’54 50th Reunion: May 21–23, 2004 Contact: Ed Coster, 772-334-3753 or gran_bear@webtv.net Cynthia Maris Dantzic (Gross), 718-488-3350 Miles Kreuger, 323-934-1221 Staff contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu Judy Heimann (Zinman) had a solo show of her art at Villa Julie College in Maryland from October 10 to November 8, 2003.
’64 40th Reunion: May 21–23, 2004 Contact: Kathi Frank, frankj@matrix.newpaltz.edu Arthur Wineburg, 202-775-9880 or awineburg@pillsburywinthrop.com Staff contact: Stella Wayne, 845-758-7407 or wayne@bard.edu
’68 Judi Arner was appointed vice president for major and planned giving at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
’69 35th Reunion: May 21–23, 2004 Contact: Belinha Beatty, 703-323-0928 Charlie Clancy, 973-605-5046 or cbclancy@aol.com Bill Gottlieb, 212-431-8073 or peairs@erols.com Marilyn Salkin Lindenbaum, 303-761-0519 or marilynsl50@yahoo.com Anne Phillips, peyton64@yahoo.com Ingrid Spatt, 631-424-0356 or puckerett@aol.com Carla Sayers Tabourne, tabou001@umn.edu Toni Travis, ttravis@gmu.edu Staff contact: Jessica Kemm, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu
’70 Gary Haber has become a grandfather. The healthy baby is named Esther Anna Miller.
Bob Edmonds ’68 Bob Edmonds, an active volunteer for the Bard Music Festival and the College’s Planned Giving Committee, was a student at Bard during one of the most tumultuous times in U.S. history, “Graduating in 1968 was eerie,” says Edmonds, an attorney who has headed his own firm since 1983. “The academic year had been punctuated by student strikes, and it closed with the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. The world felt then much as it did after 9/11—a dangerous place where something in the overall scheme of things was very wrong.” It was also a decade full of contrasts, and at Bard, Edmonds discovered “an amazing place that gave me the sense that new paths were always possible and the job was never done.” Edmonds has served on the Board of Directors of the Bard Music Festival since the festival began in 1990, and he now chairs that board. One of his goals for the festival is to bring it closer to financial self-sufficiency. “These are difficult times for fund-raisers,” he says, “but for those who have attended festival events, it is clear that they are worth a special effort.” A former president of the Board of Governors of the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, Edmonds would also like to see more alumni/ae involved with the College at all levels—whether through financial contributions, volunteer time, or granting job interviews to new Bard graduates. He acknowledges that small actions may feel insignificant to some. But having come of age during the 1960s, he’s quick to point out that “change begins at the most basic level.” After years of volunteer work for the College, Edmonds has learned that “when alumni/ae show their support for Bard and assume a role of any kind in promoting the interests of the College, the effect is huge.” Photograph: Kevin Bothwell
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