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visit her website:
www.judgejanegray.com. She got a
lovely email of encouragement from
Marty Neill Boney. No big trips this yr.
other than a long weekend in NYC after
the primary. Her sister, Judy ’69, met
them and along with Frank’s brother and
his partner, who live in Brooklyn. They
had a great time eating their way
through the city. She gained back all the
weight she’d lost during the primary, but
it was well worth it! Jane’s nephew is
getting married in Oct. in Williamsburg,
so that will be a quick trip home to celebrate
the big event. Next May, Jane will
cruise the Mediterranean with friends.
Anne Garrett Norloff and husband
Chris live in Falls Church, VA, where
Anne is an attorney representing
abused kids. She can’t wait to retire!
Son Evan married Vera from Russia and
he’s in IT in D.C. Daughter Alison and
Mike have baby Ivy who just turned 2.
Alison owns a “green” diaper service in
Charlotte NC. Daughter Morgan married
Stuart and is an attorney in Portland,
OR. Adopted foster daughters: Fallon is
a deputy sheriff in Alexandria and Hale
is a nurse at Arlington Hospital. And,
Anne writes she has far too many parrots!
Tina Hall Baugher met up for cocktails
and dinner with Karen Medford,
Mary Heller, Dale Shelly Graham, Janet
Nelson Gibson, Eileen Gebrian and moi
at our annual Jun. mini Reunion at
Karen’s lovely Rehoboth Beach, DE,
house. The next day, we all had cocktails
at Tina’s equally lovely beach
house. Cocktails are so good at this
age. And, so is the gossip!
And, as always, please send any
email address changes! If you aren’t
getting my rare emails, I do not have
your email address. Again, not that I’m
a rabid social media fan, but do check
in, look, laugh, and contribute whatever
to the Facebook Group, Sweet Briar
Class ’72. Big Thanks to all.
1973
Evelyn Carter Cowles
PO Box 278
Free Union, VA 22940
ecc52@earthlink.net
1974
Rosalind Ray Spell
2710 Orchard Knob SE
Atlanta, GA 30339
rossiespell@yahoo.com
Meredith Thompson Sullivan
PO Box 1283
Livingston, MT 59047
gigiinmt@aol.com
Michele “Mitch” Dore writes: “I’m a
metalsmith in Prescott Valley, AZ. You
can get my bio from the past 30 yrs.
from the web at doremetalsmith.com.
Also I have another website, artinurnest.com,
for my new custom pet urn
business. I’ve spent the last 5 yrs. doing
R@D to help develop the process I’ll
use to make the urns.
“I moved to Phoenix in ’84 from MI,
where I was in grad. school, and I
moved to Prescott Valley in ’05 to get
away from the increasing heat. Very active
in democratic politics and gay rights
issues. My partner of 7 yrs. is JoAnn
Keller, wonderful person. She has 2
wonderful children from a marriage.
“My folks have passed way. I had the
Disneyland ticket for parents. They were
top drawer! Lind, my sister worked for
Sweet Briar from ’71 to ’73. She was
killed in a car
accident in ’97. I’ll miss her forever!”
1975
Johna Pierce Stephens
1703 Beards Creek Court
Davidsonville, MD 21035
Sarah Clement
5028 Domain Place
Alexandria, VA 22311
SBCUpdates.1975@yahoo.com
Bet Bashinsky Wise and Doug
moved to MT from TN 2 yrs. ago. Bet
says, “It's been interesting learning the
seasons after being southerners our entire
lives; hearty souls in these parts.
The best Christmas gift ever from my
husband has been a dual control electric
mattress pad!” Son Case lives in
Chattanooga and visited them for the
1st time this summer. He had bad
health and started a new job so Bet’s
traveled to see him. Although she
claims she’s not too sure how much
longer she’s going to pursue “this jumping
game,” Bet was preparing for horse
trials as she wrote in. In ’09, Bet and
Doug saw Gail Ann Zarwell Winkler and
family on a cross country drives.
