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Vol. 33 -No. 3

Contents

Features

16 UMWeb2.0

University of Mary Washington
webifles its worid

28 The Energizer Alumna

Ruby Lee N orris '36 keeps on going
and keeps on giving

32 Balloting in an Embattled Country

UMW professor was in
Afghanistan as election observer

Departments

3 On Campus
14 Sports

34 Q&A

35 Get the Picture?

36 Notable & Quotable

38 Book Report

39 Alumni Board

40 Class Notes

70 Closing Column

A sculpture of President Monroe gazes over the courtyard of the
James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library. The building has
reopened after a seven-month renovation.

Photo by Lynda Richardson '81.

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EDITOR'S DESK

Letters to the Editor

Mary Washington

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Dear Editor,

The Summer 2009 issue just arrived

in the mail. Congratulations on a

wonderful issue. I read and re-read

the section about the experiences

of Peace Corps volunteers. I wish

to extend my congratulations

to UMW for becoming the kind

of university I wish it had been

when I was there. It seems to

be much more service-oriented

than what I remember, and I would love to do what

can to be a part of the new UMW!

Lynn M. Horng '70

Hatfield, Pennsylvania

Dear Editor,

TOGET, _
A WORLD Or

Difference

A week or so ago I received the Summer issue
of the magazine, and I thought it was the best
issue I've seen. The presentation, content and
quality were tops. Looks as though President
Judy Hample is "on her way" in her leadership
role.

Helen Virginia Drury '47

Walnut Creek, California

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ON CAMPUS

Calling for Support

The SmartCall system enables Phonathon
callers to enter donor information in a
safe, secure, and efficient manner.

Economic
Impact

Each year, Phonathon
callers help raise more than
$500,000 for the Fund for
Mary Washington and other
designated programs at Mary
Washington. During the 2009-
2010 fiscal years, these funds
are more essential than ever.
Executive Vice President Richard
V. Hurley recently shared the
news that the Commonwealth
of Virginia has reduced UMW's
budget by another $1.6 million,
bringing the state support for
UMW's operating budget to
less than 23 percent. "This latest
reduction represents the fourth
time state support has been cut
since the 2007-2008 fiscal year
for a cumulative reduction of
$6.6 million," Hurley added. "If
the state projections continue
at the current level, additional
cuts in 2010-2011 are a real
possibility."

When your phone rings and a friendly
University of Mary Washington student
is on the other end, you should be aware
of what's behind that call. The UMW
Phonathon has been an integral part of
Mary Washington's annual fundraising
efforts for more than 20 years. During
that time, students have called from
various locations on campus - George
Washington Hall, Woodard Campus
Center, and now Hamlet House. The
technology has changed during
that time, as well, from old clunky
phones with tangle-prone cords to
computerized calling stations with sleek
headsets.

From a secure part of Hamlet House,
a SmartCall system dials and engages
Mary Washington alumni, parents, and
friends. During the 2008-2009 fiscal
year, 24 callers dialed 105,813 numbers
through SmartCall. The students chatted
with potential donors, shared campus
updates, listened to nostalgic stories,
and secured 5,645 pledges.

"This new system has modernized

our Phonathon program to make it
more efficient, thus allowing more
time for personal connections and
donor interaction," said Associate Vice
President for Development Ken L. Steen.
"Each night the students call according
to pre-defined lists sorted by time zones
and interests. All pledge information,
credit card data, and donor comments
are entered directly into the computer
during the call, so it enhances security
and communication." Steen added that
the number of credit card gifts made
directly over the phone has increased
exponentially since the implementation
of SmartCall, resulting in a reduction in
follow-up mailing expenses.

Student caller Dahlia Ali '10 said
she enjoys talking with UMW alumni,
parents, and friends. "Most are happy to
offer their support to Mary Washington,"
she said. "It's a great institution that
upholds many of the long-standing
traditions that we all know and love,
and it is also building new ones for
generations to come."

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Student callers share information about campus activities and make it fun and
easy for alumni, parents, and friends to make their annual gifts and pledges.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

ON CAMPUS

Anderson Center Will Add Space for Athletes and Others

Members of the Board of Visitors joined President Judy Hample (fourth from left) and
former President William Anderson Jr. (fifth from left) in a ceremonial groundbreaking
on Sept. 17.

Forty-year-old Goolrick Hall will soon
have help serving UMW athletes and
community members.

On Sept. 1 7, UMW celebrated the
groundbreaking of the 52,000-square-
foot William M. Anderson Center.
President Emeritus Anderson was on
hand to ceremonially toss a shovel
full of dirt to mark the beginning of
construction of the two-story building
named in his honor.

The center will seat more than
2,000 fans for athletic events,
including basketball and volley-

ball championships. For gatherings
such as Convocation and rainy-day
Commencement, it will accommodate
as many as 3,000. Today, Dodd
Auditorium seats 1 ,300 and Woodard
Campus Center's Great Hall holds a
maximum of 500 - standing - people.

The Anderson Center, which is being
constructed adjacent to Goolrick, wil

feature the classic Mary Washington red
brick and white columns and should
open in mid-winter 201 1 .

President Judy Hample welcomed
the Board of Visitors, Anderson,
students, staff, and community
members to the ceremony, held inside
the Goolrick Hall gymnasium. UMW
Board Rector Nanalou West Sauder 56
recognized Anderson for dedicating 23
years to building a nationally prominent
university, including an intercollegiate
varsity program recognized for its
scholarship as well as the athletic
prowess of its students.

Athletic Director Ed Hegmann
said that the center will allow Mary
Washington to host the regional NCAA
III basketball championships. Goolrick
Hall gymnasium, which was built in
1 969 for the then all-female school, is
not large enough to host such events.
Besides basketball, the center also will
be used for volleyball competitions,
physical education classes, and as an
inclement weather location for many
outdoor UMW programs planned
throughout the year.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE ■ (ALL/WINTER 2009

What is

Zotero?

UMW and many other universities
are suggesting students ditch
scribbled notes and go digital
with Zotero.

The Internet may be making
it easier to access information
online, but academic research still
involves getting the information
and the source into a usable
format before anything goes into
a paper. The most common way
of doing that is still what students
have done for decades - copy
the information on a 3x5 card,
according to new media expert
Dan Cohen of George Mason
University.

With Zotero, that's no longer
necessary. Users download the
program for free; it's an extension
to the Firefox Web browser. Using
Zotero, which has its own window
at the bottom of the screen, users
collect, manage, and cite research
sources.

To learn more, visit zotero.org.
To learn more about Dan Cohen,
visit his blog, dancohen.org.

Digital University Ponders
Future of Libraries, The Academy

The Year of the Digital University - 2009-
2010 - launched with some provocative
questions about the future:

• If Google has 1 5 million digitized
books online by 2014, will
universities need to devote funds
to brick-and-mortar libraries?

• Will IT departments be passe in the
wake of websites and one-button
posts to YouTube?

• Will Twitter, blogs, and now-
unimaginable interactive media
make today's classrooms obsolete?

Dan Cohen, director
of the Center for History
and New Media at George
Mason University, posed
these questions when he
visited UMW in September
to speak at Zoterofest
2009, the inaugural event
of UMW's Year of the Digital
University. Zotero, a tool
that enhances Internet research, was
developed at GMU; Cohen directs the
Zotero project there.

Though Cohen sees advantages and
disadvantages to digital technology,
the self-described pragmatist said that
in the light of such realities, academics
must reassess key foundations of higher
education. He also described himself
as "a historian who explores - and tries
to influence through theory, software,
websites, and [a] blog - the impact of
computing on the humanities."

Cohen, a graduate of Princeton,
Harvard, and Yale universities, said four

Dan Cohen

basic digital trends are influencing
academic practice. And - even if
ignored - they're here to stay:

Openness - Since the Web began,
page code has been available to be
copied. Scholars, Cohen said, are "just
now beginning to feel in academia the
power of the fact that you can put stuff
online for free."

Do it yourself - Today it's easy to
build a website, and it will only get
easier. More and more people will
ask, Cohen predicts, "Do I really need
someone else to do this for me?"
Decentralization - Universities are
used to small, centralized
systems, usually revolving
around a library, the
academic center of the
campus. But today's
Internet links network
to network, collection
to collection, library
to library, university
to university- and
aggregates the parts. "What can
decentralization mean? Do all library
collections have to sit in one library?"

Collaboration - Academics are
already using blogs and Twitter to
collaborate, network, and collect
information. Cohen cited Jay Rosen,
professor of journalism at New York
University, who has more than 26,759
followers on Twitter and uses that
medium to run a sort of succinct online
professional seminar. "He comments,
he reacts, he recommends journals,"
Cohen said.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

ON CAMPUS

Bookstore Eco-Bags: Honduran
artisans weave rubbish into revenue

The eco-friendly clutch bags at the
UMW Bookstore are more than a
trendy way to help the environment
- they also help poor women in
Honduras feed their families and they
help students learn about economics
and marketing.

Late last summer, the Bookstore
teamed up with Students Helping
Honduras (SHH), a student-run aid
organization begun at UMW in 2006,
to sell colorful eco-clutches crafted by
Honduran artisans. The women collect
discarded potato chip bags and soda
labels, and, instead of burning them
as trash, they weave them into festive
zippered bags.

The women of the impoverished
village use the money from the bags
to provide food, safe water, and
medicines for their children.

Rachel Mason '10, an SHH student
intern, was concerned last year about
all the trash on the ground in the
village of Siete de Abril. When she
learned that other impoverished
communities with no safe means of
disposing trash were weaving and
selling the bags, she learned to make
them and taught the Honduran
women.

Shawn Humphrey, UMW assistant
professor of economics, knew that
if the women could find enough
buyers, they could form a sustainable
women's cooperative. The economic
development specialist collaborated
with SHH volunteers Ashley Cameron
'1 1 and Peter Bergen of the College of
William & Mary to open markets for the
bags in the United States. That's where
the UMW Bookstore came in.

Humphrey and the Bookstore
teamed up with Cameron, an
economics and Spanish major, to
develop an independent study for
her and a way to distribute the bags.
The UMW Bookstore houses, sells,
and ships the clutches through the
store and online, and it covers basic
expenses by keeping five percent of
the proceeds. Cameron is the liaison
between SHH and the bookstore, and
she is in charge of marketing. Part of
her responsibility is to place orders and
keep inventory of sales.

"I didn't expect it to go this well,"
said Cameron, noting that nearly all 40
of the first shipment of the bags sold
out in just two weeks. When she was
in Honduras last winter, she met the
women who make the bags and she
created a slide presentation. Cameron
uses it in the Bookstore to interest
customers in the women and their
handiwork. She also is making small
business cards for each purse that
introduce the buyer to the woman who
made the bag.

The bright bags sell for $ 1 5 to $30
and range in size from three-by-five to
six-by-eight inches. From September
to mid-October, the Bookstore sold
89 bags, generating nearly $ 1 ,900 for
the villagers. SHH has named the eco-
clutch project "Esfuerzo de Amor"-
laboroflove.

Glendy shows off the first bag she made
from discarded labels. Students Helping
Honduras sells the bags through the UMW
Bookstore and returns the profits to the
women who made them.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

From Belmont
to Bern

Melchers' painting on loan
to Swiss ambassador

Ambassador Don Beyer requested a
Melchers painting for his new residence in
Switzerland. In Old Virginia now hangs there.

A piece of Gari Melchers Home and
Studio at Belmont holds a place of
diplomatic prominence in the home
of the American ambassador to
Switzerland. One of Gari Melchers'
paintings hangs in the residence of
newly-appointed Swiss ambassador,
Virginian Don Beyer.

Beyer and his wife, Megan, requested
an example of a pastoral landscape by
the American impressionist to include
in an exhibition of Virginia-themed
paintings for their residence in Bern.

Belmont was happy to furnish a
painting, as it has five times before for
other U.S. diplomats, said David Berreth,
director of Gari Melchers Home and
Studio.

Curator Joanna Catron '79 selected
"In Old Virginia/'a brightly colored
autumnal view of a house and a cow
grazing just below the artist's hilltop
residence in Falmouth. It was painted
around 1 91 8; the house has long since
disappeared.

Belmont, a 28-acre estate, is the
former residence of Melchers and
his wife, Corinne. Operated by the
University of Mary Washington, the
property is a Virginia historic landmark
and a national historic landmark. It
owns the world's largest collection of
Melchers' works.

Distinguished Trio

A longtime University of Mary Washington professor, a
veteran administrator, and an alumni leader were honored
in September by the Girl Scout Commonwealth Council of
Virginia at its ninth annual Women of Distinction awards
program at UMW's Jepson Alumni Executive Center.

UMW Alumni Association President Sue Bridi '81
won in the Business category; Associate Vice President
for Human Resources Sabrina Johnson received the
award for Government and Law; and Education Professor
Brenda Vogel topped the Education category. They were
among nine regional Women of Distinction recognized for
their leadership and impact on the community through
professional and volunteer achievements.

Bridi, vice president and branch manager for PNC
Bank in Fredericksburg, has worked in the local banking
industry for more than 30 years. She also has volunteered
to help numerous local nonprofit organizations, including
the Historic Fredericksburg Foundation, the SPCA, the
Downtown Retail Merchants Association, the Fredericksburg
Area Museum, and Friends of the Rappahannock. Bridi is
president of the UMW Alumni Association and has been
active in other UMW groups, including the Strategic
Planning Steering Committee.

Johnson, UMW's associate vice president for human
resources and Affirmative Action and Equal Employment
Opportunity officer, has held that position since she arrived
at Mary Washington in 1 997. She was the first executive
director of Richmond's Black Student Foundation. After
earning a law degree and a license to practice law in
Virginia in 1991, Johnson served as a judicial law clerk
in the Alexandria Circuit Court. In 1 993, she joined the
Virginia Department of Employment Dispute Resolution,
where she began her professional concentration in human

UMW Alumni President Sue Bridi '81 (left), UMW Associate Vice
President for Human Resources Sabrina Johnson (center), and
UMW Education Professor Brenda Vogel were named 2009
Women of Distinction by the Girl Scout Commonwealth Council.

resources. Johnson is a member of the Rappahannock
United Way's board of directors and is in her fourth term as
a gubernatorial appointee to the Virginia Council on Human
Resources.

Vogel, UMW professor of education and director of
education programs, became a member of the UMW
faculty in 1 977. Prior to her 1 999 appointment as director of
education programs at the Stafford campus, Vogel served as
chair, coordinator of teacher education services, and director
of field experiences for Mary Washington's Department
of Education. She has had extensive involvement in the
community, including co-founder of the area's Phi Delta
Kappa chapter and an active volunteer in local classrooms.
Vogel also has served on numerous school accreditation
visiting teams and as a speaker at professional gatherings.

Framing a Memory

Barbara "Jinxie" Forbush views a new photo display in the
Jepson Alumni Executive Center. Her husband, the late
Charles Warren Forbush '47, was one of many male students
who attended Mary Washington between 1 945 and 1 958 as
part of the Gl Bill. The bill provided federal tuition payments
for World War II veterans. Mary Washington was one of many
women's colleges to temporarily open doors to male students.

"My husband always wondered why there wasn't more
recognition for these male students," Mrs. Forbush said.
So, she did something about it. "After seeing all the photos
of female students, I suggested we include photos of the
veterans." The Forbush family made a special gift to UMW in
support of the project.

If you would like to make a gift in honor or in memory of Mary
Washington's World War II veterans, please contact the Office of
Gift Planning at 540/654-2064.

Jinxie Forbush recalls the names of Gl Bill students. She initiated
the framing and display of the historic photos.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

ON CAMPUS

Great Lives Returns

From cooking with Julia Child to sex
with Masters and Johnson, the seventh
season of Great Lives: Biographical
Approaches to History promises to deliver
scintillating and provocative material
on Tuesday and Thursday evenings
throughout the spring.

There are patriots, politicians, and
poets - not to mention an encore
appearance by Elvis. Jesus of Nazareth
gets things started on Jan. 14.

These Chappell Lecture Series
programs, presented by UMW's
Department of History and American
Studies, take place at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd
Auditorium and are open to the public
free of charge.

Here is the lineup:

January 1 4 - Jesus of Nazareth

James G. Goehring, UMW Department
of Classics, Philosophy, and Religion

January 1 9 - Norman Rockwell

Stephanie Plunkett, Deputy Director
and Chief Curator, Norman Rockwell
Museum

January 26 - Thomas Jefferson

Alan Pell Crawford, Author of Twilight
at Monti cello

January 28 - Blackbeard

Carter L Hudgins, UMW Department
of History and American Studies

February 4- Booker T.Washington

Robert J. Norrell, University of
Tennessee, Author of Up from History:
The Life of Booker T Washington

February 1 1 - Marian Anderson

Raymond Arsenault, University of
South Florida, Author of The Sound of
Freedom

February 23 - Margaret Thatcher

Jason Davidson, UMW Department of
Political Science

February 25 - Edgar Allan Poe

Robert Morgan, Professor of English,
Cornell University

March 9 -Julia Child

Laura Shapiro, Author of Julia Child: A Life

March 1 1 - Masters and Johnson

Thomas Maier, Newsday, Author of
Masters of Sex

March 1 6 - Queen Victoria

Gillian Gill, Author of We Two:
Victoria and Albert

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March 1 8 - Rachel Carson

Mark Hamilton Lytle, Bard College,
Author of The Gentle Subversive

March 25 - Marie Antoinette

Caroline Weber, Barnard College,
Columbia University, Author of
Queen of Fashion

March 30 - Rosie the Riveter

Emily Yellin, Author of Our Mothers' War

April 6 - Thomas Edison

Paul Israel, Rutgers University,
Author of Edison: A Life of Invention

April 1 3 - Robert Oppenheimer

Martin Sherwin, George Mason
University, Co-Author of American
Prometheus

April 1 5 - Robert E. Lee

Elizabeth Brown Pryor, Author of
Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E.
Lee through His Private Letters

April 20 -Elvis Presley

Gardner Campbell, Baylor University

April 22 - James Bond

Jeremy Black, University of Exeter,
Author of A History of the British Isles

For more information, go to
www.umw.edu/greatlives or call the
Events Line at 540/654-1065.

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Governor Makes Board Appointments

Judge Pamela J. White

'74 of Baltimore, Md.,
has been appointed to
the Board of Visitors at
the University of Mary
Washington. The Virginia
Governor's office also has
reappointed Elizabeth
Ferguson Foster '69
and Daniel K. Steen '84
to second terms on the
University board.

White succeeds
Benjamin Hernandez '95.
Each of the appointees
will serve a four-year term
that expires June 30, 201 3.
White has served as a Circuit Court judge for Baltimore
City, Md., since February 2007. She was a partner and chair
of the Employment Law Group at the Baltimore law firm of
Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver until her appointment to the
Circuit Court. Having distinguished herself as a leader in
legal ethics and professionalism, White also served as an
arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association. She
received a law degree from Washington & Lee University,

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where she served on the university Board of Trustees from
1995 to 2004.

In addition, White has been recognized as one of
Maryland's Top 1 00 Women and is the recipient of the Bar
Association of Baltimore City's Charles H. Dorsey Jr. Mentor
award as well as UMW's Distinguished Alumna award. A
past president of the Maryland Bar Association and the
Women's Bar Association of Maryland, she has served on a
number of boards including the Pro Bono Resource Center
of Maryland, the Baltimore City Historical Society, and the
UMW Alumni Association.

"I'm very excited about Pamela's appointment to the
board," said Nanalou West Sauder '56, rector of Mary
Washington's Board of Visitors. "She has a sound judicial
temperament, and she has previous university board
experience. I'm looking forward to working with her."

Foster, of Albemarle County, formerly worked for IBM
in Richmond. She has been active in civic affairs, including
the Maymont Foundation Board and the Medical College of
Virginia Hospitals Auxiliary.

Steen, who lives in Arlington, received a law degree
from the University of Virginia. He is vice president of
government affairs for Owens-Illinois, Inc., the world's
largest glass packaging manufacturer and a leading
supplier of healthcare and pharmaceutical packaging.

All Dressed, and Ready to Show

The James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library has unveiled its
refurbished facilities with a display of its entire extensive costume collection
in all of its newly-conserved glory.

"Our Face to the World: The Clothing of James and Elizabeth Monroe"
includes 42 pieces, making the display one of the largest complete
presidential costume collections in the country. It will continue until April
2010. Because of the delicate nature of the costumes, this will be the first and
last chance for the public to view this collection all together in one place.

Highlights of the exhibition include Elizabeth Monroe's wedding dress and
two vests James Monroe wore as a soldier during the Revolutionary War. Also
showcased is James Monroe's cut velvet suit, worn during his negotiations for
the Louisiana Purchase in the court of Napoleon. Suits, hats, shoes, jewelry,
fans, purses, gloves, and other accessories are part of the display as well.

In 2007, the museum was awarded a prestigious Save America's Treasures
grant through the National Park Service and the National Endowment for the
Arts to restore the artifacts to their original appearance from the late 1 700s
and early 1 800s. The pieces came to the museum through Monroe's direct
descendants.

The museum, located at 908 Charles Street, is open from 1 0 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Monday through Saturday, and 1 to 5 p.m. on Sundays.

The museum, which is administered by the University of Mary
Washington, closed in February for major interior renovations. For more
information, visit www.umw.edu/jamesmonroemuseum or call 540/654-1 043.

One of the highlights of the new
exhibition at the James Monroe Museum
and Memorial Library is Elizabeth
Monroe's wedding dress. Also featured
is the suit James Monroe wore during his
negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

ON CAMPUS

Unearthed Haydn Overture

Resounds in Dodd

Back in 1 973, Haydn scholar Stephen C.
Fisher knew he was on to something.
Doing research at the Library of
Congress, he stumbled across a
manuscript, an overture that was part
of a full-length symphony composed
by classical composer Joseph Haydn
in 1 773. But the paper held notes not
heard since the famous composer's day.

"Haydn created two concert
adaptations of this overture," Fisher said.
One adaptation was published and has
been available since. The other, more
musically interesting work hadn't been
heard in more than 200 years - and
Fisher realized he held it in his hand.

This fall - more than 35 years
later - Fisher and his fellow players in
the University of Mary Washington-
Community Symphony Orchestra
brought the music to life for the first
time since it was played in the Spanish
court in the 1780s.

The group's October Masterworks
Concert \n Dodd Auditorium began
with a lecture by Fisher, a violist, on
his discovery and was followed by
the modern premiere of the work,
Symphony in C Major, Hob. Ia:1
(unpublished). The ensemble, under the

baton of Music Director Kevin Bartram,
also performed Mozart's Concertone
for Two Violins and Orchestra, K. 1 90 -
also composed in 1 773 - and Modest
Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

Fisher, a doctor of music history and
theory, is one of the world's top Haydn
scholars. He was the principal editor
of Joseph Haydn Werke, Series I, Volume
9: the Symphonies of 7 778-79, and he is
editing the 10th volume of this series,
among other publications. The Stafford,
Va., resident has played with the UMW-
CSO for a year.

More than 35 years after its discovery, a long-lost Haydn overture was brought to life by
Stephen Fisher and his fellow players in the University of Mary Washington-Community
Symphony Orchestra, directed by Kevin Bartram, shown above.

Phase 1 of Eagle Village is rising
rapidly directly across U.S. 1 from the
Fredericksburg campus.

Construction of
Eagle Village
Soars

Bulldozers, cranes, hard-hatted workers,
and mounds of dirt are becoming a
common sight around UMW.

Construction is on schedule for the
opening of Eagle Village in August 2010.

Now that the Anderson Center
project has broken ground across
Route 1, there are dueling construction
sites, soon to be connected via a
pedestrian bridge. The 214-foot long
red brick bridge is scheduled to be put
in place early in January.

Meanwhile, these are the vital
statistics for Phase 1 of Eagle Village,
which is rapidly taking shape:

• A total of 454,456 square feet of
residential and mixed-use space is
planned.

• New residence halls will utilize
4,387 cubic yards of concrete;
569,000 bricks; 760,000 square
feet of drywall; 318 water-saving
toilets; 654 new data outlets on a
fiber optic network; four elevators;
two trash compactors; and two
recycling compactors.

• A total of 723 surface and parking
deck spaces will replace the former
280.

• Nearly 60 deciduous and evergreen
trees will be planted to enhance
green space and reduce storm
water runoff .

For additional photos and project
updates, visit www.umw/eaglevillage.

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The Art of Medicine

Belmont exhibition includes 1 1
original Norman Rockwell paintings

Gari Melchers Home and Studio is hosting the exhibition
"Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of
lllustration"through Jan. 31, 2010.

One of the most successful visual communicators of
the 20th century, Rockwell was a keen observer of human
nature. His art work gave voice to the ideals and aspirations
of real people and served as a reassuring guide during an
era of sweeping social and technological change.

"Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of
Illustration" features 1 1 original paintings by Rockwell from
the Pfizer Inc. collection, which includes some of the finest
examples of the artist's advertising imagery. Rockwell's
paintings explore the doctor/patient relationship, health and
healing across generations, and the importance of physical
fitness.

Also featured in the exhibit are 1 4 of today's preeminent
illustrators from the pages of Healthy Living, Men's Health,
Newsweek, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Their art
work presents a contemporary perspective on many of the
same health-related subjects explored nearly 50 years earlier
by Rockwell.

Regular museum admission fees of $10 for adults and
$5 for students will include entrance to "Picturing Health"as
well as Gari Melchers' working studio and his 18th-century
home. No free or discounted passes will be accepted for the
duration of this exhibition. Admission is free for children
ages 5 and under and for members of the Friends of
Belmont. Group tours may be arranged by calling Michelle
Crow-Dolby, education coordinator, at 540/654-1851.

Several public events and programs are planned in
conjunction with "Picturing Health:"

Sunday, Dec. 1 3, 1 0 a.m. to 5 p.m. - Family Health
and Art Day, featuring wellness screenings and information
about balanced nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Art

Other works on display include left to right: Gregory Manchess,
Untitled; Melinda Beck, Regulating Your Blood Sugar; and
Cathie Bleck, Guidance.

One of the original illustrations on display is The Musdeman, c. 1941.

activities, geared towards children ages 6-12, will focus on
Rockwell's style and subjects. All activities and entrance
to the exhibition are included with the price of museum
admission. Family Health and Art Day is sponsored by Kaiser
Permanente.

Tuesday, Jan. 1 9, 1 1 :30 a.m. to 1 :30 p.m.- luncheon
in the Studio Pavilion with guest speaker Stephanie
Plunkett, deputy director and chief curator of the Norman
Rockwell Museum. The cost of the luncheon is $35, or $25
for members of the Friends of Belmont; all tickets include
admission to the exhibition. The luncheon is sponsored by
UMW Dining Services. Reservations are required. Contact
Betsy Labar at 540/654-1 848 or blabar@umw.edu. Later the
same evening, Stephanie Plunkett will present an illustrated
talk, "Norman Rockwell: Picturing America," as part of UMW's
Chappell Lecture Series: Great Lives. The free talk will be
held at 7:30 p.m. in UMW's George Washington Hall, Dodd
Auditorium.

"Picturing Health: Norman Rockwell and the Art of
Illustration" is organized and curated by the Norman
Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Mass., and is sponsored
by Pfizer Inc.

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ON CAMPUS

Top Scholars

President Judy Hample invited recipients of UMW's Washington and Alvey
Scholarships to her home for a picnic early in the Fall semester. These are the
students who have been awarded the school's top honor - full merit scholarships.
The eight Washington Scholarships go to in-state students with exceptional
academic credentials, and the Alvey scholarship goes to a high-achieving out-of-
state student.

Front- left to right:
Lisa Carter '1 2, Irene Lundy Brown '39 - Washington Scholarship
Anna Lowery '1 3, University of Mary Washington Alumni Association -

Washington Scholarship
President Hample

Laura Dick '1 3, Irene Piscopo Rodgers '59 - Alvey Scholarship
Jessica Schatz '09, M.Ed. '1 0, former Washington Scholar

Middle:
Stacey Aylor '1 1 , William M. Anderson Jr. - Washington Scholarship
Brandi Rollins '10, Rae Elizabeth Smith '59 - Washington Scholarship
Peter Hawes '12, Mary Janes Ahern '46 - Washington Scholarship

Back row:
Jason Driscoll '10, A. Ray Merchent -Washington Scholarship
Samuel Protich '10, Theresa Young Crawley 77 and William B. Crawley Jr. -

Washington Scholarship
Kianna Davis '13, Marilyn Mead Burke '48 and William J. Burke - Washington

Scholarship
Michael Kappert '1 1 , Sally Watson Castle '55 - Alvey Scholarship

Meet the
Freshman Class

UMW reinvents itself in small ways each
August as a new class brings its culture
and experiences to the Fredericksburg
campus. This year, 963 students enrolled
as freshmen; they came from 31 states,
including California, Illinois, Texas, and
Maine. The Virginia residents in the new
class graduated from 169 public and 43
private high schools. Outside of the U.S.,
students came from 12 nations.

UMW does not admit students by
any rigid formula, and it seeks to enroll
a diverse and well-rounded student
body. Twenty-one percent of entering
students identified themselves as
African-American, Asian, American-
Indian, Hispanic/Latino, or multiracial.

Statistics can't describe the full range
of the unique freshman scholars, but
the data shows they're a smart bunch.
Of freshmen, the middle 50-percent
range - meaning a quarter were above
this range and a quarter were below
- graduated high school with a GPA
between 3.28 and 3.87. Their SATs
reflected that, too, with scores in critical
reading of 540 to 650, math 520 to 620,
and writing 530 to 630.

UMW granted honors admission to
234 students this fall. Their high school
GPAs for the mid-50-percent range
fell between 3.74 and 4.17. SAT scores
ranged from 620-700 in critical reading,
610-680 in math, and 600-690 in writing.

Nearly 1,000 freshmen, their families,
lots of luggage, and at least one dog
converged on the Fredericksburg campus
on Move-In Day, Aug.19. Parents and dogs
had to leave.

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Ben Stein

Economic
Downturn =
Audience Uplift

The economy may be down, but Ben
Stein lit up a close-to-capacity crowd
in Dodd Auditorium on Oct. 20. The
economist and humorist was the
speaker for the first program of The
Fredericksburg Forum's 15th season.

Stein, a former speech writer and
economic advisor for presidents Nixon
and Ford, is a FORTUNE columnist,
author of finance and self-help books,
TV commentator, and - most famously
- teacher in Ferris Bueller's Day Off. His
iconic role in that 1 986 movie turned
him into a cult figure.

He bounded onto the Dodd stage
wearing sneakers and toting a bulging
briefcase.Throughout his talk, he
expressed appreciation for the warm
hospitality and good food he enjoyed
on the UMW campus. The program
was moderated by economist Judy
Shelton, a Caroline County, Va., resident
who specializes in global finance and
monetary issues.

The 2009-2010 Forum season will
culminate on Tuesday, March 23, with
broadcast journalist Judy Woodruff, who
has covered politics and other news
for more than three decades at the
major television networks CNN, NBC,
and PBS. She is senior correspondent
for PBS' News Hour with Jim Lehrer and
was editor of the show's 2008 election
coverage.

The Fredericksburg Forum is a
community-sponsored program at the
University that hosts nationally-known
speakers. General admission tickets are
$30. To order tickets, call 540/654-1 065
or visit www.umw.edu/forum.

Classics, Philosophy, and Religion
Celebrates 30 Years

The Department of Classics, Philosophy,

and Religion celebrated 30 enriching

years with a gala banquet and reunion

celebration of graduates, retired and

current faculty, and students. The

assemblage especially welcomed the

department's first chair, Elizabeth A.

Clark, pictured at right center. Now a

professor of religion at Duke University,

she offered light-hearted reflections

on the early years of "CPR." In the photo above, she is joined by Diane Hatch,

professor emerita of classics, and Jim Goehring, professor of religion. When the

disparate disciplines joined in fall of 1 979, the faculty seized the association to

invest in an interdisciplinary endeavor anchored in separate major programs.

Signs of the Times

UMW has given its on-campus signs a brand-new look. Gone are the decades

old brown wooden signs, and in their place are larger, more visible blue and

white ones that are eye-catching and

practical. A committee charged with

upgrading the signage set goals of

improving the exterior identification of

buildings; helping those unfamiliar with

the campus find their way and making

UMW feel more welcoming to visitors;

reducing the overuse of signs; and

integrating signs with the University's

identity. At the Stafford campus, work is

under way to improve building signage

as well.

One example of the many new signs on
campus.

Quarter Century of Haunting

In October, the University of
Mary Washington Historic
Preservation Club hosted its
25th annual Ghost Walk.

As in the past, the
hour-and-a-half long tours
stopped at about a dozen
sites throughout historic
Fredericksburg, including
the Masonic Cemetery, Hugh
Mercer Apothecary Shop,
and Kenmore Plantation.
Members of the Historic Preservation
Club and other UMW students acted
out stories based on the book The
Ghosts of Fredericksburg and Other
Environs by L.B.Taylor Jr.

The Masonic cemetery provided the
inspiration for this poster promoting the
25th Annual Ghost Walk.

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SPORTS

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UMW Athletic Hall of Fame

Features Five New Inductees

The University of Mary Washington inducted its 14th class
into the Athletic Hall of Fame on October 1 6, 2009, as part
of Homecoming Weekend. This year's class included five
members: former soccer standout Chris Blelloch '97, field
hockey and women's lacrosse All-American Charlotte
Cockrell '97, baseball standout Eric Guyton '99, All-
American soccer star Felicity Smith '98, and tennis All-
American Chris Wallace '97.

Blelloch, a
four-time All-
Capital Athletic
Conference
selection as well
as a two-time
all-region pick,
remains as one of
the most prolific

Chris Blelloch was a
two-time all-region
pick and is one of the
top scorers in Mary
Washington men's
soccer history.

scorers in men's soccer history at UMW, with 51 career goals
and 121 career points. He netted 1 7 goals and seven assists
in his sophomore season, As a senior, he added 16 goals and
six assists, both of which rank among the highest season
totals in program history. During Blelloch's UMW tenure, the
Eagles won four straight CAC championships and advanced
to two NCAA tournaments, finishing 63-1 2-5. The father of
one child, Blelloch is married and living in Warrenton, Va.

Cockrell, who ranks as one of only two athletes in UMW
history to gain All-America status in both field hockey and
lacrosse, led both programs to unprecedented
heights from 1 993 through 1 997. The field hockey team
advanced to three NCAA tournaments during Cockrell's
UMW career, including a trip to the NCAA Championship
her freshman year. She also led the Eagles to their first
CAC Championship in lacrosse her senior season. She was
a second team All-America pick in both sports her senior
season. Now a physician living in Richmond, Cockrell has

Charlotte Cockrell is one of
two athletes in UMW history
to gain All-America honors in
field hockey and lacrosse.

remained active athletically by running in numerous races,
ranging from 5Ks to marathons. She is married with three
children.

Guyton starred on the diamond for the Eagles for four
seasons before playing three seasons in the New York Mets
organization. Still ranking as the school's season and career
home run record holder, Guyton batted .479 in 1998, leading
the Eagles to their second straight NCAA tournament while
gaining CAC Player of the Year honors. During his time at
UMW, Guyton batted .382 with 169 hits and 1 10 RBI, stole
38 bases, and walked 93 times against only 51 strikeouts.
Married with two sons, he now works for State Farm
Insurance and lives in Lincoln, Neb.

Smith carried the UMW women's soccer program to
one of its best four-year eras in school history, helping the
team to 55 victories while garnering first team All-America
honors. The Eagles won three CAC titles during Smith's UMW
tenure. The team also advanced to two NCAA tournaments,
including in 1 997, when the team won a school-record 1 8
matches en route to an appearance in the NCAA tournament
quarterfinals. Even though she played the defender position,
Smith scored 27 points in her career, with five goals and
1 7 assists. She later played professionally for Arsenal in

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England. Smith now lives
in Medfield, Mass., with her
husband and two children.
She works as the Director
of Coaching for John
Smith Soccer.

Wallace, the first Ail-
American in the history of
the men's tennis program,
led the Eagles to their first-
ever NCAA tournament
appearance in 1997, a
season that saw him break
the school season record
for victories. He remains
the only Mary Washington
student to play at No.
1 singles and No. 1
doubles all four

years. Wallace finished his senior season ranked

1 6th in the nation, and he led the Eagles to the .

