46 CLASS NOTES Photographs this page: Sarah Blodgett Helaine Kushner, 1953 Cynthia Maris Dantzic, 1954 Reunion Weekend 2004 Late May in Annandale, and more than three hundred alumni/ae and their spouses, partners, friends, and children gathered at Bard for Reunion Weekend 2004. They came from as far away as London and Hong Kong to renew old friendships and catch up with the Bard of today. The annual dinner, dance, and fireworks on the Blithewood main lawn drew a record 1,200 partygoers, includ- ing faculty and graduating seniors and their fami- lies, even as a smaller reunion group (Classes of 1939 through 1954) dined in the Olin Atrium, and the Classes of 1964 and 1969 held their party at Ward Manor. Back at Bard for Reunion 2004: (left to right) Richard Koch ‘40, Arnold Davis ‘44, David Schwab ‘52, Seena Davis, Wayne Horvitz ‘42, and Richard Price ‘44 47 Photographs this page: Karl Rabe Class of 1969, 35th Reunion Class of 1964, 40th Reunion 48 ’35 70th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’40 65th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’44 Richard Price writes that things are slowing down, but still picking up. In the summer of 2003, at age 82, he climbed Mount Washington. At age 75, he paddled a kayak around Cape Horn, Chile. He also races iceboats in the winter. ’45 60th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’47 Walter Liggett is self-employed as a painter, poet, and com- piler of poetry anthologies, including Facets from a Crystal, Volume One (2003). He is also the self-appointed haiku master of Berkeley. One of his more recent haiku: November nineteenth, red leaves, Japanese maple. Branches twist skyward. Mark Stroock writes that he is still working as a consultant for Young & Rubicam, Inc., but that he mostly enjoys spending time with his children, grandchildren, and great- grandchildren. ’48 Susan Lowenstein-Kitchell (Wender) is codirector of the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts. ’50 55th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu Mary Gelb Park sends word that she recently had a success- ful show of her paintings in Portland, Oregon. She writes, “I sold seven, which I consider a minor triumph!” ’53 Bastiaan Kooiman is enjoying retirement. He travels a fair amount and otherwise keeps busy by volunteering at an area homeless shelter and in church. He writes that he vis- ited Bard four years ago in the summer and found much changed since 1953. Kit Ellenbogen ’52 After a successful career as a high school guidance coun- selor, Kit Ellenbogen started law school at the tender age of 54, the “token grandmother” in her class at Rutgers, she quips. In most of her classes she was the oldest person in the room, but Ellenbogen says she never felt self-con- scious. She balanced course work with a full-time job and the care of her elderly mother. “Sheer perseverance and determination saw me through,” she says. “Those are the qualities I find most useful.” Upon graduation, her two grown sons threw her a well-deserved party. Ellenbogen is now a staff attorney for the nonprofit Association for the Children of New Jersey, helping par- ents ensure that New Jersey’s school districts meet their children’s needs. Most of her clients are immigrants, a cir- cumstance she understands firsthand, having escaped from Europe with her parents just as Hitler was taking over Czechoslovakia. “I know from experience that there’s a lot of injustice in the world,” she says. “Working with immigrant parents really hits home for me. I delight in telling them what their rights are.” Another source of delight for Ellenbogen is that her grandson, Monroe, will attend the College this coming fall as a third-generation Bardian, following in the footsteps of his uncle Anthony Ellenbogen ’82 and his aunt Kristina Ellenbogen (Mickelson) ’83. Photograph: Doug Baz 49 Roger Phillips’s Concept to Construct sculpture exhibition was on view at Weber Fine Art in Chatham, New York, from December 6, 2003, to January 31, 2004. He gave a special gallery talk on January 17. ’54 McAlister Coleman was awarded professor emeritus status by Endicott College at a convocation September 4, 2003. He used the opportunity to introduce new students to two of his sculptures on campus: a granite carving, A Taoist Landscape, and a welded steel piece, X, The Unknown is Not Nothing. He had retired four years earlier after teaching in the Art and Design Division for 30 years. Dr. Gregory Tucker is semiretired from his clinical practice. He is writing a book and working on psychotherapeutic techniques based on Buddhist concepts. ’55 50th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu ’59 Joint reunion celebration with the Classes of 1960 and 1961: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’60 45th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’61 Joint reunion celebration with the Classes of 1959 and 1960: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu ’63 Richard Perry, who received his master of arts from Teacher’s College, Columbia University following his years at Bard, has retired from the Corning–Painted Post Area School District after 36 years of teaching vocal music. He remains as choir director at the First Congregational– United Church of Christ in Corning, New York, where he lives, and continues to teach chorus, voice, recorder, and jazz at institutes throughout the United States and Canada. His service to education has earned him the honor of Paul Harris Fellow, given by the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International. He is the father of three grown sons—James of Cincinnati; David of Corning; and Thomas of Charlotte, North Carolina—and grandfather of five. Heywood Zeidman is a psychiatrist in San Diego. His group, Psychiatric Centers at San Diego, employs 35 psychi- atrists, as well as psychologists, social workers, and thera- pists. One of his daughters, who has a Ph.D., works with his group, while another daughter works as an industrial psychologist helping corporations attract and motivate man- agement employees. As of December 2003, his son was in the process of applying to college. ’64 Stuart L. Posner, M.D.’s rheumatology practice continues at a busy pace. Photography and travel, along with family (two grandchildren so far!), occupy his leisure time. ’65 40th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu Roderick Townley’s new novel for young adults, Sky, will be released this summer. The third novel in his Sylvie Cycle, The Constellation of Sylvie (Simon & Schuster), will be out in 2005. The Sylvie books have been optioned by Utopia Films. Bibi Wein received the 2002–2003 Tupelo Press Editor’s Award for Prose for her first work of creative nonfiction, The Way Home. The book will be published by Tupelo this fall. ’66 Esther Wanning received an M.S. in counseling psychology from Dominican University in 2002 and is now a psychother- apy intern at a low-fee agency in Marin County, California. After many years as a writer, she is very pleased with her new career and spends her spare time working toward single-payer health care, particularly CA Senate Bill 921. ’68 Joan Wishkoff reports that her car was rear-ended on I-95 last November, and she sustained a broken back. She is mobile now and doing well in physical therapy. She wore a seat belt and reminds all to do the same. She moved out of her cabin on the banks of the Delaware River and bought a condominium in a high-rise in Wilmington, Delaware, where she enjoys her view of the city, especially at night. Her youngest son, Ari, 25, is an assistant producer with Richard Frankel on Broadway. 