CL AS S NO TE S
them out at
screwballspaces.com. The cou- ple celebrated with a holiday party and art sale, complete with a DJ. Their daughter, Zilpha, is 2.
Evan Olson and Elizabeth Dodge Olson
’93 celebrated the fifth anniversary of their dog-wash business, Laundromutt, in Cambridge, MA. They welcomed second son Parker on November 17.
Mark Parobeck and wife Meg Brown
Parobeck ’93 say they “run wild from sunrise to sunset” keeping up with sons James, 3, and Henry, 2. Meg has been tak- ing master’s classes in social work at SUNY- Albany; Mark dabbles with renovating Vic - torian houses when he isn’t writing fiction and poetry.
JANET MACAULAY REARDON 2829 EAGLE STREET
SAN DIEGO, CA 92103-5421
JANETREARDON@HOTMAIL.COM
’93
Geoff Hunt is outreach manager for the Experiment in International Living, a cultural exchange program based in Brattleboro, VT. He travels around the country speaking with students about the importance of experiencing immersion in another culture. He misses the city but is “thankful to have landed a meaningful job in this tough economy.”
Wendy Van Antwerp Frazier attended
Tory Lupinacci’s October 2009 wedding in Connecticut and stayed in NYC with Julie Stone. They had a great time catch- ing up with folks from Skidmore. Wendy, a social worker in Breckenridge, CO, is enjoying all that the mountains have to offer. You can find her on Facebook, or e-mail
wendy.vanantwerp@
state.co.us. David Wood is an assistant professor of English at Northern Michigan University, focusing on 16th-century literature. He published a book entitled Time, Narrative,
and Emotion in Early Modern England (Ash -
gate 2009) and coedited a special edition of the fall 2009 issue of Disability Studies Quarterly. He lives on the shores of Lake Superior in Marquette, MI, with wife Vicki, daughter Madeleine, 5, sons Henry, 3, and Nate, 1, and a shaggy black dog named Shep.
Our two girls are enjoying each other.
We had the pleasure of running into Kev in Polakoff and his daughter at the Bronx Zoo. I recently enjoyed a bagel
brunch with Kelly Van Zile ’96 and went
to a staged reading of the latest hilarious
play by Alex Goldberg ’94, The Final Jew,
featuring Adam Wald ’94 as one of the actors.
Check Facebook for Skidmore Class of 1993 and other Skidmore-related groups.
JENNY HERDMAN LANDO
45-05 30TH AVENUE ASTORIA, NY 11103
SKIDMORE93@AOL.COM
’94
Meredith Eastman married Colin
Principe on August 1 in her home-
town of Warner, NH, with a reception in Concord. Many classmates were in atten- dance, and they “partied the weekend away just like in Skidmore days!” The couple lives in Lowell, MA, with their cat Duke.
John Beckman enjoyed a trip to cam- pus as a member of the alumni board of directors this past fall. He was “blown away” by a tour of the new Zankel Music Center, enjoyed dining in the revamped Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, and browsed the in door farmers’ market in Case Cen - ter. John works at the Museum of Science & Indus try in Chicago, “helping to iden - tify new streams of revenue to assist in hard times like these, when annual visi- torship is less dependable.” Last summer he enjoyed travels including a long stay with friends in the south of France, a trip to the track in Saratoga, and Meredith Eastman’s wedding in New Hampshire. In a recent visit to The Second City in
Chicago, Brad Mor ris ’98 chose John to
participate in an im prov skit in which he was asked to strip to the waist for the au - dience. John’s re sponse: “Thanks, Brad! Come to the mu seum anytime. We have a great World War II submarine, and I hear the torpedo tubes are cozy.” Travis Lea and wife Eva welcomed son Rylo on March 15, 2009.
Allison Groom Foster and husband
Da vid welcomed a third son, Miles, to the family on July 13. Allison is a senior VP at Fleishman-Hillard in NYC, leading the health-care practice group in digital mar- keting and social media. The Foster family lives in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, NYC.
Shannon Small Dunn and her family
welcomed son Brady on November 18; she says, “Everyone is doing great!” Autism educator and counselor Brian Gordon ’94 uses the communication skills he practiced during his previous career in stand-up comedy to help chil- dren with autism and other social-deficit disorders. Former director of a drama- based “social pragmatics” intervention program called Spotlight in Danvers, MA, he continues in the field as a private train- er, consultant to school systems, and pub- lic speaker. His article “Comedy and Au - tism: A Parallel Universe” appears in a
recent issue of the Journal of the Inter na -
AT WORK
The people’s choice
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f the dozens of public projects and initia- tives that Helene Schneider ’92 has been
involved with, one seems to sum up her spirit of civic benevolence: the Lower Mission Creek Flood Control Project, which aims to make “the community and en - vironment a better place to live.” That’s the higher mission for Schneider, who is mayor of Santa Barbara, Calif. Elected in No -
vember 2009 after six years on City Council, Schneider has been a tireless voice for the home- less, neighborhood improvement, public schools, public transportation, recycling, disaster pre- paredness, zoning, pedestrian access, and, yes, Santa Barbara’s native steelhead trout. Her populist appeal helped her win office as
a Democrat in a once solidly Republican town— even though her opponent was backed by nearly $700,000 in out-of-state funding. She now sits across from him during council meetings. With a divided council, many issues become tangled in “passionate gridlock,” as one of the council mem bers describes it. But Schneider dismisses this as a low hurdle, pointing to the pragmatism inherent in city-level governance and to “some major common-ground ideals that everyone has, such as limiting growth, clean beaches and oceans, emergency response, and quality of life.” She says, “Potholes happen to both Republicans and Democrats.” Schneider and husband David Greenberg ’92
live in a cozy in-town bungalow with their two cats. She frequently walks or uses public trans- portation to shop and work. In her limited free time, she enjoys watching women’s basketball, hiking on the beach, and participating in a book group.
With the current troubles in the California
economy, Schneider has to draw on new re - sources and creative partnerships to fund Santa Barbara’s transformative projects. She’s been able to secure federal stimulus funds for the Lower Mission Creek project, earning the grati- tude of neighborhood residents…including the
steelhead trout. —Jon Wurtmann ’78
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