MARYmSHINGTON COLLEGE
WINTER 1997
VOL. 21, NO. 2
On November 15, 1996, MWC welcomed John G. Macfarlane III as the 1996-97 Executive-in- Residence. Macfarlane, managing director of the New York investment banking firm Salomon Brothers Inc., addressed a breakfast crowd of 220 that included business leaders, MWC admin- istrators, faculty and students. His topic, "Challenges Facing the Financial Markets in the Year Ahead," was part of a day-long schedule that included classroom visits, an informal luncheon and a roundtable discussion of "Careers on Wall Street."
Macfarlane, who holds a B.A. in classical studies from Hampden-Sydney and an M.B.A. from U.Va.'s Darden Graduate School of Business, has other ties to MWC besides Executive -In-Resi-
dence. His mother, Mrs. Anne Beck Macfarlane, is a 1952 graduate and a former member of the Board of Visitors.
The Executive-in-Residence program, estab- lished at the College in 1989, is designed to teach students from all academic disciplines about the business world through interaction with established corporate leaders. Tlie program also involves local business leaders in the life of the College through its annual business-leaders breakfast and special seminars.
Fredericksburg Mayor Bill Greenup enjoys the breakfast in Lee Hall Ballroom.
MARY WASHINGTON COLLEGE
TODAY
WINTER 1997 VOL. 21, NO. 2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
MWC's Scholar-Statesman 2
Homecoming '96 5
Ars Longa 7
Sabbatical on the Nile 10
Sports 13
On Campus 15
Alumni News 21
Class Notes 25
Editor: Paulette S. Watson
Editorial Assistant: Debra A Garrett
Writer/Copy Editor: Liz Gordon
Copy Editors: Debra A. Garrett. Betsey-Ellen Hansen '62, Amy R. Szczepanski '97. Jennifer Collins '99
Class Notes Editor: Betsey-Ellen Hansen '62
Editorial Board/ Advisers: Jack Bales, William B. Crawley Jr., R. Scott Lyons, Ronald E. Singleton.
Cynthia L. Snyder '75, Elizabeth Muirheid Sudduth '69, Paulette S. Watson
Cover Photo: Trinkle Hall in winter, by Barr\' Fitzgerald.
Photo Credits: Inside front cover, main photo by Andy Feldman, top right photo by Amy Szczepanski '97, bottom photo by Liz Gordon; p. 2, photo courtesy of the subject; pp. 3-4, Barry Fitzgerald; pp. 5-6. Barr>' Fitzgerald and J. Suzanne Horsley '93; p. 7, top photo by Dennis McWaters, center photo and pp. 8-9, courtesy Mary Washington College Galleries; pp. 10-11, W. Brown Morton III; p. 12, top photo by John Morton, bottom photo by W. Brown Morton III; pp. 13-14, Liz Gordon; p. 16, Bany Fitzgerald; pp. 17-18, Liz Gordon; p. 19, photos on left courtesy Multicultural Center, photos on right by Paulette S. Watson; p. 20, top photo courtesy Office of College Relations and Legislative i\ffairs, bottom photo by Bany Fitzgerald; p. 21, photo on left courtesy of the subject, photo on right by Liz Gordon; p. 22, Liz Gordon; p. 23, photo on left courtesy Bowling Green State Universitv' in Ohio, photo on right by Paulette S. Watson; p. 24, top photo by Dan Fitzpatrick; bottom photo courtesy Global Volunteers.
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Mary Washington College Alumni Association Board of Directors 1996-98: Theresa Young Crawley '77. President; Tara C. Corrigall '82, President-elect; Patricia Branstetter Revere '63, Vice President for Alumni Fund; Darnell K. Horio '84, Vice President for Reunion Weekend; Kemetia M.K. Foley '87, Vice President for Chapters; Susan Wise '91, Vice President for Classes; Jeffrey S. Woo '92, Vice President for Finance; Angelia Allen '82; Frances Liebenow Armstrong '36; W. Gardner Campbell; Liam Cleaver '92; Scott H. Harris '83; Timothy F. Landis '93; Suzanne Sunmer; Tliomas Valente '81; William M. Anderson Jr.. President, MWC; R. Scott Lyons, Vice President for College Advancement, MWC; Cynthia L. Snyder '75, Du-ector of Alumni Relations, MWC; Benjamin W. Hernandez '95, Assistant Director of Alumni Rela- tions, MWC.
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LEWIS P. FICKETT JR
MWC's Scholar-Statesman
BY WILLIAM B. CRAWLEY JR.
ven before Lewis P. Fickett Jr. joined the political
science faculty at Mary Washington College in the fall
of 1963, he had already achieved distinction both in
academia and in the "real world" beyond it . Over the next
three decades, owing to his accomplishments in both areas,
he became one of the most prominent faculty members at
the College — widely acclaimed as a productive scholar,
exceptional teacher, and dedicated public servant.
A native of Winthrop, Mass., Lew attended Bowdoin Col- lege, following in the tradition of his father and grandfather. His undergraduate education was interrupted by World War n, during which he sei'ved for two years in the Navy, mainly in the South Pacific. Returning to Bowdoin, he was graduated summa cum laude in government in 1948 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.
Attracted both to law and to teaching. Lew first pursued a law degree, which he received from Harvard in 1952. After working for a year in the legal department of the General Electric Company, he returned to Hai-vard to seek a doctorate in government; in 1956 he received his Ph.D. with concen- trations in constitutional law, comparative government and public administration.
Thus armed with impeccable academic credentials in two fields, but still not committed totally to either, the young Dr. Fickett embarked instead upon what promised to be a rewarding career as a foreign service officer. Beginning as an economist in the Office of German Affairs, he held posts in Bonn and, later.
in Algiers before returning to the States to serve on the Thailand desk of the Agency for International Development.
Although Lew enjoyed the Foreign Service, he was bothered by the organi- zation's rigid bureaucracy and found him- self increasingly attracted to the academic world. So, having learned of an opening in the Political Science Department at Mary Washington, he came to the College for an interview. He did so with consid- erable misgivings, he recalls, because he was unsure that he really wanted to be associated with what he viewed then as "a segregated college in a segregated city" — an environment that seemed decidedly inimical to his background as well as to his beliefs. Those concerns, however, were largely allayed during his interview with Chancellor (later Presi- dent) Grellet C. Simpson, who enticed the prospective professor with a vision of the kind of liberal arts college that Dr. Simpson was attempting to build.
Eager to be part of the intellec- tual excitement that character- ized the College in those days. Dr. Pickett joined the faculty in the fall of 1963. His impact was immediate. One of his first major advisees, Charlotte Stultz '66, was a sophomore when he arrived. She recalls vividly the tall, courtly professor, always immaculately attired — t\'pically in pin-striped suit and rep tie. Though his political views were "a little bit liberal for my tastes," she says, "he was just tremendously dynamic. Everyone was im- pressed with his intellect and his enthu- siasm and his concern for the students. He instantly energized the department."
Above all, Ms. Stultz remembers him as a "wonderful lecturer," whose ever\' presentation was an amalgam of precision and passion — compellingly delivered in the characteristic "Bahstin" accent of his native New England. Indeed, the meticu- lously crafted lecture became the hall- mark of his teaching and the basis, in part, for his selection in 1995 as the recipient of the Grellet C. Simpson Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. [Ms. Stultz, it might be noted, was one of his many students who, doubtlessly in- fluenced by his example, went on to pur- sue their own successful careers as teachers of government (as in her case) or as lawyers or public servants.]
But Dr. Fickett's contributions to academia were by no means limited to the classroom. From the outset, and throughout his career, he was constantly
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hirty-three years on the faculty have afforded Lew Fickett an ample perspective from which to evaluate the College's evolution. The most significant change, he believes, has been the transition from essentially a women's teachers college to "a first-ranking liberal arts college, not only in the South, but in the nation."
engaged in productive scholarship. In this he was the beneficiary of several presti- gious grants, including a Ford Foundation Fellowship to study in India. Having subsequently studied Hindi as a visiting scholar at the University of Michi- gan, he returned to India several times, including in 1966 as a Fulbright Summer Scholar, in 1967-68 as
part of a college exchange program, and in 1990 as the recipient of a Smithsonian Fellowship. In the process he published extensively, including Tlie Major Socialist Parties of India (1976) and numerous articles, all of which led to recognition as one of the country's leading scholars in the field of Indian politics.
In the opinion of his long-time depart- mental colleague. Dr. John M. Kramer, it is the combination of effective pedagogy and scholarly productivity' that particular- ly distinguished Dr. Fickett's career. "His integration of teaching and scholarship has benefited his students tremendous- ly," says Dr. Kramer, adding that, "for 25 years I've viewed him as representing the finest ideals of the teacher-scholar. He has truly been a mentor for me personally."
Yet there has been still another, and ver\' significant, dimension to Dr. Fickett's career: that of active political participant. Long involved in Democratic Party affairs at the local level, he first sought public office himself in 1971 when he ran for the Virginia House of Delegates, sup- ported enthusiastically by many MWC students who campaigned on his behalf. Though defeated in that first attempt, he ran successfully two years later, begin- ning a string of victories that would keep him in the General Assembly through 1981. During that period he also ran for Congress — in 1978 — a quest that, even though unsuccessful, fulfilled a lifelong ambition.
In the state legislature. Delegate Fickett quickly earned a reputation as one of that body's most progressive members, serving with distinction on several key committees, notably Education and Labor. His more significant achievements included promotion of a state minimum- wage law and a teacher grievance law, both being, in his words, "long overdue in the Commonwealth." The legislation that Delegate Fickett promoted most vigorously — and that came to partial fnntion — was a bill to provide free textbooks for Mrginia's
dents and the professor, as apparently has happened in many of our larger schools and universities."
Fickett and his wife. Martha, professor of music at IVIWC. stand outside of t\/lonroe Haii.
schoolchildren. His advocacy for such a program was both an outgrowth of his own profession and a reflection of the philosophy of his political hero, Franklin Roosevelt, who maintained that the fun- damental purpose of government was "to do for the people that which they can- not do for themselves." Though stymied in many cases by a majority more conser- vative than he. Professor Fickett nonethe- less recalls his time in the General As- sembly as being "in some ways the most cherished experience of my life — other than my many happy years in teaching."
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Thirty-three years on the faculty have afforded Lew Fickett an ample perspec- tive from which to evaluate the College's evolution. The most significant change, he believes, has been the transition from essentially a women's teachers college to "a first-ranking liberal arts college, not only in the South, but in the nation." Each of the presidents under whom he has worked has, in his opinion, contrib- uted in a special way to that evolution: President Simpson for emphasizing the liberal arts and for hiring faculty to im- plement that goal; President Prince B. Woodard for securing additional state funding and for implementing adminis- trative and curricular restructuring; and President William M. Anderson Jr. for increasing both private endowment and public funding — often despite adverse economic conditions — as well as for car- rying out an extensive construction pro- gram that has substantially enhanced
both the beauty and functioning of the campus.
Another fundamental change that Dr. Fickett has observed is the h'ansition from a single-sex to a coeducational insti- tution. Though admittedly somewhat nostalgic for certain aspects of the col- lege of his earlier years on the faculty, he points out that he long supported coeducation — "a much healthier and more desirable environment," in his opinion. Most commendable, he believes, has been the ability of the College to maintain high academic qual- ity while implementing coeducation.
Although he views as positive almost all the change he has witnessed. Dr. Fickett does express some concerns, chiefly about what he regards as in- creasingly bureaucratic tendencies with- in academia. Teaching, he says, was once "the last refuge of the independent man and woman," but such freedom has been diminished in recent years "as standards of the business community have been superimposed upon the teaching com- munity." Yet he sees this as the inevitable consequence of "changing times and greater restrictions imposed... upon all state employees, faculty included."
He is also a bit wary of some implica- tions of modem technology for the teach- ing profession. While acknowledging that the computer age obviously presents the potential for expanding and improving many facets of education, he admits that he himself was just as happy to leave the classroom before computers "wholly or even significantly intervened in the personal relationship between the stu-
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At the end of the 1995-96 academic year. Lew Fickett retired from the full- time faculty, though he still teaches sev- eral courses as an adjunct professor. He remains close to the College both emo- tionally and physically; he and his wife, Martha (MWC '63 and currently profes- sor of music at the College) live only a few blocks from campus. Their son, Lewis III, having recently continued the Bow- doin tradition through the fourth gener- ation, is now in law school at Boston College. The two Lewises share a pas- sion not only for politics but also, slight- ly less seriously perhaps, for the Boston Red Sox — a perennially frustrating ad- diction that plagues New Englanders.
Dr. Fickett has no doubt as to what he will miss most in his retirement: the students. "I've enjoyed them so much and have been stimulated by them," he says. "I've enjoyed every minute of it — even those terrible exams from time to time. . . . To paraphrase the great old Jimmy Stewart movie title, it has been truly 'a wonderful life.' There's nothing like teaching."
In bestowing the title of Distinguished Professor Emeritus upon Dr. Fickett at the 1996 Commencement ceremony. President Anderson praised him as one who "has consistently demanded much of his students, but has given even more of himself," adding aptly that "no one has exceeded him in devotion to the princi- ples of liberal education upon which Mary Washington College is founded, nor has anyone lived those principles more faith- fully." Provost Philip Hall put it succinctly, describing Dr. Fickett as "the living in- carnation of what all of us imagine as the model college professor."
To such accolades. Lew Fickett re- sponds with characteristic modesty, ex- pressing only the hope that he has been able "to impart some wisdom, some experience, some knowledge." On that score he need not worry. As hundreds of MWC graduates would attest, his legacy is secure as a teacher, adviser, and friend who has influenced many lives for the better, not only through the lessons of the classroom that he has taught, but through the example of the life that he has lived.
William B. Crawley Jr. is Distinguished Professor of History, holder of the Rector and Visitors Chair, and historian of the College.
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BY J. SUZANNE HORSLEY '93
The Battleground Complex was packed with MWC alumni tailgaters and sports spectators for Homecoming '96 in October. While it was a breezy autumn day, it was noticeably warmer walking amid the crowds that assembled in the parking lots. Some alumni grilled burgers or held tailgate picnics. Everyone was having a great time catching up with classmates they hadn't seen or heard from since college.
At times the scene resembled a family reunion more than a college homecoming. Strollers were spotted all around campus and the athletic fields. Graduates introduced spouses and children to old friends and faculty members, and showed off their former dorms and academic buildings.
Because of the crowds, many of us were afraid we would miss seeing special classmates. "I hope we see Wanda." one alumna was overheard saying. "Remember the redhead? She was Alice's roommate." And, "Oh, have you seen Diane? I really wanted her to meet my little boy."
Jackie McCauley Clark '94 and husband Hunter '93 made the short trip to campus from their home in Fredericksburg to join up with friends. The Clarks met while on MWC's intercollegiate debate team and are now teaching and coaching debate in high schools.
Janine Powell Knott '91 and her sister, Yvonne Powell Conatser '90, met Stacie Nash Bard '90 and her daughter. Holly, for a tour of campus before heading to The Battleground. "We just wanted to see who was here," said Bard. "The biggest change we saw, besides the new buildings, was the Phi Beta Kappa key," she said, referring to the new sculpture on Campus Walk.
Kristin Hastings Rupprecht and Kurt Rupprecht, both 1992 graduates, brought their toddler, Collin, to the festivities. They drove down from Bel Air, Md., for the weekend.
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On another field, MWC's rugby team battled the men's alumni. Gordon Dixon '92, who works for the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, was one of many who took time out from busy schedules to watch the game with friends.
Many alumni had the opportunity to watch their first baseball game in the College's new stadium. This impressive brick structure was the scene for MWC's win over Catholic University.
Alumni weren't the only ones in the crowd at the diamond, however. Fresh- man pitcher Everett Dry's family made the journey from Lebanon, Pa., for the doubleheader. Everett's parents, Bonnie and Bill, and grandparents, Betty and William, got a seat right behind home plate. "We made this a family outing to see the game," said William Dry. "We hope to get to see him pitch this weekend."
The Homecoming crowd watched the men's and women's soccer teams outscore Salisbury State and Roanoke College before heading down the street to Trench Hill for the alumni "After the Game Party."
Nellie King '92 enjoyed food and con- versation with former classmates under the tent. She graduated in May fi"om Nova Southeastern law school in Florida and recently passed the Florida Bar. She's now a public defender in Palm Beach, loving every minute of it. She has also continued her interest in politics and is working on a campaign for the state attorney.
Huntley Thorpe '92, on track for a career in law, is in his third year of law school at the University of Richmond and is interested in pursuing general litiga- tion work.
