Connections Spring 2015

Connections A PUBLICATION FOR ALUMNAE OF RUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE | SPRING 2015

Sage Ready to Be. Know. Do. MORE Centennial Campaign Closes in on $50 Million Goal!

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Physical Therapy Faculty 8 RSC Nurses on Medical Research Interventions Missions to Guatemala, After Brain Injury Madagascar

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1864 Woman-led Strike 12 Class Notes Still Inspires Troy

Volume 18 • Number 1

from associate provost donna heald, ph.d.

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Dear Alumnae,

DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS

Greetings from Troy, New York! As I write, we are preparing for year-end celebrations such as Honors Convocation, the Undergraduate Research Symposium, and two WORLD Conferences (Women Owning Responsibility for Learning and Doing) in which first-year and fourth-year students present their research and service projects.

It has been a pleasure seeing many of you on campus for college events like Rally, Women’s History Month Convocation and the Centennial Campaign for Sage kickoff. Those of you who attended Rally know that our enthusiastic students raised over $2,000. We congratulate all of them, especially the winners of this year’s competition, the Blue Angels Class of 2017. Turn to page 2 to read more about the $50 million Centennial Campaign for Sage and to see photos from the celebration. As Russell Sage College approaches 100 years of educating students, we invite you to join many more such celebrations.

I have accepted a new role as associate provost at The Sage Colleges. While I will miss being dean of Russell Sage College, I look forward to serving Sage in a broader capacity. I will continue to participate in RSC events and alumnae activities. Meeting the women who have graduated from Russell Sage is as much fun as interacting with the women who are our current students.

Shannon Ballard Gorman SGS ’13

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Kind regards,

Donna Heald

deborah lawrence, ph.d., named dean of russell sage college Professor of Mathematics Deborah Lawrence ’88 has accepted the position of dean of Russell Sage College. She will provide strong academic leadership and a vision for the future of Russell Sage; support new and evolving pedagogies, civic engagement, global and diverse educational programming and undergraduate research; serve as a mentor and advocate for faculty professional development and advancement; and collaborate with the Office of Student Life to ensure a culturally and intellectually enriching student-centered environment.

Lawrence taught at Clarion University of Pennsylvania before she joined the faculty at Sage in 1994 as assistant professor of mathematics. She was promoted to associate professor in 2000 and professor in 2015. She earned her master’s and doctorate degrees from the University at Albany in the area of dynamical systems and graduated from Russell Sage College as valedictorian with a B.A. in Mathematics.

While at Sage, Lawrence has served on and/or chaired a variety of committees, including Faculty Development, Program Review, Admission and Academic Standards. With Associate Professor of Mathematics Tina Mancuso, she has secured nearly $1 million in grant funding to promote girls’ participation in science, technology, engineering and mathematics via programs for middle and high school girls as well as scholarship funding at Sage. More recently, she has been the faculty lead for Sage Seminar and founding co-director of Sage’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

“I am greatly looking forward to serving as dean, working with students, faculty, other administrators and staff and my fellow alumnae,” said Lawrence. “I wish to express my gratitude to Donna Heald for her encouragement and assistance in this transition. I am sure you join me in wishing her well as she assumes the role of associate provost.”

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Top and bottom: Alumnae and students celebrate the kickoff of the $50 million Centennial Campaign for Sage Left and right: Gifts to the Centennial Campaign for Sage have supported a high-tech health sciences simulation center in McKinstry Hall (left) and the Manor Nutrition Lab in Mueller Science Hall (right), among other projects.

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susan c. scrimshaw, ph.d.

ADVANCING SAGE

Alumnae and students, faculty and staff, elected officials and community members celebrated on campus on March 5, when President Susan Scrimshaw announced that Sage is closing in on its goal to raise $50 million by its centennial in 2016. She made the announcement during a party to kick off the public phase of the Centennial Campaign for Sage.

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IN THE NEWS President Scrimshaw, pictured with four of her former doctoral students, received a Career Achievement award from the Society for Medical Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association annual conference in Washington, D.C., in December. Bestowed every other year, the award honors an individual who has advanced the field of medical anthropology through career-long contributions to theory or method, and who has been successful in communicating the relevance of medical anthropology to broader publics.

President Scrimshaw has been named co-chair of the Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, an initiative of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. In March, she led the Forum’s meeting on “Nursing and Midwifery Investment and Enterprise.” In the fall, she co-chaired a workshop, “Building Health Workforce Capacity Through Community-Based Health Professional Education.” An IOM report by the same name summarizes the presentations and discussions of this event.

President Scrimshaw delivered the keynote address to the Medical Anthropology Society of Switzerland in Basel, Switzerland, in June.

Student loan forgiveness could benefit students and colleges:

“It would help us in terms of being able to attract students and being able to say you can go into this program.”

Presidents Scrimshaw’s reaction to the closing of Sweet Briar College in Virginia was published by the Albany Times Union on March 21, 2015.

I am deeply saddened to hear the news of the closing of the distinguished women’s college Sweet Briar in Virginia.

Women’s colleges continue to be highly successful in producing a vast number of women leaders and in educating and empowering women to have meaningful lives and careers. This loss leaves fewer such special environments where women can thrive.

We are fortunate here at Sage to have a strong family of colleges – the founding Russell Sage College for women, the coeducational Sage College of Albany, three graduate schools (Education, Health Sciences and Management), and the School of Professional and Continuing Education – which allows us to maximize opportunities for students by offering a wider range of majors to all students while also ensuring that Russell Sage is strengthened as a thought leader for women’s colleges.

Founded in 1916, Russell Sage College is proud of its commitment to educating women of influence and, as we head into our centennial, we are looking forward to being a model for women’s colleges in the 21st century.

Susan C. Scrimshaw President, The Sage Colleges Troy

—President Scrimshaw was quoted in a January 21, 2015 article in the Albany Business Review.

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Trustee Donna Esteves ’70, President Scrimshaw and Katie Giarratano ’17 at the public announcement of the Centennial Campaign for Sage.

Esteves gave Sage $10 million – the largest gift to Sage, ever – during the campaign’s silent phase, positioning the Centennial Campaign to become the most successful fundraising effort in Sage’s history.

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Sage Raises $42 Million Toward Goal of $50 Million by 2016

Elected officials, including Rensselaer County Executive Kathy Jimino (pictured) and New York State Assemblyman John McDonald, III attended the celebration. Jimino’s two daughters are Russell Sage College alumnae.

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Associate Professor of Management Eileen Brownell, Trustee Carrie Hillenbrandt and Dean of the School of Management Kimberly Fredericks, Ph.D., MPH, RD ’92.

Tanesha Beebe ’16, Marita Breen ’17 and Katie Giarratano ’17 represented Russell Sage College’s student government executive board. Student government contributed $25,000 dollars to the Centennial Campaign, to create an endowed scholarship fund for future Russell Sage students.

Donna Rose Hall French ’71 and Trustees Patricia Timpano Sparrell ’78, Julia L. Greenstein, Ph.D., ’77, Jennifer Flather ’86 and Judith Bopp Campisi ’80 toast to the record-breaking campaign.

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he Centennial Campaign for Sage raised $40 million toward its $50 million goal since the campaign’s quiet phase began in 2011, said President Scrimshaw to a jubilant crowd gathered in Bush Memorial Center in March. By May, the total was more than $42 million.

The Centennial Campaign for Sage will support academic programs, facility renovations and upgrades, and an endowment for faculty and campus needs.

In fact, during the quiet phase, gifts to support scholarships and academic programs have helped increase the endowment by more than 30 percent. A lecture series has been established at the Esteves School of Education and improvements have been made to campus including Avery’s Garden and Gretchen’s Garden; a high-tech health sciences simulation center in McKinstry Hall; the new Manor Nutrition Lab in Mueller Science Hall; and extensive renovations to the library, now known as the Shea Learning Center.

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$14.5 million 2000

$17.3 million 1994

Margaret Olivia Slocum Sage started Russell Sage College in 1916 with a gift of $500,000. $500,000 in 1916 has a value today of almost $11 million.

Previous Capital Campaigns: Students & Scholars (1994) raised $17.3 million.

Project Jumpstart (2000) raised $14.5 million.

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faculty news MORE at sage.edu/spotlight.

Physical Therapy Researches Interventions After Traumatic Brain Injury Sage’s Department of Physical Therapy has embarked on collaborative research with Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital in Schenectady, New York.

The project will extend educational opportunities for Doctor of Physical Therapy students and has the potential to improve therapeutic treatment and outcomes for people with a traumatic brain injury.

Sunnyview recently acquired a TheraStride System, a very high-tech treadmill that when used in conjunction with a therapy called locomotor training has dramatically improved some people’s ability to walk after a spinal cord injury. The TheraStride supports a person’s upper body weight as a specially trained physical therapist moves the patient’s legs to simulate walking. With this continued treatment, a person’s nervous system can relearn the motor patterns that make walking possible. At Sunnyview, one gentleman, who several years after a spinal cord injury could move short distances with a walker, has progressed to longer distances with crutches.

Most of the research on body weight supported treadmill and locomotor training has been completed with individuals with a spinal cord injury, but Sunnyview physical therapists believe that it can benefit people with a traumatic brain injury and they reached out to Sage to help establish this scientifically. Moriello Assistant Professors of Physical Therapy Gabriele Moriello, Ph.D., and Neeti Pathare, Ph.D., have studied body weight supported treadmills in the past. Last year they and former students won an award from the New York Physical Therapy Association for research on how walking backward on a body weight supported treadmill improved mobility for someone with a spinal cord injury.

Now they along with Associate Professor James Pathare Brennan, Ph.D., and 12 DPT students are designing a study that will investigate whether body weight supported treadmill and locomotor training has potential to improve balance, gait, cardiopulmonary status, community integration and physical self-concept for people with a traumatic brain injury.

The research team will apply locomotor training protocols developed for use with people recovering from spinal cord injuries to people recovering from traumatic brain injuries Brennan being treated at Sunnyview. The protocols were developed by the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation NeuroRecovery Network: “Though the NeuroRecovery Network targets individuals with spinal cord injuries, it supports neurorecovery in other populations,” said Moriello. “But use of this protocol with traumatic brain injury has not been evaluated before now.”

The students will learn the principals of locomotor training and analyze some data from this research for their capstone project. When the full study concludes in two years, it will inform conference and journal papers.

This type of collaborative research is an important way that Sage engages with the community said Moriello. “We need clinicians’ ideas, and they need us as researchers to carry out the studies and make sure the methodology is sound.”

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Theresa Hand OTD, OTR/L, CHT has been named dean of the School of Health Sciences. A faculty member since 1993, she has served as chair and program director of the Occupational Therapy program and held leadership roles in health care Hand organizations. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy from the University of New Hampshire; a master’s degree in Health Services Administration from Sage; and an OTD from Creighton University. A Certified Hand Therapist, she was a member of the Evidence Based Practice Sub Committee for the American Society of Hand Therapists and an item writer for the Certified Hand Therapy Exam.

“Young Adolescents’ Views of Engineering: Immediate and Longer-lasting Impressions of a Video IntervenJennings McIntyre tion,” by Sybillyn Jennings, Ph.D., professor of psychology, Julie McIntyre, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology, and Sarah Butler, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychology, was published in the Journal of Career Development. Their research Butler reveals the difficulty of dispelling some stereotypes around women in engineering and methods to educate young people about STEM. Associate Professor of Psychology Gayle Skawennio Morse, Ph.D., was elected chair of the Board for Psychology in the Public Interest for 2016-2017. This board oversees 10 of 39 standing committees of the American Psychological Morse Association.

retiring faculty honored Sage saluted retiring members of the faculty and administration at a recognition dinner in May. Susan Cloninger, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology 36 years Nancy DeKorp, Ed.D. Assistant Professor, Education 11 years

Remembering Cheryl MacNeil Cheryl MacNeil, Ph.D., associate professor of occupational therapy, died peacefully in Vienna, Austria, on April 24. She was diagnosed with cancer in 2012 and had recently traveled to Vienna to seek alternative treatment with support from Sage students, faculty, staff and friends. “She provided an example to all of us of courage and persistence,” said President Scrimshaw.

A committed researcher herself, MacNeil inspired students to pursue their own interests and taught skills to design and implement research ideas in courses including Research Methods for the Health Professions and Research Seminars I and II. Many of her students received research awards and a team of students recently presented at the American Occupational Therapy Association National Conference.

MacNeil collaborated with colleagues within Occupational Therapy and across disciplines. She and Theresa Hand wrote a curricular evaluation published in the fall 2014 edition of the American Journal of Occupational Therapy and presented at the national educational summit for the profession. MacNeil and Professor of Psychology Patricia O’Connor, Ph.D., created a Drug Free Community Coalition Mentor Program with grant support from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. She was active on various governance committees and the Institutional Review Board at Sage, and known regionally and nationally for her work supporting the mental health peer support and recovery community.

