Sweet Briar College Magazine - Spring 2017

Class Notes
feeling very proud of our college! Anne
Kinsey Dinan is doing the illustrations.
(See, that art history major is still
relevant). Looking for help from anyone
who has knowledge of self-publishing.
Contact me or Anne.”
Susie Brush Croft: “Laurie and I
are enjoying being in Richmond, Va.,
with our children and grandchildren
close by. Looking forward to next year’s
50th class reunion. So excited Sweet
Briar is back on track!”
Melinda Brown Everett: “Married
24 years to second husband, Vincent
Klos—high school sweethearts who
finally figured it out. I keep in touch
with Phoebe Brunner Peacock in
D.C. My older son, Philip Everett, is
senior director for Food/Beverage at
the Oxford, Maine, casino and hotel.
Younger son Jeff is senior art director
for the NIH and is a well-known D.C.
gig poster artist. I am also a 27-year
breast cancer survivor who loves
reading, retirement, NYC museums and
Captiva Island.”
Marshalyn Yeargin-Allsopp: “I
am a member of the ‘new’ Sweet Briar
Board of Directors. It is an honor to be
a part of this history-making chapter
in the life of Sweet Briar College. On
another front, I am still at the CD.C..
For the past year I have been involved
with the Zika virus response. After the
Sweet Briar Board meeting Feb. 23-25,
I am headed to WHO in Geneva for a
Zika meeting. Life is good!”
Helen Cato: “A year after graduating,
I went to London with a letter of
introduction that got me an interview
and then a job with a publisher. I then
went to Ottawa, worked at a local
radio station, then for a national news
network. Back to London to join the
start of the first legal independent U.K.
radio station, LBC. As mother of three,
stepmother to four, I have worked in
schools with children who have had
various learning challenges, physical
disabilities and particularly children
on the autism spectrum. I now live in
Chichester, West Sussex, with my husband
and a rotating number of family
and visitors. I look forward to catching
up on decades of your news.”
Anne Kinsey Dinan: “Christmas
and grandchildren—my favorite combination.
As always, we saved a day to
visit Macy’s Santa Claus, delight in the
Lord & Taylor windows, climb on the
be-wreathed and be-ribboned Library
Lions, ride Bryant Park’s carousel,
and follow Rockefeller Center’s angels
down to its signature tree soaring over
Prometheus. Final stop is always the
Christmas model train display in Grand
Central Station. Highly recommended!”
ALSO, please note that Frances,
Nancy and I are still fervently hoping
to find email addresses for fifty
“missing” classmates. To that end, I
implore anyone in the Class of 1968
who receives this Alumnae Magazine
but did not receive an email from me
requesting news, to please email or
write me with your email and/or mailing
address at: akdinan@rcn.com or Anne
Kinsey Dinan, 8 Peter Cooper Road,
Apt. 11F, New York, NY 10010. Many,
many thanks!
1969
Nancy Crawford Bent
5413 Highland Glen Rd.
Westwood, MA 02090
ascb614@comcast.net
Bryan Alphin Bente (Landenberg,
Pa.) has been enjoying retirement
since 2015 after working for the same
company for 40 years, and she hopes
Paul will follow suit soon. Daughter
Katharine is taking over management
of the company Paul started and she
and Nathan will be moving it to Denver.
Bryan is busy with vestry and choir
at church and with hiking the many
local trails, but she also finds “being
leisurely (lazy) and relaxed is fun.” She
attended Reunion 2016 for Prof. John
McClenon’s memorial service and says,
“there are so many good memories still
there. Whatever becomes of SBC, my
life was enriched by the experience and
my life as a professional scientist was
started there.”
Martha Brewer says there’s
little new in Atlanta except worries
about Trump appointees. “Sixties style
protests are back in fashion.” The good
news is that she and Anna got married
on 1/1/16 and are enjoying life together,
and Martha is still working. They
have been attending the wonderful
Atlanta Jewish Film Fest and they find
parallels between the Holocaust and
today’s refugee crises. She concludes,
“Hopefully my marriage will remain
legal, although I’m worried about that,
too.”
Erik and Peggy Davis Molander
have moved to Portland, Ore.,
motivated in part by the 110 inches of
snow that fell on their Massachusetts
driveway in 2015. Also, their daughter
and son-in-law live in Seattle, and their
son has followed them to Ore. Living
on the banks of the Columbia River,
immersed in the casual atmosphere
and extensive food culture, they work
off the indulgence with golf, hiking,
working at vineyards, and enjoying
Oregon’s fabulous Pinot Noir. On a trip
in 2016, they met 60 new Molander
cousins in Sweden and took part in
an all-women classic car road rally;
then on to Norway where they cruised
the fjords and attended Erik’s sister’s
wedding. Alaska, easily accessible for
them, is on the docket for 2017.
Giana dePaul, living in Dallas
since 1973, is still marketing portrait
photography and supporting The
Arboretum and the SPCA. Her family is
three rescues: a dachshund, a schnauzer,
and a pit bull.
