Sherry Baker Doherty

Dear Bruce,
Thirty One Years! OUCH

I will try to think of something exciting to share but have nothing to brag
about, other than ... well, ...KD and I still have jobs, we're kinda pudgy but relatively healthy, our kids are
healthy and we are grateful they don't live at home.

KD and I have lots of laughs with each other and close friends every weekend,
enjoying good food, wine, music and sports.

That's about it in Doherty Land. (Enjoying March Madness but compared to last year...
not so much.)

Jarry Taylor

As you know, I'm never bashful to respond to a request for an update. Here are a few:

Children--Wilson is about to finish his junior year (technically, his second class year) at the US Naval Academy. He continues to do well there, and is leaning toward requesting submarines for his service selection/duty after graduation in 2010. Jarred (Davidson '07 grad) decided to work for 2 or 3 years before going to law school. He worked for a year in D.C. as a paralegal for a law firm, then applied and got a job in Google's legal department in Mountain View, CA. He's having a blast--how can you not at Google? He'll likely apply to law schools this fall/winter and start in the fall of 2010. He went to the Davidson v. St. Mary's basketball game since he was in the neighborhood. Tough loss.

Marriage--thriving and doing well. Janet and I celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary this past fall, but delayed our planned trip due to my parents' health situations (had a tough fall--mother died in September and father in December). Met the boys in California and did the Napa Valley wine tasting thing (Wilson turned 21 last month, so he was legal)--pretty surreal to go wine tasting with your children. Then Janet and I carried on from there (sans enfants) and spent 5 nights on Lana'i (photo attached).

Alums--Bob Schermer and I went to Chattanooga for the SoCon tourney and had a great time even though the Cats were knocked out early. Saw several classmates, including Jim Murphy (duh), Marc Jacowitz and Tim Purcell.

Hope all is well with you and all the '78ers!!

Randy Sherrill

Bruce,

I have sent you a few notes over the past several years about what is happening in my mundane everyday world, so I was surprised to see my name on the MIA list.
Several of our class were in attendance at the Davidson-UNCG game in Greensboro and had time at the pregame reception to catch up some.

I am in my ninth year of ministry here in Winston-Salem at Konnoak Hills United Methodist Church. Very involved in community ministry with the neighborhood around the church and with Open Arms Community, a community immersion ministry on the south side, of which I am President of the Board of Directors. My wife is the pastor of Burkhead United Methodist Church in the Sherwood Forest area. We have one son who lives in Kernersville with his wife and our grandpets. He is a real estate broker, but is working in the aircraft repair business until the market turns. Our daughter-in-law is working part-time and going to school, preparing for pre-pharmacy studies.

Randy Sherrill

(Ed.'s Note: Randy is correct of course. He was not MIA - only my mind was missing when I put him on the list of missing classmates. Sorry Randy. Can I plead old age yet?)

Bertis Downs

My update is that we took the family to the Inauguration-- photo attached. Addie is 11 and in sixth grade and Eliza is 5 and a kindergardener.

Since it is a non-touring year for R.E.M., I am teaching my Entertainment Law course at the University of Georgia School of Law, where I occasionally run into Davidson graduates (always the best students of course). Athens is still the same which is mostly good. And this year, we even got snow!

Tom Amis

Hi Bruce, sorry for the delay. And thanks for the effort to keep everyone in touch. Here goes:

I was married last year to Emily Lawson, a remarkable woman who left the world of private equity to start a series of innovative charter schools in inner-city Washington. We took a month-long honeymoon to India over the new year............although I had been on business this was the first opportunity I'd had to visit the country in depth. An amazing place.......from inner-city Mumbai to camping in the Thar desert to playing elephant polo in Jaipur.....a little bit of everything and a great way to start a new phase of our lives.

Work wise, I run the renewable energy group at the law firm of Alston & Bird in Washington DC, where we focus on solar and wind project development, carbon management issues and clean energy technology. Its an exciting sector and one where I think we can make a real difference.

Regards, Tom

Lucy Zener Sarris

We enjoy reading your updates and have been meaning to write for some time. Lucy and I never met when we were at Davidson, but thirty years later a chance online reference to college led to a first date in 2004 and our wedding in 2007. The best people I've known are from Davidson and even though my time there was short and bittersweet, its impact on our lives is great and everlasting.

Sincerely,

George and Lucy Sarris
Baltimore, Maryland

Ginny Newell

OK Bruce, So you want 8 years in 2 or 3 sentences...here goes:

For the millinium I climbed Kilimanjaro, then in 01 did the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu,, then I went into the "parental care-taking"
phase we all hit. I lost my Dad in May 06 and Mama in April 08. During this period, I continued to grow my business-ReNewell, Inc.
Fine Art Conservation serving clients from NY to Florida and NOW on Jan 17th 09, I am getting married!

(And later, after the wedding)

I married Bob Wilkins who is a Realtor with Coldwell Banker on 1/17/09 in a small private ceremony followed by a dance.
Susan and Freddy Clayton and Frank and BA Hamilton came as well as Sam and Ava Spencer, Herb Jackson and Laura Grosch,
the Avingers, the Abbotts,the Ligos. It was a blast!

Bob is the father of 4 ages 16-24. We both enjoy the arts as well as the outdoors. Career wise, I started ReNewell, Inc.
Fine Art Conservation in 1983. I restore 18th and 19thc oil paintings and works of art on paper for private collectors
and museums from NY to Florida. Conservation is a fabulous combination of science and art/art history so it has been
a rewarding and interesting career.

Is that enough Bruce-or more like, MORE than enough!

Let me know,

Ginny Newell