Class Notes

As I wrote this, snow was falling in York, Pa. It was a long, snowy winter, but I enjoyed it since it was the first year I wasn’t working and didn’t have to go anywhere. That Medicare booklet in the mail on your birthday is a bit disconcerting. How did we get to 65?

Barbara Exline Staller, Liz Keith, and I met for lunch near Lancaster, Pa., as we did last year. Barbara lives not far from York. She and Walt bought a house and finally renovated and unpacked. Liz lost her 20-year-old Westie and was training her new Westie puppy, Pippa. Since retiring from teaching, Liz has cruised and traveled.

I hear from Kathy Lewis Newbold, who lives in Flatrock, N.C., and was anxious to get on the golf course and beat Greg. She and I wore the eagle, globe, and anchor several years after graduating and still hear from Mary Washington friends.

Mary Weaver Mann’s mother is 104 and going strong. Mary’s son Zephyr moved home for a while and has worked on films, including Divergent and Thor. Mary still works at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library in Fredericksburg.

Mary Jane Chandler Miller and Fred of northeastern Vermont welcomed their second granddaughter in December and celebrated their 42nd anniversary in February. Mary Jane stays in touch with Bonney Barber Mayers from the French House; freshman year friends from Virginia second back Nancy Lindberg, Carol Kling Walker, Pam Hudson, Carol Surber Lewis, Judy O’Donoghue Batterson, and Jeannie Mitchell Brobst; and our counselor, Carole Findlay Phipps ’69.

Pam Rave Hall and Diana Rupert Livingston, who is retired, are still close and met in Williamsburg before Christmas. Our condolences to Pam, who lost her mother over winter.

Mary T. Bradley MacPherson and I email, trying to connect in person. We missed each other while I was in Brussels and she was working in North Africa with Vital Voices. She, Betsy Morrell Bryan, professor of Egyptology at Johns Hopkins, and I are on the UMW College of Arts and Sciences advisory board under the leadership of Dean Richard Finkelstein. We look at aspects of the college, act as advisors and possibly mentors to students, and engage in outreach, especially to out-of-state prospective students.

Laurie McIntosh travels to help young military men and women hone their writing skills for business and government. She plans a tentative retirement next year to spend more time with her mother, 90, but will continue to work if she can do sessions nearby. The winter weather kept Laurie and me from meeting, but hopefully we will soon.