unfortunately, she doesn’t have her eye on Skidmore. Sarah Taylor Bramah lives in London, England, with her husband and two kids. She reports that it is perpetually cold and rainy there. Sarah had a blast waving the American flag and cheering on Team USA at the summer Olympics and encourages anyone to try to attend the games in Rio or Russia. She sees Peggy Holden Briggs regularly, since Peggy moved to London from Germany. Peggy runs the Skidmore club in the UK. Sarah is always happy to hear from alumni who are passing through or staying in London. She doesn’t get back to the States as often as she’d like, because she has to escort her kids to vari- ous events. This spring Sarah was travel- ing to different countries for taekwondo tournaments with her son. In Washington, D.C., Nancy Cohen
Kotz is member services coordinator for the Association of Partners for Public Lands. Nancy and husband Mike, married 23 years, are the proud parents of Hannah, who celebrated her bat mitzvah last Sep - tember. She’s just beginning high school but is already talking about the possibility of attending Skidmore. Barbara Bloom-Hansen lives in Ger - many. Her daughter is a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin, and her son is a junior in high school. Once he gradu- ates, the family plans to move stateside. Two years ago Drake Patten bought an
old Rhode Island farm called Hurricane Hill and realized her dream of maintain- ing large gardens and keeping a big flock of chickens. The venture has been so suc- cessful that in March she left her job as executive director of the Steel Yard in Providence to start her own business, Cluck! Urban Farm Supply. Drake is trans- forming an old gas station into a store and gathering place, even converting he station’s pump islands into raised beds showcasing plants that can be cultivated in an urban environment and planting fruit trees and locating bee hives in the parking area. She says it is just the type of business she needed when she was an urbanite. Meanwhile, back at Hurricane Hill, Drake is also raising goats. Katherine Speyer Schieffelin is senior
VP and chief development officer at the National Restaurant Association Founda - tion in Washington, DC. She hires grant- writers and fundraisers and welcome resumes from interested Skidmore alums at
kschieffelin@gmail.com. She and hus- band Michael have two daughters. Kath - erine divides her time between D.C. and Philadelphia, where the family maintains
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a home. Daughter Elsa is a first-year stu- dent at the University of Virginia, where she studies in the College of Arts and Sciences as well as theater. Daughter Sarah is a high school junior immersed in AP classes, with a deep commitment to the- ater as well. Last summer Claudia Winkler joined
Ellen Steingesser Malasky and husband Bruce Malasky ’85 and Barb Sucoff for a mini-reunion in Aspen, CO, where Ellen and Bruce’s son was performing at the Aspen Music Festival. Tammy Chittick Langalis had a great
time getting together in the NYC metro area recently with Cathy Heine Kell - strom, Diane Hutchinson Reilly, Melissa Thodos Johnston, Kim Murphy Wilson, and Jodi Houcast. I spent weekends the winter at a cabin
in Big Bear Lake, CA. While my partner, David, is a black-diamond ski trail mani- ac, a Flexible Flyer is more my speed. It’s so warm here compared to skiing back east! CALEY O’NEIL 6550 COLLEGE GROVE DRIVE, UNIT 35 SAN DIEGO, CA 92115
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Canada, and passed the Quebec bar exam last May. In Connecticut, Tom Brandt has hosted
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two Skidmore alumni events at his restau- rant Oaxaca Kitchen, in New Haven and Westport. Both had good turnouts. One of the funnier moments was creating a Long Island iced tea with the guidance of an alumnus who worked as a bartender at Barclays; it brought back memories for those attending. Lisa Bogart made it through Superstorm Sandy relatively unscathed. Her parents’ home of 57 years, however, sustained lots of saltwater damage. In the midst of clean-up efforts, Lisa won a three-year term as a councilperson for the Borough of Bound Brook, NJ, on the Democratic ticket. In November Norwood Creech, who
lives in Arkansas, was featured on Rural American Contemporary Art online and in the show Beyond the Expected. I had hoped to get Jodi Devine out sail- ing on my family’s recently rebuilt 1937 Friendship Sloop (a two-year project com- pleted by grabbing every spare moment available) last summer, but between work and family obligations, we were forced to postpone.
Angela Nevard earned a JD from McGill in her native Montreal,
CINDY PENDLETON 81 SMITH ROAD CHARLTON, MA 01507
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West Side of Manhattan with wife Leslie and kids Teddy, 12, and Carolyn, 10. He is an executive VP at SONY/ATV Music Pub - lishing, where he runs the business and legal affairs department. When not work- ing or watching his kids play tennis or basketball, Peter can be found playing guitar and covering classic rock albums with his band Becoming Vinyl. Aimee Ventura O’Brien graduated sec-
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ond in her class from NYIT’s School of Architecture and Design. She began her new career with Hoffmann Architects in NYC and is busy juggling work and fami- ly. As an associate architect she still has to go through a rigorous licensing process that will take another few years, but she says, “It’s all about the challenge!” Aimee and husband Jeff have two 10-year-old girls, Blake and Logan. They live in Man - hasset, NY.
Andreas Schneider lives in Wan aque, NJ, with wife Vilma and children Giuli ana, 13, Lucas, 10, and Isabella, 5. They vacationed in Cancun, where Giuliana went diving for the first time. The kids spend summers in Germany in Vilma’s hometown and speak fluent Ger man. When Andreas spent some time at Skid more with an old friend from Germany, they had fun staying on campus in a Northwoods apartment; Andreas says he heard “the sounds of the past echoing” in his mind late one night while walking back to campus.
I recently moved to White Plains, NY, and associated myself with the law offices of Michael H. Joseph PLLC in an “of counsel” capacity. Please note my new address and e-mail. CLIFF NELSON 250 MAMARONECK AVENUE, UNIT 350 WHITE PLAINS, NY 10605-1302
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2012, including experiencing weightless- ness on a zero-G plane, climbing Half Dome at Yosemite, and taking a few les- sons in a single-engine plane. She says: “Midlife—I’m loving it!” CHRISTINE CALLAHAN 686 CHARNWOOD DRIVE WYCKOFF, NJ 07481-1078 201-981-9515
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Amy Rafkin teaches in East Los Angeles, CA. She had an exciting
Peter Brodsky and I had lunch in December. He lives on the Upper
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