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Bacot Hall was my home for four years – I lived on Bacot II
Their jobs went beyond academics and college counseling;
in a quad with three roommates during my first year and on
they cared about you as a person and about your whole life.
Bacot III for my remaining years, with Ms. Bradley and Mrs.
The person who immediately comes to mind is Frances Smith
Albertson as dorm counselors.
at the school switchboard. She was like a second mother to
One of the best things about the boarding program was
me and many other boarders, and my boarding experience
having the opportunity for sleepovers almost every night
would not have been the same without her. Our relationship
with some of your best friends.
and the many conversations we had and advice she offered
will always be dear to my heart.
As a boarding student, all of the people
Attending St. Catherine’s was one of the best decisions I
surrounding you were more like family
ever made. My experience there instilled in me a tremen-
than simply staff, students, administra-
dous confidence and taught me that there is nothing in this
world that I cannot accomplish, if I put my mind to it and
tors or teachers.
keep my faith in God.
Preserving the past for the future: St. Catherine’s is committed to preserving the history
and community of its boarding alumnae. The alumnae office and school archives continue to collect
photographs, memorabilia, oral histories and handwritten reflections related to boarding school life, a
key component of the school for nearly a century. If you have treasures and memories to share, please
contact Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ‘75, director of alumnae affairs (jhawthorne@st.catherines.org) or
Tyler Bird Paul ‘77, school archivist (tpaul@st.catherines.org).
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FEATURES
BOARDING MEMORIES
Jontille Fowler Ray ’95
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Math and Science
HEADLINES
Laura J. Fuller talks about the school’s focus
on teaching math and science.
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AROUND THE GREEN
News from around campus
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12 Campus RenovationS
Art Gallery
Photo highlights
A showcase of impressive student talent
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17 Saints Give Back
GREAT GIFTS
A sampling of the many ways St. Catherine’s
girls have helped others in need this year.
St. Catherine’s gifts and memorabilia
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Read about how St. Catherine’s connects girls
to math and science, with alumnae comments
from professionals who say it all started here.
And, meet our expert math and science faculty.
20 Authors Among Us
CLASS NOTES
Including marriages, births and passings
Recent books by alumnae writers
On the cover
Freshmen Crystal Turner (foreground), Kyle Liggan and Ali
Doswell built model cars from
household mousetraps and
recycled CDs in their Science,
Technology, Engineering and
Math (STEM) class, where teacher
Joe Mahler shows how all of
these disciplines come together.
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lines
Many experts believe that the
unparalleled interest in math and science by our students, faculty and
age of information explosion is
parents. I continue to be impressed by our incredible alumnae who
coming to an end, and the next
are doing remarkable work in math and science careers. They are
phase of economic dominance
making medical discoveries, pursuing careers as engineers, research
will be by industries in the areas
scientists and teachers, working for NASA and more, proving that St.
of biology and biotechnology.
Catherine’s graduates make a positive difference in the world.
This, coupled with the advances in
medical science and especially genomics/proteomics, will require
There is unparalleled interest in math
all Americans to have at least a working knowledge of science.
and science by our students, faculty
President Obama recently recognized this shift in his six priorities
and parents.
for the ”Race To the Top” initiative focusing on improving K-12
schools. The second priority gives competitive preference specifi-
To continue to move forward in this brave new world, our girls will
cally to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
need cutting edge science classrooms. Bacot Hall now houses two
state-of-the-art labs for our Middle School girls, and two more will
The President understands that women specifically must compete
come online when Washington Hall reopens in September. Our
in all advancing fields and have shown the intellectual acuity nec-
next priority will be to renovate and expand our Upper School
essary to succeed in formerly male-dominated fields like STEM.
science facilities in Mullen Hall. Once finished, Mullen Hall will
Women will be needed to keep America in the race of scientific
give us 21st century educational capability in all of the core science
advancements. As a nation, it is our responsibility to provide
areas, and will offer independent and guided research opportuni-
American students with the tools and skills necessary to stay com-
ties to pursue advanced training in various fields of science.
petitive in this ever-changing global world.
I also believe that students inclined toward math and science must
Women were beginning to make inroads into the various science
learn to be fluent writers and creative thinkers and designers. Daniel
fields when I was in college, but I usually wound up being the only
Pink eloquently makes this argument in our recent faculty summer
woman or one of a small minority amongst my science department
reading selection, A Whole New Mind. Our strong humanities and arts
faculty. I also found that, although my interest in science was toler-
training enhances students’ opportunities within the STEM pro-
ated, I was not encouraged to further pursue studies or research
gram and in their future careers in math and science.
- at least not the way I perceived the men were supported in these
areas. This only spurred my desire to succeed in science and to
I am so very proud of our accomplishments as a school in the areas
encourage other young female students to do the same.
of humanities and the arts. We have been strong in these areas for
120 years. During a recent meeting with our college sophomores,
Women will be needed to keep America
the girls expressed their pride in their ability to write and noted how
in the race of scientific advancements.
important this had been in their transition to college.
We are, at our heart, a school with a mission to prepare girls for
At St. Catherine’s, we have launched an aggressive initiative to
leadership and service in a global community. I believe we all agree
further enhance math and science during the past three years and
the future is growing more exciting and diverse, as the world is
have already seen the success of these programs. Our girls already
becoming smaller. Our girls will need to be broadly educated, and
possessed the work ethic necessary to do well in these fields, and
this is what we do best!
are taking full advantage of our additional programmatic offerings
and encouragement.
Our Middle School students are taking off in mathematics and
scientific competitions and Upper School students are excelling in
Laura J. Fuller, Head of School
the Advanced Placement science and mathematics courses. There is
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board of governors
2009-2010
Elizabeth Cabell Jennings ’81
Chair
Jane Hall Armfield ’70
Jewel Glenn Caven ‘86
Richard M. Clary
William E. Collin
Elizabeth Allen Cuthbert ’60
Saturday, April 24
Annabel Morgan Edge ’64
Elizabeth Fauntleroy
Robert W. Garland
Robert J. Grey, Jr.
mission
St. Catherine’s, a Church School in the
Episcopal Diocese of Virginia, offers girls in
junior kindergarten through twelfth grade
a rigorous college preparatory education
through a community of teachers and staff
committed to fostering the development of
the mind, body and spirit. The ultimate aim
of the school is to prepare girls of diverse
perspectives for leadership and service in a
global community.
c o r e va l u e s
To fulfill our mission and pursue our vision,
we take these values as core:
Pursuing academic excellence: We cultivate intellectual habits in which we take joy in
learning through energetic inquiry, analytical
Scott Duncan Gullquist
and creative thinking, and continual striving to
reach new levels.
Charles M. Johnson III
Developing character: We teach individuals to
live with integrity, responsibility, confidence, compassion and respect for themselves and others.
Jose L. Murillo
Nurturing spiritual growth: We enable each
person to deepen her faith through worship,
reflection, humility and the recognition of God in
every human being.
Building community: We build up community
within and beyond the school through teaching
social responsibility, inclusiveness and leadership
to prepare each person to serve others and contribute to healing the world.
spring 2010 vol 68 no 2
credits:
Laura J. Fuller
Photography
Editor and Writer
Cathe H. Kervan
Publications and Photography Manager
Contributing Writers
Jennifer Harter, Theodora M. Miller,
Tyler Bird Paul ’77, Jim Robb
c o n ta c t i n f o r m at i o n :
Director of Development
Kim Lebar
Director of Alumnae Affairs
Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ’75
Co-Heads of the Campaign
Debbie Andrews Dunlap ’70
Sue H. Schutt
Ray M. Paul, Jr.
Louis Clifford Schroeder
Gib Brockenbrough Staunton ’81
Dee Dee Butler Sutton ’76
R. Giles Tucker
Anne Kenny Urban ‘83
Katherine M. Whitney ’75 Horace P. Whitworth II
Governors Emeriti/ae
Anne Whitfield Kenny ’51
Theodore W. Price
Wesley Wright, Jr.
Ex Officio
Laura J. Fuller
Head of School
David H. Charlton
President of Church Schools
George K. Jennison
Secretary of the Board of Governors
Wayne L. Hunter
Foundation President
Head of School
Theodora M. Miller
Director of Marketing & Communications
Kathleen Luke
Christopher H. Williams
Celebrating individuals: We recognize the
unique gifts and potential of each person and
help each to recognize the strength that comes
from differences.
st.catherine’s now
Executive Editor
Ethnie Jones
Jean Grainger ’66
Alumnae Association President
Heather Taylor Miller
Parents’ Association President
Duane Berger, Judy Carpenter Hawthorne ’75, Cathe Kervan,
Theodora Miller, Jim Robb, Diane Vaccarino
Foundation
Wayne L. Hunter
President
Design
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Mary C. Doswell
Lawrence L. Gray
Ashby Jennings Hatch ’84
Peter H. Bowles
William Jeffrey W. Miller
Molly Fergusson Tanaka ’73
Advisors
William J. Armfield IV
H. Hiter Harris III
Wesley Wright, Jr.
Girls can Excel in
Math Science
at St. Catherine’s
and
b y c at h e h a r t k e r v a n
By building model cars from household mousetraps and recycled CDs, Upper School girls
in a St. Catherine’s STEM — Science, Technology, Engineering and Math — class learned
how to blueprint, build, and troubleshoot their original designs for a final product that
met certain specifications.
Middle School girls are gathering and manipulating data, creating pictures while learning about
slope and refiguring ingredient amount in recipes.
Younger girls make slime, drop eggs, create polymer worms, construct electric circuits,
identify unknown chemicals, create unique atom models, and measure air resistance using
parachutes.
All of this – and much more – goes on in math and science classrooms across campus, as
teachers continue to discover the best ways to reach girls in subjects once considered better
suited for boys. This stereotype does not hold true, at least not at St. Catherine’s, where girls
are tackling these subjects with flying colors. Under the guidance of encouraging teachers
who are experts in their fields, girls at St. Catherine’s are being challenged to think independently and solve problems everyday.
Furthermore, scores of successful alumnae are proof that St. Catherine’s always does a
remarkable job of connecting girls to math and science, starting them on their way toward
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careers in this direction.
In their seventh grade earth science class, Ian Armitage’s
students Katherine Custer (left) and Maddie Miller
investigate how distance, direction and force affect the
sensitivity of a simple seismograph.
s ta r t i n g w i t h r e a l - l i f e p r o b l e m s
girls can be “math-letes”
Pam Roberts watched interdisciplinary learning come
Historically, teaching and research were considered the only real career choices
different countries. When her students learned that
for a mathematics enthusiast. Now that many of today’s careers are built on a
60 percent of all people in the world live in Asia, they
strong mathematics foundation, the question ”When Will I Use Math?” is easier
for teachers to answer.
to life when she taught a lesson on populations of
explored the type of jobs and the products made in
Asian countries. This led to a class project of surveying
the entire Lower School to find out what countries
“Career possibilities are endless for those who choose to pursue mathematics
in college and grad school,“ said Sue Jenkins, Upper School math teacher and
department head. “Check out www.whenwillIusemath.com to see 40 careers that use
mathematics. The study of math offers multiple personal benefits, including the
produced the coats worn by fellow students. “They
brainstormed on how to collect and compile the data,
and will be translating their findings into percentages,”
Pam said.
enjoyment of its form, logic, patterns and mind-binding exercise.”
Teachers are committed to helping girls get a good
The problem solving, communicating and reasoning involved in mathematics
riculum called Everyday Mathematics is followed. The
start in math in the Lower School, where a cur-
easily relates to other disciplines, and girls are quick to make these connections.
program offers lessons centered around everyday
situations and involves hands-on activities and dis-
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cussions, rather than a textbook. “Our program encourages students
to apply their understandings of math concepts, share their strategies
for solving problems and practice their skills in challenging ways,”
said second grade teacher Katherine Mangum.
St. Catherine’s teachers recognize that girls learn best when they solve
problems in small, collaborative groups. “My students gain confidence
from testing their assumptions and ideas while working in a small,
comfortable environment,” said Katherine, who noted that she and her
St. Catherine’s colleagues believe that even the youngest of girls can be
mathematical thinkers and problem solvers.
m at h c o u n t s i n m i d d l e s c h o o l
“Our students are taking off in mathematics,” said Pam Haner, Middle
School math teacher. She said that the pace of math instruction is
bumping up a notch; Algebra I will now be required of all eighth
grade students. “Our girls can handle this,” Pam said.
Described as a lab-based approach, math in grades 5-8 is all about
“interpreting what the numbers mean,” Pam said. She and other Middle
School math teachers help students use math as a way to model what
is going on in the world.
Earlier this year, 80 sixth, seventh and eighth graders participated in
the American Mathematics Contest (AMC 8) – the largest national
middle school math program. Two St. Catherine’s eighth graders
placed in the top five percent in the nation, and a sixth grader placed
in the top 10 percent of the approximately 25,000 fifth and sixth grade
Third grade students Colleen Apostle and Eliza Woodfin tested what they
learned about surface tension. Hands-on experimentation in Amy Adkins’
science lab is a standard component of the Lower School science curriculum.
student competitors throughout the nation. Also, 14 Middle School
students participated in the AMC 10 earlier this year.
Additionally, the St. Catherine’s MathCounts team - eighth graders
Molly Phillips, Ellie Wallace, Maria Sison and Hallie Reichel - competed against teams from schools in the Greater Richmond region,
“Our program encourages students to apply their
and, after three rounds of challenging problems, placed second. Four
understandings of math concepts, share their
St. Catherine’s girls placed in the top 10 overall. “I have never seen this
happen before,” Pam said.
strategies for solving problems and practice their
skills in challenging ways,” said second grade
rigor and college prep
teacher Katherine Mangum.
In the Upper School, challenges await girls who are ready to excel in
mathematics. “The rigor of our program prepares girls well for college,”
noted Sue Jenkins. She said that while the Upper School math program supports the science curriculum, “we want students also to enjoy
mathematics for its sheer beauty and elegance.”
Upper School math teacher Paula Holland said, “One challenge in
teaching girls is to help them continue building confidence in their
ability to succeed at “doing” math. Taking risks by sharing their
answers or comments is a struggle for some students. Girls prefer to
know that their work is correct before they share. I encourage the girls
to share anything—to give me something from which to work. By sharing their thoughts, I am able to solidify the correctness of their mathematics, tweak any misconceptions and extend into further territory
when wonderful insights are expressed.”
Upper School students compete every year in the AMC 10-12 and
national calculus contests. Some have accompanied Sue to a collegelevel MAA (Mathematical Association of America) conference in
Jaala Williams, Olivia Armfield and Sarah Johnson work out an addition problem
on the SmartBoard in Katherine Mangum’s 2nd grade classroom.
Portland, Oregon, and have presented at local conferences in the past.
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Learning
by doing
science
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By the time girls move to the Middle School, they are ready - and still eager
– to dive into more complex science topics, often collaborating with teammates on assignments. According to life sciences teacher Martha Bedinger
Holt ’75, “Girls arrive here [Middle School] with so much creativity. They
come into our labs ready to learn and excited about the equipment. They
easily make connections to something they already know, because things
they learn in class are relevant to the real world.”
Some of Evelyn Boatwright’s fifth graders are well on their way to becoming future engineers. Using a game they created, mechanical engineering
students from Virginia Commonwealth University recently led her students
through the steps engineers use to create a new product. After brainstorming
in small groups, the students presented their original ideas to the entire class.
The VCU students work under the direction of VCU professor and design
engineer Dr. Ramana M. Pidaparti, who is the driving force behind a unique
partnership between area middle schools, technical centers and VCU's
schools of engineering and education.
“A strong science background is an integral part of being a well-educated
person,” said Nancy Habenicht, science department chair. “We want scien-
stem brings it all together
tifically minded girls, whether or not they go into science as a profession.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. They all add up to
STEM – a teaching philosophy that St. Catherine’s is embracing along with
“What we understand about how girls learn and what they need to know
is reflected in the changes in our science curriculum. The focus is on team
the rest of the country. “It’s a way to help students understand how sci-
learning, and girls are learning by doing,” she said.
ence and math apply to everything else they learn,” said physics and STEM
teacher Joe Mahler. Throughout the science curriculum, the STEM concept
provides a common thread, connecting all the sciences. It also emphasizes
y o u n g p r o b l e m - s o lv e r s
an engineering approach, which involves setting up a team to analyze
Science specialist Amy Adkins has no trouble generating enthusiasm for
problems and then find ways to solve them in a methodical way.
science when third and fourth graders come to her science lab. “They
In Fall 2008, St. Catherine’s implemented a separate elective STEM course
come ready to learn because they love knowing what’s going on in the
for ninth graders. This introductory course continues this year with a small
world, and they ask great questions,” said Amy. “Girls this age are prob-
number of ninth graders, and it will be offered again next year along with
lem solvers. They like to think out-of-the-box, can look at things in a
an additional STEM II class for girls who have had physics or STEM expe-
different way and are willing to test things they don’t believe,” said Amy.
rience. Planning is already underway for STEM III to be instituted in the
“Even at this young age, we work on scientific process skills – hypothesizing, experimenting and reporting results.”
2011-12 school year. As the program develops, girls will be able to explore
Lower School girls get lessons in life science, physical science and earth sci-
design (CAD), civil engineering, bioengineering and circuitry.
such diverse, advanced topics as robotics, programming, computer assisted
ence. “Our curriculum stands out from others because most lower schools
don’t have a dedicated science teacher and science laboratory,” Amy said.
p h y s i c s i s f o u n d at i o n
Also new in the Upper School is a pilot program referred to as “Physics First.”
Previously taught after biology and chemistry, teachers now believe – and
research shows – that a successful science student benefits from learning
physics principles first. “A first course in physics provides better coherence
across the science curriculum. Many foundation concepts are better developed in the physics classroom and carried forward into the other sciences,
including the Advanced Placement classes,” said Cindy Trask, Upper School
science teacher.
This year a Physics First pilot program for Middle School students who are
also taking Algebra II has been implemented with great success. A pilot program for ninth graders is planned for the 2010-11 school year. This course
uses an approach in which the students model and demonstrate physics
principles and laws, and then use their data to derive the formulas.
Students in these courses do the same mathematical analysis that is presently
In science lab, Upper School students (left to right) Bridget Shaia, Sydney Schreiner
and Anne Peyton Leitch collect data to investigate the relationship between the
amount of force applied to a block by a string and the block’s acceleration.
part of the physics course taught in 11th grade. Physics in the ninth grade will
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moving forward
Exciting programs in math and science require innovative tools, technology and facilities. With a vision for expanded facilities and a dedication
to enhancing these already excellent programs, St. Catherine’s is well
poised to raise the bar even higher.
Changes in the Middle School include two new science labs and 20
new classrooms in Bacot Hall. Two additional science labs will become
available when Washington Hall reopens by fall 2010. Future plans
for the Upper School include a complete renovation and expansion of
the science facility, Mullen Hall. This project will result in 5,900 additional square feet, including two new science labs, a 50-seat lecture hall,
research space for group study and a lab for independent, studentdirected research. Harkness Tables will become a standard to promote
interactive learning. Additionally, a new laboratory research experience
unique among Richmond schools and advanced science electives are
planned to challenge our girls even further.
Upper School girls learn how mathematical problem solving, communicating
and reasoning relate to other disciplines. Pictured here are Barbara Crosby’s
students Darice Etienne (left) and Moravia Henry.
“By moving forward with the wonderful things we already are doing,
our goal is to become the ‘go-to’ school in the areas for girls who are
interested in these subjects,” said Head of School Laura Fuller.
parallel what they are learning in mathematics and enhances the interdisci-
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plinary opportunities. This course will also give the students more experience
in the quantitative aspects of science at an earlier age, exploring concepts such
as energy and atomic theory, which are fundamental to all the sciences.
St. Catherine’s Girls Have Something to Say!
“I like being Scientist of the Week because you
science, so learning these subjects gives you
to real world ideas. Mrs. Trask always engages
get to pick your own experiment, and you get
an advantage in improving the
the class in her animated class discussions. She
to teach it to the class. I also like the tie-dyed
future .” – Emily, Grade 9
has a real love for what she does, and most
lab coat, because it is more fun than a plain
white one.” – Coco, Grade 2
“I like math! It is fun to learn math strategies and
shortcuts like make a more friendly number.”
“Learning math and science is very important
– Sunny, Grade 2
“I love everything about math and science.
We need to seize the opportunity
What’s not to like? We do lots of labs to help
to understand our world and
us learn.” – Grace, Grade 5
galaxy .” – Sabrina, Grade 5
“Studying math and science sharpens our criti-
“My favorite part about math is working a difficult
problem and after working on it for what seems
cal thinking and opens our mind to new ideas
like forever, getting the right answer. It makes
and concepts.” – Juliette, Grade 9
me feel accomplished.” – Spencer, Grade 10
“Our world is becoming increasingly reliant on
and based around the studies of math and
about issues, such as global warming, what’s
causing it and how we can help.”
– Whitney, Grade 9
because some girls don't even get to go to
school. We know how things work and why.
of all wants us girls to be inventive by learning
“S cience is especially fascinating
to me because you can link raw science ideas
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“The teachers help cultivate our
learning each day in ways that make
learning these subjects more fun. Since math
and science aren’t something that’s offered
for girls everywhere, it’s important to take
advantage of these privileges we have to help
us succeed in the real world despite gender.”
– Alexandra, Grade 10
meet our
Math and Science Fac ulty
Amy Adkins
Lower School Science
Ian Armitage
7th Grade Science
Evelyn Boatwright
5th Grade Science
Ali Bonnell
5th Grade Math
Barbara Crosby
Upper School Math
Rebecca Dix
8th Grade Physical
Science
Sharon Hancock
6th Grade Math
“Fifth grade girls are energetic and always full of questions. It is extremely rewarding
to see them when a topic just ‘clicks’.” – Ali Bonnell
“The girls come to me with a natural curiosity about the world they live in and all I
have to do is run with it!” – Amy Adkins
Ryan Warren
Upper School Chemistry
“To see the sudden dawning of understanding on a student’s face is by far the coolest
part of my job.” – Ian Armitage
Nancy Habenicht
Upper School Science
and Department Chair
“To be successful as a teacher is to really care about your kids and to remember that
you owe them your very best.” – Cindy Trask
“I love challenging girls to think outside the box and to realize although the answer
may not come at first glance, through perseverance, they can solve any problem.”
– Heather Szymendera
Cindy Trask
Upper School Science
“Girls are capable of so much and are willing to try anything that you ask of them.
Sue Jenkins
Upper School Math and
Department Chair
Pitch them a challenge and then get out of the way!” – Martha Bedinger Holt ’75
Math and science are a part of the Lower School curriculum in grades JK-4.
Lower school representatives to the math and science departments include
Amy Adkins, Jane Garland, Sloan Hiscock, Katherine Mangum and Pam Roberts.