50 Yesterday . . . Bard in the 1960s By Howard Dratch ’68 and Patricia Beringer ’68 Patricia Beringer entered Bard in 1965; Howard Dratch in 1966. She went on to art school in London, he to law school at Cornell. They married in 1969 and settled in the mid Hudson Valley until 1998. Then, having developed congestive heart failure, Dratch bought a big red Bronco and drove them both to Mexico, to the shore of Laguna Bacalar, “the hemisphere’s prettiest swimming hole.” After receiving the Fall 2003 Bardian, with its call for remembrances of Bard, Beringer and Dratch settled down for a chat with an imaginary student from the Class of 2008. Student ’08 How did you feel when you first encountered Bard? Was it a lot different then? The ’60s are only history for me . . . wow! Almost 40 years ago. Patricia I first saw Bard when I was 8. My father had attended the College in the 1930s, and in the fall he liked to go back to the old school. I remember the heady taste of apples, rural Bard—a place that definitely wasn’t Scarsdale— and my first sight of the beatniks studying there. Soon enough I was taking the train to New York, to hang out with the beats in the Village. I went to the University of Arizona for a semester and then came back to New York to go to the New School, where I studied with Justus Rosenberg, who was also teaching at Bard. He encouraged me to apply to Bard, giving me my first ideas of Bard excellence and freedom. Later there was my tutor, Murray Reich [assistant professor of art], and Jim Sullivan [assistant professor of art], who made pictures with glee, and Wyn Chamberlain with his film, Brand X, parties, and happenings in his classes. Dylan was singing “The pump don’t work ’cause the vandals took the handles” about the pump at the triangle across from Adolph’s. “Sgt. Pepper” poured out of windows on campus, and I loved my freedom living off campus in Schuyler House. Howard My first view of Bard was at Grand Central Station, where Bruce Blowitz [’71] was in antipreppy, anti–Chicago Latin School regalia asking, “Hey man, is this the Bard Train?” I was culture shocked as we left the station, and Bard’s 19th-century majesty and mystery finished me off. Happily, my first new Bard idea came from my tutor, Bob Koblitz [professor of government], who listened to my tale of terror—that everyone else spoke an academic language with references to Hobbes and Locke, Latin phrases, and verbal footnotes—and taught me to sift through the verbiage, find the information, distill my own thoughts, and believe that I could join this exclusive world that I hadn’t known before. Student ’08 Do you think of anyone special from your days at Bard? Howard Girls. Timothy Leary speaking behind Stone Row. Old friends. Regrets of friendships not made. Peter Sourian [professor of English], with whom I still wish I had studied. Patricia & Howard Ken Grimwood [’69] and Lonnie Younge [’67]. The Fall 2003 Bardian came with the news that Ken had died at 59. Lonnie died in 1998. Both deaths surprised us. Howard Patricia and I met in 1966 in the dining com- mons. But not until a famous three-day party at Lonnie’s did we “lock eyes” and begin to go out. Late at night, Ken and Pat and I would turn Blithewood into an antebellum plantation for impromptu plays bathed in the scent of the garden. We heard the Clermont sound her whistle as she steamed up the Hudson. 51 ’69 Peter Minichiello has been appointed director of develop- ment of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. The BSO recruited Peter, whose career has included time in the cor- porate publishing world as well as development positions at AmFar, The Lighthouse, and WNYC public radio in New York City. After years of fund-raising, he says he’s learned to never take any gift for granted. “Small donations are as important as anything else,” he says. Regarding the fund- raising climate in these difficult economic times, he is mat- ter-of-fact: “You simply keep soliciting. You never stop.” ’70 35th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu George Brewster left his position as president of JVA Properties to start Kiwi Properties, LLC, a real estate invest- ment and development firm specializing in New Zealand properties. Steve Levy, who received his V.M.D from the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine in 1977, prac- ticed for two years as an associate veterinarian in Guilford, Connecticut, before purchasing the Durham Veterinary Hospital in Durham, Connecticut, in 1979. His practice is limited to dogs and cats and he has developed a strong spe- cialty in Lyme disease and tick biology. Since 1986, when he diagnosed the first case of canine cardiac Lyme disease, Steve has accumulated the majority of primary authorships on clinical Lyme disease in dogs. In addition to his clinical and research activities, he presents continuing education on ticks and tick-borne diseases throughout the United States and internationally. Steve has also been chief of the Durham Volunteer Fire Company for 10 years. He is mar- ried to Diane (Seltzer) Levy. They have one daughter, Hilary, and a grandson, Jacob Eric Beler. Mark Zuckerman has been awarded a New Jersey State Council on the Arts (NJSCA) fellowship for 2004, one of only two given to New Jersey composers. The NJSCA granted fellowships, based solely on artistic excellence, to 26 New Jersey artists out of a pool of 303 applicants in five disciplines. Student ’08 What do you remember of Bard in the differ- ent seasons? Patricia Apple smells and River Road, the changing colors of the trees and getting my Senior Project ready, lost in my little, private Proctor studio, painting until I couldn’t see, then dancing at Adolph’s until late. Young men not named Howard. My brass bed at Schuyler House and the old gar- den there. Blithewood garden in spring bloom. Howard My first sight of real snow. Steve Miller [’70] get- ting me to slide down the hill in front of our North Hoffman rooms on a dining commons tray. Winter Field Periods working for law firms in Chicago and New York. The Blithewood garden in 1969 when David Pierce, then an Episcopal priest, later friend and editor, married us as the bees danced by the fountain in the pool. David had long blond hair and blue eyes and he ad-libbed a marriage cere- mony to suit our ’60s lives and the mention that I made on the way to the garden that I happened to be Jewish. Student ’08 What do you remember of Commencement? Pat & Howard Finishing Senior Projects and papers, thinking about Life and grad schools. Heinz Bertelsmann yelling at us for refusing to come to Baccalaureate, but God was in a blue sky that day, and neither of us would get off the grass to sit inside and miss a drop of sky. Patricia My grandmother hired a limo and driver to come up from Park Avenue. She was proud of me. It was sweet because she died the next year. Student ’08 And what about leaving Bard? Patricia I hated to leave. Graduate art school in London didn’t come close to the education and freedom I had at Bard. I came back and we were married and lived in Germantown, Barrytown, and Saugerties. Bard was always part of our lives. Movies, lectures, friends, music . . . Howard In 1982 I began to freelance for Bard as a photog- rapher. We knew people in many Bard classes and at many reunions. We had a lot of faculty friends, whom I miss, including David Pierce, gone now too. Working on the Hudson Valley Regional Review with Dick Wiles [professor emeritus of economics]. Shooting the art faculty for the new Avery M.F.A. program. What is not a memory is Bard, still a voice of reason, for freedom and human rights. 52 ’71 Seth Kammerer writes that his wife, Hatsue, died in Tokyo on December 6, 2003. Seth, their son, her sister, and two close family friends were with her at her bedside. Her wake was held on December 12, and a formal service on December 13. She was interred at her family’s formal burial site in her hometown of Chiba, Japan. ’73 Natalie Kaye is very happy living a “bicoastal” life in Woodstock, New York, and New York City. She is the direc- tor of marketing services at the magazine Organic Style. Leslie Phillips is a partner in Burke/Phillips Design (www.burkephillips.com) and founder of the Robert Phillips –Youman Memorial Foundation (www.robertphillipsy- ouman.org), in memory of her late son, Robbie. The Foundation is an outreach group that serves severely men- tally ill and suicidal young people. Leslie is happy to report that her daughter, Courtney, 21, loves the University of Washington, where she is studying geography and sustain- able economics in third world countries, and that her son Seth, 11, continues to play Little League and dreams of becoming a Mariner. Leslie encourages any Bardians who find themselves in the Seattle area to look her up. ’74 Mardi-Ellen Hill has launched her own multimedia company. Jeannie Motherwell exhibits at the Lyman-Eyer Gallery (http://www.lymaneyerart.com) in Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she has summered most of her life. She exhibited her recent work in June; new work will be on view this fall. Jeannie is a full-time employee at Boston University for the Arts Administration Graduate Program. She has been appointed to the Cambridge Arts Council’s Public Art Commission advisory committee, a nine-mem- ber board that reflects the cultural, ethnic, and geographic makeup of Cambridge, Massachusetts. You can contact Jeannie at Jmotharts@aol.com. Caroline Muir shares her loft space in an artists’ cooperative with her sweetie, Steve, and her cat, Mercury. Her efforts to master HTML have paid off: a Google search for “Caroline Muir” now easily returns her site. Brother Francis E. Revels-Bey encourages fellow Bardians to check out his two websites: www.circleofgrace1.com and cir- cleofgrace1.byregion.net. Pete Mauney ’93, MFA ’99 Class of 1974, 30th Reunion 53 ’75 30th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu Roberta Maria Baldini has been appointed to the Office of the Prosecutor at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. The UN Security Council established the ad hoc ICTR to prosecute those most responsible for the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Robert “Ron” Wilson retired as assistant executive vice chancellor emeritus after 27 years with the University