Skidmore College - Scope Magazine Spring 2019

37 SKIDMORE COLLEGE Robin Gue Willink and husband John cruised through the Panama Canal in November 2018 before spending the winter in Big Sky, Mont., where their youngest daughter resides and their son has a second home. The couple’s oldest daughter traveled from NYC to join them for Christmas. Jean Eichorn Youngquist says her first love is still husband Bob. Commu- nity volunteerism is second. A court- appointed special advocate in Los Angeles, she serves on the executive board of the local CASA chapter. Jean is chairperson of the Staff Parish Relations Committee at her Method- ist church and is a board member of California State Poppy Reserve. I continue to work part-time as a fam- ily law mediator after 40 years as a divorce litigator. I find that mediation is a gentler way for people to resolve legal issues that arise from relation- ships. Having downsized like so many others, in 2013 we moved to downtown Boston. My husband and I enjoyed a trip to Cuba in February that was sponsored by the Plymouth County Bar Association. Ann C. LoDolce Ann@LoDolceFamilyLaw.com ’67 Christine Filbin Hoffman loves her life in a condo in Brownsville, Vt. Now fully recovered from a spinal fusion surgery in January, Chris has returned to working out and hiking. She is happily involved with Cantabile, a choral group. She celebrated Frank’s 70th with a trip to France in October. Son, Nick, 30, lives in Fort Collins, Colo. Sudee Sanders continues to yearn for more wall space to hang the artwork in her closet. Her condo in a Hilton Head, S.C., retirement com- munity was already crowded when her mother’s death last July brought more boxes, along with grief. Chemo treatments drain her energy while her medical appointments dominate her calendar. We appreciate your openness and candor, Sudee, and hope you reach out for support. Our thoughts are with you. As for me, I continue to live in San Francisco, where I am involved in the lives of my two grandsons, who live nearby. The 5-year-old attends a Spanish immersion school, so I am taking Spanish to keep up with him. I continue renting my downstairs room on Airbnb; the guests and the added income are appreciated. Lorraine Bader Lorraine.bader@gmail.com ’68 Deborah Forbes Lindell was inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing in November. An associate professor at the Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western, she is also a visiting faculty member at China’s Wuhan University. She and husband Craig enjoyed her 50th Skidmore reunion in June. A month later, the couple celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary celebration on the Outer Banks with family. Dorothy Kanrich Sandford sscott106@aol.com ’69 REUNION ’19 Liz McKinley Loomis’ daughter, Molly, enrolled in an environmental management master’s program at Yale last year after doing search and rescue for six years in Grand Teton National Park. Molly lost her husband in a small plane crash three years ago. Liz is healthy and spends time volunteering. Liz and Chris Steffens Roe visited Liz’s daughter in Honolulu. After Liz attended her late husband’s 50th reunion at Yale in June, Chris stayed with Liz while attending her late husband’s 50th reunion at Williams. The two husbands had both attended Officer Candidate School in 1968. Liz moved to Manchester, Mass.; she gardens and walks a lot. She encourages classmates to visit and looks forward to our 50th reunion. Alex Schilling Friedman was invited to exhibit her tapestries in the show “The Woven Line” at the Founder’s Gallery at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael, Calif., in January and February. To see work, visit alexfried- mantapestry.com. Christine Neill and her husband bought a house in the Berkshires, where they spend summer and fall. Their Baltimore home is close to their kids, grandkids, friends and social activities. Still on sabbatical, Christine is set to retire from the Maryland Institute College of Art this spring. She is finishing paintings for fall exhibits at the Katzen Museum at American University and at Goya Contemporary in Baltimore. Lois “Trowby” Trowbridge Hunt Brockman died Nov. 19 in Barrington, Ill., where she and husband Don Brockman had lived for 45 years. Trowby studied with our class at Skid- more and graduated from Roosevelt University in Chicago. Our condo- lences to her family and friends. I attended the Santa Barbara Interna- tional Film Festival in February with Barbie Herbert von der Groeben . Immediately following the festival, Barbie and I met up with Stephanie Brewster Wagoner and Nancy Marx Ellsworth in the Bay Area. Please make arrangements to attend our 50th class reunion, May 30 to June 2. Register at skidmore.edu/ reunion. This is the milestone of milestones, so join us to celebrate our remarkable class. Carol A. Bogardus mscarolab@gmail.com ’71 I spent part of winter in southwest Florida, where I marked a year in recovery from a fall on ice that resulted in three broken bones in my wrist. We escaped for a few weeks to a place where I was able to do OT and walk 5 to 7 miles daily; it was wonderful to look for shells rather than for nasty patches of ice! Remember those long winters in Saratoga bundled up in raccoon coats over a turtleneck and bell- bottom jeans? I am grateful for spring! Sally Stoddard Collier enjoys condo living in Wellesley, Mass. She resides in a converted 1910 brick elemen- tary school within 10 minutes of her oldest grandson, 7-year-old Henry. Sally’s other grandchildren, 3 and 5, live just outside of NYC. Over the past year, I’ve gotten together with Susan Baxter and Lise Bang-Jensen and have spent Tuesdays with Jeri Feinberg Coo- per , a fellow volunteer librarian at the Bridge Boston Charter School. I enjoyed many weekends and sum- mers in Dublin in southwestern New Hampshire, a place I’ve been visiting for over 40 years. I joined a new chorus in the winter, visit the gym and take daily walks. The Massachu- setts Museum of Fine Art became a favorite destination during my four-year stint as a guide. I enjoy golf and bridge. I look forward to seeing Joan Barrett Horn in June at the New York State P.E.O. convention. I hope to convince her and all of you to share your news with classmates. Let’s stay connected! Susan Flanders Davidson suzart@davidsonautonet.com ’72 Mary Crombie Geer and husband Chip relayed that, as their horses aged and died, they saw the remaining horses mourn. Thus the Geers rescued two horses as companions. Bucked by one of the rescues, Chip sustained broken neck vertebrae. Mary convinced the rescue barn to take them back, but soon missed them. When they returned to the Geers’ roomy pasture in December, the horses “pranced about gleefully.” Although Mary and Chip want to provide their charges with “the forever home they deserve,” they wonder if they are being realistic. Mary would love to hear from others. Chip has fully recovered. Sue Reinhardt Groesbeck and husband Mark have enjoyed living in different parts of the world through Sue’s work as an interim head of