A memorial service was held on campus on May 7. “Cheryl asked that people tell stories,” said Barbara Thompson, OTD, LCSW, OTR/L, professor of Occupational Therapy. “She knew that stories unite communities, and her final wish was that we remember her within the fabric of her multiple and interconnected communities.”

Connell Frazer, Ph.D. Director of Special Projects 29 years Esther Haskvitz, PT, Ph.D., ATC Dean, School of Health Sciences 11 years Sybillyn Jennings, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology 39 years

commencement

Nancy Sothern Mueller ’65, founder of Nancy’s Specialty Foods, delivered an inspiring commencement address at Sage’s 98th commencement ceremony on May 16. Sage awarded degrees to 797 graduates and honorary degrees to Mueller; former Russell Sage nursing professor Madeline Kennedy, who works to raise awareness and funds and to advocate for people living with Lou Gehrig’s disease; and to David Alan Miller, Grammy Award-winning conductor of the Albany Symphony Orchestra, whose educational outreach has established the orchestra as a complete arts resource for the community.

View photos and watch the archived webcast at Sage.edu/commencement.

Students Present Research at National Conferences

Moutray, Baecker, Loskowitz, Skotnes, Brenenstuhl and Miller

Margaret Brenenstuhl ’16 (Public Policy, Advocacy, and Civic Engagement), Sierra Miller ’15 (Sociology) and Jessica Loskowitz ’17 (Nutrition) presented “Honors Education and the Oxford-Style Tutorial” at the National Collegiate Honors Council Conference in Denver in November. Andor Skotnes, Ph.D., professor of history, David Baecker, MFA, associate professor of theatre, and Tonya Moutray, Ph.D., associate professor of English and Honors Program director, also participated on the panel. The conference attracts scholars from around the country to present research, collaborate and engage in honors program development. The Russell Sage College team discussed the OxfordStyle tutorial, which pairs three to five students and a professor in a writing and research intensive, student-driven course of study. Based on the Williams College model, the OST at Sage has become a signature of the Honors program, mostly because students are drawn to the topics that professors are passionate about.

Brenenstuhl, Miller and Loskowitz were among 18 students who presented at conferences this year and/or had their work published.

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Don’t Iron While the Strike is Hot! Women’s Labor Leader Still Inspires Troy By Duncan Crary

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isten carefully in Troy and you’ll even- workers a 25 percent wage increase along tually hear someone say, “Don’t iron with improvements such as opening the while the strike is hot.” windows to allow in fresh air, Sheehan said.

To an outsider, this mixedup idiom may sound like a slip of the tongue. It’s actually a slogan inspired by Kate Mullany, an Irish immigrant who founded America’s first successful all-female labor union to improve 19th century working conditions in Troy’s industrial laundries.

Last year, playwright Ruth Henry’s musical about Mullany, Don’t Strike While the Iron is Hot!, premiered with a local cast in Bush Memorial Center at Russell Sage College. She’s working to bring the production to other cities to spread this Troy-made story of pre-suffragette women’s empowerment. But staging the play at the college was especially moving because many of the characters are the same age as the students, she said.

Mullany was in her early 20s when she led a weeklong strike in 1864 to improve the low wages, long hours and brutal environment that she and other laundresses endured in the textile factories that earned Troy its “Collar City” nickname.

Poster designed by Troy artist Erica Redling to commemorate the “These were sweatshops,” 150th anniversary of the strike led by Kate Mullany. said Kathryn Sheehan, Rensselaer County and City of Troy historian. “When you look at the At the time, unions often disbanded after photographs, you see the women packed an action but the Collar Laundry Workingin like sardines. They didn’t open windows women’s Association more than doubled for them. They were working with lye and its membership. Under Mullany’s leaderchemicals and heat.” ship, the Troy union supported actions as The strike succeeded in gaining collar far away as New York City and provided

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financial support to the Iron Molders Union in 1866 and to the Brick Layer’s Union in 1868.

In 1869, the Collar Laundry union went on a second strike that dragged on for four months. That time, however, the manufacturers had formed their own trade association that could outlast the workers. The union dissolved after the failed strike but its actions established a model for other successful efforts by organized women’s unions around the country.

Mullany became the first woman to serve as an officer of a national union when the National Labor Union named her assistant secretary in 1868. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, in 2000.

Last February, on the 150th anniversary, period costumed Sage students joined local residents at the Rensselaer County Historical Society to re-enact the laundresses’ strike. About 60 men and women marched through the streets of Troy to the winter farmers’ market, where they handed out educational flyers about Kate Mullany.

The American Labor Studies Center in Troy is also doing its part to keep the history alive. The educational nonprofit provides teachers with standards-based resources and strategies for integrating labor history into the K-12 curriculum. ALSC also sponsors other educational and cultural activities, including

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the production of Don’t Strike While the Iron is Hot! at Sage.

The organization is restoring The Kate Mullany House at 350 8th St. as an Affiliated Unit within the National Park System.

On July 15, 1998, First Lady The Kate Mullany House in Troy is a National Hillary Rodham Clinton dediHistoric Site designated by Congress. Photo Scene from Don’t Strike While The Iron is Hot!, by Ruth Henry performed on cated the house as a National provided by American Labor Studies Center. campus in 2014. Photo provided by American Labor Studies Center.

Historic Landmark. As U.S. Senator, Clinton co-sponsored a a “Handmade in Troy” label.

“I think a lot about Kate Mullany and all bill with Congressman Mike

In many ways, `e ko logic embodies the women who were using their hands and McNulty to designate the home as a the working conditions that Mullany and fingers and eyes to make beautiful things National Historic Site. The bill passed her union fought for in Troy.

The small in Troy when we make beautiful things in both houses of Congress in 2004. company employs five women and two men Troy today,” she said. who launder, cut, sew and iron clothing in Continuing the Tradition: For information about Kate Mullany and the a well-lighted and clean atelier. Unlike the Women & Textiles in Troy Today Kate Mullany National Historic Site, visit harsh chemicals used in Mullany’s time, Mullany’s legacy lives on in Troy’s workKatemullanynhs.org. `e ko logic washes clothing with a natural spaces as well. Kathleen Tesnakis owns cleansing agent that’s gentle on skin and the `e ko logic, a clothing maker in the historic Duncan Crary is the host of A Small American City, environment. Work schedules are flexible. a podcast featuring the characters who enliven the Frear’s Troy Cash Bazaar building at Tesnakis works to teach her customers city of Troy. Listen at asmallamericancity.com.

1 Fulton St. Tesnakis’ sweaters, dresses and how to value her craft and those who do it hats made from repurposed cashmere are for a living in this country. sold around the world, each sporting

ask abby A Very Royal Visitor Over the years Russell Sage College has hosted memorable visitors. Alumnae who were students in 1959 frequently reminisce about a noteworthy guest that year.

1959 marked the 350th anniversary of the explorations of Henry Hudson and Samuel de Champlain. To celebrate, the Iris-Ann Hubbard, Gretchen Grever, Patricia Jones U.S. Congress established the Hudson-Champlain Celebration Princess Beatrix’s motorcade arrives on campus.

Robinson, Carla Brockway, Princes Beatrix, Rachel Commission and a number of similar committees were created Wiznitzer, Mary Jane Bermingham, Phyllis Smith at the local level. Together, these groups planned balls, pagand Virginia Allen in the French House garden. eants, parades and festivals, which were held throughout the year. The highlight of the celebration was the visit of Princess Beatrix of the Netherlands in September.

Jones Robinson ’60, Virginia Allen ’60 and Rachel Wiznitzer, an exchange Princess Beatrix arrived in New York City for her 10-day state tour of student from the Netherlands. Other guests included J.H. van Roijen, the the Hudson Valley on September 11, 1959. She arrived in Albany on Netherlands ambassador to the U.S.; Philip Young, the U.S. ambassador to September 18. the Netherlands; Congressman Dean P. Taylor; Gordon L. Banker from the At the time, Princess Beatrix was a student at the University of Leiden and Hudson-Champlain Celebration Commission; and Troy residents Mr. and Mrs. was interested in meeting college students. On September 20, she travAlbert Cluett and Mr. and Mrs. John Pell. Princess Beatrix and the students eled by car to Troy after attending services at the Dutch Reformed Church talked about college and social customs. She was especially interested in the in Albany. Crowds, including children dressed in traditional Dutch clothing, Student Government Association. In the course of the conversation, Princess greeted the royal party as they drove through the city. Many Russell Sage Beatrix noted “the universities in Netherlands place a great deal of emphasis students were in the crowd to welcome the princess. on examination grades, rather than on compulsory attendance at lectures.”

Russell Sage College President Lewis Froman hosted the princess for a luncheon at French House, which at the time was called International Do you have a question about Russell Sage College’s history?

House. Eight students attended: Gretchen Grever ’60, Iris-Ann Hubbard ’61, Send it to archives@sage.edu. Questions may be answered in Mary Jane Bermingham ’60, Phyllis Smith ’61, Carla Brockway ’60, Patricia future Connections columns by Abby Stambach.

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doing more Nursing Professor, Graduate Students and Alumnae Serve in Guatemala

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he Glens Falls Medical Mission organizes teams of medical professionals who provide health care in Nueva Santa Rosa, Guatemala, every spring and fall. Out of approximately 30 health care professionals who traveled with the mission last October, eight were nurses affiliated with Russell Sage College. These included Graduate Nursing Program Director and Assistant Professor of Nursing Madeline Cafiero, Ed.D., SGS ’96, on her second trip; graduate students Michele Harding, Ashley Saville, Pam Casey, Wendy Parinno, Angela Thomas and Analene Bumbury; and Nurse Practitioner Sandy Rexhouse SGS ’93, who has volunteered with the mission since 2002.

Cafiero first learned about the Glens Falls Medical Mission while teaching in Sage’s RN to BSN program, held on site at Glens Falls Hospital and said the opportunity appealed to her interest in ways to apply her nursing practice to social justice needs (In addition to teaching,

Cafiero provides health care at Albany’s Interfaith Partnership for the Homeless and previously saw patients at Joseph’s House & Shelter in Troy, Covenant House in New York City, and other human service agencies.)

After her first trip with the mission in 2013, Cafiero knew the experience could be valuable for her graduate students, experienced nurses seeking Family Nurse Practitioner certification. Several joined her on the fall 2014 mission and were able to earn credit toward clinical requirements. “It is wonderful to be immersed in another culture and see health care in a developing nation, especially one where women’s and children’s health has been identified as a priority by the public health ministry,” said Cafiero. The volunteers coordinated with the health ministry to run the clinic, and treated nearly 1,200 patients over five days.

Back row: Madeline Cafiero, Angela Thomas, Sandy Rexhouse and Ashley Saville. Front row: Michele Harding, Pam Casey, Analene Bumbury and Wendy Parinno.

For more information, visit gfmmf.org.

Pre-Med Student Shadows Doctors During Winter Break in Thailand

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Samantha Busold, right, with Gap Medics colleagues.

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re-Med/Forensic Science major Samantha Busold ’16 spent winter break shadowing physicians at Maharaj Hospital and McCormick Hospital in Chiang Mai, Thailand: One day found her observing up close as a surgeon performed a complicated jaw surgery. Another day, she assisted a physician treating a Buddhist monk for an inner ear complaint, and on another day she sat in on medical school lectures for future pediatricians. By the end of her four-week stay, she had experienced several medical disciplines including pediatrics; ear, nose and throat; general surgery; emergency medicine; and forensic pathology, the area

in which she eventually hopes to practice.

Busold – who also observed health care professionals at a Troy-area hospital this year – said the experience helped her fulfill “shadowing” requirements for her major and learn about another culture.

Outside the hospital, she enjoyed visiting an elephant sanctuary and said that New Year’s Eve at the Royal Park Rajapruek gardens, with fireworks and thousands of paper lanterns floating to the sky, was a highlight.

She found the opportunity through Gap Medics, an organization that helps connect health sciences students to opportunities in developing nations.

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Ivanna Ramos Figueroa ’11 Brings Medical Care to Madagascar Aboard Africa Mercy Hospital Ship

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hen Ivanna Ramos Figueroa boarded a hospital ship in the Canary Islands in September, it was the culmination of a goal she set as a nursing student at Russell Sage. In 2009, she wrote an essay for Connections about studying in Spain, and included her desire to bring health care to developing countries after graduation. “It’s the exact type of work that I hoped to be involved in, back when my piece in Connections was published,” she said from a deck on Africa Mercy, which provides free medical attention to the poorest parts of Africa.

Figueroa began her career on a general surgical unit at Rochester General Hospital before she and her husband – a United States Coast Guard veteran – joined the volunteer crew of Africa Mercy.

Despite the preparation necessary to relocate from upstate New York to a floating hospital in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, nothing went as planned, said Figueroa. But that’s been part of the adventure.

