University of Mary Washington - Index

University of Mary Washington - summer08 - Index

Town and the Kruger National Park.
Also, Vickie and Bill had a delightful
lunch in Palm Beach with Mary-
Montague Hudson Sikes and husband
Olin. Montie is a very talented writer
and artist. She’s written three books and
a coffee-table book.
Janet Ward Duevel and Paul
have two daughters and three
grandchildren. She sees Anne Marlene
Bost Braun and Lois Prime Liles.
Libby Fordham enjoys retirement,
visiting her nephew in Fredericksburg,
and taking yearly trips with Foncie.
Tom and I looked forward to a visit
with Betsy Jones Ware and husband
Latene, who were on their way to
Sanibel, Fla., for spring break with their
children and grandchildren.
I’d like to include more friends
and more news, so please write! We’re
a vibrant group. In our next letter, let’s
share our secrets for staying young.
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Susannah Godlove
6 Peyton St., Apt. 1E
Winchester, VA 22601
sgodlove@valleyhealthlink.com
Elinor Runge Vitek and her husband
sold their boat but continue to travel,
and recently went to Tuscany, Italy. They
also visit their daughter, Vicki, who lives
in Steamboat Springs, Colo. Son Brant
took over his father’s orthopedic practice.
Elinor has talked to Betsy Smith
LaFever and Ann Scott Koch recently.
Martha Kimball Johnson of
Fredericksburg, does various volunteer
activities and serves on UMW
committees. Daughter Arrington, a
senior vice president risk management
executive for the Bank of America,
lives in Charlottesville with her
husband and two children but spends
time in London. Son Mason owns
a design-build company in Richmond,
where he lives with his wife and three
children. After Peter died 10 years
ago, Martha remarried. Her husband,
Rick Johnson, is suffering from
Alzheimer’s and is at Westminster
Canterbury in Richmond. Martha
has three stepchildren and eight stepgrandchildren.
Nancy Doner Salmon remembers
music at Mary Washington, where she
was a trumpet player in the band and
the dance band. She will have been
married to Fred for 50 years on Sept. 13.
They have lived in Texas, Nebraska, and
Wisconsin, and for the last 42 years, in
Sparta, N.J.
Evelyn “Ebbie” Breeden
McKnight planned to attend the
reunion and recently spoke with
Barbara “Babs” Romoser Brock, who
also planned to be there.
Patricia Ellis Archer spent time
caring for her mother, who had surgery
for a compression fracture and later
spent six weeks in a senior facility. Pat
has been in touch with Roberta Lawless
Eylar of San Diego, Judith Martin
Farris, and Peggy Kelley Reinburg.
Patricia “Patti” Yearout Wharton
took a semester off from Mary
Washington and married an ensign
she’d met at the U.S. Naval Academy
during freshman year. The dean gave
her permission to move back into the
dorm, and she graduated on schedule
with her class. In 2007, she celebrated
their 50th anniversary and their 18th
year of retirement, living on the coast of
Maine. Their first grandchild graduated
from high school in Anchorage, Ala. Two
others will graduate soon, so they took
all three on a 10-day rafting trip down
the Colorado River and through the
Grand Canyon, a trip they had taken with
their sons in 1974. Though her mother
died in 2006, Patti gets back to Virginia’s
Shenandoah Valley each spring.
Mary Townsend Rupe and
husband are enjoying retirement and
living in Williamsburg. She is working
on her life master rank in bridge, which
she learned to play during exam week at
Mary Washington. She and her husband
are busy with the Chickahominy Ruritan
Club and the James City County Fair.
Jean Anderson Chapman is
retired; she quilts and takes classes at
the John C. Campbell Folk School. Her
mother, 92, still leads an active life,
playing duplicate bridge three to four
times a week. Last year, when camping
with her sister, she visited Edith
“Toots” Massie Warner in Ann Arbor,
Mich. Lucy Geoghegan Cheshire and
husband Bill visited Jean recently.
Jean reported the sad news that
Beverly Cooke Lordi lost her husband,
William, in January. Joyce Butler Allen
has traveled outside of the United States
with her granddaughter.
Sally Boyce Sullivan has lived in
Dallas for the past 47 years. She and her
husband, Dean, planned to celebrate
their 50th wedding anniversary in April.
Sally enjoys going on cruises and family
outings, participating in dance clubs,
and playing bridge. Dean continues to
work as a CPA for his own company.
They enjoy their two children and two
grandchildren.
Special thanks to Anne Deporry
McGrath and Kay Martin Britto for
their wonderful planning of our 50th
Reunion. Anne got involved almost
immediately after our last reunion, and
both have worked to make sure it’s a
great event.
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Edna Gooch Trudeau
8200 St. Peter’s Lane
New Kent, VA 23124
ednanewkent@aol.com
My daughter, Virginia, has a new job
as administrative assistant in the office
of the Fire Marshall for the City of
Virginia Beach.
Marcia Phipps Ireland wrote that
Gary has retired and house projects are
keeping them busy.
Celeste “Pug” Shipman Kaufman
traveled to Nassau, Vero Beach,
and Colorado, where husband Alan
recovered from a hip replacement.
