Class Notes 1980s
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1980
Suzanne R. Bevan
407 Butternut Drive
Fredericksburg, VA 22408
serb@cox.net
1981
Lori Foster Turley
269 El Chico Lane
Coronado, CA 92118
turleys@sbcglobal.net
The old saying, “No news is good news” does not apply to this column! I know you all want to read about your classmates when you open each new issue of UMW TODAY. But without your input, I have no news to report. Please send me an email or a note to let me know what you’ve been up to!
1982
Tara Corrigall
1118 Woodvale Drive
Nashville, TN 37204
tara.corrigall@ubs.com
In late September, I attended the inauguration of Dr. Frawley. It was a great day and evening, which allowed me to catch up with several alumni.
Jenifer Blair came down from Baltimore. She enjoys her new position with University of Baltimore and represented that institution in the installation ceremony. Shortly thereafter, she spent a week in Sicily with her sister. Eager for a return visit, Jenifer has decided to start taking Italian lessons. Nancy Kaiser came to the inauguration from Rehoboth Beach. She stays very busy with her home management/improvement business. Annmarie Cozzi made the trek from New Jersey. She stays busy with work and her place at the shore.
We are all very excited about our 25th reunion and look forward to seeing many of you. Please put the date on your calendar now, June 1-3, and plan to take Friday off and come down early for a class dinner.
Roderick Slayton and Anna Geisler Hogan have joined JB and me on the reunion giving committee. We are excited about the scholarship opportunities and hope to share those details with you. Remember it’s all about participation, so please be nice to the Phonathon callers.
Lori Foster Turley ’81 ran into Ann Madden. Many of you will remember Ann, who spent her first two years at Mary Washington in Randolph and Russell before transferring to U.Va. to complete her nursing degree. She lives in San Diego and is married to a Navy doctor.
I am traveling a great deal in my new role with UBS but continue to enjoy living in Nashville and looking for country music stars at the grocery store.
Please keep in touch, and I look forward to seeing you at Reunion the first weekend in June.
1983
Marcia Guida James
2005 Long Knife Court
Louisville, KY 40207
MarciaGJ@aol.com
Carter Still Sonders accepted the position of chief development officer for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation. Carter has been in the development office for close to 13 years, first as the director of development, and later, as a major gifts officer. With the big anniversary commemoration and a $24 million campaign to complete, Carter will have her hands full in her new position!
Susan Leavitt biked for 10 days in the Loire Valley with her fiancé Dr. Jon Andrus. Teresa Childers Peterson writes that she and Mark are doing fine in Atlanta. Mark conducts marketing research for Honda, and Teresa is a research scientist at Kimberly-Clark. Last spring they went to the Florida Keys and then celebrated their 20th anniversary in Cocoa Beach, where they honeymooned. In October, they camped at St. Andrews State Park in Panama City Beach. They enjoy kayaking and find some really neat places to paddle.
Katherine Farmer continues as a juvenile probation officer with the Henrico Juvenile Court Service Unit, and she is actively involved in the Virginia Juvenile Justice Association. Twin sons Martin and Jonathan have transitioned well into high school this year. Glen Bell writes that his boys, 4 and 6, play soccer and baseball while he continues to play soccer and softball. Glen spent a week at a conference and on holiday in Shanghai and Beijing and was even able to take a mountain trail up to and walk along the Great Wall of China.
Joe Davoli was planning a December wedding in Independence, Iowa, to Margaret Hoeger, a chemistry teacher at the Washington International School, a private school in Northwest D.C. Both are members of the Young Benefactors of the Smithsonian Institution and met at one of their socials in May 2005. Beth Padgett writes that son Wes was born last August. She keeps busy with a nearly 2- and a 3-year old.
1984
Auby J. Curtis
aubyJ@comcast.net
Tara Kilday Lindhart
4012 14th St.
Chesapeake Beach, MD 20732
taralindhart@hotmail.com
1985
Patricia Reinhardt
145 Plain Road
Wayland, MA 01778
preinhardt@comcast.net
1986
Lisa A. Harvey
88 Highwood Drive
Franklin, MA 02038
lisharvey@msn.com
A lot of us caught up at our 20th reunion – our largest turnout to date – but, because many couldn’t make the trip, here’s an update on some of our “MIA” classmates:
After graduating from Mary Washington, Denise Williams went to medical school at MCV and has practiced medicine ever since. She is at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, and she has lived in Latrobe, Pa., Fredericksburg, Va., Columbus, Ohio, and now resides in Dayton with her husband and two children, ages 11 and 13. Denise is learning sign language and is an active missionary. Christine Candeloro Szymanski earned a master’s degree in education from Wilmington College in 1994; she works as a math and grammar teacher in grades 4 - 6 at the Tome School in North East, Md. She has been married for nearly 18 years and has three daughters, ages 16, 13, and 8. Michele Findlay Debuisne teaches art at the Marymount School in Paris, France. Michele has two children, ages 13 and 11, and was expecting her third in December 2006.
