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1965

Toby Weisberg Rubenstein
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Judi Sambrook Bunker retired from teaching autistic children but works part-time as a consultant in her former school. She also volunteer-teaches African refugee children and is an advocate for parents with special-needs children via the Learning Disabilities Association of Connecticut. She is a full-time grandmother of nine children, ages 3 months to 15 years. She enjoys yoga, exercising, and traveling with Roger, a special-education and children’s lawyer.

Sue Steele Isbell and Bob had their 10th grandchild in November; their youngest daughter in Nashville now has three boys and a girl.

Nan Whitcomb Lipton and Rorry Pond Zahourek celebrated birthdays together again in western Massachusetts. They have been friends since grade school and enjoy being close enough to stay in contact. Rorry has been appointed research coordinator on the leadership council of the American Holistic Nurses Association.

Julie Sparks Parmegiani is on the Skidmore nominating committee that selects candidates for several alumni board positions; she finds it very interesting and rewarding. Julie is VP of the board at Marriott’s Ocean Pointe on Singer Island in Florida, where she and Bob spend 10 weeks each winter. She’d love to hear from Skidmore friends in the area.

Doris Kanegis changed her legal American name to her Hebrew name: Dvora. An art major at Skidmore she has had the good fortune to earn her living as an artist most of her life. She sells paintings in galleries and on her Web site: www.TangoArtist.com. She and a friend designed a
line of nonpierced earrings, which they make by hand and sell at www.lisadora.com. Dvora loves working creatively on her Mac. She has been a tango dancer for over 10 years and spent a month dancing in Buenos Aires last fall. (The new man in her life is a wonderful tango dancer.) The dances inspire her paintings. She has lived in Boulder, CO, for more than 30 years. Daughter Nicole, husband Harry, and their children Ethan, 5, and Deidre, 4, live a few hours away. They
are busy building a house off the grid. Dvora invites classmates traveling to Boulder to look her up.

Marge Orton Hanselman and husband David still run the family cottages in the Northwoods of Wisconsin (68 years in the same family). Daughter Erika is at OSU in Oregon, and son Dana works for NOAA in Junea, AK; the Hanselmans drive to the West Coast often to see them and the area. When home, Marge still rides Hobbs, her thoroughbred, and is a member of a “mature” women’s quadrille squad who perform in the summer and fall. “That, yoga, and volunteer activities keep me off the street,” she says, adding that she would love to hear from classmates in her area.

Judith Testa teaches a course at Northern Illinois University. She sent me a flyer on her book Sal Maglie, Baseball’s Demon Barber (see “Books” in this issue). Judith stays in touch with Tina Garber Olsen, an art therapist, painter, and improvisatory dancer. Tina has four grandchildren.

Emily Gilman Hayden and husband John live in Wilbraham, MA. Their oldest son is an Iraq vet and Army JAG officer at Fort Polk, LA, along with wife Melissa and their four children, ages 4 to 8. The Haydens’ younger son works in the family Thermal Spray business and recently founded his own new venture, Hayden Laser Services (laser cladding of machine parts). Emily does volunteer work with Action Centered Tutoring Services for elementary-school kids in inner-city Springfield.

Pamela Ghents Ness of Pawleys Island, SC, is a commercial and residential fee appraiser and serves on the boards of statewide realtors’ and appraiser’s associations. She is a member of the parish council for her church. Husband Hal is busy with the South Carolina chapter of US Lacrosse and the South Carolina Lacrosse League. When not working and volunteering, they enjoy visits with seven children and eight grandchildren from San Diego to Lake Peekskill, NY.

Maxine Silton Goldberg and husband Jay went on an 18-day bicycle trip through Vietnam over the Christmas holiday. She says it was an amazing experience and made the not-too-distant history of the Vietnam War come alive. If anyone is planning a trip, please call or e-mail so she can give some helpful tips.

My newest grandchild, Benjamin, of Glenview, IL, was born in January. I made a presentation to the OWCP Litigation Work Group at the LRP Disability and Workers’ Compensation Conference in Las Vegas in November. While there, I saw Nancy Brennan ’72, VP of product development and marketing for Specialty Risk Services in Hartford, CT. I am active in the National Association of Active and Retired Federal Employees and continue with my consulting practice on workers’ compensation for federal employees and postal workers.