Mustang Review
The Newsletter for the George Mason High School Alumni Association
Published by the Falls Church Education Foundation
Fall 2006
www.gmhsaa.org
Number 37
GM Athletic Hall of Fame
As you may recall, I mentioned in the
previous Mustang Review that the
George Mason Athletic Hall of Fame
Committee was preparing to select
the next group of GM athletes for
induction into the Hall. That process
has recently been completed with the
selection of both the 2006 Hall of Fame
Class and the 2007 Hall of Fame Class.
The Committee concluded that with the
long period of time since the induction
of the last class (1995) and the number
of worthy GM athletes under consideration, there was sufficient reason to war-
rant inducting two classes – one this
November and the other scheduled
for the fall of 2007. The 2006 George
Mason Athletic Hall of Fame Class is
listed below and the 2007 class will be
announced officially in the next
Mustang Review.
2006 Class
1954 State Championship Track & Field Team (1st GM team to win a
VA State Championship)
Ted Yeary '68 (Track - State 440-yard Champion as a junior and senior,
holds school record for the 440 yard dash & led GM Cross
Country team to two VA State Championships)
Jim Davis '70 (Wrestling - VA State Champion, 1st in Region, 1st in District, undefeated his senior year – Football team captain and
two-time 1st Team All-District selection)
Nick Earman '75 (Basketball - scored over 1,000 pts in career, AllMetropolitan and multiple All-District selection; Baseball – fouryear starter and multiple All-District selection)
Joan Clinton '77 (Basketball – four-year starter – two-time 1st Team AllDistrict selection, captain her senior year; Softball - four-year
starter, captain and MVP her senior year)
Jenny Boozell '88 (Tennis – All-Metropolitan selection, two-time VA
State singles champion and two-time VA State doubles champion – Volleyball 1st Team All-District – VA Outstanding Academic Achievement award)
Carlos Rodriguez '89 (Tennis – Led GM to four VA State Team Championships, three-time VA State Doubles Champion, two-time
VA State Singles Champion, ranked in top 15 in the MidAtlantic region in tennis)
Coach Al Krueger – Athletic Director, Coached Tennis, Wrestling,
Volleyball & Cross-Country)
George Mason High School
Alumni Association
803 W. Broad St.,
Suite 340
Falls Church, VA 22046
(703) 538-3381
www.gmhsaa.org
During their 50th Reunion Weekend, the Classes of 1956 and 1957 Meet in GM Library
to Begin Tour of the School Hosted by GM Principal, Mr. Bob Snee
The 2006 GM Athletic Hall of Fame
class was inducted in a ceremony held
on Saturday evening, November 4,
2006 at the new GM Varsity Gymnasium in the Mary Ellen Henderson Middle School located adjacent to George
Mason. In addition, the new inductees
were recognized at the GM Varsity
Football game on Friday night, November 3, 2006. For more details on
all the Hall of Fame events that weekend, please check the GM school
site at http://www.fccps.k12.va.us/
gm/athletic-boosters/index.htm.
Class Representative News
By Scott Sager, GMAA President
Thanks to our outgoing GMAA Class
Representatives: Tracey Goetz
Stover '75, Julie Roa-Ramirez '95,
Meredith Griffiths '99, and Katiuska Arias '02. We all appreciate
you time and efforts towards the success of the GMAA. At the same
time, I would like to welcome our
new GMAA Class Representatives:
Jackie Beinhardt Cook '80, Aleta
K. Hoover '90 & Christian O'Hara
'90, Sharon Eldridge '95 & Andy
Hartman '95 & Toan Do '95 & Wilson Rickerson '95 . In addition, we
are still in need of class representatives for the classes of 1977, 2002,
2004, 2005 & 2006 – if you are interested, please send me an email
([email protected]) and I will explain the relatively simple duties of
being a GMAA Class Representative.
I am still having trouble with several
email addresses – would Ken Compher
'80, Jen Rosholt '89, Carly Lumsden
'95, and Caitlin Wright '03 please send
me an email so I can confirm your email
address. Thanks, Scott
Contact information for Class Representatives and additional photographs (in color)
can be found on the web version of this
newsletter. These changes were made due
to the length of the newsletter.
Class Notes
Alumni Teachers and
Administrators
by Nancy Birindelli
Norma and Bill Lanier (’88) celebrated
their 50th wedding anniversary at a festive affair at the Club House at Lake of
the Woods, VA, their new neighborhood
near Fredericksburg. It was great to visit
with GM staff alums Nancy and Tony
DePasquale and Mary and Chuck
Bradley. The Lanier's beautiful historic
home on West Street in Falls Church is
now the residence of son Chris Lanier,
keeping it in the family. Frank Barr has
sold his beautiful home in Alexandria and
has moved to the east coast of Flor-
In
Memoriam
Ruth Gebeaux - Staff
Wayman Holmes ‘53
Margorie Carter Miller '58
(2005)
Helen Hurley Berry '59
Jack Kurtitzky ‘59
Keith Smith ‘68 (2005)
Noah Seidenburg ‘00
Gwynora Hemphill ‘05
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The late Jonathan Olom ’68, selected as one of the Four Greatest Lawyers in Colorado History – A portion of the cover of
the The Colorado Lawyer – the Official Publication of the Colorado Bar Association – July 2006 Issue
(see Class of ’68 article for details and picture of Jonathan)
ida. He was recently visited by Hunter
Kimble (’80), GM grad and FCCPS assistant superintendent of finance and operations), who reports that he is doing well.
Sad to report the passing of Madison and
TJ teacher Ruth Gebeaux. Kudos to
Carol Monsess, first grade teacher at Mt.
Daniel, who is this year's recipient of the
Agnes Meyer Teacher of the Year
Award. Retiring Mary Ellen Henderson
Middle School Principal Rochelle Friedman has relocated to Aiken,
SC. Margaret Ohr, long time crossing
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guard and TJ aide, has hung up her reflective vest joining the ranks of the retired. Also retiring this year were GM Assistant Principal Monika Bilby, IB coordinator
Brian Dickson, Mt. Daniel para Faye Froh,
and TJ reading specialist Bonnie Rupp.
There have been some staff changes at GM
with Mary McDowell becoming an assistant
principal and Amy Kurjanowicz being
named director of guidance.
Would love to hear from more staff members about your busy, adventuresome
lives. If you are visiting on OBX, give me a
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call.
Nancy Birindelli
303 Sea Oats Trail
Southern Shores, NC 27949
252-261-3915
[email protected]
the evening, my roommate, Phil, was to
serve as the designated escort for Mary
while yours truly, Mr. Charm, would enthrall my lovely blind date with my wit and
animal magnetism. Unfortunately, things
did not quite go according to plan. Somehow, after an evening short on food and
long on wine, I ended up with Mary. To
make matters worse, Barbara Ann had to
spend most of the night fending off the
increasingly amorous advances of my
good buddy Phil.
spot, and fell heavily on top of her, simultaneously knocking the contents of a large
garbage can over the both of us. Shaken,
we managed somehow to limp our way to
the motel registration desk -- Barbara Ann,
badly hobbled with a sprained knee, and Sir
Galahad, badly hobbled with a bruised
ego. One patron at the counter looked over
and said: "That must have been one heck of
a wedding reception." Needless to say, connubial bliss was nowhere to be found that
night.
When my head finally cleared the next
day, I knew I was in trouble. I also knew I
wanted to see Barbara Ann again, if only
to apologize. Late one night the following
week she was awakened by the desk
clerk in her 16th Street apartment: "There
is an Army officer here to see you." Barbara Ann's immediate response was "I
don't know any Army officers." The desk
clerk continued: "Well, this one insists he
knows you and he is carrying a gigantic
pumpkin." At this point her curiosity got
the best of her, and she decided to come
out to the lobby to see for herself this bizarre reenactment of the Legend of
Sleepy Hollow starring Brom Bones in a
military uniform. As it happened, I had
stopped by a roadside market on my way
to an Army Reserve meeting at Walter
Reed Hospital and was desperately
searching for a peace offering. Unwittingly, I had stumbled upon the ultimate
aphrodisiac -- a huge jack-o-lantern in the
raw. Her heart melted and all was forgiven.
I think it was the next afternoon, something
she recalled after we had stopped for gas in
East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where it
was 102 degrees and even hotter in my unairconditioned 1963 Corvair Monza. Or perhaps it was after we reached the honeymoon retreat I had picked out in the Poconos, which turned out to be a steamy,
mosquito-infested penal colony that we hastily vacated three hours after arriving. Somewhere in there Barbara Ann was reminded of
a telephone call she had made months earlier to her family in Santa Monica. She remembered telling her father, a decorated
Navy pilot in World War II, that she had "met
the man she was going to marry." Somewhat taken by surprise, he asked her what I
did for a living. Barbara Ann answered that I
was a psychologist. Her father, in great dismay, boomed out: "Holy Cow, Baby (fill in
your own expletive deleted); I thought I had
warned you about those kind of people!"
Classes of 1953 & 1954
By Lynn Llewellyn &
Patti Regan Carson
Lynn: TILL TIME AND TIMES ARE
DONE One of the least pleasant tasks of
a class reporter is trying to find some
appropriate words to write about a recently deceased classmate. Over the
last few years I have had to do this too
many times for friends I cared deeply
about. It is a truism that, if you live long
enough, you will lose more and more of
the people who shared your love or those
with whom you forged intense bonds of
friendship over many decades. Such
events are not always unexpected, but
always wrenching and deeply personal.
As many of you know by now, I lost my
wife, Barbara Ann, on the 12th of June -just 17 days shy of our 43rd anniversary. She had been ill with an incurable
neuromuscular disease for almost 28
years. Gradually, like Chinese water
torture, polymiocitis took away her ability
to do things, but never her zest for
life. Barbara Ann had a wonderful sense
of humor -- probably the one thing we
both could fall back on when times became really difficult. I miss her bright
smile and those little inside jokes nobody
else would understand; and, perhaps
more than anything else, all the shared
memories of happier times. My wife, with
a twinkle in her eye, never tired of telling
people how amazing it was that we ever
survived our so-called courtship, or the
beginning of our honeymoon, for that
matter. I was the source of most of our
difficulties, and I think if Barbara Ann
were here, she would laugh with me in
the retelling.
I first met Barbara Ann in October 1962
on a blind date arranged by Mary, a mutual friend. At that time I was doing military-sponsored research in psychological
warfare at American University in Washington, D.C.; Barbara was working as a
librarian at the RAND Corporation, an Air
Force "think tank," and had only recently
moved to D.C. from California. According to our carefully constructed plans for
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It would be nice to say everything went
smoothly after our first date, but that was
not the case. Nonetheless, despite all the
misadventures, Barbara Ann and I were
married the next June at the Naval Chapel
in Washington. What occurred next can
only be described as the Honeymoon from
Hades. Following the reception, we drove
off in a driving rain storm to spend our first
night at a local Marriott -- courtesy of her
father
who, I might add, always said that my new
wife was out on option and could be recalled to California at any time. I am not
so sure he was kidding.
Anyway, if possible, it was raining even
harder by the time we got to the motel. I
drove around the complex searching for a
spot where Barbara Ann, looking radiant
and still in her high heels, could jump out
and avoid getting soaked. I stopped the
car and, as Barbara made a short dash to
a ramp, she slipped and disappeared
down a concrete walkway. When I saw
what had happened, I dashed out of the
car to help, promptly slipped on the same
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In closing, despite being in constant pain the
last 13 years, Barbara Ann still found joy in
many things and was incredibly resilient. She loved classical music, stuffed animals, cut flowers, mystery novels, poetry,
the company of her cats, popcorn on movie
nights, Tom and Jerry cartoons, and anything else that made her laugh, including
me. Call it a premonition or something else,
on the last night before her final trip to the
Emergency Room, she insisted on my reading her a favorite poem by William Butler
Yeats entitled The Song of Wandering Aengus. The poem is about a solitary man who,
on a magical night, visualizes a "glimmering
girl with apple blossoms in her hair" who
calls his name and then fades away. The
last verse is as follows:
"Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the moon,
The golden apples of the sun."
Patti: Thanks to the indefatigable efforts of
Doll Madden, several members and guests
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Class Notes
Class of 1953 & 1954 con’t
us going for another few months -- maybe
until the hopefully upcoming but not yet
planned Christmas party (it's not as far
away as you think).
Other news of our class members is
sparse (nonexistent). Please keep in
touch, all you outlanders. My e-mail address remains [email protected], although that may change when I throw my
aging, obstreperous computer out the
window and get a new one (soon I hope).
A friend recently e-mailed me a list of
"Laws of the Natural Universe" from which
I got a chuckle. A few examples: Law of
Close Encounters: The probability of
meeting someone you know increases
when you are with someone you don't
want to be seen with. Law of the Result:
When you try to prove to someone that a
machine won't work, it will. Law of Logical
Argument: Anything is possible if you don't
know what you are talking about.
FAIR WARNING: There will be more of
this type of drivel if you don't send us
some news of your own lives and interests.
After that she was off on the QE2 to Norway
and Iceland, followed by a two-week driving
tour of Scotland.
Shortly after we got Nancy’s message, Mary
Jane Clark Wild wrote that Nancy organized a photographic safari for 14 friends and
relatives, to Tanzania, Zanzibar, with a 2day stop in Amsterdam before the long flight
to Kilimanjaro. About this trip she wrote:
“Had a wonderful time on our safari - WOW.
What an experience. We were on the go
every day of the safari. The Maisai are
something else! Really admire them for staying with their tribal ways/villages. Got some
wonderful photographs - sights I never
thought I would see in person. Even got a
sequence of photos of a ‘lion kill’ - a lion
actually jumping up out of the grass and
killing a juvenile wildebeest who had wandered away from the migration herd. I'm
crying as I am taking photo shots of the
whole event. Talk about seeing the cruel
side of ‘nature.’ Hope to finish editing the
photos in the next few weeks. Talked to
Mac and she is still working on her photos.
Class of 1955
By Maggie Koontz Stewart and
Judy Potter Brown
of the classes of 1953-54 met for lunch at
Logan's Roadhouse in Sterling, VA on
July 18th (see photos above). The delighted (and delightful) classmates and
others who attended included Buddy
Tasker, Fred Louis, Joan and Bill
Gladstone, Lynn Llewellyn, Betty
Yarbrough Hilosky and friend Brooksie
Tozia, Nell Campbell and friend Bob
Schindler, Buttons and Peggy
Yarbrough, Dan and Mary Lou Taylor
Dose, Doll Madden, Penny Jackson,
Arlan Kinney, and myself. Catching up
on the news of one another's lives was a
little challenging because we were
seated at one very long table, but with
determination and resolve we managed
to exchange enough information to keep
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Class of ’55 on the move: Our intrepid
African traveler/photographer Nancy
McCarthy reported: “I had an extraordinary trip to South Africa in fall ’05. To give
you a framework, a year ago in three and
Mary Jane among Maisai villagers
a half weeks in Africa I saw one leopard
for one minute and
Did get some good
got one good picture.
photos of the aniThis year in 10 days
mals, scenery, and
we had 17 different
the fauna. And got
leopard sightings,
some photos of the
many in daylight,
Maisai and some
which is pretty unAfrican schoolchilusual for these nocdren at a school
turnal creatures. My
that we visited.”
Nancy’s leopard on the move
images from these
Nancy added, “It
encounters are everywas fun to share such an incredible adventhing I could have asked for.
ture with a friend (MJ) of so many
years. From an original love of dollhouses
and fashion to one of photography and
exotic travel was quite a leap. But all the
seeds were there at age 11 and remain
constant almost 60 years later.”
Jeff Feagin returned to Falls Church for a
week in the middle of October ‘05 and
again the middle of March ’06, making his
plans coincide with Gail’s memorial service.
In the spring he geared up for halibut season and tilling his garden.
Mary Jane and Nancy line up a shot
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Class Notes
Don and Dianne Jones have moved
from Don’s remodeled home place in
Falls Church to Wilmington, NC. Their
new contact information is 1620 Sound
Watch Drive, NC 28409. The phone
number will be (910) 350-0096, and they
will keep the same e-mail address, at
least for a while. His life is crazy what
with trying to sell two houses and paying
for the new one. He says about moving,
“Won't say never, but hope I don't have
to do this again.”
Contrary to a rumor that is circulating,
Pat (Henrietta) Green Womack has not
moved to Texas. “For years we traveled
the world looking for a place to retire
where the mountains came down to the
sea. Costa Rica was a possibility until
one Sunday there was a full-page ad in
the Washington Post. After that Costa
Rica was not an option. It has changed
and developed so much since we started
spending time there.”
Bob Koontz says he “went on a 20 day
tour of the four Scandinavian Countries
and Russia. Visited many art galleries,
museums, castles, and churches in Copenhagen Denmark, Oslo Norway,
Stockholm, Sweden, Helsinki, Finland
and three cities in Russia. In Russia we
spent 5 days visiting St. Petersburg, Novgorod, and, of course, Moscow. During
the 20 days of the tour we rode on busses, airplanes, ferries, and trains.
While in Moscow, we went to the ballet at
the Bolshoi Theatre. It was quite a performance in a beautiful theatre. We
couldn't drink the water, but, boy, was
the ice cream really good.”
Other travelers in the same part of the
world were Judy (Potter) and Jared
Brown. In late June they began their
summer of travel to St. Petersburg, Russia, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Oslo and
Bergen, and Stockholm. Before that trip,
however, was the book launch in NYC for
Jared’s latest book (Moss Hart: A Prince
of the Theatre – yes, the same Moss
Hart who co-wrote the class of 55’s play,
The Man Who Came to Dinner), then
once back home they headed to LA to
meet their brand new granddaughter
born when they were in Oslo. Judy contributed an essay on retirement for an asyet unpublished book made up of ruminations on the subject. She couldn’t help
but treat the subject lightly as she figures
she’s never going to retire – only stop
working for the big bucks.
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Karl Larew retired as of last July 1 ’06 but
is still teaching the occasional course in
military history at his old university. He
also published an article in The Historian
(the journal of the national historical honor
society) on Army communications before
WWII. He’s completed drafts of four novels in the past year one of which is now at
his literary agent's for consideration. He
and Marilynn also find time to travel: a
week in Spain in September (Alicante),
and a week and a half in Turkey where
they planned to see Ankara, Konya, and
some ancient sites and Cappadocia.
Maggie says “check out Greenleaf Gallery
in Duck NC, Silver Bonsai in Manteo, NC,
or Sarah Jessica Fine Arts in Provincetown, MA if anyone is near those vacation
spots and want to see some great art
[hers, of course]! Have another dog--we
fostered then couldn't give him back – his
name was Jimmy, so he became Jimmy
Stewart. Good Grief what news is this?”
