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1969

Elizabeth Mckinley Loomis
lizyloo@comcast.net

Get ready to pack your bags and join us at the 40th reunion, May 28–June 1 at a Skidmore campus and Saratoga Springs you may not recognize! In July the reunion committee met to plan a weekend packed with fun and guaranteed to get your mind and creative juices flowing. We have set a lofty goal of having each of us call 40 classmates—dubbed the 69+40 program—so get on the phone to all your cronies and save the date. Details will be forthcoming.

Class president Joyce Benedict Ricker and husband Jim were inducted into the Friends of Skidmore Athletics Hall of Fame. Joyce and Jim have been longtime advocates of the ice-hockey program at Skidmore and continue to enthusias­tically support the athletics program.

Lillian Hurlbut Thompson will not be able to make it to Reunion. In June she completed a two-year tour with the Peace Corps in Romania as deputy director of a post of 140 volunteers, just as Romania was entering the European Union—a very exciting time. Back in New Orleans, she is currently assisting long-term development efforts there. You can reach her at Lillian­Thompson2005@yahoo.com.

Lynne Cooper Lichtermann hopes to make it to Reunion but is involved with caring for elderly parents and with her children’s and grandchildren’s events. This past fall, her 89-year-old father-in-law underwent emergency colon surgery, eldest daughter Kristen gave birth to her fourth child (Lynne’s sixth grandchild) in Dallas, and Lynne retired from the University of Tennessee, where she had to sift through 16 years of files and orient her successor. She and husband Dave celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary in December. Dave retired from his second career, flying for Federal Express, after retiring from the Navy in 1985. Lynne hopes to live a less hectic life, travel some, and remain in the Memphis area in a house they built three years ago. Youngest daughter Karin lives there as well.

Ginger Cannon Bailey was honored by the Capital District Business Review in Albany, NY, in the category of Women Who Mean Business: Family Business of the Year.

Carol Robelen Gilbride reminds us that her e-mail address is Carol.Clark@SothebysInternationalRealty.com; Marsha Gilmour Douglass can be contacted at marshadouglass@gmail.com.

Tina Vogt Fisler has been diagnosed with two stage-four cancers. Daughter Gina, who is currently teaching at the UN School in NYC (after two years teaching in New Haven, CT, and two years in Brazil before that), has begun a blog where you can contact Tina and read about her courageous fight. The address is http://teamtina.wordpress.com. Tina needs our support, prayers, and good cheer. Be sure to contact her there or at annefisler@yahoo.com. Tina hopes to be at Reunion, and her courage and determination, matched by the support of her family and friends, will get her there.