Alan coaches a golf team that went to
two tournaments in Carmel and to the
NCAA finals in Williamsburg. Daughter
Tammie is writing a textbook. Daughter
Julie has three children: son Austin,
a high school senior who ranks third
in the state in cross country; daughter
Francie, 15; and daughter Sarah, 10.
Son Jeff ’s children, Smylie and Luckie,
played 100 holes of golf to benefit “Kids
Against Cancer.” Pug keeps in contact
with Nancy Crosland Lehfeldt and
Carol Daehler Leonard, who was
evacuated during the California fires;
luckily her house escaped damage.
In retirement, Mo and Julia Coates
Littlefield find the main blessings to be
health and faith. Last year they traveled
several times to Mo’s home, Maine –
once, sadly, for his mother’s funeral.
Julie’s sister, Lucy, joined them on a visit
to Williamsburg, and later at a cabin at
Rangeley Lake. The Littlefields visited
Augusta, Ga., to see son Scott, his wife,
Susan, and kindergartener grandson
Chris. Daughter Bess, husband Mike,
and son Jack Edwards
– a natural athlete,
top scholar, and a
freshman at Hanover
High School – joined
Julia for a round of
golf in Lexington.
Julia and Mo visited
Fredericksburg and
Gari Melchers Home
and Studio, which is
a part of UMW, is a
national historic landmark,
and is lovely!
Julia and Eliza “Liz” Warren
Harlow had known each other since
fourth grade in Lexington. Julia reports
that Liz died last May from a recurrence
of cancer. Liz had penned six classic
books for children, she wrote articles
for The New York Times, and she wrote
short stories for children’s magazines.
She was president of the Consolidated
Appraisal Company Inc. in New York
City, where she worked in marketing,
public relations, and as editor of the
firm’s newsletter. Liz and Dick had two
daughters; Elizabeth lives in Scarsdale,
N.Y., and Page lives in Arlington, Va.
Joan Whittemore Loock, who
works for Coldwater Creek, and
Jim, a consultant, celebrated Joni’s
70th birthday in their timeshare in
Playa del Carmen, Mexico. They are
studying Spanish for their return! In
May, daughter Kristen and husband
Chad, parents of older granddaughter
Emily, gave the Loocks’ their seventh
grandchild. Son Curt is a captain
for Southwest Airlines; he and wife
Peggy visited for a week. Daughter
Mandy works 24/7, but her restaurant
in Virginia Beach is doing very well.
Joni and Jim visited daughter Sarah
and her three children in Madison,
Wis., and traveled to Gulf Shores, Ala.,
Waynesville, N.C., and Jekyll Island, Ga.
Joni says Ann Rodabaugh Wright is
doing well after the last hip surgery.
Mary Massey and husband Jack
Meiners enjoyed Elderhostel studies
including naturalist studies week in
Florida’s Key West, Dry Tortugas, and
Everglades and hiking vacations in
New York’s Finger Lakes and Oregon’s
Columbia Ridge. They visited Jack’s
family in Washington and attended a
weeklong Appalachian Trail conference
in New Jersey. Mary does volunteer
work – including tutoring and reading
at a nearby elementary school – and
attends cultural performances.
Sarah “Sally” Warwick Rayburn
and Jim belong to a sailing club and
the Caloosa Winnies, a camping group
of Winnebago owners. Son Steve has
a new job; son Dick is a chef; daughter
Ginny lives in Cape Coral with her
three children. In May, the Rayburns
took Ginny and the children to Busch
Gardens in Tampa, to St. Augustine,
and to Wilmington. Afterward, Jim and
Sally continued to the West Coast and
returned to Florida in August.
Jim and Phyllis Hartleb Rowley
travel from coast to coast, meet at a
resort or take a cruise, and have lots of
fun. Their sons – Jay, Phillip, and David
– and their families all are fine.
After 14 granddaughters, Gloria
Winslow Borden ’59 welcomed
her first grandson, born in
April to daughter Beth and
her husband, Dan.
Anne Saunders Spilman planned
to be at the 50th reunion. Priscilla
Brown Wardlaw’s mother is 97!
Charlotte Wohlnick Wiggs and Archie
were in Raleigh in March, Japan in
April, Iowa in June, and Williamsburg
in December. Charlotte and Archie plan
to sell their antiques shop this year and,
she said, all of their granddaughters are
as brilliant as ever.
Despite a partial shoulder
replacement in January, Gloria
Winslow Borden traveled to Moscow
and St. Petersburg, took a trip with
daughters Caroline and Cynthia to
Eperial, France, to visit her father’s grave
in the WWII cemetery, and cruised
by riverboat on the Danube – and that
is not to mention trips all around the
U.S., including celebrating her 70th
birthday camping at Lake Tahoe. She
spent Thanksgiving with son Cliff
and family in Redding, Calif. After 14
granddaughters, her first grandson was
born in April to daughter Beth and
husband Dan. Gloria’s new home was to
be ready for her in February.
Barbara Barndt Miller fractured
her shoulder in February, and the
recovery was hard and slow. Her
pony, Rosie, has been champion in
Pennsylvania for three consecutive
years, and in the spring, Barbara
planned to ride her cross country. She
had a mini-reunion at the Upper Hill
Horse Show in Virginia with several
Mary Washington girls who rode with
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