In August 2005 Jane Anderson Moon
retired from the aerospace electronics
industry. She’s thoroughly enjoying not
going to work every day. Instead she and
her oldest son been renovating two rental
house as well as designing and planting
new gardens. Then in August 2006, she
and her husband Marion will celebrate
their 40th wedding anniversary with children and grandchildren.
Heard from Grace McCurdy Clark who
winters in Borrego Springs, a tiny town in
the middle of the Anza-Borrego Desert
State Park (California) that is near the
western edge of the Colorado Desert.
Here she monitors and counts hawks for
the Hawk Migration Association of North
America, which provides a data bank to
help establish a basis for future monitoring
of raptor populations. She’s also an AnzaBorrego Desert State Park volunteer, and
gets a lot of pleasure from meeting tourists from all over the world and helping
them to enjoy this unique and beautiful
desert.
Richard Coons gave us an update on his
ever-growing family – “3 more grandsons
and 1 great-grandson since June ‘05, for a
total of 10 grands and 2 greatgrands. Last daughter not married yet, no
children. Three granddaughters playing
soccer for the high school. Life is just
grand down on the farm. Still retired, enjoying the family, taking a few trips, have 2
planned for this year, with most of the
family going.”
And we can check off another name from
our “to be found” list. Jane found Pat
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Caron Donnelly. You can add this information about her to your reunion booklets. She
attended university in Munich, Germany.
She married Bill Donnelly in her late 20's,
but has been divorced for at least 20 years.
She has two children: Maryellen, a nurse
who lives in Seattle, WA, and has a daughter, Devon, age nine; son Jay works for MIT
and currently lives in Colorado Springs. She
was a history teacher for many years and
enjoyed it, but she left teaching quite a few
years ago -- Massachusetts had cutbacks
and several waves of layoffs at that time.
Pat had a stroke several years ago but has
no residual effects. However, at that time
she moved to St. Luke's Home in Springfield, MA and has lived there ever since.
That’s it for the Fall-Spring ’05-06 edition.
We are, truly, an interesting bunch who don’t
let any grass grow under our feet. Ya’ll keep
those cards and letters coming, ya hear.
And keep trying to locate those still in our
missing column. Send your news to Judy
[email protected] or Maggie
[email protected].
Classes of 1956 & 1957
By Terp and Pat Sullivan Palmer
Our 50th Reunion celebration was a huge
success and we had an impressive turn out
of almost 60% of each class.
Even though it is over, the memories will
linger for a long time. It was a chance to
remember how fortunate we were to grow up
in the 50's in a place like Falls Church. We
exchanged wild, wonderful and ridiculous
memories and renewed old friendships and
even made a few new ones.
Friday night as people arrived, they could
hardly get off the elevators - everyone was
crowded around waiting to see who would
be the next classmate. Having teachers
there with us on Friday night was a special
treat. John Scanga, Tony DePasquale,
Chester Rockwell and Norma Lanier as
well as Nancy DePasquale our librarian
were all there with spouses. On Friday night
after the party, a good number of people
went back to the Hospitality Room and continued the fun till 1AM. Don’t these people
remember that they are old?
One of the highlights of the weekend was
the tour of the school, led by Bob Snee
(note picture are on page one), the current
principal. He did a great tour and made us
all proud to say that we are George Mason
Mustang Alumni. The facility is impressive
with all the latest equipment and boasts at
least one computer for every two students. For you sport fans, the football
field is now equipped with lights and a
new artificial turf playing field. By Saturday
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Class of 1958
By Tiana Gillespie Camfiord
Class of 1956 & 1957 con’t
night, we had all calmed down a bit but
there were new people to add to the
mix and we had a little more time for visiting. We took the formal class pictures
on Saturday night and the informal shots
were taken in the old gym during the
school tour - we thought you would like
to see them. If you are interested in a
CD of photos from the reunion weekend,
send us an email and we will give you all
the information.
Just because you were not there, does
not mean that we did not think about
each and every one of you - you were
missed. All in all it was a weekend full of
laughs and nostalgia.
When the last alumni newsletter arrived, I
received a phone call from MARGORIE
CARTER MILLER’s husband Paul, in Cob
Island, MD. Margorie had passed away a
few weeks earlier after a six-year battle
with cancer, diabetes, and kidney failure.
She was a retired Postmistress. Her two
children and two step-children are nearby
so Paul will remain at home. At our last
reunion she was recovering from heart
surgery but sent her best to all of us. She
loved flowers so Paul suggested we plant
one in her memory. I planted the lovely
Citeron daylily and it is one that can be
divided for others in the class.
MALCOLM CARPENTER, Kiki, and their
lovely daughter were here from Germany
in April for a long visit with his mother in
Falls Church, and we had a get together
as the gardens were peaking. My old
Class of 1956 in the “old” gym during their tour
Bob finally had someone with whom to discuss old cameras. Kiki left thinking she
could smuggle a piece of hosta on the plane.
JACKIE ABRAMSON BENTON and MARY
JEAN SANDFORD CAMPBELL came up
from NC. JANET REES WATSON announced she was retiring from the FBI
(Fraud Div.) the following week. No firm
plans……she and Hunter were just going to
play for a while. ANN ARNOLD HUNTER
and Steve announced they will probably
never retire! Ann is a new woman after back
surgery last year. With her large family, she
came up with the perfect phrase “When you
think you have time to call your own, the
‘day-snatchers’ will get it. ”Also joining us
were STEVE and LESLIE GILMORE
VANDIVERE, and MOE HEDETNIEMI with
his wife, Jan.
ELSIE JAY DUNHAM CARR planned to join
Moe, his Mother, and all of his family in
Michigan in August at a memorial service for
Moe’s Dad who passed away July 4th. Many
of you “old-timers” may remember the important role Mr. H. played in the early Falls
Class of 1956 on Saturday Evening
Class of 1957in the “old” gym during their tour
Class of 1957 on Saturday Evening
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Church City government and school system. He and my Dad worked hard getting the ball fields ready when GM first
opened in 1952. JANE ST. JOHN
helped Mrs. H. with funeral arrangements
as she is still with Advent Funeral Home.
She is also a full time part-time minister
with the Unity Church in Oakton. Jane
recently had a wonderful trip by plane
and ship to Alaska. She recommends
this trip to everyone.
BILL BENSON, Cheryl and I played
phone tag during their visit in June. His
younger brother, Lance, and wife, will be
moving into the family home on N. Oak
Street in FC. Bill is very active in Iowa
with conservation and shooting safety
groups. He teaches shooting, judges
competitions, and loves working with
young 4-H'ers. This year he went, for the
second time, to Argentina with a group
for dove shooting.
This Spring, I spoke with DONNA HOWE
PATE. She is just as funny and happy
as ever and sporting a southern Georgia
accent. She was with the local bank, her
husband was a college and high school
football coach. Their son lives “down the
street,” so they will stay put in retirement.
If they can come via “The Blue Highways” (written by William Leastheat
Moon) and not the Interstates, they will
try to make our 50th Reunion.
LARRY MANWARING, last
year returning from three years in Germany, feels he is now in a nesting mode.
They are refurbishing their home of 25
years in Warrenton and getting reacquainted with their dogs and horses.
BILL GRAHAM in Reuilly, France is
staying put also, as he bought the house
next door to the B & B, and is converting
it to self-catering, including a couple of
studios for the wheelchair bound. If we
ever get there, at least it will be ready for
us. He has a new email address:
[email protected]. The web site is
still www.marneweb.com.
I’ve passed on, via email, many letters
from classmates so remember to let me
know if we can add you to the recipients
list. NANCY EDWARDS BROCKMAN
wrote a lovely long letter. After eight
years, she is still in love with Charlottesville and its vibrant community. She has
continued to hold various positions in the
arts community and works with talented
young people from all over the country.
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She served as Pres. Of the National Society of Arts and Letters, and is now Chair
of the Trust Fund. Her Mom is still in the
family home in FC and Nancy visits
monthly. And still finds time for two
daughters and three grandchildren.
CHIP CHANDLER is a practicing attorney
in Los Alamos, NM; and lends his talents
and expertise to help the homeless, assists in writing the State Democratic platform, as well as working on nuclear arms
control with other retired folks from Los
Alamos. He’s come a long way from
blowing up stumps in his backyard with
other like-minded classmates. This summer, he and his oldest son, one of
four, plan to motorbike across Canada to
New Brunswick. Of course, the guy who
traveled the really hard way, in my opinion, is JIM BYRNES. Jim just had to bike
from Tucson to Nogales and back to Salt
Lake City—18 days, 1029 miles, and a 24
mi. hike across the Grand Canyon. Given
the terrible heat in June in the Sonora
Desert he felt he should have started earlier. His worst physical problem, if you
can believe this, was leg cramps while
sleeping in a small tent!!!
I hear that people are talking about a 50th
Reunion. I’m thinking October and NOT in
FC with our traffic issues. Please let me
know your thoughts.
Class of 1959
By Clare Neuberg Dix
Hi to all........it's been a year since
the class of '59 has had an article in
The Mustang Review. My thanks to those
who took the time to send me
articles. It makes my job easier and the
reading more interesting. This is a busy
time in our lives! People are retiring, folks
are traveling or moving. Please remember
to send me changes of address. We'd
hate to lose you. In January 2007 look for
me in Antarctica!...Clare
Laura Love Akerman Yates
writes: ".....I've relocated to New York
State -- Saratoga Springs. To my surprise, it's a lot like home and I love
it. Tuesday I had a Cardiac catheterization. It went well, thank goodness, and I
am recovering mostly discomfort and not
much else. Miss all of you. Come to see
me! As the Virginians would say, "Y'all
come."
Bob Barrett, living in Springfield, VA.
writes: "I've recently been able to rekindle one of my enjoyments of life: sailing. I
have a sailboat that has been in the family
for years. I've always enjoyed the water,
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but in recent years with job, house, and family responsibilities there never seemed to be
time for the boat. Anybody who has ever
owned a boat knows that they come with a
perpetual requirement...constant care (ask
Jim Scott or Steve Callanen). For five
years the boat was virtually neglected save
for occasional checks to make sure it was
still around. During Hurricane Isabel it
floated off on its own until rescued by a vigilant marina staff. My Son is in the military
and like many who serve he was tapped for
"overseas" deployment. Just before he departed I mentioned to him that I would try to
sell the boat because we didn't use it any
more. That news did not go over well with
him at all. The firmness in his voice caused
me to do a complete turnabout. I then promised that rather than sell the boat, I would
instead restore the boat to "shipshape and
Bristol fashion", and have it ready for some
serious cruising on the Potomac upon his
return. It has been a big job, but a labor of
love, and fun to see this "old girl" rise from
the ashes. We'll be on the water in October.
If you're out on the Potomac then, look for
Quintessa sailing proudly, and stop by to
thank a Veteran for his service...My Son!"
"Hello from Allan Berman. Still live in
Washington DC with my wife of 42 years.
Retired. Both of my sons are married and I
have two (beautiful of course) grand daughters. Stay active doing volunteer charitable
work."
Need a photographer? Contact Tom Brett:
"My current world remains very full with my
own fledgling photography business [for
weddings and military formal ball/ prom
shots]. The latter allows me to be around
Army and Marine Corps people, whom I
greatly respect and miss, since the Law requires us to retire at 30 or 35 years service.
I am also very busy as a board member of a
Photographic Society [a camera club] and
more recently, a dance club [the Carolina
Shag], where I dance twice weekly with live
[and lively] women and take private and
group lessons. I also belong to a second
camera club. These things, as well, camping and hiking the Rockies in Canada or
Calif., skiing for a week in Colo. each year,
[both w/ classmates from The Citadel and xwife, Jo], and foreign trips [31 days in Africa--my true love continent !!! --last year] and
running 45 minutes every other day-----all
keep me fairly busy."
John Dillon is in New Jersey and sends the
following: I am "semi-retired" although I
seem to be working harder than ever! I now
serve on the Boards of Directors of three
pharmaceutical companies - one is public
and two are private. I also continue to do
consulting to the health care industry. I have
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Class of 1956 & 1957 con’t
formed a company with former industry
colleagues - check us out at
www.bioverumpartners.com.
these crazy Americans had done, but
mostly they wanted to know if they were
enjoying their "holiday" in New Zealand. There was always an enthusiastic
"absolutely!" as a response. The driving
was quite a challenge, especially for Pat
and Tom, but Joanna and Bob acted like
they'd been born to it. A lot of laughs ensued, but mostly it was a terrific three
Gail is well and enjoying her summers on Long Beach Island - June
through September every year. My
daughter, Anne, and her husband,
Jake, are doing very well and will
celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary in September. The grandchildren are fabulous. Dillon is 7
and will enter 2nd grade and Connor is 6 and will enter 1st grade in
September.
We are traveling a lot. This
year: 10 days in the Florida Keys in
April, one week with the entire family in Bermuda in June, 15 days in
Russia in September and back again to
St. Barts in November for our 18th consecutive visit. I wonder what it is like to
be really retired?"
Howard Gebeaux writes from Montross,
VA about the death of his Mother Ruth
this past spring. Some of you will remember having Mrs. Gebeaux for a teacher
in fifth grade. She taught in Falls Church
for many years.
Pat in Australia with David and Carolyn Benn
weeks. At the end of that time, Joanna &
Bob went home and Tom & Pat continued
in N.Z. on the North Island for another 9
days before heading to Sydney, Australia
for 5 days. There they were met by and
ferried around by David '58 and Carolyn
Newell Benn, who really showed them
why they have made Sydney their
home. It was a wonderful experience -- all
five weeks of it.
Frank Govern sends the following: I'm
retiring from my second career as a 4th
grade teacher in downtown long
beach. It's been 18 years as a volunteer,
student, substitute and 12 years in my
own classroom. I've made a ton of memories, most all of them positive, but with the
year end on 8/25...........that's it. I'm going
to Scotland on 9/2 with some teammates
from Wm and Mary to celebrate. I'm a
grandfather and it's been a joy. We're
remodeling the interior of the house and
looking forward to a two-week trip to upstate New York, Hershey, PA and Williamsburg in October November. Life's
good for us all and we've got no comBob and Joanna Michael Myers '59 and Tom '56 and Pat plaints.
graduation this past June and before that for
Christmas celebration with whole family. Our
address is 34552 Maple Drive, Lewes, DE
19958 and email is [email protected].
Would love to hear from anyone who has
time to email.
It is with sorrow that I inform you of the
death of our talented, happy-go-lucky classmate Jack Kuritzky. His brother Paul
sent the following: Jack passed away on
March 8, 2006 at the Veterans Affairs
Medical Center in Gainesville, Florida. After graduating from George Mason he attended and graduated from the
U.S. Navy School of Music and served
as a percussionist in the U.S. Army
Band. He loved his years at George
Mason as a member of the band, football team and other groups. We still
have his band uniform from GM. Jack
is survived by his wife Nelly de Bedout,
his son Baron and his brothers Louis,
Bruce and Paul.
Miles Lee wrote about the death of his
brother Tim who had been ill for a long
time.
Emmy McRae Olah and Barbara Puckett
Miller
From Michigan's Upper Peninsula Pat
Gentry Hedetniemi writes: In midJanuary Bob and Joanna Michael
Gentry Hedetniemi '59 in New Zealand
Myers met Tom '56 and Pat Gentry Hedetniemi in the airport in Los Angeles where the four of them began a
three-week journey through the South
Island of New Zealand. At every juncture
they found the scenery and the experiences to be fantastic, and the people
were among the nicest they had ever
met. They were so interested in what
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Priscilla Hymers Staebler writes: We
have had a busy summer with family coming up to enjoy the beach and getting together with us. We spend most of our
time outside in the garden or just sitting in
the back yard with a nice cold drink.
We have been back to VA twice since
moving. Once for our granddaughter
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Emmy McRae Olah with son, Todd McGarry, and grandson, Nicholas. Barbara Puckett Miller with daughter,
Mary Miller, and grandson, Andrew Hoskins.
spent a great week end in July at Emmy’s
catching up on old (and new) times. Their
grandsons participated in an all-star baseball
tournament at Cove Creek baseball facility
just outside Charlottesville, which is 15 miles
from Emmy’s farm, Apple Orchard Farm.
John Grisham is the owner of Cove Creek,
and Emmy’s son, Todd, is the assistant
manager there.
After reconnecting at the last class reunion,
they’ve kept in touch. They discovered that
their grandsons were playing in the same allstar tournament in July and made arrangements to make a girls’ weekend of the event.
Fortunately, their grandsons were in different
age brackets and didn’t play against each
other, so there was no rivalry. Lots of cheer-
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ing. It was a great weekend for two
proud grandmas (and mothers). Lots of
talking and laughing, but not much sleep!
Leo Luther Rix wrote about the passing
of his Mother Marian. I will remember
Mrs. Rix fondly for her years as my
church choir director and wise counsel.
The newly retired Judy Royston Beach
writes: I have finally retired from Louise
Archer. My first date of retirement was
August 1. It is going to take awhile for
me to adjust but I am looking forward to
the next phase of my life. Of course, my
husband is very excited that I will now be
home with him.
A brief update. All three of my children
are married and two of them have children. Rob has a son Kyle 18 and a
daughter Clare 5; Becky has a daughter
Courtney 16 soon to be 17, a son Justin
who is 11 soon to be 12 and a daughter
Megan who is 5. Mike and his wife have
three granddogs. You will just love being
a grandma.
There is nothing
like it. [I took the
liberty of telling the class
about the birth of
our first grandchild Kaley Laura
Dix in January.
She is the first
female born into
the Dix family in
Kaley
over 100 years.]
From Dorothy and Jim Scott -- Friends
and Family: after nearly two years of the
application process we were finally
cleared medically for a Peace Corps assignment with two conditions: the country
must have cardiology and mammography
services. Thus, our west Africa assignment for this September (we really never
knew where in west Africa) was canceled, and we have been rescheduled to
leave in March 2007. Again, we still
don't know exactly where (we assume
Africa), but we have a little more breathing room now, and we'll be ready then for
anything, I guess.
Until we hear something we are living on
the boat while we try to sell it having already rented our house for a year. We'll
probably end up in the camper after we
sell the boat. At least we're having fun!
Love to all, Jim And Dorothy
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[Since writing the above I have received
the following:] On Monday 8/7 the Peace
Corps told us March, but on Wednesday
8/9 they called again to tell us it would be
July '07 for "Southern Africa" or the
"Pacific Islands."
We are bummed that it still seems so far
away, but we're using the extra time to
fulfill some of our other goals. We may go
sailing if we don't sell the boat and/or start
building the cabin in WV and/or go camping to the various National Parks we've
missed. We'll keep you advised.
From Lance
Seidel: Here is
"Peanut" holding
his new sister
“Sweetpea”.
Grandchildren
almost make
getting old worth
it!