The couple originally expected to serve in Guinea and Benin; they were en route to meet Africa Mercy when they learned the ship would sail to Toamasina, Madagascar, instead, due to the Ebola outbreak in Guinea (Africa Mercy does not have

the isolation wards necessary to respond to Ebola.) Ruben Figueroa’s job changed from deckhand to security officer. The change in destination meant a delay before Ivanna Figueroa could start working as a nurse. She was temporarily reassigned to the ship’s dining room, and then crowd control, once Africa Mercy arrived in port and thousands of people showed up seeking medical attention. Since the hospital is seasonal, she and her colleagues had to unpack it before they began seeing patients. Once it was up and running, Figueroa was assigned to a ward specializing in pediatric orthopedics, a new area of practice for her. But her ward’s medical specialty changed several times while in Madagascar; she later worked with patients who had surgeries after they survived severe burns from house fires or cooking accidents. Africa Mercy ultimately provided more than 1,700 surgeries and 8,000 dental procedures and healthcare education programs during its stay in Madagascar, through the spring. (After maintenance in Durban, South Africa, Africa Mercy will return to Madagascar in August and remain through mid-2016.)

Figueroa found nursing on the ship to be slower paced than in a typical American hospital in some ways, yet more

Ivanna Figueroa first learned of Mercy Ships as a Russell Sage student, when she represented Sage’s Intervarsity Christian Fellowship chapter at its national conference about opportunities to address social justice needs around the world. “The ingenuity of the Mercy Ships model attracted me,” she said of the international charity that uses a ship to bring health care to areas of great need and allows health care professionals to connect with an existing service community.

“I remember exactly what I was thinking when I decided to spend four years at Russell Sage: ‘I will grow as a woman here,’” said Ivanna Figueroa. “I’ve always been a compassionate person, but my classes gave me something to be passionate about and revealed injustice around the world,” she said. Opportunities to study abroad, perform in theatre productions and work as a resident assistant in the dorms complemented her nursing education. “I learned that it takes my initiative to make a difference. If I just get a little more involved, I can be a leader.”

intense in other ways. There were no call bells beckoning her to another patient every few minutes and each child had a family member that remained with them to help with care. “There is no break room or nursing station to escape to; we are in the ward with the patients the whole time.

There are fewer distractions, no computers and no private rooms,” she wrote from Africa Mercy. “We focus on the whole person. When we get a horrifically scarred burn patient, we are able to restore function, but more than that we love them unconditionally and they often go through spiritual and emotional healing as well.”

She described the memory card games she played with one young patient. “We are speaking different languages, but we speak back and forth as if we are communicating, and I feel like I understand her. Nursing is a way to care for people that transcends borders, nationalities and cultures.”

Read Figueroa’s blog about her work on Africa Mercy at http://thisdust neversettles.blogspot.com.

Learn more about Mercy Ships at Mercyships.org.

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alumnae association This past winter was like a guest that very much overstayed a visit. You could not wait until you said goodbye. By the time you read this letter, I hope that one of the worst winters in terms of cold and snow is a distant memory. I hope you have welcomed spring with gusto!

With spring comes Rally Day, and many of us have fond memories of all the work, fun and class spirit that connect us all. This year, we asked you to share the spirit of Rally by doing community service wherever you may live. Alumnae all over the country volunteered at food pantries, donated their time and talent at community-based agencies, and joined walks and runs for their favorite charity. Many of you wore your Russell Sage colors proudly during those events, showing how we “do” for others.

The concept of melding our career and service to others is deeply rooted in who we are as Russell Sage women. For example, this edition of Connections contains news of Ivanna Ramos Figueroa ’11 who helps to bring medical care to the people of Madagascar, and a team of nursing faculty, students and alumnae who recently traveled to Guatemala with the Glens Falls Medical Mission. Our college continues to grow, as you will also see in Connections, providing state-of-the-art educational experiences that will lead to successful careers tomorrow for the students of today.

This is my last letter to you as president of the Russell Sage College Alumnae Association. It is truly amazing how four years have gone by so quickly. I have written to you about my experiences meeting many of you, whether it was at Reunion, at one of our outreach events, or even in my own personal travels. I told you how we became instant friends, sharing experiences unique to RSC no matter when we attended. I also have shared with you what we have done to connect you to the college and each

other, from the class of 1928 to the class of 2015. Our outreach has fully embraced all of the newer modalities of Helen Rodriguez Burmaster ’78 social media, providing us with an ability to reach many of you with the push of a button. We have increased the quality and quantity of programming offered in collaboration with the college, and as a result, many more of you attend.

To get all this work done, I have been lucky to have the help of a very talented group of women serving on the association board. I am forever indebted to them for sharing their talents and giving their time to help Russell Sage and our alumnae association grow strong and vibrant.

In conclusion, as I have stated in several of my letters to you, please stay in touch. Let our alumnae office know where you are and what you are doing.

Come to campus to visit, participate in area alumnae events, get together with other alumnae for a cup of coffee and keep our Sage connection alive. If you meet alumnae through a casual encounter, let us know – even take a picture with your cell phone, and send it to us. Contact the Alumnae Relations Office at (518) 244-2242 or email rscalum@sage.edu with your updates, to request information on upcoming events or to become more involved.

I will forever be grateful to you, my fellow alumnae, for giving me this wonderful opportunity. I got so much more than I ever imagined. I will see you around!

Helen Rodriguez Burmaster ’78 President, Russell Sage College Alumnae Association

Help the Sage Archives Many images in the Archives & Special Collections photo collection — like this one of the 1973-1974 swim team — are of unidentified people or events.

Please visit library5.sage.edu and leave a comment if you recognize the people, places or events depicted.

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Rosemarie Adinolfi Hamilton ’53 sent this photo of President Scrimshaw and alumnae from Southern California, at a luncheon at the Hotel del Coronado in San Diego.

The Russell Sage College Alumnae Association hosted a luncheon and tour of the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in March.

Bonnie Maxon ’65, Nan Feeney Lance SGS ’73, a guest, Ann Mattioli ’67 and Ann Kielly ’65.

Dina Zandri Astemborski ’83 and Maureen Casale Mainello ’83.

Marjorie Dunn ’72 and Vale Laraia ’72.

Connections magazine loves to receive photos of alumnae gatherings, weddings and other milestones for Class Notes. Please send digital photos in jpeg format that are at least 3” x 5” at 300 dpi (or 900 x 1500 pixels). This will ensure that your photos print clearly in the magazine.

Photos can be submitted to your class correspondent or to connections@sage.edu.

Visit Sage.edu/alumni/rsc/events for upcoming events, including Lobsta’fest in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, July 19.

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Class Notes cart and well-prepared undergrads to take me to activities.

I was treated royally. The girls wanted to hear about what Sage was like when we were there. Later I received a thank you note from an undergrad for telling her what life was like when I was at Sage. It is clear that they share the same enthusiasm that I still feel about RSC. The college continues to have a collection of interesting old and new buildings, pleasant gardens and respect for self and the community. The campus 1935: Jeanne Kwiatkowska Korkosz on her 101st birthday with was active with alumnae in her daughter-in-law Heidi and son Art. their class colors. Our class lost some members since five years ago.

However, during those five years, our Jeanne Kwiatkowska Korkosz celebrated class gave a total of $550, representing 17 her 101st birthday in October! Her percent of the class members. That $550 daughter-in-law writes that her diploma is considered generous at our age and with hangs on her living room wall and that she so many of us in retirement homes. Our frequently speaks with fondness about her next Reunion is in 2019. I hope to see you days at Russell Sage. then!”

Please send your news to: connections@ Please send your news to: Polly sage.edu “Pauline” Soper Minehan, 671 Lakeside Circle #323, Pompano Beach, FL 33060; 954-783-7733

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Bernice Squires Cohen of Hanover, NH, passed away peacefully in 2014 at her home at Wheelock Terrace. She was 99 years old and was with her daughter, Leila Cohen ’71, and her son. She also leaves two grandchildren.

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Edna Ryan Wells is now president for the Class of 1939. She attended Reunion in 2014, and sent the following report: “The class of 1939 was the oldest class at the Russell Sage College Reunion in 2014. It was our 75th year. Of the 138 graduates in 1939, the alumnae office had addresses for 23 members. I wrote to each one and six replied. As the only member of our class there, I was the oldest grad in attendance.

I was privileged to be seated next to the husband of our Russell Sage president at lunch on Saturday. The Saturday night dinner was in the gym, beautifully decorated with Japanese lanterns suspended overhead, fresh flowers and beautiful table linens in pink and orange. So summery!

It was a gorgeous setting for a marvelous meal. I had a great time, but I missed my classmates. The college provided a golf

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Please send your news to: Elizabeth “Betty” Cummings, 6 Church Street, West Boylston, MA 01583-1603; 508-8353774; beamancummings@charter.net

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Elizabeth “Biff” Ogden passed away on March 6. We extend our sympathy to her family.

Please send your news to: Eleanor Jordan Mason, 6 Sunrise Drive, Morris Plains, NJ 07950; 973-538-7626; eleanormason@optimum.net

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Please send your news to: Muriel L. Wilhelm, 78 Sproul Hill Road, Bristol, ME 04539-3211; 207-563-3122

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Virginia Harrison Cranch reported the passing of her husband, Edmund Cranch, Ph.D., in February.

Judith Littman Wax wrote to fill alumnae in on what she has been up to all these years! “After graduation, I moved to New York City to work for the Office of War Information; then in 1947 I married Oscar Wax, whom I met in Troy, NY. We met at the Jewish Community Center, down the street from French House, where I was living during college. As a deferment from the armed services, Oscar was working at the Watervliet Arsenal; nevertheless he did end up serving a few years in the Army. After our marriage, we moved back to Troy, to help my father run his small manufacturing business, contracting with various companies to produce ladies’ underwear, T-shirts and hospital undergarments. Oscar took over when my father retired, and continued to manage the factory until his own retirement … Until our three daughters were adolescents, I was mostly a full-time housewife and mother, though occasionally I worked as a substitute teacher for the local elementary schools, and was active in synagogue committees and community activities. Then I returned to Russell Sage to earn my Master of Science in Education; soon after that, I went to work as a technical and policy writer for the New York State Departments of Education and Transportation before retiring. After living in Troy for over 30 years, my husband was diagnosed with lung cancer, and we left our beloved ranch home on 24th Street to join a retirement community in Raleigh, NC, near my oldest daughter and son-inlaw. Oscar died about seven months later, and I continue to reside in North Carolina.

I would enjoy hearing from my classmates at 9504 Erinsbrook Drive, Raleigh, NC 27617.” Judith writes that she would especially like to hear from Lee Scudder Beyer, Peggy Pedolski, Roselle Levy and Betty Golden Stark.

Please send your news to: connections@ sage.edu

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Marjorie Long Mowrey recovered from July surgery as her daughter Amy helped her enjoy all the lights, people and noise on the Jersey shore boardwalk, including visits to the pool. Sounds like a fun-filled way to recover.

Our adventurous Vera Cohen Lee has been in Cuba researching Afro-Cuban

Class Notes and comparisons with the present day. (She has promised to vote for me, “Elizabeth Warren,” if I decide to run.)

She and Phil are looking to independent living “as soon as we sell our house.” Sound familiar?

I’ve moved back into my home so please note my correct address. All the fam1950: Marie Corrado and friend Pat Gilder with Sage’s volleyball team. ily gathered in Vermont last August for a memorial to Bill. music. We look forward to more on that in It was a sad reunion, but we enjoyed each the next Connections. Timely escape from other’s company and shared wonderful the Boston blizzards, Vee! memories. We included Bill’s favorite foods, My first great-grandchild (It’s a boy!) arso had lots of clam chowder, meatloaf, rived not long after my 90th, and I am sure brownies, ice cream and M&M’s. many of us have celebrated that milestone Betty Wiesner says she is used to being in by now. As Marjorie Mowrey, always control and doesn’t much like the reversal upbeat, advises, “Hang in there — we have … something about limiting (giving up?) a lot more ice cream to eat!” Please keep driving. Sound familiar? those cards and letters coming!

Eleanor “Ellie” Sapega Cochran sees Please send your news to: Ann Heddens her daughters and their families often. She Kingston, 645 Ridge View Drive, Loustill owns her home in Rhode Island but isville, CO 80027-3295; 303-604-6408; has moved into a local facility which has a ignatz1130@gmail.com lovely view of Narragansett Bay. Shirley Clapp Southworth had a busy 2014 with family visits at her home in Please send your news to: Sylvia Saarnijoki, San Diego. She also managed a visit to her 24 Holly House Court #4A, Litchfield, CT beloved family and friends in Virginia.

06759-3640; 860-567-5271; ssaarnijoki@ Harriet “Hattie” Blank Lapkin had a webtv.net lovely couple of weeks in Hawaii to celebrate Sam’s 90th and their 65th wedding anniversary.

Artist Rita Spina moved from North Caro Eleanor “Ellie” King Markel is my fellow lina to Portland, OR. Her sculptures have Washingtonian and we wondered if there been exhibited widely and are found in were other alumnae in our state. Ellie’s many private collections. husband, Lee, died in 2010. She is busy Please send your news to: Suzanne with family nearby and volunteer work.