After graduating from law school at the College of William & Mary and serving as a law clerk for a federal judge in Norfolk, Va., Mark Payne rode his bike across the country and never came back! Mark now makes his home in Laguna Beach, Calif., where he and wife Linda are raising their three sons, Dylan, 12; Matthew, 11; and Elias, 8. Mark is a partner Orange County’s largest law firm, Rutan & Tucker.
Lee Boyce Moretz, a high school English teacher at Western Branch High School in Chesapeake, Va., lives in Smithfield with her husband and their son, Daniel, 10. Karen McIntosh, who has been living in Montana for 12 years, is a therapeutic foster parent to a teenage daughter. As a senior program director for a nonprofit organization, she conducts long-term research in the greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Nancy Hite and her fiancé operate a fishing/diving charter business in Hatteras, N.C. Henry Talavera is a lawyer in Dallas, Texas, where he and his wife of 19 years reside with their son, 15, and daughters, ages 18 and 8. Nancy Trail Holliday, a real estate agent with Coldwell Banker, has settled in Albuquerque, N.M., with husband Jim. Nancy reports that she recently got together with Anna Kelly Hanback, Donna Metzger Lantagne, and Cabell Jones in Richmond, Va., to reminisce and catch up on all of the reunion happenings. Carole Crist; husband Chris; and their three children, ages 3, 6, and 9; are living in Puyallup, Wash. After working as a chemist for 11 years, Carol “retired” to take care of her children. Cathy Quinn lives in Tucson, Ariz., with her husband, Mike, and two children.
Lori Stephens Huthoefer, husband Jerry, and their four children live in Diamondhead, Miss. Sarah Martin, of Boulder, Colo., is active in the music industry. Alex Samir Aniba also lives in Colorado and is the chef at Magnolia Steak and Seafood. Kent Birkle lives in Louisiana.
In September 2006, Edie Dunn Dornburg and husband Jed welcomed a daughter, Emiko Eideh, into the world. Karen Schrader Rafa was expecting baby No. 3 in January 2007. Sales are booming at Jennifer Kirby’s Richmond gallery, the Crossroads Art Center, so much that the gallery has almost doubled in size! In addition to teaching full time and tending to her three sons, Stephanie Doswald Sebolt is also tackling graduate school. Irene Thomaidis Cimino, Dominion Virginia Power’s public relations manager, was photographed and interviewed for an article in the fall 2006 edition of Work Magazine.
For the third consecutive year, Lisa Harvey was named as a Massachusetts “Super Lawyer” by Boston Magazine. Lisa, Brenda Thier Evans, Mina Holden Horn, and husband Todd ’84 took in the Virgin Music Festival in Baltimore. Brenda recently went back to work embarking on a new career as a mortgage broker for Wells Fargo. Michelle Runge is changing careers – beginning her own business as a trainer on women’s issues.
Brenie Matute is the proud mom of two teenage girls – Brenie, 15, and Michelle, 12 – and stepson Jon, 21, who is a rowing champ. Brenie served four years in the Honduran Ministerial Cabinet and now lives in Montréal, Canada, where she served as General Consul of Honduras. Later, she teamed up with husband Maxime to run a company that assists Canadian businesses with international business development with a focus on Central America. Donna-Lyn “DL” Mears Fosque, husband-of-10-years Tim, and 4-year-old-son Isaiah, live in Potomac Falls, Va. Donna-Lyn has been in human resources since leaving Mary Washington and works now for Loudoun County, Va.
1987
René Thomas-Rizzo
13608 Nubian Court
Herndon, VA 20171
Rene.Thomas-Rizzo@navy.mil
1988
Amy Bachman Keller
295 Schoolhouse Road
Pottstown, PA 19465
randakeller@aol.com
Lisa Boyd Nesbit
10057 Cairn Mountain Way
Bristow, VA 20136
lisanesbit@msn.com
1989
Cheryl Woody Danielson
370 Madeline Drive
St. Leonard, MD 20685
cheryl.danielson@earthlink.net