fall 2012 - Chatham Hall

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fall 2012
the alumnae magazine of chatham hall
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32 what’s cooking \ 33 book review \ 34–35 HerStory: Alumnae Voices
36–52 class notes \ 53 tales from chatham hall
55–71 annual report
2 letter from the rector \ 3–10 how girls learn \ 11–13 chat with the rector
14–15 library proposal \ 17–30 campus news\ 31 sports news
Senior class trip, U.S. National Whitewater
Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
on the
cover
Giovanna Paz ’16
Houston, Texas
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Gary Fountain, Editor
Laura Rand ’06, Managing Editor
Design by Christine Walker
Printing by Collinsville Printing,
Martinsville, VA
chatham hall
administration
Gary Fountain, Rector
Robert Ankrom, Director of Communications
Ned Edwards, Chaplain
Melissa Evans Fountain,
Director of the Office of Advancement
Martha Griswold, Academic Dean
Emily Johns, Dean of Students
Earl Macam, College Counselor
Ronald Merricks, Chief Financial
and Facilities Officer
Robin Revis-Pyke, Director of
Admission and Financial Aid
board of trustees
Nina Johnson Botsford ’72, Chair
Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53
Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68
Jerry E. Clark P’04
Laura Brown Cronin ’72
J. Belk Daughtridge P’13
Sarah Martin Finn ’74
Patricia R. Frederick ’57
Jane M. Garnett ’73
Douglas R. Goldstein P’12, P’16
Stacey M. Goodwin ’83
Susan Gillings Gross ’98
Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75
Julia Morris Kashkashian ’75
Robert G. McIver P’10
Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59
Robin Peake Stuart ’69
Dora M. Thomas P’02, ’04
Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67
ex-officio members
The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith, IV P’15
Mary C. Freed ’86, President,
Alumnae Council
Cheryl Tuck P’13, President,
Parent Advisory Committee
trustees emeriti
Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90
Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70
Robin Tieken Hadley ’57
Chat is published by the Office of Advancement and is distributed
to alumnae and those who have shown a continued interest in
Chatham Hall. For comments and suggestions, or to request a copy
of Chat, please send an email to lrand@chathamhall.org.
Contributing Writers: Gary Fountain, Melissa Evans Fountain, Martha Griswold,
Laura Rand, Beth Griffin, and Robert Ankrom
Photography Credits: Robert Ankrom, Catherine M. LaDuke, Laura Rand,
Lisa Richmond, and Don Wood
Chatham Hall complies with applicable federal and local laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, creed,color, age, sex, disability, religion, national
origin, or any other legally protected category.
800 Chatham Hall Circle • Chatham, VA 24531 434-432-2941 • www.chathamhall.org
© 2012 Chatham Hall
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letter from the rector
EARLY IN THE MORNING OF THE DAY New Girls
arrived this year, I was finishing a bike ride. I had
passed the stables and turned around the dining room
to head across the front of Pruden toward The Rectory.
The sun was hitting the top of the flagpole.
There, before me, in front of Yardley, was the field
hockey team, running. The girls were getting their
workout in before the flurry of the day. In the lead was
the President of the CAC, black hair bouncing on her
shoulders.
I pulled up next to her. She looked at me and
smiled. I smiled back and said, “Wanna race?”
Without a response—or, probably, a thought, for that
matter—off she took, faster than I had predicted to
myself. My lungs contracted. I stood up and pressed
hard on the peddles. And pressed. And pressed. And
as I began to gain on her, I kept extending the finish
line. “Steps to Pruden!” “The Arcade!” “Steps to Dabney!” I caught her, by inches, at the steps to the
Chapel, and called the race done.
She smiled. I smiled, waved, and glided toward the
Rectory garage.
This CHAT is about that student. Or, rather, those
students.
©2011www.LISArichmond.com
The students at Chatham Hall are,
well, muscular in so many ways. And,
as they should, they are striding
ahead of us. Every day in class I have
this same experience. “Wanna race?”
And off they go intellectually. Every day
At the center of this
CHAT is a plan to meet
the needs of these
girls—a renovated
library, a whole new
concept of a library, in
fact. A place for their
kind of learning.
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in class is an exploration in new directions. “Who is
this Rossetti to whom Shaw is referring in Pygmalion,
and why does Henry Higgins’ mother own his paintings?” Off we go, riding our iPads.
At the center of this CHAT is a plan to meet the
needs of these girls—a renovated library, a whole new
concept of a library, in fact. A place for their kind of
learning. A place that will match what is going on
intellectually at the School—the reading, the research,
the collaborative learning, the writing and designing of
complex electronic texts.
A place where students will stride out there with
their minds. A place where Chatham Hall girls and faculty will be, well, racing every day. Perhaps a bit faster
than we can predict to ourselves.
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I learn
I learn
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in other
places
around
a table
I learn by
mixing
it up
I learn by
teaching my
classmates
I learn by
Pages from iBooks written by
freshman English students
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writing my
own book
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with
my
nose
in a
book
2009 Leader in
Residence
Chandrika
Bandaranaike
Kumaratunga,
former and first
woman president
of Sri Lanka.
See page 26 for
this year’s Leader
in Residence
Announcement.
I learn by
I learn by
stretching
myself
being
part
of a
team
I learn by
serving
how girls learn
I learn
I learn from
strong
women
I learn by
carrying on
traditions
other
languages
I learn in
I learn by
getting my
hands dirty
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Spanish language students at the Instituto
Cultural de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico
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One Wednesday afternoon in September, I met with Susan Gillings
Gross ’98 at a restaurant in Chapel Hill, for some conversation over
lunch. Three years before we had met at this very place, for lunch, to
explore her joining the Board of Trustees. During the last few months,
Susan, an architect, and I had been working on the Library renovation
project together, and I had observed her excitement and commitment.
She was passionate about this project, and I understood why an architect would be so interested. However, her commitment seemed more
than that. And I wondered why. . .
You have stepped up to take on the leadership role in
the planning to renovate Lee Library, Susan. Why?
I am excited about the changes that are taking place in
libraries in general. When I was in school—and I’m not that
far out of school—the library was a quiet place. You would
go there by yourself, with your books, and possibly one or
two other people for group study. Now a library is a different, dynamic place. It’s a hub. That makes it exciting.
From an architectural standpoint, I am excited because
Lee Library is beautiful. It’s just outdated. There are wonderful possibilities in that space, and the renovation will bring
school life down to that end of the campus, as libraries are
doing on college campuses these days. I was flattered when
everyone put the fate of this project into my hands.
How has the process been successful?
The initial meetings with the conceptual consultants from
Brightspot Strategy were terrific. The visions that people on our
committee—students, faculty, and administrators—had for how
the library would be used were different, yet, oddly, harmonious. The folks from Brightspot brought all of them together
with some basic, creative spatial concepts, and that fact says a
lot about how dynamic the renovated library will be.
Then, in the course of interviewing three architects, it
immediately became clear that Shepley Bulfinch got us—not
only the educational aspects and the library-design aspects but
also how a small girls’ community works. Ever-so-naturally the
floor plan and furniture selections came together.
As we look at the architectural plan, what design or
renovation features do you find exciting?
I hope that this does not sound too strange, but I am less concerned about what the space is going to look like. That might
surprise you. (Note: It did!) Everyone can battle over the color
of the chairs. I am more excited about how the girls (and the
faculty), no matter how carefully we plan them, will use the
Libraries are now the places that
reflect how technology is affecting
the ways in which people read,
learn, study, and create.
I learn
in quiet places
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Everyone can battle over the color
of the chairs. I am more excited about
how the girls (and the faculty),
no matter how carefully we plan them,
will use the spaces in ways
that we cannot plan for.
spaces in ways that we cannot plan for. If we build it, they will
not only come but also take our plans to the next level. I think
that we’re going to step back in another semester after it’s
been completed in awe of the beauty and the creativity. I think
that the work that we will see, the collaborations and the projects that will come together, will flourish.
The key is that we are going to provide a space that is
flexible. Creating a library that, in effect, has the potential
for change has been key to our thinking. It is what the
administrators and faculty learned when they visited new
college libraries: plan a space that has the potential for evolution because we do not know what libraries will look like
in three years. Libraries are now the places that reflect how
technology is affecting the ways in which people read, learn,
study, and create.
From an architectural standpoint, I am excited because Lee
Library is beautiful. It’s
just outdated. There are
wonderful possibilities in that
space, and the renovation
will bring school life
down to that end of
the campus, as libraries are
doing on college campuses these
days. I was flattered when
everyone put the fate of this
project into my hands.
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What have you learned in the process? What ideas
came along that you hadn’t thought about or thought
through before?
I’m a little old-fashioned. I want to see books in a library.
A few years ago (2006? 2007?), when I was in architecture
school, an issue of Architectural Record focused on libraries.
The cover was a bookless library. It was a beautiful architectural space, but I thought, “Oh, give me a break.” iPads
weren’t around. Coming into the Lee Library project, I had that
image in my mind. There was no way that we were going to
get rid of a large number of books.
The further we got into this project, the more I saw that
mine was more an emotional attachment to books than a
necessity. I discovered that when I started letting go of the
emotional attachment to books, the options for that space
became endless. You can still get a warm, intimate, and cozy
feeling with lighting and furniture. You don’t have to be surrounded by books.
Here I refer to you, Gary. As you
have said, we are at the point of the
dynamic interaction of the printed
book and the electronic book. We do
not know how that relationship is
going to work itself out. However,
we must be part of the conversation.
In fact, we should lead it. So, there
is this undetermined concept, and
the new library that we have
designed is a space where the conversation about and the exploration
of that concept can take place.
I think that’s what we as a committee most struggled with—how to
achieve that balance. We are culling
the collection wisely to provide open
space and not to keep items that are
available online. However, as one
trustee has said, we also want a
place where people will browse. And
a place where the latest, most exciting electronic documents can be created. All of us have to wrap our
minds around the fact that libraries
aren’t just about books anymore. They are about half of why
we go to libraries these days, if that even.
been my mentality in architecture. Then you get to make the
space pretty.
It is so clear from working with you on this project
that you love converting ideas into spaces. Where did
this passion come from?
That’s been our challenge for Lee Library.
I was an art history major, with a studio art minor, at Dickinson, and I spent my junior year abroad, in Florence, mostly
focusing on Renaissance art, but with a lot of time to study
church and urban architecture. So I came home with this
new interest in architecture. After graduating, I got a great
job with a tiny firm in New York City—three principle architects, eight people total, in an office in the smallest space
known to man. I was the cheap labor, which the owner
needed. I didn’t have architecture in my background, so he
sat me down and taught me the programs. Within a month, I
was working at building sites, measuring and drawing up
floor plans. I did that for just over a year, and it became obvious that I needed to return to school if I were going to move
up in the world. Off I went to Washington University.
Now that our children are a little older, and there are no
newborns in the house, I am ready to gear back up. A couple
of years off after that intensive graduate program were definitely needed. I think I would have burned myself out if I had
gone straight back into the professional world. Architecture
never lets up. It’s a pretty rigorous career, especially if you’re
wanting to become a registered architect and get all the hours
you need to sit for the exams. That would be my next step.
I should say—and again this may surprise you (Note: It
did!)—it is not so much the architecture that interests me.
It’s the people in a space. It’s how they’re going to use the
space, react to the space, and how it all is going to culminate that interests me the most because
that’s sort of my practical side coming
out. How can we make this the best
It is not so
space for what they need? That’s always
That space was begging to be open for the girls. A space
that says, “Come in, everyone get together, grab a table,
throw out ideas, read a book, do some research.” I saw all of
that right away, and that’s why the project excited me so
much. With such little renovation (We don’t have to build
anything!), it will be there. You have to look past the bookshelves, and the blue carpet, and the poor lighting downstairs. That is all so easy to fix.
There’s also an architectural challenge in this project:
balancing a classical building with modern functions
and technology.
This is and will be the biggest contention point with everybody, and, as is the case with any architectural project like
this one, not everyone is going to be happy. We will be drawing a very fine line in Lee Library. We don’t want to go too
modern, obviously, because of the traditions of the School.
That’s not Chatham Hall. You walk into the Well. It has history. You can feel the history, and that’s what makes the place
so special. But at the same time, we have to make it clear that
we are a 21st-century, state-of-the-art school. The most important statement about state-of-the-art education in a school
should be its library. All of us have to keep communicating
about this contrast between the classical and the modern. Live
with it. This progression is way overdue in that library. But,
again, this very delicate balance needs ongoing attention.
However, it’s Chatham Hall: traditional and, well, edgy.
Check out the library blog to keep up with the latest happenings at
Lee Library! http://www.librarych.blogspot.com/
much the architecture that interests me. It’s
the people in a space. It’s how they’re going to
use the space, react to the space, and how it all
is going to culminate that interests me the most
because that’s sort of my practical side coming out.
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Taking Chatham Hall’s academic
program to the next level:
The Edmund J. and Lucy Lee Learning Commons
Chatham Hall plans to transform its 12,256 square foot Edmund J. and Lucy Lee Library into a dynamic, new
21st century “Learning Commons” that will serve as an academic and technological hub for collaborative learning, research, study, and teaching on campus. We expect that the renovated facility and our plan for staffing it will become a
model for independent secondary-school libraries and will strengthen the School’s growing reputation as a leader in girls’ education.
So much has changed at Chatham Hall since the library was updated and moved into its present facility 25 years ago. The
School has become a connected, wireless, and increasingly paperless community. Students, teachers, coaches,
and riding instructors have immediate access to the information highway, and to each other, in classrooms,
dorm rooms, faculty homes, the gym, playing fields and stables. Technology has brought new dimensions to teaching, opportunities for creativity, and challenging goals for students. All students and teachers have iPads, thanks to an innovative iPad program that has brought national attention to the School and is transforming how we teach and learn—even how
we worship. (Chapel service programs are on the iPad, as are hymns and the entire Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.)
We have learned, and research bears out, that girls often perform best in collaborative, handsWe have come
on settings. As a result, lecture-based classes have yielded to round-table discussions led by
teacher-coaches. Students have become explorers who learn not only from their teachto think of the
ers, but also from each other and from collaborative projects inside and outside the
classroom. World leaders are welcomed to campus by groups of students working together to
research every aspect of their lives and work. Individual creativity and thinking are fostered
through independent study and student grant-supported projects. And students are encouraged to
participate in travel programs that expand and deepen their understanding of our global society.
Chatham Hall is ready to take its academic program to the next level.
To do so, we need to create a dynamic, central, and professionally-staffed space that will serve as
both a hub and a catalyst for intellectual conversation, collaborative work, research, design, study
and technology-based classes—what we have come to think of as a gymnasium for the mind. We
propose to transform Lee Library into a “Learning Commons,” staffed by our new, highly-skilled,
full-time librarian, certified in School Library Media Studies (Carolyn Stenzel) and the School’s
two instructional technology professionals (David Lyle and Wanda Gammon), whose offices will
relocate to the heart of the main floor Commons.
the capstone of a decade
The new Learning Commons will be the capstone of a decade
that has seen the development of outstanding academic programs and academic facilities at Chatham Hall. Three new
academic facilities have opened since 2003: a state-of-the-art
science building (Shaw 2003); a building dedicated to classical and foreign languages (Holt 2004); and a lecture hall that
is the venue for presentations by world leaders, artists, and
performers (Van Voorhis Hall 2009).
During this same period, Chatham Hall launched its signature Leaders in Residence Program (2003); an
interactive, distance learning course taught by a national
authority on Islam (2005); an experiential-learning and servicelearning program in South Africa that includes a credit-bearing
weekly seminar for students (2007) and a similar service-learning program in Cuba (2013); the study of Chinese (2010); an
innovative iPad program that pushes the boundaries of student
expression, research, and design (2011); the Nilsen Scholar
Program, a full academic scholarship program that brings academically gifted girls to Chatham Hall (2011); and the “iQuest”
program, providing students with experiential, independent
learning, and travel opportunities (2012).
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the plan
Learning Commons
as a gymnasium for
the mind and the
capstone of a decade
that has overseen
the development
of outstanding
academic programs
and facilities
at Chatham Hall
Shepley Bulfinch’s $831,000 plan is an exciting one, calling for multiple types of enclosed and open spaces, conversational, semi-quiet, and quiet areas, and seating for 42–60 individuals—all within the existing (12,256 square feet) footprint of the library’s main, ground, and mezzanine levels. The proposed renovations will incorporate the latest trends
from the most innovative college libraries: a facility that serves as the School’s Technology Center; high-touch service
by a librarian and instructional technology experts who, in collaboration with teachers and students, take on the roles of
instructors; small intimate spaces that support creativity in both individual
and group work; flexible, movable furnishings; and areas that provide
social and visual stimulation. The plan also calls for adequate shelving for
the School’s print collections, quiet, comfortable places for individual work
and study, and a welcoming café at the main entrance to draw students
Example of
collaborative
and teachers into the Learning Commons.
study area
main level
The main level—with its high activity, connectivity, hands-on help, conversational groupings, interactive equipment, display monitors,
and social spaces—is the heart of the
Learning Commons.
Entryway with Café
Group Study Room
Collaborative Work Areas
Media/Design Laboratory
Accessible Offices for the Librarian
and Instructional Technology Staff
Example of collaborative
group study
Example of traditional
tables for The Study
(Tea Room)
ground level
This quiet and semi-quiet level has
areas for study and independent work,
and technology-supported classroom work.
Chatham Hall is on the move. The transformation of Lee
Library into the Edmund J. and Lucy Lee Learning Commons
will move the academic program to the next level of excellence.
Library Stacks
The Study (Tea Room)
Octagon Technology Classroom
Instructional Technology Staff
Office and Storage
what is a gymnasium for the mind?
1 In Europe, a gymnasium (pronounced with a hard “g”)
is an advanced high school that offers preparation for
universities.
2 In Ancient Greece, in addition to being a training area
mezzanine
level
for athletes, the gymnasium was a location for socializing and intellectual pursuits.
3 In an athletic gymnasium, teachers are coaches and students work together in teams. That’s how learning and
teaching will take place in this renovated space.
4 Lee Library was originally the School’s gymnasium,
then its classical library. Now it will be a cutting-edge
Gymnasium for the Mind, stretching the brain muscles
rather than the arms’ and legs’.
Example of collaborative
group study
This level will be dedicated to individual and
group study. Preliminary plans call for two
to three study areas,
one of which could
serve as a lounge.
Example
of a group
study area
the library proposal
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Graduation 2012
White Dresses
Alma Mater
Glowing Lanterns
Ring Ceremony
Happy Seniors
Proud Faculty
Tears
Diplomas
Irises
Sad Seniors
Ring Locking
Bear Hugs
Families
Lisa Richmond Photos
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14 things we love
about commencement
weekend
class of 2012 college acceptances
senior gift
the Class of 2012 raised a
total of $99,382.34.
$16,487 of that was for
the Annual Fund,
$67,883.34 was restricted
to special projects, and
$15,012 (in cash and
pledges) will eventually
endow an Athletic Prize to
be awarded to a graduating senior during commencement ceremonies.
Led by Karen and
Larry Soderstrom,
Parents of Mary Soderstrom ’12, the families of
Though a long-standing tradition, Chatham Hall
girls haven’t always worn white dresses for Commencement. When
we were Chatham Episcopal Institute (1894–1927), students wore
black regalia. At some point, the School switched to white robes, and
eventually to white dresses.
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new trustees
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welcome!
new faculty and administrators
Emily Johns, Dean of Students
Emily Johns comes to us from St. Mary’s
School, in Raleigh, where she was the
Director of Residential Life, an English
teacher, and the volleyball coach. Prior to
St. Mary’s, Emily was an Assistant Director
of Admissions and Director of Summer Programs at Asheville School. She is a graduate
of Randolph-Macon Woman’s College and is currently pursuing her M.A. in English at Middlebury College. Emily’s
career in education began at Randolph-Macon (admissions,
coaching, and coordinating the American Culture Program)
and Virginia Episcopal School (dorm faculty and coaching).
Robin Revis-Pyke,
Director of Admission
Robin Revis-Pyke comes to Chatham Hall
from Montverde Academy in Montverde,
Florida, where she was Dean of Admission
for seven years. (Robin also attended
Montverde for high school.) She served as
Associate Director of Admission and Financial Aid at Miami Country Day School, in Florida, for five
years before moving to Montverde. Robin holds a B.A. in
Communication from Trinity International University in
Miami, Florida; an M.S. in Higher Education Administration
from Barry University in Miami, Florida; and a Ph.D. in
Leaderships and Education from Barry.
Jessica Bohn Bishop,
Assistant Director of Admission
Jessica Bishop comes to us from Radford
University, where she was an Admissions
Counselor and focused on Southwest Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee. Jessica holds a B.S. in Communication and
Public Relations from Radford, and received
her M.Ed. in Higher Education from Abilene Christian University. Jessica married Keith Bishop of Chatham, Virginia
on September 22, 2012.
Schay Goss Barnhardt ’06,
Admission Counselor
Schay Goss Barnhardt ’06 is a graduate of
Chatham Hall and Presbyterian College,
where she majored in English and minored
in psychology. She was most recently the
Director of Marketing at the Charlotte Child
Development Center, where she also was a
pre-school teacher for a year. Schay and her husband, Hunter
Barnhardt, were married on campus on June 23, 2012!
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Chatham Hall is simply a part of who
I am. I was blessed to attend this amazing
Hunter Barnhardt, Cross
Country and Soccer Coach,
Winter Conditioning Trainer
Hunter is a graduate of Woodberry Forest
and Presbyterian College, where he
majored in English and Education and ran
collegiate cross country. Most recently,
Hunter taught high-school English and
coached cross county and soccer at Hilton Head Preparatory School in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Hunter is
Schay’s husband!
Carolyn Stenzel, Librarian
Carolyn Stenzel holds a B.A. in History,
magna cum laude, from the University of
Richmond. In December she received her
M.S. in Education with Certification in
School Library Media Services from Longwood University, where she served as the
graduate assistant in School Library Media.
Carolyn also spent two years working as a reading tutor and
a site contact for AmeriCorps in Richmond.
Katie Wood, Assistant
Athletic Director, Volleyball
and Basketball Coach, and
Houseparent
Katie Wood holds an A.B in Urban Studies
from Brown University, where she was a
varsity track and field athlete (heptathlon
and javelin) for four years, after being a
three-sport (volleyball, basketball, and track) athlete in high
school. She holds an M.S. in Sports Management from the
University of Tennessee, where she was a teaching assistant
for the past two years.
Brittany Jackson, Teacher
of Dance, Houseparent and
Coordinator of Off-Campus
Activities
Brittany Jackson comes to Chatham Hall
from Culver Academy, where she has been
a dance intern for the last two years. She
has taught dance courses, choreographed
for and directed student performances, and assisted with
dorm supervision at Culver. Brittany has a B.A. in Dance
and in English Literature from Denison University. She has
studied dance at Goldsmiths College of the University of
London, U.C. Berkeley, and Kent State University. Brittany
brings a strong background in both ballet and modern
dance to Chatham Hall.
Chatham Hall welcomes Laura Brown Cronin ’72 of
Glen, New Hampshire to its Board of Trustees.