Sarah Clement is an administrative
judge for the Fed government in Alexandria,
VA, often biking to work! She
misses her mom, Martha Mansfield
Clement SBC ’48, who was her housemate
for 16 yrs. until she died in 3/09.
Sarah has 2 dogs, 6 nieces and
nephews, no kids, no husband and no
regrets! Sarah says, “Lots of my cohorts
at my agency are around my age
and looking to retire in the next 3-5 yrs.,
but I’ll likely be working until I’m a ripe
old 70 and coming in here with a bad
temper and a cane (that’s what I
threaten our support staff with, anyway)!”
Maureen Hynes ’74 visited, staying
with Sarah instead of a hotel during
a conference in D.C. and they laughed
like the old days. Sarah hopes all are
well and healthy.
Catherine Cranston Whitham missed
being at Reunion, but her mother’s 80th
birthday took precedence. Catherine is
busy with volunteer responsibilities
“that don’t take the summer off!” She
visited her daughter and her husband in
MT, hiking in Glacier National Park and
“hoping to keep up with the 30-somethings
and their dogs!”
Bev Crispin Heffernan still enjoys UT
after 15 yrs.! Husband Jim is eligible for
retirement, but not ready, still likes being
a judge. Bev can retire (she’s Environmental
Group Chief, Bureau of Reclamation
in Provo) in 2 yrs. and thinks she
just will and go play! Son Jimmy (29),
works for Fed Ex in Sandy, UT; Chris
(24) is at the U. of UT, getting his degree
in history and also works for Enterprise
Rent-A-Car. Bev has 2 horses, still
trail rides and foxhunts, a bit of golfing
in summer and skiing in winter. They
traveled to Egypt last fall, and will be going
to Russia and Prague at the end of
8/10. She’ll also be spending a wk. in
Lexington, KY, in early Oct. with roommates
Cynde Manning Chatham, Nancy
Haight and Robin Singleton Cloyd. They
plan to see the World Equestrian
Games, the Louisville Slugger factory
and no doubt a bourbon distillery! Bev is
“traveling to Houston more often to help
the parents age as gracefully as possible,
which isn’t always easy as I’m sure
many of you know!”
Coni Crocker Betzendahl was busy
in 2009 planning the wedding of their
eldest, Lindsay, to Marc Apfelbaum. In
fall, post-wedding, Coni went to their
place in VT for 3 mos. of riding and foxhunting,
whipping-in for North Country
Hounds. Richard came up when he
could from the boat. Winter 2010 was
spent skiing and snowmobiling in VT
and new-boat-shopping in FL. In Jun.,
they bought a 54’ boat and brought it up
via ocean and intercoastal waterway to
Cape May, where it is now. Summer
2010 was been spent fishing the
canyons off NJ coast for tuna and marlin
and having both their daughters and
significant others on the boat too.
Richard still does his import export of
rare gases, and Coni dabbles in watercolor
and graphic design for her favorite
customers. They’re in the process of
selling their PA home, looking for land to
build on as they don’t spend much time
there between VT and Cape May. Coni
hopes all are well.
Mary Dubuque Desloge and Chris
are in St. Louis, where Mary sells real
estate at Janet McAfee Inc., a locally
owned agency in St. Louis. On the side
she sells at a shoe boutique for a
friend’s daughter where she tries “not
to get into too much trouble.” Their 3
sons are in town, each in different
fields: sales, law and marketing. Mary
hopes all are well.
