Late Professor Susan Wisherd's bequests benefit the College
A professor emerita and the former chair of the Department of Art Education at SUNY New Paltz, Susan Wisherd will always be remembered by colleagues as dedicated to both her students and department.
During her lifetime, New Paltz resident Wisherd was an active supporter of several Hudson Valley nonprofit organizations, including the Elting Memorial Library, Mohonk Preserve, Omega Institute, SUNY New Paltz’s Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art and Sojourner Truth Library, Unison Arts Center, and Women’s Studio Workshop. After her death in 2017, through her long-term vision and legacy estate planning, her bequests totaling approximately $2.5 million to SUNY New Paltz will continue to sustain and advance these organizations for the benefit of the greater community.
Wisherd’s generosity extended beyond the Hudson Valley with gifts to the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and to WNET Public Television in New York City.
College mourns passing of State Assemblymember Frank Skartados ’85
State Assemblymember Frank Skartados ’85 (Political Science) passed away April 15, 2018, after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 62.
Skartados was born in Greece in 1956 and moved to New York in 1970. He worked in the restaurant industry before enrolling at SUNY New Paltz, and following his graduation, he earned a master’s in international studies from the State University of California at Sacramento.
Skartados returned to New York to serve as chairman of the Health Department at the New York Military Academy. He later founded the Academy Street Business Association in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., and worked closely with the Mayor’s office to help attract new residents to the city.
In 2008, Skartados was elected to serve as State Assemblymember to the 100th District. He narrowly lost a reelection bid in 2010 but recaptured the seat in a 2012 special election.
During his time in the Assembly, Skartados supported bills that focused on the environment, criminal justice reforms, consumer protection, veterans’ benefits and education funding.
College mourns passing of former College Council member Mary Grindrod Reid ’45
It is with sadness that the College shares the news of the death of Mary Grindrod Reid ’45 on Sept. 29, 2018. She was 94.
Reid came to New Paltz from her hometown of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1939 and married her husband, Robert in 1945.
The Reids settled in the New Paltz area, and Mary took on multiple roles within the community. In addition to her work as a teacher, she sat on the New Paltz Village Planning Board, served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher for the Reformed Church of New Paltz, and was active in numerous other local organizations.
In 1973, New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed Reid to the SUNY New Paltz College Council, on which she served for 10 years.
Alumni
1920 - 1939
Catherine Burroughs ’28
Edith (Vanness) Irwin ’32
Julia (Culver) Chapman ’36
Mary (Nolan) Austin ’38
1940 - 1949
Marian (Clark) Dolce ’40
George Manolakes ’42
Margaret (Harris) Schuhle ’43
Helen (Schoonmaker) Sethares ’43
Dorothy (Travis) Thomas ’43
Rose Capozzi ’44
Olga (Smolin) Cebriy ’44
May Hersey ’44
Joan (Raynor) Paulli ’44
Dorothy (Eisenhardt) Lawson ’46
Frank Thomas ’47
Gloria (Fanelli) Wendland ’47
Bernice (Every) Apuzzo ’48
Cora (Barnes) Meyer ’48
1950 - 1958
Nancy (Keller) Kelly ’50