Laura is a past trustee (2005–2006), a former Alumnae Council member (1995–1996), Class Agent
(1985–1989, 2006–2010), and was the featured
speaker at a 2011 Chatham Hall dinner for Bostonarea alumnae. A former executive vice president with Fidelity
Investments (1996–2010), Laura brings extensive business experience to the Board. During her 14 years with Fidelity, she held
various executive positions: most recently, enterprise transformation officer and chief financial officer. Laura holds a B.A. in
Mathematics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Laura and
her husband, Neil, have three sons, David, Patrick, and William.
Jane M. Garnett ’73
We welcome Jane M. Garnett ’73 of Jamestown,
Rhode Island and Brooklyn, New York to
Chatham Hall’s Board of Trustees. Over the past
two decades, Jane has been one of the School’s
most dedicated volunteers, serving on the Alumnae Council from 1993–2000 and as Council President from 1998–2000. During 1998–2003, Jane was a
member of Chatham Hall's Board of Trustees, serving as Vice
President from 2001–2003. She was also a member of the
Board’s Search Committee that brought Rector Gary Fountain
to the School. Jane was a Class Agent for eight years, hosted
several of Chatham Hall’s most successful events, including
two “Toast from Coast to Coast” receptions at her Brooklyn
home. In 2000, Chatham Hall presented her with the Boyce
Lineberger Award for “her longstanding influence on the
affairs of Chatham Hall.” Before turning her attention fulltime to her family and her volunteer and Board work, Jane
was a bond salesman for several financial institutions on
Wall Street. Jane holds a B.A. in Political Science from Skidmore College. She and her husband, David Booth, have two
sons, Garnett and Oliver, and a daughter, Taylor.
new alumnae
council members
Lydia Beresford ’03
After receiving a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Hollins University, Lydia joined Kantar Media’s Campaign Media Analysis Group
(CMAG), the nation’s leading political advertising research firm. At CMAG, she serves as a
senior account manager. Lydia’s civic activities include advocating for pet ownership rights, the D.C. Junior League, and
a variety of literacy-focused causes.
What makes Chatham Hall magical
is the way in which young women are able
to grow and develop into individuals in a
safe and structured environment.
– LY D I A B E R E S F O R D ’ 0 3
school that instilled virtues of confidence,
self-discovery, perspective, and ambition.
–AMANDA SINK WYDNER ’94
Emily Blair Harvey ’93
A Virginia native who has made her home in
New York since attending New York University
where she received a B.S. in Communications,
Emily currently works for Merck Pharmaceutical as a senior Customer Representative. Emily
married her husband, Sean Harvey, last October.
Margaret Hastings Quinlan ’66
Margaret, or Margie, as she is known, left
Chatham Hall for the University of Wisconsin
where she received her B.A. First employed as
a social worker in North Carolina, she later got
an M.B.A. in California and focused on a
career in business while raising her two, now grown, children. Margie has always made volunteering a priority—
devoting herself to her children’s schools and activities, as
well as to the Junior League and the National Charity League.
Amanda Sink Wydner ’94
After completing B.S. and M.S. Degrees in Animal and Poultry Sciences at Virginia Tech.,
Amanda began a career with Certified Angus
Beef. She leads sales, marketing, and education initiatives for the Mid-Atlantic, and parts
of the Southeast. Amanda volunteers with programs that
educate young people about food and fiber production, animal husbandry, and the importance of effective communication skills, and is very active in her church. Amanda has
been married for 13 years to Freddie Wydner. They had their
first child, Preston, in August 2012.
Joanna Edgell ’93
Joanna is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College
and University of South Carolina Law
School. She is a native of Columbia, South
Carolina and practiced law there as well as
in Washington, D.C., Charleston, South
Carolina, and Jacksonville, Florida. Joanna lives in Atlanta
and is an active volunteer for the Botanical Gardens and
other organizations. Joanna is one of the youngest members
of The Esto Perpetua Society.
Megan Grant Lawrence ’98
Megan is a graduate of Sewanee, The University of the South and ESSEC-Paris,
France. Megan’s cousins are Michelle
Thomas Supko ’02 and Danielle Thomas ’04
and her aunt is the former Chair of the
Board of Trustees, Dora Thomas. She has been married to
Charles Lawrence since 2009 and she owns and operates a
small business in Houston—MGL Lifestyle Management—a
boutique concierge service.
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campus news
Thank you for 50 years of service
at Chatham Hall Lucille Payne
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Students are enjoying sixteen new bicycles
(and helmets) donated by Kathelen Amos, parent of Laura
Spencer ’07 and Margaret Spencer ’12. The idea surfaced six
years ago when Mrs. Amos joined Laura on Chatham Hall’s
signature Service Program in Cape Town, South Africa. The
trip coincided with the Cape Town Cycle Race, and the conversation went from there.
For the fourth consecutive year,
Chatham Hall was well represented, with a
group of nearly 90 girls, at the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation Walk to Cure event in
Roanoke, Virginia in September. A chaperone
found this note from an appreciative six-year-old
on one of the Chatham Hall buses after the walk.
2013
Register online at www.chathamhall.org or call 434.432.5508
The bikes will become a key component in Chatham Hall’s
popular fitness course. Chaplain Ned Edwards blessed the
bikes in Chapel in a Blessing of the Bikes Service modeled
after the annual service held in New York at The Cathedral of
St. John the Divine. “We recognize that they are a vehicle for
us to be closer to nature which means closer to God, we are
recognizing that they help our bodies to become more healthy
and therefore we are becoming better people. So we are blessing them and giving them a spiritual meaning, setting them
apart, which is the nature of something sacred, and it’s a real
blessing to be able to do this,” said Rev. Dr. Edwards.
thoughts from alumnae
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chat
Cheers!
I remember such
visitors in my day, but,
perhaps not such fun.
Wish I were there.
–Dina Kauders Leonard ’56
Hudson, Ohio
donate a bra
C H AT M O V I E S
Lawless directed by
John Hillcoat 2012
Erin Baker ’13 and Maren Sherrill ’13 are leading an initiative at
Chatham Hall to get students involved in “Free The Girls,” a non-profit
organization that provides job creation projects for women rescued
from sex trafficking. The organization collects new or gently used bras
and sends them to women in the program to sell in their communities.
why bras?
By sending bras to this organization, we girls at Chatham Hall
can encourage these abused women to sell our donated bras as
an alternativeis
source
of income. We are
not askingin
formany
money, countries around
Second-hand clothing
a profitable
market
but instead asking for something that you probably already have
Some
of
the
women in the prothe world. Brasas
are
sought
after
items.
a young woman. We can figuratively and literally support
She has been a real role model
in women’s sports, developing
a career on and off the court!
She adds another dimension
to the outstanding list of
women leaders who have
been to Chatham Hall.
Venus Williams:
2012–2013 Leader in Residence
–Petie Pugh Kirkpatrick ’62
Frankfort, Indiana
Venus is not only multitalented but she is also a
warm, upbeat, and
approachable person—
great role model for CH girls.
Wonderful choice,
Gary. How do you do it?
I could be there.
Take cooler showers. Especially in the
warmer months or after exercise, a cool or
lukewarm shower can feel refreshing. Reducing the heat
of your shower saves the energy used to heat the water.
The hotter your water, the more energy used.
A student member of the Sustainability Committee presents a tip
at assembly each week.
fall
By sending bras to this organization, we girls at Chatham Hall
can encourage these abused women to sell our donated bras as
an alternative source of income. We are not asking for money,
but instead asking for something that you probably already have
as a young woman. We can figuratively and literally support
these women in their recovery from sexual abuse.
Chatham Hall is proud to announce that international
tennis star Venus Williams will be its 2012–13 Polly Wheeler
Guth ’44 Leader in Residence.
Ms. Williams will be on campus November 13–14, and she
will deliver an address open to the community on Tuesday,
–Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53
November 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Jerry Van Voorhis Lecture Hall.
Greenwich, Connecticut
Ms. Williams joins the range of international female leaders who have been Chatham Hall’s Leaders in Residence,
including President of Ireland Mary Robinson, Nobel
Venus and I both have
Peace Prize Winner Shirin Ebadi, primatologist Jane
Sjogren’s Syndrome, so I feel
Goodall, President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf,
a connection with her. What
Prime Minister of Pakistan Benazir Bhutto, Alvin
an inspiration to fight through
Ailey Dance Company Director Judith Jamison,
all the issues this condition
and feminist Gloria Steinem.
puts in your path. I wish
sustainability committee tip:
gram are making
5x theinminimum
wage
in their
these women
their recovery from
sexual
abuse. community
-ERINmore
BAKER ’13
information.
by selling bras! Visit www.freethegirls.com for
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–Ali McGee Kelly ’98
Lexington, Kentucky
Wonderful!
–Lucy Maish ’68
Cincinnati, Ohio
awless, set thirtysix miles from
Chatham in Franklin County, Virginia,
is based on the true story of the bootlegging Bondurant brothers—Jack
(Shia LaBeou), Forrest (Tom Hardy),
and Howard (Jason Clarke). The visually
beautiful Prohibition gangster drama,
adapted from historic novel The Wettest
County in the World by Matt Bondurant,
Jack’s grandson, follows the three disorderly brothers in their illicit activities.
The brothers’ loyalty and legendary
immortality is tested during the Great
Franklin County Moonshine Conspiracy
when Jack, whose juvenile ways are
infuriating at times, recklessly reaches
for a more serious role in the family
business. Hardy plays Forrest’s smoldering character brilliantly, and almost
leaves the viewer wishing the story
had been told from his point of view.
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give a former slave a job.
-E RI N BAKE R ’ 1 3
–L AUR A R AND
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Hallam Hurt Student and
Faculty Travel Award 2011–2012
Argentina: Walker Abbott ’14
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season wrap-up
The Soccer and Tennis
teams wrapped-up their interscholastic season with
appearances in the Blue Ridge Conference tournament.
The Tennis team finished their tournament run with a
loss to North Cross School in the semi-finals.
After a 9-8-1 season, the Soccer team played to a
quarter-final loss at North Cross School.
The most anticipated moment of my adventure studying the
(Chatham Hall Chief Financial and Facilities Officer and EcoGrass Fed/Organic Beef Industry in Argentina at Estancia Beef,
nomics Teacher Ron Merricks, my dad, and I) interned for four
made possible by the Hallam Hurt Travel Award, was the
days, the pride started at the very root of Argentine tradition.
moment when I would be sinking my teeth
The gauchos cared for the cattle and their
into one of the renowned Argentine steaks. It
horses, which they used for managing the catIt was this legendary
was this legendary beef that guided the entire
tle. With their experience and skills going
beef that guided the
process of the project; why was Argentine
back multiple generations, the gauchos’ pasentire process of the
beef simply better? I found that there is one
sion for their animals extends far beyond a
project;
main reason: pride. When an entire populalivelihood into a complete way of life.
tion prides itself on a single product, the outWhether we were wandering the busy
come is impeccable. The cattle are given the
streets of Buenos Aires and visiting the “talbest, most-natural diets (grass-fed), slaughabarterias” (leather shops), visiting the ice
tered at peak time, and the beef is prepared
cream shop every night in the small town of
to capture every flavor and tenderness in the cut of meat.
La Paz, herding cattle on the 5,000-acre islands owned by
At Estancia Beef, one of the most powerful, grass fed, organic
Estancia Beef, or playing polo, we were truly submerged in
beef companies in the world, where our steak-thirsty trio
Argentina for ten days.
why was
Argentine beef simply
e
better?
soccer
Meg Roth ’13
WALKER ABBOTT ’14 BRC 2nd Team All-Conference
MARY SODERSTROM ’12 BRC 2nd Team AllConference
Search for “Chatham Hall YouTube Channel”
online to check out Chatham Hall athletic
video clips and more.
the riders had a successful spring showing at the Greensboro, NC Horse Show. A large and competitive show, each rider
challenged herself further by riding new horses or entering classes
they had never competed in before.
ALLIE BROWN ’15 3rd Equitation 12-14 Flat, riding Lenski
Rittmeister and Champion
Children’s Pony Hunter, with
two 1st place finishes and a
3rd on Templeton
LA DAUGHTRIDGE ’13 2nd
Equitation 15-17 Flat riding
Bambino, 4th NCHJA Children’s
Equitation riding Bambino and
4th Progressive Jumper riding
Bambino
DELANEY EVANS ’15
Reserve Champion Special
Hunter, with a 1st and 3rd in
Special Hunter over fences
on Templeton, 5th in Equitation 12-14 over Fences on
Bambino and 5th in Equitation 12-14 Flat on Bambino
TABEA FAHR ’15 1st, 4th,
5th and 6th, in Long Stirrup
Division on Lenski
Rittmeister
tennis
JINGI HAIRSTON ’15 (pictured) BRC 1st Team
All-Conference and BRC All-Tournament Team
ANNA PORTER ’12 BRC 2nd Team All-Conference
CHARLOTTE JONES ’12 Gene Scott Connor
Memorial Tennis Championship
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The purple-gold championship
ended in a tie for the 2011–2012
school year.
C H AT M O V I E S
Safety Not Guaranteed directed by
Colin Trevorrow 2012
afety Not Guaranteed is a heart-felt indie
film, which beautifully illustrates the
humanizing effect of love in a cynical modern society. The film
features career-making performances by Mark Duplass, Jake
Johnson, and Aubrey Plaza. The story follows a popular reporter
for a Seattle-area magazine (Johnson) as he and two interns try
to uncover the truth behind a classified ad placed by a man
claiming to have found a way to time travel. In the ad, the paranoid Kenneth (Duplass) claims, “This is not a joke...Must bring
own weapons. I have only done this once before.” As the story
progresses, time travel falls into the background, and the
unique personalities of the main characters mix. Darius (Plaza) is
the character to watch in this quirky romantic comedy, drawing
the audience in as she is transformed by her relationship with
Kenneth from a snarky young reporter into a caring adult. Darius is surprised by her own ability to open up, which gives this
movie the heart that it needs to endear itself to the audience.
S
after
before
Check out
the barn
area’s bright
new look
Mary Craft ’15 competed in her first major horse show,
The 2012 Raleigh Spring Premier Horse Show in Raleigh, North
Carolina. The horse show attracts many exhibitors from across the
country. Mary picked up the blue ribbon in the Three-gaited
English Show Pleasure Division.
–HUNTER BARNHARDT
2012
What’s Cooking
Archie Womack’s Brunswick stew, cinnamon
toast, eggs benedict, and cherries jubilee were
legendary during his 34 years of service at
Chatham Hall from the mid 1960s through his
retirement in 2000. Archie passed away in 2007.
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How Girls Thrive
JoAnn Deak
Green Blanket Press, 2012
T H E S E DAY S , it is not uncommon for a teacher who walks into my office to
confer about how a student is faring in class to say, “Well, JoAnn Deak pointed
out that…” or “According to JoAnn Deak…” My response is to smile, knowing
that the day that the faculty spent with Dr. Deak in August, before we welcomed
students and began classes, was well worth the time.
Dr. Deak has been exploring brain development for a good part of her career.
Because of the explosion of knowledge in neuroscience, what, at one point
boiled down to hunches about how girls think, react, grow, develop, and learn
best, is now borne out by research.
Much of Dr. Deak’s information can be
found in her book How Girls Thrive, which
imparts valuable information in an easily
accessible style. Deak’s “Three Cs,” (confidence, connectedness, and competence,—she
also included courage in this conversation
when she spoke to us), demonstrate how a
girl will not be able to function to her utmost
if any of these is lacking. Girls need to know
that they are competent (At Chatham Hall,
when a ninth grader earns an A in Physics 9,
she does so because she is competent in the
material). Achieving competence brings on
confidence. Being connected to people and
place allows for confidence to build, which
brings courage into the equation—the courage
to try new things, meet new people, and the
courage to fail. And failure is important.
Deak asserts that the brain can grow. New
neurons will fire and synapses will form when a girl uses her brain. Trying new
things, failing, working harder, and finally succeeding are valuable steps that lead
to brain growth. The alarming information is that girls are not wired to want to
persevere, whereas boys are. Often, girls will give up when they see that their
solution is not working. Supporting girls in their attempts to be courageous and
to develop confidence and competence through connections to people, plus
allowing them to fail and to figure out what went wrong, will only enhance their
learning and further development of their brains.
So, when that teacher comes through my door intoning JoAnn Deak’s name,
telling me what we need to be cogniscent of when teaching a specific student, I
just sit back and smile. JoAnn Deak has helped the Chatham Hall faculty understand, the importance of what we teach and how we teach girls
My response is
to smile, knowing
that the day that
the faculty spent
with Dr. Deak in
August, before
we welcomed
students and
began classes,
was well worth
the time.
Cherries Jubilee
2 (15-ounce) cans whole
Bing cherries in juice,
drained and juice reserved
1 tablespoon sugar
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1⁄4
cup kirsch or cognac, warmed
2 pints vanilla ice cream
fall
In a small dish, combine a little cherry juice with
sugar and cornstarch. In a skillet, heat juice from
cherries over moderate heat. Add cornstarch mixture.
When juice thickens, add cherries to warm through.
Pour in warmed liqueur, then flame the pan to burn
off alcohol. Remove cherries from heat. Scoop vanilla
ice cream into large cocktail glasses or dessert dishes
and spoon cherries down over ice cream.
– MARTHA G R I S WO LD , ACAD E M I C D E AN
2012
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HerStory
alumnae voices
Share the stories of your life
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Carol Jane Van Landingham ’62
Reunion 2012
As a part of Chatham Hall's oral history project, HerStory,
we sat down with Carol Jane Van Landingham ’62 during
her 50th Reunion in May. Here’s what she had to say.
Be a part of Chatham Hall’s
oral history project.
that went to Chatham Hall in the 60’s, and I roomed with two
girls
from
Connecticut. My
mother picked
Chatham Hall out of a
The
HerStory
audio
recording
book. I grew up across the border in North Carolina, and my
booth
open
during
reunion
mother,
whois
was
an inveterate
social climber,
had read Vance
Packard’s book The Status Seekers, which was about how to live
weekend to record your story.
the snobbiest life possible. And in that book, there was a list of
I adored Chatham Hall. I was one of the few southerners
What Chatham Hall
taught me the most is that
I am a person, and how to
think. I had always gotten
good grades because I
could memorize well in my
little school system, but
nobody prepared me for
using my brains, which were
sitting there, just not being
used. The first six weeks at
Chatham, I kept getting red
marks all over my papers.
Finally it began to dawn on
me that they wanted us to
think here, and that was a
totally new concept, and a
very exciting one to me.
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the most socially prominent girls’ and boys’ schools in the country. When she looked at the list of girls’ schools, she found Miss
Hall’s, Miss Porter’s, Emma Willard, Madeira, and that sort of
thing, and then she found Chatham Hall, which was the nearest
one to North Carolina, and thought it would be a great idea to
send me here. Her hope was that I would become the southern
belle that she always hoped I would be.
What she failed to do was check out who went to school here,
and when I went to school here in the 60’s there were very few
southerners, and almost all of the girls were from New England
and the Middle Atlantic states, which means that my two Connecticut roommates reconstructed me before Thanksgiving. I
went home and announced that black people were equal, which
was not well received in my family, nor was my mother thrilled
to hear that I had become an Agnostic, which was a word I did
not know when I first went to Chatham Hall.
I’ve evolved since then. I’ve been a Quaker most of my adult
life, and I’ve had a really meaningful experience in that way.
What Chatham Hall taught me the most is that I am a person, and
how to think. I had always gotten good grades because I could
memorize well in my little school system, but nobody prepared
me for using my brains, which were sitting there, just not being
used. The first six weeks at Chatham, I kept getting red marks all
over my papers. Finally it began to dawn on me that they wanted
us to think here, and that was a totally new concept, and a very
exciting one to me. It was certainly not what my parents had in
mind, though, because I was still in the generation where you
were supposed to go to Duke or Carolina and marry a doctor or
lawyer, or someone on their way to becoming one, and shape
your life around that person and your children, and so forth.
Be a part of Chatham Hall’s
oral history project.
The HerStory audio recording
booth is open during reunion
weekend to record your story.
The other thing that was wonderful for me about Chatham Hall,
was that for the first time, I was exposed to looking at my faith
both intellectually and spiritually, but not necessarily within the
narrow confines of having to take the Bible literally. The first day
in my New Testament course, Miss Ramsdell said to us, “We’re
going to take a look at the virgin birth controversy,” and I didn’t
know there was a controversy, and it sort of went from there.
I think all girls’ education was really important for me. I had a
very low self-image as a kid. I didn’t have a lot of belief in my
ability to stand my ground and be the kind of person that I
wanted to be. Chatham Hall was the safest I had ever been, and
as a matter of fact, I had a kind of nervous breakdown when I
graduated because I was leaving this safe place, and my mother
had plans for me to go to Duke, and those weren’t my plans.
At Chatham Hall I had been taught that I had a
perfectly good mind, and I didn’t play second
fiddle to anybody. This place really changed my life. It
gave me a perspective on the world that I never had. I came here
thinking that everybody was a democrat and a Methodist, and so
to find that people were all kinds of things was mind blowing to
me, but also very exciting.
My real life after Chatham started out sort of like I imagined. I
married a law student and had two blonde, blue-eyed children, a
station wagon, a house in suburbia, and all those things. After
about ten years, I finally had to deal with the fact that actually,
I’m a lesbian. My husband and I had to make a very hard decision to split up our marriage. If we were a little more creative,
and it was thirty years later, we might have found something else
creative to do, but we couldn’t at the time.
I eventually got an MSW from Boston College and worked in
community mental health for many years. I did private practice
for nine years in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. I absolutely loved
it. I also did some hospice work and some inpatient site work,
and I did a lot of training for agency people. It was a very
rewarding career in every way except financially. I wish I had
done something that was a little more lucrative, but I wouldn’t
trade the vocational experiences I had in doing it for anything.
People would say to me, “Isn’t your work depressing?” and I
would say, “No. I hear a lot of sad things, but I see so much
courage and so much determination and so much willingness
and determination to survive, that nobody could replace those
gifts in any way.” At one point in my working life, I had a boss
who tried to fire me because I am gay. Someone had written an
anonymous letter about me, and I had to hire a lawyer to defend
myself, in order to keep my job.
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So, all my life I’ve experienced being an outsider, but
I’ve also been sorting out my real roots, and deciding
which roots I want to keep. My partner, Betsy, and I
now have a small sheep farm in Vermont where we
retired. We have sets of grandchildren nearby. And it
seems really appropriate to me that my present vocation is as a farmer, which my father always remained
at heart. I am just so amazed when I come back here
to Chatham Hall— and this is my third reunion, I
came to the 40th and 45th before this, my 50th
Reunion— that given how my life could have turned
out, given that my mother unwittingly sent me to
Chatham Hall, that Chatham Hall ended up being the
most important thing that ever happened to me up to
that time, and one of the most important things in my
whole life. For somebody to start out as I did, and
end up as a whole person, was completely unpredictable and unlikely until I came to Chatham Hall,
and then everything became possible.
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This is the first in a series that we will be
sharing with you in subsequent issues
of Chat. To hear more alumnae stories,
look for HerStory recordings on our website
www.chathamhall.org in 2013.
