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1974

Reggie Carbon Tihan
rctihane@comcast.net

Sincere thanks and appreciation to Beth Chiquoine for her terrific job keeping us in touch with one another over the last five years.

Ellen Brickman recently moved from rural Otsego County, NY, to a cottage in Albany, and would love to hear from classmates in the area. An avid perennial gardener, she is becoming an expert in home remodeling. Son Noah is a freshman at Alfred University School of Art and Design.

Valerie Burns Winningham moved to Naples, FL, and is reveling in the great weather, wonderful people, and new friends (wonders why she didn’t move there sooner). In the fall she and Denise Marcil took a road trip to Erin McHugh’s home in South Dartmouth, MA. She took them sightseeing from dawn to dusk, visiting everything from the New Bedford Whaling Museum to the church that Melville referred to in Moby Dick. Sally Cary Lemelin joined them (twin Martha Cary Shuster was enjoying Ireland with husband Steve), for lots of reminiscing and planning for future gatherings.

Erin McHugh has sold a five-book series of what she calls “small obscuralia”: little-known weird facts collectively called “The 5 W’s” (Who, What, When, Where and Why). All five volumes will be in bookstores this September—so no holiday gift-buying until you check them out!

Emily Pavlovic Chiles, Margo Peter Geddie, Susan Barry, and Judith McCandless Williams were spotted at a Skidmore club event in Houston last fall. Also, Claire Simonelli visited Emily, and they went out with Judith for Mexican food.

Susan Andrews O’Brien enjoys the fact that daughter Taylor ’07 gives her another reason to visit Saratoga. An education major, Taylor is amazed by Skidmore’s wonderful and supportive faculty and fabulous art courses. Son Doug is a senior at Trinity College, majoring in history and playing intramural sports. For fun, Susan works at Old Navy, creates and sells jewelry, and paints in oils. She and husband Emmet live in the picturesque seashore town of Cohasset, MA. Susan loved attending her first reunion last June and had a wonderful time with Kay Taft Timmerman, Teri Ceraso, Donna Levine Katzenstein, and Estelle Gibeley Colgan.

On August 17, at sunrise on a beach in Hatteras, NC, Janice Greenberg married Jamie Ellinwood (whom many of us were lucky enough to meet during Reunion). Recently she met Jana Dabrowski Fay for lunch and reports that she is as vibrant as ever and still serving as C-SPAN’s financial officer.

Leslie Hobbs Satin and husband Ken visited Boston (during its earliest snowfall in 18 years) to tour the sights with daughter Whitney, a Harvard junior. Son Peter is preparing for the SATs. Leslie is documents manager for a research consortium at UC-San Francisco, and also finds time for Odyssey of the Mind and Gifted and Talented Education.

Arlene Goldberg Thrope missed Reunion but participated in Skidmore’s Summer Exploration Program in August. Still playing classical piano, she performs at various nonprofit events in Westport, CT. She also mentors a 10-year-old boy and serves on the boards of several local community groups. Arlene sees Debra Silberstein regularly and had lunch with Amy Essenfeld Doliner and her mother. The Thropes’ older son is a freshman at Yale; the other is a high-school junior. Husband David still commutes to NYC, where he is a partner in an accounting firm.

In her latest project, Winnie Wan is the founding CEO of Fortebio Inc., a biotech start-up company founded in May 2004. Winnie’s daughter is a high-school senior, applying to colleges on the East Coast. Husband Stefan Lai travels extensively in his position as Intel’s VP of development of flash memory.

I have the pleasure of including Winnie Wan, Leslie Satin, and Cynthia Ai-Embry ’64 among my Skidmore friends in the San Francisco area. My husband, Tarik, (an associate professor of neuropathology at UCSF) and I also enjoy visiting with close friends Marylyn Modny Gregory ’76 and husband Ed whenever we can. Meanwhile, I have been busy in data management and volunteer coordination for the JASON Expedition at NASA-Ames Research Center.