The tent remained packed long after all the food and drink had disappeared, but one individual was sorely missed fi-om the party. President Anderson, recuper- ating from an illness, could not attend Homecoming. Many alumni remarked
that they missed him cheering on the Eagles at the Battleground Complex and chatting with alumni at Trench Hill. Every- one wished him a speedy recovery.
As the alumni party was slowing down, the revelers were just getting their sec- ond wind. A few scattered raindrops started to fall, but everyone was busy getting geai'ed up for more socializing in the evening and going out to hear their favorite local bands.
Alumni exchanged phone numbers as the crowds gradually wandered back to their cars or headed to campus for a last stop at the Bookstore. Most were making plans to meet again on Sunday for the alumni baseball game and lacrosse matches, and no one wanted Homecoming '96 to end,
/. Suzanne Horsley '93 works for the Virginia Department of Agriculture in Consumer Services in the Office of Communication and Media Relations.
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Schnellock's painting in ttie Trinkie Haii reading room.
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Artworks by Former Art Faculty ^^
BY FORREST MCGILL
In the late 1940s, plans were made to remodel the House of Representatives chamber in the nation's Capitol. Twenty-three large circular reliefs, each portraying one of the great law- givers of Western history, would be placed around the upper walls of the chamber. Seven noted sculp- tors were commissioned to pro- duce the portrait reliefs. Among these sculptors was Professor Gaetano Cecere of Mary Washing- ton College.
The original plaster models of Cecere's four portrait reliefs will be seen for the first time this spring at the MWC Galleries. They will be among the highlights of an exhibition of paint- ings, sculptures, drawings, prints and ceramics by former College art faculty.
Cecere was assigned to depict the Byzantine emperor Justinian; English Parliamentary leader Simon de Montfort; King Alfonso X, "The Learned." of Leon and Castile; and Virginia statesman George Mason. Cecere (and the other sculptors) first shaped the portrait reliefs in Plasticine, a material like a child's modeling clay. The Plasticine version was then covered in plaster. When the plaster had hardened the Plasticine was removed, leaving the plaster as a mold. Next, more plaster was put into the mold, and strengthened with burlap and an arm- ature of metal rods. Finally, the resulting reinforced plaster positive was shipped to a special factory to be carved into
Gaetano Cecere.
Alfonso X, The Learned. 1949-1950, plaster.
marble. It is the plaster positives that have been preserved at MWC; the mar- ble versions still decorate the House chamber in Washington.
The sculptor faced an unusual chal- lenge in having to represent ancient and medieval figures of whose real-life ap- pearance little or nothing was known. For the 13th-century Simon de Montfort, for instance, he would just have to invent a face of credible type and make sure the haircut evoked the period. In some
instances, though, a bit of useful evi- dence might be available. Prof. George D. Greenia of the College of William and Mary is a specialist in Spanish culture under Alfonso X, and has given some thought to Cecere's portrait of Alfonso. He writes that "life portraits of medieval mon- archs are rare [but] Alfonso X is an exception. There are mini- atures [of him] in four celebrat- ed royal manuscripts... Cecere might [also] have seen repro- ductions of a fairly well-known statue of Alfonso and his wife in the cloister of the Cathedral of Burgos. . . . The most likely source for Cecere's idea of what the Learned King looked like is the monumental statue of Alfonso X pro- minently displayed in the main entrance to the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid." Cecere's background prepared him well for the House chamber commission. Bom in New York in 1894, he studied at the National Academy of Design and, in the early 1920s, at the American Academy in Rome. By his amval at the College in 1947, he was a successful artist working in a conservative vein, and had received a number of significant public commis- sions. He retired from teaching in 1964 at the age of 70.
The best known artist to have taught at MWC is the painter Julien Binford, who arrived a year before Cecere. Bin- ford, a Virginian, received cosmopolitan training at the Art Institute of Chicago and traveled in Europe fi-om 1932 to 1935
House of Representatives chamber. Cecere's marble of George Mason is found above and to tine right of the flag. The College's plaster ver- sion is inset.
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Julien Binford, Untitled (farmer hoeing), approx. early 1940s, ink and charcoal on paper gift of Glenna Graves Shiflett '48.
on an art fellowship. After returning to the U.S., he and his wife bought an old foundry in rural Virginia and slowly and effortfully turned it into a home. Binford drew and painted the countiy scenes and countiy folk he lived among.
From this period — the late 1930s and early 1940s — come, we think, two of Binford's works in the exhibition. The oil painting " Palmore's Barn" shows a lone, nondescript farm building in the middle of a winter landscape. The ground is white with snow, but the painting is the opposite of a celebration of a bright winter's day. Instead, the edges of the snow have melted into slush, and brown- tinged gray obscures the sky. The sense of cold and isolation and deprivation call to mind Mrs. Binford's description of their early life at the Old Foundry: "It had no roof. It was the House of Usher... . We lived in a windy shack with no water, no lights, and no heat... . We cooked on the open hearth. And, in those winters, we had
little to eat but ashcakes and molasses." Binford's drawing of a farmer hoeing suggests an entirely different aspect of life around the Old Foundry. The Bin- fords' neighbors — and eventual friends — were the poor black farming families living nearby. These families' culture made a veiy strong impression. Mrs. Bin- ford wrote of attending the local church with her husband, "watching the lovely clothes, the luminous skins, in the smell of autumn and humanity and kerosene lamps, in the winged wind of many pa- per fans. . . . Julien's throat would tighten and I would unashamedly cry. Those people were beautiful." Binford became famous for depicting scenes of the black farmers' daily work and activities.
Binford remained prolific as an artist until recent years, when illness has made it impossible for him to paint. His works continue to be shown, however, in gal- leries in New York and Richmond. The College has him to thank, not only for
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distinguished semce as a teacher, but also for beginning the Galleries" exhibi- tion program in 1956, and acquiring the core of the College's art collection.
Another artist who came to the Col- lege after wide experience elsewhere was Emil Schnellock. who taught here from 1938 to 1958. Schnellock is today known outside of Mrginia chiefly for his long friendship with the novelist Henn' Miller, as recorded in Millers Letters to Emil. Ac- cording to George AVickes. editor of the Letters, "Throughout the "20s and into the '30s Schnellock was Miller's chief mentor, the master craftsman who edu- cated him in the visual arts... the critic to whom Miller constantly turned for guidance — in writing as well as water- coloring."
Locally, Schnellock is known for his murals in Monroe Hall and the lobby of George Washington Hall (see Edward Alvev Jr."s articles in Mar}' Washington College Today, winter 1990 and fall 1990).
Dorothy Duggan Van Winckel. The Nun s Smock, 1969. pastel on paper, bequest of the artist.
John Lamph. Warmwyn. 1968. lithograph.
Less familiar is his large, half-circular painting over a door in the north reading room of Trinkle Hall, the former libraiy. Symbols of the arts and sciences are aiTanged in a still life: chemistn' beakers, a painter"s palette, a violin, a Grecian bust, a T square — and sprigs of i\y! .An open book is inscribed, "Dedicated to the graduating class of 1952 — The Ad- ministration."" Our exhibition includes Schnellock's rectangular oil sketch for the Trinkle reading room painting.
Another instmctor, art professor Dorothy Duggan \'an Winckel. devoted an almost unbelievable span of 40 years to teaching at MWC and chairing the Art Department. The weight of her duties seems to have limited her artistic pro- ductivit}". The College owns some 80 of her works, but most come from the years after her retirement h'om teaching.
\'an AMnckel favored the medium of pastel chalk, apparently drawn to its lux- uriant, powden" colors and its abilit}' to record the most fleeting gesture of the artist's hand. Many of her pastels depict tlowers, toys or bright landscapes. It is clear, however, that her imagination had a darker, more serious side. Several landscapes are inscribed with references to the music dramas of Richard Wagner: a number of portraits show people in extreme psychological states. Her most ambitious work in the exhibition is a huge pastel of 1969 titled The Xun 's Smock. A\Tiy is Van AVinckel, at age 69, choosing a nun's habit as a subject? AATiy does she hang it from a coat rack baring a crossbar at the top so that we are in- evitably reminded of the Crucifixion? AATiy does she put a fancy, flowered hat at
the base of the coat rack in the position where we would usually find, in a tradi- tional painting of the Crucifixion, a skuU? These questions remind us that MWC has been lucky" in its artist-teachers. Often enough they had to compromise aspects of their artistic careers to devote themselves to teaching and college ser- vice. But their artworks show a degree of craft, of sincerity', and, at their best, of vision and intensity' that commands respect.
Forrest McGill is director of the Man Washington College Galleries.
[The quotations from Elizabeth Binford come from the April 1953 issue of American Artist.]
"Works by Foraier Art Depart- ment Faculty'" will be on view April 23-June 1 in the Ridderhof M^artin Galler}-.
Artists included in addition to those mentioned in the article are Eric Isenberger. Elena Knipenski, John Lamph and Tetsuo Ochikubo.
Hours: Monday. Wednesday. Friday 10-4; Saturday. Sunday 1-4. Closed Tuesday and Thursday. The Ridderhof Martin Gallen.- is on College Avenue at Seacobeck Street. Free parking designated for gallen' visitors is available in the lot across College Avenue at Thornton Street. For infonnation call (540) 654-2120.
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Bayt al-Razzaz Palace, ca. 1480, Bab al-Wazir St., Cairo, Egypt.
In September, Professor W. Brown Morton III, Prince B. Woodard Chair of Historic Preservation in the Department of > Historic Preservation;;^ presented a public I lecture series at the College titled "Sab- t batical on the Nile: A Sampler of Historic Preservation in Today's Egypt." Pro-
fessor Morton had been award- ed sabbatical leave for the 1995-96 academic year to work in Egypt. These lectures were, for him, a way to share an unforgettable experience with Mary Washington College students, faculty and the Freder- icksburg community.
Throughout his sabbatical. Mr. Morton was based at the American Research Cen- ter in Egypt (ARCE) in Cairo. His work was part of ARCE's Egyptian Antiquities Project funded by USAID to preserve historic resources in Egypt in coopera- tion with the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Morton's principal work with ARCE- EAP was to prepare an Existing Condi- tions Report and Preservation Action Plans for the derelict, 15th-century, 178- room Bayt al-Razzaz palace located in a veiy poor and overcrowded neighborhood of medieval Cairo.
Bayt al-Razzaz means "The Razzaz House" and refers to the family that oc- cupied the palace in the late 18th century. The earliest datable portion of Bayt al- Razzaz is a dooi"way bearing the inscrip- tion of the Mamluk Sultan, Qayt Bay, who ruled Egypt from 1468 to 1496 A.D. The
Sultan Qayt Bay also built the stone fort- ress in Alexandria on the foundations of the famous Lighthouse of Alexandria, one of the seven ancient wonders of the world. Bayt al-Razzaz, in its present form, is organized around two large interior courtyards — each courtyard originally defined one of two separate palaces which were later linked together and modified. The ground floor of Bayt al-Razzaz is built of dressed stone. The upper floors are stuccoed brick. Principal spaces in- clude a monumental "maq'ad" or arcaded north facing loggia and a series of stun- ningly beautiful "qa'a" or reception halls. The "qa'a" are lit by large cupolas or sky- lights and, in most instances, by large projecting bay windows filled with orna- mental wooden spindle-work screens, known today by the term "mashrabiya." The finest rooms in the palace have ex- tensive painted floral decoration.
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Ba\t al-Razzaz
Bab al-\N azir Street, Cairo
Artifacts from the historic stone sewer
Collected in August. 1979 by Dr. Adel Yassin
Photograph: \V. Brown Morton III . October. 1995
Ceramic artifacts from tfie fiistoric stone sewer at the Bayt al-Razzaz Palace, Bab al-Wazir St.. Cairo. Egypt.
THE Nile
Working daily with tlie spectacular Islamic heritage of Cairo was an exciting experience for Morton. There were moments, however, when the "otherness" of Cairo was overw^helming. A low point in his morale occurred in early October.
As Morton tells it, "My assistant, Alaa El Habashi, and I went down to Ba\t al- Razzaz to meet Dr. Adel Yassin, the well- respected architect who had drawn the palace in 1978. He had not been back in some years, ^^^^en he got out of the car on Bab al-Wazir Street opposite the en- trance to the palace, the old lady who sits across from Ba\t al-Razzaz was in her usual spot. The old lady has a hole- in-the-wall she calls a cigarette shop, but which is stuffed with old shopping bags. She lit up like a Christmas tree when she saw Dr. Yassin. Inside Ba\t al-Razzaz, Mohammed Youssef, the nearly blind caretaker of 82, practically cried when he perceived it was Dr. Yassin.
".•\laa and I took our guest all over Ba\t al-Razzaz. including a second-floor room that Yassin had used as his office. The floor was covered with at least a cen- timeter of the dust and dirt of the ages, blanketing all the objects scattered on the floor into unrecognizable mounds, like a garden after a snow. Yassin exclaimed, AMiat has happened to all the artifacts I collected and labeled and wrapped before I finished here in 1979?" He bent down and brushed away gray dust and plucked from obscurit>' a beautiful blue-green neck of an ancient bottle. Vandals had come into the room, opened the packages and scattered the objects over the floor.
"A\Tien Dr. Yassin left, .^laa and I sat in a two-chair cafe across from Ba\t al- Razzaz, drank Turkish coftee and waited for the arrival of high-ups from the Su- preme Council of Antiquities who were coming to inspect the palace. WTifle we waited, the grime and povert\' of the place got the better of me. The cafe was less clean than usual. A^Tlile we were there a deliver." truck ran over a cat, inches from our small brass table, in front of the old lady's non-shop. The cat jerked and spouted blood in the street. The old lady swept it. still jerking, to the curb in front of Ba\1: al-Razzaz into a mound of garbage, where it mercifully died. I asked Alaa to ask if the dead cat could be removed before the notables arrived. The old lady dispatched a boy with a rag to pick up the no longer twitch- ing cat by the tail and fling it into a pass- ing truck. In a few minutes, six other
Mosque of Amir Khayrbal< (1502-1520). Bab Al-Wazir St.. Cairo. Egypt
cats appeared from inside Ba\l: al-Razzaz and sat by the blood of the deceased and licked it up.
"Just about this time, Alaa and I real- ized that we were covered with Ba\1: al- Razzaz fleas from our morning's explora- tion. Moments later, our lunch, (pungent, warm, goat-cheese sandwiches that Alaa had sent out for) . arrived wrapped in greasy newspaper. The grounds in my coffee cup became fleas in my imagina- tion as I slipped over the edge from being up-to-it to being overwhelmed-by-it. Just as I thought I must get out of there be- fore I lost it. the notables arrived. I fought back rising nausea, walked to the car and said to the emerging figures. "Good afternoon, I am Brown Morton. I appre- ciate so much your coming here today.' We stepped over the blood and garbage and went back into Ba\l: al-Razzaz."
In late November 1995. Cairo experi- enced a significant earthquake. Morton wrote in his dailv logbook. "November 22. 1995. 6:16 a.m. I am jolted awake! The whole room is shaking. The large plate glass mirror over the bureau is banging loudly against the wall. Then the swaying begins. I realize that I am in the middle of an earthquake! I listen to the apartment building groan, realize it is moving and decide at once to leave the buflding.
"Out of bed, I make it across the sway-
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ing" room to the armoire to grab some trousers. Realizing it will take me too long to dress and walk down three lloors, I decide to stand in the bedroom door- way and wait it out. After two of the long- est minutes of my life, the earth stops heaving and the building settles down. Moments later, the excited voices of the other tenants fill the light well of the building and the concert pianist on the floor above fills the air with peals of bril- liantly played music. I wait for an after- shock, but there is none. Out of the win- dow, eveiything appears normal. Small knots of locals talk excitedly in the mid- dle of street. All is well.
"My first organized thought is about Bayt al-Razzaz. Has the palace sui-vived this horrendous shaking? How ironic, I thought, if my room-by-room sui'vey has been rendered obsolete by 120 seconds of earthquake. Thank heavens, Bayt al-
Razzaz was still there, still derelict, still filled with trash and excrement and still beautiful. It had suffered, however. Ceil- ings had collapsed and cracks widened. Rooms in poor condition were now in dangerous condition; more unsafe than ever. The earthquake registered 5.7 on the Richter scale in Cairo and 6.3 at the quake's center in the Red Sea."
Outside work, Morton inspected other great monuments. He was deeply im- pressed with the stepped pyramid at Saq- qara built by the Old Kingdom pharaoh Djoser ca. 2700 B.C. The Djoser pyramid may be the world's oldest building: nearly 5,000 years old! Morton's understanding of time and human endeavor moved to new positions in his mind as he absorbed the meaning of this pyramid. "The stepped pyramid of Djoser was already 2,700 years old when Jesus was here in Egypt as a baby. That means there was
more time between this pyramid and Jesus than between Jesus and me!"