C H AT R E A D S
The Sense of An Ending
Julian Barnes VINTAGE BOOKS,
2011
t’s rewarding when a book deeply touches
you. It propels you to go further, deeper even
more than you might be comfortable, to see differently, to reevaluate your feelings or your truth.
Written by Julian Barnes, who won the Man
Booker Prize for this novel in 2011, The Sense of
An Ending is the story of a middle-aged man who
reflects on his life after receiving some unexpected news about an old friend. Reflections of
lives, entwined with friendship and integrity, illusions and delusions, the novel is about the power
of feeling and also of not feeling at all. Barnes suggests that life is really an unfinished story. After
reading this, I wanted to read it again. I needed to
revisit the well-crafted characters and subtle
details of situations. The essence of the story
about the Blind Men and The Elephant concludes
that, “ All of you are right.” Oddly, it came to mind
when reading this novel. This, or that, there is no
wrong or right at all. – T A L M A D G E R A G A N ’ 6 9
I
2012
class notes
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Acknowledge each emotion and thought. You will never win a conv flict
by insisting that you are right. You may win the battle but you’ll
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If you want to impress or influence people, don’t talk. Listen.
Make sure they feel understood and validated.
class notes
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lose the war because you will have lost the trust and respect of the
person you are trying to win over.
acknowledge, compromise. That is how good relationships
w Listen,
are established with allies, adversaries, and especially with those you
Mary Jo Blake ’84 Hey everyone!
I’m still living in Fredericksburg, Virginia
and working for the city police department
as a Crisis Negotiator. My team deploys with
the SWAT team on high-risk search warrants, drug raids, and hostage/barricade situations. It’s a
little stressful at times but I love the adrenaline rush and
it’s always great to resolve an incident without anyone
getting hurt. Never underestimate the power of communication! I hope everyone is doing well and that I get to
see some of you at the next reunion. GO PURPS!!
love. Strong relationships are the key to success and happiness. It’s
not about what you do. It’s about the teams you build along the way.
–Mary Jo
When Mary Jo’s class note popped up in my inbox on August 12, I opened it right away.
I always drop everything to read class notes. They are my favorite part of the CHAT, a small glimpse into the lives
of generations of fascinating Chatham Hall women. When I send out e-mails saying, “Don’t forget to submit your
note—we want to hear from you,” I can assure you that I really do.
As soon as I read Mary Jo’s note, I knew I had to meet
her. After a very quiet summer in Chatham, a meeting with a
crisis negotiator sounded like a welcome change of pace. So
I e-mailed her, and to my luck, she responded right away.
We met just a few days later at Sammy T’s restaurant and
bar in downtown Fredericksburg, a favorite of MJ’s ever
since her college days at Mary Washington University.
Mary Jo radiates warmth and calmness; that’s the
first thing I noticed about her, but a quiet sense of
mission also surrounds her. Anyone could have picked
her out immediately—she looked like the type of person who
could talk a person in crisis down. I wasn’t surprised to later
learn that she and her team have a 100 percent success rate.
In January 1982, when she was just 15, Mary Jo
lost her mother in a devastating accident. Mrs. Blake had
been a passenger on Air Florida Flight 90 that struck the
14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. before crashing into
the icy Potomac River. The pilots had failed to switch on the
engines’ internal ice protection systems. The aircraft had
only been airborne for 30 seconds.
Mary Jo came to Chatham Hall as a junior, less than a
year after her mother’s death. During our conversation, she
said more than once, “Chatham Hall saved my life.” As
someone who knows what it feels like to be saved, it’s fitting that she is in the business of saving lives.
Mary Jo began her post-graduate career in counseling,
working first with sexual abuse victims, and later with AIDS
patients at the height of the US AIDS crisis. Her position was
funded through a grant from the Washington, DC AIDS
Council, and when funding was cut, she took a job as a 911
dispatcher (which she still holds full-time as a shift supervisor). The high-stress job was a perfect fit, and Mary Jo
wanted more. Ten years later, in 2005, MJ got her FBI Certification and joined the negotiating team; she has been in the
field working on an on-call basis ever since.
“During our conversation,
she said more than once,
Chatham Hall
saved my life.”
fall
We talked about Mary Jo’s most recent “situation.” On March 15, 2012, 25-year-old Michael Hamilton—
wanted for escaping from a work release program and
robbing a bank in Pennsylvania—headed toward Fredericksburg. Pennsylvania detectives tracked his phone and
knew his general whereabouts. They e-mailed a photograph
to detectives in Fredericksburg, and flyers were distributed
in the area in hopes of nailing down his exact location.
Shortly thereafter, a clerk at a local motel reported that the
man in the flyer had just checked in. With the motel surrounded, and occupants evacuated, Mary Jo’s team took
over. She and her partner established contact with the fugitive through an emergency telephone and began the long
process of calming him down (only one person talks to the
individual while the other coaches, this time her partner
did the talking).
“He was just a scared kid,” she said, trying to explain the
bond that she feels with an individual in crisis after going
through such an extreme experience together. Though
Hamilton did eventually surrender peacefully, he fell into a
coma just minutes after arriving at the police station. Mary
Jo and her partner didn’t know that Hamilton had been
snorting heroin constantly throughout their two-hour standoff. To MJ’s relief, he regained consciousness a week later,
and another situation was diffused without anyone having
gotten hurt. “Negotiating is not about meeting
deadlines and demands,” says Mary Jo, “It’s about
building trust and rapport with a person in crisis,
so that when you finally ask him to put the
weapon down and walk out, he believes you have
his best interests in mind.”
Laura Rand '06 Managing Editor, Chat
2012
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seems to be my best activity. Keep my
hand in Democratic politics, Women’s
Bar Association, SafeHouse etc. Have
spent decades working for more opportunities for women. And we are gaining.
class of 43
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reunion 2012 Virginia “Ginnie” Downing Wiseman ’37 celebrated her 75th Reunion with granddaughter Randall Wiseman ’12 at a senior class dinner with the Alumnae Council and the 50th reunioners.
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Mary Dykema McGuire I
continue to be so grateful for
my Chatham Hall experience and
memories!
Katharine Hobson Sturtevant No
real news. I miss our departed members who used to reunion at Fishers
Island—only two left. Time moves fast
these days.
class of 38
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Barbara “Bunny” Mallory
Hathaway I have four
children, five grandchildren, and two
great-grandchildren; unfortunately,
all out of town. Just missed Edith
Gwathmey Grassi ’41 and sister
Nancy Gwathmey Harris ’50 in Northeast Harbor this summer. I turned 90
last December and am slowing down a
bit, but still enjoying musical and arts
events and gardening—though I have
outlived my crabapple and dogwood
trees!!!!! But, always more to come.
Mary Speer Marr has three children
living, nine grandchildren, and six
great-grandchildren. Over the summer,
she celebrated her 90th birthday with
a party. In Boston, Mary saw the
daughter of Helen Daniel Rodman ’39
(deceased), Channing Penna, who is a
well renowned artist.
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Mary
Tiedeman
Hoagland I and my
family have said goodbye to my dear husband Don of 63 years.
A blessing after years
of alzheimers and
severe dementia.
Enjoyed a lovely backyard party of
Chathamites recently,
with the Fountains as
honored guests. Keeping up with my four
kids and their families—ten grands—
reunion 2012 Penny
Perkins Wilson ’41 with
granddaughter Penelope
Thompson
Charlotte Streeter
Goodhue We continue to
hike all over Europe. We did the
Camino last year and are off to Ireland
to walk the Kerry Ring next week. Otherwise, we live a luxurious life in a
retirement community and bask in the
glorious accomplishments of our
grandchildren, all of whom are growing up much too fast. I continue to see
Mary Hooker Crary ’45 and we have a
wonderful time remeniscing about our
fabulous four years at Chatham.
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Priscilla Pruden Garretson
Have lived for the past three
years in a new retirement community.
Best decision that we ever made. I will
be 85 and my husband will be 90 next
April. The staff is wonderful top to
bottom. There is lots to do. I am still
swimming laps: 1/2 mile three times a
week. Alternate days I exercise in our
machine room. Am doing a lot of reading and water color painting. Haven’t
seen any Chathamites...not too many
left. I have a lunch and movie group
every Wednesday at another facility in
the same groups as the one that I am
living in. We have lunch and then
watch a DVD on one of the lady’s DVD
player. I also watch a movie on my
laptop computer every night after dinner. I have quite a collection of wonderful old movies.
Sally Quinby Gibbs Happy to report
the arrival of a second great granddaughter! Both George and I are doing
well and he still plays tennis at almost
90. I try hard to keep up with him!
Joan Houston McCulloch I lost my
husband, Andy, last summer and am
now in Kendal at Hanover, a retirement home. At this point in life it is a
good place to be.
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Marjorie Flory I have
recently moved to Wake
Robin, a retirement community in Vermont, although I’ve kept my New York
apartment and will be spending part of
each year there. This is a beautiful
place, and at least one other Chatham
alumna lives here: Laurie Valentine
’49. My new mailing address:
4108 Wake Robin Drive,
Shelburne, VT 04582.
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Joan Lewis Jewett
I had lunch with Edie
Nalle Schafer ’49 and Margie Ryburn
Topping ’48 in Chevy Chase, Maryland. We had a great reunion. Margie
has just moved to our area and it was
great to see her.
Anne Lydgate
Kaiser It’s hard
to believe that
we had a grandchild graduate
from college
this spring, and
Anne Lydgate Kaiser ’48
she’s now on a with husband Andy at her
80th birthday party in
six month hos- December 2010
pitality internship in China. Three others are seniors
in college this year, and look forward
to careers in physical therapy, teaching,
and business. The youngest of the five
is a college sophomore following his
musical interest in becoming a live
sound and audio engineer. Andy and I
are doddering along well. I still play
tennis and take piano lessons, and
Andy, albeit with a cantankerous back,
works with SCORE assisting small business. We have a recent contract for the
sale of our house, and hope to move in
the spring into an independent living
apartment at a fine facility here in
Brunswick, Maine. No more gardening!
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Elisabeth McGinty Laigle
George and I celebrated our
60th anniversary on August 30, 2012.
It has truly been a wonderful life, we
have been blessed in so many ways!
Our health is pretty good for 80+ year
olds, we are busy and active with our
family, our church, and many friends.
Plus five grandchildren are of course
special. The family had a party for us,
and then we went on a cruise of the
Columbia and Snake rivers in the
Pacific Northwest.
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Shirley Mills Lee, cousin of
the late Mary “Mollie”
Weare Birdsall, reports that Mollie’s
husband, Paul Birdsall, is doing well
and owns and operates Horsepower
Farm in Penobscot, Maine. Paul and
Mollie’s children and grandchildren
help to run the farm. They recently
had their second great grandchild who
is named after Mollie.
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Povy LaFarge Bigbee Povy’s
granddaughter Emily Calhoun
’03 has established a new business this
year. It’s called “Floriography New
Mexico.” Emily and Floriography New
Mexico will deliver fresh flowers to
any business or home in the Mesilla
Valley (Las Cruces area). Flowers are
grown by Emily on her two acres of
cultivated, fertilized, drip watered, and
hand seeded land. They are beautiful,
and Em has been a success, catching
the attention of “Arrowhead,” a division of New Mexico State University
Business College, and the New Mexico
Farm Bureau. Her web page says: Floriography, new source for cut flowers
in the Mesilla Valley, offers collections
of fresh cut and locally grown flowers
on a subscription basis. Each bouquet
is thoughtfully made with the best and
freshest blooms available from our garden throughout the different seasons.
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Lee Edwards Anderson
This summer will begin
my Junior year at The University of
South Carolina in Bluffton. Still not
decided on a major, but most likely
Psychology or Liberal Studies. Which
should it be? There are so many interesting courses yet to take. Best to all.
Cheers, Pixie
Elizabeth Thompson Binstock I’ve
recently retired from being a professor
of Education at Worcester State College.
I’ve also retired from being a library
trustee, once we’d finished building a
gorgeous 3-story new library. Currently
I’m writing songs and poems and performing at open mics. I’m also on the
board of our Community Chest, and I’m
serving on a Campus rehabilitation committee at our local Unitarian Church.
Olivia Hutchins Dunn Our “big” news
is the forthcoming publication of son
John’s book, Loopers by Random House,
no less! Gail Lassiter Malin ’53, Margot
Bell Woodwell ’53, and I had a grand
reunion lunch in Florida in early March.
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Jane De Hart I am very near
the end of my legal biography
of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
spent a wonderful week at Cornell, her
alma mater, lecturing about her years
as a college student there and also lecturing at the Law School on the challenges of writing about a feminist legal
icon and a sitting justice. In June
(2012) my husband and I will spend a
week in Jackson Hole breathing in the
beauty and majesty of the place and
celebrating big birthdays before returning home to Santa Barbara and a full
summer of wonderful performances by
the incredibly gifted students at the
Music Academy of the West.
Elizabeth Hulick has her own website, www.betsyhulick.com.
Caroline Ramsay Merriam I live in
the Georgetown section of Washington,
DC. My husband and I spend part of
every summer at the same rented
house in Brittany (France) and part of
the winter in Martinique. I work at my
family foundation against forced child
class of ’51 In April 2012, writer David
Treadwell featured Christina Sawtelle
Teale in a series, Unsung Heroes, about
people who quietly contribute to the
quality of life in the Portland, Maine
area. Visit http://www.theforecaster.net/
and search “Christina Teale” to read the
full article.
Photo of Christina with her dog Lily by Natalie
Conn/For The Forecaster
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class notes
Look for the Esto Perpetua lantern
icon to see which classes have
Reunions coming up in May 2013
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class notes
Lee Porter Page Wissie Thompson
’58 visited in January, and Missy and
Gary Fountain in March 2012. We had
a great get together with the Fountains
and other Chathamites in Vero Beach,
FL.
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Margaret Horner Walker ’58 with daughter-in-law Kathy, holding granddaughter Audrey (2 years old), son
Jason, holding grandson Adam (5 years old), husband Bill, daughter Ellen, and son-in-law Mark
labor, solitary confinement, and help
for low-income artisans. My husband,
retired from the World Bank, writes
books, chiefly on his experiences at his
missions in Jordan and Turkey. We are
big Obama supporters and are campaigning for him this fall.
Caroline Young Moore All is well in
Colorado. Eldest grandson starting new
company (prescriptions online) in
Boston. His dad also has a very busy
start-up company, so things are looking
good. We’re still spending off season—
spring and fall on Martha’s Vineyard.
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Ann Walling Alexander My
granddaughter Annie Alexander attended the Chatham Hall Riding
Camp for the middle two weeks in
July this summer, and had a wonderful
time. She is hoping to return next
summer. She later visited me in Dartmouth, Massachusetts and brought me
a Chatham Hall to-go glass which I use
all the time. When I was at Chatham,
I couldn’t have imagined this happening. We have had a busy summer with
all nine of our grandchildren visiting
us at different times. We feel very
lucky.
Carlotta Hellier Parsons I am now
a great grandmother! My granddaughter Olivia gave birth to Noah James on
May 2, 2012. And, Olivia’s older sister
Samantha, who is in her third year of
medical school at UVM and studying
to be an OB/GYN, delivered the baby!
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Josephine Noel Dietz We
have grandchildren from six
to twenty. Enjoyed seeing Liz Blagden
fall
Strawbridge ’56 while visiting
Philadelphia last fall.
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Margaret Horner
Walker Bill and I celebrated our 50th anniversary on August
4th, with our daughter Ellen, her
husband Mark, our son Jason, his
wife Kathy, our grandson Adam, and
our granddaughter Audrey at a nice
restaurant preceded by a ride for all of
us in a stretch limo. They planned all
of this for us, which was a wonderful
gift to us.
Harriet
Whitehead
Although
Harriet lives
in Durham,
North Carolina while
Christine Whitehead Maack ’58
her twin
and Harriet Whitehead ’58 getting in the mood for some great
sister,
Japanese food—and some more
sake in Tokyo
Christine
Whitehead
Maack ’58, lives in Anchorage Alaska,
they contrive to do some foreign travel
together almost every year. Usually birdwatching is part of it. This year they
took the opportunity to visit cousins in
Japan where they not only enjoyed
exotic birds, but also beautiful parks,
gardens, and cultural events. The cherry
blossoms came out for them.
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Daphne Crocker-White
and I spent a lovely week together in
Virginia at the Homestead, where we
went falconing among other fun activities! It was great fun and even more
fun to be with Lisa.
Margaret Lloyd Keuler I celebrated my 70th birthday by
taking children, spouses, and grandchildren to the Yucatan Peninsula. We
stayed in a villa in Akumal where we
could snorkle around a reef and also
with sea turtles. We drove to several
ruins and the Sian Ka’an Biosphere.
We had a terrific family time.
Wissie Thompson ’58, Sally Saltonstall Willis ’58, and Floy Schroeder Ervin
’58 hosted a luncheon at Wissie’s home in Kennebunkport, Maine on August 15.
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Mary Potts Montgomery I’m still in
Seattle and looking forward to retirement early next year. Main project
lately has been participating in the
move of the Museum of History &
Industry to two new facilities. If anyone comes out this way, give a holler.
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Mary Allen Cox Had some
medical problems this year,
but all is fine now. Back to golf. Planning a trip to Chicago with family.
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Eugenia Richardson Nash
Loved seeing everyone at our
50th Reunion in May.
Charlotte V. Jorgensen How I
enjoyed seeing so many classmates
joining our 50th reunion this past
spring! My 10 days in America were
wonderful seeing my brother and sister-in-law and their 4 children with
families. Coming back to Denmark I
found my family in fine shape including my husband Poul, who now is
doing fine after his heart attack in February. We have spent a cold summer
in Denmark to get him well. He feels
so well now, that we are going for a
trip to France this fall and after that to
Qatar around Christmas time. Our
youngest daughter with husband and 3
grandchildren live there. I shall never
forget the 3 days I spent with you all,
to see so many of you. My trip to
America for our 50th reunion was the
best thing I have decided to do so far
this year. Least but not less it was
grand to see how Chatham Hall has
expanded in 50 years!
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5
7
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Lala Mapes Maresi ’59 and Janie
Huntley Wester ’57
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8
4
Sarah Meacham ’51 with Gertrude
Smith Notman ’45, Clare Curtis
Rimmer ’50
5
Floy Schroeder Ervin ’58
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Janet Sawtelle Houghton ’54,
Ashby Cothran, Katrina Watson ’60,
and Christina Sawtelle Teale ’51
Audrey Sawtelle Delafield ’60 and
honorary alumna Ashby Cothran
Wissie Thompson ’58
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Carroll Taylor Clark ’58 and Sally
Saltonstall Willis ’58
Molly Buck ’58, Carroll Taylor Clark
’58, Sally Saltonstall Willis ’58,
Carolyn Malone Bonier ’58, Eve
Moses Thorson ’58, and Audrey
Sawtelle Delafield ’60
2012
Develop and present competency based
educational seminars for staff at children’s centers and home health care.
Assist at the government Women’s Center where cervical cancer is detected
and treated. Botswana has the second
highest rate of HIV in the world and the
sixth highest rate of Tb. Then I am off
to explore Northern Mozambique with
my son Paul for total R & R for two
weeks in September.
Row 1: Diana Simrell Savory, Olivia Cheever, Jean Merritt Johnston, Helen Beasley, Rebecca Cooley
Etcheverry, Louise Potts Thibodaux, Terry Grace, Jan Slocum, Lynn Scholz, Petie Pugh Kirkpatrick,
Charlotte Jensen Jorgensen, Rosie Bryant Woodard
Row 2: Jane Allen Street, Susan Mabry Menees, Jo Rainey Evans Tisdale, Jill Headley Poole, Susan
Stutenroth Johnson, Nicky Kreutz MacInnes, Julia Dalton Keane, Carol Jane Van Landingham
Row 3: Florence “Peg” Keiser Romanov, Holly Fry McGowan, Shirley Grange, Genie Richardson Nash,
Julia Frazier, Carole Coviello
reunion 2012
class of 196250th reunion
Row 1: Olivia Cheever ’62,
Susan Stutenroth Johnson
’62, Holly Fry McGowan ’62,
Petie Pugh Kirkpatrick ’62,
and Jan Slocum ’62
Row 2: Jean Merritt
Johnston ’62, Jill Hedley
Poole ’62, and Genie
Richardson Nash ’62
50th reunion
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Judy Carter
I am excited
about our 50th reunion
coming up next May, and
am having a wonderful
time reconnecting with
classmates over the
phone for now, and hopefully in person next May.
Still riding everyday and enjoying the
ever changing beauty of the mountains
with my partner and our dogs and
friends. Our country Inn, the Inn at
Wintersun, is reopened under new
management, so if you’re in the
Asheville area, let us know.
Susan Beekman Clough No news.
Just looking forward to our “impossible to believe” 50th.
Lucille Pilling At present, I am in
Botswana teaching a course on public
health nursing in the community for
fourth-year students from the School of
Nursing, University of Pennsylvania.
The course is part of a seven-year partnership between the Universities of
Botswana and Pennsylvania Schools of
fall
Nursing. This year’s clinical practicum
experience includes: Travel to Ghanzi
(an eight hour bus ride through the
Cross Kalahari highway) to work with
a children’s center for children of The
San. Work side by side at government
community clinics with University of
Botswana students in a learning environment. Conduct annual physical and
developmental assessments on children and compare the records of the
past three years at Kamagelo, a day
care center for orphans and vulnerable
children ages 2–6. Develop and present
innovative educational workshops for
adolescents who are HIV positive at
Stepping Stones International. Conduct
physical and community assessments
on clients of a palliative care center
located in the heart of the major slum
area of
Gaborone
and work in
tandem with
staff to
develop and
test competency based
Lucille Pilling ’63 in Northern
Botswana on a breast canculturally
cer awareness campaign—
appropriate
She and her team did 892
breast exams
client plans.
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Josephine Bayard I am
living in Palm Beach, Florida.
I completed a Master’s degree in
Mental Health from Palm Beach
Atlantic College in 2011.
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Kathryn Ratcliffe Lang
Recently, I moved back to
Sewickley and I spend a great deal of
my time, especially in the summer,
with my three grandchildren. I am
thoroughly enjoying retirement. Please
look for me on Facebook, I would
LOVE to find old friends.
Kathy Ratcliffe Lang ’65 and grandchildren
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Jill Sedlmayr MacMillan My
husband and I have finished
construction on our vacation cabin on
Lake James in Western North Carolina.
We plan to spend fall and spring there.
It is a beautiful area and we are looking forward to having time to explore
it now that the house is done. Since
we are not far from Chatham, I hope
to get back to visit before too long.
Our son Jack is finishing his degree in
Computer Science at the University of
Hawaii and our son Sam is in his
Junior year at New College in Sarasota.
He is majoring in physics. I spend my
time in Hawaii triathlon training, distance swimming, and volunteering for
the Honolulu Museum of Art and Child
and Family Service, the largest nonprofit social service agency in Hawaii.
class notes
reunion 2012 class of 1962-50th reunion
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Row 1: Maura Smith Collins, Ida Little, Wendy Wilson O’Brien, Mary Tiffany Schweitzer
Row 2: Anne Bryant, Jessica Bell Nicholson, Tricia Noojin Dudley, Doris Johnston, Debbie
Humphreys Jones
I am a member of the Board of
Trustees of Assets School, an amazing
school for gifted and dyslexic students
from K to 12, for the past 12 years.