Tyler Mark “Peanut” Seidel, 4,
and Chloe Marie “Sweetpea”
Seidel, age two weeks
Dave "Sleepy"
Thompson writes: After rebuilding half my
house after 'Charlie' visited we came to
Central Florida to visit and ended up staying. We now live in the Spruce Creek
Country Club in Summerfield, just south of
Ocala. All are well and happy. Play a lot
of golf and fish every day. Still play softball and weight train daily to keep busy.
David R. Thompson
12473 SE 93 Ct Rd.
Summerfield, Fla. 34491
(352) 307 9484
golfish60@yahoo .com
Sadly The Washington Post reported that
Helen Hurley Berry died of cancer
on September 23rd. She is survived by
her husband Dennis and three sons.
Helen was a former physical education
teacher, swimming coach, Olympic-caliber
equestrian and raised champion show
dogs
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That's all the update I have for the last
year. Keep the news flowing, I'll return in
late Spring '07. Clare
Steve Callanen writes from The Shore:
Time seems to fly by when you are having
fun. Since our last reunion Sallie and I
have happily celebrated our 40th & 42nd
wedding anniversaries. I can't recall our
41st. We're still on the coast in Delaware,
where fortunately the sea level rise doesn't have us treading water yet. I'd like to
extend warm greetings to all Classmates
with the hope "you-all" are looking forward
to our 50th Reunion bash - start planning
to attend. It's almost less than 2-years
away. I'm ceding further comment space
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to Clare so she can include a photo (my
favorite attached) of her beloved new granddaughter - Kaley. Stay happy!
Steve
Class of 1960
By Lee Rhoads
Lee Rhoads and his dog
“Greetings” from Lee Rhoads in Topanga,
California: OK, if you haven’t lived in Southern California you have no idea where I am
(it’s a rural canyon off Pacific Coast Highway
between Santa Monica and Malibu, but not
as pricey).
I recently read about the passing of one of
my favorite teachers, William Maher and it
prompted me to write my only alumni letter.
First I want to give Mr. Maher credit for introducing me to theater, inspiring me, and dozens of others when he arranged monthly
trips to the National Theater on 14th Street in
the mid-fifties. I was so thrilled to see professional actors at the age of 13 that I was
talked into small roles in his high-school
productions of Tom Sawyer and some Oscar
Wilde plays (whose names I can’t recall).
And no, I didn’t go on to become a Hollywood star but the experience did lead to four
years of theater at Roanoke College and
finally to direct community theater with the
Peace Corps in South America.
I remembered him as a wonderfully warm
and supportive teacher, who could tolerate
our terrible readings on stage (I was wellknown by the prompters as never remembering my lines and having to ad-lib my way
through long soliloquies until they were drastically cut). Maybe even that experience was
helpful because I later became a film editor
in motion picture advertising, and it was my
job to cut long-winded jokes down to two-line
gags. Or, if the actors didn’t deliver the dialogue we needed for a trailer (read: “coming
attractions”), we would ad-lib them and have
an assistant or secretary record the necessary line just as we wanted it…
I did 2 ½ years with the Peace Corps, too
many years in USC’s film department, and
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13 years at Universal Studios. The former came in handy as I just got a call
from one of my former bosses asking if I
would be interested in meeting with a
company that does Spanish language TV
spots for Telemundo in LA. Which brings
me to my second recollection of past GM
teachers:
Speaking a foreign language seemed
really exotic to a kid who had never been
further than Ocean City, MD, so I signed
up for high school Spanish. The instructor was Mr. Phillips and, while I liked
him as a person, his intervention has
stayed with me for some forty years:
”Why are you taking this class, Lee?” “I
thought it would be cool to speak a foreign language.” “Well, you have absolutely no aptitude for Spanish.”
I got the message and dropped the class,
only to find myself taking intense
“Conversational Spanish” some ten years
later in the rainforests of Puerto Rico.
The Peace Corps had a great motivational tool; they told us after two weeks of
class that we would be given a crossroad
in a rural part of the island, would have to
find our way there, rent a room for 4 days
from a local family, and return by public
transportation. That got everyone’s attention as the laggards jumped to their feet
asking, how do you say, “Do you have a
room?” “Where is the bathroom?” “Is
there a bed?” etc.
This system was apparently effective as
within a year I was teaching theater in
Spanish, in the barrios outside of Lake
Maracaibo, Venezuela. The punch line to
the story is that a few years later I sponsored two of my best actors as exchange
students at George Mason, and when my
dad asked me to introduce them to the
principal, it turned out to be my old
teacher, Mr. Phillips. He met me at his
office (one that I had visited many times
before, but not for social visits) and, pulling me aside, asked if I could translate
for him…that his Spanish was “a little
rusty.” To this day I wish I had a nifty
rejoinder but instead stumbled forward
without reminding him of his earlier assessment of MY Spanish.
Perhaps it was his challenge that induced me to work harder because to this
day, my attempts at French, Portuguese,
and Italian all are incomprehensible to
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anyone who doesn’t also speak Spanish. I
still love you if you’re out there Mr. Phillips!
In all, I thoroughly enjoyed my years at
GM and hope it served all of my classmates as well as it positively influenced
me. My old band-mate, Bill Carlson,
started playing in the high-school gym and
still teaches guitar in Alexandria, my goodbuddy, Billy Clewlow, began combing the
fields of Manassas for Civil War relics and
continues to do archeology in Southern
California, and my best girl friend, Barbara Ioanes, working for the federal government managed to retire before all of
us! (Note to our droll former piano-player,
Mike Wright, and sole mate, Larry
Cheatham, that was “girl friend”, not
“girlfriend”).
Best to all, and thank you, Mr. Maher! Lee
Rhoads, [email protected]
Class of 1963
By Bill Laing
Greetings and salutations. In the last issue of the MUSTANG REVIEW I encouraged classmates to write something for
the MR about what you and your family
have done recently. Two of our classmates sent articles and Linda Raines
Ragsdale enclosed a picture with her
article. The picture was taken when she
visited Sharon Cosminsky Kern ’62 in
Linda Raines Ragsdale &
Sharon Cosminsky Kern
Greensboro, NC earlier this year and submitted by Sharon. Here are the two articles:
Hi Bill, I have devoured the Mustang Review. Loved seeing the Class of '71 report
from Billy Martin. His family lived catercorner from my house in Falls Church. At
our last reunion I saw Billy and one of his
sisters, Rose, for the first time since the
60s. I was walking across the gym and
heard, "She was my babysitter!" I turned
and there were Billy and his wife. What a
neat surprise. Rose Martin Daughety
writes the class notes for '67. I didn't get to
see the other Martin girls, Nora, Jeannie
and Kathleen. We could have quite a
reunion just from the corner of Anne
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Street and JacksonStreet.
I went to Greensboro recently and spent the
night at Sharon and Dick Kern's. We looked
at old pictures (She has them all!), talked
about Barbara, Sharron and Ellen. She
showed me pix of Sarah Sansom's two
children. Had good laughs and made some
new memories. Always good to think about
GM days, Linda
Hi Bill, It was nice to get the Mustang Review today and see your class news bit with
two photos. Thanks for all the years you
have done this. Here is some of my news for
the next issue. Wayne and I went to New
Zealand for three weeks, leaving the middle
of February. We traveled for two weeks on
the South Island with our son who had just
finished his 4 month job at McMurdo Station,
Antarctica. Then we traveled another week
alone on the North Island. It was wonderful
to go back after 44 years. Before leaving I
reviewed my hundreds of slides from being
there in 1962 as an AFS exchange student. I
visited my school in Palmerson North where
they still have an AFS Program and the
school enrollment is twice the size. Our final
two days in NZ were spent with my AFS host
siblings. It was wonderful to see them again
and share our lives after 44 years. New Zealand is such a beautiful country and so welcoming to tourists. I recommend it highly to
everyone. Peggy Price Martin
Before you put down your MR, please take
time to give me your email address. Some
classmates have changed email addresses
lately and I need to get a recent list to put
online for the GMAA. When you do this, try
and drop a few lines re: what you have been
doing, i.e. retired, vacation, kids getting married, having grandchildren, etc.
I had the pleasure of visiting with Skip Hamberg twice this year. The first visit, Skip,
Dave Carlo, and I drove up to Salem University (WV) where we graduated from many
years ago. Yes, things looked a lot different
and we had a wonderful day renewing
friendships and seeing the gorgeous WV
countryside. Skip tries to get back this way
several times a year to visit family both in
N.Va. and Richmond. Thanks and please
don’t forget to send your email address.
Hope this finds everyone in good health.
FOMJ DINNER by Bill Laing: When we hear
the word reunion, we generally think of some
kind of school reunion, elementary school,
high school, or college. However, there is
another reunion of some GM grads and their
spouses that was formed as a result of the
death of 1961 GM grad Mary Jane Romer
Adcock. Mary Jane died after a lengthy
illness on January 20, 2001. After the fu-
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neral, relatives and family friends gathered at Mary Jane’s brother’s house,
John Romer ’65. Seven of us decided
that we would get together for dinner in
the near future to remember Mary Jane
and to renew friendships. The group’s
first meeting was in March of 2001. We
gathered at one of Mary Jane’s favorite
restaurants, Dak’s, located at Bailey’s
Crossroads. We decided to try and meet
every month (it’s now like every quarter).
We also named the group of seven,
FOMJ (Friends of Mary Jane). The original seven members were: John Romer,
Stanton and Dorothy (Kellman’61)
Samenow, Don and Sande (Helwig’62)
Pfalzgraf, and Betty and Bill Laing
(’63). All three couples had been married
for some time and we enjoyed each
other’s company. Two years ago, at the
FOMJ (Friends of Mary Jane) – (left-to-right) Dorothy
(Kellman) & Stanton Samenow, Diane Hughes Romer &
John Romer, Sande (Helwig Pfalzgraf, and Bill Laing &
wife Betty
GM class reunion picnic, which John
reluctantly attended, John met up with an
old girl friend from his ’65 class at GM,
Diane Hughes. John called me from his
car after the picnic to say that Diane had
invited him to her house and he was giggling, just like he did in HS. I knew he
was “dead meat”! Sure enough, they
were married, one year to the day, of the
reunion. So now our group has welcomed our eighth member of the FOMJ,
Diane Hughes Romer. A picture of our
group appears here, minus Don, who
took the picture at our last dinner.
Sorry classmates, I almost forgot. Don
Roth sent in a photo from a trip to Vegas
in July of classmate Richard Varney and
his wife Charleen. Don & Joanne has a
wonderful visit but Don says he would
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rather live in Virginia, dry heat or no dry
heat! Maybe we can get Rich and Charleen back east for our next reunion?)
match); and yes, I
still play the guitar (and would like to hear
from former classmates who also play). I
had been writing poetry since before George
Mason though I have George Mason to
thank for a life-changing experience: It so
happened a girl I met there invited me to
meet her cousin and his wife who were both
English professors at Georgetown University. What I didn’t know was that she’d gotten a copy of a poem I’d written about
spaceships and, when I arrived, both of
them started deconstructing it. I was both
flattered and flabbergasted—I had no idea
anyone could make such a big deal about a
Richard Varney ‘63 and his wife Charleen
poem. I was also terribly embarrassed. I
didn’t write another poem for thirty years. In
other respects, however, I found George
Class of 1964
Mason a supportive and encouraging enviBy Kathy Ware Smith
ronment. Credit goes mainly to two English
teachers, both women, one who’s name, I
Greetings to all! First, this is the year
most of us have or will turn 60, so Happy think, was Mrs. Walters. The other’s name I
Birthday to everyone. It’s hard to believe have forgotten unfortunately. They made
my time there, usually spent staring out the
we made it to this milestone so fast, isn’t
window at the cars on Route 7, somehow
it? Don’t think I feel much different—just
worthwhile. I am currently working on anwonder who that is in the mirror.
other book, which, I hope, will also be
Want you all to know that Scott Sager '65 brought out by the same small press.”
contacted me earlier in the year to let me
know he’d found one of our classmates— Stu Vogt e-mailed yesterday to say that
Rick Waterfield. Although he was known things are going well in Massachusetts and
as Bob at George Mason, he goes by Rick he is very happy. He told me in April about
going back to his house on Fowler Street
and says that his nickname “Brooklyn”
and how much smaller everything looked.
was just a phase. He went to Vietnam
Many years ago, Diane Clark Montgomery
and, when
and I went to George Mason and managed
he returned, he says he jumped into his
to get there just as the bell rang for classes
car, headed south, and never looked
back. He lives in Florida and I will be glad to change. We walked down the hall with all
the kids and marveled at how small it
to give him your e-mail address if you
seemed to us. It had always seemed like
want to get in touch.
such a big place when we were in school.
David Churchill wrote: “I’d like to let eve- The difference between student and adult
ryone know that Pony One Dog Press has perception is amazing. I visited Diane and
her husband, Jim, in April. They live in St.
brought out a collection of my poems,
Charles, Missouri and are very happy there.
called “Lucid Waking,” which can be orDiane was working with small children at a
dered through bookstores like Borders
daycare and it was wonderful to see her
and Barnes and Noble and, of course,
through Amazon.com. I would also like to interact with them. They are supposed to
encourage any and all to support the arts take some very young members of their family to Disney World this month (August) and I
by buying a copy—and of course I’d be
honored to personally autograph any cop- know they will all truly enjoy themselves.
ies that may come my way. For those
who may have wondered what became of
me: I left Falls Church with a classmate
the day after our last final (one of my
brothers brought my diploma home years
later, which surprised me because for
some reason I had thought I might not
graduate). I don’t remember too much
about the Sixties. The Seventies found me
at Washington University in St. Louis
where I learned Greek, Latin, and Hebrew;
raised four kids; wore out two wives
(currently working on wife number three—
though this time I may have met my
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Some time ago, I got a note from Judy Ingalls Hughes. I remember saving it but
cannot find it now that I need it. I believe
she said that she was still teaching.
Judy: When you read this, I apologize for
not being able to relate all your news. I'd
blame the memory loss on turning 60 in April
but I'm afraid it's been going on forever! The
doctor mentioned something about it being
the result of amphetamine use in the 60's.
God bless those days of prescription diet
pills!
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Next week, I am planning to see Warren
and Darla Suleske at their home in
Clarksville. Unfortunately, my visit will be
brief but it will be nice to say hello. My
husband visited them for a few days
in July when he took our daughter, Jennifer, to visit our oldest, Valerie, in
Stephens City. Now, I will go back to
pick Jennifer up. Hope to get back to
Virginia in October to have a longer visit
with Valerie. Once we sell my late
brother’s place (our family home) in Falls
Church, Bob and I are planning to move
back to Virginia--somewhere southwest
of Falls Church. My sudden burst of
wanderlust beginning in 2000 is finally
over. Time to come home.
Best of everything to all and hope to hear
from each of you soon.
Class of 1965
By Scott Sager
I heard from several classmates since
the last Mustang Review. Cliff Gutridge
sent me a note alerting me that he had
seen the obituary for Fred Snowden's
mother, Lois, who passed away on
May1, 2006. Our condolences go out to
Fred and his family. Cliff wanted to get in
touch with Fred and I passed him the
contact information that I had for him.
Cliff reported that he was happy that the
newsletter was back in "hard copy" which
seems to be the majority view from
alumni who I have been in contact with
over the past six months. Cliff also recalled his chance meeting with Maria
Gabriel Kilby at the Warrenton, VA Giant a number of years ago. Maria told
Cliff about the Alumni Association and
she passed it on to me – otherwise Cliff
would still be among the "missing."
Janet Neuberg Kremer sent me a note
on the passing of Mrs. Ruth W. Gebeaux, a former teacher at Madison Elementary School, on June 17, 2006 at the
age of 92. Mrs. Gebeaux taught 4th and
5th grades at Madison for nearly 30 years
and taught many in our class. Thanks
Janet.
Jackie Woolsey O'Brien wanted to let
all of us know that she is still rockin' and
that "Mick Jagger's got nothin' on me
except a few millions." You can see
Jackie's band at www.myspace.com/
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buddhachili - check it out and you will also
see a great picture of Jackie!
had done so well in the legal profession before his untimely death in 1984 at the age of
34.
I also heard from Walt Van Horn who was
trying to get in touch with his old friend
and classmate, Michael O'Laughlin.
Walt is still living in the Asheville, North
Carolina area and working daily. He was
writing me on his 59th birthday (most of us
are or will be in that same boat this year!)
and was enjoying life and good health.
Walt mentioned that he was divorced back
in 1996 but was in his seventh year of
marriage to his second wife, Delene, who
also works in the Asheville area. Walts
oldest son John is now 36 years old and
lives in Asheville and is a single parent to
an eight-year-old daughter. His middle
son Thomas is 32, has two daughters and
has been in the Air Force for 4 years and
is in contracting. Walt's youngest is Michael, 29, who is married with no children
and lives in Tennessee and works as an
accountant. Thanks for the update Walt.
Please keep the emails coming with any
questions on locating other classmates as
well as providing me with a few lines about
what is going on in your life so I can include
it in the next Mustang Review. Scott
Roberta Schaff Ross sent me a note
trying to track down Maureen Thackrey
Lischke who recently moved out west.
Roberta called Maureen's sister and got
Maureen's new email (which I now have)
and Roberta has made contact with her.
Roberta continues to teach in Alexandria
and still has her love of horses.
Linda Cole sent me a note indicating that
she had recently moved to Wilmington,
North Carolina. She said her place is
close to the beach, away from DC traffic,
and she enjoys reading the Mustang Review! Sounds like the life, Linda.
As for myself, my wife and I recently were
told by my son, Rob that he and his wife
Christine are expecting their first child, a
daughter, in mid-November. Becoming
grandparents for the first time is very exciting and will prompt many trips down to
Atlanta where they live. In addition to that
news, working full time as a government
contractor and staying on top of my alumni
"hobby" keeps me out of trouble. In addition, I have been chairing the GM Athletic
Hall of Fame Committee (note the article
on page one).
Also, please note the article on the late
Jonathan Olom '68 in the Class of 1968
section in this newsletter. I received a
copy of the Colorado Bar Association publication that included a story about Jonathan that Lou Olom sent me a short time
ago and included a picture of the cover of
that publication and a blowup of a picture
of Jonathan. Many of us from our class
knew Jonathan and the Olom family very
well and it is nice to know that Jonathan
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Class of 1966
By Jo Briggs Freeman &
Joyce Powell Timms
From Ken & Janice Lincoln: "Our business
(A Cut Above Lawn Care) of lawn maintenance has 'exploded' this year and we are
working 7 days a week just trying to keep
from falling further behind in servicing our
existing customers as well as taking on new
ones. Even with the drought situation down
here in Raleigh, North Carolina we are busier then ever. "
Here's a note from Kathy Schiavi Harris:
"Hayley, my daughter, recently graduated
from Vanderbilt University (Magna Cum
Laude, her proud mother adds . . .), and I'm
happy that she's accepted a job with Deloitte
Consulting in McLean, Va. So now I'll have
my father AND daughter to visit in Virginia.
