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1980

Peri Snyderman
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Elise Plaut Beattie has been accepted into Who’s Who in American Arts. As state representative for the Southern Water Color Society, she coordinates the work of Kentucky water-media artists in a national and traveling exhibit each year. She will assume the position of VP of the national organization in May 2009 at its annual show in Columbus, GA. Elise invites any interested Skidmore community members who live in Kentucky to contact her at elisebeattie@bellsouth.net. She will be preparing a solo exhibition in November 2009 at the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts at the Madisonville Community College, where she will conduct a poured-watercolor and mixed-media workshop.

After getting a master’s in imaginative communications technology at NYU’s Tisch School in the mid-1990s, Lisa Pedicini was an interactive digital producer and editor, first at the pioneering (now defunct) Voyager Company and subsequently for several divisions of the Von Holtzbrink Publishing Group. In 2004 eldest child Matthew graduated from the Collegiate School, prompting her to switch careers. Since 2006 she has been director of information systems at the Spence School, focusing on Web and school-to-parent communications, and has taught technology classes to girls in grades 8 and 10. In July she was promoted to director of technology integration and e-learning. She loves what she’s doing. In May Matthew graduated cum laude from Yale, with majors in Chinese and history. He works in investment banking for Lehman Brothers in Hong Kong. Daughter Mary, 11, is a sixth-grader at Spence. Spending their days in the same building has not yet caused her daughter “extreme mortification.”

Ellen Flight sends greetings from the shores of Lake Dunmore in Salisbury, VT. She is in her ninth year as director of Songadeewin of Keewaydin, the girls’ residential summer camp that reopened in 1999. The 180 campers this summer included a Skidmore sophomore who plays field hockey for the Thoroughbreds. The campers took hiking and canoeing excursions on lakes and rivers in New York, Vermont, Maine, New Hampshire, Quebec, and Ontario. Ellen’s neighbor, Heather Thompson Hardt, and her husband worked at the camp last winter. Ellen and Heather see each other regularly at the local fitness center. Ellen invites classmates to visit her in Vermont.