A Message from the President

SALEM COLLEGE Magazine
Julianne Still Thrift,
President
Ann McElaney-Johnson,
Vice President for Academic and Student
Affairs
A Message from the President
As I welcome young women
to the College in my 15th
year as president, many
exciting events are unfolding. Each day brings a new
discovery as we work to
improve our beautiful campus and our many historic
buildings.
Wayne Burkette,
Vice President and Academy Head of
School
Vicki Williams Sheppard,
Director of Institutional Advancement
Editor
Julie Larison,
Director of Communications
Assistant Editor
Sara Butner C’04,
Assistant Director of Public Relations
The clinking of heavy machinery
fills the air as crews work hard to
Designer
Jane Rudd Hughes
install a new chiller plant (and loop)
that will provide air conditioning
to most of the campus and to the
The Salem College Alumnae Magazine is
published each summer by Salem College,
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108.
This publication is mailed to alumnae,
faculty, staff, parents and friends of Salem.
Academy. And that’s not all; several
projects are underway that will help
us recruit students and provide a better Salem experience for all.
Digging in a such a historic area occasionally unearths a few surprises, which is
exactly what happened one May morning with the discovery of stones and pottery shards (see story page 16 ) next to the Single Sisters House. What a glorious
Salem welcomes qualified students
regardless of race, color, national origin,
sexual orientation, religion or disability
to all the rights, privileges, programs and
activities of this institution.
reminder of Salem’s presence in early America and our role as caretakers of this
For additional information about any
programs or events mentioned in this
publication, please write or call:
Alumnae Office
Salem College
PO Box 10548
Winston-Salem, North Carolina 27108
336-721-2608
E-mail: [email protected]
tagline Reach within. Shape the future. (see story page 8). This is just one step in a
On the cover:
Blixt Field celebration
distinguished past.
Celebrating what makes Salem a special place for women to learn and grow is
important for all of us. We invite you to help us build a stronger presence for Salem
in your community. Please proudly display the enclosed sticker that launches our new
number of initiatives the College will start this year in order to create more awareness
and build enrollment.
Your help is critical! We appreciate all that you do in supporting the College
year after year. Please also remember that one of the greatest gifts you can give is a
referral of a prospective College student (or students). A first person endorsement
goes a long way in encouraging women of all ages to take advantage of the single-sex
education at Salem.
I look forward to making my last “official” year at Salem the College’s best! Again,
thank you for embracing the College and offering your generous support. We will
continue to share with you the important projects being funded through the upcoming campaign and ask that you join us in celebrating these very important milestones.
Julianne Still Thrift
Contents
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Back Porch News
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Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran
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Branding Program Launched
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Nadia Bakhireva C’08
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Women in Math and Science
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Development News
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Alumnae News
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Class Notes
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Back Porch News
Best-Selling Author Shares
Inspiration for Writing
writers, McCrumb’s goal is to introduce readers
Association her senior year, and as secretary
all over the world to this region and its culture.
the year before. Prior to this, Brooks was a
But Southern writers do struggle
co-chair of the Campus Activities Commit-
Writers enjoyed a record crowd
to gain acceptance outside a regional
tee, where the college sophomore managed
in March, when best-selling
audience, she said. McCrumb,
a budget of over $10,000. She was also a
novelist Sharyn McCrumb
whose books have appeared on the
member of Fremdendienerin all four years,
gave the inaugural William M.
New York Times best-seller list, still
offering campus tours, advice and correspon-
Hendricks Reading.
battles with her publishers over the
dence with prospective students. This year she
marketing of her novels and the vi-
represented the student body on the search
from her newest novel, St. Dale,
ability of some story ideas. When she
committee for the vice president of the insti-
a modern “Canterbury Tales”
suggested a novel about the world of
tution, where her input had a very real impact
that features a busload of disparate NASCAR
NASCAR one industry player told
on Salem’s future direction.
The Center for Women
At Salem, McCrumb read
fans on a pilgrimage to honor the late racecar
her to just make six copies, “because that will
driver Dale Earnhardt. McCrumb, who has
take care of all the NASCAR fans who can read.”
a master’s degree in English from Virginia
Both the New York Times and the Los Angeles
achieved a cumulative grade point average of
Tech, has been fascinated with the idea of
Times have named McCrumb’s works Notable
3.7 and was a fixture on the Dean’s List from
what she calls “secular saints” like Elvis Presley,
Books of the Year. The Appalachian Writers As-
her first year on. In addition, she qualified for
Princess Diana and Earnhardt for some time.
sociation has given her two Best Appalachian Novel
the College Honors program and the honors
Recognizing that Earnhardt remains a folk
Awards and, in 1997, honored McCrumb for Out-
societies Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), Mor-
hero to many, McCrumb set about studying
standing Contributions to Appalachian Literature.
tar Board and Lambda Pi Eta.
the unique and rich culture of NASCAR fans,
In her most recent novels, including Ghost Riders,
which was a world entirely new to her.
The Songcatcher and The Ballad of Frankie Silver,
into her extracurricular pursuits, chiefly in the
McCrumb has incorporated real-life Appalachian
area of dance, where she chaired the Fall Fest
historical figures and her own family’s legends.
dance performance each of her four years and
To write St. Dale, McCrumb became fluent in the terminology of stock car racing. It
Brooks incorporated her academic interests
also joined the Wake Forest Danceline and
wasn’t the first time she had tackled tradition-
McCrumb was the first author to appear at
ally masculine subject matter; her novel Ghost
The William M. Hendricks Reading. Endowed
Salem College Dance Company. Her honors
Riders offers frank and intense depictions of
by the William M. Hendricks Family Founda-
senior thesis, entitled “Women, Athletics and
sectarian violence during the Civil War.
tion, the program’s purpose is to bring Southern
Salem: Why We Need
McCrumb said she never felt out of place
writers and poets to Salem each year to teach a
Each Other,” cre-
touring race shops and interviewing NASCAR
class and offer a public reading of their work.
ated a sample
publicity
figures. “The key to stepping out of one’s
comfort zone as a writer is to respect your subject enough to know it well,” she said. Being
prepared is also key, she added. “You’d better
show people that you’ve done your homework.
Cincia Brooks Named
Oesterlein Award Winner
Each year at Founders Day, Salem grants the
plan for Salem’s
upcoming Division III athletic
program. Brooks
Elisabeth Oesterlein Award to a senior who, dur-
excelled in the
ing her four years at Salem, has made notable and
areas of academ-
lasting contributions to the campus’s quality of
ics, athletics and
life. This year’s award went to Cincia L. Brooks
the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee,
service to the
C’05, the daughter of Gregory and Wanda Marie
North Carolina and Virginia, the area where
campus, mak-
Dunn Brooks of New Orleans, La.
ing her a role
You don’t go ask (Civil War historian) Shelby
Foote, ‘So, who won that war, anyway?’”
Most of McCrumb’s books take place in
her family has lived for more than two centuries. Her stories often confront the negative
stereotypes of southerners, particularly of
mountain southerners. Like other Southern
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As a communication major with a double
minor in psychology and dance, Brooks
Brooks was active in all aspects of campus life
throughout her four years at Salem, most notably
model many
times over.
as the president of the Student Government
Cincia Brooks
Salem College
Algernon Sydney Sullivan Award
This year for the first time Salem honored
two people with the prestigious Algernon
Sydney Sullivan Award at Founders Day
Convocation. The Sullivan Awards, granted
annually at 54 colleges and universities in
the southeastern United States, recognize the
leadership and charity of one college student
as well as a non-student member of the college community.
Senior Elizabeth Jane Smart A’01 C’05 was
the student recipient of the Sullivan Award.
Smart attended Salem Academy before enrolling at Salem College, where she graduated
with a double major in Spanish and international relations and a political science minor.
She is the daughter of Elizabeth D. Smart of
Greenville and Tony Smart of Winterville;
Alumnae Alert!
Elizabeth Jane Smart and President Thrift
Pfohl Award
At Honors Convocation, Salem presented the
Watch your local newsstands for the August 2005
issue of Our State magazine, which features a
special article about Salem’s heritage and the
Single Sisters House.
H.A. Pfohl Award to a longtime faculty member
Todd Fay and to graduating senior Mary Ruth
Barnhardt C’05.
The Pfohl Award, established by
her two sisters Catherine C’00 and Mary
the children and grandchildren of
C’02 also attended Salem.
a longtime Salem College trustee,
is given annually to a senior who
exemplifies strong campus citizenship,
Christian character, loyalty and effective service to the college, and to a
faculty member who has demonstrated sound service, loyalty, Christian
influence and effective teaching.
Fay will retire at the end of this
school year after teaching psychology at Salem College since 1976. He
holds a B.A. from the University of
Michigan and a M.S. and Ph.D. from North-
John McKinnon
The other Sullivan Award was granted to
John McKinnon, a longtime Salem Academy
and College Trustee whose professional experience in business helped guide the institution
to sustained financial security. McKinnon is
the former president of Sara Lee Corp. and
dean of Wake Forest University’s Babcock
School of Management. McKinnon and
his wife Grace live in Winston-Salem; his
daughters Grace A’86 and Margaret A’84 are
alumnae of Salem Academy.
The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Foundation
endows the annual awards and requires that
the award recipients embody the qualities of
19th century businessman Algernon Sullivan, who encouraged personal charity and
philanthropy.
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western University.
Barnhardt graduated with a double major in
arts management and Spanish and a double minor
in musical theatre and not-for-profit management.
She is the daughter of Roland and Emilie G. Barnhardt of Winston-Salem. Her sister, Sarah, is a
rising sophomore at Salem and her sister Christin
C’02 is a graduate.
Race for the Cure
At Salem, breast cancer awareness and prevention aren’t just lofty goals. The students in the
campus group C.H.I.C.S. (Creating Hope in Cancer
Survival) know that breast cancer is the leading
cancer among women and that it has touched
alumnae, faculty, their friends and family, and even
fellow students. This year, the Susan G. Komen
Foundation’s Race for the Cure was staged on
Salem’s campus, so the Salem community (which
had always fielded teams) was able to participate
like never before.
After a rousing rendition of “God Bless America”
by voice professor Barbara Caprilli, Dean Eileen
Wilson-Oyelaran and Academy Head of School
Wayne Burkette (left) sounded the starting horns
for the “Salem College Mile,” a one-mile fun
run through the College campus. The practice
field became a sea of hospitality tents clustered
around the main stage and finish line. In all,
Salem hosted an estimated 8,000 people, including Salem teams of Academy and College
students, faculty, staff, alumnae and their
families.
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Back Porch
News
Variety of Lectures Slated
Salem sends its students and alumnae all over
has received a Lavan Award from the Academy
the world to work and to serve, but this year the
of American Poets, four Pushcart Prizes and
world will come to Salem in the form of lectures,
numerous prizes for her children’s literature,
films, and other events.
including two Jane Addams Children’s Book
Awards.
The Center for
Women Writers will
Iranian-born
sponsor a reading of
journalist Afshin
Back Porch Party
poetry and children’s
Molavi will give a
The year-end Continuing Studies Back Porch
Party is always a favorite celebration, bringing
together students, graduates of the program
and faculty in a unique garden party atmosphere of summery hats and champagne
toasts. Continuing Studies students and staff
host this annual event as an addition to the
College’s graduation festivities.
literature by Naomi
lecture on Sep-
Shihab Nye on Septem-
tember 27 in the
ber 15. As a Palestin-
Fine Arts Center.
Molavi covered
ian-American living
in Texas, Nye’s writing has a unique flavor that
the Middle East for the Reuters news agency
reflects the growing cultural diversity in the south-
from 1998-2000 and has also written for
eastern United States. A Guggenheim Fellow, Nye
the Washington Post, The Christian Science
Monitor, The Nation and The New Republic
in the United States and in the widely read
Arab news outlets Arab News (Saudi Arabia),
Gulf News (United Arab Emirates) and Asharq
Al-Awsat, a pan-Arabic daily newspaper. He
is the author of Persian Pilgrimages: Journeys
Across Iran.
Another lecture
on March 1 will
introduce Paul
Rusesabagina, best
known as the Kigali
hotel manager who
sheltered thousands
of Tutsi men, women and children during the 1994 genocide
in Rwanda. Rusesabagina’s advocacy for his
family, neighbors, and even perfect strangers has earned him Amnesty International’s
“Enduring Spirit” Award and the Immortal
Chaplains Prize for Humanity. His story was
recounted in the Oscar-nominated 2004 film
“Hotel Rwanda,” which will be screened in
conjunction with the lecture.
In addition, lunchtime and afternoon
lectures scheduled throughout the year will
explore a variety of topics. Many of these lectures are organized by individual academic departments and student groups, ensuring that
Salem’s yearly slate of public events reflects the
wide variety of interests and specialties that
abound within the Salem community. Visit
www.salem.edu for the latest news on events
throughout the year.
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Salem College
McElaney-Johnson Named
Vice President
Ann McElaney-Johnson has been named
Vice President for Academic and Student
Affairs, replacing outgoing dean Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran.
As associate dean since 1998, McElaneyJohnson worked with faculty and students
coordinating the College’s curriculum, and
she is eager to take on a greater leadership
role in bolstering Salem’s academics. “My
guiding principle is to continue to strengthen
the value we place on intellectual curiosity
on our campus,” McElaney-Johnson says. “I
am excited about working with the students,
faculty and staff as we move forward.”
McElaney-Johnson says she wants to
capitalize on the strong foundation on which
Salem has built its reputation as an outstanding educational institution. She is particularly
focused on the continued success of some
of the College’s innovative programs such
as the Women in Mathematics and Science
Program; the international business program
at Oxford University; the Center for Women
Writers; new degrees in the School of Music;
and the expansion of graduate programs.
“I was delighted to hear of Dean McElaney-Johnson’s selection,” says Wilson-Oyelaran. “She brings a passion for Salem’s
mission and a commitment to our students
that will stand this institution in good stead. I
think she will do an outstanding job!”
A native of Boston, Mass., McElaney-Johnson holds a B.A. in French from the College
of the Holy Cross, an M.A. from Middlebury
College and a Ph.D. from the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. She and her husband,
David, live with their three daughters in
Faculty News
On Friday, April 22, in Shirley Recital Hall,
the Salem College Chorale and Chamber
Choir, under the direction of David D. Wells,
presented “A Memorial Concert” for the
victims of the December 2004 Asian tsunami
and their families. The program included
works by Debussy, Thompson, Copland,
Fauré, and Elgar. The evening concluded with
The Snow by Elgar, and was dedicated to Dulini DeSilva C’06, a Salem College student
from Sri Lanka who lost three relatives and
her father and sister’s home. The dedication
included a slide show of original photographs
of the devastated areas of Sri Lanka.
Debra Reuter-Pivetta, flute instructor,
will be the featured soloist on the October
15 Western Piedmont Symphony concert
performing the Flute Concerto by Christopher Rouse. Go to www.wpsymphony.org/
masterworks.cfm for details.
Barbara Lister-Sink, artist-in-residence
and professor of piano, will be training
various keyboard professionals from around
the world this summer, including participants from Iceland, Alaska, New York
and Minnesota, in her WINGSOUND
International Intensive Technique Training
Workshop. She will also attend the 2005
National Pedagogy Conference in Chicago in August to meet with the National
Committee on Pianistic Wellness, to which
she has just been appointed. Further summer activities will include teaching at the
Brevard Music Center, as well as practicing,
gardening and painting pastels.
Barbara DeMaio Caprilli will sing at Salem
October 21 with Richard Heard, tenor and
professor at Wake Forest, and with Pamela
Howland at the piano.
Kernersville.
Caprilli Wedding
Assistant Professor of
Voice Barbara DeMaio
Caprilli married Angelo Caprilli July 3 at St.
Anne’s Episcopal Church
in Winston Salem.
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Craig Richardson, associate professor of
economics, has been selected to be a Visiting Fellow at the American Institute for
Economic Research, in Great Barrington,
Mass., for the month of July. During
that time, he will continue studying the
economic collapse of Zimbabwe, as well as
researching how a lack of property rights
in Africa keeps most citizens poor. He is
also collaborating with Peruvian economist
Hernando de Soto in a new book which
explores the links between property rights
and human rights around the world.
Heidi Godfrey, assistant professor of
dance, presented her choreography in
Washington, DC in June at the Jack
Guidone Theatre. The concert was a collaboration with Amanda Kinzer, a faculty
member at Old Dominion University.
Tasha Rushing, associate professor and
chair of the Department of Religion and
Philosophy, was awarded a sabbatical leave
for the fall. Rushing will be researching
paranormal and mystical experiences to
determine what they may reveal about the
nature of reality.
Associate Professor of Communication
Carol Dykers is creating a documentary
about the restoration of Single Sisters
House. She would like to hear from
alumnae who have lived in the house. If
you lived in the house and will be visiting
campus this year, please let Carol know
so she can photograph you in the house
while you’re on campus. Carol also says, “I
will be doing some traveling this summer,
so if anyone is amenable to a face-to-face
interview of about 30 minutes to discuss
memories of living in Single Sisters, I will
travel to talk to you and audio tape the
interview for historical purposes.”
If anyone has a story to share or a photograph you would allow Carol to copy
and use in the documentary, please send
them to:
Dr. Carol Reese Dykers
Associate Professor of Communication
Salem College
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108
336-721-2740 • [email protected]
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Dean Wilson-Oyelaran: 10 Years
by Rachel Barron
D
definitely more learned.”
At the same time, she knows
One of her proudest accom-
oug Borwick, professor of arts man-
when process has to yield to
agement and music, vividly remem-
decisiveness, and that’s an in-
plishments at Salem was bringing
bers serving on the search committee
valuable quality in a leader. I
more diversity to the campus,
to find a new Dean of Salem College in 1995.
think that’s why folks respect
Wilson-Oyelaran said. Salem’s
While reviewing the candidates’ references, he
Eileen so much. Even if they
student body currently has repre-
couldn’t help but be amused at what someone
don’t necessarily agree (with
sentatives from 38 countries.
had said about Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran. “He
her decision), they realize
described her as ‘one of the few adults I know,’”
they’ve been dealt with fairly
students and building a greater
Borwick recalls with a chuckle.
and the process was open to
sense of community on the
all concerned.”
campus has been a major focus of
Perhaps the reference was commenting on
Encouraging dialogue among
her tenure, she said. This included
her gift for logical decision-making. Or the way
This spring, Wilson-
she peers at you over the rim of her glasses when
Oyelaran said goodbye to
bridging the gap between the
you’ve gotten out of line. Or her willingness
Salem and prepared for
College’s traditional-age students
to hear many points of view. Or her profound
a new chapter in her life:
caring for faculty and students. Wilson-Oyelaran
her first college presidency,
demonstrated all of those things and much more
at Kalamazoo College in
during her 10-year tenure as dean.
Kalamazoo, Michigan. As spring semester wound
much more solidified now. There seemed to be
down, Wilson-Oyelaran reflected bittersweetly on
some tension between them when I first came.
her time at Salem.
Now I think we are more of a community. I
“I think that one of Eileen’s many strengths
is her ability to understand and facilitate the
process of decision-making,” said Dr. Wayne
Eileen with her husband and
father (seated).
The things she’ll miss most are the people
and the adults in the Continuing
Studies program. “The relationships between the two groups are
credit Dean (Alice) Patterson (of the Continuing
Studies program) for much of that.”
Burkette, who served with Wilson-Oyelaran as a
– students, faculty and alumnae – as well as the
Vice President of the Academy and College. “Of-
beauty of the campus, she said. “You can’t spend
ten in higher education, the process used to make
10 years at a place and not be deeply impacted.
Dean Wilson-Oyelaran: Enrollment in the
a decision is just as important as the decision
I’ve made wonderful friends, learned a tremen-
graduate education program doubled, and other
itself. Eileen can manage a process with fairness,
dous amount, and I have a deep, deep respect
departments are now considering adding gradu-
attention to detail, and a willingness to hear dif-
for what is accomplished at a women’s college.
ate study. Overall enrollment among traditional
ferent points of view and learn from all of them.
I don’t know that I’d say I’m wiser, but I am
students increased 16 percent, and the number of
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There were many other achievements under
Salem College
full-time Continuing Studies students also grew.
The College completely renovated the science
laboratories, developed an international business program at Oxford University, created the
Women in Science program and established the
Salem College Center for Women Writers and
new degrees in the School of Music.
Caring for Students and Faculty
Rebecca Dunn, associate professor of biology and coordinator of the Women in Science
program, said what she will miss most about
Wilson-Oyelaran is her deep compassion for
Salem students and faculty. Her devotion was
especially evident last year when biology lab
assistant Donna Holder passed away after being
diagnosed with leukemia just two weeks earlier.
The dean came to the hospital every day, not
Wilson-Oyelaran speaking with international students.
only showing concern for Holder and her family,
of Growth and Change
most prestigious leadership training programs in
higher education. She spent her fellowship year
working with the President and Provost of Wake
Forest University. Other honors included the
Kent Fellowship; the Ford Foundation National
but also the faculty and students who were keeping
will encourage the students to come together for
Fellowship for graduate study; the Gender Equity
a bedside vigil, Dunn said. “She sat with us, and
dialogue. “The world that these students are going
Architect Award by the American Association of
her presence was such a welcome warmth. When
out to is a very, very multicultural world, and
Colleges of Teacher Education, and the Salvation
she found out the hospital chaplain had only vis-
learning with people whose views are very different
Army’s Strong, Smart, Bold Award in recognition
ited once, she arranged for (interim Salem campus
from your own is crucial. I’m concerned that, as
of her service to women and girls in Winston-Sa-
minister) Laura Elliott to come. She arranged for
a culture, we don’t listen well to each other. We
lem and Forsyth County.
the entire funeral to be at Salem. She went far
often only want to talk to people who think the
above and beyond a dean’s responsibilities. Not
same way we do. What will happen to us as a cul-
of her most invaluable experiences at Salem, she
many deans would have done what she did.”
ture if we don’t listen to each other and rationally
said. “I assumed responsibility for Student Affairs
think about what a person tells us?”
five years ago, and then being named a Vice
Wilson-Oyelaran has a lighter side to her as
well, Dunn said. “The way she keeps us all in
line, looking at us over those glasses, is just precious,” Dunn said.
During her first semester of teaching at Salem,
Expanding beyond academics has been one
President of the Academy and College allowed
Expanding Beyond Academics
Wilson-Oyelaran came to Salem with many
me to impact the campus in a more global way. I
have had to step back and see the whole institu-
scholarly achievements already under her belt. Born
tion, not just the academic part of it.” During
Dunn said, she was summoned to the Dean’s office.
in Los Angeles, she earned her B.A. in sociology
President Julianne Still Thrift’s sabbatical during
She went with some trepidation, wondering what
from Pomona College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in
part of the 2003-2004 academic year, Wilson-
she might have done wrong. “She told me I needed
education from the Claremont Graduate University
Oyelaran and fellow Vice President Burkette
a wardrobe change. She said, ‘I saw you over the
in California. She served as associate professor and
served as acting presidents. Wilson-Oyelaran has
weekend wearing a shirt with another college’s
chair of the department of education at Winston-
also had a hand in fund-raising, student recruit-
name on it!’ The next day, I bought a Salem t-shirt
Salem State University and as a visiting scholar in
ment and applying for grants – all things she
and wore it over to her office for inspection!”
education at North Carolina Wesleyan College. She
must oversee and participate in at Kalamazoo.
At Kalamazoo, Wilson-Oyelaran will once again
also taught in the departments of education and
She is well equipped to make the transition,
be challenged to build community on a college
psychology at the University of Ife (now known as
President Thrift said. “Eileen is a woman of
campus. Although the college has a superb reputa-
Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria for 14
extraordinary intellect, unwavering courage of her
tion for sending students abroad – more than 80
years, serving as acting head of the department of
convictions, passionate dedication to her students
percent study overseas during their junior year
psychology there for five years. While in Nigeria
and her colleagues and undaunted optimism. In
– the campus itself is not very diverse, she said. Re-
she served as a consultant for UNICEF (Nigeria) in
her ten years at Salem, she has created stability and
integrating the seniors into campus life after they
the area of early childhood development.
built high expectations. She has allowed all of us to
have been away is a particular challenge, she said.
Just as she did at Salem, Wilson-Oyelaran
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Her numerous awards included the American
Council on Education Fellowship, one of the
dream bigger and to trust our capacity to achieve
our greatest goals. She is a shining star!”
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Branding Program
Reach within. Shape the future.
By creating a tag line or theme line,
we help set Salem apart from its many competitors.
T
hese days it’s not uncommon to hear people talk about
“branding” a business or an organization. No, it’s not as
brutal as it sounds: It’s marketing jargon for what busi-
Ready, Set, Brand
In spring 2004, Salem Academy and College contracted with
Cognitive Marketing (of New York) to kick off the branding
nesses and organizations are doing to make themselves stand out
process. After interviewing more than 177 administrators, current
among their competitors.
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Salem needs your help to “build our brand” (another marketing
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the “brand theme line.”
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Essentially this is what branding is all about: Tell
Why is this important? Because by doing some-
your story consistently and thoroughly. Over time
thing as simple as placing a sticker on your car,
people will remember what is best about you,
you can show you’re proud of Salem. At the
and ultimately, why they should choose you
same time, you are “increasing our visibility”
over a similar competitor. CM introduced
and helping Salem be “top of mind” among
— and Salem faculty, staff and trustees
prospective students!
have approved — the theme line “Reach
There are thousands of small, private
within. Shape the future.” This is our
liberal arts colleges in the United States,
way of explaining, in just a few words,
that a Salem education will compel a young
and several hundred in the Southeast alone.
woman to look deeply into herself. Her time
Although we would love to believe that being a
at Salem will be not only dedicated to educating
women’s college makes us an attractive choice for
the mind, but knowing herself and how she can make
high school seniors, most young women still gravitate
toward co-ed institutions. In fact, only 3 percent of graduating high
school seniors pursue their educations at women’s colleges.
Information about colleges is bombarding today’s talented young
women. Salem will be only one of dozens, even hundreds, of schools
appealing to each of these prospective students. By creating a “tag line”
her own unique contribution to the world.
Now it’s time to “move the brand forward.” We will be sharing
our progress with you, and we may even ask you to help out from
time to time.
In the meantime, please put this “sticker” on your car. It may
or “theme line” (more jargon that basically means “a brief description
seem like a trivial thing to do, but it will go a long way in building
of the experience students will have at Salem”), we help set Salem apart
the College’s presence in your community.
from its many competitors. Oh, and there’s one more catch: your
theme line has to be different from every other college’s theme line!
This is much more challenging than you might suspect.
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St. Petersburg...Japan...
Russian CS student follows her former
teacher to Salem’s School of Music
It was while working for a ballet company in
Japan that Bakhireva began seriously considering
taking time off to get more extensive vocal training, which she’d never really had. As the ballet’s
When you meet Nadia Bakhireva C’08 on
only singer, Bakhireva performed in shows every
the Salem College campus for the first time, she
day, sometimes more than one, and also did con-
seems soft-spoken, even shy. The Continuing
certs in other cities. One time, Bakhireva was to
Studies student, who just finished her first year
give a concert by herself in a distant city. She trav-
at Salem, smiles easily and speaks quiet Eng-
eled to her destination by bus, and was told that
lish with a rich and lilting Russian accent. Few
someone would meet her at the station. “They
would guess that Salem is only the latest stop of
told me the bus had a few stops in the other city,
an adventurous life that has taken her from St.
and they told me the name of my stop.” When she
Petersburg to Japan to Rome, and now to the
heard the name of the stop, she got off the bus.
practice rooms of the Salem Fine Arts Center.
Bakhireva grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia, a world mecca for the performing arts, and
somewhere. I didn’t know what to do. Fortu-
attended a theatre academy where she says the
nately at that time I spoke some Japanese, and I
emphasis “was more on acting than music. It was
asked some of the people around. They said, ‘You
a little of musical theatre, but not much.”
After earning the equivalent of a master’s
degree, Bakhireva started working
know, actually with this name there are three
stops. Which do you need?’ I said, ‘Oh my God,
I have no idea!’ I had no money. I only came to
with professional musical theatres.
sing. I had a performance that evening. I had to
A natural curiosity about the world
be there somehow.”
emerged, inspiring her to seek positions all over the world.
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“I waited, and nobody came, nobody met me.
It was my first time in a strange city in Japan
Bakhireva began picking her way through the
city looking for the correct station. Each person
Salem College
she talked to got her a block or two farther along
lessons. There was only one problem: Caprilli no
place to live. “I like this place,” she says. “I heard
until finally she found the people who were to
longer lived in Rome. By this time, she had taken
before that it has beautiful nature, the mountains
meet her. “I was on time at least for the concert,”
the teaching position at Salem College. Rather
and the ocean and everything, but it’s really
she says.
than giving up on her tentative plans, or perhaps
beautiful. People here are very nice, very kind. I
finding another voice teacher (“impossible,”
would say it’s the most help which I’ve received
her lack of vocal training. “I felt like I needed
Bakhireva says), she uprooted herself again, this
in my life! People just passing by – ‘Oh, you
a music education, the voice technique and
time destined for Winston-Salem.
don’t have a dollar? I have, I can give you’ – I’ve
The more she worked, the more she regretted
never had it before.”
everything,” she says. The ballet company’s pro-
The move to America was
ducer told her about maestro Joseph Giardina,
difficult. Like most of Salem’s
a renowned pianist and teacher working out of
international students, it took
surprised to learn how Bakhi-
Rome. Without question, Bakhireva (who says
several months for Bakhireva
reva came to Salem. Even in a
she spoke “about five words” of Italian) traveled
to obtain the proper visas.
community of driven, adventur-
to Rome to meet with the legendary teacher.
Figuring out the equivalencies
ous learners, she stands out for
Other students are often
Giardina noted Bakhireva’s self-taught vocal
between the American and
her nonchalant willingness to
technique immediately, and referred her to an
foreign educational systems
follow her passions, wherever
acquaintance with more experience teaching sing-
is always a lengthy process.
they might take her. Caprilli says
ers: an American opera performer living in Rome
Eventually Salem granted
that’s just who Bakhireva is. “She
named Barbara Caprilli. Caprilli, now head of
Bakhireva a semester’s worth
Salem’s voice department, remembers that “The
of credits toward her chosen bachelor’s degree in
is interesting to her, and so she’s going to do it.
people she’d worked with had gotten her into
music.
She is a wonderful performer, but she knows that
wants to explore something that
the more she learns, the better performer she will
some bad habits,” mainly Bakhireva’s inclination
Caprilli says, “I was a bit concerned because
to constrict her throat muscles. “When I started
I didn’t know how good her English was. We’d
be. She wants to learn as much as she can about
working with her, she couldn’t comfortably sing
always spoken Italian together.” She was pleas-
everything she can.”
Rome...Salem?
an entire octave,”
Caprilli says. “It wasn’t
that the voice wasn’t
right, it’s always been
a good voice. She just
didn’t know how to
do it. But she got it
almost immediately.
Right away, she started
to change, but it’s very
hard to break old muscular habits.”
Bakhireva worked
with Caprilli for a few
months, during which
Caprilli says her student
made “tremendous
progress,” and then returned to Russia to sing
for the Moscow Circus.
“In Japan I sang mostly
Russian folk songs, and some French, and in the
circus I sang classical pieces – much harder.”
Two years ago, she emailed Caprilli, asking if
she could return to Rome to resume her voice
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Bakhireva learned long ago
not to be intimidated by
unfamiliar people and places,
or even of situations like her
blind journey through
that unknown Japaantly surprised to find
nese city. “There
that Bakhireva had
are so many scary
been working on her
things in life,”
own to improve her
she says. “I was
English, in addi-
so frightened
tion to continuing
that I already
to practice sing-
wasn’t frightened
ing. Interestingly,
anymore. So many
Bakhireva’s focus has
emotions, so many im-
shifted from musical
pressions, people…It
theatre to opera.
pushes me to express
When she
myself and to find
completes school,
something new in
Bakhireva says, “My
myself.”
dream is to live in
Italy, just because
I love that country
very much.” However, she is open to
staying in this area,
should she find work. She says that her main
concern is finding a job doing what she loves.
“It’s a second question for me, the where,” she
says. The veteran traveler of some of the world’s
great cities says that Winston-Salem is a pleasant
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Salem Alumnae Defy Harvard President’s
Comments About Women in Math and Science
By Bernadette Harris C’05
E
arly this year, President Lawrence
Betsy Smith Menefree C’58, who graduated
H. Summers of Harvard University
with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry, was initially
suggested that because of biological
a stay-at-home mother. Then she found work in
differences between men and woman,
the 1980s as a chemist and data processor at Lan-
fewer women are successful in
caster Laboratories, Inc. in Pennsylvania,
math and science. Ironically, Oy-
where she still works.
inda Oyelaran C’97, daughter of
been honored with many awards, including the
1991 Alumnae Leadership Award from Salem.
When Summers made his now infamous
comments on January 14, Cramer was working
with IBM and the Georgia Institute of Technology to educate middle-school girls from local
In the past 20 years
Atlanta schools about careers in engineering as
Dean Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran,
Menefree has seen her com-
part of National Engineers’ Week. Noting the
received her Ph.D. in synthetic
pany grow from 50 employees
numerous bright women in engineering who
organic chemistry from Har-
to its current 750, mostly
were at Georgia Tech for the program, Cramer
vard just a few months later.
female. The company now has
found Summers’ comments amusing. Regardless
Summers’ comments
a daycare center and offers a
of whether women choose to pursue careers in
were nothing she hadn’t heard
family-friendly schedule: 32
these fields, they should not allow themselves to
hours a week is considered
be deterred from math or science just because of
before, Oyelaran says. Though
Oyinda Oyelaran
she feels that his comments were “irresponsible,”
full-time. According to its website, Lancaster
she is happy that they have sparked debate and
Laboratories has been on Working Mother’s list of
Following in these women’s footsteps are
changes in thinking.
“Best Companies for Working Mothers” 11 times
Salem’s class of 2005, with 30 majors in biology,
Elizabeth Lynch Lashley C’61, who majored
in mathematics, received her master’s degree in
gender, she said.
since 1989.
chemistry, and mathematics.
Ann Wilson Cramer C’66,
Three of the seniors were
education from Clemson University and is now
another mathematics major,
surprised, but not discouraged, by
a Special Projects Development Consultant at
has worked with IBM since she
Summers’ remarks.
Clemson, organizing an “out of the box” math
graduated from Salem College.
curriculum for elementary-aged students.
Today she is director of IBM
When she began teaching high school,
women were paid less than their male counterparts, and it was hard work for women to prove
Maha Kadafour C’05, a
chemistry major, will attend the
Corporate Community Relations
University of California at San
and Public Affairs.
Francisco to seek a pharmacy
She argues that single-sex
degree and a Ph.D. in pharma-
themselves, Lashley said. Although her male
education prepared her to work
colleagues accepted her, their expectations for
in a mostly male environment.
women were lower. They were “willing to accept
“Single-sex education not only
you as a teacher, but they did not expect you to
gave me the confidence to pursue mathematics,
have the content,” she said.
[but also the] competence,” Cramer says.
She credits Salem for her strong math back-
cology.
Ann Wilson Cramer
A campus leader during her education at
According to Kadafour, the
pharmacy field is now composed
of 67 percent women due to the flexible work
schedule many pharmacies offer of 12-hour
days for four days a week She noted, however,
ground, which helped her establish herself in a
Salem, she is now active in civic leadership in At-
that most of her supervisors during college
male-dominated field. In 1983 Lashley was the first
lanta, currently chairing Communities in Schools
internships have been men. “The number of
South Carolina recipient of the Presidential Award
— Georgia, as well as the Georgia Chamber’s
graduate students that are women are definitely
for Excellence in Science and Math Teaching.
Education Committee, among others. She has
on the rise.”
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Salem College
Edelman Inspires 2005 Graduates
S
alem’s Class of 2005 was fortunate to
host legendary civil rights attorney
Marian Wright Edelman as its com-
mencement speaker. Edelman, the founder of
the Washington, D.C.-based Children’s Defense Fund, was of special interest to many
of the graduates, who considered her a role
model in their prospective careers and lives.
Niya Fonville C’05, a communication
major from New Bern, N.C., was on the
committee that chose the commencement
speaker. When Edelman was named as a possibility, Fonville says she was determined to
see the children’s advocate at Salem. “She’s a
Kadafour said that coming to a women’s col-
trailblazer,” says Fonville, who will concen-
lege “strengthened my confidence… Just because
trate on children’s rights at the University
I’m a woman doesn’t mean I can’t be [in the sci-
of Miami law school this fall. “It was so
ences],” she explained.
meaningful to be able to look up and see
Kadafour’s roommate, Nida Rauf C’05, is a
someone who is one of the forerunners, in
biology major with a chemistry minor. She plans
my opinion, to see what she’s done and know
to attend medical school at some point and has
that I can do it, too, that it’s not impossible.”
looked at programs in Virginia, Philadelphia,
New York and London.
One reason she finds the sciences exciting
Edelman, a native of South Carolina,
went to Spelman College and Yale Law
School, graduating at the height of the Civil
compasses to navigate a world that is reinventing
itself at an unpredictable pace both technologically and politically.
My generation learned that to accomplish
is because they are male-dominated, making her
Rights movement. She went to work for the
success in the field a challenge. Rauf said she likes
NAACP in New York and in Jackson, Miss.,
anything, we had to get off the dime—your gen-
to confront “archaic beliefs.”
where she became the first African-American
eration must learn to get off the paradigm, over
woman admitted to that state’s bar. “Think
and over, and to be flexible, quick, and smart
seems impossible or that difficult. I’m already do-
about what that represented at that time,”
about it.”
ing things [at Salem] I didn’t think I’d do.”
says Fonville. “Not only was she the first
She appreciates Salem’s influence. “Nothing
One of the graduates, Aquita Burrus C’05,
African-American woman to practice law in a
found those words truly meaningful. “When
certain state, but that state was Mississippi.”
she said that, I thought to myself, ‘Yes, we really
botany. She has held three internships in a neo-
Edelman founded the Children’s Defense
do.’ That’s kind of the foundation of my heart.”
natal intensive care unit, a pathology lab, and a
Fund in 1973 with the goal of representing
Burrus, a Continuing Students student, earned
biochemistry lab. She is now a teaching assistant
the civil rights of children in the legal system.
a business administration major and sociology
in Salem’s biology department.
The CDF focuses on helping children mired
minor. She had volunteered with youth in her
in poverty, disability, or discrimination, and
native Brooklyn, N.Y., and since moving to
also researches solutions to problems such as
Winston-Salem in 1990, but it wasn’t until she
poor access to health care and education. As
began fieldwork for her sociology classes that
the organization’s head, Edelman personally
her passion for working with at-risk children
lobbies Congress on behalf of children’s issues.
emerged. She now plans to get a master’s degree
experience. “You have to work just as hard and
In her commencement speech, Edelman
in sociology and work in the child welfare field.
just as long, to prove you know what you’re do-
spoke strongly against what she sees as an in-
ing (as a woman).”
version of traditional priorities and the effect
Beth Haymore C’05, also a biology major
with a chemistry minor, is concentrating on
During her internships, Haymore has
worked with more men than women (interns as
well as supervisors), but the biochemistry lab at
Wake Forest University was evenly divided last
summer, she said. Haymore said she enjoyed that
Though Summers may have outraged people
it has on the weakest members of society. “I
Hearing Edelman speak, she says, “gave me
something to shoot for.”
The class of 2005 included more than 200 tra-
across the nation, Salem alumnae defy his com-
believe that we have lost our sense of what is
ditional and Continuing Studies undergraduate
ments every day. As Oyelaran said, “I didn’t take
important as a people,” Edelman said. “Too
and graduate students. Edelman’s words inspired
[his comments] personally, because I’ve done it!”
many young people of all races and classes
and challenged, a fitting send-off to graduates
are growing up unable to handle life, in hard
who understand that their education in the wider
places, without hope, and without steady
world will never truly end.
