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class notes 1920s | 1930s | 1940s | 1950s | 1960s | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s | 2000s People & projects | UWW | In Memoriam 1940s 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | 1947 | 1948 | 1949 1942 Cynthia Taft Lathrop Alice Carroll Stambaugh moved from Colorado to Medford, OR, to be near her youngest daughter, who teaches high-school art there. Although it was difficult to leave behind friends and activities in Colorado, she has become a partner of Ambus, a contemporary art gallery featuring nine women artists. As the gallery’s senior member, she is holding her own with sales and exhibits. Alice loves her adult-living community and looks forward to every day. She has a son in Fresno, CA, and another daughter in Los Angeles.Going to the gym and playing bridge keeps Floranna Chayes Lathrop going. Lois Clark McCoy, president of the National Institute for Urban Search and Rescue, also chairs the National Consortium for Readiness in Emergencies. The mother of seven adult children and four adopted children, she has “quite a life, for a home-economics major!” Nancy Jack Bell left her home of 58 years to move into a retirement home in Carlsbad, CA, in August. Her daughter and one grandson live close by. Nancy has two great grandsons, ages 15 months and 3 months. Corrine Kramer Gelbard and husband David moved from New York State to Los Angeles, where they live in an “apartment way up in the sky.” Their four children (a physician son and daughters who practice law, public policy, and public health nutrition) are scattered around the state with families of their own. After graduation from Skidmore, Corky wrote advertising copy and then ran her father’s mechanical contracting company. Dorothy Lodgen Halpern plays the piano and conducts a chorus called Voices of Experience. She enjoys taking classes at Lasell Village in Newton, MA. With the help of her cocker spaniel, Marion Jones Averitt is learning to get around in Vancouver, WA, where she recently relocated from Arizona. Happily, she has adjusted to the climate change and has a new gentleman in her life who is an Apache Indian. Elaine Lorson continues to enjoy life at Westchester Meadows, a life-care center in New York. She keeps active and has her dog GiGi to keep her company. Connie Nathan Tupper and husband Lamonte are settling into their condo in Charlottesville, VA. Her husband swims every day, and Connie still plays tennis. She laments, “gravity has gotten into my body, and I’ve lost my waist!” Doris Callaghan Gillingham fell in March, breaking her arm near her shoulder. She says it is finally getting better, with therapy. Ginny Fowler Gurney and husband Bob have moved into a continuing-care facility in Fearrington Village, NC. They love their new home. Mary Woolwine Thorburn is living at The Chelsea in Fanwood, NJ. She has seven grandchildren and feels “very blessed and happy.” Adrienne Steiner VanDyk’s great-niece (the granddaughter of her sister Marie Louise Steiner Nickerson ’41) is a Skidmore freshman this fall. She lives in Venice, Italy, where her father is a gondolier! Barbara “Jeff” Lee is “doing remarkably well for an old broad!” Aside from a few aches and pains, “life is good.” Edith Hallock Reagan has fond memories of Skidmore and her 20 years of teaching home economics. She has three children, three granddaughters, and two great-grandchildren. To boot, Edith is a three-time cancer survivor who, although “minus a few body parts,” still enjoys swimming, hiking, yoga, reading, and gardening. Jean Brickwood Slocum travels back and forth from Maine to Connecticut to see children and grandchildren. She recently joined the Boothbay Garden Club, where she met two Skidmore alumnae. Elinor Sloss Schatz’s husband, Jim, continues working full-time at City College of New York. Elinor enjoys golf, although her tennis game is “diminishing.” The couple’s grandson Chris graduated from the University of Texas with a degree in chemical engineering and is working at the US Patent Office in Washington, DC. Grandchildren Kira, Samantha, and Doug are college sophomores at University of the Redlands, Delaware, and Wisconsin, respectively. I received a note from Edmund Wollmuth, informing me that his wife of 55 years, Dorothy Collins Wollmuth, died last October. We send our deepest sympathy to Edmund and their two daughters, including Susan Wollmuth Bennett ’74. |
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