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1959

Carolyn Brown Straker
Momstraker@aol.com

I hope some of you were able to see Roe Schainman Halper’s one-woman art show of wonderful colorful acrylics on canvas entitled Acrylic Flora. Roe is now in her 25th year of teaching a Gifted in Art program for high-school students, including her granddaughter. “What fun!” she writes.

In October class officers Bev Sanders Payne, Sheila DeNadal Salvo, Sue Clark Jorgensen, and I had lunch in Saratoga. Later we met with the scholarship students being supported through the funds we raised at our 45th reunion. This is a special way to help educate students who are desirous of an education but do not have the means to pursue it. I, for one, joined Skidmore’s Friends of the Presidents knowing where my money was to be earmarked. (Being an FOP requires a donation of $2,000, which is tax-deductible and comes with many perks such as elegant dinner and cocktail receptions with President and Mrs. Glotzbach in NYC.)

In January Nancy Rae Scully and I hosted a mini-reunion in NYC, with 17 classmates in attendance. We were helped by director of alumni affairs Mike Sposili. A delicious luncheon was held at the Kings Carriage House, owned and run by Liz King Farrell ’81. Among those attending was Joan Cangelosi Kicska, who does ballroom dancing a few times a week. Gloria Craugh Carroll writes, “We all enjoyed seeing one another, talking about life in the dorms on the old campus, and hearing about our lives since Saratoga. I remember Margery Feiler Burman and Gail Wheeler so well; it was such fun seeing them again.” Sandy Bendfeldt drove down from Westchester with Edy Oberfeld Levitt, who lost her husband recently. He had been fighting cancer for the past 10 years. An avid bridge player, Edy travels the country and participates in many tournaments. Maryann Bruno McCrea walked in with Rosalind Sutton Oesterle. Ros is an accomplished artist of watercolors; Maryann owns three of her paintings. Barbara Brownell has retired from teaching
but still tutors on the side. She keeps in touch with Ros and Maryann. Marjorie Goreff Neuwirth enjoyed reconnecting with Carolyn Salminen Konheim; both were history buffs. Everyone agreed that we want to reunite again after the summer.