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1942 On June 28, Ida Mae Walkup Hall celebrated her 102nd birthday with family and friends. Graduating with honors from Queens, she was a double major in English and math. She was named “Most Scholarly” in her class and fondly recalls Sunday dinners with her cousin, William Henry Belk and family in Charlotte. She has enjoyed a long life including a son, two grandsons and two great-grandchildren.


1955 Mary Lois Ridings Bynum enjoyed meeting up with classmates, Caroline Love Myers and Jane Gage Baysinger at Queens’ reunion last spring. She visits Sunset Beach several times during the year and usually gets together with Peppy Scutt Thacker. She stays busy with various activities at Arbor Acres as well as church and Daughters of the American Revolution events. One of her granddaughters plays basketball at Rollins College. She had a great trip to see her play this past year.


The class expresses sympathy to Emilia Hutchinson Barksdale on the death of her husband C. Bruce Barksdale Jr., on June 6.


Ida Mae Walkup Hall ’42 celebrated her 102nd birthday this year.


1948 Florence Vaught lives independently in a retirement community in Conway, South Carolina. She has three grandchildren and three great- grandchildren. Each year, she spends several weeks with her family at the beach. She has a book club that meets at her house twice a month and is very active in her church.


1958 Susan Houg retired (for the third time) in February. Her last assignment was supporting students in hospital or “home


Linda Tucker ’62 and Cindy Trobaugh ’62 connect in Rock Hill.


health” status. After recording two CDs of original songs, doing vocals and guitar, she is learning to play the mandolin. A foray into watercolors through her local art gallery and volunteering as church librarian provides stimulus when she is not visiting family in the San Francisco Bay Area and reading one of daughter Sara Zarr’s ten books.


1960


The Claiborne House Pleinairists Eight, organized by Suzanne Davis Ross in May, documented the landscape and life of Franklin County Virginia for one week. One of their sites will now host their art for the Folk Life Festival in October held on Ferrum College’s campus. The Blue Ridge Institute Museum Gallery had a “meet the artist” reception on Nov. 3, 2022.


Susan Houg ’58 and granddaughter Teresa in Lithia Park, Ashland, Oregon.


1961 Professor Emerita Jane Hadley and Adelaide Davis enjoyed a fun lunch with Mary Adeline (M.A.) and Jeffrey Cromartie ’69 at Amalie’s in Charlotte when M.A. was making a long “road trip” from her home in Mississippi through Georgia,


South Carolina and North Carolina to see classmates along the way.


1962 Linda Jewell has been trying to keep up with five grandchildren. Two graduated from the University of Georgia, one is still in college, and two are in high school and live in their neighborhood. Her husband Rob had a successful aortic valve repair several months ago. They enjoy living on the North Carolina coast part of the year.


In July, Cynthia “Cindy” Trobaugh stopped by Queens on a lovely Sunday morning and brought her niece and family to see the campus. She stopped in Rock Hill, South Carolina and had lunch with her freshman college suitemate, Linder Carter Tucker. She noted so much had changed!


1964


The class expresses sympathy for the family of Phoebe Pierce Martin.


1967 Judy M. Leonard and her husband


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