Sweet Briar College Magazine - Fall 2018

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inMEMORIAM sbc.edu 1933 Margaret Milam McDermott May 3, 2018 1936 Arnold Susong Jones December 16, 2016 1939 Dorothy Langdon Timmons August 25, 2018 1940 Olive Whittington Ehrich September 8, 2015 Eleanor “Ellie” Snow Lea August 26, 2018 1944 Betty Farinholt Cockrill May 22, 2018 Lucille Randall Southerland May 3, 2012 1945 Anne Macfarlane Clark July 8, 2018 Nancy Ellen Feazell Kent April 19, 2018 Sally Martin Manning April 26 2018 1946 Lucy-Charles Jones Bendall September 5, 2018 1947 Shirley Small Edwards August 23, 2018 Aimee Des Pland McGirt June 25, 2018 Suzanne Fitzgerald Van Horne June 29, 2018 1949 Nancy Ellen Craig Carter June 6, 2015 Mary Goode “Goodie” Geer DiRaddo May 29, 2018 Sarah Gay Lanford June 25, 2018 Margaret Towers Talman September 5, 2018 Anne Fiske Thompson July 10, 2018 Nancy Jones Worcester April 27, 2018 1950 Frances Martin Lindsay August 5, 2018 Julia Freels Chwalik January 4, 2018 Sally Lane Johnson July 31, 2018 Elsie Landram Layton June 6, 2018 Louise Streeter Smith May 16, 2018 1951 Julie Micou Eastwood Date unknown Jean Duerson Bade June 19, 2018 1952 Mary Barcus Hunter August 15, 2018 Jane Ramsay Olmsted July 14, 2018 1953 Anne Elliott Caskie April 22, 2018 Martha Moore Cuenod May 23, 2018 Caroline Miller Ewing September 8, 2018 1955 Marcia “Sandy” Rhodes Berglund April 30, 2018 1957 Patricia Lodewick May 25, 2018 Elynor “Suzy” Neblett Stephens August 13, 2018 Jane Rather Thiebaud April 29, 2018 1958 Elizabeth “Beth” Mears Kurtz August 13, 2018 1959 Ann Smith Heist Date unknown Trudie Jackson Smither Oct. 19, 2016 1961 Suzanne Taylor Gouyer August 25, 2018 1962 Judith Abernethy Kyle December 3, 2017 1963 Carol Crowley Karm June 29, 2018 Cynthia “Cinnie” Hooton Magowan August 23, 2018 1964 Jillian Cody Jones June 5, 2018 1972 Edith “Edie” Duncan Wessel January 22, 2018 1973 Gwendolyn Ferguson Bates February 1, 2018 Lucinda Young Larson January 11, 2018 1975 Laura-Hope Walton Griffin May 1, 2013 Gale Hirst September 3, 2018 1980 Anna Carter Kendall June 6, 2018 1995 Kelly “Pepper” Coggshall September 23, 2018 1996 Rebecca Arkus June 21, 2018 2016 Meredith Haga Fox July 20, 2018 42
CLASSnotes 1947 Linda McKoy Stewart 18 Osprey Lane Rumson, NJ 07760 lmckstewart@verizon.net A note for our 1947 graduates from Mary Ames Booker ’82: I would like to share that my Aunt Suzanne Fitzgerald VanHorne ’47 passed away in June at the age of 92. She majored in art history and was a fine pianist and did both as careers while raising two sons. She was my mother’s (Kay Fitzgerald Booker’s) twin sister, and passed away on the same day, 18 years apart. I’m sure they visit the SBC campus together now! They are sorely missed here. 1949 Preston Hodges Hill 3910 S Hillcrest Dr. Denver, Colo. 80237 edhillj@earthlink.net Katie Cox Reynolds reports that she and Phil have moved into a smaller more conveniently located apartment in their retirement home. New address is 60 Loeffler Rd. P316 Bloomfield, CT 06002. They had several visits with their children this summer and most accompanied them to a memorial of a dear friend held on Cape Cod. A granddaughter is in graduate school in Boulder, CO, for a year’s study in Early Childhood Education. Her bother is living in Denver. Caroline Casey Brandt, our class president, reports that all of our Richmond ’49ers live in Westminster-Canterbury Retirement Home, as does she. Libby Trueheart Harris is in the Health Care unit and is in failing health, Margaret Towers Talman is doing well, Kitty Hart Belew is there as well. All have recently celebrated 90th birthdays. Caroline has given her outstanding collection of miniature books to the UVA. The Miniature Book Society met recently in Charlottesville, and Caroline, accompanied by most of her family, attended a celebration honoring