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1974
Reggie Carbon Tihan
rctihane@comcast.net
Martha Weaver Teschner’s family nest is empty now, and she and husband Doug are living in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, where Doug is the country director of the Peace Corps.
Fran Silbert Hewitt concluded teaching art full-time in 2007 and finds it lovely to have the freedom to plan each day as it comes. She volunteers at the Capitol Center for the Arts in Concord, NH, and enjoys many wonderful performances. She does some substitute teaching (can’t seem to give up being with the kids!) and traveled with daughter Sarah, 20, to the Caribbean during March break. Sarah is a junior at Simmons. Her interests include dance and theater, and she is studying to become a public-health nurse. Fran had a terrific time at our 30th reunion and hopes to return to Skidmore at some point.
John Merrill had dinner with Alan Braunstein ’75 in Wellesley, MA, this summer for the first time in 34 years! They enjoyed sharing wonderful memories of Wilmarth 1972–73.
As of June, Meg Tipper retired from teaching and looks forward to freedom, especially to traveling with her new man. Jim and Meg share many interests, including scuba diving, hiking, and skiing.
This year, Denise Marcil started working part-time in her literary agency. Although working hard for her authors, she has fewer clients, less work, and more time for personal delights—one of which is volunteering for the Center for Women’s Leadership at the YWCA in Greenwich-Stamford, CT. She helps the director select monthly lecturers and plan the summit in March 2009. If any classmates are top corporate executives and might like to participate, Denise would love to hear from you. She also works with the Girl Scouts of Greater New York. In May she and Sara Daniels ’05 led a creative writing workshop in Manhattan for girls ages 13 to 17. The two met three years ago when Sara won the fiction prize that Denise set up at Skidmore.
Mel Littleton Fox is in her 17th year of teaching fourth grade in Lake Zurich, IL, and still loves it. She says the kids are the best age, and the curriculum is really fun to teach. This year they did a unit on baseball in reading, math, social studies, and English, culminating with a trip to Wrigley Field to see the Chicago Cubs. Her class has also been penpals with “Mr. Bill,” a truck driver for 12 years, in the Trucker Buddy International Program. In addition, Mel coaches the varsity girls’ golf and bowling teams at Lake Zurich High School. Her husband, Dave, works in the health-benefits industry, and they play golf often. Daughter Amy graduated from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Business in August and is working at Target headquarters. In June son Andy successfully climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania as part of his fundraising efforts for Voluntary Services Overseas, which is supported by his company, Accenture.
Pat Brown Bailey communicated the sad news that her best friend of over 36 years, Patricia Ann Willstatter, passed away on June 27 from brain cancer. They had met as students at Skidmore. Patti Willstatter is remembered as a successful magazine advertising executive, who most recently was Midwest director of advertising for Lucky. Pat Bailey writes, “She will be sorely missed by classmates and the many people who were fortunate enough to have known her.” We extend condolences to her family.
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