Kay Giddens Glenday and Ian
continue happily in Washington, D.C.,
happily in touch with Nigel and Betsy
in Old Greenwich, Conn., and terrific
grandson Connor (2½). They recently
took a dream trip on the Sea Cloud
with extra days in Antigua, enjoying
wonderful beach time and a dinner
visit with Bill and Lucille McKee
Clarkson. D.C.’s Colonial Dames has
been a focus for Kay for a decade,
especially towards preserving Sulgrave
Manor, England (the Washington
family’s ancestral home). A book club
provides fellowship for her kind of
reading (biographies and other histories
of recent scholarship); and art history,
exhibitions, and some research get
her attention, too. Fitness club (and
PT) and Christ Church are centered
routines. “We manage what’s wrong,
and celebrate what’s possible, is my
approach, right girls??!! Love hearing
from old friends, and better still seeing
you in person for fun visits!”
Cathy Hall Stopher (Louisville)
writes that daughter Marshall has
identical twin boys (1). She had lunch
in Boston with Nancy Crawford Bent
this fall and they had a lot of laughs.
“She is just the same as when we were
roommates.” [Ed.’s note: So is Cathy!]
She also enjoyed seeing Carolyn
Mapp Hewes in Florida recently.
Claudette Harloe Dalton (Charlottesville)
is still involved with the AMA,
the local and state medical societies,
national medical licensing board
issues, and physician assistant certification,
“all boring topics to anyone
outside medicine!” She leavens those
with periodic grandma duties with her
grandson (9), volunteering with the
local board of aging, and teaching at
the UVA Medical School. (Also repeatedly
chasing a herd of deer out of her
azaleas.) Despite thoughts of clearing
out and selling, “this house has been
my lifeline for so many years that I
can’t seem to let it go. Besides, I need
lots of space for mini-SBC reunions! Do
come and stay free only an hour from
the Patch...everyone is welcome.”
Having “traded” their vacation
house in Beaufort, S.C. for a house in
Young Harris, Ga., Brooks and Almena
Hill Pettit (Tallahassee) celebrated
Christmas 2016 there with family and
plan to spend many future summers
there, joined by their children and 10
grandchildren, all of whom live between
D.C. and Florida. Coleman works
for the Wounded Warrior Project in D.C.
and wife Courtney has moved from
Capitol Hill to the Rubber Manufacturers
Assoc. Son-in-law Brian (retired
as Commander, USN) is working in
Michelin’s management training program
in Greenville, S.C., and Rachel is
pursuing her sales with Rodan & Fields
Skin Care and raising four active boys.
John and Kelly continue to work hard,
Kelly successfully selling her paintings
in showings and on Etsy, and doing her
decorative painting, and John opening
another facet to his Accessibility Solutions
company, Lifetime Renovations.
Almena’s mother lives independently,
“challenging every preconception of
‘nonagenerianism.’ ”
Liz Medaglia (Alexandria), enjoying
retirement and its flexibility, has visited
Cuba and France and walked on El
Camino de Santiago this year. In 2017,
she anticipates visiting England to mark
the 800th anniversary of the Charter
of the Forest, and to walk the Cornwall
Coast. She enjoys ballroom dancing
with Joe, and works at fitness, outdoor
puttering, and Italian lessons. Liz
continues involvement with the Cosmos
Club in D.C. and with the American
Bar Association Standing Committee
on the Law Library of Congress, which
she chaired for six years. She serves
on the ABA Standing Committee on the
Federal Judiciary which conducts peer
evaluations of the President’s nominees
for federal (lifetime) judgeships, and
then publishes its rating. With over 100
vacancies, this committee anticipates
a lot of work! Friends who knew SBC’s
incoming president through academic
and Korean circles describe her to Liz
as “aggressive” and “smart”, noting
that her strengths in international academic
circles make her an interesting
choice.
On January 1, Carol Moseley
Tash (Winston-Salem) retired from
husband Gary’s law firm where she
worked part-time as business manager
and bookkeeper after Gary retired in
2015, having been his paralegal and
bookkeeper since 2005 when Gary and
another lawyer started the family law
firm. Gary has early stage Alzheimer’s,
and Carol finds it best now for them
to be together as much as possible. In
August, 2016, she had her left knee
replaced, and in February her right
knee, after which she was anticipating
taking long walks again and keeping up
with their four grandkids. She is also
hoping to meet up with roomies Sally
Boucher Megeath, Carolyn Jones
Elstner, and Midge Yearley again this
year. Carol feels blessed to have such
caring friends and family.
Keithley Rose Miller says the
apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in
her family. Daughter Tory is now working
at Kemble Interiors (Palm Beach)
with her, running the shop three days
a week (and raising baby Emma). Like
many of us, Keithley is cutting back at
work and has taken on a young partner
who interned in the New York office
and now runs her jobs for her, while
Keithley gets Emma every Wednesday.
“My wonderful brother Tanner, who
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