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University of Mary Washington - summer08 - Index

Anne Witham Kilpatrick and
her husband, Roger, moved from
Westerville, Ohio, to sunny Greenville,
S.C., when he retired June 2007. They
are now within two to three hours of
most of the family and have seen more
of them in the last six months than in
the entire 19 years they lived in Ohio!
Anne once lived in Charleston, so
moving to the South feels like coming
home. They enjoy the weather and have
been inspired to travel all over South
Carolina.
Last October, suitemates Anne,
Jeanine Zavrel Fearns of Northern
Virginia, Toni Turner Bruseth of
Austin, Texas, and Carolyn Bender
Winterble had their 10th “H--- With
the Rest of Them” Reunion at Suzy
Bender Winterble’s lovely new home
on the Chesapeake Bay and Poquoson
River in Yorktown. They talked, ate,
and were exceedingly merry. Their
next reunion will be at Anne’s house in
South Carolina. Suzy and her husband,
Charlie, spend their free time golfing
and designing houses. Their house on
the Bay is the fifth or sixth house they
have designed and had built for them,
and the view is breathtaking. Toni
does fundraising for the Texas State
Historical Commission and husband
Jim is an archeologist for the state of
Texas. Together they authored a book,
From a Watery Grave, about a ship that
Jim discovered and recovered off the
Gulf Coast of Texas.
Anne Witham Kirkpatrick has
retired from transportation sales,
and her husband, Roger, has retired
after a long career as an engineer
for JC Penney. Jeanine has worked
as an assistant to a surgeon for
Commonwealth Orthopedics for more
than 14 years. Her daughter, Erin, is
a VCU graduate and also works for
Commonwealth in physical therapy.
Her son, Sean, is director of the DEA
Museum in Washington, D.C.
Chris Zavrel ’86, and his wife,
Janet Hall Zavrel ’87, live nearby in
Arlington with their three daughters.
Chris is with Scitor Corp., and Janet is
with the National Wildlife Foundation.
Linda Sargent Kaufman lives in
Roanoke, Va. Daughter Bette graduated
from U.Va. School of Medicine in 2007
and plans to pursue a dermatology
residency at Bowman Gray in Winston-
Salem, N.C. Son Bill, a Duke University
graduate, attends MCV/VCU School of
Medicine in Richmond.
Beth Stewart Coleman continues
to volunteer as an AARP tax aide during
tax season. Husband Wayne retired
from his periodontal practice, and they
enjoy their four beautiful grandchildren,
travel, and their vacation home at Smith
Mountain Lake.
Iris Harrell visited with Carol
Hewitt Guida, her suitemate freshman
and sophomore years, when Carol was
in San Francisco on business. Iris and
Carol had not seen each other since
graduation! Carol is an architect and
professor in Australia. The two of them
spent a wonderful day together in Iris’
neck of the woods – Portola Valley
behind Stanford University. They visited
Iris’ home, which she has vacated while
it is undergoing a massive remodel; after
refurbishing other peoples’ homes for
25 years, Iris says, it is her turn! The
home will have solar and smart home
features, energy saving appliances,
and green-finish products as well as
universal design features for “aging in
place” without having to move due to
accessibility issues – curbless showers,
adjustable-height vanities, wheelchair
clearances, a full-size elevator, and a
meandering deck ramp in front to avoid
the three steps. Iris’ partner of 29 years,
Ann Benson, has just retired. Iris was
on the UMW campus in late March to
serve on an Executive-in-Residence
panel on entrepreneurship. While she
was in town, Iris planned to visit with
Bev Holt and Pam Hogan Baynard.
Nancy Yeager Allard says that
2007 was a busy and big year for her.
She and her husband, Paul, celebrated
their 35th anniversary in September,
and she turned 60 in November. They
were able to do a lot of traveling, too – a
trip to Santiago de Compostela, Spain,
for an international standards meeting
in May; a cruise down the Danube
with her sisters and extended family
in June; and a trip to Cortona and
Tuscany in October. Nancy still works
full time as a senior policy specialist at
the National Archives in College Park,
Md. In November, she became the
second member of our class to receive
the Archivist’s Lifetime Achievement
Award. Barbara Churney Suhre
received the award several years ago.
Mary Page “Pidge” Williams
Walden and Gloria Shelton Gibson
have continued their close friendship
since they were junior counselors
in Virginia Hall. They have a great
time trading visits between Pidge’s
home in Atlanta and Gloria’s home
in Charlotte, N.C., particularly for
cultural events such as a performance
by the Alvin Ailey Dance Company
or a new impressionist exhibit at the
High Museum. Last year they traveled
together to France, where Mary Turner
Boyd ’67 rented a house in Provence
for the month of June. Other UMW
grads who joined them were Catherine
Wilson ’67 and Jane Owenby Wells
’67. After a week in Provence, Pidge and
Gloria spent a week in Paris, where they
tried to do it all – from the Louvre and
the D’Orsay to Versailles and Chartres
Cathedral.
Donna Cannon Julian wrote from
her winter home in Naples, Fla., that she
and husband Gene have just married
off their third and final daughter! It
was a beautiful wedding followed by a
honeymoon trip to South Africa. They
were expecting their second grandchild,
a girl, in March, back home in Delaware.
