2013 Spring Bardian

Bardian BARD COLLEGE SPRING 2013

dear bardians, I write this as 2013 begins; we have barely cracked the calendar and we have already seen a diversity networking mixer in New York City, hosted by Board of Governors member KC Serota ’04 and active committee member Tamara Plummer ’02, and the launch of Bard Works, an entirely new weeklong initiative for juniors and seniors developed by the College to prepare them for professional life (see p. 30). I was pleased to speak with Bard Works participants about translating passions into professional pursuits.

This issue of the Bardian provides profiles of some of our distinguished faculty, including recent MacArthur Fellow An-My Lê and a celebration of the contributions of Jacob Neusner by College Chaplain Bruce Chilton ’71, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion. There is also a feature by Assistant Professor of Chemistry Swapan Jain about his work with biochemist Raed Al-Abbasee ’13, and another on the innovative Posse program, designed to help students overcome the challenges of college life by sending peers from a specified region—such as Miriam Huppert ’13 and Brandon LaBord ’13 from Atlanta— to the same school so they have a built-in community as they transition to campus culture. I welcome them, and the entire Class of 2013, to their lifelong position as Bard alumni/ae when they graduate in May. I also hope that we, as an alumni/ae community, will always be a source of inspiration and guidance to one another and to successive classes of Bard graduates from our high school/early colleges, as well as undergraduate and graduate programs in Annandale and beyond.

Alumni/ae giving remains strong, with a significant rise in the average gift per person. Thank you for your donations of any amount, and for encouraging others to give to Bard. The 2013 fiscal year ends June 30; if you have not already done so, please consider a donation to demonstrate that a strong community remains supportive of the College.

Commencement Weekend is May 24–26; please join us to celebrate the next generation of Bard alums, while reconnecting with classmates, faculty, and friends. All alumni/ae are invited to attend the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association on Sunday, May 26.

It has been an honor to serve as president of the Board of Governors these last two years, and I look forward to continuing to connect with many of you as a fellow alum in whatever region of the nation and world I find myself. Keep an eye out—I’ll be the one proudly bearing a tote bag that says “BARD COLLEGE.”

Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95

Warm wishes, Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95 (chelledunn@aol.com) President, Board of Governors, Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association

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Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95, President Peter Criswell ’89, Vice President Maggie Hopp ’67, Secretary/Treasurer Robert Amsterdam ’53 Claire Angelozzi ’74 David Avallone ’87, Oral History Committee Chairperson Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63 Eva Thal Belefant ’49 Joshua Bell ’98, Communications and New Technologies Committee Chairperson Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 Jack Blum ’62 Randy Buckingham ’73, Events Committee Cochairperson Cathaline Cantalupo ’67 Tom Carroll ’81 Pia Carusone ’03 Kathleya Chotiros ’98 Charles Clancy III ’69 Andrew Corrigan ’00, Development Committee Chairperson Arnold Davis ’44, Nominations Committee Cochairperson Kit Kauders Ellenbogen ’52 Barbara Williams Flanagan ’60 Andrew Fowler ’95 Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 R. Michael Glass ’75 Eric Warren Goldman ’98 George Hamel III ’08 Boriana Handjiyska ’02, Career Connections Committee Cochairperson Dr. Ann Ho ’62, Career Connections Committee Cochairperson Charles Hollander ’65 J. P. Kingsbury ’03 Erin Law ’93 Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Isaac Liberman ’04 Peter F. McCabe ’70, Nominations Committee Cochairperson Steven Miller ’70

David E. Schwab II ’52, Chair Emeritus Charles P. Stevenson Jr., Chair Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer

Anne Morris-Stockton ’68 Karen Olah ’65 Patricia Pforte ’08, Young Alumni/ae Committee Chairperson Susan Playfair ’62 Reva Minkin Sanders ’56 Roger N. Scotland ’93 Kendall Serota ’04 Barry Silkowitz ’71 George A. Smith ’82, Events Committee Cochairperson Dr. Ingrid Spatt ’69 Walter Swett ’96, Nominations Committee Cochairperson Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 Paul Thompson ’93 Dr. Toni-Michelle Travis ’69 Brandon Weber ’97 Barbara Crane Wigren ’68 Dr. Dumaine Williams ’03 Ron Wilson ’75 Matt Wing ’06

Fiona Angelini Roland J. Augustine Leon Botstein, President of the College + James Cox Chambers ’81 David C. Clapp Marcelle Clements ’69* Melinda N. Donovan + Asher B. Edelman ’61 Paul S. Efron Robert S. Epstein ’63 Barbara S. Grossman ’73* Sally Hambrecht George F. Hamel Jr. Marieluise Hessel Maja Hoffmann Matina S. Horner + Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Mark N. Kaplan George A. Kellner Murray Liebowitz, Life Trustee Marc S. Lipschultz Peter H. Maguire ’88 James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee Martin Peretz Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee Roger N. Scotland ’93* The Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, Honorary Trustee Martin T. Sosnoff Susan Weber Patricia Ross Weis ’52 +ex officio *alumni/ae trustee

above Biology major Erin Smith '13 with local elementary students conducting experiments during Civic Engagement Day, part of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, a national call to service (see page 24) cover An-My Lê (see page 2)

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MacArthur Awards Photographer’s Vision

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Posse Scholars at Bard | William Stavru ’87

Jane Brien ’89, Director of Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7406, brien@bard.edu

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Jacob Neusner | Bruce Chilton ’71

Anne Canzonetti ’84, Deputy Director of Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7187, canzonet@bard.edu

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Iraqi Refugee Finds Home in Science Research | Swapan S. Jain

Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs Debra Pemstein, Vice President for Development and Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7405, pemstein@bard.edu

Joanna Tanger ’07, Program Assistant, Alumni/ae Affairs 845-758-7089, jtanger@bard.edu

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The Enigmatic Mexico of Artaud and Breton | Melanie Nicholson

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Acknowledgment of Donors

photos Courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (cover), Sylvia Plachy (inside cover), Erika Nelson (above)

above Ice Operations, Arctic Waters, 2011 opposite page Non-Combatant Evacuation Operations, Marine Corps Training Area, Bellows, Hawaii, 2012

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macarthur awards photographer’s vision An-My Lê, professor of photography, was selected as a MacArthur Fellow for 2012. In conferring the award, the MacArthur Foundation recognized Lê’s extraordinary achievement in producing photographic explorations of America’s military and of landscapes transformed by war.