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Heather Szymendera
Upper School Math
Joe Schinsky
Upper School
Biology, Physics and
Environmental Science
Tracy Safran
7th Grade Math
Susan Pauls
Upper School Math
Pam Haner
8th Grade Math
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Paula Holland
Upper School Math
Martha Bedinger Holt ’75 Joseph Mahler
6th Grade Science
Upper School Physics,
STEM and 8th Grade
Physics
Alumnae Say
‘It All Started Here’
St. Catherine’s gave numerous alumnae the foundation
to become scientists, medical professionals and mathematicians. Here are just a few examples:
Ecologist Ingrid “Indy” Burke ’76, who
spoke to Upper School girls during last
year’s Cum Laude ceremony, has devoted
her career to teaching and research about
U.S. Air Force Pilot Lauren Wagner Palagi ’97 (center) flew U.S. Secretary of
Defense Robert Gates to Kosovo, Macedonia and Hungary last fall.
environmental science. “I live in the most
beautiful part of the world and have a
career that allows me to explore and study
the environment, and in some small way influence its future,”
U.S. Air Force Captain Lauren Wagner
said Indy. As the director of programs in environmental and
Palagi ’97 pilots, instructs and evalu-
natural resources at the University of Wyoming, Indy focuses on
ates on the C-17 Globemaster III aircraft
land use management and its influences on ecosystems, especially
for combat and humanitarian operations
carbon and nitrogen cycling. She has presented her research all
throughout the world. She has more than
around the country and the world.
2300 flight hours with more than 800
combat hours and six deployments. “The
St. Catherine’s motto, ‘What we keep we lose; only what we give
“I remember even in kindergarten at St.
away remains our own,’ motivated me to serve my country in the
Catherine’s wanting to do medicine,”
United States Air Force,” Lauren said. “AP courses at St. C provid-
said Ellen Li-Pong Chan ’93, ”My St.
ed a level of challenge and understanding that helped me be suc-
Catherine’s experience helped me become
cessful in college, and Minimester travel gave me a greater sense
a confident physician in a specialty that is
of the world that I wanted to explore.” Lauren has now traveled
dominated by men - although it is chang-
to more than 30 different countries.
ing.” Subspecializing in pediatric cardiology
at UCLA, Ellen cared for patients with congenital and acquired
heart disease. “To be able to help parents and families cope with
Kristin Yancey Ash ’02 is a scientist
their child’s disease and to see children improve and lead better
employed by the United States Navy,
lives is the best thing about what I do,” she said.
Department of Defense, where she worked
during the summers starting the year she
graduated from St. Catherine’s. “I pro-
For Virginia Lang Robertson ’98, a
gressed further in mathematics and the sci-
resident physician in radiation oncology,
ences at St. Catherine’s than I would have
studying math and science at St. Catherine’s
been able to do at a less rigorous school, so I had a better idea
set her on course to becoming a doctor.
of the field I was entering,” said the 2006 University of Virginia
“Without the strong support and encour-
mathematics graduate. “The teachers were more engaged in and
agement I received from St. Catherine’s at
excited about what they were teaching than at previous schools
a young age, I may not have had the con-
I had attended.” Kristin’s work today generally involves develop-
fidence to pursue math and science in college, which led to my
ing methods and algorithms and creating software for current
current career,” she said.
and expected needs within the Department of Defense.
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Renovation Highlights
Phase 1
Phase 2
Completed 2008
Completed 2009
Ellett Hall
Bacot Hall
Phase 3
Under construction
Washington Hall/
Dining Hall
Phase 4
Planning stages
Mullen Hall
There is much excitement on campus related to the very visible progress being made on the renovation and expansion of Washington Hall and the dining hall. The new entrance to the Middle School
is taking shape and the future 350-seat auditorium is fast becoming more than a big hole in the
ground. Most recently, our seniors had the pleasure of signing a steel beam that was installed in the
ceiling of the dining hall’s café, their names and messages to be preserved for future generations.
Washington Hall is targeted for completion by the first day of school in September, resulting in 17
new classrooms, two science labs, an auditorium, an art center, instructional spaces for choral,
strings and music, and dedicated guidance space. Expansion of the dining hall will also include a
café/collaborative workspace.
Washington Hall
r e n o v at i o n w i l l p r o v i d e n e w c l a s s r o o m s ,
science l abs, an auditorium and an art center
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Beirne Carter
Foundation
Provides Science Lab
St. Catherine’s commitment to upgrade and expand our science
program was a perfect match for the Beirne Carter Foundation.
The foundation’s mission focuses on investments in education,
particularly in the field of science. Last fall the Richmond-based
foundation made a generous gift to fund one of our new stateof-the-art Middle School science labs.
“We hope that these new, beautifully designed labs in Bacot
Hall will help spark young minds to develop a love of scientific
research,” said Rossie Hutcheson, president of the Beirne
Carter Foundation and mother of Rossie (2011). “This interest
begins in young active students, and we are so proud to be a
part of St. Catherine’s commitment to the ongoing pursuit of
scientific discovery and exploration.”
The Beirne Carter Foundation’s support of science extends
beyond the walls of Bacot Hall. The foundation has partnered
for more than 25 years with the University of Virginia to establish the Beirne Carter Immunology Center and to open the
new Carter-Harrison Research Building, where researchers are
diligently investigating answers for hepatitis, melanoma, liver
disease, Parkinson’s, diabetes, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
A product of that partnership was Dr. Rebecca Clary Harris ’93.
Becca was a researcher in the field of melanoma at the Carter
Immunology Center until her untimely death in September 2007.
“Rebecca was an outstanding research fellow studying under a
grant from the National Institute of Health,” said Dr. Thomas
Braciale, center director.
With the support of the Beirne Carter Foundation, countless
generations of St. Catherine’s students will learn about science and perhaps strive to make advancements in the field,
as Rebecca did.
“We are most grateful for the Beirne Carter Foundation’s
leadership in the early stages of our capital campaign,” said
Debbie Dunlap ’70, co-head of the capital campaign. “For
many years the foundation has shown its commitment to
women’s education by generously supporting programs and
initiatives at St. Catherine’s.”
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LOWER SCHOOL
Robotics Team Shines at
State Meet
Gift Service
Fourth graders (left to right) Caroline Jordan, Abby Cole and Abigail Olson had
roles in the 2009 Lower School Gift Service, a long-standing December tradition
presented at St. Stephen’s Church for parents and students in grades 1-4.
The Solving Saints, our fourth and fifth
grade Robotics Team, won the Champions
Award for best overall team performance in
their division in the First LEGO League Local
Tournament, earning a place at the State
Tournament at James Madison University.
Second Grade Authors
St. Christopher’s alumnus Jamie Hancock ‘95 shared with second graders from
both schools his life-long love of books, movies and all forms of visual storytelling and talked about the different elements of writing a good story. This joint
event held at St. Catherine’s kicked off the Caldecott book writing project, an
annual event for girls and boys in second grade.
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Hat Parade
After studying all 50 states, second graders decorated hats with state symbols and
showed their festive designs in a parade
around campus in February.
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MIDDLE SCHOOL
Sixth graders (from left) Taylor Allen, Willa King and Sallie Gilmore represented China in this year’s
World Experts Fair.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Day Activities
Student Geographers Explore the World
Sixth graders researched countries around the world and presented their knowledge at the annual World Experts Fair, the culmination of a project-based learning
activity focused on modern-day cultures and life experiences of another country.
Dressed in native costumes, students shared visual exhibits and Powerpoint
presentations, served homemade ethnic food and dazzled guests with their
expertise on foreign cultures.
Later in the year, students will travel to New York as immigrants from the countries they studied. Beginning at Ellis Island, they will travel to the Tenement
Museum, eat at ethnic restaurants, visit the United Nations and see the Broadway
show “In The Heights” about the assimilation of immigrants from Puerto Rico,
Dominican Republic and Cuba into life in America.
Quebec Trip
During a travel-learning program in
January, French teacher Elizabeth
McDermid (left) and students Hallie
Reichel, Kendall Daniels and Goldie
Daniels explored the Ice Hotel, a
functional structure sculpted entirely
from glacial ice.
Alice in Wonderland
The cast of “Alice in Wonderland” prepared backstage for the fifth and sixth
grade performance in December.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Day events
included a Strong Circle activity
facilitated by eighth graders. The girls
ate lunch together and shared stories
about times when they felt like true
and important members of the St.
Catherine’s community. They created
paper squares (above) that represented
each individual in their circle. Assembled as a quilt design, the squares gave
a collective identity to the group and a
visual representation of the way their
lives are interwoven.
The Strong Circle activity was followed
by a chapel presentation from the
Prejudice Awareness Club celebrating
the life of Dr. King through his words
and a student-created iMovie about
his message to the world and the way
that message plays into girls’ lives at
St. Catherine’s.
The girls also shared details from a
“Mix It Up Day” survey completed
by the Middle School student body
last fall, including statistics on how
students feel about the Middle
School’s social fabric. The end of the
chapel reflected on Dr. King’s and
Mahatma Gandhi’s message that
anyone can make and “be the change”
she wants to see in the world.
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UPPER SCHOOL
Seniors Dance Their
Own Creations
(left to right, foreground) Juniors Emma Ruffin, Margaret Catherine Southall, Mary Frances Buoyer and others
learned about life at American University from their campus tour guide.
College Prep
The college counseling office processed
420 applications to 135 different colleges
this year. At publication time, seniors
had received 128 acceptances through
rolling admission, early action and early
decision programs.
Twelve juniors and 6 sophomores traveled with the school‘s college counselors
to college and university campuses during the school‘s first-ever College Tour
minimester course. Visiting schools
throughout the mid-atlantic during
the first week, the girls toured campuses including Georgetown University,
George Washington University,
University of Pennsylvania, Haverford
College, Loyola University of Baltimore,
Johns Hopkins University and Villanova
University. During the second week,
they visited Virginia schools, including
Washington and Lee University, Sweet
Briar College, Lynchburg College and the
University of Richmond, and spent classroom time working on internship skills,
resume writing and college research.
University workshop at St. Catherine‘s.
Resume and essay writing, interview
skills, scholarship and financial aid
information, and more - including
university tours - will be included for
the girls. For details on this or other
Brilliant Summer offerings, go to www.
st.catherines.org or send an email to brilliantsummer@st.catherines.org.
Ampersand Winter
Performance
Sophomore Lee Blackmer and junior
Ben Resnik had roles in the Ampersand
performance of “The Importance of
Being Earnest” by Oscar Wilde.
Liz Nunley, Katherine Saffelle, Kristen
Luke, Corinne Morgan and Chaney
Manganello performed in this year’s
Senior Dance Recital. Each dancer
choreographed a group piece and
chose members of the Joni Rodman
Dance Program to perform the piece.
Each senior also choreographed and
danced a solo. The show ended with a
performance choreographed by dance
teacher Kendall Neely and danced by
the five seniors.
Gold/White Cheer Rally
Seniors Allie Huitt (left) and Chaney
Manganello led their teams in friendly
competition during the Gold/White
cheer rally, a favorite school tradition.
In June, juniors will also be able to participate in a weeklong Putting the YOU in
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SAINTS GIVE BACK
St. Catherine’s students – supported by parents, faculty and staff - continue to demonstrate their dedication to the school motto, “What we keep, we lose; only what we give
remains our own.” Here are just a few of the many ways the girls have helped others in
need this year.
St. Catherine’s eighth grader Hannah Powell and her
father, Lewis F. Powell III (St. Chris ’70), after reaching
the top of her 13th peak near Telluride, Colorado.
Climbing Mountains, Helping Others
St. Catherine’s eighth grader Hannah Powell
set a goal in 2007 to summit 13 mountains
with elevations of 13,000 feet or higher while
she was still 13 years old. And, to add a real
purpose to her climbs, Hannah raised money
for four organizations close to her heart – St.
Catherine’s School, St. Christopher’s School,
St. Mary’s Church and the Powell Endowment
at Collegiate. She met her goal last August, not
only reaching the summit of her 13th mountain, but also adding a 14th climb. All told,
Hannah raised more than $6,000.
Food, Books and Loose Change
Lower School students collected 1,200 pounds of canned food for the Virginia Food Bank and gave
the school’s unclaimed ‘lost and found’ items to St. Joseph’s Villa. They donated books to local children through Reach Out and Read Virginia, and earned money for new books for that organization
by “reading for pennies.” The girls collected two carloads of stockings for the FOX Holiday Socks
Project and the Salvation Army and, through their “Make a Change Mondays” project, collected
change before chapel on Mondays for the ChildFund organization and for Haiti relief efforts.
Katie Salter
A School in Ecuador
Through various fund-raising activities, Middle School students have already
raised $2,000 towards a yearlong goal of $8,500, the amount needed to build
a school in Ecuador. The idea came from eighth grader Katie Salter after she
heard Craig and Marc Kieburger, the founders of Free the Children, speak at a
symposium at St. Christopher’s School. “This is not just a fundraising campaign,
but rather a service learning project,” said Middle School teacher Nancy Cohen.
“The girls set goals for the project, and we are seeking corporate sponsors to
help meet their goals.”
Helping Out Close to Home
Twice a week Upper School students tutor third and fourth graders at Oak Grove/Bellemeade
Elementary School, with a population made up of mostly lower income families. Upper School
students have also launched a Saturday Academy program on the St. Catherine’s campus to help
younger girls from the Anna Julia Cooper School in Richmond’s Church Hill area. By offering tutoring in math and language skills and instructions in art and dance, the girls hope to build bonds of
cooperation and support between the two schools.
Furniture Drive
The entire St. Catherine’s community participated in a CARITAS furniture drive to help nearly 90
elderly and disabled residents displaced after a fire in a Chesterfield County apartment complex. The
huge response by St. Catherine’s families, students, faculty, staff and alumnae was noted as one of the
most impactful in the CARITAS furniture drive’s history.
Helping Haiti
Within days after the earthquake in Haiti, students, faculty and staff were eager to contribute to the
relief efforts. Chaplain Anne West suggested the Episcopal Relief and Development Fund as the best
avenue for St. Catherine’s to support as a school. Checks may be made out to St. Catherine’s School,
with “Haiti Fund” in the memo, and sent to the school. The St. Catherine’s community has already
given nearly $6,000 to ERD, and representatives are in Haiti now, providing food, water and shelter.
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Julie Dayton Honored
for Lacrosse
Contributions
Athletic Director
Julie Dayton was
inducted into the
inaugural class
of the Richmond
Chapter Hall
of Fame of the
U.S. Lacrosse
Association.
Recognized for their outstanding achievements and contributions to the sport of
lacrosse, Julie and five other individuals
were honored during a ceremony at the
Country Club of Virginia on March 6, 2010.
College Athletes
Showcased
A bold new display in the Kenny Center
is hard to miss. Featured in the center’s
main stairwell are poster-size, athletesin-action images of recent graduates who
have moved on to play a sport in college.
The vibrant wall display “turns heads and
gets attention,” said athletic director Julie
Dayton. “It makes a great visual impact on
the younger students who see these older
girls as role models.”
Photographer and St. Catherine’s parent
Guy Crittenden handled the enlarging,
printing, framing and some of the actual
photography. The sports information
offices at each college and university also
provided many of the images, and the St.
Catherine’s Athletic Boosters provided the
project funding.
art
gallery
c r e ative wor k s
by stu de nts
Liza Chernau, Grade 10
Ashton Van Ness, Grade 4
Liza Williamson, Grade 5
Maria Sison, Grade 8
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Elise Rise, Grade 11
Sofia McCulloch, Grade 12
Maggie Polk, Grade 4
Mady Arles, Grade 7
Libbie Warner, Grade 7
Willa Shannon, Grade 2
see more student artwork online at www.st.catherines.org
u n d e r “ s c h o o l l i f e ,” s e l e c t ” t h e a r t s ,” t h e n ” v i s ua l”
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Books
by
Alumnae
The Rev. Dr. Vienna
Historic Virginia Gardens,
Cobb Anderson
Preservation Work of The Garden
’53 is the author of
Club of Virginia, 1975-2007,
Holy Faces, Holy Places,
by Margaret Page
an inspirational book
Bemiss ’51, showcases the
of poetry and pho-
club’s contributions to the
Commonwealth's botanical
tography featuring images of her travels to traditional
holy places on seven continents. For each image in this
and architectural heritage. For all gardeners, from backyard
308-page book, Vienna composed poetry reflecting “her
enthusiasts to design professionals, this new book brings the
keen spiritual insight derived from moments of reflec-
club’s work to life through Margie’s informative text, numer-
tion and prayer.”
ous historical and contemporary drawings, and 125 images
by the award-winning garden photographer Roger Foley.
The gardens highlighted range from the Eastern Shore to
Blacksburg. (An earlier volume covers 1930-1975)
Fashion historian Caroline
Rennolds Milbank ’73
and Vanity Fair special correspondent Amy Fine Collins
Carter Catlett
wrote about the history of
Willliams ’41 is the author
resort clothing in Resort Fashion:
of Glorious Adventure, her mem-
Style in Sun-Drenched Climates.
oir of getting to know her
Caroline is also the author of the books Couture, New York
father through letters he wrote
Fashion and The Couture Accessory. Crossing continents, styles
during the first quarter of the
and generations, the book travels through the tradition of
20th century. Using voices, sto-
vacation style and features rare and never-before-pub-
ries and wisdom, Carter comes
lished photographs, and the fashions showcase renowned
to terms with the father/daughter relationship that was
designers of resort wear from the past and present.
cut painfully short by his death.
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In Frankly, My Dear: Gone with
Abigail Norfleet James
the Wind Revisited, acclaimed
’65 usually spends time teaching
New York film critic Molly
boys, but her latest book deals
Haskell ’57 focuses on an
with teaching math and science
iconic American film and the
to girls. Teaching the Female Brain:
novel that inspired it. Published
How Girls Learn Math and Science is
on the 70th anniversary of the
illustrated (on the inside pages)
film’s release, Molly’s book
with recent photographs taken
looks back to Margaret Mitchell’s writing of the novel in
at St. Catherine’s School. The images show girls involved in
the1920s, and considers the current relevance of GWTW
math and science classes and using technology.
and readers’ and viewers’ complicated relationships with it.
The Lost Summer, a second novel
After her daughter’s tragic death,
by Kathryn Williams ’99,
Sorrel McElroy King
has been called “an outdoorsy
’84 wrote Josie’s Story: A Mother‘s
girl-drama.” The story centers
Inspiring Crusade to Make Medical
on Helena Waite, a 17-year-old
Care Safe. The book tells how
rookie camp counselor who
Sorrel and her family turned
learns that growing up and
their grief into action, starting
taking on responsibilities can
a foundation to prevent others
change almost everything about the innocent fun she had
from dying or being harmed by medical errors. “By uniting
as a camper in previous summers.
healthcare providers and consumers, and funding innovative safety programs, we hope to create together a culture of
patient safety,” Sorrel said. She recently won a Books for a
Better Life Award in the First Book Category.
If you or a fellow alumna have a recently published book that you would
like to see included in a future issue, please send details to Cathe Kervan
at ckervan@st.catherines.org.
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g r e at
gifts
Th e s e S t . C a t h e r i n e ’ s i t e m s
make special gifts for birthdays,
graduations
and
holiday
celebrations. Proceeds benefit
St. Catherine’s Scholarship Fund.
Other items are available for sale
directly from the Alumnae Office.
a.
g.
j.
new alumnae gift store now available online: www.st.catherines.org
u n d e r “ s c h o o l l i f e ,” s e l e c t ” s c h o o l s t o r e ”
a. daisy tervis tumbler
h. pewter items engraved with school seal
Single 16 oz. Tumbler. $14 ($4 shipping)
Four 16 oz. Tumbler gift set. $52 ($8 shipping)
1. 3 1/2” lined Jewelry Box with domed lid $28
2. 8 oz. Jefferson Cup $20
3. 8 oz. Virginia Cup $24
4. 4 oz. Virginia Baby Cup $27
(All items above are $6 shipping)
5. 6” Virginia Bowl $65 ($7 shipping)
6. Pewter bracelet with seal $18 ($4 shipping)
b. signed parks duffey commencement poster
$50 ($8 shipping)
c. ceramics by dana gibson ’82
Dana’s ceramics are featured at fine stores around the country. She creates her
own glazes, so all items are unique. These items were designed especially for St.
Catherine’s, and each is adorned with a daisy. Specify pink, yellow, lime, or blue.
1. 7” Bud Vase $60 ($12 shipping)
2. 8” x 51⁄4” Rectangular Frame (for 4” x 6” photo) $70 ($12 shipping)
3. 10” Daisy Chain Bowl. Pale butter yellow
with raised daisy chain around the rim. $170 ($20 shipping)
i. note cards
Package of 10 notecards and envelopes. Color reproduction of
“Commencement on the Green” by Parks P. Duffey, III. $8 ($3 shipping)
j. daisy polka-dot flag
36” x 57”. Choose either pink or blue background. $120 ($4 shipping)
k. garden flag
d. daisy mouse pad
Ingenious mouse pad consists of tear-off sheets featuring the St. C daisy.
Perfect for jotting down phone numbers, web information, or doodling!
$7 ($3 shipping)
Choose pink or blue background. $35 ($4 shipping)
l. whimsical ceramics by celie gehring
Distinctive and bright daisy decal for cars, notebooks, whatever! ($1 shipping)
1. Large size (5”) $5 2. Mini size (2.5”) $3
3. Mini Daisy Sticker (indoor) $0.50 ($0.50 shipping)
(all designs available in blue, yellow or coral)
1. Small bowl with raised dots. $28 ($8 shipping)
2. Solid color frame (For 5x7” photo). $55 ($12 shipping)
3. Solid color platter. $65 ($12 shipping)
4. Cheese tile with raised dots. $50 ($10 shipping)
f. indoor daisy magnets
m. new! baby items by kiki collection
e. daisy decal
Great for refrigerators or lockers. ($1 shipping)
1. Large size (5”) $5 2. Mini size (2.5”) $3
Adorable baby items with embroidered daisy ($6 shipping)
1. Diaper cover $18 2. Burp cloth $16 3. Onesie $18
g. school motto plates and platters
n. new! silver seal charm/pendant
Choice of rim colors: pink, light blue, green, marigold or purple.
1. Plate $55 ($15 shipping) 2. Platter $100 ($20 shipping)
Personalization available for $5; Please indicate name for plate here:
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Quantity
Price each
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St. Catherine’s Seal Charm for your charm bracelet or a pendant for a necklace
($6 shipping)
1. Seal charm/pendant $30 2. 16” chain $10 3. 18” chain $12
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City, state, zip
Phone
Account #
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Mastercard, VISA accepted. Please return this form with
check or credit card order to St. Catherine’s School,
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notes
class
From the President, Richmond Chapter of the
Elllett-St.Catherine’s Alumnae Association
Mission: to promote interest in and understanding of St. Catherine’s School and its educational value to the
community through active alumnae participation, to strengthen relations between the school and the alumnae,
to promote a spirit of service and fellowship among members, and to render assistance, as needed and as our
resources allow, to the Alumnae and Development Office and other offices of the school.
I am honored to serve as president of the Richmond Alumnae Board. We are blessed to have
capable, dedicated board members representing classes from 1976 to 2001 who give of their
time and talents, while working, raising families and serving other volunteer organizations.
Our board members serve as hostesses for Reunion Weekend in April, when we welcome
alumnae back to celebrate and renew friendships. We also have projects throughout the
year to fund a gift to the scholarship fund and pay for the Daisy Chain carried at graduation.
Such fundraisers include:
• KiKi Collection, a sale of children’s clothing designed by alumna Julie Ann Raymer Wash ‘94.