After helping with the new baby, Donna
hopes to have time to put the final
touches on her new beach house close
to her Delaware home. She has been in
touch with CeCe Smith Riffer, who has
heard from Barbara Orender Newman,
Betty Jo Shoemaker Polk, and Joan
Mueller Gertz, but she didn’t divulge
any details – how
about it girls?
Dixie Nelson
Jennings, an art
major, handwrote a
lovely letter. She has
three children – Matt,
37; Amber, 34; and
Alex, 21. She lives
in Chesapeake, and
still is teaching art
after 32 years. She has
received a master’s degree in humanities
and a Gifted Endorsement. She plans to
work two to three more years to finish
paying off her horse farm in Holland,
Va. When she retires, she hopes to
write some books on art projects and
“Schnauzerhaus Tales.” She enjoys
raising rare black and silver schnauzer
puppies and Tennessee walking horses
on her farm. She also enjoys trail riding
at Petersburg Battlefield and Chippokes
Plantation in Surry – a huge working
farm state park on the James River.
Sharon Dobie was part of the
American Studies/Trench Hill gang
and has kept in touch with only Ruth
Woody Brannon, Dianne Taylor, Pat
Cox, and Candy Smith. She would
love to hear from others! After Mary
Washington, Sharon earned a master’s
degree in city planning, worked in that
area, and returned to U.C. Berkeley for
pre-med followed by UCSF for medicine
and San Francisco General Hospital/
UCSF for family medicine residency.
She moved to Seattle, was medical
director of two community health
centers, and then joined the School of
Medicine faculty at the University of
Washington, where she has been for
19 years. Sharon has an active clinical
practice, teaches residents, and mentors
medical students interested in careers
with the underserved. She skis, hikes,
swims, and is a triathlete. Sharon has
adopted and raised two sons.
Marianne deBlois Zentz moved
to Sarasota, Fla., eight years ago, was
divorced seven years ago, is working
part time at a tennis club, enjoys sailing
with a good friend, and helps with
elections in her community. Her son,
29, is a photojournalist in Illinois, but he
is about to move to Los Angeles, where
he will go into business for himself.
Marianne’s daughter, 26, is pursuing a
doctorate from the School of Language,
Reading and Culture at the University of
Arizona in Tucson. Marianne still keeps
in touch with Ann Hoskot Kreutzer
who lives in Woodbridge, has just
retired, and is enjoying her first couple
of grandchildren. She also hears from
Martha Wilbourne Cummings in
Virginia Beach and Linda Gattis Shull
in North Carolina.
For the past five years, college
roommates Dale Winn Dewenter
and Kay Barnes Goldberg and their
husbands have enjoyed taking trips
together in March to such places as
the Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, the
Florida Keys, and New York City.
This year they reunited with another
roommate, Frances Allison Emerson
’70, and her husband in the town of
Joyce Burcham ’70 spent
Christmas 2006 with a church
clean-up mission, gutting ruined
houses in Lakeview, Gentilly,
and the Lower Ninth Ward in
New Orleans.
Wytheville, Va., where Frances is the
director of museums. After reminiscing
about days at Mary Washington amid
lots of laughter, the Goldbergs and
Dewenters continued their travels to the
Martha Washington Inn in Abingdon
and the Greenbrier in White Sulphur
Springs, W.Va. Kay teaches history
at Nansemond Suffolk Academy in
Virginia and enjoys entertaining her two
granddaughters who live only blocks
away in Suffolk. Dale and husband Jack
live in Midlothian, where they enjoy golf
and travel. Dale, having retired from
teaching, delights in spending time with
her three grandchildren.
Linda Eadie Hood retired from
an executive position in information
technology with the federal
government in May 2004 and has been
substitute teaching middle and high
school since 2005. She is handling a
long-term language arts assignment
and occasionally grading National
Educational test essays online. She and
husband Rick enjoy cooking outdoors
in their newly landscaped yard and
soaking up the Pacific Northwest’s
beauty in Auburn, Wash., about a halfhour
drive south of Seattle.
Pat Weller Wigginton wrote that
her son, Jonathan, will be a junior at
UMW in the fall, so she enjoys closer
connections with the University and
runs into classmates from time to time.
She saw Patty Boise Kemp at the UMW
luncheon for Steve and Cokie Roberts
and Anne Randolph Douglas at alumni
functions in Washington, D.C. Anne’s
twins are now in college at Virginia and
Davidson.
As of mid-September 2007,
the Class of 1969 Laura V. Sumner
Memorial Scholarship has the following:
principal – $57,240, interest – $21,163,
for a total of $78,403. There is $3,200
available to be awarded for 2007-2008.
Last year, the award was made to Erin M.
Hoesly ’10 from Berkeley Heights, N.J.,
who received the full amount allotted.
Scholarship donors and recipients meet
each spring at a University-sponsored
luncheon for all. Liz Muirheid Sudduth
and Marge Roszmann Tankersley,
among other classmates who live in
the Fredericksburg area, have done us
the honor of representing our class and
our scholarship over the years at these
luncheons. You might be interested to
know that we have 371 active alumni
in our class. Of these, 130 gave $40,358
to the University in 2006-2007, for a
participation rate of 35 percent. These are
excellent numbers, and we should all be
proud of our loyalty and support. In years
to come, I hope we can do even better.
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