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HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2008 with the Literacy Council of Montgomery County, Md. She also occasionally helps with props and costumes for the Rockville Little Theater. After 30 years of talking about it, she has ﬁnally begun making a quilt. Her ﬁrst one is intended to evoke a long-ago trip to New Zealand, then she plans to make ﬁve more, one for each of her grandchildren. She is glad to reports that she is reasonably healthy. She had developed neuropathy about seven years after chemotherapy with Taxol, but medication and exercise help her to be grateful for the opportunity of getting old. Bob and Sue McCormick Powers live in Chesapeake, Va., within shouting distance of the Great Dismal Swamp. Bob retired twice, once from the U.S. Navy and then from Sonalysts, a consulting ﬁrm. Sue worked as a veterinary receptionist during the 90s and was also active in the Southeast Virginia Dressage Association. These days, she and Bob try to keep up with four grandchildren, four horses, three cats, two dogs and a pony. Books and crossword puzzles take up the rest of her time. Joe and Ann McMillan Shuman are adjusting to his retirement from law. Their son David is an attorney in San Diego and their daughter is a marine biologist in Fort Lauderdale. Ann stays in touch with quite a few of our classmates. In January 2007, she attended Helene Kight Abel’s funeral with Sally Stoecklein Bregenser. In April 2007, she attended a play at Arena Stage in D.C. with Carolyn Fritch Clewell. In February 2008, she dined with Harriet LeSourd Wise at her home in Frederick. Ann also communicates regularly with Cindy Bradley Batson, who lives in Tampa, Fla. Catherine Beyer Meredith 1439 Ivy Hill Road Cockeysville, MD 21030 (410) 252-1947 alto1cat@aol.com Emily R. Kilby 1203B Della Road Dickerson, MD 20842 (301) 874-3316 erk44@earthlink.net As always, the women of the Class of 1965 remain a force to be reckoned with. Paula Adler Williams retires in June as coordinator of the before and after childcare program “Playkeepers” in several Baltimore County Schools. After 45 years of teaching, she looks forward to spending more time with her grandchildren–Jillian, 9, Madeline, 5, Jacob and John, both 3, who are an endless source of much love and fun. We were sorry to hear that Paula’s brother passed away in 2007 after a courageous battle with leukemia. Diana Beers Lobdell wrote a quick note in early December to report she had just returned from a trip with Ralph to India, “an amazing country.” Her big news was the birth of her second grandchild, Travis Ritner Lobdell, in October in Portland, Ore. too far from Jupiter, Fla. Connie Boyer Holbrook, M.D. and her Guild, where she occasionally sees fellow husband love living in Sun City at Hilton calligrapher Cathie Beyer Meredith. Chris Head, S.C. Choral activities and volunteering had hand surgery which thankfully was sucat last Christmas’ house tours kept Connie cessful and didn’t compromise her ability to running. “Who ever said retirement is not continue her artwork. Joseph had shoulder just as busy as work?,” she wonders. Last replacement surgery this winter, so it’s been a July Jean Carrigan and husband Harry had a season of recuperation for the Tischers. Their terriﬁc time eating and sightseeing their way son Matt now lives in New Jersey pursuing across Europe on a river cruise from Budapest a new career in HVAC. His toddler twin to Amsterdam. Their twin granddaughters daughters spend delightful but exhausting in NYC are 8 this year, while grandson Nick, weeks visiting with Chris and Joseph, where 1 1/2, keeps Grandad Harry entertained. Jean Chris’s remarkable 94-year-old mother pitches (or Scoopy as we’ll always think of her) continin with babysitting. Happy, happy birthday to ues to slave away at SAIC, but slips off to ride those of us who are celebrating our 65th this her horse Summer whenever she can. The reyear. We are 30 with 35 years experience! tirement of Barbara Casey Rufﬁno’s husband Russ after 16 years as Rector of St. Peter’s by the Sea Episcopal Church in Narragansett, R.I., prompted the couple’s relocation to Arlington, Dianne Beebe Barske Va., where Barb continues her consulting 5851 Barry