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Departments
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Celebrating Pearl S. Buck
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Special lecture honors the 100th anniversary of Buck’s 1914
graduation from R-MWC. COVER PHOTO: Pearl S. Buck.
President’s Perspective1
Surprise Opportunity
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Longest-serving Volunteer
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Association News: 14
Letters from the director and the president, Chapter Events
Features
Travel
Class Notes
In Memoriam Tribute Gifts Milestones
Alumnae Achievement Awards
Sharing Science
Kobra’s Dream What’s in a Name?
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Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College Alumnae and
Randolph College Alumni Bulletin
Special Contributors
DuQuan Little ’12
Jawed Nader
John Shupe Photography
Kevin Manguiob Photography
Parker Michels-Boyce Photography
Rick O’Neil Photography
Robert Sanders/UC Berkeley
Jessie Thompson
Online
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Director of Alumnae and Alumni
Heather Ayers Garnett ’86
Editor
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Director of College Relations,
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Writer
Bryan Gentry
Office of College Relations
Class Notes
Phebe Williamson Wescott ’78
Regional Events and Class
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President’s Perspective
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t is hard to believe that we have started the spring
semester and are already well into 2014! My first year
as president has been incredibly busy—but also extremely
fulfilling. Randolph is a special place, and I have enjoyed
getting to know our talented faculty, dedicated staff, and
interesting students. One of my favorite parts of the fall
semester, however, was my “road trip” to meet alumnae
and alumni.
In addition to several events locally, I was able to
spend a few weeks visiting alumnae and alumni chapters
all over the nation. I am looking forward to more of these
trips this spring. These events have given me a unique
opportunity to hear your stories about the College when
you attended as well as to share with you what campus life
is like now and answer your questions.
This communication and engagement are a vital part
of Randolph’s future. We have much to celebrate; our
enrollment is growing, giving is up, and the campus is
alive with energy. But we also have much work to do as we
prepare for the College’s continued growth. The liberal
arts are even more critical to this country’s future than
ever as generations of young people learn to adapt and
succeed in an ever-changing society. Randolph will play an
important role in this national conversation.
Our alumnae and alumni are a connection to our
past, but you are also a link to our future. Who better to
spread the word about this institution’s wonderful liberal
arts curriculum, its amazing faculty, or the opportunities
we afford to students than people who experienced
it themselves? Who better than classmates to help us
connect with alumnae and alumni who are not active?
Who better to financially support this great institution
than the women and men who benefited directly from the
generosity of others during their college careers?
We need you. We want you to be involved, to come
back to campus and meet our students and faculty. Take
a look at the amazing things happening behind the Red
Brick Wall and become a part of our future!
Vita abundantior!
Bradley W. Bateman
President
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We need you. We want
you to be involved, to
come back to campus
and meet our students
and faculty. Take a look
at the amazing things
happening behind the Red
Brick Wall and become a
part of our future!
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Life-long friends
Minor Mickel Shaw ’69 and
Jolley Bruce Christman ’69
receive College’s highest
alumnae honor, the
Alumnae Achievement Award
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hen Minor Mickel Shaw ’69 stopped dating her
high school sweetheart, her best friend Jolley Bruce
Christman ’69 was sure the breakup would not last. She
wagered they would eventually wed.
“They were so right for each other,” Jolley said recently.
“It was a little bit of wishful thinking because I wanted to
be friends with both of them my whole life, and it would be
easier if they were married.”
A few years later she collected on her bet and gave the
money to Minor and Hal as a wedding gift. Today, the
marriage and friendship are as strong as ever, and the two
women have shared many of life’s important moments
together.
One of those times came in September when
Randolph College honored Minor and Jolley with Alumnae
Achievement Awards for their years of service to their
communities.
Randolph College President Bradley W. Bateman
presented the award. “Minor and Jolley are a real-life example
of how the experiences gained at the College strengthen and
impact the friendships and bonds formed by our students,”
he said.
The friends grew up in Greenville, South Carolina,
where they knew many alumnae of Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College, including Jolley’s mother, Mamie Jolley
Bruce ’44. These associations prompted them to choose
R-MWC themselves.
Although Minor transferred to the University of North
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Jolley Bruce Christman ’69, left, was excited to learn that
Minor Mickel Shaw ’69, a life-long friend, would receive
an Alumnae Achievement Award along with her.
Carolina at Chapel Hill after two years, attending R-MWC
had a profound influence on her life. “It was the best of
both worlds to have those two years as my foundation in a
small liberal arts environment,” she said.
She particularly remembers classes by Philip Thayer,
a renowned former history professor. “Dr. Thayer
encouraged you to look at the big picture and then draw
your conclusions,” Minor said. “That really continues to
influence the way I think today.”
Just after college, Minor began working in the banking
industry, which eventually led to many opportunities
to volunteer at United Way organizations. Meanwhile,
Jolley studied urban education in graduate school. After
earning her doctorate, she co-founded Research For Action,
a nonprofit that aims to help policy makers educate
disadvantaged students.
Jolley served as a member of the College’s Board of
Trustees for 10 years, including four years as chair of the
Board. She considered her service a tribute to her mother.
“What made me decide to become a trustee was the
experience that my mom had at the College,” Jolley said. “I
wanted to honor her because the College shaped my mother
in a way that made her a really good mother.”
When Jolley first learned she would receive an Alumnae
Achievement Award, she was honored to be included among
the long list of other incredible women who have received
the award. It was not until the next day that she learned
that Minor would be recognized as well.
“That,” she said, “just made it that much more special.”
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Kacey Meaker ’08, a sixth year
doctoral student at the University of
California, Berkeley, teaches physics
undergraduate Mandy Huo how to
use an atomic force microscope.
Photo credit: Robert Sanders/UC Berkeley
Teaching inmates is just one way Kacey Meaker ’08 is giving back
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very week, Kacey Meaker ’08 heads through the security
checkpoint at San Quentin State Prison. She leaves her
cell phone behind, but hauls in tennis balls, electric circuit
kits, or math books.
As she conducts math and physics lessons with the
inmates, she almost forgets where she is. “I can’t really
forget because they’re wearing prison clothes, and guards are
walking around, but I don’t feel like I’m teaching in prison,”
she said. “They’re very interesting people. They want to learn,
and they want to get an education.”
Kacey, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California
at Berkeley, volunteers in a program that helps inmates earn
associates degrees. “It gives them hope that, when they get
out, they can make a difference and live better than they did
before,” she said.
It provides her a sense of satisfaction: helping others
learn about science—regardless of where they are—is natural
for Kacey. At Randolph, she helped start Science Day, which
has morphed into the annual four-day Science Festival. As a
senior, she led the construction of a human-sized hamster
wheel to teach about electricity.
“College was a very empowering experience,” Kacey said.
“I knew that if I wanted to do something, I could make it
happen.”
Even before college, Kacey exhibited talent in the sciences,
especially physics. She was on the U.S. Physics Team, a group
of the best high school physics students in the country. Once
she began studying at Randolph, she developed an interest
in research.
“Kacey is the ideal science student that is interested in
everything she learns,” said physics professor Peter Sheldon.
She shares that passion each summer when she works
with high school students who learn about research at
Berkeley. She also returns to Randolph to help students
continue the physics of roller coaster research she began as a
student with Sheldon.
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Tim Slesinger ’14 has worked with Kacey for two
summers on roller coaster research, in which they are using
smartphones and other devices with accelerometers to map
the physics of the ride. Last year, they also renovated the
hamster wheel that Kacey helped build during her senior
year.
Tim said working with Kacey has taught him not only
about science and research but also about determination
and problem solving. “She won’t take no for an answer,”
he said. “She knows there’s always more than one way to
accomplish things. It’s just a matter of finding the best
way.”
Kacey’s doctoral research has focused on graphene, a
material that could revolutionize solar cells and computer
chips if its properties can be harnessed and controlled.
“The work she is doing is cutting-edge,” Peter said. “Her
research has the potential to make an impact in the future
of technology.”
The possibilities of the graphene research make Kacey
bubble with excitement. She said there is a remote possibility
that it could result in the discovery of a room-temperature
superconductor, a breakthrough that has eluded scientists
for decades. Although the path to such a discovery is
unclear, she recalls the response she gives to students who
say they don’t know how to do something. “I tell them I
don’t know how to do it either,” she said. “If I knew how to
do it, it wouldn’t be research.”
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Kacey Meaker ’08 demonstrates
the use of a Van de Graaf
generator during the 2013
Randolph College Science Festival.
Kacey Meaker ’08 and Catherine
Khoo ’11 work with model rockets
during the 2013 Randolph College
Science Festival.
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obra Ahmadi Nader ’10 knew she was one of very few
Afghan women who could even think about attending
college, much less realize those dreams. As she saw for
herself the promise a good education provided, she made it a
personal mission to advocate for education for Afghanistan
women.
“She knew that as an educated person, she had the
responsibility to spread education to the others,” said her
husband, Jawed Nader. “She had a long-term vision about
what she wanted to achieve in her life and how she could
help others.”
Those dreams came to a tragic end in November 2012
when Kobra was killed in an automobile accident while
visiting family in Iran. “It was sad to see such a unique person
perish when we are in such need of her,” Jawed said.
“Both personally and socially, it was a great loss.”
