Sweet Briar College Magazine - Fall 2018

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to the beach, restaurants, and shops.
After five months of paying for two
residences, we decided to lease our
townhome. Naturally as soon as the
tenants moved into the townhome,
our house sold with a quick escrow,
leaving us 15 days to do everything,
including finding an interim place to
live. We ended up on the bay front
of Newport Harbor. (Purging and
packing nearly did us in!) Now we
sit on our lanai and watch the sailing
races, outrigger canoe fleets, paddle
boarders, and bay cruisers go by each
day. It’s a great life, and we aren’t sure
if we ever want to move to our townhome.
We even have a big guest bedroom
for anyone who wants to visit!
Moral of the story: Flexibility pays!
You never know how things will end
up until you get there! Precisely what
I learned in 1971, when I traveled
3,000 miles to SBC freshman year.
I ended up on second-floor Meta
Glass and made the most awesome
life-long friends!
Carroll Waters Summerour:
Toby and I took the whole family
(14 of us) to the Tryall Club in Jamaica
for my 65th birthday — same
place we went for my 60th, just more
people! The latest addition to the
family is William Michael Reynolds
(Will) — Kaki and James’ second. I
think everyone is done; so we have
six grands ranging in age from 12
to 1. Toby continues as the chaplain
for Whiteside Cove Summer Chapel
in Cashiers/Highlands area of
North Carolina, averaging 200 each
Sunday. I continue to do volunteer
work (several boards and the vestry
at Good Shepherd) when we are not
babysitting grands. We are planning
a trip down the Danube from Budapest
to Prague to celebrate our 45th
wedding anniversary.
Ann Wesley Ramsey: Highlight
this year was celebrating 40 years of
marriage with a trip to Africa. Travel
certainly helps to have a better world
view and reminds me to appreciate
the good ole USA. I have loved seeing
SBC friends in Maine, Charleston,
and Richmond. Old friends
make the best friends! Rocket and
I will hopefully be blessed with our
5th grandchild Dec. 26 (the 27th anniversary
of my 39th birthday)! All
is good!
Libby Whitley Fulton: It has
been a busy year with the business
I started in 1996 after I left Washington,
D.C., which means I am
approaching my 25th anniversary
as a “minority business owner.” My
company, Mid-Atlantic Solutions
Inc., has grown to be the largest
provider in the U.S. of workers under
the temporary/seasonal H2
visa program. We work with 1,200
employers in 46 states providing
30,000 seasonal agricultural and
non-agricultural workers, who come
to the U.S. on legal visas. On the
home front, husband Dave and I still
live on the farm in Nelson County,
VA, which I bought in 1989. After a
major reconstruction of the ca. 1820
farmhouse in the early 2000’s, I’m
now into a re-do of some of the interior.
I also still import/breed/show
Dartmoor ponies, a British rare
breed. We are holding steady at 12
dogs at the farm (and office), including
German Shepherds, Catahoulas,
Havanese, and Dachshunds, three
cats, and one donkey. I stay in touch
with Randy Anderson Trainor and
Catherine Cranston Whitham on a
regular basis. Randy’s second daughter
is getting married in the spring,
but you’ll probably hear that from
her. Go SBC!
Ashton Williams Harrison: I
live in Richmond (have downsized
to the city) with my husband. We
travel between a river house (White
Stone,VA) and a mountain house
(Wintergreen, Va.) when I am not
working at my current job (a turnaround
for a company I invested in):
Brass Beds of Virginia (and yes, we
manufacture a lot more than brass
beds!). I came out of retirement (I
sold my lighting business in 2011) to
save this company. Could be the subject
of my next book! I keep up with
Christine Kjellstrom Douglas, Ann
Wesley Ramsey, and Gray Thomas
Payne. Call me if you are in the area!
Wendy Wise Routh: The past
year was full of highs and some lows.
Carlos spent the year perfecting his
golf game at Gulfstream and Shinnecock.
