Karen Laino Giannuzzi
CMR 450
BOX 632
APO AE 09705
kapitankl11@yahoo.com
Susan Brown Lohin works in alumni relations at Wellesley College. She has
been married 30 years and has three grown children. Susan gave up long-distance
running after a serious skiing accident, but she still manages to exercise.
She would like to hear from others in our class who lived in Westmoreland
sophomore year.
Wendy Dickinson Smith and “Bubba” live in Alexandria, Va., and
she stays in touch with Terri Tucker and Pat Naybor Whitehead Marshall. Terri
still owns a children’s boutique, where Wendy works part time. Pat left
the business world of Washington, D.C., remarried and moved to St. John’s
with her British husband.
After many years in Richmond, Diane Redfern Shelton and husband Steve now
live in North Carolina. Barbara Halliday was elected to the Hayward, Calif.,
City Council in March. Mary Washington friends Mary Anne Burns and Kathy “Shred”
Schroeher Clare helped in the campaign. Barbara and husband Rick Imsdahl live
in this city, south of Oakland on the east side of San Francisco Bay, not
far from her parents. Barb continues her full-time job handling medical malpractice
insurance claims.
Carol Walb lives in Oakland, Calif., and works for the rapid transit system.
Jane Touzalin is well in the Washington, D.C., area, working for The Washington
Post. Jan McNiel and Marv Wendt, after 30 years in Orange County, Calif.,
working for UC Irvine, moved to the Mojave Desert in 2002. They have completely
renovated and refurbished a house there.
Gail Schultz MacLeod recently returned from a European jaunt to Normandy,
Brittany and Paris. She and her now-retired husband moved to Lexington, Va.,
from the West Coast and are happy to be back in Virginia. Gail was active
in the “Save the Name” campaign for Mary Washington and got reacquainted
with Mona Davis Albertine, who is now rector of the Board of Visitors.
Susan Stumpf-Herbert is with IBM in Boston. She worked on the course outline
components of IBM’s live virtual classroom, but more recently has been
working on IBM’s solution for tracking the Sarbannes-Oxley Act compliance.
Susan and Jimmy redid their house and recalled what a “charming”
experience it was to sleep in an unheated three-season porch. Bryn Irving
Roth stayed busy last year marrying off her stepdaughter, becoming a grandmother
to her son’s new son, and retiring in June after 33 years of teaching
in Spotsylvania County. Bryn’s step-grandson should be a chef on a cruise
ship by the time this is published.
Dolores “Lorrie” Faszewski Hite in Roanoke shared that son Benjamin
and daughter Meredith both graduated from Mary Washington. Lorrie changed
careers from accounting to estate and trust administration for a small law
firm. She shares her latest passion, opera, with husband Chuck.
In February, Pam Rave Hall and her husband became grandparents to Mollie Anne.
Pam passed the state licensing exam for underwriters and is now manager of
York Title Insurance.
Betty Barnhardt Hume reported that she and Randy and daughters Janet and Robin
are doing well in Fredericksburg and traveling in the area. She is in touch
with Betty Whichard Robinson, who was scheduled to relocate to Indiana. Betty’s
husband, Jim, is with Conseco Insurance Services in Carmel, Ind., outside
Indianapolis. Betty is looking for a computer-training job there.
Diana “Diney” Rupert is well and living in Florida. Evelyn Dezerne
Barrett is in Colorado Springs. Husband Larry was the executive director for
the Colorado Springs Symphony, which went into bankruptcy despite gallant
efforts to save it. Evelyn is a licensed real estate broker and established
Barrett Leasing. Daughter Allison graduated from Washington University and
is at Boston University School of Medicine in a master’s in medical
science program. Son Curtis is in software engineering at Northwestern University.
I retired as a captain from the Navy shortly after the 2001 terrorist attacks,
and went to work for the National Security Agency in legislative affairs.
In May 2002, I was selected to work on the staff of the National Security
Council. From there I moved to Belgium and Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers
Europe, the military arm of NATO. I was married in July 2002 to Ralph Giannuzzi,
whom I met while singing in the Basilica Choir in Baltimore. We love being
back in Europe, and I have the privilege of chairing a NATO committee on communications.
Remember: Our 35th reunion is only two years away!