"My son, Beau, is at Cal Poly in San Luis
Obispo, and I'm still living in the heart of the
Colorado Rockies, working in interior design. My dear family, including my sister,
Pat in Medina, WA, is spread coast to coast!
"If anyone is planning on vacationing in Aspen or Vail, please e-mail if you'd like to get
in touch, [email protected]. In the meantime
I enjoy reading the updates in the Mustang
Alumni magazine, and will be in the D. C.
area on occasion."
And Tom Newton showed up in my e-mail
this summer!: "I'm living in NYC and have
changed professions. For the past 2 1/2
years I have been a high school special education teacher in the South Bronx. In January, I completed my MS in Special Education
and am now planning on going for another
degree - possibly a Masters of Law in Education." If anyone wants to get in touch
with Tom, they can e-mail me and I'll pass it
on [Jo].
Jimmy Clifton has a photography exhibit
running from August 27 - September 23,
2006, at the NBC Studios in Washington,
DC. I doubt this will go to print and mailed
out before it's over, but it's good to know
he's doing well with his art.
And our classmates in Florida are battening
the hatches again for this year's hurricane
season: Pat Wilson Adams, John Riffee,
Steve Hinchcliffe, Gail Alexander...who
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else lives in the Sunshine State?
Since we were unable to hold a reunion
this past summer, the latest suggestion is
to aim for 2009 and the next all-class
reunion in Falls Church.
Save the third weekend in June in 2009
(that's traditionally been the weekend of
the reunions) and make a plan to
come. As Noralyn Olom
Harlow mentioned to me, "As we lose
classmates, I feel more and more that we
shouldn't waste the opportunities to reconnect. " So, SAVE THE DATE and
let's plan to have a class party during
that weekend, in addition to whatever
Scott's committee plans for everyone.
From Joyce: I still want to put something
together for our 40th. If any of you want
to do something please let me know. We
still have three months left for the year.
It's not to late. Even with the ones that
are still live here we can meet somewhere for dinner and just talk about the
last 40 years. I hope everyone had a
great summer. I haven't heard from any
one.
Cheers,
Jo
[email protected]
Class of 1967
By Rose Martin Daugherty &
Barry Buschow
Greetings to the Class of 67 from Barry
Buschow and Rose Martin Daughety
We have heard from a very few classmates this time around. Here’s hoping
most are on vacation someplace cool!
Bill and Jickie Crocker had their first
grandchild by their daughter Hilary. Ava
Riley Hines was born to Neil and Hilary
Hines on July 5, 2006. She was 6
pounds 15 oz. but has been growing fast.
Hilary graduated from Radford University
with several degrees including Sports
Medicine and a Master’s in Speech Pathology. Hilary is a speech therapist with
the Catawba County school system in
Hickory, North Carolina. Bill and Jickie
still live in Fairfax City and are doing fine.
They say hi to all their GM friends wherever you are.
Wendy and Dave Sandidge have
checked in but have nothing to report
except the oppressive heat in Vienna and
a very sweet note!
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Elizabeth Browning Mason wrote that
life was good in Denver and we hope she
can provide us with a few emails of classmates. Charlie we would like to hear from
you.
mates. Since we both work this cannot be a
full time commitment. We look forward to
your help. I have a new email:
[email protected]. Have a wonderful fall.
Rose
We have learned that Colonel Jack Herndon, father of Karen Herndon died August 14. The service will be September
26. We registered a note from our class to
Mrs. Herndon and the family.
From Barry: You might remember that we
elected Skip Schwenn most likely to succeed. Well, he has, he’s retired. The real
thing, no going to work everyday and he
lives in the mountains of North Carolina. He
does complain about his fixed income, but
when I experience the traffic and congestion
of DC and NVA every day, I somehow can’t
relate. Skip is writing a book. “I began writing
a book in June, and hope to have a version
that I feel comfortable enough to submit to
publishers by November this year. The content is based on the life we lived with our
pack of dogs in the country north of Greensboro for 13+ years; the focus is on the dogs’
lives, aiming for a realization and appreciation for the lives that our dogs enjoyed, highlighting their individual personalities and
exploits. By not having children and interacting instead heavily with our dogs, our lives
intertwined with theirs to the extent that their
impact on us was substantial during their
time with us, and since. Since this is my first
attempt at writing for possible publication, I
have no illusions that it will ever see formal
printing, but I am enjoying writing, and you
never know…?! You can contact Skip to preorder your copy at smschwenn@
skybest.com. Another country not heard
from in a while is Doug Paynter. While he
doesn’t return emails, his email is
[email protected]. Well I am still
working on putting together a blog for our
class, but haven’t done it year. This work
thing makes me forget, that and being over
50. Contact me at [email protected]
and would love to hear from you. Barry
Beverly Street Gibson reports all is well
and life is good. “My son Michael and
daughter in law Misty gave us our first
grandchild, Mason Isaac on March 1st, our
daughter Kelly graduated from the University of Virginia in May, and our son Jacob
starts his junior year at the University of
Mary Washington at the end of this month.
We never take for granted all the blessings we have been given and just can’t
wait to watch Mason grow big enough to
do all the fun things that a Grandma and
Grandpa get to do.”
Kate Fraleigh writes: I’m still in San Francisco with my partner of 16 years Kathleen. Mom’s living with us and her dementia is worsening but she’s very kind and
cheerful. We have help in the daytime and
sometimes on weekends. My niece moved
out (of Kate’s home) a couple of months
ago to her own place but we see her often. I have more family here than I’ve ever
had nearby! In addition to Mom, Kathleen’s broth and his partner, my niece, a
nephew and his wife and 10 month old
son, Kathleen’s cousin and uncle. I’m
doing home hospice case management
for Kaiser and still enjoy it. Hope to retire
in 5 years and get more time to enjoy the
San Francisco area, the ocean, bike trails,
mountains, fresh air, etc. It is really beautiful here.”
Kate BURNS Marciniak writes: Love
these little updates from you. It always
gives me that feeling of being connected
to something bigger than my own little life.
It was pretty sad to lose my best friend,
Betsy Wells, from the class of ’68. It is
the beginning of the end for me. The twins
will be graduating June 01, 2007. They
have already purchased their last high
school parking decal, the last yearbook
pictures have been taken, the school
schedule has been prepared, and the last
field hockey season has started. ….With
that being said, I really have nothing to
report! (Many of us can relate to this
story!) My best to you and the rest of the
Class of 67 and 2007! Gosh forty years!”
Barry and I are working hard to get updated emails and addresses from class-
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Class of 1968
By Nancy Clark Aderholdt
I have not heard from folks lately so my
news is limited but I do have some new addresses. When I went to the GM website
and checked the class list a number of
classmates I had “found” had yet once again
gone missing. So I have been searching
again:
Rena Williams Randall
145 Willowsdale Drive, Apt. 42
Frederick, MD 21701
Peg Smith
4733 Wren Ct.
Charlottesville, VA 22911
e-mail: [email protected]
Kate Schrenk Kennedy
473 Mill Creek Rd.
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Littleton, NC 27850
Sheryl Pugh Battle
1022 Cunningham Drive
Victor, NY 14564
Susan Stimmel Jones
1400 Stone Meadows Dr.
Lawrence, KS 66049
Elaine Heeter Flaim
2030 N Adams St. #1407
Arlington, VA 22201
Please remember to update your address if it changes and if you have any
idea where I can locate the following
folks please let me know: David E.
Blankenship; Frances Elizabeth Carpenter; Terry Clement Fauerbach;
John Edwin “Ralph” Jenkins; Betty
Shire Morrisette; Linda Street Klein;
Marcia Hensley Lacy; Julie Manning
Smith; Wayne Petree; and Ken
Burdette.
As you can see in the address updates
above, Elaine Heeter Flaim is back from
England and has moved back into the
DC area. She is waiting for her house to
be ready, but in the meantime you can
reach her on her cell phone 970-418696. Also, please note the change in
Peg Smith’s e-mail address. It has
changed now that she has moved to
Charlottesville, Va. Linda Denoff Muscatello is doing well and sent me pictures of her grandchildren – who as you
can guess are cute as little buttons. She
is still in Annapolis and one of these days
I’m going up and have dinner with her.
Speaking of grandchild
dren, my grandson and granddaughter
are doing just great. They are truly a
blessing. Both have adjusted so well it
is amazing – growing like weeds, talking
their heads off, laughing and are the joy
of my life.
Recently I heard from Dolly Hass Dean,
class of 1970. She wrote to let me know
of a great honor bestowed on one of our
classmates, Jonathan
Olom. Jonathan was one of four Colorado lawyers recently honored in an annual piece in the Colorado Lawyer (a
monthly publication of the Colorado Bar
Association.) Every year 4 or 5 lawyers
are chose to be recognized in this piece
– according to the introduction this is the
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24th year that the
Colorado Lawyer
has honored outstanding deceased
attorneys in Colorado. Those to be
honored are chosen
by the Colorado Bar
Association Awards
Committee from
nominations and
suggestion submitA 1968 photo of
ted by members of
Jonathan Olom from the
the Bar and others.
article
The introduction
goes on to state: “The Awards Committee . . . selected the following lawyers because during their careers, they exemplified the high ideals of the legal profession;
made significant contribution to the Bar
Association; were of aid and assistance to
other lawyers, particularly younger lawyers; were active in civic and community
affairs; were instrumental in accomplishing
some significant changes in the law; promoted public confidence in the legal profession; demonstrated confidence in the
practice of law; or otherwise were notable
in their careers. Those chosen had to
have passed away a minimum of ten
years ago.” Hats off to Jonathan, we all
miss you.
Even though I am writing this article in
August, by the time this edition is printed
and mailed out, the holidays will be upon
us. So I’m wishing all of you happy holidays and the very best for the New Year.
Please keep those cards, e-mails, letters
and phone call coming, I love hearing from
each of you. And for goodness sake,
please remember to update your mailing
and e-mail addresses. You can do that by
visiting the GM website
Class of 1970
By Robbie Werth
Clay and Anne Newton Walden are doing well, living in the suburbs of Richmond, trying to see who gets to retire first.
Clay is actually eligible next March. Clay
has been a real estate assessor for Chesterfield County for 29 years but with four
kids and student loans for most of them;
he doesn't know if he'll ever get to retire!
Anne has worked as nurse for the same
time frame, for various hospitals and now
works on the insurance side. Their oldest daughter Krista (31) is getting married
in August; Trevor (29) graduated from
George Mason University a few years
back and was married last summer, settling down in Raleigh. Their third child
Stacey (24) lives in Richmond, and graduated from VCU last year. She now works
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for UPS. Fourth and last child Lauren (20) is
attending nursing school in Richmond
(following in her mothers footsteps), hopefully graduating in the next year and a half.
Mike Ellis writes that he will be retiring in 2
years (58). Mike’s son Matthew graduated
from FSU (Florida State) Magna Cum Laud
in engineering last December. He is now
working in Tampa as a Civil Engineer. His
daughter Christin finished at St. Pete College in HIM (Health Information Management) and CPT/ICD coding. She now works
at Tampa General Hospital. Mike is considering moving out to Arizona in the future. He
rides his Harley around Florida, but he
needs new sites to see. Mike was out there
(Arizona) last month for work and loved it.
Dolly Hass Dean’s daughter Carrie is 15
and going into her sophomore year at Boulder High School where she is active in the
Model UN program (national program). Her
son Jack is 11 and going into 6th grade -- he
plays competitive soccer and mountain
bikes. The family took a 12-day trip to
Alaska this summer (they flew to Anchorage
and then drove almost 1300 miles --mostly
on the Kenai Peninsula).
Stephanie (Line) Netolicky and her daughter just got back from visiting Falls
Church. They stopped by to see Colleen
(Lynch) Hobson's mother, Lois Lynch, and
her sister, Cathy (Lynch). She also
stopped by to see Zach and Kay
(Kinney) Cotner (Classes of '67 and
'66). While in town she went down to Fredericksburg and had dinner with Gini Bonnell
('69). Stephanie has visited Suzanne
(DuPont) Smith's residence in Denver,
Colorado several times on her way to Phoenix from Iowa. She also met up with and
stayed a weekend with Colleen (Lynch)
Hobson last October in Peru, Illinois, with
each of them driving half the distance from
her place in Michigan and Stephanie’s near
Des Moines, Iowa.
Jim Langford had a flash back in time, to
our 1970 graduation. However, it was not in
GMHS auditorium, but, at Constitution Hall
in Washington D.C. There he watched his
nephew Matt graduate with his GMHS 2006
class. It was an impressive class of 150
members. He also attended several of the
Mustangs football games. Jim continues to
work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs where
he serves all the American Indian Nations as
the Director of Information Planning.
Meredith Hutchens Dean writes that Linda
Miers Fauteux's parents (Don and Joan
Miers) have moved to Sumter, SC, were
Meredith lives. They are escaping the high
property taxes ($12,000 per year in Falls
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Class Notes
Church) to about $600.00 per year in
Sumter, SC. Because they are at least
65 years of age, they are eligible for
South Carolina's "Homestead Exemption" which applies to autos and owneroccupied homes. Needless to say,
Meredith is very excited to have them
there, bringing her back to l966 when
Linda and Meredith became best friends!
I remember the Madison Elementary
days when after first grade classes a
group of us kids would line up and march
down to the Miers house on Jefferson
Street for Bible class. Falls Church will
miss the Miers family, but good luck to
Don and Joan. Meredith is with a new
real estate company RUSSELL & JEFFCOAT, INC. the No. 1 company in the
state of SC.
On a sad note, Mr. James D. Lacy
passed away on February 10, 2006. Mr.
Lacy was the father of our classmate
Mike Lacy (70) as well as Susie, Jim
(66), Chris (68), Jeanne (72), Ann, Rex
and Tim. Mr. Lacy was a steady influence on many of us that grew up in the
Timber Lane community. A private funeral was held at Arlington National
Cemetery. Mr. Lacy was an Aggie
(Texas A-M) with his class being commissioned to duty in World War II. There
he served with the U. S. Army Corp of
Engineers in the European theatre. He
moved to Falls Church when he was
selected as the first Director of Highway
Safety for the United States Department
of Transportation. My fondest memory of
Mr. Lacy was the time that Jim, Chris,
Mike and I broke down driving Jim’s
Volkswagen van from Virginia Tech to
Falls Church. We were stuck in Upperville, VA and Mr. Lacy drove out in the
middle of the night to rescue us. He was
always there for his family and friends
and will be missed by all. Robbie Werth,
703-864-6501
Class of 1971
By Billy Martin
Hello from Florida and congrats on us all
reaching our 35th year as alums. For
those unaware, Paul Karnis and others
organized a 35-year get together this
summer. It was celebrated at the Nationals 35th home game to commemorate
our 35th anniversary. The list of attendees was: Paul Karnis, Linda Gilley
Moore, Doug Riffee, Judy Jensen,
Connie Rackowski (who made an awesome class banner), Beth and Sue Mile-
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son, George Simpson, Mike Davis, Barbara Smith Dupre', and David Grimm.
I'm told it was a really fun family style outing, even though the Nationals lost 8-9. I
just missed Doug Riffee this summer as
he made his annual pilgrimage to the Gulf
Coast. We missed each other by 2 days,
but are committed to getting together next
summer. Rob Waring has moved from
San Francisco to San Jose, and we stay
in touch regularly. I am still soliciting any
info you folks would like to share with the
rest of the class. Please either e-mail me
or give me a ring. I'll be going to school in
Memphis from mid September thru October, so let me know if you are heading my
way. Cheers, Billy
[email protected]
Class of 1973
By Diann Watkins Volvo
The most exciting news first -- Inis Sharff
Clements was married on Saturday, August 26, 2006 to Dave Smith. I was a
bridesmaid in the wedding, her daughter
Jennifer was Matron of Honor, and her
son Tyler gave her away. Her grandson
Parker was the ring bearer. It was a
small, beautiful wedding, and they are so
happy! They are buying a brand new
house in Hedgesville, WV, and will be
living there with Tyler and Dave's son Jordan.
Glen Hood wrote that he and his wife
Claudia have lived in Claremont Ca for the
past 25 years. He believes that he is still
the leading scorer in basketball (all-time)
in GMHS' history.
Diane Fletcher Wright and her husband
Larry sold their house in Springfield almost 3 years ago to build their retirement
home in Ocean Isle Beach, NC (near Myrtle Beach, SC). They've been in an apartment biding their time until they both could
retire. Larry will retire Sept. 2nd from the
government so they gave up the apartment. He'll be more or less full-time down
in NC and Diane will be staying with her
daughter and her usband and two grandkids 3 days during the week and working
from NC two days until she retires Sept.
7th. She hopes this next year passes as
quickly as the last one did!
Mary Beth Payne Cazzola's daughter,
Domenica, graduated on June 23rd from
Geneva High School and left for Miami on
the 25th. She is working and getting
ready to attend college at Barry University. Mary Beth's sisters, Martha (Payne)
Ripley and Carol (Payne) Walters and her
daughter
Katie drove up from Virginia to attend a
family graduation party. Mary Beth is plan-
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ning a relocation back the Metro DC area
possibly by Fall. Anyone know any attorneys who need a secretary?
John Krogmann shot a grizzly bear in
Alaska on May 1 of this year. He was in a
tent for two weeks on top of three feet of
snow before he got a shot at one.
Jeff Cronin wrote the following: We're still
on the beautiful tropical island of Guam, but
after years of living in "just a house" we have
moved to a house with a postcard view. The
new place is on a cliff overlooking a worldfamous golf hole and the Pacific Ocean.
Everyone is invited to stop by and share a
cold beverage and some island delicacies
on our lanai. I'm still teaching with the University of Maryland's Asian Division, mostly
military students, and producing TV for the
local PBS station. We also get a chance to
produce theatre now and then. I had the
honor of being published in "The Lasso"
twice this year -- 2 letters to the editor. I recommend the on-line Lasso as regular reading, they do a very good job. As long as the
North Koreans don't find a guidance system
for their missiles, we're still doing very well
here. Guam is a great place for a vacation
and I would be happy to host a class reunion, so drop me a note when you're coming
and we'll ice the drinks and fire-up the b-b-q!
Speaking of the Lasso on-line, my own son
had a few
articles on it
this past
school season. He
graduated
from George
Mason on
Son, Daniel’s Graduation
June 15th,
and is now
attending the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville. On June 23rd, we went on a 9night cruise to celebrate his graduation. Others that went with us (my husband Rick, son
Daniel and me) on the cruise were Inis
Tyler, Inis, Maggie, Liz, Diann, Daniel, Rick on cruise
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Class of 1973 con’t
Sharff Clements and her son, Tyler, and
Maggie Karnis and her sister, Liz Karnis Miller. We started out in Baltimore,
MD and stopped in Key West, FL; Freeport, Bahamas; Cozymel and Costa
Maya in Mexico; Port Canaveral, FL; and
then back to Baltimore. One of these
times maybe some of you will join us on
a cruise! I highly recommend it! You can
find a couple more photos are on the
GMAA web version of the newsletter.