Freedman Juster, Pacifica Forest Trace, She has contact with Barbara “Skip” Tyrell 5500 NW 69th Ave. Apt. 577, Lauderhill, Kelly who is reported to have been visitFL 33319; 954-722-5567; isjuster@aol.com ing a daughter in California. Skip kindly sent me a copy of her book, Growing Up in Lake Placid, and it was a delight to read about her skating, her town and especially, Messages from the college bring sad news her years at Sage and her memories of the of the deaths of Catherine Holland Joyce war years, when we were all in high school. in 2008; Harriet “Willie” Close Skipton I recommend her book. in September 2014; and Helene Briggs in Please send your news to: Elizabeth “Jay” February 2015. We send our sincere condoLee Warren, 46 West 25th Ave., Spokane, lences to their families and friends.

WA 99203; 509-995-1928; billandjay@ Elsie “Chick” Gaber Summit reported on hotmail.com her annual lunch with Marjorie “Midge”

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Schwartz Lewis. Both ladies report busy lives with travels, and children and grandchildren. Chick and her husband move for the summer to an independent living facility in Wellesley and spend winters in Florida.

They have a couple of wee granddaughters, Lucy and Emma. Midge and I have had several long phone calls about what we remember of the political world of the 1940s,

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It is with deep sadness that we report the passing of Jane Wardwell Roberts in February, in Keene, NH. She was a devoted and generous alumna who will be missed by her class and the entire Russell Sage College community.

Please send your news to: Bret Movsky, 221 Warrington Dr., Rochester, NY 14618; 585-244-7095; brmovsky@yahoo.com

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To celebrate Russell Sage College’s 100th anniversary and our 65th Reunion year in 2016, class president Rose DelNegro Weaver, past correspondent Flossie Hinkle Frommer and new correspondent, me, Jane McKersie, are trying to contact every member of our class. We hope to have something about each of us in the next three issues of Connections. For this issue we have reached over one third of our classmates. It has been lots of work but a wonderful experience.

My Sage junior sister, Melissa Chapin Tobakos ’49, and my freshman sister, Pat Walker Mulholland ’53, are correspondents for their classes. It is the great job that Pat does with her class that inspired me to try this for our class.

Helen Miller Wick and her husband, Jim, live on Cape Cod. He is active with community affairs. Helen says she keeps house and home to keep up with him. I love her expression for her way of life — she just moves the broom to a different spot. Their son and his wife and two grandchildren fill their lives with joy.

Joan Mende Reineke lives in Canandaigua, NY. She taught physical education for 28 years before retiring. She and her husband are active in community affairs and church. Joan has a daughter who graduated from Keuka College, as did my sister, so we had a chance to compare notes about a different women’s college.

Faith Meyer was sitting by the fire with her cat, enjoying life when I called. She has organized the Sage Lobsta’fest for 29 years.

If you have not had a chance to attend one of these events, you have missed a great time. Maine in July, lobster, the waterfront … for what more can one ask? Faith was in the Physical Education Department at Sage for 32 years. She loves “Maine, the way life should be.” The 2015 Lobsta’fest is on July 19.

I had a wonderful talk with Marcia Schayer Waitzman. She and her poethusband are happy and well in Angus, NY. Marcia was an auditor for the Department of Social Security before retiring. She likes playing bridge and reading. Her husband is looking for a good publisher. Marcia told me that she returned from Brazil for our fifth Reunion. At a party a few days afterward, she met her husband and has been here ever since. Wonderful!

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Class Notes Don Bowes and I sat through many history classes together. It was super to reconnect with him. He added so much to our class discussions. He is a retired lawyer who worked for New York state. He and his wife, Shirley, keep busy with their sons and grandson. Don is writing a family journal for his grandson. That is a great idea. He is 89 and going strong.

Joan Pierce Barrett and I had a great conversation. What an energetic, positive person she is. We both think that physical education at Sage contributed to our good health. When she graduated from Sage, she and Carol Baber Marshall and Carolyn Stevenson Bedford went to Boston to work. Joan worked for Liberty Mutual.

She met her husband at Liberty Mutual and they eventually ended up in Chicago.

After working for another insurance firm, she became the mother of three and stayed home until 1984. She then became part of an organization helping people recover from addiction. Joan handled the group’s business and assisted patients with insurance. What started out with 22 beds had more than 200 beds when Joan retired.

Joan lives alone; her husband, a WWII veteran, passed away. She drives to Maine every year to visit family and thinks of Sage when she passes Albany.

I had a great call from Elaine Lessen Ainspan. We try to keep in contact and I enjoy hearing from her. She is still in her own home in Albany. She, as with most of us, has had to cut back on her activities.

She lives near one of her sons, Steven, and his family with three grandchildren. Steven is with the New York State Department of Transportation. Elaine’s son Alan works with Major League Baseball in New York City. Elaine is on the board of auxiliary for the Daughters of Sarah Nursing Home in Albany. She has served on this board for many years. She wears her Sage ring every day and is happy when people notice it.

Lee Flecker Strichman’s family of 37 people celebrated her 85th birthday at their annual family gathering in Maryland.

The family had their first gathering in San Diego. Lee was pleased that this special occasion for her was in Maryland because she could make the trip from Schenectady.

She lives with her son and his family. Her two grandsons are a joy and a help to her.

Cynthia Silver Tepper and I laughed about the ways we are connected. One of the Teppers’ closest friends lives down the road from us and we did not know it for several years. I think we discovered it at our 50th Reunion. Also, her son lives in

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Lincoln, MA, and is director of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. I was active with our local conservation commission and we often worked with Audubon. If you are ever in our area go to Drummlan Farm in Lincoln. Great trails, farm, etc.

Cynthia is active with her synagogue and helps provide kosher meals for 200 people every week.

Jean Tutton Tamanian has lived in Clearwater, FL, for many years. As we were talking, seven feet of snow was reported in Buffalo, NY, Jean’s hometown.

Jean was laughing because she felt it was a cold day in Florida. It was in the 60s.

When Jean graduated she worked for over a year with the Girl Scouts. Sam Tamanian graduated from Union and worked for GE in Schenectady when they were first married. In 1966 GE sent Sam to Florida and they made their home there, where they loved the weather and golfing. They raised their children in Florida. Sam passed away nearly five years ago. Jean remains in her home. She had just had a physical when I called and was found to be in excellent health. She volunteers three days a week in the library. She drives more than five hours to visit her daughter in Tallahassee.

When I called Anne Gruver Robb she was getting ready to go to a book signing with her husband, Walt. He wrote a book about taking risks. Anne started as a secretary at GE when she graduated.

The Schenectady YWCA held dances for GE employees once a week. Anne went to one, met Walt and that was that. They lived in Milwaukee for 12 years when Walt was with GE’s medical systems division.

They returned to Schenectady where Walt worked with the Research and Development division of GE until he retired. Anne was a stay-at-home mom with three sons to care for and she volunteered for Ellis Hospital. They have a summer home on Lake George. Both she and especially Walt remain busy. Walt was on The Sage Colleges Board of Trustees for several years.

Carolyn Stevenson Bedford worked in Filene’s in Boston upon graduation. She roomed with Carol Baber Marshall and Joan Pierce Barrett. She married Clay “Pat” Bedford, an RPI grad and a civil engineer. Pat was in the Navy when they were first married. With his career as a civil engineer working on large projects they traveled a great deal. Carolyn and her family moved 29 times. Her favorite cities are Montreal, London and Laguna. When Pat retired they moved to Stevie’s home in Ayer’s Lake Farm in Barrington, NH. Pat

has some health issues so he is now in a nursing home in Portsmouth, NH. They have three children and nine grands. Carolyn still maintains the campground that is part of the farm.

I had a fascinating talk with Ann Coff MacKay. She is working hard to make people aware of some of the “hurtful things” in our society. She is concerned that people are not aware of the chemicals in the food we eat and drink, mandated injections and who drives our country and world into so many harmful projects.

I have not seen Dot Peregrim Tarasevich since we graduated. Great to talk with her.

She lost her husband and has trouble with arthritis but remains in the house they bought in 1965. She plays bridge every other week with friends she has had for years. She no longer cooks, but has family nearby and a caretaker who sees that she has dinner. I talked with her just before Thanksgiving and her son was making bread and her daughter cooking the turkey for the family celebration at her home. She sends her love to us all.

Betty Pels Schwartz has the same wonderful sense of humor she had in college. She taught physical education one year, hated it, went to secretarial school and worked on Wall Street in a research department. She got married in 1957, has four children, five grands. Her husband passed away four years ago. We compared notes on ways that our generation worked to make money for organizations in which we were interested. Betty worked for many years for Planned Parenthood, particularly within the immigrant community. She says that she worked weeks preparing for a tag sale. Now, there are galas. Working women cannot give the hours in the kitchen, booths, etc., that make up a tag sale, so they have a new way to make money, and Betty says they make more with less work.

Carol Baber Marshall was one of our three classmates to go to Boston after graduation along with Carolyn Stevenson Bedford, and she, too, worked at Filenes.

She married in Atlanta, raised a daughter, and until her retirement managed a home for elderly women. She is doing quite well with some health issues. She has had knee replacement, lost the sight of one eye and has back pain. However, she takes a day at a time. Her daughter lives nearby and they enjoy each other’s company.

Helene Wise Greenfest was a buyer for B. Altman after graduation. She married a teacher, went back to school to become a certified teacher, and taught seventh and

Class Notes eighth grade math in Queens. Her husband ran children’s camps in New York and Pennsylvania during the summers. Helene says he worked, she enjoyed a vacation.

She is now in an assisted living apartment where she does not have to cook or clean and she is doing fine. Her daughter lives less than 20 minutes away from her and she sees her often.

As with most of the rest of us, Dot McBain Adams is not as active as she once was. She went on for a master’s degree and taught middle school until she had a family. Upon retirement she was a volunteer ambassador at the Albany Airport and at the local library. She lost her husband 18 years ago. They had sold their big house and moved into a condo which is near her three children and four grands. The condo is also near a Y so she swims as often as she can.

Virginia Mills Dorsman lives in West Grove, PA. She was married the Easter Sunday of our senior year and lived with her husband in an apartment near the college until we graduated. She worked as a medical lab technician in a hospital until she got pregnant, and then became a full-time mom. When her son was in high school she started a dog training business.

She worked at this for 27 years. Now retired, she enjoys reading all the books she did not have time for while working.

She has two children, two grands and one great-grandchild. They all live in the west so she does not see them often.

Phyllis Nemtzow Dreifus lives in Los Angeles and loves it. She gets back east regularly and hopes to be at our 65th. She visits her brothers — one 97 and going strong, the other 90 and still playing tennis — and her 87-year-old sister. When she graduated she worked in New York and then Providence, RI. She worked in a brokerage firm in Boston for 12 years and loved it. She was secretary to one of the partners in the firm who was “just a wonderful boss.” She was 40 when she married and moved to California. Her husband, now deceased, had three children. They have a fine family relationship — the children do not live far from Phyllis which has been nice. She is busy. She described just one day in her life: She went to a meeting of the board of directors of the sisterhood for her temple; she played mahjong and won $1.50; she was going to a men’s club dinner at the temple. For 25 years she was part of a group that gave programs at convalescent homes. For the last three years she has been working with Jewish Family

Services to give bags of groceries to needy families, particularly during the High Holy Days. She belongs to a wonderful temple.

The rabbi has been named by U.S. News and World Report as the top pulpit rabbi in the U.S. She says that during the High Holy Days they can have 5,000 in the congregation at a Saturday evening service.

Sally Norris Douglass and I grew up together. Our families were friends, and we have been friends all of our lives. Sally married Bob Douglass while she was at Sage and he was at RPI. They lived in Rensselaerwick until Bob graduated and went to work. Sally moved into a dorm at Sage until she graduated. She was a Home Economics major, a decision she never regretted. She taught Home Economics for a year after graduating, took 16 years off to be a happy stay-at-home mom. When the children were at school Sally taught child growth and development at the local career center. When Bob was transferred to Maryland she stopped teaching. Bob passed away last year. She writes, “I have planned for my old age. If I were lucky enough to live to be 90, I would spend my days knitting, reading and doing Sudoku and crossword puzzles and eating chocolate. If I were concerned that I might not make it to 90, I would start sooner. Well, friends, I am taking no chances. I have started sooner. Dove Dark Chocolate Minis are the chocolate of choice.” Sally and I both are grateful that we had an opportunity to go Sage. We often speak of how fortunate we were to attend such a good school available to us because we lived in Troy.

Finally, I had a great experience talking with Alex Ishkanian and his mother Alice Kalajian Ishkanian. Alice has aphasia which affects her speech and writing. Alex held the phone and we three communicated with each other. It was wonderful.

Alex and Alice are exceptional people and I was honored to have this opportunity to be a part of this communication. Alice and I knew one another at Sage, but we really connected at Reunions. Her husband and mine are New Jersey boys and we had some good times laughing together. They live in Paramus, NJ. Alex, Sr., and Alice married in 1954 and had three sons. Alice got a master’s degree in teaching from William Patterson University — this school is within walking distance of my husband’s childhood home. She became an adjunct professor at five colleges in New Jersey, including William Patterson. She owned and operated a gift shop for 10 years in

Westwood. She is doing OK. Alex is there with her and she has help during the day when he is working as a school librarian. I was a school librarian. Wonder why we all connected so well! I am smiling at you as you read this Alice.