Lê’s fascination with the military grew naturally out of her childhood experiences, growing up in the 1960s in Vietnam. However, her ambition after immigrating to the United States in 1975 was not to pursue photography, but medicine. While working on her master’s degree in biology at Stanford University, she took a photography class and made a deep connection to the medium. This led her to apply to the graduate program in photography at Yale. Not until nine years later did Lê make her first photographic trip back to Vietnam. It was work from this trip that made up her first major show, New Photography 13, at the Museum of Modern Art in 1997. The following year she joined Bard’s faculty.

Her photographs of Vietnam War reenactments in the North Carolina woods and of the U.S. Marine training grounds at Twentynine Palms in California were published in Small Wars (Aperture, 2005). The Twentynine Palms project opened her relationship with the U.S. military. Over the past several years, the Navy has invited Lê to photograph troops and their environs in Antarctica, the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Haiti, and most recently, the Arctic. This work is being gathered together for a new book.

MacArthur Fellowships are five-year, unrestricted awards to individuals across all ages and fields who show exceptional merit and promise of continued creative work. Lê’s selection brings to eight the number of Bardians who have won the prestigious fellowship, among them poet Ann Lauterbach, writer Norman Manea, artist Judy Pfaff, and soprano Dawn Upshaw.

Lê’s photographs have been widely exhibited, in solo shows at MoMA PS1, Dia:Beacon, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. Her work is marked by the cultural, social, and personal implications to which it alludes. As Stephen Shore, Susan Weber Professor in the Arts, noted of his Bard colleague in the Spring 2011 Bardian, Lê “attempts to suggest something beyond what the picture literally shows—a suggestion of military power, or of gender and racial issues, or of the military’s interaction with foreign cultures.” And she does this with formal poise.

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Clockwise from bottom left: Tess Whitney ’14, Ahmaad Lott ’16, Miriam Huppert ’13, Kimberly Sargeant ’14, Brandon LaBord ’13

first cohort set to graduate

posse scholars at bard

by William Stavru ’87

Attending a residential college is a difficult transition for most teenagers, as they leave behind friends, family, and familiar terrain to start over in a new place with few, if any, connections. Low-income, minority students are particularly vulnerable to dropping out in the first year. This decision carries long-term implications not only for themselves but for the nation’s workforce. One organization that’s been remarkably effective at improving the college graduation rates of at-risk populations is the Posse Foundation, launched in 1989 by education strategist Deborah Bial.

Bial was listening when one student said, “I never would have dropped out of college if I had my posse with me.” This comment sparked her innovative yet simple approach to helping people obtain a college degree—send a small group of students to college together 4 first frontiers cohort of physics set to graduate

so they can support one another in a challenging new environment.

The Posse Foundation has a threefold mission: to increase the diversity of applicants to the nation’s top college and universities, to create campus environments that welcome people of all backgrounds, and to ensure that Posse Scholars graduate. Posse has established programs in many major U.S. cities, including New York, Boston, Chicago, Houston, and Miami. Each recruitment city has a partnership with at least two institutions, which provide full scholarships to Posse members. The foundation’s partner institutions have distributed more than $486 million in scholarships to date.

Bard’s first Posse arrived in fall 2009 from Atlanta and they will graduate next month. Without the foundation’s support, students such as Miriam Huppert ’13 would have had limited opportunities. photo Don Hamerman

She says, “I couldn’t have come to Bard without Posse.” Huppert, an American studies major, is writing a Senior Project about media influence on law-breaking during Prohibition, working with Professor of History Myra Young Armstead. Huppert entered Bard interested in vocal performance, and she still sings for fun, working with Bard’s jazz specialists and singing with the College’s gospel choir.

She’d like to work for the Posse Foundation after graduating.

Says Bard Vice President and Dean of the College Michèle D. Dominy, “We’re now in our fourth year with the foundation and we have 50 Posse scholars on campus, a diverse group of white, Latino, and African American students, many of whom are low-income and first-generation college attendees. Bard is a highly individuating institution and the presence of a cohesive group with a defined mission and identity was at first slightly anomalous. However, as the students grow in number, they have moved the College in a positive direction in terms of increased regional, ethnic, and socioeconomic diversity on campus.”

Since it began, Posse has helped more than 4,200 students nationwide earn a bachelor’s degree. The Posse Scholar graduation rate is 90 percent, which is significantly above the national average.

In addition, 27 Posse students have won Fulbright scholarships since 2007. Statistics aside, the students are impressive—they are at Bard not only to learn, but also to be involved in campus and community life, an effect of Posse’s culture of leadership and participation.

Brandon LaBord ’13 is working on a sociology Senior Project about managerial practices in business structures. He runs Bard’s Black Student Organization and is codirector of Building Up Hudson, a mentoring organization for students in the city of Hudson, New York. LaBord plans on being an entrepreneur after he completes his schooling. “It’s something I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” he says.

“In high school I had my own business, with a friend, called Flyest Society—we distributed flyers for events in Atlanta.” LaBord is applying to graduate business programs at Harvard, Wake Forest, and Yale.

He’s also applied to the Peace Corps and has been speaking with an Air Force recruiter. He’d eventually like to start a foundation that supports students in obtaining education.

Posse’s recruiting process is extensive. It allows students to demonstrate skills and intelligence that may not be apparent through a standard college application process. The initial assessment is through a recruitment event that includes large-group and individual interviews and team-building work. Beforehand, students have selected which college they hope to attend. Once the recruiting sessions are complete, the college’s admissions team and Posse staff decide together who receives a scholarship. Ten students are chosen as a Posse for each partner school.

