Meg Livingston Asensio
4550 Cherry Creek South Drive,
No. 1004
Denver, CO 80246
meglala@aol.com
Pam Tompkins Huggins’ family has experienced many milestones. Youngest
daughter Jamie graduated from UC Santa Barbara in June. Middle daughter KT
returned from 27 months in Tonga with the Peace Corps, and embarked on a round-the-world
trip until she returns for Christmas 2004. Oldest daughter Sally and husband
are in Reston, where Sally teaches high school English. Sally has two daughters
of her own.
Sadly, Pam lost her mother in February after a 14-year struggle with Alzheimer’s.
Other classmates have experienced losses: My dad passed away unexpectedly
in March, and Donna Sheehan Gladis lost her father the same month. Lynn Belcher
Fox also lost her father, and Sue Farnham Piatt and Carol Lee Hawtin both
lost their mothers this year.
Paula Parker Horton Boyer remarried last December. Her first husband died
in 1998, shortly after their 30th wedding anniversary. Paula now lives in
Lewistown, Pa., and joins husband Jerry in his private clinical psychology
practice. Her daughter, Sarah, lives in Lewistown and son Rob is in San Diego.
Paula stays in touch with Barb Bailey, who lives in Doylestown, Pa., with
her two daughters.
Maureen Murphy McCart is director of development at a small girls’ Catholic
school in Bladensburg, Md. She recently moved to be closer to work and now
lives about halfway between Baltimore and Annapolis. Maureen’s son is
a captain in the Army JAG corps stationed near Venice, where Maureen visited
for a week last December. Her daughter is assistant principal at a local parochial
school. Maureen was looking forward to the birth of her second grandchild
in June.
Rhoda “Dodo” Fisher Roberts had no plans to retire in the near
future. She and Rick get to their home on Nantucket as often as they can.
Daughter, Cady, has graduated from college and is working, and Nell is at
Penn State.
In April, Jackie French Lonergan was featured in an article and photo in the
Metro section of The Washington Post. Jackie became part of medical
history in 1954 when she was one of the first children to be injected with
the experimental Salk polio vaccine. A photographer captured the moment, and
she was photographed again 50 years later at the March of Dimes’ commemoration
of the 50th anniversary of the Salk vaccine trials with the family doctor
who had originally given her the injection. Jackie is now a social studies
teacher in Vermont.
Leneice Wu retired a year ago in February, from a wonderful job of 34 years
at the Congressional Research Service. She and husband, Royce Wolf, who is
working part-time, are enjoying more free time together. Leneice is very involved
with a volunteer group that rescues Labrador retrievers. She and Royce spent
10 days in January at Lake Tahoe, skiing with both their children. Emily,
26, a graduate of Mount Holyoke College, lives in California, and works as
a freelance theater technician; Paul, 22, graduated from the University of
Vermont with a degree in Latin (following in his mom’s footsteps!).
Leneice and Royce visited Julie Deane Webb, Leneice’s roommate senior
year at Mary Washington, and her husband, Rick, in Connecticut.
Ash and I moved to Denver in January. I am glad to be back in the “big
city” after two years in a small mountain town, and we happily downsized
from a house to a 10th floor two-bedroom apartment. I am now the West regional
manager for Co-nect, an education services company. Our son, Todd, is a high
school teacher in Melbourne, Australia. And we’re thrilled that our
daughter, Anne, her husband, and our grandkids – Maddy, 6, and Spencer,
3 – have moved from Houston back to Denver. In July, we celebrated Ash’s
60th birthday with a family reunion on Kauai.