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Development
News
BLIXT FIELD CELEBRATION:
Blixt Field
Salem celebrated the much-anticipated
opening of Blixt Field in April with a
large community celebration, which
included free games and refreshments, raffled prizes and an entertaining Academy and College “students
vs. faculty” softball game. The new
softball, field hockey, and soccer fields
also add nearly seven acres to Salem’s
campus. The field is named for Chuck
Blixt, the Salem Trustee whose family’s
gift made the land purchase possible.
Chuck and Leslie Blixt’s daughters
Allison A’96 and Katie A’00 were both
active in sports at Salem Academy.
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Salem College
:
Gifts and Grants
Richard J. Reynolds III and
Marie M. Reynolds Foundation, Inc.
The Richard J. Reynolds, III and Marie
Mallouk Reynolds Foundation, Inc. of
Winston-Salem awarded Salem Academy
and College a grant of $235,000 in support of the restoration of Single Sisters
House. The foundation awards grants to
nonprofit organizations in North Carolina
for broad charitable purposes.
The Dickson Foundation
The Dickson Foundation of Charlotte,
N.C. announced a $200,000 grant in
support of Salem Academy and College’s
capital campaign. Salem requested grant
funding for either the Dickson Leadership Fund at Salem or the Single Sisters
House restoration project. The Dickson
Foundation has awarded the grant as
unrestricted in support of Salem’s capital
Fitness Center
Salem students, faculty and staff joined in the celebration at the
unveiling of the new and improved Fitness Center this spring. At the
grand opening on March 31, students marveled at the brand new
treadmills, stationary bikes and weight training equipment and also
signed up for tours, watched demonstrations of the equipment and
even tried a few machines themselves. The new Fitness Center, a gift
from an anonymous donor, is one part of an on-campus initiative to
improve health and wellness at Salem.
campaign.
Winston-Salem Foundation
The Winston-Salem Foundation provided a grant in support of the play “Sojourn to Freedom: An African-American
History of Winston-Salem and Forsyth
County.” The play was written and performed by Leshea Agnew C’08 and her
mother, Sharon Agnew, who directed
the production.
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Development
News
Digging up the Past:
Construction Crew Finds Sisters House Artifacts
A work crew digging near the Single Sisters
stretching down the hill all the way to the pres-
served section of the outbuilding wall. Nearby
House in May made a surprising discovery
ent-day gymnasium. A “necessary” (outhouse)
were dozens of chunks of 18th and 19th century
– stones and pottery shards that serve as tangible
stood behind the wash house; a kitchen garden
pottery (often used as land-fill during that era),
reminders of Salem’s rich history, even as the
grew where Bitting now stands, and the cowshed
broken roof tiles that date from the Single Sisters
school moves into its third century.
occupied the site of the Refectory. The unmar-
House’s original 1785 construction and an unat-
ried women living in the Single Sisters House
tached brick wall that may be part of another
asphalt drive that cuts through the center of
operated a number of businesses from their
outbuilding.
campus in order to install a chiller loop that
property, including the highly lucrative laundry
will bring air conditioning to Bitting Dorm and
service for students at the Salem girls’ school and
been both a brick road and an asphalt road put
the front campus buildings. Looking at a 1787
the community. By the 1840s, the school for girls
on top of it,” she said. “It’s one of those incred-
map of the area, project leaders realized that the
had grown so large that a new wash building was
ible, tangible pieces of history that you discover.”
construction might unearth parts of 18th and
constructed. The smaller wash house may have
Taylor says she is grateful that “our community
19th century outbuildings. With that in mind,
been torn down at that point, or used for storage.
has the records that allow us to know what these
A construction crew began bulldozing the
the digging proceeded carefully until one day
Though Taylor and others suspected that some
when the crew struck “gold” – a four-foot long
artifacts might turn up during the construction,
stack of stones.
no one was expecting to find such a well-pre-
Based on the loca-
“It has been kind of amazing because there has
stones are.”
Excavation for the chiller loop will continue
through the summer, with careful attention paid
to the discovery of other
tion of the stones, Sisters
possible artifacts. The wall
House project coordinator
and other artifacts will be
Gwynne Stephens Taylor
removed and preserved,
C’72 believes that they are
perhaps for display in the
part of the foundation for
planned museum space in
the washing and iron-
the restored Single Sisters
ing house, which records
House.
indicate was used between
For more news and
1787 and the 1840s. The
information about the
wash house, behind the
Single Sisters House resto-
16,000-square foot Single
ration project, visit www.
Sisters House, was part of
salem.edu/sisters.
a complex of outbuildings
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Salem College
T
220th Anniversary of the Laying of the
Cornerstone for Single Sisters House
hanks to meticulous records
kept by the early Moravians,
Salem Academy and College
recently re-enacted, 220 years
later, the original laying of the cornerstone for
the Single Sisters House on March 31, 1785.
On March 31, 2005, Salem marked the 220th
anniversary with a rededication ceremony that
included hymns and a parade with the Moravian Band. It was a timely ceremony, given that
Sisters is currently undergoing a major
restoration. Daniel Crews of the
Moravian Archives and Nola
Reed Knouse of the Moravian Music Foundation
helped Salem plan a
fun and historically
relevant event.
The recorded
history shows that
on March 31, 1785,
the entire congregation of Moravians
in Salem gathered in
the Gemeinhaus (where
Main Hall at Salem College now stands) at 9 a.m.
They sang hymns and placed
two documents into a leaden box to
be placed inside the cornerstone at the southwest
corner of the excavation for the Single Sisters
House. The first document was a beautifully
scripted German certificate acknowledging the
importance of this event “in the third year of the
thirteen United States according to the Treaty of
Paris” and giving the daily Biblical text for the
day, along with the hope that the building would
and the men. Then, the Elders Conference,
Single Sisters, Older Girls and little girls
went down into the excavation and formed
a circle around the cornerstone. Marshall
placed the box into the cornerstone, and a pastor
referred to as “Brother Koehler” helped him to
cover it with another stone. The members of the
Elders Conference and the Single Sisters then
participated in the ceremonial striking of the
hammer. Standing on the cornerstone, Brother
Koehler prayed for God’s blessing upon the
erection of the house and on all who
would live there.
So on March 31, 2005,
Salem Academy and
College faculty, staff,
students, alumnae and
friends gathered in
front of Main Hall to
sing the same hymns
and read the cornerstone certificate copy
from the Moravian
archives. They then
marched down Church
Street, accompanied by
Donna Rothrock and other
Moravian brass instrumentalists, to the Single Sisters House
in the same order as our predecessors
in 1785. Our “Elders Conference” was led by
President Julianne Still Thrift, the Rev. (and head
of Salem Academy) Wayne Burkette and Dean
Eileen Wilson-Oyelaran. Inzer Byers,
professor emerita
of history, led the
Single Sisters choir.
shall carrying the lead box), the Single Sisters,
After gathering around the
southwest corner
of Single Sisters
House, they sang
more hymns, and
rededicated the
building through a
ceremony that blessed
the restoration and
new life of the Single
Older Girls and little girls, the other women
Sisters. House.
be erected safely and in peace. The second paper
contained a listing of all of the church officials
and the Single Sisters, Older Girls and Great Girls
(younger children) in Wachovia on March 31,
1785.
After singing several more hymns, they
marched to the site of the new building in the
following order: the trombonists, the boys, the
Elders Conference (with Frederick William Mar-
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Congregation Returns
Chest to Single Sisters House
The Salem Congregation, which includes 12
Moravian churches in Winston-Salem, recently
donated an antique blanket chest to Salem Academy and College for the Single Sisters House.
The chest was discovered in the attic of
the Vosterer’s House on Main Street by Mark
Leinbach, the business manager of the Salem
Congregation. Charles Hemrick, a member of
the Salem Congregation Board of Trustees, and
Leinbach noticed the words “Single Sisters”
written on the bottom. Wayne Shugart, president
of the Salem Congregation Board of Trustees,
notified President Julianne Still Thrift that the
Congregation wanted to return the chest.
“Salem Academy and College is delighted to
have this wonderful antique chest, which will
be displayed with a plaque commemorating the
gift. Records tell us the ‘Salem Congregation
made a great gift of the Sisters House to Salem
Academy and College in 1910.’ This blanket chest
is yet another great gift from the Salem Congregation,” said Thrift.
Limited Edition Salem Prints
The Salem Academy and College Development
Office is pleased to offer these limited edition
signed prints to President’s Council members
who increase their giving to Salem. Each piece is
signed and numbered by the artist.
The original textile work was created
by Elaine O’Neill of Raleigh, and was
given to Salem by Elizabeth Carter
Gray C’71 and Caroline Pfohl Carter
C’39. For more information, contact
the Salem Development office at
336-721-2607.
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Alumnae
News
The
Quest for the Ring
my yearbooks. I wondered if I might have found
the ring of a deceased member of the class of ’69.
Or maybe it had been lost or stolen. My jeweler
friend said it would be a miracle if a stolen ring
survived. Jewelry thieves usually pry out or crush
the stones, then melt the ring for the gold.
When it arrived, it fit me perfectly and I loved
it. I knew I had to track down the owner. The
initials inside said JWB. I got out the yearbooks.
Four girls had the same first and last initial, two
had no middle initial and another was JWB. I
knew I had to track her down but I enjoyed her
ring for the moment.
After Christmas, I got out my directory and
found her listing, she was now Jannet Wilson
Bowers Kramer, with a Florida address. The alumnae office told me she had moved to Wilmington
by Sandy Kelley Johnson C’70
calm and show no emotion. “I’ll take it,” I con-
(isn’t it nice to have a place to go to find your old
President, Salem College Alumnae Board
firmed. I now wear the ring of Eleanor Caroline
friends and schoolmates?). I sent her a letter so
[email protected]
Shaffner Guthrie C’24, who passed away in 1981.
that if she had sold it on purpose, she could ignore
My yearlong quest for a Salem ring was over.
my letter. I gave her my e-mail address.
I
peered into the jewelry case of an antique
jewelry dealer, scanning the filigreed rings,
the amethyst and garnet rings, the old signet
rings, the large oval onyx rings, so popular late in
the 19th and early 20th centuries, when my eyes
rested on a ring in the front corner of the case, a
gold ring with a gold crest on onyx.
This wasn’t the first Salem ring I had pur-
A couple of days later: “Ding….You’ve got
chased in the past year. I kept asking myself why
mail!” “I can’t believe you found my ring….It
it was important to me. I didn’t have to have
was stolen in 1979 when I lived in Winston-
it. But I had been elected President-Elect of the
Salem along with my baby cup and some other
Alumnae Association at Reunion Weekend in
precious pieces…. I’d love to have it back and
2004, a job I would have for a year before I took
pay you for it…. Thank you so much.”
over the position of President from Gwynne
Stephens Taylor C’72. And I wanted a Salem
“What’s that?” I asked.
ring on my finger. I didn’t have one. I had lost
She opened the case and handed it to me. The
my ring years ago, who knows how.
That’s what sisters do for each other. I have
been a Salem Sister since August 1966 when I arrived on campus. I will be one until I die. We do
for each other. We help each other. We welcome
crest looked familiar. “Can you read the small
I would be traveling some as President, meet-
letters on the bottom of the crest?” I inquired.
ing with individuals, small alumnae groups, and
She raised the ring to her eye and peered through
And, we have a trust, too, to make sure Salem is
alumnae clubs. So, in May 2004 I went to the
the jeweler’s loop. “S-A-L”, she said. My eyes
there for our daughters, our granddaughters, our
Salem Bookstore, where I found I could purchase
got huge and my heart sped up, “E-M”, she con-
nieces, our neighbors, the next generation and the
a 10-karat ring like the one I lost for $450. I
tinued. “Salem College”, she announced, “1924,
next. That’s what I’ll be working on the next two
wasn’t sure I wanted it that bad.
years as your president, your sister: keeping those
A.B. Degree.”
Gwynne Taylor had suggested eBay. I began to
each other when we move. We have a bond.
bonds between us strong, keeping Salem’s future
A tear began seeping from the corner of my
check the listings. Not just “Salem College” but
sure. Invite me to your towns when alumnae
eyes. “Can I try it on?” I asked. It fit as if I had
“Salem 1772,” “Salem Class ring,” etc. Then, in
gather. Let me bring my Power Point projector
ordered it. “What’s your best Sunday price?” I
December 2004, I had a “Eureka” moment! There
and tell you about what we’ve found and what we
bargained, after having seen the $90 price tag. “
it was on eBay. Class of ’69, going for a minimum
plan for the Single Sisters’ House renovation and
Seventy-five dollars,” she answered. “How about
bid of $15. Size 3, a pinky ring. There was one
about other improvements at Salem. Why don’t
$65? I offered. “I tell you what, I will meet you
other bidder. I waited until the last moment and
you take the initiative to assemble alumnae in a
halfway at $70,” she said, smiling agreeably. The
got it for $25. I knew I could find out whose
restaurant back room or in your home? Just a little
tears may have been visible as I tried to remain
ring it was. I was in the Class of ’70 and had all
gathering of sisters.
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Salem College
Leadership Banquet Speech 2005
By Margaret Pike C’94
Good evening everyone. It’s an honor and a pleasure to be here with you tonight. Thank you President Thrift for the kind introduction. About 12
years ago at this very event, Dr. Thrift introduced
me as the incoming SGA president, and I was asked
to make some remarks and to thank the outgoing
SGA officers. I was a very nervous junior who had
not done a whole lot of public speaking. However,
that did not stop Dr. Thrift from pulling a fast one
on me, but I will admit I completely deserved it.
Back in those days, I had a bit of a reputation for
being able to do a pretty decent imitation of the
president’s voice and I used that talent to make a
few prank phone calls and play a few tricks of my
own. That night, she turned the tables on me. I
knew I was next on the program and I knew that
she was going to introduce me, but instead she took
the podium and said my name and then sighed and
shook her head – completely exasperated. I did not
know whether to go to the podium or run for the
door. But after a very long dramatic, butterfly-inducing pause she introduced me as the person she
had been impersonating the whole night. I must
confess she got a lot of laughs and it’s just a theory
but I think the loudest ones came from the people I
had played pranks on the most.
Just like that night 12 years ago, tonight we
gather here to recognize the past year’s accomplishments of Salem’s leaders. And actually, we are
celebrating more than just what you have done. I
think it is more appropriate to say that we are here
to salute you for the difference that you make. By
coming together to pay tribute to those who have
stepped up and stepped into leadership roles, we
recognize the importance of taking responsibility, of
taking the lead.
Having served as a student leader here in the
past, I think it’s safe to assume serving in a leadership role is important to those who choose to do
so. It mattered to me and I feel sure it matters
to you. You take on the job because you have an
interest in an area like campus events or drama or
athletics. You step up and take charge because you
want to gain experience, you want to see change
on your campus, maybe you want to add a line
to your resumé – and unless things have changed
a lot around here, I know you don’t do it for the
pay. In all seriousness, the desire to change or
improve Salem and to change or improve yourself
are very valid reasons for becoming a student leader.
However, I hope you realize that the significance of
what you are doing is even greater than the sum of
those things.
If you are anything like me, when you first
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arrived on this campus, your main concerns were
‘where do I go for my chemistry lab’ or ‘what is
this Pit where I am supposed to park my car.’ In
time, you may have decided to become a member
of a campus organization and then a little later
on you may have decided to take on a leadership
role. If you haven’t already noticed this, then I
will point out something that the seniors probably
already know: Look Out, your time here can fly.
Most of you have four years on this campus and
on the day you move in, the clock starts ticking.
I don’t intend for that to have an ominous tone
to it, but it’s important to realize that each of you
has about four years to make your mark from
within this student body. This is your time; these
are your years to play a hands-on role in shaping
student life at this college.
Tonight, we celebrate the fact that you have
taken advantage of this opportunity and part of my
message to you is simple — keep it up. What you
do has enormous impact. It goes beyond handing
down thoughtful honor council or interdorm decisions that set precedents for the future. It’s more
than creating yearbooks or a campus newspaper. I
know firsthand that the SGA officers must carefully
and efficiently allocate funds to campus organizations. That is an important task, but what you
officers are doing is bigger than tackling a budget.
When the social chairs plan successful and entertaining mixers or formals, it’s vital to making this a
dynamic campus, but you are doing more than just
throwing a party. In working to accomplish these
countless things as leaders or members of campus
organizations, you do much more than self-govern
and put on events. You set Salem apart and you
put Salem on the map.
By operating under an honor code that is
respected and enforced by students, you create a
sense of responsibility shared by every member of
this community to make Salem a decent and honest
environment in which to live and learn. By hosting
social events or speakers on campus, you attract visitors from beyond this community and from other
campuses near and far. When many of you hop on
planes and jet off to do semesters abroad or at sea or
internships around the globe, or when you finally
walk away in your cap and gown — you know that
you take Salem’s name with you. But because of
what you do here — on this campus — you make
Salem’s name synonymous with integrity, intellect,
and success. It all starts here — with you.
So as we pay tribute the efforts made by each of
you tonight, I say thank you to every one of you
who has volunteered to serve as a class officer, to
write an article for
The Salemite or
take a photo for
Sights and Insights,
to participate in
an academic organization, to captain a sports team,
to run for SGA office, to serve on a judicial board,
to be a member of any organization on this campus
that makes a difference and they all do. I say thanks
to you for serving in these roles because as an alum,
I no longer can. Sure, I can volunteer my time and
support Salem financially. And I do and I believe it
is important to continue to do so. But my time as
a student leader on this campus is up. Now, I have
an eleven-year-old degree hanging on my wall and
its value is measured in what Salem represents today.
You are in control of that. So, I am so grateful for
the opportunity to be here tonight to see all of you
face to face and to say thank you because you are the
ones who shape Salem now.
I want to thank especially the seniors because I
recall this point in my senior year and know that
each of you can look back over your time here and
be proud of what you and your alma mater have
become during your tenure. The rest of my message is directed toward those who have a little more
time here. To you, I issue a challenge. As you look
around and see the faces of the soon-to-be alums,
make a commitment to them and to yourselves that
you will carry on and keep giving your time and energy to making Salem better. My challenge to you
is simple: Leave Salem a better place than she was
when you found her. If you do that, you set a new
standard. Each of you; each class. You can set the
bar higher and higher. And as you do, that degree
that will soon hang on your wall will become more
and more valuable as you improve Salem’s reputation in the world. If you see a need on this campus,
find a way to fill it. If you find a system that does
not work effectively, create a better way and implement it. Remember, it’s your campus and it’s your
time. If you think your sports team should defeat
your competitors, train harder and go out and win.
If you believe you deserve a job or an internship or
graduate school spot more than any other student
from any other school, stand up and show the decision-makers why that is true. By doing your best
and achieving all that you can during your time
here, you will leave Salem a better place than she
was when you found her. And we will all be better
off for your efforts. Thank you and congratulations
on another successful year.
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Alumnae
News
Alumnae Association Welcomes Its New Board Officers
Rosemary Hege C’79
Alumnae Relations Vice President
The alumnae
relations vice
president is
responsible for
coordinating volunteers for Reunion Weekend,
something at
which Rosemary
Hege will easily
excel. As senior
vice president in
business development at Wachovia Bank, she is
no stranger to building and working in a team
environment. Rosemary has been with Wachovia
since 1996. She graduated from Salem in 1979
with a B.A. in history and a second concentration in economics and management. In her free
time, Rosemary enjoys volunteering, gardening,
antiques shopping, the arts, traveling and going
to ACC basketball games.
Keesa Schreane C’97
Student Awards Chair
Keesa knows
what it takes to
achieve goals,
which makes her
a perfect fit for
her new role as
student awards
chair. Currently
residing in New
York City, Keesa
graduated from
Salem in 1997
with a B.A. in communication and minor in
business administration. She earned a M.A. in
journalism and French studies in 2000 from
New York University. She joined Smith Barney
Citigroup as assistant vice-president of marketing in the asset management division, where her
duties range from marketing writing to project
management and developing communications
strategy. In addition, Keesa has freelanced for
various publications. Most recently, she wrote
the January 2005 cover story for Black Enter-
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prise Magazine entitled “My First Home.” She is
also an adjunct professor at The College of New
Rochelle in Harlem.
Mary Salem Thacker C’72
Recording Secretary
As the new recording secretary
for the Alumnae
Board, Mary Salem Thacker will
have no problem
keeping track
of information
during meetings.
The attention
to detail her
professional and
volunteer work
has demanded over the years will make this job
a breeze. Mary graduated from Salem in 1972
with a degree in sociology. She is currently the
owner of Etiquette Inc., a social and business
etiquette consulting group in Greensboro. Mary
has worked as director of marketing and communications for KPMG and owned and operated
Charles Salem Ltd., a direct mail marketing sales
corporation. Her dedication to her community
has been constant. Mary has worked with the
John Motley Morehead Blandwood Mansion
Commission, the Community Foundation of
Greater Greensboro and the United Arts Council, just to name a few. Mary and her husband
Bill live in Greensboro and have two sons.
Theresa Kanter C’98
Student Services Chair
Theresa
Kanter is known
for her energy,
ideas and getting
things done. As
student service
chair, this combination will be
a great benefit
to the students.
After graduating from Salem
in 1998 with a B.A. in international relations
and economics, Theresa received her masters in
urban and regional planning in 2003. She has
worked for the Institute for Community Health,
New River Valley Planning District Commission,
Virginia Center for Housing Research and the
Japan Exchange and Teaching Program. Theresa is passionate about her community as well,
volunteering for Habitat for Humanity, Atlanta
Botanical Gardens and Room to Read. She
currently resides in Atlanta where she works as a
public health program Analyst for the Centers for
Disease Control (CDC).
Kathryn Wilson Mansfield C’67
Regional Representative
Kathryn Wilson
Mansfield’s efforts
to rejuvenate the
Winston-Salem
Alumnae Club
blend perfectly
with her role as
regional representative. She graduated from Salem
in 1967 with a
B.A. in psychology and primary education. Kathryn retired as an
early childhood educator from the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Public Schools after 23 years
of service. She has been a constant volunteer
for Salem, as class correspondent and member
of class reunion giving and planning committee, alumnae weekend volunteer and phonathon
caller. Kathryn has been active within her community and her church, volunteering with the
St. Paul’s church summer enrichment program,
Episcopal Church Women Bazaar Committees
and Habitat for Humanity. Kathryn has a long
legacy at Salem – her grandmother graduated in
1902, her mother in 1926 and her daughter in
1996. Kathryn and husband Jim live in WinstonSalem. They have two children, Anna Katharine
(31) and Haynes (27).
Salem College
2005 Alumnae Award Recipients
During the 2005 Reunion Weekend,
Salem College and the Alumnae Association
honored the following alumnae with awards.
Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients.
Deana Bass C ’95 Paige French C ’70 Susan Maddox C’65
Young Alumna Award
The Salem Col-
Distinguished Alumna Award
The alumnae
Alumna Service Award
The Alumna Ser-
lege Young Alumna
awards committee was
vice Award is present-
Award recognizes an
thrilled to honor Paige
ed to an alumna who
alumna who, within
French C’70 with this
has made outstand-
15 years of her
year’s Distinguished
ing contributions
graduation from the
Alumna Award,
to Salem College in
College, exemplifies
which recognizes an
the areas of leader-
outstanding leader-
alumna’s outstanding
ship, fundraising,
ship qualities in her
achievements in her
admissions recruit-
professional and
professional endeavors
ment, publicity or
volunteer services and who demonstrates contin-
and/or her volunteer service.
other efforts that promote Salem’s mission. This
ued service to Salem. There is no doubt that this
French graduated from Salem, cum laude, with a
year’s recipient has made Salem a priority in a life
B.A. in Music and went on to Florida State Univer-
that leaves very little time for outside work.
sity for graduate studies in music theory. She then
year the Alumna Service Award honored Susan
Maddox C’65.
After earning a B.S. in chemistry at Salem,
received her master of arts in education from Wake
Maddox taught math and science in junior
B.A. in communication and international affairs
Forest University in 1977. French started her profes-
high school, and later high school algebra. She
and went on to earn an M.F.A. in film produc-
sional career as a music instructor and department
then went to work as the director of laboratory
tion at Ohio University. She worked as a grant
chair at Forsyth Country Day School. She then
services for a chemical company that serves the
writer for the Talbot County Interagency Council
returned to Salem where she held several positions,
oil and gas industry. She is a true volunteer in her
and did media relations work for The Chez
including director of financial aid and career services;
community of Hobbs, N.M., where she serves
Group, later working with the Warm Springs
executive assistant to the president; dean of admis-
on several boards including the J.F. Maddox
Institute for Rehabilitation, Mission to the World
sions and director of institutional advancement.
Foundation and First United Methodist Church.
and National Public Radio (NPR).
In 1988, she left Salem to start FMS Associates, a
In addition, she currently chairs Hobbs Beautiful
contracting and consulting services company.
(part of Keep America Beautiful) as well as Com-
Deana Bass C’95 graduated from Salem with a
Bass has worked on Capitol Hill since March
2002, first as press secretary for U.S. Represen-
Salem was fortunate to lure her back for a second
mittee for Hobbs.
tative Howard P. Buck McKeon, then as the
time. This time, French covered a few departments
Maddox is also a tireless supporter of Salem.
director of minority outreach for the House Re-
she had missed the first time, serving as director of
Since graduating, she has been a Reunion Giving
publican Conference. She is currently the deputy
academic services, director of administration and
Chair for her class, served on the Board of Visi-
director of coalitions for the Republican National
planning and as chief planning officer. She re-
tors and also chaired the Board of Visitors. She
Committee. Her work on Capitol Hill obviously
mained at Salem officially until July 2004, when she
has also had a lasting impact on the College’s
keeps her very busy, yet Bass still donates time
retired and went back to her consulting business.
science department, securing funding for Jan
in her community and for organizations close to
But she still comes back to campus about one day a
Term travel for students and new equipment for
her heart. She has volunteered for McLean Bible
week to help ‘in whatever way Salem needs.’
the Women in Science program.
Church as a hiking leader, and as a Reunion Giv-
In addition to her outstanding contributions to
In addition to her work in her community,
ing Chair for her Salem College class. Bass also
Salem, French is an active volunteer in the Winston-
Maddox enjoys painting decorative art pieces.
founded Media Arts in the Classroom, and she
Salem community. She has been involved with the
She and her husband The Honorable Don Mad-
currently sits on the boards of The Voice Behind
Arts Council, Piedmont Opera Theatre, St. Anne’s
dox have two children, Ann and Ben.
in Washington, D.C. and Salem Academy and
Episcopal Church, Hospice, Samaritan Ministries
College.
and Habitat for Humanity – just to name a few!
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Class
Notes
What’s in a Name?
Please – if your name is
listed incorrectly in the
Class Notes, please contact
the Alumnae Office. We appreciate knowing whenever
you have a name change.
Thank you!
Salem College Alumnae
Office
PO Box 10548
Winston-Salem,
NC 27108
336-721-2608
[email protected]
1930
Salem College Alumnae Office
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0548
[email protected]
Although no members of the class
could attend reunion we did hear
from Mary Brewer Barkley, who has
been performing as part of a multiyear study examining the health
benefits of creativity. The group that
Mary sings with, the Levine School
of Music’s Senior Chorale, has performed twice at the Kennedy Center.
Mary says, “My doctors say I’m an
inspiration to us all.”
Class of 1935
1937
Elizabeth Gray Sarle, Libby Jerome Holder, Cockey Preston Creech
Salem College Alumnae Office
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0548
[email protected]
1939
It is with sadness that we report the
death of M. Garnett Saunders in
January 2005, husband of Georgia
Goodson Saunders. Our thoughts
are with Georgia and her family for
their loss.
1938
Salem College Alumnae Office
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0548
[email protected]
Marianna Redding Weiler lost her
husband, retired U.S. Navy Capt.
Herold “Hank” Weiler, Jr., on August
22, 2004.
Salem College Alumnae Office
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0548
[email protected]
Forrest Mosby Vogler lost her grand-
son Blanton Miley Vogler, who died
unexpectedly at age 34. Josephine
Hutchison Fitts and Sanford lost
their son Sanford Burton Fitts III on
September 25, 2005. And, Catherine Brandon Weidner lost husband
Mervin on May 14, 2005. Our sympathy goes out to all these alumnae and
their families.
1940
Salem College Alumnae Office
P.O. Box 10548
Winston-Salem, NC 27108-0548
[email protected]
For Reunion Weekend, the class of
1940 was four strong.
Katherine Ledbetter
Brown brought sister
Cora and daughter
Priscilla for the weekend, and they had as
much fun as Katherine.
Katherine keeps busy
with projects in her
retirement community
in Springfield, VA,
including starting
a wholesale/retail
business. Katherine
has four children and
six grandsons! Ann
Watson Coogler
and Helen Savage
Cornwall, roommates
Class of 1940
Mattie May Reavis, Ann Watson
Coogler, Helen Savage Cornwall,
Katherine Ledbetter Brown
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at Salem, enjoyed
reminiscing about dorm days. Ann
lives in an independent living retirement community in Hickory, NC and
Helen still lives in her Winston-Salem
home. Helen also enjoyed a visit with
her goddaughter Alice Coogler, Ann’s
daughter. Mattie May Reavis retired
in 1979 after 39 years in hospital and
school food service. For the past three
years she has lived in an independent
living community in Winston-Salem.
There was news from classmates who
could not attend the reunion. Mabel
Pitzer Shaw, a retired social worker,
lives in Mount Airy, NC. She writes
that since she was fortunate enough
to attend Salem she appreciates the
care and attention given to campus
and scholastic improvements. Jane
Bennett Mendenhall lost her husband
Edwin in January of this year. Our
sympathy goes to Jane and her family. Sarah Burrell Jordan writes that
despite a bout with congestive heart
failure she is doing very well and
still in her home in Athens, GA. She
doesn’t travel now but son Jim took
her to Florida for Christmas. Jim, a
theologian, teaches in Russia, Poland,
South America, and the U.S. Son
Bill is associate dean at the University
of Calgary, Canada. Sarah has four
grandchildren. The Alumnae Office
learned of the death of classmate
Helen Lineback Chardwick on January
23, 2005. Our sympathy goes to the
Chadwick family.
1942
Marguerite Bettinger Walker
23 Clipper Court
Savanna, GA 31410-2104
[email protected]
Dot McLean McCormick gathered
most of this news for me. She works
part-time. Dot plans a cruise to Alaska
with her niece in August. She checks
on Martha Bowman McKinnon regularly. Minnie Louise Westmoreland
Smith cruised in March to the Caribbean, is looking forward to a cross
country to San Francisco and a cruise
to Alaska. She keeps busy and active at
Centenary Methodist Church. Mary
O’Keefe Miller and Pete enjoy living
Salem College
at Covenant Towers in Myrtle Beach.
They have friends there and plenty
activities. Peggy Garth Bissette plans
another summer in Blowing Rock.
She plays duplicate bridge, paints, and
swims. She’s planning a show of her
paintings at Blowing Rock Country
Club. She reported that Sara Hester
Aiken died in April. Lib Weldon Sly
and Jack enjoy life at Stonegates
Retirement in Greenville, DE. They
make several trips a year to Seattle,
WA to visit their sons. Alene Harrison
Taylor and Pete represented their
retirement facility of Brandermills,
Midlothian, VA, at a C.R.S. convention in Atlanta this May. Marion
Norris Grabarek reports that Wense
still works, but enjoys their place at
the beach. Dorothy Dixon McAllister
plans to go on an Artic cruise in June
leaving from Iceland. Phyllis Gosselin
Slawter stays busy in her yard, playing
bridge, and garden club. Margaret
Vardell Sandresky still composes.
Alice Purcell is caretaker to her sister
and to her brother in Davidson. She
has fond memories of her music classes
with Mayme Porter, Miss Cash and
Dr. Vardell. Jim and I will spend the
summer at the farm in Gap Mills, WV
celebrating our 60th anniversary in
June with a family gathering.
1943
Sara Henry Ward
2206 Barker Street
Lumberton, NC 28358-3624
[email protected]
I need for each of you to send me a
card or letter and let me know what
you are doing. The only news received
was sad news. Classmate Marjorie
Wilson Gardner died Easter morning, March 27, 2005 surrounded by
loved ones. Our sympathy goes to her
family.
1944
Doris Schaum Walston
1000 West Nash Street
Wilson, NC 27893-2910
Erleen Lawson Wheeling writes that
2004 was a year of troubles and joy.
Two grandchildren were married but
daughter Lynn was diagnosed with
lung cancer. Lynn had chemotherapy
and radiation and after a year the tests
show her cancer free, thanks to many
prayers and skillful doctors. Mary
Lewis Lawhon lost husband Watson
in October 2004, Dot Langdon King
lost husband Peter in April 2005,
and I lost Stuart in September 2004.
Classmate Jacquelyn West Kerr died
November 15, 2004. We extend our
sympathy to all these classmates and
their families.
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1945
Hazel Watts Flack
110 Homestead Hills Circle
Winston-Salem, NC 27103-6446
[email protected]
Our 60th reunion was great fun.
Twelve of us were present: Emily
Harris Amburgey-Pidgeon, Molly
Boseman Bailey, Mildred Garrison
Cash, Helen Phillips Cothran,
Josephine McLauchlin Crenshaw,
Nell Denning, Jane Strohm Fay,
Hazel Watts Flack, Jane Frazier
Gray, Luanne Davis Harris, Margaret Bullock Knox and Elizabeth
Gudger Williamson. Some of us
attended Founders’ Day Convocation on Friday and received our
Golden Alumnae Pins from accompanying Salem Ambassadors. At Saturday’s lunch eight of us did a parody
of “Those Were the Days” and had
a class meeting before returning for
the president’s dinner that night. We
learned that Nancy Rawlings Baity’s
oldest grandson married in March and
her granddaughter finished her first
year of medical school at Chapel Hill.
The ever-vivacious Mildred Garrison
Cash brought husband Paul, who
looked well after heart surgery. Helen
Phillips Cothran and Bill were pleased
with his improvement after receiving
the pacemaker. Their granddaughter
will attend Elon this fall, three miles
from their home in Burlington. Nell
Denning is a bocce champion at her
retirement home in Albemarle. Molly
Boseman Bailey enjoys traveling,
especially to Charlotte to visit her
sons and their families. Jane Strohm
Fay enjoys traveling and attending
elderhostels. Margaret Bullock Knox,
despite rheumotoid arthritis, has
accepted a two-year term as regent
for the Battle of Charlotte chapter of
the DAR. She often travels to Florida
to see daughter Lynn Knox Poole ’77
and granddaughter Caroline, almost
ten. Josephine McLauchlin Crenshaw
continues teaching piano students in
Montgomery. She has ten grandchildren and enjoys an annual family
gathering each summer at Pawleys
Island, SC. Luanne Davis Harris
cherishes living in Memphis near her
children, Mark and Frances, and her
five grandchildren. Emily Harris Pidgeon feels fortunate to have her two
children and five grandchildren living
near her and Charles in Savannah.
She and Charles spend summers in
the North Carolina mountains where
they see Mildred and Paul Cash. Jane
Frazier Gray is active in WinstonSalem and travels to Chicago and
Columbia, SC to visit Gianna and
Walter. She went to Peru in 2004. For
2005, her family will visit Rolandi
Class of 1945
Front row: Nell Efird Denning, Emily Harris Amburgey-Pidgeon, Margaret Bullock Knox, Luanne Davis Harris, Josephine McLauchlin Crenshaw,
Helen Phillips Cothran Second row: Jane Frazier Gray, Hazel Watts
Flack, Elizabeth Gudger Williamson, Jane Strohm Fay, Molly Boseman
Bailey, Mildred Garrison Cash
relatives in Italy. She lives next door
to Lucile Newman at the Moravian
retirement center, Salemtowne. Lucile
had knee replacement but still puts
out the Salemtowne newsletter by
moving around in a motorized wheelchair. Elizabeth Gudger Williamson
“Gudge” boasts ten grandchildren
and three great grandchildren. Betty
Jean Jones Holmes and Jim live at
Arbor Acres, the Methodist retirement
center. BJ was unable to attend due to
a family wedding in Charleston. She
proudly boasts of a great grandchild.
She hears from Betty Grantham
Barnes who lives in a retirement
center in Lumberton, NC. Nancy
Bean Pitt often sees Molly Bailey in
Rocky Mount and reported that she
regretted being unable to attend our
reunion, as did Nancy Moss Vick.
Marguerite Mullin Valdo has five
grandchildren aged 22 to 12. She and
Alex live in Sun Lakes, AZ. Adele
Chase Seligman and Mack moved to
a retirement center in Rye, NY. They
could not attend since she had knee
replacement surgery in January. Marie
Griffin Snoddy and her husband live
in Summit, NJ enabling them to get
to NYC often. Marilyn Strelow Silver
happily reported that after being widowed, she reconnected with Dr. John
Groel, a widower she knew in her
twenties. They were married in March
2003. They divide their time between
Madison, NJ and Naples, FL. DeWitt
and I enjoy the pleasant lifestyle of
our retirement community. I still
do volunteer work and am grateful
for good health. It is a blessing to
keep in touch with Jane Gray, Lucile
Newman, BJ Holmes, and Nancy
Helsabeck Fowler locally and some of
the rest of you by mail. Salem received
the sad news that Carrie Day Davis
had died. Our sympathy goes out to
her family and also to Lucile Newman in the death of her sister Elsie
Newman Stampfli ’42 and Elizabeth
Gudger Williamson in the death of
her brother Lamar. It would be good
to be able to report news about those
of you who weren’t here. You missed
Salem in all her springtime glory and
a lot of fun!
1946
“Wink” Wall Cottam
301 Hillcrest Drive
High Point, NC 27262-2933
In July 2004, Salemites met in Wilson for lunch and fun. From the class
of ’46 were Ann Douthit Curry, Doris
Little Wilson, Senora Lindsey Carrow, Betsy Thomas Patterson, Mary
Lou Stack Husk, Bet Hancock Hackney, Mary Lib Allen Wood, and Wink
Wall Cottam. Ann Curry’s daughter,
Winn Currie Ballenger ’74 and May
Lib Allen Wood’s daughter joined
us. Also attending were Nancy Moss
Vick ’45; Jean Moss Fleming ’47;
Jean Sullivan Proctor ’47; Bernice
“Bunny” Bunn Pell ’47, Mary Hunter
Hackney Brame ’47, Becky Cozart
Smith ’44; Betsy Schaum Lamm ’49;
Mary Patience McFalls Dibrell ’49;
and Katherine Manning Skinner
’45. Mary Heefner Whitmire enjoys
gardening at her home in Salem, VA.
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and Jack
look forward to the 2005 Pinehurst
golf tournament. Peggy Witherington
Hester and Elliott moved to a beautiful retirement home in 2004 in Black
Mountain. Several of their children
live nearby and visit often. Helen
Thomas Gulledge lives in Charleston
has 13 descendants. Says she feels
young, no wrinkles, but has trouble
walking. Also says her handwriting
was ruined by taking history notes
from Dr. Anscomb. Barbara Watkins
Hesselman visits their children in
Atlanta and Beaufort and travel
North to their cottage in July and
August to get out of Chapel Hill heat.
Jenny Jenkins Todd and Tom are
busy with grandchildren graduating,
and performing in her son’s productions at ECU, and visiting family in
California. Gloria Holmes Long wrote
all is well with her in Pinehurst. Senora Lindsey Carrow and Doris Little
Wilson get together every few weeks
in Greenville, NC for lunch and
would love to have anyone join them.
Our sympathy goes to the families of
Vawter Steele Paull who died in Savannah, GA in December 2004, and,
to Hazel Newman Nading whose
sister, Margaret Newman Stroup ’48,
also died in December 2004. Bob and
I are well and enjoy our four granddaughters. The oldest one graduated
from Chapel Hill this May.
Betsy Thomas Patterson
1947
Carol Gregory Hodnett
2106 Sugar Top Drive
Banner Elk, NC 28604
Not much news to report from these
almost 80 year-old gals but I surely
appreciate all the news I do receive.
