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CLASS NOTES
Linda Gattis Shull wrote that since
our last reunion, Mary Washington
has created two “giving” prizes to be
awarded during Reunion Weekend.
One is a handsome bronze eagle statue
given to the class that makes the largest
gift for that year. The second prize is
an engraved plaque displayed at the
Jepson Alumni Executive Center for
the class with the highest percentage of
participation in the reunion class gift.
Linda asked, “Wouldn’t it be great if the
Class of ’69 could score both of these
awards at our momentous 40th reunion
next year [May 29-31, 2009]?” As an
added bonus, our gifts would be counted
as part of the Centennial Campaign that
ends June 30, 2009. So, since we have
a year’s head start, let’s make our 40th
(yikes!) reunion a banner weekend and
prove what we’ve always known: The
Class of ’69 was and continues to be
AWESOME!”
It has become a sad but necessary
custom to close this column with news
of losses within our class. Linda Thomas
Boxley reported the passing of her
roommate, Eloise Bell Sloan, from lung
cancer. Eloise was married with three
sons and lived in Texas. Pam Hogan
Baynard wrote that her roommate,
Elizabeth “Chib” Watters Miller lost
her husband, Wayne, to brain cancer in
late November. Pam and her husband,
along with Diane Mowrey ’71, were able
to go to Tampa for the service, which
was a wonderful tribute to a life well
lived. Also, in November, Mary Lou
Bagby Hopkins lost her husband, Dick.
Pat Weller Wigginton, Carol Lupton
Pohlman, and Linda Thomas Boxley
were able to attend the funeral service in
Richmond. Carol, Dick, and Lou were all
graduates of Louisa High School.
Joyce Munden Clark wrote that
Kay Badran Snow passed away at
home suddenly and unexpectedly on
Feb. 19. No further details were known
at press time. Kay roomed with Anne
Ball Gavin their entire four years at
Mary Washington and was originally
from Norfolk. She had lived in Athens,
Ohio, since 2002, after living in Atlanta,
Pittsburgh, and Oakton, Va. She is
survived by her husband, Andrew P.
Snow, an associate professor at the J.
Warren McClure School of Information
and Telecommunication Systems at Ohio
University, and by two sons, a daughter,
and four grandchildren. She will be
greatly missed.
As you can see, the postcard
reminder sent in January about
submissions for our Class Notes
certainly spurred a great response. Please
continue to send news, as everyone who
wrote expressed real appreciation for
the column. I can only submit news that
you supply, so keep
up the good work and
let me hear from you,
especially those who
have been out of touch
for a while.
1970
Carole J. LaMonica Clark
P. O. Box 3136
Boone, NC 28607
clarktjcj@apptechnc.net
Ted and I traveled to Florida after
Christmas to celebrate my mom and
dad’s 60th wedding anniversary. Our big
news is that we have put our home on
the market. When the house sells, we
plan to move to Colorado, near Denver,
and we are really looking forward to this
new adventure.
Joyce Burcham spent Christmas
2006 with a church clean-up mission,
gutting ruined houses in Lakeview,
Gentilly, and the Lower Ninth Ward
in New Orleans. Last summer, she
spent two months in Paris attending
a basic professional culinary course at
Le Cordon Bleu. She says that she can
now turn out port wine reductions and
cream sauces with the best of them!
She rented an apartment in the 14th
Arrondissement and relaxed after class
by taking evening walks along the
Seine and drinking wine at sidewalk
cafés. Joyce is renovating her Manhattan
pied-a-terre and practicing cooking
and invites anyone visiting New York to
come see her.
Conde Palmore Hopkins sent the
wonderful news that her son, Haden,
received his heart transplant last July and
is healthy again. She asked me to please
ask everyone to consider becoming an
organ donor.
Martha Veasey Sawyer and her
husband, Roger, traveled to Myrtle
Beach, S.C., last November and enjoyed
some wonderful seafood and a great
show at the Carolina Opry. Ted and I got
to visit with them at a tailgate party at
the Virginia Tech-Florida State football
game last November. It was fun to be
back on the Tech campus for the first
time in 38 years. My niece is a junior
there, and I got to experience the student
section for a short time during the
game. It brought back a lot of memories!
Barbara Forgione Tansey retired
from Ethan Allen in April 2007 and
received a Mazda Miata from her
husband, Bruce, as a retirement
gift. Barbara has joined the General
Federation of Women’s Clubs of Tellico
Village, which has many worthwhile
projects locally, nationally, and
internationally. Bruce continues as a tax
advisor with H&R Block. Last June, they
went on a Hawaiian cruise; they toured
Honolulu’s downtown historic area, the
Punchbowl Cemetery, Pearl Harbor,
and the Polynesian Cultural Center. Last
Barbara Forgione Tansey ’70
retired from Ethan Allen in April
2007 and received a Mazda Miata
from her husband, Bruce, as a
retirement gift.
