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and thus missed Reunion. She had not imagined that Chile, Argentina, and Brazil were so beautiful. Peggy has taken a posi- tion with the Savannah Jewish Federation as chair of the women’s division. She had fun speaking with Barbara Block Zwick. Pat Mulligan Sullivan’s fourth grand- daughter was born in September to daugh- ter Stacy. Each of the Sullivans’ daughters now has a boy and a girl. Daughter Su - zanne and her family joined Pat and her husband on an Alaskan cruise in August. Kudos to all the classmates who helped make our 50th reunion so memorable. In the fall Alan and I celebrated our 50th anniversary with a glorious and enriching trip to Turkey and Greece. I extend an invitation to all classmates to consider Tucson, AZ, a vacation destination. If you come during the winter months, Sue Smith, Mary Kelchner Lindner, Betsy Chatfield Rider, and I will be here to welcome you. GAIL BENDIX JAFFE 5431 N. PASEO ESPEJO TUCSON, AZ 85718 520-575-0165 GAILBJAFFE@MAC.COM


Margaret Howe-Soper hopes to attend our 50th reunion in June. She says she’s had a full life and been blessed with two children, won- derful friends and fam - ily, a successful career, good health, travel opportunities, and now retirement. Skeet is still singing, dancing, working, volun- teering, crafting, riding, and reading and says, “I’ve never been happier.” In October Susan Stark Match was ready to leave the northwest corner of Connecticut and head back to Vero Beach, FL. She and Ron met some old friends in Saratoga this past fall and spent a couple of hours in Skidmore’s Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery. She says, “Our class should be so proud of our contribution of the fabulous staircase! But most importantly, the muse- um itself is such a gem. What an asset to Skidmore!” Williamstown, MA, resident Judy Mutti Grinnell plans to attend Reunion. She en - joys getting together periodically with Mar ilyn Schutrum Coughlin, who lives nearby, Gail Ryan, who resides in Pitts - field, and Hulda Hardman Jowett, who lives in North Adams.


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Carol Geffner Fontani adored her work as a high school art teacher but says, “Re tirement is even better.” She now has time to read, exercise, paint, raise orchids, see her five grandkids, and play with her dogs. Two of her four children are mar- ried. She does a lot of traveling to see daughter Marina in West Palm Beach, FL, and sons Marco and Dario in California and Roberto in Nevada. She has made the trips by car twice so she could take her dogs along. She recently had a wonderful time connecting with Evie Berk Kahn. Priscilla Richie Keene manages Flying Mountain Artisans, a gallery in Southwest Harbor on Mt. Desert Island, ME, and the largest venue for purchasing local art. Priscilla invites classmates visiting Acadia National Park to stop by. She celebrated her 50th wedding anniversary in July. She loves being within an hour and a half’s drive of her daughter’s family, including grandson Ian, 6. Paula Rosen Janis was inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame, along with co-star Carole Demas, for their 1970s children’s show The Magic Garden. Broad - cast for 13 years on WPIX-TV in NYC, the musically infused show was also aired nationwide. It now has a loyal Facebook following of nostalgic grownup viewers. Many of them purchased the Best of the Magic Garden DVD that was released two years ago for their children, and many also bring their kids to live performances given by Paula and Carole. With fellow Hall of Fame inductees Billy Joel, Barbra Streisand, and Neil Sedaka, Paula says, “I am in pretty amazing company.” It was good hearing from Clair Haw -


kins Seaquist. She was enthusiastic about all the hard work evident in the recent packet from our reunion planning com- mittee. She says that “50 years surely war- rants a celebration.” It’s fun thinking about getting together


for our 50th in June. The evening boat ride on Lake George sounds delightful. We only get one opportunity for a 50th, so call your classmates and come! I’ll see you there. CHARLOTTE SMILEY READ 6330 GOLF COURSE SQUARE ALEXANDRIA, VA 22307-1225 GIG4SMILE@AOL.COM


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Janet Levy Pollner retired in 2006 from a decades-long career teaching French and ESL and still finds retirement exciting. In 2008 she was awarded a medal in the Knight (Chevalier) Order of the Academic


Palms by the Cultural Counselor of France at the French Embassy in Washington, DC. Among her guests were Charles Hill and wife Elisabeth, both former professors of ours at Skidmore. The death of Janet’s husband, Irwin, in 2009 was a low point from which her new life is emerging quite well. Her e-mail is jpollner@optonline.net, and she is on Facebook as Janet L. Pollner. To celebrate her 70th birthday, Emily Jansen Kane and husband George took a trip in October to Israel and Egypt. Emily still enjoys judging flower shows, which keeps her memory for Florida and New York horticulture sharp. Pat Graham Stotler and husband John returned north from Naples, FL, early so John could attend his 50th Harvard re - union in May. They spent three weeks in Ohio getting their “grandchild fix” with 3-year-old Ethiopian granddaughter Ru - kiya and her parents. After that, Pat at - tended a camp reunion in Maine, then traveled to Poland for her nephew’s wed- ding to his Polish girlfriend. The Stotlers took a two-week Rhine cruise at the end of August. Stephanie Lindsey King (applequeen5 @aim.com) reports the sad news that her husband of 27 years, Dick, died peacefully at home in August of colon cancer. She has great memories of their many years traveling the world together. Now happily retired after 25 years owning a child-care center, Stephanie says she misses the kids and wonderful staff but not the stress. She gets together with Elli Rachlin often; they shared Skidmore’s smallest dorm room as freshmen. Saralee Elegant Evans, who left Skid - more in her third year, is a New York State Supreme Court justice. Before becoming a judge in 1993, she represented indigent people in employment discrimination, political asylum, and housing cases and was an assistant commissioner of housing in NYC. She lives with her husband, a civil-rights lawyer, in Manhattan. She stays in touch with Karen Goldman Ger - son and Alice Goodman. In October she heard Karen sing in a solo performance. Karen has managed to combine a career as a successful businesswoman with her avocation as a singer. Alice, a writer in Woodstock, NY, recently bought an apart- ment in Manhattan close to Saralee. Ann Jackson spent a wonderful week


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