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W W W.HOOD.EDU Participation: 17.45% Total Class Dollars: $11,593 Trina Clickner 710 Louden Ave. Dunedin, FL 34698 (727) 734-2026 trina@palmtoppublishing.com Our condolences to Tina Dashiell Roth whose mother Virginia died Aug. 20, 2007; to Jennifer Tubbs Byrne whose father Gordon died March 1, 2009, in Rochester, N.Y.; and to Margaret Ostrom Duarte whose father Charles died March 11, 2009. More than 30 of us attended our 30th reunion = a blast! Be there for our 35th! All look fabulous! Most notable: Ginnie Roth = blonde, Gini Allen King = movie star look-a-like, Bess Muir = retired, Frederick = hip, campus = gorgeous, lush paradise. For this edition we’re documenting life using a fun, abbreviated format. Ann Green Haynes: I hate missing our 30th reunion but I’m thinking of you all in the “green walled hills” of beautiful Frederick. I was 56 when I started at Hood. My thanks to those who greased the slides for seniors to return to college. Missing being a museum docent after 15 years; young-old OK, old-old harder; enjoying eight great-grandkids; Bob, husband of 67 years, computer geek; Ann, landscape gardener wannabe; content in Paradise—except for hurricanes, tornados, ﬁres, ﬂoods and Palmetto bugs big enough to harness. Barbara Barry Kennedy: New job, new house, two kids out of college—one more to go, single and happy, swimming, animals, friends, keeping life simple, one day at a time! Bernice Delozier Graesch: Youngest graduated high school June 4; 22-year-old son HAS A JOB; sewing; Florida hot summers and hurricane season; where’s our country heading; prayerful. Bess Muir: Kole’s a merchant mariner sailing ships (no Navy for him); Erin’s working at Nighttime Pediatrics; I still love working with Hospice; living in Arnold, Md.; big dog Bruce; going green; blue Toyota Prius; recycling; LOVE traveling; local; worldwide; heading to Australia, New Zealand, Fiji; back and forth to New Jersey helping out mom and dad a few times a month; Hood reunion; BessMinMD@yahoo.com. Bethanne Warrack: 28 years at Bristol-Myers Squibb; 13 years with Mark; ongoing home renovations; warm sunny weather; summer weekends on the beach in Belmar, N.J.; fall vacation on the Big Island (Hawaii); snorkeling; sea turtles. Cathie Noyes Newell: 13 years in Marietta Ga.; empty nesters; two sons; one freshman at USC; upstate; one junior at Shorter College; teacher; still married after 22 years! Debbie Eaton Thackston: Principal at Spring Ridge Elementary (Frederick County Public Schools); daughter Jennifer is a graduate of the Univ. of Maryland and is also teaching for FCPS; daughter Julie is a sophomore at the Univ. of Maryland and is a math education major. Donna Walters Gault: Mom; loving daughter; Sunday school teacher; British comedy and mysteries; Irish cousins; avid reader; birds; wildﬂowers; friend; sister; trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Esther Beckmann Bowman B.S. ’80: Resident of Acworth, Ga., for 14 years; near Atlanta; daughter Justine getting married July 11; I’m loving Mother of the Bride role; volunteer for American Cancer Society; Rick continues on the road of survivorship and is doing well; participated in ﬁrst Relay for Life and looking forward to organizing a team for the next; Rick wrote a book; editing is fun; wishing I knew a publisher; son RJ is a senior at Georgia Southern Univ.; time ﬂies; reach out and write me at Ebecbow@ comcast.net. Gini Allen King: Granddaughter Ellie; Annapolis; work; travel; friends; sailing; sunrise at the beach; mantra: “I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.” (Louisa May Alcott). Jo Ann Bitsura: Has it been 30 years?; haven’t stopped working; married 25 years; ﬁnally escaped Houston; my baby’s a Marine; employers merging; crazy, busy career; need a real vacation; prefer the mid-Atlantic; blessed to have friends like Fran. Joyce Lavado Soucy, CPA: Stress; elderly parents; 25th anniversary; Italy on Sunday; college tuition times two; daughters at Brown Univ.; summer off at Rhode Island shore; tax season over! Kathie Jackovitz