Skidmore College - Scope Magazine Spring 2019

39 SKIDMORE COLLEGE Totally food-driven, she really is my daughter. Joanne Rubin jrubin610@aol.com ’74 REUNION ’19 Amy-Hannah Kraus Broersma will soon retire after practicing law for 35 years. She looks forward to being free from worry about court deadlines, teaching and volunteer work. Amy-Hannah is focused on exercis- ing. A first-year law student, son Jack is following in his parents’ legal footsteps. A few years back, she was thrilled to reconnect with Dr. Anita Grover , who attended Skidmore in 1970 before transferring to Colgate. Amy would love to hear from another transfer, Carmith Fin- kelkraut. (Carmith, you may also contact me at the email below.) Janice Greenberg Ellinwood retired last August after 38 years on the faculty at Marymount University and 40 in higher education. Now profes- sor emerita of fashion design and merchandising, Janice has happily transitioned to horseback riding, writing books related to her field and gathering with family and friends. She spends time with Jana Dabrowski Fay , Margy McKelway Clark and Lynn Faught ’73, among others. Janice frequently visits children Amy, Lindsey and Samantha; and grand- children Bennett, Rosemary and Zeke. She hopes to make it to reunion. Ellen Brickman , our class co-presi- dent (with Kate Ferris ), met up with fellow planning committee members Denise Marcil, Kate Ferris, Steffe- nie Kirkpatrick, Kathy D’Appolonia Corsale, Emily Pavlovic Chiles and Vicki Green Aldrich on campus last summer to plan the 20th anniversary of our 25th reunion. The group had such fun mapping out activities; Ellen, Kate and Megan “tested” the class’s Friday evening gathering at Saratoga Winery by having lunch there! Closer to home, Ellen’s 6-year-old grand- daughter again donated her hair to Wigs for Kids. Her 4-year-old sister earned a striped belt in karate! Ellen is looking forward to a month-long adventure in Spain with a friend; they will rent an apartment in Alicante. Liz Ullman continues her social justice work with National Guard sol- diers and veterans. She was recently presented with the Patriotism Award from the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States. She looks forward to reunion! Class fund chair Nancy Hass Geyer and husband Peter enjoy retirement in Dunedin, Fla. Nancy chairs a local mission committee that does a lot of community outreach. Nancy’s son is working for Corning Inc. in Corning, N.Y., with his wife and three little boys. Sister Barbara Haas Kisken ’78 and family often visit Nancy in Florida; they always look forward to company! In her spare time, Nancy plays a folk harp and recently joined a band. She works for the Phillies during spring training every winter and volunteers for Skidmore. She’ll be at reunion! Denise Marcil winters in Sarasota, Fla., an hour away from Nancy Geyer . In January, they visited the St. Petersburg Fine Arts Museum together. “We haven’t lived so close to each other since Howe and Tower senior year!” quips Denise. The pair attempted a duet last year, with Denise playing piano to accompany Nancy’s Celtic harp. Denise, who took up piano, is keen to reprise the collaboration this year. Denise would love to connect with classmates in the Sarasota area. Contact her at DeniseMMarcil@gmail.com. Emily Pavlovic Chiles is settling into her new apartment on the 33rd floor. She’s had a lot of change in her life since losing her husband, Jerry. Emily was thrilled to see the Iditarod dog race while visiting relatives in Alaska this winter. Her nephew has a cabin on the route, so she was able take in all the action. As a veteran of the Sara- toga snowbelt, she was well prepared! Connecticut escapees Debbie Silber- stein and husband Fred Cantor en- joyed the winter in southern California. The locals they met there complained about the below-normal “cold” temps in the upper 50s. Debbie and Fred recently met Cheryl Kempinsky and her husband for a brunch. Susan Siegfried won’t be able to attend reunion this year. She’ll be at a wedding in Boston about two weeks prior and isn’t able to be far from home that long. She is already planning to make it to our 50th! Belinda Bowling Bewkes Metzger is sorry she’ll miss reunion. Vice chair of the board of trustees at Kentucky’s Midway University, Belinda is co- chairing its capital campaign. Belinda is working on “The Story of Midway University,” a book authored by Presi- dent Emeritus Robert Botkin slated for publication next year. Belinda’s children have blessed her with three grandchildren; another granddaugh- ter will arrive this spring. Belinda and husband Jim plan to travel a lot this year, including a month-long trip to Australia and New Zealand with two other family members. Nancy Watkins Lanzoni works in a New York office of BankUnited, and she isn’t planning to retire any time soon! Nancy had twin boys at 41 (with second hubby Craig) and still has bills to pay! Both sons graduated from UConn; Ben is an accountant with PwC in Boston and Will is a free- lance photo editor with CNN. Ben will marry his college sweetheart in June, initiating Nancy into the “land of in-laws!” Nancy’s brother, John Watkins ’77 , commutes between Vir- ginia and Connecticut for his job at Freddie Mac. His son, Tom, was mar- ried in September, allowing Nancy to obtain some helpful mother-of-the- groom hints from her sister-in-law. She plans to make reunion. Kathleen Biggie Peters retired from her job managing grants for the Division of Gastroenterology and He- matology in the Department of Medi- cine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She has been traveling with her husband and mother to Phoenix to visit the couple’s son and daughter-in-law and grandchildren. They have also toured Lancaster, Pa. Kathleen’s husband, Robert, contin- ues as a professor of environmental engineering at UAB. Happily retired since July, Ellen Brick- man’s first order of business was downsizing and moving into a mainte- nance-free condo. Tossing posses- sions was a big job, but cathartic. She visited Liz Ullman for a few days in October. She plans on “coming to reunion early and staying late!” E. Argulewicz Berilla is thoroughly enjoying her two grandchildren Karina and Hudson, both toddlers. Biomedical science pioneer Winnie Wan joined Chameleon Biosciences Inc. as board director and executive adviser. Chameleon patented a new approach to gene therapy designed to “overcome existing treatment bar- riers” for patients with life-threatening genetic diseases, including Hunting- ton’s, hemophilia and cystic fibrosis. Suzanne Shailer Logue won’t be able to attend reunion, but will be “thinking of you all.”   We look forward to seeing you all at our “20th anniversary of our 25th,” May 30 to June 2! Regina N. Carbon rcarbon14@gmail.com ’75 Sarah Melling Guter- man is buying a house in Delaware to share with her brother and sister-in-law. Sarah plans to use the house intermittently and looks forward to relaxing and looking at the shore birds. Frann Addison was runner-up for Handmade Business magazine’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award. An article on her Judaica creations was published in the magazine’s November issue. A metalsmith and designer, Frann handcrafts meno- rahs, Torah pointers and other Jewish ceremonial objects. She creates commissioned pieces for private col- lections and institutions, including the