Skidmore College - Scope Magazine Spring 2019

32 SCOPE SPRING 2019 fortunate to have my son, daughter, granddaughter and three great- grandsons living here in Madison. I manage to see my daughter Leslie in Arlington, Va., often. She surprised us with tickets to Hamilton in NYC! I hope you will return to Saratoga from May 30 to June 2 for our 65th Skid- more reunion. It will be a grand time! Lydia Pardo McMinn lpmcminn@gmail.com ’55 Kay Moore Hickey , of Amagansett, N.Y., lost her husband, Joe, in 2011. She keeps busy maintaining her home but gets help with house cleaning and gardening. An enduring passion is reading. A board member of Amagansett Village Improvement Society, Kay also volunteers at her church. Daughter Liz runs an interior design business, granddaughter Bridget is a junior at University of Miami and grandson Thomas is touring colleges. Kit will be college hunting next year, while Mary, 14, is close behind. Kay’s son, Steve, is a partner in Fierro’s Pizza. She continues to stay in touch with Ruth Miller Kwartin, Jill Thomson Tracey and Sue Warren Campbell . Ethel Binner Caravias’ daughter, Dorothy, wrote to tell us that Ethel died Dec. 1, 2018. A nursing major who worked in Spanish Harlem, Ethel and husband Diomedes Caravias lived in London and Greece before settling in the Seattle area. After her husband’s death, Ethel’s health began to fail. Ethel spoke often about how she “loved her time at Skidmore,” Dorothy tells us. Ellie Boughner Axford urges classmates to give to the Skidmore Fund. Ellie has been in Charlotte, N.C., for nine years; her children and grandchildren visit her frequently. A docent at Charlotte’s Historical Museum, she uses her nursing skills twice a week as a volunteer in a hospital surgery unit. Joyce Fleming Astrup is enjoying her retirement in Oregon. She travels to visit family and leads an active life. I enjoyed hearing from Sue Warren Campbell, who lives in a Brookdale community. After her husband’s death and a hip replacement, she didn’t want to take care of a house any longer. She loves her new home, where she can “play bridge and poker without leaving the building.” Sue stays in touch with Kay Moore Hickey and Jill Thomson Tracey . Rougemont, N.C., resident Sue Pynn Beamish shared some great news: the colon cancer she was diagnosed with in 2018 “has been dealt with and all is well now.” Even bigger news was the weddings of her two grand- children in Portugal. (The newlyweds are the children of Sue’s daughter, Lisa Beamish Carvalhoe Silva ’80 .) Still watching over her horse farm, Sue dreams about moving to her daughter’s farm in Maryland. Barbara Wallace Morrison and her husband have adapted to their family’s diaspora by buying another house. Since children Nan and Liz and their families live in the Boston area, the couple bought a condo In Arlington, Mass. They enjoy walking to markets and biking. Steph and Kent are in Sierra Vista, Ariz. Jay and family are in Denver, where Barbara and John live half of the year. Now, their lives are delightfully intertwined with their children’s. Nancy Lee Farrell works for de- tainees at the immigration prison in Tacoma, Wash., and is a substitute teacher in local elementary schools. She always tells students to “pick something fun as a career.” Diane Davis Nelson and Jim have a family that continues to grow. On Jan. 13, they welcomed an eighth great-grandchild, a girl. Jim ended up in a nursing facility last year, but came back home after treatment for A-fib, gall bladder problems and an abscess on his liver. Diane says he is doing much better now. Ora DeAmicis MacFarlane lost her husband and best friend of 63 years, Neil, on July 3, 2018. He died at home on Lido Isle, Newport Beach, Calif. We are sorry for your loss, Ora. I smiled at Patti Sherman Jones’ note: “No computer – no time for one.” She is in full retirement mode, living the life of a “home economist” and “gentle Southern lady” in Vero Beach, Fla. With her family living nearby, Patti has “no complaints.” Unlike Patti, I’ve spent the past month complaining. I sold my art studio on the Gulf Coast and moved to a retirement community in St. Petersburg in January. But now I look out the window at palm trees, blue skies and sailboats. It reminds me of where I grew up in Hawaii. I encourage anyone visiting St. Pete to look me up. Barbara McBride Sterling sterlingbarbara1@gmail.com ’56 Susan Leach Ryan and husband Kevin enjoy Santa Barbara, Calif. They love their Valle Verde retirement community and stay busy there. She adds, “We are still playing pickleball — not bad for 84!” Catherine Larrabee Carpenter’s husband, Victor, died June 1, 2018. Son Tyler and two grandchildren brought Victor’s ashes to Africa to join those of their daughter Gracie in a memorial garden in front of V School Residence (for children with autism). The building was named in Gracie’s honor in 1985. Catherine plans to move later in 2019, but until then is living in Jamaica Plain, Mass. Averill Dayton Geus egeus@optonline.net ’57 South Yarmouth, Mass., resident Chick Glassey Ehbrecht is VP and program chair for the Garden Club of Yarmouth. Chick also loves taking pastel lessons. JoAnne Klenen Loughran is settled into retirement in Oakland, Calif., and her adult children and grandchildren are nearby. She takes advantage of good health to travel. She has plenty of fond memories of Skidmore. Rachel Peckham Elder lives in Tiver- ton, R.I., and has five grandchildren she’d love to see more often. Robert is getting a master’s in industrial engineering in Beijing. Jackson will enter Dartmouth and Allie Gray will be a senior at William and Mary. Axel graduates from high school in June, while Ramsey will be a junior at Phil- lips Academy. Louise Libby Clearfield’s daughter Andrea is a composer, whose opera “Mila, Great Sorcerer” premiered in NYC in January! Louise stays in touch with Barbara Frankel Brown . At home in Bala Cynwyd, Pa., husband Harris is retired. Louise is still repre- sented by a gallery in Greenville. Ingrid Kolseth Zola and Skip moved into Meadow Ridge, an independent living community in Redding, Conn. Happily, they are now closer to their children. The grandkids now number 13, after grandson Brad remarried. Vivien Weisenfeld Gans took her family on a Caribbean cruise over the holidays, with a stop in Cien- fueges, Cuba. Ed Kaplan (Carolyn’s husband) visited Vivien in her new condo in McLean, Va. Steffie Merber Lench and Mike also stopped by to see her new digs. After losing hus- band Kenny, Vivien sold their home and moved into an apartment. Toby Rowe Hohenstein and George celebrated their 60th anniversary aboard the Coast Guard tall ship Eagle. In October, they sold their home in Connecticut and moved into their Stuart, Fla., condo. As they passed through Dallas in December, they saw Ginny Carter Lombardi and Dick. Toby remembered Hope Thompson Kerr reminding us to keep moving. She plays tennis three times a week, paints two times and is on the condo board. Alice Bemis Wiggin enjoys living at Newbury Court in Concord, Mass., C L A S S N O T E S