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1967

Chris Filbin Hoffman
choffman04@starband.net

Our class is making preparations for our 40th reunion in May 2007! The planning group met on campus in July to discuss ideas offered by our classmates. The 40th is an important milestone reunion, and we welcome your contribution so that the weekend events reflect each of you in
some way.

Class president Sally Huling Hilderbrand will retire as assistant superintendent of schools in Perkiomen, PA, next spring. With a successor already hired, she figures she has to go. She is looking forward to travel and enjoying her grandchildren, as well as being a full-time gardener. Daughter Elin released a fifth book, The Love Season, which received a People magazine four-star rating. In September 2005 Sally celebrated the arrival of Elin’s third child, their first daughter. Sally’s son Doug, 33, married in May in Alexandria, VA—a “picture-perfect weekend from start
to finish!”

Bev Harrison Miller and husband Wayne have been “venturing.” Two years ago, they purchased
an African safari at Skidmore’s Palamountain Scholarship Benefit. Since they were going “all that way,” they decided to see more of Africa; they stayed in Cape Town, then spent a few days in Durban on the Indian Ocean. Bev says, “Every day brought some incredible thrill, from standing
at the very bottom of Africa, where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet, to having an elephant charge us and watching a baby rhino frolic. We would go back to Africa in a minute.” Bev and Wayne have reserved a spot with Skidmore’s alumni travel program to the Amazon and Machu Picchu in March. Says Bev, “We hope other classmates will join us!”

Pamela Scharmann Stewart and husband Douglas are enjoying their new home and friends just south of Chapel Hill in Fearrington, NC. They spent the year unpacking and redecorating. Douglas is retired, and Pam is semi-retired, teaching voice on a much smaller scale, which suits her just fine. A regular Reunion attendee, Pam is looking forward to “embracing the positive, renewing
old friendships, forging new ones, and enjoying the fun that comes with being in our seventh decade.”

Izzy Maccracken Winn has been re-appointed the acting chair of the Diocesan Council by the Episcopal bishop of Maryland. She is responsible for budget and program development diocesewide. And as administrator for a committee that allocates grants for church projects around the world, her life is full of meetings. She recently took a figure-painting class and coordinated a three-day faith and arts retreat for painters and quilters. While husband Michael has not yet retired, they are “practicing for it” and share a newly remodeled home office. Izzy encourages classmates to visit them in Sherwood Forest and bring golf clubs!

We remember Betsy Doody Cook, who was murdered in her home in St. Louis, MO, 20 years ago. Without a single credible suspect, the case went unsolved until last May, when a drifter who was serving a life sentence for another murder was convicted through DNA evidence. Betsy’s brother Jim notified Bev Miller that family and friends were present in the courtroom to hear the
confession of the crime and attain a measure of closure on what has been a long and difficult ordeal.

Anticipating our reunion, please send photographs to my e-mail address, with your reflections and thoughts, for the Class of ’67 Web page. I encourage you to visit the site (via www.skidmore.edu) to take advantage of “community building” opportunities.