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1990

Tammy Blake
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David Abroms and wife Margaret welcomed daughter Isabella to their family. She joins brother Nathaniel, 3. The family lives in Los Angeles, CA.

Christopher Bene and wife Michelle DeMonte moved to Japan from Vienna, Austria. The well-traveled clan—including Robert, 10, Sarah, 9, and Anna, 6—has lived in California, Connecticut, and Germany. Michelle earned a master’s in international relations in 1992 from Webster University in Vienna. She has worked for the United Nations IAEA and Drug Control Program, and co-authored a paper on biodiversity. Since graduating from NYU Stern School of Business with an MBA in 1994, Chris has worked for General Electric’s consumer finance and insurance divisions. He is now chief operating officer for the company’s credit card operations.

Betsy Corvene made the trek from St. Thomas, USVI, to NYC to run in her third consecutive New York Marathon. There she spent time with Nicole Hosler Twells and T. Rodney Twells, who also ran in the race. Before leaving the Big Apple, Betsy saw Lisa Hollenberg Rowan and met her husband and two children; she had not seen Lisa in over 12 years. While dining together, the classmates phoned Laurie Maher, who lives in Boston and is doing well.

Hilary Halstead Johnston lives in Boston with husband Jeff and daughter Cali, 4. She works part-time as director of client relations for Bright Horizons, a worksite child-care provider. Last October she joined Sylva Yeghiayan, Serena Loudon Skiffington, Kristen Magers Benefick, Sara Tague Fox, and Liz Simmons Schupler for a girls’ weekend at Sylva’s Cape Cod house. They talked nonstop about their combined 18 children, successful careers representing many disciplines, and, of course, many Skidmore memories.

Michal Klau-Stevens and husband Greg Stevens recently celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary. They and children Zachary, 6, and Eli, 2, are settling nicely into their new house in West Hartford, CT. Michal still keeps in touch via e-mail with Heather Griffioen-Young, a scientific researcher in the Netherlands, and sees Amy Rotheim Sullivan, an administrator at Yeshiva University, on her jaunts to NYC.

Regina Corso is a campaign research consultant and pollster for Vox Populi Communications in NYC.

Ann-Marie Long has moved into a new house in Alpharetta, GA. She’s heard from Cathy Browning Burch, who moved from San Francisco, CA, back to Greenwich, CT, where she practices law.

Mike SanClemente and wife Katarina enjoy life in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mike works in category management for ConAgra Foods and started a Web site for baseball nerds at www.stratogists.com. He and Oakland, CA, resident Randy Edgar watched the Red Sox sweep the Cardinals on Mike’s 36th birthday, exactly 18 years to the day that the Mets beat the Sox during freshmen year at Skidmore.

Jonathan Chiat lives in Ashburn, VA, with wife Sharon and daughters Sydney, 5, and Carly, 2. He is a manager at Morgan Franklin Corporation.

Christina Snyder Doelling and husband Dan welcomed first child Jackson in November. The family lives in Atlanta, GA, where all are doing well and learning to function on little sleep. As soon as she’s able, Christina plans to continue with her painting. Her work is currently shown in about 10 galleries on the East Coast (see christinadoelling.com for details). In addition, she continues teaching several art direction classes at the Creative Circus, a two-year advertising school in Atlanta.

Becky Mowbray is a reporter for the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Jon Torizzo and wife Chris Leka Torizzo ’93 live in Boulder, CO. Jon is an air-quality scientist with an environmental consulting firm in Denver, and Chris is completing a master’s in public health at the University of Northern Colorado.

Stu Zicherman, a freelance writer for Warner Brothers in NYC, and colleague Raven Metzner are celebrating having their first screenplay make it to the big screen: Elektra, starring Jennifer Garner.

Michele Califano and Joseph Sylvester were married July 17. Michele Forté was maid of honor; Lynn Seremet Murray and Cathy Browning Burch were bridesmaids. The newlyweds live in the NYC area.

Jennifer Nicholson Grigsby and Brett Grigsby ’92 live in Morristown, NJ, with daughters Zoe, 3, and Mia, 2.

Wilson Kimball survived the tsunami on December 26. She was in Sri Lanka with husband Murad Raheem and his family, for a family reunion and to distribute wheelchairs on behalf of a charitable foundation. Shortly after they arrived at a seaside hotel in Wadduwa, south of Colombo, a wave hit, sending water “through the building and out the other side of the hotel”; when it receded, it carried away furniture. Says Wilson, “We had no idea that the same thing was happening in Indonesia, Thailand, the Maldives, India, or Somalia. In the following days we gave away our clothes, our toiletries, and our money. We gave as much as we could give, but it seemed so small compared to the rising death toll. I’m not sure I will ever really be able to accept that so many people died while I walked away.” Now back in the US, Wilson continues helping to raise money for housing, water, clothes, and medicine for the tsunami’s less fortunate survivors.

Attorney Katherine Roberts Knox has joined Bernstein, Shur, Sawyer & Nelson. In the law firm’s Portland, ME, office, she handles municipal law, governmental relations, and lobbying. A longtime political and social advocate, she is chair of ewomen!, an organization that trains women to become legislative leaders. Katherine has also served in top elected positions with the Maine chapter of the National Association of Social Workers and was named Maine Social Worker of the Year in 1997. She received a JD from the University of Maine School of Law in 2004 and a master’s in social work in 1993 from the University of Maine in Orono.