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1967

Chris Filbin Hoffman
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Lorraine Rorke Bader still teaches and works in admissions at the French-American International School in San Francisco. “As much as I enjoy the children and my colleagues, I really yearn for more personal time,” she says. Next year she will work in admissions half-time. Husband Lani, too, is reducing his work load by leaving his law-school teaching post to focus on his arbitration practice. Son Tony is a sophomore at UC-Davis, studying electrical engineering. Daughter Linden returned to San Francisco after working in New York and traveling.

Logan Parry Hottle and Will launched into retirement by building a house themselves on the Chesapeake; they’re building another in Leadville, CO. They sail in the spring and fall and ski in the winter. “Someone has to do it,” she quips.

In February Judy Ritter had a great evening with Susan Gottlieb Beckerman when Susan came to Montreal for a conference. Judy lives in Montreal for six months of the year and spends the remainder in Winthrop, MA, where she grew up. She welcomes visitors in either location. She still writes and produces radio programming for American Public Media’s Marketplace. Recently, when on the small Caribbean island of Curacao near Aruba listening to the local dialect, Papiemento, she remembered her old friend Bub Byington who lived in Aruba. Judy and daughter Devorah will start training soon to run a September half-marathon in Virginia Beach. “It’s pretty clear who will be breathless,” Judy says. Look for her stories about Aruba online, written for the National Post in Canada and for the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong, or at her Web site www.judithritter.com.

Mary Whitaker Taber visited Bryn Peters Madden last fall to celebrate their 60th birthdays. All the “bumps, richness, turns, and surprises…make it quite a number to swallow,” says Mary. She also saw Sandy Colony, who “looks great and is enjoying life in NYC.” Mary works at a pastoral counseling agency; she loves combining social work and spirituality. In April she traveled to Santa Fe, NM, for an international conference on “Science and Consciousness.” She enjoys visiting her three children and her 95-year-old father, who lives independently in a retirement community in Providence, RI.

With sadness I report the news of Ruth Wildman Maynard’s passing in March. She was diagnosed with lung cancer a year before. Memorial contributions may be made in Ruth’s memory to the Skidmore College Advancement Office, for the Ann Wildman Scholarship Fund, which she endowed many years ago in honor of her mother. Ruth’s employer, Fitch Ratings, held a memorial service in New York in April. Chris Wilsey Goodwin, Mimi Barker, Susan Beckerman, Liz Fishman, and Carol Ciccone Gardner attended. Mimi spoke warmly about the Skidmore connection in Ruth’s life. Other longtime friends and colleagues talked about her dedication and impact on the municipal financing ratings industry, as well as her love of driving fast in her beloved Mercedes.

Carol Gardner, Bev Harrison Miller, and Izzie Maccracken Winn all commented on how sobering it has felt to learn of the early passing of classmates like Ruth, and Chrissy Kauffman, over the past year. At the same time, we are lucky enough to experience the joyful side of life. Izzie and Mike had just returned from a trip to Wisconsin to celebrate the first birthday of their granddaughter.

I encourage all of you to begin planning to attend our 40th reunion in 2007. Also, check our class page at www.skidmore.edu for photos, links, and services available to alumnae.