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of their second child, Tristan, in March 2014.


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Charlotte Harwood Moriarty complet- ed her residency in family medicine last December, then spent some time at home enjoying her 2-year-old twins. She is now completing a one-year fellowship in pri- mary-care sports medicine at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. Margaretta Walton is the owner of Forever Stone (foreverstone.biz), a granite recycling and repurposing business. She has been busy updating the website, building inventory, and learning how to drive a forklift. “It’s been fun, challeng- ing, and exciting!” she notes. Elizabeth Brambilla and husband Ron happily welcomed a baby girl, Annabelle, on August 15.


Liz De La Rosa Ingrao and husband Jason welcomed son Christian on November 13. “We are very excited and blessed!” says Liz. The family lives in Fort Myers, Fla.


Mandy Levi Wurtz and husband Phil welcomed a baby boy, Hunter, into their lives on July 11. They too feel blessed by the arrival of “the sweetest, most playful little boy!” They recently moved to the East Hills on Long Island, N.Y. Sarah Hughes recently completed a PhD in American history at Temple University, where she has taught courses including pop culture and African American history for the past seven years. Sarah’s disserta- tion, American Monsters: Tabloid Media and the Satanic Panic, 1970–2000, is slated to be published this year.


I am a nurse practitioner working with the adult and geriatric population in a subacute and long-term care setting out- side Boston. When not working, I love my second full-time job, being mom to my son, Carter, 5, and daughter Payton, 2. JANINE GELLER JONES 16 JENNIE RICHARDS ROAD WESTFORD, MA 01886 JRGELLER@HOTMAIL.COM


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Laurent Pelletier and wife Jackie are proud to announce the birth


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Ian Craig and Christiana Tritton ’05 and were married September


27 in South Casco, Maine. Faith Towers ’05, Loren Moore Silverman ’05, Jennifer Marquis ’05, and Jessica Leonard-Donaldson ’05 were brides- maids; David Haimi, Craig Noto, and Karl Schweitze were groomsmen; and several other alumni were in attendance. Sarah Ostrower is director of North American marketing for Clinique. David Harmon is deputy director and chief human capital officer for the US Federal Reserve Board. BRIDGET CUMMINGS DORMAN BCITLY@AOL.COM


nia’s Rossier School of Education last spring. She and husband Michael welcomed their first baby, son Grant, on July 30. Camila Lertora Nardozzi and Jon Nardozzi are proud to announce the arrival of their first child, son Nicolas, on August 16. They live in Boston. Monet Cruz lives in Burlington, Vt., where she works at the National Center for Campus Public Safety, which is admin- istered by higher-ed security consulting firm Margolis Healy. Monet is also intern- ing at HOPE Works, a local rape crisis cen- ter, as a youth advocate. She enjoyed see- ing classmates at Eleanor Halgren’s September wedding. UWW grad Liz Heonis is happy to be


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back in academia. She is in her first year of a master’s in professional studies at the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She says her Skidmore background prepared her well for this rig- orous program and she is “flourishing.” Colleen Barber Hursh and husband Mike welcomed a son, Samuel, in November.


Lisa Hilberg Craig, who spent five years as annual fund director for a large equine- rescue organization, was recruited for a yearlong fundraising position at Skidmore. In addition to working hard for our alma mater, Lisa helps husband Christopher run their business, Spa City Pizza, which they opened in 2013, in the old Pink Store on Clinton Avenue near campus. Yes, the store is still pink! Artist Fitzhugh Karol created What’s


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Progression,which was installed at the Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC from last October to this March. Fashioned out of hemlock timbers, the 60-by-5-foot work invites parkgoers to climb on and explore it. It is the culmination of Fitzhugh’s par- ticipation in the park’s Emerging Artist


Lilly Coye earned a doctorate from the University of Southern Califor-


AT WORK Sweet success


coffee shop and bakery, called Baked, is cele- brating 10 years at its Brooklyn location, and late last year he opened a new Manhattan shop. Good press—including attention from Oprah


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Winfrey and Martha Stewart—have certainly helped. Poliafito and partner Matt Lewis have authored four cookbooks and launched several Baked-branded items, including bakeware, gra- nola, and bak- ing mixes. Poliafito was an art major at Skidmore and started on a graphic design career path after graduation. The timing was good for


magazine work and Internet design during the dot-com bubble. Then September 11 happened. “It was a life-changing moment. Everything seemed uncertain,” Poliafito says, expressing what many New Yorkers felt. His career think- ing shifted. “My job was fine, but not exciting,” he says. He’d fantasized about owning a coffee shop, so when an opportunity to manage an existing business arose, he took it—and loved it. A year later, Lewis, a chocolatier whose


website Poliafito had created, communicated his dream of opening a bakery. They collaborat- ed to open a combined bakery and coffee shop. “By that time,” Poliafito says, “I had all the fun- damentals down, everything I needed to run a small business.” For Poliafito, there’s a thread connecting


Skidmore and Baked: learning to be true to himself. In his drawing and painting classes at Skidmore, professors noted the graphic quality of his art, calling it “poppy.” He thought that was a negative, until he took a graphic design class. Then he saw, “Oh! This is what they meant. This makes sense.” He adds, “My hand-drawing skills help me


at the bakery. I can easily sketch things when I consult with clients, and then hand the sketch over to my designers for them to exe- cute.” —Jill U. Adams


enato Poliafito ’96 is beating the odds in the highly risky restaurant industry. His


SPRING 2015 SCOPE 59


CREATIVE THOUGHT CHARLIE SAMUELS


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