Danny Ciaccio and his
family just
returned
from vacation at a
place called
Cape San
Blas. It's off
the coast of
Danny Caiccio
the panhandle of Florida and is beautiful and unspoiled. There's an Air Force terrorist
warning base there that jams all the cell
phone signals. It made it extra nice not
seeing anybody driving while dialing. They went snorkling, boating and
horseback riding on the beach. Danny is
still recording music and will be coaching
his boys roller hockey again this season.
Norma Thompson Pierce and her husband are very proud of their daughter -she's engaged now and ready for marriage after she does her internship. Can
you believe it, their girl is going to be a
Research Scientist. Norma vacationed in
Myrtle Beach this summer, and would
love to hear from some old friends. Her
e-mail is [email protected].
Linda Woolfenden Ricca, Charlene
Morris Robey, and Thea Rose went
down to
Linda's beach
condo this
past May.
They had a
great time on
the boardwalk, at the
Linda, Charlene & Thea
art gallery,
and catching up talking about their days
at GM, talking most of the night. They
went to a club on the boardwalk where
the band was playing all our music from
the 60's and 70's. They spent time on the
beach and talked some more. It was a
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great time and they hope to come down
there at least once a year. Duncan Rose
is rebuilding Linda's front porch, and he
had dinner with her and her family on her
birthday. Her husband enjoys hearing
stories from her youth from her old friends.
Her youngest daughter Lisa, is due to
have her third baby on February 10, 2007.
This is the day her second child, Owen
was born. This will be grandchild number
six. Melanie, her oldest daughter, has
three children. Thomas James (Tommy) is
8, Shane Christopher is 3, and Makayla
Rose Marguerite is 1. Lisa's children are
Brandon Paul, 7, and Owen Scott, 1.
Nancy Nicholas writes: Because I always
enjoy hearing where classmates are and
what they are up to, I thought I'd finally
send in an update. After my career jump
from engineering to teaching, and six
years in public school, I am switching jobs
this fall to teach 8th grade Earth Science
at the National Cathedral School in the
district. I'm excited about the opportunity
to focus on science education for girls as
well as the shift from five classes of thirty
two students each to four of about 16, and
having the time to really interact with all of
my students. On the home front, two of
my three are in college. My oldest, Nick,
is studying psychology at Towson, my
second son, Carl, is entering his second
year at Harvard and is a defensive tackle
for their football team, and my youngest,
Alice, is entering her junior year in high
school and just beginning her college
search.
son, Jackie
Gray Adems,
Mary Hughes
Dykes, John
Edmonson
(he flew in from
New Hampshire), Ed
Yarbrough,
Lisa and Mike
Jamie Allen,
Tom Stickney,
Ken Volz, Bruce Sanford, Robyn
Schwartzman McInnich, Michael Checknoff, Charlie Boaz, Mike Silverstein, Lisa
Sherman, Gigi Gittings Shanahan, Ellan
Crane (she came from New York), Nancy
Gerard Price, Macon Fry (he came from
Louisiana), Greg Cronin, Debbie Smoot
Jackson, Joan Dreslin Florance, Linda
Brenda, Richard & Kenny
Johnson Barnhouse, Richard Proffitt and
myself. We even had Phil Lindsey show up.
My apologies to those I couldn't reach - I
have contacted 70 people so far. To those
Class of 1974
By Brenda Brown Green
Macon, Gigi, & Jackie
On Saturday June 24 the
class 1974 had a reunion
at Old Country Buffet in
Manassas, Va. It was lots
of fun. The people attending and who are in the two
group pictures one below
and one on the web version are: Kevin Nichol-
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Class of 1974 at the Old Country Buffet in Manassas
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of you that I have not spoken to, please
get in touch with me so I can let you
know of future activities. We are talking
about having another reunion next year
since we have a lot of catching up to do.
Let me have your input on this idea.
Hey, please send me your birthdays and
your memories - contact me for info on
this. And, please send me current pics
of each of you so we all can see what
you look like now. I have really enjoyed
talking to everyone and thanks for the
encouragement. Brenda Brown Green.
Keith Smith passed away December
9th, 2005 at Reston Hospital Center after
a brief but courageous battle with myelodysplastic syndrome which led to myeloid
leukemia. Keith still lived in the family
home in Falls Church and was employed
by AT&T at the time of his death. Anyone who played or watched softball in the
Northern Virginia area knew that Keith
played as much softball as possible. It
was, in fact, at a softball tournament in
Florida in February 2005 that he first
became ill and began his fight. Despite
the illness, Keith continued to play softball through the Spring of 2005.
From Kathy Smith Ware, 1964 Class
Rep: Keith was assisted in this difficult
time by his high school friend, Mike
Silverstein. Keith had great confidence
in Mike and trusted him completely. Mike
never failed Keith and the Class of 1974
should be very proud of Doctor Silverstein. Keith is survived by his sister.
Class of 1975
By Phil Acosta
Greeting Class of 1975. I hope this newsletter finds all of you who want to be
found, to be well. I have gotten a few
letters from classmates willing to share
what’s happening in their world. Fran
Evers is married to a wonderful guy
named Pat, and lives in McKinney,
Texas, and has just this summer graduated the last of her three children from
High School. The oldest, Paul is making
his run at being a film maker in L.A, the
middle child is Tricia and is thinking of
following Mom into Nursing. The youngest, John, is heading to Texas A & M to
follow in his Dad’s footsteps. Fran has
spent 30 years as a Hospital Nurse and
has lived in Washington state, Oregon,
Nebraska and now down in the land of
the lone star. You can reach her at
[email protected].
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Jan Edmondson teaches guitar full time
at a middle school out in Landsdowne and
has students that are children of Trudy
Keating, Sue Weir, and Jeff Good
(almost, she plays flute). She has recently
spent some vacation time with Joan Perry
and her family down in the Outer Banks.
Now that’s a friendship with some stamina. Let me see, Madison school was how
many years ago?
Marcy Trianosky sent me a nice note too.
She’s finishing up a PhD in English after
all these years (more stamina), and has
been in touch with Brian McClesky (living
in Falls Church), Kent Shell (living in New
York), Mike Heasley (recently married),
Sarah Christenson Cox (living in Roanoke). Thanks, Marcy, for the low-down
on so many classmates.
In closing, I really would like to get a reunion together. Please email me at
[email protected] to let me know
your thoughts. I’ll try to use those sources
that have already kindly offered to help, to
put one together. Until then, peace and
love to all. Phil
Class of 1979
By Karen Huber Grubbs
Teresa (Davies) Jacobsen writes: We
(Teresa, Greg and daughters Haley (15)
and Hannah (13)) (picture) visited Karen
(Cohen) and her husband and kids in St.
George, FL Vacationed in Cape Cod,
Plymouth & Boston. Went whale watching. Saw bunches and watched loads of
folks throw up. Haley is playing varsity
volley ball and Hannah is playing soccer
and loves her drama club.
Nancy (Cummings) Hedge: I'm writing
from Colorado on my way to my new
home in Ojai, CA. Happy Trails Nancy!
Sheree (Bryant) Bracco and family explored the wilds of Alaska this summer
then returned so Sheree could continue
playing co-ed softball with Howard & Tom
Herman at GM, where they won the 2006
Falls Church championship.
Karen (Huber) Grubbs and Kim traveled
to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone in
Wyoming to see gorgeous scenery and
wild
animals,
then to
Montana's
Battle
Laurie Rowe(’79), Liddy Hewes(’79) &
of Little
Jackie Cook (‘80)
Big
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Horn park and got scared by horses. Many,
many emails no longer work. Please email
me at home [email protected] (dial up,
so be patient with me), so I can bother you.
If you move, let GM know your new address,
so this Mustang Review can get to you. I
hope everyone is healthy, playing together
nicely and enjoying their '40's.
Hi Karen, -- Just got back from vacation,
hope this isn’t too late. No photos right now,
but we’re doing great. Caroline is 6 and
missing her two front teeth and about to start
second grade and Henry is 4 and loves his
Montessori school. OK, so we’re the oldest
parents in the PTA!! I’m still art directing in
downtown DC and loving it. Terry is VP of
Business Development at a high tech firm in
Maryland. Going to Bangkok for Christmas
break to visit friends and already planning
our next trip after that. Hello to everyone,
Sarah Moore
Cheers, Karen
Class of 1980
By Jackie
Beinhardt Cook
Hello Class of
1980! I hope
everyone had a
great summer.
It seems this
great class has
been holding
back, I haven’t
Laura Toone(’78), Jackie Cook (’80)
seen many up& Luann Toone(’79)
dates. A big
thank you goes
to Betsy for being the class rep. for years
(along with Ken). It’s time to wake up and
share what you’ve been up to or you will get
tired of hearing about me and my children
and my contacts with others in the class.
I’ve made my e-mail easy
[email protected] for Jackie Beinhardt Cook.
I live near Corning, NY, and I have been
married for 21 years and loving it! Though
it’s hard to believe my oldest is 19 and in
training as a Marine for air crew on C130s.
My daughter will be 17 in November and a
junior in high school, and my youngest just
turned 15 and will be a sophomore. I have
been teaching at Hope Christian Academy
for ten years. I’ve taught everything from
first grade to sixth grade and love it. One of
my favorite things to do is dress up and act l
like different people for substitutes; the kids
love it. Through our church Sarah (my
daughter) and I take dance together and I
help teach the younger ones. I have more
fun than is probably legal for over forty.
As to other classmates, I happen to know
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that Brent Johnson is married to a
beautiful lady (Carol Beinhardt Johnson ‘82) and that they have a smart and
very cool son named Bryce. Dan
Lucero is married to a lovely French
woman, Martine, and has two boys and
two girls. He is a Pastor in Nancy,
France and travels to speak in West Africa. Susan Allen Burnett and Bob live
on Poplar Ave. in Falls Church. She has
a boy and a girl who can clearly be identified as hers and she is a ”cooler-thanyour-average-librarian” librarian. Last I
heard Darel Jordan was working in D.C.
on behalf of marine mammals and
Nancy Hannum Peppler was living in
Illinois with her husband John and two
daughters. I had a nice visit with her
mother who still lives on Randolph
Street. I hear my old home has been
torn down, that will be sad to see.
I saw many old friends at the two allclass reunions at George Mason. They
were so
much fun
that I’m
hooked. I
plan to attend each
one and
Lori Warner Kirby(’80) and Bill
encourage
Hayes(’80)
our class to
plan around
them. It’s one weekend where you can
see more teachers and old friends from
all classes then meeting separately. It’s
so worth the effort.
If this could be organized via email, I think
we could put it together in a relatively
short time. I have a GM Alumni Directory
from 2004 that has many classmates contact information listed. If you think you
may not be listed in the directory, or, if
your information has changed, please
contact me at [email protected]. In
addition, if you have ideas or would like to
help in any way, just let me know. I look
forward to hearing from you!
Class of 1985
By Laura Cesnik
Neal and Katie Clinton welcomed Abigail
Marcelline on July 20, 2006. Abby
weighed in at 6 lbs. 14 oz. and was 20 in.
long. Aren't we getting to be too old for
this??? Congratulations to Katie and
Neal.
I know that Peter and Cassandra Droujinsky had baby number 4 this past
spring, but I have been unsuccessful in
contacting them. Congrats to them as
well!
Class of 1986
By Susan Schick
Good food, 1986 senior stockings, video
clips of the toothpaste skit from the 1985
Junior Variety Show, this party had it
all. It was our big 2-0 celebration at the
International Country Club in Fairfax on July,
2006. People came out of the woodwork to
visit and catch up after 2 decades. We had
a respectable turnout of 24 classmates and
spouses, 5 teachers and all we can say to
those who could not make it is....we missed
you! (thanks to all the teachers who could
not come but did send notes and
emails). We had a great time.
In attendance...first in the
door was Chester Rockwell. In his 80s, Mr. Rockwell
could win “It’s Academic!”
with his recollection of GM in
the 1950s, game-by-game
recall of sports seasons,
memories of students and
teachers. Mr. Rockwell, we
were honored to have you
there. Steve Klass was on
crutches but joined us with his Mr. Rockwell
wife, Sally. Mr. Klass, I call
you our unofficial class mascot because you
never miss one of our reunions--it’s fantastic. We do remember all your stories and
advice from the 1980s and it’s nice to get a
fresh dose every few years. Barbara
Stuckey taught many of us 10th grade PreIB English, and looks the SAME as she did
on stage dancing in the JV Show. Lindy
Hockenberry, newly elected Vice Mayor of
Falls Church, and her husband attended. Harry Shovlin, with his wife Mar-
It is your turn to share. What is up with
you? I look forward to hearing from you.
Class of 1982
By Valerie Singleton Smolinski
Believe it or not, our 25th class reunion is
just around the corner! Since this is a
pretty big milestone, I think it is important
that we celebrate it. There are no plans
underway yet but we have the option of
Summer ’07 or Fall ’07. The class of ’81
is having their reunion this year during
Homecoming weekend. They will be attending the GM Homecoming football
game and then celebrating at a local
restaurant on Saturday, which is something that we could consider as well. Another option is the State Theatre where
several classes have had their reunions.
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Joe Cheek, Dave Schleeper, CJ Cliff, Sue Schick, Amy Johnson, Donnie Montag, Joe Trombo, Andy
Condit, Amy Clineberg (at Cherry Hill)
guerite, regaled us
with stories of “the
things we never
knew as students” (ah the
benefits of being a
grown-up now).
Amy Johnson, Amy Clineberg, Shane Gray,
Jeff Miers, Donnie Montag, Susan Schick, Andy Condit
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In the 1986 graduate group, we were
happy to see Andy
Feltman and his
wife Julie. CJ
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Cliff and his wife joined the party and
helped to tell the story of a classmate
who could not attend, but who was in our
Andrew and Julie Feltman
thoughts – Bill Kenestrick. Bill was
diagnosed with MS in 1998, and now
lives at a home for disabled young adults
in Northern Virginia. An excerpt from the
website at the facility where Bill
lives: “Prior to his disability, Bill served
in a variety of jobs related to sound and
lighting, an interest he developed while
still in high school. During his 10+ years
in the field, Bill worked at various venues,
most frequently at the Patriot Center and
the MCI Center. He also worked concerts
at venues like
the Nissan
Pavilion. He
thoroughly
enjoyed concerts like the
Lalapoloosa
Festival. His
Elinor Scully and Barbara
Stuckey
collection of tshirts, numbering in the dozens, is a tribute to the many
concerts and events at which he was
responsible in part for sound and lighting. Bill was also an avid bicycle rider,
often riding up to 10 miles per day to his
various jobs. In October of 1997, Bill
noticed some weakness in walking. In
1998, he was diagnosed with primaryprogressive Multiple Sclerosis, and MS
quickly and severely affected Bill's life.”
Bill cannot see well, but his hearing and
mind are clear, so we made an audio
tape with well wishes and songs (by
Lindy Hockenberry) which classmates CJ
Cliff and Joe Cheek will have played for
Bill by the time you read this newsletter. CJ and Joe would like to express to
the class of 1986 (and anyone else who
knew Bill in high school) that they are
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raising money to
purchase a special
computer for Bill. If
you would like to
contribute to this
gift, please contact
Joe Cheek (see
Class Rep list).
clips from the past and current pictures of
classmates from afar. The smallest class in
GM history can still put together quite a
bash!
Amy Clineberg Pfeufer and
Amy Johnson Warren
At dinner, I sat next
to Donnie Montag
and Jeff Miers while they puzzled and
cackled their way through each other’s
senior stockings and wills. What they
could decipher from the senior lingo was
funny but figuring out what had been censored was even better. I did more laughing than eating. Donnie and Jeff were
escorted by their wives Sue and
Kim. Frank Grimberg, a successful software consultant, came and showed pictures of his son. Amy Johnson Warren
(and Tom) drove down from PA for the
event, Tiffany Stilwell Curtis joined the
Following the Friday night event, we gathered for a Saturday golf game, which included Rob Robinette and David
Schleeper. Post-golf, we gathered at
Cherry Hill Park for a BYO picnic dinner. Many of the same suspects from the
night before returned, but also we visited
with Jeff Gruse, Andrew Smith and his wife
and 2 little girls, CJ Cliff and his family, Mary
Kay Johnson, and Joe Trombo with his
wife and son, James.
There was encouraging talk about another
event for our 25th, so those of you who
could not make this one, please put late
June/early July 2011 on the calendar. Classmates, if you have personal news to share,
wherever you are, please send it in and we
will include next time.
Class of 1987
By Hugo Mendoza
Frank Grimberg, Joe Cheek, CJ Cliff
party after work, and Elinor Scully, Andy
and Andrea Condit, Shane Gray and his
fiancée, and Amy Clineberg Pfeufer
rounded out the mix.
Thank you to Brooke Ogletree Johnson
(and Mike) for arranging for us to gather at
a great facility. Thank you to Joe Cheek
who spent MANY hours preparing the
awesome 1986 slideshow revisited, video
Joe Cheek, Mike and Brooke Johnson laugh at the
slideshow
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Greetings class of 87! Recently we have
been in touch with Terrence O’Grady,
Chris Jackson and Tina Bryant. Our 20th
reunion is just around the corner! We plan
on having an evening dinner/cocktail on Saturday, June 16th 2007 night in Falls Church
then having a picnic on Sunday, June 17th,
2007 at Cherry Hill Park for families. By the
next newsletter we will have something more
definite. Please contact us or update your
contact information on the GMHSAA website. Cheerio,
Class of 1988
By Brent Johnson
Thanks so much for everyone from our class
who sent in info. It was great hearing about
everyone’s journeys. One of the most interesting things about receiving all these updates was to hear how so many of our class
have come full circle and settled back down
in and around the beltway. It is also so
amazing to hear about classmates’ kids that
are now much older than when most of us
met. Here is the latest from the class of
1988:
Chis Lanier is married with a ten-year old
stepson and is living back in Falls
Church. He works in a D.C. high school as a
clinical social worker and administrator and
has a private practice with his brother.
