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1964

Bonnie Allen Shertenlieb
bonnieshert@dmv.com

Lindsay Knowlton and her husband go back and forth between their Vermont home and a place on the Maine coast. Somehow she’s found time to pen a book of poetry, Earthly Freight, which was released in January. The book can be ordered from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Lindsay directly at lknowvt@earthlink.net.

Molly Brister Haley and her husband hosted the entire clan for a week at Christmas, including a year-old granddaughter and 4-year-old grandson. Molly’s children convinced her to get out her ice skates after 40 years. “Phew!” she says.

Abby Arnt Rueb wrote in to set the record straight: She lives on Orcas Island, in the San Juan Islands north and west of Seattle, WA, not in Seattle, as previously reported. She works at the Four Winds Westward Ho Camp as registrar, office manager, and “administrative whatever.” She loves her job there—a beautiful place that draws campers from all over the world. She can’t make this year’s reunion but promises to retire in time to join us for our 50th.

Alice Hammond Soininen enjoyed a five-week trip to Florida and the Bahamas late last fall, returning home to Sutton, VT, to five inches of snow and sub-zero temperatures. While in Florida she contacted Ann Wilson Rousseau, having discovered that 411.com is good for that! They spent an enjoyable afternoon catching up.

En route from Connecticut to their Florida home in November, Nancy Harrison and her husband, Ray Nord, stopped in Chapel Hill, NC, for a reunion with Carol Spiegel Hadler and her husband, Nortin. He teaches at the university, and Carol has a therapy practice. Junior-year roommates, Carol and Nancy hadn’t seen each other in 20 years! They had a fantastic evening, reminiscing and sharing life stories and lots of laughter. Now “mostly retired,” Nancy volunteers at the library and helps out women entrepreneurs. She’s hoping to meet more Skidmore friends in the Naples, FL, area now that she spends more time there each year.

Nancy Selib Brown lives in Minneapolis, MN, where she is semi-retired from a career in qualitative marketing research. She facilitates worksite programs to help people stop smoking and is a member of the Minnesota Interfaith Darfur Coalition, a group of local synagogues, churches, and human rights and social justice organizations that work to end the genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan. In her spare time Nancy tutors elementary-school children and hangs out with her two grandchildren. She reviews movies for the Twin Cities Jewish Film Festival and helps direct adult education at her synagogue. In addition she travels to Florida every six weeks to oversee the care given her mother, for whom she was appointed guardian since her father passed away last April.

Communications professor Linda Fuller has authored two new books, African Women’s Unique Vulnerabilities to HIV/AIDS: Communication Perspectives and Promises and Sportscasters/Sportscasting: Principles and Practices. A faculty member at Worcester State College and Northeastern University, she received Fulbright grants to Singapore and Senegal. Her other 20-odd books cover chocolate folklore, national holidays, community TV, sport and gender, communications coaching, and other topics. For info, see www.lkfullersport.com.

My husband, Bill, and I put on our traveling shoes and set off for a Baltic cruise last spring, highlighted by an all-too-short visit to St. Petersburg, Russia, to which we are determined to return. In the fall we flew to Venice, Italy, before sailing home with stops in Croatia, Greece, Italy, Spain, the Madeira Islands, and the Bahamas. While Bill is busy with his retirement job interpreting Spanish in courts, I am in my 29th year as a senior tax advisor with H&R Block.