Susan McCrory Braaten
4506 Morgan Lane
New Bern, NC 28562
sbraaten@cox.net
From outgoing Class Agent Pat Adair Slusher:
Janet Cooper lives in Greenbelt, Md., and is still practicing law after 30
years. She moved her office closer to home. Suzanne McCarthy Van Ness became
a grandmother in October 2003. Suzanne’s daughter and family live in
England, but Suzanne managed to spend a lot of time with them last fall.
Iris Harrell married Ann Benson, her partner of 25 years, in San Francisco
in February. Iris is president and CEO of Harrell Remodeling. She had dinner
in February with her former suitemate, Bev Janice Holt, who was in San Francisco
for a business trip. Bev and partner Debbie live in Cary, N.C.
Pam Hogan Baynard moved to Suffolk, Va., with husband Chuck, who has retired.
They live on a golf course, and Chuck is building a small airplane in his
garage. Nancy Stevenson Leeper is still working as a speech therapist. Son
Steven graduated from the University of Texas and has a fun job driving the
Oscar Mayer wiener mobile.
Linda Sargent Kaufman, in Roanoke, Va., was divorced recently. Daughter Bette
is in medical school at U.Va. and son Bill is at Duke. Linda’s mother,
Dorothy Lambert Sargent ’42, passed away last April.
Regina Sneed has lived in San Francisco since 1970. She works for the U.S.
Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights, where she investigates discrimination
in schools. She is active in the city’s cultural life and is in her
20th year as a docent at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Anne Witham Kilpatrick recently retired as administrative assistant for the
Westerville Symphony Orchestra. (Her extensive traveling was beginning to
interfere with her part-time job.) This year, she and husband Roger have traveled
to the Bahamas, Colorado, Las Vegas, Alabama, Georgia and St. Louis.
Anne’s daughter and her husband have built their dream home in Carrollton,
Ga., on an 11-acre horse farm. Granddaughter Jennifer has participated in
several local horse shows.
Anne and Jeanine Zavrel Fearns, Toni Turner Bruseth and Carolyn “Suzie”
Bender Winterble planned to get together for their “To H–- with
the Rest of ’Em” reunion in the spring. The location of the reunion
was to be in Austin, Texas, at Toni’s house for “some great fun,
good Tex-Mex food and good conversation.”
Marilyn Neudeck-Dicken lives in Wrightwood, Calif., with husband Michael and
her search-and-rescue dog, Woofie, a German shepherd. Marilyn has been awarded
board-certified expert status in traumatic stress and traumatic stress management,
and has expert standing in other organizations as well, including the American
Psychotherapy Association. Her experiences with the Oklahoma City bombing
and Columbine shootings, among other tragedies, have lead to research and
resulting publications. Marilyn also wrote a manual on dealing with catastrophic
stress for the California Rescue Dog Association, and later adapted a manual
for air-traffic controllers at Quantico Marine Corp Air Base in Virginia.