At Founders Day, a celebration of Skidmore history
See how you do on the following:
(a) “When was Lucy Skidmore Scribner’s birthday?”
(b) “What is the College’s oldest a capella group?”
(c) “Who was the College’s first president?”
Such were a few of the questions correctly answered last week by students, faculty and staff at the College’s Founders Day celebration, which marked the first day of classes and honored the visionary founder of the Young Women’s Industrial Club, which ultimately was chartered as Skidmore College. Prizes for correct responses included just about anything with a Skidmore logo, including a lunchbox cooler, a blanket, a set of coasters, and a coffee mug.
More than 2,100 students, faculty, staff and family members turned out for the South Lawn event, which was emceed by Ron Seyb, Joseph C. Palamountain, Jr. Professor in Government. Dozens of volunteers and student, faculty and staff contributed.
- Two groups provided music. Drastic Measures is an capella student group whose members are Tory Waldron, Jack Mallory, Sam Kastner, Lindsey Kellstrom, and Harrison Lipton, all Class of ’15; Dan Plumer, Eli McCormack, and Lauren Jackson, Class of ’16; and Sara Hughes and Eliza Burr, Class of ’17. Fenimore Blues is a faculty/staff group that included Mary Beth Arcidiacono, vocals (Education); Peter von Allmen, guitar (Economics); Bob Kimmerle, bass (Community Relations); David Kieran, guitar (History); Jackie Miciele-Voutsinas, vocals, (American Studies); Jim Pfoh guitar (Office Services), and Jack Moyer, drums (married to Susan Long Moyer '82).
- Four admissions tour guides administered the ALS Ice-Bucket Challenge to President
Philip A. Glotzbach;
- Campus Safety officers Ray Alpholz and Terri Sanacore provided the horses; Pro-Art
Club members Elizabeth Stone ’16, Elizabeth Reinhold ’15, and Camilla Busby ’16 did
the face-painting, and Desiree Palmateer in Alumni Affairs and College Events, in
full Victorian dress, played the role of Lucy Skidmore Scribner.
- More than 40 students, faculty and staff assisted with food service, monitoring the bouncy bounce, and cleanup.
The answers, by the way, to those three questions above:
(a) July 4, 1853
(b) Sonneteers
(c) Charles Henry Keyes