1 6th round of the NCAA tournament. Wallace J\

is a partner with the accounting firm Keiter, £.

Stephens, Hurst, Gary & Shreaves based in

Richmond. He and his wife, Christine, have

two children.

Eric Guyton still ranks as the
career home run leader in Mary
Washington history.

Felicity Smith played professional
soccer in England after gaining
first team All-America honors at a
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UMW baseball coach inducted

into Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame

University of Mary Washington head baseball coach Tom Sheridan has been selected as a 2009 inductee into the
Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. The Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1 962 to perpetuate the memory of
athletes who have brought lasting fame and recognition to the state of Pennsylvania through their athletic achievements.

Sheridan joins such notables as Baseball Hall of Fame
umpire Nestor Chylak, NFL 10-time all-pro offensive lineman
Mike Munchak, and longtime major league catcher and
manager Steve O'Neill.

Sheridan is in his 23rd year at Mary Washington with a
record of 51 5-227-3. His career winning percentage ranks
first among all active NCAA baseball coaches in the state of
Virginia with 20 or more years of service and is third all-time
in the state. Sheridan has been selected as the Virginia state
coach of the year twice and has received conference coach
of the year awards 13 times. His teams have participated in
NCAA and postseason tournaments 1 2 times, and the Eagles
have been nationally ranked in 16 different seasons.

Tom Sheridan and his daughter, Katy, visit Yankee Stadium.

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ack in the waning years of
•the last century, it seemed
like a simple question, but
no one could find an answer:
"How can we make it easy

Mary Washington!

staff, and students to publish
attractive, dynamic content
on the World Wide Web?"

Specialized Web-page software was expensive and complex.
Cryptic initials like FTP (File Transfer Protocol) and tricky
procedures tended to discourage all but the most hardy from
venturing into this area.

Answers sought to that seemingly simple question hau
by 2007 put University of Mary Washington in the ^^j
of electronic publishing. Why? Because the
answer to the question was UMW Blogs^-And because of
UMW Blogs, Mary Washington is nowroutinely spoken of
in the same breath as leading universities around the world,
and some of its practitioners/are pioneering new ways of
thinking and learning. /

Posted on the [^ Jfthat follow is an accounT-©£UMW
Blogs' conception, birth, and development. ^v

Blogging is born

Around 2000, a small company calle^jBlegger introduced
software that allowed users to pjjJSfen a "weblog" consisting
of easily updated |§Q j^that would appear in
chronological order, with the most recerrtposxing first. Soon,
there were thousands of ordinary folks using BloggertoTeil
stories, share information, and communicate with friends,
loved ones, and - in many cases - total strangers who were
like-minded or who found the information in "blogs" (as they
came to be known) useful and interesting.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FA1J

University of Mary Washington
webifies its world

By Gardner

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UMW Blogs has made it easy to move all of
my courses from Blackboard, with its 'one-
size-fits- all' approach, to WordPress, where
each of my course sites is customized to the
specific needs of that course. One result has
been that I no longer think of blogs and
wikis as "technology" but simply another
ubiquitous tool, like the whiteboard or the
DVD player, that I can choose to use or not in
my courses.

Steven A. Greenlaw,
UMW Professor of
Economics

Blogging became hugely popular in the aftermath of 9/11.
People looked to these unvarnished writings for a certain kind
of vivid, heartfelt authenticity that mainstream media couldn't
match. Common people expressed their feelings about events
ot that momentous day.

Blogging exploded after that. It was helped along by the
mighty Google, which purchased Blogger in 2003. One big
reason for this exponential growth was that blogging was
easy and the results looked good. All any would-be blogger
had to do was to log on to a site where writing inside the
Web browser was as simple as using an email program. Enter
the text, give the document a title, then click "publish." That
was it. Instantly you could see your document on the Web.
If additional changes needed to be made, it was a simple
matter of returning to the editing window, making changes,
and re-publishing.

Less thought had to go into the process of publishing,
meaning that more thought could be dedicated to the content
that was being published. This content could include text,
images, sounds, and - eventually - even video clips (think
YouTube), along with hyperlinks to other blogs and Web-
based resources. Readers stopping by could leave comments
at the bottom of each post. A straightforward, elegant design
intersected with the natural human desire to connect with
others and share experiences. Voila! Blogs were born.

In retrospect, it makes sense that colleges and universities
would try to find a way to harness the strong and growing power
of blogging; it provided a way of empowering students, faculty,
and staff to communicate via the Web with each other and
the world. At the time, however, even in 2003, starting up any

kind nt blogging initiative at UMW seemed either "silly," as
one academic administrator would later call it, or irrelevant.
What could a school hope to gain by sharing its work in this
way? Weren't blogs somehow unprofessional?

The road to UMW Blogs

It happened during a road trip in July 2004- Mary
Washington's Chief Information Officer Chip German and
his new assistant vice president for teaching and learning
technologies, Gardner Campbell, were returning from a
meeting at the College of William & Mary. There, the two
had met with Gene Roche, W&M's director of academic
technology. The purpose of the meeting was for German
and Campbell to learn how to upgrade a standard application
called a "Learning Management System" - in this case, a
product called Blackboard. William & Mary had just gone
through such an upgrade, and Roche had agreed to share
his experience in order to help Mary Washington think
about its own plans. Mission accomplished. Information was
exchanged, questions were asked, clarifications were sought,
and the meeting came to a close.

Then came the eureka moment.

In passing, Roche mentioned that he had begun a
professional blog to document and communicate his work at
the college. Campbell, an English professor by training and
always alert to new modes of creativity and communication,
was intrigued. For $5 a month, one could "rent" space on a
commodity Web server and begin to experiment with all sorts
of new tools on the World Wide Web: blogs, wikis, image
galleries, and much more. The space was cheap; the tools were
easy to use; and the server was not part of the institution's
infrastructure, meaning the experiments would have no effect
on normal business and communication processes.

Best of all, this website could be like a sandbox - users were

Gardner Campbell (I) and Chip German

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free to dig and play in whatever
format they wanted. The space
on the Web server prescribed no
particular format; instead, users
were able to install and combine
various tools in imaginative and
innovative ways. This electronic
environment was tailor-made for
folks who like to experiment,
tinker, and try new things.

German, too, was intrigued.
He and Campbell climbed into
German's car for the drive home.
Neither one could wait to begin
talking about what they had seen
and what their W&M colleague
had shared with them.

It was a monumental
conversation. By the time the
two arrived back in Fredericksburg,
they had decided to purchase
space on this Web server for each
of Campbell's six staff members
in the Division of Teaching and
Learning Technologies (DTLT),
along with unique domain names
for each of the staffers. These staff
members would, in turn, begin
their own professional blogs and
experiment with the other tools the
company had made available. Both
German and Campbell sensed
that there were many possibilities
to pursue, and they agreed from
the beginning not to stipulate any
particular results. The idea was to
set up a Web-enabled environment
that would empower each member
of DTLT to be a trailblazer in the
uses of these new tools - what have
come to be known as "Web 2.0"
tools. Once DTLT had done its
pioneering explorations, the staff

Phenomenon

As UMW blogs took off, gaining worldwide prominence, the University's
Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies staff thought of these
wonderful opportunities and synergies as the result of creativity, innovation,
and a lot of hard work over many years. It turns out UMW Blogs was also
revolutionary, and it would come to its next level of prominence in the spring of
2008 when instructional technology specialist Jim Groom gave this revolution a
name.

He called it "EDUPUNK."

In its essence, EDUPUNK is a rather simple idea: innovation and
experimentation in teaching and learning technology have been hampered
- and, in many cases, blocked - by a top-down, vendor-driven, walled-garden
approach to learning. Higher education turned its back on the open Web when
merchants'"leaming management" software like Blackboard and PowerPoint
offered cookie-cutter, teacher-driven approaches to disseminating course
materials in a password-protected environment.

In addition, such programs were consuming institutional resources that
could be applied toward support of integrative learning both on- and off-line.

Thus, blogging and other free and more flexible teaching tools began
replacing mainstream teaching tools at UMW and other institutions.

It was at this juncture that Groom first uttered "EDUPUNK."The result was
an explosion of interest and controversy across the educational blogosphere
and eventually across the Internet itself. Less than a week after Groom's blog
post appeared (http://bavatuesdays.com/the-glass-bees), the term he had
introduced was the subject of a Chronicle of Higher Education article. The term
was subsequently picked up by mainstream media such as Wired magazine, The
New York Times, and F@stCompany. Why did EDUPUNK prove to be so explosive?

The term became a battle cry for a DIY - Do It Yourself- philosophy for
faculty, students, and educational technologists to circumvent centralized and
proprietary learning management systems. In fact, EDUPUNK put a succinct
and politicized label on a wide range of experimentation that was happening
around the globe, and in many ways highlighted UMW as one of the brightest
stars in this constellation of innovation. While the term itself has been the source
of controversy over its ideological intensity, the larger concerns EDUPUNK raises
in regard to vital and creative learning in a digital age are more urgent than ever.
Groom's neologism didn't cause the discontent, but it certainly put a name (and
a face) on shared frustrations - and shared hopes.

UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE • FALL/WINTER 2009

UMW Blogs login page.

that, thanks to Gene Roche, we were onto something big."
"Big" almost seems like an understatement now. What
did happen, over the next tour years, was an explosion of
innovation that took Mary Washington into a position of
international prominence in the use of these Web 2.0 tools
in teaching and learning. Unusually, that prominence was
achieved and shared by everyone in the University community:
staff, students, and faculty. In fact, the teamwork represented
by this accomplishment has been celebrated nearly as much
as the accomplishment itself. Because of the experimentation
that became UMW Blogs, Mary Washington stands out among
leading universities around the world.

Not a bad yield for a project that started out costing $5
a month.

would be perfectly positioned to help faculty explore and use
these tools in their own teaching and scholarship.

Because the tools and the experiences were so new, it was
impossible to predict what might happen.

"I was driving," German recalled later, "but I don't remember
a moment of the trip beyond our lobbing ideas back and forth
to each other the whole way, each new idea upping the ante on
the possibilities and implications, and all requiring very little
money. We could have been driving through a hurricane, and
I wouldn't have known it. Seventy miles an hour in a black
Xterra and me behind the wheel barely able to focus on the
road. When Gardner and I think about that conversation now,
we both can't help grinning like fools. We knew from the start

/ could go on at length about UMW Blogs
- the brilliance and dedication of the DTLT
staff, our first-rate faculty, our students,
the way their creativity and outside-the-
boundaries thinking have not only served the
UMW community but brought us national
recognition - but to keep it short: UMW Blogs
is a great example of innovative and often
gutsy collaboration among faculty, academic
technology staff, and students.

Nina Mikhalevsky,
professor of philosophy

University-level

sandbox play

One of the first ventures the staff of DTLT embarked on
in their Web space was blogging. What this amounted to was
that they all began publishing their reflections on the work
they were doing in their new "sandboxes." Conversations at
staff meetings quickly began to revolve around how blogging
was transforming DTLT's understanding of its work. Suddenly,
the staff of the division had a channel to communicate with
each other, an avenue on which to enter broader professional
conversations about teaching and technology, and a narrative
of their work that served as a place of both reflection and
record. The vital connections they were making - with each
other, with colleagues at other institutions, and with their
own ideas - seemed like a perfect model for learning

The next step was to encourage UMW faculty members to
experiment with blogs in their classes. A few brave professors
- including Campbell, who tried blogs in two sections of a
course he taught in the spring of 2005 - stepped forward to
test the waters and tried to wrap their heads around whether
or not to make blogs public or private, required or optional,
individual or group, graded or informal. Other tools such as
wikis - Web pages anyone can edit - were used as collaboration
and research spaces. Professor Steve Greenlaw's senior
economics seminars blazed the trail here. Each experiment
revealed more about the potential of blogging and personal
publication in the classroom.

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Along the way, magic began. One example continues to
draw gasps from audiences at education conferences, even
years later.

In the spring of 2006, a group of Professor Gregg Stull's
theater students embarked on a semester-long Hogging journey
in which they recorded their research and reflections for an
upper-level seminar titled "Ideas in Performance." One student,
Tori Miller '06, posted thoughts about a student production
she was directing of Fat Men in Skirts by playwright Nicky
Silver. She was struggling with some production choices,
and decided to put her concerns into a blog post. Imagine
her surprise when Silver himself left a comment on her post,
encouraging her to "just play each scene for its own values
and let the characters' journey pull you through."

How much more authentic could learning become than to
have undergraduates reflecting with passion and precision on
their own learning, and thereby drawing the attention of the
very artists and professionals whose work they were studying?

Not IF, but HOW?

At that point, DTLT staffers were pretty sure that this
blogging thing "had legs." Their experience and intuition
were reinforced by the conversations and presentations
at the 2006 Faculty Academy on Teaching and Learning
Technologies. Faculty Academy, as it had come to be called
during the administration of founder David Ayersman, Mary
Washington's first Director of Instructional Technology, is
an annual showcase and conference for faculty to share their
work with information and communication technologies in
teaching and learning.

The event grew and flourished under Ayersman's leadership,
and when Campbell followed him as assistant vice president
for teaching and learning technologies, he built on Ayersman's
foundation. UMW Faculty Academy turned into an annual
event that attracts leaders in new media, information
technologies, and higher education from throughout the
United States and Canada as keynote presenters and workshop
facilitators. In attendance and showcasing their work are faculty
and staff from UMW, W&M, George Mason University, and
other prominent colleges and universities in Virginia - and
increasingly, other states as well

The special spirit of Faculty Academy reflected the
uniquely innovative culture of teaching and learning at

The UMW instructional technologists are
using their sandbox not only to craft open
source solutions but also to transform
themselves into more capable evaluators
of the next commercial packages they'll
need to buy from vendors. And, more than
incidentally, they are having a great deal of
fun.

Jon Udell of Microsoft,
former strategic developer
for Infoworld magazine

Mary Washington, and the event also gave faculty and staff
a chance to talk about what was working well in their own
explorations across the curriculum. At the 2006 Faculty
Academy, DTLT staff organized a panel discussion on blogging
at UMW. Faculty from both UMW campuses participated,
contributing ideas and experiences from their classrooms and
research. This session, the first of its kind, made clear just
how transformative blogging was becoming at UMW. One
of the guest workshop leaders that year, Cyprien Lomas, a
fellow of the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative as well as an
educational technology administrator at the University of
British Columbia, told Campbell afterwards it was the most
informative and inspiring conversation about blogging in
higher education that he'd ever heard.

At this point, then, the question was not whether blogs
could be an important part of teaching and learning. That
question had been answered with a resounding "yes." The
question became how to make customized course blogging
available on a larger scale. Campbell's early experiments with
multi-user blogging in the classroom had been just successful
enough to tempt him onward. In the summer of 2006, Campbell
and a new instructional technology specialist, Jim Groom,

Across UMW Blogs lies a trail of my
educational victories and failures.
Some landmarks are more apparent
than others, but it is a path that I own.
And it is not only about my path, it is a
place where my path intertwines and
intersects with other travelers.

Shannon Hauser '10

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Faculty using UMW Blogs

So how are Mary Washington faculty members using UMW
Blogs? There are examples from across the disciplines, in every
kind of course. Here's a small sample:

The English department's Mara Scanlon and Brady
Earnhart, along with Jim Groom, instructional technologies
specialist for arts and humanities, are part of a group that has
been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities
grant called "Looking for Whitman: The Poetry of Place in the
Life and Work of Walt Whitman." The grant will help students
at three other universities as well - the New York City College
of Technology, New York University, and Rutgers University
- engage in a concurrent inquiry, connected by open-source
technology, into the relationship of Walt Whitman's poetry to
local geography and history.

Visit the UMW Digital Whitman site http://marywash.
lookingforwhitman.org, and you could get lost not only in
students' and teachers' writings on Walt Whitman, but also in
video of students sporting long, fake gray beards reading the
poet's work or a class tour of Civil War sites in Fredericksburg,
where Whitman nursed wounded soldiers. Site visitors will find
audio of class lectures, photos, maps, and shout-outs to the
Whitman classes blogging at other universities.

In her upper-level "Literary Journals" seminar, English
Professor Claudia Emerson is having her students re-imag-
ine literary publishing for the 21 st century. Working in small
groups, the students take on the task of conceiving, develop-
ing, and publishing online literary journals. Visit the student
journals online at http://literaryjournals.umwblogs.org.

Learn more about Emerson's class English 304A, "Creative
Writing: Poetry," at http://ethershops09.umwblogs.org.

Biology Professor Steve Gallik has worked with
specialists in DTLTto bring the traditional laboratory
notebook online. Students publish their cell biology lab
results directly to their spaces in UMW Blogs, allowing them
to annotate and manage their notebooks and allowing their
professor to monitor and comment upon their progress.
See Gallik's Online Laboratory and Digital Notebooks
homepage at http://lablogs.umwblogs.org.

In the history department, Associate Professor Jeff
McClurken is introducing his students to the field of "digital
history." In spring 2008, students in his seminar used UMW
Blogs to design and develop persistent online resources
about their research on James Farmer, the UMW Centennial,
James Monroe, and Virginia's historical markers in the
Fredericksburg area.

See the tools McClurken is using to teach digital history
and to teach students new to college in his "Freshman
Seminar: Marching Home" by visiting the class blog at
http://marchinghome2008.umwblogs.org.

For the last two years, students in Economics Professor
Steven Greenlaw's freshman seminar classes in globalization
have been using UMW Blogs as a platform to publicly track
their progress as they're introduced to the challenges of
a college seminar. Most recently, Greenlaw led a class of
upper-level economics majors to explore the domestic
and global implications of the current financial crisis and
economic recession. The work done by the class resulted in
http://2008financialcrisis.umwblogs.org.

In summer 2009, students, many of them already
graduates, worked with Greenlaw to revise the work, and
they published it online. Greenlaw is putting together a small
team to continue the analysis. The blog got a mention in
Liberal Education Today, the newsletter of NITLE, the National
Institute for the study of Technology in Liberal Education.
Greenlaw said, "The site is very professional and I have
vetted every page, so I believe it's high quality, not merely an
artificial class project."

To read more about the class that led to the 2008
Financial Crisis blog, visit http://econ482.umwblogs.org.

To learn more about Greenlaw's ideas and teaching,
including the creation of the Financial Crisis blog, see
http://pedablogy.stevegreenlaw.org/?p=703.

English Professor Marie McAllister and her students
have won international recognition for their "18th Century
Poetry" project, in which they have performed new readings
of 18th-century lyric poems and have curated excellent
readings already on the Web. This free audio archive is a
collaborative research opportunity for McAllister and her
students, and it's a valuable scholarly resource already in
demand by professors and students around the world.

To hear Helena Marie Williams'"Sonnet to Hope,"William
Blake's "Ah! Sun-flower," and many other poems,
go to McAllister's "Eighteenth-Century Audio" site at
http://ecaudio.umwblogs.org. Some of the most beautiful
readings are by Professor McAllister.

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worked together to test an application that would allow a much
more powerful integration of multi-user Hogging into courses
than had heretofore been possible. The application, tested in
Campbell's summer school film class, was successful, but too
difficult to set up and administer on a large scale. Although
DTLT staff continued to blog, and blogs continued to be used
by a few UMW faculty in their teaching and professional
lives, the idea of multi-user blogging had to be shelved for
the time being.

Development is rapid in the world of technology, though,
and by January oi 2007, a company called WordPress had a
multi-user blogging platform ready for use. Campbell saw the
announcement and mentioned it in passing to Jim Groom.
True to form, Groom had the installation up and running
the next day.

Campbell's Film/Text/Culture class was the first to adopt
this new multi-user blogs setup, and it quickly demonstrated
the power and versatility of this new platform. The students
went "ballistic," Groom said, and began including relevant
YouTube videos and film screen shots, which were accompanied
by deep and reflective examinations of the texts, all of which
began resonating as a larger community of sharing and
thinking. Several students also used the publishing space,
limited at that time to the Department of English, Linguistics,
and Speech, to document the process and progress of their
independent studies over the course of a semester. By the end
of the term, the small investment - $7 a month paid to the
hosting service, plus the sweat and ingenuity of faculty, staff,
and students - had yielded an enormous return. And that

I've said it before and I'll say it again: my
favorite thing about blogging was being
encouraged to take an active role in my own
education. . . . [I]fl seem zealous it's because
I came to see myself as a real scholar
precisely by blogging for Dr. Campbell's
class. You know that whole "dialogue" that
critics are supposedly engaged in? Well, I'd
never actually seen any such dialogue until
I was invited to participate in one. That
opportunity, that invitation. . . well, it made
all the difference. It made my studies more
than just an artificial activity to pass the
time in school.

ladeline Kelly '09

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was just over one semester.

Such success, spearheaded by faculty's innovative and
creative use of the multi-user environment and coupled with
students' unsolicited initiative in the space, provided compelling
evidence that UMW needed a larger blogging platform. And
from this humble experiment, the Division of Teaching and
Learning Technologies decided to make the jump from one
small departmental blogging engine to a University-wide
publishing platform called "UMW Blogs."

A catalyst is created mmmm

After a summer of brainstorming, dreaming, and planning
under the leadership of its new director, Martha Fay Burtis '96,
DTLT rolled out UMW Blogs in the fall of 2007. Excitement
prevailed throughout the University community with the
unveiling of this simple and elegant means to publish work
online for others to read, connect with, and respond to.

The entire instructional technology group started consulting
with faculty about the possibilities and potential of such a
system. By the beginning of September 2007, there were
more than 15 courses using UMW Blogs and nearly 300
blogs featuring faculty and students from at least six different
departments. It was immediately apparent that the move from
a departmental-specific site to a University-wide publishing
system changed not only the scale, but also the uses of the
blogs. The move created unique possibilities for sharing
between and across disciplines, as well as exposing the work

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UMW Blogs is a remarkably versatile tool
for higher education, allowing student
authorship and publishing, faculty
engagement with a larger academic
community, and - best of all - a glimpse
into the life of the mind of the institution.

Jeffrey W. McClurken '94,
UMW Associate
Professor of History

of UMW's students and faculty to cine another and to experts
and practitioners all over the world.

By the end of the first semester, there were more than 600
unique users signed up on UMW Blogs and more than 500
blogs. That meant that within one semester more than 10
percent of the campus population had joined this voluntary,
grassroots effort. Even more thrilling was that this experiment
gave faculty and students the opportunity to find and engage
in the work of a variety of different classes in which they were
not formally enrolled. It became clear that UMW Blogs could
be a truly integrative platform for liberal education.

Rather than locking the ideas, reflections, and questions
that are essential to a liberal arts education within a set of
course-specific containers, UMW Blogs helped expose them
to the entire campus community. Far from being a risk or a
liability, UMW Blogs became a catalyst for innovation and
the foundation for a thriving community of learning, one that
over the next 18 months continued to yield surprises, build
relationships, and attract international admiration.

And the magic continued. A student in a freshman seminar
blogged about soul singer Sam Cooke; a few days later, Sam
Cooke's nephew commented on her blog.

UMW Blogs grows up

When UMW Blogs started in the fall of 2007, the staff
of DTLT looked at it as a great sandbox for teaching and
learning. Continually monitoring this "pilot" project, they
offered different features to the system by adding "plugins,"
short pieces of computer code written by members of the
WordPress community. Sometimes the plugins work as
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"buggy," or the plugin has to be updated. The software may
be free, but keeping it running is not.

Jim Groom has carried the load in keeping UMW Blogs up
and running, serving in the role of "application administrator,"
or "admin" for short. As the admin, Groom is the person
who hears about the problems and is expected to fix them. A
sampling of the types of comments that regularly cross his desk:

UMW Blogs seems slow today. Call Jim.

Hey Jim, 1 can't get the images to load correctly on my post.

Jim, we need to get the security patches installed on UMW Blogs.

Fortunately, Groom has been more than up to the task
of maintaining the system. His contacts in the WordPress
community exchange ideas, problems, and fixes.

Before long, UMW's nice little sandbox was getting more

UMW Blogs opened the digital door to me;
it allowed me to write for writing's sake in a
setting that I could still consider "academic."
With the platform, I was able to interact
with other students and - more important
- professors in a way that seemed to
transcend the scholastic sphere. Beyond the
bubble of the University, though, my blog
continues to offer me unlimited possibilities
in experimentation...and builds an ongoing
discussion on culture that recreates the
roundtable experience without force-fitting
it into the box of a classroom.

Brad Efford'10

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and more use. The message was clear: UMW Blogs was a
hit. But with success comes added responsibility. With so
many faculty and students using UMW Blogs, it became an
"enterprise" application, one that had to serve many people
across the campus very reliably, day in and day out.

Goodbye commodity Web hosting at $7 a month; the
University needed a service that would host the system on a
Web server dedicated to its use alone. That way, more users
and blogs could be added without having to worry about the
system getting slow or crashing under the load. Security and
privacy controls also were implemented to protect students,
faculty, and staff.

Fortunately, these efforts to transform UMW Blogs into an
"enterprise" application have not killed the sandbox aspect. It
still is a unique application that allows users to experiment and
to dream. UMW does not consider it a "blogging" system per
se, but rather, a Web publishing platform. When UMW Blogs
is viewed in such a way, it is easy to see how the application
can extend to student-designed literary journals, online lab
notebooks, or even audio recordings of 18th-century lyric poetry.

As UMW Blogs strengthens and grows, the world is
taking notice. UMW's Division of Teaching and Learning
Technologies deserves much of that praise, but so do the
faculty who are innovating in that space, crossing disciplines
and courses, working with students on projects that would
simply have been impossible before the "sandbox" era began.

Student bloggers are beginning to attract attention as
well. Two undergraduates from UMW were the first students
to present at the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative annual
meeting, a conference that previously had focused on faculty
and staff presentations. These students have been followed
by yet more students and faculty presenting at national and
international conferences.

UMW's experiments with blogs, wikis, and various open-
source Web-enabled teaching and learning technologies have
clearly contributed in substantial and influential ways to the
global conversation about new uses for the World Wide Web.

Although the two earliest architects of that sandbox, Chip
German and Gardner Campbell, have since gone to positions
of leadership at other schools (German is Vice President
for Information Technologies at Millersville University in
Pennsylvania, and Campbell is at Baylor University, serving
as Director of the Academy for Teaching and Learning as

Let me just say some things that I think are
special about Mary Washington - and I do
think it's a very special place.

On Faculty Academy: Faculty Academy is a
very important feature of the overall success
at UMW because it provides a public forum -
with clear support from the administration -
for faculty to reflect on their learning and to
own the successes and the failures. Faculty
Academy helps us avoid just the puff pieces
and understand the reality.
The culture of sharing at FA is unusual -
maybe even unique. Visitors from William
& Mary are always amazed at the number
and range of faculty who present and the
honesty of their presentations. Bringing in
outside speakers and visitors gives the Mary
Washington folk a sense that they are not
alone and reinforces/recognizes that they
are doing good, important work.

On the DTLT staff: The time and energy that
Martha Burtis and Jim Groom have put into
sharing the technical details of the work
have been very helpful to those of us trying
to build on your successes. I have to believe
there's an important benefit to modeling
that kind of open, transparent commitment
to sharing as a kind of professional
development that's valuable.

Gene Roche, Director of
Academic Technology at
the College of William &
Mary

well as an Associate Professor of Literature and Media), new
architects, collaborators, and participants have continued
to infuse UMW Blogs with the energy and vision it needs
to thrive. Here's how Khalil Yazdi, UMW's current Vice
President for Information Technologies, characterizes the
ongoing importance of UMW Blogs, both to the University
community and to higher education as a whole:

UMW Blogs provides our students and faculty a unique
opportunity to explore the benefits and challenges of presenting

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and sharing digital content in an academic environment. At
the same time, they can work toward an understanding of
important aspects of their personal and professional digital
identity.

Presenting course content via UMW Blogs provides
students and faculty a vehicle to share and receive feedback
and has demonstrated the power of UMW Blogs as a teaching
and learning tool ... UMW Blogs represents a notable
example of the power of collaborative effort among faculty,
learning technology specialists, and institutional IT support
in responding to the challenges of teaching, learning, and
scholarship in the digital age.

What's next?

With the launch of UMW Blogs, faculty and students have
started coming to terms with their new digital identities - as
professors, students, academics, administrators, members of
clubs, committees, and creative collectives. Some faculty
members want to set up professional websites within the
environment. Students have begun to experiment with the
idea of using UMW Blogs as a place to host online, dynamic
portfolios of their work; that way, they could highlight their
achievements for future employers in a more professional
context than on Facebook profiles.

Given this developing interest in understanding and
building digital identities, UMW Blogs has added a feature
to the site that allows anyone to "map" a Web address to a
site on UMW Blogs. In short, any faculty member or student

When I visited UMW to speak at the
Faculty Academy a couple of years ago,
I was struck by the faculty's attitude
toward the DTLT staff and toward
technology. The faculty were engaged,
excited, and interested in the offerings of
DTLT, and it was clear that they trust the
staff and hold them in high regard. That
relationship, I think, is a key contributing
factor to the way UMW has become a
leader in the effective use of educational
technology. Faculty know they will be
supported and encouraged when they try
things, and that makes a huge difference.
The staff at DTLT build and support the
campus community with everything they
do - UMW Blogs is a great example of
this. Instead of giving each student or
teacher an isolated blog - which would
be the easiest way to do it but would
have resulted in a host of unconnected,
abandoned blogs - the team at UMW
has created a whole community of
bloggers. They have done so by treating
it as a community and by creating the
support structure to make that possible.
From the point of view of the bloggers,
it just "happens" - they don't have to
learn technology for technology's sake.
They can get in there and do what is
meaningful for them in a way that's easy
for them, and the structure that supports
the community is an integrated part of
it already. The support of the DTLT staff
is one of the reasons UMW is so well
respected in the edtech community.

Rachel Smith,
Vice President for
Services, New Media
Consortium

can purchase a domain name online and then assign it to
his or her blog. While the change of the address may seem
like a minor detail, having a domain of one's own can be
empowering, and it helps users establish an individual online
identity, something that is becoming more common and

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/ first used UMWBIogs for a film class my
freshman year, and I thought it was the
most amazing thing. I could analyze a
scene with text, images, video, and audio.
I could even continue the conversation
through comments or cite my classmates'
work. But that was nothing, because
since then I've seen UMWBIogs used
for conference presentations, course
discussion spaces, student-run nonprofits,
an audio collection of 1 8th-century poetry,
Italian travel blogs, online portfolios, and
even literary journals. Every semester I'm
surprised all over again by how innovative
students and professors are with this online
space. The beauty of UMWBIogs is that it
can be anything.

Serena Epstein '09

necessary in the digital age.

Another promising emerging technology is a mechanism
to include more social networking within the UMW Blogs
system. Starting this fall, UMW Blogs has had a Facebookdike
social network integrated into the system. Called "BuddyPress,"
this feature is a way to create relationships among users of
UMW Blogs. BuddyPress creates a more sophisticated layer
of information about who is using the system.

Moreover, the BuddyPress tool will allow users - faculty,
students, staff, alumni - to create networks of friends and
follow their work closely, as well as to form ad hoc groups for
sharing information or developing a community. The key is
that a social networking element such as BuddyPress gives
everyone in the community yet another way to find and
access the collective thinking of the University community.

UMW Blogs is also exploring the use of techniques and
technologies that would allow a more precise articulation - in
a form that computer programs can interpret - of knowledge
about who's blogging and in what contexts and for what
purposes. From that information, users with similar interests
and backgrounds can discover one another.

For example, a student blogs about his experiences in a
geography course, which uses a particular GIS device. At the
same time, a student in a historic preservation course blogs

about using the same GIS device to record information about

her archaeological studies. The geography student will have
something in common with the historic preservation student
- they are using similar tools. At present, the chances of them
finding each other are slim, at best.

With the new options under exploration, though, it should
be possible to create ways for these two students to discover
each other and what they are writing in UMW Blogs.

With these and other enhancements planned for the future,
the focus of UMW Blogs remains the same as it has been since its
birth: exploring information and communication technologies in
an effort to bring people together into richer learning experiences
and a more effective and meaningful educational community.

Contributing to this article were: Martha Burtis '96, Chip
German, Jim Groom, Patrick Murray-John, Andy Rush, and
Jerry Slezak. m

For several years I have followed with
keen interest the innovation infused into
the University of Mary Washington by the
DTLT team. UMW is a prime example of
talking about how a small team can have
an important impact on their organization
via a process of continually engaging in
research and development with new tools
and carrying it successfully through to an
implementation level. Perhaps internally
they are so close they do not see it, but
the expansion of UMWBIogs from an
experiment to an entire ecosystem for
publishing, creativity, connecting, and
promoting deeper learning is truly a
remarkable achievement that would be
the envy of many other institutions. But
more important, from my own experience
at visiting UMW, the DTLT staff has one
of the most cooperative and mutally
beneficial relationships with the faculty
that I have seen anywhere.

Alan Levine,
Vice President for
Community and Chief
Technical Officer, New
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keeps on giving By Susan Scott Neal

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Never mind that she is 92 years young. Ruby Lee Norris juggles writing, photography, exercising, entertaining, reading, gardening, and
administering her civic duties.

very night at twilight, Ruby
Lee Norris slips outside to
her porch to bask in the
serenity and sounds of her garden.

Amid rose hushes, daylilies, ferns, and shade trees, she
listens as the world goes to sleep - first the birds, then the
tree frogs, and finally, a multitude of insects, all giving up
their daytime cacophony for a calming hum.

When silence and darkness envelop her, Norris is also
ready for rest.

And goodness knows, at 92, she needs her rest. Despite her
chronological age, Norris in mind and spirit is a young whirling
dervish of energy, ideas, imagination, and optimism. She has
more going on in her life than many people half her age.

On any given day she might he writing poetry or a
magazine article, taking photographs, researching history
on the Internet, answering emails, exercising, going to a
meeting, participating in a writing workshop, entertaining
friends, going out to lunch, reading books, puttering in her
garden, having her hair and nails done, shopping for bright
and beautiful clothes, or modeling in a fashion show.

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In addition, she's always charming and
always cheerful.

She is a wonder and an inspiration to all
who know her.

That includes the University of Mary
Washington community, which has heen a part
of Norris' life since she entered the school as a
freshman in 1932.

Back then, UMW was known as the
Frederickshurg State Teachers College, and
Norris was a country girl from Middlesex
County, Va. Driven by the Great Depression
and realizing the sacrifices her family made to
send her to college, she graduated in 1936 ready
to land a job. She had teaching certifications
in French, English, and science.

Those certifications served Norris well over
a 37-year teaching career, and she has remained
a grateful and loyal friend of the University. Her
college friendships have also lasted, she said.
"Mary Washington changed my life."

Norris has been involved in the institution's
affairs since joining the alumni association
in 1961, her 25th anniversary year. She has
served two terms on the Alumni Association
Board and a term on the Board of Visitors,
and she is in her second term on the UMW
Foundation Board. In 1986, Norris received the
Distinguished Alumnus Award in recognition
of her myriad contributions over the years.

A dozen years ago, she established a scholarship for
students majoring in either French or English, two of her
areas of concentration.

She also has served as class agent for many years and
is the most senior alumna to handle correspondence from
classmates and write a Class Notes entry for University of
Mary Washington Magazine.

From her home in Topping, a tiny town in rural Middlesex
County, Norris uses email and the telephone to stay in touch
with the University on a regular basis. She is on campus for
meetings at least four times a year, more often if there are
dedications or special events.

"She comes with an entourage," said Mary Randolph
"Ranny" Corbin '71, executive assistant to the UMW

President. "She has lots of friends among a group of current
and former board members in the Northern Neck area, and
they all call her when they're coming to the University. She
wouldn't miss a thing here."

And she would be sorely missed if she did.

"She's a huge favorite around here," Corbin said. "Everyone
adores her. She takes an interest in everything, and she's a
wonderful, charming conversationalist. She wears the most
gorgeous clothes, she's beautiful and she's elegant, but she's
also unpretentious. She is simply a lovely person, and she
has a way of making everyone she comes in contact with
feel very special."