her. The Society has published a catalog of the 100 most important books in the collection. She has given a copy of it to Sweet Briar. Caroline’s ex-banker son is now an Episcopal priest in Richmond, serving at their family church. He recently had successful cancer surgery. She has a married granddaughter living in Boulder and another living in France. The one in France had a very premature baby, but after months in neonatal care, the baby is at home and doing well. Carter Van Deventer Slattery lives in Knoxville, TN. She visits her house at Hilton Head Beach, N.C., or Tennessee, and she is blessed with eight grandchildren and a great-granddaughter named “Carter”! Ruth Garrett Preucel lives in Santa Fe, N.M. She recently moved there after living fifty years in Philadelphia. She is living in an “adobe” (clay) house her architect daughter designed and built for her. Ruth also has a son who is a professor at Brown University and one who lives in California. She is more interested in the future than the past! Carolyn Cannady Evans still (10 years) lives in a large retirement home 15 miles from Dulles Airport. She welcomes “en route” overnight guests! Two of her four daughters live nearby, two in Raleigh, N.C. Her son is in Baltimore. They gather frequently. Carolyn enjoys working in clay, sculpturing, and making pots, etc. She walks her dog daily and is in good health. She and her children take a “Sibling & Mom” trip around the country every year! Sarah Melcher Jarvis passed away on Sept. 15, 2017. She raised four children and wrote children’s stories for Humpty Dumpty magazine that were later published as two books, “Little Plays for Little People” and “Fried Onion and Marshmallows.” Sally taught English for several years at Lancaster County Day School and was a writer and editor at Continental Press. As the assistant director of the North Museum from ’74 to ’92, she initiated the “Rambles” travel program, leading local excursions as well as expeditions to China, Egypt, Russia and Scotland. Sally was a 50-year member of First Presbyterian Church, where she served as an elder, and helped write its history on its 275th anniversary. She was a past board member of Demuth Foundation, Planned Parenthood, Lancaster Summer Arts Festival, Friends of Lancaster County Library, and a member of the National Society of The Colonial Dames of America. She is survived by four children, eight grandchildren, and five great-greatgrandchildren. I continue to live in my home of 54 years in Denver. My children are out of state but come often, and Margaret’s close friend from prep school has moved to Denver, which is great for me. My son Gene continues his work in health care, his wife, Joan, lectures on her book Chasing Miracles and does a blog monthly on health issues. Their oldest son is an ER doctor in Chicago and has my year and a half old great-grandchild, Enzo Dylan. Alyssa Hill is an attorney in NYC and Greg Hill works in the wine industry in Napa, CA. Margaret Hill Hilton is a Senior Sales Executive for Cox Communications in Las Vegas. Her son Palmer finished law School at UNC Chapel Hill. I joined that family for the graduation in May followed by a delightful few days in Charleston & Myrtle Beach. Ginny Hill Martinson and Lowell live in Ojai, CA. (fortunately their house survived the fires last fall). Ginny is enjoying renewed interest in art and has joined the Patel Society there. Her 19-yearold twins have just finished freshman year at the University of Colorado Boulder for Michael (in aerospace engineering) and Boston at Berklee School of Music for Karen. All of us are thrilled with our percentage of giving to the Annual Fund. 1952 Pat Layne Winks 312 Arguello Blvd., Apt. 3 San Francisco, CA 94118 415-221-6779 plwinks@earthlink.net Trips I’ve taken this year have enabled me to connect with some of you. A June visit to