ta member of many of the boards, she admits she finds it hard to quit altogether. Susan Jay Spungin is president of Blind
Biz, providing services for the visually impaired. In May she was honored by Columbia University’s Teachers College as Distinguished Alumna of the Year. Hether Connor Turner regrets missing Reunion. She and husband Sam celebrat- ed their 50th anniversary in July. They dated for three years while she was at Skidmore and he attended Union. They spent their working years in Rochester, NY, raising children Michele ’88, Sam ’89, and Bert ’96. They have 10 grand- children, who Hether says are “great joys for us.” Michele lives in Northampton, MA, Sam is in Sonoma, CA, and Bert resides in Nantucket, MA. Since the elder Sam retired, the Turners split their time between Siesta Key, FL, and Nantucket, MA.
Frances Sweeny Helfrich hopes every-
one had a wonderful time at Reunion. Her daughter recently adopted a young lady from China who is adorable and adapting to their household very well. Says Frances, “What a wonderful experi- ence for a grandmom!” Judith Hestwood Feagin reports that
the family lost their beloved wire-hair dachshund Maude (named after a fondly recalled relative) last summer. That fall, Judy adopted two new puppies, long- haired miniature dachshunds known as Peyton and Eli. Judy’s husband slipped on ice and took a nasty fall while walking the pups in January; he is recovering slowly. Jane Meehan says she is grateful for
“the wonderful education I received at Skidmore, which allowed me to enjoy 45 years in nursing. I was rewarded far beyond my dreams.” Roberta Curtis Golub is an executive financial planner at the Ayco Company, a Goldman Sachs company. She welcomes hearing from classmates at rsgolub@
comcast.net. My son Michael and his family moved
from nearby Connecticut to the San Francisco area for at least the next few years. He became president and CEO of Young and Rubicam California, so we are very proud of him; but losing easy access to them, including three of my four grandchildren, is hard. The good news is that they have bought a house in Marin County, where Willa Zens Marten and Bonnie Bell Potter live, and close to the city where Wendy Rouder resides. I hope to see them during frequent trips out west.
During our 50th reunion, a group of us including Karen Levin Coburn, Linda Cohen Lubell, Louise Siegel Musser, Janet Block Lefkowitz, Meg Reitman Jacobs, and Ellen Schwartz Gudwin stayed in a beautiful bed and breakfast that used to be Furness House. The nostal- gia was palpable as we sat on the wide wrap-around veranda on Union Avenue, just across the street from the old Wil - marth, where four of us lived junior year. It gave us a lot of quality time together, including a late-night girls-only gab fest, just like the old days. I also enjoyed catching up with Carolyn Caesar Ingra - ham, Linda Sable (aka Sabre Gilmartin), Wendy Sussman Rubin, and Evelyn Nutman Siegel, and I loved seeing Wen - dy Rouder, Willa Marten, Joyce DiBona, and Gerry Emerson MacCartee. I don’t remember having seen Gayle Jenkins Mandle or Jennifer Podd Parsons for 50 years, so that was a treat.
I extend kudos to the planning commit-
tee for all their work to make Reunion such a special treat. Highlights for me in - cluded dinner with the lovely Nina Col - lins, the late Kathleen Conwell’s daugh- ter, and seeing her mother’s independent art film Losing Ground; the awards ceremo- ny where our own Meg Reitman Jacobs and Joan Layng Dayton were honored; the opening of the Alumni Art Exhibition at the Tang Museum; and Karen Levin Coburn’s Conversation on Creativity dis- cussion. Class dinners were lovely, and the skits and silent art auction were great; the campus looked extraordinary, and the old campus and Saratoga sparkled in ways we could not have imagined in 1963. I have agreed to stay on as your class secre- tary for another five years, so keep the news coming in. DEBORAH FRANKEL REESE PO BOX 110 SOUTH STRAFFORD, VT 05070-0110
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Val Burkhardt Marier reports
that several ’64ers met for lunch in Portsmouth, NH, in June. Present were Susie Riley Gunderson, Ellen Pomeranz Sax, Dianne Colby Dean, Barbara Blanch Roy, and I. Barbara was on the East Coast from Minnesota to attend graduations of daughters and granddaughters, just back from a trip to England with family and visiting with Dianne at her home in Kit - tery Point, ME. Dianne set up the fun luncheon. All of us are enthusiastic about attending our 50th reunion next May. On a more poignant note, Barbara Roy told us about her book Under the Bridge Back wards: My Marriage, My Family, and Alz heimer’s. Val writes, “I have just fin- ished reading it, through tears, sympathy, laughter at times, and most of all admira- tion for the incredible story Barbara has shared about her husband succumbing to Alzheimer’s, the effect on herself and her family, and her life alone after his death. It is moving.” It was wonderful to hear from Barbara Kezar Whitman, who is excited about coming to our 50th. She has not been back since our 25th. She looks forward to seeing how the campus and Saratoga Springs have changed. She and husband Bill summer in Stonington on Deer Isle in Maine, spend spring and fall at Colle - ton River Plantation near Hilton Head in Bluffton, SC, and winter in Hobe Sound, FL. Daughter Laura lives in NYC, and son Fife is in Locust Valley, Long Island. The Whitmans have grandsons ages 9, 10, and 11. Both retired, Barbara and Bill enjoy golf, croquet, boating, and traveling. They took a fabulous trip to Saudi Arabia last year.
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Alice Hammond Soininen’s lovely note states, “Fifty years have flown by since I was at Skidmore and thought that those re turning for their 25th reunion were old!” She and husband Tom (Union ’64) have been busy with full-time careers, raising three children, caring for two homes, and traveling, much of it with Elderhostel. Now retired, they live in Sutton, VT, and escape to Mystic, CT in the summer. Eldest child Julie, a Wellesley grad, is an attorney in northern Virginia, where she lives with her husband and two children. Middle child Annie, a Princeton grad, lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and two boys, and is a journalist and author (two years ago one of Annie’s books sat on the New York Times best-sell-
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