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Patricia Kidd
pat.kidd@hotmail.com

Dot Herdle Files writes “now that Eben and I are retired, we’re free to travel.  We went to Costa Rica, the Galapagos, Israel’s Holy Land and Egypt so far. Oberammergau in 2020.  And to see our granddaughter…  Gotta get the travel in before arthritis gets the best of me. I can’t make the reunion, but send my love to everyone!” Carolyn Schoemer Huyghe just had a wonderful visit in the Denver area seeing our classmate and Memorial Hall mate Ann Williams DeMers. She and her husband Joe treated my husband Patrick and me to a wonderful dinner in their lakefront home in Arvada, CO. They are doting grandparents to their daughter’s son who is 5.  As for me, I am still enjoying retirement in Charlottesville VA and Ft. Myers FL. Spending my time trying to stay healthy and outdoors – definitely a full time job!  Ann and Sue Whaley went on a Hood sponsored trip to Spain recently and had a wonderful time.  I was at reunion on Friday and through lunch on Saturday.  I believe there were nine of us at the lunch. Beth Rittenhouse writes: I retired from my technical writer job a year ago and have settled into a new routine.  My husband Steve had retired the previous year.  My younger daughter was married in April this year in Ellicott City; it was a beautiful day and everything went as planned.  My elder daughter is planning a wedding for spring 2020.  Steve and I are avid birders and I participate in my church choir and attend a yoga class twice a week.  We have also become regular visitors at the local library.