Edna Gooch Trudeau
8200 St. Peter’s Lane
New Kent, VA 23124
ednanewkent@aol.com
Irene Piscopo Rodgers taught a three-day class in electronic microscopy at UMW last July. Fortunately, we were able to meet for lunch in Fredericksburg. We had a grand three-hour talk and were just hitting our stride when we realized the time; five-year intervals are just too long. In September, if all plans went well, Irene traveled to the Midwest to visit Ann Watkins Steves and husband Bob in Dallas and Nancy Montrastelle Curnutt in Oklahoma City.
Jane Tucker Broadbooks said that although she is only 39 (ha!), she is preparing to attend her 50th high school reunion. Her son, Jon Karl, is the editor of the Observer Dispatch in Utica, N.Y. Julia Coates Littlefield also had a 50th reunion to celebrate. Elizabeth Harlow Warren and her husband, Dick, from Scarsdale, N.Y., came and stayed with them. It was Eliza’s first return to Lexington in 20 years. Julia also met with Sandra Rayder Arendall, who attended Mary Washington for a year or two and returned to Lexington to make her home.
Arthur Olds, husband of the late Eleanor Markham Olds, sends frequent and humorous observations on life. Ann Brooks Coutsoubinas sent two postcards from Greece.
Mail from Barbara Cohn Krebs, my freshman and sophomore roommate, was a wonderful surprise! Barbara has been teaching high school biology in New Jersey for 38 years. However, she is looking forward to her retirement, which coincides with the end of this school year. A wonderful and unexpected call from Mary Carolyn Jamison Gwinn relayed that she and Burt are quite content and busy in Melbourne, Fla. Her mother is well, and they are enjoying babysitting for grandson Mason.
Marcia Kyes Price lives in Redlands, Calif. Three of her children also live in California; the other is in Arizona. Marcia’s husband, Henry, passed away. We send our sympathy to Marcia and her family.
My constant sorrow for the loss of my mother was happily interrupted by the June marriage of my daughter, Virginia, to Matthew Rogers in New Orleans, La. Virginia and Matt wanted a quiet wedding, so the only attendees were two sets of parents, his sister, and Virginia’s best friend. Also, my dear roommate, Gerry Jenks Winston and husband Addison drove down from Roanoke. The wedding was held in the courtyard of the Magnolia Mansion, an elegantly restored 1858 house in the Garden District. After a honeymoon in New Orleans, they held a July wedding reception in Virginia Beach. Virginia and Matt have since set up housekeeping in Virginia Beach along with their cats, Moonshine and Maggie.
I hope all is well with all of my fellow classmates, and I look forward to hearing from more of you. I find myself reminiscing about our Mary Washington days. How can we be approaching our 50th reunion?!