15th Reunion, Class of 1995 Xiaoyu Eileen Zhang has decided to take a year’s leave following the birth of her second daughter, Lucy Jane Richards. She is enjoying every moment of time being with the two beautiful girls. Daddy Matt Richards, Levy Cambridge Visiting Scholar at Bard from 1999 to 2001, is working very long days at UBS, but enjoying his work.
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Michael James Paglinger (formerly Pagliarulo) lives in Portland, Oregon, where he owns and operates a construction company called Habilis Construction, LLC (named after Homo habilis, the first of our ancestors to use tools).
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Class correspondent Julia Wolk Munemo, juliamunemo@mac.com Dana Goswick is a professor of philosophy at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her adventures are shared with her partner Alex, her son Tom, and their dog Hadley. She loves showing off her adopted city and would welcome visits from fellow Bardians. She can be reached at danagoswick@yahoo.com. Gretchen Wilson is a journalist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. In August 2009, she married her longtime partner, Anthony Prangley, in the woods of Whidbey Island in Washington State. She is grateful to have been supported there by Caroline Burghardt, Cara Cibener ’96, Muni Citrin ’98, Naya Colkett ’98, Andrew Greenberg, Robin Jacobs ’96, Anna Lacina ’98, Tess Mayer, Betsy Nordlander, Megan Pruiett, Cody “Susie” Strauss, Phuc Tran ’95, and Sue Tran ’96, plus a few other Bardians who couldn’t be there in person. Just two months later, in October, she and Anthony welcomed a beautiful son, William Lesedi Wilson Prangley.
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Class correspondent Gavin Kleespies, gwkleespies@hotmail.com Karin Bolender “straddles an interdisciplinary art practice, with one foot planted in the post-humanities and the other sunk in barnyard
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mud.” One noteworthy project was the “Can We Sleep in Your Barn Tonight?” Mystery Tour in 2006, with Pamela Albanese, George Murer ’97, Alex Ney ’97, Jacob Mitas ’99, Susannah Slocum ’99, and others. Karin is married to Sean Cummings. Wendelin Scott lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She completed a master’s degree in Eastern classics at St. John’s College and is director of YogaSource. She is pursuing certification in Iyengar yoga and taking kyudo lessons (Zen archery). Wendelin walks in arroyos with her husband, Aaron Rhodes; their two miniature schnauzers; and Sadie, a dog rescued from behind Café Pongo 13 years ago.
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Tereza Bottman (Topferova) teaches language arts, ESL, and drama at a high school in Portland, Oregon. She recently founded the Slavic American Youth Zine (sayzine.blogspot.com), an online magazine of artwork, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, whose mission is to provide a platform for creative expression and self-definition for Slavic American youth, including teens of Russian and Ukrainian ethnicity, living in the United States. Tereza’s other projects include a podcast she is launching in conjunction with Roma Rights Network (www.romarights.net/v2/). She was awarded a fellowship with The Advocacy Project to work with the Dženo Association, an independent Roma news and information service in Prague. As a Summer 2010 Peace Fellow, she worked with Roma journalists raising awareness about the struggle of the Roma people for justice and equality in the Czech Republic (where she grew up) and elsewhere. Tracy Feldman came out with a fourth album of original songs, Middle of the Road, in late 2009. Andrew F. Fowler has joined Gray Haile LLP as a partner. Gray Haile, a diverse boutique corporate law firm located in New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., specializes in mergers and acquisitions, securities law, and business transactions for companies from start-ups to the Fortune 1000. Andrew joins several former colleagues from Skadden, Arps, including Leander C. Gray, the firm’s founder and managing partner.