Even though she was 80 years old when she was appointed
to the Board of Visitors, Norris served vigorously and displayed
a keen intellect and a special interest in academic affairs.

She's genteel and unfailingly polite, but she doesn't
hesitate to express her opinions. She opposed changing Mary
Washington College's name in 2004, and she wrote a three-
page letter detailing her reasons.

But she doesn't hold a grudge. "I move on," she said. "I'm
used to the name now."

Norris often travels to Fredericksburg with Jean Polk
Hanky '69 of White Stone, Va., a friend and fellow Foundation
Board member who also has served on the Board of Visitors
and the alumni board.

"Ruby Lee is the most wonderful company and she never
lacks for a ride, a dinner party, or an invitation," Hanky said.
"She's wise, optimistic, interesting, funny, and fun to be with.
And she really also knows how to use her feminine wiles.
She's surrounded by men wherever she goes."

Back in her home county, Norris is held in high regard.
The Rotary Club honored her last winter with its prestigious
"Pride of Middlesex" award in recognition of her many efforts
to improve the quality of life in the county.

She shared the award with her younger sister, Rachel
Bridges, a fellow county resident who also lives an energetic,
productive life.

Norris said she and her sister complement each other. "My
sister wants to help the downtrodden, and I want to help the
ones who are up and going."

Among many other activities, Norris was a founder of
the Middlesex Family YMCA; o{ the Central Middlesex
Association, which was formed to preserve the rural landscape;
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speakers and public forums on growth and environmental
issues. Also a founder of the Chesapeake Writers Club, Norris
is active as well in her church and her garden club.

Home for Mrs. Norris is a two-story clapboard house built
in 1859 by her great-uncle, William Hall. Its furnishings are
a charming mix of antiques, original art, personal keepsakes,

When she's at home,
Norris (left) spends part
of each day in her office
writing, blogging, and
emailing. She enjoys her
trips to her alma mater.

Above, she reconnects
with one of her
proteges, former Board
of Visitors member Ben
Hernandez '95.

and framed photographs that she has taken with her 35 mm
Canon.

Norris has lived in the same house since 1981, when
she and her late husband, Vernon, moved back home from
Richmond, where they had lived for many years.

Vernon was in real estate, and Ruby Lee taught high
school in Henrico County and Richmond. Together, they
also restored houses in Richmond's Fan district, where they
lived in a large Victorian.

Both Ruby Lee and Vernon were born and raised in the
country, she in the Hartfield area of Middlesex and he in
Lancaster County. "I was born in the same bed, in the same
bedroom where my mother was born, in my grandmother's
house," she said.

Mrs. Norris' maiden name was also Norris, though her
Norrises from Middlesex weren't related to her husband's
Norrises from Lancaster.

Ruby Lee Norris Norris can trace her ancestry back to
England on both sides of her family. Through her mother,
whose maiden name was Hall, she is descended from a man
who first came to Mathews County, Va., as an
indentured servant and later obtained land through
the headright system. Under it, Virginia colonists
were given a "headright" of land - 50 acres - to farm.
To encourage migration to large farms, and thus
fuel the tobacco economy, each time a land owner
enticed a new worker from the old world and paid
the passage, he received another headright of land.
On the Norris side, her immigrant ancestor was
the fourth son of a baron who came to Maryland
from the North Sea area of England. There were
seafarers and merchants among her ancestors, and
her father ran a general store at Hartfield. Her
mother was a first-grade teacher.
Oldest of three daughters, Norris said she never wanted
to do anything but teach. "Back in those days, girls could be
teachers, nurses, or secretaries. I became a teacher, one sister
became a nurse, and one became a secretary."

Mary Washington was the obvious college choice in the
1930s for local girls, she said, because transportation from
rural Middlesex County was relatively easy, a straight shot
up U.S. 17 through Tappahannock.

Even so, she didn't come home often because money was
tight during the Depression. Norris said she'll never forget
her first trip home for the Christmas holiday after being in
Fredericksburg all semester. A snowstorm had blanketed the
roads and prevented travel by car.

"I thought I was something now that I was in college, and
I thought I'd make this grand show of coming home," she said.
"But my mother said I'd have to take the train to Richmond
and then catch a bus home from there. So I went with friends
on the train to Richmond, but I got there and didn't have
enough money to get home on the bus. Fortunately I knew
the bus driver and I told him my daddy would pay for me
when I got home. So I rode the bus home and Daddy picked
me up and paid the driver. I always say I came home C.O.D.
That sure knocked me down a notch or two."

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Young Ruby Lee was determined to make the most of her
college education because she knew she would be competing
against men for jobs. By focusing on required courses rather
than electives, she was certified to teach three subjects rather
than just one.

In 1972, she earned a master's degree in humanities from the
University of Richmond. Over the years, she taught French,
English, journalism and creative writing, and she served as
yearbook advisor. She retired as a humanities consultant for
Henrico County Public Schools.

Large bookshelves and stacks of books in her home testify
to an abiding love of knowledge. ^^—

In the kitchen, blue and white gin
adorns the walls, and a comfy loveseat
and chair encourage cozy chats over
a cup of tea.

Just outside the kitchen door,
detached from the house, is her
small cottage office. Norris spends
several hours every day on the
computer, writing or researching.
She loves the Internet and she
graduated long ago from writing on
yellow legal pads to composing on the
keyboard.

Norris writes for both pleasure and pay. She
has been a garden columnist for Pleasant Living
magazine since its inception 25 years ago, and she
also writes for Virginia Gardener. She takes many
of the photographs that accompany her articles.

She comes up with her own ideas and she
enjoys historical research for stories of local
interest, such as a series about steamboat travel in
the Chesapeake Bay area. For another series, she
researched the history behind several notable trees, including
a lynching tree, a tree under which enslaved people were sold,
and a tree under which a peace treaty was signed between
colonists and Indians.

She writes frequently about beautiful gardens and the
people who create them, and she gets nature and gardening
story ideas from the five acres surrounding her home. Her
property is a certified National Wildlife Habitat and it reflects
her love of all living things.

When the Rotary Club
presented Norris the
"Pride of Middlesex"
award last year, fellow
Mary Washington alumnae
flocked to the festivities.
Encircling the honoree,
left to right, are Sylvia
Woodcock '61, Terrie
Crawley '78, and Kathy
Mehfoud '70.

"I've written about butterflies, bees, birds, and various
critters that have invaded my yard. And I've seen a lot of
critters," she says.

Intellectual pursuits keep Mrs. Norris from ever being bored.
Lately, she's been experimenting with poetry as a means
of writing about a bittersweet, late-in-life romance that ended
with the death of her gentleman friend. She's taken a poetry
workshop with Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda '69, who lives
nearby and is the immediate past poet laureate of Virginia.
The form Norris has chosen uses free verse and involves
writing separate poems, then creating a new work by alternating
stanzas from the original poems.

e says writing poetry and taking

otographs are similar activities. "Each

is a little flash of something. It's all

about being alert to the world."

Alert she is. Friends and

associates marvel at Norris' vitality

and intellectual vigor at 92.

It may just be good genes, she

said, but she has always tried to

take care of herself by getting plenty

of rest, healthy food, and regular

exercise. She socializes often and travels

occasionally to visit friends and relatives,

including her son, Vernon Jr., three grandsons,

and two great-grandsons.

Jean Hanky also believes Norris' curious

nature, positive spirit, and spirituality play a role.

"Ruby Lee is constantly learning, working,

studying," Hanky said. "Everything inspires her,

especially the sounds and colors of nature. She's

always coming up with a new interest, something

new she wants to know about."

As director of alumni relations at UMW, Cynthia L.

Snyder '75 has worked closely with Norris for a number of

years. Snyder, too, would like to know her secret.

"Ruby Lee is just amazing," she said. "She is involved totally
in the University. She loves interacting with students, she
knows what's going on, and she makes a point to be informed
about everything."

Snyder, who is amazed by Norris' ability to delight everyone
she meets, said, "I want to be just like her when I grow up." m

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Balloting in an
Embattled Country

UMW professor was in Afghanistan
as election observer

By Marty Morrison

A man voting at a polling center in Kandahar City.

As an accredited election observer,
Ranjit Singh '90 has spent 15 years
witnessing democratic elections in
such hot spots as Bangladesh, Liberia, South
Africa, and the Gaza Strip.

Still, the UMW professor was unprepared for the life-risking
circumstances he faced as an official observer of the 2009
election process in Afghanistan - only the second presidential
election there since the fall of the Taliban in 2001.

"I've been in situations that were iffy and uncertain,
but I've never been in a situation where I was a target," said
Singh, assistant professor of political science and international
relations. The son of retired UMW English professor Raman
K. Singh, Ranjit Singh grew up on a working farm in Stafford
County and now has a toddler son of his own.

His horizons greatly broadened, Singh was among a
delegation of about 60 foreign-policy experts invited to

Afghanistan by Democracy International, a

network that provides technical assistance

for democracy and governance programs

worldwide. The Afghanistan election

observation mission was funded by the U.S.

Agency for International Development.

Singh donned a flak jacket and a

military ballistics helmet, and he traveled in an armored car

escorted by Humvees during his 12 -day trip in August.

After being briefed in the capital city of Kabul for three
days, Singh flew to the unstable Farah province on the
southwestern border of Iran. On the eve of the election,
he ate dinner with Farah's governor and election officials,
including the representative in charge of implementing the
election in the province.

"He is a very admirable man," Singh said about the
representative. "He's just a government employee who could
be blown up at any moment because he was the symbol of
the election."

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Before the election, Taliban insurgents had fired two
rockets into the town. They terrorized voters with threats
of cutting off the fingers of anyone voting and mining roads
around polling stations. At one point, the election official
said that half of his staff had quit.

"Imagine trying to run an election under those
circumstances, with or without fraud," Singh said.

Under the circumstances, Singh and his partner on the
delegation realized that security concerns made it impossible
to monitor the voting stations.

"I'm an election observer, not a soldier," Singh said. "We
were not there to take big risks, and the security guy said it's
a no go .

Election observers who witnessed the process in more stable
provinces reported considerable fraud, Singh said. Two months
after the Aug. 20 voting, Afghanistan's election commission
determined that fraud did exist and ordered a Nov. 7, 2009,
runoff in the disputed presidential poll. Incumbent Hamid
Karzai accepted the finding and agreed to the runoff with
his main challenger, Abdullah Abdullah. The challenger
demanded that major changes be made to the polling process
in advance of the runoff to avoid a repeat of the fraud. In
early November, when it became clear to Abdullah that his
demands were not being met, he withdrew from the race,
and Afghan officials declared Karzai the winner.

"This election had serious challenges that
impeded the ability of international observers to
get a clear picture of what went on," Singh said. "If
fraud was significant enough to affect the outcome
of the elections, it would destroy credibility of the
election among Afghan people."

Despite the constraints, Singh considered the
experience tremendously educational. He flew
over much of the country and saw firsthand the
challenges of the rugged, mountainous terrain.
Traveling through Kabul, he saw modern glass
wedding palaces on many street corners - a
remarkable sign of optimism - in the backdrop of
crumbling roads and dilapidated buildings.

"I learned about the country and, more importantly, I
saw for myself the conditions in which people are living and
the peculiarities that make the country unique," Singh said.

He also had a chance encounter with one of his students,
Nilab Sadat '12, while dining at a hotel in Kabul. Sadat was

spending the summer with her family in Afghanistan before
returning to UMW for her third year.

"She and the other Afghan students are the ones who got
me interested in going to Afghanistan," Singh said.

The three students attending UMW through the
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women have given Singh a
more comprehensive perspective of the country and United
States involvement there.

"As a teacher, I'm rather torn when thinking about
Afghanistan," Singh said. "The big debate in policy circles is
whether we should send more troops and how many resources
should we spend in trying to develop this country. Yet on a
human level, I have these wonderful Afghan students and I
see what the human stakes are and wonder about our moral
obligations."

He continued, "If the Taliban are victorious there is no
future for these students to use their education. They would
be suspect because of their education and would be unable
to return home. This kind of trip, for me, always brings home
the human stakes. These are not abstract questions that we
dryly debate in the classrooms."

Singh's experience in Afghanistan also reinforces the
importance of having foreign students at UMW.

"They bring examples of world politics in action," Singh

Singh donned a flak jacket and a military ballistics helmet, and he traveled
in an armored car escorted by Humvees during his 12-day trip in August.

said. "I've learned from these students. Every one has a very
different story and their presence has informed students.
There's a wonderful interaction going on. I can only wish we
had more of these students at Mary Washington." m

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By Christine Neuberger

Kimberley Kinsley's petite stature and sweet disposition
might fool you. The assistant professor of leadership and
management has confronted challenges in jail cells, in
courtrooms, on construction sites, and on aircraft carriers.

Years ago as a public defender, Kim Kinsley dealt regularly
with felons. As a military attorney, she routinely flew aboard
planes that took off from aircraft carriers by being flung out
over the ocean by catapult. She always has favored adrenalin-
pumping diversions: skiing expert slopes, surfing the Pacific,
and skydiving. Is it any surprise that a fellow attorney wrote a
novel with a heroine inspired by Kinsley?

Now 50, she pushes the envelope in other ways. Still
licensed to practice law, she enjoys plowing the ins and outs
of information and privacy law, a current research interest.
She relishes the classes she teaches in law and economics,
engaging students by drawing from her varied career.
Highlights range from working as an in-house counsel for a
major defense contractor to years as a solo law practitioner.

After joining the UMW faculty in 2007, Kinsley plunged into
University committee work. Her readiness to pitch in helped
her win the 2009 Outstanding Faculty Award for the Stafford
campus. "We all are busy. If something needs to be done, and if
we're going to be worse off if no one gets in there and does it,
then I'll jump into the frying pan," she said.

Whether jumping into the frying pan or out of an airplane,
Kinsley remains faithful to her passions. One is writing. The
published fiction writer stays awake most nights weaving tales
on her computer. She's currently combing out the tangles in a
400-page novel. Tucked away in her hard drive are two other
books and a script, all awaiting her attention.

Nothing, though, compares to this Spotsylvania resident's
devotion to her two teenage daughters.

/ love the collegiality of the people. Committees offer a wonderful
vehicle for getting to know people. I have learned so much from
my students! Many of them have fulltimejobs, or are retired
professionals; they commute and have families. I admire their
determination.

It takes a lot to get me down. I see the good in everybody. I learned
as a public defender, if you don't find something good in people,
you can't excel on their behalf. I tend to see the cup half full.

I've traveled to about

20 countries. I've

lived in Portugal,

Spain, Italy, Japan.

Meeting people in developing countries with little opportunity has

influenced me to appreciate this country. That motivates me in my

classroom to raise awareness about other countries and cultures.

Sandra Day O'Connor and Ayn Rand. Rand's controversial books
inspired me to value capitalism. Day O'Connor was a fine jurist
and an independent thinker. I am also deeply inspired by Claudia
Emerson's talent and the UMW students and faculty who have
worked with the village in Honduras.

My grandmothers were business-savvy when it wasn't cool for
women to engage in business. They were kind and intelligent.
They inspired me to consider business as an art form.

Prior to children, I was all about surfing or skiing. I tandem
parachuted. I was crazy, the things I would do. Then I had children.
Now, they are my passion, and their passions are mine: ballet,
classical music, and community theater. Anything to do with
them, I'm game.

My biggest fear is I will drop dead before I get my book published.
People do drop dead at my age. Every night, I think I've got to write
five pages or edit 20 more because I could drop dead tomorrow
and this thing is going to be lost in my computer.

I worry about young people. Their world is so consumed by
technology and information that they have no time to stop and
smell the roses; they may irretrievably lose that moment under the
stars thinking about things bigger than they are.

Studying the law is gratifying to me. In business, knowledge of the
law is critical. Go too far, you end up in court. Stop short, and you
risk inefficiency. If you know the parameters of how far legally and
ethically you can go, your business is empowered. My research
project this year is information and privacy law. It's an area
gaining momentum in business and in academics. I'm a member
of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, and I'm
trying to become a Certified Information Privacy Professional.

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Get the Picture?

Editor's note: "Get the Picture?"
asks for your help in identifying
people in vintage UMW images.
The photos are part of UMW's
Centennial Digital Image Archive,
an interactive and searchable
database that was established
in conjunction with Mary
Washington's 100th birthday.

The collection, which can be
viewed at http://archive.umw.edu,
already comprises more than
1,000 images that chronicle
UMW's visual history. Some of
the images in the archive are
identified only partially or not
at all. The archive can become
more complete from the shared
knowledge of UMW friends and
family.

Give It Your
Best Shot!

The only information about this
photo can be found written in
pencil on the back of this 8-X-10-
inchblackand white photograph:
"1971 Girl Reading Bullet." She is
standing next to a cutout of a
soldier adorned with a peace sign
and a flower. Can you identify the
student and shed more light on
the photo? Submit information
by emailing abilling@umw.edu
(please put GET THE PICTURE in
the subject line) or by sending
regular mail to University of Mary
Washington Magazine - Get the
Picture, UMW, 1301 College Ave.,
Fredericksburg, VA 22401-5300.

Stacie Crookston Gonzalez '89 was

astounded to see her photo featured
in this section of the summer issue of
University of Mary Washington Magazine.
Even more surprising - and a little
upsetting - was that the 20-year-old
photograph was described as "vintage,"
she said. In addition to Gonzalez herself,
at least five of her classmates and one
University administrator correctly
identified the student who was listening
to language tapes.

Today, Gonzalez lives in Colorado,
where she works as a senior paralegal
for El Paso Corp. The mother of
three children - a 7-year-old and
2-year-old twins - Gonzalez
regards the Rocky Mountains as
her "playground." She spends a
lot of time hiking with family
and friends, traveling, scuba
diving, and reading. At right is
a photo of Gonzalez today.

NOTABLE & QUOTABLE

Alumna Levels Stereotypes to Build

Award-Winning Remodeling Career

Can-do business woman and University of Mary
Washington alumna Iris Harrell '69 has added another to
her growing list of accomplishments - she is the 2009 Fred
Case Remodeling Entrepreneur of the Year. In its third year,
the award is based on business acumen/company financial
strength, community and industry involvement, and
entrepreneurial spirit.

In a field that has traditionally belonged to men, Harrell
started her own remodeling company and hired mostly
women. Having been a teacher in Virginia and a self-taught
carpenter in Texas, she took a construction home study
course in 1 986 and opened Harrell Remodeling Inc. (HRI).
Based in Mountain View, Calif., today the company employs
50 people - its own architects, designers, project managers,
and skilled workers, according to the San Franciso Chronicle.

Harrell, president and CEO, and Ann Benson, her long-
time partner, co-own HRI. Its revenue growth averaged
1 9 percent per year from 1 986 until 2007, when it topped
$1 1 million; 2008 revenue was more than $10 million.

The company ranks among the area's largest and most
successful woman-owned businesses and is recognized as
one of the Silicon Valley's best places to work, employing
one of the highest numbers of certified "green" remodelers
in the California construction industry.

HRI has won more than 80 design and construction
honors, and Harrell has her own collection of awards.
Among them are 1 996 Entrepreneur of the Year in the Bay
area, 2006 Woman of Distinction in Small Business, 2006
Contractor of the Year with the regional chapter of National
Association of the Remodeling Industry, and in 2007, San
Francisco area's inaugural Women in Remodeling Award
and the Athena Award for distinguished women in business
in Silicon Valley.

Harrell started toward this career years ago by making
repairs for neighbors, mostly widows who didn't want men
they didn't know in their homes. In 2007, Harrell told UMW
Magazine that she taught herself to hang sheetrock, install
electrical wiring, and make plumbing repairs. But when she
applied for construction jobs, contractors did more than
turn her down - they laughed. She was not deterred; she
started her own business. And today, she doesn't make
assumptions about who to hire or what they can do.

Harrell credits her undergraduate education with
providing her the skills and the self-reliance she needed to
strike out on her own. "I am indebted to Mary Washington,"
said Harrell, who returned to her alma mater in 2008 to
serve as the University's Executive in Residence.

The Fred Case Remodeling Entrepreneur of the Year
Award was established by the founder, co-chairman, and
CEO of Case Design/Remodeling. Fred Case doesn't serve as
a judge, but he is happy
with the choice for this
year's recipient, he told
Remodeling Magazine.
"Iris really represents
the true spirit of
entrepreneurism. She
is generous with her
clients, employees,
and the industry,
and a very good
manager."

- Neva Trenis

Iris Harrell in the foyer of the home she shares with long-time
partner Ann Benson.

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UNIVERSITY OF MARY WASHINGTON MAGAZINE - FALL/WINTER 2009

Alumna Lands

Academy Award

And the Oscar goes to. . .Lauren DeAngelis. The 2004
University of Mary Washington graduate heard those words in
June when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
awarded her a bronze medal in the student documentary film
category.

"If I could only win one award, this is what I would want it
to be," said DeAngelis, who won for her half-hour film, A Place
to Land. An achievement to which any filmmaker aspires, the
Academy Award was presented to DeAngelis, 27, for the first
documentary she ever made.

She plans to make more. Her day job requires attention,
though. An online writer and editor for U.S. News & World
Report, DeAngelis carves out time for her passion every
chance she gets. She recently earned a master of arts degree
in film and video from American University.

A Place to Land was her graduate thesis project. But
the seed for the project was planted when DeAngelis was
in elementary school. A "huge animal lover," she and her
younger sister were smitten with a baby cockatiel they saw
in a pet store. "Miraculously," DeAngelis said, "my mother
agreed to buy it." By doing so, Mrs. DeAngelis fell prey to a
phenomenon that formed the premise of the documentary.

As DeAngelis described it: Most people buy parrots - the
third most popular pet in the U.S. after dogs and cats - on a
whim. After several years, they may grow tired of the birds,
which are noisy, messy, and require a lot of attention, and in
many cases the owners die before their pets do.

According to DeAngelis, "macaws can live to be 80 or 90."
Parrots live in millions of homes, but there are limited places
for aging parrots to go; fewer than 1 00 bird sanctuaries exist
throughout the United States. Consequently, many of the
birds are abandoned.

DeAngelis' parrot, Precious, is still with her family. The
18-year-old bird divides her time between DeAngelis' and her
sister's homes.

DeAngelis, an English major at UMW, said she has enjoyed

Parrots, who often outlive their owners, are the
focus of a documentary film that landed alumna
Lauren DeAngelis an Oscar.

filmmaking as a hobby, and has always
taken lots of video of her family. So, she
combined her hobby with her interest
in writing. "Film is a visual way to tell a
story," she said.
DeAngelis formed Fly Away Films with an AU classmate
and NBC news producer who served as cinematographer and
sound technician for A Place to Land. The company's website
describes its debut documentary in this way:

This short film follows the journeys of homeless parrots
in captivity across the nation, from foster homes in Northern
Virginia to remote sanctuaries in Arizona and Utah. Exotic parrots
are wild creatures at heart. When forced to live in cages as pets,
they are prone to neurotic behaviors and often end up being
treated poorly or abandoned when people don't understand the
special care they need.

Ultimately, this film enlightens and educates audiences on the
melancholy plight of these intelligent, beautiful creatures - and
shows that they deserve the best care our nation can give them.

- Anna B. Billingsley

The documentary film winner flew to Beverly Hills in June for the
36th Annual Student Academy Awards.

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Books by Faculty

(These books are available in the UMW Bookstore.!

Take Care of the Living: Reconstructing Confederate Veteran Families in Virginia

By Jeffrey W. McClurken, associate professor of history
at the University of Mary Washington

Take Care of the Living looks at how
Confederate veterans of all social and
economic classes and their families
survived after the American Civil War.
Author Jeffrey W. McClurken '94,
chair of UMW's history department, researched the stories of
more than 3,000 Confederates and their families by poring
through letters, diaries, church minutes, and military and state
records of residents of Danville, Va., and Pittsylvania County.
He also closely analyzed the entire 1860 and 1870 Pittsylvania
County population census.

What McClurken found were the range of strategies
survivors used to face postwar circumstances. They
reorganized and reconstructed households, looked to
churches for emotional and economic support, pleaded with
community elites for financial assistance or employment, sent
psychologically damaged relatives to state-run asylums, and
turned to the commonwealth for direct assistance in the form
of artificial limbs, pensions, and even state-supported homes
for old soldiers and widows.

While some down-on-their-luck Virginians had looked
outside the family for assistance before Reconstruction,
the Civil War left in its wake a need for aid that was
unprecedented in its severity and in the numbers affected.
McClurken says that to study Southern welfare from its
inception, this is the period at which to begin.

Historian and author Robert C. Kenzer of the University of
Richmond praised McClurken's work. "Take Care of the Living
stands out because of its quantitative foundation as well
as its representativeness," he said. "McClurken's interest in
understanding every veteran and each of his family members,
no matter what their class, and his use of a wide variety
of approaches, has led him to compile the most complete
community-based study of how Confederate veteran families
adjusted in the postwar South."

McClurken will speak on Take Care of the Living as part of the
Virginia Historical Society's Banner Lecture Series, Thursday,
June 10, 2010, at noon, 428 N. Boulevard, Richmond.

-Published by University of Virginia Press, August 2009

Latinos in Dixie: Class and Assimilation in Richmond, Virginia

By Debra J. Schleef, associate professor of sociology at the University of Mary
Washington, and H. B. Cavalcanti, professor of sociology at James Madison University

Latinos in Dixie takes a look at
Richmond as the Latino community
grows and the capital of the
commonwealth moves beyond
its historic ethnic divisions. Debra
J. Schleef, chair of UMW's Department of Sociology and
Anthropology, and H. B. Cavalcanti explore the experiences
of Latinos in the South through details of their lives as new
arrivals in the mid-sized Southern city.

The book rejects stereotypes, revealing that Richmond's
Latino community is made up mostly of middle-class

professionals. The authors look at language use, ethnic
customs, family life, workplace dynamics, and political and
religious participation to illustrate what Latinos experience
when they relocate to a place once largely defined by
black-white relations. By observing how Richmond's well-
educated Latino professionals dominate the cultural and
political landscape while poorer immigrants remain marginal,
Schleef and Cavalcanti show that class differences are made
deeper by geographic mobility, isolation, and "segmented"
assimilation.

- Published by SUNY, Albany Press, September 2009

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FROM THE PRESIDENT
OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCLA1

TO: All Alumni
FROM: SueBridi'81

its fall and another academic year is well under way. Trees are sporting

and dynlic energy to >he Universes fnndraismg, alnmn, relanons, and

communications efforts.

We have already witnessed the groundbreaking for the new Wilham M _

sure to drive past these two construction srtes and view the progress.

It has been a privilege for me to serve on the University's Strategic Planning

^d "wilf at address the University s obligations to the Commonwealth of
Virginia as it prepares for the next accreditation reV1ew.

I also thank all of you who contributed to UMW s highly successful Centennial
Campaign Your crucial support helps ensure financial assistance for students
and proves vital funds for academic programs and campus movement,
Thanks to you, the campaign surpassed its $75 million goal.

As another academic year unfolds, I hope you'll keep Mary Washington among
Most of all, keep in touch!

p *T

University of Mary Washingt

Alumni whose class years end in "0" and V

w. I celebrate reunions in 2010! All alumni are

welcome to return to UMW for this special
weekend^arkyourca|endarforjunP36l

2010 and plan to attend Alumni College
and ReUnion Weekend. Visit www.umw.edu/

alumni for Reunion updates throughout the
coming months.

i I eeacy Reception was held during Family Weekend for UMW alumni
paZir grandparents With currently enrolled students. Simngonthe porch
ofKalnen Inn are Susan Still Protich '76 and son Samuel Protich 10.

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Class Notes

Reunion Weekend

Ruby Lee Norris
P.O. Box 158
Topping, VA 23169
rnorris@oasisonline.com

Lois Loehr Brown

7523 Little River Turnpike, No. 101

Annandale, VA 22003

LoisLbrovvn@aol.com

As a 90-year-old Tweeter, I
am trying to learn to be brief. On
March 26, 1 attended a reception
for Judy G. Hample at the Hilton
in Old Town Alexandria. My
companions for this lovely event
were: Anne Radway '63 and Lundy
Baker Updike '76 ( Lundy s son,
Jim, entered UMW this fall.) We
enjoyed the company of the CEO
of the UMW Foundation, Jeff
Rountree, who joined us at our
table.

Frances Crump leads an
active life at Goodwin House in
Alexandria. She is in super good
health and still plays the violin.
Betty Johnson Studebaker is
as cheerful as ever. She has five
children, 15 grandchildren, and 17
great-grandchildren - with another
on the way. Eva Catafygiotu
Topping and I have frequent
phone chats about the many
things we shared and gratefully
still remember. Life would indeed
be dull without Edith Patterson
Breeden's letters about life in
northeast California. We'll never
forget that she drove her ancient
VW 'bug' across country to attend
our 50th reunion. That was 18
years ago, and she is still driving
it! Have enjoyed hearing from
folks who graduated before and
after 1941. Ruby Lee Norris '36
was recently honored in Middlesex
County, Va. Elizabeth Alexander
Howdershell '39 is now living in
Richmond. Jennifer Hunt Rondon
'81 is planning a trip to South
America.

[

Lois Loehr Brown '41 is
Twitter at age 90.

Condolences were sent to the
family of Janet Smith Whitaker,

who died on March 25, 2009, at her

home in Jacksonville, Fla. She is
survived by her husband, her son,
a granddaughter, and a grandson.
Janet's family home was in
Fredericksburg when she attended
Mary Washington.

Virginia Bennett Skillman
5744 Washington Boulevard
Indianapolis, IN 46220

Any news? Please - I'll take
any kind! Would you believe when
we were attending MWC that we
would LIVE this long? I still have
great memories. I'd love for you to
send me yours.

Lee Hall Archer

112 Barberry Road, No. 41- J

Johnson City, TN 37604

huntenlee@charter.net

Phyllis Quimby Anderson
P. O. Box 164
Westminster,VT05158
pqhndson@myfairpoint.net

Christine Vasser Crute, Jean
Flemer DeShazo, Annette Van
Ingen Dew, Nettie Evans Lawery,
Virginia McCartney Newcomb,
Jean Wade Otte and Ruth
McDaniel Potts had a great time at
our 65th reunion, and all said that
the campus couldn't have looked
more beautiful. The luncheon
was served in a huge tent, put up
between Virginia and Willard
halls, and it was certainly enjoyed
by all on a beautiful day. All seven
attended our class meeting. Some
enjoyed a "sightseeing" tour
around campus by cart, shopping
in the bookstore, and visiting with
each other. Virginia Newcomb
had two grandchildren with her.
News included that Monroe Hall
is being renovated; Willard seems
to be the choice dormitory; and
beer and wine were offered under
the tent! Also, our
class was second in
annual giving and we
had 57 donors, which
made 39 percent
participation. Great!

Jean Flemer had been in
contact with Nancy Gravatt

using

Tucker, Virginia Hawley Butler,
Jane Brownley Thomas, Fran
Tracy, and Dot Woodson Baber,

who has had three surgeries. She
also heard that Nancy Duval
Andrews has had some surgery.
Isabel Hildrup Klein and Bob

have left their big house. They went
to granddaughter Robin's wedding
last year. This year she received
a doctorate from Yale and was to
start a job in Washington, D.C.,
in September. Grandson Shawn is
an assistant district attorney and
planned to marry this fall. Isabelle
and Bob are each doing pretty well
as octogenarians, as we all are!

Anna Roberts Ware wrote
that she is too busy, has too many
doctor appointments, and had
too much rain. All the corn and
soybeans were growing, she said,
and, since she was surrounded by
corn fields, she was ready with her
allergy pills. Libby Phillips Roe
and her husband, Bill, visit Anna
sometimes, and she said it is a treat.

Mary Ellen Gardiner
Starkey's daughter, Pam, earned
her college degree, so all seven of
her children have graduated from
college. She visited her daughter,
MaryAnn, earlier this year in
Florida. Son Don still runs Ledo's
Restaurant (which is very good!)
in La Plata, Md.,
and his daughter,
Stephanie, planned
to marry in
November. Mary
Ellen's son, Greg,
travels around the
world with the
National Security
Agency.

I didn't get to the reunion
because of a granddaughter's
wedding on the same day. Hank
always looks forward to going to
the reunion, but the wedding was
beautiful and special. That was
only our second grandchild to
marry so far.

Hank was diagnosed with
prostate cancer, but has endured
his radiation treatments well and
is getting back to his old self. We
are still involved with church but
gave up our band this year and
our train trip through Canada. We
are thinking, "next year"! Since
we weren't at the class meeting, I

remain Class Agent. I have enjoyed
it and hope more people will give
me more information. Have a great

year!

1945 ^Lr^ji,^/

Frances Watts Barker
P.O. Box 749
Parksley.VA 23421
jbarker@intercom.net

Patricia Mathewson Spring
160 Butternut Lane
Kensington, CT 06037

Betty Moore Drewry Bamman
335 Briarwood Drive
Christiansburg, VA 24073
Bdbamman@verizon.net

Have you read Dr. Crawley's
book about the first 100 years at
Mary Washington College? I am
currently reading Chapter 4, The
Anderson Era - 1983-2006. It is
so interesting to read; it makes
me want to sign up all over again!
Contact UMW Bookstore to
order a copy. Keep those cards,
letters, and emails coming with
happenings or reminiscences you
want to share.

Betty Moore Drewry Bamman '47
said that reading Bill Crawley's
book about the first 100 years at
Mary Washington College makes
her want to sign up all over again.

1 0/1 U

Bette Worsham Dunford
1500 Westbrook Court, No. 5143
Richmond, VA 23227
awhawk2@aol.com

Nina Giera Schmidt sailed
out of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in
April, bound for the Panama Canal
and on to San Diego, Calif. Other
than bad knees and back, she is
doing well, playing a good game of
golf, but "youngsters" seem to be
capturing the major tournament
wins. She feels the state of the
nation is sad and hopes we live long
enough to see some improvement.
Still a violin teacher in Mansfield,
Ohio, Elva Welday Newdome

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has 22 pupils and an adult class
of past pupils. She attributes
much of her musical success to
Mary Washington's fine music
department, college orchestra, and
teachers, especially Mr. Faulkner.
Both of her daughters teach violin,
one in Northampton, Mass., where
she has a quartet, and one at FSU
where she is in the Inman Trio.
Her son owns the family business,
recently awarded Small Business of
the Year by the local Chamber of
Commerce.

Anne Barnes Baugh worked
hard for President Obama and
for Mark Warner for senator,
and she still works out at Golds
Gym, is involved in the League of
Women Voters
and Daughters
of the American
Revolution, and
volunteers at the
White House.
She is positive
that things will
improve, albeit
slowly. Last year
she had a great
trip to Chile,
Argentina, and
Brazil, followed by
a visit with family in Sacramento,
Calif. Anne's daughter is a school
district administrator on Long
Island, N.Y., one son is a doctor
in Fairfax, Va., and another is a
radiologist technician in Corvallis,
Ore.

Last fall Charlotte Smith Hill

and her daughters family traveled
to Nova Scotia to visit her son and
family. It was ironic that after all
the Gulf Coast hurricanes she had
dealt with in Hattiesburg, Miss.,
they had to shorten their N.S. visit
to miss a hurricane predicted for
the area. However, they used their
extra time to visit beautiful Acadia
National Park at its peak of fall
color.

Marie Adams Griffith sold her
condo in Conway, S.C., and moved
into an independent living facility
in Silver Spring, Md., to be near her
children, six grandchildren, and
five great-grandchildren. She loves
her new Sunrise Senior Living
facility and is healthy and active.

Byrd Stone Helguera enjoys
lifelong learning classes, weekly
jazz, a writing group, a book
group, Vanderbilt basketball,
and reading, though not much
travel. She said the state of the

economy is frightening, but she
is very impressed by President
Obama. She hopes for peace in the
MicLHast and a regaining of world
respect.

How many more accolades
can Lois Saunier Hornsby have
showered upon her? Selected
for her tenacious leadership in
desegregating the public schools,
she has had a school named for
her in Williamsburg, Va., quite
an honor indeed. She became
an education advocate because
the subject was close to her
heart; her family had been very
much involved in education, and
she wanted better access for all
students, regardless of race.