Shannon Mullins Dubke has been married
to Mike for twelve years and has two kids
(Harry is 10 and Sam is 8). Shannon lives in
Alexandria, but travels with her family as
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can tell us. Sarah Smolinski Kassan
lives in Manassas with her husband Gregg
and her two boys. Grant age five and
Chad age two. She is currently a SAHM
and helps out whenever possible at her
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husband’s dental office. Tara Dattoli Murphy lives in Tampa, Florida and works as
the IT Manager for Achieva Credit Union
in Clearwater, Florida. In her spare time,
she trains horses for show and pleasure
riding. Even though she only spent her
senior year at GM, she remembers everyone very well from her graduation
party. Cedric Bernardeau has been living
in Europe going on six years now, and has
been in Paris for the past four with his wife
Leilani. He enjoys his job, which lets him
work with different cultures and people
throughout Europe, Asia and the US. Kim
Moore lives in Miami and has been marA gathering of GM chums and family on Memorial Day,
ried 12 years and has 2 children; Laurel is
2006. From left to right: Michael Willner, Catherine and
Tom Flaherty, daughter Maya, Joan and Randolph Scully, almost 7 and Fiona is 2 1/2. Kim teaches
daughter Naomi, Christian Klein holding his daughter, and art classes to children aged toddler
through grade school through the EuroEd Pierce holding his daughter Alexis.
pean Academy of Music & Art. Kim also
paints silk scarves and sells them through
much as possible. Her most recent trip
local shops. She also started a local Stitch
was to Egypt over spring break. Laura
n’ Bitch and a Wine Club with some
Dove also lives in Alexandria with her
friends. She is hoping for no hurricanes
husband, Dan Solomon, and her 2 kids,
this year, but she’s not too worried as all
Abby-4, and Jake-3. She works on the
the trees fell down last year! Eric Eatman
Senate floor as the Assistant Secretary
is in Northern Virginia writing music and
for the Majority – about 3 feet from her
father’s old chair. I guess you could call it has also been taking classes to learn
more about copyright, publishing and rethe family business. Her sister, Carrie
Dove Storer, recently moved to Midland, cording. Meg Dolan works in curriculum
for the Department of Defense schools at
Michigan, with husband Nick and two
their main office in Arlington. She recently
sons (Ned and Tommy, 5 and 2). Carrie
finished her doctorate in education
works as the Human Resources lawyer
for Dow Chemical. Both she and her hus- and bought a condo in Falls Church.
band work for Dow (Nick as a scientist) and lived in Indianapolis for
seven years before being transferred
in June. One big advantage to living
in Michigan is being closer to her sister in law, Graeleigh Huffman
Storer. You heard right; Carrie and
Graeleigh married brothers. Graeleigh
is now in Houghton, Michigan, where
her husband, Andrew works as a forest ecology professor. Graeleigh has
Kaz and Todd’s wedding in July, with Steve Klass officiating.
four children, ages 2, 4, 6, and 8,
boys on either end, or two highNewly weds Kaz Metzler & Todd Parson
spirited, fiery girls in the middle. She remains captain of the household ship until were out in San Francisco a few weeks
ago and had an opportunity to hang out
the day comes when she returns to work
with Chad Cameron for a bit. Todd and
as an occupational therapist. She claims
Kaz were married last July and Steve
to enjoy the extreme seasons of the Upper Peninsula. Her six and eight year old Klass was their officiant! Todd and Karen
currently live in landlocked Boulder, CO.
logged in over 100km of cross-country
Karen misses surfing in the Pacific, but
skiing this past season.
she makes up for the loss with lots of biking, hiking, camping, paddling, and snow
Eric Gruse just got married in August
and has a daughter, Jessica, who begins sports. Todd works for a medical device
company that specializes in an instrument
high school in the fall. Mike Willner
used for peripheral vascular disease. Kaz
works for the Department of Defense as
is on faculty at a 4-year college in Denver
a counterterrorism analyst. That’s all he
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in the Human Performance and Sport department and is in the process of getting her
doctorate.
After surviving the better part of a decade in
graduate school in Philadelphia, Randolph
Scully returned to northern Virginia in 2001,
and is now living the glamorous, high-stakes
life of a history professor at George Mason
University, where he fights crime and injustice by teaching and writing about colonial
and revolutionary American history. He lives
in Fairfax and is married to fellow history
professor Joan Bristol. They have a daughter, Naomi, who lives the glamorous, highstakes life of a three-year old. Tom Flaherty
lives in Takoma Park, MD with his wife,
Catherine, and daughter, Maya. He does
marketing for a small software company.
Tyrone Washington tied the knot in 2000 to
Charity Strzelczyk, whom he claims married
him for his last name. Tyrone now lives in
Chicago and is a Director of Human Resources for Exel Logistics. Tyrone has two
sons. Tegan "JAMES" Washington is 5 and
will be starting kindergarten in a few weeks.
His youngest is Taven Thomas Washington,
is 3 and is ‘always testing the status quo’.
Tyrone still loves basketball and has more
recently taken up golf. Tyrone tells me that
James Lightfoot continues to smile down
on him everyday! Jamie Freeman lives in
Orlando, FL and works in the direct mail
business. Working in the family business
keeps him close to his two brothers Eric
(’87) and Brett (’89). Jamie has two kids;
Sara is three and Jacob is two. Interestingly,
Jamie was introduced to his wife, Karey
through a former GM Mustang,
Cathie Crawford Angiuli. Cathie left GM in
tenth grade and now lives in Florida. She
takes care of her three kids; Cortney, age
15, Connor, age 5, and Logan age 3.
Ruth Bryant lives in Williamsburg, VA with
two daughters, Ashleigh (15) and Samantha
(9). Ruth currently works for Kingsmill Resort
& Spa as the Merchandise Manager (she
shops for a living!). Ruth is leaving the corporate world later this month to start her own
business as a consultant for golf
shops. Ruth and her daughter Samantha
take Karate together and are having a race
to see who can achieve a black belt first
(Samantha is ahead). Ashleigh is enjoying
the excitement of high school and all the
drama that it involves. Tom Condit, his wife
Elly, and 4 kids live in Maryland near Harpers Ferry, WV. Ed Pierce moved back to
NOVA after an eight-year stint in Austin TX,
in 2002 and has two kids, Aiden (4), and
Alexis (6 months). Ed has been married for 9
years. His wife, Olga graduated from
McLean HS, but they actually met in Austin.
Ed works as an analyst for Raytheon.
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Mouncey Ferguson is living in Los Angeles. He's been there for three years, or
possibly four, he prefers not to count. He
pays the mortgage writing freelance
copy, mostly for the Internet, (but not
porn, he swears). He's also getting closer
to selling a script to Hollywood, so the
dream is still alive. He's currently working
on a script with the people who produced
"American Pie," and he now thinks "Liar,
Liar" is a brilliant movie. And this is apparently progress. His wife is an actor.
You may have seen her -- she was a
screaming lady in the Grapenuts cereal
commercial, which basically bought them
their house. Mouncey has one kid (Stella,
age 1), and another due in October. Pray
for him.
Kim Douglass Marin and her husband
live in Alexandria and they are expecting
their first baby in early February. Kim
works as the managing editor of the
American Diabetes Association's monthly
magazine. Danielle Peterson Rachel
has lived in Naples, FL for the last ten
years. She is married to Mark and has a
daughter, Edie Brooke (3 ½),who is
‘totally wonderful and so much
fun’. Danielle moved from Miami Beach
to open a gift basket business with her
mom. Danielle’s brother Bobby (’86) and
her sister Denise also live in
Naples. Danielle still keeps in touch with
Suzanne Glitzner who lives in Hamburg,
Germany. Karin Hoverson currently lives
in Arizona with her fiance, Todd. She has
her own health and wellness business.
Karin and Todd like to ride their Harley
whenever they get a chance and will
soon be proud boat owners so they can
spend weekends on the lake. Karin
keeps in touch with Jenny Kreer (’89)
who opened up her own tattoo shop in
Virginia. Zhen Han is an investment
banker and he and his wife Lucy moved
back to Falls Church last year and live on
Little Falls Street where Zhen grew up.
Luke Gurley now lives in Las Cruces
and works as construction foreman. He
just got married last October. Chad
Cameron has been living in San Francisco for the last 8 years and is an
award-winning illustrator. Chad recently
received his MFA from the Academy of
Art University. He has illustrated three
excellent children’s books, all of which
you can go check out on Amazon. As for
me, I also live in California with my wife,
Ronni and two sons, Alexander (age 3)
and Robinson (age two months). My wife
and I both work and play in Yosemite
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National
Park. I am an ecologist and Ronni is a
volunteer coordinator.
We will soon begin planning for our big
twenty-year reunion. Let me know if you
are interested in helping out with the reunion. Keep those updates coming!
Class of 1990
By Aleta K. Hoover
Hey Class of 1990!! This is Aleta Hoover
reporting in. I have stepped up to the
plate and decided to become one of our
representatives for our class alumni. I
believe that Christian O’Hara has also
agreed to become one of the co-reps, as
well. So PLEASE contact us and give us
updates on you and your family. As for
me I am still living in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, Winchester VA with my two
great kids. Since our ten year reunion I
have had a second child, Philip Robert, he
was born in Dec of 1997. In 2004 I
changed careers and went into the banking industry. I am returning to school part
time to finish up my degree to go with my
certification in American Sign Language. I
have also dug my glove and ball cap out
of the ole closet and have returned to the
softball field. I think I forgot how sore one
can be after not playing for so many
years. Well enough about me, I want to
hear about you! Signing off for now Aleta Hoover ajhoover
@crosslink.net 540-974-6480
Class of 1993
By Katherine Temple Craig
Hope everyone is having a wonderful
summer and keeping cool. As predicted,
this a year full of new bundles of joy for
our class.
Josh Jarrett and his wife, Kamila, welcomed their first child in May, a son Jackson Red. They also moved to Seattle
where he began working at the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation. He is a Program Officer in the US Special Initiatives
group developing new giving strategies
and exploring new program areas. They
are settling in well and enjoying the beautiful Seattle summer - in anticipation of the
winter rains.
Troy Austin and his wife, Heather, had a
baby girl, Brittan Summer, on July 21st.
She weighed 8 lbs 15 ozs and was 20 ¾
inch long. Troy and his wife now have two
little girls.
Eugenia Leachman Grow and her husband, Brad, celebrated the birth of their
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third child, a girl, Holliday Calhoun, on July
20th. Big sister Carrigan (4) and big brother
Daniel (2) are doing well too and love their
new sister.
Lance Guckenberger and wife, Emily, are
proud to announce the birth of their third
child, a boy, Nathan James, born July 28th.
Jon Persson and wife, Jenny, had their
second child, Hannah, on April 5th. Trevor
Krainik and his wife, Barbara, had their son
on June 3rd. Trevor reports that Jack Anthony is
so cute, already trying to talk, and keeping
them busy [Just wait Trevor, it only gets better].
Susie Hill Ross got married the first weekend in August. She is in her 10th year of
teaching 6th grade in Richmond where she
lives with her new husband and her FOUR
cats.
Chris Thomas married his wife Rosslyn in
May in Los Angeles. Josh McCall celebrated his first year anniversary with his
wife, Linda, on June 4.
If you have something new or exciting in
your life, drop me a line. I’d love to hear
from you. Take care,
Class of 1995
By Sharon Eldridge and
Andy Hartman
We did it, y'all. We pulled off an 11th reunion! Thanks to Toan, Wilson and Andy,
and all those who tracked down "lost"
alumni, for helping make it happen and making it so well attended. Here’s a little update:
Matt Droujinsky lives
in Falls Church and
works at the Old State
Theater, how fun.
Holly Benner is in
Dupont Circle living life
down in D.C. Matt
Wilson Rickerson and
Degnan, who attended
wife, Elizabeth
with wife, Kate, is in
financing/mortgage/
banking. Brian "Frion" Geoffrion operates
a branch of a mortgage company in Baltimore. Tosh Akiyama is soon to be an Investment Bbanker working on Wall Street.
Caroline (Ferrebee) Miller is an IT consultant... oversight consultant. Joe Conaty,
who attended with his wife, Jennifer, works
for "government bureaucracy." Duane
Lomis works for Arlington cable television.
And he is a heck of a rapper -- his rendition
of "Baby Got Back" at the Broad Street Tavern was phenomenal.
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Duane Lomis (mid-rap) at the Broad Street Tavern
It was good to see Jesse Weber, who
brought his wife. He has stayed local, as
has Kela Anderson, who works as a
teller at a bank frequented by Mr. Harry
Shovlin. Speaking of science, Adam
Black is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in
Gaithersburg. David Larochelle lives
outside of Boston and writes anti-virus
software. David Buckingham is a youth
minister/AV guru at a church outside of
Pittsburgh. Fabiana (Villamor) Snyder
works for the
National Center for Missing
and Exploited
Children in
Alexandria.
Meghan
Dougherty
lives in upstate Brian Geoffrion, Bethany Nelson,
Andy Hartman
New York with
her husband
and coaches women's soccer.
Our former teachers should be proud to
know that we have some teachers
among us. Emily (Thomas) Guckenberger is an elementary school teacher
in Fairfax; Wendy Gebhart teaches preschool in Raleigh; Kristin Reich teaches
Algebra in Memphis; Emily Farbman is
an art teacher outside of Boston, and
Andy Hartman is an instructor at the
Naval Academy.
is doing her internship in Colorado
Springs, Michael Murchie is doing his
residency in Dentistry in Indiana , and
Eugene Simopoulos (as of mid-June) is
taking his medical boards. (We missed
you at the reunion, Gene, but we hope
you rocked those boards!)
And we got kiddos! Trent and Ashley
(Lancaster) Templer have a three-monthold baby girl named Ella Katherine. Chris
Marcey has a six-year-old daughter, and
Jared Agnew has a six-month-old baby
boy who put in an appearance at the Don
Beyer Volvo portion of the reunion festivities. Katherine Hardman (Voyles) has a
four-year-old, Julie Roa-Ramirez has a
two-year-old, Lisa (Kallio) Harris has a
one-week-old, and Meghan (Tierney)
Zalc was due right around the reunion.
Lisa and Meghan, you were both missed.
Meghan, we hope the delivery went
well...Maybe we'll see all the little ones
(who won't be so little anymore!) at the
CLASS OF 1996
By Jennifer Williams Persson
Hello Class of
1996!
Hope everyone had a
great summer. It was
really good to
see most of you
Tosh Akiyama, Bethany (Day) Nelson, Cathy (Bautista)
Hill, Amanda Dickson, Fabiana (Villamor) Snyder
next reunion.
Thanks to all of you who made it – it was a
great time, and it was good to reconnect.
Next time we meet, the 22nd Year Reunion(!), we hope everyone can attend again
and bring out more of our classmates. It
was truly great to see all of you! Till we
meet again...
at our 10year reunion in
June.
Here are
just a few
pictures that turned out from the Broad
Street Tavern.
We have some students among us, too,
including Grace Chae, who is studying
modern Korean and U.S. history at University of Chicago. She received a Fulbright-Hays fellowship and, this academic year, will be conducting research
in Korea. Then we have the medical
folks: Cassandra (Pagano) Bresnahan
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In the mean time (ALL of you 95ers reading
this), please keep in touch. Let us know
what’s new with you, cuz there’ll be another
of these newsletters out before you know it!
You can reach us (your class reps) at [email protected]. Thanks!
P.S. There are a few more photos on the
web version
In addition, Sarah Jackson and I were recently voted into the GMHS Athletic Hall of
Fame for our Varsity Basketball careers.
The ceremony will take place sometime during the fall of 2007. The date is to be determined.
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To all of you that I haven’t gotten back to
yet please don’t take offense! This has
been one busy summer. I promise to get
back to you soon. J I’ll be sending an
email out to everyone before the next
Mustang Review time so be ready to give
me some good news to share with the
rest of the class!!
Take care,
Jennifer Williams Persson
Class of 1997
By Sarah Romer
The Class of ’97 has been busy! Here is
a brief update on some of your classmates:
Willie Gross is starting his last year of
law school at UT in Austin and is doing
the fall semester in London, which he is
very excited about! Also, Willie just got a
job at a New York firm called Milbank, for
when he graduates.
Jaimi Fitzgerald Campos got married
on July 15th to Ruben Campos. They
were married in the Wren Chapel at William and Mary down in Williamsburg.
Jaimi and her husband live in Arlington,
Virginia and she is working as a kindergarten teacher. Jaimi’s husband works
for IBM Consulting.
Maggie Kuhn has graduated from medical school and has started her residency
at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis. We all
know that Maggie will be an excellent
doctor!
Stefanie Williams has some exciting
news to share. She gave birth to Brooklyn Lee Croom on August 5, 2006. She
was 7 lbs 1 oz and 19 1/2 inches long.
Brooklyn is doing great and Stefanie is
trying to keep up on her sleep!
Jason Daube has had a lot happening in
his life! He got married last year in the
Dominican Republic on the beach under
a gazebo. Jason was boogey boarding 1
hour before the wedding! Jason and his
wife Jen had their first son, Carter, on
January 10th. He is eight months old now
and is crawling, climbing up stairs, and
almost walking. Jason reports that he is a
skinny little guy! (SURPRISE). Jason and
his family have moved to Clifton and
bought their first house.
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Class of 1998
By Anna Molaski Lamb
Hello fellow 1998
Alumni! I hope
this issue of the
Mustang Review
has found everyone in good
health and good
spirits. I finally
tied the knot on
April 29, 2006 in
Falls Church to
Mr. and Mrs. Nathan and Anna
my wonderful
Lamb
husband and
enjoyed having lots of great GM friends
there to help us celebrate. In addition to
those in the photo were Jon-Michael
Lemon '97, Tony Wills '98, Rebekah
Wolfe Stump '97, and Damon Burk '98.
Aaran Koutoulakos (alum at heart), Amy Tierney,
Amanda Guthridge, Anna Molaski Lamb, Lindy Singleton, and Jamie Spear Lemon (‘97)
Congratulations to Monica Depaz who is
engaged and getting married in the near
future. She and her fiance live in Houston
Texas. Also congratulations to Jacob
Deanault who got married this past
Fall. He and his wife live in Longmont
Colorado and enjoy being ski bums.
As always, I would love to put updates on
all our fellow classmates in the Mustang
Review so please e-mail me! Also if your
contact information has changed, please
let us know so we can keep in touch.
Only two years till the 10-year reunion! If
anyone has any ideas or thoughts about
how to celebrate, please let me know!
Take care everyone!
Class of 1999
By Olivia Thomas
We would like to send our love to the Seidenberg family, who recently lost Noah
Seidenberg, son, brother, friend and beloved part of the GM family, class of 2000,
rest in peace.
It’s been quite the change for many of us
since the last review. As for me, I amicably parted with my (now ex) boyfriend,
who I purchased the house with in Manassas. In May, I moved to Vienna and am
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living with my brother, Jimbo and another
roommate. It’s funny how sometimes you
don’t realize how “meh” your life is until
something comes along and knocks you off
your feet! I decided not to settle and I think
in the end, I found the love of my life and
couldn’t be happier. Funny, turns out his
sister was in Benin with Erin Sweeney
(Peace Corps) and he met Erin and Stephanie Rose when Erin was here on New
Years. Small world! So, I’m still working at
the same place and just started going to
night classes in Columbia, MD (remember,
they moved my program from DC). It’s SO
fun, sigh! But at least it’s only until April
2007! This April I went to Honolulu with my
family and will be going to Los Angeles,
Honolulu, Korea, and San Francisco in October with my new guy, Tiziano (yes ladies –
he’s Italian and you can’t have ANY, ha!) to
see them all again. So! Enough about me,
let’s get down to business…on with the newbies!
