emeritus of Physics Bulent Atalay and his wife, Carol Jean, in Virginia, and Tony and Jan Sullivan Chalmers in Florida. In August 2013, Rochele returned to San Francisco for an event she organized honoring Suzanne Caygill’s color analysis legacy. Rochele was involved directly with Suzanne from 1982 until her death in 1994, and graduated from her Academy of Color in 1989. She plans to travel this year and work on her next book, Get a Better Return on Your Crash & Burn.

Patricia Piermatti retired and spent time in the southeast in December, visiting Fort Sumter, the USS Yorktown, Disney World, and the Ernest Hemingway House. She’s taken day trips with the Adult School of Montclair to the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, N.J., and the WWII & NYC exhibit at the New-York Historical Society. She also has traveled with the Victorian Society in America to the Pinchot family home, Grey Towers, in Milford, Pa., to see the Lincoln assassination flag at the Pike County Historical Society at the Columns, and to Edgewater, the former Livingston family home in Barrytown, N.Y.

Kathleen Horstkamp Beach and husband Dave live in Littleton, Colo., near daughter Stephanie, who last November expected twin girls. Kathleen retired from teaching high school English and focuses on her ceramics, recently on display in Colorado galleries.

Judy Templeman Miller and husband Ron raised four children in Bethesda, Md. Her older daughter died in 2005, and Ron died in 2007. When daughter Jenny and husband Nick moved to Newburyport, Mass., Judy relocated there and was awaiting the birth of her first grandchild. Her sons live in Berkeley and Ann Arbor. Judy’s still close with freshman roommate Aileen Reynolds.