ship at the University of Charlestown in June. Lynn’s second granddaughter, Ivey, was born in November. Lynn thanks her Skiddie classmates for “keeping me going when my mother died suddenly during freshmen year.” Lynn spent time with Lynn Faught, who was a guest at her 60th birthday party thrown by her children. Betsy Davis Good Church, divorced 15
years ago, remarried five years ago. Joan Carey and husband Andrew have
been unpacking and settling into their new home in Maine. Catherine Offinger worked on a pri- vately owned vessel, testing a small remotely operated vehicle developed by the Deep Submergence Laboratory at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, where she is operations manager. She was in the Pacific island nation of Palau when she wrote to me; the ship had been travel- ing thru Micronesia for a few months. In Slingerlands, NY, Randee Hartz retired three years ago after a 34-year teaching career. But she was still drawn to working with students in a way that makes a positive difference for them. The new Common Core State Standards, a challenge for many teachers, have been a boom to Randee’s grassroots tutoring business. With her son in ninth grade, she is coming to more fully understand the challenge of parenting a teenager. Randee’s husband, Eric, is shifting his pro- fessional focus from general construction to electrical work and carpentry. He enjoys that more as he is a fine craftsman and creative problem-solver. They are grateful that everyone, including mem- bers of their extended family, are well. She and Eric plan to attend Reunion and see lots of old friends there! Doug Gray is back on the high seas.
After consulting on branded entertain- ment concepts for Holland America Line, he recommended a strategic partnership with BB King’s Blues Clubs in Nashville and Memphis, TN; West Palm Beach and Orlando, FL; and Las Vegas, NV. Not only did Holland America take his suggestion, but it hired him to produce the first Memphis Sounds show for its MS Eurodam. The first cruises featuring the new show were launched in February. Joy Glucksman, an attorney in private practice in Atlanta, GA, has been named a “Super Lawyer” and one of the top law - yers in Georgia for the fifth year in a row. Super Lawyers is a peer-reviewed publica- tion that recognizes outstanding profes- sional achievement. After having an ac - tive corporate, employment, and family law practice for 36 years, Joy decided to
semi-retire and change her focus to arbi- tration and mediation, practicing part- time. She says, “I look forward to explor- ing new things and perhaps finding a new passion.” I was the 2012 recipient of the Martin–
Willinger Award from the Toledo Bar As - sociation, for accepting pro bono cases and spending extra time (cheerfully!) as - sisting those in need of free legal services. It was a tremendous honor to be recog- nized by my peers. As for recalling college days—do you all remember in loco parentis (Dr. Palamountain loved to say that!), dorm parietals, dorm “mothers,” and fire escapes (aka “a way to avoid dorm moth- ers”)? Come to our 40th reunion and share your memories! JOANNE RUBIN 6743 MONARCH DRIVE SYLVANIA, OH 43560-3177
JRUBIN610@AOL.COM
retiring in 2010 after 36 years as a high school teacher and administrator. She started a new business, Belchertown Photos: Candids of You, and is working on a book of Manhattan photos that she captured while caring for her mother there before her passing. In December Randi completed a gallery show of her art photos. Her work is online at her business site, or search
fineartamerica.com and Facebook. Randi frequently visits with Kyle Bogertman and Sallie Fellows and relays that they are both doing well; she keeps up with other classmates on Facebook. Nancy Haas Geyer stays in Clearwater,
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FL, most of the year and summers in Philadelphia, PA, and Corning, NY. She’s enjoying new grandson Cooper, age 1. Her son Kevin and his family live in Corning, where he is a market analyst for Corning Inc. Nancy retired from market- ing work at Corning herself. In July Steffenie Oliver Kirkpatrick connected with Cathy Zeiser Taggart while she was in Rhode Island visiting her sister; they had a great afternoon swap- ping tales and catching up over a few glasses of wine. Later that month Steffe - nie joined Ellen Brickman, Denise Mar - cil, Joan Berger, Janine Stover Rose, and Patrice Fox Spitalnik for dinner in NYC. They had a wonderful time and vowed to do it at least a couple of times a year. They all missed Erin McHugh, who wasn’t able to join them.
Last summer I enjoyed a dream-come- true vacation in Glacier and Waterton
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In Belchertown, MA, Randi Shenkman has been busy since
AT WORK Modern mariner H
ow did an English major from Skidmore end up doing this?” Terry McKee ’73 asked
herself when, dressed in a hard hat, work vest, and sea boots, she struggled to heave an instru- ment onto the deck of a research vessel in rough seas.
A seagoing science-research assistant at
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution since 1977, McKee calls her career path “a Skidmore story.” She started at the legendary marine-biology insti- tution in a summer job, at the urging of one of its research associ- ates—classmate and fellow En - glish major Cathy Offinger ’73. The following fall, Mc - Kee was hired by the lab’s head librarian, Jane Fessenden ’53. McKee became
interested in scien- tific information- gathering and computer programming, as well as in travel. She spent her career collecting data at sea, writing computer code to process and display it, attend- ing meetings around the world, and working with scientists whose passion she found “contagious and inspiring.” She has seen Iceland, Greenland, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, and many islands, studying ocean circulation in the Arctic Ocean, Labrador and Irminger Seas, Red Sea, and other regions. “I’ve been challenged physically and mentally,
and for a great cause—understanding our oceans and their effect on the earth’s ability to sustain its many forms of life,” McKee says. She was on a team collecting data that will add to an ongoing study of oceanic and atmospheric events con- tributing to ice melt in the Arctic, and she worked on a project on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. Now on the verge of retiring, McKee feels the best part of her job is sharing what she’s learned with the young researchers who come into the field much better prepared in math and science than she was, “but who can benefit from my years of experience, and from my English-major approach to imparting it to them.” —Helen S. Edelman ’74
CREATIVE THOUGHT
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