Hood Magazine Summer 2008

W W W.HOOD.EDU Education Association. After 39 years in public education she will be retiring fall ’08, looking forward to helping her husband with his business and competing with her Border Collie in obedience and agility. She has been working with folks from Hood to develop an athletic Hall of Fame and has been in touch with Mary Beth Sinks, Connie Meek and Petie Johnson. Maureen Clancy has left her job of 28 years at the San Diego Union-Tribune; it was a great gig … eating for a living! Since then she’s been writing on her own Web site about anything food, drink and travel related. Check out www.maureenclancy.com. Debbie Dick Holbert is ﬁnally getting to ﬂy to international sites other than Japan. UAL is now serving Beijing and Kuwait City and will start service to Moscow and Dubai this fall, which makes any thought of retiring difﬁcult for someone who still loves to travel after all these years. Husband Woody has been retired now for 7 years and their grandson Hobie is going to be 2 this summer. Deb attended a baby shower for Chris Papayani Koumas’s ﬁrst grandchild. The Holberts spent the winter in Florida. Susan Taylor Shoch stays nearby and Barb Hoagland Ziegler came down for a week. Margaret Dunkle splits her time between Los Angeles and D.C. as both a senior fellow at the Center for Health Services Research and Policy at The George Washington University and director of the Early Identiﬁcation and Intervention Collaborative for Los Angeles County. She has been honored with numerous awards and continues to publish. Mary Ann “Bunny” Frizzell Dziugis and husband Alfredo are both retired from IBM and living in the Dallas-Ft.Worth metroplex. They enjoy traveling, especially to his home country, Argentina. Bunny is working on her dissertation in linguistics at the Univ. of Texas at Arlington. Betsy Kasin Hubbard and Ken transferred to Tampa in 2006 for Ken’s job. Betsy joined him after ﬁnishing up her job at Maplebrook School in Amenia, N.Y., and packing up and selling their house of 29 years. Daughter Amanda lives in Land O’ Lakes, Fla., and youngest Laura lives in Hampton, Va., with her husband Sol and their two sons Chase and Colin. Sol is a Naval aviator and the family will be moving to the Pensacola area for ﬂight instructor duty. Betsy is now a substitute secondary teacher in the Hillsborough School District and looking forward to several trips up to Pensacola area this summer. Ginny Monaco Hatﬁeld says she is “trying to stay functioning, after that everything is a piece of cake!” They’re planning a Hatﬁeld family vacation to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary and their daughter’s master’s degree in communications from The John Hopkins Univ. They’re all traveling together to Prague, Vienna and Budapest for a couple of weeks. Dodee Moore Black’s husband Steve retired from FAA last year; she semi-retired from her fund-raising direct marketing company, sold their house in Virginia, established residency in Key West, Fla. Now they’re spending 6 months and one day in Key West and the other half in Rehoboth Beach, Del. They celebrated the house sale, Dodee’s big birthday and their 25th anniversary with a bicycle and cruising trip to Croatia, touring in Orlando, and a luxury catamaran cruising trip through the British Virgin Islands. What a rough life! Betsy Seele Gotta has in the past four years made contact with Hood roommate Jill Stanley. First Jill came back to the East Coast for Reunion, then Betsy made a trip to Alaska for a cruise, but also got to have dinner with Jill in Anchorage. Jill tried square dancing in Anchorage, met and married Adam Zins and was instrumental in getting Betsy and her husband Roy hired in Anchorage for the Midwinter Festival in Feb. 2007. While Betsy and Roy were in Anchorage, they attended a mini-reunion of Hood graduates. Betsy has retired from her job at the Middlesex County Board of Social Services and now travels more as a full time square dance caller. Marty Silcox Hankins is enjoying her new position as director of learning and technology at The Odyssey School which is a K-8 school for children diagnosed with language-based learning differences, speciﬁcally dyslexia. Ken and Marty just had a successful Open Studio at their Shiloh Pottery for Mother’s Day Weekend and will have another the ﬁrst weekend in December. They have three granddaughters: Martha