University of Mary Washington - Index

University of Mary Washington - summer08 - Index

Proctor and her husband in Virginia.
Jude and Judy Saunders Wicks were in
Betsy’s wedding 48 years ago, and Betsy
reports that Judy Wicks has not been in
good physical health for quite a while.
From Virginia, the Hayses traveled to
London for their semi-annual visit with
their daughter and four grandkids.
Patty Morgan Connolly reports
that she met with Evalyn McCarty
Boyd at a horse show last summer.
Patty, Evalyn, and Lurton Ott Scott
were roomies freshman year. Patty’s big
news is that she has decided to retire so
she can travel, sleep late, ride her horses
in the daylight, visit her two children
more frequently, play more tennis,
improve her golf, and visit her brother
in North Carolina.
After graduation, Gail Pickard
Bonifay taught school in San Diego for
three years and then married Buck. They
spent 30 years in the military and raised
two sons, who are married and have
given them three grandchildren, who
she says are her reward for not killing or
disowning her teenage sons. For many
years she belonged to, and then was
president of, the Society of Decorative
Painters. She was also the founding
president of the decorative arts museum.
Now, she and Buck enjoy their home
in Norman, Okla., sports and cultural
events, and traveling and visiting family
and friends across the nation.
Liz Hill Heaney no longer skis, but
she enjoys accompanying her husband,
a former ski instructor and Foreign
Service Officer, on family ski trips. She
enjoys dog sledding and visiting with
family members who aren’t skiing. They
hoped to go back to Banff, Canada,
at the end of March to renew old
memories of when
they lived there 32
years ago.
Neva Wilkinson
Dyer surfaced in
Clearwater, Fla.
After graduation,
she taught school in
New Hampshire and
Connecticut, lived
in Richmond for a
few years, and then
moved to Clearwater,
where she and her
husband raised
their three boys. She
worked with the
Boy Scouts for 17
years, and two-and-a-half years ago, she
retired from 15 years with a childcare
agency. Neva recently got in touch with
Audrey Maull Tuttle, whose husband
died of cancer 15 years ago. Audrey has
three children and nine grandchildren,
loves to travel with family and friends,
and planned to travel to Spain this year.
Jude Wandell Potter and John
enjoy cultural events in San Francisco
and spend a lot of time with their eight
grandchildren, ages 3 to 23, and one
great-grandchild, 2. They enjoy their
“flights of adventure” throughout the
United States and Mexico in John’s
plane, but Jude also enjoys her quiet
times at home. September will find
them in Annapolis for John’s 50th
reunion at the Naval Academy.
Since her husband passed away
six years ago, Barbara Wageneck
Gardner spends a lot of time with
her two married children and four
grandchildren. At home she keeps busy
doing volunteer work at the nearby
hospital and with Hospice House. For
two years, she volunteered on Mercy
Ships and in health outreach projects to
villages in Honduras and the Dominican
Republic.
Natalie Robins Lehman-Haupt
has finished her 10th book – The
Writing on the Door – which she
describes as a “very strange memoir.”
Her daughter is working on her second
book, this one about women delaying
having children until their 30s so they
can build a career. Natalie’s husband
teaches a journalism course at Columbia
University. Their son is in the custom
“dream-car” business in Florida.
Suzanne Smith Goodrick saw
both of her parents pass away this
past year, and she is still involved
with getting their home ready to sell
and their business affairs in order.
Last summer, she took a railroad trip
through the Canadian Rockies and
experienced the beauty of Butchart
Gardens in Vancouver. She spent
Thanksgiving in the Phoenix area
with her daughter, took an ATV ride
through the foothills of the Superstition
Mountains, and visited a friend in Sun
City West. Christmas found her in
snowy cold Chicago with her son and
his family. Now, she is looking forward
to working in the garden at her home in
North Carolina.
Cyd Day Getchell ’60 and Mary
Martin ’62 have teamed up as codirectors
of Lakota Educational
Initiatives, Cyd’s nonprofit
foundation to benefit the Rosebud
Indian Reservation in South
Dakota, where poverty and
illiteracy are rampant among the
Lakota Sioux.
Miriam Goebel Rappolt was
excited about the “baby luau” she had
at her home in March. It is a Hawaiian
tradition for the grandparents to
stage this event for the grandchild’s
first birthday. She babysits with her
grandchildren frequently, as her daughter
and son-in-law travel to neighboring
islands several times a week with their
jobs. She is involved with the Society of
Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators
and is trying to discipline herself to
work on another collection of stories.
She swims, does water aerobics, and
is involved with a group that has been
studying Italian for several years. She and
her husband want to return to Italy and
France to renew old friendships. In May,
they planned to go with friends to Tahiti,
rent a 44-foot boat, and cruise Tahiti and
surrounding islands.
