As you may have heard, Skidmore is planning on building a new dorm facility for us to spread our mischief upon. With the help of SurveyMonkey, Skidmore has made a generous effort to find out what it is that all of you want in a new dorm. There have been talks of more study/practice rooms, some comfortable furniture (chairs, double-beds, etc.), and some exercise equipment to burn off all off those chimichangas you’ll be eating in the new eatery (Chiptole anyone?) they’ll be adding to the dorm. You only have two days left to fill out the survey (click here) until they take it down from the interweb and completely disregard your pleas to not be spied on by big brother (surveillance cameras anyone?).
This is real, guys. The economy may be crashing like a blind NASCAR driver, but Skidmore is still raking in enough money from donations—like the $12mil from trustee/parent S. Donald Sussman—that we may see construction on the new dorm begin in the next few years. That also means we may see the rustic Scribner Village come to an end, as will swarms of wandering freshmen looking for a party at Reeves.
For the master plan, check your email. Or, if you’re not up for the challenge, just click.
The Master Plan calls for: (a) Relocate the Loop Road down the hill, to the west, around/below Scribner Village. (b) Construct residence hall structures west of the Murray-Aikins Dining Hall, principally, but not exclusively, to house sophomores and juniors. (c) Upon completion of the new structures, remove Scribner Village and construct parking specifically to support the new housing, and generally, the west end of campus.
Donny Sussman is a hedge fund speculator who married Tisch money.
New York Times
March 15, 1981
S.D. Sussman Weds Miss Tisch
Laurie M. Tisch, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Preston Robert Tisch of New York and Rye, N.Y., was married last evening to S. Donald Sussman, son of Beatrice Zimmerman of Miami and the late William Sussman. Rabbi Irving Lehrman performed the ceremony at the Regency Hotel.
Jane Gottlieb was maid of honor for the bride, who was attended also by Dr. Felice Sussman, sister of the bridegroom, and Christine Holzhauer Mallon. Jeffrey Kittay served as best man.
The bride, a freelance publicity agent and fund-raiser, was graduated from the Riverdale Country School for Girls and received a B.A. degree in education from the University of Michigan. She formerly lived in Park City, Utah, where she instituted a Spanish program in the local schools and was a founding trustee of the Kimball Art Center. Her father is president and chief operating officer of the Loews Corporation and chairman of the New York Convention and Visitor’s Bureau.
Mr. Sussman, a partner in the New York law firm of Gelberg & Abrams, was formerly vice president and chief financial officer of the Titan Industrial Corporation. He attended the Windsor Mountain School in Lenox, Mass., and Columbia College and was graduated from the combined B.S.-M.B.A. program at New York University. His father was a real-estate developer.