Boston, current home of my granddaughter, included a special added attraction: seeing Joanne Holbrook Patton at her home in Topsfield. After so many years regretting my inability to join many of you at one of Joanne’s summer picnics at Green Meadows Farm, I finally made it! Joanne and I settled in for happy reminiscing, looking through photograph albums. Joanne continues to stay active, undeterred by physical limitations. In the spring she went to D.C. for a women’s leadership conference at George Washington University, where she was honored for her years of outstanding service. Recently, the sailing ship once owned by the Patton family was put to shore near the Hamilton museum, which houses the Patton archives. Joanne, with her equipment, was hoisted aboard, then photographed at the helm beside the captain, as if they were ready to sail off to sea. Another trip I took this year – to London and Paris – was brightened by Pauline Wells Bolton, former roommate and Junior Year in France companion. Pauly had recommended a London hotel that was a real gem. She and her sister Josephine Wells Rodgers ’53 go to Europe nearly every year. Once Sweet Briar’s Junior Year in France has cast its spell, we stay spellbound! Recently fellow JYF’er Ann Whittingham Smith attended a theater presentation of Cyrano de Bergerac in the company of an Alliance Francçaise group. Ann and I observed that people seem to speak French so quickly these days! Ann has resumed playing the piano and has joined a chamber music fall 2018 43
Page 1 and 2: SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE
Page 3 and 4: Fall 2018, Vol. 88, No. 2 This maga
Page 5 and 6: Students from across the curriculum
Page 7 and 8: THE ARTS Carrie Brown teaching “T
Page 9 and 10: FACULTY PROFILE CORE 110: Design Th
Page 11 and 12: THE ARTS HOW DESIGN THINKING HAS LE
Page 13 and 14: ALUMNAE PROFILE In this picture, ta
Page 15 and 16: ALUMNAE PROFILE working in Sweet Br
Page 17 and 18: ON THE QUAD A group of Sweet Briar
Page 19 and 20: MEET THE CLASS OF 2022 ON THE QUAD
Page 21 and 22: ON THE QUAD The weekend came with t
Page 23 and 24: ON THE QUAD fall 2018 21
Page 25 and 26: ON THE QUAD ALUMNAE SURVEY OVERVIEW
Page 27 and 28: ON THE QUAD Sweet Work Weeks, which
Page 29 and 30: ALUMNAE PROFILE experience that was
Page 31 and 32: ALUMNAE PROFILE Sweet Briar taught
Page 33 and 34: ALUMNAE PROFILE “My parents are t
Page 35 and 36: HISTORY Quad Road in 1935 I was als
Page 37 and 38: GIVING 2018-19 Sweet Briar Fund Pri
Page 39 and 40: • Successfully implement 10 new c
Page 41 and 42: ALUMNAE BRIEFS Alumnae Artists Come
Page 43: ecologists in exploring the chemica
Page 47 and 48: there and doing things in town as w
Page 49 and 50: Karen Steinhardt Kirkbride is delig
Page 51 and 52: dear friend. ou may remember that s
Page 53 and 54: Richmond’s Class of ‘60 met for
Page 55 and 56: MLHA with sons 40 years apart at se
Page 57 and 58: much of the summer there, and also
Page 59 and 60: sister and her husband who live on
Page 61 and 62: Catherine Porter ’68 with classma
Page 63 and 64: percentage was higher (looks good o
Page 65 and 66: next Memorial Day. Mimi continues t
Page 67 and 68: Happy hour Friday night, Reunion 20
Page 69 and 70: heading back to smoke in Montana. D
Page 71 and 72: equipment, toys, and games once aga
Page 73 and 74: Cassandra Smitth Babbitt and Becky
Page 75 and 76: you for being true SBC Sisters! Kee
Page 77 and 78: so from what we knew, but I do try
Page 79 and 80: 1983 celebrating the marriage of He
Page 81 and 82: Dianne Hayes Doss ’93 on a family
Page 83 and 84: Stephanie Pearson Davis and family
Page 85 and 86: ing my new work! Looking forward to
Page 87 and 88: Ashlee Mays Kidd ‘09 with her hus
Page 89 and 90: Eleftheria Treklas ’12. Katherine
Page 91 and 92: Start Planning Your Legacy In 1899,

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