Just after the earthquake. Dr. Morton was invited by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago to spend Thanksgiving in Luxor at Chicago House, the home of the Institute's epi- graphic sui"vey of Egyptian monuments: an event not to be missed. The Chicago House community of epigraphers, art- ists and research scholars hosts a three- day event for friends of Chicago House, including an in-depth introduction to the Chicago House libraiy, archives, studios and their methodology for epigraphic documentation. Later, site visits are con- ducted to current research projects in the Luxor area.
Among other sites, Morton visited the New Kingdom temple of Medinet Habu and the recently completed con- sei"vation work of the Nefertari Tomb in the Valley of the Queens. For the high point of the weekend, a black-tie dinner dance in the couityard of Chicago House itself, guests were brought to the party from Luxor's Winter Palace Hotel by horse and carriage.
After spending Christmas in Virginia, Morton returned to Cairo to prepare three Consei'vation Action Plans to sta- bilize specific areas of the Bayt al-Razzaz palace.
In Februaiy and March, 14 family members and friends joined Morton in Egypt. The group explored the Nile by water from the Sudan border at Abu Simbel, north to Luxor, then spent time in Alexandria. Later in his stay, Morton joined other members of the American Research Center in Egypt staff for a site visit to the Siwa Oasis in the western desert near Libya. It was at the Siwa Oasis that Alexander the Great sought the opinion of the oracle regarding his possible divine status. Professor Morton also participated in a site visit to the Monastery of Saint Anthony, located in the eastern desert near the Red Sea. Saint Anthony's is one of the world's earliest Christian monastic foundations. Professor Morton was accompanied by Professors Laura and Paolo Mora, old friends from his days in Rome in the 1970s. (The Moras recently completed the mural paintings conservation project at the Nefertari Tomb in the Valley of the Queens near Luxor.)
In May 1996, Brown Morton complet- ed his three-volume "Existing Conditions Report for Bayt al-Razzaz" and the Con- sei'vation Action Plans. Looking back on his year's sabbatical on the Nile, he notes, "There is a phrase in the Koran that says, 'The world is only an hour, so use it...'; so I did."
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BY CLINT OFTEN AND BRYAN TUCKER '96
Mary Washington College's coaching staJQf has had unparalleled success on the sidelines: MWC won the last five Capital Athletic Conference All-Sports Awards for overall athletic achievement. It's in- teresting, though not surprising, to find that MWC coaches had outstanding col- legiate playing careers of their own.
Ed Hegmann, athletic director and women's tennis coach at Mary Washing- ton, played baseball at Bucknell Univer- sity, and as a sophomore, was coveted by his beloved hometown Pittsburgh Pirates. However, Hegmann says his arm "faded" in his junior and senior seasons. "Basically, I could not come up with a big league fastball. I had a lot of junk and could set up the hitters somewhat, but when it came down to trying to over- power them, I couldn't."
Hegmann began playing tennis while working toward his master's degree at Springfield College (Mass.), where he also participated in intramural handball. He then pursued a doctorate in physical education at Temple University, where he competed in intramural basketball and won several racquetball tournaments.
Hegmann's old roommate at Spring- field, MWC men's soccer and tennis coach Roy Gordon, was also very involved in athletics while attending college. Gordon says that, ironically, the two met in the library, and not on the playing field. Hegmann and Gordon played handball together in college, but neither will say who was better. "I don't think there was a clear-cut dominant person. We really had some battles," Hegmann recalls. "Roy was most dominant when he used a 50- cent piece in his glove (to increase his power)."
Even though there is some doubt about who was the better handball player, there is no doubt who the superior cook was. Hegmann says Gordon was the best cook a roommate could want. "I remem- ber him cooking baked fish. I cooked only on top of the stove. He cooked in the stove."
Gordon, who is also MWC's associate director of athletics, started his athletic career at Binghamton University (N.Y.). He played goalkeeper for the soccer team for one season and first baseman for the baseball team for three years. "We were just beginning the intercoUe-
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From left to right: Rod Wood, Edward H. Hegmann, Matttiew A. Kinney, Kurt Glaeser, Thomas F. Sheridan, Roy M. Gordon, David S. Soper.
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giate program. It was the small- college equivalent of Division III at that point," Gordon says.
Tom Sheridan, coach of the varsity baseball team, went to Lock Haven Uni- versity in Pennsylvania, where he played baseball for three years — as a third baseman and as a pitcher. During one summer league game after his sopho- more year, Sheridan went down to field a ground ball. The ball skipped up, hit him in the nose, and caromed back to the catcher on the fly. The catcher threw the batter out, but the ball broke Sheridan's nose. A fan in the stands was nice enough to give him a cold beer to keep the swelling down. Now, Sheridan laughs when he thinks about his broken nose, but at that time, he was in a lot of pain.
The women's lacrosse and field hock- ey coach, Dana Hall, was an outstanding athlete at Frostburg State University. She played basketball and ran track her first two years, before tearing her ham- string in half during a race in her sopho- more year. After five months of rehabili- tation. Hall switched to field hockey and lacrosse. She scored seven goals in the Maryland State College Hockey Tourna-
ment in 1976, helping the Bobcats finish second to the University of Maryland. In lacrosse, she was the goalkeeper, and broke her thumb while saving a shot against Towson State. Another shot went through her helmet, splitting open her nose. Yet Hall never lost interest in sports.
Kurt Glaeser, men's lacrosse and wo- men's soccer coach, had a less painful time playing lacrosse at Western Mary- land College. Glaeser, a tri-captain, led the Green Terrors to their first Middle Atlantic Conference title as a midfielder. Glaeser has two distinct memories from his playing days. The first memory in- volves a game against Division I Lehigh University, in which Glaeser had four goals and four assists. He had the tying goal with 12 seconds remaining in regu- lation, forcing the game to overtime, and his team eventually won.
Glaeser's second memory centers around a game against Franklin and Marshall, in which Western Maryland was down 10-5 with only 10 minutes remaining. The Green Terrors respond- ed with a 6-0 run to defeat F&M for the first time and clinch the MAC Champion-
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From left to right: Dana S. Hall, Deborah A. Conway and Constance A. Gallahan.
ship. As an attacker, Glaeser scored two goals against F&M's Ail-American de- fender, prompting the Diplomats to call for a stick check on him. After gradua- tion, Glaeser continued to play lacrosse for the New York Lacrosse Club, the Central Jersey Lacrosse Club, and the Fairfax Lacrosse Club.
Another coach who is no stranger to big wins is second-year swimming coach. Matt Kinney. Kinney was a three-time All-American for Division III dynamo, Kenyon College (Ohio). Kenyon has won 16 consecutive national championships in men's swimming and 12 titles in wo- men's swimming. Kinney's specialty was the 200-yard breaststroke, but he also swam the 100-yard breaststroke, and the 400-yard Individual Medley at Kenyon. He recalls his sophomore year as being his best. "We really had a great season. I got better at every meet, and went to Nationals and got fourth that year. It was kind of out of the blue, considering I had never qualified for the competition before," says Kinney.
Kinney was a member of three NCAA Division III National Championship teams. He was chosen captain for his senior season, 1992-93. "My primary strength as a swimmer was not that I was a talented athlete, but that I enjoyed swimming as a sport," recalls Kinney.
Stan Soper, the men's and women's cross country and track coach, believes that hard work and dedication, rather than talent, made him successful. Soper ran seven events each meet his sopho- more year at Frostburg State before con- centrating on the 800-meter, mile relay, and long jump. Soper set an indoor re- cord in the 600-meter and in relay teams. He was selected for the Frostburg State University Hall of Fame in 1990. "I think the reason that I was chosen was not so much for the times or distances or any- thing like that, because they weren't exceptional," Soper says. "I think what probably got me -inducted was the work ethic and dedication aspect of it, more than the actual times."
Connie Gallahan, the women's basket- ball coach at MWC, participated in field hockey, basketball, golf, and archery at Longwood College. One of her fondest memories is the time she was coerced into playing collegiate golf. Having never picked up a golf club, Gallahan was asked by her field hockey coach (who doubled as the goM coach) ttie day before the first match if she would play in the upcoming event. After hitting several hundred balls off the driving range tee, Gallahan played against the fifth-seeded player fi-om Lynchburg College. Although it was her first time on the golf course.
Gallahan actually won in the match-play format event.
MWC volleyball and softball coach Dee Conway was a multi-sport standout at Ferrum College and Lynchburg Col- lege. At Ferrum, Conway was captain of the Softball and basketball teams and was named athlete of the year for basketball her sophomore year. Conway also par- ticipated in volleyball while at Ferrum. She transferred to Lynchburg after her sophomore year and started for the bas- ketball and Softball teams.
Riding coach Carol Hawley was an ac- complished student-athlete at Mary Washington College, having earned nu- merous riding trophies enroute to grad- uating Phi Beta Kappa from MWC. She has been involved with the riding pro- gram since her graduation in 1984.
Men's basketball coach Rod Wood was a standout basketball player at Randolph- Macon College for four years. During his stay at R-MC, his teams were nation- ally ranked every year and advanced to the national tournament in three of those seasons.
Mary Washington College's coaches are no strangers to success. MWC play- ers benefit from their coaches' experi- ence every time they step on the field.
Clint Often is MWC's new sports informa- tion director; Bryan Tucker '96 did an independent study in the MWC Sports Information Office.
„ h a new tradition at Mary Washmg- ton College with the induction of the first honorees into MWC's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Now nominations are being sought for this year's inductees. To nominate a former player, coach, or administra- tor, write to the Office of Sports Infor- mation for the proper nomination form. All nominees will be considered this summer by the Hall of Fame Selection Committee.
Hall of Fame inductees will be hon- ored on the Friday evening of Home- coming Weekend. Commemorative plaques will be awarded, and a copy will be displayed in the Hall of Fame Room in Goolrick Gymnasium.
To fund the Hall of Fame, the MWC Athletic Department needs the assis- tance of alumni and friends to partici- pate in its annual fund-raiser, the Hall of Fame golf tournament (to be held May 2, 1997). Tax- deductible donations are also welcome. With your help, we will continue honoring Mary Washing- ton's past sports heroes.
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President Anderson Recuperating
On Sept. 25, 1996. Mary Washington College President William M. Anderson Jr. was hospitalized after experiencing a mptured aneurysm on the right side of his brain. Fortunately, he was in Richmond meeting with state officials and had checked into a hotel near the capitol. Thus he was very close to the Medical College of Virginia, where he underwent approximately six hours of surgeiy.
After six weeks of intensive therapy at MCV, President Anderson returned to Brompton. where modifications had been made for him on the first floor. Existing plans for a handicapped accessible bath were accelerated, and the back parlor was converted to a combination bedroom/sitting room/study. Dr. Anderson then began physical therapy as an outpatient at Mary Washing- ton Hospital.
During his absence from the College. Maijorie M. Poyck. executive vice president and chief financial officer, was appointed acting president by the Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors of Mary AVashington College. As a testimony to the excellent organization in place at the College, academic and administrative responsibilities have continued to be efficiently handled throughout the president's period of recuperation. Friends have directed a myriad of calls and cards to Dr. Anderson and his family through the President's Office. The words and notes of encouragement continue to be delivered daily to the Andersons, who are most appreciative of everyone's expressions of concern.
From the beginning. President Anderson's prognosis for recovery has been good, and his progress is amazing. The extent of any pennanent impair- ment is still unknown. While his vision is impaired and his left arm and hand are almost completely immobile, Dr. Anderson can read and walk, and has maintained his wonderful sense of humor throughout the ordeal, remaining confident that with time he will be able to conquer this challenge. He contin- ues to be active in College affairs, attending sports events and contributing to executive decisions from his home-office.
The most recent event signifying Dr. Anderson's recovery and plan to re- sume responsibilities as president of the College occurred at the legislative budget hearing in Dodd Auditorium on Dec. 30. President Anderson welcomed members of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees of the General Assembly to the College and, following a standing ovation in recognition of his presence, proceeded to speak eloquently and fervently on behalf of higher education in general and Mary Washington College in par- ticular. WTiile physical therapy continues to occupy the majority of his day, President Anderson keeps in touch with the campus through phone calls and occasional visits, which are enthusiastically received.
Dr. Anderson has been president of Mar\' Washington since 1983 and a College administrator since 1976.
MWC AGAIN
Nationally Ranked
Money magazine has ranked Mary Washington College 22nd in the nation in terms of academic qualit>^ and cost in its annual review of the nation's best val- ues in higher education.
This is the seventh year that the mag- azine has published its annual guide, which has become a staple for college- bound high school students and their parents. For each of those seven years, the magazine's editors ranked MWC among the nation's top 100 colleges and universities.
In this year's ratings by Money, Mary Washington rose in the national rankings from 28th to 22nd place. Eight Virginia colleges were listed in the top 100 insti- tutions: James Madison Universit\' (18), Mary Washington College (22), Washing- ton and Lee University' (28) , Sweetbriar College (39), The University of Virginia (45), The College of AVilliam and Mary (63). Emon- and Henr\^ College (69) and Virginia Military' Institute (86). Money based its rankings on the analysis of aca- demic quality^ and cost at more than 1,000 colleges.
For the fifth time in six years, Mary Washington has been named to the "America's Best Colleges" list published annually by U.S. News & World Report. Only 150 colleges and universities make the list each year from a survey of the nation's 1,500 leading four-yeai" institutions. Mary Washington College was fifth in the "Regional Universities-South" category^ Other institutions listed in the same cat- egory- include The University^ of Richmond (\'a.). Rollins College (Fla.). James Madi- son University (Va.) and Stetson Univer- sity (Fla.) . In temis of "student selectivity'." which looks at the academic quality of the entering class. Mary Washington College placed second among its peer institutions. It was fourth in "student retention" and ninth in "academic reputation."
The U.S. News & World Report listing is considered one of the nation's most prestigious rankings, in which researchers use more than 300 pieces of data to com- pare statistically the nation's colleges and universities. As a "best value." Mary Washington College was listed as 11th among regional universities in the South.
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^ D6TRIIS! DeiniLS!
A week before the presidential election, some voters might have erupted if someone made fun of their candidate. But when political satirist Mark Russell [kicked on all the candidates at his October 28 Fredericksburg Forum presen- tation, the eruption came in the form of raucous laughter, and the near-capacity crowd settled in for a stress-free evening.
Well, not everyone settled in. MWC staff people from the Office of College Relations and Legislative Affairs were still running final checks to make sure eveiyone in the balcony could see over the video camera and that the warm air circulating the auditorium was at a comfortable level. This dazzling even- ing was just a moment in the year of preparation that came before it.
College Relation's choice of red, white and blue bunting as stage decora- tion set the political tone for the evening of merriment. Using Uncle Bob's Party Band for jazzy pre-show music proved to be another big hit, adding a nightclub feeling to stately Dodd Auditorium.
The performance itself was vintage Mark Russell. Even Fredericksburg and the College became part of his witty repertoire. "I have been to Mary Washing- ton College," he deadpanned, "therefore I am."
Not a single joke got past the appreciative audience. Russell seemed sur- prised at first at the thunderous laughter, and you could tell, as he moved along, that he was being revved up by the spirited response. He later said he wished he could take the audience back to D.C. with him.
College caterers took the refreshments for Lee Hall Ballroom's after-the- show champagne reception to a new musical level, spotlighting tast>' miniature chocolate pianos and ice sculptures in the shape of pianos. "I'm glad we used I^e," says Louise Ashby, coordinator of community and legislative affairs, "because on the walk from Dodd Auditorium to I^e Hall, Mr. Russell said, 'You know, you have a beautiful campus. Ever thought of letting them make a movie here?' He might not have seen the campus otherwise."
Russell stayed for a long time that evening, and for weeks later at MWC, attendees were talking about a temfic Fredericksburg Forum.
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An estimated L500 people came to Family Weekend in September. Activities for students and their families included campus and city tours, department open houses, class visitations and club exhibi- tions. Plenty of fun came from a student
talent show, live band concert, a dance and a campus-wear fashion show. And sports fans streamed to Tlie Battleground to watch a tennis tournament, soccer games, and a student/ alumni field hockey match.
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FACULTY HIGHUGHTS
Taddesse Adera, associate professor of English, attended the 1996 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) seminar in South Africa. The seminar examined the significant movements in the literary and cultural history of con- temporar\' South Africa, using a list of core texts from 1948 to the present and situating each text in its historical con- text. An NEH stipend of $4,000 provided each scholar with living expenses during the eight-week seminar.
At a recent annual meeting of the Po- tomac and Chesapeake Association for College Admissions Counseling, Jenifer L. Blair, associate dean of admissions, was chosen president-elect. Ms. Blair will be coordinating the April 1997 annual meeting in Charlottesvillle, Va.
