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46 HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2009 will have a training contract for the next year but we are hopeful.” Thanks, Torie! I (Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz) am extremely busy with doctor visits for Larry. Back in February he had to have his leg amputated due to his ﬁght with cancer. He fell a week later and now is on a wound vac trying to heal the damage done to his leg. Hopefully he will get his skin graft surgery in July so he can heal his leg. Then he will get on with the prosthesis ﬁttings. We are hoping that he will have a new leg by the end of the year. Nurse Nancy is working overtime! Please e-mail me your news and I will be sure to include it in our next column. Thanks and I hope you are enjoying life! Participation: 21.25% Total Class Dollars: $4,940 Elizabeth Anderson Comer 4303 N. Charles St. Baltimore, MD 21218 (410) 243-2626 ecomer@eacarchaeology.com Lots of Class of 1977 news! Ann Kowitski Barber just got back from her ﬁrst trip to Ireland. She writes, “I know I will go back! Elizabeth is studying at the National Univ. of Ireland at Galway and loving every minute of her semester abroad. We took a CIE bus tour and saw 1,100 miles of Ireland and thoroughly enjoyed the countryside, the ancient Celtic inﬂuence, the sheep, miles of stone fencing, the greenest grass and an excellent guide. We did Dublin, Galway, Killarney and Derry with lots of stops in between! It will be great to have Elizabeth home for the summer although she’s not anxious to leave Ireland! Meanwhile, I am hoping to downsize into a condo. All I need is a buyer! My law practice is growing and gives me a lot of satisfaction. Every day is different and challenging.” Jane Ezzard Ingalls got “a surprise call from Allison Coerper last month. It was wonderful to catch up on family, garden projects and other interests.” Jane’s older daughter Ryan graduated this May from Lehigh Univ. and will start graduate work. Lehigh’s Division I basketball team played in the NCAA tournament this year. Jane and husband Bryan spend the basketball season on the road! Their younger daughter Georgia is transferring to the Univ. of Maryland for the fall from the Univ. of Tampa. Jane reports this is her 13th season with the Washington National Opera at the Kennedy Center and that she is in “Turandot.” Check out www. dc-opera.org for more information! Sharon Thorpe Kourtz attended the opera recently and discovered Jane was in it! They enjoyed getting reconnected. Even opera can bring Hood girls together! Sheila Edwards ’76 and husband Donald stopped by to visit Jane on their way to visit one of their daughters. Melanie Rinn Martinek writes, “I can share something cool that I have been working on lately which is CyberTeaching. I am teaching art to a multi-age class of ﬁrst-, second- and third-grade students in Australia via a Web cam. We have a 14-hour time difference so I teach in the evenings from home while it is the next morning in Australia. The teacher in Australia is a friend who was living here and then moved back home to the Brisbane area. Right now we are studying the American illustrator Eric Carle—his stories and his art. Next we will be working on an Australian children’s illustrator. My Australian colleague is trained in reading recovery and teaching the literacy component. I am an art teacher teaching the illustration and art components of the lessons. Please e-mail me if you have questions or need more detail. This is such an exciting project!” Melanie also wants to let her Hood friends know that her sister Robin passed away last September from brain cancer at age 49. “Robin was very social and would come down to visit in Smith Hall and chat with all my friends.” Both Rubina Patel’s son Jamsheed and Sharon Thorpe Kourtz’s son Collin had their Eagle Court of Honor this spring. Martha Homnack Armenti attended the ceremony. Congratulations! Huge congratulations also to Barrie Briscoe Reightler! She has been awarded a fellowship in the LEAD Maryland Foundation Class VI. Barrie has been with the Maryland Horse Breeders Association for 25 years and is currently director of publications. The LEAD Maryland Foundation, Inc., is a nonproﬁt dedicated to identifying and developing leadership for Maryland agriculture, natural resources and rural communities. Fellows are selected through an application and interview process from a pool of identiﬁed emerging leaders from all regions of the state, and are representative of a diversity of backgrounds, work, education and other experiences. Barrie is one of 22 fellows named to the new Class VI group. Over the next two years, fellows will complete 10 multi-day seminars within various locations of Maryland and Washington, D.C. Additionally, the LEAD Maryland Foundation provides fellows with an international study tour as part of their educational and personal growth training. Way to go Barrie! Kas Kluth Rohm and husband Greg are ﬁnally living without college tuition payments for their daughters. How liberating! They recently explored California wine country and some of the redwood forests along the West Coast. Fauna back on the East Coast looks pretty wimpy by comparison. Daughter Emily attends law school in Maryland not too far from “home base” but her sister works in Lower Manhattan and Kas and Greg enjoy occasional visits with her and explorations of the big city. Terri Pyle Reed sends this news: “I’ve been busy with Emily’s senior year, upcoming graduation and college selection. We had a lovely visit to the Hood campus and it brought back many good memories and pride at the beauty and growth of the school. I’m still working at both the Univ. of Delaware and Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, as well as volunteering with the same agencies as in years’ past. This year I was the Girl Scout cookie manager for Service Unit 19 of the Chesapeake Bay Council and in February helped distribute more than 39,500 boxes of cookies to our 47 scout troops. Our service unit sold more than 56,000 boxes and will be donating 36 cases (432 boxes) of cookies to the Meals On Wheels organization here in Newark. Another 1000+ boxes will go to U.S. soldiers under the Operation Taste of Home program. I’m very proud of the girls and their efforts.” Denise Swan Isacson writes, “We’re still outside Savannah, Ga., in Richmond Hill where we’ll remain until Liv graduates from RHHS in May 2010. After that is anyone’s guess! I just returned from a Paris layover where I met up with Ginny Slocum ’78. We reconnected on Facebook after 30 years. What a great time we had reminiscing about Hood and Strasbourg! Ginny teaches business English over in Paris where she recently purchased a condo. I told her she should get in touch with another Hood (and Strasbourg) alum, Stephanie Mazza Uhrig, who lives in Seltz, France, and works as an event planner across the border in Baden Baden, Germany. Ginny and I are now inspired to search Facebook for more Hood pals. Our meeting was THAT much fun!” Thank you to all my wonderful classmates for sending me your news! If you did not receive my e-mail in April asking for news, please send me your e-mail for the next request! My email address is ecomer@eacarchaeology.com. I am as busy as ever with three kids going in multiple directions! Margaret just completed her freshman year at Berkeley and loved every minute. She is on the Model UN team and went to The Hague for spring break. She has decided to follow her parents and become an archaeologist. She will dig this summer in northern Peru on a Moche site and hopefully ﬁnd a burial full of gold—something neither parent has accomplished! Jacob will graduate in June from Gilman and is headed for Brown in September (one Golden Bear and one Brown Bear)! He just won the Gilman Creative Writing Award! Anne will begin seventh grade at Jemicy this fall and still loves singing and acting! Once again she will spend the summer doing both at Summer Stock. That’s all ’til the next column! Participation: 16.14% Total Class Dollars: $7,196 This class needs a new reporter! If you are interested in being the reporter for the Class of 1978, please contact Tammy McElroy ’05, Associate Director of Alumni Relations, via mail at Hood College, 401 Rosemont Ave., Frederick, MD 21701-8575; phone at (301) 6963977; or e-mail at hoodmagcnews@hood.edu. Our condolences to Susan Whittaker Ferguson whose father Frank died April 5, 2009; and to Anne Johnson Moreland whose father Clarence died May 17, 2009.

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