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1967

Chris Filbin Hoffman
choffman04@starband.net

Susan Gottlieb Beckerman and Chris Wilsey Goodwin will continue organizing a series of NYC-area mini-reunions, a tradition that began prior to our 35th reunion. This year’s event includes an invitation list of 40 to participate in a “classical New York evening of takeout food and schmoozing.”

Formerly executive assistant to the dean of the law school at NYU, Carol Ciccone Gardner was promoted to director of alumnae programs and giving. The position includes the establishment of a women’s initiative for all alumnae of all NYU’s schools, institutes, and departments. Carol is eager to reengage with “a group of incredibly accomplished women in all professions and vocations who have amazing stories to tell and achievements to share.”

Alberta Lappano Uhran is sharing the trauma of college tours, applications, acceptance, and rejection with Andrea Peterson Mauro—both of whom have daughters in this process. Andrea and family ski-vacationed in the West in February and were planning a trip to Italy this summer.

Logan Parry Hottle and husband Will trek back and forth between Annapolis, MD, and Leadville, CO, where they are building a home on the South River. Logan looks forward to welcoming visitors after construction is complete. She lost her beloved little Cairn terrier last December.

In Concord, MA, Beverly Harrison Miller was glad to get her “fingers in the soil again” in her garden. Son Noah works for a North Carolina nonprofit that is bringing wireless Internet to businesses in Appalachia, and daughter Brooke ’99 continues to “slog on through her PhD, though the end is in sight!” Bev and Wayne will return to Skidmore in August for Summer Exploration—a week of intellectual stimulation, racing, the symphony, and the Harlem Boys Choir. They will then fly to France for two weeks in September.

Pamela Miller and her son, a high-school junior, are “gearing up for college visits in Boston, NYC, and Chicago.” Pam is busy with her psychotherapy practice and attending her son’s twice-weekly baseball games. She and her partner of 12 years did not feel ready to marry, but did participate in the historic celebrations of same-sex marriages this year in San Francisco.

In Virginia Nancy Nims Mullin and husband Mack are recovering from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Isabel. Their son completed his second year at Regent University. Nancy is busy with work for an orthopedic surgeon, golf lessons (she says she’s “bound and determined to improve this year!”), a trip to Florida with her sisters, and volunteer organizing for a major spring house tour in her area. In March, Nancy spoke with Marty Hodgdon Bisbee, who had been skiing near her home in Waitsfield, VT.

Judy Ritter is in the midst of “a normal but profound transition.” Her mother, with whom she and daughter Devorah spent a lot of time, died in December. “Losing a mother is a blow at any age,” she writes. She is considering relocating to her hometown of Boston, and putting her journalism skills to use there. Devorah recently graduated from McGill University Law School and is studying for the Massachusetts bar. She is interested in criminal defense law or legal reporting for television.

After many years of dual careers as school librarian and children’s book author, Pamela Curtis Swallow has retired from the library to write full-time. Her most recent titles are Melvil and Dewey Gone Fishin’, a chapter book featuring the adventures of her library gerbils, and Melvil and Dewey Teach Literacy, an activity guide for librarians and teachers. A humorous nonfiction picture book entitled Groundhog Gets His Say is slated for release in 2005.

Sudee Sanders is busy with house projects. She spent some vacation time with her mother in Hilton Head, SC, and is contemplating a return to graduate school.

Charlotte Babcock Sharp’s daughter Heather ’93 continues teaching third grade in Weston, MA. Her son is still working in technology and does snowmobiling, snowboarding, and mountain biking for fun. Charlotte runs an equestrian facility in Connecticut.

After winter and mud season in Vermont, my family and I enjoyed an April vacation at Bryce and Zion National Parks in Utah, hiking and sightseeing. In May I expanded my business, Hoffman & Associates—which specializes in marketing and business development for educational programming, small business, and nonprofits—to include an enterprise that matches freelancers and technology-based businesses with business opportunities in the Vermont and New Hampshire region.