• The graduating class included:

  • Kathy Lynn Adams

    Laurie Lee Arnold

    Mary Lou Atkins

    Anne Dudley Barnes

    William Clark Bennett IV

    Thomas Ashley Bowman

    Cheryle Annette Carter

    Kathy Ann Chambers

    Shelia Kay Clement

    Paula Dandridge Coleman

    Ann Llewellyn Couch

    Jaimie Singleton Crafton

    William Royal Crowder, V

    Connie Marie Daniel

    Janice Marie Daniel

    Barbara Lynn Davis

    Joy Ann Davis

    Nancy Ann Duncanson

    Nina Lee Epperson

    Harry Sydnor Felts, Jr.

    Vicki Allen Fry

    Patricia Kristin Gay

    George Samuel Gee

    Andrew Epes Harris, III

    Mary Agatha Hill

    Elizabeth Watts Irby

    Michael Wayne Justis

    Jeffrey Lynn Maitland

    Marjorie Louise Marker

    Barbara Anne Milroy

    Elizabeth Gail Munden-Jones

    Barry Glenn Newcomb

    Susan Ralston Nunnelly

    Karen Jane Palmore

    Charles Harold Parrish

    Tammie Lea Powell

    Robert Gibson Ragsdale

    Michael Wyatt Reed

    Lisa Terrell Register

    Helen Renee Ritchie

    Roney  Rowland, III

    Danny Bolling Turner, Jr.

    John Stuart White

    Cullen Carrington White, III

    William Simmons Wilkinson

    James Michael Williams

    Kim Irby Wray

    Tamara L. Yates


 
Please submit updates you have about classmates, class events, or other class news to alumni@kenston.org.

Classmates with 2nd Generation Graduates from Kenston:
William Clark Bennett IV (son)
George Samuel Gee (son, daughter)
Jeffrey Lynn Maitland (stepson)
Barry Glenn Newcomb (son)
James Michael Williams (son)
Classmates with 2nd Generation Students at Kenston:
Connie Marie Daniel Bailey (daughter)
Nancy Ann Duncanson Wilson (daughter)
Elizabeth Watts Irby (daughter)
Jeffrey Lynn Maitland (daughter)
James Michael Williams (daughter)

Classmates who made their final flight, and have Joined the Angels:
William Clark Bennett IV
Danny Bolling Turner, Jr. 

To jog your memory and provide a little nostalgia, here are a few significant events that occurred in our graduation year.

Major Events of 1979

Shah overthrown in Iranian revolution.

Ayatollah Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 years in exile.

US embassy in Iran seized by "students", and embassy staff held hostage.

Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq.

Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain's first woman Prime Minister.

Three Mile Island nuclear accident - a partial meltdown of a reactor occurs in the worst civilian nuclear accident in US history, at Midtown, a suburb of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

USSR and USA sign the SALT II treaty, limiting nuclear arms.

Soviets forces invade Afghanistan.

Voyager I discovers faint ring system around Jupiter.

VisiCalc, first spreadsheet software introduced.

Former US space station, Skylab, re-enters the Earth's atmosphere and debris is scattered in the Indian Ocean and Western Australia.

Ugandan dictator, Idi Admin, deposed.

Debut of the Garfield comic strip.

Muhammad Ali announces his retirement from boxing (although he will later, briefly, return).

Sony introduces the Walkman.

Sandinista rebels enter Managua, winning the civil war in Nicaragua.

Rhodesia becomes Zimbabwe.

First European Ariane rocket is launched.

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