Updates
Serving as the assistant project director, Carolyn Howard Carter has recently co-written a book with Anne Luter Bromby, ’71, project director. Their book, Alice in Wonderland at Meredith College – The First 100 Years, is a commemorative book of this year’s 100th-year performance of Alice in Wonderland presented by Meredith faculty and staff. The book is being sold through the Campus Store and can be ordered online at meredith.edu/alice-in-wonderland-book.
Currently hard at work in the printmaking studio, Jean Wallace McLaughlin is helping to run Mica Gallery in Bakersville, N.C. While she also does some writing and volunteer gigs, she most of all loves spending time in the mountains and being retired. McLaughlin hopes her Meredith friends will look for “Handwork: Celebrating Craft in 2026” in the year to come as this is a national project she is helping to complete and that they will come visit!
Starting the year with rotator cuff surgery was tough for Bobbie Heilman Murphy! While still in the sling, she fell over the dishwasher door and sprained her ankle. Murphy went from a sling to a boot! Since then she has been making progress just in time for her travels this spring. In March, Murphy was in New Orleans for the wedding of her oldest granddaughter, and in April, they traveled to Campbellsville University for the dedication of the E. Bruce Heilman Welcome Center. This is the third building in the E. Bruce Heilman Student Complex. Murphy is proud to share that her dad’s Harley is encased on the second floor of the building. What a process it was to get the motorcycle up to the second floor! Murphy and fellow 1973 classmates, Marcia Dark Coreth, Scottie Noel Alley, Debbie Adams Roethke, Anne Carter Shiflett Zetts, and Sarah Powell Prior catch up about once a month for lunch or dinner. Shirley Johnston Sprinkle even drives from Fredericksburg to join them for their get-togethers!
Growing and hybridizing daylilies for several years, Laura Hawkins Teague has a garden called Teaguewood Daylilies. A registered garden with the American Daylily Society, 35 of Teague’s hybrid lilies are registered with the society, including 10 lilies named after Meredith College. The latest venture she has been exploring is called Teaguewood Barn Quilts. In 2019, she decided to create small-scale barn quilts to decorate her garden fence. Barn quilts are quilt patterns painted on wood. In addition to her “fence quilts,” Teague has painted several for friends and as donations for local auctions. Taking care of several hundred daylilies plus other plants and painting barn quilts keeps her quite busy!
Upon retiring from a career as a school teacher, Judith Walker Worley now enjoys traveling and volunteering for a variety of local charities in her free time. She visited Europe twice in 2022 and New Zealand and Australia in early 2023.