"Reduced Idempotents in the Semi- group of Boolean Matrices," an article by Dr. Janusz Konieczny, assistant pro- fessor of mathematics, was published in the Journal of Symbolic Computation.
William Henr\^ Lewis, assistant profes- sor of English, received the Special Award for New Writing by the Eellowship of Southern Writers. The award of $1,000 will be recognized at the April 1997 Con- ference on Southern Literature in Chat- tanooga, Tenn. The short story "Shades," written by Lewis, has been selected for inclusion in the 1996 volume of The Best American Short Stories. Lewis also re- cently released In the Arms of Our Elders, a collection of short stories.
A monograph titled "Symmetric In- verse Semigroups," written by Stephen L. Lipscomb, professor of mathematics, is in the Mathematical Surveys and Monographs published in September. This work, the product of 10 years of research at MWC, has gained increasing international recognition in recent years, particularly for Lipscomb's specialt\% finite inverse semigroups, an area of algebra where languages can be formally studied.
An article written by Robert L. McConnell, professor of geology, will be reprinted in the upcoming Carrying Capacity Briefing Book, a comprehensive educational resource with information from experts on population, the environ- ment, and resource conservation. Dr. McConnell's article is titled "An American Laboratory: Population Growth and En- vironmental Quality in California."
Patricia Lacey Metzger, professor of business administration, was awarded the Certified Government Financial Manager designation; served as chairperson of the session "Accounting Potpourri" at the Southeastern Chapter Annual Meeting, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences; and was invited
to present her paper, "Successfully Edu- cating Adult Students Requires New Ap- proaches in Instruction," at the National Association of Graduate-Professional Students.
John N. Pearce, director of the James Monroe Museum and Memorial Library, was one of six museum leaders who par- ticipated in the Smithsonian Institution's seminar, "Leaders in Museums" held at
the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Pearce is also director of M^VC's Center for Historic Preservation.
Aniano Pena, professor of modem foreign languages, presented the paper "Interpolaciones y generos literarios en el Quijote" at the IV Congreso de la Asociacion Intemacional Siglo de Oro (AISO) held at the Universit}^ of Alcala (Madrid) in August.
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Dr. Roy Smith carries a plastic brain from class to office to class. His students expect it. Smith teaches Physiopsychology, Bio- cognition, and Behavior Genet- ics. It's a good thing he knows the brain as well as he does, having served, this past year, as president of the Virginia Psychological Association.
If anyone could use the brain as a logo, it would be Smith. But he doesn't just carr>^ one around, he uses his own to run VPA "There is a whole piece of \TA that academicians know little about, and about which I am quickly becoming in- fo mied," he says. "The toughest part is keeping the different groups under the \TA umbrella in balance. It's like being a dean. tr\ing to keep various depart- ments balanced when their goals are not necessarily compatible."
The umbrella shelters four Alrginia psychological academies: the clinical, which licenses clinical psychologists; the school, which deals with school psychol- ogists; applied, people who advertise themselves as psychologists; and acade- mic, those who teach at an institution.
"WJiat you don't realize until you be- come involved in \TA is how important government legislation is to the practice of psychology," explains Smith, and, "how state government works to regulate our professionals: the board of health, the board of psychology^, the board of medicine."
MWC maintains one of the closest institutional connections to \TA's acade- mic academy, as it provides a convention where undergraduates in MWC's methods and upper-level experimental psychology classes present formal papers. This means our students get a lot of public speaking experience.
"And our department takes heavy ad- vantage of that," says Smith. "We carry three van-loads of students down every spring, as we consider the event an ex- tension of our undergraduate research program." He adds that the experience is a great step up for them and, in ex- change, the "Psych" Department pays
membership fees for students and half the fees for department members.
"After all the VPA has done for MWC over the last 10 years, it's the least we can do to support the organization. We really do it for the students. There's just no other way they could get that kind of opportunit>\ We've become the school to emulate because we send so many and because they do such a good job. It's stimulating for us and for the other schools as well."
The accomplishment Smith presided over "as opposed to did," he says, was the complete reorganization of the psy- chological licensure for the state of Vir- ginia, whereas before each department controlled its own group. "We now have in place a unified board of psychology. Not ever\^one is happy about it. The rip- ples and fallout continue. But the organi- zation is still a single unit with the acad- emies intact, and I consider that a major accomplishment. "
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TH€ DnN€ nND CRIN
1996 has been a Seren Kierke- gaard year for David Cain, distin- guished professor of religion at Mary Washington College. But what year is not? As chair of the Kierkegaard Consultation Group, American Academy of Religion, Southeastern Region, meeting in Columbia, S.C, in March, Cain put together a spe- cial plenary session devoted to criti- cal responses to Roger Poole's recent major work in Kierkegaard studies, Kierkegaard: The Indirect Communication, published by the University Press of Virginia.
Professors from various disci- plines responded to Poole's work, and Poole himself from the Uni- versity of Nottingham, England, was present to respond to his respon- dents. Cain organized a mini-lecture tour for Poole following the confer- ence, bringing Poole to the Univer- sity of North Carolina/Charlotte, and to Mary Washington.
May 5-9 were "Kierkegaard Days in Copenhagen." Kierkegaard was born on May 5, 1813, "inconsider- ately early," says Cain, in relation to MWC's calendar. Even so, Cain was present to participate in this major in- ternational conference, one of many special events planned for 1996, Copenhagen's year as Cultural Cap- ital of Europe.
Cain returned to Copenhagen in August as an invited plenary speak- er in an international conference on "The City as Cultural Metaphor." Cain's address was "'Small Enough... Large Enough': Kierkegaard and the Scale of Mefropolitan Metaphor." Later, Cain led a tour of "Kierke- gaard's Copenhagen" for scholars from Russia, Finland, Sweden, Nor- way, Denmark, Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, England and the United States.
Cain is president-elect of SKs (The Soren Kierkegaard Society, North America). His bilingual book of color plates and narrative captions. An Evocation of Kierkegaard/En Fremkaldelse of Kierkegaard, which he refers to ironically as "a coffee- table Kierkegaard," is due for publi- cation from Reitzels Forlag, Copen- hagen, a venerable Danish press which was present and significant in the life of Kierkegaard.
Look up "linguistics" in Webster's New World Dictionary and you'll read, "the science of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics; some- times divided into descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics: the study of the structure, development of a particular language and its relationship to other languages."
Whew! Now you understand why, until recently, most colleges offered the study of linguistics only to graduates. But a quick visit with Christina Kakava, assistant pro- fessor of linguistics, will clear up any confusion.
She'll even show you what the sound of a word looks like with the aid of the En- glish, Linguistics and Speech Department's new hypermedia software program, The Sounds of the World's Languages (SOWL) and a more advanced speech analysis software, Signalyze. Christina speaks "Hello" into the Macintosh microphone and immediately Signalyze sends waveforms zigzagging on a computer screen that now resembles a lie detector or a heart monitor. She laughs and says, "Everyone who uses this new software loves it."
English or education majors taking the required course used to dread the study of linguistics. "It used to be a big task to try to imagine sounds in class," she says. Now they flip quarters to see who gets to use the user-fiiendly SOWL first. On busier days, she gently encourages her students to take turns clicking on the program's world map to hear which language, dialect or unique sounds are particular to that region. "When we see our students excited about this, we get even more excited," Christina says.
Yet as much fun as this cutting- edge software is, no one thinks of it as a toy. No plaything we know of contains 150 authentic digitized samples of the world's estimat- ed average of 3,000 to 8,000 languages. No amusement charts an abstract like this does. "A 'voiceless stop' is a confusing concept," says one student. "Until you see the letter's pattern in the lab." Other students have tested the authenticity of Spanish, French, British and German accents.
"Linguistics examines how sounds are produced, perceived, structured," Christina says, massaging the air, gathering invisible words together. "It explains why we can say 'I'd like a red apple,' but we can't say, 'I'd like an apple red.' There are rules that govern languages. Otherwise how would we know when it's appropriate to use 'Please' and Thank you'?" Language also varies by race, gender, class ethnicity and locality. "You can see why America, with its varied cultures, is the perfect place to study lin- guistics," she says. "Ours is a platter course, where students get exposed to all the different fields to see where their interests lie."
Linguistic software aids in crime detection, too. "FBI agents wanting to use speech to connect someone to a crime scene use a more advanced speech analysis program," Christina says, "but it's the same idea. It's not exactly like a fingerprint because you can only exclude rather than include. You can say the suspect cannot be included in the group of suspects whose voice they have on record."
Only a few minor obstacles in future software production concern Christina, but she's already communicating with the software's producer. And, she and Judith Parker, assistant professor of English and Linguistics, plan to finish a workbook that will clear up any other bafflements.
By Liz Gordon
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Hugh Vasquez and Victor Lewis
Multicultural Series Continues
A celebration of Hispanic heritage in America opened the third Cultural Aware- ness Series at MWC in October, as a 36- member Puerto Rican National Guard Band performed outside Lee Hall preced- ing award-winning Puerto Rican writer Rosario Ferre's lecture, "Reflections in the Lagoon."
This multicultural series offers speak- ers, concerts and workshops throughout the year to encourage dialogue about culture, ethnicity and history. A docu- mentary film about racism, "The Color of Fear," was followed by a workshop facili- tated by cast members and educators Victor Lewis and Hugh Vasquez. And in November, Eric Liu, former presidential speech writer and author/editor of The Next Progressive, spoke on "Asian-Ameri- can Issues and The Politics of Race." The series fall finale was a performance by Maryjane Bird, founder of Blue Horizon Dance, a company which presents Native American culture through the medium of dance and storytelling.
L€nD€RSHIP COLLOQUIUM FOR PROF€SSIONnL UJO/V\€N
IVIWC's Carol Martin (left) and Meta Braymer (second from left) welcome State Sen. Emily Couric to the Great Hall.
MaryJane Bird
Focusing on the continuing long-term development of leadership skills that women need for success in the pro- fessional world, the third annual Leader- ship Colloquium for Professional Women was held at MWC in November.
According to Meta R. Braymer, dean of graduate and continuing education at the College, this colloquium provides ongoing support to participants through yearly leadership training and network- ing opportunities.
The Honorable Mary Sue Terry, for- mer attorney general of the Common- wealth of Virginia, gave the keynote ad- dress, and the Honorable Emily Couric, Virginia state senator from Charlottes- ville, spoke after dinner in the Great Hall.
"How many have thought of running for office?" Senator Couric asked. She urged those assembled to consider it seriously, enumerating issues that affect women: welfare, reproductive rights, day care, domestic abuse and her own "big cause in life" — education.
Besides sharing ideas on how to get involved in politics, she drew on her own experience to give advice on profes- sional and personal advancement. "Make lots of contacts," she said — "everybody counts." And, to help achieve goals, she suggested heightening personal confi- dence. "I try to work on being more courageous," she said, and described how
she took part in a tour of a West Virginia coal mine, L500 feet down. Being claus- trophobic, this took an enormous amount of effort, but the resulting self-confidence, she said, made the experience worth it.
She also suggested developing a per- sonal written plan, with short- and long- term goals. "Unless you put things on paper, you just bounce along from task to task. You must re-assess from time to time."
The University of Virginia co- sponsored the colloquium.
Colloquium participants explore successful strategies for managing change in their organizations.
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KRICKUS
DOCUM6NTS
LiTHUFINinN
Uprising
Showdown, based on Bloody Sunday, the uprising that occuired in the Lithuan- ian capital of Vilnius on Jan. 13, 1991, could have been a blockbuster novel had author Richard J. Krickus chosen to view it that way. As it was, he portrayed the event and its international consequences through non-fiction, hence the subtitle TJie Lithuanian Rebellion and the Breakup of the Soviet Empire.
As one of the two U.S. scholars allow- ed to obsei-ve the elections in 1990, Krickus, professor of political science and international affairs at MWC, witnessed thousands of Lithuanians declare their independence from the USSR. He saw the country of less than 4 million pull a cornerstone from the Soviet Union, caus- ing the giant nation to tilt. Krickus is convinced that had Bloody Sunday been crushed, the Soviet Union would be alive today. "Not well," he says, "but alive."
Kiickus began writing about Lithuania long before the uprising. After discover- ing a revolutionary civil rights document smuggled into the United States in the 70s by Lithuanian priests, he sent an article to The Washington Post. That re- sulted in intei"views with people who had escaped or been thrown out of the coun- try. Later, while making frequent trips to lecture and hold workshops, he became familiar with most of the activists in the Sajudis party. His first-hand knowledge of the ethnic republics in the former So- viet Union make him an excellent guest for programs such as " Larry King Live" and networks CNN, CBS and NPR.
EVENTS ON CAMPUS
September
"Champions of Modernism," a show of "non-objective" art from the 1930s, '40s and '90s, was on display from Sept. 6 to Nov. 3 at the Mary Washington College Galleries.. .Dr. John E. Hummel, assistant professor of psychology at the Univer- sity of California, Los Angeles, spoke on "Object Recognition: It's Harder Than You Think." Dr. Hummel is MWC's 1996 Distinguished Psychology Graduate in Residence.. .The Poetry/Fiction Readers Series opened the fall semester with a reading by Jay Wright, known across the country as a "poet's poet".. .James McLure's "Laundry & Bourbon" and "Lone Star," one-act plays which present
sketches of life in a small Texas town, were performed on campus. ..The Rappa- hannock Region Small Business Develop- ment Center offered a satellite seminar, "Tap the Power of the Internet II." Offered later was a seven-module course guiding participants through the process of pre- paring a formal written business plan for strategic planning and/or financing a small business. A pollution-prevention training workshop for small businesses was led by Mike Ewing, from the Virginia Small Business Development Center in Chesapeake.
October
A forum on "Welfare, Why Do We Care?" was held in the Great Hall of Woodard Campus Center.. .A conference addressing race relations from different perspectives was held with community
and business leaders... The James Monroe Lecture featured Richard Norton Smith, a biographer and historian who has been director of four presidential libraries. His talk examined the political and personal relationship between James Monroe and Secretary of State John Quincy Adams... MWC sponsored its third annual "White Ribbon Campaign" to focus attention on the problem of male violence against women. The week featured educational programs in an effort to raise communi- ty awareness. ..Thaddeus Brys was guest artist at the October concert of the Mary Washington College-Community Sym- phony Orchestra. He performed Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" on the cello. ..The orchestra is celebrating its 25th-anniversary year.
November
"Fredericksburg AIDS Walk '96," a 5K walk through the city of Fredericksburg, was held in early November. All proceeds went to Fredericksburg Area HIV/ AIDS Support Services (FA}L\SS)...The Mary Washington College Department of Theatre and Dance presented the tragi- comedy "Waiting For Godot," by Samuel Beckett.. ."Multi-Ethnic Perspectives," a national education conference, was held for administrators, teachers and students at the Sheraton Inn Conference Center in Fredericksburg. Sponsored by Mary Washington College's Multicultural Affairs Office, the conference had a wide range of workshops, speakers and enter- tainers. Topics included "Building a Multicultural Community" and "Cross- Cultural Communications."
Thaddeus Brys
The Mary Washington College-Community Symphony Orchestra has been playing to appreciative audiences for 25 years.
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Alumni News
Terrie Crawley,
Alumni Association
President
The president of the MWC Alumni Association for 1996-98 is Dr. Theresa Young Crawley 77. After earning her B.S. in biology. Terrie subsequently received her M.S. in anatomy (1979) from the Med- ical College of Virginia and her D.D.S. from the same institution in 1983. Since that time, she has been in the private practice of general dentistry in Fredericks- burg, where she lives with her husband. Bill, who is Distinguished Professor of History and holder of the Rector and Visitors Chair at the College.
Terrie has been an active participant in the affairs of her profession, the local community and the College. In addition to maintaining many professional affilia- tions, she has played a leading role in several specific projects, including ef- forts to establish a free dental clinic. She makes frequent presentations in the local schools and has chaired the local dental society's Children's Dental Health Month and the Dental Careers Advisory Committee. Her community involvement includes service as a member of the Board of Directors of the Rappahannock Area United Way and as a campaign division chair of that organization.
Terrie's service to Mary Washington
has been extensive and varied, including sponsorship of interns in her dental office and frequent phonathon volunteering. Within the Alumni Association, she has sei'ved as vice president for the Alumni
Fund and as chair of the 1995 Leadership Conference. She is currently a member of the MWC Foundation Board as well as the newly established Friends of the Forum organization.
Third Printing of MWC's History
The Mary Washington College Foundation Inc. has announced the third printing of the History of Mary Washington College 1908-1972 by Edward Alvey Jr. During his long association with Mary Washington, Dr. Alvey served a distinguished ten- ure as dean of the College from 1934 to 1967, and then as a professor of education until 1971.
