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1974

Reggie Carbon Tihan
rctihane@comcast.net

Last year was full of milestones for Barbara Drozdowski Galbraith. She and husband Dennis celebrated 30 years together, son Alex completed eighth grade and received an academic scholarship to Creighton Prep, an all-male Jesuit high school in Omaha, NE, and Barbara marked her 23rd year at Schering Plough, where she is a production planner. To celebrate all these events, the family cruised from Vancouver to Alaska in July. Says Barb, “The trip was wonderful, and we are already talking about staying longer next time.”

Patti Brennan’s daughter Laura Sirico ’10 survived her first semester at Skidmore in a triple and her first winter in Saratoga. She spends a lot of her time in the theater, constructing and painting sets, doing stage crew, and ushering. Patti and younger daughter Kathy attended Skidmore’s Junior Admissions Workshop in January. In March, Kathy represented her school at the High School Model United Nations in New York, where she met the ambassador from Bangladesh, the country her team was representing. Patti recently caught up with Connie Woods Nelson, who was in the area to watch her son, a Dartmouth freshman, compete in swimming championships held at Princeton. Patti’s law practice keeps her busy. As part of a pilot program, she is working to implement a mediation program in guardianship cases and will contests in the Chester County, PA, orphans’ court. Patti’s husband, Lou Sirico, 12 years post-heart-transplant, is teaching full-time at Villanova Law School. He is on an American Bar Association team that does reaccreditations for law schools across the country. Patti says: “In our house, only the dog has free time!”

Laura Lasker teaches art in an elementary school and writes children’s book manuscripts in hopes of getting published. She would love to get in contact with any author agents or children’s book publishers among Skidmore alumni. Laura and her boyfriend are learning Viennese waltzing this winter in preparation for a Viennese ball. An art major, Laura loved dancing with Skidmore professor Isabel Brown and the dance group.

Ellen Frost attended a mini-reunion with a bunch of “Skidettes” including Erin McHugh, Susie Thompson McNamee ’75, Gay Luster Sawabini, Diane Barto VossBrinck, and Martha Stillman Otis (sister of Julie Stillman). “The gathering was a revival of an old tradition of getting together for dinner when we all worked in NYC— our own supper club,” says Ellen. “This time we met in Stamford, CT, and were delighted to be joined by Denise Marcil and Didi Dewis Thompson ’75.
We are still having fun!”