Those who knew Kobra as a student at the College recall
her firm desire to learn all she could, befriend all she met,
and work for positive changes in Afghanistan. “She overcame
any hesitation or inadequacy she might have had because she
knew there was a greater good that she could do,” said Nancy
Goulde, Randolph’s coordinator of international student
services.
When Kobra was a child, her family fled to Iran to escape
civil war. Kobra witnessed discrimination while there, but
experiencing it after returning to her home country added
extra motivation for her to pursue an education and work for
social change.
Susan Lemly Sardina ’70 connected the College to the
Initiative to Educate Afghan Women (IEAW), which helped
Kobra come to Randolph. Susan and her husband, Michael,
often hosted Kobra on breaks from school and witnessed
her keen desire to learn. “She had an intellectual curiosity,”
Susan said. “She was curious about our faith and our politics.
She just wanted to learn.”
“She walked with grace,” Nancy added. “We should honor
her courage and determination to get an education and to
help others achieve some of the opportunities she was given.”
Jawed met Kobra in 2005, and they dated and
corresponded for six years as she attended the College. They
married in 2011, after which they enrolled in graduate school
at the University of Bristol.
Kobra’s death devastated Jawed, but it also motivated
him to continue working for the causes that meant so much
to his wife. Today, he directs an organization that administers
foreign aid to Afghanistan. Jawed and Susan coordinated
with a nonprofit to open the Kobra A. Nader Computer
Center in Bamian, Afghanistan, where women and girls can
learn how to access online educational resources.
Other remembrances include a prize for IEAW students
who return to Afghanistan, an award for international
students at the University of Bristol, and a need-based
scholarship at a small school in Kabul, Iran.
Jawed has been touched to see so many people want
to honor and remember Kobra. “They are helping Kobra’s
dream remain alive.”
Kobra’s Dream
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Lynn Hume Stuart ’60, who received an Alumnae
Achievement Award in 2012, is the namesake
of the College’s student publication suite, a gift
made in her honor by her husband, Bill Stuart.
Student publications suite honors Lynn Hume Stuart ’60
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suite of offices for student-run publications has been
named for an alumna who was a writer herself and a
longtime friend of the College.
The Lynn Hume Stuart ’60 Publications Suite on the
second floor of the Student Center provides dedicated
workspace for the operations of student publications,
including the student newspaper, The Sundial, and Hail, Muse!
Etc., an annual publication of poetry, prose, artwork, and
photography. The suite was given in memory of Lynn by her
husband, Bill Stuart, in recognition of Lynn’s philanthropy
and devotion to the College.
Lynn served the College in many ways, including as a
member of the Board of Trustees for 10 years. The College
honored her with an Alumnae Achievement Award in 2012,
just a few weeks before she passed away.
“She really loved to write, especially poetry, and she was
good at that,” Bill said. “When they dedicated the Student
Center, they said they still had some naming opportunities
left. Lynn has done a lot of things on campus and for the
College, but her name was not anywhere. I thought this
would be a perfect way to honor her.”
The publications suite is already enriching student life.
“Having a dedicated space for publications on campus is
important because it adds a sense of professionalism to the
attitudes of those students who work on the publications,”
said Grace Gardiner ’15.
“The space,” she said, “has made me feel as if the work I’m
doing on the paper or on the literary magazine matters and
thus motivates me to live up to that sense of professionalism
by publishing high-quality work.”
To find out how you can honor a special person, please contact the Development Office
at 877-769-2443 or see www.randolphcollege.edu/giving.
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uQuan Little ’12 got a surprising phone call in
September from the co-owner of Peridance, the New
York City studio where he works. “Do you want to dance on
Good Morning America tomorrow morning?” he said.
The morning news show was preparing a segment
featuring the band called Postmodern Jukebox. A producer
had made a last-minute decision to add dancers to the mix.
“Why me?” DuQuan asked. “You deserve it,” was
the reply.
Dance has long been a passion for DuQuan, who
first learned by memorizing choreography from music
videos. When he enrolled at Randolph College, his talent,
enthusiasm, and physical strength proved to be great
assets on stage, said Pam Risenhoover, the Charles A. Dana
Professor of Dance. “He was just a gift, like manna from
heaven, that we were not expecting,” she said.
“He has more talent than he’s aware of,” Pam added. “I
think he could have a very successful career in dance.”
DuQuan hardly slept the night before his debut on
Good Morning America. At 4 a.m., he met 29 other dancers
to carpool to the television studio. With no time for official
choreography, they practiced only once. A few hours later,
they danced live on national television. “We just decided
to have fun,” DuQuan said. After the show aired, he
received numerous calls, text messages, and Facebook posts
congratulating him on the performance.
Pam checked her e-mail that morning and found a
message from DuQuan sharing the news. While she missed
the live performance, she was able to watch a recording
online. A few weeks later, she was delighted to learn that
DuQuan’s Peridance connection secured him another
dance spot on Good Morning America. This time, the camera
zoomed in closer and captured his smile.
Although DuQuan was not on screen for long, Pam felt
the footage demonstrated his ability to succeed.
“On those morning shows, you only get a brief snippet
of time to do anything, so he didn’t get to show himself
off as a dancer much,” Pam said. “But the way he showed
himself off to me was that he knows how to make the right
connections and be in the right place at the right time.”
DuQuan Little ’12 waits with other
dancers in the green room before
appearing on Good Morning America.
2012 graduate dances his way on
Good Morning America–TWICE
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Anchee Min began Randolph College’s celebration
of Pearl S. Buck’s 100th graduation anniversary with
a lecture about the Nobel Prize-winning author,
who was a member of the Class of 1914.
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Special lecture honors the 100th
anniversary of Buck’s 1914
graduation from R-MWC
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nchee Min spent years getting to know Pearl S. Buck, a
member of the R-MWC Class of 1914. While preparing
to write the novel Pearl of China, she read Buck’s novels and
biographies, interviewed people who had known her in
China and America, and envisioned Buck’s life.
Visiting Buck’s alma mater in November allowed Min
to connect with yet another of Buck’s experiences. While
helping Randolph College kick off a celebration of the 100th
anniversary of Buck’s graduation, she also probed questions
about how the College had impacted one of her favorite role
models.
“I said yes to this invitation because I was very curious
about this college,” said Min. “I wanted to know what kind
of school had prepared and shaped Pearl Buck’s mind at the
critical thinking level and also at the global level.”
Buck, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize
for Literature, was a senior at Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College 100 years ago. Her life at the College provided a solid
foundation for her future work.
“I think the College was part of making Pearl Buck who
she turned out to be,” said Janet Mintzer, executive director
of Pearl S. Buck International, a nonprofit dedicated to
Buck’s humanitarian work. “It was a great opportunity for
her to flourish. That education helped her find her voice and
her pen.”
Buck was born in West Virginia while her parents were
on leave from missionary work. They returned to China a few
months later. Buck’s college years were her first extended stay
in the United States.
Her first year at R-MWC was fraught with culture shock,
loneliness, and a sense of not belonging. But as she embraced
her American heritage, she began to feel at home. According
to Nora Stirling’s biography, A Woman in Conflict, Buck
joined a sorority, participated in Evens-vs.-Odds traditions,
tutored in several subjects, edited and wrote for The Tattler,
and served as president of her junior class.
She flourished under a curriculum that focused heavily on
sciences, mathematics, Latin, and liberal arts disciplines.
“We were soundly taught and the curriculum carried no hint
that we were young women and not young men,” she wrote
in her autobiography My Several Worlds.
Buck began her professional writing career in China,
where she penned The Good Earth and won the Pulitzer Prize.
When she moved to the United States, she continued writing
and began humanitarian work.
“Because she faced discrimination as a child, she was
acutely aware of the devastation caused by discrimination,”
Mintzer said. “When she saw discrimination was accepted
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here, she was really outspoken about it.”
On Christmas Eve in 1948, a social worker brought her
an Indian-American infant who, like other biracial children,
was considered unadoptable. Buck created Welcome House,
an adoption program that found homes for biracial children.
She found a local family who adopted that boy, whom they
named David Yoder, and other children who needed homes.
The Yoder children were raised as Buck’s grandchildren.
David Yoder remembers Buck was devoted to giving them a
good life and never talked about her accomplishments. He
was surprised in high school when he found her name on
the spines of required books. “Then it dawned on me how
important a person she was,” he said in a recent interview.
“But I still saw her as my grandmother.”
Buck also launched Opportunity House, which provided
education to mixed-race children overseas. Julie Henning, a
standout student from the program in Korea, was invited to
live with Buck and be raised as her daughter. “She felt that
we were all God’s children,” Henning said.
In the 40 years since Buck’s death, Pearl S. Buck
International has moved forward with the author’s work
by continuing her adoption and education programs. The
College has also honored its connection with Buck in many
ways over the years.
In 1992, the College hosted a symposium marking the
100th anniversary of Buck’s birth. The symposium included
scholarly presentations about a variety of aspects of Buck’s
life and legacy.
“I’m amazed at the extraordinary breadth of her interests
and concerns,” said Elizabeth Lipscomb, a retired English
professor who helped organize the symposium. “She had
more to do than anyone else with America’s image of China.
She was a very strong voice for racial integration. She made
a huge difference with the way people in this country felt
about children with handicaps and disabilities.”