Anne Barnes Baugh '48 worked
hard for President Obama and
for Mark Warner for senator,
and she still works out at Gold's
Gym, is involved in the League
of Women Voters and Daughters
of the American Revolution, and
volunteers at the White House.

Still tap dancing at 80-plus,
Jane McCullough Smallwood is

doing 12 to 15 shows this year with
her Wright Tappers. Last summer,
she and her husband cruised
the Danube from Bucharest to
Budapest, and this winter she will
go on the first-ever Regional Bridge
Tournament at Sea, a cruise in the
Caribbean.

Sandy Graves Shiflett
wrote that Mabs Royar Loflin is
receiving articles from a number
of you, and hopefully they will be
made available to all of us after
Sandy completes a change of
address.

We have just returned from a
truly beautiful cruise from Rome
to Northern Italy and Monaco,
Barcelona, Tangiers, Lisbon,
Bilbao, and
Bordeaux before
landing at Dover,
which allowed
for an overnight
in London and a
smashing play. But
there was no magic
carpet, and if you

haven't traveled outside the country
lately, you have no idea what it does
to an 80-year-old body!

All ol which brings me to
say that I have had the wonderful
pleasure and honor of writing these
notes to you for 1 5 years and now
know more of you and/or more
about you than I did 65 years ago.
I think my turn is up, and I hope
someone else will volunteer to take-
over this happy job. You could
either contact the alumni office
at UMW or write me, and I will
pass on the information that you
are willing. I plan to do one more
column, so please send me some
news before Nov. 15. By then I
hope there will be another '48er
bringing you our class news. I have
loved doing it! My very best to each
of you.

1949

Anna Dulany Lyons

1400 Enterprise Drive, Apt. N236

Lynchburg, VA 24502

June Davis McCormick
18 Lynnbrook Road
St. Louis, MO 63131-2925
jaymccee@yahoo.com

Twenty-six classmates
converged on Marye's Hilltop to
celebrate our 60th Reunion. Ardith
"Ardy" Jeffries Zwiener came
from Austin, Texas. Her husband,
Lonnie, an attorney, died in 2005.
Their four sons, two of whom
are medical doctors, all earned
advanced degrees. Ardy worked
for the Drug Enforcement Agency
in Austin, and until she retired in
1994 was a background investigator
for the Department of Defense.
She recalled the fun of being a
drum majorette in the marching
band, working with Dr. Shankle in
editing his novel about MWC, Old
Sisters, keeping in touch over the
years with a former professor who
inspired her to major in English
literature, and ongoing friendships
with roommate Barbara Green
Connell and Virginia Felt Brown
'50, who joined her for Reunion
Weekend.

Still tap dancing at 80-plus, Jane
McCullough Smallwood '48 is
doing 12 to 15 shows this year
with her Wright Tappers.

Three classmates came from
various points in Florida. Gwen
Brubaker Connell arrived from

Fort Myers where she and husband
Jack, now retired, enjoy their lour
children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren. Gwen, a retired real
estate broker, enjoys the computer,
needlework, reading, antiques,
and collecting Czech glass. She is
grateful for good health and the
year-round outdoor activities of
Florida, especially golf. Gwen left
us in junior year to marry Jack,
but says MWC made a lasting
impression, and she treasures each
memory.

Martha J. Coleman's niece
not only persuaded Martha to
attend reunion, she came with her
and seemed to enjoy the activities.
Martha, a music major and honor
graduate, furthered her studies
abroad and is a graduate of the
Academy of Music and Dramatic
Arts in Vienna, of the Mozarteum
in Salzburg, and of the Interpreters
Institute of Munich. After an
active career as an opera singer in
Austria and Germany, she returned
to New York where she worked
with the founder of Columbia
Artists Management and as an
artist manager for CBS. She later
became an artist representative
with Shaw Concerts, where she
managed such artists as Vladimir
Horowitz, Jessye Norman, and
numerous others. Now retired
and living in Atlantic Beach, she is
known for her "musical soirees to
showcase local and foreign artists."
Martha is grateful for having had
the opportunity to study music
and perform on many occasions
at Mary Washington. One of her
favorite memories is of being asked
when she was a junior by the Class
of '48 to sing at their baccalaureate.

Betty Lou Shelhorse Rogers

lost Edward, her husband of 56
years, in March. In her sorrow,
she said, the love and support of
her five sons, their wives, and her
three brothers sustained her. We
offer our heartfelt sympathy. Betty
Lou returned to her hometown
of Fredericksburg from Naples,
Fla., for Reunion Weekend, and
again her brothers and their
families were there for her. One
of her sisters-in-law brought her
to Brompton during the Friday
reception, and they returned for a
short stay at the picnic on Saturday,
where we had the opportunity for
a quiet visit. Betty Lou's fondest
memories of Mary Washington are
of her friends - who are still dear
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her horse, Champion, during
senior year. Though her lifetime of
riding was halted by doetor's orders
a few years ago, her sister-in-law
confided that Betty Lou's brother
planned to put her aboard his
horse during her

of their retirement community.
Her cherished memories include
wonderlul professors, entertaining
dates in the parlor (gates locked
at 1 1 p.m.), and the ongoing
friendships of classmates.

stay, even it just
for a memorable
moment.

After serious
health issues and
heart surgery,
Jackie McConnell
Scarborough and
Les arrived from
Stone Mountain,
Ga., and both

looked the picture of health. Fully
recovered, Jackie is grateful for
a happy 39-year marriage. She
and Les enjoy retirement, their
children, and grandchildren. Jackie
is devoted to her church work,
choir, organ, and her 21 -year
discipline in the Ikenobo school of
Japanese floral art.

Jane Yeatman Spangler drove
from Concord, N.C., and Anna
"Andi" Dulany Lyons came from
Lynchburg, to Lexington, Va., to
overnight with Betty Bond "B.B."
Heller Nichols before all three
departed for reunion. Dorothy
"Dottie" Booker Pinkham was
headed from Montpelier, Vt., to
Fredericksburg, as were Charlotte
"Chot" Baylis Rexon and husband
Fred from Haddonfield, N.J. Fred
delivered Chot, completing the
quartet of BFFs, then headed to his
daughter's in Northern Virginia.
Jane, Betty Bond, Dottie, and
Chot - the faithful foursome - have
attended every reunion together,
all 12 of them over 60 years, an
admirable record!

B.B.'s favorite memories
included playing "Begin the
Beguine" about a zillion times
for Barbara Watson Barden s
interpretive tapping, Dr. Cabreras
musical offerings, and life in the
dorms. Above all, B.B. said, her
years at MWC influenced her life
in the most special way by giving
her those three special friends she
has loved for 60 years.

Joyce Hamilton Eisler and

husband Joseph, both retired, came
to reunion from Lansdale, Pa. They
are blessed with good health, two
sons, a daughter, grandchildren,
and great-grandchildren. Joyce, a
former legal secretary, plays bridge
and volunteers in the gift shop

After an active career as an opera
singer in Austria and Germany,
Martha J. Coleman '49 returned
l to New York where she worked
' with the founder of Columbia
I Artists Management and as an
artist manager for CBS.

Lavinia Ash Stuart and
Margaret "Peggy" Walton Mason

both arrived from Bethesda, Md.,
and Anne "Miami" McCaskill
Libis and husband Claude came
from Baltimore.

Sadly, Peggy lost her husband
in 2004. She is in good health and
still lives in her home of 57 years.
She has two sons; a daughter,
Pamela Ann Mason '74; and three
grown grandchildren. Her interests
include church, community
volunteering, senior center trips,
exercise class, knitting club, and
reading. A native of Connecticut,
Peggy thought she was in the
Deep South when she came to
school in Fredericksburg! She
appreciates Mary Washington for
her certification as a secondary
teacher, which led to her teaching
career in both high
school and nursery
school. She feels
her training in
psychology helped
in rearing her
family, too. Her
favorite memories
include meeting
new friends, dorm
life, most classes,
and the beautiful
campus.

church, community, politics,
environment, and government.
No longer able to ride horses, she
has settled for riding her bicycle.
Her many memories of Mary
Washington involve close friends
and "the silly things they did,"
cavalry, Dr. Darden, Devil-Goat
Day, and "the Virginia Creeper!"

The Midwest was represented
by transplanted Virginian June
Davis McCormick, who flew
into Richmond from St. Louis,
picked up a rental car, and
arrived Thursday afternoon. June
established a music scholarship
in memory of her sister, Evelyn
Knight, whose love and generosity
afforded June her education at
Mary Washington, and in honor of
our 60th Reunion.

The majority of returning
classmates came from Virginia.
Judy Stone Johnstone and
husband Bob came from Melfa,
Va., on the Eastern Shore. Married
60 years, they spent most of their
working life in the Midwest before
returning to their Virginia roots.
Their three daughters and seven
grandchildren all are college
graduates with advanced degrees
and varied professions. Judy is
grateful for the well-rounded
education she received at MWC;
the balanced curriculum inspired
her many interests including music,
bridge, crossword puzzles, travel,
and reading. Judy also enjoys
knitting, sewing, and volunteering.

The faithful four '49ers - Jane
Yeatman Spangler, Betty Bond
"B.B." Heller Nichols, Dorothy
"Dottie" Booker Pinkham, and
Charlotte "Chot" Baylis Rexon
- have attended every reunion
together for more than 60 years.

Anne and Claude were on
a waiting list for a preferred
retirement village, and had
their home listed for sale. After
graduation, Anne continued
studies at the universities of North
Carolina and Pennsylvania. She
had a full career in social work
and foster care, coinciding with
Claude's long-time duties as
director of the Methodist Board of
Child Care. Anne's interests include
the League of Women Voters,

Elizabeth "Liz" Barnes
Hornsby, a retired teacher, also
came from the Eastern Shore.
Her husband, B.K., passed away
in 2006, just weeks before one
of her two daughters, Susan,
succumbed to cancer. Liz now
has six grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren to spoil. Liz
finds comfort in staying busy with
bridge, golf, travel, and crabbing off
her dock in Harborton, Va. Every
week, in season, she mows her
eight-acre spread on her Bob Cat

zero-turn mower, which she has
placed at the top of her best-friends
list; she whips around that acreage
in three-and-a-half hours and
hasn't gotten a speeding ticket yet!

Christine "Tina" Dunnavant
Ridgwell arrived from Norfolk to
observe our 60th, accompanied
by her lovely daughter, Linda
Ridgwell Church '79, who joined
her large group in celebrating
their 30th. When Margaret Mann
Umphlett checked in from Suffolk,
we were delighted to remove her
name from our "missing" list - use
of her first name, Sara, had caused
the mistake. Erma Whitaker
Bockoven and husband Fred came
up the road from Hampton to join
the festivities. Erma was co-chair
for our reunion fundraising,
together with Dolores "Dee"
Ross, who lives in Kilmarnock,
Va. During the weekend, Dee
learned of the passing of another
dear friend and classmate, Theresa
Marie Saunders of Tappahannock.
Also a retired educator, Theresa
died in December.

We learned of the death of
Elinor Piatt Levy last year in
Raleigh, N.C., from her dear friend
Martha Coleman. We know Teresa
and Elinor are sadly missed by
their families and friends.

Harriet "Scotty" Scott
Brockenbrough came from
Mechanicsville. Her mother was in
the first class that graduated from
the original State Normal School
in Fredericksburg, and Harriet's
older sister, Martha Scott Rogers
'44, preceded Scotty at MWC.
Scotty lost her husband, Ben, in
2005, the result of a tragic accident
while they were on a cruise. She
often visits her four sons and their
families, her pride and comfort.
Scotty sews original, decorative
flags, and she volunteers at her
church food pantry and at the
Virginia Rehabilitation Center for
the Blind and Vision Impaired in
Richmond.

Still unpacking boxes after
moving from Charlottesville to
an apartment in Fairfax, Va.,
Elizabeth "Betty" Fischer Gore
was reunion co-chair. Betty lost
her husband, Herschel, a physician,
in 1989. They had two sons and
two daughters, and Betty is the
grandmother of six. She is retired
from teaching and, after two
successful knee replacements,
is ready to travel! She continues

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her water color painting, attends
workshops, and learns new
techniques. The one-time art major
is also a docent at the Hirshhorn
Museum in Washington, D.C.
Betty fondly recalls trying to avoid
Mrs. B. when wearing rolled-up
jeans - under a raincoat - en route
to class.

Co-chair Mary Elwang
Sharpley drove from
Charlottesville without the usual
company of her dear friend, Betty.
Mary also was widowed many
years ago. She has three daughters,
"four wonderful grandchildren,"
and her love of reading and the arts
to keep her busy. Mary said, "Life
has been wonderful to me and I am
enjoying every minute of it!"

Lucille "Tudie" Pope
Midyette attended the reunion
from Ashland, Va., her beloved
hometown of 50 years. Tudie and
husband James, who passed away
in 2001, had two sons, a daughter,
and four grandchildren. Tudie,
a retired kindergarten teacher,
is delighted that one grandson
is a classic pianist. Her younger
sister, Carol Pope Howerton '56,

lollowed Thldie to our alma mater.
Trudie has been a volunteer at
the Science Museum for 20 years
and serves at the Ashland Visitors
Center. She enjoys church, garden
club, golf, two bridge clubs, and
theater. She remembers enjoying
the scenic beauty of the Mary
Washington campus and having to
learn the names of 100 of its trees!

Lee Walker Shepherd helps
make beautiful gingerbread
stay intact.

home bakers
houses that

Gingerly Crafting a Profession

When Lee Walker Shepherd '84 studied art at Mary Washington, she had no idea where her love of
design would take her. Little did she know she would end up in the kitchen and in supermarkets as
the creator of edible architecture.

Shepherd makes gingerbread houses. Not just any gingerbread houses. This Norfolk, Va.,
resident is the creator of Gingerhaus®, a patent-pending baking panel system that negates the need
for sticky icing as glue and enables an average household to easily bake and assemble a professional
gingerbread house. Gingerhaus kits come with gingerbread mix, decorations, and vellum windows,
which can be lighted from within, and the finished product smells and tastes like gingerbread.

Since college, Shepherd has enjoyed an artistic career that has incorporated photography,
art direction, sculpture, book illustration, art gallery management, film and toy development,
and marketing. She has worked for Hamilton Beach, The Virginia Diner, The Smithsonian, the
Jacksonville Jaguars, the Virginia Air and Space Center, and the Junior Leagues of Norfolk- Virginia
Beach and Hampton Roads.

Frustration led Shepherd to found Gingerhaus three years ago, and now it has become
her passion and her livelihood. After seeing beautiful, magical gingerbread houses in nearby
Williamsburg, Shepherd and her two children - now teens - tried to duplicate the efforts at
home. All attempts ended up as caved- in messes, and Shepherd began applying her artistic
background to baking. With Gingerhaus, the gingerbread dough bakes around - and hides -
design templates, which later are assembled to create sturdy, beautiful houses.

Shepherds product line is expanding and includes a gingerbread chalet, an Easter Haus, a
Halloween Haus, gingerbread boys, and accessories. Gingerhaus was just featured on the Today
Show by The Food Networks Giada De Laurentis, who chose the product as her favorite at the
Metropolitan Cooking Show. Also, Gingerhaus had a presence in June at the 55th Summer Fancy
Food Show in New York City. "It has been an extraordinary experience to be part of the food
world," said Shepherd, who formerly maintained an art studio called Indigo and still paints and
illustrates when she has the time.

Gingerhaus has been featured in such stores as The Fresh Market, Sur La Table, Whole
Foods (a new all-natural kit), the Toymaker, and COSTCO, and on Amazon.com. Shepherd
employs her husband, retired Navy pilot John Michael Shepherd, and her brother. She enjoys
assistance in her home office from daughter Dana and son Craig.

Her Virginia-made kits feature packaging from Staunton and gingerbread mix from Ashland; everything is collated and shipped from Norfolk
and Harrisonburg.

Having enjoyed all aspects of art from a young age, Shepherd wanted to attend an art school instead of a liberal arts college. Her mother,
Dana Lee Dunn Walker '61, insisted on Mary Washington for its excellent departments of English, math, physics, and history. Now, Shepherd
has to admit her mother was right. "It's really the physics that makes our Gingerhaus products unique. I needed the English I studied for all the
promotional writing I do, and the math for the business side." She added, "the broad background I received at Mary Washington has given me the
foundation I needed to thrive in business."

At Mary Washington, Shepherd took a variety of art courses. "Joe Di Bella made a big impact on my life," she said, recalling her UMW art
professor. "He encouraged a crossover from graphic arts to fine art. He was big on letting us explore, and I worked in every medium as a studio art
major." She gives Di Bella credit for teaching her how to develop her interests to create a varied yet connected career in art and design.

"As a fine artist, graphic designer, and businesswoman, my educational foundation, world travel, and diverse business connections have given
me extraordinary opportunities," Shepherd said. "Interesting, though, it was my most influential and favorite career - motherhood - that inspired
the invention of Gingerhaus."

- Sarah Pierson

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Phyllis Link Atkins might
have walked up .Sunken Road or
College Avenue from her home in
Fredericksburg to reunion. Fhyl is
retired after 35 years teaching, but
she still is involved in her tamily
real estate business. She has two
sons.

So, from far and near, the
fabulous '49ers convened to
observe what was - unbelievably
- our 60th Reunion. We answered
the questionnaire with individual
memories of MWC - the beauty
of the campus, stately halls,
outstanding professors, mentors,
dorm life, fun, and the unified
remembrance of the regal dignity
of Lady B. - but the No. 1 gift
treasured by all is friendship - the
lifelong kind fostered by Mary
Washington.

c/\et/.ju^t (AJ ieAaut

Dorothy Held Gawley
177 McCosh Road
Montclair, NJ 07043
dnigawley@juno.com

Roselyn Bell Morris
907 Conway Road
Fredericksburg, VA 22405

Corley Gibson Friesen
P.O. Box 533
Silverthorne, CO 80498
corleyfriesen@comcast.net

Rebecca "Becky" Spitzer Harvill
1058 Woodmont Drive
Staunton, VA 24401
becbub@earthlink.net

First and foremost, a plea from
me: If you did not get an email
from me asking for news, then
I don't have your current email
address. Since Id like to include
news from all of you, please email
me with your correct information.

Sad news from Peggy Hopkins
Johnson. Her husband, Dick,
passed away in July after struggling
for several years with bad health.
He had gone to an assisted living
home soon before he passed,
where they were making a career
of spoiling him. Many of us in
the Class of '53 might not have

survived at MWC] without dear
Dick's watchful eye and wonderful
sense of humor

In an earlier email from Peg,
she described staying busy with
the Mary Washington KlderStudy
organization, a local branch of
Elderhostel. To ensure that she's
on the go at least 20 of the day's 24
hours, she plays tennis, bridge in
two clubs, and poker and Tripoley
with a group every Saturday night.
She and her sister travel together
frequently Most recently, they
spent a couple of weeks cruising
from Miami to the Panama Canal.

Ginny Bailes spent lots of time
in her yard and extensive garden
over the summer. She could easily
have her very own farmers market!

Betty Roper says her life is
so boring that its like watching
paint dry. Who of us would have
ever dreamed we would be able to
make that statement when we were
racing to class, drowsing in the
browsing room at Trinkle instead
of studying, and carefully watching
our manners in Seacobeck? Betty
says her grandbabies keep her
reasonably awake and functioning.

Salisbury University counts on
Garnett Bell Crawford and Norm
to lead cheers for the lacrosse
teams. They travel to nearly all the
away games, and the players have
adopted Garnett as their mascot.
She enjoyed a visit from Carol
Smith Boyes, who with husband
Bill took a three-week trip out
West. Garnett occasionally hears
from Sherry Butler and recently
learned that Carolyn Keck Redic's
husband, Jim, died after spending a
couple of years in a nursing home.

Nell McCoy Savopoulos wrote
that several years ago, she and Mike
visited their son, David, and his
wife in Gurgaon, India. David was
one of three Americans recruited
by an Indian "bajillionnare," Nell
said, to develop a new airline
to serve the growing middle
class. He and his wife have had a
"wonderful/terrible/educational"
experience living there. Nell
reports that no picture does justice
to the Taj Mahal; India is a land of
such contrasts it defies description.

Deigh Renn Simpson writes
that watching the shuttle launch
in early spring was quite an
experience - especially hearing
everyone on the beach shouting

"go, go, go" as it (Jew into the light
of the sunset. She traveled to Texas
in August to attend the wedding of
a great-nephew. She is "spending
time reducing the necessary to as
little time and effort as possible
while deciding what to put in the
rest of the time slots."

In late spring, I had a
wonderful message from Betty
Roper with an attachment from
the Roanoke Times announcing
Kathryn "Kitty" Garland
Obenschain's retirement as
organist, choir director, and
more. It was a glowing article, and
well-deserved. Kitty is surely gifted
with a magnificent talent and a
magnanimous spirit.

My Bob and I still enjoy getting
away and seeing the sights, but
after our last two pleasure jaunts,
we may decide we're better off
here, gazing at the Blue Ridge.
In January, we spent a wonderful
week with relatives on Sanibel
Island. When we arrived back at
the Charlottesville airport, Bob
fell backward on the up escalator,
landing on ME! It sounds worse
than it turned out to be - two scars
on the back of his head with the
imprint of the escalator treads,
and a few bruised ribs for me. In
June we were at the Outer Banks of
North Carolina with Chip and his
family. Bob twisted his back while
there, and his orthopedist warned
against playing tennis, an "impact"
sport. To that, another doctor told
Bob, "I've seen you play tennis,
and the way your group plays, it's
not an impact sport!" Our oldest
daughter, Anne, has been living
with us since November, and it's
kind of neat to get a real look at
how one of your kids turns out. She
brought two cats and a dog to join
our two mutts, and there's never a
dull moment!

Be sure to put me on your
Christmas card list and send lots
of news.

Ruth Gillespie Simpson
6610 Elgin Lane
Bethesda, MD 20817
regs2000@aol.com

Well, our 55th is history. It was
good. We look terrific! Our alma
mater did a great job of planning
and caring for us. More than one
person has told me they thought it

was the best yet, so: "Thank you,
UMW" Thanks, too, to our own
team for all their time, brains, and
brawn - they hauled sodas, wine,
mostly healthy snacks, fruit, etc.,
there and brought it home again,
since we were fed so well. I'm
sorry so many of you missed the
fun. Special best wishes to those of
you who couldn't come because of
health issues. We had 21 alumni
plus some husbands, a super son,
and a lovely granddaughter. Nice
group, although it should have
been bigger; next time, mark your
calendars!

Everyone enjoyed chatting
and looking at various photo
albums and Helen Wilbur Vogel's
scrapbook in our big hospitality
room at the motel. Someone
produced an edict from Ruby C.
Harris, Dean of Women, stating,
"If you are wearing shirts you must
wear your shirt-tail inside your
skirt. It is unbecoming to college
women." Well, it looks better on
some of us now.

Helen and I went a day early
to participate in the "College
Without Quizzes" lectures, which
were excellent. "College Without
Quizzes" is open to everyone, so I
might sign up next year also and
highly recommend it to you. How
about a mini-reunion?

Without exception, I believe,
everyone is STILL awed by
the beauty of the campus and
the splendid new buildings fit
right in. Can you believe that
Willard is a senior dorm and the
most desirable! It's the center of
everything.

Everyone was supposed to
write me a note for this issue. The
following covers the ones I received
plus some gleanings from phone
calls and other notes and chatter.

Caroline Hatfield Psaltis '13,
granddaughter of Pat Hatfield
Mayer and Donald, is a freshman
at Mary Washington. Her mother,
Leslie, and aunt Kathleen are both
graduates of their Mom's alma
mater. Pat is still busy with the
DAR. She has just spent a week at a
hotel in D.C. to avoid the rush hour
traffic while attending its 1 18th
Congress. Donald accompanied Pat
to the reunion and played golf with
Paul Judy, who accompanied his
wife, Mary Ann Dorsey Judy. Pat
and Donald's granddaughter, who
works in North Carolina, joined

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them for the weekend. Having
spent the cold months in Florida,
they planned to go to Nantucket
for the summer.

Betty Lou Maier Irwin was to

spend the summer in Nantucket,
Mass., too. She discovered two
more MWC graduates who
live there and planned to look
them up over the summer. Betty
Lou was visiting Edith Moody
Sheffield prior to the reunion.
Edith's husband is fully retired, but
they still had been too busy for a
vacation.

Pat Swain-Holzberlein still
participates in active sports and
has four dogs and a cat. She really
enjoyed visiting with the gang at
the reunion, is proud of how well
everyone handles whatever comes
into their lives, and thinks it would
be nice if we could get together
more often.

Lillian Figueroa Caussade

visited her oldest son, Anibal, in
Melbourne, Fla. He made all of the
arrangements and brought her to
the reunion. We thought he was
a terrific sport and thank him for
bringing her. Lily has been a widow
since 2000 and divides the year
between Florida and Puerto Rico
where her youngest son, Hector, is
a science teacher.

Betty Bartz Bradford and her

husband, Wally, attended reunion
and were about to celebrate their
53rd anniversary with a trip to
Bermuda. They planned to be in
Hawaii in early November and
to return home in time to greet
their second great-grandchild in
December. They welcome visitors
to the Philadelphia area, have a
guest room, and will show you
around.

Carole Heer Farrell and her
husband, Ron, were at reunion and
celebrated their 50th anniversary.
They have 1 1 grandchildren and
are very proud of the oldest, a
soldier who has served in Korea,
Iraq, and Afghanistan. We wish
him a safe return. Carole and Ron
live in Rehoboth, Del, and you are
invited to call if you are near, but
not in July or August, when they
head to a less crowded spot in New
England.

Marcia Craddock Frank and

husband Arlen came all the way
from Louisiana for reunion. They
survived 52 inches of water from
Katrina, and, thanks to FEMA,

have a mostly new house. They
spent a month in Australia last
spring, including a family reunion
with Arlen's family. Their oldest
granddaughter graduated summa
cum laude from LSU in June. Seven
grandchildren to go - five girls,
two boys, and the youngest is 7.

Edwina Wright Blankenbaker

came to reunion for the day on
Saturday. She and Walter were to
celebrate their 55th anniversary in
June. They have three daughters
who live in North Carolina, a son
in the Northern Neck of Virginia,
and four grandchildren. They are
grateful to have good health and be
able to enjoy their second home in
Kilmarnock, Va.

Toula Drogaris Fotopoulos

daughter, Vicki, also an alumna,
brought her mother to reunion
on Saturday, and she's so glad she
went. Her calls included Meechi
Yokogawa Hotta in Japan, who
was shocked but sounds the same.
She's well and happy after being
under the weather for a couple
of years due to a fall. She does
volunteer work, and she has two
sons - one in Tokyo, and the other
in Michigan. She plans to come to
the States in the fall and told Toula
she would come to D.C. on the
way to Michigan. We will certainly
try to get a group together for that
occasion.

"Babs" Wilson Taliaferro-
Potter came from Florida for
reunion and stayed with Linda
LeHardy Sweet in Fredericksburg.
Linda's husband is not well, but
she came with Babs on Friday for
the reception at Brompton, class
dinner, and our "meeting." Jean
Armstrong (New Jersey!), Susan
Quelch Bass, Helen Hodges Conte
(says no new news), and Nancy
Hoffman Eidman and Fred were
also there. Elizabeth "Betsy"
McNeal Brann came on Saturday.
Nancy Root Skinner couldn't
come, but several of us talked with
her on Betsy's cell phone at the
picnic lunch on Saturday.

"Bootsie" Simpson Johnson

thought it was the "best yet"
reunion. She continues to enjoy
her grandchildren who are nearby.
The 17-year-old is now looking at
colleges.

Helen Vogel spent an enjoyable
Elderhostel week at Chatauqua in
June. Her fourth annual visit, the
morning program this time was

"Explore Our World with National
Geographic" with a different
photographer speaking daily. One
night she and Mary Ann Dorsey
Judy were startled to meet each
other in the hotel. The Judys were
en route to Nantucket.

Mary Jean Gary Jones was

unable to attend but sent good
wishes to all. She and Gordon are
well and happy and have moved to
Omaha to be closer to their oldest
daughter. They have three married
children, eight grandchildren, and
one great-grandson.

Mary Lou Puller Griggs

wrote: "Please extend my best
wishes to my 'sister' classmates,
I am truly sorry that I will miss
being with you."

Georgiana Spillman Stillman

couldn't come because she and her
husband were about to embark
on a 35-day cruise to Iceland,
Greenland, Scotland, Ireland,
etc. They have two sons: one is
a minister in York and the other
lives in Southern Maryland. One
daughter lives in Mississippi with
the grandchildren - a girl, 10, and
a boy, 6. "Georgie" is a member of
the Bionic Women Club, having
had two hip surgeries, one of which
coincided with our 50th reunion.

Carolyn Osborne Jenkins

counted a whopping 54-plus
entries in a recent '69 Class Notes
and wants our class to get on the
ball! She and Bob have recently
retired, along with two large dogs,
to Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.
They lived on what seemed like
a construction site for almost six
months, but now, she said, the
house is perfect for them. The
one-square-mile town - population
4,000 people and 1,000 dogs - is
beautiful and situated on the
Pacific shoreline. The houses
originally had names but no street
numbers, and that continues today.
"Our address is 9th House SW of
Mountain View Avenue on Crespi
Avenue, and our house name is
Capriccio, the same name I used
for my cafe in San Francisco for
10 years. This form of address is
very easy once you know north
and south and can count up to
10." Carolyn and Bob didn't come
to our reunion because they were
hosting 17 for several days for a
Jenkins family reunion.

A very bad case of poison ivy
kept Ann Payne Long home from

reunion. By mid July, it still wasn't
clear! In addition, by the time you
read this, she was supposed to have
undergone back surgery. We hope
she's all better.

Wilma French, who missed
our 50th because of back surgery,
was feeling fine and excited about
coming this year until her doctor
diagnosed her with lupus and
started treatment immediately. We
wish her well.

Lucy-Mae Redman Munger

emailed that she is a "guilty
classmate" who doesn't write, but
immediately goes to class news
when she gets her magazine to read
about our classmates. She couldn't
make reunion, but said all is going
well with her and Bruce after 54
years of marriage, three children
and their spouses, and eight
grandchildren. The couple moved
to Massachusetts to be near son
Bruce and daughter Carrie, and
they provide support for the five
grandchildren in the area. They
travel to California to see daughter
Pamela and her family.

I am sad to report that
Dorothy Spencer Krucz died on
Dec. 20, 2008, in Tennessee. Her
daughter, Mary Lucy, called in
response to reunion recruitment
messages. We extend our deep
sympathy to the family.

The blame for bothering each
of you by phone is on the shoulders
of Helen Vogel and "Bootsie"
Johnson. The seven callers - the
aforementioned, Helen Conte, Pat
Mayer, Toula Fotopoulos, "Lewie"
Long, and I - all enjoyed our
visits with you. Next deadline is
November. Notes from everyone
please!

Christine Harper Hovis

1481 Balboa St.

San Luis Obispo, CA 93405

805/543-0366

chrishovis@aol.com

I didn't get as much news as
usual, so I am presuming that the
past summer was a real bummer.
I know the whole year was pretty
much a loss for everyone, especially
in California. If you read my last
newsletter you know that I was
expecting my daughter and family
to move down. It didn't work out
that way with all the teacher layoffs,
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So I have my granddaughter and
my granddog living with me: one

a teenager and cine a black Lab.
The teenager keeps me on my toes
mentally, the dog keeps me moving
daily, and the state of California
keeps me entertained because the
legislature seems to be composed
of comedians and buffoons.
Enough of the dog and pony show
and on to more interesting subjects:
I started with news
I received in April
up to the deadline,
and I thank all of
you who sent me
information.

52 good years with a good man. We
send our sympathy. Diane planned
to paint half of her house over the
summer; it was too expensive to
do the whole place. She has three
sons, two daughters-in-law, and
four grandchildren, one of whom
will graduate from high school
next year. Diane is trying to get her
interested in UMW, as she thinks it
would be the right school for her.

Ann
Dunaway Criswell

requested former
roommate Mary
Kate Bird Dellett's

address, as she
had lost contact
with her. Ann and her husband
extended their stay in California
this spring due to her two surgeries
in eight weeks. Once she was
better, they planned to fly to
Virginia for their spring/summer/
early-fall stint there. She was sorry
to have missed Virginia Garden
Week. The mystery of Charlotte
Fisher Klapproth's "going to the
dogs" story is solved. She and
her husband went to Baltimore
to dog sit for their daughter and
husband while they attended a
funeral. She said, "As usual the
dog was no trouble." Baltimore
may be going to the dogs, but they
aren't there to witness it as they are
enjoying living in the lower part
of Delaware. They planned a road
trip to Cincinnati to meet up with
two couples they met on European
riverboat cruises, a summer
trip in their RV (depending on
the weather), and camping on
Virginia's Eastern Shore. Charlotte
still sews with the craft group and
the quilting group at church. Since
2003, the quilters have produced
6,000 larger-than-lap quilts for the
cancer patients at the hospital in
Lewes!

Coralyn White McGeehan

wrote to relate the death of Jackie
Woodall Jones last May. Jackie was
married to the brother of Barbara
Jones Black.

Diane Farans Green's husband
passed away last year and things
are difficult for her right now. Still,
she said, she was lucky to have had

Class of '55 classmates Frances
Pruden Allen and Nancy Rakes
Moorcones were roommates in
1951 and 1952, and they have
continued their friendship for
58 years. They have spent time
together each summer on the
coast of North Carolina.

Joan Kleinknecht sent a
brief note celebrating the end of a
long rainy season. Sally Hanger
Moravitz, who lives in the D.C.
area, had a "gab test lunch" with
Mary Kate Bird Dellitt, and
Colleen O'Rear Lewis. Sally
and her husband went on a
Mediterranean cruise in June and
celebrated their 49th wedding
anniversary in a gondola with
musicians in Venice. Three weeks
before her cruise, she discovered
a cancerous lump in her breast
and made plans for surgery after
her trip. Now doing fine, she was
thankful it was found early. She was
to get the final word on a radiation
treatment early in July. She also
said that life happens when you
are busy doing something else.
Final note: Sally has a legacy! Her
nephew's son was scheduled to
start UMW this fall.

Virginia Marco Hancock

enjoyed reading the spring
issue of UMW Magazine. She
was impressed with President
Judy Hample and her vision for
UMW, and she enjoyed the article
about the Afghan women at the
university. Virginia spent only
two years at Mary Washington but
still teels very attached and proud.
She continues with community
activities centered around trees,
the arts, and local history. This
year, New York celebrated the
quadricentennial of Henry
Hudson's sailing up the Hudson
River, so there are lots of activities
happening all over the state.

From Wisconsin, Betsy Land
Johnson emailed that she, her
husband, four children, and seven
of their eight grandchildren spent a
week at Sanibel Island off the coast
at Fort Myers, Fla., in late June.
They had great weather, swimming
pools, the Gulf for water activities,
loads of bike trails, and tasty ice
cream shops. They planned a week
at Cape Cod in late July, which
she said would give her her fill of
"seafood trips."

Frances Pruden Allen and
Nancy Rakes Moorcones were
roommates in 1951 and 1952,
and they have continued their
friendship for 58 years. Both were
married in the same year and were
in each other's weddings. They've
both had five children. Nancy is
the grandmother of 12; Fran is the
grandmother of six plus two greats.
Nancy has stayed in and around
Leesburg, Va., and Fran has moved
several times in North Carolina,
retiring to Ocean Isle Beach. They
have spent time together each
summer on the coast of North
Carolina.

Debbie Bodkin Emerson wrote
that her mother, Ann Nuckols
Bodkin, passed away in March
of 2006. Debbie and her mother
attended the 50th reunion and they
both had a wonderful time. Debbie
enjoyed meeting her mother's dear
college friends whom she had
heard so much about.

Get out your calendars for
2010 - we will be celebrating our
55th reunion the weekend of June
4 to 6! The note I got from the
alumni association says that the
weekend's new format provides
enhanced opportunities for
classes to get together, as well as
ample time to tour the campus,
attend faculty lectures, and visit
downtown Fredericksburg. It
will be an opportunity for getting
together, talking endlessly, and
doing a lot of what we couldn't do
legally years ago.

