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1966

Ann LoDolce
alodolce@juno.com

Via Skidmore’s travel program, Joan Agisim Odes and husband Stuart took a trip to China last May with several other alumni and spouses in their age range as well as a younger couple. The group had dinner in Hong Kong with a 2001 Skidmore graduate who is working in various Asian countries, and were very impressed with her. After returning home, Stuart had brain surgery to remove a benign meningioma; he is slowly recovering. The couple’s third grandchild was born to daughter Naomi ’94 and her husband, Turi. Two other grandchildren live in NYC. Joan and Stuart are trying to affect a state law that they feel places an undue burden on the disabled in New York City. As class president, she thanks all who have helped maintain Skidmore’s reputation as a desirable college destination for smart and creative young people.

Mims Agathon Cushing’s book You CAN Cope With Neuropathy: 365 Ways For Living a Better Life, co-authored by Norman Latov MD, is now available. Neuropathy ranges from the easy-to-live-with to extremely difficult types; 20 million people in the US suffer from the disease. This book is written in a conversational tone that informs in an easy-to-swallow way.

Roselle Kline Chartock still loves teaching in the education department of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, MA, where she also teaches history courses within the core curriculum and honors program. She completed her second textbook for Pearson Education. She and her husband, Alan, president of Northeast Public Radio, live in Great Barrington, MA. Son Jonas recently moved from Austin, TX, to Albany, NY, where he is executive director of the SUNY Charter School Institute; daughter Sarah just completed her doctorate in political science at Princeton; she is assistant professor of Latin American politics at the College of New Jersey. For the last 20 years, Roselle has been organizing study tours; the most recent destination, Buenos Aires and Iguazu Falls, is one she highly recommends: The dollar is worth a lot, and it truly is the “Paris of South America.”

Active Rotarian Kathy Chambery embarked on two service tours in September. To fight malaria, she helped deliver bed-nets to institutions serving young children in Tanzania, and then flew to Ethi­opia to immunize children against polio.

Bonnie Jones Schorske retired in 2003 after 25 years as a senior policy- and program-development administrator for New Jersey Mental Health Authority. She moved from Princeton to Philadelphia, PA, where she is indulging her passions for art photography and world travel. She serves on the boards of several Philadelphia art clubs. Currently represented by a gallery in Lambertville, NJ, she has exhibited in several individual, small group, and invitational shows. Son Mark, who practices international contracting and zoning law for Burt Hill Associates, lives in Dubai, UAE, with his architect wife and their two children. Bonnie’s other son David, who works in the computer field, lives in Lambertville.

Libby Rosof received an honorary doctor of fine arts degree, along with colleague Roberta Fallon, from Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, for their five-year-old art blog (click here), which reviews and discusses contemporary art, placing Philadelphia art in the context of the international art world and archiving what is going on in the city’s red-hot contemporary art scene. Twice cited in Art in America, they were included in an online roundtable discussion among five US blogs led by critic Peter Plagens.

Joan Minard Scruggs left her job as director of special education at Vermont’s Thetford Academy a year ago, desperately needing something less than a 70-hour week. She’s now a teacher and high-school completion plan manager for Vermont Adult Learning, which helps high-school dropouts between the ages of 16 and 22 earn their diplomas. She works with students, parents, schools, and agencies to help students transition to a job or post-secondary education, a challenging but rewarding position. Joan’s two children and their families, including five elementary-school kids, live within an hour of her home. She and husband Rhett, married for 40 years, enjoy spending time with them. Joan also likes to read, garden, and bake.

Frances Srulowitz visited Peru for the second time to see Lake Titicaca, which features manmade floating grass islands and is the highest lake in the world. In April she spent three weeks in Turkey, a destination she highly recommends. In August she spent a week in the San Francisco Bay area, where she visited with Martha Nelson Fateman for several days.

Susan Kanowith-Klein enjoys her position as a development officer for the UCLA Library, which comprises eight separate subject-area libraries. It’s a great place to see treasures of all kinds; she invites classmates to get in touch for a campus visit. Susan came to UCLA to do graduate research 36 years ago and never left. The closer she gets to retirement, the farther it seems to be—especially these days. Joan and husband Marvin enjoyed some great travels this past year: sailing in Tahiti with friends, horseback riding in the Sierras, and spending their annual special time with family on Martha’s Vineyard. Son Andy returned from Sydney, Australia, to join them.

I regularly see Nancy MacMillin Miller ’67, my dear friend and roommate, and am in frequent touch with my other dear friend, Joyce Freedman Apsel. Nancy works with a rare-book dealer in Lenox, MA, and Joyce is a professor at NYU. We share experiences, which, as different as they are, have brought us closer together throughout the years. When I see them, I feel 19 all over again. My own family is doing exciting things. Youngest son Adam graduated cum laude from Bentley in ’07 and has a fabulous job that requires frequent international and national travel, which he enjoys. Oldest son Marc took six months off from his graduate MBA program at Oxford University to work for the Obama campaign in New Hampshire. Husband Michael also volunteered for Obama in New Hampshire and came home on weekends. I still practice divorce law and enjoy doing mediation and collaborative law as well.