Cynthia Blum Carroll lives in London with her family and serves as a nonexecu- tive director on the boards of two public companies, BP and Hitachi, and two non- profits, Grassroots Soccer and the Institute for Advanced Study. She and husband David have four children, the three oldest of whom attend school in the US. “After spending most of my career traveling around the world and being away from my family,” she muses, “I am thoroughly enjoying time to finally participate in activities and events focused on children and family. It has been wonderful to step back and relax a bit!” Nancy Kessler has a new business ven- ture called Memoirs Plus. She draws upon a background in American studies and museum curation to help seniors create compelling memoirs. Nancy was previous- ly a therapeutic-recreation director in Greenwich, Conn. She lives in Mt. Kisco, N.Y.
Elizabeth Young-Collins is a profession- al singer and entertainer who produces the annual St. Patrick’s Day Cure for Cancer concert to benefit the Dana Farber Cancer Research Institute.
I’ve moved back to NYC, where I am the director of lower-school admissions for Trevor Day School in NYC. EMILY WALKER BRACCHITTA 746 MAMARONECK AVENUE, #1415 MAMARONECK NY 10543
EBRACCHITTA@GMAIL.COM
Wendy Green Simpson writes and publishes poetry and also works with select design clients. She was planing to read at this spring’s Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference in Minneapolis. In August she enjoyed watching polo with Jenn Warner and Lisa Giordano, a week- end with Gemma Mastroianni Carroll at Lisa’s farm, Blue Moon Acres, and a visit with Leslie Vanden-Handel DiCarlo at her beautiful Springwater Bed and Breakfast. Wendy says she feels “blessed.” Robin Safeer Mathews is planning the September wedding of middle daughter Kyla, who works as a dance movement therapist in North Carolina. Eldest daugh- ter Hannah completed a master’s in gas- tronomy at Boston University and works in sales and marketing. Youngest daughter Shea is a certified chef and will finish a bachelor’s in culinary nutrition at Johnson and Wales this year. After missing the musical fun she had with the Sonneteers, Robin is having a fantastic time in an a cappella sextet called Key of She, a semi- professional group that sings pop, jazz,
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blues, and standards from across the decades. Check out
www.keyofshe.com or follow them on Facebook. Susan Detwiler Nitahara got engaged to her partner of 13 years in December, with a wedding planned for September in New Jersey. Susan is leaving preparations to daughter Lauren. Maura Connelly is working on market- ing and business development for a health-food establishment in Beaufort, S.C. Photography, however, remains her passion. Son Thor, who graduated from Roanoke College, is a senior designer for Ballantyne Products; Maren, a Colorado College alumna, is office manager at Elevar Equities and a yoga instructor in Seattle; and Callie is a senior at College of Charleston majoring in urban planning with a minor in environmental studies. Kathy Brown Teece’s daughter Erica, 31, lives in NYC, where she is assistant to the president at the photo and video produc- tion company Splashlight. Alex, 29, lives in Honolulu and works at the Bank of Hawaii. Sandra, 25, graduated from a mas- ter’s program in public health and is the diabetes and wellness coordinator at the American Indian Community House in NYC. Kathy and her husband, David, cel- ebrated their 35th anniversary in September. Wendy Green Simpson gave me the sad news that Jenn Warner passed away sud- denly on December 7. Wendy, Lisa Giordano, and Molly Arp Newell will be coordinating a memorial service for Jenn at Skidmore’s Wilson Chapel this summer; further information will be forthcoming. The class offers heartfelt condolences to her family.
I was one of the executive evaluators in last fall’s MB107 course. I felt very proud of my alma mater as the students present- ed their cases in front of five seasoned businesspeople. In January I was a mentor at Skidmore’s Transitions and Trans- formation career networking event in Boston. I encourage you to consider becoming involved even in small ways with Skidmore. Just my two-days-a-year commitment keeps me feeling connected and proud to be a graduate. I also volun- teera at Dress for Success Boston, which provides career clothing for low-income women preparing for job interviews. We are at the stage in our lives where giving feels better than getting. DEBBIE MONOSSON 16 PERRY STREET CAMBRIDGE, MA 02139-3912
DEBBIE@BFEC.COM
right around the cor- ner! I hope to see you in Saratoga May 28– 31! There is still time to register; just visit
www.skidmore.edu /reunion.
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Linda Cooke Ashley took surfing les- sons at Hampton Beach last summer with her 22-year-old daughter Kristen. While Kirsten got way more attention from the instructor, Cookie successfully rode just as many waves as she did! Cookie also did some skiing with pal Jane Bennett Low last winter. Hilary Hoffman-Fandel teaches kinder- garten in a progressive school in Montclair, N.J. Her twin 26-year-old sons live far away, one in the Mariana Islands (on Ruta, near Guam) protecting endan- gered birds, and the other bicycling around the world.
Collette Reifers Huidekoper enjoyed a mini-reunion in NYC to celebrate the birthday of Jed Lavitt ’77 along with Stan Kozlowski ’77, Sean Colquhoun ’78, Kris Ried ’78, Doe Ingram Filbert ’78, and Lesley Norman ’79. PERI SNYDERMAN
SPECIALCAT@MSN.COM
Huntsville Museum of Art for three years. Previously, he was curator and manager of fine art for good friend Gloria Vanderbilt (
www.gloriavanderbiltfineart.com) in NYC and executive director of the Southern Vermont Arts Center. He has had the good fortune of seeing the world, first as a grad- uate student at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, and then as a guide for art history tours for 23 years. Debra Gartzman Gottlieb spent
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Thanksgiving in the Czech Republic and Italy with husband Robert and their sons, Jon and Alex. Alex, a junior at Emory University, was studying in Prague for the semester, and Jon works and lives in Miami, Fla. Debra designs interiors on the East Coast for her com- pany, Finelines Interiors. She attended the wedding of Sam Glick, son of Jennifer Kent ’80 and Jeff Glick ’80, last summer. She hopes to connect with Terry Dannenberg Marcus when he vis- its NYC.
Heidi Minken is living in Baltimore with her husband of 27 years, Jesse. Their son Tyler graduated from the US Naval Academy in 2012 and is an aviator sta-
Christopher Madkour has been the executive director of Alabama’s
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