We lost one of our favorite classmates
in November 2004 when Betsy John
Forrest Dunwoody passed away after
a long courageous battle with cancer.
Surviving are her husband Brooke
and three sons. Connie Scoggin Nichols and Bill are the proud new grandparents of twin girls born to their
son Tony and wife Kimberly. Sara
Coe Hunsucker Marshall and Jim’s
youngest son Frank was married recently. He and his wife Lauren live in
Asheville. Ticka Senter Morrow and
John are well and attended their oldest grandson’s graduation for UNC in
May. Mae Noble McPhail and Sally
Boswell Coffer took a cruise on the
QEII together and reported it was
fun to be roommates again. Henrietta
Walton McKenzie lost her eyesight
due to macular degeneration. She
and Bill are doing well in spite of
everything and she is looking forward
to her family’s yearly vacation at the
beach. Lucy Scott O’Brien sounds just
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like she did at Salem. She has health
problems but she and Ed are doing
well. Hallie McClain Parker and Jim
are planning to sell their home in
the North Carolina mountains and
move to a retirement home in Chapel
Hill. Jane Mulhollem Longino always
sends a nice newsy letter at Christmas. She enjoys lots of trips with her
family and visits to their summer
home in Maggie Valley. Margaret
West Paul will be spending several
weeks at her mountain home at Sky
Valley. Jim and I are well and are going to the mountains for the summer.
I wish I had more news but at our age
I guess this is pretty good.
1948
Barbara Ward Hall
207 John Wesley Road
Greenville, NC 27858-1668
[email protected]
I am sorry to report the deaths of four
class members: Jane Morris Saunier
on August 6, 2004; Beverly Hancock
Freeman on October 27, 2004; Ruby
Moye in 2004; and Betty Jean Holleman Kelsey on May 9, 2005. Now,
I encourage you ladies to send your
news to me or to Salem. Mary Wells
Andrews Thomas and Harold looked
great when Ellis and I saw them in
April at an ECU Alumni Association
dinner where Ellis received an award
for Distinguished Service for ECU,
the first to an honorary alumnus.
Our oldest grandson graduated from
UMD in May and we were there.
Lomie Lou Cooke Bazemore and Carl
are renting a small cottage in France
for 3 weeks, her fifth trip to Normandy. She says Nancy Lutz Wood and
Carver have moved to Sylvania, OH
to be near daughter, but still have a
house at North Myrtle Beach. “Sal,”
Page Daniel Hill and Fred, Margaret
Fisher McIver, Barbara Fisher A’48,
C’53, and Judy Sampson got together
this spring. Genevra “Genny” Beaver
Kelly is fine after knee surgery in May
and is remodeling her home. She
reminded me that Kathryn Wagoner
Terry has been ill but is doing better.
Her husband died in January 2004.
Nancy Carlton Burchard and Preston
are moving to a Presbyterian Home
in Harrisonburg, VA. Barbara Folger
Chatham’s newest great grandchild
brings her total 14 “grands” and
two “greats”. Her shop is in Roaring
Gap, but she lives in Ronda, NC.
Elaine McNeely Leight had a grand
reunion with Margaret Fisher McIver
and Peggy Gray Sharp at Peggy’s
daughter’s home at Lake Norman,
near Mooresville. I saw Frances Miller
Sowers Vogler and Herbert at Home
Moravian Church on Easter.
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1951
Nell Penn Watt Spencer
3231 Turnberry Court
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
Wylma Pooser Davis
7 Estill Street
Lexington, VA 24450
Jeanne Dugan Greear and Cal, Nancy
Wray White and Gib, along with
Candy United Hare and Andy had a
Mary Faith Carson visited here over-
great get together in Williamsburg,
VA in April. The gals had lunch with
Janie Fowlkes Lake, who lives there.
Betty Wolfe Boyd, Augusta Garth
McDonald and I visited Martha Brannock Mickey and husband Mick in
Houston, TX in April. Patsy Moser
Sumner’s daughter Stacy married John
Jesso of Charlotte, NC in October
2004. Saso Morris Jones leads the
class with three great grandchildren.
Boots Lambeth Hinkle was the first
director of Greensboro Beautification in 1976 and continues to lend
her expertise. We extend sympathy
to Garnet Clairborne Martin whose
husband Bob died in September 2004,
to Bitsy Green Elrod on the death of
her husband Stanley and Molly Darr
Messner lost her brother, Ed Darr Jr.
Do your exercise, stay well, and SEND
ME NEWS!!
1950
Ruth Lenkoski Adams
Apt. 245, 300 Valencia Drive SE
Albuquerque, NM 87108-3090
Ann Linville Burns and husband Kent
live in Raleigh, NC. They have two
children and two grandchildren. Susan Johnson Hardage and Frank are
in Charlotte, NC where Susan enjoys
cooking, traveling, and walking. They
have three children and six grandchildren. Connie Neamand Kick and
husband Edward live in West Brandywine, PA. Mary Jane Hurt Littlejohn
is a piano teacher in Birmingham.
She and husband James are selling
their home and moving to Aldersgate
Retirement Community in Charlotte.
Bonnie Stonestreet Sturkey’s husband
Lawrence has been in an Alzheimer’s
facility for three years in Charlotte
and Bonnie is being treated for spinal
stenosis. Son Jeff and his wife live
in Durham and daughter Beth and
family live in Charlotte. Bonnie says it
nice having them all close by. Mary Hill
Taylor attended Salem 1946-48 then
graduated from UNC in 1950 with an
AB in English. She and husband John
lived in Jacksonville, FL for 23 years
and after John retired from SCL Railroad they moved back to Wilmington,
NC where they reside now. They have
two children and six grandchildren.
Sara Hamrick Thompson and husband
David live in Columbia, SC. They
have two children and five grandchildren, including twins.
night on her way to daughter Jamie’s
house in Maryland. Jamie is studying
toward a degree in early childhood development. Squeaky glows with pride!
Clinky Clinkscales Seabrook and
Cordes stay busy with community and
church. Their oldest grand has her first
job at Kiawah. Clinky, Cacky Pearson
Moser and Rosalyn Fogel Silverstein
are planning a beach trip to Pawleys this summer. Cammy Lovelace
Wheless and Jim moved to a house
in South Carolina close to daughter
Carol. Lee Rosenbloom Fritz and Bill
report two delightful grandchildren
at Boston University. They skipped
their usual London trip this year but
are considering sunny Italy instead.
Clara Belle LeGrand Barnard and Bob
are headed to Russia as well as the
mountains and beach with children
this summer. They continue their
gardening work. Betty Gwen Beck
McPherson and Don admit slowing
down a bit. Daughter Karen provided
the celebration for Betty Gwen’s 75th
birthday. My three children, Keith,
Anne, and Pete helped celebrate my
75th. WOW! How did we all suddenly get so old? Grandson Stuart is a
senior at Wake Forest. Saddest news is
of Nancy Lea Florence Rice’s death in
June 2003. Her friends rallied around
to help with her daughter’s wedding
in 2004. Our belated sympathy to
daughter Betsy.
1952
Carol Stortz Howells
1446 Riverwood Lane
Phoenixville, PA 19460-2620
[email protected]
Can you believe that most of us in the
class of 1952 are, or will soon be three
quarters of a century old this year? I’m
saddened to report that Bobbie Lee
Wilson’s husband Jim died last July.
Bobbie lives at Salemtowne Retirement Community in Winston-Salem.
Our belated sympathies go to Bobbie
and her family. Also, Kitty Burris Felts
lost husband John last October. We
send our condolences to Kitty and her
family. We also send our sympathies
to the family of Lahoma Poindexter
Gray, a member of our freshman class.
She died in February 2005. Our class
comedian, Lola Dawson Gillebaard
was a “warm-up” for Bill Cosby at a
University of California fund-raiser in
October 2004. She also serves on the
advisory board of their School of Medicine. Martha Thies Winn and husband
Salem College
John have moved to a condominium
in Atlanta. I had a delightful phone
visit with Anne Blackwell McEntee
recently. She moved to a retirement
community in Richmond, VA close
to the church where she is very active. I had a letter from Randy Wurr
Pleuger who was a German exchange
student in the fall of 1951. She has 2
daughters and 4 grandchildren. After
many delays our villa in the Frederick
Retirement Community will be under
construction in the fall, and we hope
to move in by year’s end.
1953
Betty Lou Kipe Pfohl
15305 Clover Hill Road
Waterford, VA 20197-1413
The Alumnae Office writes to let the
class know that Betty Lou was unable
to do class notes this year because of
her husband’s health. Sadly we have
to report that Bruce Pfohl was buried
May 13, 2005. Our sympathy goes
to Betty and her family for their loss.
Sally Anne Knight Seabury lives
in Iowa City, IA and would love to
hear from classmates. Fae Deaton is
working on a B.S. in grapic design
and a B.A. in art therapy. She is also
on the board of a local not-for-profit
program, Artszone. Fae, diagnosed in
December 2004 with diabetes type B,
is working to control it by diet.
1954
Betsy Forest Jones
9 Maxwell Street
Bath, ME 04530
[email protected]
Virginia “Boots” Hudson Beaman
and husband John, son Stuart, his wife
Christine and daughter-in-law Jane
(daughter of Priscilla Hendrich Quinn)
and granddaughter Katie took a family
vacation to watch son Mike compete
in Hawaiian Ironman Triahalon in fall
2004. Mable Taylor Hesmer downsized
by swapping her home with a younger
couple. Phyllis Forrest Sinclair moved
in December 2004 to Cary, NC. Selma Jean Calhoun Turlington, who sent
regrets for missing our last reunion,
continues her valuable contribution
to Clinton, NC with her work on the
City Council. Carol Glaser Dewese
and Sam celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary October 2004. Sarah
Sue Tisdale Ferrell, daughter Sarah,
son Vernon III and grandsons (13 and
16) stays fit with her exercise regime
beginning at 5 a.m. Marcia Zachary
Rendleman is doing well after treatment for small cell lung cancer, which
she discovered after our last reunion.
Doris McMillan Eller and Jimmy
moved into a new home in November
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2004 and continue
to enjoy their time in
Roaring Gap and their
golf trips to St. John’s
and Florida and a vacation in Mexico. Jean
Edwards Riddick and
Royce and Virginia
“Boots” Hudson Beaman and John are off
in November for Mississippi voyage. Jean
and Royce will spend
Thanksgiving in West
Memphis, AK where
Royce was born. Joe
and I celebrated our
40th wedding anniversary with a June trip
Class of 1955
to London and Greece
and a July family weekFront row: Irma Gatewood Goldberg, Bonnie Hall Stuart, Ann Mixon Reeves, Florend in Maine with all
ence Swindell Mitchell, Lynn Wilson Robinson, Sue Jones Davis, Sally Reiland
five children and eight
Second row: Emily Hall Bigger, Barbara White Peacock, Mary Todd Smith Warren, Ann
of ten grandchildren.
Lang Blackmon, Kay Cunningham Morshead, Emily Gunn Craddock, Audrey Lindley
Granddaughter Sarah
Norwood, Nancy Florance Benjamin Third row: Gertrude Johnson Revelle, Jane
is working in the Peace
Little Gibson, Marguerite Blanton York, Sara Outland DeLoache, Pat Marsh Sasser,
Corps in Zambia and
Lousie Fike, Many Anne Raines Goslen, Pat Noah Jones Fourth row: Rooney Barnes
grandson Jesse is studying in Buenos Aires. As
Robison, Barbara Kuss Ward Stabile, Francine Pitts Bachman, Allison Long Hughs,
always I welcome any
Jane Brown Pritchard, Ernstine Kapp Studer, Norma Ansell Hahn, Betsy Liles Gant
news so I can keep this
column updated. Be
sure to send any new
traveling. Coming to reunion for the
Bob who was recovering from knee
e-mail address changes to me.
first time in years were Louise Fike and surgery. He, too, has been a frequent
Jane Brown Pritchard. Lou drove up
reunion attendee all these years. She is
from Orlando, spent the night with
definitely on the way to breaking her
Jane and they came on to Salem. They
Mom’s 105 years. Jane had knee
Lynn Wilson Robinson
both
looked
like
they
were
having
fun.
replacement in March and was back
406 Carmen Avenue
Ann
Mixon
Reeves
and
Ned
returned
on the tennis courts one month later.
Jacksonville, NC 28540-7426
to Salem after being absent from our
Sally Bowen Reiland has truly finally
How wonderful to be together at
gatherings for 25 years. They claim
retired after 25 years as a Certified
Salem for our 50th class reunion and
five children and 13 grandkids. They
Addiction Counselor, and prior to that
to feel again the closeness we felt for
are selling their home in Charleston
probably 25 years news media,
one another. I know that all who came
and have bought land in a retirement
newspapers, radio, TV and public
cherished the time we had together.
center in Maine. They plan to build a
relations/information. She is now
And my goodness! Didn’t we look
settle down spot to which they can
pampering age health problems and
grand? We carried our years with
return after traveling. Their last travel
trying to enjoy the time left; we agreed
grace, dignity, beauty and a keen eye
destination was Trieste; Ned comwe were doing the same. Sara Outland
for our futures. I spoke with Freda
mented they had been most every
DeLoach and Tommy gathered with us
Siler McCombs trying to get her to
other place. The week following
and livened things up considerably.
reunion, I even offered to send
reunion, Phil and I traveled to Bryn
They are such a fun couple and share
somebody to pick her up, but she
Mawr to visit our daughter Amanda
the grandchildren stories with us. They
couldn’t make it. She is widowed, and
’79 and family. Our grandson Wilson
are proud grandparents of three
leads a pretty quiet life. Her three
and Ann and Ned’s grandson Timothy
beautiful girls and one little boy.
children are not too far away. A warm
had arranged for Ann, Ned, Phil and I
Tommy still sells socks. Emily Gunn
note from Jessie Krepps Farrington
to have lunch together with Reeves
Craddock was “pretty in pink” and
says, “I will be thinking of my year at
daughter, Disty. Disty and Amanda
looked at least 29. Her grandchildren,
Salem with fond memories. I attribute
became acquainted when one saw the
as are ours, are growing up. Emily and
following an academic career to
other’s Salem car sticker. The
John’s daughter Ann Carter graduated
attention and nurturing I received at
grandsons are good friends….what a
from the same year as Amanda. Helen
Salem, so it certainly had a profound
nice world. Ditsy’s husband is head
Carole Watkins and John Thompson
effect on my life.” Mary Scott
master at Wilson’s school. Bonnie Hall
came up for Saturday, and it was
Livingston Stegall sent a note saying
Stuart and Hal were with us. Bonnie
wonderful seeing them. They have two
she was not doing well and would be
worked very hard as chair of our class
grandsons to go with the two fine sons
unable to attend reunion. We do hope
fund raising. We were so proud when
they have. Marguerite Blanton York
she is doing better by now. Audrey
announcement came to all at luncheon and Mike arrived on Friday like most
Lindley Norwood Hart has been retired
that our class had donated $50,000 to
of our eager classmates. Their two boys
for some years so she and hubby stay
Salem. Thanks everyone for your gifts.
have six children and live close to
busy in the community, at the five art
Jane Little Gibson made arrangements
lucky parents. Kudos to Betsy Liles
galleries in St. Petersburg, teaching and
for a daughter to check in on husband
Gant and her awesome husband
1955
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Eddie. She was chair of our weekend
and did a thorough and fine job.
Friday night we held our class dinner
at the Rondthaler-Gramley House,
with appropriate wines, foods, flowers,
and willing guests. We visited in
groups all over the house, and enjoyed
more of everything. It could not have
been a better time. Betsy and Eddie
have four children, and ten grandchildren, and a mountain house. After
dinner, Betty Carol Johnston
Germany, Jane Little Gibson, Nancy
Florence Benjamin, Irma Gatewood
Goldberg led everyone in a sing-along
that was pretty nostalgic, and we knew
lots of the words! Irma’s daughter
Deborah and husband have returned
to North Carolina from Honolulu.
She is happy to have them near. Irma
is planning a voice recital at Salem, is
instructing in piano and is a church
organist. Betty Carol and husband Reg
are from Tennessee, where she moved
after two years at Salem, graduated
with a BuMS from Rhodes College,
married Reg, had three sons (a doctor,
a lawyer, and a computer company
owner), taught piano for 45 years –
whew! Sue Jones Davis and Roy
arrived on Friday, and Sue had to leave
on Saturday after lunch to join Roy at
Davidson for his reunion. Roy
graciously and generously honored Sue
and Salem by contributing $500,000
to Salem. Roy’s and Sue’s sons are now
running the coffee company, so they
will be sailing on the Queen Mary II
to London, visiting Paris and Salzburg
before flying home. It was good to see
Ann Lang Blackmon from Montgomery, AL. Her daughter Lang and her
two children are in Montgomery; son
Lee is with Ann and Bob and has MS,
but gets about and out frequently.
Francine Pitts Bachman had to leave
husband Jack at home fighting a flu
virus. Jack had a rare blood connected
transplant in January 2004. He has
done quite well, but this virus has been
difficult. Kay Cunningham Morshead
flew in from California. She has sold
the rest of the ranch and really settled
in to playing with tarantulas, growing
grapes for superb wines, being near her
two grandchildren, and chairing the
Tarantula Festival in Gilroy, CA. We
had not seen Pat Noah Jones in years,
but she came Saturday. Pat is retired
from medical technology. She and
Harry have three children and five
grands. Gertrude Johnson Revelle and
Guy were present. Guy is a two-time
cancer survivor, Gertrude is like many
in our class – we are survivors. They
are planning a jaunt to Australia and
New Zealand. Mary Anne Raines
Goslen was back and forth from
Greensboro, bringing Nancy Florence
Benjamin. Mary Anne gave a good
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testimonial to life, living and the way
God gives what we need. She lost
Frank last year, had fallopian tube
cancer when Frank was sickest, lost a
six-year-old grandson suddenly, has
recuperated from the chemo, and is
building a new house, and there is a
new baby grandson. Life goes on! Jean
Jennings has just retired from her various positions, alumni secretary of
Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 23
years in public relations at Eastern
Airlines, and 10 years in real estate in
Winter Park, FL. After some years of
not being around for reunion, Pat
Marsh Sasser and Dr. Patrick Sasser
came to see us again. They retired
from medicine five years ago, are
playing duplicate bridge and traveling
every chance they get. They are based
in Goldsboro and have one daughter
and 2 sons. Edith Howell Miller sent
news of two grandsons, and a son and
daughter. Edie lives in Ohio and says
she has never forgotten her classmates
at Salem and she loved us all. She has
had a year of ups and downs, but will
think of us during our reunion. Nancy
Florence VanKirk came from
Sherpherdstown, WV. Bob is in a
nursing home, but close enough that
she sees him most every day. One of
her sons is plagued with back pain
caused by a wreck 6 years ago. Norma
Ansell Hahn and Bill came from
Pittsburgh again. They have four
children and 6 grandchildren. One son
is recovering from a very rare cancer.
They too enjoy traveling. Roonie
Barnes Robison came up for the day
and she was a delight to be around, as
usual and had a good visit with her
roommate Bobbie Kuss Stabile.
Bobbie has been to most reunions and
is still in the hot knitting market.
Barbara White Peacock and Ward were
here again. I don’t believe she has
missed a single reunion. They continue
to travel and Barbara is still very active
in her church’s adult activities, arranges
worship for Alzheimer’s patients, and
teaches three courses at her church.
She and Ward are taking their 15member family west to celebrate 50
years of marriage; in October they will
cruise the Hawaiian Isles for two
weeks. Mary Todd “Toddy” Warren and
Lindsay enjoy traveling, visiting old
friends and their large combined
families. Between them, six children
and thirteen grandchildren. Another
prominent reunion “couple” is Bill and
Emily Hall Bigger. Bill toughed out 5
years waiting for Emily to get out of
Salem, so they could get married. They
will celebrate 50 years of marriage in
August. They have two fine sons and
two grandchildren. And speaking of
couples, I must mention Phil and me.
Phil believes he is a Salem graduate,
showing up for all our reunions,
reading the Alumnae News before he
gives it to me, etc. I don’t know how
many times he thumbed to Salem on
Friday nights along with Bill Bigger,
and then they thumbed back to
Raleigh on Sunday nights, so they
could thumb back to Salem on
Wednesday. And did you know they
stayed in the Dean of Students
apartment on many weekends at her
invitation? And do you remember half
of our class boarding the plane when
Phil and I took off on our honeymoon? Can’t you see that happening
now? We are still celebrating our 50th
wedding anniversary (I plan to make it
a lifelong affair). We have two deaths
to report. Virginia Hamrick Millican
died in Fort Lauderdale on April 11,
2005. I had spoken with her twice
during the past year and hoped that
she could make it to reunion. She had
told me traveling was difficult for her
but she would like to come. Additionally, Emily Heard Moore’s husband
Jimmy passed in early April 2005.
Jimmy was also a regular at reunions.
Although we live very close to
Kinston, I did not know of his passing
until several weeks later. Bonnie and
Hal Stuart attended the funeral. Our
sympathy to Emily, Caroline and
Suzanne.
1956
Sara Huff Tuck
5029 Crossbow Circle
Roanoke, VA 24014
[email protected]
We regret to announce the passing
of Sara Pate Chambers’ husband
Robert in August, 2004. Bob was a
great supporter of Salem and all of
Sara’s Salem activities. Two months
after his death, Sara was blessed with
their fifth grandchild. Daughter Dena
graduated from Salem in 1992, and
granddaughter Sara Stanley graduated
this year. Ann Campbell Dortch is the
pastoral care assistant at Holy Trinity Episcopal Church. Many Salem
women are members at Holy Trinity,
including Ann London Vaughn ’72,
who she works with at church. She
is also the “surrogate mother” to
Marty Pratt Keeton ’79, and her sister
Libby Pratt. Other Salem friends
include: Lib Prince Wentz ’47 and
her daughter Martha Wentz Peete ’75.
Ann says, “There is an immediate
connection (with Salem women) and
a sisterhood which is quite remarkable
and for which I am most grateful.”
Ann is planning trips to New York,
Denmark and Norway. Nellie Anne
Barrow Everman enjoys her three
grandchildren in Greer, SC. She sees
Ann Williams Walker and Roy when
they visit their son’s family. Temple
Daniels Pearson and husband Joe also
visit their son and family there. Both
Temple and Joe are great and enjoy
traveling. Nellie Anne had lunch with
Phyllis Sherwell Froneberger who
“is as beautiful as always” after so
many years. Nellie would love to see
you. Marianne Boyd Gore enjoyed
a trip to California to visit daughter
Rosemary, an actress. Marianne visited
L.A., Catalina Island, Coronado in
San Diego and the Joshua Tree desert.
Marianne reminds us to reserve April
21-23, 2006 for our 50th reunion.
Visitors are always welcome at her
new home in Banner Elk, NC.
Dayl Dawson Hester still does floor
aerobics, water exercise twice a week,
and yoga once a week. She enjoys
playing the dollar slots at the casino.
Sounds like Dayl has enough spunk
for all of us! Emma McCotten Latham
enjoys her new living room-bedroom
addition. Husband Joe has an office
at home and still brokers health insurance. Their son Steve and his family
have moved back to Charlotte, near
Waxhaw. Emma’s arthritis keeps them
from traveling much, but they are
planning to attend Joe’s 50th reunion
at Carolina in May. Our condolences
to Patsy Robertson Miller in the passing of her husband John in January
2005. Bible study and the book “A
Purpose Driven Life” helped Patsy
focus after the death of her husband,
as well as the Red Hat Club; “my
kind of organization,” Patsy adds.
Marian Myers Murphy and husband
Jim love to travel. They traveled to
the Canadian Rockies, San Francisco
and the wine country. This June, they
planned trips to Angel Fire and Santa
Fe, New Mexico. Betty Cash Smith
continues to teach piano and provide
piano and organ music in church. She
and husband Lloyd are active in their
church choir and host Bible Studies in
their home. They have three married
children and six grandchildren, two
families living in North Carolina and
one in Indianapolis. Agnes Rennie
Smith recently visited her son and
daughter-in-law in Hawaii (Navy) and
her doctor daughter (also Navy) in
San Diego. The visit included a 5-day
whale encounter that was the “experience of a lifetime!” She volunteers at a
local elementary school, in the church
choir and teaches fourth grade Sunday
School. Summer plans include helping
a vacation Bible school in Russia and
an Elderhostel excursion. Dot Tyndal
Benner is busy as program chairman
of Philanthropy Education Organization. She and Earl travel a great deal
and took their 6 grandchildren and
families on a cruise. Sara Huff Tuck
now has ten grandchildren ages 6
Salem College
months to 25 years. In my news, Ken
still works full time and serves on
the AMPAC board of the American
Medical Association and is president
of the local Rotary Club. His activities
have taken us to several cities including: Portland, MA, New Orleans, LA,
Orlando, FL and Osaka, Japan. I hope
to see all of you in April 2006!
1957
Jo Smitherman Dawson
Apt. 3, 1101 West Fourth Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
[email protected]
Several classmates, including Becky
McCord King and Juanita Efird,
visited Nell Newby Stallings in the
months before she died of cancer in
February. Nell had a stroke in her 50s
and had been in a nursing home in
Raleigh ever since. Kate Cobb McGinnis and Bernie were greatly saddened
by the death of their grandson Thomas
12 days after his birth in January
2005. Kate writes they are coping and
doing well. David and Beverly Brown
Stone use their flex-time share to
vacation in every state — near Mount
Washington, NH, and recently,
Wisconsin Dells and Macinac Island.
Alaska is next. Home is Cumming,
GA where Beverly is the organist in
residence at the Lutheran church.
Juanita Efird, on the go selling real
estate, was honored with a 70th-birthday party. The guest list included Pat
Flynt, Peggy Daniel Young, Ellen Summerell Mack and next door neighbor
Closs Jennette Gilmer ’54. Juanita’s
travel plans include a week at Oxford
University to study English country
houses. Juanita enlisted Madeline “Sissie” Allen and Pat Flynt to join her on
Salem’s Friends of the School of Mucic
board. Sissie moved back to Troy eight
years ago to care for ailing parents,
both of whom have since died. Sissie
worked in student development and
services at several small colleges, most
recently at Shorter College in Rome,
Ga., where she was a vice president
when she retired and moved back to
NC. Sandy and Marcia Stanley Clark
spend seven months of the year in
Sarasota and summers in Connecticut.
Katherine Scales Lethgo and Wayne
visited the Clarks for a week this past
winter. Nina Skinner Upchurch’s
second son Charles was married in August 2004. Nina attended a birthday
party that Bren Bunch Cheatham gave
in Chapel Hill for her sister-in-law.
Nina grew up with the Cheathams in
Greenville. Charles and Ann Darden
Webb Hill enjoy their 13 grandchildren (ages 5 to 25) and their retirement, except that Ann misses school
and is subbing at two high schools.
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Spring plans included a literary conference in Jamaica, a church conference
in Fayetteville, and family reunions in
July and October. Barbara Durham
Plumlee reported all quiet at her
household. One granddaughter chose
Converse College in Spartanburg and
had a happy freshman year there. For
Bob and Mary Hendrix Showfety,
holidays are major family happenings
— five children, five spouses and 10
grandchildren for Thanksgiving in
Blowing Rock, Christmas in Atlanta
and spring breaks in Vero Beach, FL.
Clifton and Carolyn Miller Payne
walked among the penguins at Cape
Horn during a trip around South
America; Chile and Patagonia were
tops, Carolyn said. Charley and Toni
Gill Horton enjoy Naples, FL, from
November through May and then
head for their cabin in Boone. Their
daughter is in Greensboro; son Chuck
and family, in Sammamish, WA.
Frances Proctor, with our class for two
years (before UNC Chapel Hill and
Appalachian State), moved back to her
hometown of Marion after retirement
from teaching. At Christmas 2004 she
moved into a retirement community.
John and Meredith Stringfield Oates
love their hilltop house in the woods.
Two years of physical therapy have
almost completed Meredith’s recovery
from two broken-bone incidents in
two consecutive years. R.E. and Cecilia
Corbett Black, retired in Wilmington,
were in Winston-Salem for the wedding of their granddaughter, Kristen.
A grandson is a sophomore at UNC
Chapel Hill. The family gathered at
Fearrington House in Chapel Hill
for Cecilia and R.E.’s 50th wedding
anniversary.
1958
Claudia Milham Cox
600 North Currie Drive
Sanford, NC 27330-9349
[email protected]
A dear friend and loyal Salemite Judy
Golden Upchurch died on April 19.
Judy lived with an outpouring of
love from family and friends in her
new mountain dream house after she
learned in January of her pancreatic
cancer. Judy loved Salem so much that
she requested memorials to Salem.
I hope one of you will volunteer to
continue in Judy’s roll as reunion
fund chair. Barbara Roland Adams’
husband Ralph has had some health
problems. Son Will and his family are
staying with them while rebuilding
their home, which burned. Son Graham and his family just bought a new
home on Lake Murray. After attending
her 50th high school reunion, Mary
Britt Ballard and Marion spent a week
in Myrtle Beach with their sons and
their families. Their son Paul received
his D.M. and lives in Columbia, SC.
Anne Fordham Baldridge Cox wrote:
“What outstanding contributions Judy
made to our world. The children of
North Carolina are better for her. I
was a bridesmaid in Judy and Fred’s
wedding. My late husband, Johnny
Baldridge and I had been dating for
several months. At the rehearsal party,
he told me in all seriousness, but
with a twinkle in his eye, that I had
seen the last of him if I caught the
bridal bouquet. And guess what? I
did catch the bouquet; I was the next
bride, and we lived happily ever after.”
Anne is back at work as a real estate
broker after disk surgery. Anne and
Charlie each have three children and
18 grandchildren combined. Martha
Jarvis Buck said that Judy was Miss
Byrd’s best English major and expected
Judy to become an author someday.
Martha and Jim’s daughter Miggy, an
artist in NYC, was married to a Swiss
oceanographer who is with Columbia
University. The June 23rd ceremony
was in Rapperswil, Switzerland. The
whole Buck family and some of their
friends went. Barbara McMann Daane
kept her family’s house in Danville,
VA hoping to get there from time
to time, but finds it difficult to find
time to do so very often. She still
spends much time fund raising for
various organizations, especially for
Park Center, an agency that serves the
mentally ill. Her daughter Whitney
is a music publisher. Olivia is still in
Aspen, CO with Ki-lin (5). She used
Dhu Jeannette Johnston’s son’s movie
“The Angel Doll” for her literary
club program. Dhu still works at
her nursing job even though she has
had health problems. Amory Marrit
King’s looms are singing! She is on her
fourth altar cloth this year. Her next
project is for the chancel of a church
in Winston-Salem where Kale often
helps out. It is always a treat to hear
from Dianne Byers Button and see
pictures of her beautiful family. Seth
and I still spend time in Ocean Drive,
SC. Daughter Anne has taken over as
majority stockholder in the construction business, and she makes sure her
dad takes some time off. We spent a
week in Spain with daughter Marjorie,
her business partner, my cousin and
her husband. Marjorie still lives in
Prague where her marketing company
is doing well. Please step up to take
on the job of reunion fund chairman,
so we can honor Judy’s memory with
a big 50th! Please notify Salem if you
now have e-mail or have changed your
address.
1959
Marcille Van Liere Deane
243 Tranquil Avenue
Charlotte, NC 28209-2113
[email protected]
Our sympathy goes to Marcille for
the death of her sister, Vicki Van Liere
Helms ’62, in August 2004.
1960
Outgoing Correspondent
Ann Luttrell Burton
Incoming Correspondent
Nita Kendrick Wall
2155 Commerce Drive, Apt. 103
Monroe, NC 28110-6730
[email protected]
Our 45th reunion was greatly enjoyed
by 24 class members. We missed all of
you who were absent. Hope everyone
will make the 50th in 2010! Those
who arrived on Friday got together
for dinner at a restaurant. Nancy
Gwaltney Dennis planned this for us.
Thanks, Nancy. Many thanks to Nancy Neese Bragg and husband Nick
for a fantastic dinner at their home
on Saturday night. We loved seeing
Nick’s wonderful artwork throughout
the house. Our class meeting Saturday
afternoon was held in the Rondthaler Gramley House. President Joan
Brooks Troy called us to order, and
we elected new officers: Joan agreed
to serve as president again. Thank
you, Joan! Nita Kendrick Wall will
serve as class correspondent. Carolyn
Ray Bennett will chair the Reunion
Giving committee. A new position
was formed, the Sunshine committee,
headed by Gwen Dickerson Infantino.
She will be the contact person for
reporting illnesses of classmates, death
of loved ones, etc. After new business
was completed, we went around the
room giving each one a chance to
share their personal news. Mary Alice
Powell Adams is acting, trying to find
work in films. She has two children,
one in Winston-Salem and one in
Seattle. Gwen Dickerson Infantino is
quite proud of her three redheaded
grandchildren. She sees Mary Stewart
Moss Darden at church. She is also
in touch with Ann Dunn Joyner
Randolph, who still works full time.
Elizabeth McLean Brice is doing
great after suffering a heart attack
three years ago. She enjoys her three
grandchildren. Suzie Cabaniss
Farabow and Butch celebrated their
46th anniversary this year! They stay
busy with their nine grandchildren.
Katherine Kline Collins retired from
the Carlisle Collection after 20 years.
She fundraises for Elon Homes for
Children and the Regional AIDS
Interfaith Network. She has nine
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Class of 1960
Front row: Joday Litton Blevins, Ann Luttrell Burton, Suzanne Cabaniss
Farabow, Jo Anne Hudson Kinnamon, Gwen Dickerson Infantino, Lou
Scales Freemon, Nancy Gwaltney Dennis Second row: Joan Brooks
Troy, Sally Townsend Hart, Anne Beck Bevan, Joan Currie Yelverton,
Nancy Neese Bragg, Carolyn Ray Bennett, Elizabeth McLean Brice,
Evelyn Vincent Riley Third row: Mallie Beroth Graham, Rosemary Laney
Crow, Caroline Easley Alday, Nita Kendrick Wall, Gene Wagoner, Mary
Alice Powell Adams, Anne Thompson Geyer, Betsey Guerrant Arnett
grandchildren and enjoys traveling. Our one co-ed, Gene Wagoner,
attended all of our events and was
great fun. He plays numerous musical
instruments and sings, too. He taught
public school music for 35 years.
Nancy Gwaltney Dennis works part
time. She enjoys her reading group
led by retired Salem professor Dudley
Shearburn and playing bridge. She
and retired husband, Bucky, live in a
downtown loft just a few blocks from
Salem. They have three grandchildren and their daughter is getting
her Ph.D. Mallie Beroth Graham has
two married sons and one grandchild. She volunteers at Salemtowne
and teaches adults to read through
the Sunnyside literacy program. She
reports that Marie Stimpson Presson and daughter have opened a spa
called “Impressions.” We were sorry
to learn from Mallie that Geraldine
McIlroy Kope lost her husband. She is
a member of the choir at the Home
Church. Betsy Guerrant Arnett had
a successful spinal fusion surgery in
2004, and she’s back in the gardens,
fishing with family and friends and
working out at the “Y.” Lou Scales
Freemon has three children and nine
grandchildren. Husband Wally still
works, and she spends time between
Greensboro and the beach house in
South Carolina. Anne Beck Bevan is
retired, living one and a half blocks
from downtown Lexington, NC. She
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mentors at a local high school. Her
daughter lives in Connecticut and has
two children. Nita Kendrick Wall is retired with three sons living respectively in California, Texas and Wisconsin.
She has one grandson. She writes a
nostalgia column for the Inquirer
Journal, which makes her very qualified to be our class correspondent! We
were told that Sally Bovard Thompson is planning a trip to St. Louis to
visit Frances Adkins Gay. Carolyn Ray
Bennett retired after teaching kindergarten for 25 years. She volunteers
with civic and charitable groups. After
serving two terms as a Thomasville,
NC city councilman, husband, Joe
was elected mayor last year. Their two
children and four grandchildren live
nearby. Sally Townsend Hart and Jack
live on a farm in Hanover, VA. She is
a patient advocate. JoAnne Hudson
Kinnamon and Bill volunteer once
a week reading to handicapped children. Jody Litton Blevins plays tennis
and mahjong. When Bob retires, they
plan to travel. Evelyn Vincent Riley
still teaches piano in Houston. She
loves that her former students are now
teachers. She has eight grandchildren.
Anne Thompson Geyer enjoys her
four children and nine grandchildren.
She is the executive assistant at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville. She says she is the
only senior citizen on the board! Her
father (95) dates, drives, is a gourmet
cook and dances! Caroline
Easley Alday and I traveled to the reunion together
and had a wonderful visit
there and back. She travels
a lot; visits her daughter in
Providence, RI, her son in
Charlotte and of course, her
second home on Pawley’s Island. Rosemary Laney Crow
and husband Sam divide
their time between Asheville
and Boynton Beach, FL, as
they have condos in each
city. She continues to play
tennis and bridge. Betsy
Gatling Holmes and Bob
enjoy trips to Raleigh and
Atlanta to visit grandchildren. Daughter Caroline
is getting a second degree
in dental hygiene. Bob loves birding,
and Betsy visits her mother (93) in
Windsor often. Word comes that
Harriette Dwelle Powel promises to
attend the 50th reunion! Meribeth
Bunch Dayne relocated from England
to France. Sarah Tesch Salzwedel
retired in 2003 after 32 years on the
library staff of the NC School of the
Arts. She especially enjoys her six
granddaughters after raising three
sons! Barbara Payne Nanney writes
from Florida that they survived three
hurricanes last August and September. The house made it through, but
the debris clean up continues. She
volunteers tutoring children and
adults. Harriett Lang Hornthal sold
her business in December 2003. She
stays busy with grandchildren and
loves to garden and travel. This spring
she visited Australia, New Zeland
and Tasmania. Norwood Dennis
Grinalds sent word that after eight
years as president of The Citadel,
John is stepping down. They will
have a sabbatical year until June 2006
when John will become headmaster of
Porter-Gauld School in Charleston.
As for Norwood, she is trying to settle
into their new home and loving every
minute of it. She and Bob went to
Alaska last year and missed all the
hurricanes. Norwood belongs to a
garden club, a book club and the Big
Canoe Artists’ Group, although her
production of watercolors has slacked
off a bit. Last, but not least, we all
wish to thank Joan Curry Yelverton,
Ann Dunn Joyner Randolph and their
committee for doing such a great
job with the reunion giving fund.
We raised over $25,000, with 60%
of the class contributing! Thanks to
everyone! I’ve enjoyed being your class
correspondent and wish Nita the best
as she takes over the job. Let’s keep
her informed of all our news. See you
all at the 50th in 2010!
1961
Joanne Doremus Hooker
3415 Medford Road
Durham, NC 27705
[email protected]
The class of 1961 was well represented at the Christmas Candlelight
Concert at Salem. Missy Allen
Brown, Cynthia Hiatt Kratt, Irene
Noell Turner, Suzannah Parker Early,
Dotty Thompson Whitlock and I
enjoyed the concert after attending
the Christmas Putz at the Brothers
House. Many of us had not been
back for a visit since our time as
students. After the concert we also attended a reception at the RondthalerGramley House. What a wonderful
way to start the holiday season! In
January Cynthia hosted a gathering
at Lake Norman. It was great to be
able to visit with Velva Whitescarver
Woollen, who was anticipating knee
surgery, Sara Lou Richardson Rose,
who has been building her counseling practice in Charlotte and Jackie
Reeves Timms in addition to the
group who had gone to campus in
December. Marilew Hunter Hord has
retired and after living in Texas for 31
years, has moved to Connecticut to
be closer to children and grandchildren. She visited with Sally Gillespie
Reid during a stop in Winston-Salem
in November. Cathy Gilchrist Walser
and Joe have had a busy year traveling
and visiting family. Missy Brown
and Henry spent time with Katie
Kochtitzky Ellis and Aaron on the
Gulf Coast in October. Missy saw
Sally Wood Creech’s daughter during
a trip to Raleigh. Mary Oettinger
Booe’s daughter and her family live
right down the street from Missy.