Theodore Manolakes ’50
Marjorie (Birck) Sawyer ’50
Clotilde (Karsten) Braman ’51
Shirley Maurer ’51
Dorothy (Schneider) Salter ’51
Helen (Schoenbaechler) Zaengle ’51
Lorraine Denis ’52
Hugh Marasa ’52
Barbara Murphy ’52
Philip White ’52
Virginia (Kennedy) Hooper ’53
Betty (Van Etten) Jorgensen ’53
Jean (Aswolinsky) Brown-Cohen ’54
Margaret (Pickios) Frizzola ’54
Joan (Craft) Bivona ’56
Joseph Bucci ’56
Jean (Rowley) Bucci ’56
Elfriede (Schoneboom) Langley ’56
Charles Dwyer ’57
Marilyn (Goble) Hermance ’57
Patricia (Hayes) Jones ’57
Thomas Allocco ’58
Julia Ciano ’58
Frances (Osterhoudt) Cross ’58
Ann (Gracey) Hedstrom ’58
Michael Picozzi ’59
1960 - 1969
Phyllis Bernard ’60
Margaret Coleman ’60
Roberta Marsh ’60
Marion Vetter ’60
Frances Dawson ’61
Linda (Spiro) Landers ’61
Patricia Royall ’61
Katherine (Zimmerman) Watson ’61
Robert Fisher ’62
Jose Munoz ’62
Isabella (Goodman) Newman ’62
Patricia (Brooks) Peck ’62
Lilly (Raga) Abbott ’63
Eileen Barnes ’63
Charlotte (Heins Dippel) Biro ’63
Joan Byers ’63
Carole (Triplitt) Stevens ’64
Carol Bouton ’65
Madalyn Diana ’65
John Fiore ’65
Frederick Koeler ’65
Katherine Brinnier ’66
Leslie Carter ’66
Anne (Tobias) Ellman ’66
Marilyn Morrissey ’66
Pierre Caubere ’67
Edward Clark ’67
John Kee ’67
Cindy (Dunstan) Miller ’67
Eileen Carver ’68
Nina (Straker) Fraser ’68
Helen (Hahn) Graham ’68
Marion Traverse ’68
Antoine Lisik ’69
Michael Mostransky ’69
Gail Slotwinski ’69
Sarah Sykes ’69
1970 - 1979
Thomas Bridges ’70
Dorothy Copson ’70
Kathleen Kenyon ’70
Albert Lowe ’70
Dolores Murphy ’70
Jacqueline Prusak ’70
Walter Bilyeu ’71
Harry Bouvier ’71
Joann (Timpa) Frisina ’71
Israel Rapoport ’71
Sadeth Schley ’71
Michael Drummond ’72
Roberta (Beer) Friedman ’72
Bruce (Hartjen) ’72
William Horton ’72
Andrea Kaye ’72
Jeanette Maliha-Nebus ’72
Nancy Marino ’72
John Tice ’72
Karen Barkie ’73
Rosemary Brooks ’73
Ilene Brudner ’73
Jacqueline Carey ’73
Donald Davis ’73
Margaret Noah ’73
Harriet (Weisdarth) Rautenberg ’73
Lester Silverman ’73
Roberta Gitlitz ’74
Edmund Matott ’74
Isabel (Popoli) McAdams ’74
Thomas Moravick ’74
Marion (Hawkins) Parker ’74
Jean (Mumford) Spencer ’74
Patricia Glennon ’75
Elwood Schuck ’75
Timothy Shoh ’75
Marcia Story ’76
Susan Watson ’76
Kathryn Knickerbocker ’77
Susan Zeman ’77
Ken Cole ’78
Frances Crispi ’79
Beverly Kahwaty ’79
Mark Warga ’79
1980 - 1989
Esther Borden ’81
Neal Greene ’81
Harold Kramer ’81
Clementine McIntosh ’81
Edward Murphy ’81
Dolores Nelms ’81
Flora White ’81
Wayne Bryant ’82
Oscar Colon ’82
Renate Wassell ’82
Mary (Gansowski) Comstock ’83
Carol Werner ’83
Laurie (Ferguson) Woodward ’83
Adrienne Butvinik ’85
Frank Skartados ’85
Jack Sroka ’85
Julia Ginty ’86
Margaret Jackson ’86
Thomas Mauro ’86
Cecilia Mullin ’87
Glenneth Hondjera ’88
Karen Schultz ’88
Norma Parkinson ’89
Laura Veralli ’89
1990 - 1999
Elizabeth Gallagher ’90
Phyllis Pellet ’90
Sandra Scrivens ’90
Leslie McMillen ’91
Regina Ranni ’91
Mary Thompson ’91
Naomi Vansteenburgh ’91
Michael Welzel ’91
Barry Zehnbauer ’91
Margaret O'Malley ’92
Matthew Teneyck ’92
Linda Dworetzky ’93
Mary Robertson ’95
Dennis Dillon ’98
Laurie Helle ’99
2000- 2018
Jay Levine ’04
Irene Lindenberger ’04
Thomas Parrott ’04
Peter Menconeri ’06
Gabriel Dabruzzo ’07
Michael White ’09
Daniel Catullo ’18
Faculty & Staff
Ms. Frances Anello
Prof. Vladimir Bakum
Mr. Robert Bramley
Ms. Elsie Cobun
Dr. Eudora Ebitimi Kombo
Ms. Jacqueline Grace
Dr. John Hain
Prof. Rose Irvine
Ms. Maribeth Lee
Ms. Beulah Palmiotti
Mr. Gary Pietropaolo
Mr. Maurice Recchia
Dr. Johanna Sayre
