Erin Weeks-Earp has worked and studied at Teachers College, Columbia University, since the summer of 2006.
employees and janitors. In order to assimilate into the South, she has learned how to two-step and talk with a drawl.
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Brian Yanity is working on alternative energy projects for rural Alaska. After getting an electrical engineering degree at Columbia, he is now in graduate school at the University of Alaska.
Amy Clark is an adjunct professor of college composition at Pine Manor College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, and has taught fiction, revision, and personal essay classes at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education for several years. Her fiction has been published in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency and Quick Fiction and Fringe, and the anthology Brevity and Echo. Her collection Wanting, which was a finalist for the Rose Metal Press annual chapbook contest judged by Ron Carlson, will be published as part of a series in 2008. Amy is looking for a publisher for her collection of creative nonfiction, What I Was Thinking While You Were Talking. She is also working on a novel entitled Palais Royale. Elizabeth Clingerman has returned to the Pasadena area of Los Angeles and lives with her long-lost best friend, two cats, and a crazy dog. She works at the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens—“a piece of paradise in suburban sprawl!”
’03 5th Reunion: May 23–25, 2008 Staff contact: Brad Whitmore, 845-758-7663 or whitmore@bard.edu Ben Dangl went on a reading tour with his book The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia in March 2007. Along the way, he met up with a lot of his Bard friends. For more information, visit www.boliviabook.com. He spent this past summer writing and riding his bike in Vermont with April Howard ’04. The next stop is Paraguay. Emma Ferguson has returned from Spain and teaches upperlevel Spanish at the Solebury School in New Hope, Pennsylvania. She lives with her husband, Ben, and Haley, the cat, in a 300year-old cottage in the woods somewhere between New York City and Philadelphia. She still studies and performs flamenco, usually accompanied by Ben on the guitar.
’05 Anna Mojallali lives in Eugene, Oregon, and teaches at a Montessori preschool. Emily Schmall works as a reporter at Forbes magazine in New York. In the spring of 2007 she was accepted into the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. She began her studies there with magazine editor Victor Navasky this fall.
’06 Cassio de Oliveira is beginning her doctorate in Slavic languages and literature at Yale. Parris Humphrey is at the University of Pennsylvania, conducting research in the laboratory of Dustin Brisson on the evolutionary ecology of Lyme disease. His research explores the molecular mechanisms that underlie the structure of bacterial populations in nature, as well as novel strategies for zoonotic disease control. He plans to begin formal graduate work in the fall of 2008. When not in Philadelphia, he can be found rummaging in the woods of the Mid-Hudson Valley. Gordon Stevenson had his first show, Poured In Ketchum, at the Ochi Gallery in Sun Valley, Idaho. The show included his paintings and a light sculpture made with Owen Schmit. In addition to his artwork, he owns and operates a small clothing company based out of New York City. For more information on his artwork and clothing, visit: www.baronvonfancy.com.
Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Correspondent Marjorie Vecchio MFA ’01, ABTOK@aol.com
Renata Rutman is completing her master’s in public policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, after serving as a Peace Corps member in Botswana. She hopes to return to southern Africa in the near future, and encourages Bardians living in that region to contact her at Renata_Rutman@ksg08.harvard.edu.
Marylin Quint-Rose recently taught at the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture in Karachi, Pakistan, and the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Christian Kiley performed the role of Beethoven in the Boston premiere of Bert V. Royal’s Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead at the Boston Center for the Arts in May 2007. Caroline Muglia works in Houston, Texas, for the Service Employees International Union, where she organizes city
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Lily Prince was included in a faculty exhibition at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey, in the fall of 2006, and the group exhibition Pillow Talk at the Ruth Bachofner Gallery in Santa Monica, California, in April 2007. In early 2007 she received a painting commission from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; the two large works Lily painted were installed in
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