of California, Irvine. He was the first administrator to retire with this honor. This past December 9 marked the first anniversary of his heart transplant. Ron and his wife, Carol, are looking forward to their 29th anniversary in August and have been spending time traveling and visiting with friends and family. Their three children (Jascha, Shanta, and Alina) are all happy and healthy. ’76 Steven Haber lives with his wife, Xiaolan, and their two children, Jonathan, 12, and Maya Lin, 9, in New Jersey. He teaches English at New Jersey City University in Jersey City and writes that he would love to hear from fellow Bardians. Richard Frank ’74 The high cost of health care in the United States is a con- cern for many. For Richard Frank, it’s a passion. “The con- nection between economics and health is direct,” he says. “One of every seven dollars in the United States is spent on health care. That’s 15 percent of our economy.” Frank, who majored in economics at Bard, is the Margaret T. Morris Professor of Health Economics in the Department of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School. He found his calling as a graduate student research assistant at Boston University (where he earned a Ph.D. in economics), studying the effect of the expansion of health insurance to cover mental illness. “I thought it was extraordinarily cool,” he recalls. “I was interested in understanding how markets intersect with policy.” In 1993 Frank got a firsthand look at health care pol- icy when he served on President Clinton’s Task Force on National Health Care Reform—“an amazing experience,” he says. “I worked on mental health issues in the reform plan with Mrs. Gore. For six months I worked literally round the clock.” Disappointed by the task force’s out- come, he nevertheless says, “I wouldn’t have traded my involvement in it for the world.” Last fall Frank wrapped up the first portion of a major study looking at the impact of direct-to-consumer advertising on the prescription drug industry. The study combines two of his favorite pastimes, he quips: “health economics and watching television.” Papers about the study have been pub- lished in the New England Journal of Medicine and by the National Bureau of Economic Research, where Frank is a research associate. Frank was also seeking a publisher for a book he has written about the state of mental health care in the United States. Tentative title: Better but Not Well. Ron Wilson and Bard friends from all over (left to right): Jackie Nieves ’77 of Jamesburg, New Jersey; Dawn deLeongh (Toppin) ’76 of Alexandria, Virginia; Wilson; Marlene Rubain ’76 of Oakland; Anita Rodriguez ’77 of Riverdale, New York; and (center) Pat Rock ’78 of Brooklyn. 54 ’78 Kathleen C. Reardon has been named counsel at the inter- national law firm of Bryan Cave LLP. She joined the firm’s St. Louis office in 1998 and is a member of the Health Care Client Service Group. ’79 Tom Carpenter Hunter reports from Iowa City that he is still a meat eater and has, in fact, become a modest grill master. He earned a master of arts in teaching in 1991 and a master of fine arts in creative nonfiction in 2003, both from the University of Iowa. Tom and his wife, Annie, have three nonhuman children: Sunny, a yellow lab; and the Larrys, big and little, two feline brothers. Madeline Wilson teaches photography and graphic design at the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. She kayaks the Hudson River during the summer and skis in the win- ter. Her girls are getting big, ages 13 and 16, respectively. “It’s all good,” she writes. Ed Winter is on the faculty of Thomas Jefferson Medical School in Philadelphia, where he teaches and does research. He is married to Jeannette Dumas and they have a 2-year-old son, Theo. He can be reached at winter@lac.jci.tju.edu. ’80 25th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7406 or wayne@bard.edu Aliza Driller is the mother of two awesome kids as well as an art teacher and the department chairperson for K-12 in the Highland (New York) Central School District. She is also still making “art things.” Stephanie Leighton works as a portfolio manager for a Boston- based, socially responsible investment management firm called Trillium Asset Management. In December 2003 she wrote, “I am looking forward to marrying my partner of 15 years, due to the recent gay marriage ruling in Massachusetts!” Samuel D. Marshall, Ph.D., assistant professor of biology and director of the J. H. Barrow Field Station at Hiram College in Ohio, was the subject of an article entitled “Stalking Spiders” in the February 2004 issue of Discover magazine. The article, an offshoot of the book The Tarantula Scientist by Sy Montgomery (Houghton Mifflin, spring 2004), details Gretchen Fierle ’78 As executive director of the Research Center for Stroke and Heart Disease at the Jacobs Neurological Insititute in Buffalo, Gretchen Fierle heads a team that designs and implements projects to change behaviors relating to health. Fierle’s team covers an eight-county area of western New York that has the highest rates of stroke and heart dis- ease in the country. “Our work is not clinically based,” she says. “We design broad-based interventions in an effort to promote behavior changes that will prevent these diseases.” One such intervention involved working with church congre- gations in a physical activity program; another is an effort to bring healthier foods to public schools, to put the next gener- ation on the road to good health. Fierle, who majored in psychology at Bard, also invests her time in community issues, particularly those focused on women and girls. She serves on the national board of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, an organization she holds in high esteem. “The people most likely to be poor in our country are women,” she says. “They need not only opportu- nity, but also role models. Women who have overcome extraordinary obstacles can be found at the Hall of Fame, as inspiration.” Targeting youth, Fierle wants to see the organi- zation work with more school curricula and offer its website as a learning tool in schools. Fierle sums up her interest: “Not too long ago, women had no rights. Today we’re leveling the playing field, but we need to bring up the next generation in an inspired way.” 55 Sam’s career as one of only a dozen arachnologists world- wide specializing in tarantulas. The article may be viewed online at http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-04/ features/stalking-spiders/. Sam notes that his career in tarantula research started with his Senior Project at Bard. ’81 Stacy Presha’s play, Elaina Vance’s Last Dance, was produced at Theater for the New City in Manhattan, April 2–25. ’82 Steve Bennish, assistant regional editor at the Dayton (Ohio) Daily News, is pleased to report that in January 2004, Ohio Governor Bob Taft signed a landmark bill reforming the ways in which the state handles crimes against the develop- mentally disabled and retarded. The bill, authored largely by a blue-ribbon panel of police, prosecutors, and judges, follows the Dayton Daily News’s series “Deadly Consequences,” written by Bennish and reporter Tom Beyerlein, which detailed deaths due to abuse and neglect. The signing of the bill echoed overwhelming support by the state legislature. The series can still be viewed at: http://www.daytondailynews.com/project/content/project/ mrdd/mrdd_index.html (free registration is required). Steven Colatrella is an assistant professor of sociology at Mount Mercy College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the 2003–2004 president of the Iowa Sociological Association. Lisa R. Jaccoma is vice president of public affairs at Mystic Aquarium’s Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut. ’83 Jan Altshool, after moving into a 1910 Craftsman five years ago with her partner Deb, has pledged to find time to put pictures on the walls. They were honored to accept the British Columbia Human Rights Commission Award on Human Rights Day 2003, on behalf of the Lesbian and Gay Immigration Task Force for their work with lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, and transgendered people in cross-border relationships. Roy Gumpel Class of 1979, 25th Reunion 56 ’84 Karen Lehmann and her husband, Dennis, are completely smitten with their daughter, Amelia Louise, born March 14, 2003. While the days fly by in one big “Mommy swirl,” she steals time for poetry and continues to mentor other writers, while simultaneously completing her training as a Montessori teacher. The family, including four dogs, lives in Denver. Leonard Schwartz was appointed professor of creative writ- ing at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington, last fall. Talisman House published his new collection of poems, The Tower of Diverse Shores, in November 2003. Leonard hosts his own radio program, Cross-Cultural Poetics, on KAOS, 89.3, in Olympia. In January, he