In the History of Mary Washington College 1908-1972, Dean Emeritus Alvey pre sents a detailed narrative of the College's development from 1908-1972. He con- siders all aspects of the institution's history, covering academic developments, social tradition, student activities, significant individuals in the College's evolution, the alumnae association, student clubs and honor societies. This latest printing includes an introduction by President William M. Anderson Jr., that is both a fore- word to the book and a tribute to Dr. Alvey.
A best-seller at the College Bookstore, this history can be purchased for $25 by calling the Bookstore at (540) 654-1017. Dr. Alvey donates all proceeds to the Mary Washington College Annual Fund.
Other books written by Dr. Alvey include Days of My Youth, Portrait of a Daughter, The Streets of Fredericksburg, and History of the Presbyterian Church of Fredericksburg, Virginia 1808-1976. He is also the author of articles for the En- cyclopedia Americana and the Reader's Digest Almanac and Yearbook.
In 1977, the College conferred upon him the honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters. In 1991, a new residence hall was named in his honor. Dr. Alvey remains an esteemed and cherished figure at MWC and resides on College Ave- nue, only one block from the College gates.
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A WOMAN FOR All Decades
BY LIZ GORDON
To put Ruby Ixe Norris' accomplish- ments into perspective, make it easy on yourself by limiting the list to the high points of her career. Then, if you have time, go back and group her list of teach- ing experiences, professional and civic activities, publications and programs, honors and awards and outside interests into, say, decades.
Ruby I^e Norris '36 began her diverse professional life in the '3()s, teaching Uth- and 12th-graders in Kilmarnock, where she met and married another Norris, her husband, Vernon. Whatever plans they made for the '40s and beyond were alter- ed by World War II. Vernon was drafted for war work on the home front and Ruby Lee, after hiring a babysitter, went back to teaching English and French — this time, in a private high school in down- town Philadelphia.
Then the GI Bill passed, allowing vet- erans to enroll in high school, and Ruby Lee's career path jogged again. The own- ers of her school, realizing that ex-soldiers had no place in a high school, challenged her to organize the tlrst private high school for veterans returning from WWII. Obtaining all the necessary regulations,
Ruby I^e hired math, science, English and history teachers, ordered chemistiy equipment and arranged convocations. Her day and evening classes quickly filled with highly motivated veterans whose war experiences had focused their goals. "It was an extremely rewarding and ex- citing time," Ruby Lee says.
The '50s found Ruby Ixe teaching not one grade, but five, at both the elemen- tary and the high school levels. At Mary Washington, she had taken as many re- quired courses as possible so she could teach chemistiy, biology, history, English, French or Latin, and now she was doing it — all of it.
When, in the '60s, she discovered that literature and language were her pas- sions, she aimed them first toward George Wythe High School, where she became a sponsor of their award-winning yearbook, then toward Douglas Freeman High School. Noticing the dedication juniors and seniors had toward their newspapers, Ruby Lee labored to get a journalism course of study approved by the state so that students received credit for their work. During those summers, she wrote, taught, served as a guide for a humanities study-travel program and pursued her master's in humanities from
the University of Richmond. And from 1958-1960, she served as president of the Virginia Association of Teachers of English.
In the '70s, when Richmond city schools obtained federal money for in- novative programs. Ruby Lee became the first Poetry-in-Schools coordinator for the Center for Humanities, serving city and county schools. As creative writing consultant, she compiled and edited a series of books on writing for teacher workshops. This led to her participation in the experimental Governor's School for the Gifted and Talented. These two programs survive as the Humanities Centers in Richmond and Henrico School, and the Governor's School.
'When an opportunity
comes walking up to me,
I give it my all, then move
on to the next "
Retiring to Middlesex in the '80s, Ruby Lee continued to write poetry and short stories, travel, work in her garden and take photographs for her regular column in Pleasant Living, a regional magazine for the Rappahannock River- Middle Peninsula area. Then the honors came. Among them, she was tagged for Personalities of America, The World Who's Who of Women, and at MWC, she was presented with the College's Distinguish- ed Alumnus Award for 1986.
When she lost her husband of 57 years in a single-car accident, she thought her world had ended. "But I found a part of it had changed. I had to learn a different way of life in a familiar place."
Now it's 1996, and on Ruby Lee's cal- endar we see meetings with the American Cancer Society, the Board of Directors of Middlesex County Public Library, the Middlesex County Women's Club, the local garden club, her church, and her alma mater.
As the newest member of the Board of Visitors for Mary Washington College, Ruby Lee sits on the historic preservation and alumni relations com- mittees. She says her experience restor- ing and renovating several houses and her acting as chair for the Golden Society for the last 25-plus years will help her serve. "It would have been disastrous if I had chosen finance and budget or leg- islative. I'm not ready for those commit- tees yet," she says. "Maybe later."
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MWC Graduate
Named to National
Phi Beta Kappa
Senate
Eloise Clark '51, professor of bio- logical sciences and former vice pres- ident for academic affairs at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, has been elected to the 24-member senate for the national office of Phi Beta Kappa, based in Washington, D.C. She fills the unexpired term of Vera Kistiakowsky, professor emerita of physics at MIT, who resigned.
Clark has served on Phi Beta Kappa's Committee on Qualifications since 1985. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She also is president of the American Association for the Ad- vancement of Science and has worked at Columbia University and the Na- tional Science Foundation.
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Mid-Atlantic New
Painting 97
The MWC Galleries is sponsor- ing a competitive painting exhibition to be held in September 1997. All artists living in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Virginia are eligible to enter. The juror will be Janet A. Kaplan, executive editor of Art Journal, pub- lished by the College Art Association. The exhibition is made possible by the generosity of Alfred Levitt. Complete entry materials must be received by March 14. For more information: call (540) 654-1013 or
e-mail gallery@mwc.edu.
Melinda DelVishio '97. left, and Abby Baird '97 get ready to serve pizza to phonathon callers.
PHONATHON '96:
A TALE Of Loyal Support
BY KATHRYN REYNOLDS WILLIS 70
In Meeting Room 1 of the Woodard Campus Center, in the early evenings from late October until just before Thanksgiving, over 300 students take part in pertorming a kind of magic.
The magic doesn't materialize from thin air. Instead, it comes from the connection that's made when these student volunteers call alumni and friends of the College to ask for their annual pledge.
Sustained by dozens of slices of pepperoni pizzas, fueled by hundreds of Cokes and Sprites, and energized by mountains of Tootsie Roll Pops and Snickers bars, these students make contact with thousands of alumni and parents, one by one.
In the course of the evenings' conversations, a littie bit of the College's contempo- rary life is conveyed. One person will ask about the success of the field hockey team, another about the major of their student caller, and yet another about the progress of The Jepson Science Center. Along the way, students hear a few fond recollections that alumni hold of a favorite professor, or one whose exams still strike tensor in their memories.
Maiy Washington College is blessed with great good fortune in its alumni, parents and friends. From the more than 20,000 phone calls that are made, these folks have established a response record that is among the highest for public liberal arts insti- tutions anywhere.
This year, the phonathon is doubly enriched. Through the Hofer Challenge, any new or increased donation to the Annual Fund has twice the impact. Mr. and Mrs. Florian "Red" Hofer are matching dollar-for- dollar any new or increased Annual Fund gift, up to a total of $100,000.
Energized by the opportunity to double the impact of their pledge, contributors are responding with enthusiasm. The Hofer Challenge is being answered with a resound- ing "Yes!" By supporting this effort, friends of the College are making it possible to increase the giving total by the full $100,000.
That says a lot, not only about the level of enthusiasm of these student volunteers, but also about the strong sense of the worth of an MWC education among our alumni. These funds will go toward a goal which is central in the mission of the College: sus- taining a tradition of academic excellence into the next centuiy.
It's not possible to reach everyone in the fall, so if you've not yet heard a friendly MWC student voice on the other end of your telephone, you'll want to listen for it. The spring phonathon, from late Januaiy through February '97, will be your opportunity to double your increased or new donation through the Hofer Challenge!
Kathryn Reynolds Willis '70 is director of marketing in the Office of College Advance- ment at Mary Washington.
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October 16, 1996, was Celebration Day at Hazelwild Farm, as MWC alumna Elizabeth Morrison '26 marked her 95th birthday. Miss Moirison, lovingly known as "Aunt Sissy," visited with friends old and young, then took a trip to the pond to feed the ducks, and to the stable to offer a carrot or two to her well-loved ponies. Miss Morrison and Hazelwild have a long and treasured association with MWC's equestrian program, as generations of College riders have trained under the caring tutelage of Aunt Sissy.
Sylvia Sheaks Moore '48 recently joined a Global Volunteers service pro- gram in Turkey. Searching for a unique way to be of service while experiencing a different culture, Ms. Moore spent two weeks in Istanbul, teaching English to children. " I found it to be a tremendous service and learning experience," says Sylvia. Global Volunteers, a private, nonprofit, nonsectarian organization, can be reached at (800) 487-1074.
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Class Notes
Goat Notes
1930
Office of Alumni Programs P.O. Box 1315 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
1932
Office of Alumni Programs RO. Box 1315 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
1934
Mary Virginia Willson 19544 Herndon Court Leesburg, VA 22075
Josephine Osborn Ashton phoned and we had a grand conversation. She lives in Leesburg now that her husband has passed on. One of her daughters also lives in Lees- burg. Her other daughters live out-of-state, but keep in close contact with their mother. Jo says she keeps fairly well and stays busy. She enjoys her church work and family activities.
Eleanor Dickerson Van Train wrote from Houston, Texas. She was guest of honor this year at the Houston Farm and Ranch Club luncheon. The following is quoted from their program:
"Choo Choo Van Train" This native of Virginia considers herself a Texan to the core. She took Houston by storm in 1945, and the whirlwind is still going strong. If there is a need, she throws herself wholeheartedly into meeting the need. She has been associated with the majority of charitable causes in Houston. As a result, accolades and awards of ap- preciation bestowed upon her over the years are as numerous as the causes she championed. She is known for rolling up her sleeves and tackling the nuts and bolts of a fund-raising effort, from addressing envelopes to gently twisting a few arms to meet a goal. That genuine Southern belle charm and a sincere love for people en- dear her to all. A special thanks from all the members of the Houston Farm and Ranch Club.
Florence "Fiffy" Johnson Dodge wrote a wonderful letter from her home at Wood- stock, Conn. I wish I could write everything she said. A few important points were that her beloved husband, Bryant, died this year. Fortunately, her children and their children live nearby and are so helpful. She sees Esther Bernston Pearson every Tuesday at a Bible study course, which they enjoy with 20 other ladies. Esther has trouble seeing and hearing.
Mary Ann Ratner Levy wrote that she will continue to live at the family home of many years while she settles the estate and family business, now that her husband's will
has been probated. She feels the task moves so slowly. Her wonderful family keeps in close contact with her, so she is never far from assistance.
Thank you again to you who give to the scholarship fund so faithfully. The students who receive financial assistance are grateful. I have met many and find them to be serious students who will be a credit to the College.
Remember I must hear from you if this column is to continue. Write or call me at (703) 777-2916 about 8 p.m. as I'm hard to find during the day.
1936
Ethel Nelson Wetmore 107 Manteo Ave. Hampton, VA 23661
Congratulations to Ruby Lee Norris, who
has been appointed to the Board of Visitors at Mary Washington College!
1 hope you enjoyed reading about our 60th reunion in the last issue of A4WC TODAY. Thanks again to Frances Liebenow Arm- strong for her work to get us together, to Stewart Jones, Mary Alice Turman Carper and Ruby Lee Norris for writing it up, and to you who came. We are grateful that we had such a memorable time. Now we look forward to our 65th reunion! Also, thanks to you who wrote letters.
Mary Frances Rowe Varner saw the Jan Vermeer exhibit last winter in Washington, D.C., under ideal circumstances on a VIP tour, thanks to her cousin who is an alumnus and a former board member of Washington and Lee. More recently, she also saw the Jan Steen exhibit and went to Philadelphia to see the Paul Cezanne show.
1938
Helen Pressley Voris
6086 Old Lawyers Hill Road
Elk Ridge, MD 21227
1940
Office of Alumni Programs PO. Box 1315 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
1942
Office of Alumni Programs RO. Box 1315 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
1944
Jayne Anderson Bell 116 Cedar Hollow North Fort Mill, SC 29715-8302
It's great to hear from each of you and fim to pass along your interesting "goings-on." Jean Adie Magavero writes that she gave
her copy of MWC TODAY io a stranger who saw her car parked in front of the AARP build- ing. How come? Well, Jean's car, of course, was sporting an MWC sdcker. The woman was all excited because her granddaughter is a junior at Mary Washington. Jean thought this grandmother could get a good idea about the College from the magazine. The grand- mother warmly received Jean's gift as they laughed about "this small world."
Jean warmed my heart recently when she asked about my plans for Scotland. Jean and
I share delight in our respective visits to see the Burrell Collecdon in Glasgow. It just may be worth a trip to Scotland to see these ob- jects d'art of every kind, from many countries and virtually every period, collected by Sir William Burrell over his lifetime and present- ed, in 1944, to the city of Glasgow. However, this year I will not be going to Scotland. My daughter, son-in-law, and my five "perfect" Scottish-American grandchildren will be moving to the USA, hopefully in 1997. 1 am elated!
Nettie Evans Lawrey writes, "We stay busy, and life is good. We have a fall foliage tour into New England and Canada in the off- ing. It's always wonderful spending time with our children and grandchildren. Gardening has been productive; tomatoes ripen faster than I can give them away; flower beds have been beautiful."
Ann Benner Gee, "lady on the go": went to Wisconsin for grandson's graduation from St. John's Military Academy; visited daughter and granddaughter while seeing Colorado; spent a week in Warrenton, Va., with family; and turned up for Grandparents' Weekend in Pennsylvania at Valley Forge College, where another gi-andson is a student. This is the life!
Upbeat letter from Dorothy Drake Grothusen, although you won't think so up- beat until you read on. She writes, "The day after Christmas, Harry and I were taking our daily 2.5 mile walk when I slipped on the ice and broke my leg just above the ankle. Had a walking cast on for a while and used a wheel- chair, but it didn't heal. So, I went to a soft cast and walker and was in the hospital for serious surgery in February. In March, still in cast and walker, I came down with bronchitis. After three weeks, finally began feeling myself again. The leg was healed, but I had to have four weeks therapy to learn to walk correctly so we could keep our reservation for May trip to Norway.
"On May 24, we flew to Oslo, then to Ber- gen, where we boarded a coastal steamer for
II days. It was great! We stopped at 66 ports along the Norwegian coast, passed over the Arctic Circle, on to Kirkenes and back, spec- tacular scenery all the way, and the ship was great. Back to Bergen for flight home after 15 wonderful days."
Marjorie Martel Balius sends "greetings
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from Boloxi, Miss., on the beautiful coast of the Gulf of Mexico. My husband and I retired some time ago from the Biloxi Medical Center, he as chief of volunteer services and I as chief of dietetic service. We remain active in civic and fraternal organizations, are presently con- verting a shrimp boat into a charter fishing boat with trips to the off-shore islands. I at- tended our .50th reunion at MWC two years ago and renewed some old friendships, esp- cially with Ruthie Gubler Kluge. Now I am looking forward to a visit with my roommate, Phyllis Dunbar Mclntyre. If any of you trav- el this way, be sure to stop by."
Keeping in touch is good. When we do we are always blessed. I surely was, in May, when 1 visited Anne Marshall Morgan in her lovely home in Macon, Ga. A friend from Augusta was my traveling companion, and she was so glad to meet Anne. We were greeted warmly, given a tour of the house, had dinner and much talk of MWC and classmates. The next day, in Anne's big, well- equipped van, we were chauffeured around historic Macon. Thanks, Anne, for a great time.
Teddy Nickerson Burson announces a new grandson, born in McLean, Va. Teddy and her husband had a great vacation in the Southwest and a visit with their son, who is seasonal park biologist at Denali National Park, Alaska. Teddy, with husband and son, went for an "over-night to the top of the world in Darrow."
Nancy Duvall Andrews sent a most in- teresting article about a 69-year-old botanist, Hugh litis, who was acclaimed for his work in genetic breeding, having discovered a plant that could revolutionize the culture of corn. Could Hugh litis be the son of our Dr. litis? It sounds like it could be. (That's a good rea- son for a careful reading oiMWC TODAY.) Stay tuned in!
Jane Brownley Thomas has spent the summer at her condo in Ocean City, Md. Tommy Strong Morris sold her summer home in New York state. She's sad, but "re- lieved of the worry." Lois Webber Jackson has moved from Florida to Massachusetts to be near her children.
