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Turning 50, says Cate Beckstein, is “interesting to say the least.” On leave from United Airlines, she’s gone back to school to get an associate’s degree in nuclear medicine technology—“a far cry from English at Skidmore.” She enjoys school, but misses flying. Daughter Carolyn is a freshman at University of Maine. Son Greg is a junior at UVM. Cate talks to Marcy Hirschfeld Lockwood Raines all the time. Marcy’s daughter Alex is at NYU and loves it.

Kathy Jane Keljik married Elliott Morss in 2001.

Bess Gordon Meade was ordained in the Episcopal Church in 2002. Married to Gary for 22 years, she has two sons: Andy, a sophomore at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Alec, a high-school junior. Bess and her family live in Geneva, IL.

Susan Luthy is senior business partner for worldwide finance and IT at Becton Dickinson in Franklin Lakes, NJ—“a terrific company and a wonderful job” that she has enjoyed for 13 years. Son Nick, 21, attends Savannah College of Art and Design, majoring in illustration. Son Dylan is a film major at the University of Hartford. Dylan and Susan recently returned from a week in Ireland (where she learned that mothers shouldn’t accompany 19-year-olds on spring break).

To celebrate turning 50, Kim Hotchkiss Hewitt and Libby Relihan Porter toured Italy last summer. It was the hottest summer there in years, but they had a gas. The Cinque Terre was their favorite. Kim graduated from UVM in May with a master’s in special education and a concentration in consulting. She’ll continue teaching after her youngest graduates from high school.

Merry Jo Oursler left the University of Minnesota to teach medicine at the Mayo Clinic and Foundation in the College of Medicine. Her research is focused on the biology of pathological bone loss in osteoporosis and metastatic cancer.

Linda Tousey Kraemer and husband Scott celebrated their 50th birthdays and their 25th anniversary. Daughter Lynsey graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Binghamton University and will attend Boston University for her master’s in teaching this fall. Miles is a freshman at Northeastern. Sam, 14, is active in sports and enters high school next year. Linda continues “challenging and rewarding” work as a school social worker for the Syracuse City School District. She sees Diane Ferrari when she’s in Boston and has also connected with Sue Whitman Diehl and Sue Hollister. Linda helped celebrate Kristina Lindberg Myers’s 50th birthday on the Cape, together with Melinda Stein. She feels blessed with all that 50 years has brought her.

After 30 years living abroad, Christine “Jelly Bean” Gram Croarkin now lives in New Canaan, CT, and sent this info: After earning a graduate degree in French from Middlebury, she married and accompanied her husband to Sudan, Egypt, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, England, Canada, Greece, and Latin America. The couple has two kids, Christopher and Jenna-Louise, who are almost ready for college.

Anne Vey, while reminiscing about some of the highlights of her experience at Skidmore, says she was “fascinated” by the 25th-reunion questionnaire compilation book.

Sherie Berk has been named sales director for the Floridian, a 33-story luxury rental property overlooking Biscayne Bay, downtown Miami, the port, and South Beach. Her job will be to convert it to 334 condominiums as soon as possible. She recently completed a successful conversion at Village by the Bay, a 374-unit development in Aventura, for the same Chicago-based developer.

Our condolences to Lucy Noonan, who lost her father in October 2002. I attended his memorial service. Lucy reports that her mom, Martha Larkin Noonan ’44, has been keeping busy and flewto Paris last May. Lucy, who attended Martha’s 60th reunion this summer, will return to campus to meet Andy Burling and others, to begin planning for our 30th reunion next year.