I had quite an adventure trying to find Ali Lou Colligan Barnhart. The alumnae office, particularly Joan Clifford, has been very helpful finding addresses and phone numbers. I sent a letter to an address given to me for Ali Lou and got the cutest phone call from Alice Barnhart, in Oregon, who is not Ali Lou. She has been getting Connections and other mail from the college and did not do anything to let Sage know it had the wrong address until she got my letter about being in the class of 1951. She thought it was time to call. “My mother was not even born in 1951!” Loved it. The gentleman in Sage’s advancement office who does searches found over 20 addresses for Alice Colligan Barnhart. I’ve tried two that seemed might be correct. The letters have been returned. I suspect that Ali Lou has passed away. She was not well the last time I talked with her, several years ago.

If any of you know anything about her would you let me know?

In closing, I want to tell you about the gracious notes and emails I received from the families of classmates who have passed away. Jim Humphreys responded immediately about his wife Mary Kelly Humphreys; Harriet Goodman Brooks’ daughter sent a lovely email — we both remember her mother as pretty mischievous and had a smile about that; Mary Ann Reardon LaFleur’s daughter Claire Hall sent an equally nice note. Marilyn Webster Roberts’ son Jon sent several pictures of Marilyn with friends at Sage.

We’ve managed to contact about a third of our class. We hope to get to the rest of you in the next year. We do not have phone numbers for everyone, but we will do our best. Rose, Flossie and I are doing OK. Flossie and her husband have moved to Florida. Please feel free to call or email me with any news.

Please send your news to: Jane McKersie; 978-256-0531 or 978-551-3786; admck@comcast.net

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Please send your news to: Mary Ellen Falter Davie, 119 Thorncliff Road Spencerport, NY 14559-2129; 585-352-3923 rpdavie@rochester.rr.com

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Jack and I celebrated our 60th wedding anniversary on December 27, 2014. Our whole family flew to Key Largo for three days. There are 14 of us: three daughters, two sons-in-law and seven grandchildren.

We rented a big house with a hot tub and a pool. It was wonderful to be together.

I received word from Sage that Blanche Franklin Kent passed away on January 4, and that Katharine “Kay” Giering Bush passed away on March 9. We extend our deepest sympathy to their families.

Jean Twiss Riley-Harris sent me a brief note after the new year saying they were on their way to Florida and it was cold, rainy and foggy as they passed through New Jersey. Bill’s last two CAT scans have been cancer-free which gives them a good reason to celebrate.

I was sad to find out that Charlotte Silver Leary would not be in Florida again this year. Ray’s health has not improved, and he’s still short of breath with the least exertion. She, Judy Spain Taber, Jean and I used to be the steady foursome that met in Fort Myers each year for lunch. Charlotte and Ray are approaching their 63rd anniversary. I think there are one or two of you who can even top that.

I called my roommate Ailyn Terada early in the new year. She spent Christmas week in New York City with her sister but was glad to get home and back into her routine. One of her neighbors comes in for a couple of hours each day to help Ailyn. Her eye problems prohibit her from driving. She still plays the oboe, but has difficulty getting to orchestra rehearsals.

I talked to Carolyn Welcher VanNess who lives in Rochester, NY. She had a career as a librarian and now volunteers at the public library and the Rochester Garden Center’s library. We chatted about the Garden Center because when we lived in Rochester we lived near the Garden Center and across from Highland Park known for its beautiful lilac trees. Carolyn has kept in touch with Barbara Dadson Carragher, but did not receive a Christmas card from her this year. I tried to reach Barbara several times by phone, but have never been successful. Carolyn has a son in the Albany area, so next Reunion she plans to combine a visit to him with our Reunion.

On the phone, Betty Field DelTufo sounds exactly like she did at Sage — full of energy. She is president of the ladies’ auxiliary of the Knights of Columbus and involved with Bingo because it is a money-

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maker for the group. She also volunteers at the hospice thrift shop. When she is not volunteering, she is going to plays and concerts. In the summer she travels to Connecticut to visit one of her sons and her daughter in New York City. Her sons from Arizona and Colorado visit her in Florida because they like her proximity to the ocean.

I had a nice chat with Marilyn Levinson Leopold, who lives in rural Arizona. When I called, she was sitting on her patio in a T-shirt. The weather here was in the low teens. We laughed about that. Marilyn worked as a physical education teacher for 33 years until she and her husband retired to Arizona 26 years ago. Marilyn has taken up horseback riding and belongs to a women’s riding group of 30 who take fiveday riding excursions. She also plays golf and tennis. The local community houses a well-known museum and has an active cultural center. Every year there is a big parade for Gold Rush Day and Marilyn rode her horse in the parade last year. Over the holiday one of her grandsons who speaks fluent Chinese came home from China where he is employed.

In January, Rosemarie Adinolfi Hamilton and her husband, Howard, attended a luncheon at the historic Hotel del Coronado in San Diego hosted by President Scrimshaw for Southern California Sage graduates. There were about 17 graduates in attendance from the year 1941, on. It was a stimulating day hearing an update on Sage and meeting other Southern California alumnae. Rosemarie says they will probably go back to Saratoga in the fall to meet their new great-granddaughter.

It is always exciting to get a note from Joan Crummey Firra because she is always off on a new adventure. This time she was on her way to Antarctica. She was ready to go with state-of-the-art thermals, socks and shirts. Boots and expedition jackets were to be supplied. The ship is the Sea Spirit and the expedition crew is made up of specialists in biology, ornithology and sea life. She will camp overnight on the continent; otherwise she will sleep on the ship and go into coves and icebergs by Zodiac boat. Joan has been invited to do a polar plunge. She may bring her swimsuit, but she does not like cold water. Joan is still working at the physical therapy clinic a full day and writing up another research project. She has a busy social schedule too.

I admire her spirit and energy.

On a sad note, Audrey DeSmidt Benson reported her sister, Barbara DeSmidt

Mucklow ’51, died in August. She had lupus and had not been feeling well for quite a while. We extend our sympathy to you Audrey. On the brighter side, Audrey spent September at the lake in Stockbridge, MA, with visits from her family. Christmas found her celebrating with her 2-year-old great-granddaughter. She has another great-grandchild due in June. When she wrote, she was looking forward to heading to Leesburg, FL. Both Liz Greene Hafler and I have been having computer problems. We think our dilemma is contagious. She spent the winter putting together a collection of songs from the 60s and 70s for the senior spring concert.

In spite of her bad back, Doris Rogers Rothman keeps going. She went to California for a week to be chief cook, bottle washer and chauffeur for her grandson Aaron while her son worked and her daughter-in-law went on a hiking trip with girlfriends to Peru. Doris believes she had the better time being with him than her daughter-in-law did on her vacation. Doris also spent a wonderful weekend in Tampa at the bar mitzvah of their other grandson Isaac. He is a star baseball player for his team in Tampa and a Tampa Bay fan.

Over the years he has become friendly with many of the players. The affair was held at their stadium with many of the team and auxiliaries in attendance. It was a joyous and happy affair. Doris wishes all our Blue Angels a happy and healthy 2015 with hopes and prayers for a peaceful world to come.

Barbara Parsons O’Keefe sent me an email with the following message about Fran Germonprez Paterson: “I just found out that my dear friend and roommate for four years at Sage passed away on May 26, 2014. She was diagnosed with lung cancer in March 2014. I tried to reach her after Christmas since I had not received a card.

We always talked in January. I found the phone was disconnected. Shortly thereafter, I received the note from her daughter.

Fran Germonprez was an outstanding person and a wonderful friend. She was a true leader in our class.” Our sympathy goes out to Fran’s family.

I have a hard time catching Betty Goddard Calabrese, but today she called me. She is retired and lives in a remodeled garage in Ormond Beach, FL. The last time I talked to Betty she was overseeing the care of her brother who had Parkinson’s disease. He has since died. She and a friend took a trip to Michigan last summer. Betty

Class Notes has five sons. One of them pans for gold in Alaska near Denali. Betty is fine, but she does wear an alert button around her neck in case she falls. If she falls, she has a problem getting up on her feet again because of her knees. She hasn’t fallen in two years, but in the past she has fallen and damaged her shoulders and back. This has a familiar ring to it.

When I called Marie Liston Lawton in Pittsfield, MA, she was recovering from the flu. If you remember, Marie was married when she was in school and had her first baby in spring break of her junior year.

Her husband worked for GE and they moved a lot. When Marie’s last child was in high school she went to work as a lab tech. Marie is active in the women’s college club, which has a general meeting every month as well as various interest groups that meet in the members’ homes.

“Rise and Shine,” I said into the phone and Nancy Phillips Wood said, not missing a beat after all these years, “Hi, Pat.” Nancy had an eventful year. In August she had a pacemaker installed and she still had trouble with the rhythm of her heartbeat.

Nevertheless she and her daughter went to Italy for two weeks in December to visit her grandson and his family. Charles stayed at home. He has trouble with his sight so Nancy is driving these days. This year their church and their family celebrated the 60th anniversary of Charles’ ordination into the ministry. It was a joyous occasion. Nancy and I talked about Peggy Weaver Idell. Nancy visited her in the nursing home after she had her stroke, but lost track of her several years ago after her daughters moved her out of the nursing home. Nancy tried to follow up with a letters, but never received an answer.

It is with deep sympathy that I inform you that Jean Armstrong Rider passed away on January 21. If anyone has something they would like to share about Jean please let me know.

Please send your news to: Patricia Walker Mulholland, 1013 Sassafrass Circle, Bloomington, IN 47408; 812-334-2457; jmulholl@indiana.edu

1954

Bring your red and white clothing for the Saturday parade! We will enjoy visiting Gretchen’s Garden, a memorial garden for Gretchen Alberty Schindler. Her husband, Hal, an RPI graduate, honored Gretchen with this in 2014. Hal and Gretchen met our 1951 Freshman Week. Gretchen died in 2013 in Rochester, NY. Althea Williams Hurley of California visited New Jersey and New England last summer. She connected with Sally Frawley Miller and Joanne Stewart Hush.

I, Vee McEvoy Lindberg, and my husband, Bill, enjoyed a week in California that included the Pasadena Rose Bowl Parade on New Year’s Day 2015. Please share your news with us! Our Class of 1955 column is the first item I turn to in Connections!

Please send your news to: Kay Brooks Blick, 40D Forest Drive, Springfield, NJ 07081-1126; 973-376-6091; kblickkidzpax@comcast.net Vee McEvoy Lindberg, 5100 Highbridge Street Apt. 22C, Fayetteville, NY 13066; 315-632-6133; pvlindberg@twcny.rr.com

1956

Please send your news to: Carol Davis Winston, 35 Dunbar Road, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418; 561-625-5910; carwins@comcast.net

1957

Please send your news to: Irma Wilhelm, 43 Young Road, Augusta, ME 04330; 207-622-9344; ijwilhelm@aol.com

1958

Please send your news to: Millicent Clayton Hull, 1332 Atterberry Road, Sequim, WA 98382; 360-504-1149; MMCH21@juno.com Dorothy Muller Frost, 230 Lake Drive, North Bennington, VT 05257; 802-4422997; dotsyfrost@yahoo.com Diann Allan Billing, 46 Mallard Drive, Hackettstown, NJ 07840-2836; 973-9624648; dbilling@verizon.net

1959

Please send your news to: Leila Berkowitz Schwartz, 1504 Daibes Court, Edgewater, NJ 07020; 201-917-3835; leilen1@me.com

Please send your news to: Karolyn Wentzel Nealon, 3310 Longbow Drive, Pittsburgh, PA 15235-5135; 412-824-2558; jhnealon@verizon.net

1955

1960

Hope you have your calendar marked for our 60th Reunion, May 29-31, 2015.

Class of 1960, this is our Reunion Year.

Let’s set a record for the most attendees for

our class ever! We can have an organ recital and each person can have five minutes to list new replacement parts.

I heard from Diane DeSerras Arenella.

She is still working and investing in real estate in Boston. She is working with her daughter so it allows time off. She sold the big house and moved back to her Boston South End neighborhood 10 years ago and loves living in the historic downtown area.

Diane says “I have traveled extensively every year for over 25 years. This year I had a true ‘bucket list’ adventure to the Amazon, Galapagos and Machu Picchu. I continue to spend three months a year on Williams Island, FL.” She sees Maureen LaFlamme Flanagan, Linda Poorvu Myers and Sue Lustgarten. Last year Diane met her college roommate, Sue Sirota Waller, in Florida for lunch. (Let’s hear from them also!)

I am looking forward to Reunion. If you know you can’t possibly attend, send me an update and I can share it with the others.

I am sorry to report that Maureen Clancy Hoppe passed away in 2014.