Liz Williams Bisset ’78
• Superstars Pizza and Cheeburger, Cheeburger - two local restaurants that give us a percentage of sales for designated days during the year.
• School memorabilia sold at Fall Festival, Daisy Days, Reunion Weekend and throughout the year.
• Innisbrook, an online gift and wrapping paper company that remits 50 percent of sales to our efforts.
• Reunion Weekend Art Raffle - This year’s artists are Jack Horner, grandfather of five St.C. students; Laura Loe, a local artist and teacher; and
Margaret Salisbury ‘79, a boarding alumna from Charlotte, NC. We are so grateful to all the artists who have generously donated their beautiful
works of art in the last three years. Drawing for the winners takes place on Saturday, April 17.
We thank the St. Catherine’s family for generously supporting our projects and furthering our board’s mission; this makes our work very
rewarding. It is a wonderful feeling knowing we share a common love of our school.
’36
75th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondent: Emory Gill Williams, 10014
Cedarfield Court, Richmond, VA 23233
e-mail: canky6@msn.com
Many thanks to Jane Fuller Waters who sent
“love to all the Class of ’36.” Jane reports that she
is still traveling. A cruise on Oregon’s Columbia
River, a visit to Hawaii to see her eldest daughter,
a trip to Denver to see her second daughter filled
the past few months, and as she wrote she was
hoping to spend Christmas with her grandsons
and family in San Diego. Pretty impressive mileage! Carrington and I are staying a bit closer
to home these days, but there is still plenty of
excitement. Our children had a 92nd birthday
celebration for Carrington in October, and in
November I was treated to an elegant luncheon
for my 91st birthday. All five daughters and my
daughter-in-law, plus my best beau, were in
attendance. Our youngest grandchild in college
is Carrington Jones (St. C 2009) who is at JMU.
Two others are at UVA and University of South
Carolina. We now have 10 great grands, four girls
and six boys, all of whom live on the East Coast,
and most right here in Richmond.
’38
Correspondent for this issue:
Dorothy Cowardin Gibson
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are deeply saddened to
report that in February St. Catherine’s lost devoted alumna and volunteer Dorothy Cowardin
Gibson. Whether rounding up and reporting
class notes, which she has done faithfully since
1997, encouraging classmates to attend reunions
and other functions, or keeping the school
informed about other alumnae, Dorothy was
lively, cheerful and indefatigable. The following
is Dorothy’s last column.
As I settle down to write these notes for our spring
2010 edition of Now, I have just finished reading the fall 2009 class notes, from Emory Gill
Williams ’36 all the way through those of 2008!
What an eye-opener, as most of our news is about
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our grown grandchildren, whose children are the
subjects of interest. (I have seven great grands now
with the arrival in July ’09 of Gibson Beck, son
of granddaughter Kate ’97, a financial advisor.)
It is truly remarkable to view our St. Catherine’s
alumnae years through the changes and growth
at school as well as the activities and achievements
of the girls. (I do notice especially that the younger
correspondents refer to each other as “women”
while we older generations refer to “ladies.”) My
own connections are necessarily limited to snailmail and corded land-phone, my being internet/
high-tech illiterate. There’s no new news of our
Richmond six: Frances Claiborne Guy, Mary
Calvin Watkins Harrison, Anne Byrd Sloan,
Mary Leavell Jerman Tompkins, and Molly
Lewis Wiley, which I trust means all is well. I
talked with Virginia Williams Burton who has
been slowed down by a crushed vertebra. She lives
in Canterbury Court, a retirement community in
Atlanta, and has given up her European house
rental. We have hopes of seeing her when she
comes up to Richmond to see her granddaughter
Adelaide Burton, a sophomore at the University of
Richmond. Anne Wigton Hall chatted happily
notes
class
Head of School Laura Fuller with Laura Moore
Harrison ’35, sponsor of the Westminster
Canterbury reception.
Alumnae, past parents, grandparents and friends gathered at the Cedarfield clubhouse in Richmond. Wilmuth Tyson White
’39, Anne Brauer Kolbe ’45, Head of School Laura Fuller, and Nancy Hawkins Gatewood ’44.
from their retirement quarters in Connecticut. She
and husband Frederic have two daughters, a son
and grandchildren to fill their family gatherings.
She reported that sister Betty Wigton Bours ’37
had recovered from having broken her arm skiing
and returned to her home in Hawaii. I talk often
and receive nice notes from Gratia Allen Banks
in Chico, California, who thoroughly enjoys being
near her attentive son Larry and wife Andy. They
frequently invite her to dinner, usually of salmon,
abalone and other locally caught seafood. Gratia
has planted cryptemeria redwood seed from
her son Allen in Washington State in hopes of its
sprouting to compete with the local smaller coastal
redwoods! Meantime she provides San Francisco
friends with persimmons and, in the spring,
almonds. Her grandson Dr. Taylor Banks and his
doctor wife, both graduates of UVA, have offices
with the Navy in Alexandria. And so Gratia maintains her Virginia connections. Do let me hear from
you, ladies! We’re eager to have news from you.
Carol Service and Tea following; she also regrets
that she cannot be with us for our 70th reunion.
She sent me a copy of her beautiful book, Growing
Up In The Brown House, recounting her childhood
memories as the next to youngest Coker daughter.
An unexpected gift, I have enjoyed lending it to
friends here at Westminster Canterbury. Recently
I called Corinne Burch Blake long distance. She
was at St. Catherine’s for only one year and we
elected her as our class vice-president and treasurer. Still living in Memphis, Tennessee, where
two of her three children also live, she has nine
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. We
laughed a lot remembering our very unusual graduation. Though still driving, she regrets that a trip
to our upcoming reunion is not likely. Mary Meek
Brown Semler wrote thanking me for letting her
know of the death of her close friend and classmate
for 12 years Anne Cowardin West. During the
summer months, Mary Meek’s sons, grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces and nephews all
visit her in Brooklin, Maine, where she has lived for
many years. She drove herself to Vermont to attend
a granddaughter’s engagement party (seven hours)
but she doesn’t do that often. Active in her church
and doing volunteer work in the area, she also
takes care of her house and garden. Her son George
and his two sons living in Spain come for 10 days
in October for bird shooting, a yearly ritual. Betsy
Brunk Argo divides her time between Cape Cod
and Bristol, Rhode Island, and has flown to Costa
Rica and London with daughter Allison. She is also
working in a mentoring program helping middle
school children with low self-esteem. She was in
London for a special screening at The American
Embassy of Allison’s most recent film, Frogs: The
Thin Green Line. Allison has now been called to
Washington, DC, by National Geographic to do the
definitive anniversary coverage of 9/11 by way
of New York, Washington, DC, and Pennsylvania.
Daughter Liz is involved in solar and turbine
energy and is heading for her master’s degree in
renewable energy. Her son Walter works as key
grip, crane operator and second camera for inde-
’40
Correspondent: Frances Bushnell Forsyth
1600 Westbrook Avenue, Apt 408
Richmond, VA 23227
I was delighted when Hemitra Crecraft, Carol
Saunders Robinette’s daughter, called from
Pennsylvania saying she was bringing Carol to
Charles City and Richmond last October for a
nostalgic visit. When Carol was growing up in
Charles City, her family home “Glen Cove” overlooked the James River near Evelynton Plantation
where Carol’s mother was born. After their visit
there, they drove to Richmond on Sunday to see
the many changes at St. Catherine’s as well as the
Country Club of Virginia. Virginia Faulkner
Fleming and I joined them for lunch and a tour
afterwards of our beautiful campus. Hemitra has
sent me a video entitled “Returning to My Roots”
which she filmed throughout their weekend visit.
Mary Coker Joslin wrote me a lovely note letting
me know she was unable to come to the Advent
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pendent film and commercial filmmakers. Betsy’s
letter ends with the happy news that we may be
seeing her in April.
’41
70th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondent: Audrey Straus Koch, 13310 Oakwood
Drive, Rockville, MD 20850-3410
’42
Correspondent: Bebe Woolfolk Trice
506 Tuckahoe Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23226
e-mail: bebetrice@cs.com
’43
NEEDS CORRESPONDENT! Please contact the
Alumnae Office if you are interested.
’44
Correspondent: Barbara Evans Davis, 11905 West
Briarpatch, Midlothian, VA 23113-2317
e-mail: Dbabs3608@aol.com
At Christmastime I heard from Closey Faulkner
Dickey, who sent a long newsy letter. She has six
children all doing interesting things and living in
interesting places. Son Whitt is a musician living
in New York. Son Spoon and wife are in Seattle
Washington, where he is a financial consultant,
volunteer and cook. Musical like his brother, he
also plays guitar. Son Don lives nearby Closey
in Vermont, and just got an M.A. from the
Woodbury School of Mediation to add to his J.D.
Son John, his wife Julie and four children are also
close by in South Hamilton, Maine. Not so close
by are Son Colt and his wife Lynn, in San Rafael,
California, and daughter Clo and husband Bruce
in Anchorage, Alaska. All of Closey’s kids and
grandchildren are skiers, and have many more
interesting activities than I have mentioned.
notes
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Closey and her husband enjoy a summer
home in Quarry Cove, Maine, she says, “If you
have any plans that bring you close to us, we
welcome visitors by land or sea.” She might get
a surprise from a classmate! I also had news
from Anne Sweetser Ireland at Christmas.
She admits to now being a true Southerner, living on six acres in Thomasville Georgia with
lots of wildlife and gardens. Her children and
grandchildren are there, and she likes the warm
weather—so long New York! Betty Preston
Lottimer said so long to Virginia; she moved
to Colorado to be nearer to her children. She
had planned to visit me before she left, but a
big snowstorm prevented her trip. I called fellow Richmonder Hilda Lewis Williams who
informed me her only news is she has a new
furnace! Finally, Anne Jurgens Stoutamire is
still making beautiful music playing the viola
at 83, and says she is still enjoying the beautiful
mountains in Brevard, North Carolina. I have
a new computer that hates me (won’t do what
I want) but encourage you to email me at the
address above with your news.
’45
Correspondent: Kitty Hart Belew, 1600 Westbrook
Ave., Apt. 231, Richmond, VA 23227
I hope you are planning to return to St.
Catherine’s for our 65th reunion! You will enjoy
seeing all the changes made in the Arcade, Ellett,
Bacot and around campus. Margaret Towers
Talman and your correspondent enjoyed the
Ellett Society Tea in Bacot following the Advent
Carol service in St. Stephen’s. Margaret was
happy to have her daughters Margaret and
Nell and their families home for Thanksgiving.
Joan Wishart Moody entertained her family of 21 (four were absent) for Thanksgiving.
Nancy Miller Phillips spent Thanksgiving
in Alexandria with her daughter Judy. In turn,
Judy will spend Christmas with Nancy and
other family members. Helen Handy Kelly and
John closed their “second home” at Gloucester
Banks and were ensconced at their apartment in
Westminster-Canterbury for the winter. Helen
was scheduled to have knee surgery in January.
Anne Ely Zimmer and her husband have
recently moved to the Westminster- Canterbury
in Winchester, Virginia. Dot Alsop Farmer
and husband Sam are in a sixth floor apartment
at Heartfields and enjoy overlooking the Lee
Monument. Dot has two granddaughters at St.
Catherine’s. Carol Paul Miller is bedridden with
broken ribs in her back. She loves to hear from
her classmates. A Happy New Year to you all and
do plan to come to our 65th reunion.
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2009 Ellett Tea
65th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondent: Betty Vogel Wilde
1001 Oppenheimer Drive, #102
Los Alamos, NM 87544
I was so happy to have spoken with or heard
from several classmates just before Christmas!
I had a nice telephone conversation with Linda
Perry Cheek, who headed north of the border
to her summer home in Prescott, Arizona, where
she spent the holidays with family. Winters
are spent at her retirement home on the Sea of
Cortez in Mexico. I speak often with Kitty Lou
Dandy Gladstone, and we reminisce about
being sophomore roommates at St. C. Her late
husband and my first husband were good friends
at Harvard. We have always kept in touch. In
response to my request for news, I received notes
from several other classmates. Helen “Tomi”
Thomas Marchman reported that her life in
Newnan, Georgia, is pleasant. She has a friend
with whom she travels about once a month:
“we are very good at finding excuses for a trip!”
Tomi’s grandchildren are so spread out in age it
makes for a lot of variety in activities. One of her
grandchildren is married and another will wed
in June; another graduates from high school this
spring, “and so on down to the fourth grade!”
When Ann “Foxy” Seymour Fox Roome wrote
from Florida, she was preparing to head north to
her daughter’s home in Potomac, Maryland, for
a week over Christmas, and then back to Illinois
for a rest before returning to Florida to escape the
cold. She loves her home and volunteer work in
Illinois, so she will head north once again before
spring. She continues to enjoy golf, tennis and
swimming. We send our condolences to Martha
“Dede” Gummere Little, who reported that
10 marvelous years with Ray Werbe ended with
his death last April. She is beginning to be active
again, volunteering with a land trust in Maine
and trying to increase awareness and support
for important political initiatives, and says she is
grateful for children and grandchildren who are
living purposeful lives. Finally, I was glad to hear
from Blissie Whitehead Buford who wrote about
our dear classmate and correspondent Robin
Wardlaw Miller: “The last time I saw Robin
was on September 1, and a month later Waller
[Berkeley Fergusson], Pit [Page Parrish Wright],
Dare [Masters Wrenn] and I were at Robin’s
funeral service. Her son Jeff gave a wonderful
and loving tribute to his mother, recalling some
humorous and very “Robin-ish” incidents and
quotations he remembered from Robin’s life.
Robin’s granddaughters were there with their
parents. Both girls are at St. Catherine’s. Robin
was such a bright spirit and always brave and
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The annual Ellett Tea drew a large crowd to Bacot and
Ellett Halls in December.
Frances Bushnell Forsyth ’40 (left), sponsor of the Ellett
Tea, and Emory Gill Williams ’36.
Barbara Blades Burrows ’50 (left) and Mary Beth
Muhleman Chichester ’49.
1956 Classmates (left to right) Amanda Tevepaugh
Macaulay, Anita Perrin Grymes and Isabel Ware Burch.
cheerful throughout her battle with cancer.”
Thank you, Blissie, for sharing this with us. I
look forward to hearing more news from more
of you for the next issue.
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Alumnae Office if you are interested.
notes
class
1951 Classmates who attended the 2009 St. Catherine's Day service and reception were (left to right) Anne Whitfield
Kenny, Tommy Richardson Shannon, Margaret "Cookie" Cooke Horsley, Toddy Barnard Trigg, Mary Lyle Valentine Preston
and Martha Munson Pollard.
’48
NEEDS CORRESPONDENT! Please contact the
Alumnae Office if you are interested.
Louise Lewis Toms proudly reports that her
granddaughter Julia Scott Toms, St. C class of
2009, made a 95 on her first test at the University
of South Carolina. Julia says that the classes are
similar to those at St. C so she feels well prepared!
’49
Correspondents: Jane Cecil, 2424 Hanover Avenue,
Richmond, VA 23220-3406
e-mail: jane.cecil@longandfoster.com
and
Peggy Wood Doss, 112 Wynnwood Drive,
Wilmington, DE 19810-4428
e-mail: rmabrydoss@aol.com
Sadly, we begin with condolences to Jane
Bassett Spilman , whose husband Bob died
November 15 in Richmond. Jane and Bob
had a long marriage of 54 years. Jane Cecil,
my co-correspondent, moved in September
to a nice apartment in Richmond’s museum
district. She is on the first floor, with three
bedrooms, and almost everything fit—so Jane
is very happy. She is only 10 blocks away from
her Hanover Avenue house, which sold in
10 days. As a full time real estate agent, Jane
knows how it’s done! Jane has also been editing memoirs for those publishing their family papers. As she usually does, Molly Toms
Fitzgerald held her family’s Thanksgiving
dinner with 31 present. She says that at least
14 members are St. Catherine’s girls: Molly,
two daughters, a daughter-in-law, sister-inlaw, and their children. Impressive! Jackie
Anderson Karlson reports all is well in her
family. In February, she was to visit a cousin in
the warmer climes of Florida. While attending
our 60th reunion, Jackie and Molly visited the
library to make recordings of their memories
as boarders when they roomed with Janice
Lane Young. Eventually the school hopes
to publish a compilation of these memories.
Lindsay Graham Halsey’s oldest grandson
Rawleigh (son of Liza Halsey Perrin ’76 )
was married in October and lives in the DC
area. She talks often to Betsy Dale Gayle,
Josephine Dillon Gayle and Janice. Jo and
John live next door to Brent Halsey’s brother
John at Westminster- Canterbury. Ginny Lee
Hunt is very happy with her life in Urbanna,
but what she really enjoys is her cabin on
Robinson Creek only two miles away. Ginny
goes frequently to take her boat out on the
Rappahannock River. When I could not attend
our 60th, Anna Nolde McKenney sent me
her entire reunion folder, and Molly sent me
photos, one of our class with the entire Lower
School in front of The Bungalows, and one of
the second grade play, The Toy Shop. Right into
my scrapbook! As for my story, 2009 has been
a year of recovery for my husband Bob from a
fall in February. Our grands (Kathy’s kids) are
doing well. Dustin, 25, is in his senior year for
a civil engineering degree. Heather, 23, is earning a grad degree in physics at Rutgers. Sara
Margaret, a sophomore, has been admitted to
the business school at U Mass. I enjoyed talking to many of you—we’re a grand class!
’50
Correspondent: Ann Reeves Reed
8603 River Road, Richmond, VA 23229-8301
e-mail: lrii@comcast.net
Since the last class news came out, I heard
from Margaret Lotterhos Smith who
wrote, "Ames and I both enjoy good health,
children, and grandchildren, golf and traveling. Last year we had a wonderful tour of
China. I have many happy memories of St.
Catherine's...so sorry they closed the boarding
program. It was a very special experience for
me." We surely hope she and lots of you will
come to our 60th reunion on April 16-17!! It’s
always great to see all Richmonders and regularly attending out-of-towners, but we would
love to have more of the boarders come this
year as well!
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1953 Classmates are (left to right) Seated: Jane Southall
Bowles and Janet Trevvett McGrath. Standing: Jane
MacPherson Galleher, Rosemary French Wood, Peggy
Thomas Bird, Dorothy Parker Hale, Jo Jackson Miller, Mary
Parke Macfarlane Dillard and Nancy Brogden Booker.
’51
60th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
New Correspondent! Ann Nugent, 2559
Chatham Woods Drive, S.E.,
Grand Rapids, MI 49546-6752
e-mail: AnnNug2@aol.com
Greetings to my classmates! I am looking forward to sharing our news in this column. Of
course I can only share the news you send me, so
please do write and let me know what you, your
family and friends are doing. Reports of hobbies,
jobs, trips, volunteer work and antics of grandchildren are all welcomed!! Margaret “Cookie”
Cooke Horsley is the sole submission this time.
She has four granddaughters at St. C, the eldest
of whom started Upper School this year. “They
all love it!”
’52
NEEDS CORRESPONDENT! Please contact the
Alumnae Office if you are interested.
’53
NEW CORRESPONDENT! Peggy Thomas Bird
Valley Home Farm, 2028 Valley Center Road
Monterey, Virginia 24465-9507
e-mail: pbird@htcnet.org
Betsy Jones Ware, who has done such a great
job of writing the class notes, has passed the job
on to me. I am looking forward to hearing from
more classmates next time. Please send me your
e-mail addresses, and while you are doing it, add
a little something for the news. Also, if you know
other e-mail addresses, let me know. The school
is trying hard to beef up their e-mail database to
make it easier and more efficient to communicate. Anne Mathias Schenkel wrote that they
continue to live in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, even
though her husband retired at the end of 2009
after almost 50 years as an Episcopal clergyman.
notes
class
Her four sons and families live nearby. Judy Hill
Lawes wrote to say that she planned to be in
Richmond just before Christmas and will then
be in Corolla for Christmas with her daughters
and their families. She took a trip to Portugal in
October, seeing museums in Lisbon and Oporto,
as well as other villages, wine country, castles,
palaces and churches. Betsy and Latane Ware will
be going to South America to visit their son and
his family right after Christmas. I hope that she
will send postcards and news to me from there.
Betsy also told me that Eva Martin Bryson and
Gilbert took a trip to Nova Scotia with Bill and
1957 Classmates Ruth Stevenson Hendricks and Ellen
Michaux Gower rekindled their friendship last August at
Ruth's Cape Cod home.
Tibby Moore Gardner ’54. Crawford Keys
Small reports that all is well in Greenville, South
Carolina. All of her children and grandchildren
remain in New England, so Crawford goes back
and forth for holidays. She also enjoys her month
in Jamestown, Rhode Island, in the summer. We
send deepest sympathy to Margie Ruffin Cain,
whose mother died in December. In October,
Janet Trevvett McGrath came to Richmond.
We had a grand get-together at lunch with
Jane Southall Bowles, Rosemary French
Wood, Mary Parke Macfarlane Dillard, Jane
MacPherson Galleher, Jo Jackson Miller,
Nancy Brogden Booker, and Dot Parker
Hale. Janet looked great and we all enjoyed see-
ing her and being together again. I was glad that
I could drive down from Monterey to be with
them. George and I are still on the farm, but we
have no livestock other than our two dogs and
two cats and two goats we are keeping for our
nephew. Our land is rented out and the cows we
sold are still on it. Our son lives on the farm in a
house that he and his wife built. Lloyd still works
in Richmond several days a week, and his wife
Kim is a doctor at the Highland Medical Center.
Our daughter Tyler Bird Paul ’77 is the archivist
for St. Catherine's, so if you have memorabilia,
think about sharing with her. Our oldest grandson
Anson is engaged; two other grandsons, Buck Paul
and Campbell Bird, will graduate from college in
May. Our only granddaughter Margaret ’07 is a
junior at W& L.
’54
Correspondent: Ann Rand Perry, 3201 A Stony Point
Road, Richmond, VA 23235-2317
’55
NEEDS CORRESPONDENT! Please contact the
Alumnae Office if you are interested.
Suzanne Whiting Evans reports that her
daughter Sarah Dulaney “Wiggy” Evans is married, lives in Hermosa Beach, California, and has
a beautiful red haired, blue-eyed baby girl named
Sophia Carlyle. Though she was only at St. C for
Amanda Tevepaugh Macaulay ’56 with her daughter
Katherine Macaulay Mueller ’86 and her granddaughter
Alexa Macaulay (Class of 2021).
1 year, Kay Weeks Folkes remembers her time
very fondly, and after being “lost” for a while,
she hopes to contact some of her classmates. We
were sorry to learn of the death of Cissy Klein
Peters’ husband Bob as reported in the “for the
record” section of the last magazine. Cissy and Bob
met in 1955 at the University of Miami in Coral
Gables. Cissy was kind enough to share a couple
of stories. After their marriage in Miami in 1957,
en route by car to their new home in Canada, the
newlyweds stopped by St. C to see Miss Turner,
who was headmistress for Cissy’s seven years
at St. C. Cissy and Bob were married one month
short of 52 years. After Bob’s funeral last July, on
her way by car to Florida with her daughter Lisa
and her two daughters, Cissy stopped by “Yule
Farm” and says they were entertained most graciously by Katty Lloyd-Rees Miller. Cissy was
unable to attend the 45th reunion but is looking
forward to being at St C for the 50th. We hope all
of you will be here to celebrate as well!
