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1967

Lorraine Rorke Bader
lorrainerb@sprynet.com

Susan Kovage Ratzan and husband Rich continue to work full-time. Rich is an emergency-medicine physician at Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Susan is a professor of pediatrics at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center, specializing in pediatric endocrinology—although she no longer heads the department of endocrinology. It gave her special pleasure to turn that responsibility over to Karen Greenberg Rubin ’73. Susan and Rich’s older sons David, 33, and Will, 32, are in graduate school, in classics at Columbia and cell biology at the University of Connecticut respectively. Katie, 28, is a fourth-year medical student at Dartmouth, currently an Albert Schweitzer Fellow in Gabon, West Africa. Noah, 25, is a first-year teacher at Covenant Prep, a new school for middle-school-aged boys in Hartford. The Ratzans are the delighted grandparents of Margaret, almost 2, and Bruno, just a few months, children of son David and daughter-in-law Megan, who live in New York City.

Carol Ciccone Gardner is the newly appointed director of orientation and special events for NYU in Abu Dhabi. She assists NYU faculty, trustees, administrators, and visitors transitioning to life there. Prior to this appointment, Carol established NYU’s first Women’s Initiative, which is now a four-year old program that reengages alumnae in the intellectual, cultural, and educational life of their university. She also served as executive assistant to the dean of NYU School of Law.

In May Gail Tully Owen and her partner, Terry Dalsemer, moved from Baltimore, MD, to Portland, OR. They are having a fabulous time getting to know the city and surrounding areas. They are less than a two-hour hike from the summit of Mt. Hood, the heart of wine country, and the Pacific coast, and they enjoy terrific food and relaxed and pleasant neighbors. Gail is also much closer to son Peter, who lives on Oahu.

Sudee Sanders yearns to go to graduate school, but it is not happening yet. In September, she took a 12-week family medical leave to help her mother and her husband in Hilton Head, SC, which she considers “the right decision.”

After years of renting, Linda Boise (lboise@twcny.rr.com) bought a two-story, two-bedroom bungalow in Canton, NY. She has been retired on disability for many years, due to a kidney transplant.

In October Pamela Scharmann Stewart departed by train from Greensboro, NC, on the first leg of a journey via Chicago to Santa Barbara, CA. She and husband Doug had a sleeper and all the trimmings. Pamela didn’t take her banjo but had to have her harmonica with her. They gathered in Santa Barbara for a few days with family to celebrate the 75th birthday of her sister Kathryn Scharmann Mower ’55, who has already attended her 50th Skidmore reunion. On the way home, they stopped for an overnight in New Orleans, still a very exciting city. Doug underwent hip-replacement surgery soon after and is recovering nicely. The Stewarts love North Carolina and the good friends in their community. Their three kids are scattered on both coasts; they don’t see them frequently enough.

Fortunate to be employed part-time, I have been working on some local San Francisco political issues. My daughter Linden is a trip leader for Backroads and spent the fall leading bicycle trips in Italy and Slovenia. Son Tony is in his last quarter as an art major at UC-Davis.