Ann Chilton Power
7301 Lakota Road
Remington, VA 22734
acpower1@earthlink.net
Rosanelli “Red” Metzger still calls Richmond home – that
is, when she is not traveling to Italy or vacationing at her second residence
in New Hampshire. Suzanne Borke Grasberger wrote from Mechanicsville, Va.
For the past 20 years, she and husband Tom have attended the annual Montpelier
Steeplechase Races with Beverly Almond Tucker and Louise Hanselman Bowman
and their spouses.
Congratulations to Ashley Kay Saine Nuckols, who earned a doctorate in history
last year. She asked if anyone knows the whereabouts of Mary Landon Nolan
Adams, who started with us but graduated a year early.
Mary Lu Fiala Crocker left us after our sophomore year and graduated from
Iowa State. After a cycling trip through Europe, she went to California and
got married, and she has been in the Los Angeles area since. She and her husband
have three children and 11 grandchildren.
Betty Anne Rhodes O’Donnell ’57, my junior year suitemate, is
busy with her book club, the Mystic River Historical Society, and the board
of directors of the Eastern Connecticut Symphony Orchestra.
I traveled to Mexico last January and to Key West and Fort Lauderdale in February,
where I visited Darlene Grove McNelis and dined with Anne dePadro Bloom. Pneumonia
laid me low in March, but a motoring tour to Jackson, Miss.; New Orleans;
Pensacola Beach, Fla.; and Atlanta in the spring perked me up. My youngest
son, Stephen, has been assigned to Germany with the Wall Street Journal for
the next three years, so Europe may be my next trip.
I am sorry to report that two of our classmates who came to our 45th reunion
have passed away. Ginny Blankenship Gratz died unexpectedly last November
in Naples, Fla., where she and George had a second home. Corky Slater Gray,
who had Alzheimer’s, died last November.