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55th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
NEW CORRESPONDENT! Lorraine Suggs Woodley
1725 Ficus Point Drive, Melbourne, FL 32940
e-mail: jkwlsw@cfl.rr.com
Mimsy Brenaman Boykin moved with her
husband and two dogs into a wonderful Quaker
Retirement Residence. They have a delightful
cottage. She continues to write fiction for young
adults. Her latest is Evis’ Civil War. A book still in
pre-launch mode awaits the publisher’s decision.
Suzanne Snyder York is now enjoying a stress
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free life in Fairhope, Alabama. They just packed up
their lives in Connecticut, rolled the dice (practically), moved away from the hassle of Greenwich
and came down to Dixie. I talked with her just
after a big game and got a glimpse into how seriously the Alabamians take their football!! Suzanne
and Terry are not there quite yet. Susie Totten
Peters and John both continue to write and travel
extensively. A trip to Egypt and Jordan gave them
insights into the ancient world and made it come
alive. I do not think I hear them saying they would
want to live there, but she does speak glowingly of
living like a native for an extended time in Santa
Fe this spring … somebody salt up the Margarita
glasses! Her energy is as unbounded as ever as the
“years roll along.” Reverend Julianne Lunsford
Hollingsworth has retired from ministry but
continues to teach and do volunteer work, mostly
with the homeless. She served several churches
from small to large. Priscilla Plumb Lawson
is still living in Charleston, West Virginia. She
remarked that after a while not that much happens
and it is the same old same old. She cares for her
husband and particularly likes books on tapes.
She has enjoyed the fiction book, The Elegance of the
Hedgehog. Your correspondent Lorraine Suggs
Woodley and Jim would agree with Priscilla
about the same old same old. We are both active
and healthy and quite content with our same old
same old. We enjoyed time at a spa in our beloved
Smoky Mountains as well as exploring the West
Coast of Florida once again with our adventurous
car club. Visits back home to Virginia are far too
short to do all that we would like to do. Sandra
Reynolds Klawson and her husband are happily
and actively retired in New Bern, North Carolina.
Their three children are scattered all over and they
travel to see them, but are happy to stay stateside
when possible. Sandra enjoys tennis and her
book club. She enjoys books by Dennis LeHane
and just got into Half Broke Horses, a great read if
you have read and enjoyed The Glass Castle. Mary
Gregg Misch celebrated the arrival of her third
grandchild and first granddaughter Beatrice, born
June 10. Mary retired in May 2008 from Elsevier
Publishing Company and wondered why she did
not do so earlier. Despite the hellish commute, she
did love her work.
notes
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’57
Correspondent: Ellen Michaux Gower
5101 N. Hwy. A1A, #209, Vero Beach, FL 32963
e-mail: egower4549@aol.com
and
NEW CORRESPONDENT! Ceci Christison Lawson,
3907 Foxfield Terrace, Richmond, VA 23233
e-mail: cecilawson@aol.com
Hello classmates from your new co-correspondent
Ceci! Barbara Lane Jowaisas did such a great
job for many years, faithfully reporting our comings and goings. I have big shoes to fill as class
co-correspondent with Ellen Gower. Please keep
in touch with us both—we want to hear from you!!
One correction from the last issue: I did not live in
South Carolina, but did meet John, married and
lived in Illinois for 11 years; subsequently we lived
in Georgia for 13 years, Williamsburg for three
and Michigan for three. Since I've moved back to
Richmond, it has really been wonderful to reconnect with classmates. We all had so much fun at
Judy Cochrane Gilman-Hines’ home when Ellen
came to Richmond, we decided to try to meet the
third Tuesday of every month for lunch. Sandra
Bruner Hague and Mary Denny Scott Wray
have joined us for those luncheons. As I write, I’m
looking forward to catching up with Caroline
Hunton High and Caroline Gray McNiel in
December. On to an exciting update from Ellen on
her summer visit with Ruth Stevenson as mentioned in the fall notes: Ruth has spent her time over
the years teaching at Union College in Schenectady,
New York, summering on the Cape, raising two very
bright daughters, whom Ellen met, and a son, and
enjoying extended summer family travels to Europe.
She wrapped up her teaching at Union at the end
of the fall 2009 semester. Now she and Bill live
year-round in West Harwich. She regrets that she
has never been able to attend any of our reunions,
but their early April date always conflicted with an
extremely busy time for her at Union. She was eager
for the news of our various classmates, and it was
clear that her St. C years were a very meaningful and
important part of her life. When she watched our
50th reunion DVD, she said it transported her back
to her teenage years. Ellen left feeling so glad that
they had reconnected, and that Ruth has enjoyed
a wonderfully good life! In 2010 it’ll be her turn to
come to Westport to see Ellen!
’58
Correspondent: Susan Cunningham Judd, 5800
Rivers Landing Terrace, White Stone, VA 22578
e-mail: thejudds3@verizon.net
Cary White Baber excitedly checked in con-
cerning her first grandchild born in October.
Her name is Bailey Miller Baber. Cary is also
teaching bridge everywhere she can in the
Roanoke area and being a “bridge ambassador.” She loves the game. Letitia Lavender
Sweitzer has become a trained ADHD coach
helping high school and college students in
the Atlanta area reach their learning goals.
She continues to serve as a Life Coach and to
write, especially about addiction recovery.
Louise (Weezie) Reed Rawlings is well on
the way to recovering from open-heart surgery and we wish her well. Douglas Laughon
Wallace is still selling residential real estate
despite the market challenges and enjoying
supporting her grandkids at their various
sports events. Kate Lowe Brown has been
busy writing (among other activities) and
has two new books published through her
small history publishing firm: The Women of
Belle Grove, about James Madison’s younger
sister, and a biography of Robert “King” Carter
of Lancaster County, Virginia. She is also
involved in a major way with the Augusta
County Historical Society and the Germanna
Foundation of Culpeper and Orange Counties.
She and Madison still manage to squeeze time
in with their three granddaughters. Suzanne
Sulzer Powers continues to struggle with her
eye problem but is rather philosophical about
the whole thing after TEN surgeries. She and
Bill are quite busy and happy keeping up with
their eight grandchildren, with a ninth on the
way. Your correspondent’s daughter Julie is
expecting number three in July. She and her
family are doing well in the San Francisco
area, which is always a good excuse to visit
that lovely city. Please let me hear from you. I
wonder about each of you.
’59
Correspondent: Linkey Booth Green,
32 Chelsea Lane, Carlisle, PA 17015-7912
e-mail: linkeyg@embarqmail.com
I have heard from a few classmates since my
last deadline. I would like to be able to share
news from many more of you, so please drop
me a note or an e-mail. There are four or five
of us on Facebook, which is another way
to stay connected. Patsy Davis’s daughter
posted a lovely album with great pictures of
Patsy. Right after my last deadline, I heard
from Beppy Schilling Johnson who was living in Florida while waiting for her home in
Birmingham to be completed. Beppy also gave
me an update on her health in September. Her
recent MRI at that time showed no growth of
the tumors. I am hoping that things are still
going well with her. She again expressed her
thanks for the many prayers from classmates
and friends. Betsy Chambers Shindlebower
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wrote that her most rewarding event in 2009
was our reunion. She and her husband Wolf
took one grandson to Disney World but she
said that his favorite activity was the hotel
pool. Last but certainly not least, Katherine
Parrish Shelburne wrote that her mother
turned 100 this year. Katherine is involved
with several partners in a spinning and yoga
studio that was scheduled to open in winter
2009. Katherine is also still working two jobs
and playing USTA tennis. She set a new personal record by playing in 100 sanctioned
USTA matches in 2009 of which she won 89
percent. That is pretty impressive, Katherine.
My hat is off to you! Remember, I can’t share
news that I don’t have, so please try to keep in
touch at least once a year. If all else fails, just
call me (you can get my number from St. C.)
We have our next reunion in four years!
’60
Correspondents: Janie Elliott Norfleet
325 Oak Lane, Richmond, VA 23226-1638
e-mail: jnorfleet325@aol.com
and
Anne Ferneyhough Simmons
39 Old Mill Road, Richmond, VA 23226
e-mail: ferney5@aol.com
2010 is a special year for our class. It marks
our 50th reunion!!! We hope everybody will
come back for the occasion. Vickie Moore
Kempton stays busy with two grandsons and
selling real estate. She still loves University
of Virginia basketball. Marilyn Sheffield
Savery and her husband enjoy watching seven grandchildren, ages 1 to 7, grow
and mature. They are also actively working
to accomplish the trips and deeds on their
respective bucket lists. Volunteering for several charities, fostering dachshunds and traveling keep Louise “Cookie” Richardson Horn
very busy. She recently took a fantastic trip to
Italy where she picked olives for a week! Sarah
Fox retired last year last year as a Professor of
Medicine at the University of California, Los
Angeles, and now resides in Santa Barbara.
The Virginia Home in Richmond has put up
a garden plaque in memory of Anne Rawles
Goolsby Huske. She was a long-time member of their Board of Trustees and served on
the building and grounds committee. She
also worked in the garden and was a treasured friend of all the staff and residents of
The Home. Florrie Wimble Richter writes
she will not be at our reunion, but will be in
Richmond for two weeks this summer. She
and her children are doing well. Florrie's
translation business is booming. Son Kai's
sculpture career continues, with one show
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after the other in Germany and different
countries. Daughter Lisa, who holds a Ph.D.
degree in biochemistry from the University
Clinic in Dusseldorf, was married in October.
Your correspondent Anne Simmons went to
Germany to visit Florrie for two weeks and
attended Lisa's beautiful wedding. I also spent
two weeks last winter in Tobago, a week in
August at Disney with my daughter Sarah, her
husband and five of my grandchildren. Please
let us know what you are up to!
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50th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
NEW CORRESPONDENT! Betsy Burke Trow
15 Glenbrooke Circle, West
Richmond, VA 23229-8036
e-mail: betsytrow@gmail.com
and
Continuing as Co-Correspondent:
Sara Riley Gibson 1318 Loch Lomond Lane
Richmond, VA 23221-3807
e-mail: sarargibson@verizon.net
Susu Woodward Ravenel still works with
Spoleto Festival, USA and The American College
of the Building Arts. She paints and helps with her
3-1/2-year-old twin grandsons who live nearby
in Charleston. She has four step-grandchildren
who live in Colorado and New York. Kathy
Ravenel has moved back home to Charleston
and lives on Edisto Island. Her son Hal, 25, works
for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs in the
foreign policy arena. Dabney Williams McCoy
now has six grandsons, the youngest of whom
was born in October to daughter Catherine
McCoy Driscoll ’97 and her husband James.
Isabel Rawlings Cohen winters on the west
coast of Florida. Her home is on an island with
the Gulf on one side and the waterway on the
other. She has two grandsons and another coming in February. Isabel is still painting. Check out
her website at www.absolutearts.com/issyco. Conway
Hancock lives in Santa Monica, California, where
she has started a landscape design business after
being a business and personal manager for 12
years for a private investor and his wife. She
remembers fondly her teachers at St. Catherine's
(especially Mrs. Smith) and is evermore aware
of the wonderful education she received while
at St. Catherine's. Gina Farrar and her husband
Jim took a wonderful trip to Turkey and are now
concentrating on selling their 127-acre farm on the
Rappahannock River. They are ready to downsize
and move back to Warrenton. Ray Whitehead
Kuhn Grenier married Randy Grenier on April
9, 2009, at sunset while under sail in French
Polynesia on the tall ship, The Star Flyer, a 360'
four-masted barkentine. They swam with sting-
Past presidents of the Ellett Alumnae Board and the Richmond Chapter gathered with current Ellett Board on January
29 for dinner and dessert. A decorated cake commemorated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Alumnae
Association (Feb 11, 1910.) Left to right, front row: Ann Reeves Reed ’50, Frere Sands French ’70, Liz Williams Bisset
’78, Betsy Rawles ’71, Jean Grainger ’66 and Anne Whitfield Kenny ’51. Back row: Kathleen Will Mackey ’78, Mary
Margaret Smithers Kastelberg ’81, Blair Beebe Smith ’83 and Debbie Andrews Dunlap ’70.
rays, which climbed all over them looking for
food, and then with sharks. The reef sharks swam
alongside, over and under them. She and Randy
met while racing sailboats. They regularly race in
San Francisco Bay and the ocean, with Ray acting as tactician. Anne Pole spent a very special
Thanksgiving in Paris with her family. Your correspondent Sara Gibson and Lang spent our 17th
anniversary crossing the Atlantic from New York
to Southampton, England, on the Queen Mary 2,
a great trip that we have always wanted to do.
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Correspondent: Gwen Brannon Weeks, 6601
Magnolia Point Drive, Land O Lakes, FL 34637
e-mail: nauticalgourmet67@verizon.net
Wonderful news from Ellen Gordon! All of her
scans have been negative so her cancer is in remission. Ellen and her new husband Dave Kympton
who wed in September, are preparing to move into
their new home. Susannah Hagerty Farley’s
daughter Katherine Randolph Farley wed Robert
Guarino in August on Kiawah Island. The new
couple will be residing in Spain where he is plant
manager for GM in Europe. He ran with the bulls in
Pamplona in July so they were delighted to have a
live groom. Tali Brawner Alcorn’s daughter Jane
Alcorn recently received a promotion in public relations at CNN in Atlanta where she supervises guest
tours, etc. If you want to visit CNN, she is the person
to contact to provide you with a tour. Tali is hard
at work planning Jane’s September 2010 wedding
at St. John’s Church in Richmond. Marty Rogers
Brown’s son Matt was married in Australia where
sister Peggy lives. Marty and friend Mary Meade
Wynn recently returned from a wonderful 10-day
trip to Capetown, South Africa. Our condolences to
Kathryn Ingram Lyon, whose father, Charles T.
Ingram, died in September at the age of 98. Kathryn
thought his death on Labor Day was appropriate
since he continued to work until he was 85. Your
correspondent Gwen Weeks had a wonderful trip
to England to attend the wedding of family friend
Shelley Jory at Wimborne Minster. This beautiful
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historic Anglican Church is over 1000 years old. It
was very interesting to observe the different British
wedding traditions and differences in the service.
The only sunny day was the day of the wedding and the other 14 days I was encumbered by
raincoat and umbrella – and cold! This fall I had a
delightful conversation with a classmate (who will
remain anonymous) who shared she was “not a
very happy” boarder at St. Catherine’s. However,
over the years she has come to appreciate all the
school and its faculty and staff did for her and others. Then she made a very apt statement for us all
to ponder: “when you consider they had 145 adolescent girls with raging hormones to protect and
educate, I think they did a pretty good job.” Needless
to say, in retrospect she has a more positive attitude
toward the school. My role as class agent has been
so rewarding as I love all the life events, family
and news y’all share with me. Many of your life’s
accomplishments in your community, careers,
and rearing fine families would indeed make Miss
Turner, Miss Castle, Mrs. Morgan et al. very proud.
Please keep your computer keys in locomotion as
your classmates enjoy your news.
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Correspondent: Sue Morck Perrin,
P.O. Box 28, Ware Neck, VA 23178
e-mail: supermorck@aol.com
Many thanks to Sue Morck Perrin for the great
job she did as class correspondent. We were
happy to hear from Ann Dennison Murray,
who writes, “We have moved from Kansas to the
eastern Shore of Maryland. We love it here on the
water in Chestertown! John retired from Kansas
State University but I am still on the K-State
faculty and teaching child development courses
online. I have a monthly lunch date with Linden
Tucker Bell, Susan Klaus and Lati Gordon
on Kent Island. I frequently have lunch with
the only St. C grad in town, Ann Wilmer Hoon
’46.” Frances Williams Twiss was elected to be
on the Vestry at Old St. Andrew's Parish Church
(established 1706) in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Correspondent: Sally Guy Lynch Brown
1410 Bishop Lane, Alexandria, VA 22302
e-mail: sguy2021@comcast.net
Dear Classmates, as I write, everyone is obviously very busy trying to get ready for Christmas,
because I have not heard a peep. Please do send
me your news for the next go-around. You have
until summer to muster up some tidbits for me!!
it was the best of times (quoth Dickens and Mrs.
Coleman.)" Thanks, Buff! Ok, fellow students, what
are your memories? We look forward to hearing
them in person, or if you can’t make it to the best
weekend ever, please share them with me for the
next class notes.
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45th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
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Correspondent: Louise Hayman, 1 Cumberland Court
Annapolis, MD 21401-1605
e-mail: louise.lake.hayman@gmail.com
Sally Cooke Newcomb writes that her oldest
daughter Sarah graduated from JMU in May
and is teaching part-time at St. Christopher's.
Youngest daughter Molly is a senior at UVA.
Elizabeth LeSueur has been "running up and
down I-95 overseeing a kitchen remodel at
my house on St. Simons Island, Georgia," her
new permanent location. Marion Wallace
Moore and her sister Hallie Wallace Clay ’68
gave a beautiful luncheon for their mother
Phoebe’s 90th birthday last fall at the family home, Hampstead. The news of Ranny
Fitzgerald's death last May has just come to
my attention, thanks to Barbara Montgomery
O' Connell. I am including part of her obituary,
which I found online: “Ranny Fitzgerald passed
away instantly on Sunday, May 3, 2009 while on
a short vacation with lifetime friends. They had
just attended the Kentucky Derby the day before.
A true southern belle and ‘Scarlett’ to those who
knew her best, Ranny approached life with zeal
and gusto, even during her agonizing treatments
for breast cancer - all the while maintaining her
elegance, grace and style. She will be missed by
many - Ranny brought joy, enthusiasm and
strength to all fortunate enough to cross her path."
We will honor her at the reunion. The response to
the reunion has been fantastic. Even if you haven't
made your plans, it’s not too late! If you have lost
touch and need an email address or phone number, please send an e-mail to me and I will provide
the information. Need a reason to return to St. C??
Just consider these memories from Buff Hanes
Thomas: "I remember gaining 10 pounds the first
month as a boarder (room on Bacot 2 with Susan
and Sandy right next to the candy machine,) the
terror of piano recitals and Miss Whitehead's efforts
to reassure, and limeades at Doc's while waiting for
day students to drive into the parking lot with plans
for a day pass." Buff also talked about the pre-St.
Stephen's "mad search for a hat or something to
cover our heads as we scrambled off to church. Ah,
“The snow is snowing, the wind is blowing …I’ve
got my” class notes to keep me…busy, if not warm.
Arriving home on a cold dark night, I’m unable
to read the envelopes from my mailbox without
glasses, but love recognizing the handwriting on
them just the same! Corbin Kendig Rankin’s
always-gorgeous holiday card was filled with
news. One son and his family are in Greensboro,
another son lives in Atlanta and another is in
business school at The University. Tom retired in
2010; it sounds like travel and leisure will follow.
Bromby Luck Earle and Bob sent a holiday card,
as did Marin County, Californians Alice Caldwell
Steele and Robert. Janie Mebane McCall writes
from Taylorsville, North Carolina, that Mac has
retired but she is still working part-time. They
were awaiting the arrival of their seventh grandchild. Frances Gravely wrote while recuperating
from hip replacement surgery in Chapel Hill. She
led a merry band of Vietri-ans including Emily
Borden Ragsdale aboard the Sea Cloud last
fall for a cruise from Venice to Croatia and on to
Greece and Malta. Emily and her graphic designer
daughter Katherine visited NC State architecture
student son Thomas while he was in Prague last
fall. Emily also added the Las Vegas furniture mart
and the Turks and Caicos to her travel list this year.
Mary McNair Livingston and Paul are enjoying
the “special stage of life” as grandparents of five in
Greensboro, North Carolina. When our last magazine came out, Lynn Hornor Keith called to say
she was pleased that, for the first time in (how long
have I been writing these notes?) decades, I hadn’t
included news of her. Sorry, Lynnie, you only get
one pass. She and husband Taylor spent October
cruising the Mediterranean and visiting Turkey,
enjoying a hot-air balloon trip over Cappadocia as
a (no need to state which…we know all too well)
birthday present. Taylor's three children and nine
grandchildren live in San Diego, so they’ll spend
March in Coronado with family, friends and golf.
Lynn says Jane Cross Hamlin and her daughter
Laura looked radiant at Laura’s August wedding.
She enjoyed seeing Cary Hancock Easterly
and Archer Guy Minardi there. John and Cindy
Correspondent: Louise Firth
5260 NE 28th Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, FL 33308
e-mail: louisefirthftl@aol.com
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Parke Beukema’s son is a major “Jeopardy!”
champ and may compete again for further winnings this year. Their other son’s acting career is
thriving in Minneapolis where all the Beukemas
live. Husband John will give up his legal practice
this summer. Cindy continues her pie making and
bookstore work. It’s great to be back in touch with
Mary Bray whom I saw this summer. She was off
on a cruise for the holidays with a friend and planning to move within Hotlanta. My recent travels
were limited to a wonderful mother-daughter week
in Montana celebrating her birthday. I have two
principal public relations clients that keep me busy
and fed and pay my rowing club dues. I cannot
believe we’ve been away from The Green for 44
years. Let’s all start making plans now to get back
for our 45th.
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Correspondent: Corbin Cowart Bettencourt, P.O. Box
5555, Foxcroft School, Middleburg, VA 20118
e-mail: rbetten265@aol.com
Do you believe in miracles? Polly Christian
James had the pleasure of visiting campus when
she went to pick up her St. Catherine’s ring – the one
she had lost several decades ago. Another alumna
came across it and returned it to the Alumnae Office.
The trip to campus to retrieve it was Polly’s first in a
long time and she was amazed at “how much has
changed but still many things are the same, which
brought back memories.” I had a wonderful note
from Margy Watkins at Christmas. She wrote,
“I have a particular reason to celebrate but some
might not understand why. I have lived, really
LIVED, with ALS for ten years! I have my caregivers
to thank for the exquisite care they constantly give
me.” Margy is truly an inspiration. Having moved to
South Carolina, I decided I would seek news from
classmates living here. Mary Grant McDonald
and I connected and had a lot of fun catching up.
She lives in Newberry, South Carolina, where she
and her husband Joe have raised their two sons,
and where Joe has spent most of his career teaching
at Newberry College. They own As Time Goes By,
an antique, interiors and gift shop. She says it is very
much a family affair. Peggy New Spencer and Bill
still live in Decatur, Georgia, where Peggy continues
to work as a lead teacher in special education in
the public schools and Bill continues in information technology with Cox Communications. Their
son John graduated from Savannah College of Art
and Design and is looking for an internship/job
in Industrial (product) Design. If anyone has any
leads, he's willing to relocate!!! Daughter Elizabeth is
a freshman at New York University and loves it! I’d
love to hear from more classmates. Please use the
e-mail address, drop me a note or give me a call. We
are sixty and have lots to share! Pass along the news
of what keeps you so actively involved in life.
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Class of 1968 Annual Christmas Lunch – (Left to right) Seated: Mary Tompkins Miller, Helen Harrison Tripp, Elsie
Dickinson Hovis. Standing: Marie Neal, Ginger Harrison Adamson, Leslie Reed, Alice Satterfield Tor, Hallie Wallace Clay
and Anne Taylor Leitch Moorman.