Buck’s literary legacy continues through frequent
re-printings of her novels, but also through the recent
rediscovery of a lost manuscript. Published in October 2013,
The Eternal Wonder tells the story of an incredibly intelligent
young man named Randolph Colfax who travels the world
striving to fulfill his insatiable desire to learn and know.
It may be impossible to know whether Buck named
the main character with her alma mater in mind, but the
journey of Randolph Colfax parallels the quest that Buck
once recommended to R-MWC graduates when she spoke at
the 1964 commencement.
“If you wish to live life to the full, continue to
read, continue to be curious and to want to know about
everything,” she said. “Let your imaginations soar as you will,
and you will reach no boundaries of the impossible.”
Anchee Min spoke to students from two creative
writing classes about life in China, her writing
process, and her admiration for Pearl S. Buck.
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Kenney Shropshire Roseberry ’44 looks
out over front campus during Alumnae
Leadership Council in September 2013.
Kenney Shropshire Roseberry ’44
celebrates 70th year as class secretary
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enney Shropshire Roseberry ’44 went to see a movie
with friends one Sunday during her sophomore year at
R-MWC. When they left, the world had changed.
“It was dusk, and the wind was swirling around, and we
just knew something had happened,” she said. “When we
got on the bus, we asked what was going on, and the driver
said, ‘Japan has bombed Pearl Harbor.’
“From then on, things were different,” she added.
After the United States entered World War II, the
lives of Kenney and her classmates were altered. Rations,
limited transportation opportunities, and the possibility
of boyfriends dying in battle caused them to form close
friendships with one another.
Kenney felt that deep bond and wanted to stay connected.
Now 90 years old, she has served as her class secretary for
nearly 70 years and holds the rank of the College’s longestserving volunteer. “It’s one way that I can give back to the
College that has given so much to me,” she said. “I can’t give
thousands of dollars, but I can be class secretary.”
Attending the College created many opportunities for
the Paris, Kentucky, native. She performed in the Greek Play,
danced, and served as a serenade leader. She also rose to
difficult academic challenges. After graduation, she returned
to her hometown and taught English for 35 years.
“Kenney influenced a lot of lives in her little town,” said
Muriel Zimmerman Casey ’53, a cousin of Kenney’s. “And
she sent a lot of people to R-MWC—including me.” (Seeing
Kenney’s enthusiasm for the College convinced Muriel and
her parents to visit the school.)
Kenney is also involved in her community in many ways.
She sings in her church choir, volunteers at a genealogy
library for the Daughters of the American Revolution, and
rings the Salvation Army bell each Christmas.
Kakkie Beasley McKenna ’44 has always enjoyed seeing
Kenney’s energy and enthusiasm, whether she was leading
a serenade, calling to gather class notes, or visiting over
lunch during Reunion. “She has a very outgoing, positive
personality,” Kakkie said. “She’s always trying to get
everybody to do the best they can and to participate fully.
She’s a very good model for that.”
Kakkie added, “If you see her, you want to do more,
because she does so much.”
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from the Director of Alumnae & Alumni and the President of the Association
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his Bulletin is full of good news
about the Association and the
College, so we have combined our two
letters to save space. President Bateman
met hundreds of alumnae and alumni
this fall and has wowed them wherever
he has gone with a clear vision of
where he wants to take the College,
how a Randolph education will serve
its graduates throughout their lives
(as ours served us), and what alumnae
and alumni can do to help. And yes,
the College always has and always will
need the enthusiastic support of its
alumnae and alumni. Attendance at
2013 Reunion was the largest since
2007, the entering class this fall was
the largest in 25 years, and 24 percent
of the solicitable alumnae and alumni
gave to the Annual Fund. It has taken
several years and lots of hard work to
get the College to where it is today, but
Randolph has what it takes to keep
getting better.
We both thank each of you for your
support—Randolph College would not
be in the fine shape it is in without the
continued support of its alumnae and
alumni. President Bateman has made
clear that the College needs us! Want
to know ways to help?
1) We know the kinds of students
who will be successful at Randolph
—complete
the
referral
form
(www.randolphcollege.edu/alumrefer)
and every student you refer is
guaranteed $1,500 off his or her
tuition every year in addition to other
scholarships.
2) Independent research, internships,
externships, and study abroad are
critical to student success. There are
many ways alumnae and alumni can
support these experiential learning
opportunities—volunteer
through
the Career Development Center,
w w w. r a n d o l p h c o l l e g e . e d u / c d c .
As you know, helping young people
become who they envision themselves
becoming is one of the most rewarding
things an adult can do.
3) Help us rebuild the Association
community—call your friends and
ask them to attend a chapter event,
a presidential introduction, and
Reunion. Reconnecting is one of the
best ways to ensure the Association
remains vibrant. Be sure to submit
class notes.
4) Give to the Annual Fund. Every gift
makes a difference:
www.randolphcollege.edu/giving
Supporting
the
College
community will be rewarding for the
students and we hope for you as well.
Sincerely,
Heather Ayers Garnett ’86
Director of Alumnae and Alumni
Karen Patterson ’73
Association President
REPORT OF THE TREASURER
ASSOCIATION FUNDS PROVIDED BY THE COLLEGE
Revenues:
Appropriation, Randolph College
$319,108
Total Revenue
319,108
Expenditures:
Alumnae and Alumni Admissions
Association Officers
Communications: Bulletin, Class Secretaries
Events: Leadership Council, Chapters, Reunion
Student Relations
Office of Alumnae and Alumni*
Total Expenditures
*includes staff salaries
15,674
2,748
38,444
15,907
983
245,350
319,108
ASSOCIATION SPECIAL FUNDS
Assets:
Cash$3,892
Investments37,746
Total Assets
41,638
Liabilities and Net Assets:
Accounts Payable
Unrestricted Net Assets
Total Liabilities and Net Assets
0.00
41,638
41,638
July 20–26, 2014
Join us for a long-awaited Summer Seminar in England! Here’s your
opportunity to spend a week in England with other Randolph-Macon
Woman’s College alumnae and Randolph College alumni, friends, and family.
You’ll enjoy preparatory lectures at Reading (and stay in 141 Whiteknights)
with an extended visit to York and its surroundings, with several day trips
included!
We will spend two days in Reading learning how the history of England has
left rich and fascinating traces that shape the country to this day. Then we will
travel to York to explore the inner city still circled by the old city walls, dating
from between the 1240s and the 1340s, dominated by the largest Gothic
cathedral north of the Alps, with streets dating back to Roman and Viking
times.
York has an unusually high concentration of medieval buildings with the
significant architectural style of the last centuries. Some of the churches trace
their origins back to the time of the Roman Emperor Constantine.
Starting as a Roman garrison town in AD 71 and becoming the capital of
the Lower Brittania in about AD 213, York was eventually raided and then
settled by the Vikings. Following the Norman Conquest in 1066, William the
Conqueror established two great fortresses in York; the remains of one still
stands. During the English Civil War, Charles I established his court there
for six months in 1642. In the 19th century, York was at the forefront of the
expanding railway industry and now houses the National Railway Museum.
Another—perhaps unlikely—major industry was confectionary; by 1908,
chocolate was the second largest employer in York after the railways, leading
some to point out that on certain days York literally smells of chocolate! This
is just a taste, so watch for further details about how to join this exciting tour!
For more information on this trip, please contact the Office of Alumnae and Alumni 434-947-8102.
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FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
CHAIR OF NOMINATING
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Alison Buckley ’91
Dixie Nash Sakolosky ’68
Megan Arnold ’06
Occupation: Associate vice president
for enrollment services, Howard
Community College, Columbia, MD
Association positions: AAR, class agent,
class reunion committee, class
secretary, chapter president, district
director, member-at-large, and filled an
unexpired term as representative to the
Board of Trustees
Occupation: Director of institutional
research and assistant to the president,
Randolph College (retired)
Association positions: Chapter president,
Reunion planning committee,
second vice president, class reunion
committee, and nominating
committee
Occupation: Process design/Greenville
operations sustainability lead,
Jacobs Engineering, Greenville, SC
Association positions:
Chapter president, AAR
Association Official Ballot
Ballots must be postmarked no later than April 30, 2014.
The slate of officers is listed below.
Association Board Nominees To vote for the entire slate, please check here
FIRST VICE PRESIDENT
Alison Buckley ’91 CHAIR OF NOMINATING Dixie Nash Sakolosky ’68
MEMBER-AT-LARGEDISTRICT DIRECTOR—3 Megan Arnold ’06
Diana Mitchell Smith ’77
DISTRICT DIRECTOR—1 Mrinalini Lhila ’99
DISTRICT DIRECTOR—6 Stephanie Pack ’90
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Alumna/Alumnus Signature
________________________________________________________________________________________
Name and Class Year (please print first, middle/maiden, last)
Only Official Ballots will be accepted. Only alumnae and alumni may vote, and only one vote will be counted.
MAIL: Please mark and mail your Official Ballot to 2500 Rivermont Ave, Lynchburg, VA 24503-1526
ELECTRONIC BALLOT:
www.surveymonkey.com/s/AssociationSlateofOfficers2014 or FAX: 434-947-8282
Your signature, name, and class year are required for this ballot to be valid. If this ballot is signed, but no direction is given, the ballot will indicate
approval of the slate as presented.
