Reunions

Got to walk on the Lawn 1975 SON

Sadly, the Virginia Diner is closed, but you can still get “The GrillsWith” at The White Spot!

Four years of so much laughter

First year suite mates and still best friends 35 years later

Having a blast at the annual Architecture School Beaux Art Ball

Bridesmaids at my wedding in 1990, 5 of whom are UVA grads.

Walking the Lawn, Graduation 1996, Masters in Education, with Mandy Bean and Brooke Becker

2023: Hoos reunion in C’ville with ’95 and ’96 grads: Kirsten Clause Schafer, Lilith Brown Christiansen, Karen Headley, Catharon Johnston Miller, Mandy Bean and Katina Pannell Wilberger

4th year ZTA formal – such fun! With Mandi Clark, Catharon Johnston Miller, Karen Headley, Mandy Bean, and Lilith Brown Christiansen

Shawn, Dan, Zach, Dan, Ivan, and Hank still supporting UVA Athletics floor side at a basketball game 20 years later thanks to Zach’s generous donation to the program. All of them graduated in the class of 2005.

Taylor, Todd, Jamie, Shawn, and Jack all lived in Page Old Dorms 1st year. Four years later, they walked Lawn to graduate from UVA, saying goodbye to 4 of the best years of their lives.

Shawn Roe and Drew Cohan were 1st year roommates in old dorms. Their hall mates formed a crew and called themselves PFL for Page First (floor) Left (side). They’d write PFL on the whiteboard outside of O Hill cafeteria to let their friends know if they were eating there. And at the Tom Deluca show back in 2001, Shawn and Drew wrote PFL on their arms. Proud Hoos and hall mates from day 1—and still good friends today.

Here’s one way to get around Charlottesville! Lawn chairs before the Lawn.

UVA Semester Abroad Valencia Spain 1984

Spring 1984 was UVA’s first year for their Study Abroad Program in Valencia, Spain. Small group! Great fun!

UVA Ultimate Frisbee 1984/85.

At a fraternity formal end of my first year with my then-boyfriend (now my husband of 35 years).

December 1976, 3rd floor Kent dorm (south end). Our hallway was an extension of our dorm rooms. The payphone mounted next to the bathroom entrance was mostly used for incoming calls. We could place long distance outgoing calls on the RA’s telephone whenever she put it in the hallway outside her door (we paid for our calls when the monthly bill arrived). The popcorn maker was often in use outside the RA’s room (where it was plugged in), especially during midterms and finals week. This photo shows us gathering together at the end of our 1st college semester.

Fall 1976. Gatherings were common in my dorm room. On this particular evening, everyone huddled in close as one of my hallmates read aloud from the Playgirl magazine that my roommate had just received from us for her 18th birthday.

So I went to a football game accidentally wearing the other team’s colors oops. I then bought the flag you see in the middle of the photo to demonstrate that I was a UVA fan. Long story short bought the flag back to Maryland and the club loved it!

This is from my first year in Page Dorm, with my roommate, Yvette, in our room. We called it “cell block 305” due to the cinder block walls and non-existent carpet.

Taken on the Monday morning after the 1975 Easter’s Sunday party in Mad Bowl. This was the result of the fire hydrant being opened.

Sunday of Easters Weekend, 1975. Parties at individual frat houses were banned. Everything was moved to Mad Bowl. No mud allowed. But somebody opened up fire hydrant on the Rugby Road side. There was a fair amount of mud. This picture comes for the Corks and Curls. See second picture posted of the following morning, which was not in the yearbook.

We met at a party at Lambeth and dated in our third and fourth years at UVA (1988-1990), then we parted ways pursuing our careers – Tom went to Detroit, I went to New York City. We both went on to marry other people; each of us had two daughters. In 2016 we reconnected after our respective divorces. In 2020 we married — 32 YEARS after we first met. A UVA happy ending, for certain! We now live in Ithaca NY and spend 3-5 months a year on the road, exploring the world in our self built camper van.

College Friends at Orange Bowl game.

When College GameDay came to UVA January 31st 2015

We didn’t go anywhere without our IDs!

Last great gathering before the class of 1985 graduated.

Graduation 1980

Graduation 1990

UVA vs. Oklahoma NCAA 1989

Easter’s 1975….a day of mud, sun and little concern about class assignments due the next day

Bahamas Party (do they even have those anymore?) at the SAM house – 619 Cabell Avenue, 1990

First year, Page Dorm, 1974

Third floor Page Dorm, 1974

Moving one foot in front of the other to make it to the coveted graduation. Lucky to have my Nursing School cohort in the sea of Schools graduating!

I attended the college then the School of Nursing, class of 1974. It was like straddling two worlds – the college where women were making their way depending in large part on each other for guidance (the male ego was all over the place and unpredictable – lover or hater) and McKim Hall/McLeod Hall where women were the majority but a “class system” existed none the less (diploma and BSN RNs). We learned the traditions and, in so learning, were prepared for the work world of the hospital. Pinning was as important as graduating.

Move in weekend September 1970 and 2024 Reunions

UVA reunions 2019 (my 15th year reunion!)