Onyx Anneau Spring 2021

need arises. The best news is that all the family is happy and healthy! She can’t ask for much more these days.

on composing music, sewing, gardening, and is a Church musician. Both kids are at home taking online courses. Bill works in the living room. Laura will soon be an Eagle Scout, the first female in their area! Silver is in law school. Joan Frisz reports that highlights of 2020 included morning sunrise bike rides to the park, plus a weeklong stay in a hermitage at The Woods where she enjoyed walking the grounds and watching the building of the new residence hall. Another highlight: two new “greats” in the family! Angela White has been working “off the road” of late, but is grateful for the good work of her nonprofit clients during the pandemic and is honored to serve them in the virtual world. Her son, Casey, is a sophomore at Wabash College, while Patrick is a junior at Roncalli High School. Danielle Harrington writes from Delaware, happy to report that she has a new job doing what she has always wanted to do. She is a medical coder and loving it! Sadly, her beloved horse, Buzz, passed away, but she hopes to compete on her new horse, Gandalf in 2021. Regina Ratcliff Lovell writes that she is still working in the special ed department of a local high school. It has been a crazy year of hybrid, regular, virtual & back to hybrid schedule, but she loves her job. Mary Pat Sepanik Romine has been working remotely and Larry is working for a startup company. Billy was promoted to Captain and will possibly be going to Germany. Steven continues to receive his post- secondary education remotely. David is a senior, deciding where to go to college in the fall. Linda Peters is still working in insurance and financial services. Her daughter, Nancy, is studying animal sciences & equine at Mizzou. Her son AJ is doing well too. Linda has been enjoying adventures with her Jeep, has had a couple of nice trips this year and hopes for more travel soon. Tara Burke McMurray reports that all is well with her and her family. She hopes all of her classmates and their families are happy and healthy! Andrea Lewis earned a sales license for life and health insurance in late 2019 and now talks to seniors about Medicare products. She loves her work! Sadly, Andrea’s mother passed away in April 2020 at the age of 90. Xiomara “Xiomy” Arevalo Martinez and her husband are very busy with their jobs and miss being able to travel. Her daughter is a teacher, living in Paris. Her son is at university and will graduate next year. They look forward to traveling again and hope to come to the US to see family and friends. Eileen Galligan Musial says she is feeling blessed after an unpredictable year. Her grown children are well and living in Texas, Ohio, Hawaii and California. She has two precious grandchildren. Eileen and Glenn are excited to be planning their wedding for later this year. Mary Beth Hunter West says both daughters came home to quarantine—Kate from Boston and Jill from Scotland. She and George enjoyed the extra family time with the girls. Mary Beth says this year has been a reminder that “after 35 years of

marriage, we still cherish every moment of time together.” Julie Farris Preston Hofmeister has been very busy with work, but enjoys regular visits with her kids who are in Chicago and Indy. She travels as much as she can to sun, warmth and sand and says that this has been a year to “embrace all the small blessings.” Kymberli Huet Payonk reports that the silver lining of “sheltering at home” was that she had many precious hours with her granddaughter, Heidi, when her daycare closed. Her other exciting news is that her daughter, Alli Payonk ’18 , has moved closer to home and is living in St. Louis. Three of Margaret “Meg” Littlejohn Nation’s children are spreading their wings while the high schooler spends time riding the skateboard “park” they built in their basement. Meanwhile Tim runs the Peace Learning Center from their kitchen while Meg bounces back and forth from working at school to working virtually, as the school systems dictate. Janet Rupp Bates’ book about her father’s service in WWII, military career, and its impact on her family was published in August. Alice Sherfick Shelton spent quality time with chardonnay, her Instant Pot, her backyard, and friends and relatives via Zoom. She also attended her first but not last protest and is birthing a podcast with Lori Harris Strawn, to be featured on the Sisters of Providence website. Lisa Bowling is helping plan her son’s wedding, tentatively scheduled for April 23, 2022. She says the engagement was a silver lining in a dismal year. She sent a picture she took of her daily morning walk in Chicago: few cars but plenty of pigeons! Maria Price’s mother, Flossie Price , passed in August. “Never have I been so grateful for the gifts my mother gave me as this year...while I didn’t finish getting to express all my gratitude for the love, support and example she shared with me, I gave it my best shot.” Rhonda Hite Smith’s silver lining is that COVID has made their Cabins & Candelight business a popular getaway. Her daughter graduated from DePauw and started a career in computer programming, and her son is in his junior year at Rose-Hulman. She enjoys chatting with Andrea Timperman Taylor , who lives in Savannah, Georgia. Paje Etling Felts responded to the request for notes with a cryptic “How are you?” The goal is to pry information out of her for the next round of notes—we all know how shy she is, so my work is cut out for me. Maureen McEvilly Carmody said thankfully not much changed for her during this pandemic and she is grateful to have kept her routine, income and health. Her role as a residential apartment manager in Chicago kept her super busy as all the residents were forced to remain inside for long periods. Chantel M. Hesting 1104 Cavendish Dr Carmel, IN 46032-4650 cmchesting@aol.com ’87

k.payonk@ma.rr.com ’86

Kymberli Huet Payonk 175 Charing Cross Rd Terre Haute, IN 47803-9800 812-201-7036

The Class of 1986 shared stories that have a common thread of time at home, time with loved ones, and counting blessings in an unexpected year and I couldn’t agree more. Jacqueline “Jacquie” Hutchinson Shukla and Coke celebrate their 36th anniversary this year. Their sons, Rajan and Ravi, work for the family companies. They have two granddaughters, Mira (7) and Evelyn (4). Coke is semiretired and Jacquie is fully retired. They look forward to traveling as soon as they can. Barbara “Barb” Edgcomb Davis-Robinson became a Gaga (Grandma) again in February 2020. Being a Gaga to Genevieve Luella, one year, and Owen, five years, is the best experience of her life. Barb had COVID in March and again in November. She can’t wait to see and hug her loved ones again. Mary Collins Dove is still excited to teach fourth grade, even on Zoom, and is in her second year as elementary vice principal. Mary, Mark and their four daughters are well, but sadly lost Mark’s mom this year. Their two older daughters are in college and the younger ones are in high school. Paula Keeton and her wife have moved to North Carolina and enjoy living near the beach and mountains. Paula is now the director at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte’s Counseling and Psychological Services. She and her staff have been dealing with converting to telehealth services due to the pandemic. Lisa Robison Ellis and Matt continue grain and beef farming. They thought they would be empty nesters but have enjoyed extra time this year with Sarah, who has been able to visit from Texas while working remotely, and Chris, a student at Purdue. Lisa is still patient accounts manager at Horizon Health. Theresa Redfern-Hall and Joni are both working from home in Minneapolis, which is “safe but boring.” Their three kids are back at home due to COVID. Their youngest daughter had to cut short a study-abroad in Cuba. Sadly, Theresa’s dad passed away from COVID at the beginning of November. Barbara “Barb” Blaber Jenig writes that her younger son is on campus at UC Santa Cruz and her older son lives with her while working remotely. Barb inspects buildings for insurance companies and writes up the reports at home, as always. She is looking forward to getting vaccinated and is hopeful to see friends at Reunion. Ann Roering Bak and family have kept busy this year with home projects. It has been a year of “renewal and joy,” with time for gardening, hiking and orienteering. Her three grown sons are well and her most exciting news is that her youngest son is in the Olympic trials for rowing. Angela Birkhead-Flight writes that their home- schooling years have ended, so she’s working

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