Association news & class notes
Lori Jones Gore and Jerry Gore ’62 have been residing in a continuing care retirement community in Burlington, North Carolina, for about three years and find it pretty appealing. Lori misses the mountains where they used to live, but the upkeep on their home there got to be too much. Their daughter and son-in-law and two grandchildren live about 30 minutes away. Their granddaughter will graduate from college this year, finish her Army training to become a medic, and is looking forward to entering the Baylor University physical therapy doctoral program. Her brother is a Marine in sniper school. Lori and Jerry’s son and his family live in Graz, Austria, where he works for Siemens and his wife teaches at a local university. They have two girls. Lori and Jerry spent a wonderful week with them in Beaufort, North Carolina, last summer. They are doing fine for old codgers!
Bob McCormick and Marsha Reifsnyder McCormick ’59 are dealing with back pain and balance problems, so they are mostly homebodies, eating and watching TV (watching politics, blah). But they are still perking along and mourn the loss of so many of their friends from college and med school. They do not travel anymore and were last in Maryland in 2012.
Ray Wright and Arlene MacVicker Wright ’61 have lived in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for the past five years, close to their two sons and their families, and the grandchildren’s school and sports activities. Their three older grandchildren are college graduates and employed in the Boston and Philadelphia areas. Over the past year, Arlene and Ray completed and published their Storyworth project, which was a lot of fun remembering and recording the many special events of their lives, and certainly very special and entertaining for their children and grandchildren to read.
Ethel Vonderheide Thomas and her husband, Tom, recently moved to a retirement community in Chandler, Arizona, to be near their daughter. After living in a retirement community in Orange, Florida, for six years, Ethel has some concerns about getting around, but keeps busy with friends, working at the genealogy, serving as treasurer on two different committees, and taking random courses from The Great Courses. Due to limited mobility, she will not be able to attend the Reunion, but is looking forward to reading about fellow classmates and hopes for a good turnout.
Betty Flohr Plasket has been living in Lexington, South Carolina, since 1985 enjoying year-round mild seasonal weather with her daughter and granddaughter living nearby. No grass grows under her feet! She is constantly on the go, traveling often, and still working too much for the South Carolina Foster Care Review Board. She stays busy encouraging her son, Rick, in his Action Coach consulting for small businesses and West Point activities. She also enjoys watching her granddaughter excel in her management career. In her spare time, she travels to North Carolina to help her daughter, Carly Lynne, who jokes Betty is her marketing manager. She is the author of three children’s books.
Marge Hull Harper sends greetings from Vermont. She is still living in her little house in the center of the state year-round and loving it! She often thinks of her grandmother Hull who was born and raised in Southern Vermont but in her early 20s was summoned to Baltimore to keep house for her bachelor brothers who had started a bakery. There, she met Marge’s grandfather. Marge is pleased that she and her son Andy have brought part of the family back to the Green Mountain State. She so enjoys the peace, quiet, and beauty of the rural area and loves seeing the wildlife right outside her windows. The passing years have slowed her down, as is true for the rest of the class, but she still enjoys getting around and is the leader of her exercise class at her senior center.
Jack Anderson and Jane Roeder Anderson continue to divide their time between their home at the Erickson retirement community in Catonsville, Maryland, and their beloved Dove Cottage in the Pennsylvania Chautauqua, in Mount Gretna, Pennsylvania, whose mission includes the arts and culture, recreation, religion, and education. In May 2022, they traveled to California with their son and his family to attend the graduation of their grandson from the University of Southern California. What an impressive experience! Last fall, Jane and Jack went on a trip down memory lane to Fort Leonard Wood and Rolla, Missouri, their homes for nearly two years while Jack was stationed at Fort Leonard Wood. They went by overnight Amtrak with a sleeping compartment and visited their old haunts in St. Louis, the Ozarks, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas. Jane and Jack are both well, but like the rest of us, slowing down a bit! They send their warmest wishes to all and can’t believe that our 65th Reunion is just about upon us!
Congratulations to Ardella “Ardie” Campbell Darlington, who was inducted into the Green Terror Sports Hall of Fame in 2022. Last fall, she received emails from McDaniel advising her that she had won an award and was invited to Homecoming weekend festivities with the other winners. Awardees were to be honored at a banquet Friday night and at the football game on Saturday. Unfortunately, she was unable to attend as it would have required traveling and an overnight stay. However, in late September she received a beautiful box filled with green and gold streamers and a pom-pom and an engraved glass trophy. She is still in her home in New Cumberland, Pennsylvania, and she delights in being able to drive and support volunteer projects.
Billye and Tony Sarbanes, M.Ed. ’68 are doing well. They will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary a week or so after our class Reunion. They both stay fairly active in various civic groups, church, and general events and activities. They also try to work out at the local YMCA five times a week. Their main focus is their five grandchildren. Their youngest granddaughter, Sophia, is a sophomore at Parkside High School in Salisbury, Maryland, which is the school Tony opened in 1975! Whenever Tony is on that campus, he feels “older” age creeping in.
I, Barbara Hunt Ketay, continue to keep busy and out of trouble with a variety of activities. Last July, my daughter, Priscilla, and I drove to Vail, Colorado, via Las Vegas and Grand Junction, Colorado. Due to the possibility of flooding near Glenwood Springs, we had to take a 100-mile “scenic” and extended driving time detour to get to Vail, but did pass through Steamboat Springs and saw some beautiful country, mountains, etc. While in Vail, we took three different gondola rides up different mountains in the area and attended a beautiful outdoor theatre and heard the Philadelphia Orchestra. In the fall, I spent many hours phone-banking and writing postcards for the election.
Barb Hunt Ketay1958 Class Reporterdietish@gmail.com