From Frances Plunkett Knox: "Our biggest news is that last May 18, 1996, Bill and I went to Columbia, S.C, to attend church (on Sunday the 19th) where we were married on May 18, 1946. Where has time gone?"
Christine Hall Herndon writes about a great family reunion, 16 strong. They cele- brated all birthdays and anniversaries, spent time playing tennis and eating. Christine plans to visit friends while traveling in Colorado, will see Mesa Verde, the Durango railroad and Dn Dobson's place in Colorado Springs, then on to Scotsdale to attend an Air Force unit reunion. She says, "We will be joined by three couples we knew 30 years ago in North Africa."
I was just ready to wrap this up when a let- ter arrived from Edie Mays TTiomas in which she said she and her husband had been to New York "ancestor hunting." They attended a homecoming in a church in Pierrepont, where her great-great-grandfather was the first minister. In their travels, Edie had a visit with roommate Marie Kennedy Robins.
Once again, thanks for keeping in touch. Should your name not be in this column, it is because your letter didn't arrive in time, you didn't write, or you are one of two people who
didn't sign your full name. Several of you said you missed our column in the last issue. Remember, we are published only in the fall and winter issues.
You will be interested to know, I think, that I have received letters from two members of other classes saying that they enjoy our col- umn. How about that? It's your names that make it interesting. Keep in touch.
1946
Elizabeth Vaughan Pritchett 9583 Spring Branch Drive Dallas, TX 75238
The Class of '46 wants to thank the Alumni Association for the careful planning and exe- cution of reunion 50. It was a perfect week- end, and we all had a wonderful time meeting our classmates again after 50 years, sharing stories and events, and laughing over old times at MWC. Many from our class returned to campus for Reunion Weekend.
Margaret Moore Beck came from Delray Beach, Fla. She's widowed with three children: two sons, and a daughter who is the mother of Margaret's nine grandchildren. Ruth Boyer Rinker, president and treasurer of Rinker Orchards Inc., drove from Stevens City, Va. Even though widowed, she continues to be very busy and now serves on the Virginia Council of Vocational Education. Kate Parker Hughes from Norfolk, Va., also attended. She and George have been married 48 years and have three children. Kate enjoys painting with watercolors, synchronized swimming, ballroom dancing and travel. Anne Ross Parks from Kilmarnock, Va., reported that, along with other avocations, she enjoys grow- ing orchids in her greenhouse. Her sister Delores Ross '49 also attended MWC.
Elizabeth Stallings Sharpe and husband Coy of Midwest City, Okla., celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary when they were hosted at a dinner party by their children in Wichita, Kan., on June 29. Coy and Elizabeth met while she was at MWC. They enjoyed a trip to many Canadian cities after leaving our 50th reunion. Louise Boyer McKenna told classmates that she is moving into a retire- ment community. She now resides at Lake- wood Manor, 1900 Lauderdale Dr., Richmond, Va. 23233. Maurine Brevoort Seely, our new coordinator, drove with her husband, John, from California to MWC. They are both re- tired. She has many interests including ge- nealogy, travel and gardening.
Beverly "Bev" Beadles Jackson was at the reunion looking very much like her MWC senior picture. She has retired from the Vir- ginia Department of Agriculture and Con- sumer Service where she was supervisor of the Virginia Seed Testing Laboratory. Bev and her husband, Barnett, have two sons and a grandson. We were so pleased to see Dean Edward Alvey at our reunion banquet. He spoke briefly and gave that memorable smile. Dr. Reginald Whidden, our beloved sponsor, did not make the trip to our 50th re- union. Mildred Matula Allyn from Norfolk, Conn., took him a copy of our class booklet. Dr. Whidden wrote a nice note of appreciation to Elaine Heritage Jordan, our coordinator.
Several new classmates were added to our numbers due to their choice to associate. Three of these came to Homecoming. Patricia Mathewson Spring drove from Kensington,
Conn., with friends, who also enjoyed the re- union. Gurleen Verlander Jones came from Richmond for the weekend. Gurleen and her husband, Cary, enjoy weekends at their place on the Rappahannock River. Gurleen has a son and a daughter by her first husband, also a Jones. Barbara Zehrbach McCoy from Inverness, 111., and Elizabeth Vaughan Prit- chett from Dallas, Texas, came with Gurleen. Mary Owens Flory '45 from Nokesville, Va., also asked to be associated with our class. She, too, attended our reunion.
Mary Janes Ahern, "Georgia" to most of her classmates, has not given up on education or educadng. After earning her B.S. in science at MWC, she completed two graduate de- grees from Johns Hopkins University. She re- tired from Baltimore city schools after 30 years, then began teaching at the Catholic high school where she was chairman of the science department. She now teaches at Baltimore Community College.
Betty Jane Attenberger Calandruccio writes from Memphis, Tenn., where she lives with her retired husband. Roc, who was an orthopedic surgeon. They traveled all over the world when he lectured. They have two sons and a daughter, and they each have two children.
Several classmates have been found. Edna Harris Cochran, who graduated with a music degree and now lives in Winston Salem, N.C., led the alumni association to find Shirley Hanna Stanton. They were roommates at MWC. Shirley has retired from the U.S. Postal Service in Vienna, Va., and resides there. Elaine Winstead Martin recently moved to Kill Devil Hills, N.C., after retiring from the Commerce Department in D.C. She enjoys gardening, reading and sewing. Elaine and Hugh had three children. Her husband passed away in 1988. Mary Mathiew Clark has moved to Sequim, Wash., to escape the New England winters. She retired after 30 years as an architectural designer and construction supervisor She and her husband, David, have four children and two grandchildren.
Betty Lou Carrier Church died in May 1996. You may remember that she was pre- sented the MWC Service Award in 1986. We were very proud of her. The family requests donations be made in Betty Church's name to Mary Washington College Foundation Inc., PO. Box 1908, Fredericksburg, Va. 22402- 1908.
A list identifying those in the class photo- graph by rows has been completed. Those who want a copy should send a self- addressed stamped envelope to me.
1948
Bette Worsham Hawkins 3812 Wellesley Terrace Circle Richmond, VA 23233 AWHawk@aoI.com
Dear '48ers,
Among a few questionnaires received too late to be included in my May 1996 copy was one from Muriel Harmon Lake, living in Columbia, S.C. She and her husband, Kemper, a retired physician, spend much time at their home on Lake Murray and with their three children and 10 grandchildren (ages 2 to 23). Recently, Muriel heard from Helen Singleton Darfus, who had met Muriel's cousin Pe^y Chapman Warren '52 at a reception for MWC
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alumni in Orlando, Fla., last May.
Marion Messersmith Snider of Colum- bus, Ohio, celebrated at a Snider reunion in June with her three children and seven grand- children. She will be flying to the Sierras in California in the fall. Both she and Muriel have penciled in June 1998 at MWC.
One of the wives in Kilmarnock's Arts Council production of "The King and I" last spring was our musically versatile Gene Watkins Covington. She is quite active lo- cally as a voice and piano teacher.
I?obbie Hough McConnell took a com- prehensive Reformation Tour last summer, visiting Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Berlin and Frankfurt. She, too, indicated she plans to be at MWC in 1998.
A note from Jane Howard Patrick said that health care is her most consuming inter- est. She is still operating her Cooperstown, N.Y., B & B and hopes to get to our '98 re- union.
Sarah Armstrong Worman has moved from one coast to the other, having retired from the world of fashion, at least for the moment. She and I are struggling to master our computers and are having great fun com- municating by e-mail.
Ashby Griffith Mitchell reports that a new neighbor of hers is a '49 MWC graduate. Dawn McElrath Gill, a newcomer to Cul- peper. Dawn's sister, Ann, also the Class of '49, is an artist in Charlottesville, Va.
1950
Dorothy Held Gawley
177 McCosh Road
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
I am writing this from Cape Cod on Labor Day '96 as Hurricane Edouard is swirling around us, and we are without electricity. A good time to write about "old" friends, and I have a bit of news to keep this column in shape. Nat Wilton was able to get down from Bellevue, Wash., to see Mary Cottingham Hardy in San Pedro, Calif., in the spring of '96. They had a great visit and they talked to D.G. Pate Wilson on the phone. D.G. had recently suffered a stroke affecting her right side, but not her speech. Mary said she is still her cheerful self.
Jackie Newell Recker was excited to heai^ that another classmate, Helen Hopkins Timberlake, had moved to the Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., area, and, with Jane Gardner Mallory, they were hoping to get together for lunch when everyone is free. I've had several letters from Carmen Zeppenfeldt Catoni, who has been busy locating some MWC friends. She had been suitemates with Shirley Kay and lost touch over the years. Shirley had been widowed many years ago, but re- married 20 years ago and is now Shirley Kay Redler, living in Tamarac, Fla. She and Carmen had a tear y- eyed luncheon and got caught up on lost time. Now they have frequent phone conversations. Carmen also located Mary Jean Diaz in Cape Coral, Fla., and has gotten her all excited about our 50th reunion. Carmen is a computer hobbyist and has re- cently joined the Internet. This is helping her keep her mind off listening for the telephone. As I write this in the fall of '96, her son, Luis AngeL is on the list for a liver transplant. They did find a match, but when he got to the hos- pital an infection was found in his leg, so the
transplant was too risky. Let's pray that by the time you read this, all will be well.
I was sorry to receive news from Ginny Hardy Vance that Catherine Rae Capizola Sungenis died June 8, 1996, of a brain tumor. She lived in Beltsville, Md., and was a nurse, psychiatric therapist and sex educator. In 1985, she founded the Moonridge Holistic Center, which offered counseling and con- ducted workshops in yoga and massage ther- apy. She received her nursing degree from Columbia Union College in 1969. We will re- member Rae as a member of the dance and marching band at MWC, where she earned her degree in music. In the 1950s, she sang and played piano on a weekly TV variety show in Philadelphia and was a member of the Philadelphia Piano Orchestra. Her marriage ended in divorce, and she had no children. Ginny attended the memorial service for Rae, and there were many friends and relatives who gave glowing accounts of Rae's accom- plishments over the years. Ginny reports that she decided to retire and closed her studio at Torpedo Factory Art Center in March '96.
In late August '96, Mim Sollows Wieland and Earl took a tour of the Canadian Rockies and Glacier National Park. Irv and I will soon be attending another Elderhostel program, "The History of Railroading," in White River Junction, Vt.
1952
Barbara Wassell Rt. 4, Box 498 Lexington. VA 24450
A group of classmates from '52 got togeth- er in Charlottesville in July for a luncheon at the Farmington Country Club. Everyone looked great and had nothing but good news to tell. Those there were: Sissy Davis Prill- aman, Dottie Craig Davis, Gwen Amory Gumming, Janet Meador Heilman, Rita Morgan Stone, Nancy Stone Moxley, Betty Montgomery Handy, Claire Sindlinger de Groot, Nancy Stump Motley and me.
Marjorie Gibson Blaxill, Carol Edger- ton Cooper and Weege Attianese Harlow have all polished their tennis skills and play several times a week. Marjorie has her own court, so she's really good.
This is my last column. 1 am passing the torch to Charlotte Adams Harrell, whose address is 1034 Covington Lane, Norfolk, Va. 23508. Please send her any news you have. She and husband Bob had a fabulous time during the summer on a trip to Alaska.
Don't forget: Reunion Weekend for our class will be at MWC May 30-June 1. You should have gotten, or will be getting, a mail- out soon. Come! It's our 45th!
Keep the news coming. Charlotte needs it.
1954
Vera Bestwick Willis 407 Thomas St. Alexandria, VA 22302-3723
Thank you so much for returning infor- mation about yourself. I still need 162 more. You have between now and April 1997. 1 enjoy hearing from you.
Anne Levey is now retired. She lives in Mathews, a place called Gwynn's Island.
Geraldine Holsten Rodriguez and Bill are waiting for their new house to be built in
Ocala, Fla., where they spend their winters. They will keep their North Carolina house in the Smokies for the summers.
Bill retired from the Navy in 1979. Even before his retirement, they had a motor home. Often they took their two children. Will and Gigi, and their friends with them. Afier three years, they spied a beautiful mobile home park on the side of a slope overlooking the Palomar Valley in California, and an RV site in North Carolina. After traveling coast to coast, it became "old hat," so they bought a home in Andrews, N.C.
Gerry has been a working housewife for all her 42 years of married life. She worked a few years at a True Value store and inspected and rated campgrounds for a campground di- rectory publisher for another few years.
Gerry and Bill have two cats. Shadow and Pharoah. Will and his wife. Met, have a 9- year-old daughter, Lauren. Will, a comman- der in the U.S. Navy, has command of a base in Portsmouth, Va. Gigi and her husband, Frank, own a caiTDet-cleaning franchise in Roanoke, Va.
Barbara Wilson Taliaferro and Duke are still on Manasota Key in Southwest Florida. Duke is retired from banking. Babs still walks on the beach, catches crabs, rides her bike, plays bridge and all those fun things. They fi- nally got to the Art Institute in Chicago last summer. Then they went to Alaska, since their oldest son lives there. Their other two physi- cian sons are practicing in St. Augustine, Fla. One is married with two children. Babs and Duke see them often.
Last year they took an Elderhostel bike trip through the Loire Valley from Diggendorf, Germany, along the Danube to Vienna, Austria — about 240 miles. Elderhostel offers many wonderful experiences. Babs has to slow down on tennis.
For those who wonder where Punta Gorda is, it's right up the road and was voted in a magazine best place to live.
Patricia Shipley Hook currently writes theater reviews for the Anne Arundel County section of The Baltimore Sun. She is an ac- tive member of the American Theatre Critics Association and supports a fimd in memory of my son, Evan Shipley Hook, who died in 1983. Her only child. Tommy, died of leukemia in 1974.
1956
Louise Robertson-Monroe 4312 S. Ashlawn Drive Richmond, VA 23221
1958
Cynthia West Benney 3 Peabody Ave. Marblehead, MA 01945 BENNEYC@al.mgh.harvard.com
Lucy West Preston 2 Nearfield Road Lutherville, MD 21093
Hasn't this been one summer? I'm sure we've all made the best of it. Now that it's behind us, let's hope the big 1997 will bring us back to a more normal summer and win- ter. Enough's enough. We've heard from a few of you, but really not enough. Please, let us get together. Send us the latest news about yourselves and family. If you've seen any of
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the good Class of '58, please share your visits. Very soon we have to assemble the class re- union books. Without your current informa- tion about you and your family, we may fail to pass along correct information, so please up- date us. By the way, we have very busy sched- ules as well and would love to have some help on the reunion. So, those who would love to share some of their valuable time with us to organize and plan, we'd love to hear from you. It's been a lot of fun serving as your class agents, but we've been a bit disappointed to think we've had to do the bulk of the work. Please come forth to offer a helping hand if you can.
Ruthie Gri^s continues to be very active in her community. In 1993, she organized a major Veterans Day program in Carroll County. She majored in history and taught school in Carroll County for 25 years, retiring in 1990. Today she teaches U.S. history and government to adults in night school. In 1995, she conducted a fund-raising raffle for a hand- stitched quilt, donated by a community mem- ber, for The Carroll Wellness Center in Hillsville.
Joyce Lee Smith is an antique doll col- lector and has been regional director in the United Federation of Doll Clubs. She has traveled the East Coast, lecturing and giving programs for doll clubs. After she retired from 31 years in the biology classroom and five years at the hospital, she spent the next seven years caring for her mom (also an MWC alumna). Life is just beginning for her at age ,58, which is better than ever, and she's looking forward to seeing everyone at the big reunion in 1998.
Anne de Perry McGrath is living in north central New Jersey now, and is human re- sources manager for the Journal of Commerce. She keeps in touch with Kay Britto, who has retired to her home place of Wrightsville Beach, N.C. Anne's three children are grown, of course. Her son lives in Fredericksburg, where he keeps a watchful eye on her four wonderful grandsons. Her daughter. Amy, is married and lives and works in England. Of course, Anne finds any and every opportunity to visit Amy. Anne's youngest daughter, Nikky, is a social worker and attends graduate school in Chicago. Anne was so good to share her e-mail address with us. For all who would love to get in touch with her, I know she'd love to hear from you. amcgrath@ecli])se.net
Bernice Bramson Gilfillan is now living in South Africa and keeping very busy caring for her properties. She has set up, on her six acres of homeland in Pietermaritzburg, 3200 Knazulu-natal, S. Africa, five houses, electrical gates, security fencing and a pool, and is busy landscaping and putting in shrubs, roses and lawns.
Evie Elgin Brame was a classmate with us early on, but graduated with the Class of '59 since she basically split the two years. Evie has learned that her uncle. General Samuel K. Zook, was a colonel in the 6th Regiment Brigade, which took him through the Penin- sula Campaign and on to Fredericksburg, where the brigade earned honors for its heroic bravery.