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Correspondents: Elsie Dickinson Hovis, 322 Greenway
Lane, Richmond, VA 23226-1632
e-mail: elsie.hovis@gmail.com
and
Helen Harrison Tripp, 5810 Three Chopt Road,
Richmond, VA 23226-2337
e-mail: hhtripp@aol.com
and
Ginger Harrison Adamson, 4607 Leonard Parkway,
Richmond, VA 23226-1335
e-mail: adamsong@stcva.org
Elsie Hovis’s son Thomas (St. Chris ’06), a
senior at Hampden-Sydney, has been playing
football and lacrosse. He finished his football
career with an undefeated regular season (the
second time in school history), and the second
ODAC championship in four years for this
team. He was an honorable mention all-ODAC
at strong safety. Son Jimmy (St. Chris ’00) loves
working for a renovator. He and John Cronly (St.
Chris ’02 and son of Lilliboo Rawles Cronly
'72) love being head varsity lacrosse coaches
at Douglas Freeman High School. Daughter
Sarah '96 and new husband John Dickinson
are in New York City. Ann Souder wrote to say
“after a pretty dreary summer weather-wise, I
am looking forward to my fall work schedule
in the Caribbean, heading off to St. Thomas this
weekend, and then St. Maarten and Antigua in
December for the Charter Boat Shows.” Dede
Deane Irwin’s big news is that London daughter Louise ‘96 now has her own daughter born
on August 19 in St. Mary's Hospital in the Lindo
Wing (the same place that Princess Diana’s boys
were born!) “I was there in London for the first
three weeks helping out and loving every minute
of it! I sure wish she lived closer but she'll be in
town for three weeks at Christmas and I'll be
back in London in January to see her get christened in their Parish church-- another St. Mary's!
It's an amazing feeling to realize that there is
now another generation below you. I highly
recommend it!” Kate Withers Oates is “doing
great! I'm back and forth between Arlington and
Florida with detours to see grandbabies (ages 9,
5 and 2 in Atlanta and Virginia Beach.)” Mary
Atkinson Stone has been in wedding mode:
son Ned (St. Chris ’99) married Erin, my goddaughter Sarah Hovis ‘96 married John, Elsie’s
niece Lassiter Wall ’99 married my son Billy
(St. Chris ’97), and Cameron Miller ’97 married Dave Rivinus—all in SIX months! Ginger
Harrison Adamson’s grandson Gates Orgain
came to visit me in my St. Chris kindergarten
classroom yesterday. He is SO adorable!” We
were thrilled to hear from Leah Waller Golden:
"I am happy and sad to say that this year we are
carrying on the Waller family tradition of going
to Florida for Christmas even though my parents
are no longer with us. This year we will have my
new great niece (Taylor's granddaughter) and
an as yet unhatched grandchild for us. My son's
wife is pregnant, due right around my mother's
birthday. So the cycle of life continues." Another
classmate with whom we have been out of touch
is Diana Brannon Shuler in Tampa, whose
sister Gwen ’62 filled us in: Diana’s daughter
Katie graduated from Duke in June. She is taking
prerequisite courses at University of Tampa for a
physician’s assistant program and working part
time in a law firm’s foreclosure department. Son
Kevin practices in the real estate and securities
section of Foley and Lardner Law Firm in Tampa.
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NEW CORRESPONDENT! Holly Materne Antrim,
411 South Mooreland Road, Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: chelma23229@yahoo.com
and
Continuing as co-Correspondent: Catherine Stuart
Bosher, 222 East Hickory Street,
Hinsdale, IL 60521-3712
e-mail: tassbosher@yahoo.com
Hello classmates! I am excited to be joining
Tassie in the role of class correspondent. Many
thanks to Laura Leake Brown for her 12-plus
years as class correspondent. What a stellar
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Dede Deane Irwin '68 spent Christmas with her first
grandchild, Charlotte Porcher Welch.
job. We hope to live up to her superb record!!
Kim Meyer Ford, having just celebrated her
30th anniversary, writes that her daughter has
returned from a teaching opportunity in South
Korea. Kim’s twin sons are well: one is teaching
environmental education at Colorado State and
other is working in Phoenix after returning from
Baghdad. Twin sister Betsy Meyer Anderson
is still a school librarian in Virginia and lives
near their active mother, Elisabeth Williams
Gookin '40. Elizabeth Lewis is keeping busy
heading an oral history project in the Capitol
Hill neighborhood and overseeing son Tom’s
college search during his senior year. Elizabeth
enjoys her visits with Nancy Elcock when visiting daughter Janie, a sophomore at Dartmouth
College. Helen Holt’s older daughter Lela
Urquhart earned her Ph.D in classical archaeology at Stanford University and is currently at
the American Academy in Rome. Daughter Clara
wed Chris Blanchard in July 2009 in Wilmington,
North Carolina. Helen is still teaching in the
North Carolina Community College system but
does find today's cell phones and texting to be
quite the distraction! She and Pat Long write of
their time spent with aging parents. Pat works in
the financial department of the Raleigh Regional
Association of Realtors. Anne Bell Parker
was disappointed not to join our 40th reunion
celebration. She and husband Ian bought a
new car, a 'narrowboat' and adopted a Springer
Spaniel named Paddy. Tassie Bosher's oldest daughter Sarah is a freshman at Colorado
College and younger daughter Martha is a
senior at EHS. Tassie and siblings all helped sister
Martha '68 celebrate her 60th in downtown
Chicago. Molly Preston Farnsworth, Tassie
Bosher, Lucy McCullough Schneider, Laura
Brown, Susan Dabney Smith, Lisa Wickham
Haskell, Holly Antrim and many other Saints
enjoyed attending the spectacular wedding of
Andy Harrison Bennett's daughter Molly
’99, held on the beach of their cottage in Fishing
Bay, Virginia. Doris Blackwell Stimpson,
Molly, Holly, Andy, and Lisa were among
those in attendance at the wedding of Laura
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Brown's son Charles in picturesque Long Island.
Melinda Williams Davis and others visited
Page Murrell Woltz at her mountain home in
Roaring Gap, North Carolina. My children are
all happy and healthy living in New York City,
Denver, and Charlottesville, respectively. John
Mason and I love spending time at our farmhouse near White Hall, Virginia, and are in the
process of building a barn. Blessings, peace and
love to all you wonderful friends. Let's all try to
find lost class members and continue staying in
touch with one another.
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Correspondents: Frere Sands French, 554 Hill
Grove Road, Manakin Sabot, VA 23103
e-mail: fsfren7@aol.com
and
Bitsy Perry Marshall, 113 Seneca Road,
Richmond, VA 23226-2331
e-mail: bitsymarshall@gmail.com
EDITOR’S NOTE: We are deeply saddened to
report the death of Bruce Marshall, devoted
husband of longtime (since 1995) correspondent Bitsy Perry Marshall.
We were happy to hear from so many of you
this time. Pem Dorsey Hutchinson reports
“life in Winchester is great…my husband Greg
and I restored an 18th century stone Quaker
farm house in a family-owned apple orchard
17 years ago. We love entertaining our six
grandchildren in the country.” Jean Alston
Palamar has three sons: one in Dallas with
wife and son; one son/wife in Raleigh and one
son in Denver. Jean is involved in volunteer
community work and enjoys visiting the kids
with hubby Rick. We were glad to hear that
Mary Borden Currin is recovering from
a stroke in June. Mary, who enjoys organic
gardening, sold her store in May and is busy
helping her youngest daughter with college
applications. Her oldest daughter is in the
Kenan Flagler Business School at UNC. Kristin
Rehder’s trip to the Galapagos and Machu
Picchu were “fabu.” She is currently getting her
Master’s in history and social/cultural implications of photography while continuing her
consulting and development communications
work. Her new mantra learned from her travels is “go without expectations. See what you
see.” Two of Jeanne Johns Cassin’s children
are out of school and working; her youngest, Alice, is studying Arabic and Near East
studies in her senior year at Princeton. Sister
Gussie Johns Bannard '73 visited Jeanne in
the fall for her Groton Trustees meeting. Tighe
Easterly Antrim continues to love teaching
bikram yoga, and Frere is joining her ranks,
becoming yoga certified. Tighe had dinner
with Blissie Buford Abbot who is enjoying
her retirement. Blissie, her architect husband,
sister Peyton Buford Valentine ’76 and
Peyton’s husband built a house outside of
Charlottesville. Laura Funkhouser Ruml’s
son Jamie, a senior at St. Chris, had the lead in a
play. Molly Moncure’s son Trip is an explorer
for National Geographic and recently won a
grant to save the elephant population. Debbie
Andrews Dunlap loves having all three of
her girls on the east coast. Two of them have
taken advantage of the stimulus program and
bought new houses. Thanks to the seven dogs
between them, there is always a noisy reunion.
Tracy Charles Shenkman’s son Ben is at
Guilford and daughter Mills is also in college.
Tracy’s husband Steven is still working for
IBM. Tracy says hi to all her HS “HEers.” Mary
Palmer Trice Legare writes that she got the
plumb teaching job in Peach County, Georgia,
teaching Gifted Language and Arts. She and
Andrew bought a house and are absorbed in
landscaping and decorating. Their two girls
Eeremene and Bemene are living together in
Atlanta and preparing for graduate school.
They will visit the Northern Neck this summer
to see old friends. Cinnie Condit Judd had
double fusion cervical surgery last summer
and Jean, who had identical surgery, provided
her with survival tips. Molly Carpenter
Sprouse’s son Patrick was married in the new
chapel of the church where husband Jim is
rector in October 2009, the same day as Bruce
and Bitsy Marshall’s daughter Polly (2004)
was married.
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40th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Julie Gamble Grover, 401 Overlook
Circle, Lexington, VA 24450
e-mail: pjgrover5@comcast.net
and
Rosamond Lawson, 342 Coinbow Drive,
Mount Pleasant, SC 29464
e-mail: rosamond.lawson@comcast.net
Lee Brown Bedell is working at Regions Bank
in corporate trust. Son Todd graduated from
Marshall University, and daughter Elizabeth had
a baby boy, Hudson Matthews Lindsey, born
February 2009. Lee’s nieces, Colby and Mallory
Bedell, transferred to St. Catherine’s last fall.
Carrington Pasco Brown’s son Lawrence, featured in People magazine, works for Help USA
and continues his Homeless Street Soccer program. Trigger is at UVA; Merrill is in Richmond
working; Rob is moving to San Francisco; and
Thompson is at St. Christopher's. Carrington
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enjoyed a horseback safari to the Masai Mara
in Kenya. In addition to painting classes, she is
doing a two-year program at the Haden Institute
in North Carolina --a spiritual direction program based on Jungian psychology. Martha
Ware Stone Bryan and Hilary Heistand
Long enjoy their bridge group with seven of
our classmates - Carol Wood, Eleanor Smith
Wellford, Julie Johns Saunders, Dorothy
Young, Betsy Rawles, Preston Lee Gomer,
and Mary Harrison. Sarah Gayle Carter
is happy in Maine, where she paints, sculpts,
writes, and is working with a literary agent on
a book proposal. David finished his master’s in
architecture from the University of Texas; Cole
is working on a master’s in Engineering at VCU;
and daughter Blair (2008) is a sophomore at
James Madison University. Jane Catlett and
Mike enjoyed a trip to California in September to
visit friends in Santa Cruz. When the economy
settles down, they hope to move from Arlington
to California. Jane reports that her World
Religions class is fantastic. Christine Kjellstrom
Douglas’ twins have gone to college! Edie is a
freshman at Furman, and Christina is a freshman
at Washington and Lee. Anne Wilson Fafara
is just beginning the college process with her
oldest child Thomas. Her youngest son Peter
started high school this year. Anne still works
part-time for the MBA program at Georgetown
and gets her therapy doing yard work. Ashton
Williams Harrison and David try to escape to
Wintergreen as often as they can. Aynsley is a
4th year UVA government major. Marsi is doing
a film production internship in L.A. and visited
Sara Flemer Simpson on her drive crosscountry. Stepson Beale is married and living in
San Francisco, and stepdaughter Aysia is married with two kids and lives in Portland, Oregon.
Rosamond Lawson is still teaching history to
eighth graders and has happily welcomed her
first grandchild. Beth Montgomery had a blast
at the wedding of her goddaughter Lassiter
Wall ’99. In addition to the mother of the bride,
Polly Dickinson Wall, she enjoyed seeing Lucy
Higgins, Louise Rennolds Friday, Martha
Ware, and Hilary. Betsy Rawles had fun catching up with Christine at W&L where Betsy’s
nephew Carleton is a student. Betsy is busy renovating an old home that she has purchased in
Goochland County. Julie Saunders is a nanny
for three kids 5, 8 and 10. Youngest and oldest
are girls, with a boy between. Randy Anderson
Trainor, who has started a new interior design
business focused on sustainable design, plans
to be in Richmond as she will be doing a room
for the 2010 Richmond Symphony Showhouse
in September. She and Tom have two grandchildren. Martha Ware and your correspondent Julie
are enjoying serving together on the board of the
Garden Club of Virginia.
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NEEDS CORRESPONDENT!
Please contact the Alumnae Office
if you would like to be a correspondent. ’73
NEEDS CORRESPONDENT!
Please contact the Alumnae Office
if you would like to be a correspondent. It was great to hear from Wendy Magoon
Butts, who reports that her parents, The
Rev. George and Joanne Magoon are still in
Centennial, Colorado. Wendy and Ron live in
Idaho where they own a hardware/feed store.
Ever on the fashion beat, in September Caroline
Rennolds Milbank published her latest book,
Resort Fashion: Style in Sun-Drenched Climates. Talk
about your beach read!
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NEEDS CORRESPONDENT!
Current Correspondent: Kendall Thomas, 1206
Hyde Lane, Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: nkt5510@comcast.net
We were sorry to learn from Deane Suter
Begiebing of the death of her father in August
at the age of 89. Dr. Suter was the retired
chairman of the neurology department at the
Medical College of Virginia. On a much happier note, Deane’s son Lyle is finishing up his
first year at Arizona State University in Tempe
and loves it. We should all be very proud of
our classmate, Anne Larus Hardwick. She
was asked to serve as the 2009 Goochland
Christmas Mother, an honor she readily
accepted. Anne’s grandmother Anne Traylor
Larus was the first Richmond Christmas
Mother in 1935, making it a family affair!
Congratulations, Anne! I hope 2010 is a wonderful year for all, and let me hear about it!
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Correspondent: Eleanor Deane Bierbower,
8101 Merrick Road, Bethesda, MD 28017-3835
email: ebierbower@gmail.com Susan Chitwood wrote in January, “I'm just
back from Cuba. Spent a week in Havana with
TalkCinema attending a Latin American film
festival, and was absolutely besotted with the
place. I cannot wait to return. Fabulous music
a la Buena Vista Social Club at every turn!
Henry and I are going back to Argentina in
February. I'm writing a story about a ballet
dancer in Buenos Aires and we're also going
to visit a vineyard in Mendoza we've invested
1976 classmates Lyles Neal Perkins, Lisa Pratt and Lynn
Davis during Middle School days.
in." Chitwood has also started a new business
with a friend making gorgeous kissing balls
and decorative lanterns for parties, etc. Stay
tuned for the website address. Lucy Leake has
been traversing the Mason-Dixon Line a lot
in recent months, and is hoping to relocate to
Virginia soon. The Richmond girls are keeping
our fingers crossed! Alice Trice Szumski is
happy to have daughter Meg '08 a little closer
to home. Meg transferred from Vanderbilt to
UVA in January. Gigi Rawles Miller hosted
a gathering for St. C at her beautiful home in
Norfolk, into which the family moved in the
fall after many months of renovations. Ann
Snider Hagaman has settled in Manakin
Sabot, Virginia, after years on the west coast,
bringing some of the Silicon Valley with her
in the form of a new IT venture. The following good news came in from Kim Miller
Howard: "My son Peyton got his nomination
to the Naval Academy! The Academy makes
the final decision, of course, but this was a
big hoop! I drove to Lynchburg to deliver the
letter to him at school. As luck would have it,
he was in study hall surrounded by several of
his classmates. I asked him to come out and
gave him the letter. He started smiling as soon
as he started reading, so I knew the result."
Congratulations Kim!!! We should have LOTS
of news after our reunion so don’t be shy girls,
send in your news and pictures!
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35th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondent: Lisa Pratt, 299 Park Avenue,
Belmont Shore, CA 90803-1754
e-mail: lpratt@gmail.com
Charlotte Gay Gerhardt writes that they
are empty nesters, at least for now: Catherine
graduated from Washington & Lee in June and
is working in Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Augusta
is a junior at Wofford College majoring in art
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history; and Ann Burton is a freshman at W
& L and a member of the field hockey team.
Lyles Neal Perkins reports that she has successfully relocated to the recently purchased
Courtship Ranch in northeast LA County where
she and her husband are boarding and training
horses. Lyles’ love of all things “horsey” goes
way back. When Ginny Williams Poole isn’t
eagerly awaiting the arrival of her daughter
Channing for visits home from UVA, she is
happily operating her pet sitting business, “Pet’s
Pal” in Richmond. Liz Harvard continues to
work in the development office for University
of Richmond. Her daughter Hannah started
kindergarten at St. Cats in the fall. She loves it
and Mom couldn't be more pleased. The family spent a great December weekend in NYC
and Christmas on the Eastern Shore. Liz saw
Liza Halsey Perrin over the holiday. The
Perrin family plans to move to Richmond in
the spring. Liza’s oldest son Rawleigh got married in October. It was a beautiful and happy
occasion. Peyton Buford Valentine is living in the mountains at her family estate in
Albermarle where they are building a second
house in order to accommodate the expanding
family. Generations of offspring love to visit
from their homes in North Carolina, California
and Wyoming. Beth Blair reports that after 28
years with the bank she is now joining forces
with her husband at Met Life as a financial
advisor. We know Beth and we know she will be
awesome at this. Go get ’em ! Your correspondent reports continued good health, thank God.
Let me hear from the rest of you for next time!
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NEW Correspondent! Phyllis Moore Razeeq
1180 Beaver Falls Court, Virginia Beach, VA 23464
e-mail: tch759@hotmail.com
and
Continuing as co-Correspondent:
Margaret Talman Corwin
8009 Thom Road, Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: corwincompany@verizon.net
I know you join me in welcoming Phyllis to
our class notes team! Please share your news
with either of us. We all enjoy learning about
our classmates’ interesting lives. This fall
Nancy Hill Goodall entertained Bev Bryan
Vernon, Bucci Rennolds Zeugner and
Anne Geary Joseph at Nancy’s river home in
Gloucester. Speaking of Nancy, you’ll be interested to know she has recently joined the St.
James Episcopal Church choir. Bev is continuing her teaching career but now takes on fifth
grade students. Nancy Jennings Grey has
recently joined Regions Bank in Alabama.
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Christian Beckley. Weezie absolutely loves her
work as a photographer for Lifetouch. She and
her husband Eric have been living in the country in Fort Lawn, South Carolina, for over three
years now, where Weezie particularly enjoys her
vegetable garden and going to the river in the
warm months. On the Claiborne home front, our
daughter Taylor ’09 loves life as a UVA freshman. Please send news and photos!!
Jane Oppenhimer Wilson ’76 (left) with 1978 classmates
Marty Pollard Easton, Missy Littleton Carr and Katharine
Martin Rubin.
Lilly is the daughter of Laura Edwards ’80 and Elaine Andrews
’78
in Atherton, California, near San Francisco.
Katharine volunteers in the neo-natal unit of
Stanford University Hospital, putting her nursing
skills to wonderful use. Her daughter Caroline
is in her junior year at Pomona College in
Claremont, California. Middle daughter Hannah
is in high school and son Samuel attends middle
school in Atherton. The family plans to travel
to Jerusalem to celebrate Samuel’s Bar Mitzvah.
What an extra special way to celebrate such
an important event! Marty and I traveled to St.
Christopher’s for a tennis match last fall. Her
daughter Molly and my daughter Addie Rodes
are on the Walsingham Academy tennis team
here in Williamsburg. We had the pleasure of
running into Anne Howell McElroy and her
mother. Both looked as lovely as always! Anne
continues to practice as an ophthalmologist and
also remains active at St. Stephen’s Church in
Richmond. Please continue to send in news so
that we may all remain in touch!
Correspondent: Missy Littleton Carr
316 Indian Springs Road, Williamsburg, VA
23185-3943
e-mail: missy.carr@cox.net
Elizabeth Williams Bisset (or Liz as she goes
by now) reports from Richmond that she is cochair of the Altar Guild Committee at her church,
Grace and Holy Trinity. Her niece Caroline is in
7th grade at St. Catherine’s and loves it! Caroline
is a swimmer and a field hockey player. Liz’s
nephew Drew is a sophomore at Trinity School,
soon to be looking at colleges. Liz also wrote
that she is enjoying serving as president of the St.
Catherine’s Alumnae Board, Richmond Chapter.
The board is made up of a great group of ladies
spanning the classes of ’76 to ’01 and it is great
to see the connections over the decades. The
board has fundraisers throughout the year to
raise money for the scholarship fund and for
the Daisy Chain at graduation. They also assist
in planning all of our wonderful reunion weekends. What she does not say is what a dedicated
and wonderful leader she is for this group. She
spends many hours “behind the scenes” making sure all the Richmond Chapter endeavors
are successful. Thanks for all you do, Liz! Your
correspondent was lucky to catch a glimpse of
Katharine Martin Rubin in December when
she was in Williamsburg visiting her charming
mother, Eda Williams Martin ’49. Katharine
looked wonderful and it was so nice to see her.
Being a west coast resident, she doesn’t get here
often, so it was a real treat to spend some time
with her. Her mother organized a “mini-reunion”
luncheon in her home during Katharine’s
stay, which included fellow classmates and
Williamsburg residents Marty Pollard Easton
and me! Jane Oppenhimer Wilson ’76, also
of Williamsburg, joined us as well. It was a
lovely afternoon and such fun to catch up with
Katharine. Marty brought along some ancient
and yellowed editions of the Quair so we could
all reminisce! Katharine, Daniel, and their three
children live in a beautiful house on a hillside
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Correspondent: Lisa Galleher Claiborne, 102 Gun
Club Road, Richmond, VA 23221-3308
e-mail: lisa.claiborne@verizon.net
Hello classmates! I hope everyone who could not
be at our 30th reunion last spring saw the photo
of our own Elizabeth McMillan Hagood
receiving the Distinguished Alumna Award,
which appeared in the summer “Celebrations”
Newsletter, or read about the award on the St.
C website. Elizabeth, you do us proud!!! I have
had the pleasure of seeing Caroline Crook
Williamson, Elizabeth Hagood and Liz Gamble
Blaine ’78 regularly now that our children are
all sophomore buddies at Episcopal High School.
