Sally Robbins Bilder writes: “After graduating with an AB as an English Literature major, I went to Washington, D.C., to work as an intern for the U.S. Treasury Department, subsequently working for President Kennedy’s Head Start Program. There I met my husband, Richard Bilder, who was a lawyer with the U.S. State Department. In 1965, we moved to Madison [Wis.], where he has since been a professor of International Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School. We have been married for 57 years. I have been involved in a number of different jobs and activities since then—as an assistant to several Wisconsin governors and their aides; working with the nuclear disarmament movement; working with university faculty organizations; serving on the board of directors of Wisconsin Public Radio and as a member and later chair of the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board; and serving on the board of directors of Friends of the University of Wisconsin Gardens. In addition, I have obtained a master’s degree in political science and a master’s degree in art education. I have likewise kept busy with my hobbies of gardening and oil painting, including holding several exhibits of my artwork. Richard and I have four children: Mary, a law professor at Boston College Law School; Anne, a lawyer for the University of Wisconsin-Madison; David, a professor of molecular biology at UC Berkeley; and Deborah, a producer at the Philadelphia Public Broadcasting station. In addition, we have ten grandchildren. I remember my years at Pembroke fondly, particularly my dear friends Dottie Pierce McSweeny and Pattie Percy Koshel, who I still occasionally see. I still treasure a Providence newspaper picture of myself and my two sisters, Kay (Katherine Robbins Frost ’64) and Nancy (Nancy Robbins DeLorenzo ’65), showing the three of us attending Pembroke at the same time. I send my very best wishes to all of my classmates.”
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