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Nancy Sisitzky Alderman ’76 and John Alderman ’76, David Grant ’77, and Dick Wechsler. “It was a very sad day, but so comforting to see so many classmates.” Kate Skrebutenas and her husband, Paul Rorem, of Princeton, N.J., had a great visit last November with Caroline (Carrie) Burch at her home in Stamford, Vt. Before visiting the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Mass., the three ran into Suzanne (Suki) Wilkins ’45 and her husband, Wayne, at a local coffee shop. Suki, a docent at the institute, offered helpful insights on the recently renovated museum. Kate is the director of access, research and outreach at Princeton Theological Seminary. Kate Kate Skrebutenas ’75 (left) met up with Carrie Burch ’75 and visited the Clark Art Institute in and Paul have a daughter, Annie, and Williamstown, Mass. a son, Joe. Carrie is the production director at Storey Publishing in North Adams, Mass., celebrating her 28th year there. Both had plans to attend Reunion. Last August, Jane Thompson Reinsch and Tim Reinsch made their annual visit to Elaine Lang Cornett in Friendship, Maine. They hope someday to include Pam Cutler Baxter, since she also spends time in Maine every summer, but no luck so far! Margie Rosenbaum Bassman has been happily remarried to Mitch Bassman, a fellow musician, since 2006. She still plays viola and teaches four days a week in her home studio and at the local elementary school children’s program. Margie also plays with the local community college Monica Rothschild-Boros ’75 shares a meal with her granddaughter, Charlotte Mae, orchestra and works for Little Hands, born Aug. 10, 2014. a music and movement group for young children. She became a grandmother to twins last spring and and had plans to take some courses. California-Davis. Madeleine broke her loves babysitting. Son Carrington lives in Shanghai with wrist, got laid off, and went to France Barbara Hadley Katz remains his Brazilian wife. Daughter Charlotte is and England for two weeks. She’s in D.C., where she’s helping implement happy in her solo law practice as a now looking for work, working on two bankruptcy lawyer and Chapter 7 Obama’s Young African Leaders new novels and devising a Kickstarter Initiative. Son Jamie graduated from the trustee, and has just joined the board for her mystery series. Her last book, University of Pennsylvania and plans to of directors of New Haven Legal “Sold for Endless Rue,” came out in Assistance Association after six years move back home. May 2012. She sees Nancy Gruver on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Diane Pike continues to teach occasionally. Madeleine hoped to make Greater New Haven, including two years sociology full time at Augsburg it to Reunion. College. In 2012, she was awarded the as board president. In March, daughter Doug Renfield-Miller is semiJulia married Michael Weinstein, a American Sociological Association’s retired and back from his second highest national award for contributions senior lecturer in astronomy and passage sailing to the Caribbean. physics at CC. Barbara’s mother, age to teaching and learning. Diane’s Doug and Jean relocated temporarily 90, moved to New Haven after 31 years husband and three children are doing to Cambridge, Mass., in January, in Florida, and Barbara’s happy to have well, and she was looking forward to where Doug was appointed a fellow her so close. She was looking forward Reunion. with Harvard’s Advanced Leadership to Reunion and to her 35th wedding Miriam Josephson Whitehouse Initiative. They rented a garret anniversary in 2015. attended the memorial service for apartment in a professor’s house Tom Slaughter ’77 last fall. Other CC next door to where Julia Child lived. alums who attended included Mark Jean Renfield-Miller retired from her Correspondents: Kenneth Abel, 334 W. 19th St., admissions post at the Brearley School Warren, Mark Iger, Guy Morris ’76,
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The Rev. Dr. Nina George-Hacker, in addition to continuing to serve as rector of St. Christopher’s Episcopal Church in Cobleskill, N.Y., recently accepted a position as an adjunct professor of philosophy and religious studies at The College of Saint Rose in Albany, N.Y.
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Jeff Modzelewski has now been a “naturalized” Texan (as native-Yankee “immigrants” to the state are sometimes humorously termed) for 34 years, living the last 20 of those on Galveston Island. Jeff and Kathy will celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary next year; daughter Karen and son-in-law Dave live 215 miles away in Austin. June marks two decades for Jeff as a CPA with the Galveston County auditor’s office, and retirement is maybe two or three years down the road. Life is good, albeit with the usual sad moments: They have lost parents and a number of other relatives of that generation in recent years, and Hurricane Ike made a direct hit on Galveston in September 2008, from which it took the city’s real estate market and general economy years to recover. Jeff is happy toconnect with fellow CC alumni; contact him on Facebook or at jeffiemod@gmail.com. Lisa Podoloff Boles survived the winter’s record-breaking snow in Boston and was looking forward to spring. Younger daughter Natalie Boles ’17 has finished her sophomore year and will spend first semester of junior year studying at the British American Drama Academy’s Shakespeare program. Believe it or not, our 40th reunion is just around the corner. Planning in earnest starts next year, so please think about helping make this the best one yet — all ideas are welcome! Contact Lisa at lisapb@aol.com. Martha Robinson Heard and Beth Barry have been great friends since meeting freshman year in Harkness House. They’ve shared their passion for creating art — also something nurtured at CC. Beth and Martha regularly exhibit their work, including a two-person show they did together in Sag Harbor, N.Y., a few years ago. Their mutual love of art has been an enduring bond that gives them both much happiness.
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