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Barbara Crossman Bell
bici@twcny.rr.com

Returning to Skidmore for our 35th reunion was exciting as well as reassuring. If you were not able to join us this year, please plan to come in 2010! The college really does a wonderful job in welcoming us back to campus, and it’s so much fun being together again.

Jane Hastings Larrabee reports that six friends spent five days together at the home of Hollis Page Harman ’71 in Los Angeles, CA. Ellamae Cobb deals in real estate in New York City. Her roommate Victoria Crear Winslow lives in California and runs Victoria Winslow and Company, a high-end gift company. Debbie Carlson Meide also lives in California with her family, has a PhD in chemistry, and works on environmental issues. Debbie’s roommate Jane Larrabee and her husband run a 150-year-old general store in Vermont. Vini Norris Exton ’71, Holly’s longtime bud, lives in Utah with her husband and teaches English at Utah State University. And Holly Harman has written a terrific book called Money Sense for Kids. Jane says, “Most of us had not seen one another for 34 years. We had a wonderful time.”

As noted in the summer Scope, Barbara Ringler Venishnick died last March. Her roommate Janet Schneider Coulton offers this tribute. “We and our families remained very close, and we both kept in touch with Dee Dee Underkoffler Roy and Ginger Moore Tucker. Still, only after her death did it become apparent how highly regarded Barbara was as a professional knitwear designer. Tributes from knitting magazine editors, yarn company reps, and knitters as far away as Australia poured in, telling of her creativity, originality, and the void in style and technique that will be felt. There will also be a hole in the heart of her family members and friends. Barbara’s sudden death underscores the fact that heart disease is the number-one killer of women.”