Remember that next spring it will be
time for our 45th reunion. It is great
to visit on campus and renew Salem
friendships. I hope to see all of you
then.
1962
Edith Storey Stadler
4415 Gladwood Place
Lynchburg, VA 24503-2019
[email protected]
lives in
Fort Lauderdale, FL and reports she
retired in June 2004 after 14 years
as wedding coordinator of Christ
Church United Methodist. She and
husband Jim took a two-week cruise
to Alaska in July 2004. Sadly we
report the death of classmate Vicki
Van Liere Helms. She died in August
2004 of lung cancer diagnosed in
February 2004.
Judy Shannon Ambrose
Salem College
golf. They have 4 grandchildren and
say grand parenting is the best! Son,
Rob was married on May 14. Carroll
spends much of her time caring for
her mother (91). Carroll’s gardening
is her therapy. She still plays tennis
and volunteer work with the Stanley
County Agricultural Extension Service
along with several other neighborhood
community things. Anita Hatcher
Helms lives close by so she and Carroll
see each other often. Send me your
new email addresses!
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Pictured above are members of the Class of 1962 who were residents of
Sisters House. This photo was taken in the spring of 1960 and was sent to
us (with the individuals indenified) by Sally Harris Jurney C’62. Thank you!
Seated on grass in the front row: Evelyn Dawes, Susan Lloyd, Beverly
Heward, Emily Jennings, Barbara Altman, Cynthia Randolph, Suellen Sample and Ginny Sears. Along the fence in the second row: Dot
Smith, Jane Thompson, Sandra Gilbert, Sally Harris, Ann Saunders, Gail
Ogburn, Carol King, Peggy Brown and Sally Spangler.
1963
Heather Peebles DeVries
5 Live Oak
Amelia Island, FL 32034
[email protected]
While attempting to gather information for this fascinating column, I was
dismayed by all the email returns “user
unknown.” Please take a few minutes
to send me your new email address;
I’ll pass it on to Salem. May I begin
by expressing our sympathy to Gigi
Saunders Buxton on the loss of her
dad, Garnett, in January 2005. Also
we are so sorry Virginia Anderson Davis’ dad Easley died in August 2004.
Becky Boswell Smith still enjoys
editing a trade publication and traveling. She had a recent trip to India
and will soon visit handicraft factory
owners in Vietnam. Nancy Umberger
Gorham has been busy rebuilding and
remodeling her Orange Beach condo
after the devastating hurricane season
of 2004. Nancy and Matt are off to
the Norwegian fjords in June as well as
Paris, London, Ireland, Scotland and
Amsterdam. WOW!! She also found
time to join a gourmet club and the
DAR. Martha Cole Glenn retired from
her job as a lobbyist and is remodeling a “new” home. She is involved
with field and obedience competition
with golden retrievers. Martha is also
involved in Arlington County and
Virginia Democratic politics. Catharine Eller Varnedoe lives in Savannah
with husband Gordon. They have
2 daughters, Nell and Elise. Catharine, an illustrator, rides her horse
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Sweetpea as much as possible. Loved
the short response from Katherine
Parrish Shelburn “still working…as
a Psycho…40th year, still married to
the same guy, 38th year, same house
31 years.” An athlete, she spins 3
times a week, plays tennis 5-6 times.
Has 3 national tennis championships
and 16 southern championships. Plus
Katherine had botanical and biological artwork published. She has one
granddaughter. Sylvia Gooding Ray
is still director of the Women’s Center
of Fayetteville, celebrating 15 years
of economic empowerment issues for
women and families. Robin Rhodes
Browning’s two children are now married. Daughter Christie teaches 4th
grade while husband Adam finishes
medical school. Robin’s husband,
Simms, retired about a year ago and
they are having fun in those “new togetherness roles.” Sounds like Johnny
and I who have enjoyed almost 5 years
of retirement and 40 years of marriage. Julie Johns Allen and Jim enjoy
Durham, Sunset Beach, and Blowing
Rock. They have a new granddaughter,
Charlotte, and I am sure Julie is still
enjoying painting. Marsha Ray Sherry
reports retirement brings a slower pace
and interests of studying oil painting, gardening, yoga, practicing Zen
Buddhism, and enjoying her family
and friends. She’s excited about a
painting trip to Greece in October and
then she and E.J. will travel to Egypt
in December. Carroll Roberts Sitton
and Larry love living at Badin Lake...
the country life. Larry continues
to practice law and has gotten into
Margy Harris Holt
1008 Ridgewood Avenue
Reidsville, NC 27320-6030
[email protected]
Travel is a top priority for Donna
Raper Stallings and husband Dallas
who snorked with sea lions in the
Gulf of California and look ahead
to Scotland and China. Irene Rose
Owen and husband Duncan live in
Richmond and enjoy four grandsons.
Irene visits with Barbara Gottschalk
Wiltshire, Mary Richmond Wilson,
and Anne Heath Hardage regularly. Alice Reid Digilio enjoys her work at The
Washington Post and is excited about
being a grandmother. Anne Romig
Decker works with the National Institute of Health focus groups developing
a children’s book on aging. She and
Jim enjoy traveling to Michigan and
Ontario. It was great seeing Frances
Bailey Crutchfield in Richmond. Her
son Henry is director of admissions
at the College of William and Mary. I
look forward to full retirement, enjoying eight grandchildren, and going to
Wake Forest games where I will surely
see Claudia Crawford Fleming and
Susie Johnson Stovall. Please e-mail
me soon with news!
1965
Daphne DuKate Clark
P.O. Box 27506
Panama City, FL 32411-7506
dclarkspcbfl@aol.com
Camelia Crowell Bosworth and Rob
live in Annapolis, MD and have
one son, Michael. Cam works as
the assistant to the vice president of
communications for the US Naval
Academy Alumni Association. Beth
Prevost Browne and husband Joe live
in Norfolk, VA and have two sons. Son
Eric will be married in September and
son Keith is studying art education.
Husband Joe is retired and working
part-time teaching. Beth is an instructor at Tidewater Community College
and looks forward to retirement in the
next few years. Janet Wales Brown and
husband Richard Johnson live in Dur-
ham, NC where Janet has her own law
firm. They have two children and one
grandchild. Robbin Causey Clark has
been unemployed since June 2003 and
is still looking for work. While looking
she has completed courses for AMA
certificates in Management and HR
Management and has now finished
her first semester in Medical Transcription. Daughter Joanna has bought
her first house in Wilson, NC where
she works for the Economic Development Council. Daughter Katie and
her three boys live in Oak Ridge and
keep Robbin hopping! Mary Graves
Edmundson enjoys living in Wilson,
NC where husband Jimmy continues
to work. They love visits with children
and grandchildren. Barbara Bleakly
Freeman and husband Jay are in
Nokomis, FL. Jay has retired from his
radiology practice; Barbara retired from
being a former art gallery owner and
free-lance consultant; they sold their
beloved North Carolina mountain
home; and they travel as much as possible. Their children and grandchildren
have moved close by which allows
them to baby sit several times a week
with grateful pleasure. Chip and Jane
Allen Hall live in Richmond, VA and
like to spend a lot of time at their river
home on the Chesapeake Bay. Jane
paints with oils and keeps active with
exercise and painting. She occasionally substitute teaches elementary
school. They have two children and
two grandchildren. Bitsie Richheimer
Harwell and husband Tom enjoy life in
Greenville, NC with work and church
taking most of the time. She and Tom
love being with their grandchildren
either in Greenville or at their home
in Alpharetta, GA. Buz and Betsy
Patterson Helms divide their time
between Ponte Vedra Beach, FL and
Blowing Rock, NC. Their children and
grandchildren live in Charlotte, NC.
Sandra Corbett Hiatt and husband
Larry live in Wilmington, NC but
are re-acquainting themselves with
Winston-Salem since son Lawrence
and wife Mandy live in Kernersville,
NC. Sandra says she had a great thrill
at Easter attending the wonderful Sunrise Service. It had been 43 years since
her first one as a freshman in spring
1962! Dottie Davis LaFar and husband
Marshall were sorry to miss reunion
because Marshall had a reunion the
same weekend. Dottie is planning the
wedding of daughter Mary Catherine for September, son Grant and
wife live in Columbia, SC, and son
Davis lives in Charlotte, NC. Wendy
McGlinn Lockwood lives in Macon,
GA where she has her psychology
practice and plays tennis. Son Frank
is a physician in Stockbridge, GA, son
Robert is an attorney in Huntsville,
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and husband Jimmy travel as much as
possible and always have a new “plan”
in the works. Harriet and Jimmy have
two children and one grandson (3).
Al and Patty Nash Wheeler live in
Blowing Rock, NC and have two small
independent bookstores in Blowing
Rock and West Jefferson, NC. Patty
hopes to retire in 2006 from her job
at Appalachian State University as
library development director. It is with
sadness that we report the unexpected
death of Blanton Miley Vogler (34) in
December 2004, son of Julia Miley
Vogler, and the death of Tyson Bilbro
in March 2005, the father of Myrtie
Bilbro Davis.
1966
Barbara Mallard
P.O. Box 945
Asheboro, NC 27204-0945
Class of 1965
Front row: Susan Smith Taylor, Susan Leigh Maddox, Betsy Patterson
Helms, Babs Bodine Reideler Second row: Beth Prevost Browne, Carol
Weidner Southerland, Bitsie Richheimer Harwell, Wendy McGlinn Lockwood, Jane Allen Hall Third row: Janet Wales Brown, Doris Cooper McCoy,
Linda Lyon Turner, Brownie Rogers Plaster, Catherine Hubbard Newitt
AL, and Chris has a full scholarship at
Mercer University. Wendy also has two
grandsons. Susan Leigh Maddox and
husband Don are still in Hobbs, NM.
They have two children. Beth Sullivan
Matthews is a retired English teacher
living in Raleigh, NC. Husband Neil
works with Community Properties, the
land development arm of FonvilleMorisey real estate. Beth was unable
to make reunion due to recent surgery
but enjoyed a visit with Mary Graves
Edmundson. Doris Cooper McCoy
lives in Durham, NC and works
part-time as a legal assistant. Daughter
Amanda graduated from Duke in
1999 and from UVA Law in 2004
and works for a law firm in Washington, DC. Son David graduated from
Wake Forest in 1998 and works for
GlaxoSmithKline in the Research
Triangle Park. Doris spent several fun
days at the beach with Sandra Morgan
Perry last fall. Cacky Hubbard Newitt
and husband John live in Charlotte,
NC. They welcomed their first
grandchild in January 2005 and sadly
Cacky lost her father in March 2005.
Sandra Morgan Perry, a retired school
psychologist, and husband Mike live in
Boone, NC. They spend time between
Charlotte, NC where both children
and two grandchildren live, and North
Myrtle Beach, SC where they have a
home. Knox Bramlette Pierson and
husband Drew live in Wilmington,
NC where Drew, PGA Master Golf
Professional, still teaches. Daughter
Sara and husband opened a restaurant
in Wilmington – Marc’s on Market
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while son Drew and family moved
to Wrightsville Beach, NC. Knox
and Drew have two grandchildren.
Brownie Rogers Plaster and husband
Bubba live in Shelby, NC. They have
two children and two grandchildren.
Babs Bodine Reideler retired from
FCC in Washington, DC in 2004. She
and husband Terry sold their home of
30 years in Alexandria, VA and moved
her mother out of a local nursing home
and they all moved into her mother’s
home in South Dartmouth, MA where
they are taking care of her mother.
Jerry Johnson Soechting and husband
John were not able to come for reunion
but reports she retired as a nutrition
program manager for Ramsey County
in 2003, but went back to work in
nursing. She is an underwriter for a
company providing support services to
the long term care insurance industry.
Carol Weidner Southerland and husband I.B. live in Winston-Salem, NC
where Carol teaches the academically
gifted in 4th and 5th grades for Forsyth
County. Jean Olive Snyder Stubbs
and husband Allston are still living in
Winston-Salem. No grandchildren
listed but they have three children.
Susan Smith Taylor continues as associate director of libraries at Salem.
Linda Lyon Turner is an art consultant
in Winston-Salem. Harriet Haywood
Warlick is a retired teacher in Whiteville, NC but stays busy as a piano
accompanist for several groups and
events for her church. She is also active
in garden club and Delta Kappa Gamma, an honorary teachers society. She
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Kathryn Wilson Mansfield
5124 Rockmont Court
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
mansfi[email protected]
From the alumnae office came news
that Betty Brock Whitaker lost her
mother on March 7, 2005. We offer
condolences to Betty and her family.
In January, Suanne Brooks moved
from Vero Beach, FL to Hilton Head
Island, SC after escaping unscathed
from two hurricanes. She is active in
the Girls and Boys Clubs. After five
years of bouncing between Lake Tahoe
and Santa Monica, Leroy and Peggy
Booker Graymer simplified their lives.
They sold their Lake Tahoe residence
and now reside in Santa Monica, CA.
Peggy’s son Bill is earning a Ph.D in
archeology at UC Santa Barbara and is
engaged. Bebe Moore Harris works in
the chaplain’s office at Duke Hospital
in Durham and leads a women’s Sunday school class on spiritual formation
at Watts Street Baptist Church. She
and her sister took a trip to Grenada,
MS via Tennessee and drove on the
Natchez Trace on the way home. Susanne Bunch Hill’s second grandchild,
Hannah Victoria Flannery, was born
in June 2004 to daughter Temi and
husband John Flannery in San Diego.
Susanne and David took a belated
honeymoon cruise to Bermuda last fall
and travel several times a year to visit
both daughters in California. While
sailing near New Bern and Oriental they have seen Hunter Gourdon
Corbett and Andy several times at their
river cottage. She met Louise Marsh
Parisier in Chapel Hill for lunch and
a fall visit. Louise has been involved
in supporting several community
non-profit organizations this year. She
asks that all Salem classmates keep in
touch with Salem. She adds, “we need
to gather some steam for our big 40th
Reunion in 2007, with high attendance from all our classmates.” Lucy
Mills Parsons spent a night with the
Hills while bringing her horses to a vet
in Mocksville. Susanne also met Lucy
one weekend at a large horse show in
Virginia in which Lucy’s daughter was
competing. Molly Leight is still rescuing wildflowers with master gardeners
and became chair of the Old Salem
Landscape Restoration Committee.
She “continues to butt heads with city
and county governments over limiting sprawl, saving parks, cleaning up
air quality, and fighting Wal-Mart.”
During the early summer she took
trips to Ecuador and the Galapagos.
Liza White Plaster’s days begin and
end with goats. Her dairy, Ripshin
Goat Dairy, is just a few minutes from
Blowing Rock. She is making chevre,
feta and molded cheeses and yogurt,
to be sold at the farmers’ market in
Boone and restaurants in the area. The
actual dairy is to be built in fall 2005
to be operational by spring. Any and
all classmates are cordially invited to
visit. Mayme Price Tubbs writes that
since graduation, she has worked at
UNC-Pemboke, taught French to
K-4 students and substituted at three
elementary schools in the field of
music, which she thoroughly enjoyed.
Now she is busy with volunteer work
at Robeson County Public Library,
book clubs, bridge clubs, and as regent
of the Lumberton DAR chapter.
Mayme and a friend plan a fall African
safari. Hopefully, she will travel to
Winston-Salem in 2007 for our next
reunion. I have been working with
Chris Coile Say ’71, and the president
of the Winston-Salem Alumnae Club
to reactivate interest locally among
College and Academy alumnae. I
volunteer at Salem often and serve on
the College Alumnae Board. Jim and
I have taken trips to nearby states and
also to visit daughter Anna Katharine
and husband, John Emery, in Chaska,
MN. For an anniversary celebration
we look forward to a fall tour of New
England.
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Allyson Bullock Sugg
P.O. Box 8
Snow Hill, NC 28580-0008
[email protected]
Patsy Mathews Reynolds and Ozzie
were busy in 2004 with a mission
trip to Zambia, the birth of grandson
Chancellor, Prem’s wedding to Susan
Manjooran and Christmas in the
Florida Keys. Judy Pifer Haverkamp
and John have a 1-year-old grandson
John Ellis and 3-year-old Brown
Salem College
who was at our reunion. Daughter
Elizabeth received her MBA from
George Washington and Matt will get
his MBA from UMD next year. Betsy
Payne Adams has twin grandchildren.
She visited Pifer during one of our
hurricanes. Barry Thrift Brown and
Clark have two grandchildren now.
Sallie Craig Tuton Huber and Doug
were in Afghanistan setting up a health
care system for the country; but Sallie
Craig returned to Boston for breast
cancer treatments, which were going
well when I last heard. She hoped
to return to Afghanistan mid-summer. Susan Jones Satzger’s daughter
Casey, Casey’s husband and two
children have a new home in Walnut
Creek, CA. Son Alan lives in Palm
Desert. Susan retired last year. Beth
Taylor Steelman and Ben traveled to
Antarctica and New Zealand. Beth
raised $800,000 for public radio in
Wilmington then resigned. Ben writes
for the Wilmington Star-News. Son
Walker is at Cornell for a post-doctoral
fellowship. Daughter Foy and husband
Micah are in Portland, OR for her 3rd
year of residency in internal medicine.
Elizabeth McIver Hinson and Will’s
son Evan was married last September.
Frances Temple Civils and John have
one grandson John David, son of
David and Janna who are dentists in
Greensboro. Son Worth lives in New
York City and works for The Wall
Street Journal Online. Daughter Laura
works for an event-planning company
in Raleigh. Frances and I are still in the
college routine, as Grace is a student at
Meredith. We enjoyed my 40th high
school reunion along with Frances,
Holly Wooten, and Cecilia MooreCobb. The class extends its sympathy
to Cecilia, whose mother Doris Moore
died March 28 at age 102.
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Mary Jane Boren Meeker
319 West University Drive
Chapel Hill, NC 27516-2922
[email protected]
We had a great response from those of
you on Salem’s e-mail list. If you aren’t
on this list, please send Salem your
e-mail address. Peggy Hart Shuping
is playing/teaching bridge and enjoys
seeing Barbara Keck Blount and Mary
Harris Everett ’67 in Greenville, NC.
She joined her roommate, Tina Gwaltney Baird, at Canyon Ranch Tucson
in January. Susan Shore Schwartz,
ED for Action Greensboro, is proud
of first grandchild, Eleanor (Ellie)
Elizabeth Howard, born in February
to son Vince and Janet Howard in
Raleigh. Son Andrew is in Greensboro.
Susan retired in 1999 from 30 years of
teaching high school art. Anne Wyche
Magaz ine 20 05
Fowlkes now teaches part time, and
Eddie teaches graphic arts. Daughter
Martha is a freshman at Auburn. They
live in Decatur, but love their Lake
Waccamaw house. Frances Breeden
Schauss is an English instructor at
New York’s Dowling College. Son
Matthew (28) graduates in May from
the Babson College MBA program;
Sarah (25) graduates in June from
the Helsinki School of Economics.
Kathy Sherrill Slattery and husband
just returned from her 40th reunion
at Ashley Hall in Charleston and saw
Helen Jones, who lives in Lake Lure,
NC. Mopsy Stoneburner Patterson
and David live in Greensboro where
he practices gastroenterology. They
downsized their home and bought
a beach house, which has been successful in luring their three married
children and four grandchildren. She
believes Elaine Beavers Hanson lives
in Jacksonville, FL. Anticipating her
retirement from US Airways Midge
(Ena) West Stackhouse started Enaja
Safaris, which will allow her to share
her love of East Africa with others
and have more time to reconnect
with Salem. Nancy Taylor Sumner is
the new director of development for
Urban Ministries of Wake County, a
United Way agency. Older son Brian
graduated from Duke Law last May,
got married in August, and now works
in DC. Sarah Ulmer Wade’s grandchildren, Mac (5) and Liddy (3) keep
them very busy in Richmond. Al and
Candy Stell Shivers’s oldest daughter,
Allison (pediatrician), and husband
Ed are moving with Patrick Ingram
McBride (2) to Winston-Salem in
June. Youngest daughter, Amy, loves
working as a market analyst in Washington, DC. Anne Plyler Lee’s joys
are her three grandsons (5, 16 and 15
mos.). She and her husband are building a condo in Charlotte, and Anne
will continue her work there as a yoga
therapist. Jeanette Holland works at
her real estate company, Copeland
& Holland Real Estate, in Beaufort
and enjoys her grandchildren…six so
far. And says, life at the coast is great.
Barbara Keck Blount dotes on her
grandchildren. With all boys so far,
they welcomed Mary Frances Blount
into the family in February 2004,
when Barbara began planning Mary
Frances’ Salem education! After 17
years of banking, Beverly Lancaster
Lindsey entered seminary and was
ordained in 1994. She is now pastor
of Chester (NH) CongregationalBaptist Church. She tells us that Mary
Crawford Booton and Dan live in a
wonderful 1700s house, originally
an inn, outside Richmond. They
have a son in Austin, TX, and one in
Richmond. Anne Dukehart Lambkin
lives in Towson, MD, with fiancé Bill
Tiffany and is the business manager at
Notre Dame Prep School. Daughter
Beth has started law school. Kathleen
“Kas” Stallings, a career and technical
education coordinator at Hillside High
School in Durham, plans to retire in
two years. She cares for her mother
(96); her latest obsession is bridge
and going to tournaments. Jannet
Bowers Kramer and Roger had a great
time at our reunion last year and hope
everyone plans to attend the next one.
Life continues to be good in North
Carolina and they love being grandparents! Elisabeth Bosch Biggerstaff’s
granddaughter, Emily Claire Ibsen,
was born last November to daughter,
Lise, and Christopher. Elisabeth and
Dan live in Savannah where he practices GYN and she volunteers for the
Telfair Museum of Art. Mary Lou Ford
Stott and Charlie sold their house and
downsized in the same neighborhood.
Daughter Louise and granddaughter
have moved to Asheville from Seattle
after Louise completed her Doctorate of Naturopathic Medicine degree.
Susan Hinkle Krissel’s son was married
in July. Their daughter teaches kindergarten in Miami. Susan does volunteer
work and enjoys sunny south Florida.
Mary Bunn Hunter Judge and Curt
have settled into their dream home in
McGaheysville, VA. Their sons both
engaged are in St. Louis and NYC. A
breast cancer survivor, Mary Bunn is
doing well now. Amy Murray Orser
is helping to get the Winston-Salem
alumnae club going again. She and
Paul recently saw Kristin Jorgenson
Oliver and Andy in DC, while visiting
daughter Emily in Alexandria. Barbara
Smethie Griffin’s and Bennett’s son
Bennett Jr. married last May and
they finally have a daughter! Son Will
graduates from USC in December.
Recently, Barbara had lunch with Liza
Pond Rainey. Clarine Pollock Powell
is finishing her eighth year of teaching tap dance at ECU. Their three
children live in Charleston. Joanna
McGrath Reynolds went back to
teaching in 2001 because of an empty
nest. She plans to teach just one more
year. Her husband has retired and
their daughter is now finishing college. Jeanne Garner Clay still enjoys
Raleigh. Her daughter was married last
October in a Charleston plantation
wedding. Life is good again, says Lili
Powers Ouzts who has remarried after
the death of her beloved husband 10
years ago. Her three sons live nearby
and she likes to garden, bike, hike, and
volunteer. Milly Daughtridge Greene
continues with her invitation business,
and husband Johnny enjoys working
at Auburn. Bradford and husband
Stephen (minister) live in San Diego,
and John is a marketing director at
Troy University. Linda Camp McElwee
is involved with choir and community
activities in Dallas. She and Dixon
have planned trips to visit Devon at
Darden, Caleigh in Fairfax, VA, and
David in Oxford, MS. Mary Jane
Boren Meeker and Kristi Scott Boykin
had a great visit with Ann Copenhaver
Cotton at Ann’s parents’ house at
Smith Mountain Lake last summer.
Mary Jane and John also enjoyed dinner with Ann and Phil in Charleston
last December.
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Outgoing Correspondents
Lindsay McLaughlin Jordan
Sandra Holder Davis
Incoming Correspondents
Chris Little
4129 Sharon Commons Lane
Charlotte, NC 28210
[email protected]
Cyndee Grant Martin
8734 Taunton Drive
Huntersville, NC 28078
[email protected]
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A third of our class showed up for the
35th (ouch) reunion. Our class gift
totaled $90,000+ and is still growing
with over 50% giving. Kudos to our
class fund-raising chair Barbie Barton.
It was great fun catching up with each
other. If you missed it, please treat
yourself to our next one! We heard lots
from our classmates. Lindsay
McLaughlin Jordan reported son
Ford’s wedding in August, 2004 in
DC. Daughter Klugh joined her for
camping and hiking in Sequoia and
Yosemite National Parks in June.
Husband Sandy and she have new
bikes and resolve to use them. She
enjoys her work with Older Adults
(yes, older than we are) at church and
tennis with Sandra Holder Davis.
Sandra Holder Davis, Nancy Wetzell
Albright, Celia Watson Weston, and
Sterling Winstead Dougherty enjoyed
a fall trip to Sneads Ferry where they
wore pink matching clothes in public
– all they need now is white hair and
an RV, and they’ll be ready for the 4:
00 cafeteria line. Sterling and John cut
a mean rumba and cha-cha although
they’ll never be another Ginger and
Fred. Children Patrick and Sarah are
earning graduate degrees, and Kate
just accepted a position with Deveroux
working with emotionally-challenged
children. Celia Watson Weston sends
news of travels and filmmaking. She
had a wonderful time at Nancy
Wetzell Albright’s son Stuart’s wedding
in Gastonia with Sandra Holder Davis
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out with weights and
cardio so she can
indulge in her
creations. She and
husband Mike travel,
and garden. Netta
Newbold Moseley
and husband John
enjoy the freedoms
of retirement—
gardening, volunteering, traveling (loved
a recent tour through
Eastern Europe) and
reading. She’s
president of Loaves
and Fishes,
Charlotte’s emergency food ministry,
this year. Chylene
Ferguson Robinson
Class of 1970
Front row: Caroline Boone Alford, Lee Largen Gale, Sandy Kelley Johnson, Paige French, Beth Hunter Graham, Barbara Horney Rodgers, Ferebee Allen Kaleida Second row: Sharon Wendt Spriggs, Cyndee Grant
Martin, Sally Rhodes Ahner, Minetta Newbold Moseley, Sandra Pappas
Byrd, Sandra Holder Davis, Celia Watson Weston, Chris Little Third
row: “Dee Dee” Geraty Squires, Libby Griffin, Martha McMurdo Diffey,
Joy Bishop Van Zandt, Debbie Lotz Walker, Karen Park Jennings, Nancy
Wetzell Albright, Mary Joyce Beard, Pamela Anderson Hazen Fourth
row: Chylene Ferguson Robinson, Lyn Davis, Christine Davidson Cline,
Palmer Smith, Annie McLeod Jenkins, Susan Fasse Montgomery, Susan
Knee Smith, Lindsay McLaughlin Jordan, Sallie Wilson Ellinwood
and Ann Gibbs Blatzer. Celia’s film
Junebug, shot in Winston Salem, was
selected for the Sundance Film Festival
and opens in August. Her experience
on location in India this spring defies
description. Watch for Celia on Law
& Order-Criminal Intent. Nancy
Wetzell Albright runs two frame
galleries in the Gastonia, NC area.
Jane Loftin Hill’s newly-retired
husband Doug kept his dental practice
in the family. Daughter Caroline,
mother of twins, has taken over in
Kinston. Beth Cronister Downs
directs Ministerial Services for the
Virginia Conference of the United
Methodist Church. Sons William and
Robert graduated and are now
working. Matthew is a freshman at
Mary Washington College. Lindsay
Wheatley Marshall and husband Fray
have eagerly embraced their home,
Atlanta. While Fray chairs the urology
department at Emory, Lindsay is
president at the Carlos Museum.
Brooks (26) works at SunTrust in
Atlanta, and Wheatley (30) is with a
PR firm in Chicago. Marilyn Thornton
Kiser and husband Tom in Fayetteville, where she’s a school psychologist,
dream of retirement at Figure 8 and
Lake Norman. Another prospect for
the Charlotte alumnae club! Elizabeth
is at Carolina; Thomas is graduating
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from high school. Ginny Herbst
Maffitt spends most of her free time
riding. She’s a foxhunt whipper-in for
the Mecklenburg Hounds, Inc. Ginger
Renick Griffin’s boys have all finished
school; one is now married. She
volunteers and focuses on her church
work. Jill Silverstein Gammon
consults in capacity building for
nonprofits. Daughter Emily works in
DC for a research firm. Son Jed
married and works for his dad’s real
estate development firm in Raleigh.
Ferebee Allen Kaleida balances her
time between being librarian at
Dunwody High outside Atlanta and
her mom (91) who lives with them.
Bob is busier than ever since GE
bought his company. Son David is
married and works for Bank of
America; Beth’s earning a graduate
degree in Landscape Architecture at
UVA; Katie’s pursing a doctorate in
physics/astronomy at Arizona State.
Sandra Culpepper is very busy with
two sons’ graduations from NCSU.
Janet Burnett McLeskey and husband
Jerry celebrated their 31st wedding
anniversary in September. Son Jason
teaches high school special education;
wife Michelle teaches 4th grade. Son
Jim graduated from Wingate last
spring. Susan Fasse Montgomery still
enjoys the culinary world. She works
and Roland
celebrated their 33rd wedding
anniversary amid daughter Christina’s
debutante activities. She is finishing
her sophomore year at Carolina.
Jeanne Ross Patterson is an RN with
Hospice & Palliative Care of WinstonSalem. Martha Rankin is a med tech at
UNC Student Health Services and
also takes care of her ailing mother.
We send our deepest sympathies to
Barbie Barton, Ann Kraft Woodworth,
Sandra Pappas Byrd, and Cyndee
Grant Martin whose fathers died last
year, and to Louise Brock Pollard and
sister Elizabeth Brock Whitaker ’67,
who lost their mother Nell this spring.
Leigh Harvey McNairy works in
Raleigh helping save and promote
military bases. Cam Voss Dillard
teaches English as a Second Language
in Huntington Beach, CA. Wendy
Yeatts Kinlaw stayed with daughter
Mallory at Wake while at the reunion.
She’s retired from her ESL career.
When The Reverend Barbara Horney
Rodgers attended the annual Sprunt
Lectures at Union Theological
Seminary in Richmond in January, she
visited Union’s Dean of Students, The
Reverend Edna Jacobs Banes, D.Min.
’71. Edna and Barbara both held
leadership roles at the conference.
Martha Rasberry Sherman sells
portraits and co-chairs Historic
Garden Week in Richmond for 2006.
John is vice chairman, Scott &
Stringfellow Investments. Daughter
Julie is a family counselor in San
Francisco; John III is in UVA law
school. Louise Sherrill is in her final
year teaching reading in Englewood,
CO. She and husband Neil Sullivan
are renovating a home. She feels lucky
having Barbie Barton so near through
all this. Her tennis team scrapped its
way to playoffs. Louise heard from
Linda Larkin Boyer, an environmental
educator, potter and painter in
Washington, NC. She and Ross have
been married 37 years and have two
children. Barbie Barton travels and
designs from the Colorado sunshine.
Church and fundraising keep Barbie
busy! Palmer Smith practices law in
Montgomery as a partner of Capell &
Howard. Susan Knee Smith’s son
Claude negotiated a Salem merger
when he married Saunders Campbell,
daughter of Muffin Saunders
Campbell ’74 and sister of Winters
Campbell ’05. Susan has a thriving
real estate business in Charlotte.
Susan Ryburn Sofia travels worldwide
including a trip to France this summer
and a visit to China in the fall. She’s
presently chair, Ohio Arts Council.
Debbie Lotz Walker survived yet
another wedding, this time for
daughter Sue. Her family and Sharon
Wendt Spriggs gathered for their
annual tradition at a Moravian Love
Feast Christmas Eve in Kernersville.
Sharon holds certification as an
International Board Certified
Lactation Consultant and is breastfeeding program coordinator for WIC
at the SC Dept. of Health and
Environmental Control in Mount
Pleasant. After 10 years there, she and
Charles are calling it home—the
longest either has lived in one place.
Son Kenny is in Evanston outside Chicago. Sharon is happy to report she is
currently healthy and thanks everyone
for supporting her during difficult
times. Dee Dee Geraty Squires and
family are moving to husband Patrick’s
home state of Missouri. Their sons
have obviously inherited Mother’s
artistic talent: Louis is in college, Chris
has been accepted at Juilliard in NYC
for study in dance; and Jonathan is a
junior percussion major at Charleston
College School of the Arts. Joy Bishop
VanZandt still loves a challenge.
Daughter Kimberly was married in
September on Beech Mtn., NC during
Hurricane Ivan and now lives in
Seattle where her husband is earning a
Ph.D. Son John is a high school
Spanish teacher in Winston-Salem.
Beth Hunter Graham is leaving her
position as college counselor at Boys’
Latin School to assist husband Gary in
his law practice. Daughter Charlotte
(25) is a financial advisor for Legg
Mason in Baltimore. Hunter (20) is a
sophomore at College of Charleston.
Beth enjoyed the mini-reunion and
hurricane celebration at Joy VanZandt’s daughter’s wedding last fall. Kathy
Rose Kobos has started a business
printing personalized stationery. Son
John-Thomas graduated from
Houston Baptist University. Melinda
Yarborough works at NC Baptist
Hospital in W-S and plays clarinet for
her church band. Sally Rhodes Ahner
Salem College
trained extensively in the Alexander
Technique and healing work and
teaches at Vanderbilt and Belmont and
is in private practice. She is also
establishing a healing ministry and is
cantor/worship planner for services in
the Taizé style at her church. Cordelia
Parks Bergamo and husband Fred
missed the reunion to be with
daughter Elizabeth for her crew team
banquet at Colgate University. Son
Thomas works in Charlotte and lives
with wife Michelle-Marie in Cornelius. A classical music teacher to
preschoolers for three decades, Cordy
was the musical advisor for Disney’s
movie The Little Einsteins due out this
summer. Marty Dickerson and
husband Doug Fox also had parental
duties reunion weekend at West Point
where son Alex is a junior. Marty and
Doug are West Point Parent Leaders in
Colorado. Mary Wiggins Joyce
Beard’s husband Hoyt retired from
R.J. Reynolds after 43 years. Son
Randy graduates in May from
Princeton. Alice Cline Rullman and
Andy moved home to Hickory from
the West Coast. She earned her
masters in reading education and
special ed certification at Appalachian
State. Her son graduated from UNCCharlotte and works in Charlotte. Her
daughter and her husband met at
Wake Forest medical school and are
both ENT-Head and Neck surgery
residents in San Antonio. Sally Stowe
Bashant retired to North Carolina
from Florida. Reunion weekend she
sang in Charleston with Nova Voce, a
Charlotte women’s chamber choir. Son
David and Amanda live in Belmont,
and Michael is in Tampa. While
visiting DC with daughter Catherine,
a sophomore at Wingate, they saw
Elaine Spicer Friebele, Sally’s Salem
roommate. Caroline Boone Alford and
husband Roy digitally documented
our reunion and captured some
priceless photos. They continue to stay
busy with work and volunteer
activities and travel every chance they
get. Meme Harper Asserson and Bo
enjoy retirement at Folly Beach, SC
and extended an invitation for all to
visit. Meme has two wonderful
daughters-in-law. Walker and Betsy
live in Bozeman, MT, and Bowen and
Liza are in Greensboro. Karen Park
Jennings made her first reunion! As
CEO/owner of Park Seed Co., she has
traveled to China to set up production
of hard goods. She serves on the SC
Council on Competitiveness and in
her spare time sings in the Presbyterian
Church choir, gardens, and visits her
children. Kathy Wilson Bell and Ellen
Ford Terry enjoyed their children’s wedding as mothers of the bride. The
newlyweds discovered their moms
Magaz ine 20 05
knew each other when they noticed a
Sights and Insights at Ellen’s while they
were students dating in Chapel Hill.
They work with Young Life in Rock
Hill. Kathy and George’s daughter
Laura and husband Brandon are
Young Life counselors at Wildhorse
Canyon, OR. Sandra Pappas Byrd
recently received UNC-Asheville’s
Ruth and Leon Feldman Professorship, in recognition of outstanding
scholarship and university service. Lyn
Davis and partner Jannit Rabinovitch
are restoring a 1910 Victorian house
by the water in Victoria, Vancouver
Island. Lyn teaches at the University of
Victoria and is writing a novel. Doree
Koontz Fisher and Richard are in
Rockport, ME where Doree teaches
child development in high school.
Their son Ben is at Carolina. Paige
French runs a management consultant
business, FMS Associates. We’re so
proud of her recognition as recipient
of Salem’s Distinguished Alumna
Award at the reunion. Annie McLeod
Jenkins’ daughter Sarah is in New
York City beginning the “long hard
row” of finding work as an actress.
Celia Watson Weston has been a fairy
godmother for Sarah, advising and
encouraging her, and taking her to
wonderful events. Annie’s son Gordon
is a junior at the University of
Richmond where he’s majoring in
theater and rowing with Richmond
crew. Annie keeps busy with the usual
community and church activities, and
is transcribing her great grandfather’s
diary of travel in Europe in 1851. Lee
Largen Gale is an early intervention
service coordinator for the Children’s
Developmental Services Agency of the
Smokies. Husband Russ is the
president and CEO of Nantahala
Bank and Trust, a newly formed
community bank headquartered in
Franklin. Both daughters live in
Winston-Salem. Meredith teaches
English at Forsyth Country Day and
daughter Casey is a corporate event
planner with Quantum Events. Son
Russell is a sophomore at Appalachian
State. Pam Anderson Hazen and
husband Robert are still in Brooklyn
Heights. Pam commutes to MorrisJumel Mansion in Harlem Heights,
putting her skills as librarian and
archivist to work on an exciting
research project. Wedding bells rang
for Libby Griffin and new husband Lee
Chambers in Charlotte. Libby was
recently recognized for over 20 years
teaching math (and also coordinates
the Distinguished Guest Series) at
Charlotte Country Day. Cyndee Grant
Martin and Doug married in the fall in
Asheville, where they grew up
together. Doug is a partner with
Poyner-Spruill in Charlotte and an
independent filmmaker. They and
three teenagers live in Huntersville,
NC. Chris Little’s son Geoff and wife
Susan had a baby boy named Cooper
in January. Son Tom and wife Andi are
expecting a boy in August. Chris has
moved to Charlotte where she coaches
tennis and helps run summer camp at
Olde Providence Racquet Club. Sallie
Barham Nolan and husband Clyde live
in Greensboro where he is a dermatologist and Sallie is an operatic casting
director and raises horses in Kentucky.
Many thanks to Sandra Holder Davis
and Lindsay McLaughlin Jordan for
serving as class correspondents these
many years! We hope you all will
continue to update us with your life
happenings for this next year. The new
e-mailbox was created just for you:
[email protected]. Use it!
1971
Anne Berger Salisbury
102 West Gerrell Court
Cary, NC 27511-5882
[email protected]
Thank you for all your cards and letters at Christmas. Hard to believe that
next year will be our 35th reunion! I
hope everyone will make an effort to
come; the last one was fabulous! Gay
Murrill is back in Charleston and has
opened a yarn shop with daughter
Mollie. Gay recalls classmates knitting
in math class at Salem and having a
sweater at semester’s end. Beth Carter
Gray’s daughter Carter married in
Chapel Hill. She also welcomed her
first grandchild to daughter Allison.
Beth goes to the Pit on the UNC
campus daily to check out the action.
Melene Tuton Patchel attended Dencie
Reynold’s wedding in February 2004.
