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C L A S S N O T E S<br />
1935<br />
Juliet Halliburton Davis<br />
4100 Well Spring Dr., No. 2305<br />
Greensboro, NC 27410<br />
1938<br />
Frances Bailey Brooke<br />
405 Jackson Ave.<br />
Lexington, VA 24450<br />
1942<br />
Ann Morrison Reams<br />
771 Bon Air Circle<br />
Lynchburg, VA 24503<br />
amrsbc@verizon.net<br />
Wonderful things continue to<br />
happen at SBC. President Parker<br />
has created a blog where she posts<br />
something each week. Sometimes<br />
it’s about a particular student, a<br />
faculty member or an interesting bit<br />
of news. Visit<br />
blog.president.sbc.edu. You’ll find it<br />
fascinating.<br />
Last week, we took our folding<br />
chairs, a cooler and nibbles, and<br />
went to see summer theater performance<br />
of “Hamlet” at <strong>Sweet</strong><br />
<strong>Briar</strong>. Some people went early and<br />
took a picnic. The show was held at<br />
the old dairy barn. It was a grand<br />
scene as the sun went down and<br />
night came on. The play itself was<br />
beautifully done, the lead being<br />
played by a young man from Bucknell<br />
U.<br />
Our dear friend, Barbara Freking,<br />
died last year in Greenwich, CT.<br />
Another sadness was the death of<br />
Bunny Barnett Brown ’49, who did<br />
such an excellent job as editor of<br />
our Alumnae Magazine in the late<br />
’80s. Her husband, Walter, was<br />
chairman of our board for a time.<br />
They chose SBC as their final resting<br />
place, so I attended last month.<br />
The service was in the Chapel with<br />
burial on Monument Hill in the<br />
Columbarium. What a beautiful setting<br />
it was.<br />
Bless Bobbie Engh Croft and<br />
Edie Brainerd Walter who stay in<br />
touch. Bobbie sent a wonderful picture<br />
of her with her sister, Jean<br />
Engh Lyncan’s children (’41). She’s<br />
still gorgeous, has the figure of a<br />
teenager, and reports that she’s adjusting<br />
to a new life without Crosswell.<br />
Edie stays busy with 2 book<br />
clubs, bridge and taking care of<br />
house and yard. She made a comment<br />
with which all of us can relate,<br />
more and more of our friends aren’t<br />
able to get around. Sad, but true,<br />
but how blessed we are that we’re<br />
still hanging in there, alive and kicking.<br />
While you are reading this, take<br />
out pen and paper and send me a<br />
note! All of us want to hear from<br />
you! Love always to all.<br />
1944<br />
Alice Lancaster Buck<br />
21085 Cardinal Pond Ter., Apt. 106<br />
Ashburn, VA 20147<br />
alicelbuck@gmail.com<br />
1945<br />
Dale Sayler Morgan<br />
486A Beaulieu Ave.<br />
Savannah, GA 31406<br />
dalemorgan@comcast.net<br />
Julia Mills Jacobsen<br />
4416 Edmunds St., NW<br />
Washington, DC 20007<br />
ljamj@erols.com<br />
Mary Haskins King<br />
501 Kimberly Dr.<br />
Greensboro, NC 27408<br />
I, Dale, have been overcome<br />
and overjoyed by your responses.<br />
Helping Julie, who has written our<br />
news for many yrs., has delegated<br />
Classmates Want to Hear from You!<br />
To submit notes, send your news to the secretary listed. If your class doesn’t<br />
have a secretary, send news to Colleen Murray, <strong>magazine</strong> editor, at<br />
cmurray@sbc.edu or PO Box 1056, <strong>Sweet</strong> <strong>Briar</strong>, VA 24595. e <strong>magazine</strong> is<br />
also happy to accept high quality, digital or print images depicting your class’<br />
mini reunions, weddings and new arrivals.<br />
Secretaries may submit notes for every issue of the <strong>magazine</strong> and will need to<br />
receive your news before the following deadlines:<br />
Spring ’11 Magazine: February 1, 2011<br />
Fall ’11 Magazine: August 1, 2011<br />
update your e-mail and home addresses with the alumnae office<br />
(alumnae@sbc.edu or 434-381-6131) to be sure you are receiving all of your<br />
secretary’s correspondences. Class secretaries are volunteers elected by their class<br />
and are responsible for the accuracy of the notes.<br />
Finally, mark your calendars for Reunion Weekend 2011, May 20 – 22,<br />
celebrating class years ending in a one or a six.<br />
to me a most rewarding job. The<br />
love of SBC and each other is alive<br />
and strong. 60 remain in our class<br />
and 16 have e-mail addresses. I<br />
tried to reach all of you. If any cards<br />
come late, we’ll save for the next issue.<br />
Julie Mills Jacobsen, Washington,<br />
D.C., Mary Haskins King,<br />
Greensboro, N.C. and Anne Dickson<br />
Waldrop, Salem, VA, attended<br />
our 65th Reunion in May. Julia’s old<br />
friend, Clark McCartney, drove her<br />
down and back and made sure that<br />
the 3 got to everything in one piece.<br />
They adopted him into the class of<br />
’45; and they elected me Class<br />
Secretary with help from Julia and<br />
Mary Haskins. Dickie was unanimously<br />
elected Class President.<br />
They hope to return for our 70th<br />
and encourage all of us to join.<br />
They met our new President, Jo<br />
Ellen Parker, and agreed that we<br />
have a winner with a vision. They<br />
announced Peggy Jones Wyllie and<br />
late husband Jesse Wyllie have<br />
given $3 million to SBC as an endowment<br />
