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1983

Lilly Jaray Ostrove
DanJasRy@yahoo.com


Peter Chandler has been living in Santa Fe, NM, since 1999 with son Dylan, 14. Peter founded his own contracting business (www.deckandchair.com), which is approaching its 10th year in Santa Fe. In his leisure time, he likes working on his golf game, and tearing up Ski Santa Fe, one of the highest skiing areas
in the continental US. Peter would love to hear from classmates at peterchandler7@comcast.net.

Patrice McEvoy Clapacs has returned to the states after about 10 years overseas. She has settled in the Cleveland, OH, area with daughter Caitlin, who is in ninth grade, and son Alex, who is in seventh.

Laura Taylor is president and CEO of Relevant Technologies Inc., an information security and IT professional services firm headquartered in Columbia, MD. Her research has been sought out by the FDIC, the FBI, the White House, and numerous private-sector organizations and Fortune-500 companies. She is the author of the FISMA Certification and Accreditation Handbook, the leading guide to compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. The handbook is used by Yale University, where Laura taught a course last year.

Laura Blau Paul and husband Jonathan are delighted that son Ethan ’13 is a Skid­more freshman. Daughter Cassie is a high school freshman. Laura enjoys working in a local knitting store, teaching and designing patterns.

Katy Stenhouse is pleased to report that her interior-design consulting business, Katydid Interiors (www.katydidinteriors.com), is slowly growing. Her 6-year-old daughter is also growing, like a weed! Husband Brian Crouth works for Lin­gual­Linx, a global translation company.

Although she tried to get her interested in Skidmore, Christina Campanaro Juarez says daughter Sofia is attending Boston University. Christina reports that Roger Griswold’s beloved father-in-law, Robert Fairchild, passed away. Many Skiddies attended the wake to support Roger, wife Stephanie, and children Olivia, Caroline, and Roger Jr.

Though Melissa Moffatt Ferrara is still recovering from a total hip replacement, she was able to travel to Arizona to throw a party for her dad’s 90th birthday this past spring. Melissa says she had a wonderful time at our 25th reunion and is looking forward to our 30th.

Renee Gusman Mack recently celebrated the bar mitzvah of her youngest son and is in the process of looking for colleges for her older son, an eleventh-grader. Renee is a case manager at Bryn Mawr Rehab Hospital, working with individuals with spinal-cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, and amputations, among other diagnoses.

Michael Zwillman reports that life is “all fun and games” in the neurosurgical intensive care unit at Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX.

Dana Thrush Foote spent spring break ski racing with son Dustin in Vail, CO, where they qualified for the Nastar Na­tionals race. Dana was not able to compete, however, after falling off a jump and blowing out her knee. When not racing, Dana spends her time volunteering at Grace Church School in Manhattan, attended by daughter Lucy, who is in seventh grade, and formerly by son Dustin, who started high school at the Poly Prep Country Day school this fall.

Sue Lane Bandanza keeps in touch with fellow Skiddies via Facebook. She’s been able to share pictures and learn about kids, trips, jobs, and much more with Christine Bielak Bailey, Cindy Wallack Scott, Ellen Bowron Waterfall, Amanda Jacobs, Vinny Catalano, and Mary Fay.

I am very pleased to report that our son Jason is entering New York University this fall. Although it is far from California, it feels like he’s “coming home,” since both my husband and I are originally from New York! Our daughter Danielle is attending Sonoma State University. We have our son Ryan, 12, at home and also a recent addition to the family—a very sweet pug-mix puppy named Mia.