Dencie and Melene make an annual
holiday trip to Winston-Salem to shop
and stay at the Rondthaler-Gramley
house on campus. Pam Hardison
Braxton traveled to the Czech
Republic and British Columbia and
joined the Red Hat Society. Sandra
Bartholomew Greene de-stressed
from her daughter’s wedding by going
to Paris with her older daughter who
finishes law school this year. Cil Miller
Cooney bravely chaperoned the eighth
grade school trip to Europe. She and
husband Jim also went to Panama and
the Pearl Islands. Helen Massey Randall’s daughter got married and Helen
took off to Cozumel the week after to
relax. She is the plans examiner for the
City of Aiken and does architectural
house plans on the side. Nancy Rives
Sams is supervisor for two counties’
welfare benefits departments. She
helps with her toddler granddaughter
while her son finishes his CPA requirements. Anne King Silver spent six
weeks in the winter in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico. She also traveled to Bermuda, Canada, Alaska, Hilton Head,\
and the Bahamas. Anne lost her
mother in June 2004. Marilu Pittman
Schnitzer makes beaded necklaces
and key chains for sale on line and in
specialty shops. She also volunteers at
a public charter boarding school for atrisk youth. She is learning to knit from
Fran Hicks. Fran took daughter Bailey
to New York for her 16th birthday for
shows and shopping. She still works
part-time as a psychologist. Congratulations to Edna Jacobs Barnes
who finished her Doctor of Ministry
and teaches a bit at the seminary in
addition to her duties as Dean of
Students and chaplain. Allison White
Parker welcomed her first grandchild
in February. Her daughter clerked
in our office while in law school and
is now an attorney in Atlanta. Lynn
Gayle Caputo was planning to move
from Arizona back to North Carolina.
Louise Wilbur Caldwell teaches at the
Waldorf School where she says she
is a little “suspect” as a mainstream
educator. Lynn Jones Ledbetter and
Rhette have a new grandson and all
the children live nearby in the Atlanta
area. I understand that Mary Fuller
Propes’ husband Daschiel suffered
a mild stroke but is recovering well.
Martha Howe Thorne continues to
be a leader in real estate sales in the
Tampa area. My year has been busy
at work as the caseloads keep growing
and the resources shrinking. I have
enjoyed serving as a vice-president of
the North Carolina Bar Association
this year and despite what the media
would have people believe, I am
very proud to be a lawyer as I see the
worthwhile contributions the members make to their communities. From
your cards and letter I see what we
have in common at 55: empty nests,
weddings, new grandchildren, aging
parents, losing parents, travels put off
too long and a spirit of adventure that
we nurtured together. See you in the
spring of 2006!
1972
Beth Bencini Iskander
Apt. 613, 531 Main Street
New York, NY 10044-0156
[email protected]
Peggy Williford Murray writes from
Durham. She and John still work at
the Duke University Medical Center.
Daughter Margaret, a junior at
Durham Academy, is beginning her
college search. Peggy will be a docent
at the new campus museum and
attributes her knowledge of art history
basics to roommate Sandy McGlinn
Fetter. Debbie Burdick Drozen and
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husband Mel reports that daughter
Allison is a freshman at St. Joseph’s in
Philadelphia and daughter Sarah is a
high school freshman. Pelham Lyles
Spong is executive director of Fairfield
County Museum in Winnsboro, SC,
where she lives with younger daughter
Shelby. Daughter Pelham, a student at
the College of Charleston, will attend
the Sorbonne next year. Pelham is
regularly in touch with Vernessa Riley
Foelix ’73 and Sarah Dorrier
McMaster ’73. Corinne Little
Nicholson is very busy at St. Andrews
Presbyterian College, where she is cochair of the department of business
and economics, associate professor of
management, and director of the
Academic Internship Program.
Eleanor Harrell Blakely and husband
Jerry are on the faculty at WV
University in Morgantown, where
Eleanie is Associate Professor of Social
Work. They will enjoy their second
summer in Asolo, Italy, where Jerry
will be teaching. Writing from Sanford
where she lives with husband Michael
Mason, Nancy Watkins manages her
real estate and volunteers for civic and
non-profit organizations. Children
Whitney, Bradford, and Martha
Simpson are an accountant, a general
contractor, and an elementary school
teacher, respectively. Marcia McDade is
a busy artist traveling between her
studios in Cedar Grove, NC coast and
Stuart, VA. Marcia was part of Jim
Moon’s annual show at Lincoln Center
this year, and she and I had a good
visit in New York. In July, her show
‘Tails of Domestic Bliss-Dogs and
Their People’ will be at the New
Elements Gallery in Wilmington.
Marcia also creates rag dolls and had a
February show at the NC Crafts
Gallery in Carrboro. Joining her and
husband Bill McMann at dinner
following the opening were Suzanne
Wyatt Higgins and husband John.
Suzanne has a new studio and
continues to paint, draw and exhibit
her work. Elder daughter Elizabeth, a
film major, has just graduated from
the University of Michigan and
younger daughter Rachel is starting
her college search. Marcia hears from
Patty Key Williams, who lives in
Nashville, where she, husband Buck
and son Hunter are involved in the
music business. Daughter Sarah works
in graphic design and marketing. The
family spends as much time as they
can during the summers at Figure
Eight Island. Shelley Castleberry
Dembicks and husband Andy live in
Raleigh, spend time with their
granddaughter (13) and travel to
Hong Kong where their other two
grandchildren live. They see Margaret
Bramham Nicholson and Gilliam
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often. Two weeks ago, they attended
Nancy Warren Dixon’s son’s wedding in
Atlanta. Nancy and her husband live
in Roanoke. Their daughter Nancy
Elizabeth was married last year. Also at
the wedding was Ann Cadenhead
McNutt, who lives in Dallas. Lisa
Chiles lives in Islamabad, where she is
the director of the $1.5 billion U.S.
foreign aid program to Pakistan. A
truly global family, Lisa’s husband
Austin Pulle teaches law at Singapore
Management University. Daughter
Roshani is getting a master’s degree in
law, having graduated last year from
the London School of Economics. Son
Julian is majoring in biochemistry at
the University of California, Santa
Barbara. In May, Leigh Wood Pate’s
daughters all graduated, Virginia from
the University of Georgia, Elizabeth
from UNC law school, and Scottie
from UNC medical school. Virginia
will enter the PhD program in
biostatistics at UNC in the fall.
Elizabeth is looking for a job in
Washington. Charlie still enjoys
teaching at Salem, and Leigh teaches
math at Forsyth Technical Community College and just received her real
estate license. Katharine Manning and
husband Thomas Mueller live in
Pasadena, CA with her daughter
Christiane Weis (16), and stepdaughters Julie (17) and Lisa (10). Kathy is a
psychotherapist and minister and
writes, studies, and teaches about
alternative health and spirituality.
Judith Simpson White is now
president/executive director of Higher
Education Resource Services, an
educational non-profit organization
offering management and leadership
development programs for women in
higher education. Husband Syd
Nathans will teach this fall at Duke,
and will then move to Denver, retiring
to become a full-time researcher and
writer. Judith would love to hear from
any classmates heading to Denver.
Karen Peterson McKinnon and Hunt
live in Hillsborough. Karen works at
the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer
Center at UNC, and Hunt, an
architect, teaches in the undergrad and
grad programs at ECU and the
graduate school of design at NCSU.
Daughter Krista (18) loves Oberlin
College. Carol Hewitt Melvin’s son “J,”
a doctoral student at the University of
Pennsylvania, married a fellow
student. Carol is a trustee of the
Rockingham County Public Library
system and continues her community
service work. Margee Beeler Gunter
teaches secondary school English in
Martinsville, VA, where she and
husband Robert live with daughter
Elizabeth, who will attend Wofford
College this fall. Outgoing Salem
Alumnae Association president and
classmate Gwynne Stephens Taylor is
leading the restoration/renovation of
Single Sisters House. She taught a
January term course about the Single
Sisters House and enjoyed getting to
know the 18 students who took the
class. She asks anyone who lived in
Sisters to send photographs, stories or
momentos of years in Sisters to her at
700 Arbor Road, Winston-Salem, NC
27104. Gwynne and Dan’s sons
Winslow and Brinson are rising senior
and freshman, at UNC-CH. Gwynne
sees Mary Salem Thacker and Ann
London Vaughn, both in Greensboro,
every month or two. Mary’s etiquette
business is going well, and Ann is busy
with her job at Holy Trinity Episcopal
Church and her floral business.
Daughter Caroline teaches nursery
school, and son Worth loves ASU.
Gwynne reports that Mary Davis Holt
does an excellent job as chair of the
Salem Academy and College Board of
Trustees. Mary and I had an enjoyable
catch-up lunch together in January.
Mary and David just moved again–
into another historic house in Old
Town Alexandria, reminding me of
the constant re-arranging of furniture
in Mary’s dorm rooms at Salem! They
have a new grandson, Samuel Charles.
Mary loves freedom from full-time
work and looks forward to spending
the summer at their house in Duck.
Laura Huddleston Snyder and Bill live
in Cary. Laura is coordinator of State
Improvement Grants for the NC
Department of Public Instruction in
Raleigh. Son Will graduated from
NYU and is an associate editor with
Outdoor Life magazine, and daughter
Elizabeth is at ASU. As I write this
news in May, Anne Burckhardt Clauss
and daughters Elizabeth, a law student
at USC, and Salem seniors and soonto-be grads Kate and Lauren are
planning an all-girls’ trip to Italy in
June. Errol will hold down the fort at
home. Janet Ward Duffy and husband
Ed also plan travels to Alaska for their
30th anniversary. Janet teaches
kindergarten in Rock Hill, where
daughter Elizabeth (21) is a student at
Winthrop. Son William is a graduate
student at UNC-G. Amy Arendell and
partner Robert Anders live in Asheville
where she is an educational consultant
and instructor for Brain Gym
Consulting. Son Louis, is an artist/
singer-songwriter, graduated from
Bard College and daughter Wheeler is
studying furniture making at College
of the Redwoods, CA. Margaret Earle
(Vernon) Mondul writes from
Williamsburg, VA, where she and
husband Steve have lived since her
retirement from the Navy. She is busy
with her new business, Household
Document Organization. Not much
new to report in our household. I still
love my job at Sotheby’s, where I am
an assistant vice president and
photographs specialist. Son Peter (19)
is crazy about Dickinson College and
son Michael (16) attends the UN
School. Celia Watson Weston, Sallie
Barham Nolan, both ’70, and Sallie’s
husband Clyde recently had dinner
with Farid and me. I would love to
hear from those of you for whom I
have no email addresses. Please send
email to me at the address I’ve
indicated, and I will happily include
any news you send.
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Linda Kelly Flunker
7424 SE County Road 234
Gainsville, FL 32641-1608
jjfl[email protected]
Margaret Rose Faust and husband
Rick are busy remodeling after 25
years in the same house. She works
part time as a physical therapist. This
spring Margaret ran in the Boston
marathon but was injured and could
not finish so she plans to try again next
year. She has one son at Appalachian
State and one at Western Carolina.
Alden Hanson lives outside Wake Forest, NC and has taught elementary art
in the area for 20 years. She is married
and has two sons. Within a few years
she hopes to move to the mountains.
She’d especially like to hear from Cori,
Jan and Jorie. Melinda Vick Wilson
moved her dad to Charlotte so she can
care for him. She and husband Bill are
going to Italy in the fall to see their
daughter during her semester there.
Her middle child moved to Chattanooga in real estate development for a
shopping center firm. Her oldest son is
in the real estate business in Charlotte.
Catherine Cooper Williamson is with
the city attorney’s office in Charlotte,
NC, but dreams of all the possibilities
now the children are out of the nest.
Daughter Alice graduated form Duke
this spring, and will teach special
education with Teach For America in
Los Angeles. Son Sam will be a junior
at Furman, majoring in business. Husband Lane has a litigation firm, Garlitz
and Williamson. Carol Franklin works
in telecommunications management
for Tollgrade Communications, Inc.
often traveling to Pittsburgh, PA and
Sarasota, FL. She still enjoys horseback
riding. Susan Gravely appeared in the
February 2004 issue of Business Leader
magazine. The magazine named her
Entrebizneur of the Year for her role
as CEO of Vietri, Inc., which is the
business she started after an Italian
vacation. Lynne Cannady has lived
in Sacramento, CA since 1983 and
Salem College
keeps in touch with Kristen Danbury
Whatley as well as other former
classmates in the Atlanta area. Lane
Crawford is director of development at
the Paramount Theater in Charlottesville, VA. Daughter Elizabeth is
almost done with her masters degree
at Longwood University, and son
Paul graduated from UVA in 2004.
Paul is also the father of Lane’s two
grandchildren, Quentin and Asiah.
Lisa Herron Bankoff had a busy year
with son Christopher graduating form
Savannah College of Art and Design
then moving to Dallas to start his first
job with Reel FX Studios. Daughter
Margaret a junior at University of San
Diego, chose a study abroad program
that had her sailing around the world.
Lisa traveled to Kenya to visit her
daughter for “parent’s weekend” and
made a whole vacation of it. Lisa’s
husband Joe keeps busy with his legal
work and traveling with Lisa. Laurie
Daltroff Triplette and other Salemites
are putting together a comprehensive list of all the residents of Sisters
House and start an outreach program
centered around social gatherings of
these women. Contact her if you have
an interest in this and want more
information. Ruth Powell Campbell
lost her father in January. Son Kyle
was married in December. She is in
her fifth term as president of an 800
player Little League. Sally Pinto Krapf
hopes to graduate in 2006 with a
masters degree for Community Counseling. Her internship will be done at
the VA in Wilmington, DE working
with combat vets suffering PTSD.
Older son Tom is married. Younger
son John is a student at Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, OH.
Sally had lunch with Charlene Sewell
Fisher for “take a Salemite to lunch
day” and they had a great time. Jess
Roper McLamb has finally moved her
business out of her home and hired
an employee. Marsha Wood Joyce
operates her Eldercare business and is
a distributor for Clever-ring. Daughter
Melanie and son-in-law live in Kansas
City, KS and recently made Marsha a
first time grandmother. Son Mark runs
his father’s farming business in south
Florida. Peggy Melvin Perkins and
husband Tom recently moved. They
have two children: Andrew is district
manager for Abercrombie and Fitch,
and James is a student at Appalachian
State College. Vernessa Riley Foelix,
an artist and teacher is married to an
university professor in Switzerland,
and mother of Pascal (17). Sarah
Dorrier McMaster is director of county
libraries in Winnsboro, SC. Linda
Kelly Flunker regularly rides horses
with daughter Kelly. She still fences
Magaz ine 20 05
also. Her daughter will be a junior in
high school and hopes to land a college scholarship for competitive horseback riding. Husband Jerry retired
from food sales, but keeps busier than
ever with a field mowing business,
and driving the school bus for Kelly’s
school field trips.
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Julie Barton Collins
309 North Street
Anderson, SC 29621-5814
[email protected]
Many thanks to those who have sent
or e-mailed news. In 2004, our class
suffered the loss of one of our favorite
and most unique classmates. Martha
Anne “Mopsy” Nesmith passed away
at her home in Wilmington, NC on
December 4, 2004. We celebrated her
individuality and contribution to our
class with a memorial gift toward the
renovation of Sisters. Julieanne Kidd
Angel performed with son John’s (15)
choir for High Mass at the Salzburg
Cathedral during summer 2004, an
indescribable experience she writes.
Harriet Willson Bosiak’s Christmas
photo featured grown children
Willson, Ann, and Sarah. Beth Pollard
Buechner e-mailed of lunch with
Becky Hewit Rauenhorst in Tampa,
with Ellen Rucker Plyler at their mothers’ retirement community, and then
again with Margaret Brinkley Sigmon,
Peggy Bullard, and Chris Minter
Dowd in Washington. Carol Perrin
Cobb and Nancy Adams Quinn joined
me for lunch in Greenville, SC. Mary
Ann Campbell Davis’ 2004 was filled
with weddings and travels to Gulf
Shores, AL, San Antonio, TX, Wild
Dunes, SC, and the Homestead, VA.
Her children both live in WinstonSalem. In 2005, Trey will complete
Divinity studies, and Chrissy begins
a 2-3 year MA in Teaching at Salem.
Congratulations to Dee-Dee Anderson
Dietrich who celebrated both children’s
weddings in 2004 as well as the birth
of grandson, Ethan Anderson Ralls.
Le Newell Erwin sent a Christmas
photo of her four college kids! Clark
(26); Margaret (24); Leila (23); and
Ginny (20). Le and Ginny traveled to
Italy in mid-December with a Salem
group to study the arts, architecture,
cuisine, etc. Kudos to Frere Sands
French who’s back in school to study
nutrition/sports medicine. Son Lee
(24) is an investment banker for
Wachovia in Charlotte; Marshall (19)
is following his father’s and brother’s
footsteps at Washington and Lee. Bill
consults with several East Coast companies. Beth Perry Granger survived
a 5-month home renovation project
to create living space for husband
Gary’s mother. Daughter Julie has
shoulder surgery in 2004 and hopes to
return to competitive swimming for
Duke University. Daughter Elizabeth,
graduate of the University of Georgia,
will continue her education in the
doctor of physical therapy department
at Emory University. Beth continues
to teach English to speakers of other
languages. Karen Johnson Hillman’s
son David is engaged, and plans to
attend law school at his father’s alma
mater Washington and Lee. Son John,
a Dean’s List student, plays soccer for
UNC-Asheville. Karen teaches Spanish at NCSU. Cathy Hunsucker and I
joined Becky Hewit Rauenhorst with
daughter Rebecca, Winn Currie Ballenger, Nancy Adams Quinn, Betsy
Hester, and Mary Dashiell for the
traditional Asheville lunch in October.
In early December we were joined by
Lynne Mappus, Nancy Boyd, and Kim
Royster for the Christmas Candlelight Service at Salem followed by the
Christmastide drop-in at the Rondthaler-Gramley House. Julie Kidd Angel
and Clark Kitchin Larson joined us
for dinner. My favorite husband
Robert, joined us to celebrate. Also at
the Candlelight Service were Muffin
Saunders Campbell with her mother
and daughter, Winters ’05. If I’ve
omitted anyone, please forgive. Congratulations to Camille Murphy Jones,
associate director of public relations
for the NC School of the Arts. Laura
Turnage McNair and husband Frank
wrote that their parents are well. Laura
organized the restructuring of several
non-profits, and Frank published
You Can Sell It! They serve at First
Presbyterian and St. Paul’s Episcopal
respectively as lay persons. Many
thanks to Lynne Mappus who hosted
a S.A.L.E.M. (Salem Alumnae Lunch
Event in March) in Columbia. Get
well wishes to Jean Wetzel Nance who
underwent an emergency appendectomy in early April. Susan Noble reports
that with family, two nieces and
nephews, and church activities, she has
no time to work! She plans to retire
from the Extension Service in three
years. She and her mother enjoyed a
trip to Italy in November 2004. Sally
Phillips regretted missing our 30th
reunion, but reported a successful
prom. Chris Minter Dowd showed her
reunion photos. Nancy Adams Quinn’s
Christmas photo featured grown
children Liza, a kindergarten teacher
in Guilford County, NC, and Woody,
CNN executive by day; jazz musician
by night in New York City! Condolences to Becky Hewit Rauenhorst
whose father passed away in April.
Gin-Gin Bruce Scott’s daughter Lillian
will attend University of Kentucky as
an invited walk-on in soccer. Gin-Gin
plans to reconnect with freshman
roommate and current Lexington
resident Janet Ross Ockers. Anne
Manly Smith and Grant enjoyed the
holidays at home with daughter Janna
and son Grant Jr. They visited Grant
Jr. in Cape Coral, FL and stopped
in Tampa for a Josh Grobin concert.
Bebe Gravely Sullivan’s youngest son
Charlie was in a production of the
“Christmas Revels” in Washington,
DC while Will busied himself with
college applications. Caroline Gaver
Trefzger wrote from Hickory that son
Hunter attends the Citadel; daughter Eleanor, Davidson, and that her
husband and son Henderson did a
70-mile trek to Philmont Scout Ranch
in New Mexico. Her family celebrated
the New Year on Sullivan’s Island.
Condolences to Deborah Warner on
the sudden death of her mother on
March 30th. On my home front,
rising Sewanee junior Harper will
assume full proctor duties for a co-ed
dorm (gulp!) this fall while pursuing a double major in Anthropology
and French, and participating on the
Equestrian Team. Robert and I garden,
cook, and entertain. I close with best
wishes to the Class of ’74.
1975
Incoming Correspondent
Susan Wooten Gaines
2325 Woodrow Drive
Raleigh, NC 27609-7626
[email protected]
[email protected]
The “Virgin Trees of 75” were well
represented at our 30th class reunion.
After the events on campus, we had
a wonderful class party at the home
of Leigh Thurston Myers on Saturday
evening and had lots of time to
catch up and visit. Lynda Casanova
Lumpkin, a lifelong Presbyterian, is
chairman of the Deacons at Louisburg
Baptist Church. In the last year Lynda
was fulltime caregiver to her father
who recently passed away and to her
mother-in-law. Ann Tillett works for
the Winston-Salem Foundation and is
planning her annual summer getaway
to Wyoming along with several other
exciting jaunts to visit family and
friends. Also working at the WinstonSalem Foundation is Annette Perritt
Lynch who works to build assets and
provide good donor services. Husband
John is a residential real estate appraiser. Daughter Caroline is working
in architectural services in Charlotte,
and son John is a junior at UNC
majoring in economics. LuAnne Chadwick Wood is director of admissions at
Forsyth Country Day School. She and
Jeff have three children: Ben, finishing
his second year of medical school at
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Class of 1975
Front row: Peggy Fulghum Matthews, Susan Wooten Gaines, Ann Aultman Johnston, Carolyn Edris Shultzaberger, Lee Simmons Bernstein,
Elaine Foster Behl Second row: LuAnne Chadwick Wood, Lynda Casanova
Lumpkin, Ann Tillett, Leigh Thurston Myers, Katie Allen Allen Third row:
Cindy Lovin McArthur, Sarah Longino, Annette Perritt Lynch, Julie Smith
Sparks, Tricia Daniel Nimocks, Mary Dorsett Salem, Leslie Bass Walker
WFU; Chris, a rising senior at UNC;
and Leslie, is a rising sophomore at
UNC-G. Leslie Bass Walker has gone
back to high school! She is working with handicapped students and
finding it very fulfilling. Ann Aultman
Johnson is executive vice president
of human resources for Reynolds
American in Winston Salem. She took
classmates Lee Simmons Bernstein,
Elaine Foster Behl and Katie Allen
up to check out life on the executive
floor at work. Sarah Longino teaches
science at Timber Creek High School
in Orange County, FL where she is
science department chair. Cindy Lovin
McArthur works for NASA facilitating live events with crews in orbit and
helping with the educational payloads.
Husband Bill is slated to be on a Russian Soyuz launch in September 2005
headed for a six month stay in the International Space Station. If you head
to Manteo, NC look up Mary Dorsett
Salem who recently moved there.
She works at The Christmas Shop
and enjoys the life very much. Tricia
Daniels Nimrocks plays golf regularly
and owns and operates a flower shop,
The Greenery, in Charleston, SC.
Peggy Fulghum Matthews graduated
from WFU Divinity School in 2002.
She completed a two year residency as
chaplain at Moses Cone Hospital in
Greensboro, was ordained in the fall of
2004 and now serves as parish chaplain and director of pastoral care for
First Presbyterian Church in Greens36
boro. Peggy’s granddaughter graduated
from Salem in 2005. Carolyn Edris
Schultzaberger combined her love of
horses and education with a career as a
therapeutic riding instructor, working
with handicapped children and adults
to enjoy the mobility of the horses
while learning life coping skills. She
and husband Rick’s son Matt will
graduate soon from NCSU. Leigh
Thurston Myers opened her home to
our class Alumnae weekend. Daughter
Elizabeth is working with dad Brad at
Salem Electric and daughter Katherine
is a rising senior at Furman University.
Leigh enjoys playing bridge, working in her garden, and volunteering
in Winston Salem. To help Leigh
prepare for the weekend, Julie Smith
Sparks arrived several days early
from northern Virginia. Her oldest
daughter Laura is at UVA. Emily (9th
grade) loves lacrosse and basketball.
Leigh credited Denni Hill Peebles with
help for our party, but Denni missed
the fun as she was ferrying dates up
to Woodberry Forrest. Together Terry
LaPrade O’Donohue and husband
have eight children keeping them
busy. If that is not enough, Terry is the
proud proprietor of her own service
station which she assumed running
several years ago to help her father.
Her daughter is a proud member
of the Salem College Class of 2005.
Betty McCollum Isaacs stopped by
our class gathering. She lives in Richmond and has an exciting new person
in her life. Unable to attend
but sending news for us were
the following: Cabell Smith
Longan is in Richmond with
husband Bill. Daughter Molly
is a rising senior at UNC-W
where she is on the dive team,
and son Robert recently graduated high school. Lee Dalton
Hanes and husband Bill live in
Winston-Salem where Lee is a
senior vice president at Calibre, a division of Wachovia.
Lee travels back and forth to
Kinston several times a month
taking care of her mother
there. Claire McCommon
Smith and Boone are working
to keep up with their children.
Boone, IV, graduated from
WFU and is in law school
at Mercer. Ginny graduated
from the London Academy
of Music and Dramatic Arts with a
degree in drama. Claire and Boone
recently traveled to NYC to see her
stage debut. Leigh McDonald lives
and works in Charlotte as an artist.
Daughter Katie Jordan enjoys Salem
Academy and all of the activities
there. Bethlene Clark is retiring from
Yadkin County Schools after teaching
30 years of world and U.S. history in
high school there. Now she is looking
forward to time on the golf course.
Pam Ritter Patton runs the kidney and
pancreas transplant program for the
Department of Surgery at UF as is the
associate clinical director. She could be
seen atop a 2004 Victory Vegas driven
by husband Tom, at Daytona’s Annual
Bike Week. Mary Lou Cunningham
Dodd continues to work as a physical
therapist for Wake County Schools.
Son Michael is a rising junior at Furman. Anna is a rising senior in high
school and Margaret is a rising 7th
grader. Cyndy Patterson Chapman
and her family spent two weeks in the
Philippines reconnecting with their
son’s past while enjoying the natural
beauty there. She has seen Taylor
Bidgood Randolph several times in
the past few months and they have
exchanged parenting tips and updates
on Salem friends. Katherine Franklin
Shapinski had the best excuse for not
attending the reunion: she is busy
raising twins Olivia Irene and Ariana
Iris (3). Since our last reunion, she
and Ian have gotten married, and have
obviously been very busy. Katherine
still works for Hormel Foods but put
being church organist on hold for
now. Congratulations, Katherine and
Ian. I still work for IBM and living
in Raleigh. Daughter Kate will be a
freshman at Duke this fall. After a trip
to Africa, she and I plan to enjoy the
summer taking care of the horses and
getting her ready for school. I hope
her new skydiving venture is just a
passing fancy. I look forward to being
our class correspondent. Please send
me any updates on yourselves and
your families or our classmates either
by conventional or email so I can keep
everyone posted.
1976
Cindy Cothran
Unit 6, 1121 Sherwood Drive
Burlington, N.C. 27215-3595
[email protected]
According to all the e-mails, many in
our class have been busy with high
school and college graduations this
spring. Sarah Johnston Hudson’s
son Greg will go to Clemson. He was
a member of the state championship band, and Sarah loved all the
football games and band competitions.
Brandon Boyd Chapman’s son Chris
is a freshman at NCSU; son Will
graduates from Davidson, and son
Matt is finishing a masters degree at
Georgetown. Brandon is a real estate
agent, volunteers, plays tennis, and
has a new puppy. Linda Judy Martin,
in her 28th year of teaching hearing
impaired children, is in her eighth
year with a cochlear implant which
has helped her hear much better. One
son (WFU 2002) will soon graduate from the University of Georgia
School of Law. Her other son graduates
from the University of Tennessee in
December. Daughter Carrie, a high
school freshman, also benefited from a
cochlear implant. Linda ran into Lori
Furches Thrailkill at Myrtle Beach last
October and found she hasn’t changed
a bit since Salem. Anne Copeland
Pittard is less than a year from possible
retirement as US probation officer in
Charleston. She enjoyed great trips
to Europe in the past few years and
is going to Canada this summer. Her
younger daughter graduates from
Columbia College, and will pursue a
master’s degree at the Medical University of SC. Elizabeth Foust Mason’s
oldest child graduates from UNC-CH
and youngest is a high school senior.
Elizabeth began teaching children who
fall behind in reading skills and loves it
so much she is looking for a full-time
position. She received flower arranging
tips from Carolyn Davis Anderson,
and visited with Dee Stout Pence,
Sally Burnett Sweeney and Estelle
McElwee Stinchcomb at the home of
Laura Keith Brown in Charlotte. Laura
celebrated twenty years with Bank of
America; she is a SVP, Curriculum
Design and Development Manager in
Consumer Skill Building. Husband
Tony and son Thomas (14) capture
what time Laura has left available.
Salem College
Marti Russell Byrum is in Greenville,
NC where her husband practices medicine. Her daughter works for Senator
Burr in DC, and her son is a walk-on
relief pitcher for WFU. Her youngest son is a freshman at UNC-G. She
recently saw Scottie Boardman House
who teaches at Reynolds High School,
and also Beth Gayle Clough who is beginning the college search with her son.
Sally Jordan Patterson helps children
of military personnel in her position
as school liaison officer for the Army
at Fort Jackson in Columbia, SC. Her
oldest son graduated from Davidson
in 2003, and is a Lieutenant in the
Air Force in Albuquerque, serving as
a physicist. Son Jonathan is a junior at
Clemson, and daughter Sarah is a high
school junior and plays on the varsity
soccer team. Bebe Aycock Krewson
still loves teaching fourth grade at
Summit School. Daughter Liz (17)
recently made the National Honor
Society and Mu Alpha Theta Math
Honor Society, and also achieved her
Girl Scout Gold Award. Daughter Emily (14) is also an honor student, and
was voted MVP of basketball at Summit School. Husband Scott is business
administrator for radiology oncology at
Wake Forest Medical Center. Marilyn
Turner Hedgpeth has a two-pastor
family: she serves as associate pastor at
First Presbyterian Church in Durham,
and Hedge is pastor at Mt. Bethel
Presbyterian Church in Durham. Their
oldest, Emily, graduated from WFU
this May. Laura Sutphin Brouse-Long
continues fundraising for the Smithsonian in Washington. She and husband
Bill enjoy their two granddaughters
who live in Maryland. Laura was grateful for the care and concern of Salem
friends following her mother’s death
in November. Jane Howell Sharpe
began her fifth year in the Office of
Academic Affairs in the College of
Engineering at NCSU. Daughter Ellie
is a senior at NCSU, and son Wynne
graduated from Washington and Lee
in 2003. Mary Hoffman Inglis has four
children and works as communications
coordinator for her Catholic church in
Beaufort, SC. Beth Zobel Small is busy
as co-chair for 2005 for the Symphony
Guild of Charlotte ASID Showhouse.
Nikki Pratt Wilson is serving as a
nurse practitioner in the Air Force
Reserves. Last spring, she transferred
from Headquarters Surgeon General
Building AFB to Little Rock AFB in
Arkansas. They live near Memphis.
Daughter Sarah (14) keeps her busy
driving to activities. Kathy Gedeon
Soza is pleased that son Michael excels
in violin as well as art. Husband Mark
enjoys teaching the fifth grade. I hope
that everyone will have a wonderful
summer, and we’ll see each other at the
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1977
Kathy Watkinson Ivins
9900 Kingsbridge Road
Richmond, VA 23233-5714
[email protected]
I can’t write any news if I don’t receive
any. Come on ladies I need to hear
from you.
1978
Anne Piedmont
2102 Wycliffe Avenue, SW
Roanoke, VA 24014-1729
[email protected]
Betty Shull Butler recruits for BB&T
Bank in Winston-Salem. Work and
teenage girls (17 & 14) keep her busy.
Our sympathy goes to Betty, who lost
her father in January, 18 months after
the death of her brother. Julia McMillan Fallon and husband Denis have
moved to Blacksburg, VA. Daughter
Jill is at Tulane and son Archie at
University of Tennessee Law School.
Jenny Eury is in her 24th year at
IBM in Raleigh. She recently cruised
to the Bahamas for a nice vacation,
volunteered last October for Sally
Ride Festival, and taught 300 young
girls binary math. Susan Leonard
Fonville is in Raleigh. Her son graduated this year from Broughton High
School, heading to Carolina. They
joined a school group over spring
break for a trip to Europe and hosted
an exchange student from France
last fall. Stell Snowdon Brown flew
with Piedmont/US Airways for 21
years and has been selling real estate
in Lake Norman/Charlotte area for
5 years. She is married to Sayle and
has two grown step-daughters. Sarah
Parsons Davis and husband Mike
celebrated their 25th anniversary with
a long weekend at The Homestead.
Daughter Bess finished her freshman
year at Elon where she is a North
Carolina Teaching Fellow. Belle Maloy
Fosbury and husband Michael moved
from Louisville, KY to Binghamton,
NY. Michael is with Columbian Finance Group and Belle has been busy
settling in. She took up tennis again,
but tore her Achilles tendon! Marie
Camp Hansen works at Northern
Trust Bank in Ft. Lauderdale as a
wealth strategist and was promoted
to the regional sales manager. She and
husband Leo moved into a new house.
Lynn Hill Blankenship and husband
Dan have become DINKs (double income no kids!). Jason graduated from
High School; Alex from community
college. Janet Kaduck Sawyer’s son
Will was accepted into the 5 year Masters of Accountancy Program at Wake
Forest. Adrienne Warren Northington’s
daughter Grace finished her first year
at UNC. Two other daughters are in
9th and 8th grades. She is christian
education director for St. Stephen’s
Episcopal in Goldsboro, NC. She
says that Ann Fidler has moved to
Goldsboro. Kathy Kirkpatrick Oates’
oldest son Hunter graduated from
Georgia Tech, is heading to M.I.T.
on a fellowship to get his Ph.D in
chemical oceanography! Campbell
survived his first year at Wofford.
Idalyn Stoll Brown still has a pediatric
neuropsychology practice in Mt.
Pleasant, SC. She and her husband
are raising three grandchildren while
their parents open a medical practice
in Kentucky. Liz Rhodes Perritt lives in
Wilmington, NC and stays busy with
three teenagers. Jennifer Coe lives in
Mt Pleasant, SC, where she teaches
history and travels quite a bit with her
free summers. Ann Beidleman lives in
Winter Park, FL and is an integration
project manager for The Hartford.
She recently was certified as an open
water scuba diver and dove the reef
off of West Palm Beach. Lee Hackney
Ingram lives between Rocky Mount
and Cedar Island, NC. Daughter
Mary Wesley is a high school junior.
Husband Larry builds sport fishing
boats and has a charter boat out of
Atlantic Beach. Bettsy Edgar Heggie is
in Richmond. Son Tom teaches sixth
grade English and daughter Caroline is
a high school junior now is looking at
colleges, playing travel volleyball. Julie
Hettiger is commuting from Houston
to San Diego where her husband
works. She’s still doing food styling
and consulting, media tours, recipe
testing and development. Rebecca
Lasley paints seriously these days,
getting up at 4:30 a.m. to put in hours
before work. She played the female
lead in a murder mystery produced
for Friends of the High Point Theatre.
Jane Dittmann Atkins recently got
together with Laura Benfield Thompson, Betty Shull Butler and Betsy
Brooks Custer. Jane passed along
the following news: Laura, an empty
nester with one daughter at Davidson and the other at NCSU, teaches
English at the local community college
and works in a bookstore. Betsy has
two girls as well and teaches part-time
since moving to Raleigh from Rocky
Mount. The move was necessitated by
husband Scott becoming the CEO of
RBC Centura Bank. Sally Lowndes
Long works in development. Her one
daughter Sarah will begin her freshman year at the American University
in London in the fall. Libby Shull of
Greensboro, NC and Sally Bason
of Reidsville, NC went to Daytona
Beach, FL for Biker’s Week in March
2005. They wanted to do something
very different this year for their Salem
Alum March get together. Libby,
known as Tangerine on her bike,
reports a good time was had by all! I
am still in Roanoke, busy with work
(traveling too much!), doing projects
around the house and throwing pots
at pottery. I spent a week in February
skiing at Lake Tahoe. Nothing broken!
1979
Susan Miller Brink
1118 Cedar Ridge Drive
Mebane, NC 27302
[email protected]
Ann Miller Pardue has 3 daughters,
Jessica, at Tulane University, Hannah,
a high school senior, and Blythe, a
sophomore. Connie Caldwell Breeser’s
children Robert and Hayley are 4 .
Connie is in-house counsel at PRGSchultz International and is finishing
her 6-year term as a Salem College
trustee. Our sympathy is extended
to Jennie Mauney Hinshaw on the
deaths of her brother and mother in
2004. Daughter Catherine is in the
fifth grade.
1980
Outgoing Correspondent
Mishew Williams Paynter
Incoming Correspondent
Marsha Sanders McNamara
1501 Farmington Court
Raleigh, NC 27615-5402
[email protected]
Wow! What a year! Katherine Knapp
Watts has a new job as director of
development for Salem College. Ellen
Newton Auten’s daughter Mary Ellen
is a junior at Salem majoring in math
and working toward a secondary
teaching license. Her other daughters, Laura and Rebecca (11th and
6th grades respectively), continue to
keep Ellen very busy. We extend our
deepest sympathy to Martha Walker
Fullington whose mother died in
April 2004. Martha is writing grants,
directing the restoration of her historic church in Biltmore, NC, editing
non-fiction and historical fiction,
and serving on the State Historic
Preservation Advisory Committee.
Her daughter Katie is a junior at
UNC-CH. Rebecca Baggett recently
had poems published in several publications. Daughter Morgan graduates
in May, and daughter Emma plans
to transfer to UGA as a history
major. Mary Lynnette Delbridge and
husband Andrew Meckstroth have
adopted their second daughter, Carol
Linnea Fuliang Delbridge. She says
life as a pastor continues to be very
fulfilling. Mary Foster Beisswenger
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’87. Meggins
read a newspaper
article about
Harriet Calhoun Stephens
Class of 1980
Front row: Martha Walker Fullington, Nancy Haynie Cheatham, Giselle
Thompson, Katherine Knapp Watts, Rebecca Baggett, Betsy Bryan Blair,
Mary Elizabeth Barnes Sells Second row: Leigh Padgett, Jean Fleming
Harris, Laurie Johnson Inabinet, Cherry Baity Greene, Susan Maley Rash,
Arie Tubb Motschman, Ellen Newton Auten, Pam Snyder Corum Third
row: Stephanie Porter-Cavender, Anne Carter Craddock, Marsha Sanders
McNamara, Cameron Frey, Mary Bryant Elliott, Elizabeth Toney Melvin,
Mary Foster Beisswenger, Elizabeth Whitehurst Turner, Carol Crawford
keeps busy with church activities and
helping at daughter Sara’s school. She
is a “barn mom” with Sara’s horseback
riding and showing in the hunter/
jumper class. Paula Young Chamblee
married Mack Roebuck December
31, 2004 at the Single Brothers
House in Old Salem. She is the director of annual giving for Old Salem.
Nancy Haynie Cheatham teaches at
an “inclusive” preschool – special
needs children are incorporated into
each classroom. Twins Blake and
Sarah are at Furman and Wake Forest, respectively. Daughter Elizabeth
is in high school. Pam Snyder Corum
is busy keeping up with her two
daughters’ (16 and 2) schedules.
She is also the owner of her family
business, Snyder Photography. Susan
Peele Crofton lives in Durham,
NC, and is on the cooking school
staff at A Southern Season. Mishew
Smith Edwards still enjoys life in the
country. She and husband Chip run
Rock Cabin Farm in Bahama, NC.
Catherine Fuller is a physician in private practice in Los Angeles, CA. She
is also an associate clinical instructor
at UCLA. She invites all to come see
her on the West Coast. Caroline Cella
Marker really enjoys being a family
practice physician in Midlothian, VA.
Husband Daryl stays at home with
their 2 sons, Michael and Robert.
