Suzy Perler (Barocas) has been lead guitarist for the all-female New Jersey rock band, The Mood Swings (www.myspace.com/themoodswingsnj), since 2006. She also owns her own illustration company. When she’s not playing music and drawing, she’s wife to Alan and mom to Andrew, 15, and Brandon, 12. Brandon, a professional actor, made his Broadway debut last fall in To Be or Not to Be at the Biltmore Theatre in New York City.
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Anne Meredith ’86 and China Jorrin ’86 on their wedding day
Monthly in 2008. The editors of Rhode Island Monthly selected it as the best Rhode Island website in 2007.
’87 Class correspondent David Avallone, ednoon@aol.com David M. Phillips is vice dean of admissions and director of information and management systems at the University of Pennsylvania. He had previously worked at Columbia University. Raissa St. Pierre, associate director of the Bard Music Festival and host of Radio Archaeology on WKZE in Red Hook, presents Thursday Night Live at the Spiegeltent, as part of Bard SummerScape 2009. Thursday Night Live runs for six weeks, from July 16 through August 20, and features Hudson Valley musicians. Illustrious Bardians are part of the roster—Courtney Lee Adams ’83, Brian O’Sullivan ’84, Tim Allen ’84, Bradford Reed ’93, and William (Otto) Ylitalo. For more information, e-mail Raissa at stpierre@bard.edu.
’86 Class correspondent Chris LeGoff, cak64@comcast.net Anne Meredith and China Jorrin were married on Cape Cod in August 2008.
’85 Karen Briefer-Gose and her partner of 11 years were the first samesex couple legally married in Kern County, California, “amid quite the media circus,” on June 17, 2008. Mallory King is the founder and executive director of Arts to Grow, a New York metropolitan area nonprofit arts education program that creates free art classes for inner-city children. More than 300 kids annually participate in creative learning through these classes, which are led by teaching artists in partnership with schools and community organizations. Mallory lives with her husband and two children in Jersey City, and would love to hear from Bard alums interested in becoming involved in Arts to Grow. For more information, visit www.artstogrow.org.
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Leonard Schwartz’s chapbook, The Library of Seven Readings, was published by Ugly Ducking Press in 2007, and his prose poem “Red Fog” appeared in the April 2008 issue of Harper’s. Leonard is currently a professor of literary arts at The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. In October 2008, Steven Zucker received a prestigious award for his website, www.smARThistory.org. AVICOM, the committee of the International Council of Museums responsible for the audiovisual, image, sound, and new technologies, honored the website with their highest award (gold) in the web category of their annual competition. SmARThistory.org is a free multimedia web-book designed as a dynamic enhancement (or even substitute) for the traditional art history textbook.
’83 Tim Long wrote and directed the PBS documentary Escape to Dreamland, which tells the story of the Tamiami Trail, a historic road through the Everglades. The film explores how the idea of south Florida as a tropical paradise became rooted in the country’s cultural imagination and spawned a new twist on the American Dream. Moira Pitteway has been living in North Devon in the United Kingdom for the last 16 years and “absolutely loves it.” She has been married for 21 years, and has a 20-year-old daughter in college. Moira would like to find Sarah MacDonnell ’85. Anyone who can help her out in that regard can e-mail her at mpitteway@aol.com.
’82 Steven Colatrella and Silvia Bedulli are the parents of Ines Elizabeth Colatrella, born on July 3, 2008, in Padua, Italy. Ines is named in part for her grandmother and aunt, and in part for Inez Mulholland, the feminist pacifist who died while fighting to win for women the right to vote and to stop the First World War. Steven is an associate professor of international affairs and politics at John Cabot University, a liberal arts college in Rome. Last summer Mark Ebner hosted and consulted on the true crime series Rich and Reckless for TruTV (formerly CourtTV), and Simon and Schuster published Six Degrees of Paris Hilton, his new nonfiction Hollywood crime book. Robert Graysmith (Zodiac) called Ebner “a born storyteller” and the book “fiendishly ingenious and shocking.” Jerry Stahl (Permanent Midnight, Pain Killers) called Six Degrees “something very close to a masterpiece.” Mark is, of course, “beside himself.”