Looking forward to hearing from all of you.
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Office of Alumni Programs RO. Box 1315 Fredericksburg, VA 22402
1962
Mary Chambers Hodnett Minozzi 9645 Hoke -Brady Road Richmond, VA 23231
There is little to report since no one has written. Your communication is greatly missed!
I'm still teaching seventh -grade life science, but I am sticking to a previous decision to re- tire two years early (year 2000). The extra money is not worth the risk of losing life or health. Being knocked across the room by an accidental blow on the back certainly jolted my senses. The girl had just come from a de- tention home due to a fight with a policeman! I miss the gentler school days of our era.
Betsey-Ellen Hansen lives in Stafford, Va., and has recently started her own home- based business. Creative Office Services. After her mother had two eye operations and a broken leg in 1995, Betsey persuaded her mother to move in with her. She had to sort through her mother's home of more than 20 years in Yorktown, Va., pack what was to be kept, dispose of the rest and sell the house. Betsey said she never could have done it if her MWC roommate, Mary Hatcher '61, hadn't come from Wilmington, N.C, on several week- ends to help her.
1964
Fi'ances Page Loftis 211 Merrit South Boston,
VA 24592-5019
Helen Vakos Standing 421 Godspeed Road Virginia Beach, VA 23451
1966
Katharine Rogers Lavery 507 Devonshire Drive NE Vienna, VA 22180 Fax: (703) 319-1513
Greetings again from Northern Virginia, which is still humming from our reunion last summer. Thanks again to Barbara Bishop Mann and all of you who helped to make it a tremendous success.
Sandy Hutchison Hoybach is pleased to report that son Ricky is finishing his master's degree in business at James Madison Univer- sity, and daughter Amy will soon be a gradu- ate of Longwood College. At last Sandy will get a taste of the empty nest syndrome and is really looking forward to the budget increase now that everyone is out of college.
Lynn Williams Beyer wrote from Clifton, Va., to say that she is now employed by the Fairfax County schools, but hasn't seen very many of us who also work there. After earn- ing her master's degree in psychology from George Mason University, Lynn worked with the Manassas city schools before transferring to Lee High School. (Didn't you see Jean Cuccias Patten there, Lynn?) Lynn has since advanced to be director of special edu- cation programs and services based at Belle Willard Administrative Center, where her staff is learning second-hand all of Dr. Croushore's editing techniques! Lynn and her former
roommate, Denna Welfe Shinderman,
spend holidays together. Since their daughters, now 26, are four months apart and their sons, now 23, are also four months apart, they have shared many of their children's adventures over the years. Donna is an interior designer, still married to Paul, whom some of you may remember having convinced Donna to marry him sophomore year. Then he went off to Ai'kansas to school and had to hitchhike his way back for Ring Dance! Lynn, on the other hand, was divorced and remarried 21 years ago to Bruce, a former nuclear submariner who is now the water resources engineer in Spotsylvania County, Va.
Anne Cla^ett Willcex wrote from her country retreat that she and John and their cat. Night, continue to enjoy their new home in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It must be a beautiful place with over a thou- sand bulbs in bloom in the spring and all the colorful foliage to admire in the fall.
Tyla Matteson wrote that she is still thriv- ing teaching French in Hampton, Va. Her fa- vorite activity is her involvement with the Virginia Sierra Club, which she chaired last year. Tyla particularly enjoys the political as- pect of endorsing environmentally friendly candidates and working toward their election to office, especially since 35 of 45 candidates were successfully installed.
Susan Hanes Orrisen passed up a golden opportunity to teach calculus for six weeks this fall at Chantilly High School, from which she retired last year, because she was sched- uled to travel extensively through Colorado. Although we missed her at school, it's really nice to know that Sue is thoroughly enjoying her retirement.
Speaking of retirement, this will be my last year of full-time teaching. After 21 years at Chantilly and several years in other places, I am looking forward to spending more time at home with my husband and the family. Hank and I both enjoy doing things with the children and grandchildren, and we still have his business to look after. I have also found it rewarding to tutor elementary math , espe- cially since two grandsons are enrolled in the Spanish Immersion Program here in Fairfax County and are learning all their math in Spanish. It's amazing how much a first-grader can learn! My music activiUes have diminished considerably now that I have resigned from both the quintet and the orchestra. Church services, programs and weddings are still keeping me busy enough. In fact, one wedding is scheduled for February in Bruton Parish Church, Williamsburg, Va.
Keep those cards and letters coming. We all love to hear from you.
1968
Margaret Livingston 229 Coronado Ave. Long Beach, CA 90803
1970
Susan Duffey DiMaina 5186 Kimscott Court Annandale, VA 22003
Laura King Myse lives in the Fredericks- burg area and works as the supervisor of in- structional support service for Spotsylvania county schools. When I spoke with Laurie,
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she told me that the youngest of her three stepchildren is 26 and on her own, so she and husband Bob can be, as she said, "real peo- ple" again. They just bought waterfront prop- erty in King George County on a creek off the Potomac River, where they'll be building a house at a leisurely pace so they can move in when Bob retires from his dental practice in a few years. When we spoke, she and Bob were also about to fulfill a life -long dream of traveling to France — focusing on the south- ern coast and countryside. And more good news! She quit smoking in May 1996.
Laurie mentioned that she visited Pensa- cola, Ha., not too long ago and saw Sharon Arthur Spencer and her husband, Bill. Sharon teaches math at the local community college. Bill is retired from the Marine Corps and has trained for a new profession in pub- lic education.
In a letter from a friend, it was reported that Anne Howell Wood moved with her husband. Woody, to Carlisle, Pa., at the end of 1995. Woody, a colonel in the Marine Corj^s, is at- tending a war college there. Both of their daughters, Katie and Stephie, are attending VPI.
If you've moved lately or tried to renovate a house, you'll have some sympathy for Kathy O'Neill Argiropoulos, who has recently done both. Even though their "old" house in Arlington, Va., had not sold, they moved into their "new" house that Kathy planned to ren- ovate. When she realized how extensive the renovation would be, Kathy, with husband and two children, decided to move back to their former house; after all, it was still on the mar- ket after nine months. They weren't "home" very long when the house sold, and they had to get out quickly. Wlien I spoke to her, after two months in an apartment, she said they are happy to be in their "new" (and improved!) house — although she admits that there is still a lot more to be done. Frankly, I was im- pressed by her good cheer and positive atti- tude — but then, that may be something you remember about Kathy from college days!
The last time Elaine Wilson Maloney ap- peared in this column, she was plugging away in graduate school at Catholic University. Up- date: In 1995, she earned her degree in library science and is presently pleased to report that she is a librarian at an elementary school in Fairfax County, Va. Elaine likes to compare notes and discuss the mysteries of the Dewey Decimal System with Tina Kormanski Krause, who is also an elementary librarian in the same county.
And speaking of Tina — her daughter, Lindsay, who is in her third year at U. Va., was working last summer in Asheville, N.C., as a camp counselor, and Tina drove down to pick her up. At the same time. Kathy Thiel was in Asheville attending her nephew's wedding. Kathy and Tina both live in Northern Virginia, where they get together occasionally, but they managed to run into each other quite by acci- dent in a North Carolina hotel lobby! By the way, Kathy 's daughter, Sarah, is in her second year at University of Florida in Gainesville, and she spent the summer abroad in Austria. Her son, David, is in his senior year in high school. Kathy is a senior attorney for AT&T special- izing in commercial litigation. Although she keeps very busy with FTA and community activities, she says she has recently found the
time to take up golf. (How many of you re- member taking that at MWC for PE? Raise your sand wedges!)
You know, former classmates, each time I get a letter from one of you, it is like a lovely gift. Please keep writing.
1972
Anne Toms Richardson
1206 Graydon Ave. Norfolk, VA 23507
1974
Janelle Hicks Wesenberg
1207 Parkington Lane Bowie, MD 20716
Alice Harding Tliomas 1901 Mariner Court Virginia Beach, VA 23454
Alice and I were thrilled with the response to our plea for news! Some were fairly lengthy and descriptive, and while Alice and I thor- oughly enjoyed reading them, please forgive us for having to edit. Our thanks go to each of you.
We heard from two sources out of Atlanta. Jill Hadden wrote that she has been living there for over 10 years, working in computer graphics for an architectural design firm and very active in her church on the building committee. She was a delegate in '95 to the annual diocesan convention, where she was elected as a lay alternate to the national con- vention for next year. She was particularly enthusiastic about the past summer's Olym- pics in Atlanta, where she was able to attend several events and enjoy "the ambiance... the friendliness of the people, the carnival atmo- sphere...the buying, selling and trading of pins."
Pam Smith McGahagin showed similar pride and enthusiasm for the Atlanta area re- garding the Olympics. She and her husband, Mike, and children, Sarah, 8, and Ian, 6, were also able to attend some of the events. She occasionally sees Jill, as they are both in- volved in the local theater, and Martha Fisher Buckley, who attends the same church as Pam, is married to an attorney and has two growing daughters. Pam also reports that her former roommate, Joan Darby, has just received her M.Ed, from George Mason Uni- versity and plans to continue studying for a Ph.D. in administration. Joan currently teach- es in the Spotsylvania school system and stays busy with the activities of her two children, David and Kristina.
Mary Gaber Young reported in from Vir- ginia Beach. She works as a dental hygienist, serving the mentally retarded at Southeastern Va. Training Center in Chesapeake, and as a Shaklee distributor. Her interests include nu- trition and fitness — especially her jazzercise classes. Husband Scott is an LCSW employed by First Hospital Con^oration as the national network director, has a small private practice and teaches a graduate course at Norfolk State. Their daughter, Sarah, is 15 and in- volved in cheerleading and gymnastics.
Carol Hemstock Williams wrote of a wonderful summer in New Mexico, where she and her husband went Whitewater rafting for the first time and enjoyed it so much they plan to try it again next summer in West Vir- ginia. They are living in New Jersey, where
she has been employed at Bristol-Myers Squibb for over nine years. Her husband looks forward to being made a partner at his CPA firm soon.
Word came in from Gainesville, Fla., that Barbara Wilson Conley has been living there and teaching fifth grade for the past five years. Her husband, Lloyd, is an invest- ment vice president with Barrett Bank, and they have three sons: twins Brian and Scott are seniors in high school, and David is 10 and in the fifth grade. Barbara stays in touch with three close friends from MWC — Julie Blair Geier, Trisha Powell Wescott and Susie Paddock Stumpf — who are all doing well and looking terrific. She says she would love some words of support for a mom who is not ready to lose her babies to college next year!
She might be able to compare notes with Janette Gates Sroka, who wrote from Raleigh, N.C., to say that her oldest, Katie, was off to college this year. Her boys are 16 and 14 now, and the family often heads up to Virginia for soccer tournaments. When she's in I^chmond, she is able to get together with Barbara Bowman Scott and Kathy Farrell Hershner, both working as speech therapists in the public schools.
Along the maternal lines, Cynthia Gorwitz wrote to ask if she is the oldest first-time mother in the Class of '74, having just given birth to twins in October 1995. She and her husband, Howard Mixon, have had mini-re- unions with her roommates in the last year — with Missie Carpenter, now living near Chico, Calif, and with Faith Geibel Moore, who lives at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md.
Paula Wood Welch lives on a small farm near Crozet, Va., with Peter, her husband of 17 years, and sons, Adam, 15, and Chase, 12. Peter is a project manager for a local steel con- struction company, and Paula keeps herself busy home -schooling, chauffeuring, garden- ing, catering and working on a local children's theater board. The whole family is very in- volved in church activities, as well.
Marilyn "Merle" Bowles Smith and her husband, Curtis, will be celebrating 20 years of marriage this coming year. She is a substi- tute teacher in the public schools in Kilmar- nock, Va., and he is director of pharmacy at Rappahannock General Hospital. They have three children — Marshall, 9, and twins Miles (a boy) and Madison (a girl), who are 7.
By the time of publication, Louise A. Schmidt should be in Germany working for the U.S. Army as a civilian attorney. She spent five years there previously, after obtaining her law degree from William and Mary in 1983. She met her husband, Dan Bittner, there, and they now have a (> year- old son, Alex. She has found balancing a career and family challeng- ing and would love to hear how others have dealt with it. She recalls being exposed to books and articles on feminism while at MWC, and would be interested in a study or article on how other early '70s alumni now feel about the subject.
Darlene Messinger Parlette is to be con- gratulated on successfully completing eight years on a low-fat diet and exercise program, losing 70 pounds. She has been employed for 14 years as a transcriptionist at a residential treatment facility for socially and emotionally disturbed children and adolescents. Her hus- band. Hank, is an electrician by trade, but they
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met through activities in their music. Her two stepdaughters, Kirsten and Christina, are stu- dents at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Her daughter, Angle, 22, married last April, and her son, Eric, 19, graduated from high school in June.
Pam White's information came in an in- teresting form — a feature article done on her in this past summer's Washington and Lee University alumni magazine! Pam took her law degree from W&L in '77 and is now a partner with the 118-attorney firm of Ober, Kaler, Grimes & Shriver, where she chairs the firm's employment group. She also serves as chair of the professionalism committee of the Maryland State Bar Association and credits the honor system at both her alma maters with instilling in her a strong sense of the im- portance of trust and ethical obligations. Out- side of work, Pam may be the biggest Orioles fan you're likely to encounter. She has driven the Oriole himself in the Baltimore St. Pat- rick's Day Parade for five years running.
All the way from Vancouver, Wash., we heard from Mary Beth Jones that she has been working for the past 1 1 years as a staff physician in the emergency department of Southwest Washington Medical Center. Her husband is an attorney with the Department of Interior, and they have two daughters, Hanna, 9 and Emily, 7. Those of you who saw Mary Beth at the 20th reunion will be sad- dened to learn that the little boy she was pregnant with at the time was lost shortly after birth. She enjoys scouts and church, volunteering at her girls' school, gardening, and keeping a flock of chickens.
Peg Hubbard reported that she attended the wedding of Lisa Tyree last June on Key Uirgo. Lisa and her husband, Don, are now living in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Bridget Binko is still living in the San Francisco Bay area, still growing orchids, and still sailing with her husband, Fred. She was promoted to vice president of regulatory af- fairs at Cell Genesys, a biotech company de- veloping gene therapy products. She stays in contact with JoAnn Menzer Kevorkian, who lives in Roanoke raising her four children (three of them triplets!).
Alice was able to have a quick lunch with Cindy Kear last summer, when Cindy was back this way for a visit from San Francisco. Again, we thank all of you who wrote, and would love to hear from the rest of you.
1976
Ann Chryssikos McBroom 6018 Benevolent St. Fredericksburg, VA 22407
Since the deadlines for publication fall when they do, I will be depending on all of you in the Class of 1976 to send information when you can. Since some of you are communicat- ing on the information superhighway, perhaps we can find a means to pool that information to meet the deadlines. The current news I have since our reunion in June '96 is that Margo Clifford spent the summer studying at Oxford University. I also received a news release from The United States International Trade Commission in August '96 regarding our classmate, Lynn Munroe Bra^, an- nouncing her designation as vice chairman of the International Trade Commission, a term that extends until June 16, 1998. She has serv-
ed as a commissioner since March 31, 1994, having been appointed by President Clinton for a term that will expire June 16, 2002. The news release states that "Bragg holds a mas- ter's degree from Boston University (1978)" as well as "her bachelor's degree from Mary Washington College (1976). She is married, has three children and currently resides in Chevy Chase, Md."
1978
Elizabeth Somerville Hutchins 14240 Raccoon Ford Road Culpeper,VA 22701
1980
Patty Goliash Andril 3420 Lorcom Lane Arlington, VA 22207
1982
Nancy Kaiser 24 Burton Court Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971
Caroline Borden Kirchner 3511 Iskagna Drive Knoxville, TN 37919
Martha "Marty" DeSilva 3456 Newark St., NW Washington, DC 20016
Victoria Hampshire Balaban 7307 Nevis Road Bethesda, MD 20817
Elizabeth Ince Grannis 116 Crest Road Wellesley, MA 02181-4644
1984
Linda Lemanski Blakemore 1317 Littlepage St. Fredericksburg, VA 22401
David Swanson 1824 17th St. NW Washington, DC 20009
From David:
Congratulations are in order for Lynn Manger Hull. Lynn was married during Thanksgiving weekend 1995 to John Hull, a Norfolk native and graduate of St. Andrew's Episcopal College. Some of her MWC bud- dies came from great distances to attend the event: Vicky Eakin Sagehorn and her son, Dereck, came from Antioch, Calif., and Kathy Key White came from Calgary, Alberta, Canada! As with all MWC "reunions," the time was too short; and unfortunately, not every- one invited could attend.
