Delta Gamma - Ohio State University

ePsilon chAPter of deltA gAmmA PAge 5 New House Director We are excited to announce that Mary Pat Akers, Gamma Epsilon '77 will be our new house director. Polly Shank Lefaivre '47 lives in a desirable retirement village in Asheville, N.C. Her husband, Al, passed in 2012. Polly's two children live in North Carolina. She also has two grandchildren with spouses. She cannot believe she is 90 years old. Alice Barcroft Hummel '49 has spent 60 years in Miami, Fla. She has traveled over 13,000 miles with her husband, Lynn, in their RV all across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. She likes to knit and garden in her spare time. E-mail: hummel.1@juno.com Carolyn Renshaw McKelvey '56 has been a homemaker for the past several years. Her children, Allen, Karen, and Mark, are either in college or pursuing a career. Carolyn and her husband, Charles, live in Owensboro, Ky. Jane Miranda Messer '56 is retired in Cincinnati with many grandchildren, ages 5-28. No great-grandchildren yet. E-mail: janiemesser@gmail.com Katie Nichols McIlvain '57 reports her granddaughter, Ella McIlvain, Alpha Psi '17, pledged Delta Gamma at the University of Mississippi last fall. Katie was thrilled to attend initiation with her. It was meaningful for the both of them. Katie became a first-time great-grandmother in January when her grandson welcomed a baby boy, Aaron Jeffery. E-mail: kmcilvain@msn.com Marilyn Low '57 retired from Beavercreek Board of Education as a special needs assistant. She has eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild. E-mail: marlow1938@gmail.com Carole "Georgie" Andrews '60 shares, "I'm having the time of my life, advocating for issues and principles for which I care: clean water, air, health of the earth, and people." As chairman of a tree commission, Georgie encourages people to plant trees. She volunteers at the library, for Green Team, Zen Community of Baltimore, and is co-organizer of the Save the Bay Coalition. She meets with some of her DG sisters once a year in Ohio. E-mail: caroleosu@msn.com Karen Valtman Green '67 and her husband, Larry, moved to South Carolina, outside of Myrtle Beach, in 2017, and they are enjoying not having to shovel snow. They are celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary this year by taking a cruise up the East Coast and then a three-week trip to Hawaii. God has blessed them and life is good. E-mail: valtlady@msn.com Karen Wheeler Smith '67 reports that after sailing for several years, last summer, she and her husband, Doug, took their first long-distance adventure on their 37' Tartan sailboat named Fenway in honor of their years in Boston and love of the Red Sox. They sailed 1,200 miles from Annapolis to Martha's Vineyard and back. It was a five-and-a-half- week, seven-state trip. Starting in Annapolis, they sailed to the top of Chesapeake Bay, across the C&D Canal, down the Delaware River and Bay, up the New Jersey coast, into New York Harbor, right past the Statue of Liberty, up the East River through Hell Gate, then into Long Island Sound and its wonderful little towns, out to Block Island, Martha's Vineyard, and finally Newport. Then they headed back the way they came. It was an amazing trip they are eager to do it again. This summer they charted a sailboat in Croatia, and the two of them sailed that coastline for two weeks. Later in the year, the will take all the family to Yellowstone in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. In between all of this, Karen is active on the Annapolis Symphony Board and the Library Foundation Board. Doug chairs a local nonprofit that helps struggling second graders read. Life is full and busy, and they are grateful for it. E-mail: karen@5revell.com Alumnae Update Move-in Day a Success Epsilons enjoying the renovations and additions while moving in this fall semester.

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