and classrooms from Portland as well as Finland, China, and India. Carol, profes- sor emerita at Lewis & Clark College, also co-chaired a fall forum for the City Club on “Educating Global Citizens for the 21st Century.” In September Karen Levin Coburn en - joyed a trip to Spain that had been post- poned to await the birth of her twin grandbabies. It was a difficult pregnancy for daughter Alison, but all is well. Karen and Steve are delighted that Alison and family have moved back to St. Louis, MO, and live just around the corner. She was also pleased when son Andrew visited with his girls, making it the first time that all five grandchildren were together. Carol Brush Nicholson is retired but
stays busy with home projects, as well as reading and making beaded jewelry. She and her husband spent part of last sum- mer in Gunnison, CO, escaping the Flor - ida heat in their RV. They traveled to Charleston, SC, in January to visit Judy Cohen Lutz ’62 and her husband, Myron. They had a lovely time, and Carol’s bor- der collie and Judy’s schnauzer played together the entire weekend. Carol will not be at Reunion. Elisabeth “Betch” Rocha Serra—an exchange student from Brazil living in Keyes Hall our freshman year—says all is well in Brazil. Her 97-year-old mother and 5-year-old grandson (the youngest) are both healthy. Betch was delighted when her doctor advised her to get some sun: she now goes to the beach almost every morning. She also walks, takes classes, and plays tennis. She meets with a group of 13 college classmates every other month. She can’t make it to Reunion but passes along greetings to all ’63ers, saying, “The year I spent at Skidmore was one of the most important periods in my life.” Joyce DiBona reports that she and hus-
band Bob are coming to Reunion, as is Anne Connors Allen. Joyce and Bob hosted their 21-year-old granddaughter from Buenos Aires for a few months last year while she was doing an internship in public relations in Boston. “It’s great to have young people around!” says Joyce. She has been active with the pedestrian advocacy group WalkBoston, learning how transportation and streetscapes affect our health and the way we live. Jackie Fernald Montgomery plans to be at the 50th and hopes there will be lots of nametags, since she hasn’t attended a reunion in 25 years! She says life in Jack - son Hole, WY, is good. She is in real estate with Sotheby’s but now has a “personal shopper/agent” focus, working with
repeat customers, referrals, and longtime clients. She loves her work, and 2012 was a fantastic year after a long dry period. She just stepped down as chair but con- tinues to serve on the board of the Jack - son Hole Historical Society and Museum. Son Geoff and his wife, Jillian, moved back over the hill (from Victor, ID) to Jackson Hole last summer. Geoff is opera- tions manager at the local Sotheby’s International Realty office; he also does computer consulting in house and free- lance. Jackie’s stepson Jack III, his wife, Eunah, and their two daughters are in the Marshall Islands, where he works at the Reagan Missile Defense Center; Jackie misses seeing the girls, age 7 and 8. Jackie and Max, her faithful four-legged com- panion from the local adoption center, live in the house she built 21 years ago. She enjoys “a quiet life with walks along the river, time with friends, and more activities in town than I can attend,” she say. She is always open to hosting visitors. Betsy Damon will be at Reunion. An
artist and activist, Betsy founded the non- profit Keepers of the Waters, which helps communities plan for creative and sus- tainable water resources, in 1991. Her portfolio includes the design for the first urban park to include a visible water- purification installation, in Chengdu, China; many water-remediation art proj- ects in the US and around the world; and Living Waters of Larimer, in Pittsburgh, PA, where she is leading a team to build a 12-by-12-foot book/house on sustainabil - ity, for installation in NYC’s Central Park. Betsy has two children and two 6-year-old granddaughters. She lives in Brooklyn, NY, sharing a three-apartment house with her daughter’s family. She says they have a wonderful time running up and down the stairs—three generations of women living close by is “fabulous.” Marsha McGeorge Hardy enjoys retire- ment and lives near one of her sons in Maine, where she has met some “great and interesting people.” Sadly, Marsha is in her second year of having ALS. She says, “I am good at listening, but my speech is so bad that no one can under- stand me.” Travel is difficult, and she has decided not to attend Reunion, but hopes “everyone has a grand time.” Ellen Schwartz Gudwin and husband Bob, both retired, look forward to our 50th, which follows Bob’s 50th at Tufts. Ellen says she and her family are all well and thriving. Daughter Liz, her husband, and their two daughters live in Westches - ter, NY; daughter Anne, her husband, and their daughter and son live in Oakland,
CA. The Gudwins’ grandchildren range in age from 7 to 13. The couple splits the year between a home in Vero Beach, FL, and a place on Long Island. Ellen is excit- ed about seeing familiar faces in Saratoga in May. Connie Pendleton Phypers hopes to make it to at least part of our reunion, as it coincides with the family’s annual pilgrimage north from Florida to Vermont for the summer. Connie and husband Dean have a total of 17 grandchildren and will be attending graduations from grade school, high school, and college along the way. The couple is involved in golf, bridge, committee work, and philan- thropy. Observes Connie, “We are fairly healthy and quite active. And we think our minds are still intact.” Janet Hazelton Miller works in techni-
cal recruiting for her own company and says, “Business changes all the time, and it is a constant challenge.” She is not cer- tain she will come to Reunion. In late August she visited with Emily Turano Ward and her husband in Washington, DC, and took in the Diebenkorn show at the Corcoran Gallery. Emily is not able to attend Reunion. The class extends condolences to Betsy
Orr Klausing, who lost sister Margaret Orr Williams ’61 in June to pancreatic cancer. I was informed by Lucretia Robbins
that Judy Carter Colligan died in Janu - ary. The two had been in frequent touch over the years, even traveling together. Judy left Skidmore to go to Upsala College in East Orange, NJ, but many of us re - mained in touch with her. She was a viva- cious, funny, caring and very smart young woman, and those traits continued with her until she died. After a trip to Santa Fe and one to Paris
with our oldest friends, John and I closed on a condo in Somers, NY. For now it is a second home, close to both of our kids and an hour to NYC. We finally moved into our big house in Vermont in July. Then we had a vacation with the kids and grandkids in Nantucket, a vacation in Barnegat Light, NJ, and, after the holi- days, a trip to North Carolina, where we spent a weekend in Asheville with Janet Block Lefkowitz, my sophomore-year roomie. We introduced her and husband, David, to John’s UNC–Chapel Hill room- mate and his wife, and had a grand time exploring the Riverwalk Art Area, eating BBQ, and attending events at the Grove Park Inn. I’ve been preparing for an ex - hibit of my work at Dartmouth-Hitch cock Medical Center in Hanover, NH. It is a
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