Class Notes

From Kim: I recently graduated from Leadership Lawton-Fort Sill and learned a lot about leadership and the city I’ve called home for the last 21 years. Our class project was to raise money for elementary school playground equipment for special needs children. I teach four yoga classes a week and love watching beginner students grow and learn. Our computer company has been in business 18 years, and Ken and I were to celebrate our 21st anniversary in June. Find me on Facebook under “Kim Jones Isaac” or email me. I’d love to get lots of updates for each edition.

As an early 50th birthday celebration, Julie Magness planned an August trip to Alaska, where she was born. She planned to visit Fairbanks, Denali, Anchorage, Alyeska, and Seward, cruise the inner passage, and end in Vancouver. Julie’s parents met in Alaska in the early ’60s, when her father was stationed there as an Army helicopter pilot and her mother was teaching elementary school. Her mom was driving when the 1964 Good Friday earthquake hit and was in several newspapers, including The Washington Post. Julie’s younger brother, a certified helicopter and fixed-wing pilot, is retiring from the Army.

Nancy Powell Sykes ’62 informed us of the October death of her cousin, Kathryn Irene Ward Dickinson, after a long battle with cancer. Kathryn was a school speech-language pathologist in Spotsylvania, Va., where she lived for 17 years. She’d worked previously in New Kent and Bristol, Va., and received many awards for excellence during her career. She earned a bachelor’s degree in communication disorders from MWC and a master’s of education degree in speech-language pathology from U.Va. in 1989. Kathryn is survived by her husband of 24 years, Charles Dickinson, and her parents, John and Kaye Ward of Newport News, Va.