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This web site is dedicated to Carlene and Bruce, pictured here in the home they had custom built, and where they lived out their lives. There will be stories, pictures, videos and audio recordings posted here. It is in no particular order, and feel free to add your own comments and stories! And send additional information you’d like to see here to reinharts @ annmcgrath.com (spaces added to prevent spam).

We lost Bruce in 2021 and Carlene (our mom) in 2023. This loss will be painful to those of us who loved them, for the rest of our lives. To those who knew and loved them, these two were bigger than life.

These two kids were married months after they met, in the dining room of the home in Alexandria where we lived. (Someone please send the story of how they met!) They were supposed to get married at a friend’s house in Maryland, but their friend Carroll, who married them, told them last minute that he wasn’t licensed in Maryland! So, the wedding took place in Alexandria, and the reception was held in Maryland.

Carlene and Bruce made goals for their relationship, requests of each other, lists (her famous lists). Both were accomplished professionals on their own, and together they were a serious power couple! They traveled (at least 70 countries), went on walking tours and went scuba diving so often that they stopped keeping track of their dives. We traveled with them, because they almost never traveled alone.

One of their favorite places to scuba is the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific. They loved it so much, that their ashes will be scattered behind Mary Island in 2025. That was their request.

Here is mom “dancing” with her booties in the Solomons! As always, even on a dive boat, she is dressed up and ready to party.

Here’s a link to a video I took of their last formal party, about 2005 (you can download it from this link): https://e.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZf2EfZ2a6eqqEfBlpyfzCTbfukvQ0C7laV

Here is Bob Stump’s story of how mom and Bruce met:

“I, Bob Stump, was working in the 1970’s for the National Institute of Education, an R&D agency of the Federal Government. My area of focus was adult education and career transition. 

We issued a request for proposals to do some study (can’t remember precisely what it was). One bidder had an OK proposal except that one of their team was a woman named Carlene Turman. Her qualifications looked good on paper and were more impressive as I began to work with her on the project. 

One of our other contractors was the National Center for Research in Vocational Education (NCRVE) at The Ohio University in Columbus. We had a meeting there and invited several of the outside groups working on our topics, including Carlene’s team. One of the NCRVE attendees was one of their contractors named Bruce Reinhart. 

Not long after, the study we had contracted for fell apart when Carlene quit the team and took at job at Xerox in Leesburg, VA. 

Several years later, after I had left the agency and was “on my own” while writing my dissertation, I got a call from Carlene. She invited me to come to Xerox to talk about working with them on a project to help improve copier sales. I got the gig and saw Carlene a lot. That’s when I learned that she had continued to visit Columbus to be with Bruce. Not long after they met, they got married. 

I often reminded them that they met because I paid her airfare to go to Columbus on business. Turned out that something more wonderful blossomed from that trip.”

To read the amazing memorial on ATD’s web site for Carlene, click this link: https://www.td.org/atd-blog/in-memoriam-carlene-reinhart

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