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Barbara Crossman Bell
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Carol Christensen and husband Fred Parker took advantage of their status as empty-nesters in August by traveling to Glacier National Park. Son Ned is a college junior majoring in physics and math. Son Jonathan, now out of college, has been in Shanghai for over a year, pursuing a successful career as a jazz musician. Carol works at the National Gallery and was in London for a conference where she gave a lecture on Sienese Renaissance painting technique. In December she joined classmates Terri Huxtable and Liz Hood to perform at Caffè Lena in Saratoga Springs. Terri’s musician husband Michael Jerling was recently featured on NPR’s popular radio show “Car Talk,” and Terri is a backup musician on his new album. Liz left her longtime position at WMHT public broadcasting and now directs staff at the New York State Department of Education.

This past summer Elaine Allen published articles on baseball and statistics (co-authored with daughter Julia); Babson Magazine lauded her as “the baseball professor.” She consults for two major league teams and expects to be on sabbatical next year to write a book on baseball in the millennium. Son Chris is getting a PhD in math at NYU; daughter Julia graduated from Pomona College last year and works at Genentech.

Third-grade teacher Janet Fagal received the first Friend of Poetry award from the Central New York American Pen Women. She has created a program for her third-graders that includes memorization, recitation, writing, and learning about poetry. Her students have won numerous awards in recent years. One child’s poem was selected to be set to music for the Skane­at­eles Chamber Music Festival’s 30th anniversary. Dana Gioia, past chair of the Na­tional Endowment for the Arts, met with her in Philadelphia to discuss whether her program could become the feeder for Gioia’s NEA Poetry Out Loud high school recitation contest.

Barbara Hauck is the author of A Picture Palace Transformed: How Erie’s Warner Theatre Survived a Changing World, which documents her 10-year effort to restore the last original Warner Brothers Theatre, in Erie, PA. Proceeds from book sales will go toward the restoration, expansion, and maintenance of the theater. Barbara, executive director of the Warner Theatre Preservation Trust, was honored by ArtsErie at an awards presentation in October.

Ruth Washton is co-author of more than 30 reports analyzing demographic trends, competitor intelligence, and marketing strategies for clients across many industries. Topics have ranged from kids to mature consumers to multicultural groups including Hispanics and African Americans.

For me, 2009 was a tumultuous and emotional year. Son David (Colby ’94) married a Colgate alumna, on May 30. Son Joshua (Harvard ’98) and wife Karolina had their first child, Julia, on June 3. My husband, Russell, passed away August 2 after a long battle with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. He enjoyed attending our reunion five years ago; many of you may have met him. I made the decision to volunteer as class secretary right after marrying Russ and moving to Anchorage, AK. Somehow I thought it would be a good way to feel connected to the rest of the world—little knowing that Anchorage would be only a short-term experience. Nine years later I’m still class secretary! Please make plans to attend our 40th reunion in June. There isn’t one of us who looks or feels our age, so let’s have a really smashing time together!