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Pamela Snite Kerr ’70 was named president of the Rotary Club of Wilmette Harbor, Ill. She recently traveled to Brisbane, Australia, to join 16,000 Rotarians at the Rotary International Convention. Soon after, she attended the 100th Anniversary of the White Lake Yacht Club in Whitehall, Michigan, where she served last year as the first female commodore in the club’s history.
Winifred Erb Lom ’70 lives in Darien, Conn. She and her husband, Tom, have three children: Andrew, who attends Georgetown Law School; Stacy, a student at Connecticut College; and Courtney, who is in high school. Winifred’s two sisters, Mary Beth Erb-Savage ’72 and Margaret Erb Connelly ’75 also live in Darien.
Eileen Bergin Aird ’71 has a thriving small business, Ridgewood Needlepoint, in Ridgewood, N.J. While Eileen’s twin sister, Elizabeth Bergin Hess ’71, has moved to Tucson, Arizona, her daughter, Alison Aird ’07, has stayed closer to home as a Manhattanville student. A third sister, Dona Bergin, is a member of the Class of 1976.
Donna Muserlian Dixon ’71 resides in Short Hills, N.J. She owns, Paradise Bag Company in Milburn, N.J.
Catherine Delahanty McGinnis ’71 is the program director for Senior Solutions, a distribution agency that provides state and federal funds to local programs for the elderly in Southwest Florida. Cathy’s husband, John, retired last year after 35 years in parish ministry as an Episcopal priest.
Pamela Griffis Ferrari ’71 now lives in Florence, Italy. Her hand-painted ceramics may be found at Neiman Marcus or Saks Fifth Avenue, and her paintings have been exhibited in London, Paris and New York. Pamela’s latest spring-summer collection of resort wear was featured at a fashion show benefiting The Pick of The Crop Dance Company in Buffalo, N.Y.
Beverly Lenos Jackson ’72 was named publisher and president of ANG Newspapers and the California Newspapers Partnership’s northern California division. Previously, Beverly was the senior vice president of Ottaway Newspapers, a subsidiary of Dow Jones. The American Civil Liberties Union of South Carolina has named Denyse
Williams ’72 as executive director. Denyse, a long-time defender of civil liberties, will be moving to Columbia, S.C., with her younger daughter, while her elder daughter continues at Vassar College.
Attorney Ann Lavelle Powell ’73 has been named to the board of directors of the Lackawanna Bar Association in Pennsylvania. Ann, who lives in Scranton, chairs the association’s real estate and legal aid liaison committees.
Margaret L. Connelly ’75 has joined the Darien office of Prudential Connecticut Realty. Until recently, Margaret was a vice president at Chase Manhattan, specializing in international marketing and new product development.
Fashion designer Carmen Marc Valvo ’75 recently made a personal appearance at Neiman Marcus, to promote his Carmen Marc Valvo Couture Collection of eveningwear for women, which he launched in 1998. He worked for Nina Ricci in Paris and Christian Dior, then launched his own sportswear label in 1989.
Tales from the Boom Boom Room: Women vs. Wall Street, by Susan E. Antilla ’76, was named Best Book of the Year by the Connecticut Press Club. Susan’s stories have appeared in The Baltimore Sun, USA Today and The New York Times. Presently, she is working as an adjunct professor of journalism at NYU’s Graduate School of Journalism, and as a consultant to Bloomberg News.
Donald W. Maley, Jr. ’76 is a vice president for Leucadia Investment National Corporation in New York City. He has a son at Northwestern University and a daughter in high school, as well as two younger boys from his current marriage.
John Cuk ’77, founding music director of St. Luke’s Concert Series, is the organist and choirmaster of St. Luke’s Church in Somers, N.Y. John also directs the Scarsdale High School Choir. He has traveled the world, leading choirs in England, Ireland and Poland as well as preparing choirs for the Moscow State Ballet and the Purchase Symphony. John also served as director of choirs at Manhattanville for seven years.
Barbara Filkins Gillespie ’77, M.A.T. ’03 left her career in finance to become a teacher.
Dr. Shirley R. Pippins M.A.T. ’77 was appointed president of Suffolk County Community College, in New York. Most recently, she was president of Thomas Nelson Community College in Hampton, Va. Shirley also recently joined the board of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Beth Whittingham Goehring ’78 continues as vice president and editor-in-chief of The Literary Guild. She also sings with the St. Vincent Ferrer Chorale in New York City.