Judy Stanfield 913 Warwickshire Ct. Great Falls, VA 22066

Olney 40th Class Reunion

Judy E. Stanfield

Greetings everyone!  I am so looking forward to seeing everyone again.

2005 finds me in a very good place in my life.  I am now half owner of a small public accounting firm which specializes in non-profit organization audits.  Strack | Stanfield, LLC is located in Rockville, MD, but a lot of our audits are in downtown Washington, DC, so we scoot in and out of the city regularly.  The firm is stable and happy and even makes money – woo hoo!  When Dick Stratton called me last fall asking for advice in finding a new auditor, it dawned on me that there was no reason I couldn’t do the audit myself.  Cleda loaned me her outer office and I spent almost a week there going through the books and preparing the year-end financial statements.  (For you non-CPAs out there, this is a fun thing to do.)  It was a wonderful thing to get involved and find a way to contribute professionally to the school.

My home life with my partner of nine years, Donna Zerbato, is fabulously calm and settled in.  We travel quite a lot, with the Carribbean being a favorite destination.  This May we’re trying something different and going on an Alaskan cruise with two other friends.  I’m especially looking forward to nosing around Vancouver before we depart.

We continue to play a lot of golf and are getting downright good at it most of the time.  We’ve spent a week each spring at golf school in three of the last five years.  We have NO excuses left.

My sons Ted and Kevin are now in their mid to late thirties.  Ted lives nearby in Olney , MD and has two kids, Katie 4 ½ and Will 2.  They drop by my office from time to time to eat lunch with us and “make pictures” with highlighters, staplers, adding machine tape, hole punchers, and scotch tape.  I get to baby sit every Tuesday night and my sister Mary usually comes over too – it’s a true treat – I do love them so.  Kevin has one daughter, Alex 3.  They moved this fall from DC to Denver and I miss them terribly.  I’m headed out there in a few weeks to help them move into their newly built home.  I’ll get a chance to see Lynne Kendall ’63 while I’m there and that’s always a treat.

If you take a look at the picture I sent, I’m the first one on the left in the first row.  My younger son is in the middle of the back with the hat (and unshaven face), and my partner Donna is next to him with the white hat.  My grandkids are the three kids on the right in the middle row.  Mom and Dad are on either end of the middle row.  My son Ted took the picture and when he ran to get in it he ended up being a piece of red shirt on the left in the back row.  My sister Mary is next to me, her partner Barb next to her, then my brother Dave.   We were all at Mom & Dad’s vacation home at Smith Mountain Lake in southern Virginia.

I think that about wraps it all up.  I’ll see you in June!!!!