Jane Hatley Smoak lives on Edisto
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Island, SC where she is the property
manager for vacation rentals at Edisto
Sales & Rentals Realty. Husband
Bill is a commercial fisherman. They
have a daughter, Sarah and a son,
Wightman. I’d like to extend a special
“thank you” to Carol Crawford and
Betsy Bryan Blair for their fabulous
work as our co-class presidents. As for
me, Mishew Williams Paynter, I have
thoroughly enjoyed being your class
correspondent. Thanks to everyone
who sent news each year. You made
my task very easy. Marsha Sanders
McNamara will be taking over this
endeavor. I look forward to seeing
everyone in 5 years (if not sooner).
Have a great summer!
1981
Mary Allen Waller
6709 Wessex Lane
Richmond, VA 23226-3405
[email protected]
I saw Julia Owen Baker last fall.
She and husband Phillip have two
children: Marsh (13) and Marjorie
(10) and are immersed in the kids’
tennis, dance, baseball, basketball,
Girl Scouts, and guitar. I also saw
Meggins Reinhardt Tuchmann. She
and husband Tom have two girls
who keep them busy. Meggins, still
in Portland, OR, recently met with
Morgan Stanley colleague, Nanette de
and husband
Warren hosting a
large art exhibit,
“Tabriz” in Little
Rock, AK. Holly
Dyer met Sarah
Sledd Glenn and
husband Reese,
and Ellen Culler
in Las Vegas in
Oct. 2004 to
celebrate Sarah
and Reese’s 20th
anniversary.
They had front
row seats to
see Gladys Knight who recognized
the big anniversary! Ellen and Holly
shared a room and it was just like old
times. Holly commutes to Cincinnati for Delta. A big thanks to Liz
Lee Lacy for helping get updates from
everyone. Liz and husband Ray still
enjoy Atlanta. Liz is a sales rep with
DHR & Company. Liz heard from
Ann Appich Harrison whose family
went to Czechoslovakia for Christmas
then went to New Orleans for the
Sugar Bowl. Ann keeps busy with her
three children, one already in college
at SMU. Liz also visited Betsy Walker
Grimball in Charleston last summer.
Betsy is busy with her husband and
three girls and in her spare time is
quite the gourmet chef. While in
Charleston, Liz and Betsy ran into
Stephanie King Wright and Ruthie
Clark Alig who were vacationing with
their families in Seabrook. Liz also
heard from Frances Gregg Johnson.
Frances and husband Les just sold
their house in Colorado and look
forward to spending more time in
Murrell’s Inlet. They recently got
together with Missy Akien Ascik
and her husband Mark in Florida.
Missy enjoys her nursing career. I
just moved to a new house out in
the country and was promoted to
CFO of Markel Insurance Company.
I would love to hear more alumnae
updates from everyone.
1982
Allison Buice Askins
4619 Furman Avenue
Columbia, SC 29206-4447
[email protected]
Carol Ann Moorhead, husband Luke,
and son Hunter (7) traveled to China
last summer to receive their adopted
daughter, Ai-Li Ann. All are “smitten,” she writes. Garrett Ross Clark’s
oldest daughter, Cameron is headed to
Vanderbilt, where she was recruited to
play lacrosse. Maryanne Tuggle Payne
continues to do well selling real estate
in Atlanta. She traveled to Germany,
Las Vegas and Jacksonville in the past
year, and recommends seeing Cirque
de Soleil. Kimberly King-Burns splits
her time among her Los Angelesbased news media consulting agency,
Briland.com, and her Bahamas-based
community technology foundation.
Kimberly periodically enjoys a Krispy
Kreme doughnut with Julie Singletary, who works in the digital world
in Burbank. Betsy Hasty Gustafson
of Charlotte has been active with
the local autism society for whom
she has served as community events
coordinator. Melanie Mann wrote
from Japan, where she has lived for
three years. She would love to have a
student board with her for a January
Term. She teaches at Sullivan’s Base
in Yokosuka, Japan. Gail Moore is
doing well in Arlington and welcomes
guests anytime as does Allison White
Unnerstall, who is entering into her
family’s third year in the Surrrey area
of England. The family will travel
to Italy, Egypt, Turkey and Greece
this summer. Kathy Glover and Rob
Robison married in December. She’s
also been busy with a mentoring
program she initiated last year with
Salem’s Board of Visitors. You may be
hearing from her as she seeks more
mentors for Salem students. Jamie
Credle is the director of the Davenport House in Savannah, GA. She
was recently recognized by President
Bush and the First Lady at the White
House. I recently enjoyed a visit with
Ann Biswell Leibel of Chapel Hill
and husband Kevin who joined my
husband, Bob and me in hosting an
international dinner at our house in
Columbia. Among our guests were
men from Jordan, Tunisia and Baghdad. Jerry Pubantz would have been
proud! Please send news and updates
to the address or email above.
1983
Vicki Estes Lucas
2503 Anne Terrace
Wall, NJ 07719-3837
[email protected]
It has been a whirl of a year for
many of us! Children are growing
up quickly and jobs are filling our
lives with obligations. Karen Farmer
Brannan teaches preschool. Husband
Wyatt graduated last September from
the Kenan-Flagler MBA program and
she’s enjoyed having him home more
often. She takes daughters Hannah
and Miriam on “girls weekend” to
visit with Sarah Helen Hinkle, Shari
Salem College
White Dallas, Ellen Brown Meihaus
and Beth Koontz White in Charleston. Thanks to Jo Stephenson
Brown for sending us those amusing
Salem ’83 Reunion postcards and
news blurbs. Seems they always arrive
just when we need a dose of Salem
sisterhood! Julia Councell Roberson
and Joe are celebrating 22 years of
bliss in Palo Alto, CA with Caitlin, a
sophomore at UCLA; Baxter, a high
school junior; and Haley, starting
high school in the fall. Julia is happy
to be a wife, mom and teacher in a
BSF class. Johanna Miller Lewis and
Michael send word from Little Rock,
AK, that his mother passed away last
December from a battle with pancreatic cancer. Our heartfelt condolences
go out to Michael and Johanna.
Johanna is with the University of
Arkansas as a historian. Liz Denton
Baird has changed positions at the
NC Museum of Natural Sciences and
is now the director of school programs, delivering programs to schools
and teacher across the state. Daughter
Madeline and Liz enjoyed a visit to
Salem during the Junior Open House
last December. Amanda Mays Budd
enjoys living in Winston-Salem and
seeing Salem alumnae everywhere,
from the carpool line to church to
garden club. Sarah (14), Richard
(12), Alex (9), and Mary Grace (9)
keep Joe and her busy, although they
still find time to walk their 3 dogs
and shoot sporting clays. Claiborne
Miller-Davis sends word that Mike,
Elizabeth (4) and puppy Penny reside
in beautiful, historic Frederick, MD.
Claiborne is with NIH in Bethesda as
a researcher on quality of life issues,
pain and palliative care and relaxes
by riding and showing her horse.
Daughter Elizabeth is developing
that same love for horses and riding!
I have recovered from a nasty bout
with double pulmonary emboli last
year. My boys and husband Steve are
all doing well in health and activities.
Add me to your holiday card lists and
be sure to send your news!
1984
Kathy Little McCormack
164 Terry Road
Hartford, CT 06105
[email protected]
Thanks to those of you who responded so promptly to my plea for news.
It made me realize why I volunteered
for this job again! Kim O’Brien moved
back to the DC area where she will be
a physician assistant at the Children’s
National Medical Center. She spent
a week there last June serving on
President Reagan’s funeral events staff,
which was an incredible experience
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for her. Elise Brigham Wall is
busy in Newport News with
her family and working with
youth at church. She speaks
to Susan-Britt Murphrey
Macon frequently. Sumner
Brown, at her job of almost
20 years, is busy with her
family and is a radio DJ on
the weekends. Lee Heffernan
has moved to Hilton Head
after seven years in NYC.
She started her own marketing/advertising agency
specializing in the television/media industry. Susan
Greenberg Jones is going
on a mission trip to the Dominican Republic with 40
seniors from the high school
where she teaches. She will
also go to India in July with
her daughter (16) to help the tsunami
victims. Paula Blanchard married
Larry Pressnell in August 2004 and is
a faculty member at Chowan College.
She is also a church organist and choir
director. She got to visit with Mary Ellen Wilkerson Radford and Pat Philips
Caviness while recently on a choir
tour. Neal McArthur Orgain stays busy
with her family, church, and other
volunteer work. She enjoys watching
daughter Anne (10) ice skate. Catherine Ghoneim Whitney is in Charlotte
designing kitchens. Daughters Annie
and Hunter will both attend Camp
Seafarer this summer, while Frank
and Catherine sail the Outer Banks.
She had dinner with Valerie Reibel
Portugal, Bonnie Lewis Clark and
Elizabeth Carver Morrow ’83 while
Valerie was visiting from Peru to look
at colleges with her daughter. Bonnie
purchased a stationery business called
Southern Stationers. She is using
the calligraphy that she learned Jan
Term freshman year! She is busy as
taxi driver to Elizabeth (13) and Will
(9). Kelly Carpenter stays busy with
her farm and tutoring. She bought a
pony aptly named Shorty! Deborah
Bradford, in Richmond works as a
trader for Wachovia Securities Fixed
Income and says all is well. Jeanelle
Hamilton Lovett says all is well with
her gang. Her oldest child is getting
ready to start high school and driver’s
ed. Mary Anne Craven Moldenhauer
is media director at Bojangles while
juggling son Henry (5) and John
(3). She tried to see as much of the
Charlotte Salem crowd as possible.
Lee Ann Manning is putting us all to
shame with her running. Last summer
she competed in an Ultimate Runner
event and finished, but it was only for
the t-shirt, she says! She enjoys her
job as a personal assistant to a local
businessman and still helps at Salem
Class of 1985
Front row: Terri Rushatz Dussault, Marjorie Riggs Pike, Kendra Casto
Kidby, Lyn Turner Hardway, Dove Brown, Beth Ann Cosby Brown, Laura
Arrowood Gibbs Second row: Mary Risher Osteen, Angie Bostrom
Smith, Mona Motz, Ellen Anastasi Patterson, Molly Harrover Lane, Mary
Catherine Furst Jones, Suzanne Edwards Hayward Third row: Cathy
Bernheisel Barkley, Leigh Flippin Krause, Anne Prather, Carla Litaker
Hearst, May Sherrod Reed, Beverly Bradford Serral, Angie Dixon Wilson,
Kate Weatherman Brown
reunion weekend. Paula Corbett
Simmons enjoys staying at home with
Trevor (5) and Wilson (2) as well as
consulting on some interior design
projects. She sees Elise Brigham Wall
and Chris Marks Suit every now and
then. I had a phone call from English
Ray Rand who is thrilled to be moving from Michigan back to North
Carolina in June. English and her
husband have three girls (10, 8, and
4) and all are looking forward to being in Asheville where they have family. I was so happy to get an update
from Tord, widower of our dear late
classmate Janet Niblock Eide. Tord,
Alexandra (14) and Amanda (11) are
in Norway and doing well. The girls
spend their summers in Concord
with Janet’s family, enjoying the farm.
Many of us have great memories of
Janet’s farm parties! Laura Vincent
Camp keeps busy attending WFU
sports events with Rob and the boys.
As for me, and my family, we are a
little busy with the usual activity of
two jobs and four kids. My oldest will
be a junior in high school and am
trying desperately to talk her into going to Salem. Jim and I will celebrate
our 20th Anniversary this August and
once again I am a rugger hugger as
Jim is playing rugby with an old boys
league! Remember to send me, and
Salem (fill out a bio updated on the
website) any new e-mail addresses and
also Christmas cards so I can see those
cute family photos!
1985
Outgoing Correspondent
Holly Fowler Strauss
Incoming Correspondent
May Sherrod Reed
12624 Hidden Oaks Lane
Richmond, VA 23233
[email protected]
It seems like just yesterday we were
waiting patiently for the refectory to
open for lunch and now we celebrated
our 20th reunion! Terri Rushatz
Dussault has settled into married life
with husband and son Adam. Laura
Arrowood Gibbs attended the wedding of Angie Dixon Dalton-Wilson
in the spring of 2004. Lyn Turner
Hardway has remarried and lives
in Greensboro. Suzanne Edwards
Hayward is home-schooling two sons
while her twins keep her just as busy.
Mary Catherine Furst Jones is remodeling her home in Maryland. Congratulations to Kendra Casto Kidby on
completing her MBA at Wake Forest.
Mona Motz lives in Florida where she
and husband operate an animal rescue
shelter. Mary Risher Osteen is busy
outside Charlotte with volunteer work,
car pool, and home-schooling her
children. Kudos goes to Ellen Anastasi
Patterson on her promotion to Juvenile Probations Supervisor. Beverly
Bradford Serral relocated to Hilton
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Head Island and formed Carolina Realty Group. Beverly has two daughters
active in dancing and horse shows.
Angie Bostrom Smith remarried
and lives in Apex. It was great to see
so many at reunion. Marjorie Riggs
Pike, Cathy Bernheisel Barkely, Dove
Brown, Molly Harrover Lane, Carla
Litaker Hearst all were there. Meg
Wendt Holden made it for late day
activities. She is busy with children,
horses, and raising Labrador retrievers
in Charlottesville. Congratulations to
Betsy Jones who married Dr. Warren
Ludwig in January 2005. Vicki Gaines
Ahnrud, Jin Jin Garrett Davis, Cindy
Leonard and Jennifer Matney Rucker
hosted a bridal shower for Betsy. Leigh
Ann Goodwin Butts sends her best
and was sorry to have missed reunion.
Frances Buist Byars hosted a mini reunion at her home in Charleston with
a limo to lunch and shopping on King
Street. Leigh Flippin Krause, Marilee
Eagles Reed and I drove down for the
weekend. We had a grand time catching up with Libby Glenn Lanier, Jennifer Matney Rucker, Sherri McMillan
Hambright, Nina Anderson Cheney,
Liza Robinson Hart, and Madeline
Gilbert. Anna Lane Tatum Swing has
started a personal furniture shopping
company, annadesigns resources, while
her husband has stared a residency in
pathology. I am busy with my twins
(9) and selling real estate. I am looking
forward to keeping up with our class
and keeping you informed of what
everyone is doing since graduation.
Please keep the information coming.
1986
Colbert Lashley Trotter
4 Westminster Court
Greensboro, NC 27410
[email protected]
Hope this edition finds all our
classmates doing well! If you did not
receive a note from me, please send me
your e-mail address. Lisa Councilman
and husband Kevin live in Westlake,
TX with Tristan (8), Heath (6), and
Sage (3). She’s been with Sprint 14
years and is responsible for the business market in 5 states. For Lisa’s 40th
birthday, Kevin hosted a surprise party
and guest included Lewis Lum, Sydma
Hatzopolous, and Debbie Harrell,
who came from Oregon, West Virginia
and Winston-Salem wearing shirts
that said “Everything Lisa knows, she
learned from us at Salem College.”
Lisa said it was a marvelous surprise!
Susan Muncy Hildebrandt re-married
in 2004 to Donald Hildebrandt, and
they live in King, NC with her son,
Bradley (11) who is active with Boy
Scouts. She works part-time in an
insurance agency in Winston-Salem
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and serves as executive secretary for the
Winston-Salem Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Charlotte
Daves Benson and Craig are doing
well in Austin TX, and enjoying their
children. Thomas Garland was born
December 14, 2004 and Christiane
(3) loves being a big sister. Charlotte
is a full time mom, and Craig runs
a biotech company based in Austin.
Patti Haste Chiacchiero lives in Hilton
Head Island where she started two
businesses about 5 years ago: a real
estate company and a company that
sponsors visas for students to come to
the U.S. to train in their field of study.
She and John have been married for
14 years. It was great to hear from
Emily Mitchiner Knuckley who lives in
Wendell, NC with husband George,
twins Edward and Samara (10), and
James (3). She works part time at her
husband’s family clothing store. She
keeps in touch with Kathryn Ferrara
Fleming in Smithfield, NC and Jill
Haly Owen in Dunwoody, GA. Jill
stays busy with her sons (3, 5, and 7).
Emily also occasionally gets to visit
with Lisa Austin Moseley. Margaret
Hasty Elliott and husband Jeff have
been in Jackson, MS for the past 15
years. She loves teaching kindergarten
at a private K-12 school. She also
writes freelance for The Education
Center in Greensboro, which publishes teachers’ magazines and resource
materials. Lisa Farrior Chappell is
busy with Ben (12) and Matthew
(6) and their baseball games, church,
school and volunteer work. Julie
Hight Nickens enjoys her career as a
senior account rep at the News and
Observer in Raleigh. Husband Eddie,
a magazine writer, often travels to
exciting places. Daughter Markie (9)
has been on a year-round swim team
for two years now. Jack (6) is involved
in soccer, basketball and now tee-ball.
Jack and Eliza Krause (Leigh Flippin
Krause’s daughter) were in the same
kindergarten class this year. Rachael
Pickus Hamilton still practices environmental law in Louisville, KY, and
is the proud mother of Aron (7) and
wife of Bill. I enjoyed hearing from
Penny Fowler Westmoreland who
started a faux painting business, “Faux
Show.” She and Greg live in WinstonSalem where Greg is at United and
the boys are in 1st and 3rd grades. She
is on the PTA Board at their school
and the Homeowners Board in her
neighborhood. She always enjoys the
annual beach gathering with Nancy Allen Carlton, Elizabeth Booke Vaughn,
Beth Perry Bullock, Mary Dixon
Presbey Smith and Ellen Taylor. Rene
Ivey sends greetings from WinstonSalem where she teaches 3rd grade and
works in the media relations office at
Wake Forest. Maryanne Downs Liscio
has lived in Orange County, CA for 6
years. Henry (9) and Andrew (5) keep
her on the go for baseball, basketball
and swimming. She also works on the
STYLE network show Modern Girls
Guide to Life. Cathy Duckwall Dupont
warns all Forsyth County, NCD drivers to beware: she has a teenage driver!!
Elizabeth had a great first year of
high school and started on her JV
basketball team! Ben (11) had a great
5th grade year, and Sarah (10) is the
forever princess of the family. Cathy is
a kindergarten assistant at at Meadowlark Elementary School. Our thoughts
go out to Julie Trabue Hanes, husband
Scott and family. Their beautiful
daughter Madeline suffered a stroke
in December 2004. Please pray for
Madeline as she continues the recovery
process. Julie is also staying busy
with Cory (12) and sends her love to
everyone! Marcy Svoboda Doak announced the arrival of Maxwell Greer
on September 8, 2004. Marcy, Travis
and sister Abby are thankful for his addition to their family. Tripp and I have
had a very busy year managing the
activities of Susanna (11), Logan (8)
and Garrison (3). My organizational
development consulting business,
Southern Services Group, has hit its 5
year anniversary. Tripp and I enjoyed
a wonderful visit to Boston last spring
to see Carla Blakley McDonough ’85
and husband Paul. It was a pleasure to
hear from you this year. I hope that I
will see many of you next April as we
celebrate our 20th reunion! Keep the
news coming and don’t forget to send
me your e-mail address.
1987
Ziana Wiemer Clinton
Subbing for Susan Gillespie Elliott
6605 Horseshoe Bend Court
Summerfield, NC 27358
[email protected]
First, to answer your question why
is Ziana Wiemer Clinton is doing
the classnotes… Susan Gillespie
Elliott asked me to substitute for her
this time. Susan celebrated her 40th
birthday by taking a girl’s trip to Santa
Fe, NM with her mother and sister in
April. Then in May, a routie mammogram found breast cancer, so Susan
is undergoing treatment right now.
Her prognosis is excellent, and Susan
encourages everyone to give themselves the best 40th birthday present,
a mammogram. She appreciates your
thoughts and prayers. In my family,
my oldest Ryan will enter kindergarten
and Zachary starts preschool. We are
involved at our church in Gastonia,
NC. Mom is still going strong and
keeping my kids in line. My 40th
birthday involved a surprise party,
black flowers, and a black birthday
cake. Nannette de Groot Erdtmann
is still in California working as an
investment broker. Cindy Tarrant loves
her life in Texas. Kelly Barnes Lathan
has three children, and I spoke to Brett
Ashcraft Pesce, who seems as a bright
as ever. Jamie Jabbarpour Via has added a new son to her family. Robinnette
Turner Wrobel lives in Richmond, VA.
She and her husband are home schooling their sons (kindergarten, 2nd, and
4th grades). Laney Frick just bought a
house on the golf course in Easley, SC
and says visitors are always welcome.
She works in radio advertising sales
and was named salesperson of the
year, 2004 for Entercom Greenville.
Suzanne Via Dillon will celebrate her
40th birthday with a trip to Hawaii.
Her sons (11, 13) will go to Camp
Seagull this summer. They both love
to play baseball. Suzanne, Mary White
Rights and Amanda Shute Sullivan
have dinner each month to catch up.
She also keeps up with Sterling Talley
Wheless who is very busy with three
small boys. Sissy Mebane Schoettelkotte celebrated turning 40 with a spa
trip to Barnsley Gardens with friends.
Sissy, Bill, and the twins are excited
to be moving back to Wilmington.
She looks forward to catching up
with Laura Shearin who also lives
there. Beth Salsbery Gebhart and her
mother went to Italy last fall for Beth’s
39th birthday. Daughter Amanda
starts high school next fall, and Beth’s
son (13, and 6’4!) plays basketball and
eats her out of house and home. Lucy
Cheshire Minter and Sterling Talley
Wheless surprised Posey Meanor
Stitcher at a dinner party in Charlotte
in honor of Posey’s 40th Birthday.
They later joined Posey, Beth Rankin
Sherrill, Stephanie Shannon Mannen,
and Claire Lashely Bryant for a weekend in Pinehurst to celebrate their
birthdays. Elizabeth Spencer Hood
and husband Frank both resigned
from Krispy Kreme. Frank has taken
a job with Quizno’s, headquartered in
Denver. Once they move, Elizabeth
will be able to spend quality time with
Spencer and stepson Ethan will live
with them. Andrea Barbian is planning a trip to England for her 40th
birthday. She visited Bali in January.
She is still a patent paralegal at Coke.
Catherine Miller Pappas spent her
40th with Bill Clinton, who happened
to be at the same restaurant in the
Bahamas as Catherine! Catherine’s
friends made their way to the former
president and explained the celebration. To Catherine’s horror, Clinton
motioned her over to have her photo
made with him! Ann Winfree Nugent
and husband Todd welcomed their 3rd
Salem College
daughter, Emily Peyton, on September
27th. Ann reports that big sisters Kate
and Sarah help keep them busy. Elizabeth Hill Gulley plans to celebrate her
birthday with husband John, Cecelia
(9), and Marcus (7), on a trip out west
this summer. Molly Riley Buquo writes
that Molly Moore Green and Jessie
Tomlinson Jones are working on a
weekend together to celebrate their
40th. She doesn’t see a lot of Salemites
living in Cincinnati. In closing, I am
including Marlene Welte Fraehmke’s
letter to the class. Thank you to everyone who responded with pages and
memories for the scrapbook we prepared and sent to Marlene. It was great
fun, and as you’ll see, means much
to Marlene. Marlene writes, “Thank
you for your prayers – I know God
is listening – just waiting for how He
is going to answer them is hard. I am
doing well – not going to give up the
fight. I was officially diagnosed with
ALS about one year ago. So much has
happened this past year. We bought a
ranch in August, did extensive renovation to make it handicap accessible
and moved in December. We hope to
finish our addition next month – adding a bedroom, bathroom, laundry
room, and family room. Everything is
on one floor. This has kept me rather
busy. In September I appeared, with
my family, on the Jane Pauley Show.
I contacted them asking for help in
documenting my life – they were wonderful. It reaired in March. We were
working on a follow-up show on ALS
right before it was cancelled. There is
always Oprah! I am living everyday
and not looking to far into the future.
I spend my time being a mother
– what I have always wanted to be. I
had wonderful jobs and did well – but
looking back it was all so unimportant. My last job was with Bloomberg
as a Foreign Exchange Sales Specialist.
They have been so good to me – even
still paying my bonuses and insurance.
Physically, I have gotten weaker since
the airing of the show. I am typing this
with pencils and recently bought myself a scooter. The scooter has given me
back some mobility that I have lost. I
just use it outside to go to the library
with Christian, take him to school,
and go for walks. I spent my 40th
birthday on surprise vacation with my
family in Florida. It climaxed when I
was surprised by my sister, Janet Welte
Rusyniak ’93, and her family along
with my parents on a Disney Cruise. I
spent my birthday on Castaway Island
in the Bahamas surrounded by family.
It was wonderful. Turning 40 is great
– I cannot wait until I am 50, then
60 and then 70!! Getting old is great
– gray hair is wonderful; wrinkles, I
will take them – it means you are livMagaz ine 20 05
ing and life is good. This past year has
also lead me one many spiritual journeys – Lourdes, France and Calabrua,
Italy. The Blessed Mary has appeared
in both places – I am putting much of
my hope in God for a miracle. I will
be returning to Italy with my family in September. God will guide us
through our sadness – I just hope get
the response I am looking for. Family
and friends have been fundraising for
ALS. There are many walks starting
this month – www.alsa.org. ALS is
considered an orphan disease so it
does not get the funding we need.
As many people are diagnosed with
ALS as MS every year – but people
with MS live longer therefore there
are more patients and drug companies want to invest. I would like to
thank my fellow Salem Sisters for the
beautiful scrapbook put together by
Ziana – you touched a nerve and I cry
just thinking about your kindness for
my son. He is everything to me. My
husband has put a website together:
www.marlenesangels.org. Please pass
it on. Also, I ask my class to keep my
family and me in your prayers and on
prayer lists. God WILL help, I just
know it and that keeps me going. In
love and friendship. – Marlene”
1988
Catherine Penry Rhodes
2632 Westminster Avenue
Dallas, TX 75205-1503
[email protected]
It was so fun to hear from all of you by
email and telephone; thanks for all the
exciting news. Kathleen Braff Brown
stays busy with her business, husband
and 4 kids. Twins Carson and Parks
(11) will be in middle school in the
fall. Davis is 8, and Grace (5) will start
kindergarten in the fall. Carolyn Phillips Breese enjoys her work with The
Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer
Foundation where she serves as board
president for The North Carolina
Triad affiliate. The 6th annual Komen
NC Triad Race for the Cure was held
at Salem on May 7th. It was exciting
for her to watch the campus on Race
day be transformed into a venue of
hope and celebration of breast cancer
survivorship. On her home front, her
children Megan (13) and Matt (10)
keep her busy and entertained. Ellen
Mincer bought a house in Forsyth
County and moved from downtown
Winston-Salem to the “country.”
She still teaches first grade at Speas
Elementary. Mary Hollis Bowman
Reyes’ son Nicholas is in the 2nd
grade. She is working as an LD specialist at Forsyth Country Day School.
Last year, she won an award for Professional of the Year from the Autism
Society of North Carolina. She enjoys
traveling, working on the computer,
reading, and shopping, especially on ebay! Joanna Winecoff Wells shared lots
of news after enjoying a mini-reunion
at Bald Head Island, NC with all of
her Salem friends including Hopie
Derby Carmichael, Sarah Grantham
Williams, Molly Allen Grady, Toccoa
Powell Mayhew, Dawn Oatman Ellis,
Muzette Fitts Kiger, Laura Connelly
Springs, Caroline Hines Batten. Caroline and husband Curt celebrated the
birth of their son, Raike Curtis Batten,
born June 23, 2004. Besides spending
time with Raike, Caroline is busy with
her appraisal business and remodeling houses. Muzette has moved with
her family away from Raleigh to
Weldon, NC. They are renovating an
older home, and her business with
her brother continues to grow. Sarah,
husband Peter, and sons Nicholas
and Grantham have moved back to
Raleigh. Hopie is most happy to have
her back because Sarah is working for
Hopie as a part-time legal assistant! Joanna also reports that Hopie’s mother,
Anna Potter Derby A’62 passed away
May 19th, 2004 after a brave fight
with lung cancer. We extend our
deepest sympathies to Hopie and her
family. Judy Diane Fungaroli works
as a mental health senior practitioner
at The Guilford Center in High Point
and is raising two of her four grandchildren. She expressed that Salem
College was one of the best experiences of her life. Debbie West loves
working for Our State magazine! She
sees Ellen Smallwood Peete around
town and at church. She is active in
the community including the United
Arts Council, Junior League, and a
new project with the Natural Science
Center and Animal Discovery. Melissa
Haneline Hall and husband Howard
live in Morganton, NC. Melissa
stays busy with church, Bible Study
Fellowship and home schooling her
two sons, Hayes (7) and Leighton (5).
Melissa keeps in touch with Rosemary
Finger Routszong and Emily Miller
Kirkpatrick. Rosemary lives with her
husband Steve in Dallas, NC. They
have two daughters Kathleen (4) and
Hope (2). We would like to also send
our sympathies to Rosemary and her
family as her father died last year.
Emily and Ron live in Gastonia, NC.
She is also home schooling her three
boys Will, Ian and Neil. Janice Poe
Brantingham and Dave are living in
Winneconne, WI where Janice is the
director of operations for UW Oshkosh. Ann Meyer recently published
a book entitled Medieval Allegory and
the Building of New Jerusalem. She is
an associate professor of literature at
Claremont McKenna College. Emily
Johnson Kellar, husband Dave, and
their three children Emma (14),
Edward (12), Ross (10) moved to Boston, MA. Robin Riach McGlade lives
in South Queensferry, UK. Elizabeth
Mullins Gamble and husband James
live in El Paso, TX with their children
Charles (13) and Callie (9). Mary Martha Whitner Beecy and husband Steve
stay busy with their three children,
Elizabeth (9), Mary Catherine (6),
and John (4). She volunteers with her
church, the children’s school and the
Charlotte Children’s Theatre. Mary
Martha hosted Stacy Little Gourlay,
Kelly Zappa Thompson, Lynn Turpin,
Elizabeth Carmichael Burton, Laura
Arndt Fladeland and Margaret Mays.
Stacy lives in Asheville. She has
two sons, Cy (10) and Mac (6). She
volunteers for many organizations and
competes in sprint triathlons, century
bike rides and 5K runs. Kelly and husband Dean live in Mountain Lakes,
NJ with their three children, Davis
(8), Kelsey (6), and Harrison (4).
She loves cooking, entertaining and
volunteering. Elizabeth is associate
director of citizenship and ServiceLearning at Missouri State University.
Her three children, Martha Scott (12),
Will (10) and Elizabeth Campbell (9),
keep her busy with school, sports and
music activities. In October 2004,
she completed her first marathon in
Des Moines, Iowa. Laura works in the
Office of Student Academic Affairs at
Franklin and Marshall College. She
has two boys, George (9) and Ross
(7), and they live in Millersville, PA.
Margaret lives in Charleston, SC and
has been working in pharmaceutical
sales for Pfizer over the last 10 years.
Ironically, Lynn Turpin and I have both
ended up in Dallas, TX, living one
mile apart, and we see each other every
morning to walk. Lynn likes Dallas
because she can spend more time with
her niece and nephew. She is currently
working for a non-profit organization.
She is active with the Junior League,
bible study and meeting new friends.
I am happy living in Dallas with my
husband, Greg, and two children, Will
(5) and Cate (2). They keep me very
busy. I enjoy volunteering at Will’s
preschool and being active in our
church. After recently spending time
with my dear Salem friends, I realize
even more how Salem was the catalyst
for lifetime friendships – friendships
that are more special each year, and
ones I will always treasure.
1989
Julia Carpenter
1613 Nasturtium Way
Apex, NC 27539-9763
[email protected]
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Allison Hughes Beard and husband
Pat live in Winston-Salem with
children Kenzie (8), Caroline (5), and
Patterson (3). She teaches Sunday
school classes for her three children,
works some at St. Paul’s Preschool, and
travels to see her old roommate Jill
Thomas Gilliam who lives in Charlotte
raising her three children Thomas
(10), Daniel (6), and Kathleen (3).
Dawn Phelps Doray finished her postdoctorate in Honolulu, HI in
September of 2003 and was hired as a
faculty member at the University of
Arkansas. She is an assistant professor
and clinical psychologist within the
department and works on the
Arkansas Children’s Hospital campus.
She provides clinical services to
children and their families and also is a
supervisor for their psychology interns
where she has started a children and
adolescent trauma program for child
maltreatment issues and grief and loss
issue. She and her husband just
bought a new home in Maumelle, AR.
They celebrated their 9th anniversary
with a hiking trip to the Canadian
Rockies. Bekah Little works as an
office manager for the BrassRing in
Waltham, MA. She sings in the church
choir at the First Congregational
Church. A guitar player, she enjoys
playing and singing both covers and
her own originals. She recorded one
song entitled “Mother,” written for her
mom before she died in 2002. Beth
Adams Alexander works at Appalachian State University as Executive
Assistant to the Chancellor. She is still
involved in development as well.
Daughter Katie is in 2nd grade and
Web works for a recruitment company
in Blowing Rock. They hope to be in a
new house by the end of the year. She
gets together frequently with Susan
Waters Hauser ’88 who lives in
Winston-Salem. Alison Crowson
Talbert and husband Pat live in
Wilmington with two children John
Patrick (9) and Sarah (7). She is active
in the Junior League and volunteers at
her kids’ school. Michelle Brennan
Prince is in Arlington, VA. Brice is
attorney at SEC. Her boys are 9 and 5
this year. She works part-time from
home for the medical journal,
Obstetrics & Gynecology, as an editorial
assistant. Sheila Elliott Parker and
husband Joe enjoy everyday and
keeping up with her son Tripp (1). She
owns Elliott Interiors and is a sales
manager with World Stone, selling
granite. Meg Cox Stott works at
Medical College of Virginia. She is an
office manager for the department of
pediatrics. She is also involved in
several organization including Salem
STARS and the Junior League of
Richmond. Lesley Prillaman
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Kassinger has two daughters and is
doing great. Rosalie Hill Bland works
part-time in the development office at
Salem and loves it! She says that it is so
great being back on campus and
interacting with both students and
alums. The renovation work they are
doing to Sisters is incredible! Besides
Salem, she and Edwin stay busy with
Ida (9), Lincoln (7), and Fred (3).
Leigh Whetstone Throckmorton is
teaching in her Title 1 classroom. She
is creating lessons using Word,
PowerPoint, Kidspiration, Notebook
and Write:Outloud. She says it is
challenging and a lot of fun. Bridget
Maley and husband David Cannon
bought an 1894 Victorian flat in San
Francisco’s Cow Hollow neighborhood. They found time to escape to
Sayulita, Mexico for Christmas 2004.
This year, Mayor Gavin Newsom
appointed Bridget to the city’s
Landmarks Preservation Advisory
Board. Lea Daughtridge is back in NC
after two years in Boston and nine in
New York. She works at McKinney, a
national advertising agency in
Durham, as Senior Vice President. She
recently judged a marketing competition at WFU’s MBA program. She
says it was hard to believe the girl who
never went to class and was quite a
rebel is judging an academic competition! In her free time she volunteers as
a guardian ad litem for the court
system, works on Habitat for
Humanity projects and gardens. Mary
Poole Reese and husband Bill are the
proud parents of Patrick, born in
November. He joins William (3). They
moved to the Atlanta suburbs this fall
after many years of living downtown.
Kim Harris McInnis enjoys being a
mother to her daughter Harris (1). She
is also busy launching a photography
business out of her home in Wilmington. Elizabeth Guss Kiernan moved to
Ireland this year with husband Noel
and children, Madison and Liam.
Susan Hamlet Birdsong enjoys
working with the children’s clothing
line Jacadi, and is busy with daughters
Ashton (11), and Greyson (8). Leslie
Crow Flanagan’s youngest Eliza started
kindergarten this year. Laney is in 2nd
grade and Houghton is in 6th. Leslie is
busy with their school’s parent
association, playing tennis, enjoying
her garden and painting again. Betsy
Hine Davis, the owner of Today and
Tomorrow Interiors, in business for 26
years, is getting ready to start
remodeling her home by raising the
roof. Cherry Newsom enjoys life with
her two beautiful granddaughters.
Copeland Baker married Britt Boyd in
July 2004. They have a blended family
of seven. Currently a practice manager
for a local physician at Lanier Family
Healthcare, Copeland has also owned
her own company, Corporate
Cleaning Services, for over 12 years.
Ginger Saunders Delegal is the
general counsel for the Florida
Association of Counties, Inc. Ginger
and husband Mark have three growing
daughters: Mary Katherine (7),
Elizabeth (5), and Caroline (2). Susan
Bynum Grider and David reside in
Atlanta with children, John David III
(8), and Grace (4). She is very involved
with PTA and will direct Vacation
Bible School at her church this
summer. She met Addie Jo Linus
Gwin ’87; as Addie Jo’s son Lott is
playing baseball with John David this
spring. Ellen Mixon Walston works at
Pitt County Memorial Hospital in
Greenville, NC and was recently
elected to serve a 2-year term as
president of the NC Oncology Social
Work Group. She loves spending time
with Joshua (8) and husband Tommy.
She still works part-time at a pastoral
counseling center. Alison Gill Falkoff is
a vice president of multi-national
business travel for American Express.
Helene (3) is doing well. They spend a
lot of time in Southern Florida and in
McLean, VA, their primary residence.
Allison spent a long weekend with
Cathy O’Mally Ferrara in Houston,
TX and they had a great time
discussing our Salem days. Meg Cox
Stott and Lesley Prillaman Kasinger
were together in Tampa for a weekend
and she wished that she could have
been with them! Tiffany Rutledge
Wilten left Salem to attend Trinity
University in Texas. She graduated
with education and sociology degrees.
In 1997, she reconnected with her
high school boyfriend, Mark and for
the last eight years they have lived in
London, England. Mark and she have
three amazing little girls, Sloane (6),
Brooke (5) and Reese (1). Liza
Abernethy Stamey is mom to four
active children, Chaz (11), Craver
(10), Eliza Jane (5), Ellie (3). She still
does interior design work when she
has the time. She and Chip are
building a new house. Julie Lindsey
lives and practices medicine in the
Hendersonville area. Paul and she
spend a lot of time keeping up with
their children, Rachel and Bryan.
Atticia Bundy, a classmate who
attended Salem for 2 years, completed
her PhD in career counseling at UNCG and is working at East Carolina.
Ruth Lenger received M. Div degree
from Union Theological Seminary.
Spencer Presbyterian Church (Spencer,
NC) for seven years. She recently took
leave from work to spend time with
her family, as her son lost his wife and
is father to a 4-year-old child. She has
six grandchildren in three states, so
spends much time with them. Parker
Hubbard Cohen’s children Jesse (6)
and Allison (4) are busy with school,
preschool, friends, and sports. Her
family just celebrated five years in
Bucks County, PA. In her free time
she teaches preschool music classes and
is involved with her church on several
activities. Her husband Fred is trying
to establish his own business in
pharmaceuticals and business. Mary
Poole Reese enjoys her career with
BellSouth in Atlanta. In November she
had her second boy, Patrick Nelson
Reese, and has moved to the suburbs.
While she misses the town, she is
enjoys having a big closet and
driveway. Julia Carpenter, our new
class correspondent, is a project
manager at SAS Institute. She is
building her first home.
1990
Outgoing Correspondent
Jennifer Muench Laney
Incoming Correspondent
Karen Timmons Ellison
511 Roberts Avenue
York, SC 29745-1308
[email protected]
Siri Wilkins Johnson, husband Jim,
son James (5) and daughter Camille
(18) live in Mobile, AL, where Jim
owns his own golf instruction business, and Siri works part-time doing
marketing and physician recruitment
for a private cardiology practice. They
bought a new house early in the year
and completed an update on it this
fall. Lee Manuel Marcus received a
masters degree in social work from
the University of South Carolina. She
and husband David live in WinstonSalem, where Lee is a renal social
worker at Piedmont Dialysis Center.