was an invited reader at the WordFeast Poetry Festival in Singapore. Lisa Vasey (Jurkowski) earned an M.B.A. degree in non- profit management after 10 years in the music industry. She is now the program manager of artistic operations for the Henry Mancini Institute in Los Angeles, where she manages a four-week summer education program and pro- duces a free concert series. ’85 20th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7406 or wayne@bard.edu Lisa Uchrin (Ferguson) is the mayor of her tiny borough in New Jersey. She won the Democratic nomination by one vote and went on to unseat a 30-year incumbent. ’88 Laura Giletti married John Meany in 1999, after a courtship of more than seven years. In 2003 they moved to Sydney, Australia, where they are exploring life in the land “down under.” Roy Gumpel Class of 1984, 20th Reunion 57 Sheryl Korsnes is helping to develop the endoscopy research program at the University of Michigan Medical School. She is an investigator on a clinical project that involves the use of optical coherence tomography in ulcerative colitis surveil- lance. She is also investigating the use of capsule endoscopy in the detection of sources of small bowel bleeding. She writes that she is happy with what she is doing, and sends greetings to her professors and classmates. Allison Radzin and her husband, Mark, welcomed their daughter, Wyatt C. F. Radzin, into the world on October 29, 2003, in Greenwich, Connecticut. ’89 Dominick Reisen curated the exhibition Freemasonry in Cooperstown, which runs from June 21 to September 19 at the Smithy Pioneer Gallery in Cooperstown, New York. He is also president of the Otsego County Historical Association. Julia Williams (Todd) is the director of the nursing program for the Brattleboro campus of Vermont Technical College. ’90 15th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7406 or wayne@bard.edu Thomas Crofts lives with his wife, Molly, and sons, Rex and August, in Norman, Oklahoma, where he is an assistant pro- fessor of medieval English literature at the University of Oklahoma. Marcos Morales and his wife, Nancy, had their first child, Marcos Antonio II, on October 30, 2003. In December Marcos reported, “Mom and baby doing great, and dad is wonderfully tired.” The family lives in Yonkers, New York. ’91 Chad Kleitsch participated in the inaugural exhibition of the Haddad Lascano Gallery (cofounded by Carrie Haddad ’95) in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, last March 27. ’92 Christina Hajagos-Clausen and Jakob Clausen still live in New York City, where they are learning how to balance work, school, and parenthood. Their son, Andreas, is now an active and curious 2-year-old. Jakob has earned a master’s degree at Teachers College, Columbia University, and con- tinues to teach ESL at a New York City public high school. Elizabeth Reiss ’87 After years of working in New York City museums, Elizabeth Reiss left Gotham in 2001 for Pittsburgh and the helm of a major annual arts festival. As director of the Three Rivers Arts Festival, Reiss raises funds and selects artists for the 45-year-old festival, which runs for 17 days each June, featuring music, visual arts, crafts, and dance performances. “I like institutional planning, and thinking in advance to make things hap- pen,” she says. “I’m not a ‘detail’ person, but I love think- ing about how it all comes together.” Challenges include the current economy, which makes fund-raising difficult. Further, an annual event is “weird,” says Reiss. “You think you have all the time in the world, and then it’s like a freight train coming at you— everything happens at once.” The freight train does bring its rewards. “I remember the opening night concert of my first real year on the job. The Indigo Girls were playing to an audience of fifteen thousand. I attended the event with my staff, and one of them turned to me and said, ‘You did this.’ It was a tremendous feeling. Through all my work in museums over the years I’ve probably had an impact on a lot of peo- ple, but the impact of this festival is just palpable.” 58 Christina, director of organizing at a local union, is finish- ing up a master’s degree in labor relations from the University of Massachusetts. Heather Klinkhamer earned an M.S. degree in education from St. John’s University in 2003, as part of the New York City Teaching Fellows program, Her oil painting, Turquoise Nun, was selected for inclusion in Touchstone Gallery’s sixth annual All Media Exhibition, which ran from February 11, 2003, to March 7, 2004, in Washington, D. C. Margaret Sova McCabe and her husband, Tom, added another son to their family. Hank was born on February 2, 2004, joining big brother Tommie, who is 3. Margaret enjoys teaching at Pierce Law in Concord, New Hampshire. She continues to practice law on a limited basis, working mostly on contracting projects. Katya McElfresh received a master’s degree in social work from Hunter College in 2001. At Hunter, she was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Foundation Award for academically outstanding women in social work and the Reva Fine Holtzman Award for her work with families. She is a social worker at the Family Reception Center, where she works with children at risk for placement in foster care. She writes that she loves her life and work in Brooklyn, where she fre- quently babysits for Keelan Durham, the perfect child of Jon Durham ’93 and Margaret Loftus ’92. Bryony Renner attends law school at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia. Her full-length play, Can’t Make Me, was selected for the 2003 FringeACT Festival of New Original Work in Seattle. Claudia Smith’s stories have appeared online (in Pindeldyboz, Eyeshot, and the Mississippi Review) and in print (in Ink Pot, Night Train, and Flash!Point). Her short story, “How To Catch A Good Girl,” published by Word Riot, was short- listed for storySouth’s Million Writers Award as one of the top 10 online stories of 2003. Daniel Sonenberg completed his dissertation about Joni Mitchell in May 2003, and received a doctorate in music com- position from the CUNY Graduate School. Together with librettist/poet Daniel Nester, he is composing an opera, The Summer King, on the life of Negro League baseball legend Josh Gibson. Excerpts of the work have been performed at the Manhattan School of Music and Peter Norton Symphony Space, under the sponsorship of American Opera Projects. He Andrew Joffe ’82 Playwright Terrence McNally has noted that in opera, the music is everything and a “good libretto, or a bad one, is everything else.” Andrew Joffe, who penned the libretto for The Song of Eddie, an opera in two acts that premiered in July at The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts, would probably agree, but he’d add a kicker: “It’s true that a good libretto never saved a bad opera, but a bad libretto has sunk many a good one.” Joffe, who has staged more than 40 productions as the artistic director of the American Chamber Opera Company, has written the libretti for two chamber operas, Faust Triumphant and Medea in Exile; a two-act opera based on the Joris-Karl Huysmans novel A Rebours; and Beast and Superbeast, an operatic trilogy inspired by Saki’s short stories. As a librettist, Joffe describes his collaborative modus operandi as “anything that gives you a good piece,” but he prefers give-and-take with the composer. “I’ve been lucky, in that the composers I’ve worked with value the input,” he says, adding that he knows of many who “beat up on the librettist.” The chemistry of interacting with a composer and creating something that is somehow magically other than either the music or the text is what Joffe finds most stimu- lating. “The most amazing alchemical transformations happen, because your libretto is essentially incomplete [without the music],” he says of the process. “Things come up that you would never have foreseen.” Photograph: Tania Barricklo 59 is a visiting assistant professor of music at Brooklyn College, and lives with his wife, Alexandra, in Astoria, Queens. ’93 Andrew Browne finds himself in Shanghai, China, follow- ing stays in Germany and Kuwait. He writes that life in Shanghai is very fast-paced, the work week not long enough, and that he regrets not having taken an intensive Chinese course while at Bard. Fellow Bardians in China (or elsewhere) can contact Andrew at abrowne123@yahoo.com. Dr. Catherine “Betsy” Buck works as a small animal veteri- narian in York, Pennsylvania. Ling Kwan earned a master’s degree in music from Ithaca College and now teaches at the Mountain Laurel Waldorf School in New Paltz, New York, and at the Dutchess Community College Music School. In addition, the mother of Julian, 7, and AnaIsabel, 3, gives private cello lessons to children and “enthusiastic adults.” She lives in Red Hook, New York. Benjamin Schneider writes that he is still living in Manhattan, practicing law, studying jazz and blues guitar, and searching for