Once accepted, Posse scholars attend a weekly two-hour workshop during the senior year of high school in which they participate in team-building activities, learn leadership and communication skills, and are coached on how to succeed academically in college.

When they arrive on campus, scholars attend biweekly individual and group meetings with the faculty members who are their Posse mentors. The meetings continue during the first two years of college. The

senior-year workshops and campus support sessions provide the critical program infrastructure through which Posse students connect with one another. Tess Whitney ’14, a junior in Bard’s second Atlanta Posse, says, “In my freshman year it was very helpful to have the other Posse students in my life.” LaBord says, “When we see each other, it’s an invisible hand of support.”

Kimberly Sargeant ’14, from Stone Mountain, Georgia (about 20 miles outside Atlanta), attended a magnet high school in DeKalb County. Both of her parents attended university in Guyana, South America, and came to the United States in 1980. A math major who may also decide to study German, Sargeant—also in the second Atlanta Posse—says, “Without Posse I would probably still be scared to leave Georgia, but now that I’m here I know Bard is the right place.” She is a peer counselor and works as a tour guide for the Admission Office. Sargent also has spent two summers as a counselor and workshop leader at Yale University’s Exploration Senior Program, an academic camp for high school students. After graduating, she says, “My plan is to go for a Fulbright Scholarship or Watson Fellowship, or Teach for America. I want to spend time exploring and working to gain personal experience.”

Whitney, from Decatur, Georgia, is a literature major concentrating in Latin American and Iberian studies. She is a peer counselor, the speaking captain of the women’s rugby team, and vice president of the rugby club (both men’s and women’s teams). Whitney says, “Posse was such a good opportunity for me. The only other school I applied to was the University of Georgia but I’m much more suited to Bard. Posse gave me the connections I needed to do well. I met several of the deans before I got here, so I had a solid support network.”

Whitney says her Posse was especially helpful during the first year.

“We still have get-togethers but we’re all so busy,” she says. “It's hard to figure out times.” She plans on applying for a prestigious national Watson Fellowship so she can travel after graduating and teach in Spain or Latin America.

In fall 2012, Bard became a founding partner institution (along with Tulane) for the new Posse program in New Orleans. Ahmaad Lott ’16 is one of the 10 students in Bard’s first New Orleans Posse.

He hails from the Algiers neighborhood, or 15th Ward. Lott, who aims to become a film and electronic arts major, says, “If I hadn’t gotten a Posse scholarship, I’d be in New Orleans, working nights and living at home.” In addition to being an avid lover of film, Lott is a big music fan; he’s joined the Bard Gospel Choir and is planning to learn to play an instrument. After graduating from Bard, he wants to travel and make films, focusing on personal stories that have universal appeal. He says, “I moved from a small town in Missouri to New Orleans, but I didn’t experience any culture shock—I realized people are actually very similar.”

It is clear that Bard has made a permanent and positive imprint on its Posse scholars, and that Posse scholars have made an equally positive impact on the College. Says Dominy, “I am thrilled with the transformative student leadership they provide, and we look forward to the selection of two new cohorts of scholars from Atlanta and New Orleans for the class of 2017.” posse scholars at bard 5

love of scholarship and involvement

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by Bruce Chilton ’71

Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion, and chaplain of the College, Bruce Chilton ’71 is a longtime colleague of Jacob Neusner, Bard Center Fellow and Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism. They cofounded the Institute of Advanced Theology at Bard in 1996 to foster critical understanding of religion through interdisciplinary scholarship.

Jacob Neusner joined the Bard faculty as professor of religion in 1994.

At the time, he was already preeminent among scholars of Rabbinic Judaism (the normative form of Judaism that developed after the fall of the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 70 B.C.E.), and recognized as a seminal contributor to the comparative study of religion. Those of

students could tackle the topic and discuss every contribution before the debate. They then were readily equipped to present their arguments, help chair sessions, and engage in discussion with the invited speakers.

This design results in intense, creative involvement from students, and—it must be said—in greater clarity from academic speakers than might otherwise be the case. Conferences become occasions of genuine teaching and learning, not just ornamentation. The University Press of America will publish the proceedings of the “Just War” conference; earlier Neusner conferences involving Bard students have been brought out by Georgetown University Press (Altruism in World Religions), the Templeton Foundation (Religious Tolerance in

the college has developed a well-coordinated program of writing-intensive courses, but neusner pioneered the approach before it was institutionalized. his insistence that students read their own work during a seminar, with copies provided so that all participants can follow, has proven a transformative practice. us involved in the appointment hoped that a program of study in Judaism would constellate around him, and also that his presence in our classrooms would raise expectations among students and teachers alike.

These goals must have been realistic, because he met them with ease. The College created an endowed chair for Neusner— Distinguished Service Professor of the History and Theology of Judaism—in 2006, a bestowal marking both Neusner’s contribution and the evolution of academic interests at Bard. Neusner’s creativity as a teacher enabled him to innovate two approaches that are likely to prove enduring elements in the ethos of the College. The first involves integrating students into academic conferences, and the second concerns what is perhaps the most central focus of teaching at Bard: writing.

Conferences are a growing feature of campus life. At Bard, Neusner has found a way to make them part and parcel of undergraduate experience. The most recent conference he convened brought participants from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and other institutions, as well as the College, to Bard to address the question, “Can War Be Just?” (see Fall 2012 Bardian). All the invited speakers made their presentations available in advance. In that way, 6 love of scholarship and involvement

World Religions), and Continuum Press (The Golden Rule: The Ethics of Reciprocity in World Religions).