Please send your news to: Peggy Crosby Stotz, 1006 Kimberwicke Road, McLean, VA 22102; 703-734-8932; pstotz@aol.com

1961

Please send your news to: Linda Nee, 10201 Grosvenor Place Apt. 1413, North Bethesda, MD 20852; 301-493-6533; Nee.linda@aol.com Sandra Houck Tiedemann, 272 Patrice Terrace, Williamsville, NY 14221-3922; 716-632-6756; sjtstitches@aol.com

1962

Please send your news to: Elaine Cohen Freedman, 96 Brookline Avenue, Albany, NY 12203; rlfrealty@verizon.net Carolyn Cogan Garter, 13657 Whippet Way West, Delray Beach, FL 33484-1569; 561-498-3093; ccggrandma@yahoo.com

1963

After 24 years in Scottsdale, AZ, Judy Wallace Sanders moved to Fort Collins, CO. She explained that her second husband passed away in 2014, so she wanted to be closer to her children, grandchildren and her sister in Denver. Judy continued, “Sadly, I am in the process of selling my Oregon home in Depoe Bay. It was a great escape from Arizona heat for several years, but not a place I want to live by myself.

Besides, who wants to leave Colorado in

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Class Notes the summer?” She has adjusted to Colorado winters, attributing that to her Buffalo, NY, roots! Judy keeps in touch with her roommates, Lynne Smith Monica, Diane Burns Docherty and Judy Coate Wright. She and Marcia Nixon Harrod get together a few times a year. “My door is open to any Sage visitors in Fort Collins,” she says, “It’s a lovely area.” She’d love to hear from RSC friends at judysand@ yahoo.com.

Pam Beemer Abeling wrote that her activities range from Pilates, dancing and yoga to stay in shape, to driving her husband, Dale, to a speech program twice a week plus the Asheville aphasia program Monday mornings. She joined the Fletcher Community Chorus and volunteers for Girls on the Run — a running program for girls in third through eighth grades — as well as at the Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, a no-kill shelter in Asheville. They live near the Biltmore Estate and she suggests that anyone passing that way get in touch with her at pbling38@outlook.com.

When Ginger McCann Giammattei wrote, they were preparing for an extensive home project (fresh painting, carpets and flooring are offered every 10 years at their Cornwall Manor community). She and David will be all set for hosting grandchildren during their lacrosse tournaments in Baltimore during June and July.

As for yours truly, Marcie Schukoske Woodward, I enjoyed a two-week visit in Hood River, OR, getting acquainted with our new granddaughter. After years of living in San Diego, her parents moved to this beautiful area, into a neighborhood perfect for raising children. Ella is one of three female babies to arrive within the last three months! For our son, Brian, surfing in the Pacific has morphed into kite-surfing in the Columbia River Gorge. I suspect we’ll be heading to the Northwest frequently ... meanwhile, thank goodness for Skype!

We have two new volunteers to help gather class news. Jean Hunt Evoy and Carol Carpenter Michels have stepped up to the task. Many hands make light work!

We’ll send reminders of the next due date for your news. However, please feel free to drop a note to one of us any time.

Please send your news to: Jean Hunt Evoy, 1596 NW Goathill Street, Arcadia, FL 34266; jevoy@bio.miami.edu Carol Carpenter Michels, 160 Barley Neck Road Box 396, East Orleans, MA 02643; ccmichels@aol.com

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1965: Doris Roth and Bonnie Maxon.

Mary “Marcie” Schukoske Woodward, 10505 E Sky High Drive, Tucson, AZ 85730; 520-722-0980; zmme1@cox.net

1964

Please send your news to: Shari Taylor Grove, 32 Shepard Street #31, Cambridge, MA 02138-1518; 617-576-1302; sharigrove@gmail.com

1965

Karen Wurstlin Williams and her husband, George, completed a cross-country trip last year from their home in Aptos, CA (on Monterey Bay about 10-miles south of Santa Cruz) to their apartment in Glenville, NY: 14 states, two countries (U.S. and Canada) and 3,864 miles in 11 days. It was a fabulous experience which included a visit to Ann Gates O’Toole and her husband, Tom, in Minneapolis. Ann and I are planning to attend our 50th Reunion and hope that many of our friends and classmates will be there too. In California, Karen continues her musical and artistic pursuits and volunteers with the American Red Cross and the local Parkinson’s Disease support group. Life is good!

Doris Fischman Roth enjoyed a twoweek trip in October to Turkey. The culture, historic sights, Mediterranean cuisine, a home and school visit as well as a hot air balloon ride in Cappadocia were highlights. She and her sister Elin Fischman Lawrence ’69 visited Patagonia with stops in Santiago and Buenos Aires in January for their annual sister trip. Doris wrote, “This trip will fulfill a ‘bucket list’ item of mine to see the natural habitat of penguins. Elin and I hosted a luncheon in February for alumnae in the south Florida area at her new condo overlooking Port Everglades and the beach in Fort Lauderdale. Loved having Bonnie Maxon visit!” She has booked her flight from Fort Lauderdale to Albany for our Sage 50th Reunion and is looking forward to seeing

1965: Ann Gates O’Toole and Karen Wurstlin Williams.

lots of 1965 Blue Angels in May! Susan Kosches Recarey wrote, “Since I live in the Florida Keys, I thought I wanted a little cooler weather for Christmas, so my husband, daughters, son-in-law and grandkids met my sister and her family in St. Augustine, FL, where I planned for 50-60 degree weather … daytime highs were in the 70s. I never cooled down but we had a great trip anyway. I am still selling real estate and enjoying it as much as ever, but I am starting my retirement career as a sales coach. After 40 years in sales it is what I know best so I look forward to helping others succeed in a great field.

My husband Ben ‘Nino’ Recarey (RPI ’63) teaches at the University of Miami and has a second career as a runner: more than 25 marathons and 50 half marathons. It is all about the medals.”

Marcia Carlson Leader wrote, “Did we ever think of 2015 50 years ago? I am in awe that this is our 50th Reunion year and have talked to several classmates about our May 29 RSC party. I was out of the cold in Grand Bahama until April … thank goodness, but look forward to coming to Sage in May.” Kathleen Dunham O’Brien was the featured poet of the month at an open mic poetry event in Voorheesville, NY, in December. She read her poetry before an audience of about 35 people and it was well received. She had three poems published in the Indian Lake writers’ anthology called Asters and Ink. She wrote, “One of my resolutions is to submit more poetry for publication. I’m busy visiting hospice patients and visiting and babysitting two grandsons in Southington, CT, and two more in Cheshire, CT. My oldest grandson is a freshman at Ithaca College.”

Karin Romp Harrigan wrote, “Not much news, I’m afraid. My family is healthy which is boring but great. I traveled to Salzburg, Austria, with part of my singing group to participate in a Mozart festival. I found it really funny that a girls’

Class Notes choir from Virginia complained of aching feet, knees, etc. It was a wondrous experience … singing in the choir loft where Mozart had conducted … under the direction of the resident Mozart expert which the American contingent discovered was a far different experience. We then went on to Croatia and Slovenia. We all loved a place called Bled on the shores of Lake Bled.”

Margaret “Peg” Holmes wrote, “As a class agent I would like you to know that our class has had a challenge from Virginia “Gini” Kurtz Stowe. She will donate $6,500 if the rest of the class will match the challenge. Any giving since last July 1 will count! I enjoyed a Ski Trip to Telluride, CO, in February. The snow was good but not as good as other years that I have been there. They had not had any snow during January. After shoulder surgery, I followed the doctor’s directions and only skied the easy runs. I missed the challenge of a couple of the more difficult runs but was just glad that I could ski in the west.”

The summer of 2014 was exciting for Anne Dippold Kiely’s family at Cranberry

Pond in Grafton, NY. Her son, grandson and other family members teamed up with the crew of the reality show Building Wild on the National Geographic Channel to build an ice fishing cabin for the family. The episode is entitled “Floating Getaway.” Catch Anne making a cameo appearance as a painter. The Kiely family celebrated five generations at Cranberry Pond with this project.

Here is an update from me, Bonita “Bonnie” Maxon. In June, doctors discovered that the treatment my husband was receiving for bladder cancer was not working; they recommended that he receive a neo-bladder, which is made out of part of his intestine. We found a urologist at Albany Medical Center that has experience doing the neo-bladder but it was hard to wait for an opening for surgery. In September, he had the eight-hour operation and then eight days in the hospital. So now all is well with this physical education major who does not make a very good nurse. In December, I felt I needed a break so booked a flight to see Doris Fischman

Roth in Florida. She is a wonderful host, planning tours, making latkes with her friends and seeing the outstanding holiday lights. In January, we spent four wonderful weeks in Mazatlan, Mexico.

Please send your news to: Bonita Maxon, 110 East Shore Drive, Petersburg, NY 12138; 518-658-2873; bamrdk@aol.com

1966

Please send your news to: Judy Shor Kronick, 158 Brewster Road, Windsor, CT 06095-2624; 860-688-6356; judykron2@ comcast.net Barbara Towne Patterson, 1 Ralsey Road South Stamford, CT 06902; 203324-7259; b.patterson66@yahoo.com

1967

Please send your news to: Judith Prest Bowden, 518-441-5012; judithbowden@ yahoo.com Rona McNabola Miller, 30 Spottswood Road, Glen Rock, NJ 07452; 201-4448950; ronamc@verizon.net

1968 POLLACK-KRASNER FOUNDATION-HONORED ARTIST JANICE ANTHONY ’68 EXHIBITS FROM NEW YORK CITY TO BAHRAIN: 2015 Exhibition Schedule Includes Two-Person Show at Troy Gallery “I am always seeking a hidden narrative in things. I looked for it in literature and found it in the natural world,” said artist Janice Anthony of what appealed to her about majoring in English at Russell Sage College, and of what inspires her paintings of wilderness landscapes today. “I paint places where I feel a sense of mystery, separateness and refuge,” she said. “They show no human activity, but there is more than just scenery. These places have their own life, a life we don’t see.”

Anthony has lived on a farm in Jackson, Maine, about 20 miles inland from the coast, for more than 30 years. The area is rich in natural beauty, and she’s “always looking.” She keeps a camera with her to capture scenes that intrigue her and when she’s ready to start a new project she reviews her collection of photographs: “I am not looking for a place I want to paint, but for a place I want to be,” she said. “I often start with one of my photographs, but I don’t recreate the photo exactly. I use it as a basis for what I want to emphasize, like remoteness or isolation.”

Recognition of Anthony’s work increased in 1985, when she received an award from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation (The foundation was established by abstract expressionist painter Lee Krasner, the widow of Jackson Pollack, to provide grants to international artists of artistic merit.) Since then, she has had solo shows at galleries in New York City, Miami Beach and Maine, and she is regularly included in group exhibitions at museums across the country, including the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira, New York, and the Flint Institute of the Arts in Michigan. In 2012, she was invited by the U.S. Department of State to participate in its Arts in Embassies program; three of her especially lush, verdant landscapes hang in the U.S. Embassy in Bahrain. Her work is included in a number of books on Maine and American art including the recent The Art of Katahdin, and has been featured in magazines like American Art Collector.

This spring, she was part of a two-person show at Clement Frame Shop and Art Gallery, just two blocks from Russell Sage’s campus. Her paintings will also be included in shows at the L.C. Bates Museum in Hinckley, Maine, and the M.A. Doran Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahoma, during 2015.

See more of her work at janiceanthony.com.

Linda Bail recently showed her work in Boca Raton, FL, and at the Thos. Moser Showroom in Freeport, ME. Visit lindabailart.com.

Every time I turn around, Karen Green Recor has another opening, most recently in a show with her paintings and her husband, Rod’s, sculpture. Visit karengreenrecor.com.

Kathy Eaton Leonard, a retired nursing professor, and her husband, a retired teacher, moved from Pennsylvania to the Finger Lakes region of New York. Her three children are scattered from New Jersey to California. Son John is a music professor at The College of New Jersey; daughter Ann is a neurobiology scientist; and Karen is a podiatric surgeon. Kathy keeps in touch with many of our classmates. Kathy Fink Pierce teaches elementary school in Canton, GA. Her husband, Jed, is a professor at Georgia State. Clara Shaw Clark recently retired from teaching and lives with her husband in Florida.

Kathy Leonard gets together with Judy VanDenburg Gelston frequently and since her move to the Finger Lakes, regularly joins Susan Cox Purdy for lunch.

Lynne Shapiro reports that Susan Antler Price Gins, a nutritionist, co-authored Cooking through Cancer Treatment and Recovery. It includes simple, flavorful recipes to prevent and decrease side effects

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Class Notes

1969: Elin Fischman Lawrence and Doris Fischman Roth ’65 in Torres del Paines, Chile.

1969: Elin Fischman Lawrence, Marge Abrams Brownstein ’64 and Doris Fischman Roth ’65 in Antigua, Guatemala.

at every stage of treatment. As much as I would like Susan’s book to be a best seller, I hope none of us ever need it.