Betty Bruce Shepard’s new book,
Virginia, an Alphabetical Journey
through History, was published on Dec.
1, 2007, and we have heard great things
about it. It is designed for elementary
school kids but is good reading for
everyone, and Betty hopes it will be
used in Virginia schools.
Asheville, N.C., is now home for
Jane Echols, who moved there with
Neil last year. By now, they should
be out from under their other house,
unpacked, and organized.
The big news from Glenn
Geddings Sumner and Mark is that
their son, Reese, his wife, and two
of their grandchildren now live in
Beijing. Andrea, who works for the
Olympics, is putting together five of
the venues, and Reese is commuting
between China and Duke University.
Their other son has three girls and
lives near them; her daughter lives in
Louisiana with her husband and three
children. All together, Glenn and Mark
have nine grandchildren. Mark had a
hip replacement two years ago and is
doing very well. He writes some and
has retired as director of the Institute of
Outdoor Drama. Glenn still owns a real
estate company.
Sandy Poole says it’s just “Molly
[the dog], the church, and me.” She
takes short trips to visit family and
friends and loves the visits, but she
considers being on the pastoral team
at her church her biggest joy, so she
hurries home for Sundays.
Wish I could include some of
Diane Hays Neuman’s reminisces about
college life, but space doesn’t allow. She
compares her life since graduation to a
patchwork quilt – she was a “spy” for six
years, worked as a retail assistant buyer
at a department store in San Francisco
for six years, ran her own yoga studio
for 11 years, has been a writer and
artist forever, worked as a public radio
music librarian, and served as assistant
producer for several of husband Jerome’s
programs on public radio in San
Francisco. He still works full time, and
they recently bought their first home,
having lived in rentals for years.
Betsy Watts Haskell spent
Christmas in Texas with her son and
family; in February, she planned to take
a missionary trip with her church to
Costa Rica.
Ellie Chilton’s health took a real
downturn lately, and she is considering
moving into assisted living. She is
troubled by emphysema, asthma, and
allergies, and she must be on oxygen, thus
limiting mobility, but she is still hanging
in there. After several career shifts, Ellie
found her niche in elementary education
and, after retirement from the school
system, in tutoring. She really loved it,
and her enthusiasm is clear as she speaks
of it. The warm and loving appreciation
from former students has been a real
reward for her.
The recreational activities in their
new community in Pennsylvania keep
Wilhelmina Burton Calhoun and Jim
well occupied. They also travel and visit
family and friends.
Sandy Holt Kellerman and Otto,
her second husband, retired to Hot
Springs Village, Ark., about four years
ago. Otto has some medical problems
but, at last report, was doing much better.
Sandy married for the first time after her
junior year but divorced 23 years later.
She had received her master of education
degree and continued to live and teach
elementary school in Colorado Springs
for more than 30 years. She has two
children and three grandchildren, and
she loves visiting with them.
Jeanette Meyer Juren and her
husband have been retired for several
years and love it. They travel to Eastern
Europe, China, and Italy. Last fall,
they went to Sicily and found the trip
especially interesting since they were
taking a class on ancient art history at
the time. They planned a London and
Paris trip this April. They frequently
get to see their two daughters and three
grandchildren who live near them in
Norfolk.
Nancy Cleave Blades recently
phoned former suitemate Katherine
“Kitty” Shiver Strickland and reports
that they had a great time catching up.
Thanks to Nancy, Kitty is back in touch
with her roommate, as well, and the four
suitemates are planning a get-together
soon. Sadly, Kitty’s husband passed away
in 2007.
Penny Engle Burkhardt had a
wonderful conversation recently with
long-lost classmate and buddy Edna
Weiss Clemans, who lives in Bowling
Green, Ohio. Edna’s husband retired
from full-time university teaching 10
years ago but continued to teach
summer classes through last year. They
enjoy going to the Stratford Ontario
Shakespeare Festival and hiking around
Mountain Lake, Va.
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Renee Levinson Laurents (H-Q)
11906 Beatrice St.
Culver City, CA 90230
Arjle@aol.com
Connie Booth Logothetis (A-G)
2816 Kennedy Road
Wilmington, DE 19810
Logothet@comcast.net
Lynne Williams Neave (R-Z)
530 E. 86th St.
New York, NY 10028
Lyneave@aol.com
(Please send news to the appropriate
Class Agent, according to the first letter of
your last name.)
From Connie: New grandchildren
seem to be big news for several of
us – Clara Sue Durden Ashley’s 12th
grandchild, a boy, was born in October
to son Dennis, bringing their total to
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