While organizing and carrying out conferences, Neusner has also zeroed in on how students write. He saw as soon as he arrived at Bard that prose was the best medium for enabling students to concentrate on whatever the topic at hand might be. The College has developed a well-coordinated program of writing-intensive courses, but Neusner pioneered the approach before it was institutionalized. His insistence that students read their own work during a seminar, with copies provided so that all participants can follow, has proven a transformative practice. It brings about a level of interested, detailed engagement that is as productive in teasing out principles of analysis as it is crucial in coming to grips with the details of texts.

Behind these innovations lies a systematic approach to the entire question of what it means to study religion. Neusner is distinguished in his field, not only because he has “out-contributed” his colleagues (which he has, with more than 900 books authored or edited), but also because he has developed a coherent analysis of Judaism. His published works involve history, source analysis, translation and exegesis, literary comparison, and legal theory, highlighting how religion may be understood by combining these dimensions of study. He is a

member of the founding committee of the Association for Jewish Studies, and founder of the European Association of Jewish Studies.

He served on the National Council on the Humanities under President Jimmy Carter and the National Council on the Arts under President Ronald Reagan. Besides Bard, he has taught at Dartmouth College, Brown University, and the University of South Florida, among others. He is a member of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge University, in England.

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At the November annual meeting in Chicago of the foremost professional organizations in the field—the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature—Neusner’s work was the topic of a special session precisely because it has been so influential in the scholarship of others.

Richard H. Davis, professor of religion at Bard, attended the session—“The Legacy of Jacob Neusner”—and comments, “It was illuminating for me, but not at all surprising, to hear him praised by eminent scholars in Judaic studies for the truly formative impact Neusner has had on his primary field of study. It’s an honor to teach in the same program with a scholar of such stature, who has at the same time devoted himself to innovative teaching.”

The session organizers chose scholars to reflect critically on four dimensions of Neusner’s work: rabbinics, Judaism and Christianity, religion, and American Judaism. Kristin Scheible, assistant professor of religion at Bard, was also in attendance. “What struck me most was how Neusner’s legacy was evident in the way the speakers framed their thoughts, pushing beyond the eulogistic and into content,” she notes. “In the field of religious studies, we are much indebted to Neusner for asking good questions and modeling how to find answers.”

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Aryeh Cohen, associate professor of rabbinic literature at American Jewish University, an organizer of the session, said in his introduction, “Educated at Harvard, Jewish Theological Seminary, Oxford, and Columbia, it is hard to overstate Professor Neusner’s impact and influence on the field of Jewish studies. . . . He has also written on the relationship of Judaism and Christianity. Time magazine dubbed him ‘the Pope’s Favorite Rabbi’ after Pope Benedict XVI devoted 20 pages of his book, Jesus of Nazareth, to Neusner’s A Rabbi Talks with Jesus.”

In his book, Benedict refers to the work as “by far the most important book for Jewish-Christian dialogue in the last decade.”

Conference session coorganizer Shaul Magid, Jay and Jeannie Schottenstein Professor of Modern Judaism and professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University Bloomington, explored Neusner’s writings while writing a chapter on the reception of the Holocaust in American Judaism. (Magid and Cohen currently chair the Study of Judaism for the American Academy of Religion, which Neusner too has headed; he also is a past president of the academy.) “After reading his work on this subject, I began to understand in new ways the extent of Neusner’s scholarly reach well beyond rabbinics, where he has put much of his intellectual focus,” Magid recalls.

“I wanted to offer a scholarly retrospective and appreciation of the breadth of his contribution. As we look back at the 20th century— now with some historical lenses—it occurred to me that Neusner is one of the most important voices in Jewish scholarship and thought in the second half of that century.”

“Given this, and more, it was time to bring some scholarly voices together to think about his contribution more broadly considered,” Magid says, adding, “I thought it would be appropriate to offer many young scholars who know of his work, but often only within the limits of their own area of interest, to be exposed to the wide breadth of Neusner’s scholarship,” which includes the introduction of feminism to the study of rabbinic texts, according to papers on the subject.

Neusner sees any religion as a combination of worldview, way of life, and outlook on the social order; that is, a repeated theme that lends coherence to all of his work. It permits his students and his readers to understand how a religion is not just a set of beliefs or a denominational brand, but a system that relates what people do, how they feel, and why they think they are in the world. One of the most creative features of Neusner’s scholarly work—directly represented in his teaching—involves developing a comparison of Rabbinic Judaism with other religions, all of them systematically understood.

These developments at the College promise to have durable results that are transferable to other subjects, and they have been constructed out of a dedicated application of acumen, wisdom, and humor. Not many distinguished contributors to an academic conference have ever been asked by the principal organizer, “How do you think you would express that idea if English were your first language?”

Not many students have been asked to present the position that war is just—before an audience that includes cadets of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. That kind of preparation and focus are just what Neusner has provided, and has shown others how to produce.

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from baghdad to bard

iraqi refugee finds home in science research

by Swapan S. Jain

Raed Al-Abbasee ’13 (left) and Swapan Jain photo Richard Renaldi

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Swapan Jain, assistant professor of chemistry, received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Georgia Institute of Technology. He then worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Chemistry Department at Boston University. His current research focuses on the development and testing of novel pharmaceutical agents that bind to DNA and RNA molecules. The Bardian asked Jain to describe his research with undergraduate Raed Al-Abbasee ’13, who came to Bard through unusual means.

the journey to bard Biochemist Raed Al-Abbasee ’13 took an unlikely path to Bard that also led to publication in an important scientific journal. Born and raised in Baghdad, Al-Abbasee was a student at Al Mustansiriya College of Medicine, a prominent medical school in the Iraqi capital, from 2006 to 2008 (Iraqi students begin professional training after six years of high school). In 2008, Al-Abbasee and his family fled to Syria to escape the escalating violence of the Iraq war, including death threats toward members of the family. “People would be going to school and work across the street from a car bombing,” Al-Abbasee recalls. “I saw a lot of death. The main campus of my university was bombed. Why? Nobody knows. There was no military base in that neighborhood that would warrant making such a residential area a target for terrorist attack.”