Betty Rockman Gordon retired as a principal from Simione Healthcare Consultants, a national company providing business solutions to the home health and hospice industry. She is enjoying putting her feet up on her desk at home and doing nothing, at least for a while.

Marsha Bor saw Miriam Pitegoff Stein at Lord and Taylor in Danbury, CT. Miriam, from New Haven, is a retired schoolteacher. She has never been to a Reunion, but is considering coming to our 50th in 2018. We all hope you do, Miriam.

I reported Amy Wolfson Gilbert’s death in the June 2014 class news. Marsha Bor told me that Amy was very involved with the Temple Isaiah Sisterhood, 55 Lincoln Street, Lexington, MA 02421, and Women of the Wall, a multi-denominational organization based in Israel whose goal is to secure the right of women to pray at the Western Wall. If you would like to commemorate Amy, either of these organizations would honor her memory.

Please send your news to: Susan Wolfe Herron, 408F S. Croskey Street, Philadelphia, PA 19146; 215-735-1088; swherron@verizon.net

1969

I am sad to report Kathy Kittredge Goodman died in January after a battle with cancer. I sent a note from the class to her family.

My sister Doris Fischman Roth ’65 and I hosted a luncheon at my condo in Fort Lauderdale in February including Dolores Grabell Grossman ’58, Diane Adler Daum ’60, Diane DeSerras Arenella ’60, Georgiana Benson Schuldt ’60, Carolyn Cogan Garter ’62, Jean Lipetz Doucette ’63, Phyllis Litvak Furst ’69, Carol Melchner Reed ’69, Susan Butterfield Snesil ’71, Anne Novick Branan’74 and Dana Cohen Sprott ’81.

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1969: Alumnae at Elin Fischman Lawrence’s home.

It was fun meeting so many interesting women who live in southeast Florida. If you will be visiting the area please let me or Sage know so we can include you in an alumnae list.

Terry Wolgang Ragazzini and her husband, John, cruised from Florida this winter. We enjoyed a day with them and then waved as they sailed out of Port Everglades.

Two Sage stories: Last year on a trip to Guatemala I met Marge Abrams Brownstein ’64. She mentioned her granddaughter’s name is Sage. I said “I went to Sage!” and she said “So did I!” I had asked the college to send me a list of alumnae for future gatherings. On the list was the name of my fabulous water aerobics instructor, Georgiana Benson Schuldt ’60. She lives in the next building and her husband graduated from RPI as did my husband, Rick.

I just returned from another great sister trip with Doris. We traveled to Patagonia to fulfill a lifelong dream of hers to see penguins in their natural habitat. We enjoyed the penguins, glaciers, barbecue, and now know why they call it “Wild Patagonia!” The wind never stopped, but luckily we had sunshine. We began in Santiago, Chile; headed south to Punta Arenas and Puerto Natalas for penguins, the Serrano Glacier and Torres del Paines; and then continued to El Calafate, Argentina, to see the Perito Moreno, Upsula and Spegazzani glaciers; and ended in Buenos Aires. Love my sister trips and hopefully will continue for many years to come.

I leave next week for Guatemala. Rick and I will turn on the water at two more Mayan villages in the mountains through the generous support of Rotary clubs throughout Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Florida. Rick received the “Service above Self” award for his Rotary work throughout the years. This award is only given to 150 people worldwide each year so it was quite an honor.

Please send your news to: Elin Fischman Lawrence, 139 Wyneding Hill Road, Manchester, CT 06040; 860-643-4560; elawrlaw@sbcglobal.net

1970

Jennifer Johnson recently returned to the United States after spending two and a half years in Budapest, Hungary, teaching English and Civilization classes.

Please send your news to: Beverly Miller Sigg, 15 Vinson Drive, Flemington, NJ 08822; 772-539-0120; b2zig@yahoo.com

1971

Joan Maguire, RN, Ph.D. earned her master’s degree at Sage in 1971. From 1976 through 2002, she was a faculty member at Sage’s Albany campus and chaired the Nursing and Chemical Dependency Studies Programs. In 1990 Joan was tenured and in 1992 received the Faculty Distinguished Service Award. She has been a member of the Women’s Health Study Group out of Boston, MA, for 20 years, turned 82 this past November and is thriving. Joan said that she “loves being old! It has so many advantages. I am still questing!”

In December 2014, Gail Slater Brownell, Susan Bloom Jones, Nancy Meyer, and Donna Rose Hall French traveled from New Jersey, upstate New York and Pennsylvania to spend a few days together in New York City. They also joined other New Jersey/New York City-area Class of 1971 Red Devils for dinner: Carol Santangelo, Robin Bronson Seligson and Ronnie Turkowitz. It is always a good time when ’71ers get together! They all look forward to being at the 45th Reunion in 2016.

Please send your news to: Mary Mulvihill Pecoraro, 5 Walsh Avenue, Stoneham, MA 02180; 781-662-8648; mmpec@aol.com

Class Notes

1971: Christine Ward received the Jack McEneny Award for Archival Advocacy in 2014. She recently retired as New York state archivist.

1971: Left, front to back: Ronnie Turkowitz, Susan Bloom Jones, Donna Rose Hall French and Gail Slater Brownell.

Right, front to back: Nancy Meyer, Robin Bronson Seligson and Carol Santangelo.

1972

Please send your news to: Rosemary Crowley Buja, 19 Greenvalley Road, Medway, MA 02053-1933; 508-533-6120; rbuja@comcast.net Patricia Maiorano Johnson, 2433 220th Place, NE, Sammamish, WA 98074; 425868-0139; pj2433@comcast.net Susan Ackerman Hillman, 29428 Arlington Way, Farmington Hills, MI 48331; 248-489-8062; suehillman@aol.com

1973

Please send your news to: Deborah Tuma, PO Box 2163, Sag Harbor, NY 119630110; 631-338-5421; dstuma@yahoo.com Clarissa Robaczynski Alimena, 47 Mulberry Lane, Shelton, CT 06484; cvalimena@hotmail.com

1974

Please send your news to: Jo SchoenGood, 47 Dowitcher Court, Wayne, NJ 07470; Cbyh2@aol.com Denise Lipkvich, 5 Tanglewood Drive, Brandford, CT 06405; dlipkvich@yahoo.com

1975

Please send your news to: Melanie Punte Puorto-Conte, 2000 Van Antwerp Road, Niskayuna, NY 12309; 518-842-0602; mpuortoconte@nycap.rr.com

1976

Please send your news to: Marie Nangeroni, 2031 Nott Street, Niskayuna, NY 12309; 518-669-9937; mnangeroni@ hotmail.com Vilma Zaracostas Russ, 41 Ridge Road, Cornwall, NY 12518; 845-534-2325; vilmaruss@yahoo.com Elizabeth Sciurba, 27 Ingersol Road, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866; 518-6956405; esciurba@nycap.rr.com

1978: Helen Rodriguez Burmaster, Patty Timpano Sparrell and Julia Bleicher Greenstein at the Centennial Campaign for Sage kickoff in March.

Wendy Symmes Mayer, 57 Linden Avenue, Swampscott, MA 01907; 781-5816235; sage6235@aol.com

1977

Please send your news to: Lois Cloud Malenczak,102 Edwards Avenue, Sayville, NY 11782; 631-563-1966; lcloudpt@aol.com Jill Hastings Mack, 39 Rocky Point Drive, Bow, NH 03304-4115; 603-6635710; cyberjill@comcast.net Joanne Salvador, 301 South Ocean Blue #1, Pompano Beach FL 33062; j.m.salvador@att.net

1978

Suzanne Tillotson Sliwa and Phil Sliwa were married in 2014 in a small ceremony that involved Phil’s son and six of Suzanne’s nieces and nephews. They purchased a house in Hurley, NY, where they plan to spend their retirement years. Phil is retired from IBM and Suzanne has two more years of teaching in the New Paltz Central School District, where she’s been teaching elementary physical education for the last 28 years.

Please send your news to: Laura Haid Laffond, 3580 Loftlands Drive, Earlysville, VA 22936-2452; 434-465-1350; llaffond@comcast.net Mary Beth Ford Karam, 204 Greenwood Drive, Schenectady, NY 12303; 518-355-9713; bkaram56@gmail.com Sharon Barber Wall, 58 Bloomingdale Avenue, East Greenbush, NY 12061; 518-479-4226; sbwall@nycap.rr.com

1979

Please send your news to: Linda CowellJay, 3 Crossbow Road, Norfolk, MA 02056; 508-520-8735; lcowellmd@aol.com

1980

Please send your news to: Therese Sutherland Geraci, 2439 Crescent Lake Place, Johnson City, Tennessee 37615; tsgeraci@aol.com Maxine Goldsmith, 39 Harwich Lane, W. Hartford, CT 06117; 860-632-6301; geemaxhome@gmail.com

1981

Please send your news to: Deborah Browne, 60 North Maple Street, Warsaw, NY 14569-1215; 585-786-3490; dlbrowne@frontiernet.net Jill Periard, 1425 Broadway Apt. 5, Watervliet, NY 12189-2836; peanutsmom380@aol.com Suzanne Candee Tartaglia, 21 Mount Nebo Road, Newtown, CT 06470; 203-270-6880, suzanne@candee.org

1982

Patricia Zabarouskas Bass and Sue Weber Bichler met up at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh, where Pat’s daughter is on the gymnastics team. They watched her compete, and then went out to dinner.

Sue’s son, Steven, joined them.

Please send your news to: Lisa Abatemarco, 16 Kippen Ct., Pinehurst, NC 28374; Lmra323@comcast.net Marcy Anderson, 70 County Road 84C, Santa Fe NM 87506; 505-455-2067; marcyanderson@gmail.com Joan Traver, 1 Downey Road, Troy, NY 12180-9527; 518-279-9946; joanietr@earthlink.net

1983

Please send your news to: Sharon Spicer, 10 Laurel Glen Drive, Shelton, CT 06484; 203-929-6706; smwspicer@gmail.com

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Class Notes Ann McDonald,124 Orton Street Extension, Worcester, MA 01604; 508-7548682; ac_mcdonald@hotmail.com

1991

1982: Patricia Zabarouskas Bass and Sue Weber Bichler.

1984

Please send your news to: Amy Young, 29 Howes Street, Springfield, MA 01118; 413-747-8965; aeyoung84@gmail.com

1985

Please send your news to: Deborah Webster McMaster, 77 Hollis Street, Pepperell, MA 01463; 978-433-1947; dwmcmaster77@aol.com

1986

Please send your news to: Esther Denham, 616 Ridge Road, Scotia, NY 12302-6720; larrydenham@juno.com Alison Wolf, 27 Birch Rd., W. Hartford, CT 06119; 860-714-7059; Alison1wolf@gmail.com

1987

Please send your news to: Dawn Cope Barilli, 239 Old Orange Avenue, Walden, NY 12586; 845-778-1630; dawnbarilli@gmail.com Terry Allen, 6550 Number 4 Road, Lowville, NY 13367-9104; 315-376-1906; tballen@twcny.rr.com

1988

Please send your news to: Kristine Menihan Taylor, 375 East Second Street, Corning, NY 14830; 607-339-6743; ktaylor@cppmail.com

Please send your news to: Elizabeth Bartolomeo Edwards, 472 East K Street, Benicia, CA 94510; mlredwards@sbcglobal.net Valerie Priolo McKee, 3663 Hosiers Oaks Drive, Portsmouth, VA 23703-3470; 757-638-3243; bryantvaleriemckee@hotmail.com

1992

Please send your news to: Cynthia Bacon Woellmer, 10 McChesney Court, Troy, NY 12180; 518-274-4004; cwoellmer@gmail.com Nicole Grottoli, 277 Shufelt Road, Nassau, NY 12123; 518-598-7781; ngrottoli@gmail.com

1993

Please send your news to: Elizabeth Krizar, 933 Route 9, Hudson, NY 12534; 518-441-9008; ekriz@hotmail.com

1994

Please send your news to: Lori McCarthy; lormccarthy@yahoo.com Michela Moore; michelamoore@comcast.net

1995

Senior Nutritionist for Price Chopper/ Golub Corporation Ellie Wilson received Sage’s Outstanding Dietetic Preceptor award at the 2015 Nutrition Lecture presented by CDPHP. The dietetic internship relies on local dietitians who volunteer as mentors, said Associate Professor Keri McComb. “Ellie has consistently mentored

our interns over the past 10 years giving them exceptional community and management experiences … from practice to public policy, her expertise is unparalleled.”

