Kappa Delta - Florida State University

Kappa Alpha Chapter 5 ALUMNAE NEWS Shelley Carr Harkness '42 shares that as a "good southern gal," she was brave to marry a Yankee. She and her husband, David, have been married 68 years and live in Bowling Green, Ohio. Elizabeth Hudson Lamb '48 is in independent living in the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Center in Asheville, N.C. She is happy to be there and enjoys meeting the people in the retirement center. E-mail: etlamb52@gmail.com Ann Guilford Miller '49 shares that she meets for lunch monthly with Betty Clark Slaughter '49 and Maida Badcock Pou '48. Jodi Ann Scaggs Stemm '49 was their fourth until she passed away, and they used to meet Fay Fulghum Grimes '48 at her vacation home on Long Boat Key for lunch. E-mail: ann.jimmiller@gmail.com Betty Clark Slaughter '49 enjoys retirement, quilting, gardening, and eating out with her KD friends, Maida Badcock Pou '48 and Ann Guilford Miller '49. She and her husband, Jerold, live in Lakeland, Fla. E-mail: jslaughter3@verizon.net Kay DeHaven Kelley '52 shares that she lives in Lakeland, Fla., and now has two great- grandsons. Jane Wallace Ray '58 is a deacon and elder at First Presbyterian Church and an active PEO member and former president. She and her husband, Keith, live in Winter Haven, Fla. E-mail: retiredrays@yahoo.com Frances All Calhoun '63 lives at Sawgrass CC in Ponte Vedra Beach and has been there since 1995. She enjoys traveling and reading and has been married to her husband, Charlie, for two years. E-mail: ccalhoun@unf.edu Karen Stanius Hord '65 shares that her husband of 35 years, Fred, passed away in November 2015 of esophageal cancer. She is a new grandmother to her grandson, born in August 2015, and will have a granddaughter in October. Karen plays golf weekly with her Executive Women's Golf Association chapter ladies. E-mail: khord36777@aol.com Jane Sponholtz Nelson '66 is a co-instructor for the National Science Foundation grant at Alabama A&M University to improve physics education in the state's high schools. This five- year grant includes several two-week summer institutes for teachers' groups and three weekend workshops for each group during the school year. Jane and her husband, James, have two children and live in Gainesville, Fla. E-mail: nelsonjh@ix.netcom.com Sandy Wolf Roscow '66 has been actively involved with the Beta Pi Chapter, holding a position on CAB for more than 10 years. She helped set up addresses and phone numbers for the Gainesville alumnae and is trying to reorganize the Gainesville alumnae chapter. E-mail: sanjoros@gmail.com Gail Overstreet Touchton '67 shares that the newsletter is wonderful and she enjoys hearing about the chapter. The UWF chapter treated the Pensacola alumnae to a marvelous lunch and the chapter members impressed everyone with their behavior and list of campus activities and achievements. Gail and her husband, William, live in Monroeville, Ala. E-mail: gigibah@frontiernet.net Cheryl Zinzow Ruderman '75 is retired, living part time in Florida and part time in the beautiful, rural mountains of North Carolina. She has three grown children and three grandchildren. "Most of my spare time is spent in outdoor pursuits. I'm hoping to hike the Appalachian Trail once my husband retires!" she says. E-mail: rudermanc@gmail.com Fran Flexter Moore '76 was a stay-at-home mom for 20 years after working at Rich's Department Store in Atlanta for seven years. She opened her own interior design business in 2004 and is still decorating, playing tennis, reading, enjoying her grandchildren, and going to UGA games. E-mail: moore2074@comcast.net Crystle Johnson May '76 loves working with the Kappa Alpha collegians. "They are smart, energetic, and beautiful," she says. Crystle feels like they give her a bid every time she visits. E-mail: crystlejmay@yahoo.com Sharon Frye Helsby '79 shares that she enjoyed the spring newsletter and would like to have an alumnae gathering in Orlando or Tallahassee. E-mail: sharonhelsby@icloud.com Pat Burne Zanetti '80 enjoys connecting with a group of alumnae from the early '80s who go on an annual trip. They have been to Chicago, Hilton Head, and Boston. This September, they went to Nashville. Pat and her husband, Pete, live in Suwanee, Ga. E-mail: pzanetti@bellsouth.net Donna Bruck McMurray '84 is a volunteer patient advocate at Options for Women, a pregnancy help clinic, and they saved 253 babies last year. Donna and her husband, John, live in Lakeland, Fla. E-mail: ocalamc@hotmail.com Melissa Burton Davidson '85 shares that her daughter, Jessica, works for Homeland Security in the office of the Inspector General in Washington, D.C. Her son, Hunter Doyle, is an auditor for a security company in Miami. E-mail: missydavidson66@gmail.com Amie Avitable Amacher '86 is a busy mom, wife, and Pre-K teacher. Her oldest daughter studies industrial design at Auburn and is a Delta Zeta. Her younger daughter is a rising high school junior who hopes to go to FSU. Amie and her husband, Zack, love relaxing at their lake house on Lake Sinclair, attending home football games, and playing with their two Cavalier King Charles spaniels. She loved her time at 555 W. Jefferson and was lucky enough to live in the same room that her mother, Sandra Cole Avitable '59, lived in. E-mail: amieamacher@comcast.net Jodie Lightbody Armstrong '93 lives back in her hometown of Ocala, Fla. She is in private practice in a multi-specialty ophthalmology group in Ocala and The Villages. Jodie has been happily married for more than 18 years and has a 14-year-old son, who will enroll as a boarding student at Bolles in Jacksonville this fall and is a competitive swimmer. Jodie shares that they have enjoyed traveling to Tallahassee for football games and even made the trip to California for the national championship game and saw many Kappa Alpha KDs! E-mail: lightstrongmd@hotmail.com Katie Springman Cappy '97 shares that she was elected as the 2017-18 president of the Junior League of Tampa. She and her husband, Ryan, live in Tampa, Fla. E-mail: katiecappy@hotmail.com Kerrie Rourke Hileman '03 is coming back to FSU's College of Business "7 Under 30" event, featuring entrepreneurs under 30 who started businesses. She will be speaking at the event on November 15 and would love to see some KDs and visit the house. Kerrie also shares that she had her second son in September, Gail Cartwright Rouen '72, Cindi Padula Smith '72, Janet Allen McCaleb '72, Sally Stoltz Morris '75, and Cynthia Perkins Trescott '73 visited the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C., for a reunion this summer. (Continued on page 6)

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