Arriving in Damascus, where other relatives had fled, Al-Abbasee realized he could not continue his medical training: although Iraqis did not need visas at that time to cross the border, they could not, as refugees, attend public universities. “We left Iraq a few weeks before my second-year exams,” he says. “I was upset because I’d worked very hard to get into medical school and knew I wouldn’t be able to finish my education in Syria.”

He heard about the Iraqi Student Project, a nonprofit organization that helps displaced Iraqi students study in the United States, and applied. Felice and Yoram Gelman, and Hans Boehm, all of Rhinebeck, New York, are benefactors of the Iraqi Student Project who knew of Bard’s exceptional reputation in science and long history of assisting students from countries in conflict.

“We learned of the Iraqi Student Project through its founders, Gabe Huck and Theresa Kubasak, while they were on a speaking tour in the United States,” says Felice Gelman. “At the time, the program was just beginning, and they were searching for schools that would accept and provide scholarship aid for young Iraqi refugees of college age. Living in Rhinebeck, we were aware of some of the amazing things Bard does, and thought we would write a letter, asking for a scholarship for a student. The response, which was almost immediate, was, ‘Yes. Give us a strong student who is interested in science.’ We were thrilled. Bard pitched in, holding a meeting with faculty and students interested in the Middle East, to explain the program to them.

Local people pitched in with contributions.”

She continues, “Our job, as a support group, was to raise the money for Raed’s room, board, and living expenses, and to help him

deal with the dual shocks of a different culture and a different language. We helped him with summer work and, until his family arrived, with places to stay during academic breaks.” Al-Abbasee worked as a summer intern at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He was elated and relieved when the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees helped relocate his family, at the end of 2010, to Worcester, Massachusetts.

Al-Abbasee was awarded Bard’s prestigious Distinguished Scientist Scholarship, given to outstanding students in the sciences.

He also received support from the Cornelia and Michael Bessie Foundation (of which Bard Life Trustee James H. Ottaway Jr. is treasurer), and Rally for Iraq, Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides higher-level education opportunities for Iraqis in the United States.

Boehm, treasurer of the Iraqi Student Project’s mid-Hudson chapter, is delighted that, by helping Al-Abbasee, “I have been able to pay back a little bit of the help I received some six decades ago when I obtained a Fulbright scholarship from Austria, which eventually led to my coming to this country for good.” He says of Al-Abbasee, “Raed is a remarkable person: very mature for his age, smart, polite, a hard worker. Considering the conditions both in Iraq and in Syria, I believe Raed will remain in this country and will be a valuable asset.”

research into enzymes and cholera Al-Abbasee and I met during his first year. Although a biology major, Al-Abbasee started work in my chemistry research lab in the fall 2010 semester; his project focused on the alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) enzyme. Proteins, like machines in a factory, do the heavy-lifting work of a living cell. Myriad activities are carried out in the cellular environment, the cell being the basic-unit structure of all living entities.

Some of these activities include making and breaking up molecules, transporting objects, transferring genetic information from a parent cell to the next generation, and harnessing nourishment from food particles to provide energy for cellular processes. This latter function formed part of the basis for Al-Abbasee’s research. Some proteins— enzymes—are catalytic in nature, which means they can increase the speed at which chemical reactions occur. ADH is a cellular enzyme that converts an alcohol into an aldehyde (a carbon atom doublebonded to an oxygen atom). For example, ADH can convert ethanol, which is present in beverages, into a compound called acetaldehyde.

ADH can also carry out the reverse reaction, in which an aldehyde is converted back into an alcohol.

Al-Abbasee’s research project was conducted in collaboration with John Miecznikowski, assistant professor of chemistry at Fairfield University in Connecticut. The Miecznikowski lab is involved in making compounds that closely mimic the reaction center of the ADH enzyme. These “synthetic enzymes” can be used in place of natural enzymes to make alcohol and aldehyde molecules that can be developed for health care and industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, paints, and plastics. Synthetic enzymes could prove more cost effective than natural enzymes and could also be used under extreme temperature and pressure conditions—invaluable assets when

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attempting to improve industrial product yields. For these reasons, it was important that a comparative analysis be undertaken that looked at the efficiency of a natural system compared to one that is created artificially.

As a biochemist who has worked with enzymes in both classroom and lab, I found this project fascinating. Al-Abbasee, who had taken several classes under my supervision, has an interest in molecular biochemistry that convinced me he would be a good fit for this project. His work focused on taking the natural ADH enzyme and looking at its catalytic rate using absorbance spectroscopy. This technique measures the concentration of a particular species by measuring its absorbance at a defined wavelength of light. We varied many experimental conditions—such as pH, temperature, and reaction time—in order to optimize the catalytic efficiency of the enzyme. In addition, we carried out mass spectrometry (MS) analysis—which can provide information about the weight of a molecule—on the compounds that were synthesized at Fairfield University. We found that the ADH enzyme performed more efficiently at room temperature and was also able to tolerate a greater number of substrates (the starting material used in an enzymatic reaction; in other words, the molecules on which enzymes act). On the other hand, while the synthetic enzyme was more effective at higher temperatures, it was limited to accepting only a small number of substrates.

In 2012, some of the results Al-Abbasee obtained were published in the journal Inorganica Chimica Acta, which focuses on inorganic and bioinorganic chemistry and adheres to a rigorous peer-review process. The paper was titled “Syntheses, characterization, density functional theory calculations, and activity of tridentate SNS zinc pincer complexes based on bis-imidazole or bis-triazole precursors.”

Several Fairfield University undergraduates, and researchers from Boston College and Rochester Institute of Technology, were also featured as authors. Al-Abbasee was involved in describing his results and editing the manuscript during the review stages of the publication process. “My duties included preparation and presentation of the project poster, and presenting results to lab members and supervisors on a weekly basis in addition to participating in writing project’s abstract and manuscript for publication,” he explains. He also presented his results at two research symposiums held at Bard during 2011.

