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Lilly Jaray Ostrove
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Peter Hays’s mother, Janice, died in April. A Skidmore English professor from 1976 to 1980, she spearheaded Writing Across the Curriculum and held a conference on writing as a way of learning. She was also a poet. She retired from the University of Colorado in 1999.

Lisa Fithian calls Austin, TX, home. She continues organizing citizen action around issues of global justice and war, at home and abroad. Lisa most recently was in Scotland protesting the G-8 Summit and helped activist Cindy Sheehan organize a national tour of military families, Iraq War Veterans, Veterans for Peace, and Gold Star Families speaking out against the war in Iraq. Lisa is also involved with the Common Ground Collective’s relief effort in New Orleans.

Ebba-Marie Gendron lives in Los Angeles, CA, with husband Ken Musen and son Gabriel, 7. Ebba-Marie teaches acting and movement at the Sal Romeo Friends and Artists Studio and the Inside Out Community Arts Project, a program serving at-risk kids.

Margo Jackson Jones lives in West Charlton, NY, with husband Craig and daughters Nicole, 15, Ashley, 12, and Rachel, 8. Margo rides horses and teaches exercise classes at the YMCA.

In Pennsylvania Karen Simmons became president and CFO of the Chester County Community Foundation. She motivates families to start endowed charitable funds and helps them make well-informed grants.

NYU’s Broadway Windows featured an exhibit by Brece Honeycutt last spring. Husks, an assortment of cast paper pitchers, represents basins, washtubs, and washboards—vessels from a time “when we carried milk from the barn and water from the well, when plastic throwaway containers did not exist, and when everything had more than one function,” Brece says. “The sculptures serve as records of touch, of use, and of time.”

Lisa Goetze was sorry to read about the death of Prof. Helga Doblin. Lisa says, “She improved my German language skills and was one of the best professors at Skidmore.”

Lori Tsoumakas Stanczyc is a licensed counselor and director of Rocky Hill Youth and Family Services Bureau in Connecticut, where husband Michael is director of safety at Excelecom in Hamden. They have three sons, ages 16, 14, and 9. The family lives in Avon.