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DISTRICT DIRECTOR—1
DISTRICT DIRECTOR—3
DISTRICT DIRECTOR—6
Mrinalini Lhila ’99
Diana Mitchell Smith ’77
Stephanie Pack ’90
Occupation: Vice president,
StepStone Group, New York, NY
Association positions: Chapter president,
class agent, volunteer class reunion
committee, Reunion planning
Current occupation: Community
volunteer
Past occupations: Corporate training
and development, nonprofit arts
management, alumni relations
Association positions: AAR, class reunion
committee, class secretary, and chapter
president
Occupation: Minister, Faith to Faith
International, Columbus, OH
Association positions: Class secretary,
AAR, chair of AARs
Nominations for Association Officers
Please nominate alumnae and alumni to fill the following positions:
•All terms are three years, beginning July 1, 2015
through June 30, 2018
•Self-nominations are encouraged
President: Conducts all meetings of the Board of Directors
and Executive Committee, serves as a voting member of the
Board of Trustees, presides at the annual business meeting
and serves ex-officio on the Association Board of Directors
for one year following the term.
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District Directors: District Directors are responsible for
assisting chapters and contacts and for promoting activities
within their geographical areas. They attend Association
Board of Directors meetings.
District 4 (Virginia)
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District 7 (FL, GA)
Secretary: Records minutes of the Association Annual
Business Meeting and Association Board of Directors
meetings, serves on the committee to review Board of
Directors’ manual once during term.
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District 8 (AL, AR, LA, MS)
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Member-at-Large: Provides leadership for special projects
designated by the Board of Directors.
District 9 (KS, OK, TX)
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All attendees during Bateman introductions are listed alphabetically.
Atlanta
Austin
Phil and Kathryn Holly Alvelda ’67, Alice Hilseweck Ball ’61, Linton and June Rowan Bishop ’48,
Frederick and Elizabeth Metz Bliss ’66, Mary Martin Davis Bowen ’57, Linda Kvam Boyte ’69,
Lydia Miller, Janice and Anne Elisabeth Braselton ’87, Bryan Bell and Katelyn Bulluck ’10, Carolyn
Caldwell ’95, Merrell and Connie Anderson Calhoun ’57, Jon and Chris de Vries Carlsten ’69,
Hannah Coleman ’13, David and Jane Farrar Cranshaw ’73, Peter and Sally Abrams Dean ’70,
Barbara Faulkner Frolik ’68, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Chesley Schultheis Garrett ’71, Lance
Waller, Jud and Kathryn Heath Graves ’76, Georgia Grove ’76, Marsha Shockley and Jane Brahany
Hardesty’43, Elizabeth Heath Hershey ’80, Tom and Jennie McClellan Hyman ’70, Becky Jarvis
’65, Lynne Coppage Land ’60, Gayle Gragg and Perk Perkinson Lawrence ’40, Hannah Lutrey
’10, John Kelley and Liz Gaultney McClure ’63, Marilyn Messerly ’59, Becky Clarke Morrison ’79,
Katherine Lester Mostellar ’57, Caroline Noyes ’86, J. R. and. Ann Coogler Persons ’71, Rebecca
Smith Plyler ’00, William and Lucia Fairlie Pulgram ’46, John and Mary Alice Potts Rhodes
’66, Ellen Helm Sacchi ’91, Roger and MaryEarle Nock Scovil ’52, Miranda Smith ’07, David
and Beverly Cox Suever ’78, William and Liz Starr Towles ’53, Jack Taffel and Mary Rindsberg
Zwiren ’53
Jim and June Bivins Baumoel ’77, Andy and Elizabeth Lacefield Buchholz ’88, Mary Anne Thames
Clement ’81, Jennifer Smith Dollins ’88, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Daniel and Martha McKay
Jones ’58, Becky Baltzer McCarthy ’62, Andrea Prestridge ’84, Sara Saltmarsh ’78, Elizabeth
McGreevy Seiler ’87, Greg and Kathy Bowden Shields ’70, Olivia Vescovo ’12, Emma Vescovo ’13,
Leslye Baltzer Wakefield ’59, Jodi Boston Zipp ’79
Chattanooga
No photo available, unfortunately, but President Bateman met the following alumnae and
friends: Kitty Stark Caldwell ’74, Anne Willett Curran ’82, Mary Bashie Steele Evans ’40, Helen
McDonald Exum ’47, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Sarah Thompson Gilman ’40, Barbara Seals,
Lynn Hodge ’68, Margaret Jones, Sally Stevens Luck ’53, Catherine Dudley Martin ’96, Mary
Cannon Quick ’48
Columbia
Dallas
Margaret Baxley Chew ’56, Ann Claiborne Pope Christian ’60, Annette Jones Conner ’63, Ella
Averyt DuBose ’54, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Sarah Morris Gavin ’71, Susan Heath ’79, Jennifer
Ey Lott ’83, Mary Parramore McCants ’83, Penny McPeak ’10, Jennie Holmes Morris ’70, Connie
Shaner Parramore ’56, Karen Patterson ’73, Dot Averyt Poston ’58, Amelia Furr Ruple ’85, Debra
Patterson, Bea McElyea Webb ’84
Ann Beatty ’74, Trixie Beall Carlock ’72, Robert and Sandra Garland Cecil ’64, Ben and Barbara
Weddington Cervin ’64, Liz Colton ’67, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Margot Holt Gill ’52,
Priscilla Davis Gravely ’63, Nikki Longford ’84, Martha MacLeod ’76, Ann Sharpe Mason ’54,
Emily Gill Mills ’79, Elizabeth Trevino Mosesman ’83, Beth Perry Mouritsen ’54, Cheryl Usry
’89, Mary Griffith Wallace ’68, Regan and Kathleen Sheppard Wallace ’86, and Mary Milam
Whiteside-Lee ’65
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Greenville
Houston
Megan Arnold ’06, Carver Almand Farrar ’55, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Norma Halmagyi
Hanson ’58, Tom and Jane Bosman Hatley ’75, Virginia Atkinson Hein ’55, Alina Herron ’12,
Dorothy Atkinson Hudson ’57, Ann Sanders Jennings ’88, Margie Roberts Johnson ’59, Ann Kelly
’57, Allan and Anne George Kime ’58, Olive Worth McCord ’56, Eugenia Bryant McGowan ’57,
Lesley Moore ’81, Carl and Allison Gulick Muller ’71, Susan Diuguid Neff ’61, Jane Patrick ’69,
Mary Anne Berg Richardson ’72, Minor Mickel Shaw ’69, Vicky Proctor Turgeon ’93
Susan Abbasi ’06, Chuck and Linda Hackney Alexander ’65, Thawda Aung ’13, Bill and Marion
Linder Calvert ’55, Paige Patterson Clarke ’87, Charles and Mary Kathryn Hastings Cooper
’81, George Helland and Antonia Scott Day ’58, Isabelle Dom ’12, Jennifer Madeley Dunn
’97, Katherine Flansburg ’03, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Anne Lawhon Harrington ’58, Eileen
Miggins Hohlt ’78, Mikel Grady Jones ’04, Sultana Kaldis ’70, Virginia Winn Kisalus ’83, Kira
Lenhart ’06, Gene Mason, Rhita Bailey McNair ’55, JohnDel and Wendy Steele Mixon ’86, Joel
and Carol Simpson Mohrman ’77, Ana Morales ’11, Tom and Sally Maier Rowe ’67, Allyson
Saunders ’95, Anthony Long Startz ’77, Ed Gomez and Denise Trevino-Gomez ’85, Anne Tucker
’67, Charlotte Whatley ’06, Leslie Johnson Yoo ’95
Lynchburg - Redmond Home
Dolly Stover Cardwell ’58, Dick and Sandra Sims Carrington ’53,
Muriel Zimmerman Casey ’53, Lamar and Geri Long Cecil ’68,
Joe and Elinor Ann Clayton Clark ’87, Terrie Conrad ’97, Ted and
Sallie Gurkin Craddock ’69, Laura Bullock Crumbley ’72, Marge
Corlett Dillard ’48, Alex and Adgie Williams Dirom ’57, Gene and
Barbara Sullivan Dixon ’67, John and Gretchen Pasternack Evans,
Jim and Marion Love Farmer ’61, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86,
Clara Bell Gurkin ’40, Earl and Mary Brewer Guthrow ’65, Stuart
and Marie Woody Harris ’57, Billy and Archer Gurkin Hunt ’70,
Tappy Lynn, Bill and Annie Robertson Massie ’52, Tom and Elna
Ann Wilson Mayo ’56, Bob and Julia Read Morrison ’68, Frank
and Gail Johnson Morrison ’72, Jim and Ann Morton DeMuth
Neale ’65, Lorraine Blanks Potter ’75, Dana Davidson Redmond
’60, Elias and Ann Verbeke Richards ’58, Betty Clark Roberts ’46,
Helene Parish Schewel ’47, Janet Rawls Strimaitis ’72, Roger
and Katie Hill Vaden ’72, Hans and Ann Rushby Van de Graaf
’74, Bob and Sally Boswell Ware ’68, Frank and Harriet Jones
Whitten ’59
Lynchburg - Westminster Canterbury
Don and Diana Anderson, Laura Beatty Anthony ’87, Laura
Bliss, Muriel Zimmerman Casey ’53, Elinor Clayton Clark ’87,
Laura Bullock Crumbley ’72, Mary Sweeney Ellett ’50, Margot
Frank, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Norvell Thomson, Clay
Thomsom and Clara Bell Gurkin ’40, Betty Jo Hanna Harper ’50,
Carla Heath, Charlotte Fischer and Bets Chapman Hooss ’54,
Margaret Banks Kehrer ’43, Skip Kughn, Britt LeCompte, Lloyd
and Elizabeth Lipscomb, Robert Lloyd, Lorraine Blanks Potter
’75, Fumiko Radile, Betty Wyckoff Shotton ’60, Elaine Dahl St.
