trips, lectures, concerts, and classes. She reports, “Everyone is friendly and the food is delicious. I feel very fortunate.” Gail Wheeler and husband Bob toured southern Africa in November, visiting South Africa and Zimbabwe and going to four different safari lodges in Botswana and Zambia. Gail enjoys being retired and is “reading up a storm!” Sue Finklestein Pucker is happy to be around to share good times with friends and family. Sue and her husband recently moved their gallery to a new space, just one block up on Newbury Street in Boston. After 46 years in the same loca- tion, it was a difficult task moving more than 7,000 works of art. Sue encourages classmates in the Boston area to stop by. Our special class historian, Maryann
Bruno McCrea, recently had dinner with Ro Shainman Halper, Roz Sutton Oesterle, and Sandi Bendfeldt in Armonk, N.Y., where Maryann lives and coincidentally where my son, his wife, and my two granddaughters also reside. On one of my last trips to see the girls (ages 7 and 5), I had lunch with Maryann at her favorite Chinese restaurant—she was treated like a VIP. We have been plan- ning a mini-reunion for May. If you might be in NYC then, please let me know! Sandi Bendfeldt, who is still singing and acting in NYC, is happy as can be with her career.
Ro Shainman Halper paints and teach- es. She is very proud of granddaughter Elana Scaglia ’15, a Skidmore senior. When Evie Schawbel Rosenkrantz came to NYC from her home in Massachusetts to celebrate her daughter’s 50th birthday, we had dinner together and enjoyed food, wine, and lots of talk! Ellen Rubinson Zamore invited me to a special Columbia University luncheon honoring New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña. Both Ellen and I hold graduate degrees from Columbia’s Teachers College; Ellen taught speech pathology, and I taught third grade.
Roz Sutton Oesterle shows her paint- ings in art galleries and outdoor shows. Our class president, Bev Sanders Payne, is still skiing and playing tennis. Sue Jorgensen Clark is an active tennis player in Saratoga. Joan Cangelosi Kicska recently became a grandma for the third time (the child of son Jeffrey and his wife Mary). Joan trav- els often to Seattle to visit her other son and sees Jane Haddad Evans while there. Evy Zoda Shippee is well, though still recovering from Superstorm Sandy, which
damaged her Jolly Tar shop and destroyed her beach house. The shop is now restored and open for business, and Evy hopes to have the house rebuilt by next year. Evy’s four children are all Skidmore grads: Bob Shippee ’86, Laura Shippee Hart ’87, Scott Shippee ’90, and Maria Shippee Jimenez ’92.
In December we had a weeklong gather- ing on Marco Island, Fla., that included my son and daughter, their spouses, and the grandchildren. Since our daughter lives in Los Angeles, it is always a treat for me to see her little guy, Zach, playing with our son’s girls, Chloe and Alexa. They are all close in age: 5, 6, and 7. We later spent a week in Sarasota, Fla., and in March traveled to California to celebrate our daughter’s 40th birthday. CAROLYN BROWN STRAKER 500 E. 83RD STREET, #11K NEW YORK, NY 10028-7208
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the corner, May 28– 31. It’s not too late to register: visit
www.skidmore.edu /reunion. I hope to see you there! Joyce Jacobs Grand and Bernie spent a few days at a friend’s home on Puget Sound in Washington State this past summer. The couple then spent three weeks driving along the Oregon Coast and inland to visit Eugene, Bend, Sisters, and Portland, all very walkable cities. Highlights include walking along the rim of breathtaking Crater Lake, hiking to exquisite waterfalls in the Columbia River Gorge near Mt. Hood, and encountering wonderful people along the way. Joyce returned home to a phone message from Lois Blum Reitzas extolling Joyce’s novel, Margaret: From Newton to Nerja. “What a great welcome!” says Joyce, who plans to be at Reunion.
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by calling 518-580-5600, or e-mail Pat Poirier:
ppoirier@skidmore.edu.
Our 55th reunion is just around
Ellen VanDusen Guthrie will be attend- ing our 55th as well. Jane Christie MacVicar and husband John traveled to the Netherlands, where daughter Jill lives with her Dutch hus- band, Remco, and their three children. Jill works for Nike. Jane and John also visited their oldest granddaughter, Emma, at Hotelschool The Hague. GAIL BENDIX JAFFE 5431 N. PASEO ESPEJO TUCSON, AZ 85718-5229 520-575-0165
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Behr and husband Dick at their Cape May, N.J., summer home in July. The area’s wonderful Victorian architecture reminded Linda of Saratoga. Linda, who resides in Phoenix, Ariz., loves its cultural and recreational venues. She encourages classmates traveling that way to contact her. CHARLOTTE SMILEY READ 6330 GOLF COURSE SQUARE ALEXANDRIA, VA 22307-1225
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Our class president, Mollie Klee Heron, attended a wonderful Skidmore Friends of the Presidents event at NYC’s Plaza Hotel and later visited the Matisse Cut-Outs show at MoMA twice, once with her granddaughter (along with the expert guidance of Tang director Ian Berry) and again with a friend. Mollie also visited the Met twice to see Flemish tapes- tries from the 1500s. She enjoyed Christmas in Maine with her daughter and her family before traveling to Maui, Hawaii, to meet up with her other daugh- ter for a week. Later Mollie underwent back surgery for three degenerative discs. We send her warm wishes for her contin- uing recovery. Lynn Garrett Meyer and George took an October trip with Friendship Force International to New Zealand. There they reconnected with friends from around the world. Lynn encourages everyone to check its website for cultural and travel opportunities.
I was reading the December New Hampshire magazine when I saw an article on local artist Anne Behrsing, who creates metal jewelry and who credits an appren- ticeship with Glenda Arentzen as an important touchstone in her career. Stephanie Lindsey King sold her house of 30 years and moved to a beautiful apartment in the same town in upstate
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