Congratulations again to Teresa Nugent Forbes and Jesse Forbes. They are expect- ing twins!
Please remember, our next class notes will appear in the fall. Submission date is May 15, 1997.
1986
Lisa A. Harvey 2 Pearl St. #11 Charlestown, MA 02129 LiHarvey@msn.com
Karen Anderson
156 Panassus #3
San Francisco, CA 94111
Karen_anderson@time-inc.com
Wow! What a reunion! The Class of 1986 turned out in droves for the 10th year reunion. Well over 60 persons attended the weekend of festivities, outnumbering all other classes by at least a four-to-one margin. Karen Anderson, Karen Esbeck and Michelle Runge take the prize for longest distance traveled (San Francisco and Los Angeles) . Mina Holden-Horn takes home the prize for youngest reunioner, as 7-month-old Grayson Todd Horn FV made an appearance at the class party. Lisa Harvey provided us with a blast from the past by bringing a video tape of our graduation ceremony, and had some help from Troy Knighton, who provided music from our era.
The most common phrase of the weekend was: "I was a little reluctant to come, but, boy, it sure is great to see everyone!" From cock- tails at Brompton to the cookout in Monroe Square to the class party in Russell Hall (of all places) to the celebration at the Eagles Nest (sort of a combination of the C-Shoppe and the Pub), the Class of '86 made its pres- ence known. While everyone has grown up a little, no one has really changed. Classmates, amazed at the strength of the bonds among us, renewed old friendships and formed new ones. Reunioners came with and without spouses and children, and all had a fabulous time. Nearly everyone that attended told me that they cannot wait for the 15th reunion! We did take care of some business, as well. I am now responsible for our class entry in MWC TODAY anA Irene Thomaidis, Karen Anderson and Lisa Harvey are planning the next reunion. We already have some ter- rific ideas (such as having Stacy Dunn DJ), but would appreciate any input which you have to offer.
In other news, Stephanie Doswald was married this past July in Geneva, Switzerland, to Danny Sebolt. Brenda Thier Evans and her husband, Andy, welcomed Kelsey Eliza- beth into the MWC family in April '96, while Ann Stack Bartenstein, her husband, John, and daughter, Leigh, welcomed Peter in March. More recently, Jill VanderSchaff Schwartz and her husband, Rob, welcomed twins Eric and Julia in August. Karen McKenna is pursuing her master's at the In- stitute for Learning and Development. Brent Davis was recently promoted to museum services manager at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. Tracy Greener Hollan and the rest of Bordentown, N.J., sur- vived a tornado last summer, although Tracy's roof was not so fortunate. Jocelyn Piccone recently accepted a position as director of Excel Corporate Care in Middletown, Ohio, and Kathy Povi^ers Cunius and her family just moved to Pittsburgh, Pa.
An East Coast mini-reunion was held last August. Tracy Greener Hollan and Lisa Harvey rallied a group for another weekend of fun and frolic on Baltimore Harbor. We were joined by Irene Thomaidis, Mina Holden- Horn, Brent Davis, Karen McKenna, Ann Stack Bartenstein, Paul Kilmer, Stephanie Doswald Sebolt and Brenda Thier Evans. As for our West Coast friends, Karen Ander- son, Michelle Runge and Karen Esbeck
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got together for a weekend in San Francisco. We promise to have future gatherings if any- one else in interested. The reunion really seemed to renew a lot of friendships.
Please let us know what you or any of our classmates are up to. You can reach us by mail, telephone or even e-mail. MWC TODAY notes for the Class of 1986 appear in the fall and winter issues of the magazine. The re- spective deadlines for submission are May 1 and September 1.
1988
Jay Bradshaw 11913 Bluebird Lane Catharpin, VA 22018
Kenneth Plaia
1005 Massachusetts Ave., NE
BSMT
Washington. DC 20002
Since graduating from MWC, Remus Boxley and Kristina Carnegie Boxley have remained inseparable. Both entered graduate programs at JMU in September 1990, gradu- ating in May 1992, with an M.B.A. and mas- ter's in school counseling, respectively. They have been married for three years and wel- comed a son. Christian Lloyd, to their family in 1996. They reside in Baltimore, Md., where Kristina is a guidance counselor for Baltimore County public schools, and Remus is a human resources generalist for the L^niversity of Maryland Medical System and also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. They remain in touch with Yvonne Milien '89, who recently returned to her home of Hampton, Va., and is working for a pharmaceutical company; Tracey Irving '89, who is working for the Admission's Office at VCU in Richmond and pursuing her master's degree; Helene Bundy Watts '86, an advertising executive residing in Baltimore, Md., with her husband, Lloyd; Glenda Bishop Maitland '88, who is teaching for Caroline County public schools; and Donna Whitney, who received her master's degree from Trinity College in May and is now pur- suing her doctorate degree at Howard University. Donna is also an English teacher for Prince George's County Public Schools. They frequently run into Fernanda Kane '86, MWC faculty and staff and current MWC students when they visit Remus' parents, who reside in Fredericksburg.
1990
Beth Johnston McDonals 483 Burnham Road Williamsburg. VA 23185
Brook E. Fillmore was living and working as assistant director of development for the Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond. Va., until October, when she moved to Norfolk, Va.. where she accepted a position as director of Annual Fund and Membership with The Chrysler Museum of Art.
Please send some news!
1992
Dorothy Ogburn 16 Ridgeway Road Stafford, VA 22554
Michael Votava
31 White Plains Drive
Nashua. NH 03062-1635
I received a letter recently from Anne Bradshaw and Katharine Marshall Kalvig
with the following information. Anne was graduated from University of Virginia School of Medicine in May and started her residen- cy in pediatrics at Duke University Medical Center. Katharine was married in 1995. She and husband Dennis reside in Fredericksburg. Michelle Moncure graduated from George Washington University with a master's in American studies. Debbie Mullens completed her master's in education and works in Rich- mond. Tenia Burton lives in Fredericksburg and works for \T)OT. Andrea Feeback is at- tending Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. Kim Brook '93 resides in Alexandria and works for an architectural firm in the ac- counting department.
1 attended the wedding of Lisa Wilbanks to Tim Rentenback in Knoxville last June. Kim Eckhardt Piper and Carrie Reams were also there, and we had a blastl Kim is a teacher in Virginia Beach, and Carrie works for Oracle Government Systems in Northern Virginia.
1994
Kelly Dunn
407 Casaloma Drive
Forest, VA 24551
Tracy J. Bubb 3147 Tidal Bay Lane Virginia Beach. VA 23451
We have a number of teachers among us. Maura Payne has moved back to Fredericks- burg and is teaching ninth-grade English and photojournalism at North Stafford High School. She reports that North Stafford H.S. has become "choc- full of MWC alum," with Vanessa Sekinger and John Gabriel '95 joining her in the English Department. Ann Donoghue is living in Old Town .Alexandria. She is teaching fifth grade at Widewater Elementary in Stafford County, and is more or less "running the school." Amy LImberger is teaching fourth grade at Berkley Elementary School in Spotsylvania County. After two years of subbing, Jenn Dorr Ziegenmeyer accept- ed a full-time teaching position in the English Department in Spotsylvania County. (Yes, Jenn, you did see Gordon Inge working at Heavenly Ham in Westwood Shopping Center. He and his wife, Betty, own it! ) Jen McKay is teach- ing first grade at St. Mary's School in Old Town Alexandria.
Marge Foster is living in the East Village of NYC and is a copywriter for Games Maga- zine. Her writing career has taken her to Boston, Lynchburg and Albuquerque. Marge planned to relocate to D.C. in the fall '96 to take on the literary world in the nadon's capi- tal. Claudette Gamache is living in down- town Fredericksburg working in her field of historic preservation. Sandra Garton is sell- ing real estate and taking up quilting. Rhonda Winn is a flight attendant for United Express. Chris Lazzuri is back in Roanoke, Va., man- aging an American Eagle Outfitters store. Melissa Wheat was promoted to assistant dean of admissions at MWC last July — way to go, Melissa! Tim Landis is loving life on Capital Hill schmoozing up a storm and work-
ing for the Republicans. Tim is pursuing a movie career on the side. He has been to a number of casting calls in the D.C. area and can even be seen as an extra in the movie "Nixon."
Spotted at Tim's most recent semi-annual bash in Falls Church were several other MWCers. Matt St. Amand and Amanda Harris '95 drove up from Chapel Hill. "Easy E Eric Edwards" arrived with his carafe of wine, mingled, and managed to return to Manassas the following day in dme to report to work. Eric Thorne and Chris "Flickey" Sincavage both traveled from Pennsylvania. Chris is a subsdtute kindergarden teacher in Philadelphia. He and his wife were expecting a baby girl in October. Sources report that Woody Perry is also living in Philadelphia, but that's all sources know about Woody.
Debbie Hodges is still working at Lehigh Portland Cement Company in the regional sales office in Manassas. She recenUy certi- fied as a facilitator for Quality Action Teams. She was to vacation to Southern California in the fall and hoped to see Kristen Maestri Carter and her son, Joseph Carter. Donna Douglas Rollins was hired to be the assistant manager at the Bath & Body Shop in Spotsyl- vania Mall when it opened in October She and her husband, Edward, are enjoying their new addition to the family, Mackenzie Claire. Rebecca Seabolt Jones has a one-year-old girl named Rachel. Yvonne Barrow Gracia is married and has a little boy. She is living in Chesapeake, Va.
After vacationing in Spain, England and Scotland, Renee Cline left her position in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Depart- ment at MW Hospital to engage in a master's program in physical therapy at Marymount University in Arlington. Actually, a number of '94 grads have returned to school for various degrees. Keri Conron is working on her master's of public health at Boston University. Leslie Stewart is engaged in graduate work in Georgia. David Preston is working on a Ph.D. at William and Mary in colonial Ameri- can history. Nickolai Butkevich is working on a master's in Russian area studies at Georgetown I'niversity and is engaged to a fellow student in his program. Susan Tanigawa is in a Master's in Education pro- gram at George Mason University'. Dawn Baugher is in optometry school in Columbus. Ohio. Elie Bier is engaged and completing her master's degree in Lincoln. Neb. Mary Willis is working on a master's degree in counseling at Virginia Tech. Jenn Moss is a second year law student at the L^niversit\' of Baltimore School of Law. Sarah Kanney is in grad school for teaching English as a sec- ond language and is engaged to David Mendoza. Leah McNeil is working for Capital One Services as a staff coordinator in Fred- ericksburg. She is enrolled at Strayer College to work on an M.S. in information systems. Her boyfriend, Blaine Hodges, is working in Fredericksburg and also plans to return to grad school in the near future. Maureen Keany is working in human resources at a manufacturing company in Port Washington. She began an M.B.A. at Hofstra University last fall. Anne Wittenbraker works in the cai^diovasculai" intensive care unit at St. Mary's Hospital. She is engaged to be married to Mark Hamilton and intends to go back to school to pursue a career as a physician's
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assistant.
Congratulations are in order for the grad- uates. Eric Reid graduated from the Notre Dame Institute in Alexandria with degrees in advanced apostolic catechetical and a master of arts in religious studies. Liz Hockmuth completed her M.A. in English literature studies from Boston University. She spent a year in Sydney, Australia, with B.U.'s inter- national program and is now the assistant di- rector of residence life at Bowdoin College.
As for the world travelers: Alison Kiernan spent part of the summer in Australia and New Zealand. Jennifer Rambo spent a year living in Switzerland working in a youth hos- tel and then worked in Australia. She planned to return to the U.S. last fall. Amy Tubbs and Kim Haun are planning to visit Europe in the fall or winter. Amy is conducting bike tours up and down the East Coast, and Kim is working for Capital One Services (with Leah McNeil). Courtney Quillen resigned her position as residential counselor at the Shelter for Teens last spring and headed to Ciuatemala to help out in the building of homes for widows. Upon return, she fmished out the summer in Bethany working in retail, trying to relax a bit. She is now searching for a new career opportunity.
Wedding bells have rung! Sandra Phillips married her high school sweetheart, Charlie Crittenden, in August, and they had the plea- sure of honeymooning in Hawaii. Nell Garwood Maceachem married Kilian Ciarvey in Virginia Beach. They had a beautiful Scott- ish reception and currently reside in Rich- mond. Tricia Waldrop married Matt Belman last December. They are living in Fredericks- burg. Tricia is working as an analyst for Irving Burton and Associates, a defense contractor in Falls Church. She writes that Scott "Spidey" Pate is working at the Kenmore Inn on Princess Anne Street and is seeking employment opportunities in the D.C./ Richmond area.
Nick Duncan writes that he is working at Diamond I^ke in the Cascades interview- ing anglers. Nick also told us that Lowell Whitney '95 works out of the Roseburg office for Fish and Game, and Lidie Whittier '95 is a park ranger at Yellowstone National Park. Ted Godfrey spent the summer as a high- adventure guide in Colorado.
Dave Janes sent a postcard from Japan. He recently received an M.A. in Asian reli- gion at The University of Hawaii and will be continuing his studies at Doshisha University in Japan.
Doug Darwin recently returned to the U.S. Doug has been in the Czech Republic and Spain teaching English and Spanish. He's now back in Alexandria preparing for the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia. He aspires to be a member of the U.S. Table Tennis Team.
As for Kelly and me — Kelly Dunn is working on an M.Ed, at Lynchburg College and substitute teaching. T.J. Bubb is still working for ARAMARK as the office manager at the Old Dominion University account.
Finally, we have received a number of in- quiries concerning the '94 yearbooks. We are looking into the matter. If you have any ques- tions or concerns about yearbooks, please contact the Student Activities office at (540) 654-1061 or the student publications office at (540) 654-1132.
We wish you a lot of success in your 1997 endeavors. Keep the news coming!
1996
Jill McDaniel
8015 Sunset Path Court
Springfield, VA 22153
After spending the summer as a park ranger in North Carolina, I am now settling in as a grad student at Marymount U. working toward a master's degree in education. Follow- ing this same path is Victoria Rheinstrom, who is at George Mason U. Others in grad school include: Anndelynn Tapscott at VCU; Marianne Ott at U. of Maryland, Eastern Shore; Patty Bryan at U. of New Hampshire; Rebecca Silverman at U. of Maryland, Col- lege Park; and Jumana Qamruddin, who will be attending Tulane U. in January.
A few of our classmates have made the switch from student to teacher. Both Katie Burke and Corey Henson are student teach- ing. Lisa Prillaman is teaching fifth grade at Falmouth Elementary, Heather Spring is teaching kindergarten at Hampton Oaks Elementary, and Laura Duffy is teaching ninth and tenth grade English at Brook Point High School and is also coaching the women's soccer team. Speaking of coaching, Carin Gsellman is at Annandale High School with the Softball team, and Mike Johnson is at Hayfield High School with the basketball team.
Nicki Stevenson and Jeff DeSanto '95 were wed in the beginning of September. Be- sides planning her wedding to Bill Brantley '95, Tori Hillyer is working as a systems en- gineer in Dahlgren. Sara Bennington is working for Key Communications Inc. in Garrisonville and is looking to move back to Fredericksburg this winter. Katie Vunck has a job with Capital One in Fredericksburg, and Lara Neer is working in Richmond. Jeff Kramer, after a successful season with the Roanoke River Dawgs, is working with Wy- land I^adbetter for MCI. Also in Northern
Virginia, Stefanie Teter is working for a law firm .
There are quite a few alums who have left the state of Virginia. Both Jackie Romano and Chris Williams are living (not together!) in Charleston, S.C. Nina Morrison and Emily Baird both live and work in New York City, and Alissa Magrum is working in Oklahoma. Kathleen Harter has a job with the FDA in Miami, and Cori Lears is working in Baltimore.
Thank you to those of you who helped me compile this information. Hopefully, next time around I will have more information about you all. Ix)oking forward to hearing from you!
IN MEMORIAM
We extend our sympathies to the families and friends of the deceased.
Calphurnia Anna Bailey Cutchin '17 Kathryn Frazer Yerby '20 Avis Fleming Harris '36 Virginia F. Easley '38 Winnie I^ndick Thompson '38 Jane Haddox Gwin '41 Betty Lou Carrier Church '46 Catherine Rae Capizola Sungenis '50 Carolyn Tibbetts Anderson '58 Evangeline Tripolos Stavredes '61 Ginger Rawlins Crisp '63 Randall Snyder '86
Keith M. Belli, assistant professor of theater
CONDOLENCES
We extend our condolences to those who have recently lost loved ones.
Florence Johnson Dodge '34, who lost her
husband. Jayne Anderson Bell '44, who lost her mother. Elizabeth Graham Simpson '44, who lost her
husband. Alice Taylor Herdt '46, who lost her mother. Anne Robinson Hallerman '77, who lost her
husband.
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