This year my daughter Sarah (2012) has loved
rooming with Weeza Miller, daughter of Mary
“Tic” Tobias Miller ’75, and the Claiborne
family has enjoyed getting to know the Miller
family. Caroline Williamson’s daughter Caroline
is a freshman at UNC-Chapel Hill and rooms
with Emma Coogan ’09, daughter of Susan
Christian Coogan ’72 and niece of Weezie
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’80
Correspondent: Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood,
7441 Hill Drive, Richmond, VA 23225
e-mail: madeline4020@comcast.net
Thanks to all who replied to my request for
news. I really appreciate your efforts! First, we
send our deepest condolences to Nan Leake
on the loss of her father. [EDITOR’S NOTE: We
also extend our deepest sympathy to Madeline
Mayhood whose mother died in January, just
as these notes were going to press. Madeline
had taken wonderful care of her mother, and
she was able to be at home with Madeline until
she passed away.] Beth Trice Moore reports
that Nan is doing well and travels frequently to
Europe for work. “I have spent lots of time at
her wonderful renovated fan house and think
it is a great place for our April reunion. I hope
everyone will make a real effort to come.” Last
October, the St. Catherine’s Spirit Fest alum Gold/
White hockey game was won by the Golds, in
large part thanks to Class of ’80 players Lynley
Rosanelli Cavanaugh, Helen McKenney
Ilnicky, Ida Valentine Farinholt, Melanie
Halsley Crittenden and Beth Moore. Beth
reports that she and Agnes Frazier Richard
have boys, Trice and Ross, in the same freshman
class at Woodberry Forest. Beth is also the head
of the Parents Association for the Upper School
at St. Catherine’s. “With my sophomore Marshall,
and 6th grader Temple, and Trice at Woodberry,
I love spending lots of time at St. Catherine’s.”
Frances Taylor McEachran swam the Great
Chesapeake Bay Swim (4.4 miles) and ended up
swimming with Betsy Caravati Butler ’84.
“I was also told that Caroline Kettlewell was
there but never ran into her. I think this was at
least her second time swimming this race, but
Betsy and I decided that once was enough!” says
Frances. A group of the Class of ’80 – Susan
Martin Mitchell, Lynley Cavanaugh, Peggy
Davenport Nicholls, Elizabeth Ware, Laura
Paul Smith and your correspondent met in
October to celebrate Laren Scott’s visit to
Richmond with adorable baby Isla (6 months)
and husband Randy Roch. Laren and her family live in Taos, New Mexico. Congratulations
to Vicki Wickham Levering whose son John
was on Battle of the Brains in January. John is a
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Hotchkiss, who works for the N.C. Association
of Electric Cooperatives to improve the quality
of life for rural residents, was honored by the
YWCA of Greater Triangle in their 27th Annual
Academy of Women Awards, one of 11 women
whose leadership has made a difference in the
Triangle. Susan Gaddy played singles for the
Family Circle tennis team “The Hot Shots” and
went to the state championships in Greenville,
South Carolina this year!
Last fall, members of the Ellett-St.Catherine’s Alumnae Board enjoyed a historical tour of Hollywood Cemetery, including a
visit to Miss Jennie's gravesite, courtesy of Howard Pugh, former director of St. Catherine's Wright Library. The Ellett Board,
the school’s national alumnae board, meets on campus twice a year to assist with alumnae outreach and fundraising efforts.
senior at Blessed Sacrament School in Powhatan.
Peggy Davenport Nicholls reports that her
son George is a sophomore at JMU. Daughter
Catherine is a junior at Atlee High School and is
friends with Emily Rupertus, daughter of Carole
Knox Rupertus ’79. Lynley started a new
job in March 2009. She is director and operations manager for the new Richmond office of
Oppenheimer & Co (a brokerage firm based out
of NY.) “I’m looking forward to more trips to
NYC!” says Lynley. As for your correspondent,
my dear, sweet husband and I recently bought
an “our” house just above the James River here
in Richmond where our “Luncheon Ladies”
enjoyed celebrating Susan Mitchell’s December
birthday with Ginny Sanderson Prudhoe,
Rosemary Weston Kulp, Agnes Richard and
Vicki Levering. Also, a book I had the pleasure of
working on, Historic Virginia Gardens (see article
on alumnae authors in this issue), was published
in the spring (University Press of Virginia.)
Got the travel bug this summer and landed in
Hong Kong for an incredible week. I was also
in London visiting Janie Larus McShane
’79 where I rendezvous-ed with my businesstraveling husband and stepchildren, who were
Eurailing for two months.
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30th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondent: Maria Williams Swindell, 414
Alabama Road, Baltimore, MD 21204-4307
e-mail: mtntm@msn.com
After demolishing their Virginia Beach house in
April ’09, Cecelia Faulkner Soscia and family moved into their brand new house (on the
site of their old house) in December. Last summer Carrie Reid Russell’s son Sam, an Eagle
Scout, hiked New Mexico’s Philmont with his
dad and the Boy Scouts. Daughter Helen, 12, is
at Steward playing field hockey, basketball and
lacrosse. Carrie is the director of Hand Therapy
at Advanced Orthopaedic Centers; husband
Ames is starting up a new IT business. Carrie
races sailboats; last summer she participated in
a number of races on the Chesapeake Bay and
elsewhere. “One of the coolest things I did this
year was a two week sail from Bermuda to St.
Thomas aboard the Schooner Virginia, an 18th
century schooner replica, as part of a crew of
20. Six of us also participated in a seamanship
course on celestial navigation…I am planning to crew on an ocean race from Florida to
Cuba in May with four others. I will still do my
normal racing this spring and summer. Our
family, plus two other families, will bareboat
in the B.V.I.’s for spring break. Life is good.”
Carrie and Shelley Church Rodgers have
reconnected with Aurelia Stafford Monk,
Susan Norman McAlister, Wende Monroe
Szyperski and Beth Trice Moore ’80 who
all have boys attending Woodberry Forest
School. Shelley hopes to see Hope Holding
Connell and Margaret Coker Hungerford in
Orange someday soon! Last fall from Colorado
Elizabeth Covington e-mailed looking for
a live-in nanny who’d be interested in swapping babysitting time for an extra room in their
house…I wonder how many of her friends
were jumping at the opportunity to go skiing,
sledding and to birthday parties with her boys
Marshall, 4, and Ellis, 1? Elizabeth Jones is a
part-time income auditor at Ski Corp, which
works well with her other job as a ski instructor in Steamboat. Mary Margaret Smithers
Kastelberg was flipping through Ladies Home
Journal, looking at the before and after photos
of the makeover candidate when she realized
it was Louise Sloan. “She looks great in the
before and after pictures!” Welby Whiting
Fairlie and family are hosting a high school
exchange student from Montenegro who
Hannah, 6, and James, 2, love! Sarah Gibson’s
daughter Sally is in upper school; Ella (2007)
and Coleman are both at college “though they
have so many breaks, I feel like they are almost
always around.” I ran into Sarah’s sister Dana
Gibson Longenderfer ’82 at a gift boutique
in Baltimore in November. In November Nelle
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Correspondent: Maura Maguire Gaenzle, 1835
Monument Avenue, Richmond, VA 23220
e-mail: mgaenzle@bway.net
Thanks so much for contributing your news
and photos! We have a few updates to share.
Susan Griswold Herst shared big news
of her career in real estate. With her North
Carolina Real Estate License in hand, Susan and
three partners opened a boutique residential
real estate firm in downtown Durham, North
Carolina, called Urban Durham Realty. She
noted that both her father and grandfather were
developers, so real estate feels like a natural
career for her. Her great grandfather was mayor
of Durham exactly 100 years ago! She is thrilled
to be playing a part in the revitalization of this
southern town. She and Larry are still playing
lots of tennis and he is very involved as a volunteer marketing the Duke men's and women's
tennis teams. Their three sons are teenagers now
and are quite independent other than needing
to be chauffeured to their various athletic and
social commitments! Ben is a senior, still plays
tournament tennis, and is applying to college;
Alex is a sophomore in high school and is
fanatic about lacrosse, and Charles is thriving
in his final year of middle school. Anna Page
Campbell is excited about her new venture.
She founded a 501(c)3 non-profit for combat
wounded veterans. It's called Veterans on the
Water Foundation (VOW) and is a national
network of citizen volunteers providing onthe-water recreation activities and educational
programs to support combat wounded veterans. Anna has visited veterans at Walter Reed
Army Medical Hospital in Washington, DC, and
is committed to thanking them in a meaningful
way. She plans to have the website up and running in early 2010 and encourages anyone who
owns a boat of any sort to participate. Patty
Eichner Mouer wrote in to say that she loved
seeing Eliza Knox Buxton and her family in
Charleston this summer. Patty is also having
a good time working with Isabel Carson '04
at Camp Henry, the diocesan camp in western
North Carolina. Hope to hear from you all
again soon!
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Correspondent: Lynn Broos Grassell, P.O. Box 2015,
Wilson, WY 83014
e-mail: grassell@wyoming.com
Kathy Belew Carr visited Margaret Wood
Atwood, Liz Grymes Anderson and their
adorable children in Charleston, South Carolina.
Cameron Clark Sipe went skiing with her
family in Utah. She ran into Carolyn Anthony
Shiverick '82, and later saw Nora Brookfield
there! Cameron loved meeting Carolyn’s family
and catching up with Carolyn who she hadn’t
seen since 1982. Cameron and Blair Beebe
Smith take turns meeting in Charlottesville
and Richmond every few months. Cameron
enjoyed a long lunch with Elizabeth Thurston
Jackson who lives in Charlottesville. Elizabeth
finished the MFA program last May, and since
had a poem accepted for publication in The
Spoon River Poetry Review. She was also offered an
artist grant to pay for part of a residency at The
Vermont Studio Center. With apologies to Mary
Chapman Boyd who told me her news was not
to print: Mary’s son Austin joins her 14-yearold Hugh at Episcopal next year, so she is down
to two at home and wondering if it may be time
to get a job! Nancy Hendee Shields, husband
Matthew, son Rowan, 8, and daughter Nora, 5,
along with three horses, two rabbits, a dog and
a pair of ducks, are feeling more settled in their
fourth year in the UK. They live in the beautiful
Berkshire countryside near Oxford and would
love any friends traveling that part of the world
to visit. Jamie Buchanan moved her 81-yearold grandmother to a retirement community in
Williamsburg, Virginia - quite a move!! Jayne
Honey Chapman’s two boys have spring
break in late April this year, so skiing is pretty
much out of the picture, now that the boys have
been spoiled by non-east coast skiing. Helen
Hamilton Horsley’s daughters Selina (ninth
grade) and Margaret and Lily (sixth) attend
classes in Bacot and Ellett. The renovations are
complete, and the buildings are filled with light
and are beautiful! Her favorite season is now
winter because all three play St. C basketball.
Less mileage for the minivan! Helen serves
on the Ellett Board and enjoys meeting alums
from different locations. She is working on
Daisy Days and had a busy fall taking photos.
Frances Talley Herrington’s twins Sally and
Preston started kindergarten at St. Catherine's
and St. Christopher's. Five years ago, it seemed
that exciting but bittersweet day that would
never come. Frances is in her 11th year working on Richmond’s Bizarre Bazaar. Frances and
her kids came out to cheer for Jeannie Lane
Ballentine in the Richmond marathon. Jeannie
moved back to Darien from Sydney, Australia,
in June, after 1-1/2 years. They would have
stayed longer, but the global economic situation
sped their return. “It was a great experience, but
really made me appreciate this country so much
more. We spent a week traveling through China
on the way home, mostly just in Shanghai &
Beijing, also stopped in Singapore. We saw so
much while we were in Australia: the Great
Barrier Reef, New Zealand - we went bungy
jumping at the original site.” Tell us of your
adventures.
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Correspondent: Elizabeth Camp Hanson,
6 Westham Pkwy., Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: dr.hanson@me.com
Congratulations to Deb Armstrong, who will be
graduating in June from Wake Forest University
Family Medicine Residency! Wish her luck in the
job hunt. I hope the lack of news is because everyone is so busy doing terrific things. Regardless,
please keep sending news and please update your
contact information, especially e-mail addresses.
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Correspondent: Windy Campbell,
P.O. Box 604, Teton Village, WY 80325
e-mail: windycampbell@mindspring.com
In November, Cathy Boardman became a
new mom, with the adoption of an 11-weekold baby girl, Eleanor Moore Boardman. Baby
Nora is a true beauty and such a sweet girl.
Cathy says, “I got sick of waiting for the right
guy, and went ahead and started my family!
Thank goodness my classmate Coleman Allen
Gfroerer is only two doors away. I am SO
blessed with Baby Nora. Please come visit us!”
Congratulations, Cathy! Another happy mom
is Margaret King Murray, whose daughter
was born in October. Margaret named her
second daughter Daisy, “after the St C flower.”
Mary Richie Boyd McGuire has gone back
to school, to Virginia Tech, and is in her second
year of a Ph.D. program in science, technology and society. In addition to taking classes
for her degree, Mary Richie is teaching, which
she says is busy, but very rewarding. “If any St.
Cat grad or daughter of a grad finds her way
to Blacksburg as a student or prospective parent, please let me know!” says Mary Richie.
Liza Kenan Howell, Dede Keyser Davis,
Courtney Overcash Kilpatrick, and Ashley
Brinson Cusack have all kept up this past
year. Liza writes, “my oldest daughter is 14 - the
age I was when I left for St. C. She is way more
mature and secure than we all were at that age!”
Last fall, your correspondent Windy Campbell
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sold her house in Richmond, and drove west
in November with her dog Hattie, arriving in
Jackson Hole, Wyoming, just in time for ski season. I’m enjoying a nice change of lifestyle while
continuing my marketing & PR business. I’ve
wanted to move here since college and I finally
realized I needed to take this chance while I
still CAN. It’s a big leap for me but so glad I am
here. Any ’85 classmates planning vacations to
Jackson Hole, please, please look me up!!! I also
look forward to returning to school and seeing
lots of you in April for our 25th reunion!! Our
classmates working on the reunion weekend
have lots in store for our enjoyment.
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25th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Sally Yowell Barbour,
10346 Nash, Chapel Hill, NC 27517
e-mail: sallybarbour@yahoo.com
and
Ashley Power O’Connor, 207 South Lee Street,
Alexandria, VA 22314
e-mail: abpoconnor@yahoo.com
Our class must be really busy because I did
not receive much news for this class report.
Deming Herbert has her Ph.D. in French in
hand and is looking for a university position in
the U.S. and England. She is living in Montpelier
for the moment. Brooke Sydnor Curran has
been running…a lot! She has been running
marathons around the nation and throughout
the world to raise money for causes in her
local area. Through a partnership with ACT
for Alexandria, she created the RunningBrooke
Fund. At the end of each calendar year, funds
are granted to a worthy Alexandria charity.
In 2009, Brooke’s efforts provided $20,000 for
Child and Family Network Centers. Her 2010
goal is $50,000. (Learn more about Brooke’s
fundraising efforts at www.runningbrooke.com).
Christèle Bonnefond Rakotondrainy is
teaching economics and law in high school and
living near Paris. She also spends a lot of time
helping a center for children with motor disabilities in Nosy Be (a small island of Madagascar)
and with other humanitariam projects with her
husband. Pam Talley Lancaster saw Jewel
Glenn Caven, Anne Howard Smithers
Wiley, Sarah Paul Deignan '88, Guy
Butcher and Cary Marshall Brady for a mini
reunion one hot summer night in Richmond. It
was really great to see everyone. Sally Yowell
Barbour met up with Pam while in Vegas for
work for a wonderful dinner and catching up…
thanks Facebook! Please continue to send news
of your families, adventures and fun to us to
include in the next notes.
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The Brown Family includes several “Saints”: Francine Brown Mathews ‘90 and her daughters Claiborne and Ivey (2020)
Charlotte Brown Woodfin ‘87 and her daughters Anna (2016) and Eliza (2019) and Elizabeth Brown Peay ‘97.
(Photo by Banner Adams Radin ’91)
Daniella Katz White '87 and her husband Michael have a
new daughter, Piper Alex, born on July 31, 2009.
’89
1989 Classmates: (left to right) Melisa Dray Hudson, Paige Hazell Ames, Breene Farrington Wesson, Elizabeth Davenport
Edmonds, Marshall Trow Lynch, Jane Wright Hunter, Cindy Levinson Lefkoff, Key Giles Michel and Suzanne Wishnack Morris.
’87
Correspondent: Leigh Wafle Stoffel, 109 Woodland
Road, Fredericksburg, VA 22401
e-mail: leighstoffel@yahoo.com
Greetings everyone. Let me start with Marshall
McGehee Lewis’ wonderful report that she and
new husband Jeff Lewis of Houston, Texas, are living in “wedded bliss in Sherman Oaks, California.”
Congratulations Marshall! Three of our classmates
are launching web-based enterprises. Amy Bice
de Venoge, with her brother Charles Bice, created
an on-line calendar coordinating service at www.
theoneplanner.com . The service is for active people
like all of us - check it out! Amy is busy with her
young family and still serves on two boards for St.
Catherine’s. Her son Charlie just turned 12, and
daughter Ella plays basketball for St. Catherine’s.
Sara Corpening Whiteford and Mary
Corpening Barber are quite busy as well with
their culinary endeavors. They have a new Blog:
www.maryandsara.com, a series of videos with
Pottery Barn, and a new book due out this spring
called Super-Charged Smoothies. Sara also reports
that Mary planned to spend the holidays in Dublin,
Ireland, with Fairley McElveen Pilaro and
her family. There will be seven boys aged 10 and
younger, all under one roof! Clarke Anderson
Osborne and her growing family will spend
their first-ever Christmas in Los Angeles this year.
Her husband Nick has a new movie, “Remember
Me,” out March 2010. Julie Caldwell Lontz and
Catherine Rasor Burrous made a surprise trip to
visit Clarke for her 40th birthday in September. Julie
sent this news while also noting that she is enjoying motherhood. Allison Roser Bloor still loves
her job as district sales manager for Paychex. She
was also in a commercial for The Closet Factory
in Richmond. “I loved their product and they did
a fantastic job. I was happy to give a customer
testimonial.” Allison and her boys Jack and Ben (in
high and middle school) had a great time snow
boarding and skiing at Wintergreen in January.
Carter Williams Foster has a new chocolate lab
puppy, named “Bama” by her children Greer, 7, and
Clifford, 9. She still really enjoys her catering business. Daniella Katz White is happy to report that
she and her husband welcomed a new addition to
the family on July 31st, another daughter! Big sister
Ella loves her new sister, Piper. All four of them
are living in the Fan, enjoying city life. Jane Anne
McJunkin Randolph and her family are moving
to Atlanta, Georgia, this summer. After eight years
of teaching and coaching at St. Catherine’s, she
will surely be missed! Finally, I am happy to note
that ReRe Lawrence Bernstein has answered
my request to lead a St. Catherine’s Class of 1987
Facebook page. Thanks much ReRe!
’88
Correspondent: Susan Grymes Lafferty, 608 Beverley
Drive, Alexandria, VA 22305
e-mail: susan.lafferty@sutherland.com
Congrats to Katy Dew Amling on the birth of
her son Mercer Stewart Amling on November 5.
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Correspondents: Mary Birgel Dehnert,
1201 Hammel Road, Greensboro, NC 27408
e-mail: marydehnert@mindspring.com
and
Breene Farrington Wesson, 22 Plymouth Road,
Summit, NJ 07901
e-mail: breenewesson@yahoo.com
The highlight of Breene’s fall was a fantastic girls’
weekend in New Jersey with Key Giles Michel,
Elizabeth Davenport Edmonds, Paige Hazell
Ames, Melisa Dray Hudson, Marshall Trow
Lynch, Jane Wright Hunter, Eve Grandis
Campbell, Suzanne Wishnack Morris, Cindy
Levinson Lefkoff and Kennon Stout Ibbeken.
This was the first time we had all been together
for a weekend since St. Catherine’s; the joy of old
friends is that we didn’t miss a beat, gabbing into
the wee hours, eating, dancing, shopping, more
gabbing, and having a wonderful time together.
Susanne Coley McMillan is in Charlotte, North
Carolina, busy with three kids, running them
everywhere: Mary Coley is 13 and taller than she
is (scary); Luci is 11; Tommy is 3 and wild. She sees
Jane Hunter and Anne Redford Schleusner
some. Jane's fairly new business Organica Deluxe
is doing great and has been written up in several
local magazines and papers. Check out Jane’s web
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Marie Huntington Slaby '90 with her family, Scot, Walt
and Ella.
Finley and Grey are the daughters of May Mountcastle
Webb ’90.
site for terrific gifts - www.organicadeluxe.com. Annie
Rhodes Huneke reports that Reed (5) and Ted
(3) are doing well. She and husband Ben are at
Morgan Stanley and love living in Manhattan.
She sees fellow Upper East siders Jane Molster
Hines and Dorothy Shuford Lanier frequently.
She saw Ann King Berkman recently. Ann, her
husband and two daughters are doing well. Mary
Michaels Orr Estrada now has twin boys and
two girls with the birth of her fourth, Sara. Liz
Cain Hassan is busy with daughters Abby, 2, and
Annabel, 4, and going to school to get her nurse
practitioner’s degree. Cobby Young Witherington
has enjoyed reconnecting with Vesta deYampert
Fort ’86 through their 7-year-old daughters, who
went to camp together last summer. Blair Whitley
continues to enjoy working at BES, a production
company in Richmond. She is still doing quite a
bit of running and started training for her fourth
marathon this spring. Fellow athlete Katrin Cisne
Currens is still living in Richmond and working
at SunTrust Mortgage, Inc. Blair and Katrin stay in
touch quite a bit and occasionally manage to catch
up with Mary Lissenden Haley and Jennifer
Pritchett Baker. Blair and Katrin both worked
on the movie The Box as extras when filming was
at Langley AFB. Incidentally, the story takes place
entirely in Richmond, though the movie was filmed
mostly in Boston. Katrin completed the Kiawah
Island Marathon last December, and placed first in
her age group. She also ran in the Country Music
Marathon in April 2009 that was lots of fun, but
unfortunately no country music star sightings. She
completed her first sprint triathlon in August, the
Pink Power Triathlon at the Midlothian YMCA
which consisted of a 400m swim, 12m bike and
5k run. She finished 13th in her age group out of
78. Katrin’s son Max (10) is busy with Cub Scouts,
Richmond Racers swim team, karate and several
kids’ triathlons. Daughter Chayce (5) is into ballet/
gymnastics and ice skating.
’90
Correspondent: Mary Kathryn Large
Hoffmann,12408 Chadsworth Place,
Glen Allen, VA 23059
e-mail: marykhoffman@verizon.net
Aimee Norman Sheahan wrote from her home
in Dallas, Texas, that she, her husband David and
their daughter Julia, 4, welcomed a baby girl, Ella,
on November 29. Aimee recently visited with
Joan Malloch, who was flying through Dallas
on the way to a wedding. Joan currently lives
in Los Angeles and works in the film industry.
Because of being pregnant, Aimee hadn't done
any marathons lately, but her company, Sheahan
Communications, recently handled publicity
for the Texas Tough Grand Prix, a professional
cycling organization that brought international
cycling athletes like Tour de France champion
Floyd Landis to Texas. Sheahan Communications
also handled the Texas Tough Bike Bash, which
is a fundraiser for Children's Medical Center
of Dallas. Janet Wiecking Leimeister lives
in “beautiful and funky” Santa Cruz, California
with Eric, her husband of almost eight years.
