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A NOTE ABOUT CLASS NOTES


If your class is not listed, please send your class notes to the Alumni Affairs Office, Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866-1632.


Class notes are also posted on Skidmore’s public Web site: skidmore.edu/scope.


mu sic major Elizabeth Owens Cant line went to the Juilliard School of Music in New York and later took private lessons in piano and pipe organ. In Newburgh, NY, she was a church organist for 25 years. She now plays regularly at her continu- ing-care facility for parties, church ser - vices, holiday affairs, and cocktail hour. For her early training, she says, “I am continually grateful to the Skidmore mu - sic department.” MARY FARMER WOOLLEY 573 REMORA DRIVE ST. HELEN ISLAND, SC 29920-7227 843-838-7232


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I walk at least two miles every day.” Bob Smith, godson of longtime class sec-


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retary Edie Cosgrove, stopped by Skid - more with news that Edie was in failing health and had been moved to a nursing home in Saratoga Springs. Sadly, Edie died in November (see In Memoriam). ALUMNI AFFAIRS OFFICE SKIDMORE COLLEGE 815 N. BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866


Stern Roubey, 1940’s longtime class sec- retary, died in August. He says, “She was


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Robert Roubey wrote with the sad news that his mother, Charlotte


Ruth Atwood Pytlak notes that she is “in good health at age 93.


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After two years at Skidmore,


her usual vibrant self until just a few days before her passing.” Charlotte, with Ro - bert and his wife, had attended her 70th reunion—“a wonderful trip that my mom enjoyed immensely,” Robert says. “My mom loved Skidmore and requested that friends make donations in her memory to the College.” ALUMNI AFFAIRS OFFICE SKIDMORE COLLEGE 815 N. BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866


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Eleanor Dillaway Rowland, age 92, says, “I am still dedicated to


my artwork, and my paintings are still sought after.” Two different galleries have been selling her work. She and husband James Nobile live in Queensbury, NY. Margaret Orr Ronaldson and her hus-


band celebrated their 70th wedding an - niversary. With four great-great-grandchil- dren, she wonders, “Could I be the class great-great-grandmother?” ALUMNI AFFAIRS OFFICE SKIDMORE COLLEGE 815 N. BROADWAY SARATOGA SPRINGS, NY 12866


the same 12-room house in Woodmere, NY, that they bought in 1950. Children Bill, Elizabeth, and Tom visit often; the “boys” live in DC, and Elizabeth in BC (Vancouver). Elinor keeps in touch with Lila Baruth Pelton and Helen Kindergan Higgins and enjoys golfing and reading. Helen Higgins and husband Milton


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have lived in the same house in Downey, CA, since 1953. They are retired—Helen from teaching high school business edu- cation and Milton from finance at Hughes Aircraft. Their three children gave them seven grandkids, who in turn have made them proud great-grandparents of three. Helen says, “We have en joyed trav- eling and spending summers at our place in Maine, but at a slower pace now. I volunteer at the local hospi- tal, be long to a book club, play bridge, and go to the theater.” She has fond memories of her years at Skidmore.


Elinor Sloss Schatz and Jim have been married 67 years and live in


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