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1983

Lilly Jaray Ostrove
DanJasRy@Astound.net

I am so excited to be back as our class secretary! Preparations are already underway for our 25th reunion in 2008. Bill Ladd, the alumni board’s reunion chair, has big plans. We are all looking for record attendance—so start making plans to come!

Vinny Catalano and his colleagues on the alumni board have been working to make Skidmore’s Career Services more responsive to the needs of alumni. For information, visit www.skidmore.edu/administration/career/alum.htm.

After taking time off to be a full-time dad, Jonathan Perkin returned to the workforce as managing director of Siebert Capital Markets last September. Daughter Gabrielle is 2, and her brother Gavin is 1.

Elizabeth Kemp Rose welcomed a new addition to her family on December 16: Henry joins brother Robert, 6.

Linda Borish received a $3,500 grant from the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute to chronicle the history of American Jewish women in sports. “Not Merely Confined to the Gymnasium: Jewish Women in American Sport” was selected from among more than 90 research proposals and will culminate in the publication of a book. Linda is an associate professor of history at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo.

Tracy Stanier McCarty has opened a new tack shop near Youngstown, OH; she invites horse lovers to check out the shop online at www.allforthehorse.com.

Studio art major Doug Hartnett hasn’t done ceramics for a while. (“Most of my artistic expression is in performance arts: I’ve been singing in a band for 17 years.”) However, he recently visited a national park near his home in Maryland with his five-year-old son. “There’s a ceramics studio there, and Cole was fascinated by a throwing demonstration. When we got home he immediately crawled under our deck and dug up enough mud to make three pinch pots…so maybe he will draw me back in!” For more about Doug, see “People & Projects.”

As for me, life is crazy and wonderful with teenagers Danielle, 15, and Jason, 14; a very active 8-year-old, Ryan; a great husband; and a large chocolate Lab! I am hoping that at least one of my kids will want to attend Skidmore.