Class 1980
Louine Clegg Holloway moved to Gastonia, North Carolina, in October 2021.
Lisa Bynum ’91 with her classmates Amy Lohr Gaffney ’91, Julie Tomas Walton ’91, Andrea McCrary, Adrienne McCormick ’91 and Amanda Knox Vestal ’91.
1978 In the Winterfield Neighborhood in east Charlotte, three very different Queens grads have united in service to the community. Putting into practice the Queens motto “Not to be served, but to serve,” Carla Jeffords Vitez ’78, Diane Langevin ’85 and Anna Helms Kennington ’04 worked together to launch Winterfield Community Garden in 2010. For more than a decade the garden has provided educational programming to youth from adjacent Winterfield Elementary
School, as well as offering rental plots and a community gathering spot for eastside residents. In May, the garden celebrated its 12th anniversary with “A Dozen Years of Digging Festival.” The festival celebrated the achievements of the students, teachers, residents and community leaders who built the Garden.
1979
The class expresses sympathy to Susan Luck on the death of her father, Herbert S. Luck, on October 30.
1982 Carleton Montgomery was special sections editor at the Charlotte Observer; then, 22 years ago at the invitation of her now-husband Bill Sheppard, she moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, where she gardens, hikes and reads. They met on a volunteer Sierra Club trip at an archaeological site in New Mexico and married four years later.
1983 Donna Gardner Bracewell is living in Paraguay, enjoying her life as a missionary with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. She and her husband, Dean, have been there for two years. They support national pastors and teach in the Bible Institute. Donna especially enjoys teaching an ESL class to young people.
The class expresses sympathy to Kirstin Barnes Swimmer on the death of her mother-in-law, Marilyn Swimmer, on October 12.
1984
Allison Gilbert Holmes’ two sons recently graduated from college. James graduated from North Carolina State with a degree in environmental science and Stuart graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in economics. He is now in graduate school, pursuing his master’s in accounting.
The class expresses sympathy to Rebecca Nam Giblin on the death of her mother-in-law, Elena Giblin, on October 15.
1985 Kate Blackmon is finishing her final year as the sub-warden (deputy head) of Merton College, University of Oxford, which is the university’s oldest college (founded in 1264). This has been a very exciting couple of years to be involved in university administration.
1988
The class expresses sympathy to Lisa Hartman Gavel on the death of her father, Gary L. Hartman, on October 9.
(Left to right) Kaylan Yvonne Gerdes ’18, Karl and Melody Gerdes, Linda Warren Gerdes ’89, and Ian Gerdes celebrate Karl and Melody Gerdes.
A weekend in Knoxville was fun for former roommates Jennifer Russell Higgins ’89, LeAnn Warren Otterbein ’89 and Linda Warren Gerdes ’89.
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