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HOOD MAGAZINE | SUMMER 2008 40TH REUNION ALUMNA GIVES THE GIFT OF SCHOLARSHIP Suzanne Gottert ’68 earned a bachelor of arts degree in art, which included courses in studio art and art history. She lived in Paris and studied at L’Ecole du Louvre and L’Alliance Francais from 1964 through 1965. While Suzanne was at Hood, Tatem Arts Center was built. It was a great addition to the campus, allowing the art department and art classes, which had previously been held in the laundry building and in the basement of Meyran Hall, to be housed in one building. In her senior year, Suzanne earned honors on her comprehensive exams and was chosen by the students in her aesthetics class and by her professors to receive the annual art award. She was encouraged by her art history teacher, Mary Ellen Randolph, to pursue her love for art and an advanced degree. Following her graduation from Hood, Suzanne spent two years in Vail, Colo., where she later returned to attend graduate school and met her husband, Hank Krause. In 1975 she earned a Master of Public Administration degree with a concentration in environmental management from the University of Colorado. That year she and two partners founded Phoenix Construction Co., and later Peak West Associates, Inc., of which she is still the owner. Suzanne and Hank have two daughters; Kendall, who is a physician and an artist, and Courtney, an environmentalist who is a volunteer and events coordinator for the Colorado Environmental Coalition. In 1993, during her 25th reunion and Hood’s centennial celebration, three of Suzanne’s paintings were chosen for the Hood Alumnae and Alumni Art Exhibition in the Hodson Gallery in Tatem Arts Center. For the past four years Suzanne has funded the annually awarded Suzanne Gottert Prize in Art, a prize she generously created to ensure that talented students are rewarded for producing exceptional work in a variety of art disciplines and are able to pursue their love of art. Suzanne attended her 40th reunion this year and reﬂected on how the connections and friendships continue to endure throughout the years. She always believed the future of Hood is in the encouragement and support of the students, an idea that Suzanne treasures to this day. our reunion. She has enjoyed seeing Debbie Smith Aldrich, Joan Peschel Young, Johanna VanWert Thompson and Gretchen Hahn Anderson. Highlights came last summer with the birth of her 3rd grandchild Nathan, joining his sisters in N.C., and daughter Sage’s beautiful wedding combining a yacht ceremony with reception in their historic home on the Merrimac. Sage and husband are artists living 22 miles from Frederick, hopefully luring Sally into more art and Hood visits. It sounds like Sally’s creativity is blossoming with her garden and her photography–a book she photographed of gardens of Newburyport won an historic preservation award. Congratulations! As for the rest of 2008, there will be the new challenge of having to ﬂy to Texas to visit the grandkids, a family vacation in Maine, and the big question whether or when to sell the house and move WHERE? Pat Rosner Kearns lists her priorities last year as son Josh’s wedding in California; son Neil’s relapse of ulcerative colitis, surgeries and hopeful recovery; and ﬁnding a new job in October as director of corporate development for the Prevent Cancer Foundation (www.preventcancer.org). Her goals for the rest of ’08 include seeing Neil ﬁnish college at Univ. of Georgia; spending more time with her granddaughter; travel, (Pat went to Venice with daughter Johanna in Jan.); and ﬁnding a 4th career—one that captures her bliss. Debbie Smith Aldrich lists her 3 events as: Selling Marine Biotech, the company she inherited when her husband died, a very painful loss process; trying to ﬁgure out what to do with the rest of her life as she ﬂipped from too busy to not busy enough; disgust with the mess of presidential campaigning, the same news over and over. Debbie looks forward to the pleasure of living near the ocean, getting into retirement activities and travel (family reunion in the Adirondacks, and meeting old chums in Maine, Chicago and Ireland). Jayne Winters Mathews wonders when she can ever slow down and retire. Working with social nonproﬁts gives her much concern for what the economy is doing to everyone. She describes herself as a political junkie, an avid newspaper reader whose husband just as avidly supports a different political party, making life interesting. Her ’08 agenda includes travel to New England, improving her golf, going to the beach (nearby) and ﬁnding time to read. The good part is feeling better than she did at 53! Cheryl Wray Kirk continues to raise her grandson Lucas, now a Boy Scout who got her to chaperone a class trip to Williamsburg with a fractured wrist. Her 2nd grandson was born last fall. She went to Michigan in April for son Phil’s graduation with his doctorate in music theory. In June, Cheryl, husband Gene and Lucas are moving to Ocean Pines on the Eastern Shore. That should be quite a change from greater Baltimore! As for me, Judy Lehman Ballinger, the past year has been full with new things: a man in my life after 10 single years; a grandson I see and care for twice monthly since his December birth in nearby Philly; and changes at my community arts job that involve doing more archiving of the Cape May African American Collection and less teaching. Theoretically, this gives me more time for my own art (drawing and painting from my Ethiopian experience). However, I continue to care for my mother, Elizabeth Austermuhl Lehman ’37, in her house by the sea, to participate in local arts groups and to promote environmental sustainability with the Awakening the Dreamer symposium. My next joy: ﬂying to Calif. to be present for the birth of my 2nd grandchild to my younger daughter in San Francisco and introducing my beau to family and friends there. Like many of us, the big question to resolve in 2008 is WHAT’S NEXT ? Change is in the air. Linda Search Atack 2339 Brandt Village Greensboro, NC 27455 ladyship@bellsouth.net Our condolences to The Reverend Barbara Gerlach whose husband John died Jan. 15, 2008; and to Carolyn Groves Lewis whose husband Grey died Nov. 2, 2005. Our sympathy also to the family of Dale Cutshall Leach who died in 1997. Susan Korff Hammer 8046 Fredericksburg Turnpike Woodford, VA 22580 skorff@mac.com Our condolences to the family of Amanda Bowen Perrygo M.A.’90 who died April 19, 2008, in Frederick. Karen Baab Harley reports that Brendan’s job has taken them to Singapore in the heat and humidity for the last two years but things should be wrapping up by October. When Karen isn’t airborne accumulating more frequent ﬂier miles, she volunteers two days a week on a pediatric oncology ward in Singapore as “play lady” and she loves it. Eldest son Bren and his wife Kate gave the Harleys their ﬁrst grandchild in March, a lovely girl. Bren and Kate are moving to Urbana, Ill., where they will both take up academic posts at the Univ. of Illinois. When he returns from deployment, no. 2 son Lt. Peter (USN) and his wife Erin are heading to the Naval Post Graduate School in Monterey, Calif., where he will pursue a master’s degree. First Lt. Colin (USAF) is in Pensacola, Fla., doing pilot training and recently became engaged to Stephanie King, a fellow USAFA grad. Carolyn “Kip” Cantagalli Dumaresq has two daughters: Mary is an accountant for the Pennsylvania State Attorney General and Jocelyn is an English teacher and soccer coach in New Jersey. Since Hood, Kip has taught math at Upper Darby High School in Pennsylvania, ﬁnished a master’s degree at Villanova and a doctoral degree at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. She been a principal, a superintendent and now the executive director for the past 12 years at the Pennsylvania State

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