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Nancy McNiff
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It took 32 years, but Holly Altner Dreman finally got together for lunch with June Sobel Raudonis in April. Holly reports, “Nothing changed. There was a lot of laughing and talking over wine—just like sitting in D’Andrea’s!”

Managing director of HR Insourcing LLC Ruth Kawecki Liebermann shares office space with Shelley Widoff, president of Paralegal Resource Center, in Boston, MA. Ruth’s two children are graduates of the University of Pennsylvania. She and her husband spent the summer sailing.

Deb Sehl Coons was elected president of the alumni association’s board of directors. She steps into this position after serving a three-year term as chair of the board’s awards committee. The music and theater major is a senior financial consultant at Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance in Springfield, MA. She lives in Hebron, CT, with husband Phil.

Penelope Drake Pestronk and family traveled east from their home in Grand Blanc, MI, for son Jefferson’s graduation from Princeton in May. Daughter Jessica is a sophomore at Brown University.

Louise Wright is having fun being a mom to two elementary-school-aged children. She feels fortunate to have a flexible part-time job. She misses her roommate, the late Louisa Bowen, who died in 1996. “She would be amazed to know that her son Joey Anderson ’07 attends his mom’s alma mater.”

Jane Stimmler, a partner with the Marketing Edge, a marketing communications and strategy firm, co-authored the book Stop Whining and Start Winning: 8 Surefire Ways for Women to Thrive in Business (for details, see Books in this issue). Her literary agent for the project was Denise Marcil ’74.