Harrington: Bernardsville, N.J.; husband; two daughters—Katie, 21, and Anna, 19; gardening; volunteering. Karen Ochis Holloway: Traveling as much as possible—Coronado, Hawaii, Rome; both daughters are college grads; working with Asperger high school students; still married to Dick. Martha Pierce: Hood doc; Braddock Heights, Md., neighbor; jazz daughter; still young! Mary Dale Jones Lancaster: PTA president—almost done; college applications for eldest son; yay, he’s going to Pitt; rhododendron in full bloom; hormones; Greece this summer; miss you Cindy, Jen and Anne! Mary Marburger Hoffman Habig: Married; divorced; remarried; separated; widowed; recently remarried; two adopted sons, 17 and 14; stepson, 11; two stepdaughters in England; six grandchildren; environmental toxicologist husband Cliff; three each dogs and cats; 24 years of farm living in southern Maryland; music instruction studio; Mary Kay business; music teacher at Light House Christian Academy on Kent Island; marina partner; active in church and choir; Boy Scouts; teach boater safety in upstate New York during summer; retired program director of sail/swim program; life since graduation has been interesting to say the least; credit goes to God and background received at Hood for the successes and the fortitude to persevere through it all. Nancy Bastian: My dad; if God took a vacation somewhere on Earth the chosen continent would be Antarctica; grilling; sonnet 98; “From You Have I Been Absent from the Spring”; new furnace; Maastricht; Belgium chocolate trufﬂes from Bruges; trees and clouds; hot ﬂashes; still Nilda. Paula “P.J.” Davis Setters M.A. ’84: Learning to relax and enjoy the journey and the process; where has the time gone?; life gets harder as you get older—thought I’d have the game ﬁgured out by now; a beautiful spring; gardening teaches humility and patience; taking time to notice the little things; enjoy home life; tranquility; birdsong. Ruth Sikora Seel: 5:15 alarm; high school teacher; college graduation; high school graduation; husband and three daughters; son-in- law; grandpuppies; healthy parents—lucky me; lots of friends; love my yard; still see Hood friends; new knees; OBX vacations; summer is coming and life is good! Sandy Cochran Murphy: Coblentz to Virginia Beach to San Diego; lovin’ life; lovin’ three teen daughters and husband Michael; lovin’ average yearround temperature—70 degrees and sunny; Catholic Bible study; theology of the body counter-culture philosophy fan; pro-life prayer vigils; red Prius; recent reconnections—Lisa Vehmas ’81, Nancy Gillece ’81, Dr. Sam Holliday (business); oh, and Topo Gigio; missing Marianne Hastoglis Gravely, Lisa Lorello Bollinger, Maryland steamed crabs; regrets— not learning to play golf; new sport—skeet shooting; favorite all-time movie—“It’s A Wonderful Life”; next chapter—write a book or screenplay?, start Internet business?, another degree? volunteer? Trina Clickner: Missing mom; text messaging; jazzercise; unnecessary basset barking; Florida beach biking; buttered ﬁlet mignons; reﬁnancing; shrunken 401K; smoked Seattle salmon; your new Hood College class reporter—write me! Participation: 21.37% Total Class Dollars: $15,551 Allison Horne 126 S. Darlington St. West Chester, PA 19382-3212 (610) 429-3202 auntieal@verizon.net In February, Ellen Aries Mulhern, Jak Killeffer Cruthers, Linda Curry Heartﬁeld, Kim Taylor Roman and I (Allison Horne) ﬁnally got together for our 50th birthday celebration at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort in western Pennsylvania. We had a great time Deadline instructions for class columnists All class reporters will be notiﬁed of the deadline in the fall for the Winter 2009-10 issue of Hood Magazine. You are welcome and encouraged to continually update the College with address changes, job or title changes, marriages, births and deaths. You do not have to wait until your class column is due. Please send the information to: Editor, Hood Magazine Hood College 401 Rosemont Ave. Frederick, MD 21701 or e-mail hoodmagcnews@hood.edu
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