Ave. work. Her rock-and-roll son Michael lives in Anchorage, AK 99507 western Massachusetts, performing with his (907) 346-3167 band and writing. Daughter Jane Casey Ruf(907) 346-1791 (fax) ﬁno ’99 is in Ireland pursuing a doctorate in dielbarske@alaska.com archeology at University College, Dublin. This busy girl is completing her ﬁrst radio docuGeneva Butz writes that she has lived in mentary, freelancing for “Dublin Today” and Philadelphia for the past 35 years, serving as marrying an Irishman in Dublin in February! pastor of Old First United Church of Christ After six years of service, Barb left the Hood in Center City Philadelphia for 20 of those Board of Trustees last spring, conﬁdent years. “I had a busy ministry in a growing that the College is in excellent hands for downtown congregation.” She authored the future. During the past year Kathie two books, ministered to the homeless and Cribbs Tromble and Burt combined a visit mentored several students in the ministry. with their surgical-resident daughter Alice Five years ago she accepted a position with in Allentown, Pa., with a quick drive to her church conference as one of two associate New Jersey to lunch with Peter and Jamie ministers. In this role she worked with 180 Gartelmann and tour their farm. The churches in the area of church development. Trombles welcomed their ﬁfth grandchild in Geneva adds, “It is a very challenging time to March: Maria Cristina Restrepo is the second be in the church because generational and daughter of their daughter Kate and her demographic shifts are forcing change in husband Dan who are lawyers in Washington, almost every congregation.” Summer plans D.C. Ann Fulton Warren and Tom have had a included a trip to Germany and Sweden, with memorable spring that included a two-week a visit in Stockholm with Eva Redvall ’67, a trip to New Zealand and Australia, a new foreign exchange student while we were at poodle puppy “Rusty” and best of all, on Hood. I remember Eva well, especially listenMarch 1, a fourth grandchild Emma, born ing to opera together in the music listening to son Jim and wife Kristie, who live in an room, where she could be seen, standing on apartment very close by. Daughter Jessica a chair, headphones on, arms ﬂailing as she and her husband Mike in North Carolina have pretended to be an opera star. I still hear from two sons and a daughter under age 7. An her each Christmas. Anyone who receives article in the Frederick newspaper featuring National Geographic publications may have the nonproﬁt program Emily Kilby directs spotted our class member, Pat Chapple prompted a visit from Doris Bailey, our phys Wright H ’90, as leader of several expeditions ed instructor, who leads a senior singing to Madagascar. The tour publication invites, group in the Frederick Senior Center where “Venture into the jungle where our National Emily’s ofﬁce is located. Dot is a testament to Geographic expert Pat Wright discovered the long-term beneﬁts of physical education. the golden bamboo lemur.” Pat is a professor Carolyn Oldman Gregory e-mailed out of of anthropology at the State University of the blue—the ﬁrst contact since graduation New York at Stony Brook, a member of the day 1965—and reported on a life that has advisory board for the National Geographic taken her to the outskirts of Albuquerque Conservation Trust and a member of Navia California. Now single with one son and tional Geographic’s Committee Research his family living in Australia, Carolyn works and Exploration. Her discovery of the golden for New Mexico Museum of Natural History bamboo lemur led to the establishment of and Science where she develops educational Ranomafana National Park, Madagascar’s programs for children, involving family and third national park. Pat was awarded the community. Christine Plankenhorn Tischer National Medal of Honor by the President of and Joseph are now truly retired but hardly Madagascar. Pat, to me, will always be the idle. Chris delights in producing and teachgood buddy, living in the room next door in ing calligraphy and chairing the workshop Rayford Lodge our senior year. How to follow committee for the Washington Calligraphers that news? Well, a member of our class was

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