I have been writing a sort of
essay called "What I Have Learned
in 75 Years and Other Nonsense."
Here is an excerpt, "1955 is never
that far back in my memory, and it
always surprises me when I realize
that it's actually 54 years ago, and I
am the same as I was then (unless I
look in that blasted mirror.)"

Ann Chilton Power
7301 Lakota Road
Remington, VA 22734
acpowerl@earthlink.net

I hope "no news is good news,"
meaning I hope that you are all
having such full lives that you
haven't a moment to spare. With
no news from others, I can only
relate what is happening on my
home turf. I attended our bi-annual
Chilton reunion, where five first
cousins spent a weekend at Orkney
Springs, Va., with their children
and grandchildren. We numbered
52 in attendance, about half the
clan.

Mary Washington alumni
among those attending were Scott
and Sonia Garcia Chilton '79, who
confessed they started out with
the class of '78, and Mary Chilton
Newell '54. Also attending was
Hallie Vaughan, mother of the late
Cathy Vaughan '78, as well as one
of Cathy's daughters.

My eldest son and family
came from Reno, Nev., to attend
and to spend several days here on
the farm with me. I planned to
spend a week in August at Bethany
Beach with my youngest son and
his family. Stephen is a reporter
with the Wall Street Journal, and
he periodically appears on NPR's
Diane Rehm Show or on TV's
C-Span. Middle son Tom is back
in Washington serving as a chief
of staff in the telecommunications
arena of the Department of
Commerce. Eight years ago he was
chief legal counsel at the Federal
Communications Commission
and a corporate attorney in the
Philadelphia area. I planned a big
party for him in August celebrating
50 years of statehood for Alaska,
an occasion that coincided with his
birthday.

I continue to write my "Out
of the Attic" column for the
local weekly paper and am active
with the local historical society.
We are lucky to have our first
full-time museum director, Mary
Washington alumna, Frances
Robinson Allshouse '07. 1 have
also found interesting volunteer
work at our local food bank.
Many people are so gracious and
generous with their time and
financial assistance. Clients also

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'olunteer at the food bank and in
>ur community garden. Do drop
ne a line to tell me what you or
ithers are doing. I will keep writing
is long as you send me news.

1957

dary "Polly" Smith Nelson
831 West Bay Villa Ave.
ampa, FL 33611
iollys35@gmail.com

usannah Godlove
i Peyton St., Apt. E- 1
Vinchester, VA 22601
godlove@valleyhealthlink.com

Idna G. Trudeau
200 St. Peters Lane
Jew Kent, VA 23124
dnanewkent@verizon .net

Our 50th reunion was
bsolutely fantastic! It was due to
ur planning committee, chaired
y Dodie Reeder, who started
ver a year ago, and also Edith,
ine, Emily, Kay, Cecile, Mary,
rene, Marianne. Judy and our two
/Iarcias kept us on our golden
ath. We had first-timers and our
/onderful regulars, Marty from
'eru, Sarah from Denmark. All
Dgether, according to my count, 70
lassmates and 20 happy husbands
ttended. The campus was as
)vely as ever, the programs were
xcellent, the food was delicious. I
ave never seen so many smiling
ices! Thanks to Cindy, Donna,
nd Matt, everything ran smoothly.

Many of us arrived earlier this
ear and attended the outstanding
Jumni College
essions. Thursday
vening, Cecile
)uncan Foley
ivited us for a
elightful cocktail
eception at her
eautiful home
3 officially begin
ur 50th reunion.
Cecile thanks

veryone for the flowers.) We
len met at Renatos for dinner
nd closed the evening in the
ospitality room at the Hilton
iarden Inn, thanks to Kay and
)iane.

On Friday more arrived: we
ontinued Alumni College, walked

the campus, toured buildings,
visited the new bookstore, the art
gallery, and all that had changed
in the last five years. We met our
new president, Dr. Judy Hample,
during the Brompton reception,
and then crossed the street to the
Jepson Alumni Center for our
unforgettable 50th Golden Girls
Banquet. It was perfection: an
elegant setting
and delectable
food. Edith
Sheppard Ott and
her committee
organized the slide
show of our class
over the years, with
Dodie Reeder
Hruby as mistress of ceremony.
It was a joyous gathering, which
we topped off by surprising John
Chappell, Carmen Culpeper
Chappell's husband, by making
him an honorary member of our
class. How could we not consider
him one of us after all his years
of contributions and devotion to
our class? We adjourned to the
hospitality room for more talk and
companionship.

On Saturday, we gathered
for the picnic under the tent,
ate heartily, and then posed for
pictures. Not only did we have the
largest class in attendance, but we
won two of the three awards - the
highest giving participation and
the highest class gift! Credit goes
to Emily Babb Carpenter, Kay
Rowe Hayes, and their committee
for this success. We gathered at
the Carmen Culpeper Chappell
Campanile to listen to a few words
from John. The campanile is an
attractive structure and towers over
the campus. When lighted in the
evening, it is breathtaking.

The Class of 1959 had the largest
number of attendees at Reunion
Weekend and won two of the
three awards - the highest giving
participation and the highest
class gift.

Marcia Spence Harrison-
Thornton and Marcia Phipps
Ireland presented a reverent
program to remember the girls
we have lost, then off we went
for our class party at the recently
renovated and gorgeous-again Ball
Hall. Feted with cake and wine, all
70 of us tried to cover from five to

50 years; time dissolved quickly
as we talked about and listened to
so many interesting lives. Outside
the Woodard Campus Center we
toasted the success of the reunion
campaign, then up the steps to the
banquet. Dessert under the Stars
followed, and then - would you
believe it? - the hospitality room
ruled!

JoNeal Hendricks Scully '59 uses
handwriting analysis and body
language in her job as a criminal
profiler for the Virginia State
Police.

At Sunday brunch we adopted
a member of the Class of 1939,
Concetta Mangus McKimmey,

92 years young and a wonderful
addition to our class. After brunch,
we lingered and lingered and
lingered. Even with many of us
coming a day early, there still
was not enough time during this
undoubtedly superb 50th reunion.
Slides of the video are available
through the alumni office, and
don't forget to make contributions
to the Class of 1959 Endowment
Fund.

Martha Spilman Clark

attended reunion, thanks to her
son, Johnny, a gift from him.
Marty and her husband, Paul, who
was born in Peru of missionary
parents, have been working since
1969 for the Scripture Union, an
outreach program for street boys.
They teach Christian values, run
camps for small children, use their
home for retreats, have outings
for orphans, and also work with
deaf boys. Marty and Paul have
three children. Daughter Elizabeth,
Max, and a family of four children
moved to California in May. Their
son, William, married a Peruvian
and they have three children. Their
youngest, John, is in Dallas and still
a bachelor.

I got a letter from Nancy
Gwaltney Gillette - it thrills me
to hear from a classmate who was
considered "lost." She was sorry to
miss reunion, she said, and sends
her regards to everyone. Nancy
married Bill, an army lieutenant,
in September of 1959. For 21 years
they traveled all over the U.S.,
Germany, and Pakistan. For the
last 30 years, they have been living
in Odenton, Md. They have four
children. Deborah, a West Point

graduate and a widow, has two
children, lives in Alexandria, works
for EPA, and is a full colonel in the
Army Reserve. Mary Katherine is
married to the chief of pediatrics at
the Portsmouth Naval Hospital and
lives in Chesapeake. Their oldest
of three sons graduated from high
school this year and will attend the
Naval Academy in the fall. Nancy
and Bill's son David has three
sons; he is a civil engineer with
the Department of Transportation
and lives in Monroe, N.C. Nancy's
youngest, Karen, has two children,
works for Bank of America, and
lives in Charlotte, N.C.

Nancy enjoys her grandmother
duties, especially babysitting.
She and Bill have a cabin in West
Virginia, where they escape
monthly for peace and quiet.
They have taken trips to Australia,
New Zealand, Italy, Ukraine, and
Romania, and they plan to visit
Poland and Austria this year.

Gailya Sue Smith Goiser,

who transferred in 1958 to the
University of Kentucky to complete
a bachelor's degree, met her
husband, John, on a blind date
at Mary Washington. She and
John have been spending time
in Denver with their daughter,
who is recovering from breast
cancer. Sue wrote that memories of
Mary Washington remain deeply
imbedded in her heart, and she
sends fond and loving thoughts
to all. Isn't it great to hear from
someone after all these years?

Eleanor Craig Towe retired
from serving on the Board of
Supervisors in Loudoun County.
She and Jim have four children,
two boys and two girls - a doctor,
a lawyer, a psychiatrist, and a
TV photographer - and four
grandchildren. The doctor son is
taking over Jim's practice.

Ann Watkins Steves has

eight grandchildren and is
looking great! In March, the 45th
annual anniversary celebration of
Cahmounis Mansion International
Hostel honored Marianne Carrano
Raphaely for her accomplishments
in education, health, and art. She
and Russ have five grandchildren.
Russ, who is semiretired, attended
an American Medical Association
gathering in Chicago in June. Kay
Rowe Hayes still teaches GED
classes. She has four grandchildren
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since her grandsons play. Her
oldest grandson was accepted at
Christopher Newport University.

Celeste Shipman Kaufman

and Alan's daughter, Tammie, has
tenure at the University of Central

Florida in Orlando. They have five
grandchildren: Austin completed
his freshman year at the University
of Alabama and continues cross
country racing; Smylie has
committed to play golf for LSU.

Ann Saunders Spilman

has nine grandchildren, and her
son's daughter made her a great-
grandmother. Way to go! Two of
her grandchildren have graduated
from high school. Ann volunteers
at a nursing home and helps set up
Christmas boxes of shoes for over
eight million children.

Joyce Kirby Erlandsen sent
her best regards and news that
she has a new granddaughter.

Jean Paul Cherubini and Ron are

retired in Jacksonville, N.C.; Jean
taught art on base at Camp Lejeune
until a couple of years ago. They
have two boys and two girls. Their
youngest daughters first child due
in July, and she was staying with
Jean while her husband was in
Afghanistan.

Molly Bradshaw Clark has

five grandchildren, ages 17 months
to 18 years. Daughter Mary Ann

was expecting in October. Molly
commutes between her mountain
house in Georgia and her house
in St. Petersburg, Fla. She enjoys
bridge and tennis. Barbara Bache
Barker has retired from her
law career and has returned to
Richmond. Her mother is still living
and doing well. Barbara's daughter,
Dale, is living in Turks Island and
owns a scuba shop. Her son, Chris,
has given her two grandchildren.

Leading a Useful, Musical Life

Had it not been for several UMW professors who inspired him, Sean Michael
Dargan '90 today might be fiddling a stethoscope instead of guitar strings. But
the singer/songwriter switched from a major in chemistry - he had plans to be
a doctor - to English after taking classes in poetry, linguistics, and literature at
Mary Washington.

Today, as the lead member of the sean michael dargan band, the Madison,
Wis., resident and his group have released three albums of original rock and
roll since 1994. The latest is titled If You Wanna See THE BIG PICTURE, You
Gotta Take One Step Back. Dargan writes all the songs for the group, with the
exception of a track penned by Chris Bonner '89, whom he met at UMW.

"Chris is an amazing fellow," said Dargan. "We have been music
collaborators since we were 19 and 20." Dargan recorded a song by Bonner
titled "Before the War" for his 2005 release. "We still keep in touch every week
with email and phone calls, and we basically produce each other's music from
afar." Bonner, who now lives in Arlington, previously lived in New York City,
where he worked for both MTV and VH1.

Dargan also is good friends with Cedric Rucker '81, UMW's dean of
student life. "I was a senior when Cedric started working in the student
activities job; Cedrics trademark is to wear a bowtie... and so is mine," said
Dargan. "I think one should dress up a bit when one is performing."

Sean Michael Dargan, well known in the Fredericksburg
music scene of the late '80s and early '90s, started his
music career as a toddler playing bagpipes.

His fourth album, titled Snap Your Fingers and Stomp Your Feet, comes
out this winter. In part, he said, it celebrates the political change of the 2008 presidential election. Dargan and his wife, Jennifer, are both grassroots
political activists. Dargan has performed at many political events, including one for then-Senator Obama on the campaign trail, as well as one
accompanying rock legend Patti Smith at the National Conference for Media Reform.

Music has figured into Dargans life since he was a child growing up outside of Philadelphia, but he didn't start with piano or drums like most
kids. His father played bass drum in a bagpipe band, and at age four Dargan began marching as a piper with the group, basically serving as its
mascot. He said he was fortunate to have exceptional music teachers in the Washington, D.C., area who helped him hone his craft on the bagpipes.

In high school, he picked up the guitar and started playing in rock bands, which continued during his time at Mary Washington. "It can be
hard to form relationships when you play bagpipes," Dargan said. "I noticed right away, though, that girls seem to like guitar players." After college,
Dargan split his time among Fredericksburg, D.C., and New York City "as a starving artist," and he toured extensively, including parts of Europe,
until the late 1990s.

Dargan eventually ended up in Los Angeles and worked for a company that produced large outdoor events, including The AIDS Ride, an
annual bicycle ride fundraiser that travels through different parts of the country. He and Jennifer met on one of those rides and were married in
200 1 . The couple has a one-year-old daughter, Margaret Marie. Jennifer works for public radio in Madison.

Dargan came upon Mary Washington as his college choice almost by accident. As a freshman at Hampden-Sydney College, he was headed
home to visit his parents and passed through Fredericksburg. "I noticed Fredericksburg had a pretty cool downtown." He decided to transfer. "I had
good grades, and I wanted to be a doctor, so I chose chemistry as a major."

Those plans changed once he started taking English classes at Mary Washington. According to Dargan, professors like Judith Parker, Vanessa
Haley, and Raman Singh "stoked a fire in me with a deep love of language."

He said, "I had a great experience at Mary Wash; I made great friends, the academics were outstanding, and the campus was beautiful." Now, at
age 40, with a wife, a baby, and a productive musical career, Dargan can survey his life and say: "Overall, I feel pretty useful."

- Kathleen Sheridan

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Gloria Winslow Borden

nally has a grandson after 16
randdaughters. Alleluia! Patricia
iray Proulx and Dan have been
larried 47 years; they have two
hildren and three grandchildren.
0 glad to see Frances Bourke
irth, who came in from Oregon,
he has five children. Julia Coates
ittlefield played her ukulele
rid sang some of the songs we
herished, during the 50th Golden
rirls banquet. She and Mo have
a'o children, two grandsons, and
ne granddaughter. Charlotte
^ohlnick Wiggs and her husband
re thinking of selling their
ntique shop and traveling more,
hey have two children and two
randdaughters. Emily Babb
Carpenter and Tom travel a lot,
nd they have three grandchildren,
on Tom Jr. and family moved
) Colorado Springs; daughter
iaroline and family are in Virginia
each.

Diana Trischman Lee taught
>r 31 years and likes retirement,
he has three children and five
randchildren, plays bridge,
nd is a hospital volunteer. Ann
.ollins Pyle taught for 39 years!
[er daughter, Carolyn, gave her
grandchild in March. Carol
ridgen Gill, who is retired from
caching middle school math,
nd husband George have three
)ns, three granddaughters, and
ne grandson. Nancy Carneal
>ickinson, who worked as a
uidance counselor for many
ears, has two children and seven
randchildren. Irene Piscopo
.odgers finished her commitment
) FEI in Texas in June and
eaded to Boston. Audrey Manke
lameron retired from J. P. Morgan,
he has two grandchildren. Mary
redman Downing has two
hildren and a grandson.

Sarah Bryson Damskier

ame to reunion from Denmark!
he worked as the director of an
xperimental college and had
lany unusual tales to tell. Gwen
dthauser Betor, who came in
"om Indiana, has three children
nd has worked as a health
are administrator. Judith Fink
eckmen has three sons and seven
randchildren. After 25 years of
wning Roland Corp., which sold
lectronic musical instruments,
ne and husband Tom own the
uccessful Beckmen Vineyards
i Santa Barbara. Jane Tucker

Broadbooks said husband John
enjoyed the reunion as much as she
did. Don't you have to love them?
They have three grandchildren. Jon
Karl is editor of The State Journal
Register in Springfield, 111., and is
on the managing editorial board.
Jane was at a craft show about
15 miles east of Asheville and in
walked "Pug" Kaufman, who was
attending a wedding.

Beth Shochat Cole was in

Maryland, moved to Florida, and
now is heading to Arizona. JoNeal
Hendricks Scully of Charlottesville
uses handwriting analysis and body
language in her job as a criminal
profiler for the Virginia State
Police. She has two sons and two
grandsons.

Barbara Gordon McNamee

has seven children and 16
grandchildren. She worked as a
computer teacher and consultant
for grades K-12 at Walsingham
Academy in Williamsburg. Barbara
is still involved in synchronized
swimming; I remember her so well
at Mary Washington swimming
shows.

Nancy Crosland Lehfeldt

taught for 43 years; she has three
daughters and six grandchildren.
Carol Daehler Leonard, still in
California, has
two children
and four
grandchildren
who range from
age 6 to 18. Joan
Whittemore
Loock has
four children
and seven
grandchildren. She likes living in
the Gulf Shores, Ala., area, but
the hurricanes are not her favorite
thing. Nancy Smith Campbell is
retired in Richmond and travels a
lot. Her daughter lives in Denver
and her son has given her two
grandsons. Joan Essick Woloson
looked great and doesn't seem to
let anything deter her from her
goals; she had a stroke three years
ago and is recovering so well. Her
daughter is in Philadelphia and
her son, a criminal attorney, is in
Fredericksburg.

Barbara Hunter Kellogg

taught for 21 years. She and Gus
have been married 47 years;
they have four children and nine
grandchildren. Sybil Child West
is a potter and runs a craft gallery

in Wilmington, N.C. She and Bill,
married 50 years, have three sons
and eight grandchildren. Sharon
(ireene Hope, whose hobby is
bridge, came in from California.
She has three children, tour step-
children, and 17 grandchildren!

Sharon Henry Schafer

married Tom, a periodontist,
and was an American Airlines
flight attendant for many years.
They have three children and
one grandson. Marcia Spence
Harrison-Thornton still works
as a psychotherapist three days a
week and is renewing her love of
the cello. Marcia Phipps Ireland
and Gary, now retired, have two
children and four grandchildren.

Gail Fallon Neal, a busy
volunteer in Richmond, kept a
smile on her face at reunion. She
and Marcus have been married 48
years; they have three children and
five grandchildren. Edith Weber
Staib and her husband, who has
been in the printing business,
live in Hilton Head, S.C.; they
have three children and seven
grandchildren. Cecelia Bergin
Robbins, now retired, looks good
and is an 1 1 -year cancer survivor!
She has five children and seven
grandchildren; the youngest
daughter attended UMW

Fifty-niners honored John
Chappell, Carmen Culpeper
ChappelVs husband, by making
him an honorary member of their
class.

Anne Johnson Maxwell,

retired from social work, was
thrilled to finally come to her first
reunion. She moved from West
Virginia to Bedford, Va. Ann
Rodabaugh Wright came charging
in from Alabama and regaled us
with tales and adventures. She
and Bob have five sons and 10
grandchildren. She has worked
in children's theater and with
community players. She was the
director of student affairs at the
University of Alabama; she recently
served as the advisor to the
Alabama Student Program Board.

Ann Caddy Morgan, of

Richmond, was in the insurance
field for 35 years; she has two
children and six grandchildren.
Ann brought her daughter, Belinda,

with her since she is no longer
ambulatory, but her wheelchair
only operated in high gear! Ann
is still working as an elementary
cafeteria monitor, and I can only
imagine the inspiration she must
be to the children.

Jane Howard Buchanan

and Peter are retired and living
in Charlottesville. Ann Brooks
Coutsoubinas, retired from
teaching in New York, said her
children are fine. She breathes a
sigh of relief that Greg returned
safely from Afghanistan, though
he is still a member of the National
Guard Reserves. Ann stayed in
Fredericksburg with her dad, who
is still going strong and, she said,
can work circles around her.

Mary Massey and Jack
Meiners will be hiking,
volunteering, and checking out
hostel opportunities in their 90s.
Though retired, Martha Huffman
Wood continues her work for the
National Education Association
and the Virginia Education
Association. All through our
reunion years, Geraldine Jenks
Winston and Addison attended;
how great it was to see Addison
at our 50th. Audrey Dubetsky
Doyle is always so pleasant and
humorous. She and Tom have three
children and three grandchildren.

Margaret Crisman Kostel

lives in Harrisonburg and has
three grandchildren. Sally Arnold
Sullivan was so busy we couldn't
find time for her storyteller skills.
Better luck next time. Texie Peek
Van Devender has two sons and
two granddaughters. She was
a day student and still lives in
Fredericksburg. Carol Hickman
Bowman has two sons.

Lois Jean McNabb is retired
from teaching middle school.
Edith Sheppard Ott and Matt
have been married 50 years. With
Matt retired from his law practice
and Edith from her career as a
clinical psychiatrist, they have
plenty of time to spoil their seven
grandchildren. Dodie Reeder
Hruby, retired from teaching
English, and Dale have nine
grandchildren. Andrea Milne
Delkeskamp seemed delighted
she made the trip from California
to her first reunion. She has
two children and is running in
marathons. Way to go!

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Well, girls, tii those of you who
came from short or long distances,
1 thank you. That is what made our
reunion superb - being there to
share our life experiences. I tried to
give everybody a line or two here.
If I skipped anybody, please forgive
me. 1 thought we are definitely a
good looking and exciting group ot
women. The Class of 1959 goes on!

C \eputHCL l 'zexput

[ody Campbell Close
3653 Kingswood Court
Clermont", FL 34711
jodycampbellclose60@alumni.
umw.edu

Karen Larsen Nelson

2550 S. Ellsworth Road, No. 399

Mesa, AZ 85209

karenlarsen60@alumni.umw.edu

Jody is still President of the
Clermont Friends of the Library
and recently celebrated the end of
a long campaign with the opening
of a new 50,000-square-foot,
$15 million building. She was
appointed to the County Library
Advisory Board and was tapped
to serve on the Florida Library
Association Annual Conference
Committee. Her newest hobby/
addiction, genealogy research and
developing a book to preserve her
family heritage, has provided the
excuse for some interesting travels.
After being a grandmother of eight,
she is serving as Co-Class Agent
with Karen for the Class of '60 and
staying in touch with all of you.
[Thank you, Jody; I couldn't do this
without you! - KN] Re-discovering
dear old friends who share her
history and memories and renewing
old bonds and forging new ones,
she said, has enriched what might
have been some very bleak years
and has brought her special joy. She
is serving on the Reunion Planning
Committee for our grand 50th
along with some other really great
minds also working on that project:
Liz Hill Heaney, Betty Ditmars
Prosser, Karen Larsen Nelson,
Patty Morgan Connolly, Sue
Smith Goodrick, and Syd Colson
Chichester.

This committee has been
terrific and has been working
hard since January 2009 to make
it a warm, satisfying, and happy
time - just for you. In late May,
Syd, Patty, Jody, and Sue even
attended Reunion 2009 to scope

out the events and polish our plan
As you read this, make il your
solemn commitment to meet in
Fredericksburg the first week in
June 2010. The main thing right
now is to plan for this once-in-
a-lifetime trip, setting aside time
and money so nothing stands in
the way of your being part of our
wonderful Class of 1960 Reunion.
By now you should
have received the
information you
need to make your
plans. You have
no idea how much
we look forward
to seeing you, so
please don't let us
down.

Nancy Moncure Deiss was

in Fredericksburg tor a big family
reunion this spring. She was
amazed at how our sleepy little
college town has grown, with
many little boutique shops, a lot of
archeological work and restoration,
and colonial history really coming
alive. She's looking forward to
reunion.

Now to
class news:
Right after her

time in Fredericksburg with the
reunion committee, Sue Smith
Goodrick took her first trip to
Europe for a cruise down the
Danube River from Budapest,
Hungary. Unfortunately, the river
trip was curtailed at Vienna by
record-setting rains that flooded
the river and stopped boat traffic
in both directions, so she travelled
to Austria and Germany by motor
coach. Sue has also reestablished
contact with her Mary Washington
roommate, Diane Hays Neuman.
She said that the birthday list in
our monthly email was just the
incentive for her to get in touch,
and several of our classmates
wrote how much they enjoyed our
birthday e-cards. [If you would like
to receive an e-cardfrom us, just
send either one of us your birth date,
and we'll add you to our growing
list. We also do snail-mail cards.]

In June, Sherry Farrington

Green attended "a great Meeting
of the Clan. ..all the children and
grandchildren. ..cast of thousands,"
then headed off to Texas for the
National U.S. Fencing Association
competition. She earned a bronze
medal and was looking for better
at the August Senior Worlds
competition in San Francisco.

Terry Eagles Dow is thinking
ahead to our big reunion in June,
planning to combine it with a visit
to her son and his wife in D.C.
Betty Ditmars Prosser expected
many summer visitors at her home
in the Thousand Island region of
New York state and said that in her
next life she'll run a B&B.

r

j Jody Campbell Close '60,
| president of the Clermont (Fla.)
Friends of the Library, recently
celebrated the end of a long
campaign with the opening of
a new 50,000-square-foot, $15
million building.

■

Cyd Day Getchell planned a
wedding for her son in early June,
ran a fundraiser for the Historical
Society in Newburyport, Mass.,
then headed off for Rosebud
Reservation in South Dakota
to check on her foundation to
promote literacy and education.
She met the two scholarship
recipients for this year.

Nancy Cleaves Blaydes

welcomed a new grandchild
in April; Joanne Lister Jacobs

expected her third grandchild
in August. Jo was also proud to
announce that another grandson
has been approved to spend his
junior and senior year of high
school at the School for Math and
Science at the University of North
Carolina. Congratulations, ladies.

Nancy Fugelso Muldrow

and husband Charlie celebrated
their 51st wedding anniversary in
June. They had a quiet celebration
of their happiness after a long,
difficult period in their lives.
Last year Nancy lost her younger
brother to esophageal cancer, and
last December she experienced a
simple stumble in the driveway -
not on ice or snow - injured her
left shoulder, her left knee, and
broke her wrist. With a few residual
twinges, she was back to normal by
spring.

Darrell and I enjoyed a
busy time at "Senior Summer
Camp" at Juniper Ridge Resort
in the cool White Mountains of
Arizona, highlighted by a week
of Senior Olympics - not athletic

stuff, just a team fun activity
each day. We also socialized with
friends and neighbors, did some
round dancing, and I worked on
our UMW Reunion Planning
Committee and monthly email
News Flashes. In mid-September,
we went to New Mexico for
our annual week of dancing in
Albuquerque and Red River, before
closing up the trailer and heading
home to still-hot Mesa.

Keep watching your mailbox
for more info about our BIG 50th
Reunion, and please send Jody and
me a note to say you are coming.

Connie Booth Logothetis (A - G)
1904 Princess St.
Wilmington, NC 28405
anestislogothetis@gmail.com

Renee Levinson Laurents (H - Q)
11906 Beatrice St.
Culver City, CA 90230
Arjle@aol.com

Lynne Williams Neave (R - Z)
530 E. 86th St.
New York, NY 10028
Lyneave@aol.com

[Please send news to the designated
Class Agent according to the first
letter of your MAIDEN name.]

From Connie: It is mid- July
at this writing, and we are pretty
much settled in our new/old
Neoclassical Revival-style house
built in 1916. Our street is lovely,
lined with live oak trees and a
beautiful small National Cemetery
at the end, dating back to the
Civil War. We just bought nice
bicycles for our big birthdays
this year (Andy turned 75) and
look forward to exploring at a
slower pace. Proximity to our
2-year-old grandson Leo is terrific,
especially watching his language
development. Somehow I don't
remember how my own kids
learned to talk! My plans include
volunteering with the local literacy
council and cruising down the
Dalmatian Coast and Greece in
early September.

Now, here is a real voice
from our past - Maddie Contis

Marken (who I never realized was
Greek!) wrote last March from
Cape Cod: "It has been a long
procrastination.. .48 years, but
decided that I didn't have time for
another 48 years to go by before

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I contacted my college friends."
She is retired from work in an
inner city emergency room, but
for the last four years has done per
diem social work for Cape Cod
Heath Care, which she loves. She
is training for her sixth marathon,
her last one being Boston, which
she ran in less than five hours.
She backpacks around the White
Mountains and in Europe,
including a challenging hike last
June in the Pyrenees along the
ridges between France and Spain.
She plans to bike through Germany
this fall with a friend.

Last fall, Maddie and daughter
Melanie visited the remote
mountain village on the Greece/
Albanian border where her
parents were born as a tribute to
her mother, who
recently passed
away.

Barbaras husband planned to be
on a Rhine River cruise from Basel,
Switzerland to Amsterdam.

Carolyn Crum Pannu of San

Mateo, Calif., is still working three
days a week with no plan to retire
any time soon. She sends lots of
love to all of her college sisters.
She is single again. Daughter Kara
includes her in many San Francisco
activities. They celebrated her
birthday on the Star Princess up to
Vancouver. They planned to return
there in September, flying up and
cruising back on Island Princess,
and again in February for the
Winter Olympics. Raj and family
are in Dallas with grandson, Alex,
now 4 and precious. Knitting is
Carole's favorite new pastime.

Maddie is in
touch with her
Mary Washington
roommate of
four years, Kathy
Ledner Kuttner,
who lives in West Orange, N.J.
Kathy works part time after
retiring as a therapist and program
developer in a gerontology unit.
Maddie saw Bev Carlson Shea,
who is "full of energy and looking
very glamorous."

Carolyn Barnette Wright, of

Pembroke Pines, Fla., wrote that
'life is good." She spends time
with her five grandchildren, ages
3 to 8, and hopes to go to Hawaii
in October with a friend who has
terminal cancer. Carolyn plans to
take a keyboard class at Florida
International University in Miami
so she can learn to play the piano
in her living room - it has hardly
been touched since her kids left
home.

Carole Grant LeMay of

Natchez, Miss., spent the early
summer recovering from a total
hip replacement done in May.
Feeling better in July, she planned
to go to their lake house in north
Alabama for a LeMay family get
together. She and 1 1 other gals
(including Bee Stone Byrnes)
planned to spend a week of beach
and bridge on the Gulf in August.
Carole's youngest grandson, Jacob,
4, spent a week with them, and she
said it was fun keeping up with
him. In October, Carole, Ralph,
sister Barbara Grant Fox '63, and

Kelly Cherry '61 has two new
books: Girl in a Library: On
Women Writers & the Writing
Life and The Retreats of
Thought: Poems.

Kelly Cherry has two new

books. Girl in a Library: On
Women Writers & the Writing Life
(BkMk Press) was to be released
in September, and in October, The
Retreats of Thought: Poems (LSU
Press). She and Burke planned
to spend September in Bellagio,
Italy, thanks to the Rockefeller
Foundation, and they'll visit her
sister in London on
the way there. They
share their Halifax,
Va., home with two
bichons, one 12,
the other a puppy.

Georgia with their seven children,
including son Justin born last April.
Oldest son Chris' son, Christopher,
just turned 14 and is almost six feet
tall! Dennis will soon start a job
with the Navy in Jacksonville, Fla.,
doing environmental engineering.
Andrew, still with Honeywell,
returned from Afghanistan, and
a friend wrote Afghan Andy's
March in his honor. The Stonewall
Brigade Band, in conjunction
with an Army Reserve band - 100
musicians in all - gave the premier
performance in June in Staunton,
Va. Hubby Clarence gives tours of
the Library of Congress, recently to
a group of wounded warriors.

Please keep us apprised of your
latest email address or preferred
contact method. As Dixie Babb
Rucker of Woodstock, Ga., wrote,
"I'm going to try to be there for our
50th!!

From Renee: Hi, all. I'm taking
classes in creative writing, writing
workshop, the U.S. Constitution,
and current events at Beverly Hills
adult school. The stimulation
is great and keeps the wheels of
what's left of my mind well oiled!
The classes are made up of mostly
retired, intellectually curious, and
active people, so the discussions
are wonderful.

I haven't heard from most of
you, but here is the news from the
hearty souls that were kind enough
to take the time to write.

Joyce Ann
Gann Rush lives
in Rustburg, Va.
She wrote: "My
middle daughter,
Mary R. Bailey, has
published her first
novel, Vhan Zeely and the Time
Prevaricators (Eloquent Books), an
action/adventure story involving
a little history, a little time travel,
and, of course, good vs. evil! It is
geared tor a younger audience,
ages 9 and older, but "old folks"
like it, too. I am certainly biased,
but it is a well-crafted, fast-paced,
tremendously good read."

Clara Sue Durden Ashley's

son Park is doing well in
Afghanistan, leaving wife Shawn in

Maddie Contis Marken '61 is
training for her sixth marathon.
She backpacks around the White
Mountains and in Europe,
including a challenging hike in
the Pyrenees along the ridges
between France and Spain.

All is well with Becky Paris
Spetz and family. She and Wayne
planned to travel in July with the
UMW Alumni Association to
England's Cotswolds. She said it
sounded like a wonderful trip, with
seven nights in one hotel.

Mary Joslin Jenkins (aka Emyl
Jenkins) has a new mystery, The Big
Steal, which was launched in July
at the Library of Virginia. With its
rave reviews, Mary will be on the
road with talks and book-signings

in Virginia, North Carolina,
South ( Carolina, and Tennessee.
Thanks to the phone, computer,
podcasts, and book tour blogs,
she can "virtually visit" more and
more book clubs. Mary has three
"grand boys" and another baby
on the way. Husband Bob Sexton
is a consultant and an adjunct
professor in the VCU School of
Engineering. Mary gardens, is
on the board of the Library of
Virginia, and is chairman of the
furnishings committee at the
Virginia Executive Mansion.

Marilyn "Mouse" Messier
Whitmore still volunteers as a
docent at the Ronald Reagan
Presidential Library. She and Bill
took a cruise on the Ruby Princess
from Rome to Venice with five
ports in Greece, one in Turkey,
and a day in Monte Carlo. They
have their own wholesale hardware
business, and Bill doesn't feel the
need to retire. But Mouse retired
from it in March and is "a happy
homemaker," available for her
10 grandchildren and one great-
grandson (born in May) any time
they need her.

From Lynne: This is a very
significant year for many of us
in the Class of '61, as we are
celebrating "big" birthdays. Happy
Birthday, one and all!

It seems as if I celebrated my
big day for the first half of the
year, with a lot of indulgences.
Our South African trip was
magnificent. We're still doing the
same-old things, going back and
forth between New York City and
Connecticut and really loving it.
Please let me know if you'll be in
the area; I still love doing "touristy"
things.

Lloyd Tilton Backstrom and

I chat and email fairly regularly.
Pat Scott Peck visited her for an
afternoon on her way to Maine
for the summer; she had been in
D.C. at her late brother's house
where her son, Brian, lives. Lloyd
and Art attended the UMW
"Alumni College" which was the
same time as Reunion Weekend. I
think she picked up a great deal of
information that will be useful for
our own 50th Reunion.

It was great hearing from
Aggie Welsh Eyster, who still
lives in San Antonio and speaks
to Jill Cusack Clay regularly; they
didn't know thev were cousins

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until attending MWC. Aggie had
plans to participate in two group
art shows: The Escape Artists
in August at Hill Country Arts
Foundation and, in September,
"Second Seating," an event
celebrating Houston's East End.

Janie Riles of San Diego has
two little grandsons there. She was
preparing for her annual painting
workshop in France in September,
consisting of two large groups of
painters for 10 days each. This year,
she was to stay in Dordogne in
the small village ot Coulaures. In
October, she planned to be in Lyon
with friends. This summer, she
taught painting in her home studio.
She also goes back and forth to her
place in Fort Lauderdale.

Eleanore Saunders
Sunderland went with Linda
Taylor Drustrup to southern
China in 2008, where they cruised
the Yangtze River, and is planning
her next trip to Russia with twin
sister Judy Saunders Slifer.

Katharine Nell Robinson

May traveled to Italy, Croatia, and
Montenegro on a small ship. She
seems extremely happy and enjoys
her three grandchildren - a 6-year-
old grandson and his identical twin
sisters, toddlers - who live near her
in Williamsburg.