Conor McCullough graduated from the
University of Georgia in 2003 with a degree
in religion. After living in Colorado for a little
over a year, he moved to Jasper, GA and is
working at a Young Life camp called Sharp
Top Cove.
Jessica Slaton is teaching at Nashoba
Learning Group, which is a private school for
kids with autism in Massachusetts, and by
the end of this month, will have her master's
in Behavioral Education from Simmons College. Sometime this fall she’s going to China
with her parents to bring home a little girl
they adopted.
Clint Johnson is in Chicago, where he’s
been for the last five and a half years. “Right
now I am working at Randolph Wine Cellars,
a retail wine shop on West Randolph Street
and splitting time, for the summer, serving at
The Pump Room, a well-known restaurant in
the Gold Coast. I live with my girlfriend and
all else is going well.” He is working “eight
days a week!” all summer long. After finishing his BA in English this fall at University of
Illinois in Chicago, he is heading to Paris
and then down to Burgundy in the heartland
of France for two weeks to visit dozens of
winemakers!
Rebecca Robinson was going to George
Mason and majoring in Sports Management,
then moved to Wilmington, NC with her boyfriend, Matt. She’ll be bartending until she
finishes school. As soon as she gets residency in North Carolina, she’ll finish her
schooling at the University of North Carolina
in Wilmington.
Congrats to Morgan Burfield, recently engaged! She graduated from Virginia Com
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monwealth University with a magna cum
laude English degree in May 2003. A
few days later she moved out to Portland, Oregon and is about to start her
final year at the Northwestern School of
Law at Lewis & Clark College, focusing
on criminal law. “I'm currently working
for the Washington County District Attorney's Office, where I carry my own
prosecution caseload and have already
won several trials. I got engaged to a
wonderful guy named Stuart Long over
Spring Break, and am currently planning
a May 2007 wedding out here in Portland. I live in a beautiful part of town with
Stu and our black lab, Ramius, and am
really happy out here on the other coast.”
Summer Harrington will be coming
home August 16 from Panama. Two
weekends ago was Patronales, an INSANE party in Panama, like Carnavales
but it is only in Santiago. Imagine route 7
from Mason to the 4Ps, blocked off and
lined with venders selling beer and food
and the street so packed you can barely
walk and everyone with their coolers, and
every block there is a different DJ spinning, then it rains and no one cares…
dancing in the rain and just pure drunken
madness. She went to enjoy another
awesome all inclusive resort, “One reason Panama rocks, you can drive an
hour from the city and be at a beautiful
place…it was my first time at Decameron. We need places like this an hour
from DC.”
Seth Johnston moved
from Oxford to Germany
(via a few months in
Arizona) and didn’t stay
there long either! After
a few months as a strategic counterterrorism
analyst at US Army
Europe Headquarters in
Seth Johnston
Heidelberg, he was promoted to Captain and
volunteered for a deployment to Afghanistan. He’s currently serving with an infantry company under the NATO-led multinational brigade, working everyday with
soldiers from Romania, Canada, Britain,
and of course Afghanistan. “It’s no garden spot, but there’s a rumor that Alexander the Great is buried in my town,
inside one of his castles still in use here
after twenty-four centuries.”
Torrey Templer is still working for a private practice, Skill Builders Inc., as a Pediatric Occupational Therapist and loves it.
She’s also continuing to work part time at
Williams-Sonoma just to get good discounts (not a bad idea Torrey!) – so, if you
are ever in the Clarendon area, please
stop by! She also has her own apartment
in Alexandria and is working on completely furnishing it, “...oh and I love visitors!”
Congratulations
to Lauren
Lewis, also
recently engaged! She is
still currently
Lauren Lewis and Fiance
living in Hawaii
but will be moving to Seattle in October with her fiancé,
Victor Lee. He is an officer on the USS
Honolulu (submarine) and we will be restationed in Seattle in October. They got
engaged in April on the beach in Hawaii
(he even flew her sister to Hawaii to celebrate too!) “He is incredible. We will be
getting married at the Naval Academy
chapel in Annapolis, MD on June 9th of
next year. I just recently traveled to Thailand to see him for a week - we are halfway through his 6 month deployment so it
was a wonderful trip. I would also like to
say congrats to Peter Andres who by the
time this issue is released will be a married man! Wow - we are all growing up
too fast!”
Stephanie Rose is in her third year of
teaching music in DC. “I still have a choir,
piano and general music class and this
year I will also help the kids prepare our
school's first musical. This year will be
very busy but I'm really looking forward to
it!”
Erin Sweeney is moving to New Mexico
to go for her masters in public health at
New Mexico State University. “I’ll be moving into a lovely 2-bedroom house with a
lovely man (Tony), lovely pecan trees, and
lovely horses as NEIGH-bors (get it?
horses? "neigh? shuttup), approximately a
lovely 15-minute bike ride from the Rio
Grande.”
Kelly Schumann and her girls are doing
great. Big sister
Ashley is going
into First grade in
the Fall and baby
Alexis is turning
one in August.
Kelly is still working at Fox Architects in Tysons.
Kelly’s Girls
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Darren Caumont and his
wife (whoa…I
think that’s the
1st time I’ve
used that word
in our class’
review!), Carrie
just celebrated
their 2-year wedding anniversary this past
June. Congratulations to you both! They
keep getting questions about “when we are
having kids......which can wait a while....a
long while as far as we are concerned. On
that note, our first child, Abby the Labrador
is doing well - she has had the pleasure of
meeting a few of the old peeps from GM and
is as rambunctious as ever. Andrea, my
older sister was just married this summer to
long-time boyfriend, Justin Rude who she
met at William and Mary - Best of luck to the
2 of them. Chelsea was accepted to Virginia
Tech and will be officially starting her college
career in a few short weeks - That, I still
cannot believe - How time flies! I will be
starting a post-baccalaureate certificate program in Information Systems at VCU in August and pursuing my Masters shortly thereafter that I am really excited about. I just
celebrated my one-year anniversary working
for CarMax in the corporate office here in
Richmond that has been absolutely fantastic. This is my 3rd year recruiting overall and
I love getting to meet all the people that I
work with as a result of my job. We will be
traveling to Holden beach August 5-12 for a
much needed vacation and are talking about
a bigger and better trip for late winter early
spring.....maybe Italy? At any rate, looks like
everyone is doing really well - Congratulations to everyone in accomplishing so many
goals so far!”
Jesse Burgman finally has a schedule that
allows full time school so he will graduate at
the end of the year with a Bachelors of Fine
Arts for Graphic Design from GMU. Check
out his website www.jburgman.com After
graduation, he will be looking for Masters of
Fine Arts
Programs
or Architecture at either Catholic/VCU or
even Seattle. He is
currently
working in
Falls
Jesse Burgman
Church as
a Project Manager/Design and Visualization
Specialist for Digital Design and Imaging
Specialist, Inc. He is cohabitating in Arlington with his girlfriend, Kate at “House of the
Monkey” (a rock and roll group house).
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They just got the new 20th anniversary
Volkswagen GTI. He just returned from
his travels, where he stayed in Luminhaus - a green building contemporary
design project in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where he also just rescued a
baby from the Andes, peak Asdoigu. “I
hiked to the peak and nursed the baby
back to life with my breast milk (half and
half)…who would have thought that a
baby could survive in sub zero temps
wearing only a diaper!?” What a miracle!
Class of 2000
By Jenn Brasler
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the
family of Noah Seidenberg, who died
unexpectedly on July 28th, 2006. Noah
was bright, funny, and well liked, and he
will be missed.
Please also remember two of our classmates who are serving our country overseas. Dan Coleman recently returned to
Iraq, where he will serve for two months
before coming back the States. He’ll
serve in Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri
until 2008. Owen Durham is also in Iraq,
but so far there’s no word on when he’ll
be coming home.
Also overseas is Joel Adriance, who is
still in the Peace Corps in Ecuador but
has moved to an urban area, where he
works with an NGO. The group works
with issues such as immigration and
youth leadership. He loves the job, especially the location, Cuenca, which he
says is one of the most beautiful cities in
Latin America.
Now that we’re six years out of high
school (can you believe it?), most people
have settled into jobs, though some are
pursuing higher education. Dan Hilliard
is in law school at Nova Southeastern
University in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Coincidentally, Hilary Kautter is about to
start working on her doctorate in clinical
psychology at the same school. After
concentrating on French for a while,
Krysten Rose-McCully has changed the
focus of her master’s to Islamic Studies.
She’s studying at GMU and working at
the National Defense University as a
program specialist for the International
Counterterrorism Fellows. Ana Oancea
is studying French and comparative literature at Columbia University. Over the
summer she started working on her master’s thesis, which she will defend in the
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spring. Ellen Keister is about to get her
master’s from the University of Illinois.
She will stay on for another few years to
get
her Ph.D. Kate Jackson is also working
on a Ph.D. and plans to become an M.D.
As for those working, we seem to have
spread out across the States. Gabe Ruotolo has been working in a chemistry lab
in Wilson, North Carolina since he graduated from JMU two years ago. Dave Frost
works as a guide for troubled youth, leading them in wilderness therapy with a
group based out of Utah. He spent the
summer working as a camp counselor in
Chicago. Alexis Ruffino moved to Phoenix in November and works for the governor at the Arizona-Mexico Commission.
She loves her new home and her job, especially the travel opportunities it affords
her. Elisa Marks is still living in New
York and working for a financial PR firm.
She was recently promoted to account
director. Over the summer she got the
opportunity to travel to New England and
the West Coast, which she enjoyed. Jen
Powell has been in Atlanta since February and is enjoying her old job in a new
location.
Of course, many people have remained in
the D.C./Northern Virginia area. Matt Molaski spent some time traveling in Asia,
visiting Laos and Cambodia before working on an organic/sustainable farm in
Thailand. Now he’s back in the States,
working as an assistant food and beverage manager at the Four Seasons in D.C.
Isabelle Janus-Clark recently moved
back to Falls Church after spending six
years in Richmond. She’s looking for a job
and may be doing some traveling soon.
Sarah Shokoor works at the Falls Church
Animal Hospital as a receptionist/
veterinary assistant, and Matt Bowyer
works as a carpenter in Charlottesville.
Mike Degnan works for the Alaska Wilderness League and lives in Adams Morgan. John Chinery works at a biological/
neuroscience lab, putting his biology degree into action. Lauren Newton just finished up her first year teaching at TJ.
She’ll return this year to teach the third
grade. Recently she and her long-time
boyfriend Ryan got engaged and are planning a July 2007 wedding. Bolaji Ojumu,
Joe McCabe, Greg Stovall, and Brendan
Reals are all in the area as well.
I’m still living and working in Falls Church;
I’ve been at my current job since May of
2005. In my spare time I still write and for
RealityNewsOnline, which keeps me very
busy. I spent the summer recapping Rock
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Star: Supernova and interviewing the eliminated contestants. Any job that allows me to
watch American Idol for “work purposes”
can’t be all bad, right?
Thanks to everyone who gave me information! Please keep it coming. I hope everyone
I haven’t heard from recently is doing well.
Don’t forget to send me updated contact info
so we can make sure you get the newsletters.lives’ division of Save the Children, and
JOY WISKIN, who has started a fellowship
at the Population Connection.
JESSICA TAYLOR is working on her master’s in counseling psychology and coteaching special education for the seventh
grade at Mary Ellen Henderson Middle
School. She is living with KELLEY HIGGINS, who graduated from Frostburg and is
working as a nanny for a family in McLean.
One of Jessica’s fellow teachers is LAYTON
WALKER, who teaches fifth grade math and
science. LAUREN NEWTON is teaching
fourth grade at T.J., as well as helping out
with the school’s new drama club, which she
helped start. She also teaches dance in
Falls Church.
MATT MOLASKI has graduated from the
Culinary Institute and is working at the Four
Seasons in Georgetown in a manager training program. ADAN PEREZ works in computer technology in the area and SALLY
PRENDERGAST is in medical school at
George Washington University. CATHERINE COONEY is living in the Fairfax area
with her husband, Brad Guckenberger
(’99). She teaches PE and sports medicine
at McLean and works in their athletic training
program.
BRIDGET BREW is finishing up school at
Berkeley and has recently gone with LIZ
BUCKINGHAM (who works for abused children and families in Fredericksburg) to visit
JESSICA TYSON in Ecuador. Jessica is
there working as a peace corps volunteer,
as is JOEL ADRIANCE, who is just 45 minutes away from her. Both work for the Rural
Health Program. Joel has been in Ecuador
for six months and will probably stay for another year and a half. Jessica, who graduated from Stanford University in 2004 with a
degree in public health, plans to return to the
States in September.
ELISA MARKS moved to New York City
after college and works for a
financial public relations firm, doing communications for major transactions. KERRY
KUHN is also in New York, working for a
prestigious law firm and planning to attend
law school in the future. MEG FRIAR is in
New York as well, finishing up school.
KRYSTEN ROSE-McCULLY has returned
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to Falls Church and is applying to graduate schools in hopes of earning a teaching license and a master’s in French.
She’s currently a French tutor and a
hostess at Sweetwater Tavern. ISABELLE JANUS-CLARK recently graduated from VCU after studying criminal
justice and social work. KRISTA LOCKLAR is in Herndon, working as a cheerleading coach. Her son Rylan is two-anda-half.
ERIN ADKINS took a year off after college to work in Brooklyn. In September,
she started her first year of vet school at
UC Davis. BEN LOVE is roughing it in
the mountains in Colorado, which is also
now home to BRENDAN REALS.
ROBERT GOFF is living and working in
Nevada, and is expecting his first son in
March.
LAUREN (SZYMANSKI) LUCK
married her longtime boyfriend Robert
Luck last summer. She’s now coaching
sports at Mason and is working on her
master’s. KATE JACKSON is working
towards her Ph.D. in sports medicine at
UVA. MATT BOWYER is in Charlottesville, working as a carpenter. LUCY
EGGLESTON works in Richmond, and
LAURA CURTIS was back in the area
for a while but recently left to work with
FEMA to help rebuild New Orleans.
working in labor and delivery and living in
Falls Church. She and her husband Pat
have been married for a little over twoand-a-half years. BEPPE WACKERBARTH works for the Migrant Legal Action Program in D.C., an organization that
provides legal representation and a voice
for migrant and seasonal workers. She’s
also volunteering at an after-school program in Fairfax. As for me, I’m still in Falls
Church and still working for a court reporting firm. I basically spend all day reading
legal transcripts and making sure they’re
acceptable to send out to clients. I’m also
writing for RealityNewsOnline, a website
that recaps and provides information on
reality TV shows. I recently became an
assistant editor for the site.
Thanks to everyone who gave me
information on what people are up to!
Please e-mail me at lucky jenn@
hotmail.com to fill me in on what’s going
on in your lives.
Class of 2001
By Kathleen Davis
Colin Kikuchi is entering his second year
with Teach For America, teaching 6th
grade science at Carl T. Smith Middle
School in Phoenix, AZ. He says that last
year was difficult but rewarding, and is
looking forward to beginning this year.
After getting injured this spring, he'll be
returning to play ultimate frisbee with
Sprawl, the club team in Phoenix.
DANIEL COLEMAN and OWEN
DURHAM are serving our country in Iraq.
Please keep them in your thoughts.
We’re so fortunate to have people from
our class who are willing to leave the
comforts of home to fight for our nation.
Since graduating from the College of William and Mary, Chris Geurtsen has been
working for the Foreign Investment Advisory Service--a joint service of the World
Bank and the International Finance Corporation. He is now working under the Regional Program Coordinator for Eastern
Europe and Central Asia and very much
enjoying doing so.
KIRSTEN KEISTER is living in
Beverly, Massachusetts and working at
Gordon College, her alma mater. She
works at the new design center as a
graphic designer. JEN POWELL is about
to move to Atlanta to work as a buyer for
Macy’s. We’ll miss her, and we hope she
visits whenever she can. DANIEL WORRALL is in his second semester of law
school at DePaul University in Chicago.
AARON LAIBSON graduated from the
University of Georgia last spring with a
degree in English. He’s still in Athens,
working as the assistant manager of an
apartment community. He also does
some tech support and website design.
Erica Singleton is still living in New York
City and entering her fourth year at the
Fashion Institute of Technology. She is
currently working part-time for fashion
photographer Steven Meisel who shoots
for such designers as Prada, Calvin Klein,
and Dolce & Gabbana as well as for
magazines including Vogue, Italian
Vogue, and L’Uomo. She’s also been
assisting runway photographer Dan Lecca
at New York Fashion Weeks and even
doing some of her own freelance photography work on the side. She looks forward to continuing her work in photography following graduating in May of next
year.
CARA (FORBES) FERRIS is still
Amanda Watts graduated from Sweet
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Briar College in May of 2005 with a B.S. in
Biology and minors in Mathematical Studies
and Chemistry. After spending this past
year in Illinois, she is back in the DC Area
and living with her sister, Megan Watts '02,
in Arlington. She will be attending graduate
school at George Washington University,
pursing a Masters of Science in Forensic
Science with a concentration in Crime Scene
Investigation.
After graduating with a Major in Art History
from Middlebury College, Lauren Currier
moved to New York City in April of this year
and is currently working for Strawberryfrog,
a New York based ad agency. Before that
she’d been traveling in Europe with fellow
Mason ‘05 alumni Chris Geurtsen and Gabe
Twose and also worked in Vermont as a
counselor for a children's theater camp.
Liz Gannon just completed her year as a
Jesuit Volunteer in Juneau, Alaska where
she was working in a homeless shelter, predominantly with Alaskan native families and
occasionally with Hispanic immigrants offering translating services to Spanish-speaking
families. Liz is staying in Juneau as a Family Advocate at the Child Advocacy Center
for sexually abused children. She will be
working with the families in the aftermath of
the abuse, often preparing them for and accompanying them to court, providing ongoing emotional support, and offering assistance in other areas. She is also working at
a youth center in the evenings, playing city
league sports, training for a fourteen-mile leg
in the Klondike relay, and enjoying the Alaskan wilderness!
Julia Bradshaw graduated in June from the
University of East Anglia in Norwich, England with a first class
degree. She is currently working at the
Swedish Embassy in London before heading
to Thailand for two months to work on a
scuba diving conservation project.
