Gala guests

Trustee Dale Conron Ahearn ’75, P ’02, joins with Garret and Suzanne Cahill Sayia ’71, and their daughters Stephanie ’99 and Whitney, at the Friends of the Presidents dinner held in New York City this fall. Some two hundred FOP-level donors and guests, a record number, attended the recognition event this year. Reunion classes were particularly well represented, including six alumni of the Class of ’67, seven from ’62, and eleven newly minted FOP members from the Class of ’02. Among the speakers was French professor John Anzalone, the first recipient of Skidmore’s Ciancio Award in teaching, who discussed the close connections between faculty and students—and proudly pointed to many of his former students in the audience. Musical entertainment was provided by students in the opera class of faculty member Anne Turner.