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42 HOOD MAGAZINE | WINTER 2010 Our daughter Heather spent three weeks stateside from Beirut, Lebanon, so she was able to share Thanksgiving with us. She’ll resume her Arabic studies in January. I (Sally Johnson Leland) would be remiss in my duties if I did not extend, from the Class of ’74, sincerest thanks to Gordie Bell Thorpe and Suzanne Bertier Owens for the many years they served as our class reporters. You two kept us “in the loop” and reconnected many of us, and for that we are most grateful. Please make sure you add my e-mail address to your address book so it’s a recognized sender, rather than spam. I will make every effort to remember to put Hood ’74 in the subject area! May 2010 provide you opportunities to touch lives and create positive change like you never thought possible! Health and happiness to you all. Giving Participation: 22.5% · Total Class Dollars: $5,425 is a Presbyterian deacon and volunteer at her Central Presbyterian Church in Towson. Sally regularly runs into neighbor Anne Cutting Gearhart at the grocery store. On a sad note, my (Deborah Deasy) 49-year-old brother Bob, a father of ﬁve, passed away in August 2009 at Virginia Commonwealth Medical Center after receiving a stem cell transplant to treat his terminal leukemia. As Bob’s “perfect match” and stem cell donor, I feel especially sad. Bob courageously endured a seven month hospital stay after the transplant, and eventually went home before developing an infection and succumbing to the ravages of prolonged steroid treatments for graftversus-host disease, a serious risk and complication in stem cell transplants. The good news is that Bob lived long enough to attend his oldest child’s wedding in July in Fairfax, Va. Thanks to all who remembered, and may still remember Bob in your prayers. Giving Participation: 13.33% · Total Class Dollars: $5,936 35th Reunion June 4-6 Deborah Deasy 1824 Foxcroft Lane, Apt. 704 Allison Park, PA 15101 (412) 366-2642 ddeasy@tribweb.com Our condolences to the family of Ralph Sharer who died June 20, 2009, in Winter Park, Fla. Our sympathy to Doreen Barrows Smith whose mother Patricia died July 1, 2009. Rhea Bel-Jon Calkins of Bayville, N.Y., writes that she’s been married for nearly 29 years to Steven, a “truly wonderful man!” and attorney specializing in maritime law. “No children,” she says, “although my niece lived with us for a while so I got a little taste of parenthood.” After years of doing “the corporate grind in the textile industry” (Malden Mills), Rhea has become a passionate art detective. “What began as an endeavor to write a short bio of my mother Troy brought me to look around the attic,” she wrote. What Rhea found, however, were boxes and slides containing a “treasure trove of history” on her Greek artist father Nikos and his stunning commissioned works—mostly murals on metals—made for corporations across America. “I always knew he was a wonderful artist,” Rhea said, “but he died when I was very young and I never really saw his body of work as an adult until I embarked on this adventure. Since I found the boxes and slides I have become totally entranced and it has become a full-time job documenting everything and tracing his works, many of which had become lost in corporate America.” To view some of Nikos Bel-Jon’s works and learn more about Rhea’s late dad, visit www.bel-jonstudios.com. Rhea regularly sees Margery Berringer-Schuran ’74 and sometimes sees Billie Weise Dowd ’74. Last June, Margery and Rhea “took a wild road trip to my house in Mexico (San Miguel D’Allende),” Rhea wrote. “Margery was recently nominated for a Helen Hayes award in Washington, D.C., and in addition to her acting, is quite an accomplished decorator in the D.C. area.” Speaking of old Hood theater stars, Cheryl Cuddeback watched the New York Yankees’ World Series victory parade from the ofﬁces of the Wall Street law ﬁrm where she works. Sharing the view were former baseball players Mike Torrez, Chris Chambliss and Dwight Gooden—all good friends of partners in the ﬁrm. After years of working as public health nutritionist, dietician Sally Ray Guiles now packs groceries two mornings a week near The Johns Hopkins Univ. as a volunteer with Moveable Feasts, a nonproﬁt group that provides food for low-income HIV/ AIDS and breast cancer patients. “I’m a pair of hands,” Sally says with that old self-deprecating laugh. Sally and husband Charlie, a civil engineer, celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary in 2009 and have three children—newspaper copy editor Cathy, 28; art teacher Anna, 25; and senior college student Ben, 22. Sally also Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz 5732 Tamarack Drive Pace, FL 32571 (850) 995-0051 nlwfeltz@hotmail.com It’s always good to hear from our classmates! Please add me (Nancy Ludwick Warrenfeltz) to your e-mail list. Plus I am on Facebook, so there are several ways to stay in touch with me. Our condolences to Diane Garst Flickinger whose cousin Jeanne Feaga Baden ’40 died June 11, 2009, in Bunker Hill, W.Va. Kathy Anderson Jewell wrote, “I continue as a family and consumer science teacher at New Market Middle School. I have been back teaching for more than 12 years. I went back to help get our kids through college. I teach mostly eighth graders and some seventh-grade sections. A teaching day is never dull, as we deal with our ‘hormones with feet.’ Chip is director of emergency communications in Frederick County. He oversees all 911 emergency number operations with a staff of more than 50 employees. He has also written two books on the history of ﬁre ﬁghting in Frederick County and Frederick City. Our son Curtis and his wife live in Baltimore. Curtis graduated from Washington Univ. in St. Louis in 2003 with a degree in political science and philosophy and from the Univ. of Pennsylvania with his law degree in 2006. Curtis began his legal career in New York and he now works as a corporate attorney in Baltimore. He was married this past October 2008 to Dr. Julia Beaver, who is starting her third year as a resident at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. She has accepted a fellowship in oncology starting in July 2010, so we are pleased they will be close by for the next four years. Our daughter Kristin and her husband Zachary live in Abingdon, Md. She graduated from Messiah College in Grantham, Pa., in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She began at the Univ. of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and now works in the PACU unit (recovery area) at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Zack works at Aberdeen Proving Grounds and does ‘math for the Army.’ She and Zack were married in December 2006 in Frederick.” Carol Fleming is still head of staff at a joint Methodist and Presbyterian Church (Church of Christ Uniting) in Kingston, Pa., as she has been for the last ﬁve years. Scott and Carol’s big news this year was celebrating the graduation of their son Garrett Loomer ’09 from Hood. He is continuing at Bloomsburg to get a master’s in education. Other big news was the wedding of their daughter Charis Loomer ’07 to Tim Owings ’07 in the Outer Banks in North Carolina July 17, 2009. Tim works as an investment banker in Westminster, Md., and Charis teaches ﬁrst grade in Frederick. They just bought their ﬁrst home in Taneytown. Charis is also back at Hood, pursuing her master’s in education. Paul and Maggie Lindsay Doyle had a great visit with Neil and Cheryl Kruse Rondorf. “The years melted away,” Maggie said. “We picked up right where we left off. The boys played golf and Cheryl and I soaked in the pool. We drove through Hagerstown on the way home and thought of Larry. We stopped at Hood. I have not been there in 30 years!” Maggie has been riding her bicycle this past summer for miles. What a great workout! Amy Locker Krug wrote, “At the end of October our church in Nazareth, Pa., St. John’s United Church of Christ, celebrated its 150th anniversary. Our guest preacher for the day was Melinda Miko Keck. Her father Ernie was our beloved minister during the late 70s and 80s and died an untimely early death in 1986 after several months of illness. We had been celebrating this whole year by asking previous ministers and close relatives to come back to give a sermon. During her sermon, Melinda highlighted several coincidences of previous connections with other members of our community over the years. As I was greeting her on the way out of the church, I said there is one more connection that she was not aware of—that we both graduated from Hood. Of course when she was growing up in Nazareth, we were not living here and she never came back to live here after graduation. Somehow along the way I met her mother, Gabriella Racz Miko ’51, who still lives in the area, and that was how I realized that Melinda and I both attended Hood. Since Melinda is now a minister in Connecticut (First Congregational in northwestern Connecticut) she has a busy schedule and rarely comes back to the area. All is well at our house. Our oldest daughter Carrie was married Aug. 8, 2009. We had a beautiful day and a fun reception at the Allentown Symphony where she works. Life is quiet since everyone has moved out. Our youngest, Emily, is in her third year at Bennington College in Vermont. I think this school is smaller than Hood was when we graduated. Debbie, our middle daughter, is also in Vermont in Burlington, working for AmeriCorps. She is the environmentalist, trying very hard to convince everyone to be greener. Ted has been married to Rachel for three years and living in Hoboken, N.J. Rachel is completing her second master’s in business administration at NYU were she also works. Ted is a civil engineer for Taylor Wiseman in New Brunswick, N.J. I am now teaching ﬁfth and sixth grade health and family and consumer science. This new assignment is growing on me but I miss the hands-on program I had in the seventh and eighth grade building. I am also very busy planning and creating costumes for the high school musical ‘White Christmas,’ which will be preformed i

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