in support of the engineering<br />
program, which the Coll.<br />
named for her. It’s the 1st named<br />
academic program in the Coll.’s history.<br />
(Check out the summer 2010<br />
issue, Alumnae Magazine). Julie’s<br />
electric scooter got stuck in wet<br />
grass, but security rescued her. She<br />
asks that we all get our acts together;<br />
bring your walkers, canes,<br />
scooters, wheelchairs or whatever<br />
and plan to return in ’15. We might<br />
even have a mini reunion sooner.<br />
Mary Haskins King had a great<br />
time and plans to return for our<br />
70th! The campus was as beautiful<br />
as ever. The choir, made of returning<br />
alumnae for their particular yr.,<br />
sounded professional. They were<br />
the oldest ones there and were<br />
treated with kid gloves. She<br />
couldn’t imagine how they’d have<br />
gotten along without Julie’s friend.<br />
On returning home, she had hip surgery,<br />
planned but put off until after<br />
Reunion. She got along initially, but<br />
then developed a clot in her leg. A<br />
piece got loose and went to her<br />
lung, which put her back in the hospital<br />
in CCU for 5 days. What a fiasco;<br />
but she’s recovering.<br />
Cappy Price Bass and Bruce are<br />
still in their house after 45 yrs. She<br />
no longer plants her vegetable garden,<br />
but picks an abundance of vegetables<br />
for their table. She has a<br />
great-grandson. When she visits her<br />
daughter in Baltimore she sees Lovah<br />
Wilcox Gearhart in assisted living.<br />
She lost her husband some<br />
time ago. Talking to her made me<br />
forget the time elapsed since our<br />
last meeting.<br />
Wyline Chapman Sayler and husband<br />
Henry (my brother) still live in<br />
St. Petersburg; 2 sons live in St.<br />
Pete, another across the state and<br />
one in Atlanta; they get together often.<br />
She has 4 great-grandchildren<br />
and 2 more due in Sept. She retired<br />
her tennis racquet last spring.<br />
Henry, almost blind, never misses<br />
biking each wk with his group at the<br />
gym. She delivers Meals on Wheels<br />
and volunteers at the Salvation<br />
Army. She lost brother Alvah Chapman<br />
last yr. He and wife Betty built<br />
2 fantastic centers and started<br />
Community Partnership for the<br />
Homeless in Miami, which is going<br />
nation-wide. Betty continues their<br />
work.<br />
Lile Tucker Bell, Richmond, VA is<br />
doing well at 88. She’s been at<br />
Westminster-Canterbury Retirement<br />
Comm. in Richmond for 3 yrs. She<br />
has her health and uses a cane<br />
only for stability. She has 3 daughters<br />
and their families plus friends<br />
in Richmond. Her activities are:<br />
book club, movies, meals and sociability;<br />
also 4 great-grand kids.<br />
Leila Barnes Cheatham, Griffin,<br />
GA, said, “Doesn’t everyone need<br />
help Therapists are bothersome,<br />
taking up time. She knows better<br />
than to climb mountains with<br />
switchbacks. She’s resisting protection<br />
from the cradle to the grave as<br />
her mother did until 98, but says<br />
better not brag too soon. She rattles<br />
around in her 1896 4-floor ancestral<br />
home.<br />
Betty “Zu” Zulick Reuter,<br />
Towanda, PA, writes at 87, life is a<br />
bit slower. She had a hip replacement<br />
this yr., can’t do her daily 1.5<br />
mi. walk yet. She enjoys bridge,<br />
grandchildren and 2 great-grands;<br />
they also play for singing at a<br />
skilled nursing unit. She ends with<br />
“We’re both happy!”<br />
Ellen Gray Wilson, Spokane, WA,<br />
and husband try to walk a mi. a<br />
day, half in AM and half in PM.<br />
They’re in good health and enjoy<br />
family, children and grand kids.<br />
They volunteer in efforts to keep<br />
friends moving, as in walking to and<br />
in the park.<br />
Edie Page Gill Breakell,<br />
Roanoke, VA, writes that 11th<br />
grandchild arrived in Mar. and the<br />
oldest is being married in Sept.<br />
Missed Reunion because a trip to<br />
Hilton Head conflicted. She gave up<br />
piano, golf and tennis, but can play<br />
bridge, travel and enjoy family. She<br />
went to the Garden Club of Virginia’s<br />
Daffodil Show at SBC in<br />
Apr.; it was beautiful.<br />
Jane Clarke Morrow, Louisville,<br />
KY, said one of her best memories<br />
was visiting Frances Matton Luckett<br />
at SBC in the spring ’45 when<br />
World War II ended. They blew the<br />
steam whistle in the laundry to let<br />
all know. Such excitement! She’s<br />
lived in her house for 56 yrs., with a<br />
huge collection of treasures, “stuff”<br />
to anyone else. She works on throwing<br />
things away, but hard to do. She<br />
uses a cane. She cherishes her 1<br />
yr. at SBC.<br />
Hedy Edwards Davenport, Lookout<br />
Mountain, TN, is well and<br />
healthy at 87, grateful to be busy.<br />
She was headed to Spoleto so<br />
missed Reunion. She returned from<br />
Aspen, CO, and its music festival, a<br />
welcome relief from the heat. She<br />
sees Hilda Hude Chapin and Sarah<br />
Temple Moore often. In Aug., she’s<br />
taking 45 of her family to the Broadmoor<br />
in CO Springs for a family gettogether.<br />
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