The school’s logo says “Learning that
transforms lives” and it truly does.
Florence Farwell Schmidt On
December 30, 2011, in Savannah,
Georgia, Florence (“Rencie”) Farwell
’66 married Peter Woodbury Schmidt
(Savannah Country Day School ’66)
UVA ’70. Love really is lovelier the
second time around!
Suzanne Shaw Spradling The past
two years have been busy with travel
(Machu Picchu, Galapagos), grandchildren in Colorado and Arkansas, and
our “new” sport of croquet. Scott and I
have decided that croquet is our sport
to carry us into retirement years. We
have made several trips to the National
Croquet Center in West Palm Beach,
Florida to participate in instructional
and tournament schools. It’s really
fun, a combination of chess and pool
for strategy and skill (it’s not the croquet we played as children in our
backyard). We have participated in
several tournaments in Oklahoma and
Texas and even won some in our
bracket. Maybe this could be a new
sport at Chatham Hall! Looking forward to our 50th reunion in 2016!
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Priscilla Wade Belsinger
My one and only son,
Nicholas, was married in June to Jane
Berkowitz on my Mom’s farm. It was
an absolutely perfect day! Nicholas
and Jane are both teachers at The
Cambridge School of Weston, outside
reunion 2012 Debbie Humphreys Jones ’67 and
Ida Little ’67
of Boston. Plans have recently been
made to have Betsy Stout Foehl ’67
and her husband, Stephen, join my
family for a week at our club in
Antigua next March. We are all so
excited to finally have some time to
spend with Betsy and Stephen.....it’s
been years! I continue to spend many
hours with rescue dogs; they are my
passion! Had lunch with Poppy Stew-
art Lacey ’67 just yesterday. We do this
every couple years; it’s ridiculous that
we don’t do it more often considering
how close we live to one another.
Wendy Wilson O’Brien So we are
back in training with my new German
Ponies...heading to Lexington, Kentucky the weekend of October 5th for
the National Pony Driving Champi-
Ida Little ’67
Annie Potts ’67 has written and taken
photos for her beautiful book titled Last Lights. I have a copy
of this book in my house and have given it to friends who love
lighthouses, the Bahamas, sailing, history, and hope. This is
about the people who planned and built and, in a place or two,
still man the beacons of light for all mariners. It is a beautifully
photographed and written book, by a sailor and with a Bahamian spirit. Because the
Bahamas include hundreds of uninhabited tropical islands and are only 50 miles
from Florida, it is intriguing to learn how most boats and ships avoided wrecking on
all those coral reefs. By sailing her sailboat among them to explore and photograph
the lighthouses, Annie gives us an intimate, personal, colorful, and beautiful guide.
We learn how lighthouses work; and what makes them beautiful; and about maritime
history through the construction of lighthouses and the lives of their keepers. In
Annie’s photographs I see the beauty that has drawn me to the Out Islands for over
forty years. Available from Amazon.
Kathleen Arey Carroll
’67 at the Historic Kenmore Plantation, the home
of George Washington’s
sister Betty, where she is
Development Office Coordinator for the George
Washington Foundation
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onships.....loved
our 45th reunion...
and hope to see
Muffy Dent Stuart
’68 and Jessica
Wendy Wilson O’Brien
Bell Nicholson ’67
’67 and her ponies
Ollie and Clark
while in Kentucky...stop in whenever you are in
Aiken...our next goal for the ponies is
the World Driving Championships,
which will be held in Pau, France in
October 2013. All eight grandchildren
are excellent and spent the month of
July with me in the Adirondacks (their
parents came too, whew!!!).
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Kathryn Carter Jacobs
Life is good for us here
in the country. Children are well and
prospering, and Wayne and I are
enjoying taking a year off from travel.
Our best to everyone at Chatham Hall.
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Talmadge Ragan Looking
forward to seeing Ann Watson ’69 and Lian Mattingly ’68 in
November while Annie heads to
Florida for some work-related training,
and my niece, Robin Smith ’82, coming from L.A. to Charlotte for Thanksgiving. My audiobook career is going
strong. Best-selling author William
Bayer’s The Magician’s Tale is now out
and I’ve just started the second and
final of his Kay Farrow series, Trick of
Light. It’s an honor to narrate these
well-written, provocative novels.
reunion 2012 class of 1972 (and
a few 73ers)-40th Reunion
Row 1: Laura Brown Cronin, Kate Johnson
Nielsen, Nina Johnson Botsford, Katherine
Hairston LaRosa
Row 2: Elizabeth Hairston Steere ’73,
Martha Stevens Brown ’73,
Frannie Wallace Robertson ’73
Emilie Richardson Hello to my
friends at Chatham Hall. I’ve moved
into a living facility in Brookline,
Massachusetts, where I have an aide
every day. My brain cancer has spread,
but I’m doing well. Love to everyone,
especially Muffy.
reunion 2012
Martha Stevens Brown ’73, Frannie Wallace
Robertson ’73, and Talmadge Ragan ’69
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Ninna Fisher Denny We had
a Nellie reunion in Philadelphia the weekend of April 13th. Helen
Mirkil ’70, Carolyn Davenport ’70, Sally
Johnson ’70, Nellie Greene ’70, and I
had the best time having dinner at
Helen’s, going to her gallery, cruising
around the Morris Arboretum, and
stopping at Nellie’s favorite diner for
milkshakes and ice cream. Old times
remembered and new ones created.
Cheers from the Class of ’70.
Cornelia Freyer On December 29,
2011, my beau for the last 20 years,
Tom Taplin, and I finally decided to get
married. I wanted to keep my last
name, so I am now Mrs. Cory Freyer.
We are loving living in our new mountain home outside Denver, Colorado,
that we finished building in 2010. Our
move to Colorado has enabled me to
re-establish my friendship with my
Chatham roommate, Sandra Ebling ’70
who lives in Boulder.
Caroline Nichols I am in the process
of moving to Hilton Head, South Carolina! I will be managing a new store
and cafe called Low Country Produce
Market and Cafe. We will be opening
in mid-July, and I am really looking
forward to it. It is hard to move, but
this is going to be a great adventure.
My new address is: 25 Deallyon Ave,
#124, Hilton Head, SC 29928.
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Patty Kellogg
Maddock We have just
moved to Bozeman, Montana so my
husband, Jim, could accept a terrific job
at Oracle. We are very excited about this
opportunity and living in such a beautiful environment. Our son, Stephen, is
now 21 and a junior at Carroll College
in Helena, Montana, studying political
science and excelling in his debate competitions. Our daughter, Ginny, is now
16 and will be a junior at Bozeman
High School. She participates in any
drama production (just like her mother),
loves musical theater and photography.
reunion 2012 class of 1977-35th Reunion
Row 1: Sarah Nelson, Sue Metcalf ’78
Row 2: Pace Cooke Emmons, Mary Clay Smith, Melissa Hillbish, Kip Brooks
Row 3: Selene Junius Lambert, Kate Bulkley, Robin Musser Agnew, Fay Freed Morlock,
DeAnne Reed Vane, Sarah Dabney Gillespie
reunion 2012 Pace Cooke Emmons ’77 with daughter Robin
Emmons ’14, Kate Bulkley ’77, and Kate’s husband Ross Biddiscombe
She has an excellent voice and participates in her school’s choir. The search
for colleges has begun. I have my Master’s in Teaching and Literacy now and
am looking for a full-time elementary
position. In the meantime, I tutor at Sylvan Learning and hope to tutor through
Montana State’s program in the elementary schools. Anyone visiting Glacier or
Yellowstone should give us a call!
Always want to hear from Chatham
alums!
Frazier Millner I’m marrying the love
of my life (although we didn’t know it)
on November 10 in Richmond, Virginia! Brad Armstrong proposed to me
on the Pont Neuf in Paris in June.
We’ve known each other 20 years...
and finally “found” each other at the
right place and the right time in both
of our lives. Life does indeed get better
after 50! We will split our time
between the house on the Pamunkey
River in West Point and the “city”
house in Richmond. It will be two
years in October since I left the newspaper business to work as Director of
Advancement and Patron Communications for the Richmond Symphony.
Quite the transition. It’s a musical
interlude, of sorts. My niece, Maggie
Millner just completed her 4th year
at “horse camp” at Chatham and as
always, had a wonderful time!
Elizabeth Robinson Willmott All,
it’s celebration time!!!! Emily Dale
Willmott ’07, my youngest, is now
employed as a third grade teacher in
Fayette County!!! Seems like just yes-
reunion 2012 Kip Brooks ’77, DeAnne Reed Vane ’77,
Selene Junius Lambert ’77, Fay Freed Morlock ’77, and Melissa Hillbish ‘77
terday that she was a newborn. Well
done Emily Dale!! I am so
excited....Yippee!!!!!
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Edna Wilson I’ve been
living in Wisconsin for
quite a while. I still ride horses and
also compete in Hunter/Jumpers
shows throughout the Midwest. I provide marketing and promotional services for small business, which I find
quite fulfilling. I’m divorced and dating an architect in Chicago. Have
reconnected with Gretchen Eglin ’78
and Linda Mars ’78 in Jackson Hole
and would love to connect with others
from Chatham.
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Annette Kirby Greetings
from the beautiful Alleghany
Mountains! Annette is loving her home
in Warm Springs,Virginia and keeping
busy working on her Master of Liberal
Arts Studies at Hollins University with
an Art concentration. She has just
completed her thesis with the hopes of
graduating in the spring of 2013. She
also has her very own studio now. She
has hopes to find a job in the area as
well. She would love to see any of her
classmates if they are vacationing at
the Homestead.
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Laurie Warrick Avery
Living in Evergreen, Colorado now, about 30 minutes west of
Denver. We love it out here in the
mountains! Megan just turned seven
and is starting 2nd grade this fall.
Mark and I are expecting twins in
September (a boy and a girl), so with
the new yellow lab puppy that was
Megan’s birthday present, our family
will double this year! Would love to
hear from any old Chatham friends,
especially those who live here out
West.
Laurie Warrick Avery ’83 with husband, Mark, and
daughter Megan
Karin Schutjer ’83 My daughter
Mira Alpers had an amazing
time at CH Summer Investigators Science Camp this summer.
She loved every minute of it,
made great new friends, and
came home with a new passion
for science!
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Mary Reynolds ’84 with daughter Maime Gray and nieces
Anne Randall and Cabel Berkeyheiser, daughters of Elizabeth Reynolds ’82
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Mary
Wiley
Hi everyone!
Still living here in
Danville, California
and in private practice as a clinical
psychologist for
over a decade. Happy, healthy, and
into fitness and nutrition (go figure).
Been living the single life for the past
year and a half and playing the dating
game...so keep me in mind if you
come across anyone who you think I
should be introduced to—there is a
finders fee included if a success story
evolves. Being a nun is out and living
in an attic with spinster boots and cats
doesn’t excite me in my old age. I sure
do miss the good ole days at Chatham.
Take care and get in touch. Contact
info: mwiley111@aol.com c(925)3813839 My website is: drmarywiley.com
class of 88
25th reunion
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Nini Hadjis The feature film
Old Fashioned, in which Nini
acted and produced, continues in the
post production phase with a release
date set for early 2013. There will be
two accompanying books slated for a
slightly earlier release than the film, so
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Mary Freed ’86 with daughters Isabella and Nanelle
keep an eye out for those as well.
Please like us on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/pages/
Old-Fashioned/160270767353263 and
help us spread the word. Logline: A
former frat boy and a free-spirited
woman together attempt the impossible: an “old-fashioned” courtship in
contemporary America.
Row 1: Andrea Wade Hickman, Lara Higdon Bourgeois,
Leslie Lawhorn Neely, Judy Currie Hamilton
Row 2: Lisa Rowe Bradley, Kimberlee Scott, Amy Jackson
the island. We were married in May
2009 and currently live in Paris, France.
I work as a Senior Publicist for KCD
Paris, a branch of an American Fashion
PR agency. My parents just joined us
here in Greece, and we went to see
them in Tennessee in June.
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Dhilan and Diya, children of Radhika Soundaranrajan Mathews ’90, this summer at Larz Anderson
Park, Brookline, Massachusetts (photographed by
Radhika’s friend, Miriam Michelson)
Nini Hadjis ’89 working on set as producer in
her feature film Old Fashioned
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Radhika Soundararajan
Mathews Greetings! I graduated in the class of 1990 but, sadly,
have been completely out of touch
with nearly everyone from Chatham
Hall since leaving. After Chatham, I
graduated with a Journalism degree
from UNC Chapel Hill and then did a
post-graduate program in Art Direction
in Atlanta. I worked as an Art Director
for two national agencies, the most
recent being in Boston. After a few
enjoyable years in the advertising field,
a coworker and I decided to become
our own client and open a fine stationery store in Boston’s South End. I
met my husband, Mat, in 2001 and we
were married in 2004. Now, I am
enjoying the most demanding job of
all, being mom to my son, Dhilan,
who is 5 and daughter, Diya, who just
turned 2. We live in Newton, Massachusetts, which is a semi-suburban
town just outside Boston. Despite
being busy with the kids, I have
recently found time to get back to my
first love, drawing and painting and I
am very excited about that. I look forward to reading about what others
have been up to!
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Martha Muller Millichip ’86 and family at Cathkin Peak in the Drakensberg Mountains in South Africa,
and near Sesriem, Namibia
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Alison Beckner
Kaloumenos
I am writing from Tinos
Island, Greece, where my
husband, Matthaios
Kaloumenos, and I are
spending our summer vacation.
Matthaios is Greek, most recently from
Athens but was actually born here on
Natalia Barrett-Rose
We had a new baby girlElectra Anne joined our family on
March 8, 2012. She was born at home
under a full moon. Her older siblings,
Thandi 11, and Tommy 9, are thrilled!
Sarah Jenks I am working in the jewelry industry and travel constantly. I
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Mary Freed ’86, Lisa Rowe Bradley ’87, Lara Higdon Bourgeois ’87,
Andrea Wade Hickman ’87, and Amy Jackson ’87
have seen Vertie Fioca Lee ’93, Ginger
Crawford Phillips ’93, Mary-Stuart Day
’93, Joanna Edgell ’93, Michelle Paap
’93, and others during my travels!
Class of 1993—reunion is approaching,
please join us!
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Fred
Preston
Wydner, IV
“Preston,” son
of Amanda Sink
Wydner ’94 was
born on August 22
at 8:05 pm, he was
8 lbs, 2 oz, 20.5
inches
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Maibeth
Deas Keith
My husband, Kevin Keith,
and I are thrilled to
announce the birth of our
son, George Bradley Crook
Keith. Born June 20, 2012
- 8lbs, 4 oz and 21 inches.
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Cannon Hodge Hello from
Fashion City! Always a busy
Bergdorf bee here in New York. Have
spent the bulk of the summer prepping
for New York Fashion Week, our big
anniversary and such (most recently
bonded with Carolina Herrera over
Tide pens & poodles). Naturally purple
One-Room Schoolhouse History Preserved in Writing
All across Montana, one-room schoolhouses decay and collapse in the face of the state’s harsh weather. These cornerstones of Montana’s history lay forgotten, slowly passing
away with time and age. In her book, Visions and Voices:
Montana’s One-Room Schoolhouses, distributed by Farcountry Press, Charlotte Caldwell ’70 tells the stories of
these historic structures, and the people who spent time
there. Caldwell admits that she had not given much thought
to one-room schoolhouses until she and her husband moved
to their Montana ranch near an isolated one-room schoolhouse. “This isolated iconic structure was the initial inspiration for my book,” said Caldwell. “However, as I visited more
schoolhouses, shot portraits of teachers and students, and
heard their stories, those richly woven narratives became one
with the buildings.”
Collected in Visions and Voices are the stories of those most
intimately familiar with these rural treasures. Teachers and
students tell of traveling to and from school, recess activities,
an average school day, and family life. Mostly, however, they
speak of a way of life and a sense of community that is
decaying along with
these iconic structures. The total net
profits from the sale
of this book will be
donated to the Preserve Montana Fund,
and used to preserve
as many of these historic structures as is
possible before it’s
too late. The Preserve
Montana Fund is managed by the Montana
Charlotte Caldwell ’70 and Walker
History Foundation, as Johnson Jones ’70 in Montana on
Labor Day
a joint endeavor
between the Montana History Foundation and the Montana
Preservation Alliance to support the preservation of Montana’s
rich heritage and secure the future of Montana’s past.
“Vision and Voices: Montana’s One-Room Schoolhouses.” Farcountry Press.
August 2, 2012
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Row 1: Molly Groat Schaumann and Lindsey Copeland Long
Row 2: Suzanne West, Amanda Burr Parker, and Laura Robinson
is a major recurring theme. Also had
the thrill of being part of Glamour’s
September issue—amazing what twitter can do for a girl. Huge thank you
for all of the CH notes—every one has
given me chills. None of this would
have unfolded were it not for Chatham
& the incredible
opportunities that
it gave all of us. If
you’re ever in the
City, tweet me
@bergdorfs or
A photo of Cannon
Hodge ’00 from the
send me a FB
September issue of
Glamour
note. xx
Cherie Bowlin Madison Chad and I
are staying busy trying to keep up with
our soon-to-be three year old daughter,
Natalie Abbitt. We moved to
Clarksville, Virginia last spring and
absolutely love being back home! I
thoroughly enjoy my job as Physician
Services Coordinator at Halifax
Regional Health System in South
Boston. Chad, Natalie and I send
everyone our warmest regards and
hope you’ve had a wonderful summer
filled with fun, family, and friends!!!
Cherie Bowlin Madison
’00, daughter Natalie,
and husband Chad
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Molly Groat Schaumann ’97, Susan Gillings Gross ’98, and Suzanne
Michelle Thomas Supko ’02,
Amanda Birdwell Hodges ’02, and honorary alumna
Dora Thomas P’02, ’04
West ’97
01
Julia Devine Julie’s mother
reports that Julie is a therapist in Lexington Park, Maryland and
still trains horses.
02
Mrs. Teresa D. Daniels reports
that daughter, Kimberly
Daniels ’02, is living in Southern
Pines, North Carolina and managing
The Country Bookshop. Stop in to see
her when you are in the area.
Sara Stumberg Walker Living in San
Antonio with husband Lawrence and
baby Lawson. I have not seen many of
my classmates in a while, but I did get
the chance to have dinner with
Michelle Thomas Supko ’02, where
we ran into Sara Howell Godat’s ’02
older sister. It is a small Chatham
World! I was sad to miss reunion but
hope to see more familiar faces soon!
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Kathleen Devine Bree
Kate’s mother reports
that Kate is starting her doctoral
internship in clinical psychology in
Phoenix, Arizona this July, and is married to W. Dennis Bree, IV, architect.
Anisha Patel
’01 with
husband
and daughter
Suhani, who
was born January 27, 2012
at 10:42 p.m.,
weighed 6
pounds 2
ounces, and
was 19.75
inches long
Whitney Jones
Emily Brown ’02
had a beautiful fall
wedding at Wintergreen Resort and it
was wonderful to
visit with Jiemei
Geng ’03, MeredWhitney Worthington
Jones ’03 and fiancé
ith Brown ’04, and
Michael Allen
Krystal Elkins ’04
throughout that weekend. I bumped
into Averil Liebendorfer ’03 at a charity
event in December at the Four Seasons
Baltimore, called Oxfords & Oysters,
which was such a pleasant surprise! In
January 2012 I started a job as legal
secretary for the Office of the Attorney
General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli. I enjoy
working in Richmond across from the
Commonwealth’s Capitol and find it
very fulfilling. Michael and I are to be
married on October 13, 2012 and we
look forward to seeing many of our
Chatham Hall family and friends during
that weekend in Lexington, Virginia.
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Jennifer Hills Megan Hyler
’04 and I roadtripped from
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to
Phoenix, Arizona in FOUR days over
Christmas. Megan was moving to California and I offered to help drive. I had
to be back in South Carolina by New
Year’s Eve, so I was left in Arizona to
fly back, and she completed the trip
herself. We stopped at Cadillac Ranch
in Amarillo—this cool art installation
of a row of cadillacs sunk into the
ground. At Cadillac Ranch it’s common
to spray paint the installation (I think
it was designed with that in mind?), so
we spray painted “Esto Perpetua” on
it, because we’re cool like that. :)
Row 1: Amanda Birdwell Hodges, Beth Mason Fortner,
Danielle Dillon Munkelt, Elisabeth Campbell Cales
Row 2: Lindsay Shook, Michelle Thomas Supko, Kimberly Daniels, Adair Hendrickson
Jennifer Hills ’04 and Megan Hyler ’04 at Cadillac
Ranch (a public art installation and sculpture in
Amarillo, Texas) and at the Grand Canyon
Paula Stewart Grauated from Boston
University School of Medicine with her
MA in Mental Health Counseling &
Behavioral Medicine in spring 2012.
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Adrienne Alden I am moving
to Raleigh this summer to
start a graduate program in marriage
and family therapy.
Lindsay Burkart recently became Project Manager for Facilities Design and
Construction at The University of North
Carolina at Greensboro. She is also
owner of FEMCO, a HUB certified company specializing in commercial medical upfits and residential renovations.
Gabrielle Dickinson I am working
with a good friend of mine starting a
non-profit called Our Community
Project. It has turned into a benefit
concert type of non-profit. We are
Beth Mason Fortner ’02
My sophomore yearat Chatham Hall, a photographer came to work with us one Saturday for a workshop. We were instructed to take pictures of ourselves around campus, and I chose to be next to the statue outside
of the Chapel. My dad loved the picture so much that he had it framed. The following year, I surprised him with a professional picture taken by the statue in my junior dress. This past year (December 2011), I was married and decided to complete the set for
him in a different white dress!
I came back to Chatham Hall for Reunion in May (with my wedding dress) and
took the final photograph. How fun it was to be at my 10-year reunion and be back
in a white dress! What fun memories were brought back as I walked around campus in this final white dress! I put this photo panel of the series together for him
after completing the final photograph. The caption at the top of the panel is from
Fiddler on the Roof. Daddy used to sing "Sun Rise, Sun Set" to me most nights
at bed time...it has always been our special song...in fact, he quoted parts of it to
me as we had our father daughter dance at the wedding reception!
The Chatham Ring Ceremony was also brought back to life at the “Ring Ceremony” at our wedding. Not only was it night and I was in a flowing white gown,
but my attendants carried candle-lit lanterns, and I was given the most important
ring of my life! Just as it was in my Chatham days, it’s not only the ring that is so
special, but also the person who gives it to you!
Below: Lelan Dunavant ’05,
Lindsay Burkart ’05, Laura
Anne Roquemore ’05, Sarah
Lannom ’05, Amanda
Peterkin ’05, and Samantha
Franklin ’05 attended the
wedding of Cricket Stone
Morris and Mike Morris at
Melrose Bison Farm. They
were honored, along with
about thirty other members
of the Chatham Hall community, to be able to be
there for Cricket's big day.
really excited about upcoming rock
shows, all of which put the money we
generate back into the East Nashville
community. My friend has been doing
this for about two years now, and
together we have been able to create
Our Community Project. Our focus is
our community and serving them in
the way we know best, music!
