strawberry shortcake made by Maria Gomez-McEvoy and a visit to Michael Eigen’s wine store on Madison Avenue (near the Neue Gallery). Greg recently caught up with James Tolan and Howie Skora.


Margaret Fisher Cappello was promot-


ed to lead clinical preceptor at the Visiting Nurse Service of Rochester, N.Y. Supervising and training new clinical staff, she has discovered that she loves to teach. Margaret and her husband of 26 years are both in their second year of a challenging master of divinity program at Northeastern Seminary. Their oldest son, 25, is married and a lance corporal in the Marines; their middle son, 22, graduated from Houghton College and teaches math in North Carolina; and their youngest, 19, is a sophomore at SUNY-Brockport. Margaret used to run with her dog, but both her knees and her dog have told her to slow to a walk! She also rides motorcy- cles with her husband. Margaret stays in touch with Trish Amarante Filardi, Marie Lawrence Johnson ’88, and me, but regrets having lost contact with other Skidmore friends. She welcomes hearing from classmates on Facebook. Sharyn Marchione studied computer science at Skidmore and went on to earn an MBA and the Dean’s Graduate Award in Business at the College of St. Rose. She worked as an information systems manag- er for Bechtel Corporation, which makes nuclear reactors for Navy submarines and aircraft carriers, in the company’s Schenectady, N.Y., and Pittsburgh, Pa., facilities. She and husband Joe live in Round Lake, N.Y. They have a daughter, Heather, and a grandson, Kaelan. Bob Myhal lives in Boston, Mass., with


sons Dylan, 5, and Beckett, 2. Bob is the CEO of NextHire, which helps small and medium-sized businesses with their hiring needs. This past October, David Lemmond moved from NYC to San Francisco, Calif., where he manages Hotel Vitale for Commune Hotels and Resorts. Husband Pedro and their cats and dog are all happy to be back on the West Coast. Lance Gardner enjoys spending time


with 10-year-old son Skye, exploring the natural world and creating everything from paintings to gardens together. Lance, who earned a PhD from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science at College of William and Mary, is looking for employ- ment and would welcome any leads at lgwaterbug@gmail.com. Ceci Zak has been named chief operat- ing officer of Diversified Agency Services


health-care, a division of Omnicom. Before that, she was an executive with French pharmaceutical company Sanofi- Aventis. During her brief hiatus between jobs, Ceci traveled around the world, vis- iting Hong Kong, Canada, and Ecuador, where, she spent a month in the Amazon rainforest with Pachamama Alliance, an organization that empowers indigenous people to preserve their land and culture. Ceci volunteers for Julia’s Butterfly Foundation, a nonprofit that helps criti- cally ill children. She led the board of directors through a five-year strategic development plan. Christine Callahan is president of


Julia’s Butterfly Foundation, a charitable organization that provides financial assis- tance to the families of terminally and chronically ill children. She has been partnering with corporations and other philanthropic groups to help the founda- tion gain a national presence. Christine and volunteer Ceci Zak celebrated at the foundation’s annual fundraiser, along with Laura Shippee Hart, Amy Baptiste Nelson, Janet Phillips Gibson, Barb Short, Peter Madden, and Hervey Kimball. Named Swarthmore’s Who’s Who 2013 professional of the year in the nonprofit family services sector, Christine also received the St. Angela Merici Award for community leadership from her high school, the Ursuline School in New Rochelle, N.Y. As our class secretary for 10 years, Christine says, “It has been a true honor to serve the Skidmore community and I am proud of the College’s remark- able growth over this period.” MELISSA WEINTRAUB 642 NW STEWART PLACE CORVALLIS, OR 97330-3839 BLEAT13@COMCAST.NET


College and his younger son is a sopho- more at St. Lawrence University. Daughter Lilly is a junior at Darien High School. Renee “can’t believe how fast they grow up.” She is currently teaching ballet. Doug Greiff has been busy continuing


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to develop and produce TV shows through his production company, Hip Entertainment. Doug and his wife recent- ly launched a new Latino media company called MiTu (“me too”), which features the largest network of Latino content cre- ators and social influencers on the Web. Doug lives in Santa Monica, Calif., with wife Beatriz and their 8-year-old twins Isabela and Diego. I have been volunteering, keeping up


Renee Bytner Gregory’s oldest son, Richard, is a junior at Union


AT WORK Outdoor life


J


ohn Bowie ’87 majored in business, but office life wasn’t for him. His cousins ran a


lodge in Colorado, where he worked for two summers, met some back-country rangers, and got hooked. He obtained his National Park Service law enforcement and EMT certifica- tions, and became a federal park ranger.


“This job has taken me to each corner of the


continental United States,” Bowie says. He cur- rently works at Olympic National Park in west- ern Washington State, where the Park Service is completing its largest dam removal to date. Bowie, who has been a ranger since 1995, patrols the back country, watching for illegal logging and poaching, but “my main duty is search and rescue,” he says. “Somebody might break a leg on a trail, go into anaphylactic shock from a bee sting, or have a heart attack. Someone’s climbing in the snow area, and something goes wrong. There’s a lot of things that can happen.” Bowie is part of the service’s Special Events


and Tactical Team, and has worked many events over the years, including one celebrating the 100-year anniversary of flight, where, he says, “I got to sit in this small room with Neil Armstrong.” He served at the National World War II Memorial dedication in D.C., and kept an eye on a biker rally at Lake Mead in the desert southwest. After Hurricane Katrina, he patrolled the Gulf seashore in an airboat. One of his richest memories is of the Coretta


Scott King funeral service at Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, where Martin Luther King Jr. had been pastor. Bowie and other rangers car- ried her casket down the steps of the church. “It was really amazing to see how many people came out,” he says. “There were people from all races. Everybody was really respectful, it was a very peaceful thing. I wouldn’t have expected anything different.”—John Martin


SPRING 2014 SCOPE 41


CREATIVE THOUGHT JOEL LEVIN


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