“In my summer internship at Mount Sinai Medical School, I worked extensively on performing sandwich ELISA—a technique used to detect the presence of an antigen of interest in a liquid sample,” he says. “On that project, I used sandwich ELISA to detect an antibody in mice serum. I also assisted staff in other duties, such as preparing reagents and buffers, performing analytical tests, and delivering specimens to the appropriate laboratory. I was introduced to the method of critical reading and effective writing of scientific papers, which was useful in the project I did on alcohol dehydrogenase with Professor Jain. Ultraviolet and visible (UV-Vis) absorption spectroscopy—the measurement of the attenuation of a beam of light after it passes through a sample or after reflection from a sample surface—and mass spectroscopy, SDS-PAGE, affinity chromatography, fluorescence, and dialysis were some of the techniques that I used.”

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The Chemistry Program at Bard boasts state-of-the-art research labs, equipment, and instrumentation. Faculty members use these facilities to pursue their research activities with Bard students during the academic year and summer months. Students get hands-on experience with modern scientific instrumentation and gain from the expertise of their faculty supervisors. On average, five students conduct research projects in each faculty member’s lab at any given time.

During his research tenure, Al-Abbasee worked alongside Angela Potenza ’11 (chemistry), Wancong Zhang ’13 (chemistry), Rachit Neupane ’13 (biology), and Cara Black ’13 (biology). These students carried out independent projects that focused on small molecule interactions with DNA and RNA structures. Research students share valuable resources and ideas and develop a great sense of camaraderie and team spirit, which extends into their activities beyond the lab bench. James Sunderland ’13 (chemistry) is continuing Al-Abbasee’s project in my laboratory.

Sunderland has extended Al-Abbasee’s research for his own Senior Project. We are investigating the effect of substrate chemical structure on the reaction rate. Specifically, Sunderland is using the same alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme but he is using substrates that vary in their ability to donate or withdraw electron density from the reaction site. He has shown that variation in the electron density at the reaction site directly affects the catalytic rate of the enzyme.

Analysis of the data reveals that the substrates can be logically categorized by examination of their chemical structure. He is also using another technique called cyclic voltammetry (CV), which helps in determining the electrochemical characteristics of substrates in solution. In our project, CV is being used to measure the mathematical constants that predict electron-withdrawing or -donating capabilities of these substrates.

Al-Abbasee’s Senior Project focuses on the cholera outbreak in Haiti in 2010, following the devastating earthquake in that country.

His research examines the GlcNAc binding protein—the protein secreted by the Vibrio cholerae strain that caused the outbreak (scientifically known as the Haitian O1 El Tor variant)—that helps the disease’s molecules attach to the interior wall of the small intestine of humans. GlcNAc and chitin (a complex carbohydrate that forms part of the hard outer protective layer of insects, arachnids, and crustaceans, for example) are found on the surface of intestinal epithelial cells and in the exoskeleton of zooplankton. Research has been done to determine the role of GbpA in the colonization process in other V. cholerae strains; however, the protein’s role in the colonization process of the Haitian strain has not yet been explored.

In addition to GbpA, he is studying the HapR quorum sensing system, which activates the genes required to degrade GbpA at high cell density. The goal is to investigate whether or not the level of secreted GbpA protein is modulated by the proteins in this system, and how that secretion might affect the attachment and detachment abilities of this cholera strain. Understanding the function of GbpA protein in the Haitian O1 El Tor variant is crucial to understanding the mechanisms of aquatic and intestinal survival used by the isolate, or pure substance.

Structure of horse liver alcohol dehydrogenase enzyme in a cartoon representation where the beta sheets are represented as magenta arrows and alpha helices as cyan ribbons. The enzyme is bound to NAD cofactor (colored sticks) and zinc metal ion (yellow sphere).

Illustration created by Swapan Jain using file 1E3I from www.pdb.org

“My Senior Project research experience has been very enriching and it took me to a whole new level of thinking about the career of research,” says Al-Abbasee, whose Senior Project adviser is Assistant Professor of Biology Brooke Jude. “Unlike past projects, when I was given a research topic or area of study, this time I had to come up with my own. I also had to meet with Senior Project board members to explain my project, why it is important, and its timeline, so they could approve it. I am currently performing dot and western blot analyses and I am going to perform other techniques, such as inframe deletion and mutagenesis.” While his Senior Project research is not related to our published work on the ADH enzyme, some of the techniques from the earlier experiments have held him in good stead in his Senior Project efforts.

Al-Abbasee credits Bard with teaching him the rudiments of research. “Since my freshman year at Bard, when I began working as a lab assistant, I have been working with increased responsibility until I reached the point, now, where I can use my own judgment in making decisions and apply methods and procedures without close supervision or guidance,” he says. “Through the biology and chemistry courses I have taken at Bard, and the medical school curricula that I studied for two years at Al Mustansiriya College of Medicine, I was introduced to a wide variety of laboratory procedures and techniques, which gave me a solid foundation to start working on research projects.” However, unlike study at Bard and other institutions of higher education in the United States, medical students in Iraq attend lectures and conduct extensive observations, rather than performing their own research.

“In my internship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, I followed instructions, but during my project at Bard, Professor Jain would often say, ‘Go find the relevant research articles and figure out a procedure,’” Al-Abbasee says. “I would conduct an independent literature review; then we would develop a suitable experimental plan. He inspired me to conduct more research.”

the fruits of these labors Al-Abbasee plans to work as a research assistant before beginning graduate studies. “All these techniques, and many others that I performed in my lab science courses, helped me gain the confidence to explore my career options as a research technician,” he says. “I am looking forward to improving those techniques and learning new skills in order to be a better scientist in the future. I am hoping that a research opportunity will give me a better idea of what I really want to do in grad school.”

“Raed will be graduating with some very impressive accomplishments already under his belt,” says Felice Gelman. Adds Hans Boehm, “The years flew by so fast, I can’t believe that Raed’s graduation is just around the corner. It has been a very rewarding four years for me. I trust we will stay in touch with Raed.”