Lelan Dunavant After three years in
the Office of Admission at Chatham
Hall, I have moved to Nashville, Tennessee to pursue my masters in Leadership and Organizational Performance
at Vanderbilt’s education school. As
always, leaving Chatham Hall is bittersweet, but I am so excited to join the
larger community of Vanderbilt and
Nashville. If anyone finds herself in
Nashville, please let me know!
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Stephanie Giles I will be
teaching Special Education
Preschool at Chatham Elementary
again next year, and I am living in
Blairs, Virginia.
Rebecca Jones I just successfully finished my first year of veterinary school
at North Carolina State CVM in
Julia Rowe ’05, Allison Rosser
’05, Erin Haymes Huan ’05,
Rebecca Jones ’05, Ashley
Hockensmith ’05, and Lelan
Dunavant ’05 gathered in
Boston, Massachusetts to celebrate the marriage of Laura
Stocke Farmer ’05 and Will
Farmer. It was the first time they
had all been together since graduation, and they had a wonderful time catching up and
commandeering the dance floor.
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Above: Julie Devine ’01, Kate
Devine Bree ’03, Lydia Beresford
’03, Cricket Stone Morris, and
Katherine Meyer ’03 at Cricket’s
wedding
Suzanne Staples
Ledwith Since I left
Chatham I’ve graduated
from NC State University,
become a wedding planner, married my best
friend Matthew, and became a mom!
Our sweet baby boy Stone Alan Ledwith was born on June 12, 2012 and
weighed 9 pounds 10 ounces.
Row 1: Ginny Evans, Emily Dale Willmott, Liz Loewenstein, Leandra Lambert
Row 2: Laura Spencer, Aemelia Hudson, Isabella Yeager
Row 3: Gifty Amponsem, Ann O’Brien, Mary Dare Thornton, and Sandy Turnbull
Emily Pulliam I am in Tampa, Florida
working part-time in a boutique, volunteering at Quantum Leap (a handicapped riding facility), and am back in
school studying Biology/Pre-Vet!
Emma Smith I
got engaged on
8/7/12 to Eric
Castro. We live
and work
together in NYC
and are so excited
to be getting married in 2013!
Ashley Lipscomb After serving for
two years as a sworn police officer
with the Chesterfield County Police
Department, I was promoted to Crime
Scene Investigator, in which I had the
opportunity to assist in processing suspicious death scenes and other violent
crime scenes. Working in this profession further spiked my interest in the
science of pathology and encouraged
me to resign from my position with the
police department and pursue a medical degree. I am currently living in
Nashville, Tennessee while pursuing
this dream, and look forward to earning a position with the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner of Virginia in
my distant, yet fascinating future.
reunion 2012
Raleigh, and can’t wait to
begin surgery this fall. If
any Chatham girls are
hanging out in the triangle
area, give me a call!
Hae Jun Yoon I decided to become an
interpretor/translator (English-Korean),
so I am studying at a grad school of
translation and interpretation in Korea. I
just started and it’s a two year program.
It’s a very tough program but I love it.
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Katarina Greve currently a
last year medical student at
Karolinska Insitute, has co-written a
manuscript entitled “Metabolic Activity
in Early Tendon Repair Can Be
Enhanced by Intermittent Pneumatic
Compression” which has been chosen
for publication in the Scandinavian
Journal of Medicine and Science in
Sports.
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Emily Dale Willmott ’07, Isabella Yeager ’07, former Dean of Students Kyle Kahuda,
Sandy Turnbull ’07, and Liz Loewenstein ’07
Sara Norman I started a new job in
April as the Buyer of Women’s Fashion
Apparel for Fab. I am still in New York
City and still traveling a lot to see my
Chatham girls! I was in Chatham in
June for Schay Goss Barnhardt’s ‘06
wedding, I was in Sanibel with a group
in July, and I’m looking forward to
seeing Taylor Nyberg ‘06 in Austin,
Texas in October!
Jeong Hee Chu ’07 and husband
married on March 31, 2012
Tracy Spencer P’07, ’12 with daughter
Laura Spencer ’07
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Caroline Finke Although I
was very sad to miss my five
year reunion, I’m proud to report that
my absence was due to a conflict with
my own graduation. I graduated from
Mount Holyoke College with concentrations in Astrophysics and French on
May 20, 2012.
at the University of Cape Town in
South Africa during the summer of
2010, and I studied at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, during the
fall of 2010. In the summer of 2011, I
interned at the Wilson Police Department in Wilson, North Carolina where
I counseled victims of violent crime
and discovered a passion for social
work in the justice system. In August I
will be relocating to Los Angeles, California to spend a gap-year doing volunteer work with the Episcopal Urban
Intern Program before returning to
school to earn a graduate degree in
Social Work. Best wishes to the Class
of 2008, I hope I will be able to make
it to our 5 year reunion! Classmates
and fellow alumnae, please be in touch
if you are in L.A. workman.jessica.m
@gmail.com
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Mackenzie Hermann
Moved to Fairfax, Virginia
and just got a job working at EDGE
Commercial Real Estate as an administrative assistant, it’s an awesome job and
I am really excited about it!
Jessica Workman I graduated with a
B.A. in Psychology from the University
of Richmond on May 6, 2012. During
my time at the University, I earned
minors in Criminal Justice and Law
and the Liberal Arts, played on the
club field hockey team and was an
active member of my sorority, Alpha
Chi Omega, where I served as Social
Chair. I was fortunate to have the
opportunity to complete an internship
Jessica Workman ’08 with her mother Julie at
Jessica’s May 6th graduation from the University of Richmond
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tales from chatham hall
{
from our last issue
Polly Mingledorf ’09, Alice McCusker ’09, and Laura McCall ’09
in New York for the 2012 Belmont Stakes
Rosalind Jenkins ’09, Alice McCusker ’09, Polly
Mingledorf ’09, and Laura McCall ’09 enjoy a
Saturday evening in Manhattan
10
Chelsea Hermann Off to
Prague this semester to
study Political Science at Charles
University!
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Elizabeth Ferlise Hope all is
going well at Chatham Hall.
Catherine Merwin I am a Sophomore
at Georgetown’s School of Nursing
and Health Studies—now a Nursing
major with a concentration in
International Health. Wish I could’ve
come to graduation. Love to the
Class of 2012.
C H AT P L AY S
Peter and the
Starcatcher
adapted by
Rick Elice
eter and the Starcatcher is a
fanciful, creative junket into
the world that set the stage for
Peter Pan. It is a gem of wonderful
stagecraft, creating magical worlds
with only rope, sticks, and two toy
boats. Who were these lost boys,
Wendy, Captain Hook, and other
figures that all play so prominently
in our collective memories of this
childhood story? Much like Wicked
is a prequel to the Wizard of Oz,
this is similar in concept, but
imbued with a simplicity and
charm that carry it to its finale.
Less is definitely more in this
enchanting foray into stormy seas
and bitter conflicts where love and
caring prevail. S U S A N M O R L E Y
P
fall
Dena Donahue, mother of Kathleen Donahue ’11, sent us this
photo of Tenzin Kelsang ’13, who she ran into at the Seattle
Space Needle in August!
Mrs. Dawn N. Hall Former
faculty member Dawn Skilbred
Hall and her husband Sacha
welcomed their first child, Adam
Thompson Hall, on March 9,
2012. Adam weighed 6lbs. 8oz.
and was 19.5 inches long.
Ms. Karen K. Stewart My
daughter-in-law, Monica Raymund, has a lead role in the new
NBC drama Chicago Fire, which
debuts on October 10.
(www.nbc.com/chicago-fire/
about/bios/cast/
monica-raymund/).
obituaries
Miss Robinette Y. Ballard, Resident
Nurse at Chatham Hall from
1976–1992, died August 11, 2012.
Mr. E. Conrad Bowlin died August
30, 2012. He was the father of
Cherie Bowlin Madison ’00.
Mr. James Bulkley died March 13,
2012. He was the father of
Katharine Bulkley ’77.
Mr. David Cothran died July 31,
2012. He was the husband of, Ashby
Cothran, Honorary Alumna, and former Director of Alumnae Relations
(1999–2010).
Donald W. Hoagland, husband of
Mary Tiedeman Hoagland ’42 died
in May 2012.
Nancy Jiranek died March 11, 2012.
She was the mother of Anne Jiranek
Doyle ’76.
Jean Brundred Murray ’38 died on
May 19, 2012.
Lydia Cobb Perkins ’38 died, April
2, 2012.
Alice Murray Ward ’40 died April
21, 2012. She was the sister of
Cynthia Murray Henriques ’50, the
aunt of Mary Henriques ’73, and
the cousin of Gertrude Smith
Notman ’45.
Mary “Mitzi” Robertson Torras ’45
died August 22, 2012. She was
the grandmother of Sallie Gray
Harrington ’04.
Mary McGehee Isaacs ’48 died
July 3, 2012.
Carol Lee Taylor ’51 died July 10,
2012.
Helen Grace Spencer ’53 died on
March 9, 2012. She was the cousin of
Terry Grace ’62.
Nancy Cone Hanley ’55 died on
April 3, 2012. She was the sister of
Barbara Cone McPhail ’62.
Nena Bowman Adams ’65 died
July 18, 2012. She was the sister of
Katherine Bowman Burton ’62.
Mary Bailey Vance Suitt ’69 died
August 12, 2012.
Deborah Butterfield ’77 died
August 26, 2011. She was the sister
of Lesley Butterfield ’75.
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thanks! to beloved
former faculty member Alice
Cromer for writing in to identify
the lanterns in the last issue:
I believe the lanterns were light fixtures in
the original Tea Room before the library
moved into that building and the Tea
Room was completely remodeled. Those
lanterns had a cream-colored paper lining
inside and they hung from the Tea Room
ceiling. They were black and looked lovely
in the hunt club décor of the room. There
were red leather chairs, wooden benches,
wide board floors and a huge farmhouse
fireplace complete with black wrought
iron cooking hooks. I remember well
standing in that room with Jeanne Wagoner and Kay Hunter, all three of us in
tears, the day before the demolition crew
arrived. -Alice
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2012
chatham hall
2011–2012
The Annual Fund reflects the power of
what individuals can do when they come
together. Last year, hundreds of alumnae, parents, grandparents, and friends
of Chatham Hall gave gifts—large and
small—to support the programs and
people that keep Chatham Hall strong.
The Annual Fund supports competitive
athletic programs, student travel, guest
speakers, tuition assistance, and much,
much, more!
Each One. Making a Difference.
Your gift to the Annual Fund before December 31 will help us
reach the highest participation in 2012–2013!
Early gifts decrease administrative costs and help the school plan most effectively.
Please make your gift or pledge today!
A gift of any amount will count you among the participation total, and a gift of $35* or more
before December 31 will qualify you for a “Thank You” gift of a beautiful and reusable bag.
6.5"W x 10"H x 4"D
Please use the envelope included in this magazine to make a gift or pledge to the 2012–2013
Annual Fund. You can also make a gift online by visiting the Chatham Hall Web site at www.chathamhall.org.
*Minimum gift $35. For gifts under $48, the $5 market value of the gift will be deducted as required by law.
If you do not wish to receive the thank you gift, please note that with your gift.
annual report
of giving
total gifts 2011–2012*
annual
capital &
fund special gifts
dear friends,
alumnae
parents
grandparents
parents of alumnae
faculty & staff
friends
foundations, corporations
& matching gift companies
In May 2012, I celebrated my 40th reunion—along with my twin sister and
dear friends from the class of 1972—at Chatham Hall. I have loved and remained close to
Chatham Hall from the time I first walked up the steps of Pruden in 1968 as a prospective
student until today—as I complete my first year as Chair of the Board of Trustees. Thankfully,
there are many who love the School as I do; who work with dedication and commitment to
support the School’s students, teachers, and administration. You serve as class agents, hosts,
admission liaisons, Parent and Alumnae Council members, and generous and loyal donors.
On behalf of the Board, I extend my deep appreciation for your support.
total
endowment
gifts in
kind
927,789
68,445
25,195
125,101
27,534
37,375
108,318
18,262
0
41,677
0
2,000
912,901
12,650
0
24,000
0
4,798
63,619
0
0
0
2,412
145,001
2,012,627
99,357
25,195
190,778
29,946
189,174
34
42
17
45
100
N/A
34,612
0
0
1,000
35,612
N/A
$954,349
$212,032
$1,246,051
$170,257
*Includes gifts, but not pledges, received between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012.
Gifts from alumnae who are also parents or grandparents are listed on the alumnae line.
The Annual Report of Giving reflects the strength of our community, the dedication of the
faculty and administration, and the tireless work of the many volunteers who support and
encourage Chatham Hall’s unique mission throughout the year. This year, we were again
fortunate to have been guided by Jackie Cannon Brown ’56 as the Alumnae Annual Fund Chair.
Karen and Larry Soderstrom P’12 led the Parent Annual Fund effort as well as the Senior Family
Gift campaign. Further leadership came from members of the Board, countless class agents,
members of the Alumnae Council, and parents who wrote letters and made phone calls on behalf
of the Annual Fund.
percent of
total gifts participation
$2,582,689
We are excited about where Chatham Hall is—proud of its academic excellence and traditions
of an enduring Honor Code, a vibrant chapel program, and authentic community service. Our
school remains true to its mission as a community that values equally the intellect and character
of each student, even while embracing change. 2011–2012 was a great year for Chatham Hall, and
we look forward to even better tomorrows.
Thank you for your generosity.
photos © 2011
CHAIR, CHATHAM
www.LISArichmond.com
Nina Johnson Botsford ’72
HALL BOARD OF TRUSTEES
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benefactors
the esto perpetua society*
In 2011–2012, gifts from the Benefactors Society—a group of 205 donors who gave gifts totaling $1,000 or
more to the Annual Fund, the endowment, and/or other purposes—provided the foundation of support
for Chatham Hall.
Created in 1996, the Esto Perpetua Society celebrates the vision and commitment of individuals who will shape
Chatham Hall’s future through their estate plans. We invite you to visit www.chathamhall.org/giving/
and click on the interactive, professionally-supported link Estate & Financial Planning for information
relevant to your personal and philanthropic goals. To join the Esto Perpetua Society, contact Melissa
Evans Fountain at 434 432-5549 or mfountain@chathamhall.org.
The Benefactors Society includes 50 Rector’s Circle members—donors who support the Annual Fund
with gifts of $10,000 or more. We are deeply grateful for these leaders and all of the 1,230 alumnae, parents, grandparents, teachers, and friends who keep Chatham Hall strong..
$250,000–$499,999
Sally Ferguson ’37 †
$50,000–$99,999
Christine Robinson Secor ’68 R
Mary Bovard Sensenbrenner ’49 R
Jean Armfield Sherrill ’63 R
J. Kyle Spencer G’07, ’12 R
Tracy and Kathy Spencer P’07, ’12
Robin Peake Stuart ’69 R
Barbara Briggs Trimble ’39 R
William and Diane Walker P’09
Constance Flint West ’66 R
E. Carlton and Shay Wilton R
Elizabeth Slade Driscoll ’50 R
Lisa Rosenberger Moore ’59 R
$5,000–$9,999
Robin Tieken Hadley ’57 R
$100,000–$249,999
Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 R
Diana Stallings Hobby ’48
Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67 R
$25,000–$49,999
Douglas and Elizabeth Goldstein P’12 R
Special Fund #6 of the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation R
Nevin and Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 R
$10,000–$24,999
Kathelen and Daniel Amos P’07, ’12 R
Lucy McClellan Barrett ’53 R
Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51, G’03, ’09, ’10, ’11 R
Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 R
Magalen Ohrstrom Bryant ’46 R
Katharine Bulkley ’77 R
Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68 R
Mary W. Covey Charitable
Remainder Trust R
Katherine Cravens ’55 R
Alice Cromer R
Ben and Betty Davenport R
Sarah Martin Finn ’74 R
Gary Fountain R
Melissa Evans Fountain R
Jane Garnett ’73 R
Stacey Goodwin ’83 R
Paul and Cynthia Googe P’09
Susan Gillings Gross ’98 R
Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75 R
Barbara Mallory Hathaway ’39 R
Channing Howe P’69 R
Walker Johnson Jones ’70 R
Pauline Dent Ketchum ’70 R
John A. Logan, Jr. † R
Sarah Monarchi Longpré ’84 R
John and Adrienne Mars P’78 R
Linda Mars ’78 R
Josephine McFadden ’57 R
Lillian Lineberger McKay ’48 and
Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75,
G’10 R
Carol Monarchi P’84 R
Ann Ward Morgan ‘48
Kate Johnson Nielsen ‘72 R
Wendy Wilson O’Brien ‘67 R
The Louise P. Overbey Trust R
Lea Cumings Parson ‘44, P’65, ‘68 R
Joan Coulter Pittman ’55 R
David and Paula Robinson P’93, ’97
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Anonymous
Susan Fox Beischer ’59
J. Kermit and Glenys Birchfield P’93
Susan Fair Boyd ’51
Anne Bryant ’67
Katharine Bulkley P’77
Jerry and Judith Clark P’04
Mary Hooker Crary ’45
Sally Witt Duncan ’44
Beverly Edgell P’93
Isabel Hooker ’43
Andrea Littman Long ’96
Eleanor Silliman Maroney ’58
Clare Harwood Nunes ’52
Jane Preyer ’72
Cynthia Lovelace Sears ’55
The Siragusa Foundation
Michelle Thomas Supko ’02
Studie Johnson Young ’70
$2,500–$4,999
Alumnae Association
Judy Carter ’63
Cynthia Coe Devine ’73
Mary Dunbar ’71
Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald P’13
Nancy Cone Hanley ’55 †
Virginia Johnson P’70, ’72
Ellen Childs Lovejoy ’50
Sarah Shartle Meacham ’51
Alice Pack Melly ’52
Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07
Cynthia Bryant Parker ’61
Muffy Dent Stuart ’68
Natalie Farrar Theriot ’55
Richard and Christina Thomas P’15
Margaret Horner Walker ’58
Linda Witherill ’49
$1,000–$2,499
Anonymous (3)
Judith Aberg G’15
Joanne Shartle Anderson ’49
Ellen Simmons Ball ’73
Bradie Barr ’81
Katherine McKay Belk-Cook ’44, P’72
Cheryl Bentley ’83
Patricia Parshall Berger ’56
Laurence and Karen Bettcher P’86
Mary Duncan Bicknell ’60
Mary Boy ’75
Barry and Jo Brown P’02, ’04
Theodore Bruning
Fay Wilmerding Burdon ’57
Eleanor Burke Farris ’86
Campbell Insurance Company
Kathleen Arey Carroll ’67
Virginia Carter ’76
Louise Clarke ’63
Lois Hart Coleman ’46
Louise Shartle Coleman ’55
Barbara Collie P’85
Trygve Norstrand Cooley ‘48
Jacquelin Crebbs and Graham Evans
Daphne Crocker-White ’59
Carol Babcock Davenport ’47, P’70
Sally Dunham Davis ’50
Frederick B. Dent P’68, ’70
Thomas and Martha Dixon P’15
Deborah Detchon Dodds ’61
Patricia Noojin Dudley ’67
Olivia Hutchins Dunn ’53
Florence Schroeder Ervin ’58
Dale and Denise Evans P’15
Julia Felker ’66, P’91
Sara Cruikshank Foster ’46
Virginia Beresford Fox ’52, P’80
Julia Frazier ’62
Iris Winthrop Freeman ’53
Gary and Carol Gibson P’09
Sarah Dabney Gillespie ’77
Beth Griffin
Zachary and Felicia Hairston P’15
Nancy Gwathmey Harris ’50
Stephanie Hewitt Hedge ’89, P’12
Peter and Mary Minor Henderson P’09
Douglas and Kathryn Hendrickson P’02
Betty Hessee ’70
Elsie Hilliard Hillman ’43
Sanders Beard Hockensmith ’74, P’05, ’06, ’08
James and Melanie Hogg P’15
Lynn Rosengarten Horowitz ’67
Lydee Conway Hummel ’72
Frances Hurt ’63
Roger and Jill Jenkins P’09
Walter and Marta Johnson P’12
Jean Merritt Johnston ’62
Martha Ann Keels ’75
Nancy Lee Smith Kemper ’69
Annette Kirby ’80
Priscilla Pugh Kirkpatrick ’62
Sterling and Linder Laffitte P’14
Bradford Simmons Marshall ’76
Robert and Mary McIver P’10
Anonymous (8)
Kathleen Arey Carroll ’67
Jennifer Austell-Wolfson ’82
Jenifer Barnes Garfield ’50, P’79
Barbara Billings Supplee ’53
Mary Blodgett ’35
Anne Bryant ’67
Charlotte Caldwell ’70
Jacqueline Cannon Brown ’56
Judy Carter ’63
Elizabeth Cary Pierson ’71
Cynthia Coe Devine ’73
Nancy Cone Hanley ’55 †
Joan Coulter Pittman ’55
Jane De Hart ’54
Mary Dunbar ’71
Cynthia Dyer Hancock ’71
Joanna Edgell ’93
Claudia Emerson ’75
Susan Fair Boyd ’51
Elizabeth Farmer ’64
Natalie Farrar Theriot ’55
Alison Fennelly Siragusa ’50 and
Ross Siragusa P’71
Jennifer Gammill McKay ’84
Josephine Gilmore Bell ’57
Marguerite Hillman Purnell ’38
Janie Huntley Webster ’57
Caroline Jeanes Hollingsworth ’50
Joanna Sperry Mockler ’51
Anne Moffitt ’60
Katie Belk Morris ’72
William and Susan Morris G’14
Jane Everhart Murray ’63
Janice Copley Obre ’67
Mary Norris Preyer Oglesby ’68
Lee Porter Page ’59
Lillian Headley Poole ’62
Sally Reese Pryor ’50
Judy Treppendahl Robinson ’62
Patricia Robinson ’70
Cynthia Rodriguez P’13
Victoria Thomson Romig ’46
Ellen MacVeagh Rublee ’50, P’78
Catherine Doeller Sage ’80
Robyn Raybould Schmidt ’97
Marc and Cynthia Shook P’02
Richard Simmons
Herk and Sherry Sims G’15
Kimmie Stuart Sloane ’41
Kathryn Reed Smith ’45
Lawrence and Karen Soderstrom P’12
Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44, P’67
Sallie Grace Tate ’81
Lucie Wray Todd ’49, P’75
Elizabeth Towers P’09
Robert and Joan Wallick P’87
Marney Ault Wasserman ’67
Katharine Watson ’60
Janie Huntley Webster ’57
Frances Sommers Wheelock ’75
Sally Saltonstall Willis ’58
Mary B. Wilson ’65
Jonathan and Rebecca Winebrenner P’12
Sarah Jones Winmill ’49
Virginia Downing Wiseman ’37, G’12
Alice Blum Yoakum ’48
Sherley Young ’57
Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72
Studie Johnson Young ’70
Walker Johnson Jones ’70
Mary Kay Karzas ’71
Patricia Kellogg Maddock ’77
Margaret Ker Gotz ’48
Povy LaFarge Bigbee ’51, G’03, ’09, ’10, ’11
Jane Lineberger Huffard ’56
Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75, G’10
Amanda Mackay Smith ’58
Barbara Mallory Hathaway ’39
Linda Mars ’78
Nancy Marshall Forcier ’45, G’99 †
Josephine McFadden ’57
Katherine McKay ’75, P’10
Margaret Meigs Blodget ’42
Frances Menefee Weeks ’45
Saraellen Merritt Langmann ’51
Julia Mitchener Turnipseed ’84
Katherine Norcross Wheeler ’57
Laurie Nussdorfer ’68
Lynn Painter Dillard ’56
Patricia Parshall Berger ’56
Dana Paulson Davis ’64 and
William Cole Davis
Eleanor Pennell ’48
Anne Perkins Cabot ’47
Lynn Pixley Scott ’61
Polly Porter ’42
Ethel Randolph Chapman ’40
Mary Reed Spencer ’74
Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64
Anne Rodgers Feldman ’57
Joan Schoellkopf Chamberlain ’42
Patricia Schoen Gile ’45
Mary Shallenberger ’66
Joanne Shartle Anderson ’49
Frances Sommers Wheelock ’75
Sallie Grace Tate ’81
Ann Taylor ’54
Maris Wistar Thompson ’58
Emily Todd ’75
Janet Tremaine Stanley ’68
Lisa Vilas Weismiller ’69
Courtney Vletas ’87
Lucy Webster Archie ’87
Elizabeth White-Hurst ’99
Jane Wilson ’77
Mary B. Wilson ’65
Sally Witt Duncan ’44
Virginia Worthington Marr ’55
Jane Yardley Amos ’59, P’91
John A. Logan, Jr. †
C. Thomas and Eleanor May P’85
H. Victor Millner, Jr. P’77
Pattie R. Motley P’81, ’85
Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07
Celeste Phelps P’09
Sara Sterling P’03
Dora Thomas P’02, ’04
Francis and Patricia West P’90, ’97
bequests and planned gift
disbursements
Estate of Nancy Cravens Chamberlain ’50
Estate of Sally Ferguson ’37
Estate of Eleanor Herrick Stickney ’37
Estate of Nancy Marshall Forcier ’45
Sherley Young ’57
Estate of Robert S. Atkinson
Estate of Henry R. Dunbar
Estate of John A. Logan, Jr.