Rebecca Bobbitt lives in Clemmons,
NC with husband Keith and daughter
Caroline (11). Son Will is a sophomore at NCSU. After earning her
MLIS, she became a media coordinator at Brunson Elementary School
in Winston-Salem. Tammy Taylor
Haywood closed her gift and stationary store, but is still selling stationary
out of the house. She loves being a
full time mom to son Clark! Rebecca
Miller Saunders is a wife to Jim and a
mom raising Peter (9), Nathan (7) and
Matthew (4). Rebecca sings in church
and professionally with Carolina Pro
Musica, which will tour England in
June. Cristi Phillips married Michael
Driver on August 27, 2004 in Greensboro, NC at an outdoor ceremony at
historic Blandwood Mansion. Cristi
is a promotions coordinator for Volvo
Trucks NA, and Michael is a Realtor
with RE/MAX of Greensboro. Wanda
Hucthinson is assistant superintendent
Salem College
for administration and communication for Wilkes County
Schools. Her Ed.D. from Appalachian State University will
be complete in December 2005.
Husband Walter is serving as
pastor of Little Stone Mountain Baptist Church in their
community. Jennifer Muench
Laney, a stay at home mom,
put together a cookbook for the
local MOPS group, and helped
to create a Franklinton community Little Theatre. Husband
Neill is a contractor for IBM
and Joann (2) is in pre-school.
Ashley Neill Stamper lives in
Knoxville, TN with husband Todd,
Riley (8) and Jones (5). She volunteers
at their schools and at their church.
Ashley will begin selling the Worth
Collection of clothes via trunk shows.
Stephanie Hines Warren and family
welcomed Christian on July 12, 2004.
Stephanie, a stay at home mom, who
seems to live in the car dropping off
and picking up her kids. Rita Gale
Young Cruise is the regional director
of Self Help Services Corporation.
She is also part of the Piedmont Triad
Leadership Network. Paige Goza
Simmons lives near Athens, GA while
Robert finishes his Ph.D. work in
forestry and wildlife management.
Elizabeth is in first grade; Robert W.
and Georgia Blue (2). After Robert’s
graduation, the Simmons don’t know
where they’ll head. Carol Romig
Brecht’s second child, Cameron
Elizabeth was born May 5, 2004. The
family visited Mindy Worrell Spiller
in Centreville, VA in September. In
January, Carol, Mindy, Sally Lemmon
Bugg, Mathilde Dumond White, and
Jill Starling Britt met on the Isle of
Palms for a weekend. Sally Pierce Corpening hosted our 15th reunion class
dinner at her home. Heather Lewisohn Barton lives in Atlanta, closer
to family. She and Philip stay busy
with the kids, Anna (5) and Graham
(3). Sue Ellen Crocker Bennett lives
in Winston-Salem. She has two sons,
Daniel (7) and Thomas (18 mos.). Sue
Ellen teaches 4 year olds 3 mornings a
week at Messiah Moravian. Stratford
Newitt Kiger and Kipp’s daughter Carson Blake was born January 14, 2005.
Carson is already looking forward to
her first Salem visit. April Edmondson
Peacock and Todd live in Blacksburg,
VA with Emily (5) and Oliver (3).
April volunteers with her daughter’s
class, Jr. Women’s Club, MOPS,
church and children’s choirs, baseball,
soccer teams and makes stained glass.
Julie Meyer Pope moved to Arizona
last year. Melissa Kirk Oliverio’s son
started kindergarten. She is active
with his school and works part-time
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Class of 1990
Front row: Jennifer Muench Laney, Lynn White Savage, Elizabeth Ranson
Parks, Christy Barley Hilpert, Karen Timmons Ellison, Lee Manuel Marcus,
Meredith Davies Resener, Sue Ellen Crocker Bennett, B.J. Brown Buckland
Second row: Mary Beth Wilson, Amy Bain Cooter, Melissa Robinson
Parris, Julie Meyer Pope, Sally Pierce Corpening, Kerry Stovall Garrett,
Laura Jones Stevenson, Stratford Newitt Kiger Third row: Kristen Johnson, Kathryn Swing Smith, Casey Hoerner Gressette, Heather Lewisohn
Barton, Amy Cass Millikan, Ashley Neill Stamper, Jennifer Morgan Racut,
Virginia Edmundson Sutton, Melissa Kirk Oliverio
as an attorney. Jill Starling Britt has
fun with twin daughters (3)! She
practices law part-time in Burlington
and volunteers with Alamance County
Mothers of Multiples, Young Life,
church activities and serves on local
rape crisis/sexual assault board. Sally
Lemmon Bugg retires as development
director on June 30. Bill has been
named as headmaster of the school
where they both work. Sally is also a
Pampered chef consultant and volunteers with Junior League and Salem’s
Alumnae Board. Amy Bain Cooter
has three children – Andrew Griffin
was born March 5, 2003. Amy lives
in Greenville, SC and will soon move
to a new home to accommodate her
growing family! Casey Hoerner Gressette helps husband David with the
Old Post Office Restaurant and Sunset
Grill on Edisto Island, SC. Elizabeth
Ranson Parks and family moved to
Apex, NC, and their new house will
be finished this summer. Michael
likes his new job at Wyeth, and Liz is
happy with the shorter commute to
Raleigh! Melissa Robinson Parris was
named Woodland Heights Teacher of
the Year (2003-2004), and Spartanburg School District 6 teacher of the
Year (2004-2005). Congratulations!
Meredith Davies Resener keeps busy
caring for children Megan (9), Peter
(5), and John (2). She works part-time
as a nurse. Laura Elizabeth Jones Stevenson moved to Atlanta, GA. Scott
works at Emory University building
an internal audit department for the
medical facilities. Virginia Edmund-
son Sutton and husband Jim stay
busy with the boys’ activities! Virginia
volunteers and chauffeurs the children!
Shannon Stone Wells’ youngest
turned one this year. Shannon is a
human resource manager. Alex, in
kindergarten, has lots of activities and
Shannon and husband Roy love to
travel. Mary Elizabeth Wilson is plodding away on her dissertation between
her full-time job and part-time teaching. She is so busy that she doesn’t
have any other news! Wendy Weiler
Tomlinson has three children: Charlotte (4), Matthew (3)and Lucy (born
January 6, 2005. Wendy is a major
gift fundraiser for Texas Children’s
Hopsital. She is president-elect of the
Women’s Home in Houston. She regretted missing out reunion which fell
on her 10th wedding anniversary. Amy
Cass Millikan’s son, William Andrews,
Jr. was born October 4, 2004. Laura
Sisler de Morais lives in Roanoke, VA,
where she teaches English as a second
language in the public school system
and does some private tutoring. Laura,
mother of Jordan (6) is working on
her master’s degree from Virginia Tech.
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Camille Flippin Wilson
295 Gartin Place
Madison Heights, VA 24572
[email protected]
Enjoy the following update from our
classmates. Don’t forget you can get
next year’s scoop first hand at our 15th
reunion in April 2006. Congratula-
tions to Susan Murphy on her
June 2004 marriage to Spencer
Barrett Broadfoot! Susan and
husband live in Wilmington,
NC with Hannah (12), Seth
(10) and Lizzie (1). Susan is a
stay-at-home mom who enjoys
gardening, surfing, volunteering
at church and with her children’s
extracurricular activities. Libby
Brown and spouse Charlotte
live in Atlanta, GA. Libby is vice
president of project management
banking at Wachovia. She has
traveled to London, Paris, Hawaii
and New York. Carol Boling Chaffin, husband Mark, Benjamin (6)
and Matthew (2) live in hurricane-prone Jacksonville, FL. They are
renovating a 45 year old home. Carol
is a part-time marketing communications specialist. Congratulations to
Tolly Callaway on her marriage to
Thomas A. Beckett in June 2004!
Mary Elizabeth Beckman was an attendant in the wedding. Tolly lives in
Santa Monica, CA. Tolly, a member
of the Alliance Repertory Theatre
Company, was nominated for “Best
Supporting Actress” for ADA Awards
(2004). Wendy Nace Castro, Arthur
and Benjamin (3) welcomed Elaine
Gardner (born May 2004). Wendy, a
full-time mom, is training for Race for
the Cure. Michelle Johns Culp, Steve
and Alexander (3) live in Inkster, MI.
Michelle, a customer service manager for The Nailco Group, performs
folkoric, Middle Eastern dance at
festivals. Heather Inge DeVincentis,
Richard, and Anthony (6) live in
Walkersville, MD. Heather is a doctor
of veterinary medicine and is involved
in T-ball with her son. Shelia Carreras
Gee, Toby, Madelyn (8) and Hayden
(5) continue to live in Glen Allen, VA.
Jill Webb Halverson, Andrew, Lars (7)
and Wise (3) live in Winston-Salem.
Jill chairs the Junior League’s nominating committee. Mary Stuart Brugh
Hardy, Chip, Landon (8) and Mac (6)
live in Columbia, SC. Mary Stuart is a
teacher at Heathwood Hall Episcipal School. Kathryn White Hauser,
Sam, Seth (9) and Jacob (4) live in
Kernersville, NC. Kathryn a part-time
preschool director, also volunteers at
her son’s school. Kathryn is constantly
learning about education and therapy
for the special needs population since
son Jacob’s diagnosis of cerebral palsy.
Lee Fauber Hicks, Tom, Patrick (8)
and Carter (7) live in Charlottesville,
VA, where Lee substitute teaches, volunteers and runs. Mary Beth Schroeder Hunter, Jim, Sam (8), Elizabeth (6)
and Will (3) have moved to a home
in Forest, VA. Mary Beth teaches preschool and is involved in her children’s
activities. Melissa Fox Jones, Keith,
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and stepdaughter Erin (12) live in
Graham, NC. Melissa is a DAR
member and works on her business
of addressing and framing wedding
invitations. Catherine Davis Lane,
Patrick, Rebecca (7), Elizabeth (5) and
Mary Margaret (4) live in Belmont,
NC. Catherine’s home business, Pretty
Ribbons, makes handmade bows for
girls. She is a Deacon in her church.
Pam Austin Moore, Andy, Will (9)
and Mary Austin (7) live in King, NC.
Pam, a substitute teacher, is a PTO
president and president of their swim
club. She and Andy will celebrate their
12th anniversary with a Carribean
cruise. Betsy Saxman Orgain, Marc,
and twins Peter and Jack (6) live in
Norfolk, VA but will soon return to
Pensacola, FL. Betsy loves being a stayat-home mom and looks forward to
her pilot husband’s return from Iraq.
Denise Decker Pacula and husband
Tucker moved to Oak Island, NC
where Denise has a real estate company. Betsy Wood Poole, Bynum, Weeks
(4) and Carlisle (3) live in Greenville,
SC. Betsy stays at home with her
children. She loves playing on a USTA
League team. Betsy sees Katy Glen
Smith when their kids play together.
Jennifer Callahan Seifert, Brent, Sarah
(10), Mary (8) and Rachel (4) live in
Salisbury, NC. Jennifer, a homemaker,
enjoys horseback riding with her girls,
camping, hiking and other outdoor
activities. Elaine Evans Fowler Sharp
and husband Will live with their son
William Zachary (2) in Ypsilanti, MI.
Elaine is a self-employed web designer,
a member of the Junior League, and
likes running and knitting. Congratulations to Jenni Haskins Shrewsbury
and husband Chris on the birth of son
Jason Christopher (September 2004).
Jenni and family live in Durham, NC
where she is a clinical social worker for
John Umstead Hospital. She enjoys
traveling and volunteering with the
American Red Cross. Katy Glenn
Smith, Charles, and son Charles (4)
moved to Greenville, SC. Katy plays
tennis and paints. She designs and sells
decorative automobile magnets. Miller
Vick Stanley, Bobby, daughter Holden
(9) and son Jimbo (6) live in Raleigh,
NC. Miller is involved in Bible study
fellowship and her children’s school.
Miller sees Deanna Pollard Ivey who
also lives in Raleigh and has three children. Miller still talks to Gena Burney
Smith often. Gena’s twins Augusta and
Fulton are four. Sonya Cobb Terjanian,
Pierre, Violette (3) and Remy (1) live
in Philadelphia, PA. Sonya is a freelance copywriter. Diane Davis Thomas,
Joe, Hannah (6), Will (4), and Sam
(2) live in Charlotte, NC but plan to
move to Alexandria, VA. Heidi Z. Weilbaecher relocated from San Francisco
to Seattle where she continues to work
for General Motors in management in
marketing and sales. Heidi frequently
returns to North Carolina to visit
Salem friends. She lets us know that
Laura Workman Rosenbaum lives in
Witchita, KS with her husband Wayne
and their two children; and Joan
Pearce Bates lives in Winston-Salem
with her husband John and their
daughter. I started part-time tutoring
at Charlie (8) and Perkins’s (6) school.
My children’s extracurricular activities
keep Todd and me on the go. I will
be raising cut flowers again during the
summer and look forward to seeing
classmates face-to-face in spring 2006!
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Beth Murray Leverton
2309 Rosewood Avenue
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
[email protected]
It has been wonderful to hear
everyone’s updates! We had an exciting
year with many ups and downs. Our
deepest sympathy goes to Mary Mc-
Ginnis Schultz and her family for the
Valerie Wickersham Markland and
loss of her son, Thomas. Mary thanks
everyone for their support. Kimberly
Gregg and many Salem friends placed
a bench and tree at Salem in his honor.
Mary, our thoughts and prayers are
with you and your family! Stephan
Crone Dutcher lives in Asheville with
children Kalya (4) and Cassie (2),
reports that Nell Nordin Marler was
married in July 2004 at the Biltmore
Estate. Bridesmaids included Karrie
Stansfield and Angie Ingram. Jill Bennett Martin lives in Belews Creek, NC
and works in accounting at Vulcan.
New daughter Martha-Ruth Isabelle
(Belle) joined big brother Jake (8) this
past year. Jill and husband Todd are
building a new house. Debbie Bruce
Nixon quit her teaching job to help
Andy. She will be director of education
at the church, teaching bible studies
and training leaders. Anna just completed 4th grade and Noah kindergarten. Karen Lewis Taylor and family
(which includes two kids) moved to a
new house in Apex and looks forward
to having Salem friends over soon! Juliet Dyal Gray and husband Christian
live in NYC. A senior editor and beauty director of Gotham and Hamptons
Magazines, Juliet is also the associate
producer and company member with
Back House Productions. She is developing one of her regular columns into
a TV show! Laura Beth Henry Casey
and Kirk welcomed John Needham
(Jack), September 23. She recently
sold her catering business to be home
with Jack. She has seen Caroline
Swope, Kristin Miller, Jenni Haskins
’91 and Meredith Jarrell Phillips ’91.
She stays busy with Jack, the Kiwanis
Club, and church. Banner Gregory
Huggins living in San Antonio with
husband of 11 years, Craig and son
Cole (1). She works for Club Corporation of America as the membership
director of the Plaza Club downtown.
Paul welcomed son, Alexander in
October 2004. They moved to Hawaii
in July. She misses friends and family
but says Hawaii is beautiful! Tara
Newton Jennette, Mike, and Ben (3)
welcomed Mallory Elizabeth on April
15, 2004. Tara works part time as a
physical therapist at WakeMed. She
gets together often with Karen Lewis
Taylor, Melissa Murray Fletcher, and
Patricia Earnhardt Tyndall ’91. She has
dinner with Amy Williamson, Karen
Stephenson Shore and Liz Butler McDaniel every couple of months. After
11 years of teaching elementary and
high school Abrenna Walker Tompkins
is now an instructor in the developmental studies department of Surry
Community College. She completed
her Ed.S. administrative degree from
Liberty University and is working on
her doctorate in instruction, planning to begin her dissertation in the
spring. Dena Free enjoyed a 3 week
trip/class traveling by train across the
northern US and part of southern
Canada. After 10 years teaching 1st
graders she is now teaches 2nd graders
in the Fairfax County Public School
System and loves it! Kimberly Williams
Gregg is moving this summer to a
new house, in Winston-Salem! Allison
Rohe Waters and husband Lee, a Captain in the US Air Force JAG Corps,
celebrated their 12th anniversary. They
will move to McGuire AFB, NJ this
year. She stays busy staying at home
with Alexander (4), works with the
Officers Civilian Spouses Club, and
teaches preschool. Caroline Swope
teaches art and architectural history
at a local Seattle college and doing
architectural design consulting. Her
first book with be published this summer, Classic Homes of Seattle —keep
your eyes open for it on Amazon! Still
busy restoring her house, she hopes
to get it listed on the state register
Legacies
Sisters Catherine Smart Keech ’00, Mary Lynn Smart ’05 and
Elizabeth Jane Smart A’01 C’05
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soon. She made a few trips back to
NC to visit Laura Beth Henry. Susan
Combs Segui and Phillips welcomed
Olivia McIntyre March 30. Phillip
continues to practice law and she loves
her work as a clinical social worker for
adolescent pregnant single mothers.
Amy Rauch Shorey and her husband
welcomed Regan Elizabeth on July
23. They live in Orlando where Amy
is a pharmaceutical sales representative. Melissa Murray Fletcher and
husband Stewart celebrated their 10th
anniversary with a trip to Maui. She
spends her time with children Amelia
(5) and Patrick (2) and works part
time for Dow-Reinchhold Specialty
Latex. She sees Karen Lewis Taylor,
Patricia Earnhart Tyndall ’91 and
Tara Newton Jennette. She also hears
from Melanie McRae, Amy Williamson, Sonya Cobb Terjanian ’91, and
Liz Butler McDaniel. Jean Williams
Pal-Freeman, Chris and Cate (4) live
in Portland, OR where she works for
Nike, Inc. A business systems analyst
supporting human resource systems
for the Europe, Middle East and Africa
Region, she spends time traveling all
over Europe. She met Jennifer Fedor
’01 who started working for Nike
last spring. Mary McMahan Frail and
husband welcomed Regan Elizabeth
February 9. Betsy Mebane Farmer,
Eric, and daughters Sarah Carter and
Mary Banks welcomed Lee Benton
Farmer III (Ben) November 26.
They live in Winston Salem. Jenny
Britt Denny, Joel, and Emma (2)
live in Rocky Mount. They recently
celebrated their 6th anniversary. Jenny
enjoys stays home with Emma. Latanya Gary Gray, Al, Jasmine (5) are
living in Chesapeake, VA where she is
a family physician in a solo practice.
Al is from Winston Salem so they are
able to visit often. Our thoughts and
prayers are with Dena Chambers Stanley who lost her father this past year.
Mary Lawson Stephens Day, Daniel,
Samuel (5), Tripp (2) live in Macon,
GA and Mary Lawson is getting her
masters of Science in Social Work. I
recently got back from a beach trip
with Juliet Dyal Gray, Elizabeth Gianini, Banner Gregory Huggins, Jean
Williams Pal-Freeman and Margaret
Pike ’94. My stomach hurt from all
the laughing we did...reminded me of
college days! Bill and I are doing great.
I stay home with Stephen (5) and
Parker (3) who are a good handful! I
continue my business of hand painted
furniture and accessories. What a great
update I got from everyone! If you
don’t see your name in here, go to the
Salem website (www.salem.edu), fill
out a bio update on the alumnae and
friends page so I’ll have your contact
information.
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Laura Dossinger Slawter
2985 Wesleyan Lane
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
[email protected]
Thank you to everyone for your
updates. Hester Haverkamp Davies
and Rutledge live in Columbia, SC,
where Hester is a stay-at-home mom
to Brown (3) and Ellis (1). Congratulations to Anita Brinkley Keenan
and husband Steve on the birth of
son Preston Michael, Nov. 9, 2004.
Anita’s new position at Bain Capital,
helping launch their legal department,
gives her a more flexible schedule and
allows her more time with her family. Heather Carlin Beard and Mark
live in Maiden, NC and welcomed
daughter Autumn in 2004. Heather
Morgan Zifchak enjoys married life in
Winston-Salem with Pete. Heather, a
nanny, spends many hours scrapbooking, knitting, and volunteering with
the Junior League. Congratulations to
Carolyn Bullock, recently promoted
Grandmother Peggy Fulghum Matthews ’75 and
Granddaughter Shannon Matthews ’05
Summ er 20 05
to regional account manager at her
company in Raleigh. She is running
marathons and competed in the New
York City marathon the past two
years. Heather Nelson Wiggins enjoys
being a stay-at-home mom to Nell
(2) and James (1) in Lexington, NC.
Erin Garden Baldecchi and Chuck
welcomed son Alex in August of 2004.
Alex joins big sister Bella (2). Erin
and Chuck enjoy their new life in
Lexington, KY! Tina Gutshall works
at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport
News, VA. Tina works in the conservation department, which is responsible
for conserving recovered artifacts
from the USS Monitor naval ironclad
shipwreck. Allison Burkette teaches in
Ole Miss’s English department. Allison
and husband Greg Tschumper are
the proud parents of Anne Paige (2).
Jennie “Spaz” Thomas Bushey and
husband Peter enjoy living in Atlanta
where Spaz loves being stay-at-home
mom to William (2). Amanda Long
Ramseur and Bobby are in Raleigh
where Amanda stays busy with Robert
(4) and Walker (2). Congratulations
to Lara Moore who married Joe Howe
on April 23. They will live in Wilson.
Salem bridesmaids were Amanda Long
Ramseur, Beth Monroe, Elizabeth
Bennett Scott ’92, Margaret Lamb
Silly ’92, Amy Faulk Welton ’94, and
Ashley Mattox ’94. Ashley Fletcher
Vaughn and Hillary Black Hornthal
were greeters. Ashley Fletcher Vaughn
and husband Harris live in Raleigh
with daughter Ella Reaves (4) and son
Harry (2). Ashley works part-time selling ads for a bridal magazine. Hillary
Black Hornthal lives in Greensboro
with sons Will (4) and Alexander (3).
Hillary is an interior designer. Beth
Morgan Pierce and husband Morgan
live in Richmond. Beth works for
Cavalier Telephone handling all the
company training. Kate Hargett Williams and husband Miles welcomed
son Hugh Edward on November 7,
2004. Kate enjoys her new career as
a stay-at-home mom! Emily O’Brien
Marlowe and Christopher are still
in San Francisco. Emily is busy with
Caroline (4) and Louise (2). When I
last heard, Jane Fisher was working in
Uganda, for the Wildlife Conservation
Society, writing a business plan for
a national park in Uganda. She says
Uganda is one of the most overwhelming places you could imagine. Before
Uganda, Jane worked in Zambia with
the same company. Ann Davis loves
her work as an interior designer in
Duck, NC. Ann Pollard Bell and David live in Black Mountain, NC where
Ann is a special education teacher and
stays busy with Allen (6) and Emma
(1). Ann Dyar Denton lives close to
Ann Pollard Bell. Ann and Wes are
parents to Tamsen (5) and Tate (1).
Stacy Dillon Tomkins and Richard
live in Gallatin, TN where Stacy stays
home with Gracen (5) and Ava (4). As
for me, Michael and I live in WinstonSalem. I was recently promoted to
director of donor relations in Salem’s
development office. James (4) keeps
me on my toes! It’s fun being at Salem
and seeing all the classes come back for
their reunions! Don’t forget to send me
your updates over the year.
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Lisa Findlay Merrill
940 Harmony Hill Road
West Chester, PA 19380-1842
[email protected]
Allison Bruce Anderson loves being
home with Caroline (1). She’s keeping
her employment options open, and
passed her P.A. re-certification exam
recently. Allison and Jennifer Pratt
enjoyed seeing each other at a recent
alumnae function in Atlanta. Frances
Dodson Beasley and husband Jamie
are having fun with Gracie Elizabeth
Mother Ellen Newton Auten ’80 and Daughter Mary Ellen Auten ’06
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(1). Frances is the assistant director
for annual giving at the NC School
of the Arts. Allison Spears Boyle
moved to Charlotte, NC. She and
Bill’s second daughter, Mary Michael
was born in January 2005. Allison has
been with TEK Systems as a senior
account executive for 11 years. Vickie
Collins is volunteer coordinator at
AIDS Care Service in Winston-Salem. She loves meeting new people
through its community outreach
programs. Glenda Pugh Dirienzo, a
paralegal, and husband Charles live in
Winston-Salem with children Katelyn
(14), and Alexander (9). Susan Griffin-Stockton began teaching K-8th
grade music at Our Lady of Mercy in
Winston-Salem in August 2004. She
also teaches private piano lessons. Amy
Woodard Kemp still enjoys her job
in Greensboro as a meeting planner
with the NC Association of Realtors. Julie Smith Klingman and Ross
live in Charlotte where Julie enjoys
being home with son Harrison (2).
Kendra Jones Mabon and Bill, living
in Kensington, MD, recently enjoyed
a visit from Susan Cochran Moser
and husband Craig! Shannon Smith
McFarland enjoys her new job as
Amos Cottage’s pediatric speech-language pathologist for developmentally
delayed infants and toddlers. Elaine
Smith Montgomery and husband,
Louis Allen, live in Greensboro where
Elaine has had an interpreting business
for over 10 years now. Susan Cochran
Moser is in her fourth year as public
services librarian and is the interim
Library Director at Tri-County Technical College in Anderson, SC. For
their 2nd anniversary, she and Craig
enjoyed a trip to Cozumel. Britt Biggs
Myers and Tem live in Rocky Mount,
NC with Eliza Douglas (3), and infant
Bess Davidson. Britt enjoys whatever
interior design work she has time for
and plays tennis and bridge occasionally with Jenny Britt Denny ’92. Betsy
Barber Pace received her M.Ed. in
elementary ed. and is now working
towards her National Boards Certification. She teaches 3rd grade language
arts in Knoxville, TN where she and
husband John live with their children,
Charles (5), and Sara (3). Margaret
Pike practices law in Winston-Salem
and enjoys co-directing and playing in
a local soccer league. She is a member
of Salem’s Board of Visitors and a
mentor; Margaret recently gave the
keynote address at Salem’s Leadership
Banquet. She and husband David
Werle enjoy gardening and look forward to living in Manhattan next fall
where David will complete his surgical
rotation. Jennifer Pratt and Frank
moved to Atlanta. Jennifer misses the
ocean but visits Myrtle Beach to fly
her airplane. She is playing lots of tennis and has joined a team in Atlanta.
Stephanie Peede Sorrells and Jamie
love Littleton, CO where they can ski,
snow-shoe, bike, hike, and enjoy time
with sons Walker (6), and Brayden (3).
Stephanie started her own adventure
travel agency last year and loves it!
Betsy Johnson Touma and Yano live
in Louisville, KY with three children
Maddie (5), Mason (2), and Parker
(1). Shan Woolard enjoys her work
as a career counselor at Wake Forest
University. She had fun at the reunion
and is looking forward to the next one!
Lastly, I, Lisa Findlay Merrill, had a
great time at our 10th reunion in May
2004! Grant and I live in West Chester, PA where I stay home with Lucy
(5), and Will (3). I’m happy to be
singing again, on my church’s contemporary worship team, playing tennis,
gardening, or doing home-improvement projects! Thanks for trusting me
as your new class correspondent and
please feel free to keep in touch with
Alison Hughes Beard ’89 with mother Allison Long Hughes ’55
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Class of 1995
Front row: Sarah Woody Smith, Amy White Rose, Mara Kelly Second row:
Emily Estes, Shannon Sides Kvam, Deana Bass Third row: Meredith Snellings, Cindie Burnette Riedinger
updates throughout the year!
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Outgoing Correspondent
Shannon Sides Kvam
Incoming Correspondent
Sarah Woody Smith
1030 Deepwood Court
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
[email protected]
We had a great 10th reunion this
past April and missed everyone who
could not be there. Our new class
leaders are: Shannon Sides Kvam,
president; Amy White Rose, reunion
giving chair; Sarah Woody Smith,
correspondent. Anne Green is a
psychiatric social worker in St. Louis,
where she stayed since earning her
masters in social work at Washington
University. She is working to become
a licensed clinical social worker. Annmarie Carter is also a social worker,
living in Burlington, NC and working at Alamance Regional Medical
Center. Shannon Sides Kvam lives
in Columbia, SC, where she is a
teacher at Heathwood Hall Episcopal
School and also owns Cerce. She
married Brian Kvam in November
2004. I was her matron of honor,
Diane Conley and Jenny Stokes, both
’96, were also in the wedding! Britt
Lawrence Melton and husband Andy
have just moved to Findlay, OH and
enjoy small town life. Cindie Burnette
Riedinger lives in Charlotte, NC with
husband Eric and children Hailey
(2) and Joseph (1). She is working
on a nursing degree and staying busy
at home with her kids! Amy White
Sisters Anne Redding Andrews ’93 and Katie Redding ‘00
Salem College
and husband Mike have been in
Richmond, VA for a little more than
four years. She is an account executive in the marketing department of
the Martin Agency. Amy travels a lot
to see her Salem friends! Meredith
Snellings also lives in Richmond
where she works for the Junior
League. Last December she married
Stephen Moegling. Jill Sallee Swilling lives in West Roxbury, MA, where
she is a part time physical therapist
with Boston’s VA Medical Center. Jill
and husband Nathan are busy raising daughter Sydney Julia (7 mos).
She frequently visits with Gretchen
Williams ’96. Jennifer Crowl
Mounce enjoys staying at home with
daughters, Jillian Colleen (6), Lydia
Clare (4), and Lillie Camille (3). She
and husband Brian are happy to be
back in North Carolina, living in
Elkin. Sarahann Williams Wicker lives
in Summerfield, NC, with husband
Jeff and son Jackson (2). Andy Clark
Brooks is a science teacher with the
W-S/Forsyth County schools. She
and Matthew have two children; Emily Grace (3) and Hannah Elizabeth,
(4 mos.) Leigh Camp also lives in
Winston-Salem with husband John
Wilkinson. Emily Estes earned a
master’s in neonatal and pediatric
nursing from Duke University and
works at Brenner Children’s Hospital
in Winston-Salem as the assistant
unit manager of the Intensive and
Intermediate Care Nurseries. Leslie
Howard Smith and husband Ed
welcomed son, Richard Dominic,
December 2004, joining big brother
Henry (3). Leslie enjoys being in
Winston-Salem and staying home
with the boys. Neili Cole Akridge lives
in Virginia Beach with husband David and children Buddy (4) and Katie
(1). Michael Morton has moved from
Winston-Salem to Glen Allen, VA.
Brenda Hughes Tucolda works for
Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC but her
true passion is her oil painting. When
not painting, she is practicing yoga
and playing with her granddaughter
Kayla (2.) I live in Winston-Salem
with my husband Carter, and our
son Rhodes (14 mos.) I enjoy staying
home with Rhodes, who keeps me
very busy! If you have any information about yourself or a classmate,
please feel free to contact me. I would
love to hear from you!
Rose
1996
Elizabeth Haverkamp
Apt. 129, 2500 Q Street
Washington, DC 20007
[email protected]
Terri Elizabeth de los Santos
(formerly Weathersbee-Kardash)
Summ er Magazine
finished her M.S. in sociology and is
a candidate in the Ph.D. program.
She will teach social psychology as
an associate lecturer at the University
of Wisconsin. On April 21, 2005
she married Ernest de los Santos,
Jr. Gretchen Brandies Covine and
Tony welcomed second son, David
Matthew, (between hurricanes in
Tampa) on September 20th. They’ve
enjoyed sharing time with Alice Joplin and her husband Chuck since they
moved to the area. Gretchen is staying
at home with the boys and intermittently working on freelance marketing
projects. Holly Barnes Hofbauer and
husband Steve enjoy watching Emma
Caffery (2) grow. In May, Jennifer
Dailey Morrison, Carrie Mobley Seck,
Deborah Coxe Hensley, Holly Barnes
Hofbauer, Amanda Carver Hiatt,
Caroline McLean, Elizabeth Eubank
Johnson, Emery Boyd Bettis and
Brooke Smith spent a girls’ weekend
in Blowing Rock. Elizabeth Eubank
Johnson lives in Geneva, NY, with
husband TW and daughter Abigail
(born April 2004). Jennifer Dailey
Morrison and husband Aaron welcomed son, Blan Hamilton Morrison,
May 2003. Jennifer left her sales job
with Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. to stay
home with Blan. Jennifer Winters
Ratcliff graduated last May from
Moravian Theological Seminary with
a M.Div. She works part-time while
finishing her master of pastoral care
and counseling. She and husband
Michael live in Kernersville, NC. Jennifer Reeves Needham is a chemist
for RJR. Husband Darin is a fireman
in Winston-Salem, and daughter Mallory is 8. Ellen Woytowich is active
in her local sailing club and won the
Novice Series last year. She teaches
special education in fourth grade.
Ellen and Stacey vacationed together
last summer – a tradition. They
toured northern Florida and attended
Camp Jeep in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Stacey Sharpe is a social worker
for the school district and volunteers
for Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Caroline
McLean’s business is moving into a
new office at ADAC West in Atlanta.
She still lives in Buckhead and keeps
up with Kristin Epting, and Alison
Bruce, both ’94, Catherine Wolfe ’97
and Lisa Malone ’95 in Atlanta. Anna
Katharine Mansfield conducts wine
aroma research as Enology Project
Leader at the U of Minnesota. She
visited Quincy Howell Bruckerhoff
in Sarasota, FL. this spring to escape
the cold Minnesota winter. Quincy
and husband Jeff bought a house in
the DC area last fall. A freelance stage
manager, she spends most of the year
on the road. Anna Parkes Barfield and
husband Todd moved to Oceanport,
NJ. They enjoy their new house and
Griffin (18 mos). Anna stays home
with Griffin, but mentors to teachers and tutors children after school.
Mischa Gipson Sell is a member
service specialist with Truliant Federal
Credit Union. She is going back to
school for a B.S. in nursing and is
balancing work, school and family life
with hubby, David and Trevor (6).
Shawnda Adams Pacheco is working
on her masters degree at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain. She and
Carlos are proud parents of Robert
Mikhail, born September 2004.
Courtney Misel Pearson and husband
moved to Indianapolis for one year
while he completes a fellowship at
the Children’s Hospital. She runs her
stationery business out of the home.
In July, Anna Katharine Mansfield
stayed with her while she judged the
Indy wine show. She caught up with
Lissa Holmes at this year’s American
Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association
meeting in Myrtle Beach and Jennifer Claus Burenga in Philadelphia.
Kris Porazzi Sorrells loves teaching
math at Salem Academy. Breanna
(4) is enthralled by brother Matthew
Taylor, born November 2004. Kris is
working on her doctorate at UNCG
in curriculum and instruction and
volunteers with her church, where her
husband is the minister of education
and youth. Peaches Van Every May,
married in Key West in May 2003 enjoys every minute of married life! An
event planner for the Carolinas Chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation, she just finished a certification in
non-profit management from Duke
University. Jennifer Young Conrad
and husband will live in Kansas for
the next year while he runs the 2006
U.S. Senior Open golf tournament.
She is a stay at home mom for Elizabeth (3) and Sam (2). Jennifer and
Courtney Misel Pearson have been
visiting each other. She was able to
see Becky Jones when they both lived
in Denver. Katrina Cowley Elsea,
finishing up the final few hours of her
M.Div at Southwestern Seminary,
continues to work in the seminary’s
School of Music. Husband David just
completed his first year as a children’s
minister in their church. They visited
friends in China last summer. Pam
Butts moved to Atlanta after finishing
her M.Div. at Duke Divinity School
in 2001, and is now the staff chaplain
of oncology services at Emory University Hospital and the Winship Cancer
Institute. An ordained minister, she
has served as assistant minister at her
church. She visited Winston-Salem
in March to celebrate her college
roommate, Mischa Gipson Sell’s son’s
birthday. Dianne Conley bought a
house in Winston-Salem and is a
biopharmaceutical sales representative for Amgen. Melissa Colburn
moved to Atlanta last February. She
works for ADP in Alpharetta, GA.
Marisa Berdeja married Thompson Patrick Rippey III (Tom) on
November 24, 2004 on the beach in
the Bahamas. Daughter Marisol (5)
now has a stepbrother Dominic (8).
Marisa teaches 8th grade Spanish at
Columbus School for Girls. Marisa is
training for the Columbus Marathon,
and Tom is training for the Wendy’s
Triatholon in Columbus. Susie Brock
Vanlandingham gave birth to Emily
Marie on March 25, 2005, bringing
Madeline a younger sister. Susie is on
maternity leave from teaching music
classes at Gymboree, and Josh is going
to school at night for his Executive
MBA. Melissa Moss Mason and
husband Kelsey had a little girl,
Lillian Grace (Lilly), on October 6.
Yvonne Marsan works in the Biology
department at UNCG takes postgraduate courses. She helped Alice
Joplin move out of her Greensboro
home over the past year and visited
Gretchen Brandies Covine several
times. She attended Natalie Plank’s
wedding April 30, 2005 along with
Alice and Kate Flowers ’98. Jenny
Stokes is moving to Greensboro near
her job with Action Greensboro. She
works with Turner South network in
Atlanta to promote Greensboro and
the abundance of college students in
the area. Alice Joplin and husband
Charles Ellis recently purchased their
first home together in historical St.
Petersburg, FL. She works for Cardinal Health in the Quality Assurance
department, and Charles is with the
Department of Veteran Affairs. Since
moving to Florida, she has visited
Gretchen Brandies Covine frequently.
Gretchen Williams graduated from
Gordon-Conwell Theological
Seminary with a MA in Counseling.
She finished an internship in mental
health counseling and has been in the
Boston area for the past few years. She
continues to teach piano and remains
involved with music ministry in Cambridge, MA. Susan Deans Irving lives
in Wilmington with husband Brian.
They have twins, Ella Grace and Logan Elizabeth (1), and Susan is a stay
at home mom. Jule Rainey Wagoner’s
husband Chuck died unexpectedly
on February 2, 2005. Numerous
Salem sisters attended the memorial.
We extend our sympathy to Jule and
her daughter Riley. I am finishing
up my MBA at George Washington
University and am starting the always
fun job search. Please keep Salem and
me updated on your whereabouts. I
can’t wait to see everyone for our 10th
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year anniversary next year!
1997
Melissa McGuire Bridgman
719 Dickinson Street
Memphis, TN 28107
[email protected]
Malissa McKay Arnold lives in
Princeton, NJ with husband Derick
and Gibson (3). She is active with
Princeton League of Women Voters
and leadership roles in her church.
Barbara Berry works for RJR in Winston-Salem. Her son recently graduated from flight school and is a flight
instructor. She and her husband enjoy
their grandsons’ Little League baseball
games. Tonya Cash is sales & marketing coordinator for Waterford Homes
in Atlanta. Becca Dick is a paralegal
for the Red Cross in Washington, DC.
Jeanne Downs lives in Atlanta, where
she is a sales associate with SanofiAventis Pharmaceuticals. Catherine
Wolfe works for Aventis, as a medical
science liaison. Hope Turpin Everson
lives in Charlotte with Jon and Brooke
(4) and Cole (2). She begins her master’s in sociology at UNC Charlotte
this fall. Michelle Smith Flanagan is a
nurse with the high-risk antepartum
unit at Palmetto Health Richland. She
and Joe recently bought a new home
in Lexington, SC. Son Andrew is
three. Sharee Fowler lives in WinstonSalem with husband John Wilson.
She is coordinator for the Domestic
Violence Community Council with
Family Services. Beth Mabe Gianopulos is now general counsel and chief
planning officer for Salem Academy &
College. She and Mike live in Kernersville with Jacob (18 mos). Amanda
Burkette Grimstead returned to
Winston-Salem this year with husband
Jamie and Emma (18 mos). She works
for RBC Centura. Avery Harrelson
Jones and Bobby recently moved
back to North Carolina and bought
a home in Asheville. Molly Harbin
was promoted to senior revitalization
planner for Arlington County, VA.
She sold her condo in Arlington and
bought a row house in Washington,
DC. Hester Meachum Lawver begins
her Master’s of Education at George
Mason University this summer. She
and husband Patrick vacationed in Ireland this summer. Aleeta Loftin Lemm
and Jahir now have three sons, with
Noah, born Nov. 12, 2004. She stays
home with the boys in Advance, NC.
Paul and Erin Britton Macchia live in
Jonesboro, AR, where she is pursuing
a Ph.D. in biology at Arkansas State
University. Kathryn Metcalfe teaches
8th grade history and is pursuing a
master’s in public relations at USF
Tampa. She is an active board member
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with the Florida Cattlewomen Association, promoting Florida beef
and agriculture in education. Leigh
Ann Miller is a Ph.D. candidate in
international health and development
at Tulane University in New Orleans.