Marcy Trembath Pitkin

enjoyed part of the summer in the
South with their new cockapoo,
who found them at the local
humane society. They spent August
in their Victorian summer cottage
at Lake Carey, Pa.

In closing, I again ask you to
provide me with email addresses
you may have that are not on my
list. Each time I send a request
for information, many emails
cannot be delivered due to invalid
addresses. Many thanks.

1962

Patricia Mackey Taylor
351 Level Green Court
Hampton, VA 23669-1732
PTaylor55@cox.net

The deadline for this issue
was in July when many folks were
on vacation, so the news is slow
this issue. Julie Waugh, daughter
of Ellen Wilson, wrote of her
mother's passing on March 17,
2009. Ellen is survived by husband
Bob, three children - Bob Jr.,
Jeanne, and Julie - and her five

grandchildren - Sarah, Catherine,
Mark, Mary, and Lorelei. Ellen
and her family lived in St. Simons
Island, Ga., where she was active
in the Island Players, coached girls
Softball, and was an avid tennis
player. Our thoughts and prayers
are extended to the family. We will
miss Ellen.

Thank you to Diana Copple
Smith, who put me in contact with
Rosalie Alico Turner. Rosalie met
her husband, who was at Quantico,
during our senior year at Mary
Washington. They celebrated their
46th anniversary this year. They
had three sons, including Terry,
whom they lost to leukemia at
age 10. Kile and his wife, both
attorneys, live in Birmingham,
Ala., and have a blended family
of five children - his are triplets,
9; hers is 9; and theirs is 2. Third
son Joel, a former Marine who
served in Iraq, is entering the
Police Academy in Hillsborough,
N.C., and is married with no
children. Husband Frank has
retired from the railroad industry
three times and is still railroading.
Rosalie has written four books
that have been published. The new
historical fiction Sisters 0/ Valor
tells the story of four different
women whose Marine husbands
served in Vietnam from 1967 to
1968 - our generation - the unrest
and turmoil of the time, and the
effects of these struggles on the
servicemen and their families, civil
rights, and the women's movement.

As for myself, I went this
spring with a tour group to China.
We landed in Beijing, climbed
the Great Wall, and toured the
Forbidden City. In Xian, we saw
the Terra Cotta Warriors and
sailed down the Yangtze River to
Shanghai. It was a wonderful two
weeks of traveling, sightseeing, and,
of course, shopping.

Please forward a short note
telling us or updating us about
your family, hobby, retirement, or
upcoming plans.

1 963

Anne Radway
1017 Tapawingo Road, SW
Vienna, VA 22180
tiazelda 1 @verizon.net

To all members of the class of
1963: Please send me news so I can
include you next time. I would love
to hear from you.

Jonathan and I spent most of
the spring and summer selling both
of our respective houses, buying
one together, and then moving
and unpacking. All this was in
preparation for our September
wedding, planning tor which was
tar more time-consuming than 1
dreamed! The best part is that my
six granddaughters, ages 1 through
8, planned to be flower girls.

Betty Ailstock Hall attended
Mary Washington for only
one year, going on to earn her
bachelor's degree in religion at
Furman University in Greenville,
S.C. Betty said that she has retired
after an interesting career in the
field, finishing with 14 years in
after-school ministry.

Jane Bateman also attended
MWC for one year then returned
to Texas where she graduated from
University of Texas. She enjoys
her work as a dietician for nursing
homes and also enjoys traveling.
She spent last Thanksgiving in
Paris and planned to meet friends
in Geneva in August of this year.
Pat Carroll has enjoyed water
color painting for the past 40 years.
She has two children and three
grandchildren. Betty Ash retired
in 2006 as a human resources
personnel director. She enjoys
genealogy research and recently
returned from Germany. Lona
Asher, who went on to finish her
degree in nursing at the Medical
College of Virginia, retired from
Metlife, where she worked with
long-term care insurance for
small businesses. She said that she
had also worked for the airline
industry for 25 years and still
loves traveling. Sue Bentley Varn
finished her degree in nursing at
UVa. She recently retired after
22 years as a hospice nurse and
enjoys gardening with her internist
husband, her three children, and
her six grandchildren, all of whom
live nearby.

Barbara Bold Ducker and her

neurosurgeon husband have lived
in Annapolis, Md., for 25 years,
and they have three children and
four grandchildren. They have
a home in Annapolis' historic
district, which is full ot interesting
sites and great for walking. They
also have a mountain home in
Steamboat Springs, Colo., that
draws her family "as often as they
can get there."

\ u toria Taylor Allen

230 Hermitage Hills Drive, Unit A

Somers, NY 10589

vallen I303onaol.com

Sixteen of us met for Reunion
Weekend, May 30 and 3 1 . What
a great time we had at the picnic,
exchanging news of families,
careers, travels, and memories.
Mary Washington women wear
many hats indeed!

All ot us looked tar better, we
agreed, than we did in college,
and we have developed character,
for sure! Just a few of the people
we saw were: Pam Ames, who
is busier than ever, has a move
to Fredericksburg in the works;
Marilyn Morgan Jorgensen
teaches piano and is involved in
music in Yardley, Pa.; Sharon
Haythorne Stack and Vicky Taylor
Allen could be found laughing
their heads off (what else is new?);
and Vicky and Lynn Rowland
Bagg found that they both live in
NewYork!

Since then, we have heard trom
Ruth Pharr Sayer, who lives in
Princeton, N.J. Her daughter, three
children, husband, and a "very
large" dog live in New York City.
Coincidentally, both Vicky and
Ruth have longstanding friendships
at the schools of the Convent of
the Sacred Heart in Princeton,
New York, and Greenwich, Conn.,
where Vicky still works.

We are dying to hear from
you! You may think "nothing's
new," but we sure don't! Feel free
to send your news via email,
regular mail, a phone call to the
alumni office, or a postcard. We are
already starting to plan for our big
50th reunion in 2014, so let's get
together and send in "all the latest"
with news ot families, retirement,
careers, travels, big events, and
anniversaries - or any other news.

Here's "the latest" from our
classmates: Marietta Hirschhom
Montgomery wrote that she and
her husband, Wally, continue to
enjoy good health and great friends
- "Life is good in our golden
years!" A retired public school
English teacher, she continues to
work part-time through the local
university, Mary Hardin- Baylor, in
Belton, Texas, and is involved with
alternative teacher certification.
Her two daughters are married

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with delightful children. Wally's
novel Regeneration was just
published, and he is working on his
second book.

Our condolences to Nancy
Hewetson Cooke, whose father,
former Economics Professor
Hewetson, passed away. She
would love to keep in touch with
classmates who were day students.

Barbara Kellam Latham

has connected with Betsy Reuter
Martin in New Jersey. Barbara's
mother lives nearby and her two
daughters are settled. The elder
has two children, and the younger
heads her own public relations firm
in London. Betsy has had both hips
replaced and travels with Roger to
see family and friends.

Barbara's daughters visited
Temmie Kovinda Chaturachinda

in Bangkok,Thailand, where she
and her husband owned several
Thai/Italian restaurants. Temmie
has two children - her daughter
lives in London, and the second
works with the Thai Embassy in
Paris. Virginia Lucas Shearin
enjoys spending time at her
summer home in Rehoboth, Del,
and has a grandchild, born in 2007.

Joyce Liggett Tollinger

and Tom celebrated their 40th
anniversary with a trip to Rome,
and then to Venice, where they
joined a cruise, which took them
to Croatia, Athens, Naples, and all
around the Mediterranean, ending
in Barcelona. They have five little
granddaughters. Son Alan plans
to marry in Pasadena, Calif., in
October.

Margaret "Peggy" Mitchell
Bliss, who still hopes to move
to the ocean, spent July in Japan
babysitting the grandchildren.
They were to return to the U.S.
together in August, and two of
the children planned to attend the
Mystic Seaport sailing camp.

Barbara Latham wishes more
of us would embrace the new
networking technology: computers,
iPhone, Kindle, and more!

Many thanks to Betty Jennings
Peterson tor her work as Class
Agent for the past five years! She
lives in Illinois with her husband
and family.

Good wishes to the best class
ever: let's keep our spirit shining,
share the news, and keep in touch!

,

u\a/itu<hvC \ 'id<&ub

Phyllis Cavedo Weisser
530S Fairfield West
Dunwoody, GA 30338
pcweisser@yahoo.com

Katharine Rogers Lavery
507 Devonshire Drive, NE
Vienna, VA 22180
hlaveryl@cox.net

Barbara "Bobbi" Bishop
Mann represented our class well
at the UMW Reunion Weekend
festivities by attending the Saturday
night banquet and presenting the
three annual alumni awards. She
also saw our beloved class sponsor
and honorary class member, Dr.
George Van Sant, who was busy
signing copies of his book, Taking
on the Burden of History: Presuming
to be a United States Marine, which
was published last November. In
July, Bobbi and husband Robert
took their "maiden voyage" to
Ireland as a combined birthday and
anniversary celebration.

Carol Bingley
Wiley and her

outstanding
"individual
approach to
abstract art"
were featured
during the month
of June at the
Tidemark Gallery
in Waldoboro,
Maine. The gallery
director described Carol's show,
Inner Landscapes, as "an explosion
of color, action, themes, all calling
the viewer to come closer to
share in the artist's journey of
exploration." Carol said her work
there shows "a combination of my
traditional medium, pastels, and
my new love, acrylics," and that
since her college days her artistic
journey has had a purpose. "Today
I am painting with more freedom,
showing movement, and conveying
my personal impression of the
subject. I am having fun and feel
truer to myself as an artist than
ever before."

On their return, they moved to
Port Townsend, Wash.

In January, Ginny Bateman
Brinkley and husband Bill traveled
to grandson Brad's graduation
from Naval Officer Candidate
School in Newport, R.I. After
flight school in Pensacola, Fla.,
Brad hopes to realize his lifelong
dream of flying. In March, Ginny
and Bill visited family in Nashville,
Tenn., where granddaughter
Rebecca Hewitt, 10, participated
in a national competition - she
recorded a demo and won third
place for song writing and singing.
In April, Ginny moved her mother
and uncle nearby into the same
nursing home, where they can
now visit each other daily. Ginny
unearthed her uncle's manuscript
of a science fiction story, and is
editing and preparing it in hopes
of publication. She, Bill, and three
grandkids water skied, jet skied,
and wake boarded all summer
from their Florida lake house.
They also had a week-long family
gathering in Siesta Key with all five
of their adult children and nine of
their 10 grandchildren.

Carol Bingley Wiley '66 had her
art at the Tidemark Gallery in
Waldoboro, Maine. The gallery
director described Carol's
show, Inner Landscapes, as
"an explosion of color, action,
themes."

Last winter, Pat Lewars Pace
and Linda Glynn Hutchison spent
three weeks exploring Peru, Chile,
and Argentina. It was delightful to
feel "winter" temperatures ranging
from 40 to 90 in the southern
hemisphere, to enjoy the European
atmosphere of Buenos Aires, and
to take in the spectacular sights
and spirit of Machu Picchu high in
the Andes. Pat's son, Chris, and his
wife, Kelly, expected a baby in July,
to join Pat's three granddaughters.
Pat is looking forward to the
next MW Lunch Bunch in
Fredericksburg.

Ryan Stewart Davis retired
from her State Farm Insurance
business. She and husband Roger
celebrated immediately by driving
from their home in Shelton, Wash.,
to his sister's home in Albuquerque,
N.M., for a lengthy, leisurely visit.

Mary Kathryn Rowell
Horner and I met at Woodlawn
Plantation last spring and enjoyed
the homemade luncheon provided
by Nellie's Needlers, the Woodlawn
ladies' auxiliary group. We would
like the MW Lunch Bunch to meet

there next spring in time for the
national needlework exhibition.
Mary Kathryn and husband
Charlie enjoy good health, play as
much golf as they possibly can, and
live at a slower pace now that she is
retired from Shaw Systems.

Sandra Hutchison Hoybach's

children and grandchildren are
finally all on the same continent.
Son Brandon, wife Allison, and
their three children returned
in June from their six-year
residence in Croatia, visiting
Sandra in Northern Virginia
before relocating near Allison's
family in Texas. Daughter Amy,
husband Shawn, and baby Layne
have resumed living in Colorado
after Amy's six-month nursing
exchange program in Australia
last year. Son Ricky and his family
remain close to home where they
continue to manage a thriving
landscaping business. Last spring
Sandra moved her mother to a
nursing facility, and then prepared,
listed, and sold the family home in
Herndon.Va. Since Sandra suffered
a small stroke in February, it was a
great relief to her to have everyone
settled "stateside" again, and she
planned a celebratory reunion in
August.

Hank and I enjoyed two
weeks in June in Nags Head,
N.C., with ALL our children and
16 grandchildren, filling four
beach houses this year. We now
have grandsons at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute, Radford
University, and Virginia Tech,
plus someone in practically every
grade down to pre-school. I still
serve as a volunteer math resource
teacher at Vienna Elementary and
spent much of the school session
tutoring algebra and BC Calculus.
We traveled to family weddings in
Maryland and Long Island, spent
a week with friends on the canals
in South Bethany, Del, and took
a bonus trip to Disney World -
Hank's first! - in September.

We are saddened by the loss
of Patricia Previtte Hill, who

succumbed to ovarian cancer in
May. Pat taught home economics
in Fairfax County, Va., for 10 years
before launching a successful
real estate career which lasted
30 years. Pat is survived by
Gordon, her husband of 40 years;
five siblings; two children; and
four grandchildren. Our sincere
condolences go out to the family.

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1967

^ancy McDonald Legat
.09 Amelia Court
.exington, SC 29072
egatn@midlandstech.edu

Patsy Jones Lingle Mazzocco

s a busy grandmother, gardener,
;iid church volunteer. She is so
iroud of what she reads about Mary
Washington and sends her best to
.11 her classmates! Patsy worked
or independent community banks
or 26 years, then was CFO of two
tart- up banks in Los Angeles
bounty, worked in Beverly Hills,
nd finished her career as CFO of
n independent bank in Torrance,
]alif. Her husband, Bill, died in
diving accident in 1996, the
ear she retired. Two years later a
>ook-club friend introduced her
o Felix Mazzocco. They are now
narried and love having their six
hildren (who knew each other
lefore Patsy and Felix met) and
even grandchildren visit in Bonsall,
"alif. Patsy and Felix grow avocados
m their property and have almost
:00 trees. They plan to take a cruise
lext year in the Far East, ending in
long Kong, and they plan to travel
o Tuscany.

Nancy McDonald Legat

and husband Dan, both retired,
spend lots of time with their
seven grandchildren, ages 8 to 20,
do a little traveling, are active in
church, and just simply enjoy being
together! Nancy mentors a couple
of girls at the school nearby and
does some calligraphy and sewing.

Meg Livingston Asensio

5300 Ironhorse Parkway, Unit 583

Dublin, CA 94568

meglala@aol.com

Christian Parrish Roberts'

husband, Hunter Wood, had a
shoulder replacement, they both
had 5-level lumbar fusions, and
they both are still recovering.
Christian retired from U.Va.'s IT
department after 21 years and is
weathering the down market. Her
daughter, Isabel, is in Houston
with daughter, Taylor, 9. In June,
Christian visited with Cathy Tyng
and husband Roger Thurber,
who were in Charlottesville for
a memorial service for Cathy's
mother. Cathy and Roger
have retired and are living in
Massachusetts.

After raising
heir three children
n Columbus,
)hio, Elaine
enkins Bokach
nd retired
lusband Pete have
teen living in
Sradenton, Fla.,
or six years since.
"hey both play golf, volunteer,
ravel, and enjoy the social life
here. Pete works for Habitat
or Humanity, and Elaine tutors
econd graders in reading. Their
laughter married in Ohio in 2009.
rhey have two single sons - one
n Columbus and one in Houston,
ilaine misses her MWC friends.

Let us hear from you!

Patsy Jones Lingle Mazzocco y67
and her husband, Felix, grow
avocados on their California
property and have almost 200
trees.

Material received by

Anne Middleton Woehr and

husband Fred lived in Buffalo and
Albany, N.Y. for about 27 years
before they moved to New England
12 years ago. Anne traveled to
Virginia earlier this year; she
and Fred have a beach cottage in
Deltaville, Va., and their oldest
daughter lives in Alexandria.

Jean Eley Thompson's son,
Jamie, planned to marry in June.
The bride, Justine, is a wonderful
woman whom they really like, and
Jean is happy both are employed
"with benefits (YAY!)" and that
they live in Virginia Beach, which
"isn't too close or too far away."
Jean and her husband still travel
with the RV club and spent several
weeks in their trailer at Sandbridge
this summer.

After 35 years, Frank and
Eileen Curley Baker have left

Stamford, Conn., for downtown

New Haven, a block from the Yale

campus. They sold their house and

bought two co-ops, so they have

room for guests! In 2002, Eileen

retired after 27 years teaching

high school math, and Frank plans

to retire next year from his law

practice, so they thought a college

town would have lots for them to

do - museums, lectures, theater.

Their four children are pursuing

vastly different

occupations -

Kirstie is a lawyer

in Boston; Ben is

working on the

restoration of

a 16th-century

monastery in Italy

that will be used

for the arts; Alissa

is in her second

year of medical

school and plans

to specialize in

pediatric oncology;

and Samantha,

with a degree from

Yale Drama School,

is working in the

costume shop of

Arena Stage in

Washington, D.C. Eileen volunteers

at church, cooks, and travels.

Betty McClaskey has worked
at City National Bank for the last
25 years as a senior vice president.
The bank's owner, Leonard Abess,
was recognized by President
Obama for his generosity in giving
employees a portion of his profits
on the sale of the bank. Betty has
again been nominated to serve on
the Government Relations Council
of the Florida Bankers Association,
which addresses legislative and
regulatory issues facing the
industry and makes an annual
trip to Washington, D.C, to meet
with congressmen and senators,
the Federal Reserve, the FDIC,
and other regulators. This will be
the fourth year Betty participated
in these lobbying efforts, quite an
honor. This spring Betty went on
a yoga retreat in Peru and visited
Machu Picchu. In July, she toured
Israel and took a day trip into
Jordan to see the ancient city of
Petra.

Pam Tompkins Huggins

finds her nonprofit work very
gratifying and necessary in the
small community of Staunton,
Va. Husband Jim works full time.
In May, Pam and Jim hosted the

backyard wedding ol daughter

Katie and fiance Andrew, whom
Katie met in the Peace Corps. They
exchanged the same marriage
vows that Pam and Jim wrote
for each other in 1974, and there-
was not a dry eye in the house!
Grandchildren Aimee, 10, and
Sara, 7 - daughters of oldest
daughter Sally and her husband,
Mark - were junior bridesmaids,
and Aimee played the flute.

Betty McClaskey '68, a senior vice
president at City National Bank
for the last 25 years, serves on the
Government Relations Council of
the Florida Bankers Association,
which addresses legislative and
regulatory issues facing the
industry and makes an annual
trip to Washington, D.C, to meet
with congressmen and senators,
the Federal Reserve, the FDIC,
and other regulators.

Pam and Jim visited the
newlyweds in San Francisco, where
I met Pam and Jim for coffee -
what fun to see them and catch up!
After San Francisco, they headed
to Los Angeles to attend daughter
Jamie's graduation from nursing
school.

Professional artist Susan
Burho Hensley, a retired
instructor for Virginia Tech in
speech communications and ESL,
continues to show multimedia
work in the Blacksburg area.
This fall her work will be in a
two-person show at Mill Mountain
in Roanoke, and in 2010, she will
have a solo show at the Virginia
Tech Holtzman Alumni Center.
She donates her art to local worthy
causes such as Virginia Interfaith
Child Care Center, NRV Cares,
Virginia Tech Faculty Women's
Club for student scholarships,
and such national causes as The
American Heart Association.

After 41 years, Linda Ritter
Estes decided it was time to write
to Class Notes! She has been
married to Ronald Estes since
1970, and they work together
operating Battlefield Roofing
Company, which Ron started
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injured in a construction accident
in 2001 and now works part time.
I inda and Ron are active in church,
and they travel, mostly to Colorado
and Texas to visit the kids and
grandkids. First child Matt, horn
in 1976, went to Virginia Tech, and
lives in Houston with his wife and
children - Noah, Micha, 6, Caleb,
4, and Isaac, 2. Daughter Kelly,
horn in 1978, manages a sports bar
in Denver, Colo. Linda taught math
in Fairfax County from 1968 until
their third child, Katie, was born
in 1982. Katie teaches preschool
special education in Richmond and
had October wedding plans.

Grace Barrett Dahmke was

a day student at MWC, and has
lived in Florida since 1985 with her
husband and sons. All six Barrett
girls attended Mary Washington;
five graduated and one transferred
to Auburn. Two of the sisters,
Margaret Hein and Bobby Crisp,
still live in Stafford County, Va.,
so Grace considers Fredericksburg
home. Grace reminisced about
two physical education teachers
who passed away - Mildred Droste
and Miriam Greenberg - and her
interactions with them when the
phys ed office was right next to the
day students' room in Ann Carter
Lee Hall.

Ash and I enjoy the
opportunity to live in the Bay area
and experience all it has to offer.
I work in San Francisco as the
manager of education research
dissemination for the Regional
Educational Laboratory West at
WestEd. Ash is vice president and
chief financial officer of SAFE
security alarm company in the East
Bay. After "camping out" for six
months in an apartment, we rented
a townhouse in Walnut Creek and
hoped to be in by mid-September.
Our daughter, Anne, and family
are still in Denver; Spencer started
second grade and Maddy has
entered middle school and sixth
grade. Todd, Bee, and Maya, 2,
remain in Melbourne, Australia.
We look forward to going Down
Under for Christinas, and to
welcoming their second child in
early January 2010!

Thanks to those who provided
news updates for this column. Now
it's YOUR turn! Drop me a line so I
can share your news next time.

1 inda Marett Disosway

1031 Troublesome Creek Lane

Greensboro, GA 30642

ldisosway@gmail.com

Greetings to all of you in the
Class of 1969! I am your new
class agent, and I look forward to
hearing from all of you. Thank you
to Jean Polk Hanky tor all ot her
hard work and dedication as our
outstanding Class Agent for the
past few years. She is going to be a
hard act to follow!

For those of you who were
unable to attend the fantastic
reunion we had in
May, you missed
a great weekend.
Christie Wineholt,
chair of the
Reunion Planning
Committee, did an
unbelievable job
of planning so that
we had fun from
the minute we
arrived. Everything
ran perfectly due
to her hard work
and that of her
committee. Linda
Gattis Shull and
Barbara Burton
Micou, co-chairs
of the Reunion
Giving Committee,
also did their job
well - our class
won the "Highest
Number of

Donors" award, with 159 members
- 43 percent - of our class giving
a total of more than $860,000. Iris
Harrell, Donna Cannon Julian,
Jane Jackson Woerner, and Jean
Polk Hanky assisted Christie,
Linda, and Barbara in planning
the reunion. The Reunion Giving
Committee consisted of the ladies
just named and Jeanine Zavrel
Fearns, Linda Eadie Hood,
Bonnie Page Hoopengardner, and
Linda Marett Disosway. Our very
own Patti Boise Kemp, Alumni
Association Reunion Chairman for
all classes, did an outstanding job
of overseeing the weekend for all
classes and made us all proud that
she is one of ours.

At reunion, the Friday evening
opening reception gave us all a
chance to see Brompton again
and be welcomed by President

ludy Hample. Later, 82 members
ol our class dined at Brock's
Riverside Grill; Christie Wineholt
and Linda Gattis Shull planned
this fantastic event! Patti Boise
Kemp put together a wonderful
slide show with pictures from our
college days - lots of memories,
big hair, and mini-skirts. Saturday
morning, many attended lectures
by professors William Crawley
and Bulent Atalay. The class picnic
brought more visiting, but Saturday
was topped off with the Reunion
Celebration Reception and
Banquet followed by Dessert Under
the Stars.

Lucy Bowles Wayne '69 is co-
owner and vice president of
SouthArc, Inc., a 20-year-old
Gainesville, Fla., consulting
firm providing archaeological
\ and historic services, primarily
for environmental permitting.
Lucy serves as President of the
American Cultural Resources
Association (ACRA), a national
trade association of firms like
hers, and will have a book
published by the University of
Alabama Press on the 18th- and
19th- century sugar plantations of
East Florida.

Barbara Burton Micou
was presented with the Frances
Liebenow Armstrong '36 Service
Award for her many years of
dedication to UMW, including
service on the Board of Visitors
and the Alumni Association Board
of Directors and as president of the
Alumni Association. Catherine
O'Connor Woteki, a nutritional
epidemiologist, was presented
with the Distinguished Alumnus
Award. She is Global Director of
Scientific Affairs with Mars Inc.,
where she manages the company's
scientific and regulatory positions
on matters of health, nutrition, and
food safety. Before this, she was
Dean of Agriculture and Professor
of Human Nutrition at Iowa State
University. She has served as Under
Secretary for Food Safety in the
U.S. Department of Agriculture

and Deputy Associate Director
for Science in the White House
Office of Science and Technology
Policy. She also is a Fellow of the
American Association for the
Advancement of Science.

Our class took two of the
three awards presented at the
banquet, leaving only the Young
Alumnus Merit Award, but we
weren't eligible for that! Sunday
morning, many of us enjoyed the
Farewell Brunch at the Jepson
Alumni Executive Center. We are
all looking forward to the next
Reunion in 2014, and many are
planning mini-reunions in the
meantime.

Two of our classmates traveled
great distances to attend reunion.
Linda "Lyn" Howell Gray came
from Monrovia, Liberia, and
Carol Hewitt Guida came from
Canberra, Australia. Lyn and
husband Jim were in Liberia in the
1970s with the Peace Corps, kept
contacts there, and returned six
years ago after the Liberian civil
war ended. She and Jim returned to
work there to help Liberians serve
their own people. Lyn works at the
Liberian YMCA with many adults
under 30, which she says is great
fun. She is the only foreigner and
is considered quite old, so as an
"Ol' Ma" (respected older woman),
her ideas and advice receive
more attention than your average
60-something woman in the U.S.
Lyn and Jim were able to celebrate
their 40th wedding anniversary
during their trip home. Lyn also
attended a mini-reunion with
suitemates CeCe Smith Riffer and
Ann Simpson Brackett, hosted by
Donna Cannon Julian.

Carol Hewitt Guida went
to Philadelphia to live after
graduation and is grateful to Ginny
Cross Wood for urging her to do
so. Carol did social research, taught
in economically disadvantaged
neighborhoods, and completed
her architecture degree in 1981.
Carol, husband Hal, and sons Jim
and John, moved to Canberra,
Australia, for Hal's work on the
design and construction of the
Australian Parliament House.
Carol took the boys with her to
work in more remote industrial or
rural communities - wonderful
experiences for them all - and
clients in these communities still
remain cherished friends. Before

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ong, her sons were calling her
'mum" and Canberra had become

Carol worked as director
if the undergraduate course in
irchitecture at the university in
Canberra. She volunteers with a
ion-governmental organization
hat provides educational
ind technical assistance for
ncome-producing projects in
he poorest part of Indonesia,
dose to Australia. Hal continues
o design schools, universities,

and sustainable communities in
the Pacific region. Son )ohn is an
architect, son Jim is a writer, and
they both live in New York City.
Carol enjoyed seeing everyone at
reunion and feels huge gratitude to
UMW for opening her eyes to so
many wonderful people and places
in the world.

Pat Akers had planned to
attend reunion, but had to have
knee replacement surgery May 28.
She is walking better than ever,
took her first long post-op trip to

Oak Island, Ga., and hopes to make
our 45th reunion.

Barbara Churney Suhre

couldn't make reunion, but sends
her best wishes to all. She would
love to reconnect with roommate
Judy Anker Gabel, but has no idea
where she is. Barbara's four years of
retirement have gone quickly. She
and husband Bart enjoy time with
family, friends, and each other.
They visited Glacier, Grand Teton,
and Yellowstone national parks and
saw sister-in-law Marie Bast Suhre

'68 and husband Dave, who live in
Jackson Hole, Wyo. Barbara and
Bart are part-time caregivers for
their two prc-school grandchildren;
they find it very rewarding to help
nurture and give the children a
good start. Once the grandchildren
were back to school, they planned
to travel, starting in Alaska.

Anne Hugh Douglas
Randolph and her guest had a
Reunion Weekend dinner with
Pat Gwaltney McGinnis and her

husband, Dr. Bulent Atalay of

Sheila L. Shadmand opened the new
six-lawyer Dubai office of Jones Day
this year, which meant moving to the
Middle East and a male-dominated legal
community.

Attorney Rises to Unprecedented Heights

Sheila L. Shadmand '95, one of the first female partners of a U.S. law firm in the Middle East,
marvels at the stunning view from her high-rise apartment in Dubai, United Arab Emirates
(UAE). The Burj Dubai, the world's tallest building at 2,684 feet and "the most amazing modern
architectural feat I've seen with my own eyes" soars above a spectacular skyline, Shadmand said.

The iconic structure mirrors the development of Dubai, situated along the southern coast of the
Persian Gulf on the Arabian Peninsula. Its location at the crossroads of Asia, Europe, and Africa has
made Dubai an economic hub and a logical choice for Shadmand's international law firm, Jones Day,
to establish a presence. She was assigned to open the new office of six lawyers and moved to Dubai
from Washington, D.C., in March of this year.

Shadmand's professional "first" follows a personal one: She was the first person in her family
born outside of Iran. While most of her family had to flee Iran during the revolution, a couple of
aunts, uncles, and cousins on both sides of her family remain there. The Virginia Beach native is
fluent in Farsi and French. She chose Mary Washington because of the people she met during a
campus visit - "smart, motivated, down-to-earth, and concerned more with the world around them
than themselves," she said.

A theater and English major, Shadmand credits the influence of professors Gregg Stull (Theatre
and Dance), Allyson Poska (History), and Christopher Kilmartin (Psychology); she has remained
"really good friends" with all of them. She auditioned for several production companies but was
unnerved by the looming financial instability of an acting career. The idea of studying law occurred
to her just before graduation, so she took the law school admission test "on a complete whim." The
actor-turned-attorney earned a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1998.

Shadmand has spent her entire career with Jones Day, one of the world's largest and most
geographically diverse law firms. "I was drawn to the people at Jones Day in many of the same ways I was drawn to the people at Mary Washington,"
she said. "They are committed to each other, the institution, and their communities as a whole, above their own personal gain - a rare find for a
firm of Jones Day's size and stature." Shadmand, an international litigation specialist, has represented a variety of Fortune 500 clients. In a case that
has received widespread media attention, she also represents the National Security Archive, a nonprofit organization that collects and publishes
declassified documents. In September 2007, Shadmand filed a lawsuit on its behalf to recover and preserve millions of emails that had been deleted
from White House servers between March 2003 and October 2005, or roughly covering the time of the decision to invade Iraq to the recovery from
Hurricane Katrina. The case is ongoing.

The nature of her work in Dubai differs from that in Washington, Shadmand said. "The legal system [in Dubai] is evolving, so there is
opportunity to shape and influence." She represents international organizations in a diverse range of complex commercial disputes before a variety
of judicial and arbitral bodies, and she advises clients on issues unique to international business.

Her firm also has a strong commitment to pro bono work. In July 2008, Shadmand took up a difficult case involving a 48-year-old Iranian
woman who fled to the United States seeking asylum from political persecution in Iran. In 2002, her husband, a military doctor in Iran, was
kidnapped, tortured, and detained at the hands of the Iranian military because of his political activism. When he escaped from prison and fled
to Italy with their daughter, the Iranian government filed a warrant for his wife's arrest. She then fled Iran with her teenage son, and the two were
granted asylum in the United States earlier this year. Shadmand and the team of Jones Day lawyers responsible for obtaining asylum for the Iranian
woman are now in the process of reuniting the family.

Shadmand, who is single, has adapted to life in cosmopolitan Dubai. The greater - and mutual, she acknowledges - adjustment has been within
the male-dominated legal community. "But I'm confident that the environment will grow and change and that many more women, both Eastern
and Western, will become leaders in that region," she added. "It's fun and exciting to be leading the way."

- Nancy Alexander

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the physics department and his
wife, and Dr. Vic Fingerhut of

the political science department

and his wile. Anne retired from

the EPA m 2008 and lives in

Washington, D.C. She recently

visited Stratford Hall, Robert E.

Lees home in the Northern Neck

of Virginia, and

saw several other

historic homes

there and across

the state. Anne

serves on the board

of trustees of her

high school alma

mater, Stuart Hall

in Staunton, Va.

Anne would like

to know if anyone has contact with

Sudie Bagley Heartwell.

Nina Rountree attended
Mary Washington for two years,
transferred to ODU for 18 months,
and finished at UMW She majored
in languages and taught for three
years, including an 18-month stint
out West on an Indian reservation.
She has worked for 26 years in
social services in Portsmouth,
where she grew up. She lives in
Norfolk, hikes as a member of the
Appalachian Trail Club, loves Italy,
and travels to Europe every other
year to indulge her interest in art
and architecture.

Suzanne McCarthy Van

Ness, of Atherton, Calif., majored
in psychology, worked in high
school admissions counseling, and
has been a travel agent for many
years. She married her Marine
boyfriend right out of college; they
were happily married for 30 years
until he passed away in April 2000.
Suzanne has a son in D.C, and
twin daughters, one in California
and one in Surrey, England.
She also has two grandchildren.
Suzanne stopped off to see her
son in D.C. on the way to the
Chelsea Flower Show in England
in June. She lives in the same
part of California as Iris Harrell,
and says Iris is a well- respected
businesswoman in the area.

Lucy Bowles Wayne, an art

history major, enjoys reading our
Class Notes and was reminded
with the last edition that she
had never submitted anything.
Lucy and husband Marty
(engineering, U.Va., 1968) have
lived in Gainesville, Fla., since
1976. She has a master's degree
in anthropology, specializing in

archaeology, and a doctorate in
architecture, specializing in historic
preservation. She is co-owner
and vice president of South Arc,
Inc., a 20-year-old consulting
firm providing archaeological and
historic services - primarily for
environmental permitting.

During Reunion Weekend, the
Class of '69 class won the "Highest
Number of Donors" award with
159 members, or 43 percent, of
the class giving a total of more
than $860,000 to UMW.

In September, Lucy became
President of the American Cultural
Resources Association (ACRA),
a national trade association of
firms like hers. The University
of Alabama Press will publish a
book by Lucy on the 18th- and
19th-century sugar plantations of
East Florida. Lucy and Marty have
two children - Alex, a journalist
with Congressional Quarterly in
D.C, and Michelle, who is on
the administrative staff at the
University of Florida in Gainesville.

Shelly Gunderson Brown

missed reunion, but she sends
her best wishes. Retired three
years from teaching lower school
French at Charlotte Latin School,
Shelly continues to do substitute
teaching there and admission
testing for the kindergarten. This
allows her to travel often to visit
family in Alexandria, Va. Husband
Charles continues to work in sales.
They have one son, Adam, who is
married and resides in Leesburg,
Va., with his wife and two children.

Ann Simpson Brackett retired
from WestEd in the summer
of 2008 and lives in the Boston
area near her three daughters.
Husband John is a school
superintendent. Ann is eager to
have a mini-reunion with her
French house buddies Linda "Lyn"
Howell Gray, CeCe Smith Riffer
of Williamsburg, Va., Betty Jo
Shoemaker Polk of Hilton Head,
S.C., and Donna Cannon Julian in
Wilmington, Del.

Jean Polk Hanky reported at
our Reunion Class Dinner that
the Class of 1969 Laura V Sumner
Scholarship, awarded annually
to an entering freshman, is not
renewable, so a new freshman
recipient is chosen each year by the

financial aid office. At reunion, the
market value of our scholarship
was $54,209, and last year's award
was $3,550. Donations to the
scholarship can be made at any
time, and gifts to the Annual Fund
can be designated to our class
scholarship.

Linda Gattis Shull wants
everyone to please post pictures
from reunion on our "UMW Class
of 1969" Facebook page. You have
to have a Facebook account to do
this and to see the photos others
have posted, but it is very easy to
set up an account.

I hope everyone had a great
summer and fall. Please email me
your updates. I look forward to
hearing from all of you.