*Alumnae appear by maiden name first in
the list.
† Deceased
Anonymous (2)
Janice Coleman
Channing Howe P’69
Nancy Langford
Carolyn E. Lecque P’88
R Rector’s Circle members are donors to the Annual
Fund who contribute $10,000+.
† Deceased
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endowed funds
Plant Foundation Fund
Virginia Stewart Fund
Betty Thornton Endowment Fund
William Woolsey Yardley Memorial
Employee Endowment Fund
scholarships
student support funds
Alumnae Legacy Scholarship Fund
Caroline S. Biedenharn ’03 Endowed
Scholarship Fund
Edith Sunday Clarke ’23 Scholarship
Fund
Class of 1941 50th Reunion Scholarship
Fund
Class of 1955 Memorial Scholarship Fund
Class of 1958 Memorial Scholarship Fund
Class of 1959 Endowed Scholarship Fund
Katy Close ’79 Scholarship Fund
George D. Dayton II Scholarship Fund
Karen von Maltitz DeWolfe ’60
Memorial Scholarship Fund
Connie Gibson Memorial Scholarship
Fund
Margaret Hall Foundation, Inc.
Scholarship Fund
Phyllis Banks Hunt Scholarship Fund
Anne Winship Kelleher ’52 and Sandy
Ryburn Taylor ’52 Scholarship Fund
Barclay Ball McCall ’55 Memorial
Scholarship Fund
Sidney A. Mitchell Scholarship Fund
Anne Shirley Molloy Scholarship Fund
Joan C. Pittman ’55 Scholarship Fund
Reader’s Digest Endowed Scholarship
Fund
Wiley Patterson Reis ’27 Scholarship
Fund
Alison ’50 and Ross Siragusa Scholarship
Fund
Jerry Van Voorhis Leadership
Scholarship Fund
Sally Brittingham Wallace ’44 Legacy
Scholarship Fund
Zachar - Holt Scholarship Fund
Ellen Baldridge ’88 and Margaret
Baldridge ’90 Dean’s Discretionary
Fund to help girls in crisis
Lucy M. Barrett ’53 Student
Travel Award
Mimi Norcross Fisher ’55 Endowment
Fund for Adolescent Development
Goldstein Family Endowed Student
Travel Award
Hallam Hurt ’63 Student and Faculty
Foreign Travel Award
Julia Northington Rowe ’05 Leadership
Fund
Student Travel Award Fund
other specialpurposes
academic funds
faculty and staff support
awards funds
Mary McLean McKissick Armfield ’39
Chair of St. Mary’s Chapel
Nina Johnson Botsford ’72 Endowment
for Faculty Support
Theodore E. Bruning, Jr. Instructorship
in English
Class of 1951 50th Reunion Faculty
Salary & Benefits Endowment Fund
Class of 1953 50th Reunion Endowment
in support of faculty and staff benefits
Class of 1956 Faculty Professional
Development Fund
Class of 1957 50th Reunion Fund for
Faculty Salaries and Benefits
Faculty Retirement Fund
Faculty Support Endowment Fund
Edward E. Ford Foundation Fund for
Faculty Futures
Madame Marie Gagarine Teaching
Endowment
Greene Field Fund in memory of Rocky
Delano and Peggy Pile and in honor
of Nellie Greene
Robin ’57 and John Hadley
Instructorship in Mathematics
John W. B. Hadley Instructorship in
Science
Kate Johnson Nielsen ’72 Faculty
Support Fund
Georgia O’Keeffe 1905 Fund
Barbara Jacobi O’Reilly ’57 Fund to
Secure Current Faculty Salaries
and Benefits
Gene Scott Connor ’34 Memorial
Championship Tennis Cup Fund
Virginia Henry Holt Award for a
sophomore who is a superior student,
who best exemplifies the character,
deportment, energy, kindness and
grace of the ideal student at
Chatham Hall
Lillian Evans Lineberger New Girl
Award Fund
Catherine Ingram Spurzem ’74 Creative
Writing Award Fund
Helen Gregory Yardley Award for
Excellence in Sculpture
Academic Funds
The Sarah C. Benson ’47 Endowed
Music Fund
Alexandra Sterling ’03 Science
Educational Materials Endowment
Wray Environment Fund
guest speakers/
concert funds
Joan Danforth Cook ’48 Concert
Lecture Fund
The Polly Wheeler Guth ’44 Leaders
In Residence Fund
Leadership Speakers Fund Made Possible
by the Classes of 1944, 1968 and
Other Individual Donors
Shirley Baker Pond ’48 Fund for Chapel
Speakers
library funds
Sally Witt Duncan ’44 and A. Baker
Duncan Book Fund
Abbie Rickert Hershey ’57 Library Book
Endowment Fund
Trina Robinson Secor ’68 Leadership
Library Fund
maintenance funds
Class of 1940 50th Reunion Fund for
the upkeep of St. Mary’s Chapel
Class of 2007 Family Gift Fund
General Heritage Fund
Heritage Fund
Langhorne and Gertrude Wilson Jones
’23 Perennial Garden Fund
Haddon Kirk Chapel Courtyard
Memorial Fund
Kitchen and Dining Room Maintenance
Fund
Mars Riding Endowment
St. Mary’s Chapel Fund
Shaw Science Building Maintenance
Fund
Jerry Van Voorhis Lecture Hall
Maintenance Fund
Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41
Heritage Fund
miscellaneous funds
Jeffrey Ferguson ’41 Endowed
Chapel Fund
Rector’s Discretionary Fund
Technology Endowment
unrestricted
Annual Giving Endowment
Class of 1942 50th Reunion Unrestricted
Endowment Fund
General Endowment
William R. Kenan Jr. Endowment Fund
Kirby Fund
Elizabeth Beckwith Nilsen ’31
Endowment Fund
Virginia L. Radley Endowment Fund
Marlene R. Shaw Endowment Fund
alumnae giving
The following lists include donors to all funds at Chatham Hall.
Alumnae are listed by class year and alphabetically by maiden name.
alumnae participation 34% young alumnae participation (classes 2000–2011) 30%
alumnae chair Jacqueline Cannon Brown ’56
honorary alumnae
Participation 60%
Dee Burch
Ashby Cothran
Alice Cromer R B
Alice Overbey
Dora Thomas R B E
Lockett Van Voorhis
class of 1926
Participation 100%
Mary Bernard Hamilton
class of 1937
Participation All Funds 86%
Participation Annual Fund 80%
Class Agent: Mary Dykema McGuire
Virginia Downing Wiseman B
Mary Dykema McGuire
Sally Ferguson † B E
Eleanor Herrick Stickney † E
Katharine Hobson Sturtevant
Marcia Tuttle Knowles
class of 1938
Participation 75%
Lydia Cobb Perkins †
Hope Rogers Metcalf
Virginia Vinnedge Wheaton
class of 1939
Participation 58%
Barbara Briggs Trimble R B
Margaret Finney McPherson
Elizabeth Lasell Whipple
Marion Lowry Pennell
Barbara Mallory Hathaway R B E
Mary Speer Marr
Elizabeth Wiedersheim Carter †
class of 1940
Participation 11%
Eugenia Lovett West
class of 1941
Participation 56%
Joan Brewer
Elizabeth Evans Morton
Edith Gwathmey Grassi
Ethel Hix Darrell
Tina Jewett Hartshorne
Penelope Perkins Wilson R B
Sarah Robbins Bradshaw
Harriett Sayre Noyes
Kimmie Stuart Sloane B
class of 1942
Participation 44%
Class Agent:
Lucy Charles Jones Bendall
Anonymous
Lucy Charles Jones Bendall
Margaret Meigs Blodget E
Polly Porter E
Lee Stuart Cochran
Mary Tiedeman Hoagland
Mary Walton Curley
class of 1943
Participation 50%
Patricia Anderson Dolan
Edith Bettle Gardner
B Benefactors Society members are donors who contribute $1,000+ to the Annual Fund or for other purposes.
E Esto Perpetua Society members are individuals who have included Chatham Hall in their estate plans.
R Rector’s Circle members are donors to the Annual Fund who contribute $10,000+.
Anne Campbell Clement
Pauline Harrison Winans Finn
Elsie Hilliard Hillman B
Isabel Hooker B
Margaret Peterson Braden
Mary Sheldon Burns
Sally Thacher Amory
Joan Williams Graham
class of 1944
Participation 43%
Class Agent: Caroline Hartwell Stewart
Elaine Cruikshank Luckey
Lea Cumings Parson R B
Caroline Hartwell Stewart B
Margery Hobson Thomas
Katherine McKay Belk-Cook B
Susan McKnew Caskin
Joan Stanley French
Martha Tinkham Price
Polly Wheeler Guth R B E
Sally Witt Duncan B E
class of 1945
Participation 60%
Class Agent: Mary Hooker Crary
Sara Bankson Stenson
Diana Beebe Richardson
Betsy Burrows
Sally Hillman Childs
Mary Hooker Crary B E
Marion Jones Kingsford
Laura Lee Bullitt
Anne Lee Reath
Mary McChesney Ten Eyck
Sally McCrillis Eldredge
Frances Menefee Weeks E
Marilyn Morss MacLeod
Margaret Murray Baldrige
Kathryn Reed Smith B
Jean Ruffin Lilly
Patricia Schoen Gile E
Charlotte Streeter Goodhue
Carolyn Vreeland Le Boutillier
class of 1946
Participation 63%
Class Agent: Eleanor Owens Earle
Sara Cruikshank Foster B
Helen Dempwolf Goodhue
Joan Dodge Rueckert
Allen Dunnington Ohrstrom
Alison Erskine Farrar
Lois Hart Coleman B
Emma Hodge Sarosdy
Joan Houston McCulloch
Nancy Howland Washburne
Florence Hunter Ault
Mary Lee Muromcew
Joan Miller Tait
Magalen Ohrstrom Bryant R B
Patricia Osborne Smith
Eleanor Owens Earle
Priscilla Pruden Garretson
Sally Quinby Gibbs
Victoria Thomson Romig B
Helene Zimmermann Hill
class of 1947
Participation 45%
Class Agents: Carol Babcock Davenport
Nancy Evans Gruner
Anonymous
Carol Babcock Davenport B
Martha Bacon Stimpson
Noel Barnes Williams
Martha Blankarn Halsey
Nancy Evans Gruner
Marjorie Flory
Gainor Ingersoll Miller
Joan Kurtz Ferguson
Anne Perkins Cabot E
† Deceased
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class of 1948
Class Agents:
Margaret Ryburn Topping
Harriet Simons Williams
Anonymous
Doris Beasley Martin
Alice Blum Yoakum B
Virginia Fowler Arey
Mary Fox Church
Anne Gulliver Frey
Margaret Ker Gotz E
Joan Lewis Jewett
Lillian Lineberger McKay R B E
Anne Lydgate Kaiser
Sandra MacRae Halsey
Jane-Kerin Moffat
Trygve Norstrand Cooley B
Anne Osborne Swain
Eleanor Pennell E
Virginia Plews Robey
Margaret Ryburn Topping
Jane Schaff Odell
Harriet Simons Williams
Diana Stallings Hobby B
Ann Ward Morgan B
class of 1949
Participation 53%
Mary Bovard Sensenbrenner R B
Jean Clark Eysenbach
Anne Foley Doucet
Patsy Hardie Forrest
Sarah Jones Winmill B
Anne Mott Booth
Joanne Shartle Anderson B E
Sally Shoemaker Robinson
Alden Smith Shriver
Martha Snowdon North
Caroline Staub Callery
Ann Trowbridge Richter
Catherine Van Rensselaer Townsend
Frederica Wellington Valois
Eda Williams Martin
Linda Witherill B
Lucie Wray Todd B
class of 1950
Participation 60%
Class Agents:
Ellen Childs Lovejoy
Nancy Gwathmey Harris
Jenifer Barnes Garfield E
Bonnie Bond
Sally Boyd Polk
Ellen Childs Lovejoy B
Harriett Dayton
Sally Dunham Davis B
Elizabeth Evans
Karin Fagerburg Jackson
Alison Fennelly Siragusa E
Varnell Gibson Badgett
Louise Gilliam Hopkins
Mary Griswold Horrigan
Nancy Gwathmey Harris B
Kathleen Herty Brown
Kathleen Horne Graff
Caroline Jeanes Hollingsworth E
Margaret Johnson Lee
Prudence Lowe Miller
Ellen MacVeagh Rublee B
Centes Morrill Papes
Cynthia Murray Henriques
Custis Preston Haynes
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Sally Reese Pryor B
Elizabeth Slade Driscoll R B
class of 1951
Participation 50%
Class Agent: Sarah Shartle Meacham
Phoebe Barnes Caner
Laurene Berger Owen
Kent Brain Rogers
Joan Chickering Volberg
Ann Cochran McCandless
Margaret Dayton Ankeny
Susan Fair Boyd B E
Povy LaFarge Bigbee R B E
Saraellen Merritt Langmann E
Valerie Patrick McAleenan
Anne Purinton Hazzard
Christina Sawtelle Teale
Sarah Shartle Meacham B E
Mary Shoup Gardner
Joanna Sperry Mockler B
Mary-Stuart Waterbury Alvord
class of 1952
Participation 45%
Class Agent: Alison Wright Cameron
Jean Bahr Waltrip
Virginia Beresford Fox B
Carolyn Borders Danforth
Anita Caine Schenck
Josephine Cornwell Parman
Clare Harwood Nunes B
Nancy Kester Neale
Ann Kirkpatrick Runnette
Alice Pack Melly B
Josephine Ruffin Adamson
Emelie Sullivan Born
Mary Webster Kampf
Alison Wright Cameron
class of 1953
Participation 76%
Class Agents: Barbara Billings Supplee
Lucy McClellan Barrett
Cecily Allen Mermann
Margot Bell Woodwell
Barbara Billings Supplee B E
Anne Bourne Rose
Patricia Carter Hatch
Winston Case Wright
Joan Cass Adams
Jane Clark Reeder
Jean Connelly Mooney
Cornelia Cullen Long
Lee Edwards Anderson
Susan Elder Martin
Beverly Hammer Dickinson
Isabel Hobson Utter
Olivia Hutchins Dunn B
Betsy Kenney O’Brien
Elizabeth Lackey Johnston
Gail Lassiter Malin
Louise Lineberger Roberts
Sara Love Downey
Lucy McClellan Barrett R B
Cornelia Mueller Gibson
Mary Nesbit Razim
Judith Ruffin Anderson
Doris Silliman Stockly
Mary Catherine Sours Plaster
Elizabeth Thompson Binstock
Iris Winthrop Freeman B
class of 1954
Participation 37%
Class Agents: Ann Taylor
Judith Turben Walrath
Sarah Austen Adams
Mary Blair Simmons
Sandra Butler Gardner
Jane De Hart E
Betty Gullatt Budlong
Judy McMurray Achre
Elizabeth Peters Turner
Caroline Ramsay Merriam
Elisabeth Swan Weitzel
Ann Taylor E
Judith Turben Walrath
Donna Vroman Kreidler
Angela Winthrop Getchell
Ann Woolfolk Austin
Caroline Young Moore
class of 1955
Participation 44%
Class Agent: Martha Justice Martin
Anonymous
Barbara Barker
Elizabeth Blanton McHargue
Anne Burling
Nancy Cone Hanley † B E
Joan Coulter Pittman R B E
Katherine Cravens R B
Shelby Elliott Roberts
Susan Embree Parker
Natalie Farrar Theriot B E
Carlotta Hellier Parsons
Martha Justice Martin
Cynthia Lovelace Sears B
Elizabeth Marshall Games
Louanna Owens Carlin
Louise Shartle Coleman B
Nancy Starr Tyson
Virginia Worthington Marr E
class of 1956
Participation 50%
Class Agent: Jacqueline Cannon Brown
Doris Balkcom Keen
Evelyn Bullitt Hausslein
Jacqueline Cannon Brown E
Carol Culver Bitting
Irene Darden Field
Judith Fenn Duncan
Alice Lineberger Harney
Joday Litton Blevins
Dandridge Logan Ince
Mary-Jo Loomis Kail
Mary Nichols
Josephine Noel Dietz
Nancy Olmsted Kaehr
Patricia Parshall Berger B E
Marcia Pyle Welch
Emma Scott Christopher
Sue Wolf Moore
class of 1957
Participation 41%
Ellen Day Ross
Josephine Gilmore Bell E
Stuart Greene
Ann Hay Reeves
Janie Huntley Webster B E
Josephine McFadden R B E
Isabel Merrill Lyndon
Katherine Norcross Wheeler E
Martha Patterson Martens
Ann Staples Waldron
Virginia Thornton Craley
Robin Tieken Hadley R B
Jocelyn Wilmerding Burdon B
Sherley Young B
class of 1958
Participation 54%
Class Agents:
Margaret Horner Walker
Sally Saltonstall Willis
Florence Schroeder Ervin
Gray Baird
Ethel Baskerville Powell
Molly Buck
Margaret Bullitt Pough
Allen Craig Mears
Olive Hershey
Margaret Horner Walker B
Mary Kemp Callaway
Anna Lineberger Stanley
Amanda Mackay Smith E
Leila McConnell Daw
Eleanore Morgan Moran
Page Nelson Loeser
Rebecca Roberts
Sally Saltonstall Willis B
Florence Schroeder Ervin B
Eleanor Silliman Maroney B
Carroll Taylor Clark
Maris Thompson B E
Burleigh Vette Blust
class of 1959
Participation 59%
Helen Anderson Shaw
Emily Arents
Sara Chase Byers
Esther Coleman Schroeder
Daphne Crocker-White B
Margaret Cushing
Helen Eggleston Bellas
Mary Fishburne Heuchert
Marian Foster Clifford
Susan Fox Beischer B
Maria Gallagher Truslow
Robin Holt Cochran
Monica MacRae Driver
Priscilla Mapes Maresi
Margaret McElroy
Barbara McMillan
Lee Porter Page B
Lisa Rosenberger Moore R B
Brenda Taylor Babcock
Shirley Van Cleef Sullivan
Margaret Worthington Gilson
Jane Yardley Amos E
class of 1960
Participation 42%
Class Agent:
Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell
Mary Austin Lowery
Martha Battle Stathers
Marion Benson Miller
Marjorie Canby Lallemand
Mary Duncan Bicknell B
Helen Dunn
Susan Dwelle Baxter
Elizabeth Walter-Echols
Denny Fowler Pierce-Grove
Kay Graham McCullough
Eleanore Lee
ANNUAL REPORT
Margaret Lloyd Keuler
Adelaide McKenzie Moss
Anne Moffitt B
Sarah Perkins Smither
Margaret Reeder Crosbie
Audrey Sawtelle Delafield
Mary Taylor Pope
Katharine Watson B
Eliza Wolcott Morehead
class of 1961
Participation 32%
Class Agent: Cynthia Bryant Parker
Mary Allen Cox
Sarah Belden Ravndal
Bettina Brown Irvine
Cynthia Bryant Parker B
Jane Carney Scully
Theresa Cass Turko
Nancy Clark Tune
Dorothy Dent Withers
Deborah Detchon Dodds B
Josephine Fisher de Give
Gay Newbern Lehman
Catherine Wilson Smith
class of 1962
Participation 68%
Class Agents: Jean Merritt Johnston
Priscilla Pugh Kirkpatrick
Jan Slocum
C. Jane Van Landingham
Jane Allen Street
Helen Beasley
Rose Bryant Woodard
Olivia Cheever
Julia Dalton Keane
Jo Rainey Evans Tisdale
Julia Frazier B
Holly Fry McGowan
Terry Grace
Shirley Grange
Lillian Headley Poole B
Charlotte Jensen Jorgensen
Florence Keiser Romanov
Mary Kreutz MacInnes
Analeak Liipfert Bowers
Susan Mabry Menees
Jean Merritt Johnston B
Louise Potts Thibodaux
Priscilla Pugh Kirkpatrick B
Eugenia Richardson Nash
Carole Robertson Coviello
2011–2012
Lynn Scholz
Diana Simrell Savory
Jan Slocum
Susan Stutenroth Johnson
Judy Treppendahl Robinson B
C. Jane Van Landingham
Nuna Washburn MacDonald
class of 1963
Participation 49%
Class Agent: Jane Everhart Murray
Jean Armfield Sherrill R B
Susan Beekman Clough
Mary Bell Timberlake
Judy Carter B E
Louise Clarke B
Anne Clement Haddad
Jane Everhart Murray B
Alice Flint Roe
Helen Gregory Wise
Tessa Gunter McCauley
Anne Hathaway Bowes
Frances Hurt B
Kirby Kittredge Johnstone
Ada Long
Susan Overbey Funderburk
Dicke Tredway Sloop
Jane Webb Crawford
Virginia Willson Welch
class of 1964
Participation 37%
Class Agents: Boyce Lineberger Ansley
Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker
Anonymous
Sarah Boy
Lorraine Caffery Friedrichs
Craig Coggins
Nancy Comer Shuford
Janet Holley Wegner
Ann Hoxton Taylor
Katherine Lee Cole
Boyce Lineberger Ansley B E
Dana Paulson Davis E
Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker E
Joan Richardson Doty
Ann Robinson Weiss
Mahala Tillinghast Beams
Audrey Warner Speer
class of 1965
Participation 25%
Class Agent: Charlotte Kirk Reynolds
Nena Bowman Adams †
Laura Bullitt Despard
Deborah Clark
Mary Fry Edmunds Haywood
Susan Farwell Houston
Charlotte Kirk Reynolds
Barbara Lane
Marian Larkin
Hope Metcalf Johnston
Margaret Payne Mahoney
Lisa Schmid Halpin
Penelope Stout Strakhov
Nina Tabor Martin
Mary Wilson B E
class of 1966
Participation 38%
Elizabeth Bayard Tallman
Marian Bray
Karen Burns Blakey
Carolyn Carter Yawars
Sara Clay Branch
Muffin Dalton Grant
Florence Farwell Schmidt
Julia Felker B
Constance Flint West R B
Katherine Hallowell Noyes
Nancy Hanes White
Margie Hastings Quinlan
Lynn Kitson Williams
Judith Nelson
Edith Patterson Cates
Jill Sedlmayr MacMillan
Mary Shallenberger E
Amelia Walker Ward
Sally Whately-Smith Pilkington
Sarah Yardley
class of 1967
Participation 56%
Class Agent: Dorothy Humphreys Jones
Kathleen Arey Carroll B E
Marney Ault Wasserman B
Jessica Bell Nicholson
Louise Boyd Cadwell
Anne Bryant B E
Georgia Cadwalader Bennett
Janice Copley Obre B
Adnée Hamilton
Helen Hanes Welsh
Dorothy Humphreys Jones
Deborah Kauders Spangler
Ida Little
Marion Malloy Murphy
Patricia Noojin Dudley B
Elizabeth Parsons Harper
Margaret Perkins Sise
Lynn Rosengarten Horowitz B
Maura Smith Collins
Caroline Stewart Lacey
Elizabeth Stout Foehl
Mary Tiffany Schweitzer
Priscilla Wade Belsinger
Wendy Wilson O’Brien R B
Mary Wotherspoon
class of 1968
Participation 38%
Class Agent: Terry Overbey Stafford
Anna Best Lee
Virginia Brewer
Katie Carlson Houston
Kathryn Carter Jacobs
Annie Clarke Ager
Spring Critchlow Swinehart
Caroline Darby Wehner
Muffy Dent Stuart B E
Cecily Fowler Grand
Jane Howard Cheever
Mollie Hunt Holmes
Mary Norman Huguley
Laurie Nussdorfer E
Terry Overbey Stafford
Mary Norris Preyer Oglesby B
Corinne Rafferty
Katharine Reynolds Chandler R B
Christine Robinson Secor R B
Lucy Williams Maish
class of 1969
Participation 32%
Class Agent: Talmadge Ragan
Anne Blodget Holberton
Carol Harlocker McBee
Julia Johnson
Elizabeth Landes
Janet Lewis Peden