Al-Abbasee wants to put his newfound skills to use, in a place he knows and loves. “Although my family and I have begun to adapt to life in the United States, part of me is still back home in Baghdad.

Unfortunately, the situation there is still not going as well as it could be. Violence is still a threat to millions of Iraqis every day. Politicians are busy fighting over power, ignoring their duty toward the country, which is being shredded to pieces by hate and violence,” he says.

“My friends in Iraq tell me about the state of the hospitals there,” he adds with urgency. “They need help. I hope a day will come when life in Iraq will go back as it was before the war, so that I and the other five million Iraqi refugees will be able to go back and help rebuild our beloved country.”

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The Washerwomen Implied, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, 1932 12 surrealism’s “found object”

photo ©Colette Urbajtel/Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, SC

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the enigmatic mexico of artaud and breton

by Melanie Nicholson

Associate Professor of Spanish Melanie Nicholson, who came to Bard in 1995, received her B.A. from Arizona State University; M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Arizona; and Ph.D. from the University of Texas, Austin. Her translations, poems, articles, and reviews have appeared in many publications, including Yale Review, Contemporary Women Authors of Latin America, American Poetry Review, and Latin American Writers. The text of this article—adapted from a faculty seminar she delivered at Bard—is from her book Surrealism in Latin American Literature: Searching for Breton’s Ghost (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

a cool welcome Anna Balakian, the foremost historian of literary surrealism, once called Octavio Paz “Surrealism’s sturdiest heir.” Before Paz’s return to Mexico in the early 1950s, after having lived in Paris and become a respected friend and confidant of the movement’s founder, André Breton, surrealism had experienced a chilly reception in Mexico. In one of the greatest paradoxes of Spanish American cultural history, however, in 1938 Mexico was declared by Breton to be “the surrealist place par excellence,” an opinion that was subsequently shared by several of Europe’s most renowned surrealists. How can we explain this paradox? What was it about surrealist attitudes and practices that prompted an indifferent or even derisive response from Mexican writers and intellectuals? Conversely, what was it about Mexico that inflamed the passions of Breton and his contemporaries? While Mexico’s historical circumstances in the 1930s and 1940s created a cultural atmosphere largely hostile to surrealism, those same circumstances allowed the country to act as a kind of Rorschach image in which the European surrealists revealed more about themselves than about the object of their fascination.

Two separate but interconnected stories make up this paradoxical narrative. One story is that of European surrealists who visited or took up long-term residence in Mexico. The list is long and includes such luminaries as Luis Buñuel, Leonora Carrington, Benjamin Péret, and Wolfgang Paalen, in addition to Breton and Antonin Artaud. This story typically posits Mexico as a surrealist objet trouvé or a site of potential marvelous encounters; it is a narrative created by non-Mexicans who discover surrealist images in the country’s history, geography, colors, and indigenous or mestizo people.

The other story is that of Mexico’s own response to surrealism, including both the debates that emerged from the presence of the European visitors and the surrealist-influenced works produced by some Mexican writers. In terms of cultural history, the first of the two tales proves to be richer and more complex; in fact, while the impact of surrealism on Mexican writers before 1950 was minimal, the impact of Mexico on European surrealists was substantial.

News of the French movement began appearing in Mexico as early as March 1925—only months after the publication of Breton’s first manifesto—in the form of brief newspaper reviews and translations of articles written in France. Almost from the start, the early reviewers were skeptical or openly dismissive of surrealism. Although they praised its ability to free the poetic image from logical constraints, various critics, including some of Mexico’s best-known writers, accused the movement of being derivative and unoriginal, a mere escapist fantasy, simply another “-ism” without consequence.

Although from 1929 forward Mexican writers and critics would treat surrealism with a cautious respect, approaching it as an intriguing movement that deserved careful explanation to the reading public, none would embrace its creative possibilities as did surrealist groups in Argentina and Chile. Surrealism’s role as a catalyst for creative work in Mexico would be heralded, ironically, by a series of outsiders.

the hallucinatory voyages of antonin artaud The languid early reception of surrealism in Mexico was suddenly energized by the arrival in 1936 of the French playwright, poet, actor, and essayist Antonin Artaud. He had joined Breton’s group in the fall of 1924, and early in 1925 took over the direction of the Surrealist Bureau of Research. But in spite of many shared affinities, Artaud’s direct participation in the surrealist movement did not survive the various polemics that shook the group in this period—most notably, the question of the surrealists’ relationship to the socialist revolution.

The most significant aspect of Artaud’s contact with surrealism was its influence on his theories about the theater—theories that profoundly altered the character of dramatic writing, direction, and performance in the 20th century. It is crucial to note that Artaud’s early involvement with surrealism had a marked effect on his interpretation of the realities he confronted in his travels in Mexico. the enigmatic mexico of artaud and breton 13

Increasingly disillusioned with what he saw as the stagnation of European culture, Artaud determined to experience Mexican reality for himself. In a letter to the French minister of foreign relations dated August 1935, he lays out his philosophy and the purpose of his journey. We have a great deal to learn, he tells the minister, from the secrets of ancient Mexican culture, especially at a time when every country in the world is struggling to find a “collective dynamism.”

Here Artaud speaks of his journey in almost messianic terms: “My mission . . . would consist in extricating and fixing that dynamism.”

Though sanctioned by the French government, Artaud’s journey to Mexico—as his later writings would reveal—was, more than an official mission, a personal pilgrimage to find a lost cosmology and to heal his own diseased psyche.

