Chicken Soup, Buddy Holly and French Roast Coffee — Meet New Member Melissa Face By First Vice President for Membership Terry Haycock Melissa Face hails from Wakefield, Virginia, where she’s lived most of her life. She attended high school at Wakefield’s Tidewater Academy. After graduation, she resided in South Carolina while earning a Bachelor of Arts from Coastal...
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Camino De Santiago, Community, and Communication: Introducing the Marvelous Mary Jane King By Terry Haycock, 1st Vice President for Membership Longtime VPC member Mary Jane King, a native Virginian, resides in Keswick (near Charlottesville) with her husband David. She majored in English at Eastern Mennonite University, Harrisonburg, VA, graduating in 1969 with a BA....
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By Terry Haycock, 1st Vice President for Membership Gail Kent is a longtime VPC member who served as our president from 2014–16. Like her colleagues in VPC, Gail is a fascinating, multi-talented writer and PR practitioner. She hails from Hickory, North Carolina. Gail says she “wound up in Virginia” in 1975 with her first husband, a Navy man stationed here. She later...
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Australia, Asian Arts, Kris Kristofferson, and the Beach Boys: Introducing Gwen Woolf By Terry Haycock, 1st Vice President for Membership A “Marine brat” with a bachelor’s degree in American Studies from Mary Washington College, Gwen Woolf, although born in North Carolina, lived in various parts of the country from Florida to California until settling in...
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