’79 East Chicago Central High School teacher Gale Carter spent part of the summer of 2010 taking part in the United Kingdom Parliament’s Teachers’ Institute—one of only three teachers selected from outside the UK for this honor. She spent a week observing Parliament, met with several of its members, and met then newly elected Prime Minster David Cameron at 10 Downing Street.
’78 Cassandra Chan’s new book, A Spider on the Stairs, was released in July by St. Martin’s Minotaur. In honor of the release, Cassandra has learned Dreamweaver and put up a new website: www.cassandrachan.com. Gretchen Fierle has been appointed chief communications officer of HealthNow New York, Inc., the parent company of BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York and BlueShield of Northeastern New York.
Regan O’Connell Burnham writes: “Still in Western North Carolina enjoying the flute, the grandchildren, and working on a book, heaven help me! Good health is enjoyed, but not taken for granted. Greetings to all.” Pierre Joris, who commutes between his Bay Ridge home and Albany, where he teaches Heidegger and the poets, often stops at Bard for lunch with his son, Miles ’14. Eugene Kahn is working on a novel about the gay scene in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Liz Larkin is serving as president of the Faculty Advisory Council at the Sarasota-Manatee campus of the University of South Florida. Peter Minichiello has relocated to New York City from Boston, where for more than five years he was the director of development for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. He is now senior vice president for development at New York Downtown Hospital, part of the New York–Presbyterian Healthcare System. He also has a home in Stuyvesant Falls, New York, in Columbia County.
’77 The White City, a ballet choreographed by Tony Award winner Anne Reinking to music composed by Bruce Wolosoff, was staged in Chicago in March.
’75 Sculptural works by Jim Perry were included in an exhibition in Hopewell, New Jersey, in October. Jim’s work was featured in the Whitney Biennial Exhibition in 1975, after which he took a three-decade hiatus from the art world, working for the New York Times. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey, with his wife, Hetty Baiz ’72.
’73 Leslie Phillips’s husband, Glen Ceely, died in May 2009. They had three children, Seth, Courtney, and the late Robbie. Leslie’s sister, Anne Phillips ’69, died in 2010 (see In Memoriam, this issue). Leslie lives in Edmonds, Washington, with her son Seth. Her daughter, Courtney, lives nearby in downtown Seattle. Leslie enjoys hearing from Bard friends and can be reached at lesliephillips@mac.com.
’72 Catharin Dalpino is now the Joan M. Warburg Professor of International Relations at Simmons College, and remains a visiting fellow in Southeast Asian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. She continues to advocate for assistance to Vietnamese people affected by Agent Orange and is conducting research on how we teach the Vietnam War to the generation of Americans born after 1975.
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Norman Weinstein’s “Introduction to Humanities” course at the College of Western Idaho is Bard-oriented. He begins with Steely Dan’s “Caves of Altamira,” uses Tom Meyer’s translation of the Dao de Jing, and concludes with Pierre Joris’s essay on the poetry of the diaspora.
’63 Class correspondent: Penny Axelrod, drpennyaxelrod@fairpoint.net 20th Century Fox has purchased the rights to The Locator novels by Richard Greener. The main character in the book series, Walter Sherman, will be introduced as a character in the FOX television series Bones early in 2011. A spin-off series featuring Sherman and using Greener’s novels is planned for the following season.
’62 Eve Sullivan, founder of Parents Forum (www.parentsforum.org), was named the Arminta Jacobson Parenting Education Professional of the Year by the Texas Association of Parent Educators. Eve writes that she is “delighted to be a grandmother of two darling little girls,” both living in the Boston area, close to her home in Cambridge.
’59 Carolee Schneemann was honored with one of six Lifetime Achievement Awards for 2011 by the Women’s Caucus for Art, putting her in the company of past recipients Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Nevelson, Alice Neel, and many other distinguished visual artists.
40th Reunion: May 20–22, 2011 Staff contact: Anne Canzonetti ’84, 845-758-7187 or canzonet@bard.edu
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In early 2011, Larry Merrill had a one-man exhibition of photographs, Looking at Trees, at the George Eastman House in Rochester, New York.
In the fall of 2010 Mari Lyons had her 14th one-person exhibition, Sunsets/Hillsides, at the First Street Gallery in New York, receiving a glowing review in the Wall Street Journal. She continues to live and work in both New York City and Woodstock.
’70 In June, Steven Miller, executive director of the Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey, received the Honey and Maurice Axelrod Award for contributions in teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, and the reduction of bias, bigotry, and prejudice.
’69 Class correspondent: Elaine Marcotte Hyams, eshyams@yahoo.com
’52 Class correspondent: Kit Ellenbogen, max4794@netzero.net While on a visit to New York City from Menlo Park, California, last November, Mort Besen found himself just in time to attend the big 150th Bard bash and Leon’s 35th anniversary at Jazz at Lincoln Center. Great was his surprise when he found himself pictured in a Bard chemistry lab in one of the many archival photographs exhibited for the occasion.
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