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1967

Chris Filbin Hoffman
choffman04@starband.net

Make your plans now for our milestone 40th reunion, May 31–June 3. To visit the Class of ’67
Web site, start at www.skidmore.edu and click the alumni tab at the top of the page. You can find out who is registered to attend Reunion, as well as our schedule of events.

Mary Whitaker Taber and classmates held a mini-reunion in Denver, CO, over Labor Day weekend to celebrate the wedding of Betsy Boschen Lutz’s son. Nancy Apthorp Paterson, Bryn Peters Madden, and Sandy Colony (her old college and Boston roommate) enjoyed a secluded 36 hours prior to the wedding festivities in Betsy and Jack’s mountain condo in Silverthorne, where they caught up on each other’s lives. They then spent two days in Denver celebrating with the wedding crowd. “It was too much fun!” Mary reports that all are happily looking forward to Reunion this spring and invites all to join them.

Rita Camera Johnson is deputy director of development administration at Dartmouth College. Rita sent me a wonderful photograph of herself, Earline Furber Rubel (also married to a Dartmouth man), and Susan Weil Reynolds. The trio got together last summer on Cape Cod. Check it out on our Class of ’67 web page.

Linda Nard Leedberg and husband Stan took a trip to Chile and Argentina in November. They found themselves on the southernmost part of Route 40 in the Patagonia region but never thought to take a photo. Later in the trip, Stan spotted a poster of the area, and in lieu of the missed “live” opportunity, Linda agreed to stand on a chair and point to the poster. According to a guide book, Route 40 “enjoys semi-mythic status” in Argentina because it passes through many places that are “wild, beautiful, and damned”—which Linda says “is appropriate for the Class of ’67.”

Carol Ciccone Gardner is director of alumni programs and giving at NYU. She and husband Gerry are beaming with pleasure at the birth of their first grandchild, Peter, in November. “Seeing him on the second day of his life was a pre-Thanksgiving blessing!” she says. Just one month later Peter and his parents moved from San Francisco to Los Angeles. The Gardners visited them during the Christmas holidays.

Jill Sneve Patch is terribly proud of children Susan, 25, and Steve, 22. Susan is an animal trainer
at the San Diego Zoo, a job she has worked toward since high school. Steve, a US Coast Guard aviation technician stationed at USCG Air Station Port Washington on the Olympic Peninsula, repairs and maintains the electrical systems on three helicopters and is qualifying as a flight-crew member. Jill, who is “semi-retired but almost always busy,” visited Venice and Rome this past fall. She says, “I am up to my eyeballs” in home-improvement projects. She is also involved with laboratory work, AAUW activities, two book groups, and a movie-goers group, and edits a newsletter.

Andrea Peterson Mauro and husband are co-authoring a book on technological forces changing the landscape of the business world. Son Addison, a high-school sophomore, auditioned for the Mannes College Saturday precollege music program last spring and was accepted in the fall. He is performing piano and flute solos and chamber group recitals. Daughter Chloe is completing her second year at Davidson College and has worked for several summers at prestigious NYC architecture firms.

Bev Harrison Miller stays in touch with college-related projects, including Marie Glotzbach’s sponsorship of “Skidmore Cares,” where students joined forces with their Union College counterparts to collect items (twice their goal, in fact) for area food banks for the holidays.

Margo Sweet enjoys her work in development at Brandeis University, where she edits the campaign newsletter and alumni magazine. Over the holidays, Margo had dinner with Marion Thomas Manning and her husband, who were visiting their daughter. Margo and Marion, who had not seen each other in 10 years, had a wonderful time reminiscing and catching up. Margo plans to attend Reunion.

Susan Gottlieb Beckerman sends her best and looks forward to seeing you all in June!