Linda Frazier-Snelling lives in West
Seattle with husband Michael. She
moved there over a yr. ago to help
daughter Catherine with 3 of her grandchildren:
Joaquin (3), Sequoia (9) and
Dahlia (12). She resigned from the
biotech world last Dec. and works parttime
in Shoreline, north of Seattle. Son
Chris lives near Los Angeles with his
wife and 2 children: Dylan (3) and
Emma (8 mos.) Moving to Seattle from
San Diego was a change, and it meant
not seeing her other grandchildren as
much as before, but Linda at least
stayed on the West Coast. She enjoyed
returning to SBC for the 35th reunion
and seeing all who attended from our
class, some notably pictured on her
Facebook page, which included roommate
Ellen Harrison Saunders. During
that same weekend, Linda’s sister graduated
from Mary Baldwin Coll. at age
40, after already pursuing another career,
getting married and having 2 boys!
It was a memorable weekend!
Melissa Greenwood Riemer is acting
steadily, loves it. She became an ensemble
member of Steep Theatre in
Chicago several yrs. ago and that takes
up a lot of time. When she’s not acting
there or at another theater, she says,
“I’m up to my nose in the regular world
volunteering, helping my parents who
live near us, travelling when we can.”
Jeff is still with BovisLendlease and
loves what he does. Emily and Katherine
are both nearby, living and working in
Chicago: Emily works at Opportunity International
as a Marketing Specialist
(taking care of their blogs, web presence,
etc.) and Katherine is an Account
Executive at Golin Harris Public Relations.
Ellen Harrison Saunders and Whitney
are still in Suffolk, VA. Harrison (27) is a
landscape architect in the D.C. area,
Mary-Carson (24) will enter William and
Mary School of Law in a few wks. and
Grace (18) will be a freshman at Sewanee
in TN. Ellen says they’re not ready
to be empty nesters! She loves seeing
Betsy Brooks Jones and Kathy Rose
Rawls often and will miss working with
Catherine Cranston Whitham on a Garden
Club of VA committee. Catherine recently
was the 1st recipient of the President’s
Award, from the GCV. She was
instrumental in working to establish a
development program for the GCV.
Mary Henningsen Collins had a minireunion
in NY with Rose Anne Toppin
Cranz— said she looks great. Their oldest
daughter just finished graduate
school in forensic psychology and 2 others
are still in coll. at GW in D.C. Mary
writes, “We’re hoping they all get jobs
and liberate their parents!”
Carol Leslie St. John was sorry to
miss Reunion. She threw her back out
the day before and couldn’t do the car
ride. She’s 2 yrs. out from breast cancer,
doing well. Although she went the
traditional methods of treatment with
surgeries, chemo and radiation, Carol
swears it’s her alternative therapies
that are keeping her feeling so great:
reiki, acupuncture, yoga and a new diet
and nutrition plan. She never lets a day
go by without being incredibly grateful to
be here. She wrote “A note to all of my
SBC friends: ALWAYS ask for a written
report after your mammogram, and DO
self-breast exams no matter what the
AMA said last yr.!” Carol’s still doing interior
design and the family’s well:
Bryan (29) graduated from NYU Stern
with his MBA this spring, lives in NYC
and works as director of finance at Ad-
Safe Media in NY; Kevin (26) works in
Equity Sales and Trading at Credit Suisse
in San Francisco; Harry (22) graduated
W&L last yr., lives in NY and works
at Media 6. Tommy’s company has
weathered the economic times and is
doing well. They spent the summer at
the beach, and Bryan and Harry trained
down every weekend along with friends.
They see Kevin whenever they can but
think they’ve lost him to CA and can’t
blame him!
Denise Montgomery thought Reunion
was great, even though there were only
about 21 from ’75 and 2 husbands!
Denise spent a wk. with Gerry in May
and a wk. with Jeanne mostly on Cape
Cod in Jun. She saw Edward Gorey’s
house and went to her 1st drive-in
movie in 34 yrs., seeing a double feature
of “Marmaduke” and “Date Night:
with Tina Fey. Denise finished the book
she’s been writing for 4 yrs.; it should
be available next spring from Scarecrow
Press, but she doesn’t expect to sell a
lot of copies unless you either teach
drama, run a theater company, or are a
reference librarian, since it is the 8th
edition of an index to the contents of
anthologies of plays, as well as an index
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