Bridging the Gap

classmates. Betty Coe Cruzen
Manuel and husband David
will be grandparents of granddaughter
#2 in late December/
early January (son Edward and
wife Haddy of Ft. Worth). Betty
Coe took her Mother to Centralia,
Ill., in September to visit her
mother’s “home place” and Coe
relatives. Kathy Baker Penn and
husband, Bob, welcomed their
first grandchild, Kate James.
Mom Sarah and family live a few
blocks away in Dallas. Denise
DuBois Taylor writes that the
Taylor household is in travel
mode. Denise spent a week in
Paris this summer, traveling on
a sibling trip with brothers Dean
and John. Husband Sledge is
Chairman of the National Cotton
Council and travels worldwide
frequently. Son Will spent
a week in Portugal as part of
his doctoral studies in astrophysics
at Brown University.
World traveler Susie Hudson
reports that she will be going
on a river cruise in December to
the Christmas Markets along
the Rhine River, and has seen
Canada, Florida, and Germany in
one year. Gigi Gould is thrilled
that her first grandchild, Lily Eva
Hengen, daughter of son Louis
and his wife Jill, has arrived. Gigi
is now working as Financial Aid
Director for Gould’s Academy, a
division of Gould’s Salon and
Day Spa. Susan Hall Wilson is
joyously busy these days leading
Sam Harris is the grandson of Susan
Hall Wilson ’70, and son of Susan’s
son Sy and his wife Claire.
Bible Study for 2nd graders at
church and taking care of new
grandson Sam Harris as often as
possible. Proud parents are son
Sy and daughter-in-law Claire.
Evelyn Anderson McGehee
sends everyone greetings from
Alabama. She and husband Bill
are enjoying their six grandchildren,
and are looking forward to
building a house on Perdido Key,
Fla., this year. Jill Tanner Flournoy
is helping husband Tom with
their family business, Tom’s Tiny
Kitchen, selling pimento cheese
made in Memphis. It is now
sold in six states, with hopes to
expand beyond that soon. Jill is
also working on new product
development for the company.
Peg Dixon recently moved into
a 115 year-old house in the historic
Irish Hill neighborhood of
Louisville. Peg enjoyed two trips
back in the spring, to Massachusetts
for a friend’s CD release
party, and another to New Mexico
for a gathering of dog rescue activists.
Linda Stratton Hancock
and husband Cary enjoy the
most important aspects of life:
children, grandchildren, and a
family beach trip. Linda enjoys
working for Dr. Ryu three days a
week. Your loyal secretary is enjoying
life as a in Newport, R.I.,
while husband Andrew is teaching
at the Naval War College.
Daughter Chelsea completed her
Master’s at Cambridge in July
and the graduation (all in Latin)
was lovely. Your loyal secretary
is enjoying life in Newport, R.I.,
while she is at Oxford working
on her doctorate.
–1971
Carolyn Cockroft
carolyn1973@verizon.net
Deborah Abernathy and her
mother are moving forward after
the death of Debbie’s father
in September. Marty Jones
combined a visit to daughter
Elise in Los Angeles with two
real estate conferences in
other west coast cities. With
husband Fred she toured Peru,
including Machu Picchu, and
spent six days in spring rafting
on the Colorado River in the
Grand Canyon. The highlight,
however, was daughter Julia’s
graduation from Tulane and the
end of college tuitions. Avery
Malone Kaserman’s family is
about to go for a week to Amelia
Island, Fla., to photograph egrets
and other birds. Jenny Jones
Wardwell retired a year and a
half ago and now has more time
for bridge. She is volunteering
at the Isabella Stewart Gardner
Museum in Boston, and is
spending longer stretches with
both Fred’s parents who live
in New York and Maine, and
with her parents in Memphis.
Speaking of retirement, my last
day work was November 6—a
28-year career. I will miss the
people, but I look forward to
being more involved with my
church activities—such as our
pastoral care outreach, vestry
and music ministry—and giving
more volunteer hours to the
cat shelter where I adopted
my Marigold. And maybe, just
maybe, I will finally have time
to do more writing.
–1972
Christine Mayer Todd
ctoddmem@aol.com
Meg Jemison Bartlett’s mother,
Peggy Bodine, celebrated her
90th birthday and still gets
several of us together for
Meg’s birthday each year. Ms.
Peggy reminds us, “Don’t mind
growing old, it is a privilege
denied to many.” Meg’s son
Marshall is meeting interesting
celebrity chefs as he expands
his www.homeplacepastures.
com pork business. Meg and
her husband Mike are creating
a USDA processing and packing
plant for pork, beef, lamb, and
goats, the only one in their
area. Son Jemison is living in
Charlotte, N.C., and works for
Wells Fargo on agricultural
portfolios. Meg’s daughter May
lives out west and is anxious
to find out where she and her
husband will be after he finishes
his sports medicine MD. Meg is
anxious about the placement,
too, because she wants to be
near her beautiful grandchild,
Cate Speed. Also having fun is
Susan Ossorio, who loves to
babysit in Aintree Farms and
substitute teach at Farmington
Presbyterian’s preschool as
often as she can. Jane Gordon
Simmons has two beautiful
grandchildren and works
as a wedding coordinator at
Heartwood Hall in Rossville,
Tenn. It’s an antebellum
home, barn, and garden where
she coordinates everything
with humor, patience, and
grace. Hunter Oppenheimer is
working with x-rays and bone
density scans. There is no
one who could put someone
at greater ease during a
stressful time. Her daughter
Emily is working on an MBA
at University of Memphis and
son Haiz is living in Asheville,
N.C., where he works with
the school system and is
studying computers. On the
weekends he is a rafting guide
on the Nantahala and French
Broad Rivers. Anne Remmers
Phillips is loving her new
grandson and is a consummate
kindergarten teacher at Idlewild
where she works hard to
keep my old principal Randy
Thompson happy. I know she
is doing a fabulous job. Peggy
Williamson lives in Brownsville,
Tenn., in author and adventurer
Richard Halliburton’s house. That
may explain why she is reading
voraciously. Her two daughters
live in New York City. Peggy loves
her son-in-law because he, too,
is a reader. Musette Sprunt
Morgan is working every day
to help her son Worth Morgan
in his 5th district race for
City Council. She and others
in our class have been doing
some sign twirling for Worth.
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