She has been working with a local independent
bookstore, Capitola Book Cafe, since moving
to the Capitola/Santa Cruz area in 2000, right
after leaving Las Vegas and the Cirque du Soleil
"O" show in which she performed. Janet is the
author event manager, scheduling and hosting a
few authors every week as they make their way
around the nation on their book tours. She has
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been a co-owner of the store for almost three
years now. Kristin Phillips Stinson is living in
Ft Lauderdale, Florida, with Pablo, her husband
of nine years, daughter Anabelle, 7, son Colby, 4,
and dog Sassy. She’s been working at Starbucks
for over seven years, the last four as a human
resources manager. Recently Kristin and her family vacationed in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, visiting her brother Taylor, who owns an EcoTour
business. They also went to Halifax, Nova
Scotia, to visit family. Kristin writes: “We are
really excited that we recently moved into a new
house….a fixer upper (in our dream neighborhood) that we have been working on non-stop,
for the last three months…but having a lot of
fun with it!” Kristin ran the Full Disney Marathon
in 2008, and raised $2,500 for the Leukemia and
Lymphoma Society. At this writing she was training for the half marathon in Miami (January
2010) and the half in Ft. Lauderdale (February
2010). Lisee Goodykoontz Sherrill wrote
about a couple of competitions she completed
B4K (before kids!!): the San Diego Marathon
as a member of Team in Training and the Half
Ironman in Fort Walton Beach. Congratulations
to the following 2009 marathoners: Susan
Goodman, Chicago Marathon; and Susan
Morgan and Catie Rheutan Davis, Richmond
Marathon. Julie Konerding Padgett ran a
5K Turkey Trot and was the top woman in the
age 30-39 group. Julie’s daughter Anna is in
kindergarten at St. Catherine’s this year, which
brings back a lot of memories, Julie says! As
for your faithful correspondent, I ran the 2009
HCA Virginia 8K (which occurs in conjunction
with the Richmond Marathon) with my sister
Elizabeth Large Lee ’89. We placed 69 and 70
out of 467 runners in our age group. Please keep
your news coming!
’91
20th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Morgan Hardage Engel, 120
Kennondale Lane, Richmond, VA 23226
e-mail: morganengel@verizon.net
and
Maria Spalding Hadlow, 2339 Albion Place,
St. Louis, MO 63104
email: mariahadlow@yahoo.com
Editors’ Note: We regret that we inaccurately
and incompletely reported significant life events
for Francie Makris Toof in the fall 2009 issue.
Francie was married to Jackson Davis Toof on
October 23, 2004. They are the proud parents
of Jackson David Toof, Jr., “J.D,” born October
6, 2006 and Paul Makris Toof, born on April
16, 2008. Our apologies to Francie and family.
Greetings to all from Maria in St. Louis! In an
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effort to stay in the loop while living within view
of the Gateway Arch, I have taken over Alice
Gold Sharp’s former portion of the Class Notes,
and I am enjoying the chance to reconnect with
high school classmates. It seems that the Class of
’91 has experienced quite the baby boom in the
past year, as most of those who sent news were
reveling in the latest additions to their families.
Elizabeth Ross Fitzgerald and her husband
Rob haven’t let parenthood slow them down a
bit, as baby Vivian, who is “such a joy,” has traveled to “seven states in six months visiting family
and friends.” Several of those friends were former
classmates Morgan Hardage Engel, Melissa
Kennedy Whitley, Betsy Trible Reid,
Lane Hoofnagle Sanderson and Heather
Webb Miller. Another traveling mom, Laura
Underhill Norment, has been relishing life
as the mother of two after having a girl named
Alice Burton (affectionately called “Alice B.”) in
June. She reports that she spent a recent weekend
catching up with Katherine Moseley Cabot in
Atlanta while there judging a horse show. Laura’s
not the only North Carolinian to add to her
family; Duval Reams Fisher and her husband
Craig welcomed little Sanders in October, noting
“We are all doing well, and big sis Lilly is enjoying
her brother.” Mother of not two, but four children
(2, 4, 6, and 7 years old), Melissa Bannister
Shaia, reports that in addition to running her
crew all around town, she loves catching up with
Betsy Reid whenever she can. I, too, have enjoyed
staying in contact with Betsy and others via
Facebook—as well as chatting with Shannon Lee
Graff and Alice Sharp, my daughter’s godmothers, on a regular basis. Both are well and manage
to see each other frequently during Alice’s trips
to Virginia Beach. Thanks to those who sent me
messages for this, my first issue, as class correspondent. Please stay in touch--I know that my
fellow reporter Morgan would also love to hear
from you for the next Class Notes!
’92
Correspondent: Townshend Addison Fonville, 201
Santa Clara Drive, Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: townshenda@yahoo.com
It’s been another busy year for the class of 1992.
Liza Andrews Hause and her husband Jeff
live in Richmond with their children Wiley, 2,
Andrew, 4, and Brian, 6. Liza is enjoying motherhood while also teaching preschool part time
at St. Christopher’s in the Little Saints program.
Alison Monroe Martin ran the Richmond half
marathon in November. Her son Vake is almost
ten months old. She has begun to work in the
juvenile unit of her office. Tanner Smith is practicing law at LeClairRyan and was just on a victorious trial team. Laura Edge Kottkamp got a
1993 Classmates Lieko Earle, Ellen Chan and Karen Park
at Ellen’s wedding to Cali Tran on September 19, 2009.
Luke is the son of Taryn Davis Giroux ’93.
great new job with Dominion here in Richmond.
Andrea Fisher Erda has three young children
and is running the development committee for
the Junior Board of the Children's Museum in
addition to serving on St. C’s Richmond alumnae board. Vicky Arcos was in Richmond
over Halloween and caught up with Courtney
was Lieko Earle who agreed it was absolutely
beautiful and such fun to have two of her closest friends, Ellen and Claudia Vaughn, married in the same year. Lieko attended Claudia’s
Philadelphia wedding last March and had a blast
hanging out with Ellen, Alexandra SchmidtUllrich and Mignon Lawton Brockenbrough.
Claudia and husband Justin Hallman are quite
the musical couple. According to Lieko, both of
their bands played at the wedding. Lieko finished
her Ph.D. in 2008, and after a short postdoc stint
in astrophysics, decided to take her career in a
greener direction. She is now a research physicist
at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory,
working with the Department of Energy to
advance energy efficiency in homes. Dosty
Dewey Quarrier reports that life is wild at her
house but very fun with the addition of a third
baby girl. In the New Year she and her husband
are planning a trip to San Francisco, where they
lived prior to Charlotte, North Carolina. Margie
Ford Smith and her family love San Diego.
Christmas was especially enjoyable this year
now with twin boys, 3, and daughter, 5. She too
mentioned a trip to San Francisco in January
2010. Letitia Harris Amey stays busy with her
two busy growing boys. Katie Pickard will
soon complete her fourth year as a full-time
Youth Pastor for St. Mark's UMC in Daleville,
Virginia. Her professional world can range from
Video Game Olympic Lock-Ins to preaching on
Sunday mornings and she loves that! She and
her husband Phillip are enjoying parenthood
and quite entertained by 15-month-old Noah's
shenanigans. Katie keeps up with many St. C gals
on Facebook. She saw Lee Berkeley Shaw
’94 at a GREAT U2 concert in Charlottesville in
October. Taryn Davis Giroux’s cute Luke turned
1 in January. She, Marion Basto Stephens,
Margaret Frischkorn, and Townsend Duane
got together for dinner in November. They had
such fun catching up that they are trying to
do it the first Thursday of each month. Taryn,
Margaret, and Sarah Cutchins Ewing met
in December for dinner. They hope to include
St. Chris alumni in the future. Ciara Torres-
Allen Bender, Leslie Butrico Waff, Jean
Davenport Hershey and Megan McKinley
Clarkson. It sounds like they had a great time
reminiscing about the days at St. Catherine’s.
Megan has recently partnered with her husband
Tee in Virginia Fishing Adventures, a summer
day camp in Richmond. My husband David and
I still live in Richmond with our sons Daniel,
4, and David, 2. I work with Academic Medical
Centers and focus on supply chain management.
Keep the news coming!
’93
Correspondents: Page Boyette Curtin,
700 Oak Knoll Lane, Menlo Park, CA 94025
e-mail: pagebcurtin@gmail.com
and
Nell Pittman Sutlive, 951 Dean Drive, NW,
Atlanta, GA 30318
e-mail: npittman@alumni.wfu.edu
Thanks to everyone who e-mailed to share your
class news. Your correspondent Page recently
moved from Southern to Northern California
and was happily surprised to make several
St. Catherine’s connections right away in the
Menlo Park/Palo Alto area. In addition, I learned
through doing class notes that Ellen Chan and
Karen Park are living in the San Francisco area
as well. Ellen moved to San Francisco in July of
2009 and is doing an extra year of fellowship
in imaging within Pediatric Cardiology, the fellowship that she finished at UCLA. She often
sees Karen, who lives in Sunnyvale. Karen was
Ellen’s maid of honor at her September wedding
at Sooke Harbour House in British Columbia,
Canada. Ellen married a Bowdoin College
classmate, Cali Tran. Also at Ellen’s wedding
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Carter and Marshall are the sons of Michelle Barbour
Perry ’94.
Children of Laurin Merrick Armfield ’95 are Robert "Walker"
born October 14, 2009, and big sister Hatherley.
Spelliscy, who works at the Brennan Center
of the rovers that landed on Mars back in 2004 and
got stuck in the dirt back in May 2009. Free Spirit!
Anne Charity Hudley is about to be published...
stay tuned for our next issue to hear more of the
scoop. Christy Fairman had time to take a break
from her “swine” infested students at Fayetteville
Academy to remind us that she had successfully
defended her M.S. in Biology from William and
Mary in August 2009. Kudos! Your new correspondent is loving the life I live: barely controlled chaos
at home with Colin,18 months, who is a magnet
for head trauma, and Avery, 3, who loves to imitate
moves from So You Think You Can Dance; practicing
(practice makes perfect?) pediatrics in Lynchburg;
and trying to make this column as charming as a
Censations harmony. I’m hoping to inspire all of
you to write in. Share a milestone in your life with
the people who knew you when you were learning
cursive from Mrs. Rheutan, or just share a memory
(perhaps of the new Upper School English teacher
John Morgan from his middle school days?) Spill
some gold & white beans! Share the poodah!
for Justice at NYU School of Law, testified before
Congress in January regarding campaign reform.
’94
NEW CORRESPONDENT! Rachel Easterly Gagen,
1507 Langhorne Road, Lynchburg, VA 24503
e-mail: fortun8@comcast.net
and
Continuing as Correspondent: Julie Ann Raymer
Wash, 4106 Park Avenue, Richmond, VA 23221
e-mail: julieann.wash@webnext.net
The class of ’94 is keeping quiet. This is a big change
from the loud mouthed, confident class I knew
and loved for 13 years. I'm going to try hard not
to simply steal gossip from Facebook to post here.
I know you are all up to something out there,
and while I'd love to attribute this short column
to your distaste for bragging, I have a feeling it's
something else. Are you still in touch with all your
BFFs and don't need this column to catch up? We
could hijack this space to just reminisce instead…
Can you believe that it was 20 years ago that we
said, "Better off dead than Co-ed" to Gussie? I still
have my t-shirt with the bricks of Bacot crumbling.
You? Here are the few updates I have to share:
Michelle Barbour Perry and her husband John
added a little more testosterone to their house in
Williamsburg with baby Henry “Marshall” Perry
back in June. According to Michelle, he loves his
big brother Carter. More baby news from the West
Coast: Katheryn Shields Henspetter and her
husband Ryan Henspetter are delighted with their
baby boy Paul Haven Henspetter (and a little tired
too.) Traci Hickson is in Beijing (and many other
locations) saving this world (she's working for
Future Generations -- no really, that's the company
name.) Kim Lichtenberg is working on the next
planet over. She reports that she is "currently subsisting on a diet of coffee and Reese's Stix while trying to finish up my dissertation." But more exciting
than becoming a real fuddy duddy - she has been
involved in remotely controlling NASA's Spirit, one
’95
Correspondent: Sophie Milam, 1905 17th Street, NW,
Apt. B, Washington, DC 20009
e-mail: smilam@mindspring.com
Melissa Ball married Dan Allensworth in a
beautiful May wedding at her parents' farm in
Bruington, Virginia. Sophie Milam was the maid
of honor and Maria Ball '00 was a bridesmaid.
Sophie is in her fourth year at Bread for the World,
an anti-hunger advocacy organization. She spent
two weeks in Maine last summer vacationing and
renewing her sailing license, and fell in love with
the state. Van Scherer Ruffner reports her son
Emory Hamilton is "a pistol!" Still in Switzerland,
Mary Elizabeth McNeer McGrath, husband
Tom and daughter Sarah Margaret welcomed
Thomas Edmund, on September 7. Laurin
Merrick Armfield’s daughter Hatherley, 2, is
in preschool with Charlie Spraker, son of Kelly
Dalch Spraker. Laurin also sees a lot of Arpie
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Bride Melissa Ball Allensworth and her maid of honor
Sophie Milam are 1995 classmates.
Mary Elizabeth McNeer McGrath ’95 and husband Tom welcomed their second child, Thomas Edmund, in September.
Parker Starke (Hatherley's godmother) and
daughter Mary Mac (Laurin's goddaughter!) Ty
Lewis Perry and Schuyler live in Brooklyn with
their pug Hudson and son Samuel “Elliott,” who
arrived in October. Ty still works in PR. James
Thomas Preston Garrett arrived November 7 for
Charlotte McAfee Garrett and husband Clay.
Sarah Wayland Bell and husband Geoff spent
Thanksgiving in the hospital because Nathaniel
Richard (Nate) arrived November 25. The couple’s
pediatrician is none other than Rachel Easterly
Gagen ’94! Kayte Bauss Steinbock is enjoying being a mom of Max, 3, and Kuni,1. Ashley
DiYorio Slemp can't believe that her oldest,
Adriana, started kindergarten, and her baby,
Katherine, began preschool! Ashley says: "I don't
know how I am going to cope with the girls growing up so fast! Next time I write, one will be driving
and the other a teenager! AHH!" Ashley and a
friend started teaching dance in February to teach
their kids in a fun atmosphere and soon had 40
kids signed up. They’re now operating The Studio
in King George, Virginia, offering a variety of dance
and music classes. Ashley is excited to be bringing arts to the area: www.thestudiokg.com. Anne
Wilkins got her doctorate in physical therapy in
2007. In February 2009, she became an instructor
for Seal Team, an intense outdoor workout program run by a former seal. She’s been a member
for seven years and loves it! Khendra Peay spent
the last five years in Indiana for her residency and
two fellowships, one in child/adolescent psychiatry
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and another in autism and developmental disabilities. Khendra finished earlier this year and is
practicing child psychiatry with a focus on autism
in Hagerstown, Maryland, at BrookLane Health
Services. Work keeps her busy as she adjusts to
life back on the East Coast. Finally, big congrats to
Kelly James, who was selected by Richmond’s
Style Weekly magazine as one of the Top 40 under 40!!
’96
15th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Laura Spratley Birdsey, 301 E. 79th
Street, Apt. 16H, New York, NY 10075 e-mail: laura.spratley@gmail.com
and
Robyn Melzig, 1724 17th Street NW #26,
Washington, DC 20009
e-mail: robynmelzig@gmail.com
Emily Pastore Abell has moved from
Goochland back to Richmond. Wyatt is 7 and
Waverly is 6 months old. Another class of classmember, however, is still in Goochland: Lynne
Fogarty Rhode and her husband Bryan are
keeping busy out there with their 13-month-old
son Andrew, all their pets, and two horses. She
continues to practice environmental law and
enjoys it. She has been visiting with a lot of friends,
including going NYC to visit Victoria McMakin
Wei and to Chicago for Frank Thorn's wedding
(where there were many St. Chris attendees and
groomsmen.) She keeps in touch with Ann-Robin
Anthony, who is now living outside San Francisco.
Brett Robertson and his wife Heidi visited her a
couple weeks ago, and it was wonderful to see
them. Speaking of Victoria, she and her husband
Ben welcomed their first baby, Lorelai Grace Wei,
to the world in December 2008. She is still living
in Manhattan and loving it, but in June they will
be making a big move down to Durham, North
Carolina. They will be there for three years as Ben
completes his cardiothoracic surgery fellowship
at Duke. She reports, “We're really going to miss
New York, but we're also very excited about the
new adventures to be had in NC!” Sarah Arikian
Coe had some very exciting news that came in
right before deadline. She sings with The Dickens
Victorian Carollers, a professional company based
in New York, and this year they were invited to sing
at a private holiday party at The White House! The
day after The White House performance, she flew
to Florida to start rehearsals for Seven Brides For Seven
Brothers. She performed the role of Milly from midDecember through mid-February. She is looking
forward to escaping the nasty New York winter.
Rendall Harris finished the marathon again this
year with her best time yet. Congratulations! She
said it was tough but she made it through with
the help of Macon Hubard Clarkson who ran
the end with her. Mia Roop Massi is still living in
Charlotte working as an event planner. She traveled a lot this fall. Amelia Katherine is one now and
still her pride and joy. Katherine Peace Fleck
graduated from Bon Secours School of Nursing in
December. As for me, Laura Spratley Birdsey, I
had my entire family, including my sister Parker
Spratley Jones ’90 and her three children to
New York for a very tight Thanksgiving dinner in
my tiny apartment. I continue to work as a sales
rep for a lingerie company and of course enjoy
every day with my 1-year-old daughter. Don’t
forget to check the “For the Record” page for babies
and weddings in our class! And speaking of babies,
Louise Irwin Welch has braved multiple transAtlantic treks back and forth to the States from
London with her daughter Charlotte: once to San
Francisco for Thanksgiving with her in-laws, and
then to Richmond for the Christmas holidays and
to celebrate Charlotte's 3-month birthday! Louise
introduced her daughter to a number of classmates
over the holidays, many of whom made the midblizzard commute to a get-together hosted by
godmother Molly Starke. Louise and her mother
Dede Deane Irwin '68 headed down to Florida
to thaw out prior to flying back to London for
Charlotte's christening, where they were joined by
sister Elizabeth Irwin (2000) for the festivities.
’97
Correspondents: Ali Braswell
4008 B Brook Road, Richmond, VA 23227
e-mail: lioness037@comcast.net
and
Whitney Dunlap, 2408 White Pine Drive,
Durham, NC 27705
e-mail: whitney.dunlap@alumni.duke.edu
The class of 1997 had a busy fall and winter. We
have lots of new babies, as well as some other great
news. Your correspondent Whitney is still at Duke
working in Athletics as a special event planner. I
can’t believe I’ve been back on the east coast for a
year now! I was fortunate to catch up with Annie
Lewis in December while she was in Durham for
a meeting. Annie is living in New York, where she
works for Teach for America. Julia Royall is not
too far. She is still living in Raleigh, where she is a
teacher at Broughton High School. Julia teaches
French, as well as being a cadet teacher. Alice
Buchanan Scott wrote with some excellent news:
she was promoted to director of marketing and
member services at the Virginia Manufacturers
Association. She loves her new job, and has really
enjoyed her new career path. She also adopted a
second boxer puppy this year, so she has Oscar
who is almost 1 and Laila who is 1.5 years old. They
are such fun and keep her and Ashley very busy!
Holly Eberly checked in, and it was so great to
hear from her! Holly is in her second year of law
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Carter Tatem Read, the daughter of Tatem Webb Read ’97
and husband Morgan James Read, was born September
26, 2009.
school at the University of Richmond. She is currently working with the Williams, Mullen law firm
on pro-bono political asylum cases for gang-based
claims, for people from Guatemala, El Salvador and
Honduras. Tatem Webb Read wrote in from San
Francisco, where she lives with her husband and
their new baby. Tatem is still working for the same
art gallery, John Berggruen, and absolutely loves
being a mom. Darley Newman had an amazing
year with her production company and television
show. Here’s what she writes: “I am launching a
new business called Equitrekking Travel (official
launch in January), which offers some of the
world's best equestrian vacations. We've been riding horses with wonderful local people all over
the world for the past few years as we filmed for
Equitrekking's Emmy award winning PBS series.
We've picked our favorite locals with whom travelers can ride on equestrian vacations, so viewers
can experience these unique adventures, like riding and camping in the desert with the Bedouin in
Jordan, visiting beautiful estancias and riding with
the gauchos in Uruguay, exploring the beaches of
Southern Spain or saddling up at a working ranch
in New Mexico. The new website will be www.
equitrekkingtravel.com.” Sara Litchult Spring
and her husband Chris have a new daughter, and
Sara said that their 3-year-old son, Jackson, is
as excited about his new baby sister as they are.
Lauren Wagner Palagi also sent in the photo on
page 11 from last fall when she flew Secretary Gates
to Kosovo, Macedonia and Hungary. That is all of
the news for this edition. Ali and I hope to hear lots
of new developments for next time
’98
Correspondent: Laura Tripp Philips, 215 W. 95th
Street, Apt. 17 M, New York, NY 10025
e-mail: lauralouisetripp@gmail.com
Many of you wrote in to say that you were going
about life as usual and didn’t have any big news to
report, but wanted me to send a “hello!” to every-
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James Joseph is the son of Leila Haddad Abou-Assi ’98.
St. Catherine’s School was well represented at the Oct. 31, 2009, wedding of Lassiter Wall ’99 and Billy Stone (St. Chris ’97).
Aiden is the son of Sarah Gricus Marshall ’98.
Dyson is the son of Ashley Gordon Bawol ’99.
one. Sarah Gricus Marshall and her husband
welcomed their son Aidan Joshua Marshall last
February while they were living in Jerusalem.
Aidan was delivered early, so Sarah has been
living in Washington, DC, where he is seeing
specialists, but she and her family plan to head
back overseas for another assignment once Aidan
is healthy. She enjoyed time with Katherine
Durlacher (2001) when Katherine went to
Amman, Jordan, for language training, which
is where Sarah and her husband Scott were stationed. Katherine visited Sarah a lot, traveled to
Wadi Rum, and they went to the Dead Sea together. Kate Davenport and Sarah Redmond are
also in DC. Sarah started a new job at Georgetown
Day School and may be heading to Hawaii soon.
Kate is the director of the Green Business Green
Jobs Program at EcoVentures International. She is
continuing work in Bangladesh, Tanzania, Haiti,
and all over the U.S. She is in DC for now, but will
be heading west soon for a change of scenery.
Sarah Evans Hogeboom lives in Austin, Texas,
with her husband Peter. She is a senior account
supervisor in the corporate and public affairs
group at Edelman. Westbrook Johnson and
Rachel Hiner are both still living on the West
Coast. Westbrook is working for the Oregon
Judicial Department in Portland and Rachel
continues to work for her Sun Strides Foundation
both in the U.S. and on trips to Arusha, Tanzania.
As I write this, your correspondent is in the middle of coaching a gripping basketball season: my
boys team has been struggling a bit, but the girls
are undefeated so far, so we’ve been celebrating
while we can! Many thanks for the stories and for
staying in touch, even if just to say hello!
