Julia Barstow- (néeDunn - Class of 1954)


It is a very long time since I have had any contact with Mayfield; mostly because I have been living in the USA since 1960, apart from a two-year residence in France (1965-7) with my husband and children. In fact, we arrived there with our son at age six months and our next child, a daughter, was born in France. Our third child was born in Pennsylvania. Skipping over the years we moved to Connecticut in 1969 and have been here ever since, except for a year in France in 1973 with a group of American students. This was a year when the children (aged for, six and eight) attended the local schools and perfected their French, much to the chagrin of our group of students. It is so much easier to acquire that second language at eight than when you are in your late teens! We still live in the log cabin that we built ourselves, starting in 1970 and never quite finishing everything, even after we had to start replacing things, such as the roof (some 30 years later!)


My husband of 53 years used to teach French at the University of Connecticut and later worked selling dress fabrics to quilt-makers all over New England and New York state for 26 years. In the meantime I taught French and Spanish in a local school for 18 months and afterwards worked in the Centre for Latin American Studies at the University of Connecticut as an "all purpose academic bureaucrat". I retired from that in 2001 and am enjoying my retirement living in our well- worn log house. Over the years we have done a lot of interesting things: we both sang in a small 17 voice Renaissance Choir for many years and my husband now sings in a Barbershop Chorus with our son. We have travelled quite a lot, including Niger to visit our older daughter when she was in the Peace Corps. That was a fascinating trip to a third world and poverty stricken country, where the Peace Corps was held in very high esteem.


I visited the Dominican Republic to check out a possible study programme for our students. In 1989 I made a trip to Russia and had a chance to try out the Russian language that I had been working on for several years with different teachers. Incidentally, I am back in the Russian class now with some total beginners, recovering my skills. It is amazing how much of a neglected language reappears many years later; most encouraging! Our children have grown up into very interesting people: our son worked as a Paramedic with an Ambulance Service in New Haven and later became a self taught computer expert which is now his career. Our older daughter studied medicine and worked later as a Doctor in Vermont. Our younger daughter married in France and teaches English in a high school, much involved with the school's radio station and organising school trips to other schools all over Europe and a trip to Burundi. Our six grandchildren range in age from 11 to 21.


The Old Cornelian SUMMER 2017


Tara Button - (Class of 2000)


My petition to the G20 just went live. According to researchers, our appliances are breaking earlier and earlier. Currently, millions of tonnes of broken appliances are sent to landfill. All this can change if there was lifetime labelling in the same way as we have energy labelling. Please sign it and share with all your friends. http://bit.ly/MakeItLastBMO


Victoria Dunn - (née Rodwell - Class of 1953)


Now living in Leicestershire and in contact with Susan Constable Maxwell (Gaisford St Lawrence, class of 1953), Grania Brock (Murphy, class of 1959), Bianca Capell-Brooke (della Pura Onorati, class of 1960).


Biddy Kehoe - (néeHorgan - Class of 1963)


I met up with Veronica Bailey (néeGiles) and Sarah Browne (néeHorgan) last summer in Fontvieille France, for Sarah's 70th Birthday. My youngest, Lochlann, his wife and two children joined us and we had a blast. I keep in touch with Rowena Hudson (née Turner) who lives in London. We both seem to spend a lot of time joyously looking after some of our grandchildren!


I now have six, two in Melbourne, two in Wilmington DE, one in Chicago and one in LA...so I travel a fair bit. We recently moved to a small manageable house which has been a huge relief to me - no more grass to mow.


Fabiola Hochkirchen - (née Stachels - Class of 1996)


We are now living in Berlin, I married Benedikt Hochkirchen and our first daughter Aurelia was born November 2014 and our son Eduard in May 2016. We are expecting our third child in September 2017. I was a managing partner in a private equity fund in Hamburg and worked there for 13 years.


Since 2014 I have worked independently as a business angel in start-ups in biotech and digital health, as well as advising a regional publishing house and working pro bono on solutions for refugee integration.


Mary Jefferies - (née Cubitt-Smith - Class of 1955)


Belinda Gornall - (née Blackie - Class of 1965)


We moved to central Bath eight years ago and love city living. I am still tourist guiding as well as having many granny duties.


Lina Lim - (Class of 1993)


Lina and her husband Daniel Cheong have written a young children's book dedicated to their two daughters Alyssa and Sierra. "Slowcoach Sally" focuses on a girl with one very bad habit - she is extremely slow in everything she does. It hopes to teach the lesson that, even when trying to speed up, it is still necessary to take time to enjoy and appreciate all the beautiful things in the world.


My husband Alan died in May 2015. I have moved to a smaller bungalow in Hickling, Norfolk where I am only 3 miles from my son Julian. He and his family enjoy sailing on the Broad and I enjoy being involved with the grandchildren's sailing and riding activities.


Judith Blackstad - (Class of 1968)


Judi's nephew, Matthew, has had his first novel 'Sock Puppet' published by Hodder & Stoughton. Judi is in touch with Sarah Astell (née Farrell), Gay Brumby (née Schulye) Brumby, Sally Bokowski (née Dunne), Annie Bowen-Wright (née Richmond), Susan Eccles (née Craib), Sarah Leach (néeDobson) and Lisa Wale (née Spencer).


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