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1976

Ingeborg Hegemann Clark
iehegemann@yahoo.com

and

Nancy Reeves Reardon
nreardon@charter.net

Bonnie Ashton-Brooks is still living in Upper Marlboro, MD, with husband Michael and daughter Laurel. She is office manager and human resources coordinator for the Washington office of Cannon Design, an architectural firm. Bonnie writes, “I continue to miss and remember my dear friend Cheryl Beckles.”

Howard Berman lives in Virginia with wife Jill, an educational consultant. Son Jonathon is a junior at Clark University; son Eric is a high-school senior. Howard earned a JD from Vermont Law School in 1980. He became an assistant district attorney in Queens, where he was head of the white-collar crime bureau. In 1985 he joined a criminal-enforcement office at the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, DC, working his way to the position of deputy director. He then worked for several private law firms and in 2002 moved to Newport Beach, CA, as president of Environmental Mediation Inc., a government-affairs firm with an office in DC. He now commutes between coasts.

Cheryl Montana Fletcher teaches art at Proctor High School in Utica, NY, and fashion illustration at a local community college. She and her husband vacationed in Paris last spring. Son Cory, who graduated from Massachusetts College of Pharmacy, lives in Boston and recently landed a job at New England Compounding. Cheryl hears from New Jersey resident Deb McLean Hameline and Georgia Little, a Connecticut art therapist. Cheryl saw Lynn Yeager McLean, a social worker in Auburn, NY, over Labor Day weekend.

Hani and Dawn Penk Marar’s youngest daughter, Petra, is attending Sarah Lawrence College. Their older daughter, Lauren, graduated from Boston University with plans to attend Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Meg Steele Wingerath and husband Fred (Colgate ’75) are looking forward to Reunion this June. Daughter Sara, a William Smith grad, completed a master’s at Suffolk University and is now a match advocate for Big Brothers of Massachusetts in Boston. Son Jack graduated from Hobart last year with an architecture major and an art minor. He is an architect in Great Barrington, MA, preparing to enter graduate school next year. Meg still teaches fifth- through eighth-grade art at the Salemwood School Magnet School for the Visual and Performing Arts in Malden. The large, diverse urban school has “very happening students who keep us on our toes.” Meg hopes the head residents and RAs of our class attend Reunion.

Kelly Kenefick reflects that the past 30 years, three kids, three men (two of them husbands), and a life of working “has me pretty much where I started, having fun and living each day as if it was my last!” She can’t wait to see friendly faces at Reunion. Kelly’s son Cean, 25, is a financial advisor in Phoenix, AZ, and “quite the wiz.” Daughter Chenin, 22, is selling air space for TV in Tucson, AZ. Meagyn, 14, is a freshman at San Clemente High School and a member of the cheer squad.

Deborah Gosnell Roach received her master’s in library science three years ago and is a reference librarian at the public library and the Pennsylvania Water Science Center of the US Geological Survey. In addition, she is a part-time research associate for the groundwater consulting firm where husband Larry works. She likes the flexibility and variety of working for three different organizations. Daughter Meghan is a first-year law student at Catholic University in Washington, DC, in the law and public policy program. Daughter Stephanie, a Denison University sophomore majoring in biology and studio art, spent some time at Skidmore this past summer, taking classes in the Summer Six art program; she really enjoyed campus and Saratoga.
Last fall Deborah had a mini-reunion with Mindy VanMeter and Jamie Musselman. “We met in Las Vegas to celebrate turning 50 and had a great time. Other than those two, I don’t keep in close touch with anyone, but am looking forward to seeing folks at Reunion next summer.”

In August Sue Flanagan successfully defended her PhD dissertation in social policy at Brandeis University’s Heller School of Social Policy and Management. She says she is “very glad to be done!” Sarah Tinsley Demarest and Mary Tinsley Raul ’78 live near her in Washington, DC; she enjoys their company. Sue recently chatted with Sarah’s daughter Elizabeth, a high-school senior, about her recent trip to Skidmore.

Empty-nesters Kim Mensel Majczan and husband Robert sent Abbey, the last of their three daughters, to Villanova University. An avid quilter, Kim plans on pursuing volunteer work. Now that she no longer runs the booster club for Abbey’s volleyball team, Kim finds herself with free time—“a first!”

Jill Rosenheim Hurwitz accompanied son Michael, a high-school senior, on a tour of Skidmore in October. Daughter Jackie is a junior at Middlebury. Jill connected with three of her former professors—Isabel Brown, Regis Brodie, and Robert Boyers—during a spring visit to campus. “The school looks great, as does Saratoga,” she reports. Jill teaches French (which she learned in the Peace Corps in Africa) and pottery.

Marjorie Wilcox Weeks and husband Louis live in Baltimore, MD, with children Louis, 17, Neile, 15, and Teddy, 10. Louis attends the Friends School and is lead singer and guitarist in a band called August; the group performs in various Baltimore venues. Neile is juggling sports and physics at Bryn Mawr School. And Teddy, a fifth-grader at Gilman, is “a great chef.” Louis, who is in finance, recently completed designing and building a new addition to their older home. Creative director and principal at Outloud, a marketing and advertising firm, Marjorie is working to launch of a new power drink.

Liz Hembling Lawrence is president of Atlantic Coast Promotions, a design firm she’s run for the past 15 years. Husband Frank is head women’s soccer coach and newly appointed athletics director at Brookdale Community College. Daughter Adrienne is teaching in Washington, DC, and pursuing a master’s in education at Marymount University. Son Kyle is a senior at St. Joseph’s University, majoring in psychology. Liz and her family, along with sister Donna ’69, traveled to Alaska this past summer for kayaking, rock climbing, hiking, and sight-seeing. After Hurricane Katrina hit, Liz heard from Laura Burling, who had been living in New Orleans, LA, and reported that she was safe and out of the city.

Tom Cooper says hello from Watertown, MA.

In Miami, FL, Peter Appelbaum is president of an export company.

Matt Rosen moved to St. Petersburg, FL, with wife Joanna and their three kids, ages 3, 7, and 9. Matt does legal and human resources work for several small telecommunications firms that he has also invested in. Last August, while walking through the Ohio State Fair, he bought a pink guitar on impulse. Flash forward to New Year’s Eve 2006–07: Matt will host a concert at his home featuring Douglas Dreishpoon on drums, Chris Teasdale on guitar, Tim Maloney ’77 on guitar and violin, and Doug McKelway ’78 on banjo. Matt is planning to play guitar, “if I can learn the songs in time.” Everyone is invited—e-mail Matt at mrosen@appliedlogx.com or mrosen@phonetag.net. “It’s going to be a groove.”