like-minded musicians to play with. ’94 Georgia Hodes made the “logical shift” from acting to psy- chology. She is in her third year of the Ph.D. program in biopsychology and behavorial neuroscience at Rutgers University. Kristi Martel moved from Oakland, California, back home to Rhode Island after the sudden death of her life partner, Littlebird. She writes that it has been an enormous loss and trauma, but that she is healing. Check www.kmetal.net/blogger.html for details of Kristi’s record- ing, touring, and CD release schedules. Roy Gumpel Class of 1989, 15th Reunion 60 Tatiana Prowell is pursuing a fellowship in oncology and conducting breast cancer clinical trials at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. She and her husband of two years, Todd Gleeson, a fellow physician, welcomed their first son, Gavin Rhys Gleeson, on January 16, 2004. ’95 10th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7406 or wayne@bard.edu Pamela Chaplin-Loebell and her husband, David ’98, are pleased to share the news of the birth of their second daughter, Amelia Robin, on May 11, 2003. Following a four- month maternity break, Pam took over the management of their family business, Klatha.com, which provides computer and Internet consulting services to small businesses, com- munity organizations, artists, and arts institutions. Premraj Makkuni is a resident in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia. Phuc and Susan Tran ’96 moved from New York City to Portland, Maine, where they opened up their own tattoo shop. Phuc also teaches Latin. You can view their website at www.tsunamitattoo.com. Hoa Tu will serve as the coprincipal of a new public school on the Lower East Side in New York City, starting in September 2004. The Henry Street Secondary School for International Studies has been created in collaboration with the Asia Society to serve inner city minority children. ’96 Sarah Popdan writes that Lucian Robert Popdan Li arrived on November 1, 2003, to bring her and her husband, Eric Li, one step closer to their goal of a family mah jong foursome. Among Lucian’s first admirers were Katrina Hajagos ’97 (whose birthday he shares), Priya George ’97, Godric Shoesmith ’97, Wendy Grunseich ’96, Cree (Christopher) Nevins ’95, and Elizabeth Norton ’95. Those wishing to join the crew, view photographs, or contact Mama can visit http://mysite.verizon.net/vze8dvk2/index.html. Roy Gumpel Class of 1994, 10th Reunion 61 Mara Tillett lives in Mexico City, where she was born. She is active as a flamenco dancer (having founded her own com- pany), flute performer, and teacher. She shares her apart- ment with three cats. ’97 Rakhel Milstein (Speyer ) passed the New York bar exam and now works in immigration law in New York City. ’98 Something in Between, a short film directed by Zackary Adler and produced by Adrian Bartol ’99, was screened at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. The film, which deals with drug addiction, has also been shown at drug treatment centers for teens to stimulate discussion in a group therapy setting. ’99 Amy Foster graduated from the Longwood Gardens Professional Gardener Training Program in 2002 and has been the education manager at the Delaware Center for Horticulture for the past two years Molly Heekin graduated with a master’s degree in the sci- ence of teaching from the State University of New York at New Paltz this spring. ’00 5th Reunion: May 20–22, 2005 Contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7406 or wayne@bard.edu Maro Sevastopoulos works as a full-time labor union organ- izer with Service Employees International Union, Local 503, Oregon. Hilary Takiff received a master of fine arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003. ’01 Benjamin Blattberg attends the University of Chicago, where he is in the Ph.D. program in the Department of English Language and Literature. Blanca Lista was invited to be part of the jury at Belgium’s Mons International Film Festival in February 2004. She is finishing her next 16mm film, Galore. Cecilia Maple and her long-time partner, Dwane Decker, were married on May 29, 2004, in the Bard Chapel. Cecilia has returned to Bard, where she now works as the assistant to the director of the new Master of Arts in Teaching Program. Lisa Kereszi ’95 was approached in October 2003 by the Public Art Fund to docu- ment Governor’s Island, a former U.S. Army base and later a Coast Guard base in the mid- dle of New York Harbor, the proposed redevel- opment of which may produce the next Central Park. On the island, accessible only by private a ferry, she found a ghost town—man- sions, apartment buildings, two hospitals, a Burger King, bowling alley, Super 8 motel, movie theater, beauty salon, bank, churches, dormitories, classrooms, and a gym. Her work, and that of fellow project photographer Andrew Moore, was shown in May at the Urban Center. A soft-cover book will follow the exhibition. The project is made possible by the support of the Public Art Fund and the Governor’s Island Preservation and Education Committee (GIPEC). For more information, visit www.lisakereszi.com. Lisa Kereszi 62 Anthony Rivera, of New York City, writes that he is still striving for greatness and giving back to the community that nurtured him. ’02 Jessica Farwell ran her first marathon this June in San Diego to raise money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. She lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is a sixth grade science teacher at Frank Ashley Day Middle School in Newton. Jean-Marc Gorelick is serving a 27-month tour for the United States Peace Corps in Togo, Africa, in the field of girls education and empowerment. An article he wrote about his experience, “The Africa We Aren’t Shown on TV,” appeared in the January 30, 2004 edition of The Christian Science Monitor. Jonathan Leach is a staff reporter/assistant producer for the CBS documentary news magazine 48 Hours, television’s third longest-running news program. ’03 Gabrielle Becker is the founder of Grand St. Community Arts, Inc., a nonprofit arts organization that is converting the long-abandoned St. Anthony’s Church in downtown Albany, New York, into a community arts center. Gabrielle and her dedicated volunteers, including Monique Roberts ’03, foresee many uses for the center, including after-school programs, live musical performances, and rental space for nonprofit groups. Pia Carusone moved to New Hampshire last fall to work on Howard Dean’s presidential campaign. As an area organizer based in Laconia, she was responsible for building local teams of activists. Initially attracted to Dean’s political courage, she was even more impressed by the grassroots style of his campaign. She writes, “Never before had the principles of social justice organizing been applied to a pres- idential campaign.” She has since moved to Telluride, Colorado, where she snowboards to and from work and is “enjoying the view of election-time turmoil from a distance.” Roy Gumpel Class of 1999, 5th Reunion 63 She remains hopeful that she will be as passionate about her next job as she was about the Dean campaign. Babacar Cisse, now a student in a combined M.D./Ph.D. program at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, has been awarded a 2004 Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (immigrants and children of immigrants). Fellows receive a stipend of up to $20,000, plus half-tuition for as many as two years of graduate study at any institution of higher learning in the United States. Babacar is one of 30 fellows chosen from an applicant pool of nearly 1,000 this year. In other news, Babacar married Fatou Toure in July 2003. His wife remains in Senegal. Mneesha Gellman lives in Arcata, California, where she helps produce a weekly public affairs radio program for the Mainstream Media Project. In her free time, she does Aikido, volunteers at Pelican Bay State Prison, and serves on the Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Commission for the City of Arcata. She misses her Bard friends and loves visitors. Luke Venezia has gained recognition from European and United States labels for his electronic music under the alias “drop the lime.” In addition to touring Europe with material from his five records, Luke has made his way up the ranks at Outpost Digital, a production company at Radical Media in New York City. He began working in the dub room, but soon moved on to motion graphics and compositing. To date, he has worked on animated logos for clients such as VH-1, done flash motion graphics for the new Reebok S. Carter sneaker, and is head compositor on an Errol Morris–directed CVS ad. Acknowledging his years at Bard, Luke writes, “Thank you Richard Teitelbaum, Bob Bielecki, Jackie Goss, Leah Gilliam, and Hap Tivey.” Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts ’92 Michael Merchant and his family have returned to the U.S. after two and a half years in Brussels. They are restoring and working on their 19th-century farmstead and organic farm in New Jersey, where, they report, the countryside still exists, but is disappearing quickly. Their 29-acre farm is a television-free sanctuary for Michael, his wife, and their three children. Lily Prince’s Candlesmoke and Fingerprints on Paper 22” x 30” appeared in the March 2004 exhibition Meditations, New York at 473 Broadway Gallery in New York City. ’93 Jane Schiowitz had a solo exhibition of new paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in New York City last January. It was her fourth one-person show with the gallery. ’94 Gary Green, an assistant professor of art at the University of Southern Maine, was a visiting lecturer in art at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, this past spring. ’95 Janet Echelman exhibited her works at the Florence Lynch Gallery in New York City in January. Entitled Projects in the Public Realm, the show featured work from three important public sculpture projects completed or conceived in the past year, including a one-tenth scale prototype of her $1.25 mil- lion commission currently under construction in Porto, Portugal. Rising 14 stories to visually connect a city park and a popular beach on the Atlantic coast, the work sus- pends multiple 150-foot-diameter sculptural nets over a three-lane highway roundabout. Jackie Lipton’s work was featured at Brooklyn’s Gallery Boreas in its February exhibition, Visual Dialogue. ’96 Mara Adamitz Scrupe, an environmental artist, had a solo exhibition of her work at Grand Arts in Kansas City. Entitled Back to Nature: Collecting the Preserved Garden, the work was jointly commissioned for exhibition by the Aldrich Contemporary Arts Museum (Connecticut) and Grand Arts. She is currently at work on new commissions for TICKON (Tranekaer International Centre for Art and Nature) in Rudkobing, Denmark; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland (funded by the Arts Council of Ireland); Buffalo Bayou Art Park, Houston; and Agnes Scott College Public Art Commission, Atlanta. Scrupe holds the Barbara L. Bishop Endowed Chair in Art at Longwood University in Virginia. ’99 Tom Johnson and Carrie Moyer ’02 had simultaneous exhi- bitions at the New York City gallery Canada this winter. Tom’s Better Social Realism also featured a performance by the artist. Carrie’s exhibition was entitled Chromafesto. Wallace Whitney ’01 is one of the gallery’s founders. 64 ’00 Serkan Ozkaya, of Istanbul, is a Ph.D. candidate in German literature at Istanbul University. He was a fellow of the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire and has been an artist-in-residence at Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France, and in Malmo, Sweden, as recipient of an IASPIS grant (International Artists’ Studio Program in Sweden). Recent exhibitions include Minerva Street at Galerist, Istanbul, and Look Again at Proje 4L, Istanbul. ’01 Michelle Handelman’s video work, along with work by Bard associate professor of film and electronic arts Peggy Ahwesh, was featured in the exhibition Acting Out at the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto this past January. Michelle also received a 2004 New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artist Grant for her new animation project, ’lil m vs. ’lil m. A solo exhibition featuring photographs by Holly Lynton took place this spring at Mixed Greens in New York City. Judy Radul did two video installations, Empathy with the Victor and No One Must Know, for an exhibition at the Power Plant in Toronto this past winter. Work by Trevor Stafford was included in Projects ’03 at the Carriage House at the Islip Art Museum in East Islip, New York. ’02 Alexandra Newmark’s Cycle of Three, an installation of mohair creatures, was on exhibit this winter at PS122 Gallery in New York City. Raïssa Venables was awarded the Andrew Rhodes Fund for Young Artists grant from the Visual Arts Foundation in March. In April, she was in residence and gave a solo exhi- bition at the Galerie SPHN in Berlin. Raïssa’s artwork and her Berlin exhibition were the subjects of a feature article in the April 2004 issue of the German photography magazine Photography-Now. ’03 Ben Coonley’s experimental video, Wavelength 3-D, was shown at the New York Underground Film Festival at Anthology Film Archives in March. It was described in pro- motional literature as “a 3D video cover of Michael Snow’s seminal structural film, Wavelength (1967), reflecting on Snow’s work from a contemporary (digital) vantage point.” Joel Griffith’s paintings were on exhibit at 69 Broadway, in Tivoli, New York. ’04 Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge collaborated on Winner, a short film that played at the Mix Festival in New York City last fall. The improvised short about a fictional interview gone awry was described as “smartly and deftly sideswiping the gap between those who ‘get’ and ‘don’t get’ art.” Laurel Sparks was one of eight artists included in Terra (in)Cognita at Hampshire College Gallery in Amherst, Massachusetts. The spring exhibition explored the “maps” that define everyday existence and distinguish internal and external, public and private domains. Center for Curatorial Studies ’96 Regine Basha and artist Roy Stanfield collaborated on The Vulcan 20 and the Commodore 1541, a project involving three sites in Austin, Texas, where Regine is adjunct curator at Arthouse and an associate at Fluent Collaborative, a contem- porary art initiative. Her writing has appeared in art/text, Performance Art Journal, ARude, and Modern Painters. Gilbert Vicario received an award from the U.S. Section of the International Association of Art Critics for Diller + Scofidio, an exhibition he curated at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Gilbert is assistant curator at the ICA. ’97 Rachel Gugelberger, associate director at the Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York, recently curated Rubbish at Chuchifritos, an art gallery and project space. The exhibition included site-specific works by three artists. Tomas Pospiszyl is teaching at the Film Academy in Prague as well as writing and working on curatorial projects. ’98 Anne Ellegood, curator of the Norton Collection in New York City, was a participant in a four-panel debate at the 65 ARCO Forum at the Armory Show, The International Fair of New Art, March 2003. Zhang Zhaohui, former director of Xray Art Center, Beijing, is enrolled in a Ph.D. program at the Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, focusing on 20th-Century Chinese art history. ’99 Tobias Ostrander curated an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Kevin Appel at Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, where he is curator. He also contributed an essay to the accompanying catalogue. ’00 Tracee Robertson (Williams) has written three articles for ARTL!ES, a Houston-based journal that examines contem- porary art and art issues throughout Texas. Gregory Sandoval began the year with a new job as manager of adult interpretive programs at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. SLOWNESS, an exhibition curated by Mercedes Vicente, presented works from five artists who have taken critical positions around issues of time. It opened in November 2003 at New York City’s Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, a not-for-profit organization that explores themes relevant to our understanding of visual arts today. ’01 Katherine Chan is associate director at Nolan/Eckman Gallery in New York City. ’02 Elizabeth Fisher has moved to Cambridge, England, where she has accepted the position of exhibitions organiser at Kettle’s Yard, a major center for 20th-century and contem- porary art. Jenni Sorkin received the College Art Association’s Art Journal Award for her article “Envisioning High Performance,” which was based on a section of her CCS thesis. Jenni, a research assistant at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, will be pursuing a Ph.D. at Yale in the fall. Jill Winder is still living in Berlin, where she has been involved in a number of projects, including acting as curator- ial assistant to Carina Plath ’01 at the Kunstverein in Munster. ’03 Kazeem Adeleke will attend the Ph.D. program at Cornell University. Robert Blackson has accepted the position of curator at the Reg Vardy Gallery at the University of Sunderland, England. He will curate about seven exhibitions a year. Finland Station, curated by Ingrid Chu, launches White Box’s new program, VIDEOBOX, which features ongoing video screenings in its street level window in New York City. Candice Hopkins was awarded the 2003 Ramapo Prize for her exhibition Every Stone Tells a Story: The Work of David Hammons and Jimmie Durham. The exhibition will be on view at New Jersey’s Berrie Center for the Performing and Visual Arts in November. Candice is a curatorial resident at the Walter Phillips Gallery in Banff, Alberta. ’04 Pascal Spengemann navigated his final year of graduate study at CCS while simultaneously putting together five exhibitions at Taxter & Spengemann, a fledgling gallery in Chelsea that he co-owns with Kelly Taxter ’03. Their exhibi- tion of emerging artist Matt Johnson’s work was noted in the New York Times on March 21. Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture ’97 Malcolm MacNeil is teaching a new survey course on American glass at the BGC as a visiting faculty member. He is also an adjunct faculty member at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies, where he teaches classes on European and American glass of the Victorian, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco periods. He is the current president of the New York Metropolitan Glass Club, a chapter of the National American Glass Club. ’98 Julia Gorzka has been busy with a career transition in the last eight months. Under the name “The House of Julia,” she has done a variety of projects: she started a line of hand- painted baby clothes; worked her first spokesmodel gig; acted in a Ghost Walk of Ybor City, Tampa’s Latin Quarter; 66 taught “Fundamentals of Design” in the Interior Design Department at the International Academy of Design and Technology; and took on her first decorating project. During this time she searched for a way to be hands-on in the redevelopment and revitalization of Tampa’s urban core and the movement to encourage more creative workers to make Tampa home. She found her niche in real estate and is selling real estate with a focus on downtown projects. ’00 Ayesha Abdur-Rahman was appointed associate curator of Visual Media Resources at the BGC. Ayesha continues to travel back to her native Sri Lanka, where she is researching that country’s decorative arts tradition. Last summer she took numerous digital images of the furniture collection at the National Museum of Colombo. Other visits allowed her to gather family portraits that reveal insights into the cos- tumes of the colonial period. Caroline Hannah is acting assistant curator of American decorative arts at the Yale University Art Gallery. She is involved in a number of projects there, including research and writing for a catalogue accompanying a major traveling exhibition of American art and decorative arts; coordinating a Tiffany & Co. Foundation–funded Internet project; and supervising the Furniture Study, a collection of more than 1,000 examples of mainly American furniture dating from 350 years ago to the present. Stephanie Day Iverson curated Chic is Where You Find It: Selections from the Bonnie Cashin Collection of Theater, Film and Fashion Design, on exhibit from January 14 to March 25 at UCLA, where she is curator of the Bonnie Cashin Collection. She is also lecturing, creating an annual Bonnie Cashin lecture series, and working with the BGC to endow a Cashin travel grant. On a personal note, Stephanie married Clifford Franklin Lake III (her long-lost, high school almost- sweetheart) last October in Manhattan. They split their time between Los Angeles and Minneapolis, where his company, American Guitar Boutique, is based. Constantine Ramantanin has joined the faculty at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where he teaches “Metallurgy” and “History of Jewelry.” He continues to design and create custom jewelry and decorative objects in gold, platinum, and silver. Jason Petty BGC ’97 Few musical instruments carry as many romantic associa- tions as the lute. Angels, minstrels, and ladies of noble mien have all been depicted strumming its strings, or plucking them with a plectrum, by Piero della Francesca, Caravaggio, Vermeer, and other venerated painters. For Jason Petty, though, the ultimate expression of love for the lute is not to limn its contours in oil, but to build it from maple, yew, or rosewood. Petty’s passion for the pear-shaped instrument was initially kindled by playing lute music transcribed for the classical guitar. He eventually became a luthier because building a lute was cheaper than buying one. “It was obvi- ously not a very satisfactory instrument,” he says of his first effort, which involved completing a half-finished lute from an English kit. But he persisted, and gradually began to master his craft. To date, Petty has built more than 20 lutes in various styles from the pre-Renaissance, Renaissance, and Baroque periods. He specializes in theo- rbos, or lutes with extended necks and 14 strings, which were popular circa 1600, when the birth of opera required lutes to “play larger” and to have a more dynamic range, especially in the bass registers. “My lute-building and scholarly careers inform each other nicely,” says Petty, who lives in Brooklyn and is working on a doctorate at the BGC. His postgraduate work is in the field of cultural organology—the study of musical instruments “from an art-historical, as opposed to a musi- cal, perspective,” he says. 67 ’01 Elizabeth Caffry Frankel, her husband, and their two chil- dren (Sam and Sadie) left Los Angeles and relocated to Lyme, Connecticut. ’02 Ron Labaco left the BGC in December 2003, and is now assistant curator of decorative arts at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His article, “Serving Modern to America: The Museum Dinnerware Collaboration,” was published in the March issue of Modernism magazine. Ron recently adopted two dogs: Daisy, a miniature pinscher-beagle mix puppy, and Maddie, a year-old chow–German shepherd mix. ’03 Alexa Griffith published several articles this spring. The March edition of Dwell magazine featured her story on a Paul Randolph house on Sanibel Island, Florida. She had a piece about Modernist design in the Minneapolis/St. Paul region in the March issue of Modernism. In the Journal of Design History, vol. 17, she has written about the Walker Art Center’s 1941 and 1947 exhibition houses, called Idea House I and II. She also was a guest lecturer in a course on history and theory of modern architecture at Columbia University this spring. Miranda Pildes obtained a gemology degree from the Gemological Institute of America and completed a three- month internship in Sotheby’s Jewelry Department. She now works with Judy Price, director of the National Jewelry Institute, who is preparing to found the first museum of jewelry in New York City. Bard High School Early College ’03 Hamza Alizai lives in Binghamton, New York, where he taught “Introduction to Cellular and Molecular Biology Labs and Discussions” last semester. He writes, “It’s great experi- ence to do exactly what grads do, at my age.” Daphne Perez is at SUNY Stony Brook, where she’s a mem- ber of Minorities in Medicine and plays on the softball team. Program in International Education (PIE) ’95 Monika Nica met her husband, Bogdan Nica ’95, while at Bard, where she was a Kellner Scholar and he was a PIE student. They married in 1996 and lived in Budapest for three years, while Bogdan studied at Central European University. Since 2001, they have worked in New York City, Monika in financial consulting, and Bogdan in software development. Now living in Port Washington, New York, they are the proud parents of two sons. ’98 Anna Térfy works for the Student Records Office of Central European University in Budapest, and also serves as regis- trar of the CEU Business School. ’00 Edit “Dit” Bori graduated from both the Department of Border Policing of the Police Academy and the Department of Political Science of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest this spring. ’02 Zoltán Fehér graduated from Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary in 2002 with a double M.A. degree in American studies and political science. He graduated from Pázmány University Law School this year. Since the fall of 2002, Zoltán has worked as a diplomat at the Hungarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he has attained the rank of attaché. He also teaches various courses on foreign policy and public policy at Eötvös Loránd University. A research paper of his, written partly during his time at Bard, was published in the December 2002 and May 2003 issues of the Hungarian Review of Political Science. György “George” Tóth was elected president of the Kellner Scholars’ Society (an organization of Hungarian Bard alumni/ae) in May 2003. He is in the midst of his 11- month-long “civilian service” (an alternative to being drafted into the army) as an instructor at the Department of Foreign Languages of Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. George urges Bard students to consider the Bard–Central European University study-abroad program and all Bard alumni/ae visiting the region to contact him at chippewa@galamb.net or 36-30-402-6014. “Bard has a home in Budapest,” he writes. 