17-year-old daughter, Olive. A junior at Piedmont High-School, Olive is very artis- tic, captain of the tennis team, and inter- ested in studying writing, theater, and film production in college. Sylvie, a native of France, has been named a top photographer by Martha Stewart Weddings for the last two years. Doug, Sylvie, Olive, and Sylvie’s two boys, 18 and 19, spend one month a year traveling the world. Last year Doug directed a high- ly successful 30-minute broadcast infomercial for the American Automobile Association; he also directed and edited videos for Fuze video conferencing and eight commercials for Hewlett Packard. Doug was also creative director and writer for four AAA animated spots about dis- tracted driving, won a first-place Telly Award for a video he edited for the Rain Forest Action Network about the endan- gered orangutan, created a 20-minute employee welcoming film for Wells Fargo, edited 18 original short films called “Family Scrapbook Stories” for Disney Jr., and directed a national commercial for Bank of America and the Kahn Academy that aired during last fall’s World Series. New Milford, Conn., resident Anne Alzapiedi was named one of Working Women’s 2014 Working Mothers of the Year. Nominated by her employer, General Electric, she was lauded for the extensive volunteer work she did for the town of Sandy Hook after the 2012 school shootings there. Anne assisted town selectmen, developed crisis-response pro- tocols, and handled requests from the national media. All the while, she never missed a beat in her position as HR leader of GE’s IT and operations department. Anne is a dedicated single mom to 13- year-old daughter Katie. Last November, I caught up with Michael Ross, Jim Friedland, and Barb Short ’87 at Short Stories in Madison, N.J. Barb opened Short Stories, a community bookshop and arts hub, last year after a successful Kickstarter campaign. She is grateful for the support she received from several Skiddies, including Jane Zoldis Quinn and Jane Moore Houghton ’87, who are featured artists at her store. Barb was hosting Michael, a history professor at the University of Maryland in College Park, who was at the bookstore to discuss his book The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case. Lauded by the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, the book recounts the true story of two Afro-Creole women on trial for the kidnapping of a white tod-
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Doug Werby lives in Oakland, Calif., with partner Sylvie and his
dler in Reconstruction-era New Orleans. Tad Hills has also made author visits to the store. Tad’s book How Rocket Learned to Read was selected by Time last year as one the top 100 children’s books ever. I met Michael’s wife, Ashley, and their baby, Andrew. Barb has two girls; Evi, 14, and Lily, 12. Jim Friedland lives in Allendale, N.J., and works for Credit Suisse. Jim and wife Lori stay busy looking after Matt, 18, Nick, 16, and Olivia, 13. But Jim finds time to do the occasional half-marathon and triathlon. We will celebrate our 30th reunion in spring 2016. Please plan on attending, and if you can, please volunteer to help make the big weekend our best reunion ever! Contact me for details. CLIFF NELSON 25 LENOX AVENUE WHITE PLAINS, NY 10603
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August 8 in Woodstock, Vt. Stacey and Tom, who had been friends while Stacey was at Skidmore, reconnected five years ago. Several friends from Skidmore and Saratoga celebrated with them. MELISSA WEINTRAUB 642 NW STEWART PLACE CORVALLIS, OR 97330-3839
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Kim Wachenheim Wagman’s son Kyle ’15 is graduating with a business major and economics minor. Kim’s daughter, Avery, is a freshman at Amherst College and her younger son, Grant, is a junior at Rye Country Day. Gail Boorstein Grossman recently pub- lished Restorative Yoga for Life, which has been quite well received. She presented at the Yoga Journal Conference in NYC last winter. She admits, “Never in a million years did I think I would do either of these things. Life unfolds in funny ways!” VICTORIA G. KING 155 SAGAMORE ROAD MILLBURN, NJ 07041-2147
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In March 2014, Sarah Cohen Weck lost her mother to a sudden
illness. Sarah’s mother played viola with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra for 46 year, and Sarah’s 10-year-old daughter, Allison, is following in her grandmother’s footsteps; she plays violin in an amateur orchestra. In October, Allison and Sarah performed Autumn Leaves in a piano-
Stacey Gerrish married Saratoga Springs native Tom O’Brien on
violin duet that they dedicated to her mother. They also joined the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra on a tour to Paris and stayed with the woman Sarah had lived with during her Skidmore junior year abroad in 1987–88. In addition to spending time with her two daughters and husband Peter, Sarah manages the Hidden Springs Maple syrup business, with a farm store in Putney, Vt. Valerie Acquaviva Maio teaches dance at studios around the Boston area and works for the nonprofit BalletRox, which offers affordable, accessible dance to chil- dren in Boston who wouldn’t otherwise have the opportunity. Partnering with Boston public schools and running an afterschool community dance program in Jamaica Plain, Valery says she’s happy to be sharing her passion with so many wonderful and deserving kids. BAYARD HEUSSLER KARCH 3361 BUCKBOARD DRIVE PARK CITY, UT 84098
BAYARDKARCH@YAHOO.COM
you in Saratoga, May 28–31, for our 25th reunion! Come back to see old friends as well as the changes on campus and in town. There is still time to register; just visit
www.skidmore .edu/reunion. Mike Heath’s Borabora Fruit Juices is in its 19th year making fresh juices, lemon- ades, and smoothies in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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Heather Griffioen-Young is a project manager at TNO Innovation for Life, in the Netherlands, where she is setting up a public-private cooperative economic ini- tiative. She and husband Vincent visited Rome for a long weekend and had a great time seeing all the highlights and enjoy- ing “amazing” food. Her 15-year-old son, Tobin, is in ninth grade, and her 12-year- old daughter, Yael, is in seventh grade in a bilingual (Dutch-English) program. Attorney Kate Knox was the 2014 recipi- ent of the Outstanding Alumna Award from the Women’s Law Association at the University of Maine. Kate chairs the polit- ical and legislative practice group at the New England-based Bernstein Shur law firm. DANA METES 142 BEST ROAD WINDSOR, VT 05089-9564
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