Please send your news to: Linda Stroka Riemer, 2325 Harrow Road, Pittsburgh, PA 15241; the_riemers@yahoo.com Kate Siegmann Robertson, 126 Bushendorf Road, Ravena, NY 12143-2212; 518-756-2388; rarksr@gmail.com

1996

Please send your news to: Elizabeth Leuci Keogh, 88-12 151st Avenue Apt 5L, Howard Beach, NY 11414; 718-843-3910; JohnLiz529@aol.com Michaelynn McClenahan, mikemcc213@aol.com Michelle Lessard Tanguay, 48 Chandler St., Concord, NH 03303; 603-753-9897; chellenbillt@hotmail.com

1997

Please send your news to: Belinda Hilton, 12 Grant Court, Guilderland, NY 12084; 518-456-5036; bhilton@att.net Jennifer Sennett Glenn, 16 Sargent Street, Queensbury, NY 12804; 518-793-8308; je.glenn@roadrunner.com Kasia Prybylo Noblett, 2417 Deerfield Court SE, Roanoke, VA 24014; kasiaprybylo@yahoo.com

1998

Please send your news to: Catrina McKissick Truesdell, 537 Shelf Rd #2, South New Berlin, NY 13843; 607-433-9801; catrinapt1@hotmail.com Angela Porter Gordon, 34 Arcadia Court, Albany, NY 12205; 518-729-5532; angela.gordon@gmail.com

Impact on the Environment: Erin Crotty ’88

Please send your news to: Maria Biernacki-Halse, 826 Williams Street, Pittsfield, MA 01201; 413-445-6230; mjhalse@yahoo.com

“I started out as a Biology major,” said Political Science graduate Erin Crotty, “but I wasn’t really feeling it. Then, I took one course in political science with Helen Upton, who was legendary on the campus. I became smitten with the thought of studying political science.”

A Sage internship led her to Governor Mario Cuomo’s office. “That experience further solidified my interest not so much in politics, but in policy. I am really motivated by being able to make a difference,” she said, “and that is what drew me into state government: the fact that you can have such a large impact in a positive way on people’s lives – and, on the environment, as it turns out.”

Crotty was the first woman to hold the position of commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, an agency with an annual budget of close to $1 billion. She was instrumental in developing the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, which targets power plant carbon dioxide emissions.

In 2013, Crotty became the first woman executive director of Audubon New York, the 50,000-member state program of the National Audubon Society.

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Read about other graduates who have held leadership positions in New York State government in “The Intersection of Sage & State” at Horizons.sage.edu.

1989

Please send your news to: Beth Gehring Gruber, 4437 SW 14th Avenue, Cape Coral, FL 33914; 973-632-3423; beth_gehring@hotmail.com

1990

Class Notes

2003: Bottom, Russell Shult; top left, Michael “MJ” Grygus and top right, Skyler Ciuryla.

2006: Kathy Gavitt in the Philippines.

1995: Associate Professor of Nutrition Keri McComb and Ellie Wilson.

1999

Please send your news to: Amy Carlotto Zuckett, 515 Hunters Path Road, Bridgeville, PA 15017; amy.carlotto2@gmail.com Melissa Fields Roller, 700 West Road, Richmond, MA 01254; 413-698-8078; mjroller@earthlink.net

2000

Please send your news to: Sarah Carroll Aluck, 41 Chatsworth Way, Clifton Park, NY 12065-7257; 518-399-8499; sarahliz0410@yahoo.com Cara Desautels Beyor, 2145 Plains Road, Milton, VT 05468-4378; 802-527-1360; desauc16@aol.com Christina Grab Kirkwood, 3 Brandon Court, Woburn, MA 01801-4167; 781-454-9890; grabskifast@yahoo.com

2001

Please send your news to: Michelle Fage, PO Box 37, St. John, VI 00831; 310-9683789; michelle.m.fage@gmail.com

2002

Please send your news to: Melissa Callaghan, 110A Derby Street, Newton, MA 02452; 508-735-0344; coachcallaghan@yahoo.com

2003

I, SarahBeth Douglass Votra, am again thrilled to be the bearer of wonderful news from the Class of 2003.

Jessica Buchanan and Derick Shults welcomed their son Russell Kenneth in 2014; Russell was 6lbs., 13oz. and 20-inches long at birth.

Sarah Pratt Ciuryla and Marcus are thrilled to announce the birth of their daughter Skyler Marion in October. Skyler was 8lbs., 10oz. and 22.5-inches long. She joins big sister Sage.

Tiffany Magnino Grygus and her husband Mike welcomed their son Michael John in December. “MJ” was 8lbs., 4oz. and 21.25-inches long. They live in Binghamton, NY.

2014 was also an exciting year for Caren Christopher, who married Andrew Derylak in November. The happy couple purchased a historic home in North Carolina.

Please send your news to: Kendra Wray Pulsifer-Griep, 5 Marion Road, North Billerica, MA 01862; 303-524-5709; Kendra@griep.us SarahBeth Douglas Votra; PO Box 222, Tully, NY 13159; 315-882-7617; sarahbethvotra@gmail.com

2004

Christine Tanner Geuther and her husband, Jeff, welcomed their third child in February. His name is John Henry and he was 7lbs., 9 oz. and 20-inches long.

Julia Stevens Bogardus and her husband, Jonathan, welcomed their first child, Henry Logan, in September. He was 7 lbs., 10 oz. and 20.5-inches long.

Please send your news to: Julia Hillje Dardia, 87 Poplar Road, Wayne, NJ 07470; 518-527-3314; juliahilljedardia@ gmail.com Julia Stevens Bogardus, 45 State Street, Oxford, NY 13830, 518-257-2407; julia.bogardus@gmail.com

2005

Please send your news to: Lauren Ross Collins, 227 Valley View Dr., Wallkill, NY 12589; 845-851-8311; rossboss23@yahoo.com Rebecca Mazurowski Hammond, 37 Apogee Circle, San Pedro, CA 90732; 413335-4643; beckymazo2001@yahoo.com Kerianne Clark Silver, 20 Ivy Court, Clifton Park, NY 12065; 518-280-6509; kerianne.silver@gmail.com

2006

Welcome back to America, Kathy Gavitt, Peace Corps volunteer for over two years in the Philippines, which included living through a devastating tsunami in November 2013. Kathy earned her degree at RSC in Art Therapy and then earned her master’s in Art Therapy and counseling at Springfield College in Massachusetts.

While attending RSC, Kathy held down a job and raised two boys as a single parent.

She sent one son to college while she was finishing her master’s. She interned at Four Winds of Saratoga Springs, NY. In the Philippines, Kathy was a youth development coordinator.

Please send your news to: Christina Powers, 47 Carmel Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10314; 718-494-9389; christina.g.powers@gmail.com

2007

Please send your news to: Jennifer Harris, 12 Francis Drive, Wynantskill, NY 12198; 518-275-2263; jenniferdabeyharris@ gmail.com Angela Puorto, 164 River Street Apt A, Troy, NY 12180; 518-842-0602; apuorto@gmail.com

2008

Please send your news to: Amy Witterschein, 100 Stone Hill Road Apt E12, Springfield, NJ 07081; 845-6492491; meself@angelfire.com Briana Dolan, 25 Rockledge Avenue; Apt 301 West Tower, White Plains, NY 10601; 518-421-5913; brianadolan1@ gmail.com Jessica Trong, 10 Farm Street, Troy, NY 12180; 518-928-2303; jtmarie0922@gmail.com

2009

Patricia Borrusso graduated from Drexel University in Philadelphia with her doctorate in Food Microbiology. She is continuing her research in consumer food safety as a post-doctoral fellow at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition in College Park, MD. Her research was published in the peer-reviewed journal, Foods, and she is working on several other publications.

She lives in Silver Spring, MD, and misses everyone from Sage.

I, Daniela Puorto, moved to the greater Boston area in November and hope that alumnae in the area will connect with me.

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Class Notes Please send your news to: Danielle Drahos Basore, 59 Brunswick Avenue 2nd Floor, Troy, NY 12180; 610-334-6976; danielleabasore@gmail.com Daniela Puorto, 15 Parkside Place, Revere, MA 02151; daniela.puorto @gmail.com

2011

2010

Please send your news to: Hillary Brown, 110 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215; brown.hillaryc@gmail.com

Please send your news to: Erin Menzer, 34 S Main Street Apt 1, Auburn, ME 04210; erin.menzer@gmail.com Veronica Nunes, 21 Lochview Drive, Windsor, CT 06095; 860-977-3397; roniev4@yahoo.com Brittany Wood, 306 Sunset Avenue, Rensselaer, NY 12144; 518-322-6634; brittanywood06@gmail.com

Please send your news to: Ivanna Ramos; ivannar@gmail.com Amanda Spring, PO Box 292, Ravena, NY 12143; 518-756-8255; sprina@sage.edu

2012 2013

Please send your news to: Megan Whipple, 25 Wakefield Street, Lewiston, ME 04240; bass_slayer91@hotmail.com Courtney Reed, PO Box 262, Mechanicville NY 12118; creed1391@yahoo.com Ginamarie Garabedian, 39 Forest Street, East Hartford, CT 06118; ginamarie_helene@hotmail.com

2014: Margaret E. “Molly” Lundquist with her father.

2014

U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Margaret E. “Molly” Lundquist graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in Texas.

Please send your news to: connections@ sage.edu

In Memoriam 1936

Elizabeth “Biff” Ogden 3/6/2015

1938

Rose Greenstein Mossberg 8/24/2014 Ruth Wood Havens 2/6/2014

1939

Anna Platt Halsey 2/16/2015 Shirley Wilcox Brandes 6/29/2014

1940

1953

1969

Katharine Giering Bush 3/9/2015

Kathy Kittredge Goodman 1/3/2015

Beryle Learned Lednicer 10/29/2014

Janice Platt Harkess 11/25/2014

Blanche Franklin Kent 1/4/2015

Linda Lewis Rodman 3/15/15

Elizabeth Kingsbury Westendarp 4/2/2012

Margaret Hoak Behun 5/4/2014

Jean Armstrong Rider 1/21/2015

1943

Ellen Ruddy Wade 12/11/2014 Madeline Fellerman Steingut 1/26/2015

Muriel Beuerlein Larkin 5/30/2014

Mary-Elizabeth Weber 8/25/2014

Ruth Budlong Sothern 8/6/2014

Sylvia Kopplemann Leven 12/14/2014

Shirley Knickerbocker Klock 1/27/2015

1948

Elizabeth Lahr McCulloch 12/22/2014

1945

Barbara Wernlund Keller 9/21/2014

1941

Catherine McCarty 5/6/2014

Jane Calkins Hall 7/11/2014

Marjorie Moore Morrill 2/12/2014

Patricia Driggs Kelsey 8/30/2014

Merle Chapin Beeney 11/30/2014

Ruth Francis Alyanak 9/22/2014

1942

1947

Antoinette Rossi Patten 12/26/2012

Marie Henry Ryan 1/13/2015

Marion Wright Raymond 8/1/2014

Marie Kochiss Guarino 8/3/2014

Settimia Palumbo Balko 1/10/2015

Sally Burgess Humphrey 2/3/2015

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1949

Catherine Holland Joyce 1/23/2008 Harriet Close Skipton 9/2/2014 Helene Briggs 2/6/2015

1950

Edna Albert Jackson 5/21/2014 Jane Wardwell Roberts 2/10/2015

1951

Katherine Horton Chalmers 9/26/2014 Mary Ann Reardon LaFleur 10/11/2014 Meryl Herring 11/4/2014

1952

Barbara Spillinger 1/28/2015 Marsha Lagunoff Mittelman 1/6/2015 Wilma Monier-Williams 11/3/2007

1960

Maureen Clancy Hoppe 9/9/2014

1961

Lorana Rice Livingston 1/26/2015 Nancy Milliman Lenahan 12/24/2014

1962

Ann Applegate Cooper 11/4/2014 Linda Hills Sorrentino 12/1/2014

1963

Dorothy Aal Bolek 10/23/2014 Ursula Thiessen Formigli 11/7/2014

1971

Carolyn Buzzell Campbell 10/12/2014 Deborah Wilcox Alper 7/13/2014

1973

Cynthia DeFrances Costigan 6/29/2013

1977

Bonita Pogge 2/7/2015 Caroline Vilord Goldbecker 7/30/2014

1980

Dore Kreilsheimer Kessman 11/30/2014

1983

Anne Damiano 10/14/2014

1989

1964

Ute Bischoff Noyes 9/1/2013

1965

Meghan Nadeau 12/31/2014

Eleanor Gauch Barkley 3/17/2014 Karol McNeil Vogl 11/18/2014

2006

CORPORATE CONNECTIONS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | THE SAGE COLLEGES

Scholarship sponsor Mary Brizzell ’65 and Jessica Smith ’15.

Anna Pierce ’15, Jennifer Keane ’15, Paula Presley of scholarship sponsor Sodexo, and Julianna Fisher ’15.

Thomas Cook of scholarship sponsor Toshiba Business Solutions with Cherie Tissiere ’15.

The Corporate Connections Scholarship Program at The Sage Colleges pairs local businesses with exceptional students from the Capital Region. Companies sponsor scholarships in $1,000 increments, with the entirety of the funds going directly to the students, to help offset the cost of tuition. The mission of Corporate Connections is to provide financial assistance to students approaching their final year of study. With the help of these generous Capital Region businesses, 90 Sage seniors received aid for the 2014-2015 academic year.

To get involved, contact Nick DeCaprio, assistant director of Corporate, Government and Foundation Relations, at (518) 244-4551 or decapn@sage.edu.

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