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W W W.HOOD.EDU Right! She enjoys keeping her two granddaughters while their parents teach. Verna Larson Lyons and her husband, living in Birmingham, are excited about their ﬁrst grandchild—a boy—born in April. Verna said they do a lot of traveling, including a trip to India for three weeks, but now it is mostly ﬂying to L.A. to see Oliver. She also ﬁts in a lot of church work. Louise Thornton Burns had a recent encounter with a log while they were watching someone’s property and the log won. It broke her foot badly so she had pins, etc., and needed a wheelchair for a while. It was a freak accident where a log rolled off a Bobcat loader and she was in the way. She did substitute teaching for 20 years. Now she enjoys bridge, polo games and other “horse sports.” Sue Conner Lehman taught for a number of years before getting ordained in the Episcopal Church. She was the chaplain at Sweet Briar College in Virginia and retired in 2001 to the mountains of western Virginia. They realized that the weather there was more than they had bargained for. After a trip to see old friends in Cincinnati where they had lived previously, they decided to move back and are now living happily downtown. Betsy Hargreaves Rinker is still enjoying teaching microbiology at a community college. Her husband Bob, a graduate of the Naval Academy, retired from the service after 20 years, then worked in computers for 20. Even though he suffers from Agent Orange exposure he still keeps active with volunteer work. They have two sons—one in Washington and one in Atlanta—who are both in the computer ﬁeld. Betsy has been a scuba diver since age 50. You go girl! Ann Carpenter Lindau has been on the town board in Cortlandt, N.Y., for 15 years, a job that takes a lot of her time. Ann graduated from UConn. She had lunch with Joan Fleming Cremin in NYC when Joan’s husband was running the marathon. Jan Scheurer Curry, a retired librarian, lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, with her husband Richard Rodda. Rick is a working writer who writes about music. They enjoy traveling and went to New Orleans and later to Antarctica for three weeks in December. Jan is in touch with Babs Cole and Jan Mason Poole who is living in Davis, Calif., and was remarried last year. Carolyn Matusiewski Cannava wrote, “I am still principal at Soldotna Elementary School in Alaska but also the grandmother of eight. My children and grandchildren keep me busy. Tara Cannava ’87 is a hospital administrator in Seattle with a set of 5-year-old twins. Peter is a psychologist in Seward, Alaska. Kristin is a middle school language arts teacher, Mathew a dermatologist, Joseph a counselor and James is a dentist in Montana.” Her roommate, Kathy Roach Hoff, and Kathy’s son and sister visited with Carolyn who showed them the wonders of her state including Denali Park, Resurrection Bay and Seward. Carolyn says she is still awed by the beauty of Alaska. Bobby Campbell Rickman M.A. ’75 is happy that son Michael and his wife who are in Hong Kong will be relocating closer to home after her three-year State Department assignment Ann Holmes Flatt ’62 and her husband. there. The big news is the Rickman’s daughter, When she returned to the U.S., she went back Tracey Rickman ’96, and husband Patrick to Temple and entered medical school. DurWalling of Georgia, who were married in the ing an internship in Pittsburgh she became inHood chapel, are expecting their ﬁrst child. terested in addictions, working in an Bobby says she and Rick will continue to travel administrative job and in private practice. as long as they can get up the gang plank. One of her patients pointed out the addiction Bobby has volunteered at Frederick Memorial less treated—sexual addiction. This became Hospital for 36 years. Pat Taylor Santelli has Martha’s specialty. She developed her own been self employed in the industrial advertisprogram for sex addicts and their partners. ing business. Pat had two new grandchildren She says she learned from her patients that in one month and now has four boys and four many of their problems are tied to childhood girls to “spoil rotten.” Her youngest son, in trauma, which causes them to use an addicthe same class as Jack McCain, will graduate tion to cope. Martha has been using a new from the Naval Academy in May and will be technique to help heal