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On a snowy January night, left wing Chris Kreider ’10 and the New York Rangers blew past goalie Cory Schneider ’04 and the New Jersey Devils in a 7–3 victory in an outdoor NHL series at iconic Yankee Stadium… Attorney Matthew Caffrey ’84 has been named chair of Lawrence General Hospital’s board of trustees…
Actress and activist Olivia Wilde ’02; newly elected Boston mayor Marty Walsh’s chief of staff, Daniel Arrigg Koh ’03; and online food entrepreneur Ali Rosen ’03 were named to Forbes magazine’s 2014 30 Under 30… Yale professor and climate change economist Bill Nordhaus ’59 has been elected president of the American Economic Association…
Peabody Advisory Committee member Daniel Sandweiss ’75 has been elected to the board of the Society for American Archaeology…
With a record 28 national singles titles, Jay Nelson ’59 has been named to the U.S. Squash Hall of Fame… Bunky Carter ’61 took first place and Geoff Gratwick ’61 came in third in the senior/masters division of the 2013 Head Of The Charles Regatta… Peter Palandjian ’82, chair and CEO of Intercontinental Real Estate Corp., was named one of Boston Business Journal’s “Most Admired CEOs—Small/Midsized Companies”…
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Jennifer Cecere ’69 will soon begin work on a suspended sculpture for Little Italy–University Circle station in Cleveland, to be installed in 18 months… Rob Patrick ’88 has been selected as deputy executive assistant to the chief of naval operations at the Pentagon—and he is ranked number one on the Pentagon squash ladder…
In an essay in Defining Ideas: A Hoover Institution Journal, political scientist Amy Zegart ’85 argues that the notion of an American foreign policy grand strategy in the post–9/11 world is a relic of Cold War thinking… After a four-month search, the Randolph, Mass., School Committee selected Thomas Anderson ’89 to head the town’s public schools, identified as “underperforming” by the state since 2006…
The American Ornithologists’ Union bestowed its highest honor, the William Brewster Award, on James V. Remsen ’67, aa natural-science professor at Louisiana State University and leading expert on neotropical birds…
At the Helen Hayes Theatre in April, Carrie St. Louis ’08 made her Broadway debut in the lead role of Sherrie in the hit musical Rock of Ages…
Isabel Ritchie ’05’s band the Strumbellas won the best “Roots & Traditional Album of the Year— Group” award at the 2013 Juno Awards (Canada’s equivalent of the Grammys) for their album We Still Move On Dance Floors… As chief operating officer, Rob Bohorad ’90 is helping to bring back Yuengling’s Ice Cream after a 30-year hiatus (the Black and Tan—a swirl of rich Belgian chocolate and salty caramel ice cream—sounds especially delicious)… Bill de Blasio, New York City's mayor, named Tom Finkelpearl ’74 the city’s cultural affairs commissioner…
Playwright/screenwriter Victoria Stewart ’88’s comedy Rich Girl played at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston this past April…
Violinist Arianna Warsaw-Fan ’04 and cellist Meta Weiss ’05’s classical music ensemble duoW successfully crowd-funded a short film based on a track from their acclaimed first album Entendre…
In April, The Supreme Price, based on the life of Hafsat Abiola ’92, was screened at the Independent Film Festival Boston. The film chronicles Abiola’s return to her native Nigeria to establish a women’s democracy initiative following the assassination of her activist mother and mysterious death of her imprisoned father, the former president of the country…