Vincent, Evelyn Price Taylor ’47, Ann Rushby Van de Graaf ’74,
Ann Jarvis Vest ’61, Phebe Williamson Wescott ’78, Harriet Jones
Whitten ’59, Marjorie Giffen Wilson ’49
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Lynchburg - Michels Plaza
Richmond
Jennifer Godley Brestel ’93, Maryam Brown ’02, Marian Johann Craighill ’80, Katherine Keeling
Dorman ’04, Paddy Dougherty ’90, Betsy Kooc Du ’94, Allison Kughn Ebert ’93, Heather Ayers
Garnett ’86, Catherine Godley ’13, Kathy Seifert Graves ’80, Randy Howard, Catherine Khoo ’11,
Ludo Lemaitre ’11, Karen Lisle ’82, Downs and Mary Margaret Payne Little ’84, Robert Lloyd,
Celia Lloyd ’83, Ruth Hebert Maragni ’80, Pattie Wilson Martin ’87, Katherine Sabalis Miles ’98,
Andi Miller ’08, Kim Steinhorst and Genevieve Neale ’93, Lily Noguchi ’13, Chuck and Kathryn
Taylor Overstreet ’84, Dean and Katie Stewart Page ’08, Lorraine Blanks Potter ’75, Jeannie
Plybon, Danielle Robinson ’12, Amanda Sandos ’08, Peter and Kim Sheldon, James and Teresa
Witt Stanley ’88, Marian van Noppen ’12, Bill and Phebe Williamson Wescott ’78
Frances Gayle Allen’49, Marion and Betty Taylor Allen ’52, Virginia Richardson Anderson ’50,
Aneliese Apala ’11, Michael and Harriett Bohm Armstrong ’60, Richard and Margaret Keyes
Beckstoffer ’86, Mary Schrensky Boese ’80, Jenni Booker ’97, Debbie Randall Bowie ’77, David
and Kirsten Berglund Bradley ’69, Marjorie Hilliard Browder ’47, Matthew and Erin Dexter
Buikema ’97, Mary Burgess ’97, Diana Andanut Burkett ’05, Joanie Burroughs ’08, Christopher
and Elizabeth Carter Oliver ’05, Barbara Page Chavatel ’57, Cabell and Marion Smith Chenault
’66, Dorothy Chew Clark ’86, Margaret Irby Clement ’76, Sarah Bain Day ’49, Meg Barrett
Deacon ’80, Jim and Mary Lou Heindl Doherty ’57, B.J. Dyer Durrill ’62, Catey Field ’11, Ed
and Martha Weisiger Fraher ’58, Sarah Gray Gantt ’41, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Virginia
Chalkley Gill ’96, Afreen Yusuf Gootee ’87, Bruce and Nancy Hays Gottwald ’55, Otto and
Linda Bradshaw Gragnani ’70, Nancy McCutcheon Habenicht ’66, Susan Davis Haggerty ’69,
Sara Scott Hargrove ’55, Ashley Haugh ’10, Jim and Kim Wornom Hicks ’90, Will and Ruth
Johns Hill ’51, Brian Sutton and Megan Hodge ’04, Courtney Gill Hodges ’02, George and
Kathie Matthews Hoffmann ’73, Linsey Holmes ’07, Gary and Lucy Williams Hooper ’73, Susan
Addington Hutcheson ’62, Elizabeth Hazelwood Jamerson ’86, Tamara Jamerson ’95, O.H. and
Ruth Gibbs Jones ’58, Harriette Thorne Kent ’46, Tish Deans Keppel ’47, Lydia Kirchner ’11, Heyn
and Sandra Hicks Kjerulf ’65, Pam Spence and Susan Knight ’70, Warren and Win Sykes Koontz
’57, Thomas Brandon and Shastan Kuschke ’06, Bobbie LaFleur ’10, Sheri Coombs Lambert ’94,
Emma Marchant Martin ’59, Kim McCanna ’90, Jim and Barbara Niedland McCarthy ’73, Ann
McClung ’73, Lucy Boswell Negus ’59, Joseph and Anne Tyler Netick ’55, Neil and Sara Belle
Slusky November ’48, Sherryll Baker Pace ’80, Lucy Turpin Phillips ’52, Carter Smith Pollard ’56,
Watson and Hermena Wait Powell ’48, Laurie and Barbara Shrewsbury Rennie ’52, Bob and
Nancy Meintzer Rice ’55, Susan Fitchett Robertson ’83, Prescott and Jane Fenlon Rowe ’62,
Charlie and Betty Rudasill, Corbin Brierre Ryland ’05, Patty Sclater ’73, Harriet Wyche Scott
’57, Susan Barr and Jean Gosselink Shane ’72, Bernard and Sue Flythe Siddons ’55, Jayne Sneed
’76, Kristin Spinner ’11, Olivia Travis ’10, Jill Ellis Traywick ’81, Rose Wallace Tucker ’49, Joe and
Alice Steele Viverette ’48, Linda Duke Weistroffer ’71, Virginia Harman White ’39, Mary Flowers
White ’58, Fran Zollinger White ’58, Jean Hargroves White ’69, Jacqueline Curtis Whitmore ’47,
Erwin and Harriette Moskowitz Will ’64, Ward and Kathy Graham Wood ’74, Libba Robertson
Wynne ’84, Jackie Young ’07
Roanoke
Marilyn Moore Boardman ’51, Virginia Sweet Bondurant ’41, Lucas Brady ’11, Christina Budd
’13, Gail Burruss ’76, Hoye Nase Duckworth ’73, Frank and Lucy Russell Ellett ’61, Kathleen
Fort ’10, Heather Ayers Garnett ’86, Rand and Jan Butler Garrett ’70, Mary Newsom Green ’60,
Emily Blake Hill ’43, Richard and Frances Baldwin Hodges ’66, Tamara Jamerson ’95, Barbara
Hagan Johnson ’73, Bill and Barbara Boyle Lemon ’57, Stephen and Patty Haas Lemon ’82,
Sarah Lemon Ludwig ’82, Robert and Clare Newman ’59, Lee Nutter ’13, Rebecca Perdue ’64,
Courtney Carter Plaster ’92, June Plunkett Poe ’47, Lib Caldwell Robinson ’52, Karl Speer ’12,
Ann Bondurant Trinkle ’83, Lori Vaught ’81, Steve and Rebecca Tanner Williams ’86, Emily Abbitt
Woodrum ’61
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Chapter Events
Boston
New York
Left to right: Mary Gardill ’79, Jini Vockel ’63, Lucy Robertson O’Mara ’61, Brooke Roberson
Cushman ’92 and Suzanne Connolly guest speaker (Not pictured-Anne McBride ’78)
Anne Wilkes Tucker ’67 lead a War/Photography Exhibit tour at the Brooklyn Museum last fall.
Top and middle rows, left to right: Weiqin Bao ’05, Kristina Krsteva ’05, Mrinalini Lhila ’99, Ginny
(interim president), Anne Tucker ’67 (curator), Ginger Hill Worden ’69, Lien Pham ’13, Karen
Thoreson Schlesinger ’63, Millie Symns ’13, Sally King Hall ’73, Ted Hall, Alicia Herr Jensen ’92,
Lorena Kern ’72, Melissa Lewis Bernstein ’69, Lisa Skrabek Koonce ’95, Susan Vann Galluzzo ’68,
and her husband. Bottom row: Jessica Miller ’99, Elizabeth “Sissi” Loftin ’67, Patricia McCallScott ’82, Michelle Lodge ’74
Washington, D.C. (Tours of War/Photography Exhibit)
Seated: Susan “Sooty” Severn Schearer ’67, Susan Woodley Raines ’67, Gay Lamb Pasley ’67, Betty
Morgan Sanders ’65, Susan Bower Carter ’59, Anne Douglas Kohn ’67 Standing: Mimi Carter ’88,
Leighton Haley Cumming ’67, Nellie Pat Clements Landrum ’67, Jeremy Solt, Alexandra Knoppel
’10, Sara Delano Kelly ’67, Becky Todd Robinson ’67, Mike Trammell ’67, Anne Tucker ’67, Bill Stuart
Seated: Liz Colton ’67, Nancy Price Peterson ’65, Mimi Keever ’67, Susan Lewis ’67 Standing:
Embry Martin Howell ’67, Ruth Blackwell Rogers ’67, Marjorie Meacham Brague ’67, Leighton
Clarke Krips ’78, Judy Turner Fisher ’68, Anne Tucker ’67, Anne Betts Allen ’67, Julia Dorsey Reed
Loomis ’67, Page Hynes Sullenberger ’67, Arielle Orem ’11, Kathy Hilley Ewing ’69
London
Madison
Friends met last May to enjoy the George Bellows exhibition at the Royal Academy in London,
followed by lunch. Seated: Ginny Whitesel Meyer ’63 Standing: Marsha Blakeslee Brierley ’05,
Elizabeth Cole Schlackman ’03, Jane Mylander Wainwright ’63
An alumnae gathering in Madison, WI, last August. Pictured left to right are Rachael Sullivan ’04,
Kathleen Conti ’11, Mary Gallagher ’70, Susanne Galler ’91. Not pictured: Sally Miley ’68
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In Memoriam
Amy Blakeslee Kuenzi
Office of Alumnae and Alumni
Amy was known for her welcoming, lively, and loving
personality. She was employed by the College for eight years
and in the Office of Alumnae and Alumni for four of those
years. Amy was a lover of the arts and enjoyed photography,
painting, and working with stained glass. She was also an
active member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Amy died on August 5, 2013, after a courageous battle with
cancer. Amy’s daughter-in-law, Tiffany Paonessa Kuenzi, is a
2009 graduate of the College.