Luckily for us, Lon and Anne
Cogswell Burris joined us in Florida
for the member-guest! I was working
on some projects; so I flew back and
forth, managing to be in Water Mill
for every Nor’easter. Lexie is at the
Broadway League. If you tuned into
the Tony’s, that was me in the 2nd
row orchestra pit in the pink and turquoise
in every performance shot on
TV. We went to the after-party and
then onto The Band’s Visit Celebration
for sweeping all the awards. We
Ubered to bed at 4 a.m.! John Carlos
worked the TriBeCa Film festival,
the U.S.G.A. Open at Shinnecock,
the U.S. Open tennis, and Fashion
Week. So, pretty fun year! The pups
are great, and if you are my friend on
Instagram @Wisestwendy, you will
see how cute they are! ’Til next year.
Beverley Crispin Heffernan retired
from the Federal Government
in April 2016 and doesn’t know how
she ever had time to go to the office.
Still riding the horses, had two but
just bought a third, and lately, competing
in the fun sport of mounted
archery. Husband Jim continues to
work as an administrative law judge
for the Department of the Interior.
Sons Jimmy and Chris are doing
well. She and Jim have been able to
enjoy lots of travel in recent years, including
Italy, Hungary, and Austria
this past May; Canada in June; and
they will be off to China in October.
Getting together with college
roomies Nancy Haight, Robin Singleton
Cloyd, and Cynde Manning
Chatham in North Carolina in September.
And I, Anne Cogswell Burris,
continue as your mediocre class secretary
with last- minute newsgatherings!
Lon is still at Wells Fargo Advisors.
I am still part-time bookkeeper
at a small law firm in Charleston,
which allows me to make my own
schedule, so I can enjoy golf, bridg,e
and grandchildren (Thomas, 5, Birdie,
2 and Ben, 1). As I write this,
grand #4 is due any day! Enjoyed a
brief but fun visit with Beth Montgomery
and Ann Wesley Ramsey
while at a family wedding in Richmond
in December 2017. Had a
fun time in Florida last spring with
Wendy Wise Routh, as husbands
played in a member-guest golf tournament.
Instead of retiring, we are
building a house, which should be
ready by early 2020. Thanks to all
for submitting news. It is good to
hear from everyone! And to those
who have reason to come to the “#1
City in the World,” look me up and
we can catch up over lunch or a glass
of wine!!
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Margaret Weimer Parrish
862 Main Street
Danville, Va. 24541
peggyparrish@gmail.com
Lynn Kahler Rogerson was
married last summer, and husband
Steve and she honeymooned in
South Africa and went skiing in Italy
in January. They acquired a classic
36-foot sailboat and have enjoyed
much sailing this summer. Daughter
Olivia attended SBC as a freshman
last year, Class of 2021. Sadly, she
has decided to spend her sophomore
year at Sewanee (the small
student size at SBC was a concern),
but she hopes to return to SBC for
the Jr. Year in France program. Lynn
hosted a bridal shower for Maureen
O’Hearn Slowinski’s daughter and
celebrated the happy event with her
at the wedding in November. Sally
Mott Freeman and Lynn have enjoyed
getting together, including a
fun evening of ’50s dance lessons.
Caroline Bickel McLoughlin is
a grandmother. Her daughter had a
baby boy on April 11, and they just
had a baptism in the chapel in Hyannis
Port, where her daughter was
baptized as well as married. Caroline
was on the Cape for the summer, enjoying
sailing in her grandad’s classic
67-year-old wooden sailboat, playing
golf and tennis. Husband Hollis has
retired, and they went on the Windstar
cruise from Greece to Italy and
then explored Italy on their own for
another 10 days. Last Thanksgiving,
they took a road trip south to see
family in Alabama and stopped to
see Ookie Hayes Cooper in Nashville.
Caroline also saw Meg Shields
Duke in Delray, where Meg has
beautifully renovated her beachfront
condo. The spring was filled with
her new grandson, who luckily lives
a few minutes from Caroline outside
of D.C. In June she took a group trip
to Israel with the minister from St.
Mark’s Church in Ft. Lauderdale.
Connie Radford Butler has just
begun her 30th year of teaching preschool
and is delighted to still be
able to sit cross-legged on the floor!
Third grandson joined the family last
October, born to son Robert and his
wife, Alex. Connie says she is blessed
to have both children and their families
living in Louisville. Children’s
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