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October, they traveled to Las Vegas for
the first time and enjoyed the sights and
the shows.
Gaye Gregory Elliott wrote that she
and her husband, Stephen, were looking
forward to having all four of their
children together last Christmas.
Ellen Grace Jaronczyk and her
husband, Bob, made another trip to
Sammamish, Wash., to visit their son,
Forrest, and his family. They enjoyed
lunch at the Salish Lodge, overlooking a
large waterfall. Their other son, Morgan,
and his wife, Lesley, were expecting their
second child last March.
Please keep in touch and send me
your news.
1971
Karen Laino Giannuzzi
PSC 80 BOX 118
APO AE 09702
Kapitankl11@yahoo.com
I had a great number of responses to my
email requesting notes for our column.
Thank you to those who responded.
Send info occasionally and I will try to
get a column written more often for the
magazine.
I am now in Brussels at NATO
headquarters as director of intelligence
on the international military staff. I will
be here at least through 2010. Ralph and
I have been traveling all over the NATO
nations and even those that are partner
nations. We live in the Flemish part of
Belgium, although in our small town of
Jezus Eik people speak both French and
English.
Susan Lohin works with alumnae
relations at Wellesley College,
connecting alumni to each other and to
the college. She wants to touch base with
Diane Redfern Shelton. Susan’s oldest
son was to be married by the time this
column is read, and her second son was
to head south now that he has finished
his MBA from Babson College. Susan’s
daughter has ambitions to be a vet but
hasn’t found the right school. Susan
and Wendy Dickinson Smith are in
close contact. Wendy and husband Carl
“Bubby” Smith (U.Va. ’70) are working
on the presidential campaign of John
McCain, an old Navy buddy of Carl. The
aisle has been crossed, though, since
Susan is a stalwart Democrat, and the
three remain best of friends. Susan also
hears from Pat Naybor Whitehead and
found out that Pat moved back from St.
John’s and lives in Beaufort, S.C. Word
has it that Laurie McIntosh is in the
Richmond area and Peggy Tucker is
a principal at an elementary school in
Tennessee.
Jan McNiel and Marv are in the
California desert enjoying retirement
and traveling around the West, especially
New Mexico.
Betty Whichard Robinson wrote
from Carmel, Ind., where she and
her husband moved in 2004. She is a
computer software trainer at the New
Horizons Computer Learning Center
branch close to home. She’s also trying to
find time to finish the 200 mysteries on
her shelves.
Many of us are looking at
retirement, but Betty Barnhardt Hume
sent word that she started working full
time in September and even increased
her commute from a walk to a 30minute
drive. She works for Central
Rappahannock Regional Library at the
North Stafford Branch. Her husband,
Randy, has taken over cooking duties
but finds time for golfing. Their two
daughters are finally “off the payroll.”
Natalee Spiro Franzyshen is a
financial manager for the local FBI
office in Richmond; she wrote that it
is never dull. Sadly, Natalee’s mother
passed away in June 2007, and her father
is now in an assisted-living home. Our
condolences to Natalee and to others
who have lost parents. Natalee wrote that
they are celebrating more than 30 years
in the same house. Natalee’s senior year
roomie, Fran McDonald, retired from
the Federal Register a year ago and will
remain in Washington, D.C., although
she managed a break from the weather
with a Caribbean cruise.
Last September, Evelyn “Eve”
Dezerne Barrett and Larry married off
their daughter, Allison. The wedding
was held at the Old South Meeting
House, launch site of the Boston Tea
Party. By publication time, Allison was
to have finished her final year of medical
school. Eve is still heavily involved in
residential property management, and
one of her more challenging projects
was to upgrade and manage a 12-unit
apartment building housing 40 college
students in the Colorado Springs, Colo.,
area. Larry still consults on several
projects but also volunteers and serves
on the boards of the Colorado Springs
Youth Symphony, World Affairs Council,
and Southeast Renewable Energy
Council. Larry lost his 97-year-old
mother late last year.
Diana Rupert Livingston lost her
husband of 20 months, Mike, to brain
cancer recently. She lives in Port Saint
Lucie, Fla., and several Mary Washington
friends were close by during this sad
time. Cynthia Ellis, Kathryn Marilla
Kent, and Pam Rave Hall were there,
and they poured through old Battlefields
reminiscing about times gone by.
Pat Piermatti ’70 retired after 36
years as pharmacy librarian for Rutgers
University Libraries in New Jersey, and
she has begun in earnest to pursue her
hobbies of digital photography, hiking,
reading, and travel. She has traveled
in the last years to Austria, Germany,
Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Russia, Switzerland,
and Turkey.
Bryn Irving Roth retired in 2004,
and this year, she and Dick plan to tour
Scandinavia and Russia. Every summer
finds Bryn in San Pedro Sula, Honduras,
on a church mission trip. Last year was a
milestone year for Bryn as she celebrated
50 years since having open-heart surgery.