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1991

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Mike Berger, wife Rebekka, and son Zachary, 4, moved from the Boston area to Burlingame, CA, where they are enjoying the beautiful weather. Mike encourages anyone in the Bay Area to contact him at mike_berger@comcast.net.

Jennifer Reisner Butler and husband Joe welcomed daughter Julia on August 12, 2004. Big sister Anna is thrilled.

Amy Drescher Ritz lives in Cheshire, CT, where she is a freelance writer and marketing VP for moonriverpearls.com. Her boys are now 10 and 8. Hanna Cashman Calcagni lives about a mile down the road. Amy recently saw Karolyn Buckner Micheels and her family, who live in Plattsburgh, NY. Amy welcomes e-mail from Skidmore friends at adresch@snet.net and encourages anyone interested in pearls to contact her for a discount code for the Web site.

Amy Singer lives in San Francisco, CA, and married Dan Plotinsky in September 2003. She traded in an advertising career for teaching.

David Sack married Ewa Reppling in Whistler, British Columbia, on July 3. Skidmore friends Nick Lawrence and Bill Barton ’92 made the trip to join the celebration. David and Ewa live in Seattle, WA, with their dog Cooper. David holds an MBA in health-care management and is director of communications for a large health system.

Stephen Doff and wife Mary Lynn a great time in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic at the end of June. In July they spent a week in the Pocono Mountains and visited Hyde Park in New York. Both foreign language teachers at Centennial High School in Ellicott City, MD, the Doffs were “ecstatic” when the new school year began. They’d love to hear from classmates visiting the D.C. area and can be contacted at esteban21044@yahoo.com.

Megan Slater Cooper spent a whirlwind week at Las Vegas with her family this year. She drove down with her husband from Poulsbo, WA, enjoying the changing scenery from mountains to desert. The New York roller coaster and Hoover Dam were the highlights. She and her husband went camping on the Washington State coast, picnicked at Mount St. Helen’s (where they saw a steam eruption), and visited with Sarah Sims Chalsma for a weekend.

Perri Shapiro Gordon and husband John are happily living in Wellesley, MA, with their 4-year-old yellow Labrador, Noah. They enjoy their annual hiking trip to Arcadia National Park in Maine. They rate Bar Harbor as one of the most dog-friendly cities they’ve visited; Noah enjoys celebrity status there. Perri is assistant dean for student life at Simmons College. Perri joned Laura Hill Turner for a shopping weekend in Freeport in April and had a blast. She also saw Greg and Amie Shapiro White at their son Alex’s 6th birthday party.

After working for years in film production, Andrew Stiles decided to study photography at the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, CA. His focus is editorial portraiture and advertising and lifestyle images. Andrew loves the work and says, “I have found my calling.” He is moving to Los Angeles with his partner, NYC-based makeup artist Fiona Horne. He can be reached through his site at www.andrewstiles.com.

Amy Quatromoni and Douglas McClennen (brother of Peter McClennen ’90) were married in April. They surprised everyone by eloping to Las Vegas!

After an August wedding in 2003, Jennifer Manning and her Canadian husband, André Deslauriers, took a five-month honeymoon in South America for the second half of 2004. They live in Montreal.

Steve Angel and wife Kat Roberts Angel welcomed second daughter Zoe in April. The family lives south of Providence, RI, and recently enjoyed a visit from Brew Jennings and family.

Those who took in this summer’s action film Mr. and Mrs. Smith, starring Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, may not have noticed Julianne Kelley Jordan’s name listed in the closing credits. She was music supervisor for this and a roster of other Hollywood films, including The Portrait of a Lady (1996), Sleepers (1996), and Dead Man Walking (1995). She runs her own company, Music Soup Inc., in Los Angeles. Chair of Skidmore’s music department Gordon Thompson observes of his former student, “Julianne is building a career as an adroit selector of the most appropriate music for film scenes. To think, she played viola.”

Scott Bornstein and wife Rosalie recently finished a five-month-long renovation project on their Marblehead, MA, house. Scott has been working at Charles River Development for the past four years. Son Jonah is doing well.

Todd Pantezzi and wife Laurie mourn the loss of their son Trevor, 2, to leukemia in March. In his memory, friends and family have raised almost half of the $100,000 goal to name a cancer treatment room at Children’s Hospital, where he spent most of his life. If you would like to make a donation, you can send it to: Center for Cancer and Blood, Children’s National Medical Center, Attn: Marian Brodsky (Please write “In Memory of Trevor Pantezzi” on the memo line of your check.) Contact Todd at tpantezzi@hotmail.com for more information. Vandana Bali ’91 and Mike O’Conner ’89 both raised money for leukemia and cancer charities this summer in Trevor’s name. On a happier note, Todd’s wife gave birth to son Chase on March 30; they are pleased to report that he is happy and healthy.