^

*p

Carole LaMonica Clark
P.O. Box 3136
Boone, NC 28607
828/297-7028
clarktjcj@skybest.com

Martha Pickard Zink and her

husband have homes in Baltimore

and Bethany Beach, Del., but they

spend most of their time in Kiawah

Island, S.C Their

older son, Doug,

is a builder in

Charlottesville.

Younger son Matt

is a mortgage

banker and lives

in Baltimore with

his wife, Amy;

daughter Hannah,

4; and son James,

2. Martha enjoys

spending as much

time with her

grandchildren as she can.

Ellen Grace Jaronczyk and her

husband, Bob, sold their home in
Portsmouth, Va., and are renting
an apartment in Williamsburg,
Va., while their new home is being
built there. They visited their
son, Forrest, and his family in
Sammamish, Wash., last January.
Forrest, a mountain climber, hiked
Mount Rainier last year, and his
children, Alex, 7, and Blake, 5,
really enjoy skiing and hiking.
Ellen and Bob also visited their
son, Morgan, his wife, Lesley, and
their grandson, Andrew, 3, in
Fredericksburg, Va.

Joyce Burcham spent January
and February 2009 in Virginia to be

L

with her mother, who passed away.
Cathy Haringer Christensen is the

lawyer for her mother's estate. Joyce
renovated her Manhattan apartment
and welcomes any classmates to
come and visit; she hopes to build
on her family's property in rural
Albemarle County in 2010. Joyce's
retirement came to an abrupt
halt when she spent six months
in Geneva working on a new
treatment for multiple sclerosis on
a contract with Merck. She visited
Lyon, Paris, and Venice, where she
attended Easter Sunday Mass at the
Basilica di San Marco. In 2008, she
conducted a national government
study on breast cancer in Sydney,
Australia. While there, Joyce took
a course in seafood grilling at
the Sydney Fish Markets. She is
looking at a position with a major
pharmaceutical company.

Jan Sullivan Chalmers took
a course in mediation, a natural
progression from her work as staff
ombudsman at American Express.
Jan's daughter, Hannah, is a junior
in high school and hopes for an
internship at the CDC in Atlanta
on a medical or epidemiological
project.

Joyce Burcham '70 spent six
months in Geneva working on
a new treatment for multiple
sclerosis on a contract with
Merck. In 2008, she conducted
a national government study
on breast cancer in Sydney,
Australia.

Martha Veasey Sawyer had an

emergency appendectomy at the
end of a bus trip to Atlantic City
last May. Four weeks later, she was
recovering well, walking four miles
a day, and enjoying gardening. She
and Roger joined Kaye Webster
Gary and husband Bob and Mary
Jane Johnson Tyler and husband
Hugh in Annapolis, Md., for a mini-
reunion in June. Diane Sampson
Luttrell and husband Bobby missed
the gathering due to the arrival
of another grandchild. Kaye has
her own production company, K
Dance, and produces and performs
in a show along with other invited
dance artists once a year, along
with teaching dance classes. She
enjoys it and has done some acting

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in Richmond. Kaye and Bob
enjoy their vacation home on the
Chesapeake Bay in Kilmarnock, Va.

Mary Jane teaches high school
near their home in Birdsboro, Pa.,
near Reading. Hugh is retired and
enjoys substitute teaching in the
elementary schools in the area. They
are active in their church and Mary
fane enjoys singing in the choir.
They have two married sons, four
grandchildren, and they expected
another grandchild in the fall. They
visited the Canadian Rockies in
summer 2008, and last summer
they visited the Grand Tetons and
Yellowstone and planned to visit
Toronto and the Canadian side of
Niagara Falls.

Ted and I have enjoyed
several cooking classes - and
some delicious Italian and French
meals - at an inn near our home.
The classes are really fun, although
they're more of a social and
wine-drinking occasion than a
serious class, but participation is
encouraged and welcomed. Tast
May we joined several members
of my family in Blacksburg for my
nieces graduation from Virginia
Tech. Don't forget that our 40th
reunion is coming up soon. Please
send me some news to share with
our classmates.

1971

Karen Laino Giannuzzi
CMR 450, Box 632
APO AE 09705
kapitankll f@yahoo.com

1972

Sherry Rutherford Myers
2236 Foxbane Square
Baltimore, MD 21209

1973

Debby Reynolds Tindner
1433 Sixth St.
Coronado,CA92118
bdlinder@mac.com

1974

Sid Baker Etherington
1419 Huntington Crescent
Norfolk, VA 23509-1214
5idleexx@yahoo.com

Suzy Passarello Quenzer
1215 Old Woodbine Road, N.E.
Adanta,G A 30319-1037
sq3878@att.com

Class of 1974, we had a terrific
35th reunion in May, and it was
great seeing all of you. For those
who didn't make it, mark your
calendars now for the 40th. Mary
Washington included an Alumni
College on Thursday and Friday
featuring classes on topics relevant
to current events and of interest
to the alumni. Suzy Passarello
Quenzer and I attended both
days and highly recommend it.
We had a fantastic dinner Friday
night at Ristorante Renato in
downtown Fredericksburg; Lisa
Tyree Sweeney's brother, Jeremy
Tyree, created a slide show of our
yearbook pictures and other candid
shots provided by class members,
all set to great music of the 1970s,
for our entertainment.

The picnic, under tents
between Virginia and Willard
halls, was the best yet, the food
and accommodations were first
rate, as were the Saturday night
banquet and Dessert Under the
Stars. The reunion planning
committee, Peg Hubbard, Patti
Goodall Strawderman, Suzy
Passarello Quenzer, and Sid Baker
Etherington, had a great time
planning it and will be looking for
ideas to make the 40th even better.
Our class v/as also financially
generous, and we can thank Leslie
Tilghman and Pamela White for
their great work. We need to keep
the momentum going, so please let
us know what is happening to you
all so we can keep the rest of the
class informed.

Armecia Spivey Medlock
1605 Fairmount Road
Westlake Village, CA 91362
vagirl805@msn.com

Carol Pappas Bartold finished
the first year of her two-year
master of fine arts degree program
at Sarah Lawrence College. She
has begun her thesis, and she
says she has a very good start
on it. Last winter was a far cry
from her former balmy Southern
California home! Carol kept her
schedule full singing with several
groups, both locally and in New
York City. In January, she went
to Fredericksburg for a few days
on her way to Richmond for the
annual organ students' reunion
with Peggy Reinburg. Carol said ■
the campus was lovely, and she

noticed quite a bit of construction
and refurbishment going on. Carol
had dinner with Terri Brugioni
Tabak, who was in town helping
her dad through recuperation after
surgery. Carol got a nice grant in
the spring to do an oral history
project on a school desegregation
incident in Delaware in 1954. Last
summer, Carol worked part time
on campus in the Controller's
Office, so she had time to write.
She also enjoyed New York City
and looked at musical groups to
audition for later.

Jackie Ewansky Bryan has

been living near Tampa, Fla., since
1980. After receiving her master's
degree in dance education from
Columbia University, she taught
dance at Keuka College, Saint
Leo University, the University of
South Florida, and the University
of Tampa. In 2007, she received
a master's degree in library and
information science from the
University of San Francisco and
recently became an assistant
professor and reference and
instructional services librarian at
Saint Leo. Her husband, Rich, is
a professor of psychology there
and also served as dean of arts and
sciences. Their older son, Richie, is
a senior at the University of Central
Florida, majoring in advertising
and graphic design. Younger son
Eric is a freshman at the University
of Florida, majoring in biology.
Jackie still keeps in touch with
former MWC dance professor
Mariana Bauman DeVine and
classmates Kathy Magyar Lutte,
Lynne Leopold, and Kate "Mary
K." Hudgins.

Liz Wilson Buchanan and

husband John returned to the U.S.
and Fredericksburg after almost
17 years in Germany and England.
Two years ago, he retired after 34
years of civil service with the Army,
and he is working at the Pentagon
as a government contractor.
John keeps busy with Masonic
endeavors. Their daughter,
Kathryn "Katy" Buchanan '99,
and her son, Nicholas, lived with
them for three of the past six years.
Katy and Paul Storer '99 married
in Fredericksburg in September
2008. Liz and John's sons, John and
James, both live in Fredericksburg.
John attended UMW and joined
the Marines in 2001, where he
served twice in Iraq and in Haiti;
he works for a local security

firm. James attended ( Christopher

Newport University and Thomas
Nelson (Community (College, and
he works for GEICO. Liz is an avid
quilter who has done a million
projects and lots of teaching. She
works part time at a local quilt
shop and volunteers, including for
UMW's "A Taste of Home" baking
program for students.

Vicki Jorgensen spent 28 years
in the printing and publishing field,
the last eight with the American
Association for the Advancement
of Science as a senior production
associate for Science magazine.
Vicki has multiple sclerosis, which
caused her to leave that enjoyable
job; now on disability, she has
moved back in with her parents,
and they all take care of each other.
Due to her disability, Vicki spends
most of her time watching TV,
reading, tending to about seven
feral cats, and corresponding via
email with past colleagues and
friends. Vicki has been in touch
with freshmen Betty-Lewis-suite-
mates Mandy Baker and Cassy
Laub, both of whom left after
her first year. Vicki would love
to hear from all of her old Mary
Washington pals.

Brenda Page is president
and CEO of her small personal
injury law firm of 27 years, Page
& Associates Law Office, PC,
in Richmond. She primarily
represents people who have been
injured in accidents, by defective
products, and medical malpractice.

Melanie Varnerin Viscelli

works as a director for a child-care
management company, and
she's going to school evenings to
become a licensed esthetician. She
divorced in January, and has one
daughter, Christina, 16, at home.
Daughter Elissa, 22, graduated
from Temple University in May
and is an underwriter for Travelers
Insurance. Sadly, Melanie's dad
passed away on the day of Elissa's
graduation. Our condolences go to
Melanie on her loss. Melanie's son,
Tom, an Army captain, remained as
a civilian in Europe for a couple of
years after two tours to Iraq. He is
looking for a job doing government
contract work, probably in the
Middle East

Lina Scott Woodall's daughter,
Sarah, graduated from U.Va.
in May 2008 with a degree in
sociology and a minor in Spanish.

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\ manager at Slips Wine and
Champagne Bar in Charlottesville,
Sarah plans to go to graduate
school next year. 1 ina let us know
that Susan Descari Early lost her
father in November of last year.
Our condolences go to Susan on
her loss.

My news: Our daughter,
Taylor, started as a freshman at the
University of Kansas last August, so
we've joined the ranks of the empty
nesters! Rock Chalk Jayhawks!

SAVE THE
DATE! Our
35th Reunion
Weekend will be
next spring, June
4 to 6, 2010, the
weekend following
the Memorial
Day holiday.
Please make plans
to attend! The
new weekend
format will
provide enhanced
opportunities for
classes to get together, as well as
ample time to tour the campus,
attend faculty lectures, and visit
downtown Fredericksburg. Please
join us!

Thanks to everyone who
provided news for this issue. It's
always a lot of fun to hear how
people are doing. If you haven't
thought about submitting your
news, wed love to hear from you!

Helen Salter

2494 East Harbor Circle

Grand Junction, CO 81505

salter2@earthlink.net

Barbara Emerson

12000 Government Center

Parkway

Fairfax, VA 22035

barbara.emerson@fairfaxcounty.gov

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Suzanne Ross Bevan
407 Butternut Drive
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
serb@cox.net

Ford Hart '80 spent 10 months
as the foreign policy advisor at
Multi-National Corps-Iraq, where
he worked out of a monstrous
Saddam Hussein-era palace at
Camp Victory, the huge U.S.
military base on the western side
of Baghdad.

Vicki Sprague Church
1 55 Arbor Creek Way
Roswell, GA 30076
churchflint816@aol.com

Mary Byrd
byrdland@charter.net

Cindy Clark
8 Peaceful Lane
Norwalk, CT 06851-3404
cclarkct@optonline.net

Ford Hart is delighted to be
back in Arlington; he returned in
May from a 10-month assignment
as the foreign policy advisor at
Multi-National Corps-Iraq, the
command exercising operation
control of coalition forces across
the country. He worked not at
the embassy but in a monstrous
Saddam Hussein-era palace at
Camp Victory, the huge military
base on the western side of
Baghdad. "It was fascinating work,"
Ford wrote, "and I was honored to
be there at a time when conditions
were improving for most Iraqis.
The family separation was no
fun, however, and I have intense
sympathy for military families,
thousands of which face repeated
separations in the years ahead."

Ford's wife, Kay, stayed home
with daughters Alice, 10, and
Ellen, 5. In September, he started a
two-year assignment as the foreign
policy advisor to the Chief of Naval
Operations; he works out of the
Pentagon and accompanies the
CNO on his international travel.
"Great boss, great account," Ford
said.

Lori Foster Turley
269 El Chico Lane
Coronado, CA92118
turleys@sbcglobal.net

Tara Corrigall

212 55th St.

Virginia Beach, VA 23451

tara.corrigall@ubs.com

I got great updates from
many of our classmates. Cindy
Dunnavant Watkins lives in
Roxboro, N.C., with her husband,
who runs an aviation business,
and two children - one in college
and one high schooler. She is
the executive director of an early
education program in North
Carolina called "Smart Start." It
was started about 1 5 years ago and
serves as a model for many other
state programs, including one in
Virginia.

In January, Barbara Wilson
Reese was appointed deputy
policy director in the office of
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine. She had
served as his deputy secretary
of transportation, and she leads
Virginias efforts to bring Metrorail
to Dulles International Airport.

Nancy Kaiser is enjoying
a new-found closeness to her
parents, who relocated to a
neighboring Delaware town after
32 years in Florida. They often
come over for dinner and to
visit Nancy and partner Mary's
three rescue Scottie dogs. Nancy
and Mary planned a summer
cruise to Nova Scotia and looked
forward to seeing the Bay of Fundy
(Remember Dr. Bowen's Anglo
class?).
Lisa Blais Thurman stays
busy with Creative Memories and During a visit to

keeping up with her children. Fredericksburg for Judy Hample's

Daughter Caly, 23, teaches inauguration, Nancy and Mary

sixth-grade language arts. Son Jay visited Missy Betak Webb and her

graduated from the Naval Academy daughter, Natalie, at her historic
and is off to Pensacola for training home there' Missy works at the
as a naval flight officer. Daughter Fredericksburg Area Museum and

Julie excels in school and dance Cultural Centen Nancy also stays

and hopes to pursue an acting in touch with Mia McCa11' who

career. Lisa's husband, Pat, teaches recently returned t0 the States
and coaches a top-rated NJROTC from a multi-year assignment in

•t Copenhagen. She and husband

Victor Barina will spend the next
Bettie Reader Maute and three years or so living in the D.C.

husband Don celebrated their area.

25th wedding

anniversary in 2008; t Hillary Keel '82 moved to

they have lived in y

the Memphis, Tenn., Vienna, Austria, one month after
area since 1995. ^ graduation to see the world and

Bettie works in , ^ . ,. ,

the Shelby County improve her German. A divorced

Schools and has I mother oftwo Austrian- American

tothe eUkTaTne1Vely \ ^"^ ^"^ USeS 23 and 21> she

Daughter Emily I teaches part time at the University

works at Vanderbilt j of Applied Sciences in St. Polten.

Children's Hospital „, , , . r

in Nashville, and | She is also pursuing a master of

son Justin attends ■ fine arts in creative writing.

the University of

Memphis. ,

Jenifer Blair finished her

Diana Norton Elwell and first year as director of college

husband Michael Elwell '83 also counseling at Boys Latin School

celebrated their 25th anniversary of Maryland and loves being on

in 2008. Six years ago they moved the "other side" of the admissions

from Rhode Island to Texas - the process. She also enjoys

littlest state to the biggest. Their participating in student activities

kids love it: oldest daughter is a - she accompanied a group to New

college senior; son finished his Orleans to work on a Habitat for

freshman year at University of Humanity project, and she even

North Texas. They also have a chaperoned prom. She planned to

high-school-aged daughter and an take her mom to Lyon and Paris in

eighth grader at home. August. She shared that Rosann

Sedlacko Brown's daughter,

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Libby, was accepted to the Maggie
L. Walker Governor's School for
Government and International
Studies in Richmond - a big deal.

Cindy Hart Gordineer '81
called Jenifer to reminisce about
Michael Jackson's music. Cindy and
husband Brian run the Piney Grove
B&B outside of Williamsburg.
Annmarie Cozzi recently returned
from a Bermuda cruise to celebrate
her parents' 50th wedding
anniversary.

I am a novice on Facebook,
but I have friended several of
you in the hopes of sharing news
with other classmates. I found
Hillary Keel, who was a German
and English major; she moved to
Vienna, Austria, one month after
graduation to see the world and
improve her German. Hillary is a
divorced mother of two Austrian-
American young adults, ages 23
and 21, and she teaches part time at
the University of Applied Sciences
in St. Polten. She is also pursuing
a master of fine arts in creative
writing.

Last fall, I attended a mini
reunion in Delaware with Jenifer
Blair, Annmarie Cozzi, Debbie
Snyder Barker, and Nancy
Kaiser. JB and Nancy recently
joined me for a Virginia Beach
weekend, and we spent one happy
evening searching
Facebook and
going through my
college memories
"tub." My work
keeps me busy
and I have joined
several non-profit
boards here in
Virginia Beach. To
celebrate 14 years
of breast cancer
survivor status (please knock
on wood), I will run the Marine
Corps marathon as a participant
in the Marathon for the Cure
organization. Please stay in touch -
join Facebook - your kids can walk
you through it - and call if you are
ever in the Virginia Beach area.

Tara Kilday Lindhart

4012 14th St.

Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732

taralindhart@hotmail.com

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Deona Houff

934 Selma Boulevard

Staunton, VA 24401-2078

Deona.houff@gmail.com

Lisa A. Harvey
88 Highwood Drive
Franklin, MA 02083
lisharvey@msn.com

Kim Jones Isaac

310 NW Compass Drive

Lawton, OK 73505

mwc87@infinityok.com

Rene' Thomas-Rizzo
13608 Nubian Court
Herndon,VA 20171
Rene.Thomas-Rizzo@navy.mil

Jane Ellen Brennan Herrin '87
won Miss Congeniality in the Mrs.
Tennessee International Pageant
for 2009, and she co-hosted

I the first Tennessee Top Model

I Competition.

1983

Marcia Guida James
2005 Long Knife Court
Louisville, KY 40207
MarciaGJ@aol.com

From Kim: I am on Facebook
now, so I really want to hear from a
lot of people; find me by searching
Kim Jones Isaac. I'm also in the
Mary Washington College alumni
network. I would love to have a
lot of updates for each issue of
the magazine, and I know that
everybody wants to know what
everybody else is up to.

Jane Ellen Brennan Herrin's

husband, Jim, is working for
the Putnam County Election
Commission, and he is still doing
part-time work for the radio
station cluster that Jane Ellen had
worked for. In late 2008, Jane Ellen
won Miss Congeniality in the Mrs.

Tennessee Intel national Pageant loi
2009, and she co-hosted the first
Tennessee Top Model Competition,
which she is doing again this year.
She still broadcasts daily through
her website and i'limes downloads.

LLC (ABCoaching). She helps
individuals, families, children,

teens, and parents set and reach
goals, and she speaks to c bun. lies,
daycares, schools, PTAs, parent
groups, etc

In addition to
Jane Ellens show,
recipes, blog,
gardening tips, and
domestic news, her
website features
a celebrity news
column called
Eda's Hollywood
Vine, written by fellow '87 alum
Eda Spivey Price. You can contact
Jane Ellen through her website,
Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter.
She is writing a cookbook and
has two blonde-haired, blue-eyed
daughters - Anna Grace, 4, and
Jenna Marie, 3.

Marsha D. Baker
3103 Scout Trail
Jamestown, NC 27282
RStarr66@msn.com

Jay Bradshaw

40503 Quail Hill Lane

Leesburg.VA 20175-6464

Jaybradshaw747@aol.com

Beverly J. Newman

1509 Regency Woods Road, No. 302

Richmond, VA 23238

bevnewmn@yahoo.com

Cheryl Woody Danielson
370 Madeline Drive
St. Leonard, MD 20685
cheryl.danielson@earthlink.net

Julie Booth Burkett and Debbie
Schluter Bauer, both members
of the Class of '91, live across
the street from each other in
Roanoke, Va.

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Shannon Reynolds Torbett
13330 Thornhill Drive
St. Louis, MO 63131
Shannon.torbett@gmail.com

Shannon Eadie Niemeyer
36 Scotland Circle
Stafford, VA 22554
sfniemeyer@comcast.net

Greetings, Class of 1 99 1 ! I
hope everyone is doing well.

Here's what's new: Stephanie
Myers Michalowicz runs her own
family coaching business, Achieve
and Believe Through Coaching,

Denise Mickelson Campbell
and husband Todd Campbell '92

live in the Fredericksburg area
with their two boys, Cody, 1 1, and
Jonathan, 8. Denise was named
library director for the National
Defense Intelligence College/
Defense Intelligence Agency
library. She has been in this field
since graduating from Florida State
University, and she previously
served as a cataloger and the head
of technical services. Todd is head
football coach for Spotsylvania's
Riverbend High School, where he
teaches. He had been defensive
coordinator at Riverbend, and
earlier he was offensive coordinator
for CD. Hylton High School in
Prince William County, Va. Cody
and Jonathan are excited about
being ball boys for the team; they
enjoy baseball and flag football.

In April, some people got
together to celebrate Mark
Mesterhazy's birthday. Frank and
I had fun catching up with Todd
Stayin and Steve Wohleking,
both of whom live in Northern
Virginia. Todd plays in a band
called Homesick Alien. Mark and
wife Kim enjoy daughter Morgan,
3, and both teach in Prince William
County. Mark sends this note to the
class of 1991, "Congratulations or
OMG (chose your own opinion)!
Most of us have hit 40 and have
known each other longer out of
college than prior to it. Yikes!"

Todd Spangler threw a
surprise 40th birthday party for
wife Nicole Franchois Spangler in
May with many neighbors, family,
and friends in attendance, as well
as Todd and Nicole's three children:
Emily, Madison, and Andrew. We
enjoyed the celebration with fellow
Mary Washington grads Dana
Scarponi Petto, Mark Mesterhazy,
and Katherine Moore Counsell
'92, and their families.

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Julie Booth Burkctt welcomed
bain [essica Claire on Sept. 26,
2008; she joined big sister Olivia.
lulie went on a great 40th birthday
trip to Austin, Texas, in April with
Andria Kushan, Laura Hilton
English, Lisa Greene, and Amy
Goulstone Gronlund. Debbie
Schluter Bauer mined in across
the street from lulie in Roanoke!

Andria Kushan went to
graduate school
for advertising

and is now a copy

writer at an ad

agency in Dallas,

Texas. George

Asiello, wife Beth,

and daughter

Rylee are doing

well and living in

Northern Virginia,

where George

is a counselor.

Meredith Moseley Chisholm and

husband Chad welcomed baby

Hayes in May. Big brother Connor,

6, finished kindergarten and is

adjusting well to his little brother.

Meredith is a software developer at

SAS Institute in Cary, N.C.

Pete Fox, wife Laura Lohr
Fox '90, Brady, 12, Cassidy, 8,
and Mackenzie 5, live near us in
Stafford, Va. Pete is an accountant
for the U.S. Department of
Commerce in Washington, D.C;
Laura volunteers at the kids'
schools; and both parents are
involved in the children's activities,
including baseball, soccer, and
gymnastics.

Stephanie Michalowicz '91 runs
her own family coaching business.
She helps individuals, families,
children, teens, and parents set
and reach goals, and she speaks to
churches, daycares, schools, PTAs,
and parent groups.

Megan Donnelly Cyr's

daughter, Maggie, nearly 4, attends
preschool at the same school
Megan attended. Megan, a dental
hygienist in Northern Virginia,
hosted an Irish college student for
eight weeks this summer - her

13th intern over the last eight
years. Megan and Maggie will
travel to Ireland to visit some of
her past interns and their families.
Megan has enjoyed re-connecting
with Mary Washington friends on
Facebook.

I heard from Matt Downs '92,

who says hello to everyone; he
enjoys life in Boston and his sales
operations job for SAP.

It's hard to believe that our
20-year reunion is only two years
away. It will be great to catch
up with everyone in person. In
the meantime, please keep your
updates coming.

Kate Stanford McCown
48 Fairmount Ave.
Chatham, NJ 07928
kate.mccown@live.com

Hello everyone from '92.
My husband, lohn, and I, and
our children, Mary Ella, 6, and
Jack, 4, had a great year living in
wonderful Tokyo, Japan. We made
new friends, and we traveled to

the beach in Shimoda, the snowy
mountainous region of Hokkaido,
and the beautiful area around
Mount Fuji, known as Hakone. We
felt earthquakes, studied Japanese,
ate great food, and even learned
to drive on the "wrong" side of the
road. We also had a nice tropical
South Pacific vacation in Guam.
Now we have transferred back to
the U.S.A., and are so happy to
be home. We think we will love
Chatham, N.J.; it feels like a small
town yet is only a 45-minute train
ride to Manhattan.

Hilary Holmes Anderson and

husband John live in Arlington,
Va., with children Natalie, 4, and
Ryan, 7. Hilary works at the Drug
Enforcement Agency and has been
studying to become a certified
naturalist through Arlington
County.

Thanks to Facebook, I'm back
in touch with Dan Rothstein of
Fairfax, Va.; Suzy Head Smartt
of Austin, Texas; Sarah Perry
Spalding, in Orlando with
daughters Izzy and Abby; Karen
Richardson; Brady Chapman of
Sarasota, Fla.; Evelina Weidman

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Sterling of Georgia; Robert
Todd of Richmond, Va.; and Paul
Pollard, also of Richmond.

Please check Facebook, my
user name is "Kate McCown," and
feel free to send me updates there
or via email. Many members of the
Class of 1992 are on Facebook.

Heather Thompson Mosher

finished a degree at Temple
University in 2004, but she said she
feels more like a Mary Washington
alumna. She is pursuing a master
of public administration degree in
nonprofit management at George
Mason. She planned to elope with
Dean Mosher, she wrote, and had
already begun to use her married
name. Heather's son, Kieran, is 15.

Heather wrote that she was
"aching" to get back in touch
with her UMW friends. She is on
Facebook and is back in touch with
Jim Crosby, Chris Johnson, and
Randy Gustafson. She reported
that Michael Smith had had
"another baby," and that Kirstin
Wolverton '93, who entered
with our class in 1988, is in the
Northern Virginia area.

1993

Cheryl Roberts
100 Liberty St.
Unit 12107

Columbus, OH 43215
chatatcha@yahoo.com

Bethany Zecher Sutton
2416-C South Walter Reed Drive
Arlington, VA 22206
sutton@aacu.org

1994

Nathan Wade

1265 E. Cambridge Ave.

Phoenix, AR 85006

smileynate72@yahoo.com

The Class of 1994 had a
fantastic Reunion Weekend this
year. Co-chairs Lesley Stewart
St. James and Kathleen Slesnick
Kauffman did a great job, as did
the amazing staff of the Alumni
Office. Mary Washington has done
a great job of incorporating new
buildings in the style of the school,
but it was disconcerting to see that
Seacobeck has a sushi bar. These
new kids are a little spoiled, I say!

Friday night before the
reunion, Amy Grillo Kales and her

husband, Jonathan, opened their

home in Centreville to several old
friends, including me. Amy and
Jonathan have three great kids and
their own family law practice. Kelly
Klimkiewicz Swartz, a lawyer for
the U.S. Navy, was there, as were
Brendan Kelly '95, who works
for the federal government in
Charlottesville, and Brendan's wife
Corrie Henson Kelly. Maureen
Keany Ahearn and Jen Lapasota
Buchan came in from Long
Island, N.Y.; both are married with
children and are looking and doing
great! Allyson Eubank Kinnard
and her husband, Mike, were in
from San Diego; Allyson is a city
planner in La Mesa, Calif., and a
mom to the adorable and sweet
Madeline.

At reunion, I got to spend time
with Jeff McClurken, now chair of
the UMW Department of History,
his wife, Jennifer "Jen" Orr '95,
and their two lovely children.
And to think Jeff and I were
dorm-mates almost 20 years ago!
Of course, no reunion is complete
without Leah McNeil, who is in
Charlotte, N.C., with her guinea
pigs. She is newly single, so watch
out, Charlotte! Amy Umberger
is a teacher with Spotsylvania
County schools. Marilyn Olsen is
doing well in Richmond. Scooter
Wooldridge and Larry, his partner
of 15 years, live in Washington,
D.C., and travel more than anyone
I know. We had a fun dinner and
brunch with them.

As for me, I am in Phoenix,
Ariz., where I am the South-West
region director of admissions
for Cortiva Institute of Massage
Therapy. My partner, Mike, and
I live in central Phoenix with our
dachshunds, Belle and Sadie. I am
active in community events and try
to stay in shape by playing softball.
I'm always happy to see any UMW
alums who make it out to the Wild
West, so feel free to look me up!
Also, please email me any updates
you would like included in the next
edition of Class Notes.

Jane Archer

298 DeKalb Ave., No.2

Brooklyn, NY 11205-3733

jane@janearcherillustration.com

Megan Concannon Richardson
13150 Tuckaway Drive
Oak Hill, VA 20171
tucked_away@cox.net

1996

Jennifer Rudalf Gates
129 Duff Drive

Yorktown, VA 23692
jsmartypants@cox.net

)ill McDaniel

5808 Chase Commons, Ct. No. 204

Burke, VA 22015

jill.mcdaniel@fcps.edu

Michelle Trombetta
3109 AtwaterSt.
Minnetonka, MN 55305
blondebombchelle@yahoo.com

In April, Carter Berkeley

married Rob Taylor at St.
Mark's Episcopal Church in
Richmond, with a reception at the
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,
Pauley Center. After a relaxing
honeymoon in St. Lucia, they live
in Maryland. Carter is an attorney
with Marriott International Inc.

Congratulations to Colleen
Minion Uuereb,

who graduated
this June with a
master of public
administration
degree from
Evergreen State
College in
Olympia, Wash.

an anti corruption project with
the government of Albania, and
Suzette is a freelance writer. They
plan to be there for two years.

Philadelphia was the reunion
spot this May for Susan Lee
Metzger, Elise Balkin Ice, Abby
Baird Bartley, Susan McAllister
Walker, and Melinda Delvishio
O'Neil. Susan Metzger lives in
Kansas with her husband, Monte;
she competes in a few race events,
including the Fort Riley 10-mile
Prairie Run and the Waddell &
Reed Half Marathon. Elise lives in
Cleveland, Ohio, with her husband,
Jason, and works for a law firm.
Abby is remodeling a home in
Roanoke, Va., with her husband,
Alan, and two sweet children.
Susan Walker lives in Charlotte,
N.C., with her husband, Will, and
two beautiful daughters. This year,
Melinda and her husband, Sean,
welcomed their second child, a boy.
In between visits, the ladies keep
up by Facebook. They are already
planning next year's reunion spot -
perhaps with a trip to Kansas!

Julie Newell
and Nathan Leslie
'94 celebrated
their fifth wedding
anniversary on June 26. Julie
continues her globe trotting: she
flew over the famed Victoria Falls
in a motorized hang glider, went
on a safari in Botswana, and spent
several days in Rome en route
home. Not many people can boast
that they have navigated both the
Tiber and Zambezi rivers on the
same trip!

Jason Terril traveled to
Scotland and took a cross-country
RV trip last spring. Jason caught
up with Jen Rees Schulze and
her husband, Will, in New Jersey
over the July 4th weekend. Jen and
Will also enjoyed seeing Bridget
Malone.

Patrick Lohmeyer and
Suzette McLoone Lohmeyer

recently moved back overseas,
this time to Tirana, Albania, with
their two children, Aidan and
Bridget. Patrick is working on

Continuing her globe trotting,
Julie Newell Leslie '97 flew over
the famed Victoria Falls in a
motorized hang glider, went on
a safari in Botswana, and spent
several days in Rome en route
home.

Through the miracle of
adoption, Kenny and Jennifer
Fearnow Elkins welcomed Isaiah
Joseph Elkins, born Dec. 30, 2008,
to their family on Jan. 21, 2009.
Isaiah is a strong, healthy boy who
loves to smile and cuddle. Siblings
Caleb, 7, and Lydia, 5, are great
helpers and are super excited to
have Isaiah as a part of the family.

In April, Rob DeMayo and
Alycia Bailey DeMayo welcomed
daughter Bailey Clara, born in
Cape Town, South Africa, where
Rob and Alycia live and work.
Geoff and Liz Weaver Williams
welcomed Tyler Joseph on May 6.
Big sister Logan loves him to death
and he has already gotten a visit
from Auntie Crystal Bulges and
Auntie Aimee Lemieux Celio.

Ryan Preston and Katie
O'Leary Preston welcomed
their second son, Henry O'Leary,

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born on May ». Craig and Amy
S/c/epanski Fvanego welcomed
Zachary lames on lune 5. Big
brother Ryan, 3, enjoyed all the
extra attention from visiting
grandparents when mom was
in the hospital. Elliot and Angie
Fleming Gibbs
welcomed their
first child, Lacey
Marie, on lune 12.
Angie practices
appellate law at an
insurance defense
firm in Richmond.
fohan and Allyson
Knudson Gallup
welcomed Hannah
Irene Gallup to the
world on June 26.

wile Tor) Rendon Asfahani '96
live in Northern Virginia with their
adorable little girls, Mirah and
1 ,\ la. Anne Mason Timberlake

is superwoman, living in Virginia
with her five kids and a deployed
husband!

Suzette McLoone and Patrick
Lohmeyer '97 have moved to
Tirana, Albania, with their two
children. Patrick is working on
an anti- corruption project with
the government of Albania, and
Suzette is a freelance writer.

Luke Sbarra and his wife,
Jennifer, were very excited about
the anticipated October arrival
of their second child, a boy, who
would join older sister Emilia, 2.
Amanda Neptune Bridges and
her Air Force pilot husband will
likely be in South Jersey, where he
is stationed, until summer 2010.
Their daughter, Kate, will be 5
this year, son Nick is 2, and they
are expecting their third child in
January 2010. Amanda is co-chair
of the board of trustees at Kate's
preschool. Aryn Diggle Blanton
and husband Jeff, who have bought
a home in Arlington, stopped by
to see Amanda in New Jersey; they
had just returned from a trip to
Australia.

In July, Amanda; Colette
Strawn Johnson; Colettes
husband, Mike Johnson '96; Mie
Carter Devers; and Mies husband,
Chris, gathered to mark the
second anniversary of the passing
of their dear friend, Stephanie
Rooney, at her home in Maryland
with Steph's family and other
friends. Colette, a meteorologist,
and Mike live in Centreville, Va.,
with two their great young boys,
Alex and Zach. Mie, an assistant
principal in Northern Virginia,
recently retired from a stint in the
Washington, D.C., roller derby.
She and Chris had a relaxing and
delicious vacation to a dairy farm
in Wisconsin, where much cheese
was consumed.

Amy Brown lives in
Richmond, where she teaches
special education preschool. Kelley
Sweeney lives in St. Louis and is
a flight attendant for American
Airlines. Brahim Asfahani and

Aaron Zielinski continues to
build his financial advisory practice
at Wells Fargo Advisors in Norfolk.
He, wife Lisa, and son Benjamin,
18 months, enjoyed the summer,
during which they took Benjamin
for his first zoo outing. They also
took a short road trip to Maryland
to visit Larry Shutts, wife Michelle,
and son Hudson.

My husband and I traveled to
San Francisco, where we caught
up with Joselle Poblete Duncan
'98 at The Ferry Building, to
kick off our California to Oregon
wine-tasting adventure - a tasty
trail that started in Sonoma, Calif.,
and ended in Willamette, Ore.
After that road trip, we drove
from Minneapolis to visit family
in Toronto and Long Island. I am
writing this installment of Class
Notes during that road trip from a
balcony in Michigan overlooking
Lake Huron. Life is filled with
such beauty and excitement! I look
forward to hearing more news of
your adventures and breathtaking
moments.

