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1985

Cindy Pendleton
cindyp1@charter.net

For the past 18 years Martha Seidner has been working in the brand and package design field at Smith Design, located in Glen Ridge, NJ, and Carmel, CA. She has also become a partner in a premium chocolates venture launched this past spring with a Paris-trained chef-chocolatier and patissier. Antonie Amrani Chocolates opened a factory and store outside Philadelphia and will also be distributing their product at Dean & Deluca’s Madison Avenue, Soho, and Washington, DC, stores as well as on AntoineAmrani.com. But Martha’s most exciting news is that daughter Sydney Gelber ’13 is a Skidmore freshman. Martha says she wishes she could go back to Skidmore too (as a freshman).

Norwood Creech’s artwork was selected for inclusion in the Artists of Arkansas Calendar by the state’s First Lady, Ginger Beebe. One of Norwood’s pieces is also exhibited in the offices of State Senator Mark Pryor.

Lou Iuppa and his dog Brooke live in Wake Forest, NC, where he is VP of business development for XyEnterprise Inc., a firm that represents content management, publishing, and interactive content-delivery technologies. After seeing the movie Wild Hogs 2 several years ago, he bought a Harley Davidson Road King Classic and promptly took a 5,518-mile trip to the Grand Canyon and back. Ever since then, he has taken a summer tour with a group of riders who call themselves the Mild Hogs2 (www.mildhogbikers.com), most recently touring the Great Lakes.

Karen Geary Budde has a small handbag business, Budde Bags, that allows her to be very creative and stay very busy from August through December, when she exhibits at shows. Although she sells mostly through word of mouth and high-end craft shows, Karen will soon have a Web site up and running. Her eldest daughter, Nina, is on the college search circuit, and the road trips bring back memories of Skidmore.

Tara Swinchatt (taranoel17@yahoo.com) lives in Canaan, NY, on 10 acres complete with a swimming pond. She is a massage therapist at Cranwell Golf Club, Resort and Spa in Lenox, MA, and at Kripalu, the “mother ship” of yoga in Stockbridge. Tara continues running marathons and this summer participated in her seventh New England Classic, a 550-mile fundraising ride for the American Diabetes Association. Tara says it is a cause close to her heart—an uncle and several friends were diagnosed with the disease within the last few years. She welcomes hearing from classmates.

Laura Iannacone Fowler has lived in North Carolina—most recently in Raleigh. She has been an eighth-grade public-school mathematics teacher. She is married and has two sons: Russell, 16, and Matt, 13, as well as two dogs, Coco and Pepper. Laura will be starting a master’s in mathematics education at North Carolina University and plans to teach high school math. Her husband has worked for IBM for more than 30 years.

Carrie Grady now has a third canine family member, a Swiss mountain dog Bailey, who keeps her and two 11-year-old dogs “on our toes.” The new addition is sweet but a handful. Carrie says that the other dogs are slowly adjusting.

I am living in central Massachusetts with my husband, Bill Cronin, of Cronin Cabinets (a family custom-cabinet business), my children Braman, 7, and Kenerson, 4, and Callie, our dog. I am an academic advisor at the local community college.