’99
Correspondent: Lindley Harding Stakem
219 Hartmans Mill Road, Charlottesville, VA 22902
e-mail: lindleyhs@gmail.com
Sarah White earned her M.A. in International
Affairs and is working in new media public
diplomacy at the State Department in DC. Katie
Logsdon moved back home to the Midwest in
September to a rude awakening: “after 10 years in
the mild climate of Asheville, North Carolina, forgot
how brutally cold winters are here." She has been
substitute teaching all school year with the hopes
of having a full time teaching position for fall 2010
somewhere in southern Illinois. Tamsin Garner
Harrington was selected for the Department of
Justice's Leadership Excellence and Achievement
Program. As part of the program, she is spending
January through May conducting legal reviews
of federal wiretap applications for department
agencies. After a Bahamas wedding in December,
Carter Worrell Dandridge and her husband
Austin are living in Charleston, South Carolina,
with their mutt Paddo. She’s still teaching apparatus
Pilates and working as a freelance writer. Isabelle
Heyward is still in San Diego, working as a graphic
designer for the Natural History Museum. Next
fall, she’ll start school to earn her M.A. in Exhibition
Design and Development. Molly Bennett Moran
and her new husband Mark are planning a delayed
honeymoon around a film they are producing;
they are hopeful the film makes it to a few festivals. Molly, travelling to film festivals sounds like
a great vacation to me! Your correspondent is still
in Charlottesville, waiting for the house to sell to
make the move to Richmond to be closer to fam42
Elizabeth Terrell Sexton ’99 married David Johnson on
June 27, 2009.
ily. Beth Sexton Johnson, who was married in
Lexington, KY, is now living in Indianapolis, IN
where she has started her own company called
Indy Photo Booths (indyphotobooths.com). She
will be expanding nationally under the name Fish
Face Photo Booths.
’00
Correspondents: Elizabeth Irwin, 6 East 1st Street,
Apt. 4B, New York, NY 10003
e-mail: esirwin@gmail.com
and
Grey Hardin Taylor, 18 Torrington Avenue,
Fletcher, NC 28732
e-mail: greytaylor@gmail.com
Kendall Heskett Axtell and husband are
enjoying South Florida with 16-month-old Ella
Kate. Ibbie Hedrick kicked off the new year
as events coordinator for Virginia Governorelect Bob McDonnell's Inaugural Committee.
Halfway through her M.B.A. at U of R, Meredith
Braymer is an associate VP in asset management
at Davenport & Company. Meredith had a March
class in Cordoba, Argentina! Stuart Landin is
a second year U of R law student. Elizabeth
Irwin and her aunt Eleanor Deane Bierbower
’75 spent holiday time with 4-month-old niece
Charlotte, visiting from London with parents Rolf
and Louise Irwin Welch ’96. Many classmates
enjoyed Catie Keiger’s holiday party, a test-run
for our 10th reunion party this spring! Jennifer
Abbott Temple is designing save-the-dates and
wedding invitations in Virginia Beach. In DC,
Elizabeth Terrell got a taste of production, pro-
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motion, outreach, and supply chain management
in her work on the documentary “Not Evil Just
Wrong.” Elizabeth is independently consulting in
the area, and hopes to join reason.tv as a Searle
Fellow. After serving as a Year Up business communications instructor, Camilla Wells is teaching
young adults from low-income communities
in DC and Baltimore how to build their professional/ technical skills. Camilla, her hubby and
puggle Leela have a new home in Falls Church.
Susy Pearce Shearer has applied to veterinary
school in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she
and hubby bought a house. Ann Robertson
Vaughters is a pediatrics resident at Baylor/Texas
Children's and can't wait ’til June 2011 when she
no longer has to spend nights in the hospital! She
and hubby Charlie volunteer with the March
Houston Livestock Show. Maria Ball is working
in events and marketing for Saks 5th Avenue’s
New York flagship store and waiting to be invited
to Elizabeth Irwin's Bowery apartment for
cocktails. Irwin is waiting for Maria to pass on
some discounts on jeans first. Irwin continues in
the project management office at D. E. Shaw & Co.,
reporting to the CFO and treasurer. Elizabeth
Clinard is working and auditioning in NYC, and
was an actor for standardized patient exams at
NYU Medical School, testing the students’ bedside
manner and exam skills last summer. Elizabeth
also recorded a sample demo of a song for a new
children's theatre show based on the Angelina
Ballerina books. Ashley Taylor is a second year
Ph.D. student in the Teaching of Social Studies
at Teachers College, Columbia University. She is
teaching a course this spring/summer and continues to love NYC! Leigh Bladergroen Glatt spent
the holidays in NYC with her in-laws, followed
by a vacation in Palm Beach. She’s also working
on a recently-created blog for healthy recipes and
nutritional info -- www.fromthismealforward.blogspot.
com. Katie Brinkley Persson started her Ph.D. in
urban planning at U Penn, while still working on
her vet degree. She’s aiming to combine the two
for expertise in design of animal enclosures. Katie
headed to Nairobi for a January meeting with the
UN on a habitat program, and to Rio in March for
another UN meeting.
’01
10th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Evan Garrison, 670 Wyndham
Woods Circle, Harrisonburg, VA 22801
e-mail: garrison.evan@gmail.com
and
Ida Trice, 2411 Wisconsin Avenue NW, #602,
Washington, DC 20007
e-mail: idatrice@gmail.com
It has been a busy year for the class of 2001
with lots of action in Richmond! Mary
Polly Marshall (2004) married Rawleigh Taylor on Oct.10, 2009.
Davenport Williams is busy running her
stationary/invitation business, Gibson Lane
Studio, which specializes in custom silhouettes.
Emily Valentine is also in Richmond, living on
Grove Avenue and working full time at CRT/
Tanaka, where she recently earned a promotion to account executive. Kathleen Gehring
is finishing her first year at UR Law (with her
fabulous classmate Alexis Martirosian) while
Sarah Lawson Breeden pursues her Master's
in Education at VCU. When it's time for a study
break they can head to Whole Foods where
Rachel Perlstein is the cheese monger. Also
living in Richmond are Kendall Priddy, Amy
Emerson Smith and Holly Dew Roper. 100
miles north, Blair Dunlap is working for a
marketing firm in D.C. while Kate McCormick
Dugger works in marketing for Marriott
Hotels. Natalie Martirosian is also in D.C.
working for Mayor Fenty. Your correspondent
Ida is still in D.C. and I have hopefully secured
my master's in nursing at Georgetown by the
time you read this! Out in California, Susanna
Taylor and Claire Williams are enjoying San
Francisco. Claire is currently pursuing her master’s in sustainable management at the Presidio
Graduate School. Even farther from home is
Katherine Durlacher in Ahmedabad, India,
where she works for the Centre of Microfinance.
Let her know if you are in the area! Keep the
news coming girls!
’02
Correspondents: Courtney Keriann Boone, 1101
Haxall Point, Unit 602, Richmond, VA 23219
e-mail: heykeriann@gmail.com
and
Margaret Norfleet, 278 Mott Street, Apt. 1C,
New York, NY 10012
e-mail: margaret.norfleet@gmail.com
Catherine Avery graduated from Georgetown
University in August with her master's degree
in corporate communications. She moved to
Nashville this fall to start a job in marketing.
Hunter Marth also started a new job at Vocus,
a PR software company, in business development. Bevin Lawson Irby and her husband
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Claiborne (St. Chris '01) traveled through Europe
for two months in the fall. They had many new
wonderful adventures, all while living out of a
backpack! Bevin is now teaching second grade in
Henrico and loving it. Congratulations to Kristin
Yancey Ash who was married to Robert Alan
Ash on September 4 in Noordhoek, South Africa,
near Cape Town. She is a civilian employee of
the USN. Bridesmaids in the May wedding of
Caroline Harmon Perry included Katherine
Boeve, Bevin Lawson Irby, Ali Brislin and
Margaret Norfleet. In October, Kate Gregory
Rawles’ bridesmaids included Keller Sutton,
Sara Bacon, Alice Worrell, Scottie Miller, and
Elaine Minor. Miranda Morgan was a reader at
the ceremony. Please keep in touch, class of 2002!
’03
Correspondents: Whitney Adams, 1410 North Scott
Street, #742, Arlington, VA 22209
e-mail: whitneycolvinadams@gmail.com
and
Vaughan Gallins, 2175 North State Highway 360,
Apt. 738, Grand Prairie, TX 75050-8701
e-mail: sheepyvg@aol.com
The class of 2003 is VERY quiet. Please send in
your news for the next issue. Meanwhile our
only news is that Jillian Thornton has moved to
Atlanta where she is working as an office manager
for a wine importer called Cape Wine Ventures.
’04
Correspondent: Carter Augustine, 8512 Rivermont
Drive, Richmond, VA 23229
e-mail: CPAugustine@CHVA.ORG
and
Mimi Kennedy, 3020 Belvedere Avenue,
Charlotte, NC 28205
e-mail: mimi.kennedy1@gmail.com
Lauren Queen is living in San Diego where
she has bought her first place. She has switched
careers and is now working for Booz Hamilton
consulting for the Navy. Mary Childs was
awarded a Watson Fellowship to do portraits and
is having a show of her works in Charlottesville.
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class
’05
Correspondents: Tyler Hetzer, 3000 Connecticut
Avenue, Apt. 133, Washington, D.C. 20008
email: vthetzer@gmail.com
and
Anne Porter, 3000 Connecticut Avenue, Apt. 133,
Washington, D.C. 20008
email: anneporter87@gmail.com
Susan Mahoney is living in Memphis and work-
ing at St. Mary's School. She is a Middle School
Spanish teacher, and Todd Love (remember MS
English) is her boss! Anne Flatin is teaching
English in a suburb outside of Lyon, France. She
loves being abroad. Alexandra Dahl is also living abroad in London, England, working for the
Enstar Group. She has been accepted into their
graduate training program. Lissie Cain, Kelly
Lawson, and Melanie Sullivan have ventured
to the lovely beach town of Charleston, South
Carolina. Although they aren’t living abroad, it
still sounds like a wonderful destination! Further
north along the east coast, many of our classmates have taken up residence in the city that
never sleeps, NYC! Mary Via is teaching middle
school religion at an all boys school on the lower
east side, after signing up with the Jesuit Volunteer
Corps for the year. Louise Bance, Walker
Robbins, Maria Burke, and Alison Crossen
are all happily employed and enjoying living in
their rather petite accommodations. Walker is
working for an event planning company, Creative
Edge Parties. Maria is working as a brand manager for Tory Burch, and Alison is working in
international sales at Vogue. Call them with any
fashion crises. Out on the west coast, you can find
Anna Svirsky working for a consulting firm in
San Francisco. Anna Wienckowski is living in
Nashville, Tennessee, and Lauren Snead and
Shelby Kingsley are living together in good old
Richmond. Rebecca Kasper, Tyler Hetzer and
Anne Porter have decided to settle down in our
Nation’s Capital. Rebecca is now working for the
finance department at the Democratic Senatorial
Campaign Committee, after having worked for
former Virginia gubernatorial candidate Creigh
Deeds. Anne is employed at Regus Group as a
Client Service Representative, and Tyler is working in the Development Office of St. Stephen’s &
St. Agnes School. Anne and Tyler have recently
adopted two kittens, Pierre and Ollie, who are
very cuddly and entertaining. Many of our classmates have decided to pursue higher education
after having graduated this past May. Elizabeth
Redford is getting her masters in special education at William &Mary. She is extremely busy
teaching full time during the day, and attending
night classes. Lucy Trice is in a graduate program
for speech pathology at the University of Virginia.
She plans to graduate in 2.5 years. Allie Ludeman
2008 classmates Lauren White, Kristine Rohrbaugh, Paula
Yust and Megan McEachin reconnected at the lunch for St.
Catherine’s and St. Christopher’s college sophomores, held
this year at St. Christopher’s.
is currently in her first year of the Master of Social
Work program at VCU and loving it. Francesca
Leigh is the proud mother of 17-month-old baby
boy, Carter Franklin Leigh. She is living and working in Richmond for Dominion Power corporate
security, and has recently been promoted to security analyst. She is an established artist, whose
photography has made its way to the Washington
mall, and a host of private shows in Harrisonburg
and Norfolk. Also in Richmond are Aubrey
Lawrence and Kate Chewning. Aubrey is a
field hockey coach at St. Catherine's with Warner
and Kate is working at BB&T. We hope to see
everyone at our 5-year reunion this spring!
’06
5th REUNION, APRIL 15-16, 2011
Correspondents: Janie Coleman, 17 Clarke Road,
Richmond, VA 23226
e-mail: jcoleman@uga.edu
and
Jennabeth Taliaferro, 1444 Tanglewood,
Abilene, TX 79605
e-mail: jbtaliaf@smu.edu
With graduation coming up this spring (gasp), it
only means one thing to us St. Catherine's girls:
our 5th year reunion is around the corner! Many
updates to follow with new locations, new jobs
(hopefully) and new beginnings.
’07
Correspondents: Charlotte Harvey,
832 Wren Road, Gastonia, NC 28056
email: charh@uga.edu
and
Margaret Shaia, 11413 Barrington Bridge Court,
Richmond, VA 23233
e-mail: margaret.shaia@villanova.edu
Stephanie Colpo spent fall 2009 at Regents
College in London and had the opportunity to
travel all over Europe, including Prague, Venice,
Paris, Barcelona and Dublin. Laura Roberts stud-
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In attendance at the annual college sophomore lunch
were Maggie Thomas, Janie Fitzgerald, Melinda
Carpenter, Taylor Whitworth, Carrington Croft and Upper
School Director Cathy McGehee.
ied in Florence and visited Stephanie in London.
Jane Burke spent fall 2009 studying in Chile and
travelling in South America. Back at NC State,
Jane is living in the same apartment building as
Margaret Fearing. Jane graduates this spring
and is looking to work at a development policy
think tank in South America. Studying abroad in
spring 2010 are Sarah Rozycki, studying at the
American Business School, and Eliza Blackwell
and Margaret Paul, studying in Florence, Italy.
Hannah Bagby is studying in Turks and Caicos,
and Morgan Leigh Furman is studying in Spain.
Courtney Brannan is studying in Aricca, Italy. In
November Courtney was initiated into the national
honor society of Kappa Omicron Nu at Auburn
University, where she is majoring in Interior
Design. She was also featured in the Auburn
online newspaper – www.thecornernews.com. Also at
Auburn, Blakeley Sisk is a journalism major and
photo editor for the Auburn Plainsman. Finally,
Alexandra Svirsky’s proud dad called to say that
she got intermediate honors at UVA.
’08
Correspondents: Caroline Kasper, Dennison
University, 7204 Slayter Union, Granville, OH 43023
e-mail: kasper_c@denison.edu
and
Andrea Williams, 941 Morton Street
Camden, NJ 08104
No news this time - Please send us some for the
next issue!
’09
Correspondents: Liz Carleton,
102 Penshurst Road, Richmond, VA 23221
email: ehc9pb@virginia.edu
and
Parks Daniel, 4106 Dover Road,
Richmond, VA 23221
email: fenderbender09@aol.com
Please send us your news!
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for the
Marriages
1946
1961
1962
Edith Sisson Hungerford to
Phillip Wilson Schiller
Ray Whitehead Kuhn to
Randy Grenier
Ellen Gordon Williams to
Dave Kympton
1987
1996
Clarke Anderson and Nick Osborne, a daughter,
Frances Georgiana
Emily Pastore and Jacob Abell, a son,
Waverly Cole
Daniella Katz and Michael White, a daughter,
Piper Alex
Anne Stokes and Brentley Bowman, a son,
Thomas Gray
1988
Katherine Peace and Jacob Fleck, a son,
Kellam Nichols
Kathleen Dew and Jeffrey Amling, a son,
Mercer Stewart
Sara Stone Veith Jenkins to
Melton Ernest Valentine III
1990
Elizabeth Tremaine Sauer to
David Bryan Moody
Lee Addison and Chadwick Lesley, a son,
Charles Dunham
Claudia Elizabeth Vaughan to
Justin Hallman
Aimee Norman and David Sheahan, a daughter,
Ella Grace
1995
Molly Anne Lee to
Jeffrey Michael Kaban
1991
1992
1993
1996
1998
Marian (Emmy) Elizabeth Miller to Burch Antley
Anna Carrington Alvarez to
Shreve Ariail
Mary Maxwell Bennett to
Mark Ryan Moran
Margaret Cade Jarvis to
Nestle Travis Grimes
Elizabeth Terrell Sexton to
David Johnson
2002
1999
Austin Lane and James Kane, a son,
James Edward
Victoria McMakin and Benjamin Wei,
a daughter, Lorelai Grace
Anne Palmore and Edward Witthoefft, a son,
Charles Russell
1997
Duval Reams and John Fisher, a son,
Sanders Holderness
Elizabeth Few and Montgomery Maguire,
a daughter, Marlowe Jean
Cary Jamieson and Andrew Miller, a son,
Gordon Jamieson
Laura Underhill and James Norment, a daughter,
Alice Burton
Katherine Gibson and Edward Beck, a son,
Gibson Catesby
Catherine McCoy and James Driscoll, a son,
Lee Braxton
Jennifer Smith and Andrew Hebrank, a son,
Samuel Reidy
Tatem Webb and Morgan Read, a daughter,
Carter Tatem
1993
Sara Litchult and Chris Spring, a daughter,
Charlie Rose
Margaret Dewey and Alexander Quarrier,
a daughter, Mckenzie Abbitt
1998
Susan Carter Worrell to
Austin Leland Dandridge
1994
Leila Haddad and Walid Abou-Assi, a son,
James Joseph
Kristin Grace Yancey to
Robert Alan Ash
Zelle Reams and John Dunn, a son,
John Haywood
Sarah Gricus and Scott Marshall, a son,
Aidan Joshua
Katheryn Shields and Ryan Henspetter, a son,
Paul Haven
1999
1995
Ashley Gordon and Mathew Bawol, a son,
Dyson Gordon
Sarah Wayland and Geoffrey Bell, a son,
Nathaniel Richard
2005
Births and
Adoptions
1980
MacLaren Scott and Randy Roch, a daughter,
Isla Elizabeth
Charlotte McAfee and William Garrett, a son,
James Thomas Preston
1985
Mary McNeer and Thomas McGrath, a son,
Thomas Edmund
Cathy Moore Boardman, a daughter,
Eleanor Moore
Tyler Lewis and Schuyler Perry, a son,
Samuel Elliott
Margaret King and Robert Murray, a
daughter, Daisy
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Francesca Leigh, a son, Carter Franklin
Memorials
1929 Elizabeth Vann Moore
1935
Anne Williams Williams
1938
Nancy Sweetser Flather
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Ellen Blackwell Meigs
Virginia Ivey Prest
Dorothy Cowardin Gibson
1939
Betty Lynn Emerick Dethlefs
1940
Weeks Kirkmyer Hill
1944
Frances Dear Dewey
1946 Douglas Dabney Watkinson
1948 Elizabeth Covington Irby
1951
Elizabeth McPherson
1958 Linda Byrd Powell
Alice Thorndike Usher
1966
Ann Dorsey Cottrell Bottomley
1977 Patricia Anne Nilan
1980
Beth Chichester Pressley
Board of Governors
Joseph A. Jennings
Faculty & Staff
Frances E. Brown
Condolences
Mary Moore Rowe ’30 on the death of her sister,
Elizabeth Vann Moore ’29.
Virginia White Brinton ’39 on the death of her
husband.
Marion Pearson Turner ’41 on the death of her
husband in August.
Margaret Gentry Yingling ’42 on the death of her
husband in October.
Anne Sweetser Ireland ’44 on the death of her
sister, Nancy Sweetser Flather ’38 who was the
mother of Susan Flather Sullivan ’62.
Dorothy Alsop Farmer ’45 on the death of her
husband who was the grandfather of Elaine
Farmer (2011) and Melissa Famer (2013).
Mary Beth Muhleman Chichester ’46 on the
death of her daughter, Beth Chichester Pressley
’80 who was the sister of Anne Chichester Lyle
’75 and Molly Chichester Welch ’77 and the
mother of Ellie Gumenick (2009) and Sarah
Gumenick (2011).
Mary King Gibbon Hallett ’46 on the death of
her husband who was the father of Jean Hallett
Covington ’70.
Gail Todd Walton ’74 and Joy Todd Calkins ’78
on the death of their father who was the grandfather of Joy Walton (2004).
Ann Fox Roome ’46 on the death of her husband
in September.
Beth Irby Beale ’76 and Emily Irby Grimes ’81
on the death of their mother who was the sister
of Anne Wilson Covington Thompson ’47 and
grandmother of Sarah Irby (2003), Thornton
Beale (2006) and Marshall Beale (2009).
Jane Bassett Spilman ’49 on the death of her husband who was the grandfather of Jane Spilman
(2012) and Campbell Spilman (2017).
Virginia Broaddus Glover ’51 on the death of her
husband in January
Betty Bonner Sams Steele ’51on the death of
her husband.
Marjorie Ruffin Cain ’53 on the death of her
mother in November.
Linda Chappell Hays ’54 on the death of her husband in October.
Betsy Cottrell Euwer ’61 on the death of her sister,
Ann Dorsey Cottrell Bottomley ’66.
Latane Jones Avery ’80 on the death of her father.
Madeline Hutcheson Mayhood ’80 on the death
of her mother.
Sandra Neal Dawson ’81 on the death of
her father.
Barbara Bissell Hallow ’83 on the death of
her mother.
Dorothy Long Kettle ’83 on the death of her
mother.
Sarah Kent Parrish ’61 on the death of her husband who was the father of Clair Parrish ’94.
Ashby Jennings Hatch ’84 on the death of her
father who was the grandfather of MacNair
Jennings (2013), Grace Jennings (2015) and Anne
Gamble Jennings (2020).
Kathryn Ingram Lyon ’62 on the death of
her father.
Catherine Powell ’89 on the death of her mother,
Linda Byrd Powell ’58.
Julia Moncure Boysen ’64, Janet Moncure ’67 and
Clair Moncure ’69 on the death of their mother
in January.
Ann Davila Elkin ’90 on the death of her mother
in January.
Marilyn Muhleman Rausch ’68 on the death of
her mother, Weeks Kirkmyer Hill ’40.
Bentley Gibson Keso ’91 and Katherine Gibson
Beck ’97 on the death of their grandmother
Dorothy Cowardin Gibson ’38.
Katherine Barger Conrad ’70 on the death of her
mother who is the grandmother of Anne Curran
Conrad ’98.
Mary Elizabeth McNeer McGrath ’95 on the
death of her father.
Bitsy Perry Marshall ’70 on the death of her
husband who was the father of Keith Marshall
Dillard ’96, Kate Marshall (2000) and Polly
Marshall Taylor (2004).
Dale Hargrove Alderman ’72 on the death of
her mother who is the grandmother of Oriana
Hargrove (2006), Sarah Hargrove (2009), and
Madeleine Alderman (2011).
Mary Ball Ellett Markow ’73, Elizabeth Ellett
Burgoyne ’75, and Martha Ellett ’77 on the death
of their father who was the grandfather of Anne
Maxwell Ellett (2012).
Deane Suter Begiebing ’74 on the death of her
father in August.
Teri Carnes Pruitt ’74 on the death of her father.
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Lucy Williams ’97 and Claire Williams (2001) on
the death of their grandfather.
Rebecca Habenicht (2000) and Ailsa
McCutcheon (2010) on the death of their grandmother.
Margaret Norfleet (2002) Lucille Crowley (2008)
and Anna Wells Crowley (2012) on the death of
their grandfather.
Elizabeth Spell (2003) and Molly Spell (2006) on
the death of their father.
Sara McDowell (2004) on the death of her
grandfather.
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