and Ginny in Baltimore and Sadie Florence in Houston, Texas. Marty spent a delightful 10 days in Japan over spring break on a school trip with 16 students and ﬁve adults. Jeanne Bryant Wyland Atlantis Island Chippewa Bay, NY 13623 wyland@optonline.net Karin Ninesling Infuso 5293 Seven Lakes West West End, NC 27376 Please note new address! Most of the classmates who sent information are looking forward to our reunion in 2010. Chris Bradley Pecor M.A.’88 will work for three more years and will continue as an adjunct faculty member at Frederick Community College after retirement. Her husband Bob retired in 2005, was successfully treated for cancer in 2006 and enjoys gardening and volunteer work. Chris has three granddaughters and two more grandchildren are due in June and October. Chris and Bob will remain in Frederick after Chris retires to remain close to their family. They went to England and Scotland for their 35th anniversary and are planning a trip to Ireland. Jeanne Bryant Wyland is busy with son William who is ﬁnishing third grade and plays soccer in the spring and fall. Jeanne teaches French and Spanish part time and her husband Richard continues as assistant headmaster for a private school. They will spend the summer at their house on the St. Lawrence River. Jeanne recently saw Linda Kramer Evans and Susan Spiro at a bridal shower for Linda’s daughter Sara. Deborah Clancy Butler has worked for four years as a pastor at Hope Lutheran Church in El Sobrante, a town 30 minutes from San Francisco. She enjoys living in the Bay area and doing work that helps people. Her husband Jay, a yacht rigger, owns Butler Rigging Company, and Debby works in the business as a bookkeeper and buyer. Her son Andrew, a partner in the business, is a marine biologist in San Luis Obispo, and her son James recently moved nearby from San Diego. Lynn Johnson Houze still works as a curator at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyo. She had a book published in May titled “Cody,” a photo history of the town. She has two grandchildren; her son Alec and his wife had a son in February and her daughter Jenn had a daughter in June 2007. Marj Menchey Bernstein still lives in Frederick and is “attached in mind and soul” to Sam Ryan Reeves. Our reunion in 2010 will be at their homes. Marj’s daughter Sando attends UNC at Wilmington, and Marj bought a house there. She is getting a divorce, is enjoying her new freedom, and will continue to work for a while. After working for 11 years in data processing and 19 years in data engineering and network communication design, Donna Newman retired from AT&T. She started a new career consulting in nutrition and water ﬁltration. She took a trip to Italy in April and a “dream trip” to Macchu Picchu and the Amazon River last fall. Kathy Owen Gurley relocated to Vass, N.C., where she continues her equestrian activities. She teaches at Fayetteville State Univ. and offered me some insight during my relocation search. Anne Parkin Pierpont is assistant headmistress and director of ﬁnancial aid at a school in Princeton, N.J. She also assists a French teacher who was at the Sorbonne one semester after Anne studied there. Anne helped with a holiday music program and taught third grade students the same carols she sang at the French House Christmas Reunion in 1969. Ellen Sacks has lived in New York City since 1974 and continues to work for the Legal Aid Society. She attended law school 10 years after graduating from Hood and just received an invitation to her 25th law school reunion. She has been on the Hood board of associates for two years, which often takes her to Frederick; she visits Marj Menchey, Sam Ryan Reeves and her son William, who will ﬁnish his studies at Hood in December. Nancy Schneider Alder retired in June 2006 and now helps her two daughters raise her ﬁve grandchildren, “true blessings,” who are under 3 years of age. Nancy stays in touch with Vickie Smith Diaz and Phyllis Ackley Dowd. Linda Walls Bradley has been a Montessori teacher in Spokane, Wash., for 17 years. Her oldest daughter Tara had a baby boy in March, her younger daughter Catherine is in nursing school in Seattle, and her son Edward received a degree in ﬁnance from the Univ. of Washington in June 2008. As for me, my husband and I bought a house in http://WWW.HOOD.EDU http://www.maureenclancy.com

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