She received an MSW from UGA
and worked for the CDC in Hanoi,
Vietnam. Roberta Moberg was promoted to sales coordinator for North
and South Carolina with Polo Ralph
Lauren and will move to Charlotte.
Alicia Morgan married Shawn Smith
on April 23, 2005, in Conover, NC.
They live in Washington, DC, where
she is production manager at the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Brandy Nelson is assistant principal at
Broughton High School in Raleigh,
NC. Betsy Wimer Rhodes, husband
Bruce and Isabel (18 mos) moved
from Charleston, SC to Lynchburg,
VA. Holly Robinson married husband
Rodney on September 11, 2004. They
live in Hendersonville, NC where she
is sales and marketing manager for
Glade Homes. Corey Ash Ross lives in
Columbus, OH, with husband Matt.
She is assistant to the associate dean
in the College of Humanities at Ohio
State University. Kacee Scroggins and
Mike live in Denver. She works for
eCollege and vacationed in Paris this
spring. Kim Stoddard married Scott
Wolfe on March 19 in Atlanta, GA,
then honeymooned in Costa Rica.
Kim is development director for the
Museum of Design Atlanta. Allison
Gregory Stone received her MSW
and is assistant director of a community-based mental health program
in Birmingham. Husband Jeff is a
pediatrician. Mandi Hall Walker earned
certification through the National
Board for Professional Teaching Standards. Hilary Bogard Williams is human resources director for The Strata
Group and is beginning a Sri-Lankan
fair trade venture with Samanthi
Gunawardena ’96. Hilary, Lonny,
and daughter Arwen Rhys (3), live in
Kingston, GA. Gary and I are busy
renovating our old home in midtown
Memphis, chasing Nash (18 mos), and
getting Bridgman Pottery rolling after
the 2004 baby break. I teach children’s
art and joined a co-op gallery.
1998
Erika Nelson Francis
112 Cannon Circle
Winchester, VA 22602-6918
[email protected]
Christine Adams lives in Greensboro,
NC and does in-home preservation
therapy. Maggie Crowell teaches 6th
grade in Charlotte, NC and works
part time at the Kate Spade store. Ann
Carter Duncan is the associate director
of admission at Agnes Scott College in
Atlanta, GA. Lynn Cundiff Dwiggins is
as a senior interior designer for BB&T
in Winston-Salem, NC. Rebecca “Dee
Dee” Edmondson has been accepted
into law school at Suffolk University in
Boston, MA. She continues to work on
Beacon Hill as a legislative aide. Erika
Nelson Francis and husband Mark
welcomed second son Pierce Douglas
on Nov. 22, 2004. Big brother Tyson is
three. Kelly Frost is a massage therapist
in Winston-Salem. Beth Gantz is the
director of recruitment and marketing for the Ursuline College Accelerated Program and owns her own
bead company, Fiesta Beads. Kathy
Garrett-Cox and husband Jonathan
and live in Richmond, VA. She is the
historical programs assistant for the
Maymont Foundation as a group tour
coordinator. Anne Dunn Hitchins lives
in Richmond, VA with husband Todd.
She recently started her own business
designing custom wedding invitations,
birth announcements and personal
stationary. Dana Hunter is a fashion
designer and resides in Atlanta. Her
first fashion show was in Atlanta in
May 2005. Cornelia “Neely” Lambert
is a doctoral fellow and graduate assistant in the Department of History of
Science at the University of Oklahoma
in Norman, OK. Brooke Hensley Legg
welcomed her second child, Mattie on
Feb. 2, 2005 and lives in Yadkinville,
NC. Molly Lewis, a new homeowner
in Winston-Salem, is a senior account
manager at Wachovia. Katharine Humphrey Martin completed her second
year of divinity school at Wake Forest
University and was accepted to the
Clinical Pastoral Education Program
at Baptist Medical Center for summer
2005. Shannon McKenna Micklus lives
in Machias, ME with husband Dan
and children Torin (4) and Rita (2).
She works with low-income students
in 7th-12th grades preparing them
for post-secondary education. Deena
Patel welcomed son Jaiden Hitesh,
on October 25, 2004. Sarah Cecil
Rhodes husband Jason, and children
Eric and Will like in Twentynine
Palms, CA where Jason is a Marine.
Allison Lemmons Tobey and husband
Ned welcomed second child, Camille
Boyd on Dec. 4, 2004. They reside in
Potomac Falls, VA. Christy Toy recently
relocated to St. Louis, MO and is
a planner/negotiator for Adamson
Advertising. Cheryl Tuttle was recently
accepted into the Western Carolina
University dietetic internship program.
Megan Valentine lives on the coast
of Maine as a freelance filmmaker.
Thunder Road, a short film, for which
she was the cinematographer, won Best
Short Film in the New Hampshire
Film Festival in 2004. LaVerne Walker
resides in Clemmons, NC and teaches
in Winston-Salem. She received her
MAT from Salem College in 2004 and
is now currently enrolled in the MSA
program at ASU. Daughter, Darcel is
also a Salem alumna, A’04. Nada Bowen Werner lives in Winston-Salem with
husband Andrew and son Will. She is
the exceptional children’s case manager
at Mineral Springs Middle School.
Christal West lives in Washington, DC
and works at the White House in the
Office of the Chief of Staff.
1999
Katherine Ferrell
Apt. A, 714 Avalon Road
Winston-Salem, NC 27104
Desire Edwards Carter and husband
Kevin live in Greensboro, NC where
Desire is an attorney. Rebekah Bokros
Hatch and husband Anthony live in
Baltimore, MD. Rebekah is an Episcopal priest and associate Chaplain at St.
Paul’s School in Brooklandville, MD.
Shakerra Jones lives in Winston-Salem, NC. Sarah Macgregor Williams
and husband Kevin live in Leesburg,
GA and Sarah is a 3rd grade teacher
in Sylvester, GA. Aimee Martin is an
operations analyst for Wachovia Corporation in Charlotte, NC. Shannon
Lawing McGinnis and husband Brian
live in Belmont, NC. Shannon works
for CMG, The Hearst Corporation in
Charlotte, NC as a category management analyst. Clare Seagraves lives
and works in Austin, TX as assistant
director of Admissions for University
of Texas at Austin. Teleia Tollison White
and husband Adam live in Rock Hill,
SC where Teleia is assistant director of
annual giving at Winthrop University.
2000
Outgoing Correspondent
Gina DeMasi
Incoming Correspondents
Karla Gort
211 East Voorhis Avenue
Deland, FL 32724
[email protected]
Nicole Potts Kirk
9260 Potomac Loop
Fort Belvoir, VA 22060
[email protected]
The results of our elections at our class
meeting during reunion weekend are
as follows. President, Jennifer Butler
Brow; Class Correspondents, Karla
Gort and Nicole Potts Kirk; Thank
you to everyone who made this such
a great reunion. We missed everyone
who could not come. Thanks to Gina
DeMasi, our class correspondent,
for writing our class notes for the
last five years. Jennifer Butler Brow
and husband Mark live in Kettering,
Salem College
OH where she is a CAD drafter for a
structural engineering group. Karen S.
Kates finishes nursing school in July
2005 and plans to work at Forsyth
Memorial Hospital. Courtney Booth
graduated May 7th with her J.D. from
North Carolina Central University
School of Law. Kena Stone Bowman
and husband Robert live in Advance,
NC where she is a security analyst
for BB&T. Tina Brooks, stationed
overseas, regretted missing our reunion. She is a captain in the military
police of the U.S. Army. Tracy Tucker
Bullock and husband Chris live in
Raleigh where Tracy is general counsel
for a real estate company. Katherine
Leonard Campbell and husband
David live in Winston-Salem where
she is a teacher. Their first daughter,
Anna Jane, was born on May 1,
2004. Drusilla Carter will graduate
in December with a MSIS and an
MA in public history. She will spend
this summer interning in Bath, ME.
Carrie Pritchard Dickey married Luke
Aaron Dickey on May 15, 2004. This
spring she held her first solo art show
at Tessera Gallery in Winston-Salem.
Carrie is an art teacher at Presbyterian Playschool in Winston-Salem.
Jennifer Twineham Dunn lives with
husband Jay in Snellville, GA. She is
a medical technologist for Children’s
Healthcare of Atlanta. Christian
Enochs lives in Richmond, VA where
she is a designer for The Planning
Partnership. Karla Gort enjoys living
near the beach in DeLand, FL where
she is an associate director of alumni
relations at Stetson University. Stacy
Griffin recently graduated from Wake
Forest University’s PA program and is
a physicians assistant at Salem Chest
Specialists in Winston-Salem. Ginger
Hendricks enjoys her job at Elon
University. She just returned from a
month in Ireland with 30 Elon students! Katie Holland lives in WinstonSalem and is the executive director
of the Amani Children’s Foundation,
which raises money for children with
HIV and AIDS in Africa. Catherine
Smart Keech lives in Washington, NC
with husband Tony. She currently is
working to complete her Clinical Social Work License. Nicole Potts Kirk,
husband Jon and daughter Aubrey
Lynn relocated in December to Fort
Belvoir, VA where Nicole is pursuing
her clinical social work license. Ellen
Kitchen enjoys living in NYC, where
she has been since graduation. Her
marketing job gives her time to hang
out with fellow alums Michelle McKoy
and Lena Boyeva. Jennifer Martin
works at a law firm in Winston-Salem,
NC. Tameka Rosa Nathan regretted
missing the reunion, but she, husband
Welensky and son Marcus were in
Magaz ine 20 05
the process of moving from
Colorado to Arizona. Maria
Parker lives in Clemmons,
NC and works in marketing
at Sara Lee Intimate Apparel.
Jennifer Higgins Poindexter
and husband Brad live in
Richmond. She enjoyed
organizing the class dinner
for the five year reunion. She
works in marketing for Circuit City Stores Inc. Katherine Redding received her
MFA in graphic design from
Savannah College of Art
and Design. She is a graphic
designer in Savannah. Beve
Remington is happy, healthy
and busy in Fredericksburg, VA where
she is a real estate broker. Jennifer
Gardner Shepherd and husband
Joseph welcomed son Joseph A.
Shepherd V, born October 31, 2004.
She enjoys being a full time mom
in Washington state. Monica Wood
Sparzak lives in Southfield, MI, and
is a first year doctoral student in the
School of Music at the University of
Michigan. Allison Toney, working on
her PhD in Educational Mathematics
at University of Northern Colorado,
looks forward to having two papers
published in the next year. Lindsay
Mayfield Wells and husband Cameron were married last May at Home
Moravian Church in Winston-Salem.
Fellow classmates Suzanne Fleming,
Ellen Kitchen, Christian Enochs, Karla
Gort and Courtney Booth were all
bridesmaids. Blair Strickland Bergevin
’99 read scripture. Jenny Cook Scott
and husband Russell were married
in October 2004, soon after opening
Tessera Art Gallery in downtown Winston-Salem. They encourage everyone
to stop by. Melissa Marion married
Bob Ives on May 14 in Mt. Airy, NC.
Stephanie Dutton and Gina DeMasi
were bridesmaids. Melissa is a production manager at Carr-Hughes Productions in NY. Heather E. Wall returned
from being a Peace Corps volunteer
in Zambia in November 2004. She
currently lives near Charlotte and
just started Enterprise’s management
training program. Meredith Wood
enjoys her job at the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington,
DC. In August 2004, she attended the
wedding of Melanie Swain. Meredith
earned her SCUBA certification and
looks forward to traveling more with
her new hobby.
2001
Kim Byerly
2824 Bromley Park Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
[email protected]
Class of 2000
Front row: Jennifer Martin, Jennifer Twinham, Melanie Swain Nance,
Karla Gort, Tracy Tucker Bullock, Jennifer Higgins Poindexter, Nicole
Potts Kirk, Lindsay Mayfield Wells, Heather E. Wall Second row: Ellen
Kitchen, Catherine Smart Keech, Michelle McKoy, Suzanne Fleming,
Meredith Wood, Christian Enochs, Stacy Griffin, Kathleen Dziak-McBride, Jenny Cook Scott Third row: Katie Holland, Carly Phillips, Katie
Redding, Jennifer Butler Brow, Allison Toney, Monica Wood Sparzak,
Courtney Booth, Maria Parker, Ginger Hendricks
It has been a busy year for the class
of 2001 and we look forward to our
five-year reunion next spring. Mimi
Aledo is pursuing a masters in public
policy at the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. She
received a Jack Kent Cooke Foundation scholarship. Kris Amidon is now
the director of annual giving for Salem
Academy and College. Emily Barrett
lives in New York City and works
as an account executive for Tahari.
Gwen Blanton lives in Charleston, SC,
and works in a lab at the Institute of
Psychiatry in the Center for Drug and
Alcohol Programs. Lindsay Brandon is
a broker associate at Coldwell Banker
Triad Realtors in Winston-Salem.
This year she earned the designations
of Certified New Home Specialist,
Accredited Buyer’s Representative, and
received an award from the Sterling
Society. Sally Brock Sprecco gave
birth to Gracie Marie, January 2005.
Kim Byerly is the director of publicity
at John F. Blair, Publisher in WinstonSalem. Dana Calder lives in Durham
and is the assistant retail manager at
LensCrafters. She recently returned
from an optical mission with Give the
Gift of Sight in Paraguay. Dee Dee
Carter works at Salem as an admissions
officer. Brandy Chappell Palmer and
husband Charlie welcomed daughter
Mary Samuel Margaret, September
2004. Brandy is a stay-at-home mom
and private English/writing tutor. Jennifer Clay Mickey teaches elementary
school in Winston-Salem. Katie Dail
Long and husband Will moved to a
house in south Charlotte in December
2004. They are training for marathons in Virginia Beach and Kiawah
Island. Michlene Daoud is an account
executive for a clothing line called
David Meister. She is responsible for
nationwide sales to department stores
and boutiques both nationally and
internationally. Amanda Davee is in
her final year of divinity school in
Richmond, VA, and working towards
ordination in the Presbyterian Church.
Cozette Dorado Vasquez lives in
Houston, TX, with husband Raul and
children, Amaya and Joseph. Heather
Douglas Morton welcomed daughter
Mallory Claire, September 2004. The
Morton family returned to WinstonSalem where Heather was promoted to
a loan administration officer at BB&T.
Monique Farrell is an admissions officer at Salem. Jessica Faulkenberry was
promoted to assistant vice president
of the WV central region at BB&T.
She joined the Professional Women’s
League of Charleston and worked on
the 2004 presidential campaign in
West Virginia. Jennifer Fedor bought
her first home in Beaverton, OR,
where she is over the entire Men’s
United States visual presentation for
Nike. She is training for a marathon
and volunteers to teach P.E. through
Nike. Mary Gordon Jenkinson
welcomed twins Beau and Mary
Banks, October 2004. The Jenkinson
family lives in Walterboro, SC. Andrea
Hartley lives in Atlanta, GA and works
at Rabaut Design Associates. Jenni
Jenkins graduated in August 2004
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from the UNC at Chapel Hill School
of Nursing with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She works at UNC
Hospitals in the orthopedics and
trauma department. Sarah Jones lives
in Kinston and is working on a degree
in social work from East Carolina
University. Lynn Justice McIntosh
lives in Yadkinville with husband John
and son, Logan. She is a medical unit
secretary at Forsyth Medical Center.
Kristy Keck Cannell teaches chemistry and sponsors student council at
Dominion High School in Sterling,
VA. She and her husband Pete split
their time between their home in
Ashburn, VA and their lake home near
Winchester, VA. Kennette Lawrence
lives in Mount Airy, NC and teaches
English at Surry Community College.
Harriet McCarthy received a congressional award for “Angels in Adoption.”
Elena Perrineau Gold and husband
Marcus live in Wilmington, NC.
Elena is working on a graduate degree
in biology at the UNC at Wilmington.
Elizabeth Richie married Jim Bowers
on December 14, 2002. She works at
Carolina Day School in Asheville as a
teacher’s assistant. She and Jim reside
in Marion, NC. Hilary Robertson lives
in Winston-Salem and teaches fourth
grade at Jefferson Elementary. Jennifer
Schleider Edney and husband Woody
live in Pleasant View, TN. Jennifer is
in her last semester of perfusion school
at Vanderbilt University. Candice
Sotriffer is a residential counselor for
Old Vineyard Youth Services. She is
pursuing a masters degree at Gardner
Webb University. Heather South
Marks was married in Asheville, NC,
on March 5th, 2005. Katie Dail Long
served as matron of honor. Alexa Starr
married Brian Bures on June 26, 2004.
Kim Byerly, Gwen Blanton, Rowe
Carenen ’02, and Jennie Sosnowski
’99, were bridesmaids. Alexa and
Brian live in Chicago where she is a
student at the Univ. of Illinois pursuing a Ph.D. in economics. Katherine
Varner Shoaf and husband welcomed
son James Holland, on July 9, 2004.
LaDonna Williams is in her second
year of law school at North Carolina
Central University. She competed in
the Mike Easley Opening Statement
competition and was a top seven
finalist. She is also a member of the
Law Journal and is on the board of
editors for the Law Journal, and a class
representative for student government.
Tasha Wilson Lanier lives in Lexington, NC, with husband Casey and
children, Alex, Payton, and Anna. She
is a data coordinator at Wake Forest
School of Medicine. Amy Woodall
lives in Kernersville, NC and works
at Salem as mailroom/supply center
manager. Michelle Yates Becker and
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husband Chris
recently bought a
new house in Cornelius, NC. Michelle
teaches severely
disabled children in
Mooresville, NC. As
many of you know,
our class suffered a
loss this year. Jaimie
Horn passed away
on September 17,
2004. Our prayers
and condolences go
out to her family. She
will be missed but
not forgotten.
2002
Mindy Daniel
1830 South First Street
Salisbury, NC 28144
[email protected]
Erika Barnette is a production coor-
dinator for American Movie Classics
in New York. Hunter Brady lives
and works in Winston-Salem, NC
as an operational investment analyst
with Wachovia Bank. Alias Burket
spends her summers working at the
Suzuki Institute in Virginia and lives
in Brooklyn, NY. Rowe Carenen lives
in Hattiesburg, MS and works as an
English instructor at University of
Southern Mississippi, a legal assistant
for Holmes and PLLC, and as a
freelance editor. Holly Douglas Charles
is a graphic designer. She and husband
Joseph live in Mohnton, PA. Mims
Creed lives in Elgin, SC works as development assistant for South Carolina
Cancer Center of Palmetto Health
Foundation doing their fundraising
and event planning. Laura Dangerfield
lives in Winston-Salem and is a flutist
for Western Piedmont Symphony
and Salisbury Symphony and in her
spare time is a sales rep for Elegant
Ensembles. Jennie Lewis lives and
works in New York as an actor. Kimberly Melissa Moore lives and works
in Raleigh, NC as a receptionist and
media assistant for advertising agency
Howard, Merrell & Partners. Leslie
Newton lives in Saint Petersburg, FL
and works as a marketing assistant for
Polaris Consulting Group while she
continues to be a student. Elizabeth
Rogers lives in Asheville, NC. Amanda Evans Sandor and husband Mark
live in Fayetteville, AR where Amanda
works as accounts receivable manager
for Athletic World Advertising.
2003
Rachel Rodrigues
2628 Bromley Park Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
Class of 2004
Front row: Conschetta Wright, Victoria Smith, Nicole Smith, Liz Smith,
Meenal Khajuria, Jessica Cecil, Allison Crooks, Meighan Mahaffey
Second row: Beth Young, Andrea Falden, Katherine Biggers, Danielle
Bowers, Elissa Gall, Kate Pinkerton-Long, Sara Al-Jazra, Jennifer Cassels, Ashley Watts Third row: Alison Graham, Anna Walker Barry, Elizabeth Blackwell, Holly Palmer, Casey Kiser, Lesley Simmons, Sara Butner,
Melissa Esposito, Michelle Sammons
Alicia Colombo lives and works in
Asheville, NC as residential counselor handling direct care and human
services for Eliada Homes, Inc.
Laura Herrin married Ralph Craig in
December 2004 and moved the family
to a 36-acre farm in Montana. Laura is
Vice President/CFO of ProTrax Investigative Services, Inc. Morgan Gentry
Lasater does print and web production at Elon Univeristy. She and
husband Walt live in Burlington, NC.
Emily Leonard is an independent sales
rep for Crown Sport Sales and lives in
Mooresville, NC. Joy Truluck recently
accepted a new position with Aladdin
Travel in Winston-Salem where she
and daughter Lili live. Kristen Carico
Varner, husband Kevin, and daughter
Kayla live in Archdale, NC. Kristen
is a sales associate with Allred &
Company Realtors. Laila Muhammad
is in graduate school at Northwestern
University in Illinois. Catherine Parker
completed the masters in art history
program of Sotheby’s Institute in
London October 2004 and now works
there in a new gallery, Riflemaker Ltd.
2004
Jessica Cecil
Apt. 1, 1409 Pilot View Street
Winston-Salem, NC 27101
[email protected]
Sara Al-Jazra will leave for Morocco
to serve in the Peace Corps in September. She currently lives in WinstonSalem. Danielle Bowers is the sales
and event coordinator for Holiday Inn
of Manahawkin, NJ. Rebekah Bray
serves as the volunteer coordinator for
the Maymont Foundation in Richmond. Katie Burge is currently living
in Winston-Salem. Sara Butner is the
assistant director of public relations
for Salem Academy & College. Jennifer Cassels is the sales & executive
management coordinator for Smith
Phillips, and lives in Winston-Salem.
Jessica Cecil lives in Winston-Salem
and is an admissions counselor for Salem College. Katie Laverdure happily
reports that she married Barry Chance,
and they reside in Mechanicsville, VA,
where she teaches advanced English
to sophomores and juniors. Priscilla
Christensen is a field producer for
WXII 12 News in Winston-Salem.
Allison Crooks is a sales associate at
Ann Taylor in Winston-Salem. Stevie
Davis is a graduate student at Salem
College. Becka Detraz resides in
Winston-Salem and attends UNCG
as a graduate student. Robin DeVane
is a business office assistant for Salem
College; she resides in Lewisville.
Katie Dickson lives in Winston-Salem.
Kristen Clark Dougherty is a high
school English and psychology teacher
in Winston-Salem. After graduation,
Melissa Esposito worked in south
Florida for EMILY’s List on the Senate
and Presidential Elections. After the
elections, she worked for Clean Water
Action’s Tampa office as a political
organizer. She and roommate Meigh
Mahaffey live in Alexandria, VA.
Andrea Falden is a graduate student at
the University of Virginia; she resides
in Charlottesville, VA. Nicole Fischer
is graduating from the University of
Salem College
Virginia and will serve in the Peace
Corps in Togo, Africa. Elissa Gall
is a sales associate at Home Depot
in Winston-Salem. Jamie Getty is
working for the House Republican
Campaign Committee in Camp Hill,
PA. Amy Gregory is a tax analyst for
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in
Winston-Salem, where she resides.
Mariana Guimares resides in Morganton, NC. We send our condolences
regarding the death of her father,
Paulo Guimares last summer. Kira
Hasbargen is in the masters of public
policy graduate program at George
Washington Univeristy. She resides
in Silver Spring, MD. Susan Jacobs
married Michael Lawrence on October 30, 2004 at St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church in Winston-Salem. Sara AlJazra, Jessica Cecil, Tsungi Hungwe,
Lola Soummoni, Joy Truluck, Brandi
Jones, Samantha Culler and Klarissa
Joemath all attended. Susan is the director of research and special projects
for the Downtown Winston-Salem
Partnership, Inc. She and Mike reside
in High Point, NC. Meenal Khajuria
is a graduate student at the George
Washington University School of
Political Management; she is also the
coordinator of Founding Fathers, the
Winston-Salem domestic violence prevention program. Casey Kiser works as
a manager at Village Motorcycles; she
resides in Clemmons, NC. Casey is
also pursing a masters in business administration degree from High Point
University. Maria Lendacky currently
resides in Aston, PA. She will be pursuing her masters of arts in teaching at
the Maryland Institute College of Art
in Baltimore, MD in the fall. Carolyn
Lukason is the gallery director for
Left of the Bank, Fine Art Gallery and
Frame Store in Old Greenwich, CT,
where she resides. Jessica Magelaner
lives in Charlotte where she serves as a
librarian at Freedom Regional Medical
Center. Meigh Mahaffey currently
resides in Alexandria, VA. Perry Mauzy
is pursuing post-graduate studies in
the History of Art at the University of
Edinburgh, Scotland. Rebecca Midkiff
is a research intern at Cassity & Associates in Washington, DC. She resides
in Arlington, VA. Holly Palmer is a 4th
grade teacher at Lewisville Elementary
School; she lives in Winston-Salem,
NC. Jenni Penberthy married Kevin
Thomas Buckley on July 17, 2004.
Elissa Gall, Amber Barrett and Alison
Graham served her as bridesmaids;
Amanda Sealy and Jennifer Dowdy
attended. They live in Wilmington,
DE, where Jenni is a paralegal student
at Widener University School of Law.
Noni Person currently lives in Silver
Spring, MD. Kate Pinkerton-Long is
a learning consultant at Muskingum
Magaz ine 20 05
College in New Concord, OH. She
is also a volunteer EMT-B. Hannah
Rimmer is an intellectual property
specialist in Alexandria, VA for Oblon,
Spivak, McClelland, Maier, & Neustadt P.C. Michelle Sammons lives in
Winston-Salem. Heidi Schneble is
the assistant for institutional research
at the Stanford Washington Research
Group. She previously worked in the
U.S. Senate for John Edwards and
lives in Alexandria, VA. Amanda Jo
Sealey married James Adam Hamilton
in 2004. They live in Winston-Salem
where Amanda is the associate director
of finance and administration for
the Northwest NC Chapter of the
American Red Cross. Lesley Simmons
is a student in the Graduate School
Joint Masters of Social Work Program
at UNC-G; she lives in Winston-Salem. Liz Smith resides in WinstonSalem, where she is a family support
specialist & interpreter for The Special
Children’s School. Victoria Smith is a
volunteer for Communities in Schools
through AmeriCorps Vista. She lives
in Reidsville, NC. Angela Venable
Sorrell lives in Winston-Salem. Dawn
Albert Spainhour lives in Kernersville,
NC, and works as a corporate account
manager for Wachovia Bank. Colleen
Hogan Todd lives in Winston-Salem.
Emily Ustach is entering her second
year at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI. She also works
as an Americorps VISTA volunteer to
help establish a concentration of art
and design in the public sector. Anna
Walker married Jennings Berry, Jr. in
2004. They reside in South Hamilton,
MA, where Anna serves as an ophthalamic technician for the Ophthalamic
Consultants of Boston, Inc. Ashley
Watts is in real estate school through
Coldwell Bank in Winston-Salem.
Shannon Whitt lives in Lexington,
NC, where she works as the operations
& project assistant for Nelson, Mullins, Riley & Scarborough. Conschetta
Wright is a laboratory assistant for
LabCorp in Birmingham, AL. She will
attend Palmer College of Chiropractic in Davenport, IA beginning July
2005. She is also becoming a certified
soccer referee. Beth Young works as a
food service and catering assistant for
Aramark in Winston-Salem and lives
in Kernersville, NC.
1924
1942
Vidette Savage Bass
Sara Hester Aiken
Died October 28, 2004
Died April 5, 2005
1925
Anna Shankle McGee
Jean Abell Israel
Died August 31, 2004
Died January 24, 2005
Margaret Shipp Ray
Thelma Hedgpeth Morton
Died November 12, 2004
Died February 23, 2005
Elsie Newman Stampfli
1926
Louise Jenkins Stengel
1923
Alva Goswick Raiford
Died April 4, 2005
Antionette Barrow Swan
Died January 19, 2005
Died June 12, 2005
1927
1943
Marion Neely Miller
Marjorie Wilson Gardner
Died August 14, 2004
Died March 27, 2005
1928
1944
Margaret Schwarze
Jacquelyn West Kerr
Died April 6, 2005
Died November 15, 2004
1929
1945
Edith Harris Pearce
Died September 20, 2004
Virginia Blakeney Vincent
Carrie Day Davis
Died September 12, 2004
Marilyn Strelow Silver
Died October 18, 2004
Married Dr. John Groel
March 2003
1930
Jane McNeely Wheeler
Louise Bateman McQueen
Died April 27, 2005
1932
Katherine McCallie Brubeck
Died August 13, 2004
Margaret Blackburn Walton
Died July 23, 2004
1934
George William Dickieson
Died May 23, 2004
1935
Mary Penn Thaxton
Died March 18, 2004
Died November 28, 2004
1946
Vidette Savage Bass
Died October 28, 2004
Vawter Steele Paull
Died December 1, 2004
1947
Betty Jane Bagby Balde
Died February 17, 2005
Betsy John Forrest Dunwoody
Died November 1, 2004
1948
Beverly Hancock Freeman
1936
Died October 27, 2004
Estelle Dixon Gilliland
Betty Jean Holleman Kelsey
Died May 11, 2005
Ruth Kuykendall
Died March 14, 2005
Helen Sink Moser
Died March 14, 2005
1938
Martha Coons Mitchell
Died August 15, 2004
1939
Frances Byers Watlington Wilson
Died October 20, 2004
1940
Helen Cox Atterberry
Celebrations and
In Memory
Died April 17, 2005
Died January 26, 2005
Helen Lineback Chardwick
Died January 23, 2005
1941
Died May 9, 2005
Jane Morris Saunier
Died August 6, 2004
Margaret Newman Stroupe
Died December 28, 2004
1951
Effie Chonis
Died November 3, 2004
1952
Lahoma Poindexter Gray
Died February 2, 2005
1955
Barbara Lakey Hardage
Died October 7, 2004
Barbara Smith Huss
Died April 19, 2005
Virginia Hamrick Millican
Ruth Hauser Binkley
Died April 11, 2005
Died March 20, 2005
Jean Hamrick Weir
Nell Kerns Waggoner
Died February 12, 2005
Died February 14, 2005
51
1957
1990
Kate Hargett Williams
Allison Lemmons Tobey
Nell Newby Stallings
Carol Romig Brecht
Died February 10, 2005
A daughter, Cameron Elizabeth
Born May 5, 2004
A son, Hugh Edward
Born November 7, 2004
A daughter, Camille Boyd
Born December 4, 2004
1994
2000
Allison Spears Boyle
Katherine Leonard Campbell
A daughter, Mary Michael
Born January 2005
A daughter, Anna Jane
Born May 1, 2004
1958
Judith Golden Upchurch
Stratford Newitt Kiger
Died April 19, 2005
A daughter, Carson Blake
Born January 14, 2005
1962
Amy Cass Millikan
Vicki Van Liere Helms
Died August 26, 2004
A son, William Andrews, Jr.
Born October 4, 2004
1963
Cristi Phillips
Louisa Freeman
Married Michael Driver
August 2004
Died December 13, 2004
1970
Cyndee Grant
Married Doug Martin
Fall 2004
1971
Dencie Reynolds
Married Jef Lambdin
February 2004
1974
Martha “Mopsy” Nesmith
Died December 4, 2004
Wendy Weiler Tomlinson
A daughter, Lucy
Born January 6, 2005
Stephanie Hines Warren
A son, Christian
Born July 12, 2004
1991
Tolly Callaway
Married Thomas Beckett
June 2004
Wendy Nace Castro
1980
A daughter, Elaine Gardner
Born May 2004
Paula Young Chamblee
Jenni Haskins Shrewsburh
Married Mack Roebuck
December 31, 2004
1981
Susanne Hux Long
Died October 5, 2004
A son, Jason Christopher
Born September 2004
1992
Laura Beth Henry Casey
1982
A son, John Needam “Jack”
Born September 23, 2004
Kathy Glover
Betsy Mebane Farmer
Married Rob Robison
December 2004
A son, Lee Benton, III “Ben”
Born November 26, 2004
1984
Mary McMahan Frail
Paula Blanchard
Married Larry Pressnell
August 2004
1986
Charlotte Daves Benson
A son, Thomas Garland
Born December 14, 2004
1987
Ann Winfree Nugent
A daughter, Emily Peyton
Born September 27, 2004
1988
Caroline Hines Batten
A son Raike Curtis
Born June 23, 2004
1989
Copeland Baker
Married Britt Boyd
July 2004
Mary Poole Reese
A son, Patrick
Born November 2004
A daughter, Regan Elizabeth
Born February 9, 2005
Tara Newton Jennette
A daughter, Mallory Elizabeth
Born April 15, 2004
Britt Lawrence Melton
A son, Charles “Charlie” McReynolds
April 26, 2005
Shannon Sides
Married Brian Kvam
November 2004
Leslie Howard Smith
A son, Richard Dominic
Born December 2004
Meredith Snellings
Married Stephen Moegling
December 2004
1996
Marisa Berdeja
Jenny Cook
Married Russell Scott
October 2004
Melissa Marion
Married Bob Ives
May 14, 2005
Lindsay Mayfield
Married Cameron Wells
May 2004
Jennifer Gardner Shepherd
A son, Joseph A. Shepherd V
Born October 31, 2004
2001
Jaime Lynn Horn
Died September 17, 2004
Married Thompson “Tom” Patrick
Rippey III
November 24,2004
Mary Gordon Jenkinson
Gretchen Brandies Covine
Heather Douglas Morton
Twins, Beau & Mary Banks
Born October 2004
A son, David Matthew
Born September 20, 2004
A daughter, Mallory Clair
Born September 2004
Elizabeth Eubank Johnson
Brandy Chappell Palmer
A daughter, Abigail
Born April 2004
A daughter, Mary Samuel Margaret
Born September 2004
Shawnda Adams Pacheco
Elizabeth Richie
A son, Robert Mikhail
Born September 2004
Married Jim Bowers
December 2002
Kris Porazzi Sorrells
Katherine Varner Shoaf
A son, Matthew Taylor
Born November 2004
A son, James Holland
Born July 9, 2004
Susie Brock Vanlandingham
Sally Brock Sprecco
A daughter, Emily Marie
Born March 25, 2005
A daughter, Gracie Marie
Born January 2005
Terri Elizabeth Weathersbee
Alexa Starr
Valerie Wickersham Markland
Married Ernest de los Santos, Jr.
April 21, 2005
Married Brian Bures
June 26, 2004
A son, Alexander
Born October 2004
1997
2003
Susan Combs Segui
A daughter, Olivia McIntyre
Born March 30, 2005
Amy Rauch Shorey
A daughter, Regan Elizabeth
Born July 23, 2004
1993
Erin Garden Baldecchi
A son, Alex
Born in August 2004
Heather Carlin Beard
A daughter, Autumn
Born in 2004
Anita Brinkley Keenan
A son, Preston Michael
Born November 9, 2004
Lara Moore
Married Joe Howe
April 2005
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1995
Aleeta Loftin Lemm
Laura Herrin
A son, Noah
Born November 12, 2004
Married Ralph Craig
December 2004
Alicia Morgan
2004
Married Shawn Smith
April 23, 2005
Kim Stoddard
Married Scott Wolfe
March 19, 2005
1998
Erika Nelson Francis
Susan Jacobs
Married Michael Lawrence
October 30, 2004
Katie Laverdure
Married Barry Chance
In 2005
Jenni Penberthy
A son, Pierce Douglas
Born November 22, 2004
Married Kevin Thomas Buckley
July 17, 2004
Brooke Hensley Legg
Amanda Jo Sealey
A daughter, Mattie
Born February 2, 2005
Married James Adam Hamilton
In 2004
Deena Patel
Anna Walker
A son, Jaiden Hitesh
Born October 25, 2004
Married Jennings Berry, Jr.
In 2004
Salem College
Planned Giving at Salem
T
he Rondthaler Circle is a society dedicated to alumnae and friends
who have included Salem in their estate plans. These gifts help to
secure Salem’s future and enable donors to make a larger philanthropic
gift than might otherwise be possible.
Salem is committed to increasing membership in the Rondthaler
Circle to ensure Salem’s financial stability for generations to come.
We invite you to visit our new planned giving website for additional
information on how planned giving can help you achieve your financial
goals for charitable giving.
For more information on ways to include Salem in your estate plans
or to be recognized as a member of the Rondthaler Circle, please contact Institutional Advancement at 336-917-5558. Go to www.salem.
edu and click on Support Salem.
YOUR GOAL
YOUR GIFT
HOW TO MAKE THE GIFT
YOUR BENEFITS
Make a quick and easy gift
Outright gift
Donate cash, securities or
personal property
Income tax deduction;
avoidance of any capital gains tax
Make a revocable gift
during your lifetime
Living trust
Name us beneficiary of
assets in a living trust
Control of trust for lifetime;
possible estate tax savings
Defer a gift until
after your lifetime
Bequest in will
Name us in your will
A donation exempt from
federal estate taxes
Make a large gift with
little cost to yourself
Life insurance gift
Give a policy with us as
owner and beneficiary
Current income tax deduction;
possible future deductions
Avoid the twofold taxation
on retirement plan assets
Retirement plan gift
Name us as beneficiary of
the remainder of the assets
after your lifetime
Avoidance of heavily taxed gift to
heirs, allowing less costly gifts
Avoid capital gains tax
on the sale of a home or
other real estate
Real estate gift
Donate the property to us,
or sell it to us at a bargain
price
Immediate income tax deduction
and avoidance of capital gains tax
Give your personal residence
or farm, but continue to
live there
Retained life estate
Designate the ownership
of your home to us, but
retain occupancy
Charitable income tax deduction
and lifetime use of home
Secure a fixed and often
increased income
Charitable remainder
annuity trust
Create a charitable trust that
pays you a set income annually
Immediate income tax deduction
and fixed income for life
Create a hedge against
inflation over the long term
Charitable remainder
unitrust
Create a trust that pays a
percentage of the trust’s assets,
valued annually
Immediate income tax
deduction, annual income for
life that has potential to increase
Supplement income with
fixed annual payments
Charitable gift annuity
Enter a contract with us,
in which we’ll pay you fixed
payments annually
Current and future savings on
income taxes; fixed payments for
life
Reduce gift and estate taxes
on assets passing to heirs
Charitable lead trust
Create a trust that pays a fixed
or variable income to us for a set
term, and then passes to heirs
Reduced size of taxable estate;
keeps property in family,
often with reduced gift taxes
March Events
Salem Alumnae Lunch Events in March
Salemites from all over the country and abroad got
together in March with old friends and roommates.
They gathered in many different locations, in many
different ways ... Here is a photo gallery to showcase
this fabulous event.
Winston-Salem, NC (L-R) Seated: Amanda
Romero ’97, Brandy Nelson ’97 Standing:
Lucia Uldrick ’99, Beth Mabe Gianopulos ’97
with son Jacob and Kris Porazzi Sorrells ’96
Washington D.C. (L-R) Elizabeth Haverkamp
’96, Molly Harbin ’97, Anu Chettri ’03, Becca
Midkiff A’96 C’04
Charleston, S.C Class of 1985 (L-R) Back row: Frances
Buist Byer, Madeline Giltert, May Sherron Reed, Leigh
Flippin Krause, Sherry McMillian Hambright
Front Row: Anna-Lane Tatum Swing, Nina Anderson
Cheney, Liza Robinson Hart, Marilee Eagles Reed,
Jennifer Matney Rucker, Libby Glenn Lanier
Greenville, S.C. (L-R) Harriet McMurria Van
Hale ’71, Sidney Campen Surles ’71
Winston-Salem, NC (L-R) Kathryn Wilson Mansfield
’67, Susanne Bunch Hill ’67, Pam Pruett Short ’94,
Chris Coile Say ’71
Greenville, S.C. (L-R) Anne Richbourg ’72
and Sidney Timmons ’71
Libby Shull of Greensboro, NC and Sally Bason
of Reidsville, NC went to Daytona Beach, FL for
Biker’s Week in March. They wanted to do something different this year for the get together.
Greenville, S.C. (L-R) Mary Jane Galloway
Quattlebaum ’58 and Marie Clay Hall ’79
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