Dot Swain Lewis ’36
Alumnae Achievement Award recipient
Artist, teacher, horsewoman, pilot, instructor, WASP,
illustrator, sculptor, mentor, guitar player, singer, gardener,
house builder; the list goes on and on. Dorothy “Dot” Swain
Lewis grew up in Asheville, North Carolina, and followed
her dream as an artist. She learned to fly and trained Navy
Cadets before becoming an instructor for the WASP (Women
Airforce Service Pilots). After graduating from R-MWC in
1936, she later joined the Women Airforce Service Pilots
WWII, graduating in 1944. She had horses, an airplane,
a ranch; was an FAA designated private and commercial
examiner, flight instructor, and she played a “mean” guitar;
but her first love was art, which she taught for 26 years. Dot
lived a lifetime of extraordinary accomplishment; yes, truly
Vita abundantior! She died on September 9, 2013.
Juanita Chaffin Mayberry
Admissions staff member—47 years of service
As stated by Bert Hudnall, former director of
R-MWC admissions, “For almost 50 years, Juanita was
the indispensable major domo of the admissions office. As
admissions officers came and went over the years, Juanita
was the constant, the glue. She was the person with the
history. She knew generations of students and was always
able to provide information that helped to enhance our
efforts at personalizing our contacts with prospective
students, their school counselors, and alumnae. It was not
unusual for a counselor in Mobile or Pittsburgh or Paducah
or Waco to ask an R-MWC admissions representative visiting
in those cities, ‘How’s Juanita?’ Juanita’s name appeared in
ink at the bottom of every single personally-typed letter of
acknowledgement of recommendations and transcripts, and
her voice was often the first they heard when they called the
College. These counselors didn’t know Juanita personally,
but they knew we were able to do our jobs better in the field
because of what she was doing in the office.” Juanita died
Sunday, August 4, 2013, at the age of 80.
Bert Hudnall’s tribute to Juanita can be read in its
entirety at http://bulletin.randolphcollege.edu/2013/08/atribute-to-juanita-mayberry
Dorothy Crandall Bliss
Professor of biology, emerita
Dorothy Bliss was a member of the faculty of RandolphMacon Woman’s College from 1949 to 1983. In addition
to being a professor of biology, she also served for a time as
chair of the R-MWC Department of Biology. Dorothy was a
memorable teacher for many generations of R-MWC students
and with her students developed an herbarium collection that
is one the most important in the state of Virginia.
Following her retirement, Dorothy began work on a native
plant botanic garden on the R-MWC campus, a long-held
dream for her. In 2008, it was named the Dorothy Crandall
Bliss Botanic Garden in her honor. The garden is located
between Martin Science building and the library and is open to
the public. It contains more than 200 species of plants native to
the southeastern United States, including several endangered
and rare species. The garden is used regularly for courses in
botany, ecology, environmental studies, and art and is a great
asset for the Lynchburg community.
Dorothy died in Lynchburg on October 14, 2013, at the
age of 97. She was a remarkable and influential person and will
be greatly missed by all.
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Listing includes notifications received by
the College as of November 30, 2013
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Edna Sanders Johnston
Elizabeth Baker Parr
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Elizabeth Dickens Hughes
Dorothy Swain Lewis
Virginia Parsons Howard
Dorothy Rolston Dawson
Ann Glover Parrott
Ann Brock
Margaret Adams Oswalt
Bessie Christian Thompson
Ruth Singewald Hurlock
Louise Gee Thomas
Lelia Lawrence Blackmon
Phyllis Stewart Burke Nesmith
Evelyn Pearson Weems
Susanne Wells Blinn
Katherine Messner Cullen
Anne Melville Johnson
Rhett Peters Taylor
Jane Taylor Wolfe
Virginia Caffee Grigg
Kathryn Gilmer
Virginia Hunt Hones
Mary Ellis Livingston
Carol Choisser Montgomery
Mary Cason Brockardt
Margaret Blackard Clarke
Marilyn Morgan Williams
Margaret Beazley Dague
Patricia Flintoff Morgan
Algie Ashe Passey
Ruth Lee Bridges Wooldridge
Virginia Jordan Dudenhausen
Barbara Howe Paret
Betty McCall Smith
Charlotte Griswold Bowden
Martha Croley Click
Caroline Holmes
Alice Brown Huneycutt
Thalia Eliades Kapnistos
Jean Puckett Lantz
Betty Ann Shropshire Ross
Patricia Hayward Schneeman
Margaret Balentine Ashmore
Carol King Baker
Mary Rawlings Gibson
Cornelia Boreman Graham
Marty Stockton Hancock
Lois Scott Mengel
Harriette McGuire Doordan
Marian Tilley Stoney
Katherine Williams Booth
Evelyn Brooks Bromberg
Anne Adams Sowder
Letitia Bell Thompson
Sara Lowry Baldwin
Patricia McCall Huston
Nancy Hankins Scott
Margaret McVay McCombs
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Judith Irby
Jane Williams VanAntwerp
Suzanne Meadow Bond
Ennis Graham Cooper
Margaret Lavinder Smith
Odilia Russo Dank
Raleigh Henderson Dulaney
Sally Birdsong Smith
Margaret Butler Witschard
Rose Hardin Jensen
Margo Grafton Rundles
Peggy Harlow Knight
Allison Watts
Carol Lewis Heideman
Bruce Earman Viles
Patricia Hale Henggeler
Theresa Poellnitz Clark
Marion Warmack Morrison
Baldwin Reid Tillman
Julie Lee Norton
Patricia Morgan Milner
Dolly Hortenstine Whitson
Jane Vail Ward
Linda Nutt Northrop
Marion Brown Walsh
Rebecca Haney
11/18/2013
8/7/2013
4/5/2013
10/31/2013
6/28/2013
8/17/2013
7/16/2013
10/1/2013
9/14/2013
8/12/2013
8/2/2013
6/19/2010
8/1/2013
10/2/2013
5/1/2013
9/15/2013
11/7/2013
10/23/2013
7/29/2013
3/17/2013
4/3/2013
11/8/2012
9/12/2013
10/13/2013
6/10/2013
9/19/2013
Alumnae and Alumni Family
Deaths
Listing includes notifications received by
the College as of November 30, 2013,
and includes spouses, parents, and other
immediate family members with alumnae
or alumni connections
1941 Spouse of Virginia Sweet Bondurant
Robert F. Bondurant
8/4/2013
1941 Spouse of Evelyn Winchester Day
George Richard Day
10/7/2012
1946 Spouse of Elizabeth Thomson Herbert
James H. Herbert
8/24/2013
1946 Sister of Jean Melville Magnusson
Anne Melville Johnson
8/9/2013
1947 Daughter of Betty June Kilpatrick Anderson
Margaret Anderson
11/16/2012
1947 Spouse of Bob Anne Beasley Gray
Denver D. Gray
9/7/2013
1950 Spouse of Martha Haupt Carter
Harold V. Carter
6/10/2011
1951 Sister of Anna Griswold Nichols
Charlotte Griswold Bowden
8/12/2013
1952 Sister of Martina Irby Evans
Judith Irby
11/18/2013
1952 Spouse of Mary Anne Wooldridge Cross
Wilbur R. Cross
9/20/2012
1953 Sister of Patsy Irby Hunt
Judith Irby
11/18/2013
1953 Spouse of Dales McCurdy Stallings
Lawrence C. Stallings
7/16/2013
1954 Spouse of Pat Gaston Morton
Joe B. Morton, Jr.
3/8/2013
1958 Mother of Dolly Stover Cardwell
Dorothy Rolston Dawson
6/24/2013
1958 Spouse of Elizabeth Pierce Colby
David W. Colby
7/29/2013
1959 Spouse of Ann Hill Cahill
Lewis N. Cahill
8/11/2013
1960 Mother of Mary Callcott Bozeman
Rebecca Callcott
9/2/2013
1960 Spouse of Betsy Harding Grundy
Gary Grundy
4/3/2013
1960 Spouse of Carol Ranz Krause
Robert C. Krause
8/2/2012
1961 Spouse of Serina Montgomery Garst
Frederick Garst
8/16/2013
1962 Spouse of Trammell Manly Maury
Bill Maury
4/12/2013
1963 Sister of Stuart Graham Black
Ennis Graham Cooper
10/31/2013
1963 Sister of Susan Birdsong Corpening
Sally Birdsong Smith
10/1/2013
1964 Spouse of Sarah Locke Clark
Walter D. Clark, Jr.