68 In Memoriam ’42 Edgar A. “Ted” Anderson, 84, died at Nantucket Cottage Hospital on November 30, 2003. A native of the Hudson Valley, he worked as a newspaperman in New York City and Newark, New Jersey, during the 1940s. In the Summer 2001 Bardian, he wrote about how his sophomore year “field period” (now known as January intersession) opened the door to his career in journalism. In 1950, he moved to Daytona Beach, Florida, where he was involved in several small busi- nesses while pursuing a teaching certificate from Stetson University. Upon achieving that goal, he became an English teacher in the Volusia County school system. During this period he also wrote and published two books for young peo- ple, Salt in Their Hair and Day Number 142. He retired from teaching in 1970 and moved to Nantucket, where his family had summered since the 1920s. On Nantucket, he became involved with the Theatre Workshop, Brant Point Association, and Civic League. His survivors include a son, a grandson, and his sister. ’48 David E. MacDonald died on May 21, 2001. ’50 The Very Reverend Robert Bizzaro died on February 21, 2004. He was a World War II Navy veteran, serving his country from October 21, 1944, to July 10, 1946. He held a bachelor of sacred theology degree from the General Theological Seminary in New York City, a master of divinity degree from Philadelphia Divinity School, and a master of sacred theology degree from the New York Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood on October 24, 1953. Since 1998, he had worked at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Mishawaka, Indiana. From 1975 to 1991, he served as dean of the Cathedral of St. James in South Bend, Indiana, where he was granted the title of dean emeritus. Prior to that, he served as rector of Gethsemane Episcopal Church in Marion, Indiana, and Trinity Church in Cranford, New Jersey. He was active in community, peace, and civil rights causes. He participated in the March on Washington with Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963, and later helped estab- lish the South Bend Advocacy Center and St. Margaret’s House, a daytime shelter for women and children in need. His survivors include his wife, his daughter and her family, his two sons and their families, and his dog, Mac. Mark G. Richard died on June 21, 2003, in Naples, Florida. He had owned and operated Mark R. Buick-Pontiac in East Hampton, New York, for 25 years. In 1986, he sold the dealer- ship and retired to Naples. Born on January 1, 1924, in Bexhill, England, he grew up on Long Island. He served in the 142d Regiment of the 36th Army Infantry Division during World War II and earned two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star with cluster. His artwork, along with that of his wife, Catherine, was displayed in several galleries. His survivors include his wife, four children from his first marriage, a brother, 10 grandchil- dren, and two great-grandchildren. ’53 Richard L. Bush-Brown died on October 18, 2003. ’73 James Gardner died on March 30, 2003. ’87 Anne Barlow Gallagher, 38, of Stevensville, Maryland, died April 1, 2004, after a 14- week battle with lung cancer (although she was a lifelong nonsmoker). Born in Baltimore, she grew up in Columbia, Maryland. She met her husband, Peter Holland, while at Bard, where she studied photography. After college, she taught home- and hospital-bound children through the Baltimore City Public School System. She also taught in the Walter P. Carter Center, a state psychiatric hospi- tal for 9- to 12-year-old inpatient children. Extensive contact with these children and their families helped her decide to go to law school in order to have a broader impact as a legal advo- cate for disadvantaged children. She graduated from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1994, and then pro- vided legal advocacy for foster, abused, and neglected children throughout the Eastern Shore. For many years, she held office hours at Maryland courthouses to provide legal counseling and information to more than a thousand individuals. She will be posthumously awarded the 2004 Founder’s Day Award of Children’s Choice, a regional children’s advocacy organization, for her outstanding work on behalf of children in need. She was also an active member and volunteer in the Key School community of Annapolis, Maryland, where her children attend school. Her survivors include her parents, her husband, a daughter, a son, and a brother; several aunts, uncles, nieces, and nephews; and other extended family and close friends. 69 ’96 Christopher T. Smith died on August 12, 2003. An accom- plished musician and composer, he studied music composi- tion at Bard, and most recently played keyboards and wrote the music for his San Francisco–based band, Samara. His survivors include his long-time partner, Tony Koester of San Francisco; his parents, Tom and Elsa Smith of Tiburon, California; and his brother, Tommy, of San Diego. Faculty Frank Riessman died on March 1, 2004. At Bard, he was assistant professor of psychology from 1955 to 1958 and associate professor of psychology from 1958 to 1964. He wrote a number of books on social class and poverty in the United States, and was the editor of Social Policy magazine. His survivors include his wife, Julia, daughters Robin and Janet, son Jeffrey, and two grandchildren. Staff Linda Forstrom, 55, died on January 25, 2004, as a result of a fire at her Germantown, New York, home. She had worked for Chartwells, Bard’s food services department, for three years and was involved with the College’s rape and associated vio- lence education program (BRAVE) as a speaker and friend. Also lost in the fire were her 13-year-old daughter, Mara Mahig, and her 11-year-old granddaughter, Carianne Scholefield. Survivors include her daughter, Korrena Salerno, a Chartwells employee for seven years and the invited guest speaker at the 2002 Senior Dinner; her mother; her sister; and her grandson. Frances “Frannie” Kurdziel, 70, who made the dining com- mons run smoothly for 32 years before she retired in 2001, died on February 23, 2004. A longtime resident of Red Hook, New York, she was active in the Columbia County–Southern Tier Senior Citizens and the Red Hook Senior Citizens. The Queens native was a communicant of St. Christopher’s Church in Red Hook. In his announcement to the Bard community, Chas Cerulli, director of food services, remembered Frannie’s hospitality and vibrant personality and noted, “She will be greatly missed” by all of those she touched during her long tenure at Bard. Surviving are her husband, Mathew B. Kurdziel Sr., three sons, three granddaughters, and five grandsons. Clark G. Rodewald ’59, professor emeritus of English, died at his home on January 18, 2004. He had served the College for 36 years, having joined the faculty of the Division of Languages and Literature in 1968. “Clark was fiercely loyal to the College as an alumnus and faculty member,” President Leon Botstein wrote to the Bard community. “He was a distinguished teacher who loved his subject and his students.” Stuart Stritzler- Levine, dean emeritus of the College, recalled Rodewald’s high standards and hailed him as a “singu- lar individual in our midst” in his written remem- brance. He added that despite physical limitations resulting from a car crash in the 1960s, “Clark was always on board for the journey . . . always vital.” Literature Program colleague Nancy Leonard recalled Clark with the following story. “I sometimes brought my daughter to campus to play with Clara Botstein, and one sunny weekend afternoon the two, about 9 and 10, were riding their bikes with a gleeful pleasure in being faster and more elusive than I. I kept looking for them, and near Preston I found the small basement terrace leading into Clark Rodewald’s office— with two bikes fallen on their sides outside it. I entered his office warily, and found the girls in intense conversa- tion with Clark. He spoke with them in careful, respect- ful conversation about their immediate doings; began to talk to them about a poem or two he loved; asked them questions. His was an astonishing hospitality toward the individuality of beings, of language, of poems. These two children were as graciously received as young col- leagues and the many students who visited his office. We all found his conversation a mix of difficulty and delight, wit and seriousness together. Poetry was always central to his imagination, and I like to think he struck sparks not only from me, but from my now almost-adult daughter, who writes poetry still.” Rodewald received a master’s degree from John Hopkins University. Other academic achievements include the prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. Prior to returning to the College as a faculty member, he taught at the University of Puerto Rico, University of Southern California, and Southern Illinois University. He is survived by his wife, Carolyn Blatchley; his chil- dren, James ’82, Christopher, and Cecilia; and his grandchildren, Rosa, Henry, and Lucia. A memorial reading was held in his honor at the Chapel of the Holy Innocents on May 21, during Commencement weekend.