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Michele Rothstein
mdrothstein@gmail.com

Scott Hayes completed a PhD in clinical psychology, with a focus in neuropsychology, from the University of Arizona. His research focuses on memory and aging, using functional magnetic resonance imaging. He recently completed an internship at the Boston VA Hospital in Jamaica Plain and accepted a position at Duke University as a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive neuroscience. In the Northeast he hung out with Paul Kozub, Dan Fariello, and Dennis Wilcox ’00.

Dieter Schelzig earned a master’s degree in public health from George Washington University and attended the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. A US Navy lieutenant, he is
chief resident in psychiatry in the Naval Hospital in Norfolk, VA. He married pediatrics resident Colleen Campbell in St. Kitts, West Indies, in 2004. They have a 10-month-old son, Jack. Both Dieter and Colleen will complete their residencies this June. He is facing orders to Guam and is looking forward to the experience. It is beyond him who would need a psychiatrist on a tropical island in the Pacific! Unfortunately he will probably be spending six months in Iraq at some point. He encourages any classmates headed to Guam in the next four years to look him up at dschelzig@cox.net.

Lori Cantor Capon gave birth to daughter Amanda in July.

Ben Rubenstein is the design director of the digital media department at Hearst Magazines. He
can be reached at brubenstein@hearst.com.

In October 2005 Allison Mattera married Edgar Davidson Charles III in Cold Spring-on-Hudson, NY. Danielle Bartholomew Wigmore and Marianna Politzer Gebhardt were bridesmaids, and readers included Sarah Trager and Julie Peters. Other Skidmore grads in attendance included
Nora Matz, Michelle Gainski, Tom Borchard, Brian Cronin, Julie Bachrach, Gwen Dobson, and Billy and Annie Internicola.

Gina Balsamo Wyman and husband Joe announce the birth of daughter Julia in July. The family lives in Easthampton, MA. Gina is taking time off from teaching to be home with Julia.

Megan Moodie is visiting assistant professor in the department of feminist studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Her dissertation in anthropology at UCSC, “Culture or Freedom: The Gendered Intimacies of Modernization in Rajasthan,” was based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in North India conducted over the last seven years. She lives in Santa Cruz, near the beach, with her two dogs.

Robin Litster married David Sussillo in July 2005. At the wedding were Heather Litster ’02, Amy Santamari, Crislin Meshberg, Kelcie Cooke, Sy Ingoglia, Luke Reusser, and Gareth Hughes ’01. The newlyweds lived in Austria for one year while David completed a Fulbright grant; Robin continued her painting and photography. After a year of struggling with German, they are happy
to be back in NYC, where Robin is an artist and interior designer and David is working toward his PhD in neuroscience at Columbia University.

Dan DiSalvo, visiting professor for the Colloquium on the American Founding at Amherst College, led a panel discussion last fall on “Political Parties and the Constitution: A Scandal in Polite Society,” sponsored by the Skidmore government department’s Constitution Day speakers series.
After completing a master’s in library and information science at Simmons College, Benjamin Russell moved to New Hampshire, where he is librarian at Belmont High School and a contributing reviewer for School Library Journal. He joined Jeff Solomon ’97 as a groomsman
for the wedding of Dimitri Willert and Ellen Wadelton on October 5.

I relocated to Atlanta, GA, where I am the family programs director at Camp Sunshine, a nonprofit agency working with children with cancer and their families.