6/23/2013
1964 Spouse of Judith Hall McBroom
Douglas D. McBroom
11/16/2013
1965 Mother of Sherry Taylor Robertson-Seibert
Martha McCorkle Tennant
7/14/13
1966 Spouse of Susan Billups Underwood
Ronald Underwood
8/23/2013
1967 Mother of Margaret Oswalt Helmsing
Margaret Adams Oswalt
7/30/2013
1967 Mother of Linda Thomas
Louise Gee Thomas
8/2/2012
1969 Mother of Ann Cullen
Kitty Lou Cullen
6/8/2012
1969 Spouse of Candi Dominick Prejean
J. David Prejean
6/5/2013
1969 Spouse of Linda Babcock Sorber
Charles A. Sorber
10/18/2013
1970 Mother of Lyn Weems Gates
Evelyn Pearson Weems
8/12/2013
1971 Father of Elizabeth Herbert Cottrell
James H. Herbert
8/24/2013
1973 Mother of Marion Oswalt
Margaret Adams Oswalt
7/30/2013
1973 Mother of Rhett Taylor
Rhett Peters Taylor
8/4/2013
W IN TER 2014
College Family Deaths
1974 Mother of Mary Borden Currin
Elizabeth Borden
10/15/2013
1974 Sister of Cynthia Clontz Hunt
Sarah Snyder
10/6/2013
1974 Brother of Diane Matthews Walker
Jonathan Matthews
11/7/2013
1975 Mother of Ellis Pearce
Ellis Pearce
9/8/2013
1976 Mother of Elizabeth Dudenhausen
Virginia Benton Dudenhausen
9/30/2013
1976 Mother-in-Law of Martha Crumley Nesmith
Phyllis Burke Nesmith
10/8/2013
1977 Mother of Patricia Hallett
Martha Hallett
5/13/2013
1977 Father of Patricia Hallett
William A. Hallett, Jr.
12/11/2012
1977 Father of Anne Gray McHugh
Denver D. Gray
9/7/2013
1978 Mother of Mamie Brockardt Powers
Mary Cason Brockardt
11/18/2013
1980 Mother of Anne Dudenhausen
Virginia Jordan Dudenhausen
9/30/2013
1982 Mother of Katherine Mogelinski Hooe
Katherine Williams Booth
7/11/2013
1983 Daughter of Martha Frase
Rachel Blunt
3/1/2013
1983 Father of Ann Bondurant Trinkle
Robert F. Bondurant
8/4/2013
1983 Mother of Ann Brockardt Bonomi
Mary Cason Brockardt
11/18/2013
1984 Mother of Renee Hansard
Phyllis Herndon
6/21/2013
1984 Mother of Kay Smith Jay
Margaret Lavinder Smith
6/28/2013
1988 Mother of Ann Claire Johnson Shepherd
Nancy Claire Johnson
7/23/2013
1993 Mother of Kimberley Duff English
Sandra Williams Duff
10/31/2013
1995 Daughter of Cathy King Madsen
Bridget Louise Madsen
3/11/2013
2001 Father of Gwen Beattie
Spencer Beattie
12/26/2012
2009 Mother-in-Law of Tiffany Paonessa Kuenzi
Amy Kuenzi
8/5/2013
2010 Grandfather of Maggie McHugh
Denver D. Gray
9/7/2013
Listing includes notifications received by the
College as of November 30, 2013
Ruth Benerito
Dorothy Bliss
Father of Cindy Lyons
James E. Williams
Amy Kuenzi
Juanita Chafin Mayberry
Son of Kris Irwin
Troy Irwin
Linda Sullivan
10/5/2013
10/14/2013
5/24/2013
8/5/2013
8/4/2013
9/14/2013
11/23/2013
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Tribute Gifts
Alumnae Memorial Scholarship Fund and Other Funds
June 1, 2013–November 30, 2013
IN HONOR OF
Martha Johnson
William F. Quillian, Jr. HA
Gail & Frank Morrison
Ann Harper Fender ’64
Gail Johnson Morrison ’72
John D. Abell
The 100th birthday of Dr. William F.
Wenjun Xu ’11
Alpha Delta Kappa
Quillian, Jr.
Maryanne Johnson Jones ’60
Myra Smith Brown ’59
Dr. Bradley W. Bateman
Rhita Bailey McNair ’55
Lisa Lee Broughman ’94
John
E.
Klein
Cynthia Howe Murray ’75
Ara Friedman ’09
Carey Miller Gravely ’72
Rhiannon Knol ’11
Betsey Casey Metz ’56
Mariah Reed ’14
Nick Marshall ’11
Betty
Messenger
Morcom
’46
Schuyler O. Sneed
Dr. & Mrs. F. Carter Nance
Kerri Bond ’06
Patsy Terry Nance ’56
Minor Mickel Shaw ’69
Jennifer Furcron Sawyer ’06
Sarah
Bell
Slusky
November
’48
Mamie Jolley Bruce ’44
The L. R. Brammer, Jr. Family Mr. & Mrs. John E. Klein
John Spanich
Anonymous
Margaret
Bowers
Ayres
’79
Farah Marks
Ann
Beatty
’74
Chemistry Department
Eugenia Betts Miller ’50
Randall & Karen Speer
Chi Pham ’06
Beth Perry Mouritsen ’54
Karl Speer ’12
Susan
Neal
Price
’89
Jolley Bruce Christman ’69
Mr. & Mrs. Thomas D. Scott
Elaine Dahl St. Vincent HA
Duff Bruce
Ginger Hood Scott ’58
Elizabeth Ridenhour Brown ’62
Mamie Jolley Bruce ’44
William A. Stuart II
Nathaniel & Esther Cobblah Holly Layne
Farah Marks
Elizabeth Steele White ’60
Yolanda Cobblah ’17
Dr.
Robert
B.
Lloyd
Paula J. Wallace
Margaret Ann Cooper ’53
Patricia Thompson Short ’62
Emily Smith ’12
Emma Harris ’17
Q
Manglapus
’17
Jean & Robert Warrick
Lauren Egger
Timothy Murphy ’17
Ms. Jane A. Sprouse
Olivia Holden ’17
Tom Overgaag ’17
Ros Whitley
Mark Fordham
Barbara Niedland McCarthy ’73 Caleb Moxley ’11
Jamie Fordham ’17
Sue-Gray Goller ’73
The 100th birthday of Constance
Kate Goodman ’88
Class
of
1959
Palmer Winchell
Octavia Rodney ’11
Betty Lou Atkinson Newcomb ’59
Linda & Denny Grunkemeyer
Tina Hill Sandra
Green
Michelle & Greg Wood
Dr. & Mrs. Wallace Nunley, Jr
Timothy Green ’17
Dylan Wood ’17
Nancy Hillsman
Betty
Lou
Atkinson
Newcomb
’59
Martie Edmunds Zakas ’80
Amy Hillsman ’17
Rena Jones Johnson ’59
Becky Dawson Tweedy ’81
Olivia Holden
Clay
Nunley
Lauren Egger ’17
Dr.
&
Mrs.
Wallace
C.
Nunley,
Sr.
IN MEMORY OF
Jennifer Sullivan Hubbard ’95 Office of Alumnae & Alumni
Kathi Eckert Fath ’95
David F. Anthony
Molly Roper Jenkins ’96
Sarah Bailey Turgeon ’95
Deborah Anthony Dodge ’71
Michaela Philllips ’17
Dr. Paul Irwin
Lucile Yancey Barkley ’30
Jennifer Sanborn ’17
Kate Leaming Goldberg ’98
William Barkley
Wenjun Xu ’11
Mike & Lori Phillips
Zinkie Mosley Benton ’62
Machaela Phillips ’17
Diana & Don Anderson
Dorothy Crandall Bliss
Tamara Jamerson ’95
Mary Becker Maddox ’70
Katherine Williams Booth ’52
Pat FitzHugh Michal ’48
Margaret Pendleton Bowers ’55
Thomas Dix Bowers
The L. R. Brammer, Jr. Family
Anonymous
Martha Croley Click ’49
Margot Holt Gill ’52
Katherine Cudlipp ’64
Polly Cummings Hussain ’64
Odilia Russo Dank ’60
Rita Miller Wells ’60
Dorothy Rolston Dawson ’38
Caroline Crow
Sue Hostetler
Lynn Lewis
Maureen Reasor
Judith Sawyer
Jan Mowrer de Boinville ’38
Sid Henderson ’99
Raleigh Henderson Dulaney ’60
Betty Lou Atkinson Newcomb ’59
Helen Mann Durham ’22
Susan Durham
Barbara Bynum Dyer ’56
Quincy Gasque Butler ’56
Ruth Ann Edwards HA
Diana & Don Anderson
Sally Graves Fitzpatrick ’77
Mr. & Mrs. Richard Graves
Lucille Simcoe Gaines ’41
Perk FitzSimons Lawrence ’40
Mary Blair Rawlings Gibson ’50
Teancy Matthews Outland ’53
Virginia Caffee Grigg ’45
Frances Parsons ’45
W IN TER 2014
Martha Stockton Hancock ’50
Baker Roofing Martha Martin Field ’56
Mr. & Mrs. William A. Knott
Pat FitzHugh Michal ’48
Mrs. Charles F. Vance, Jr.
