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1966

Ann LoDolce
alodolce@juno.com

Jill Schuker is in touch with Janice Burnett Davidson, a judge on the Superior Court in Colorado, as well as Sue Pogash, Kathy Burns Catapano, Joanne Goldner Bing, and others. All are doing well, personally and professionally. Jill enjoys playing tennis whenever possible. Last year she was appointed head of the Washington, DC, center of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. Headquartered in Paris, the OECD addresses common challenges and develops policies for a stronger, cleaner, and fairer world economy. Its Washington center focuses on relations with the United States and Canada. For the past 30 years Jill has worked across the globe on a range of civil, social, modernization, reform, and leadership issues. She has also advised key officials in the public and private sectors, multilateral institutions, policy think-tanks, and NGOs. She served in several positions at the White House, including special assistant to President Clinton for national security affairs, senior director for public affairs at the National Security Council, and deputy communications director. Jill is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and board member of the Atlantic Council of the United States; she has taught at Tufts’ Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and at George Washington University.

While having lunch in South Woodstock, VT, Carolyn Bates spotted an article in the local paper about bed-and-breakfast owner Jill Fuller Crowley (who, she notes, looked a lot like Jill Fuller!). Carolyn set off to find the B&B, a fabulous mansion, which was unlocked and vacant. Snooping around a bit further, she drove to Jill’s other business, a shop called Three Seasons Antiques in Windsor. Carolyn is publishing custom books for clients; her fifth project was released in the fall.

Sandy Berk Jacoby and family celebrated her mother’s 95th birthday with a surprise luncheon in Manhattan. Sandy is still tutoring, running the Rye Youth Employ­ment Service, and traveling (to southeast Asia, India, Egypt, Morocco) with her husband of 43 years, Richard. Their eldest son, Scott ’93, is a music producer in NYC and returns to Skidmore every year to conduct a master class or sit on a panel of professionals in the arts.

Randi Filoon is retired from her interior design business. She and husband Fred commute between Boston and Sun Valley, ID, where they live half the year. Both very outdoor-oriented, they enjoy cross-country skiing, hiking, and fly-fishing. They are the happy grandparents to five babes under the age of 4 and do lots of babysitting, depending on time of year.

Nursing major Laurel King Conway ’69 shared the sad news that her sister Robin King Kedzo, also a nursing major, died of pancreatic cancer in 2008. “She was my best friend, and I really was so lucky to have that kind of sister,” says Laurel. Robin had connected with Barbara Mercer in her last year and told Laurel how great it was to talk with her. Laurel lives in Rochester, MA; she works in Rhode Island as a paralegal and office manager for an immigration lawyer, a job she has enjoyed for more than 15 years.

I am still practicing family law in a Bos­ton suburb and enjoying our two sons. Marc, whom we visited in Amsterdam this summer, is working for a nonprofit there and finished his master’s in business at Oxford University. He frequently visits with his brother Adam, who graduated cum laude from Bentley a few years ago and works for a London-based company with offices in downtown Boston. I remain in frequent contact with my dear friend Joyce Apsel, a professor at NYU, roommate Nancy Miller, who works with rare books in Lenox, MA, and the Honorable Randy Kaplan ’80, who worked in our law firm years ago and is now a Massachusetts judge in the Middlesex County Probate and Family Court.