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1967

Lorraine Rorke Bader
lorrainerb@sprynet.com

In July Margot Miller Tusa and Georgia Jones Hennig played golf together, a plan made during Reunion. In September Margot attended the wedding of Karen Marshall Bradford’s son Davis in Newport.

Teacher Sudee Sanders is battling the organizing issues that come from having too many antiques in a small house. She is currently collecting 19th-century textiles made in northeast Iran by the Beluch tribe. She is also taking a class at Penn.

In New York for her cousin’s concert at Carnegie Hall, Mary Whitaker Taber met up with Sandy Colony for brunch. Sandy had just returned from a trip to Uganda and was on her way to baby-sit her new granddaughter.

Christine Wilsey Goodwin became a grandmother to a boy born to daughter Carrie and son-in-law Doug. Chris is glad they live in NYC so she can enjoy helping out and watch him grow.

Remember when Sally Huling Hilderbrand announced at Reunion that her grandson had just been born? She reports that the highlight of the fall was making his christening outfit. Sally retired last March and is taking a master-gardener class.

Chris Leader Hoffmeister and family spent weekends at their island camp off the south shore of Boston. Chris and George celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in June.

Just back from Italy, Bev Harrison Miller reports that a highlight of her trip was seeing work by artists she studied in art history classes at Skidmore. She says, “I was not going to leave Rome without seeing the Sistine Chapel, and to say it was a gigantic thrill is a huge understatement.”
Honored, overwhelmed, and surprised, Izzy Maccracken Winn was the recipient of the 2007 Bishop’s Award for Outstanding Lay Ministry. Izzy considers last year’s Reunion a “peak experience” and said she felt “embraced by the sisterhood.”

Jane Rahl Apson’s husband of 38 years, Bernie, passed away in August after a battle with cancer. “When the end came, it was faster than we expected,” reports Jane. Five days before his death Bernie met his two six-month-old great-grandsons for the first time and renewed acquaintance with their older brother. We send our condolences to Jane.

I am so glad I volunteered at Reunion to be class secretary! Check out our class Web site at www.skidmore.edu (click on “alumni,” then “classes”). I teach at the French-American International School in San Francisco, now half-time. I am thrilled to have more personal time to enjoy my home and garden, yoga, Italian class, and walking my Airedale. I am also an alumni admissions correspondent, interviewing applicants in the Bay Area. My husband, Lani, is retired from being a law professor but still works as an arbitrator. I recently signed up for our Class of ’67 book group with Patricia Rubio, the beneficiary of the professorship we are funding for our 40th reunion. This is a wonderful way to be involved with Skidmore and stay in touch with classmates.