Kathryn Mason and Brad Allan announced
their engagement earlier this month. An autumn 2007 wedding is planned. In September, they will both begin pursuing graduate
degrees at the University of Chicago.
Juliet Menendez moved to New York City
after spending a year working on paintings
for a gallery exhibition in Antigua, Guatemala and is now working as a bilingual
teacher for the NYC Teaching Fellows while
getting a Masters at Fordham University.
Jessica Karnis recently started work with
the Department of Defense in Dahlgren,
Virginia as a military analyst.
WINTER 2006
Class Notes
I am in the process of getting a GMHS01
listserv up to date with everyone’s current email. If your email address has
recently changed, or if I do not have your
contact information please email me at:
[email protected]
FCEF Alumni Campaign Update
By Donna Englander,
FCEF Executive Director
I’m pleased to
report that a volunteer committee
has been formed to help the Foundation plan activities to support the
Alumni Program and Campaign. The
committee will work to increase connections between alumni through
various communications and special
events, increase visibility of alumni
within the Falls Church Public
Schools community and provide supplemental financial support to benefit
current and future students. If you
are interested in serving on this committee, please contact me. Members
of the committee include:
Tom Clinton,(’85), Incoming Alumni
Coordinator
Susan Dexter (’65)
Steve Goetting, Co-Chair, FCEF
Board Member
Molly Henneberg (’91), Co-chair,
FCEF Board Member
MUSTANG REVIEW
Chris Madison (’92)
Dudley McDonald, Retired teacher
Jennifer Persson(’96)
Scott Sager (’65), GMHS Alumni Coordinator
Harry Shovlin, Retired teacher
The Foundation has already received
notification of a bequest in honor of
GMHS graduate and current student,
Andrew & Alex Goetting. The gift was
made by proud parents Steve and Barbara Goetting. They hope it will encourage others to consider designating the
Falls Church Education Foundation in
their will or trust to benefit the students
of George Mason High School of tomorrow. For more information about designating a gift through your will or trust, or
other type of planned gift (charitable
remainder or lead trust, life estate arrangement, etc), please contact me at
the Foundation office via email at
[email protected] or by phone
27
(703) 538-3381.
Finally, please consider joining the
Mustang Alumni Club—see attached
flyer. Memberships are affordable at
$25 per year. Proceeds will offset the
Foundation’s printing expenses for the
Mustang Review and hospitality costs
of Alumni Reunion receptions.
On Saturday, June 17th, the Foundation hosted a reception for the Classes of 1995 and 1996 at the Don Beyer
Volvo Showroom. A good time was had by all.
WINTER 2006
Join the Mustang Alumni Club
Become a charter member of the George Mason High School Mustang Alumni Club today.
Your membership supports the Falls Church Education Foundation’s Alumni Program. The
Foundation works to provide the following support of George Mason High School Alumni
by:
• Increasing connections between members through printed and on-line publications
and special events just for GMHS alumni
• Providing supplemental financial support to the Falls Church City Public Schools
through alumni giving
• Increasing visibility of alumni with in the FCCPS community
Yes! I would like to join the Alumni Club for 2006-2007
$25 Member, Mustang Alumni Club
Receive an annual subscription to the Foundation
Footings and receive listings in both The Mustang
Review and Foundation Footings.
I wish my membership to be anonymous
Please check here if you are interested in serving on the
GMHS Alumni Committee. Meetings are held via
teleconference to facilitate participation by out-of-town
members.
I would like to make an additional gift to provide supplemental support to the Falls Church City Public Schools to ensure that students are prepared
to effectively meet the challenges of the 21st century:
$10,000 and up Valedictorian Level
$1,000 - $2,499 Principal Scholar
Receive a FCEF Sports Blanket and two VIP
season passes to school special events.
Receive a FCEF Flow Travel Mug and
a Family Pass to GMHS Fall and Spring
Theatre Productions with VIP Seating.
$5,000 - $9,999 Salutatorian Level
Receive a FCEF Mini Cooler/Lunch Tote and
VIP seating at Summer Concerts in the Park.
$2,500 - $4,999 Gunston Scholar
Receive a FCEF Bag Chair and VIP seating
at the Falls Church Memorial Day Parade.
$500 - $999
Mustang Scholar
Receive a FCEF Ultra Pocket Mini Umbrella.
$100 - $499
Supporter
Receive a FCEF Polycarbonate Sports Bottle.
I contribute/plan to contribute through my
Commonwealth of Virginia Tax Return.
(www.fcedf.org for more info)
Name(s) as you wish it to appear in our printed publications
Address
My employer has a matching gift program and
I have enclosed their completed form.
Method of Payment:
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Amount: _______
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Falls Church Education Foundation is registered as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.
Please return this form and your membership contribution to the address below.
You will receive your membership benefits and acknowledgement in the mail. Thank you!
(703) 538-3381 tel
(703) 538-3464 fax
Falls Church Education Foundation
450 W. Broad Street, Suite 305
Falls Church, VA 22046
www.fcedf.org
[email protected]
President’s Message: Our Year in Review
By Bob Young
May 4th Annual Gala Featured-Speaker, Fox Newswoman, GMHS Alumna and
FCEF Board Member Molly
Henneberg.
Naming and Scholarship
Opportunities
For more information about
how to increase visibility for
your class, business, or
honor someone important
in your life - a classmate,
family member, teacher,
counselor, or friend - please
contact Donna Englander,
Executive Director, at (703)
538-3381 or visit the
Foundation’s website at
www.fcedf.org.
Congratulations to the 2006
Falls Church Education
Foundation Scholarship
Recipients
The Franklin and Kent
Thackrey Memorial
Scholarship
Eammon Rockwell
The J. Roger and Patricia A.
Wollenberg Memorial
Scholarship
Lauren Moore
The Jessica B. Szymanski
Memorial Scholarship
Christie Ankeney
Jessica Porzel
Kristin Kay Schwind
The Patricia Doyle
Scholarship
Justin Morrison
The Sheila Jones Memorial
Scholarship
Alex Holachek
The Spirit of George Mason
Awards
Eric Brooks
Jacqueline Zaccor
It’s been another year of tremendous growth at the Falls Church
Education Foundation thanks to the
support we’ve received from parents, alumni, generous individuals,
and our public and corporate partners. The Foundation has raised
over $1.3 million for Falls Church
City Public Schools programs and
scholarships since our launch and
have put much of these funds to
work on behalf of our students already. Here are some of the highlights from the past year:
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Co-sponsorship of the New
Teacher Luncheon on August
22, 2005 at the Italian Café to
welcome new teachers to our
system.
Distribution of $7,100 in
teacher grants to support innovative and supplemental activities to benefit FCCPS students
(please see our upcoming
newsletter, Foundation Footings, for results of these projects).
Stewardship of $38,000 in
program gifts from individuals
and corporate partners for activities such as the Nancy F.
Sprague Teacher Leadership
Retreat, Diversity Affirmation
Education Fund’s Challenge
Day program, Interactive Classroom Project (George Mason
High School), the Wilden After School Program (TJES and
Mary Ellen Henderson Middle
School) and the Poet-inResidence program (Thomas
Jefferson Elementary
School).
•
•
Adoption by the FCCPS
School Board of the FCEF’s
guidelines for gifts and sponsorships associated with
naming of school facilities
and features. Please contact
the Foundation, (703) 5383381, if you are interested in
learning more about these
opportunities.
Distribution of more than
$27,000 in scholarships to
George Mason High School
graduates. The Foundation
also produced the GMHS
Annual Scholarship Opportunities brochure, which lists all
scholarship opportunities for
GMHS graduates. If you are
interested in receiving a copy
of the brochure, please contact the GMHS Guidance Of-
fice or the Foundation.
•
Coordination of the Foundation’s Launch Party featuring Washington Post
reporter and author, Jay
Mathews, and the 1st Annual Run for the Schools.
Over 300 supporters attended these events to
benefit the Foundation’s
operations and programs.
•
Outreach to over 5,000
George Mason High School
alumni through publication
of the Alumni newsletter,
The Mustang Review, and
hosting of the reunion for
the Classes of 1995 and
1996
I hope you’ll join us as we raise
funds so that our students are
prepared to effectively meet
the challenges of the 21st century. Thank you for your membership!
Renowned writer/poet Kalli Dakos
with some of her props. Kalli was the
first participating writer in the Falls
Church Education Foundation’s Writerin-Residence Program. Her recent
visit to TJ, made possibly through a
generous donation of Stacy H. Moot
and John Moot.
Half a Million Dollar Gift to the Foundation
On May 4th, the Foundation announced a $500,000 commitment
from the Wollenberg family to fully
endow an in-state scholarship for
a George Mason High School student. This commitment pushes
the Foundation’s fundraising total
to over $1.3 million since it began
operations two years ago. The
Wollenbergs have been active in
the Falls Church City Public
Schools since 1961 when the family patriarch, Roger Wollenberg
served on the School Board.
The J. Roger and Patricia A. Wollenberg Memorial Scholarship,
provides an annual, renewable
scholarship for a George Mason
High School senior to attend a
higher education institution in the
Commonwealth of Virginia. The
recipient must have performed
substantial voluntary service to
the local community. Applicants
should demonstrate the need for
financial assistance.
Chris Wollenberg (’66), a trustee of the Wollenberg Foundation, presents the Falls Church
Education Foundation’s Executive Director, Donna Englander,
with a check for $100,000 as
a part of a two-year pledge to
fully endow the J. Roger and
Patricia A. Wollenberg Memorial Scholarship.
The Falls Church Education Foundation’s mission is to ensure that our students are prepared to effectively meet the challenges of the 21st century . The
Foundation provides all friends of the Falls Church City Public Schools with a means to contribute a legacy of support for the system’s educational
excellence. Our commitment to educational excellence will guarantee that the unique identity and values of our community will be sustained.
Falls Church Education Foundation is registered as a 501(c)3 tax exempt organization.
George Mason High School Alumni Association Class Representatives Staff Alumni Nancy Birindellli 303 Sea Oats Trail Southern Shores, NC 27949 252­261­3915 [email protected] 1953 Lynn Llewellyn 4209 Aspen Hill Rd Rockville, MD 20853 301­871­6197 and Sara K. Madden 4409 Deborah Ct., Apt. 2 Chesapeake, VA 23321 757­696­0953 [email protected] 1954 Scott Butler 3020 Pine Springs Rd. Falls Church, VA 22042 703­941­7136 and Patti Regan Carson 8721 Jones Mill Rd. Chevy Chase, MD 20815 301­656­0613 [email protected] 1958 Tania Gillespie Camfiord 13025 Compton Rd. Clifton, VA 20124­1507 703­830­3783 [email protected] or [email protected] and Jean Ann Albright Kay 751 Ruthsburg Rd Centreville, MD 21617 710.758.2572 [email protected] t 1959 Clare Neuberg Dix 2619 Lemontree Lane Vienna, VA 22181 703­938­4997 [email protected] 1960 Hugh (Luke) O’Hara 1107 Kennedy St Falls Church, VA 22046 703­241­8636 [email protected] 1961 Judy Fischer White 440 Belmont Bay Dr 1955 #202 Maggie Koontz Stewart Woodbridge, VA 22191 12603 Magna Carta Rd 703­491­6956 home Herndon, VA 20171­2713 703­307­1010 cell [email protected] [email protected] and Judy Potter Brown 1962 18 Chatsford Ct Carl Neuberg Bloomington, IL 61704 3406 Fiddlers Green [email protected] Falls Church, VA 22044 703­256­5354 1956 [email protected] Terp Palmer 3 Flowing Wells Lane 1963 Savannah, GA 31411 Bill Laing 912­598­4614 59 Kendig Lane 912­598­4657 fax Martinsburg, WV 25401 [email protected] 304­262­0321 [email protected] 1957 Pat Sullivan Palmer 1964 See 1956 Kathy Smith Ware 2306 Spring Lake Rd. Paragould, AR 72450 870­335­0121 [email protected] 1965 Scott Sager 9698 Manteo Ct. Burke, VA 22015 703­250­7791 home 703­874­5465 work [email protected] 1966 Joyce Powell Timms 3811 Mary Street Falls Church, VA 22042 703­560­1544 [email protected] and Jo Briggs Freeman 1307 Mormac Road Richmond, VA 23229 804­741­5087 home 804­382­5087 voice [email protected] m and Merrill Hunt McCarter 15157 Woodsman Ln Woodbridge, VA 22193 [email protected] 1967 Rose Martin Garrett­Daughety 2112 Brandeis Dr Richardson, TX 75082 [email protected] and Barry Buschow 903 Madison Lane Falls Church, VA 22046 703­533­8610 [email protected] or barry.buschow@ auatac.com 1968 Nancy Clark Aderholdt 17091 Four Seasons Dr
Dumfries, VA 22025 703­680­3094 [email protected] 1969 Barbie Watkins Blood 329 Old Kootenai Trail Sandpoint, ID 83864­ 9131 208­263­8559 [email protected] 1970 Robbie Werth 5414 Thetford Place Alexandria, VA 22310 703­922­5264 home 703­912­7606 work 703­864­6501 cell [email protected] [email protected] 1971 Billy Martin 1769 Ensenada Dos Pensacola Bch, FL 32561 850­291­1363 [email protected] 1972 Sue Lemon Clinton 7204 Sewell Avenue Falls Church, VA 22046 and David B. Begle 509 N. Brighton Ct. Sterling, VA 20164 703­444­4654 [email protected] 1973 Diann Bullock Watkins 1002 Madison Lane Falls Church, VA 22046 703­538­6644 home [email protected] 1974 Brenda Brown Green 290 Mountain Lake Dr Front Royal, VA 22630 1975 Tracey Goetz Stover 403 Green Street Bridgewater, VA 22812 540­879­9980 and Phil Acosta 101 Poplar Drive Falls Church, VA 22046 703­533­0205 [email protected] et 1976 Dan Collins 2800 Maple Lane Fairfax, VA 22031 [email protected] 1977 We need Volunteers! 1978 Susan Richbourg Frick 3707 Ottawa Court Woodbridge, VA 22192 703­590­4270 [email protected] 1979 Karen Huber Grubbs 7541 Royce Ct. Annandale, VA 22003 703­941­6367 [email protected] 1980 Ken Compher 12820 Kelsey Circle Spotsylvania, VA 22553 1981 Jean Marie Diloreto King 4120 Lenox Drive Fairfax, VA 22032 [email protected] 1982 Valerie Singleton Smolinski 4875 Old Dominion Dr Arlington, VA 22207 703­533­2390 [email protected] 1983 Tom Clinton 711 Hillwood Avenue Falls Church, VA 22042 703­241­2902 home 703­248­5023 work 703­248­5212 work fax 571­516­4840 cell [email protected] or tclinton
@fallschurchva.gov continued on page 4
George Mason High School Alumni Association Class Representatives 1984 Susan Schneider Eddy 8685 Nagle Street Manassas, VA 20110 [email protected] and Rich Condit [email protected] 1985 Karen Seal Weir 122 Kelvingrove Dr. Madison, AL 35758 703­729­8618 [email protected] and Laura Jacomet Cesnik 2608 Middle Rd Winchester, VA 22601 540­722­9096 [email protected] 1986 Susan Schick Link 5920 E. Larkspur Drive Scottsdale, AZ 85254 [email protected] and Joe Cheek 2308 N. Madison St Arlington, VA 22205 703­536­5350 1987 Barbara Buzzerd Tyeryar 6812 Moly Drive Falls Church, VA 22046 703­241­1352
And Robert Horvath 1117 N. Tuckahoe Street Falls Church, VA 22046 703­577­2064 cell [email protected] and Hugo Mendoza 6015 Sherborn Lane Springfield, VA 22152 703­644­5280 [email protected] [email protected] 1988 Brent Johnson PO BOX 372 Midpines, CA 95345­ 0372 559­565­3931 [email protected] and Michael Wilner 2703 Welcome Drive Falls Church, VA 22046 703­465­2788 home 703­868­7801 cell michael.wilner @comcast.net 1989 Martha Behr Noone 6517 Tucker Avenue McLean, VA 22101 703­821­8041 and Dave Buddendeck 522 N. Piedmont St. #201 Arlington, VA 22203 djbuddendeck@ leoadaly.com and Jon Gannon 204 E. Columbia St Falls Church, VA 22046 and Jen Rosholt 1405 S. West Street Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] m and Laura Snider Nunley 6907 Little Falls Street Arlington, VA 22213 703­536­2384 [email protected] m 1990 We need volunteers! 1991 Sasha Day Shultz 1854 Abbotsford Drive Vienna, VA 22182 703­242­7507 Sasha_shultz @hotmail.com And Dave Cook 506 S. Spring Street Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] 1992 Deepa Menon 3861A Steppes Ct. Falls Church, VA 22041 703­931­0565 [email protected] 1993 Katherine Temple Craig 5400 Iverchapel Rd Springfield, VA 22151 703­321­3149 [email protected] om 1994 Stacey Mize Pickett 1291 Dayspring Terrace Lawrenceville, GA 30045 678­344­5603 1995 Julie Roa­Ramirez 12759 James Monroe Hwy Leesburg, VA 21076­ 5338 mustangs1995@ hotmail.com julianna_ramirez@ hotmail.com and Nicole Pelon Nattania 3700 H Meriwether Dr. Durham, NC 27704 Thank You to all Class Representatives for contributing to the Mustang Review!
1996 Jennifer Williams Persson 10308 Latney Road Fairfax, VA 22032 703­239­0225 home 703­585­9625 cell [email protected] om [email protected] 2000 Jenn Brasler 1001 N. Sycamore St Falls Church, VA 22046 School: Eastern College Box 100 1300 Eagle Road St. Davids, PA 19087 [email protected] 1997 Sarah Romer 116 Tollgate Way Falls Church, VA 22046 swaderomer @hotmail.com 2001 Veronica Ratliff 2103 N. Glebe Rd #106 Arlington, VA 22207 703­351­6233 [email protected] and Rebecca Davis 608 Highland Avenue Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] 1998 Jennifer Freeman 1009 Hillwood Avenue Falls Church, VA 22042 Jenniferfreeman @aol.com and Delora Parks 9817 Bronte Drive Fairfax, VA 22032 [email protected] and Anna Molaski 200 N. Underwood St. Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] 1999 Olivia Thomas 10106 Quayle Ct. Manassas, VA 22109 571­212­3380 cell [email protected] om [email protected] m and Carly Lumsden 424 Hampton Court Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] om and Meredith Griffiths 1008 Parker Street Falls Church, VA 22046 [email protected] 2002 Katiuska Arias 4617 Wakefield Chapel Annandale, VA 22003 [email protected] 2003 Caitlin Wright 339 Gundry Drive Falls Church, VA 22046 cwright8847 @email.vccs.edu and Vanessa Trasmonte 600 Roosevelt Blvd #102 Falls Church, VA 2204 [email protected] 2004 & 2005 We need volunteers!