trauma and physical going to nuclear submarine school in Charlespain. It is emotional transformation therapy, ton. Pat had dinner with Alix Rockwell Jacobs which uses lights and colors to safely reach last June in Philadelphia when Pat’s son was the brains of people stuck in their trauma. She rowing stroke on the Navy four in Intercollesays it gets much better results than any other giate Rowing Association championships (they therapy and that talk therapy is just not sufﬁgot a silver). Pat also keeps in touch with Helcient. As for me, Dottie Snyder Engle, I keep en Hill Rountree ’62. Alix is the managing dibusy with activities that help people. I am corector of the Philadelphia Charity (debutante) ordinator for our local senior citizens, manage Ball. She also has a decorative paint business a twice weekly exercise class for those over 50, (murals and ﬁnishes) and does staging for readvocate (CASA) for a foster child, take many altors. After graduate work at the Univ. of to appointments, help pack for the troops Pennsylvania in historic preservation and contwice a year, help people ﬁnd items needed servation, Alix now does consulting in that for their missions and write the Class of ’63 ﬁeld. Lin Chait Solomon M.A. ’84, M.A. ’95 column. I do have a life of my own, too. Ron wrote that she is still working at school and and I took a 16-day Alpine tour this summer the National Zoo. In addition to her annual with a number of other local couples and met family trip to the beach Lin also made a return some friends for life from other areas. We also trip to Israel. After returning from a cruise took our annual trip to the Outer Banks and I with her siblings on the Delta Queen she got had a great week with our son at Lake Tahoe. a call that her daughter Stephanie was getting Robin and I had a short NYC trip to ﬁnd small a new kidney after seven years on dialysis. Lin size clothes but we only found stores we was off to Virginia to take care of her two could have found locally. She lives at home grandchildren whose mom is recovering well. and we are like Siamese twins. Among other Son Joe and his wife have moved to Connectithings we watch TV, walk three miles a day cut where they will be able to more easily visit and keep the economy going. Thank you so NYC. Adventure is always on Gail Kloeblen much for making this a great column. It has Spertzel’s horizon. She and Dick spent three been time consuming but a tremendous weeks in the Patagonia, disembarking at Cape amount of fun sensing the disbelief when I Horn, and enjoyed the spectacular scenery of said who I was and why I was calling. I’m sorChile and Easter Island. Their daughter Karyn ry I couldn’t print every single word you was in Kabul, Afghanistan, for a six-month wrote. If you have not responded to me I tour with the DOD. Gail and her daughters hope to ﬁnd you next time. If you don’t take spent a glorious week in Acadia National Park. the initiative you may ﬁnd me on your doorGail is still painting, mostly pastels but is step! branching into photography. Dick is still working for Homeland Security. Amie Godman Tannenbaum and husband Don enjoyed a 45th Reunion monthlong trip to Eastern Europe where Don June 5-7, 2009 did research for a spring semester course he will teach on the Holocaust for Gettysburg Participation: 27.39% College. They also took a trip to California to Total Class Dollars: $7,470 see their daughter. Amie is a photographer of Barbara Maly Fish note who has been entering juried competi1006 Urban Ave. tions. You can see her work—three photoDurham, NC 27701 graphs she donated—in the Whitaker Campus (919) 688-9125 Center at Hood or visit www.ghandimemoribarb2ﬁsh@yahoo.com alcenter.org. Amie and Don are heading off to Our condolences to Kate Watson MacVean their “second home” in St. Thomas and she whose husband Gordon died March 16, 2008. invites her special friends to come visit. MarGayle Reed married Fred Carroll and writes, tha Turner, who left Hood after two years, completed her undergraduate work at Temple, “Fred and I have passed the 6-month mark of our new marriage. We think love is a ﬁne pairearning a degree in medical technology. She ing with retirement and we are very happy toworked in hospital labs, including one in Switgether. Our house, however, is splitting its zerland. While there she was befriended by

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