Erika Giaimo Chapin
70 Princess Drive
Madison, CT 06443
erikagchapin@gmail.com

Thanks to everyone for writing
in. Here's your news:

Jayme Morris Van Horn and
her husband, Chris Van Horn,

have two updates - twins Caitlin
and James were born in January!
Niki Gonyo Throckmorton and

her husband expected their own
boy/girl twin combo in October.
Niki continues to work for Prince

William County Public Schools as
an elementary reading specialist.
Adrien Snedeker Dickerson
and Deacon expected their first
child in October. A bunch of
alumni, including Brian Lusk and
Mike Paolino, attended Clint

Last summer, Jen Carter
Tsimpris and Basil married, then
honeymooned in Maui and San
Francisco before returning home to
Richmond. They planned to attend
the 30th anniversary banquet of the
Mary Washington Department of

McCarthy's wedding in Seattle this Classics, Philosophy, and Religion

summer. Robb and Ashley Lewis this fall.

Braidwood welcomed their second , „ _. , ,

,,, , w t n \* a Michelle Ciarlo-Hayes lives in

child, daughter Luella, on May 4. , . '

T ,i . ,j i ., c i Philadelphia, chases alter Danny,

Luellas older brother Sam loves , T i

■ i ,, i i. 5, and Lucas, 3, and manages

her to pieces and even calls her his

"Sweetie Girl"! Wes and Joanna

Reidel Dunn await the arrival of

their first child in September. Their

Washington, D.C., neighbors are

Craig and Katie Shea Britton, who

welcomed daughter Emma Shea

on June 11. 1 was thrilled to meet

her photography business. She
just published Alphabet Soup, a
children's book of her whimsical
still-life photographs. This
accomplishment, she reported,
does not excuse her from having to
change diapers, walk the dogs, and

pick up the millions of tiny Legos
that always end up underfoot.

Emma this summer, and she can't
wait to meet her
new friend - Baby

Chapin -in the j Michelle Ciarlo-Hayes '98 just

fall.

published Alphabet Soup, a
children's book of her whimsical
still-life photographs.

My sincere
apologies to Matt
LoFiego, whom
I called Mike in
the last issue.

Apparently people were asking

his wife who this Mike guy was! Amanda Goebel

In other legitimate news, Heidi 2039-G Lake Park Drive SE

Buchanan Keohane said life in Smyrna, GA 30080

Spotsylvania is good with daughter goebel_amanda@hotmail.com
Riley, 4, and black Lab Homer,

5. Heidi teaches math in the l traveled back t0 VirSinia this

Commonwealth Governor's School summer t0 visit with mY new mece>

at Stafford High School. She spent Abi8ail Grace Eggleston, born in

two weeks in Florida last summer late MaY l attended Pr0'ect Zero

and visited Krakow, Poland, in at Harvard in ^ where l learned

summer 2008. Todd Hamlin is wonderful techniques and theories

busy in Northern Virginia playing t0 ^P^ t0 my craft Atlanta

soccer and enjoying politics. continues to serve me well; I am

Hamlin, Brian Graziano, and looking t0 buy a house as l be§an

Deacon were among the thousands mY third year at Trinity Sch°o1

at the Phish show at Fenway Park teaching fourth §rade-
last summer, and the guys stayed In September, Kary Buchanan

with us on their way up to Boston. anc} Paui Storer married in

Wendy Suk and daughter Fredericksburg. I served as maid

Natalie spent a week last summer of honor. Kristin Ruhl Bergstrom

on the Outer Banks of North was a bridesmaid; she and husband

Carolina with Amy Wachenfeld Lee welcomed their son, Andrew

Eagen and her family - husband William> in 'une- Corey Sdl 1S

Tim and daughter Lily - with Abby Persuing his doctorate and was

Mitchell Pearce and her family - transferred to fifth grade in the

husband Ben and daughter Emily Arlington, Va., school system.

- and with Matt Galeone, who He decided t0 move closer t0 the

braved the week with three toddlers. d{Y and tound a great apartment

Matt turned out to be the girls' overlooking the Potomac River in

BFF Wendy said it was surreal to Rosslyn' Va' Lisa Mueller hou%h\

see the classmates' three little girls a condo in November, only to find

playing together. As I wrote these out in the sPrin8 that,she WOuld,

class notes, Amy and Tim were sPend the next sch°o1 Yf r teaching

expecting their second child, a boy, four1ln>u,l, m S,oiLm,l ,,,, ,
to arrive any day!

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Dennis Rudnick is pursuing
a doctorate in multicultural
education at Washington
University in Seattle. He and Joy
Patzke plan to marry in July 2010.

Justin and Katrina Glynn

Ivatts adopted Miles lungbin, a
little boy from South Korea. They
made the 15-hour flight to Seoul to
take custody of him and also visited
some ancient royal palaces and a
Korean Folk Village, which is like
the Smithsonian Folklife Festival
in D.C., with a focus on Korean
heritage. Justin and Katrina had a
Korean-style first birthday party for
Miles, which included a traditional
fortune-telling ritual. Called a Tol
ceremony, the father holds the child
over a table where several items
from which the child chooses are
displayed. Miles "chose his fortune"
in the apple, which symbolizes
fertility and the wish to have many
children, and the musical recorder,
for having musical gifts!

In April 2009, Stone Garden
Publications published M. Leigh
Carson's first book, a sci-fi/fantasy,
under her pseudonym, Katrina
Michaels. After eight months, three
Realtors, two lenders, and five
offers, Jimmy Rhodes purchased his
first home in Fairfax, Va. He works
with the American Diabetes Society.

Shannon Maguire enjoyed
being back in Washington
temporarily after spending two
years in Vietnam, where she
worked for an non-governmental
organization and her husband
served as a Foreign Service officer
with the State Department. Back
in D.C., she saw her husband off
for a year in Iraq and planned later
to move with him to Sarajevo,
Bosnia, for three years. Shannon
saw Mariama Souare almost every
day, as they worked together in the
same organization in D.C. Mariama
and her husband live in Annandale,
Va., and have a beautiful baby boy,
Barry. Shannon Blevins and her
nusband also live in Annandale
and also have a beautiful baby
?oy, Caden. Shannon plans to visit
Shannon Maguire in Bosnia and hit
:he Dalmatian coast, Greece, Italy,
ind Turkey.

Andy and Hollie Writtenberry

Hill of Leesburg, Va., welcomed
:heir first child, Elisabeth Anne, in
April 2009. Hollie is band director
ind music teacher at Nysmith
School for the Gifted in Herndon,
Va.

\ttfju0wt I 'ieA

Joy Barnes

PSC 559 Box 5185

FPO.AP 96377-5185

jbandrt@hotmail.com

Sameer Vaswani

L 597 Leeds Castle Drive, No.

Vienna, VA 22182

sameervaswani@msn.corn

Caroline L. Jarvis

426 N. Armistead St., Apt T2

Alexandria, VA 22312-3413

CarolineLJarvis@gmail.com

Teresa Joerger Mannix
12506 Heykens Lane
Bristow, VA 20136
mwcgrad01@hotmail.com

Travis Jones

12409 W 120th St., Apt. 715

Overland Park, KS 66213-4864

tljones8@hotmail.com

Carolyn Murray Spencer
3253 Arrowhead Circle, Apt. H
Fairfax, VA 22030
turtlecjm@yahoo.com

Martha Heuser, previously
working in historic preservation
with Richard Grubb & Associates
and the National Park Services
Northeast Regional Office in
Philadelphia, has transitioned
into fundraising for the nonprofit
sector. Her vocation is development
specialist for Presbyterian Children's
Village in Rosemont, Penn., and her
avocation is jewelry making.

Travis Jones and Julie Drexel
Carney '99 were married in
Philadelphia, on July 10th. They
currently reside in Wilmington,
Del.

2003

Jessica Brandes

123-B South Roberson St.

Chapell Hill, NC 27516-2320

jessbrandes@yahoo.com

2004

Katharine E. Leesman
730 Fifth St. N.E.
Basement Unit
Washington, DC 20002
katie.leesman@gmail.com

Sarah B. Smith

5804 Merton Court, Apt. 182

Alexandria, VA 223 11

ssmith@atr.org

Matthew N. Thomas is

a captain in the Army JAG
Corps stationed with I-Corps
Headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.
Aaron Layman is a beer buyer for
Wine Gourmet in Roanoke, Va.,
and writes freelance articles for
local newspapers. In his spare time,
he bikes the Roanoke greenways
and picks away on his mandolin.

Anna Mills Matthews and

her husband, Barrie, welcomed
baby Jackson in December 2008,
and they established a new dental
practice in Miles City, Mont. She
finished her master of education
degree and will soon student teach.

Kevin Johnson and Amber
Rector Johnson expected their
first baby, a girl, in August. Erin
Campbell and Kirk Madsen

married on

June 27, 2009,
at Santillane in
Fincastle, Va.
They live in
the Cherrydale
neighborhood of
Arlington, Va.

a law firm in the Maryland-D.C.
area. Lauren I.egard and Kevin
Hickerson '02 married in Fairfax,
Va., on Augusts, 2009. Lauren
is pursuing a master's degree in
library science from the University
of South Carolina; she hopes to
become a school librarian. Kevin
teaches English at Chantilly High
School. Lauren and Kevin hope to
buy a house in Northern Virginia.

Jill Hurst received a doctorate
in pharmaceutical and biomedical
sciences from the University
of Georgia last fall and took a
post-doctoral research position at
the University of North Carolina
in Chapel Hill. Alexis Slack, a
licensed clinical social worker as of
October 2008, provides therapy to
youth and families. She bought and
remodeled a condo in Centreville.
Randy Shiflet II bought a
townhome in Chantilly, Va., last
spring; Toby Reifsnyder '06 is his
housemate.

Jesica Mangun

earned a doctor of
pharmacy degree
from the University
of California, San
Francisco School
of Pharmacy
in 2008. She is
pursuing a two-
year pharmacotherapy residency
at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in
Baltimore, Md. After she finishes
the residency next year, she plans
to look for a clinical specialist
position at a large teaching
hospital.

Chrissy Soper Smith and
Conor Smith '03 welcomed
first-child Madeline Larkin in
May 2009. Danielle Reeves, a
state research assistant in disaster
preparedness, is pursuing a master
of public administration degree
for public health policy. Last
summer, she conducted research
at orphanages in Cusco, Peru.
Abby Kistler graduated with
honors from New York University
College of Nursing and she is now
a registered nurse.

Janine Evans, a 2007 law-
school graduate, is an attorney for

Hannah Slotnick '04 married
Anthony Lindoff in an
ocean-side ceremony in Juneau,
Alaska, where they live. Hannah
is the European marketing
coordinator for the Alaska
Seafood Marketing Institute,
and Anthony is a business
development analyst for the
Sealaska Corp.

Chris Dimotsis received a
master's degree in city and regional
planning from the University of
Pennsylvania in May. He is looking
tor jobs in urban redevelopment
and affordable housing in
Washington, D.C, New York City,
and Philadelphia. Erin Hirsch,
married to Brian Sayre, received
a master's degree in counseling
psychology from Troy State
University in Orlando, Fla.

Meghan Archibald Berney

married Chad Berney, a University
of Alabama grad, in March 2009
at The Homestead resort in Hot
Springs, Va. Rachel Copen and
Alina Fleury '06 were bridesmaids,
and Dan Archibald '05 was the
"bridesman." The couple purchased
a home in Fredericksburg, where
they live happily with their
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Regulatory Affairs Department at
MediCorp Health System and is
pursuing a paralegal certificate.

Rachel Smith is in her fifth
year ot teaching seventh-grade

U.S. history in Fairfax County,
Va. Suzanne (iallagher Welch

and husband Ryan have lived in
Savannah, Ga„ since December
2006 with dogs Sydney and Dingo.
Rvan is an Armv Black Hawk

helicopter pilot stationed at Hunter
Army Airfield. Suzanne has
worked since December of 2007
in the Department of Housing
and Residence Life at Armstrong
Atlantic State University. She

completed a master of arts degree
in liberal and professional studies
there in May.

Shalini Henry and Adam
Robison '03 purchased their

Alumna's Shiver is Headed to the Big Screen

To say Maggie Hummel Stiefvater's career as a fiction writer is progressing nicely would be an
understatement.

Her second novel, Shiver, was released this summer, and here's how things have unfolded:
Publishing houses bid on rights to the book, the 2003 graduate signed a six-figure contract; the book
debuted on The New York Times young-adult bestseller list at No. 9 and has remained there, rising in
the rankings; reviewers embraced Shiver; the book is slated to be published in 24 foreign languages; and
movie rights have been picked up for Shiver and its two yet-to-be-released sequels. And, by the way, the
publishing house that won the auction was Scholastic, known for its success with a series about a young
wizard named Harry Potter.

Shiver is about Sam and the young woman he loves, Grace. The two are crazy about each other,
but there is a problem. Sam is a werewolf. He's human in the warm months, but when winter arrives
he becomes a wolf. The book is rich in visual detail and plotted with a rising urgency that reviewers
praise. After generating "considerable film interest," according to Stiefvater, screen rights were picked up
September by Unique Features, which plans to option Shiver first to Warner Bros.

In explaining why he was so interested in the book, Unique Features partner Bob Shave, said, "The
author has a strong take on a young adult sensibility. It's also a sexy love story that isn't too over the top."

Stiefvater said, "I didn't realize how much more commercial this book is than my first." Her first
novel, also a young-adult book, is Lament, a tale about faerie assassins. Though Stiefvaters stories have
trappings of the supernatural, they are grounded in the life all her readers can recognize. As she puts it,
she aspires to create characters and plot lines that fit "seamlessly and subtly into the real world."

In what environment does a writer prepare for such ventures as inventing otherwise ordinary
worlds populated by homicidal faeries and a boyfriend-turned-winter-werewolf? For Stiefvater, Mary
Washington was just the place.

Maggie Hummel Stiefvater's Shiver
will be translated to 24 languages.
She has sold the movie rights not
only to the best-selling novel, but also
to its two yet-to-be-released sequels.

A Navy brat, she had lived all over, but was born in Virginia and had returned to the commonwealth by the time she was ready for college. She
had a full-ride scholarship offer from Boston College, but Mary Washington seemed the better fit. Among other attractions was the fact that the
school had a pipe band, one of Stiefvater's passions.

UMW offered Stiefvater the challenge she needed to develop her gift for prose - prose that reviewers have described as lyrical and transcendent.
The two faculty members she credits most are Teresa A. Kennedy, chair of the English department, and history professor Bruce R. O'Brien. Both have
expertise in things medieval, and they gave Stiefvater an appreciation for the ancient tales that inform her novels.

O'Brien and Kennedy also inspired her to do her best work, she said. "They were absolutely my toughest professors." Both pushed Stiefvater to
realize her potential.

She recalls getting a paper back from O'Brien with a mark she thought was lower than it should be. She challenged the grade, certain the paper
was as good as or better than the work of anyone else in the class. "He just told me, 'Yes, but you could do better.' " UMW professors taught her a
valuable lesson: "You are in competition with yourself first and foremost."

Stiefvater met her husband-to-be during her time at Mary Washington - actually, while she was at her job in downtown Fredericksburg. Edward
Stiefvater is a deputy sheriff in nearby Westmoreland County, where they live with their two children, ages 4 and 5; two dogs; and two cats.

At Mary Washington, Stiefvater was a member of the celtic band Ballynoola and the Eagle Pipe Band. She still makes time to compose and
perform music. And she is an artist who carries a sketchbook when she travels. Check out greywarenart.blogspot.com - if you've been in an airport
with her; you might recognize yourself in one of the drawings she has posted online.

But she may not have the luxury of sketching anonymously much longer; her blossoming fame has changed things, she said. She's gone from
being relatively unknown to someone likely to hear: "Maggie? Maggie Stiefvater? You wrote Shiverl"

Fortunately, her alma mater is close by; it keeps her grounded and offers a place to reflect.

"My kids go to school in Fredericksburg," Stiefvater said. "The other day, after I dropped them off, I walked the campus. The students looked so
young; it was hard to imagine that just six years ago I was one of them, with no idea of where life was going to lead me."

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first home in Herndon, Va., in
August 2008. Stephanie Bolte

completed a master of science
degree in analytical chemistry at
University of Delaware; she works
in regulatory affairs tor Ashland
Hercules in Wilmington, Del. She
and Rich Frankel plan to marry in
April 2010.

MBA at Babson College. Gary
Seeba graduated from the Medical
College of Georgia dental school
in May. He's begun a six-year
integrated oral and maxillofacial
surgery residency at Louisiana
State University School of
Medicine in New Orleans.

Kristin
Simmers is still
teaching in Zurich,
Switzerland.
Patrick Hiltz is
a legal collector
and trainer tor
the Virginia
Department
of Taxation in

Richmond, Va. He enjoys buying
and reading books on politics,
theology, and economics.

Mike Kuchler completed
his Peace Corps assignment in
Costa Rica, where he met his
wife, Alejandra. He has worked
for two years with a U.S. Agency
for International Development
(USAID) contractor helping
to manage economic growth
projects in Latin America and
the Caribbean. In July, he was to
have begun a long-term position
working for the Guyana Trade
and Investment Support project
in Georgetown, Guyana in South
America. This is a $7.3 million
USAID project designed to
increase value-added exports
and stimulate investment in
Guyana's agriculture, aquaculture,
sustainable forestry, and
ecotourism sectors.

Kathy Vi received a master of
social work degree from Virginia
Commonwealth University in
May. She is now a case manager
with Braley & Thompson Inc., a
foster care agency in Woodbridge,
Va. Hannah Slotnick married
Anthony Lindoff on Aug. 8, 2009,
in an ocean-side ceremony in
Juneau, Alaska, where they live.
Hannah is the European marketing
coordinator for the Alaska Seafood
Marketing Institute, and Anthony
is a business development analyst
for the Sealaska Corp.

Almeda McMullen Smith, an

operations manager for a defense
contracting company, lives with
her family in Kansas City, Mo.
On May 2, 2009, she welcomed
baby Abigail Almeda Ronoka
Smith. Almeda is pursuing an

Rachel Keller Hoffman '04, a
youth minister at River Road
Church in Richmond, Va.,
finished a master of divinity
degree and was ordained in May
2008.

Ed and Heidi Carlson Stello

welcomed their first baby, Charlie
in April. Anne Beverly Kirkland

recently earned an education

specialist degree in school

administration from U.Va. She

finished her fifth year teaching

special education

classes, and she

plans to pursue

a doctorate in

education policy

from George

Mason University.

Three years ago,

she married the

wonderful and

very handsome

Justin Kirkland, a

marketing director

at U.Va.

Meghan Mascelli married
Stephen Goehler in January. She
is pursuing a master's degree in
public communications, a writing
degree, from American University.
Erin Haile married Charlie
Whetzel, whom she has known
since second grade! They live in
her hometown of Harrisonburg,
Va., where Erin teaches high
school art. Erin and Charlie
bought their first home and a
puppy to go with it. She is loving
life, and sends thanks to all the
UMW "faculty and staff members
who helped me get where I am
today."

Connor Peterson was

interning in France, part of an
international MBA program at the
University of South Carolina. Erin
Hopkins, Connor's wife of three
years, was looking for apartments
in South Carolina. Alyssa Ehret
Fagen welcomed a baby boy, Doyle
James, on Feb. 19,2009.

Mike Casey
and Mary Beth
Ramsey married in
October 2008 and for the last year
lived in Arlington, Va. Mary Beth
worked at Westat on the National
Children's Study and planned to
begin medical school at Virginia
Commonwealth University in
Richmond in August. Mike
graduated from Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International
Studies in May. He completed the
first year in Bologna, Italy, and the
second in Washington, D.C.

Sara Richmond Walls,
Lee Walls, and adorable son
Nathanial Reid Walls live in
Mebane, N.C. Sarah Winnan

is pursuing a master's degree in
international relations with a focus
on international economics and
conflict management from Johns
Hopkins University School of
Advanced International Studies.

Mike Kuchler '04 completed
his Peace Corps assignment in
Costa Rica, where he met his
wife, Alejandra. Since then, he
has worked with a U.S. Agency
for International Development
(USAID) contractor helping
to manage economic growth
projects in Latin America and the
Caribbean.

Jade K. Willard married
Timothy W Rohde two weeks after
Tim's redeployment from Iraq
with the U.S. Army's 25th Infantry
Division. They had a small, private
ceremony on the

fredericksburg.com and a staff
reporter lor The Free Lance Star.
Her son, Izaiah, turned 1 in
February. Alexis Pappas and her
fiance, Brian Mollitt, have bought
a house and planned to marry
in late September. Rachel Keller
Hoffman, a youth minister at
River Road Church in Richmond,
Va., finished a master of divinity
degree and was ordained in May
2008. She began work toward
a master's degree in counseling
last fall and is pursuing state
counseling licensure.

David Rickey earned a master
of fine arts degree in historic
preservation from the Savannah
College of Art and Design; he
was looking for a job. Mark
Malone and Emily Talbot '08
plan to marry Oct. 31, 2009, and
live in their new townhouse in
Stevensville, Md., with two French
bull dogs. Sameer Vaswani and his
brother just bought a townhome
together in Vienna, Va.

Allyson V Lee
82 High St.
Butler, NJ 07405
allyvlee@gmail.com

Our first Reunion Weekend
is coming up next year - please
save the dates of June 4 to 6, 2010,
to come to Fredericksburg for our
five-year reunion and reconnect
with past classmates and friends!

Daniel Archibald is a
Peace Corps Volunteer in Bogo,
Cameroon. His main focus is agro-
forestry, but he also tutors English;
plays in local football matches;
takes care of his puppy, Timschel;
and blogs about it all at
www.cameroondan.blogspot.com.

island of Oahu

on March 2 and

honeymooned

across Molokai,

Maui, and Lanai.

When it was over,

they packed up

their home on the

North Shore of

Oahu and moved

to Fort Benning,

Ga., for Tim's next

assignment, which

was to have begun in July.

Daniel Archibald '05 is a Peace
Corps Volunteer in Bogo,
Cameroon. His main focus is
| agro-forestry, but he also tutors
English; plays in local football
matches; takes care of his puppy,
Timschel; and blogs about it all at
www.cameroondan.blogspot.com.

Portsia Smith is the

online content producer for

Cara Stout, of South Carolina,
was promoted to assistant director
of admissions for the College

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oi ( Charleston. She is pursuing
a master ol education degree in
Spanish language there.

Jeremy Potter and his wife,
Meredith Dunham Potter '04,

live m New Milford, Conn. In
August, Jeremy enrolled full time
at the New York Law School.
Samantha Smith Newbold and
husband Mike Newbold '04 are
expecting a baby this December.
Jennifer Condon plans to marry
Dan Entwistle on Dec. 19, 2009,
and they will live in Medford, N.J.
The bridal party will include Mary
Osing, Ashley Miller, and Lydia
Haas. Jen wrote, "You have to love
the connections made at Mary
Washington - they last a life time!"

Katie Jensen and Tim Spurr

'04 planned to marry in October
2009. Tom Puppi is a civilian
for the Department of Defense
under the Office of the Secretary
of Defense, Chief Information
Officer. Doreen Ciavarelli was
married in August 2009 and
moved to Iraq the next month to
work for the State Department for
one year.

Sara May Bailey received
an MBA in contracts and
procurement from UMW in May
2009. Autumn Arrowood married
Steve Hibberd on June 20, 2009, in
Virginia. Her bridal party included
Laura Rawlett, Betsy Pitti, Beth
Young, and Emily Grogg '03.

David Voth lives in
Richmond, Va., and hopes to finish
an MBA from the VCU School
of Business by spring 2011. He is
taking the prerequisite classes for
medical school and hopes to apply
in the summer of 20 1 1 . He would
like to bridge the gap between
business and medicine by working
in hospital management and as
a physician. He hikes and plays
tennis. His fiancee graduated from
VCU School of Dentistry in May;
they plan to marry in October
2010.

On a somber note, Megan
Brown passed away on July 25,
2009, after a long, courageous
battle with ovarian cancer. Our
sympathy goes to her friends and
family.

Shana Muhammad

612 Prince Edward St., No. 2

Fredericksburg, VA 22401

Shana_m@marykay.com

Carl Frank Puleo

5407 Heritage Hills Circle

Fredericksburg, VA 22407

cfpuleo@gmail.com

Jay Sinha

2133-13 South Henry St.

Williamsburg, VA 23185

Jay.Sinha9@gmail.com

Daniel Clendenin

5407 Heritage Hills Circle

Fredericksburg, VA 22407

daniel.clendenin@gmail.com

Alyssa Lee

7202 Flower Tuft Court

Springfield, VA 22153

alyssa.linda.lee@gmail.com

Trish Lauck

7801 Halyard Court

Chesterfield, VA 23832

trish.lauck@gmail.com

Amy Sutphin Cackowski

married June 6,

2009. She was

to have begun

teaching third

grade at Bradley

Elementary in

Warrenton,Va., in

August. Jennifer

Davis is in Mali,

West Africa, as

an environment Peace Corps

volunteer working with shea butter

production and ameliorated seed

trials.

Caitlin Erickson is assistant
coach for field hockey and
women's lacrosse in the UMW
athletic department. She was
to have begun work toward an
MBA at UMW in August. Leslie
McGlothlin earned a master's
degree in linguistics from UVa.
She works in D.C.

In 2008 and 2009, Kaitlyn
G-ardy studied at the College of
William & Mary in the National
Institute of American History and
Democracy's Collegiate Program
in American History, Material
Culture, and Museum Studies. In
August, she was to have begun
work toward a master's degree in
comparative history at William &
Mary; she hopes to finish in a year.

Stan Kennedy and Trish
Lauck bought their first home
in Chesterfield, Va., in May. Stan
works at Wachovia, and Trish
works at Boehringer Ingelheim
Chemicals Inc. Alyssa Lee finished
an internship with the Avon Walk
for Breast Cancer in Washington,
D.C. She was to have begun work
with the Americorps VISTA CIS
program in August. Marlysa Lohr
moved to Washington, D.C, and
works for the AFL-CIO at Union
Privilege.

Krishna Sinha lives in Tyson's
Corner, Va. He is a financial
analyst for Northrop Grumman
Electronic Systems - Space
and ISR Systems Division at
the headquarters in Baltimore,
Md. Amanda Hill lives in
Charlottesville, where she finished
the first year of classes toward a
master's degree in speech-language
pathology at UVa. She plans to
graduate in December of 2010.

Caitlin Erickson '08 is UMW's
assistant coach for field hockey
and women's lacrosse. She is also
working toward her MBA at
UMW.

Corrie Scheer, who is

married, graduated in May with
a five-year master of science in
elementary education degree
from UMW. Spotsylvania County
Schools hired her as a kindergarten
teacher at the same school and
teaching the same grade level at
which she conducted her student
teaching internship. She was to
have begun teaching there in
August.

Sam Shafovaloff moved to

Richmond for what he hoped
would be a successful sales career
with AT&T. For one beautiful
summer, he sat on his front porch
sipping mint juleps and admiring
the columns of West Cary Street.
For Christmas, however, the
company gave him a severance
package. Now, he lives at home and
is looking for work.

Ali Meier

5435 Hobbit Road

Cincinnati, OH 45243

Alexandra.m.meier@gmail.com

Hi Class of 2009! We look
forward to receiving news about
your lives outside of UMW,
whether it be engagements,
marriages, new jobs, or whatever
you want to share. We look
forward to hearing from you!

Meg McDonough lives in New
York City and works in Manhattan
for Welch Integrated Inc., a
marketing company in the motion
picture/entertainment industry.
As event marketing manager, she
organizes events with A-list film
directors, cinematographers, and
camera operators; works for the
public relations office; and assists
with marketing and business
negotiations.

David Flores is an English
teacher in Dalian, China, with
F&S International Education. He
will be there for 10 months - until
June - to teach children between
ages 5 and 18.

Congratulations and much
happiness to the following
classmates who are getting
married: Meredith Bojarski
and Nicky Southwell; Charlotte
Rowell and Joel Sellier; Jessica
Hager and Kevin Bowman;
Brianne Doura and Ben Tolson
'07; Laura Dorsey and TJ
Harrington; Chrissie Woolsey
and Cary Lincoln '08; and Kasey
Walker and Michael Althoff.

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Condolences

Frances Watts Barker '45, who lost

her husband
Lois Loehr Brown '41, who lost her

daughter
Beverley Beadles Jackson '46, who

lost her husband
Erminia Ubaldi Daspit '49, who lost

her husband
Karen Osborne Dameron '52, who

lost her husband
Carol Edgerton Cooper '52, who

lost her husband
Peggy Hopkins Johnson '53, who

lost her husband
Nancy Warner Heese '54, who lost

her husband
Helen Hopkins Timberlake '50,

who lost her husband
Billie Lee Woods Jarrett '59, who

lost her husband
Helen Parks-McGuire '63, who lost

her husband
Mary Vaughan Pickett '65, who lost

her husband
Eden Butler '92, who lost her

mother

Myrtle Clarke Marsh '27

Diana Wornom Acree '28

Margaret Duval Dickinson Garnett '34

Charlotte Miles James '34

Charlotte Hayes Ridings '34

Ina R. Collins '36

Arline Wade Winn '36

Margaret Kloman Doane '37

Elmer Dean Howell Brinkley '38

Miriam Carpenter Carroll '39

Dorothy S. Denton '39

Georgiana Chandler Woodhouse '39

Margaret Wallace Moss '40

Mildred Burner Kerns '41

Jane Garnett Moore '41

Laura Darlington Holman Rawls '41

Mary Katherine Pappandreou Davis '42

Mary Lou Fary '42

Margaret W. Walker '42

Leah E Waller '44

George Etta Stacey Leath '45

Mary Louise Conover Miller '45

Evelyn Thimedes '45

Beverly Bowen Baker '47

Julia Jean Dooley Overstreet '47

Mary Jane Lindenberger Setzer '47

Mary Pamelia "Pam" Richardson

Markwood Voris '47
Winitred Bourne '48
Mary Jane Marshall Oulahan '48
Helen W Scarlett '48
Norma A. Kinsel '49
Virginia Clyde Jones McKie '49
Nancy Meagher Bound '51
Constance Bennett Elliott '53
Shirley Conrad Heim '58

Dorset M. Hill Norby '58
Patricia G. Miles Bedard '59
Anne Landon Harris Brosio '60
Cornelia Charlotte Mundy '61
Judith Karen Wilson Kesler '62
Wanda Hutchens Hershey '63
Carole L. Hinckley '65
Peggy Elaine Butler '66
Helen Bemis Black Jureidini '66
Betty Poole Gordon Wilson '68
Patricia Pascoe Jones '81
Thomas Anthony Colletta '82
Charles Luther Fry III '82
Sandra Lyn Dudley '89
Megan Leigh Brown '05
Preston James Hirten '11

In Remembrance

Glen R.
Thomas

Retired history professor
Glen R. Thomas died on July
18. He was awarded emeritus
status in May of 1988.

Thomas joined the Mary
Washington College faculty in
1962 after a stint in the Marine
Corps during World War II
and a period of practicing
clinical psychology. A member
of the psychology department,
Thomas conducted annual
"fireside" seminars in the
humanities and participated in
early liberal arts seminars.

He then went to graduate
school and earned a master's degree in English and a doctorate in American
Studies. Upon returning to Mary Washington in 1970, Thomas established the
American Studies program and served as its director until his retirement. He
also assisted in planning and structuring the Mary Washington Master of Arts
in Liberal Studies degree program.

In 1977, Thomas received the Grellet C. Simpson Award for excellence in
undergraduate teaching.

Barbara
Palmer

Former Mary
Washington College Dean
Barbara Palmer died on
Sept. 15. She served as
Dean of the Faculty from
1994 until 1997. After
that, she was a professor
in the English department
until her retirement in
2000. Throughout her
professional life, Palmer
distinguished herself as a
scholar of early renaissance
drama.

After her retirement
from Mary Washington,
Palmer served as a scholar-

in-residence at Mary Baldwin College, where she founded REED USA,
a charitable organization devoted to supporting the Records of Early
English Drama at the University of Toronto.

Palmer belonged to the Shakespeare Association of America and the
Medieval and Renaissance Drama Society. She was published widely in
distinguished academic journals such as Shakespeare Quarterly and Early
Theatre.

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CLOSING COLUMN

Pioneering Professors

A Brief History ofUMW's 50-Yeor-Old Geography Department

By Marshall E. Bowen
Distinguished Professor
Emeritus of Geography

In the fall of 1964, 1 was 26 years
old with a wife and three children
and another one on the way. I
was also a student in the geography
doctoral program at Boston University.
One afternoon while I was in a lab, the department secretary
knocked on the door and informed the professor that I had
an important phone call. The caller was Sam Emory, who had
started the geography program at Mary Washington five
years earlier. Sam asked me if I was interested in coming to
Fredericksburg to be interviewed for a job.

Sam was adding a third person to what was then the
Department of Geography and Geology, which consisted of
Sam and one other professor. He had advertised the position,
but had received very few applications. In desperation,
Sam called someone he knew at Boston University. I was
recommended, I suspect, because I was nearly broke and in
need of a job at the end of the spring semester.

A few days later I came to Fredericksburg, interviewed, and
flew home that night. A week later, I received an offer to join
the Mary Washington faculty at the princely annual salary of
$7,200. 1 accepted immediately.

Sam loved politics of all sorts, and was undoubtedly
disappointed when he found that the person he had hired
detested politics. But what he did get was a guy who was
willing to teach a wide variety of courses - seven different ones
in my first year - and to go about his business in a workmanlike
way. Between the two of us, we offered 39 credits each year,
and when we added geology classes into the mix, we had
more than enough courses to offer a major. Sam had wanted to
offer a major from the time he arrived at Mary Washington, but
didn't initially have the staff to do it.

We were strange bedfellows - Sam, a Southern gentleman
and the son of a university professor, and me, a brash young
Yankee whose father was an auto mechanic. We made it work,
though, and Sam's dream of developing a real department with
an attractive major began to be realized.

In 1969, we hired Jim Gouger as our third geographer. His
arrival breathed fresh life into the department. He developed
new courses in cartography, air photo interpretation, the

history of geographic thought, and
human environment. Because Jim
was a night owl, the cartography
lab was in active operation until well
after midnight, seven days a week,
and soon it became a gathering place
for majors - as much a social as an
academic venue - which promoted a
strong sense of togetherness. Jim also
took the lead in organizing a chapter of Gamma Theta Upsilon,
the geography honorary society. He encouraged students to
conduct independent research in Virginia, other parts of the
country, and abroad. Early on, two of his students did their
work in Central America, something that was nearly unheard-of
at the time.

Until Jim joined the department, almost no Mary
Washington geographers attended graduate school. But when
students had opportunities to conduct independent research
and to meet other geographers - both graduate students
and faculty - at national meetings, the number who went to
graduate school grew exponentially.

Then, in the mid-1970s, Mary Washington hired Dick
Palmieri. Dick was brought in to expand and strengthen our
Asian offerings. He did this, but he also undertook the task
of re-shaping the major. In the process, we added a cultural
course (now called human geography), which Dick was
eminently qualified to teach, and a physical course, which Dick
developed and taught. That course created the foundation for
today's introductory physical geography offerings. Eventually,
we had a stellar major program that required all students to
take certain fundamental courses and still allowed them to
branch out into areas of their particular interests.

Sadly, Sam, Jim, and Dick are no longer with us. Dick died in
1997; both Sam and Jim have passed away in the last year. As
we look back, we often remember - with wry smiles - some of
their eccentricities. Many still recall or have at least heard about
Jim Gouger's late night final exams, complete with a model
train chugging around the cart lab and Willie Nelson singing
Christmas carols.

Such things are fun to remember. But we must also
remember that Sam Emory created this department from
scratch, hired professors who expanded its scope, and guided it
with steady professionalism for more than half of its existence;
that Jim Gouger introduced a lot of the special things that give
today's department its identity; and that Dick Palmieri added
rigor and structure to a program that was in need of both.
None of us - fellow faculty, alumni, current students - would
be who we are, or where we are, or what we are, without the
enormous contributions of this trio of pioneers. As we celebrate
the 50th anniversary of the Department of Geography, we
should be grateful for what these men created and promise
ourselves that they, and their legacy, will never be forgotten, ft

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