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1971

Lise Bang-Jensen
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Nicole Visconsi Mawby competes in amateur ballroom dancing in her hometown of Cleveland, OH, and around the country. She also creates and sells glass beads and jewelry. Daughter Ida was married last June, son Tony recently became a stock broker, daughter Tommie lives and works in Vail, CO, and daughter Claire attends the University of Denver. Nicole’s husband, Tom, is happily retired and enjoying golf.

School principal Martha Starr, who always dreamed of being a professional artist, exhibited her paintings in Hopkinton, MA, in January. She was also a guest speaker for the Women’s Art Forum, which encouraged her to continue making art.

Reminders of Skidmore grace the walls of Shelley Waxman’s home and office in Washington, DC. A visitor was taken with a woodcut of motorcycles that Laurel Shipman had done at Skidmore and wanted a copy. “I also have in my office (at Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, a bureau of the Treasury Department), the silkscreen of the American flag and fist that Cay Rowan had done during the Vietnam opposition. It is certainly timely. Art and politics have turned out to be a big part of my life,” she writes. “I’m going to Morocco in April; if I decide not to ride off into the desert, I’ll see everyone in June.”

In Vermont Martha Rowley bought a house a half mile down the road from her other residence. In the winter Florida beckons; her parents retired to North Naples.

Diana Landau is a freelance writer and editor in San Francisco.

In Banda Aceh, Indonesia, Barbara Bull Riester is working with Red Cross tsunami-relief efforts. She hopes to travel halfway around the world to attend Reunion in June.