Mary Murrill Oakes
Robin Peake Stuart R B
Talmadge Ragan
Nancy Lee Smith Kemper B
Tucky Stout Pogue
Ann Thomas Lynch
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Louise Towers Hardage
Mary Bailey Vance Suitt
Lisa Vilas Weismiller E
Catherine Walker
Mary White English
Virginia Wulsin Roberts
class of 1970
Participation 33%
Class Agent: Ninna Fisher Denny
Rebecca Brown Hutcheson
Charlotte Caldwell E
Carolyn Davenport
Pauline Dent Ketchum R B
Ninna Fisher Denny
M.E. Freeman
Cornelia Freyer
Martha Givens Nicol
Caroline Hairston English
Betty Hessee B
Walker Johnson Jones R B E
Studie Johnson Young B E
Helen Mirkil
Jean Northington
Pamela Purcell
Emilie Richardson
Patricia Robinson B
Karrick Scott Collins
class of 1971
Participation 29%
Class Agent: Camille Agricola Bowman
Camille Agricola Bowman
Elizabeth Cary Pierson E
Mary Dunbar B E
Venita Fields
Mary Kay Karzas E
Preston Lyon McGregor
Margaret Malloy Sanders
Tarleton Russell
Lizette Smith
Sarah Yancey Stipanowich
class of 1972
Participation 40%
Mary Baldrige
Katie Belk Morris B
Laura Brown Cronin B
Julie Cleveland
Lydee Conway Hummel B
Sarah Foscue Merrell
Jane Fuller Killough
Katherine Hairston La Rosa
Carolyn Huntoon Connell
Nina Johnson Botsford R B E
Kate Johnson Nielsen R B E
Anna Lane
Lillian McKay Teigland
Sarah Morris
Patty Neff McCormack
Katherine Pieters DeNes
Jane Preyer B
Diana Simonds
Susan Towers Dennard
Sallie Wise Chaballier
class of 1973
Participation 25%
Class Agent: Virginia Cates Bowie
Kristin Caldwell Schad
Virginia Cates Bowie
Cynthia Coe Devine B E
Farnell Cowan Holton
Jake Darby
Jane Garnett R B
Robin Hanes
Marian Henley
Meredith Johnson Landry
Elizabeth Kirk Unger
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class of 1979
Linda Morgan Stowe
Kathleen Ray Creekmuir
Eugenie Russo
Ellen Simmons Ball B
Martha Stevens Brown
Margaret Sugino
Frances Wallace Robertson
Participation 13%
Alexandra Coe
Melisa Craig Hampton
Molly Davis
Johan Newcombe Peers
Susan Shelton
class of 1974
class of 1980
Participation 20%
Sanders Beard Hockensmith B
Lori Braun Jackson
Elizabeth Carter Beckmann
Sarah Martin Finn R B
Pamela Mayer
Mary Pugh Manning
Mary Reed Spencer E
Anne Wynn Weissinger
Participation 28%
Catherine Doeller Sage B
Janet Freed Rosser
Merrell Anne Graham Shearer
Florence Hines
Annette Kirby B
Susan Sampson McDade
Allison Sutton Fuqua
Louisa Young McClanahan
class of 1975
class of 1981
Class Agent: Mary Boy
Mary Boy B
Susan Bruce
Katherine Coleman Haroldson R B
Kathryn Granger Haines
Mary Evelyn Guyton
Heidi Hand Evans
Martha Ann Keels B
Katherine McKay E
Julia Morris Kashkashian B
Tyler Norman Scott
Mary Lyman Scott Jackson
Frances Sommers Wheelock B E
Emily Todd E
Joan Womble Stone
Participation 19%
Bradie Barr B
Deborah Berlin
Cristina Bornhofen
Mary Crisp
Frances Mellen
Elizabeth Peters
Janet Scott
Sallie Grace Tate B E
class of 1976
Participation 16%
Class Agent: Virginia Carter
Alida Bryant
Virginia Carter B
Caroline Ives Pearce
Celia Lippitt Snow
Janey McCoy
Caroline Nichols
Bradford Simmons Marshall B
class of 1977
Participation 27%
Class Agent: Patricia Kellogg Maddock
Katherine Brooks
Katharine Bulkley R B
Pace Cooke Emmons
Sarah Dabney Gillespie B
Patricia Kellogg Maddock E
Frazier Millner
Robin Musser Agnew
Sarah Nelson
Elizabeth Robinson Willmott
Polly Slater Glover
Elizabeth Suddarth Penland
Jane Wilson E
class of 1978
Participation 21%
Lisa Burton
Mary Duncan Berkun
Margaretta Gallagher Archie
Lisa Glover
Tara Mactaggart
Linda Mars R B E
Nancy Neale
Alice Rodgers Alsterberg
Laura Myers Casellas
Melissa Norton McKinley
Elizabeth Todd Beall
class of 1987
Participation 18%
Class Agents: Judy Currie Hamilton
Laura Willoughby
Judy Currie Hamilton
Joan Madry Kligerman
Dudley Melton Berry
Dana Nossaman Keilman
Kimberlee Scott
Laura Willoughby
Semmes Wright Calvert
class of 1988
Participation 12%
Laura Dick Moses
Laura Mascharka Brucker
Abbie Story LeFevre
Garnett Wilbourn Hutton
class of 1989
Participation 11%
Class Agent: Stephanie Hewitt Hedge
Nancy Evans Wahmhoff
Stephanie Hewitt Hedge B
Susan Nussbaum Fitzgerald
Susan Staton Maday
class of 1982
Participation 11%
Class Agent: Jennifer Austell-Wolfson
Jennifer Austell-Wolfson E
Karen Gates Kettler
Elizabeth Reynolds
class of 1990
class of 1983
class of 1991
Participation 22%
Class Agent: Stacey Goodwin
Cheryl Bentley B
Stephanie Dozier Kirkman
Stacey Goodwin R B
Catherine McCormick
Elizabeth Mullen
Tamara Pottker
Karin Schutjer
Michele Smith Beveridge
Susan Wright
Participation 15%
Class Agent:
Catherine Whitehead Huband
Ansley Chapman Cella
Heather Cook Barnes
Shannon Hinderliter Hembree
Merredith Schwaner Stuelpe
Catherine Whitehead Huband
Participation 7%
Class Agent: Cindy Cottle
Cindy Cottle
Kate Jones
class of 1995
class of 2000
Participation 13%
Class Agent: Reagan Greene Pruitt
Reagan Greene Pruitt
Cristina Murphy
Ashley Rice Evans
Participation 29%
Class Agent: Elizabeth Call
Jane Allen
Katherine Blair Farmer
Cherie Bowlin Madison
Elizabeth Call
Andrea Dedmon
Florentina Frangiamore Adams
Rebekah Hertzberg
Katherine Velasco Rutherford
class of 1996
Participation 12%
Kelly Doss
Andrea Littman Long B E
Tanya Mahdi McMain
class of 1997
Participation 24%
Class Agent: Morgan Karsman Robertson
Kimberly Bokesch Curtis
Amanda Burr Parker
Lindsey Copeland Long
Rebecca Frackelton
Morgan Karsman Robertson
Alyson Kent
Cary Maish Brodie
Robyn Raybould Schmidt B
class of 1998
Participation 23%
Class Agent: Susan Gillings Gross
Maibeth Deas Keith
Susan Gillings Gross R B
Taylor Hall Bandyke
Katherine McLean Ryan
Kerry O’Neill Irwin
Lori Palmore Heath
Elizabeth Yarborough
class of 1999
Participation 14%
Class Agent: Elizabeth White-Hurst
Mari Armstrong-Hough
Fitzalan Crowe Gorman
Meredith Smith
Elizabeth White-Hurst E
class of 1992
Participation 7%
Gretchen Blair Clark
Laura Ray Greer
Class of 1984
Participation 30%
Class Agent: Jennifer Gammill McKay
Tracy Bartlett Lively
Amanda Brady
Laura Duncan
Jennifer Gammill McKay B E
Sian Jones
Sarah Monarchi Longpré R B
Mary Reynolds
Lisa Richmond
Katie Van Lennep
class of 1985
Participation 11%
Class Agent: Belinda Thornton Ruelle
Sarah Collie
Kathan Dearman
Jennifer Taylor Carsten
Belinda Thornton Ruelle
class of 1986
Participation 21%
Class Agent: Kappy Gheesling Lapides
Hallie Bettcher Pettegrew
Mary Bilecky Drimer
Eleanor Burke Farris B
Judith Duncan
Mary Freed
class of 2001
Participation 7%
Class Agent: Katherine Currin
Trisha Blackwell
Katherine Currin
class of 2002
Participation 33%
Class Agents: Kimberly Daniels
Michelle Thomas Supko
Anonymous
Emily Brown Sales
Kimberly Daniels
Danielle Dillon Munkelt
Karla Hudson Martin
Lindsay Shook
Sara Stumberg Walker
Michelle Thomas Supko B
class of 2003
Participation 35%
Class Agents:
Mary Katherine Evans Rordam
Whitney Jones
Sarah Arnn Parrish
Lydia Beresford
Emily Calhoun
Sybil Cole Soyars
Mary Katherine Evans Rordam
Mary Giddings Dunlap
Jennifer Hinson
Whitney Jones
Averil Liebendorfer
Christine Meyer
Katherine Meyer
Mary Elizabeth Wilkes
class of 2004
Participation 33%
Class Agents: Marguerite Logan
Danielle Thomas
Anonymous
Meredith Brown
Sarah Burton-Graper
class of 1993
Participation 32%
Class Agent: Anna Robinson
Anonymous E
Natalia Barrett-Rose
Emily Blair Harvey
Andrea Cannon Little
Laurel Cobble Fountain
Mary-Stuart Day
Lucy Holmes Erwin
Sarah Jenks
Kerrington Ramsey Molhoek
Anna Robinson
Ava Ann Vrooman
Ying-Hui Fang
Jennifer Hills
Marguerite Logan
Mary MrDutt
Jordan Nyberg
Ayako Obata
Ann Pope
Danielle Thomas
class of 2005
Participation 33%
Class Agents: Lelan Dunavant
Emma Smith
Lindsay Burkart
Lelan Dunavant
Samantha Franklin
Erin Haymes Huan
Ashley Hockensmith
Rebecca Jones
Sarah Lannom
Amanda Peterkin
Laura Anne Roquemore
Emma Smith
class of 2006
Participation 43%
Class Agents: Joanna Caldwell
Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt
Taylor Nyberg
Paige Abe
Joanna Caldwell
Nell Gilliam
Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt
Lindsay Hockensmith
Taylor McCall
Maura McGinn
Elizabeth Anne McGowin
Abigail Murnick
Sara Norman
Taylor Nyberg
Sonal Patel
Jacqueline Pottorf
Olga Ramsay
Laura Rand
Virginia Thomas
Lorena Vega
Maria Vega
class of 2007
Participation 35%
Class Agents: Virginia Evans
Laura Spencer
Anonymous
Gifty Amponsem
Virginia Evans
Caroline Finke
Elizabeth Loewenstein
Ann O’Brien
Michelle Pfeiffer
Laura Spencer
Sandra Turnbull
class of 2008
Participation 38%
Class Agents: Ellen Cartmell
Maggie Oakes
Ellen Cartmell
Vickey Casey
April Hile
Shelby Hockensmith
Gloria Mejia
Maggie Oakes
Kristin Reese
Kaitlin Tebeau
Katherine Thomas
Samantha Wall
class of 2009
Participation 18%
Class Agent: Alexandra Walker
Margaret Dalrymple
Grace Fulop
Caroline Gibson
Victoria Litos
Polly Mingledorff
Whitney Phelps
Alexandra Walker
class of 2010
Participation 28%
Class Agents: Adele Cornwall
Grace Hwang
Mary Kathryn Atkinson
Megan Bennett
Adele Cornwall
Alyssa Edes
Chelsea Hermann
Grace Hwang
Catherine McIver
Charlotte Rettberg
Anna Sloan
Anna Claire Turpin
class of 2011
Participation 19%
Class Agent: Kathryn Bennett
Kathryn Bennett
Elizabeth Ferlise
Catherine Merwin
Rachel Quinn
Laurel Street
class of 1994
Participation 20%
Class Agent:
Sandra Van Haaften Heasley
Alison Ardito
Alexandra Michaels Adkins
Amanda Sink Wydner
Sandra Van Haaften Heasley
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parents of alumnae
participation all funds 45% participation annual fund 44%
parents & grandparents
of students
parent participation 42% grandparent participation 17%
parent and senior parent chairs Lawrence and Karen Soderstrom P’13
class of 2012 parents
Participation to the Annual Fund 57%
Participation to All Funds 65%
Anonymous B
Kathleen and Daniel Amos R B
Kathleen Brown
Alan and Starlette Early
Sean Forbes and Gillian Lakhan
Douglas and Elizabeth Goldstein R B
H. Anderson and Cheryl Haymes
William and Stephanie Hewitt Hedge B
Walter and Marta Johnson B
Dennis and Sara Jones
Amy Lane
Christopher and Arlene Lee
Craig and Theresa Merrigan
Lawrence and Karen Soderstrom B
Tracy and Kathy Spencer B
Valerie Welch
Jonathan and Rebecca Winebrenner B
Frank and Paige Wiseman
Participation 32%
Henry and Martha Chapman
J. Belk Daughtridge B
Lois Daughtridge
Olga and Stanley Erickson
Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald B
Chang Hon Kim and Kyong Sook Lee
Cynthia Rodriguez B
Bill Sherrill and Lori Wainright
Scott and Kathy Smith
Richard and Nancy Tebeau
Charles and Cheryl Tuck
Paul and Marguerite Vosteen
Kevin and Marguerite Walz
class of 2012 grandparents
Participation 18%
Howard and Kelly Pike
J. Kyle Spencer R B
Robert Welch
Virginia Downing Wiseman B
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Participation 14%
Anonymous
Edmond and Emily Fitzgerald
Dorothy Hren
Lathrop and Elizabeth Smith
Terry and Betty Walton
Participation 39%
Anonymous
William and Darnell Abbott
William and Jill Baskin
Beth Duncan Berkun
Robert and Pace Cooke Emmons
C. Barry and Melissa Franks
Sterling and Linder Laffitte B
Ned and Catherine Morris
William and Lynn Penny
Robert and Elizabeth Powell
Paul and Marguerite Vosteen
David and Beverly Walker
Daniel and Tammy Waters
Participation 17%
Howard Berkun
Judith Fenn Duncan
Robert Emmons †
Robert and Patsy Gibson
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph M. Laffitte
William and Susan Morris B
Participation 44%
Anonymous
Laura Aberg and Jason Jacob
William Bentley
Kent Blossom and Teresa Hill
Kurt Buckner
Fred and Rebecca Caprio
Raja and Saradha Chadalavada
Leslie Davis
Thomas and Martha Dixon B
Dale and Denise Evans B
Zachary and Felicia Hairston B
James and Melanie Hogg B
Herman and Elizabeth Hollerith
Cesar and July Mantilla
Chester Mayo
Joseph and Susan Pinyard
Holly and Walt Rhea
Michael and Donna Robertson
Bradford and Angela Sims
Timothy and Laura Stevens
Robert and Jeanine Stewart
Richard and Christina Thomas B
William and Mary Tice
Joseph and Bernadette Young
James and Maria Allen P’00
Jane Yardley Amos ’59, P’91 E
Kathelen and Daniel Amos P’07, ’12 R B
Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64, P’90 B E
Victor and Bonnie Ardito P’94
Virginia Fowler Arey ’48, P’69
Florence Hunter Ault ’46, P’72, ’75
Margaret Murray Baldrige ’45, P’72
Katherine McKay Belk-Cook ’44, P’72 B
D. Scott and Jeannie Bennett P’11
Timothy and Mary Bentley P’02
Laurence and Karen Bettcher P’86 B
F. Matthews and Beth Bigbee P’10
Mary Bilecky P’86
J. Kermit and Glenys Birchfield P’93 B
Michael and Thelma Blair P’93
Margaret Meigs Blodget ’42, P’69 E
Mauren Briceno P’11
Barry and Jo Brown P’02, ’04 B
Anne Bryant P’61, ’62, ’67, ’76
Katharine Bulkley P’77 B
Walter and Dee Burch P’85
Howard and Patricia Burkart P’92
Mathilde Kingsland Burnett ’42, P’71
David and Barbara Caldwell P’06
Caroline Staub Callery ’49 P’70, ’71
Joan Carter P’76
Dorothy Cary P’71
Edith Patterson Cates ’66, P’96
MacFarland and Margy Cates P’73, ’75, ’77
Jerry and Judith Clark P’04 B
Anne Campbell Clement ’43, P’63
Davenport and Gladys Cleveland P’72
Marcie Cobble P’93, ’96
Barbara Collie P’85 B
Maura Smith Collins ’67, P’06
J. Edward and Shirley Craig P’77, ’79, ’84
Jebbie Crowe P’99
George and Gretchen Crowell P’07
J. Christopher and Elizabeth Dalrymple
P’09
Carol Babcock Davenport ‘47, P’70 B
Lois Davenport P’57
Charles William Dedmon P’00
Karen Dedmon P’00
Frederick B. Dent P’68, ’70 B
Clark and Dena Donahue P’11
Judith Fenn Duncan ’56, P’77, ’78, ’79,
’84, ’86
Michael and Dianne Dunham P’11
Frederick and Susanne Dwyer P’10
Eleanor Owens Earle ’46, P’79
Ralph Earle II P’79
Beverly Edgell P’93 B
Aubrey and Elayne Edwards P’89, ’91
Florence Ervin P’93
Hilda Farmer P’81
Julia Felker ’66, P’91 B
Salvatore and Antoinette Ferlise P’11
Ellen Fort P’05
Virginia Beresford Fox ’52, P’80 B
Nan Freed P’77, ’80, ’86
Stewart and Lynn Gammill P’84
Jenifer Barnes Garfield ’50, P’79 E
Cornelia Mueller Gibson ’53, P’83
Gary and Carol Gibson P’09 B
Paul and Robin Giddings P’99, ’00, ’03
John and Sarah Goodwin P’83
Paul and Cynthia Googe P’09 B
James and Mary Granger P’75
Michael Gruening and Marie-Christine
Gruening-Crouzet P’04
Polly Wheeler Guth ’44, P’70 R B E
Samuel and Elizabeth † Hairston P’70,
’72, ’73
Martha Blankarn Halsey ’47, P’70
Sandra MacRae Halsey ’48, P’77, ’79
Mary Beth Hamlin P’07
James and Linda Harrison P’74, ’78
H. Anderson and Cheryl Haymes P’04,
’05, ’12
Peter and Mary Minor Henderson P’09 B
Douglas and Kathryn Hendrickson P’02 B
Cynthia Murray Henriques ’50, P’73
Helene Zimmermann Hill ’46, P’80, ‘82
Sanders Beard Hockensmith ’74 and
Albert Kent Hockensmith P’05,
’06, ’08 B
Mollie Hunt Holmes ’68, P’93
Paul Hough and Ingrid Nelson P’99, ’10
Channing Howe P’69 R B E
Henry and Margaret Hurt P’93
Robert and Sandra Jackson P’98
Roger and Jill Jenkins P’09 B
Virginia Johnson P’70, ’72 B
Anne Labouchere P’85, ’88
Ann Gray Large P’65, ’67
Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60 P’86
Sylvia Stallings Lowe P’72, ’75, ’77
Margaret Lynch P’91
Lucy Williams Maish ’68, P’97
Julian and Diane Mann P’98
John and Adrienne Mars P’78 R B
Doris Beasley Martin ’48, P’74
Harry and Mary Maxon P’90
Rogers and Susan McCall P’06, ’09
Norman and Vivian McGowin P’06
Robert and Mary McIver P’10 B
Katherine McKay ’75, P’10 E
Hamilton W. McKay, Jr. P’72, ’75 R B E
Arthur and Sandy Meister P’99
William Mellen P’80, ’81
Ron and Ann Merricks P’02
William and Mary Frances Merwin P’11
Hope Rogers Metcalf ’38, P’65, ’69, ’78
H. Victor Millner, Jr. P’77 E
Carol Monarchi P’84 R B
Andrew and Sheppard Morrison P’10
Pattie Motley P’81, ’85 E
Archie and Sherri Murphy P’99
Leda Neale ’78, P’07
Nancy Kester Neale ’52, P’78, ’80
Teresa Nelson P’10
Michael and Patricia O’Brien P’06, ’07 B E
Thomas and Jane O’Neill P’98
Alice Overbey P’68
Lea Cumings Parson ’44, P’65, ’68 R B
Rebecca Price P’06, ’09
Charles and Betty Prouty P’88
Robert Pugh P’73, ’74, ’77
William and Kimberly Rand P’06
Mary Nesbit Razim ’53, P’81
David Reed P’74, ’81, ’83
Virginia Plews Robey ’48, P’80
David and Paula Robinson P’93, ’97 B
Ellen MacVeagh Rublee ’50, P’78 B
Edward and Ann Schilling P’98
J. Glenn and Alice Shelton P’79, ’81
Marc and Cynthia Shook P’02 B
Mary Blair Simmons ’54, P’77
Alison Fennelly Siragusa ’50 and Ross
Siragusa P’71 E
Dicke Tredway Sloop ’63, P’92
Kenneth and Susan Sommerkamp P’90
Tracy and Kathy Spencer P’07, ’12 B
Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44, P’67 B
Robert and Mary Street P’11
Anne Osborne Swain ’48, P’70
Elizabeth Bayard Tallman ’66, P’94
Richard and Nancy Tebeau P’08, ’13
Mark and Molly Thomas P’06, ‘08
Nevin and Dora Thomas P’02, ’04 R B E
Lucie Wray Todd ’49, P’75 B
Elizabeth Towers P’09 B
John and Kathleen Turnbull P’07
Jerry and Lockett Van Voorhis P’94
William and Diane Walker P’09 B
John and Connie Wallace P’08
John Wallace P’73
Robert and Joan Wallick P’87 B
Anne Wynn Weissinger ’74, P’01
Francis T. and Katherine West P’90, ’97 E
Francis and Frances Wideman P’04
Lynn Kitson Williams ’66, P’91
Noel Barnes Williams ’47, P’70
Richard and Mary Willis P’06
Elizabeth Robinson Willmott ’77, P’03, ’07
Jean Wilmer P’71
Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67 R B
Donald and Gayla Wood P’96
D. Oliver and Mary Semmes Wright P’87
Robert Yeager P’07
Participation 17%
Judith Aberg B
Gladys Dixon
Sherrilon Doss
William and Adele Fletcher
David and Jane Leak
Lynda Mills
Herk and Sherry Sims B
Susan Smith
Nancy Stewart
ANNUAL REPORT
2011–2012
67
faculty and staff
participation all funds and annual fund 100%
Anonymous
Jane Allen
Robert Ankrom
Mary Lee Black
William Black
Amy Blair
Geoffrey Braun
Tammy Cardwell
Demery Close
Gwendolyn Couch
Amy Davis
Leslie Davis
Bonnie Dodson
Lelan Dunavant
Barbie Eanes
Mary Edmonds
Ned Edwards
Gary Fountain R B
Melissa Evans Fountain R B
Wanda Gammon
Eva Greenberg
Beth Griffin B
David Grimes
Martha Griswold
Cheryl Haymes
Stephanie Hewitt Hedge B
Jennifer Hiltwine
Sarah Hopkins
Kim Jackson
Jennifer Jones
Kyle Kahuda
Alyson Kent
Dennis Reichelderfer
Wanda Scearce
Lynne Shelton
R. Alan Spearman
Sally Stewart
Molly Thomas
Kenneth Tyburski
Tammy Waters
Maureen Webb
Lauren Wilson
Donald Wood
Vicki Wright
Dina Yassin
Catherine LaDuke
Starlet Lemon
Jessica Leonardi
David Lyle
Earl Macam
Ron Merricks
Gilda Millner
Don Morley
Susan Morley
James Morris
Sheppard Morrison
Sherri Murphy
Dennis Oliver
Sherry Payne
Laura Rand
Barbara Reichelderfer
friends and
current students
Anonymous
Ryland and Dot Bennett G’11
Theodore Bruning B
Joni Butler G’11
David Cothran †
Jacquelin Crebbs and Graham Evans B
Ben and Betty Davenport R B
Harold and Cathy Dayton
Richard Dixon
68
Kathleen Bond Dow
Barbara Evans
Dugald Fletcher
Eunice Fulcher
William Greynolds
Charles Hickox, Jr.
