Caroline Kennedy

Return to College
June 5, 2007

I just attended my college reunion this past weekend. I don’t go back every year, in fact it’s been 10 years since I last attended Reunion. Writing the Collegiate Licensing story for the June issue certainly raised my own school spirit and put me in the right mood to return to campus and reconnect with the school and my classmates.

I went to Skidmore College, a relatively small, private school in Saratoga Springs, NY. Skidmore is quite different from the major universities that make up the bulk of the collegiate licensing universe; it is small and doesn’t have nationally recognized or televised sports. Skidmore was a women’s school, which at the time that I was there, was in the process of going co-ed. A lot has changed in the 35 years since I graduated; today, the school is about 60% women and 40% men. The constants are the quality of the education and the high caliber of the graduates — graduates who have a lot of school spirit as evidenced by the large turn out of alums for Reunion.

Over my years in this business, I have encountered at least six other alumnae of Skidmore — all talented and successful in their own areas; three are artists who have produced designs for manufacturers, one has her own public relations business, one is a writer who became an editor for Gifts & Decorative Accessories for a while, and one is an executive in product development for a well known giftware company. I bet there are more of you alums out there in the great gift business doing our alma mater proud. Let me hear from you.

Posted by Caroline Kennedy on June 5, 2007 | Comments (0)