Ann Hopkins Burroughs
8933 Enfield Ave.
Northridge, CA 91325
ann.burroughs@csun.edu
Peggy Howard Hodgkins and Polly Updegraff Champ were roommates on the President’s
Travel Club spring cruise to northern Italy. The group of 20 from Mary Washington
started with a few days in Lake Como, then followed with a Po River Cruise
and visits to various cities and museums and several days in Venice. Peggy
was last in Italy in 1961 when she and Marie Butler Skalski toured 13 countries
in three months.
Peggy started celebrating her 65th birthday in February with her annual New
York City theater week. She saw numerous Broadway shows, including Mamma
Mia featuring my daughter-in-law Carol. Peggy also saw our granddaughter-to-be
perform on the stage, as Carol was just beginning to bulge in her costumes
before she went on maternity leave at the end of February.
Pepper Jacobs Germer celebrated her 65th with a garden tea party complete
with ladies in hats. Her unique Victorian home was once again on the Christmas
house tour in her Arkansas hometown. Pepper and Hank took two Caribbean cruises
this year. She is still working and not ready to give up her exciting television
job.
Mary Dodson Larson and Jim took a cruise to the Panama Canal and a trip to
Norway. It’s obviously nice to have a daughter as an airline captain!
Mary also does some tutoring for Huntington Learning Center.
Debbie Phinney Wylie has a new grandson, which brings her count to seven.
Debbie and Brownie Marshall McElroy keep in touch via e-mail.
Pat Scott Peck’s brother, Tom, has finally recovered from his ordeal
of a fall resulting in a broken hip and heart attack. He’s finally walking
and working again. In June, Pat and a travel buddy flew to Ireland for three
weeks and in late July, she spent a month in Nova Scotia.
Carolyn Crum Pannu has added to her ELS teaching load by taking on a position
in distance learning two days a week. She enjoyed an Alaskan cruise last summer.
Betty Pace Rose and her husband had a wonderful visit with freshman roommate
Beverly “Bee” Stone Bowers of Natchez, Miss., when Bee and her
husband came to town for the Kentucky Derby. Betty lives near Louisville,
has sold the farms and now indulges in traveling, dog sitting for her daughter’s
pet, and baby sitting her son’s 15- month-old twin daughters.
Sara Prosterman Brown keeps in touch with Clara Sue Durden Ashley and world
traveler Sarah Leigh Kinberg. Sara and Clara Sue share a major interest in
quilting that they probably could not have imagined when they met in chemistry
class. Sara is not sure when retirement will come since she still loves her
career. In retirement, her husband, Dwight, gardens and cooks. They have seven
grandchildren.
Aggie Welsh Eyster traveled with her granddaughter to San Diego last May to
visit her niece Aggie. She has several projects in her San Antonio artist
studio, including incredible galvanized steel backsplashes. Fellow artist
Janie Riles is also busy with her artwork, and planned to take a group of
painters to France in September.
Lynne Williams Neave and Sandy are in New York near my children. Lynne went
to a shower for Carol in May and met the stars from Mamma Mia and
some other Broadway actresses. My husband and I managed a last-minute weekend
trip to Denver to see son Don perform at the prestigious Denver Center in
Merchant of Venice.