Cheryl Hogg
H. Winston and Betty Holt
Pamela Kahuda
Sarah Bugbee Keidel
Warren Kelleher
John A. Logan, Jr. † R B
Sidney Lovett
Michael Lyons
Caswell and Liz Nilsen
V. R. Shackelford III
Richard Simmons B
Han Kyu and Soon-Bock Kim Song
Karl and Hollis Stauber
Cassidy Tebeau ’13
Sara Thompson
John Thorndike
Richard L. and Joan M. Willis
E. Carlton and Shay Wilton R B
James H. Wright
ANNUAL REPORT
corporations &
foundations
3Kids Corporation
Adobe Systems Incorporated Matching
Gift Program
AEGON Transamerica Foundation
Alcyon Foundation
Ankeny Foundation
The Arkwright Foundation
Katherine and Thomas Belk Foundation
Berkshire Taconic Community
Foundation Inc.
BNY Mellon
The Boston Foundation
BW718 Foundation Inc.
Campbell Insurance Company B
Central Carolina Community Foundation
Coastal Community Foundation of
South Carolina
Cochran Family Foundation
The Thomas B. & Robertha K. Coleman
Foundation Inc.
The Community Foundation of Greater
Birmingham
Community Foundation of Greater
Greensboro
Community Foundation of the
Chattahoochee Valley
2011–2012
Mary W. Covey Charitable
Remainder Trust R B
J. Crisp Properties, LLC
Diamond Paper Company, Inc.
S. Downey Fund of the Northern Trust
Charitable Giving Program
Driscoll Foundation
The Elster Foundation
Fidelity Investments Charitable
Gift Fund
Foundation for the Carolinas
GE Foundation
Gillings Family Foundation
Adele Bogart Fitzpatrick Fund of the
Greater Cincinnati Foundation
Zachary P. Hairston, D.D.S. Family
Dentistry
Special Fund #6 of the Hampton Roads
Community Foundation R B
The Bryant & Nancy Hanley
Foundation Inc.
Claire Adair Hendrickson Foundation
Elsie H. Hillman Foundation
Hobby Family Foundation
Intermountain Gas Industries Foundation
International Business Machines
J & S Landscaping
David Woods Kemper Memorial
Foundation
The Kraft Foods Foundation
Land O’Lakes Foundation
The Lord’s Foundation
The Alice Pack Melly & L Thomas Melly
Foundation
The Merck Company Foundation
Meriwether-Godsey, Inc.
Douglas and Sands Coleman Fund of
The Minneapolis Foundation
Geraldine M. Murray Foundation
National Philanthropic Trust
Network for Good
The New York Community Trust
The Louise P. Overbey Trust R B
Partridge Foundation
Pfizer Foundation Matching Gifts
Program
Piedmont Direct, Inc.
Henry B. Plant Memorial Fund
Quest Diagnostics
Schwab Charitable Fund
The Siragusa Foundation B
The Sledge Foundation
The Whitney and Anne Stone
Foundation
Stuart Family Foundation
Takeda Matching Gift Program
Target
Thanksgiving Foundation
James W. Thornton Family Foundation
Union Pacific Matching Gift Program
United Way of Central New Mexico
The Uplands Family Foundation
Van Yahres Associates
Verizon Foundation
Wallick Family Foundation Donor
Advised Fund of the Wyoming
Community Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
The Helen B. & Charles M. White
Charitable Fund of the Cleveland
Foundation
69
memorial gifts
Elizabeth Aberg ’67
Joan Mitchell Ault ’44
Barbro Carlson Barck-Lindgren ’55
Sue Overton Carter
Theresa Casavant
Class of 1962 Deceased Members
Class of 1968 Deceased Members
Eleanor Ogg Cooper ’45
Mildred Harrison Dent ’41
Ransom Duncan
Marjorie Milbank Farrar ’53
Sally Ferguson ’37
Emily Norcross Fisher ’55
Sarah Huntington Fletcher ’52
Nancy Marshall Forcier ’45
Constance Gibson
Mary Virginia Gillam
Gaye Barker Godell ’62
Elizabeth Hairston
John Hewitt
Edith Porter Hickox ’38
Audrey Hillman Hilliard ’43
Rebecca Buell Hirsch ’51
Virginia Holt
George Hren
Patricia Newcomet Hudson ’52
Phyllis B. Hunt
Anne Winship Kelleher ’52
Dick Labouchere
Richard Lane
Mary Bleecker Simmons ’55
Doris Slayton
Alexandra Ryburn Taylor ’52
Ann West Vivarelli ’53
Sally Brittingham Wallace ’44
Lillian Waller ’71
Dixie Whitehead
James and Mary Wilson
Archie Womack
Helen Yardley
Carin Moore Laughlin ’45
Joan Campbell Lovett ’45
Susan Thompson Lynd ’61
Stanley Stacy McNeill ’67
James Mills
Sheila Monks-Baniak ’72
Margaret Morris ’77
Patricia Pyke Munn ’45
Flavia Pediconi Nonis ’45
Susan Hughes Norman ’53
Pankaj Patel
Martha Ann Pugh ’77
Virginia Radley
Robert Reigeluth
Helen Daniel Rodman ’39
honorary gifts
Caitlin Aberg ’15
Ann Beal
Kathryn Bennett ’11
William Black
Amy Blair
E. Conrad and Peggy Bowlin
Meredith Brown ’04
Theodore Bruning
Alison Wright Cameron ’52
Ashby Cothran
Lella Crane ’91
Alice Cromer
Sumner Dalrymple ’09
Ruby Sherron De Hart
Hillary Dwyer ’10
Hannah Early ’12
Mary Edmonds
Robin Emmons ’14
Laura Farmer
Megan Grissett ’05
Kathryn Granger Haines ’75
H. Anderson and Cheryl Haymes
Sanders Beard Hockensmith ’74
Nelson Ervin Holland ’93
George and Gisela Ives
Curtis Jackson
Catherine Bell Johnson ’12
parent advisory
committee
officers
Kyle and Pamela Kahuda
Katharine Kidde ’48
Polly Mingledorff ’09
Jennifer Jackson Moulton ’98
Leda Neale ’78
Erica Neale ’80
Wendy Wilson O’Brien ’67
Lea Cumings Parson ’44
Molly Penny ’14
Haley Price ’06
Laura Price ’09
Nancy Remley Whiteley ’68
Emily Brown Sales ’02
Reid Smith ’11
R. Alan Spearman
Sallie Grace Tate ‘81
Mark and Molly Thomas
Lale Turker
Jerry and Lockett Van Voorhis
John and Deborah Vrooman
Alexandra Walker ‘09
Anna Wallace ‘08
Megan Willis ‘06
Penelope Perkins Wilson ‘41
Mary Kate Winebrenner ‘12
Isabella Yeager ‘07
Katharine Reynolds Chandler ’68
Jerry Clark P’04
Douglas Goldstein P’12
Stacey Goodwin ’83
Katherine Coleman Haroldson ’75
Robert McIver P’10
70
trustees emeriti
Robin Tieken Hadley ’57
ex-officio Members
Karen Soderstrom P’12
Parent Advisory Committee
The Rt. Rev. Herman Hollerith IV P’15,
Bishop, The Diocese of Southern
Virginia
President, Alumnae Council
class of 2013
Lois Daughtridge
Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald
Charles and Cheryl Tuck
class of 2015
We are grateful to the many volunteers who worked enthusiastically and selflessly on behalf
of Chatham Hall during 2011–2012. You have enriched our academic, athletic, and student life programs. You
have helped us recruit new students; have hosted and coordinated events; have raised much-needed funds to
balance our budget and strengthen our programs and provided invaluable investment advice. And, you have
planned and coordinated programs for our alumnae and parent communities. Thank you for all that you do!
chair
William and Nancy Phillips
Lawrence and Karen Soderstrom
Valerie P. Welch
Jonathan and Rebecca Winebrenner
William and Darnell Abbott
Sterling and Linder Laffitte
Louis and Tango Moore
Ned and Catherine Morris
thank you!
Tracy Spencer P’07, ’12
Robin Peake Stuart ’69
Dora M. Thomas P’02, ’04
Penelope Perkins Wilson ’41, P’67
class of 2012
class of 2014
volunteers
board of trustees
President: Karen Soderstrom P’12
Vice President: Cheryl Tuck P’13
alumnae council
president
Jane Allen ’00
Lucy Charles Jones Bendall ’42
Cheryl Bentley ’83
Martha Stevens Brown ’73
Elisabeth Campbell Cales ’02
Ansley Chapman Cella ’91
Sarah Collie ’85
Adele Cornwall ’10
Joanna Edgell ’93
Mary Freed ’86
Annette Kirby ’80
Megan Grant Lawrence ’98
Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60
Virginia Worthington Marr ’55
Catherine McCormick ’83
Maggie Oakes ’08
Lee Porter Page ’59
Talmadge Ragan ’69
Mary Reynolds ’84
Frances Wallace Robertson ’73
Emily Brown Sales ’02
Lindsay Shook ’02
Ann Taylor ’54
Alexandra Walker ’09
ANNUAL REPORT
Dale and Denise Evans
James and Melanie Hogg
Herman and Elizabeth Hollerith
Joseph and Susan Pinyard
alumnae
volunteers
Sarah Wood Anderson ’96
Boyce Lineberger Ansley ’64
Jennifer Austell-Wolfson ’82
Schaeffer Goss Barnhardt ’06
Helen Beasley ’62
Lucy Charles Jones Bendall ’42
Kathryn Bennett ’11
Virginia Cates Bowie ’73
Camille Agricola Bowman ’71
Mary Boy ’75
Jacqueline Cannon Brown ’56
Katharine Bulkley ’77
Tyler Burkett ’11
2011–2012
Joanna Caldwell ’06
Elizabeth Call ’00
Alison Wright Cameron ’52
Virginia Carter ’76
Ellen Cartmell ’08
Sarah Collie ’85
Adele Cornwall ’10
Carole Robertson Coviello ’62
Cindy Cottle ’90
Katherine Currin ’01
Kimberly Daniels ’02
Carol Babcock Davenport ’47
Olga Davidson ’70
Ninna Fisher Denny ’70
Patricia Noojin Dudley ’67
Lelan Dunavant ’05
Eleanor Owens Earle ’46
Pace Cooke Emmons ’77
Florence Schroeder Ervin ’58
Virginia Evans ‘07
Elizabeth Stout Foehl ’67
Samantha Franklin ’05
Stacey Goodwin ’83
Nancy Evans Gruner ’47
Anne-Marie Ethier Hain ’87
Judy Currie Hamilton ’87
Nancy Gwathmey Harris ’50
Sandra Van Haaften Heasley ’94
Stephanie Hewitt Hedge ’89
Ashley Hockensmith ’05
Cannon Hodge ’00
Catherine Whitehead Huband ’91
Grace Hwang ’10
Jean Merritt Johnston ’62
Debbie Humphreys Jones ’67
Whitney Jones ’03
C. Jane Van Landingham ’62
Kappy Gheesling Lapides ’86
Frances Johnson Lee-Vandell ’60
Elizabeth Loewenstein ’07
Marguerite Logan ’04
Ellen Childs Lovejoy ’50
Jill Sedlmayr MacMillan ’66
Patricia Kellogg Maddock ’77
Martha Justice Martin ’55
Mary Dykema McGuire ’37
Jane Everhart Murray ’63
Jean Brundred Murray ’38 †
Taylor Nyberg ’06
Wendy Wilson O’Brien ’67
Maggie Oakes ’08
Elizabeth Reigeluth Parker ’64
Sonal Patel ’06
Laura Price ’09
Reagan Greene Pruitt ’95
Talmadge Ragan ’69
Charlotte Kirk Reynolds ’65
Anne Davies Robertson ’83
Morgan Karsman Robertson ’97
Anna Robinson ’93
Mary Katherine Evans Rordam ’03
Julia Rowe ’05
Belinda Thornton Ruelle ’85
Julia Dorman Schneider ’79
Lindsay Shook ’02
Jan Slocum ’62
Emma Smith ’05
Laura Spencer ’07
Terry Overbey Stafford ’68
Caroline Hartwell Stewart ’44
Michelle Thomas Supko ’02
Ann Taylor ’54
Danielle Thomas ’04
Margaret Ryburn Topping ’48
Alexandra Walker ’09
Margaret Horner Walker ’58
Judith Turben Walrath ’54
Suzanne West ’97
Harriet Simons Williams ’48
Sally Saltonstall Willis ’58
Laura Willoughby ’87
parent
volunteers
William and Darnell Abbott P’14
Brian T. and Jennifer Atkinson P’13
Doris Baker P’13
Stacey Bentley P’15
Jo Brown P’15
Fred and Rebecca Caprio P’15
Martha Chapman P’13
Marcie Cobble P’93, ‘96
Lois Daughtridge P’13
Dale and Denise Evans P’15
Dagmar Fahr P’15
Edmond and Angela Fitzgerald P’13
Felicia Hairston P’15
William Hedge P’12
Jason and Alicia Hicks P’15
James and Melanie Hogg P’15
Kimberley Knight P’09
Sterling and Linder Laffitte P’14
Amy Lane P’12
Christopher and Arlene Lee P’12
Craig and Theresa Merrigan P’12
Louis and Tango Moore P’14
Ned and Catherine Morris P’14
Katherine Parrish P’15
Robin Pearsall P’15
Joseph and Susan Pinyard P’15
Robert and Elizabeth Powell P’14
Cynthia Rodriguez P’13
Lori Wainright P’13, ‘14
Karen Soderstrom P’12
Laura Stevens P’15
Dora M. Thomas P’02, ‘04
Cheryl Tuck P’13
James and Lisa Tuite P’14
Daniel Waters P’14
Valerie Welch P’12
David and Kathryn Wilton P’14
Paige Wiseman P’12
Joseph Woody P’15
Bernadette Young P’15
71
Distinguished
CALL FOR
A L U M N A AWA R D N O M I N A T I O N S
The award was established
in 2009 by the Chatham
Hall Alumnae Council.
Criteria for Selection
• Distinctive professional
or service contributions
• Inspirational role model
• Demonstrates core
Chatham Hall values of
honor, respect, and
integrity
Selection Process
The Alumnae Council
solicits nominations from
the alumnae body. A
Committee of the Alumnae
Council reviews and
assesses all submissions
and makes a recommendation to the full Alumnae
Council for consideration.
Preference is given to an
alumna in her reunion
year and all complete
nominations will remain
active for a period of three
years, during which time
additional supporting
documentation may be
contributed. Typically,
the award will be presented
at the Alumnae Association
Annual Meeting and the
awardee must be in
attendance.
Past Awardees
• The Reverend
Elinor “Nellie”
Robinson Greene ’70
• Penelope “Penny”
Perkins Wilson ’41
• Diane Heiskell
Schetky ’57
• Anne L. Bryant ’67
october
Merjen Atayeva ’14 and Kinaya Pettiford ’13,
Experiment in International Living Participants,
Shaw Technology Lab, 6:40 p.m.
21–22 Admission Open House, Referrals Welcome,
Call 434.432.5613 for Inquiries
24 World Cultural Talk: Thailand and Costa Rica,
Michelle Penot ’13 and Maren Sherrill ’13,
Experiment in International Living Participants,
26–27 Alumnae Council Meeting
26–27 Board of Trustees Meeting
recognizes a graduate who has distinguished herself
through significant, outstanding contributions in her
profession and/or meritorious public service. This Alumna
embodies the characteristics and values of Chatham Hall
in her daily life and inspires excellence in others. Awardees
represent diverse professions and interests.
february
1 Admission Application Deadline
1–2 Board of Trustees Meeting
21–23 Winter Musical: Avenue Q (School Edition),
Van Voorhis Lecture Hall, 8:00 p.m.
march
17–26 Chatham Hall in Cuba, Registered Students,
Parents, and Alumnae
april
6-7 Admission Re-Visit Weekend, Call 434.432.5613
for Inquiries
11 Reading, Tracy K. Smith, Writer in Residence,
1–2 Fall Play: Animal Farm, Black Box Theatre, 8:00 p.m.
3 Fall Play: Animal Farm, Black Box Theatre, 2:00 p.m.
5 Master Class with Janet Lilly—Head of UNCG
Department of Dance, Master Class Participants
13 Venus Williams, Leader in Residence,
Public Lecture, Van Voorhis Lecture Hall, 7:30 p.m.,
Tickets Required, Contact Amy Blair at
434.432.5508 for Ticket Information
I. Nominee name, class year, and contact information
II. A biographical sketch
III. Summary of relevant professional and volunteer
experiences, noteworthy achievements, and
awards/recognitions received.
december
IV. Supporting documents
5 World Cultural Talk: Mexico, Gigi Byrd ’13,
These might include but are not limited to a professional resume,
newspaper or magazine articles, Web sites, examples of work, etc.
A letter in support of the nominee from someone who has a close
personal or professional relationship with her that describes how
the nominee meets the award criteria.
Multiple letters of support are highly encouraged.
8
16
V. Nominator’s name(s) and contact information
21
Mary Craft ’15, Zoey Sims ’15, Noelle Wilton ’14,
and Señora Jackson, Spanish Language
Study/Home-Stay Program Participants,
Senior Night in the Well, 9:00 p.m.
The Service of Lessons and Carols,
St. Mary’s Chapel, 5:00 p.m.
Christmas Pageant, St. Mary’s Chapel, 6:00 p.m.
Van Voorhis Lecture Hall, 7:00 p.m.
19 Family Day in Honor of Grandparents,
For All Family Members
may
2–3 Alumnae Council Meeting
3–5 Reunion Weekend, All Welcome,
5–6
31
Special Celebrations for Classes Ending in 3 & 8
Board of Trustees Meeting
Lantern Ceremony, 9:00 p.m.
june
1
{
Baccalaureate and Commencement
questions?
Contact Amy Blair in the Advancement Office
at 434.432.5508 or at ablair@chathamhall.org
George Herndon
and Owen Clay
Submission Nomination packages may
be submitted to alumnae@chathamhall.org
or to
Chatham Hall
Alumnae Relations
Chatham, VA 24531-3085
A confirmation notice of
receipt will be sent
Questions about the award, submission,
or the selection process? Contact Beth Griffin,
Associate Director of Advancement
434-432-5518 or bgriffin@chathamhall.org
november
For full consideration, a complete nomination package as described
below should be received by December 3, 2012.
•
january
A L U M N A AWA R D N O M I N A T I O N S
12–13 Parents Weekend
13 Fall Convocation
17 World Cultural Talk: China and Tanzania,
The Chatham Hall
Distinguished Alumna Award
•
F O R
Distinguished
{ 2012–2013
About the Award
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