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Noreen P. Reilly
noreen.reilly@verizon.net

Estelle Gibeley Colgan and husband Robert live in South Brookline, MA, with sons Garrett, 14, and Andrew, 12. Daughter Mackenzie is a freshman at Fairfield University. For 14 years Estelle has owned and operated Kenzie Kids, a children’s clothing store at Chestnut Hill Mall. Estelle has twice returned to Skidmore to speak to business students at the request of professor Betty Balevic. Estelle enjoys telling her story and loves seeing Betty—who, Estelle reports, “has the same enthusiasm and energy level she had when I was her student!”

Roger LaMay, general manager of WXPN (the University of Pennsylvania public music station) and producer of the nationally syndicated World Café, is a lecturer at Penn. He lives with his daughter and one of his two sons in the East Falls section of Philadelphia. He can be reached at roger@dca.net.

Since 1978 Susan Keller Mouckley has been living in Toronto, Ontario, with husband Jeff. Son Ben, 25, is a graduate of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and is pursuing an international MBA in Barcelona, Spain. Daughter Bess completed her second year at Dalhousie, majoring in Spanish and music. Her release of Silent Night last Christmas, with Universal Music, “went gold” and is accessible at www.bessjames.com.

Susan Luthy continues with organizational development work for BD, a Fortune 500 medical-technologies company. Son Nick, 22, graduated from Savannah College of Art and Design with a major in illustration, and Dylan, 20, attends the University of Hartford, majoring in communications and playing rugby. Both boys spent spring break in London. Susan lives in Ridgewood, NJ, and would love to hear from old friends smluthy@aol.com.

Peg O’Higgins Boyers has new poems appearing in the Harvard Review, Daedalus, and Paris Review; eventually those poems will appear with other new works in a book to be published by the University of Chicago Press. She recently completed a residency at Civitella Ranieri, a writers’ colony in Italy.

Pat Robinson lives with husband Henry Finch in Waban, MA, where they have spent the past 20 years engaged in almost-nonstop renovation projects. P.R. has her own graphic-design firm and says she “would be happy to assist fellow alums in need of high-quality graphic-design services.” Son Kelton finished his junior year at Newton South High School, runs varsity cross-country and track, and excels at computer animation. Son Ben, also an avid runner, will enter ninth grade this fall. P.R. and family hosted an exchange student from Beijing last year; she says, “It was nice to have another female in the house!”

Susie Thompson McNamee is living in Rye, NY, with son Simon, who’s enjoying being a teenager.

Sue Derby Clayton’s daughter Kate graduated from Villanova University. Son Patrick graduated last year from Assumption College and is doing well in his first job.

Ann Hale is substitute teaching, the closest she’s come to practicing that profession in 30 years. After 13 years at Vox Medica in Philadelphia, Ann lost her job as director of production and media two years ago. She and her husband of 20 years, Bob Brock, live in Collingswood, NJ.

In April Amy Dean was appointed assistant VP for communications at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. A 30-year veteran of the marketing and communications field, she was formerly editor of WPI’s alumni magazine, Transformations. She has also published 12 best-selling nonfiction books and founded her own company, Dean Marketing and Communication, in 1984.