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of the Skidmore community who have demonstrated outstanding service to the College. Each recipient must have served Skidmore for at least 10 years as an alumna/alumnus, trustee, faculty member, administrator, staff member, parent, or friend.

“I absolutely loved being involved with music. And I simply adored the way Professor Irwin taught. If he wanted an orchestra full of piccolos, I would have learned to play the piccolo just to be part of it.”

A founding member of the Tang’s National Advisory Council and chair

09, Joanie is also a member of rnance Committee. She works with current Dayton Director Ian ho observes, “Joanie has made nd lasting impact on Skidmore articular at the Tang Teaching m. Among her many contributions useum, she has been a steadfast the National Advisory Council, ring Tang ambassador with mates and friends in the polis community, and a founding supporter. I greatly value her nd friendship, great sense of how un a volunteer board, generous ropy, and always upbeat energy husiasm! I am proud to be the Tang’s Dayton Director.”

This year, Joanie is also serving as class agent and gift planning chair for her 50th reunion.

As busy as she has been on behalf of Skidmore, the College is not the only benefciary of her time and treasure. A longtime civic volunteer in her home city of Minneapolis, Minn., she was a board member of the Children’s Hospital and Clinics of Minnesota for over 20 years, and served as board chair and chair of its capital campaign from 1989 to 1993. Joanie also chaired the Colleagues Advisory Board of the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota and served as co-chair of its 2002–08 capital campaign. She is a former board member of Minneapolis’s Guthrie Theater and Planned Parenthood of Minnesota. Joanie’s Skidmore family connections run deep. Her mother-in-law, Lucy Jackson Dayton , was a member of the Class of 1938, and two of her three sons are Skidmore graduates: Tobin ’90 (who is married to Mae Doykos Dayton ’90 ) and

Scott ’93 . Son James is a Yale graduate.

Joanie’s passion for serving Skidmore has been transformative, and encompasses both physical manifestations in the Tang Museum (and on Dayton Drive in the Northwoods Apartments) and also a singular legacy of volunteerism and philanthropy. All the while, she has been happy to serve: “I am so honored by this award but really humbled by it. Skidmore has given me so much, beginning more than 50 years ago, but most of all it’s given me reasons to give back—it’s easy to give to programs and people who in turn continue to give so much to so many. Skidmore is made of passionate people, whether they are teaching or raising money or building the alumni base or feeding the students. It is so much a part of what makes the College great.”

Elizabeth “Tibby” VanNess Reid ’48 still remembers the frst time she led her classmates in song. She was asked to direct them in the College’s annual song contest, a much-anticipated festival in which all classes penned and arranged original pop songs that they would perform, along with a Skidmore song, before the faculty in Saratoga’s Congress Park. Tibby, a freshman math major, had no previous experience directing a chorus but had sung in every campus musical production mounted that year. “I was hesitant at frst but I just started waving my arms and they followed me,” she recalls. The Class of ’48 easily delivered the winning performance. She vividly recollects music professor and department chair Hoyt Irwin congratulating her on the victory. “He said to me, ‘Tibby, don’t ever give this up.’ At that moment, I knew if I was asked to stand up in front of a chorus to direct, I would always say yes.” The longtime volunteer has been leading her