Ellen is a producer with NBC’s Dateline. California resident Nancy Cluck McIn -
tyre is recovering from a major illness. It’s been a long process, but she is doing well. Her daughter is in her third year of med- ical school at UC-San Diego. Nancy hopes to make it to our next Reunion. Allyson Miller Bolduc attended Skid - more for two years, then transferred else- where. She practices family medicine in Vermont and teaches at the University of Vermont. She is also president of the Vermont Academy of Family Physicians. Marlene Marcello had to forgo Reunion
to complete a final round of chemothera- py for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. The diagnosis in 2012 “came as a total sur- prise to me,” she says. She is a 26-year survivor of stage-4 melanoma, but her physicians say there is no relationship between the two cancers. As many of you know, Marlene authored When Hope Never Dies, about her holistic approach to recov- ering from melanoma. She is working with her care team at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Womens Hos - pital in Boston while continuing a vegan diet, acupuncture, yoga, and exercise. She also completed the Livestrong program of physical strengthening for cancer sur- vivors, founded by cyclist Lance Arm - strong. While she has cut back on her work as a real estate agent in Newport, RI, she is buoyed by friends and family who took time to care for her. “As I learned many years ago, helping each other and creating a support network gives us time to heal with positive energy,” she says. Marlene welcomes hearing from class- mates at
mmarcello53@yahoo.com. I missed Reunion because it coincided
with my granddaughter’s bat mitzvah. She did an amazing job and made every- one so proud. DOROTHY KANRICH SANDFORD 333 E. 53RD STREET, APT. 7E NEW YORK, NY 10022-4913
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Loomis realized she couldn’t give the posi- tion the attention it deserves as we plan for next year’s 45th reunion and has stepped down. She recently received a Call to Service Award from President Obama for her 4,000 hours of hospital volunteer work in the gift shop, transport department, special-care nursery (where she serves as a cuddler), and volunteer
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office. She thoroughly enjoys all of her volunteer activities. Maureen Kelly Cooley’s eldest daugh-
ter, Martha, has written a suspense novel. When the River is Ice will be published in spring 2014. Last fall Christine Neill exhibited her mixed-media paintings in the Maryland Institute College of Art’s Sabbatical Exhi - bition in Baltimore, MD; Warner Gallery’s Mystery & Magic in Nature show in Middle - town, DE; Wakaime Art School’s Keisho Exhibition in Anjo Achi, Japan; and Ste - venson University’s First Impressions, in Baltimore. Christine is a faculty member at Maryland Institute College of Art and has no plans to retire anytime soon from exhibiting or teaching. Karen Johnson is a consultant on finan-
cial and IT system improvements. She spent much of her career with Johnson and Johnson, the last 10 years based in Princeton, NJ, but traveling worldwide. After completing a CPA in her 50s, she ended her career as an internal auditor for J&J. She says her French major and pas- sion for travel and international relations made the 10-hour days worthwhile. Karen enjoys the intellectual and cultural scene in Princeton. She is doing financial sys- tem work with an emphasis on grants and disaster recovery for the New Jersey State Police. She is happy to be doing such a meaningful project and working with great people. Sandra Davis Flood’s daughter Alexan -
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dra Flood Alcoff ’98 gave birth to twins Owen and Audrey last October. They join older sister Emily. Sandy is COO of Drei - l ing Medical Management; the corporate office is based in Aventura, FL, but Sandy lives in Washington, CT, and travels back and forth frequently. After authoring the very successful A Bittersweet Season, about the intersection of the lives of adult children and their aging parents, longtime New York Times journalist Jane Gross has been lecturing nationwide on related subjects. She con- tributes monthly to the NYT’s New Old Age blog and to another blog about boomers called Next Avenue. She taught writing at the nursing home where her late mother resided and now is an instruc- tor in a senior writing program at the 92nd Street Y in NYC. Jane says, “I am still scratching my head about a second book.” Early in her journalism career, she was one of the first women to cover sports, and now she’s featured in the docu - mentary Let Them Wear Towels, screened recently at the Tribeca Film Festival, to mark the 40th anniversary of Title IX.
Since returning east after a decade run- ning the Times’s San Francisco bureau, Jane has lived in an 1840s carriage house in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. She plans to downsize and may relocate to Manhattan. Judy Allen Wilson combines a busy career with varied travel adventures with husband Randy. This year she went to the Arctic Circle in Norway to look at polar bears and then south to Costa Rica to hike the rain forests. In 2012 she became development director for the Pasadena Community Foundation. After planning its 60th-anniversary gala this fall, she was anticipating a three-week trip to New Zealand. She is having fun with her new standard-poodle puppy and five grandkids. Alex Schilling Friedman creates beauti-
ful tapestries in her studio in Sausalito, CA, and exhibits frequently. Daughter Katherine is engaged. Grandson Wesley continues to delight the entire family and is the motive behind Alex’s fairly frequent flights to the UK.
Bob and I returned in May from a month
in Paris, the sixth visit there since my retirement. We love the city and never cease to find more to explore and experi- ence. Then I jumped right into final pre - parations for the June wedding of my daughter Johanna, which was a small and intimate affair. Marcia Jensen Watson handwrote a lovely Quaker wedding cer- tificate for the couple to sign. I still treas- ure the certificate that she wrote for Bob and me over 37 years ago. Barbie Herbert von der Groeben joined us at the wed- ding; she was a special friend to Johanna during her years in San Francisco. Barbie is considering relocating from the West Coast to Nantucket, MA. Wherever she lands, she always is a strong link for many Skiddies and is diligent about keep- ing in touch. I am finding this a very spe- cial time in life for reflection and contin- ued enjoyment of a wonderful commun - ity of family and friends. Now, on to Reunion! MARY HARDMAN LAPORTE 143 FERN STREET HARTFORD, CT 06105-2248 860-236-0742
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Greer helped Lucia BergerWest celebrate her 65th birthday in NYC. They had so much fun talking and laughing that their lunch, which started at noon, didn’t end until 4 p.m. Lucia says, “Time never seems to make a bit of difference in our a
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