Martha Hardy
Catherine Paul Collison ’34 *
Patricia Hale Henggeler ’68
Lorraine Gutermuth Bennett ’68
Nancy Flippen Holloway ’71
Julie McCoy ’71
Jean Perrine Hotaling ’42
Andrew Hotaling
Alice Jane Brown Huneycutt ’49
Sarah Bain Day ’49
Edwina Sykes Koontz ’57
Nancy Meintzer Rice ’55
George H. Jones
Perk FitzSimons Lawrence ’40
Harriet Heery Kasak ’61
Dr. Barabara G. Redd
& Mr. James T. Redd III
Barbara Hackney Redd ’61
Dr. John P. Kirby
Sherley Osgood Keith ’71
Walter C. Klein, Jr.
Jennifer Godley Brestel ’93
Heather Ayers Garnett ’86
Jan Meriwether
Lorraine Blanks Potter ’75
Amy Kuenzi
Catherine Brandon McCormick ’72
Anonymous
Carey Miller Gravely ’72
Jennifer Godley Brestel ’93
Farah Marks
Betsy Rogers Millar ’49
Terri Martin
Pat FitzHugh Michal ’48
Jan Meriwether
The Randolph-Macon Woman’s
Deceased members of the Class of
College Alumnae and Randolph
1959
College Alumni Association
Pam Beckwith ’59
Lisa Kurts ’81
Susan Mullin ’93
Mary Anne Thames Clement ’81
Meridith Hobbins Ingram ’93
Liz Ray Hitchcock-Fournet ’81
Delaine Corini Jones ’93
Blanche Lambert Lincoln ’82
Alexandra Woodman Johnson ’93 Alice Morgan Marrin ’81
Jane Beth Parker McCarty ’82
Kobra Ahmadi Nader ’10
Susan Lemly Sardina ’70
John Landis
Diana & Don Anderson
Betty Wente Newkirk ’38
Nancie Newkirk Loppnow ’69
Janice Early Laufer ’60
Ellen Click Bennett ’60
Margaret Adams Oswalt ’40
Perk FitzSimons Lawrence ’40
Dorothy Swain Lewis ’36
The Randolph-Macon Woman’s
Peggy Smith Ray ’42
College Alumnae and Randolph
Perk FitzSimons Lawrence ’40
College Alumni Association
Angie Morgan Robertson ’60
Marry Ellis Livingston ’46
Jack Robertson
Margot Holt Gill ’52
Nan Drew Salisbury ’45
Joseph Marotta
Anne Suthon Laird ’45
Mr. & Mrs. Jonathan P. Tyree
Nancy Gravely Shank ’37
Juanita Mayberry
Perk FitzSimons Lawrence ’40
Mary Brewer Guthrow ’65
Leigh Martin Lowe ’77
Betty McCall Smith ’48 Farah Marks
Pat FitzHugh Michal ’48
Jean Stewart ’72
Hermena Wait Powell ’48
The Randolph-Macon Woman’s
College Alumnae and Randolph
Margaret Lavinder Smith ’59
College Alumni Association
Harriet & Frank Whitten
Harriet Jones Whitten ’59
Sally Birdsong Smith ’60
Dr. & Mrs. J. Parker Cross, Jr.
Annah Eberwine Cross ’57
Carroll Godwin Frohman ’58
Becky Rawls Habel ’73
Rita Miller Wells ’60
Lynn Hume Stuart ’60
Elizabeth Steele White ’60
Carrie Meyer Suber ’95 Karen Godley Awenowicz ’97
Rhett Peters Taylor ’44
Becky Rawls Habel ’73
Suzanne Savedge Wescoat ’64
Polly Cummings Hussain ’64
Arvin S. Williams
Sue-Gray Goller ’73
Margaret Butler Witschard ’60
Ellen Click Bennett ’60
Ruth Lee Bridges Wooldridge ’47
John F. Anderson
Mr. & Mrs. James R. Barton
Mr. & Mrs. William M. Baskin, Jr.
Barbara Bingham
Mr. Richard J. Colten & Ms. Elizabeth
S. Johns
George & Saunders Compo
Joanna Faust
Lee Faust
Guy & Nancy Ford
Anne & Matt Hunter
Jill & Tim Hunter
Katy & Warren Hunter
The James Lothspeich Family
Mr. & Mrs. William L. Manning
Mr. & Mrs. James B. Stricker III
HA-Honorary Alumna or Alumnus
* denotes deceased
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Milestones
CONTINUED EDUCATION
BIRTHS AND ADOPTIONS
1975 Catharine Smith Carty: MS, Nursing, University of Virginia
1975 Joan Towles Matthews: JD, Florida A & M
2000 Dwana Waugh: PhD, History, UNC, Chapel Hill
2003 Michellè Jones: BS, Nursing Science, University of Alaska Anchorage
2004 Chessie Huiting: MA, Criminal Justice, Boston University
2005 Elizabeth Carter: MFA, Painting, Boston University
2007 Carmen Carvajal Nappier: MA, Accountancy,
University of Alabama, Huntsville
2007 Cassi Powell McFarland: MS, Occupational Therapy,
Medical University of South Carolina Charleston
2009 Kara Clissold: MA, Psychology, Wake Forest University
2010 Kristy Lashway: JD, George Mason University
2011 Caleb Moxley: MS, Mathematics, University of Alabama
2011 Christina Hua: MA, Social-Organizational Psychology, Columbia University
2011 Kathleen Conti: MA, Russian and East European Studies, UNC Chapel Hill
2011 Victoria Winfree: MLIS, University of Pittsburgh
1989 Lou Wright Bolster: Sons Charles Merritt Bolster
& Michael Goodwin Bolster 1/26/12
1989 Dana Murphy-Booth: Daughter Charlotte Marise Booth 4/16/13
1995 Cathy King Madsen: Daughter Bridget Louise Madsen 3/1/13
1995 Colleen Donaghe Hicks: Son Lachlan Fuller Hicks 3/2/13
1995 Carrie Meyer Suber: Daughter Carrie Suber 3/3/13
1995 Kristi Kneas: Son Benjamin Ambrose Behan 5/28/13
1996 Tami Backlinie Burris: Son Jackson Jordan Burris 4/13
1999 Alison Wood Drain: Daughter Isabel Leah Drain 5/16/13
1999 Susan Fuller Finarelli: Daughter Emilia Marie Finarelli 8/14/13
2000 Alyssa Le Sage: Daughter Willa James 3/1/13
2000 Mary-Margaret Shaffer Kim: Son Luke Gardner 8/20/13
2000 Apryl Houghton Craighead: Son Ewan Whyte 4/22/13
2002 Lindsey Poage Felts: Daughter Nora Kate Felts
2002 Margaret Cuthbertson: Son Rawlings Brown Cuthbertson
2002 Marlene Ratchford Lange: Son Austin Lange & daughter Isabelle Lange
2003 Mary-Ruth Hooper: Daughter Cora Tamsin Hooper 10/30/13
2004 Kathryn Walker Manari: Son Dominic James Manari 5/30/13
2004 Shawna Reed: Son John Nixon IV “Jack” 2/12
2004 Devon Kennedy Connaroe: Son Tyson James Connaroe 11/12
2006 Anne Soucinek: Daughter Chelsea Ann Soucinek 8/9/13
2007 Courtney Lovey Collins: Son Liam Russell Collins 6/13
2011 Sasha Budd Williams: Daughter Samaya Williams 10/24/13
MARRIAGES AND COMMITMENTS
1990 Asa Bright Valente and Carlos Campos 1993 Amy Greene and Anthony LoCascio 1999 Ellen Bullock and Greg Davis 2000 Chana Shwadlenak and Alex Madrid 2003 Francesca McLin and Veronica Betancourt 2004 Holly Yates and Damien Stewart 2004 Bobbi Green and Connor O’Brien 2004 Alison Rizzo and Wes Clark 2008 Kelly Reynolds and Steve Kocsis 2008 Alex Hoenig and Yuri Yakubov
2009 Maria Antonieta Lugo and Keith Kacin 2009 Stephanie Lyons and Mallory Blyth 2010 Katelin Shugart-Schmidt and Elan Dalton 2010 Cameo Hoyle and Lyndsey Kidd
2011 Aurimas Lekavicius and Marilena Austin 2011 Marilena Austin and Aurimas Lekavicius 2011 Aaron Humphreys and Megan Wheatley 2013 Megan Wheatley and Aaron Humphreys 2013 Laura Word and Michael Taylor 2013 Michael Taylor and Laura Word 5/2012
7/2/12
4/25/13
9/29/12
10/12
11/12
7/21/13
7/20/13
2/13
9/7/13
9/16/12
7/6/13
5/26/13
9/21/13
7/19/13
7/19/13
8/4/13
8/4/13
7/27/13
7/27/13
reunion
2014
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come back and share yours!
CLASSES IN REUNION 2014 END IN A “4” OR A “9”
1944 1954 1964 1974 1984 1994 2004
1949 1959 1969 1979 1989 1999 2009
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