Under the auspices of the national university, Artaud gave three public lectures in Mexico City in February 1936. The texts of these lectures, which discuss both surrealism and Artaud’s ideas about the theater, are free-associative and prophetic in their rhetoric, a far cry from the structured discourse the listening public might have expected. One of the primary messages Artaud wants to convey to his

to witness indigenous culture firsthand. He secured the support of officials in both the Mexican government and the national university, who contracted him to write a series of articles on his findings. In August 1936, practically penniless and in the throes of withdrawal from heroin, Artaud managed to employ a guide and travel 750 miles north by train and then on horseback into a remote corner of the Sierra Madre, land of the Tarahumara. Over the course of the next 12 years, beginning shortly after his return to Mexico City in October of that year, Artaud wrote numerous pieces examining this experience and its implications, all of which were eventually gathered and published posthumously under the title Les Tarahumaras.

His essay “A Voyage to the Land of the Tarahumaras” was first published in Spanish translation in Mexico City in October 1936. The first section, “The Mountain of Signs,” describes in quasi-mystical terms the landscape he encountered: “The land of the Tarahumara is full of signs, forms, and natural effigies which in no way seem the result of chance, as if the gods, whom one feels everywhere here, had chosen to express their powers by means of these strange signatures in which the figure of man is hunted down from every side.” Artaud

“apart from everything else i have said, mexico tends to be the surrealist place par excellence. . . . i find mexico to be surrealist in its contours, in its flora, in the dynamism gained from its mixture of races, and even in its highest aspirations.”—andré breton Mexican audience—and particularly to the youth—is that the indigenous cultures of that land were the key to its future: “Mexico’s Indian blood holds the ancient secret of the race.” His concern is that whereas “present-day Mexico copies Europe, in my view it is European civilization that should ask Mexico for its secret.” This was a message that neither the post-revolutionary Mexican government under Lázaro Cárdenas, the intelligentsia under the leadership of figures like the educator José Vasconcelos and the archeologist Alfonso Caso, or the largely mestizo population was likely to welcome, especially coming as it did from a European with no direct experience of Mexican culture. Here the tables are turned and turned again: the French writer preaches to his Mexican listeners that they should reject the European model—not in favor of their current cultural projects, but rather in favor of a return to their mythic past. Yet in Mexico in 1936, mestizaje—the mix of European and indigenous races—had been elevated practically to the status of a national religion, and the truly indigenous minorities were either ignored or swept up in schemes of assimilation. This political and social reality, which Artaud either misunderstood or chose to ignore, left a wide breach between his lectures and their reception.

The lack of true communication and integration that Artaud experienced in his six months in Mexico City—a city he saw as a halfway point between corrupt European civilization and authentic existence—led him to carry out his dream of traveling to the interior

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was determined to uncover a kind of metaphorical wisdom behind the geography of these harsh mountainscapes. The play of light on the rock walls, for instance, caused him to see—repeatedly—certain nightmarish figures such as that of an “animal’s head carrying in its jaws its own effigy which it devoured.”

In echoes of his third Mexico City lecture, “The Theater and the Gods,” Artaud insists (without any empirical support for his argument) that the tribe he encounters represents a more ancient and therefore more authentic culture than any of those known in Europe: “And I find it strange that the primitive people of the Tarahumara tribe, whose rites and culture are older than the Flood, actually possessed this science well before the appearance of the Legend of the Grail, or the founding of the Sect of the Rosicrucians.” Similarly, in a letter to the governors of Mexican states, Artaud claims that Mexico and Tibet were “nodal points of world culture” and that the Mexican Indian rituals were living evidence of that fact. It seems to him that he has stumbled upon the very origins of human existence, and he is determined, in a fundamentally surrealist way, to make sense of it without relying on rational thought.

That very impulse would inspire Artaud to seek out a particular remote village called Norogachic where the ritual of the peyote was performed, and to persuade the “sorcerers” who led this ritual to allow him to participate. The story of this experience is told in an essay titled “The Peyote Dance.” An even more markedly surrealist

text than “The Mountain of Signs,” this piece is part narrative recounting of the event, part reflection on its meaning from a temporal distance, and part impressionistic and often hermetic prose poetry. Throughout the piece, the presence of the self as body is paramount, as it is in so much of Artaud’s writing. His use of the phrase “this piece of damaged geology”—to mark his own infirm body within the imposing geology of the Sierra Madre—provides an initial clue about the subjective subtext of this piece. In fact, his own emotions overwhelm him even before the actual ritual begins. “For to have come this far, to find myself at last on the threshold of an encounter and of this place from which I expected so many revelations, and to feel so lost, so abandoned, so deposed,” he says as a way of explaining “that interstitial pain which every night pursued me.” The words threshold, encounter, and revelations all point to the ponderous sense of subjective meaning that Artaud brought to this experience, which contrasts sharply with the image of his own broken self.

Able to communicate only partially through his Spanishspeaking guide, Artaud questions the very assumptions that had led him to this place: “And all of this, for what? For a dance, for a rite of lost Indians who no longer even know who they are or where they came from and who, when you question them, answer with tales whose connection and secret they have lost.” The preconceived notions Artaud superimposes on the lived experience are patent here.

Given the formidable language barrier, we can presume that his claim that the villagers have lost their sense of origins and identity, and even the secret of their own tales, reveals preconceptions Artaud brought into the Sierra with him. If he is aware of these preconceptions, he does not say so.

In his later reflections on this experience, Artaud confirms his understanding that the peyote dance is after all a human ritual, a set of conventional forms without a priori meaning. If he had expected his journey to reveal some profound truth to him, he acknowledges the failure. He admits that the peyote sorcerers have managed to jealously guard their deepest secrets. During his own part in the ritual, he recalls, they had laid him down so that the ritual would descend upon him: “There was this rolling vault, this physical arrangement of cries, tones, steps, chants. But above everything, beyond everything, this impression that kept recurring that behind all this, greater than all this and beyond it, there was concealed something else: the principle.”

What strikes the reader here is that Artaud’s participation in the peyote ritual gave him little in the way of new knowledge, and if he had sought for himself a psychic and physical cure, nothing of the sort occurred. And yet the experience served to intensify his conviction that true meaning exists behind or beyond what the senses can perceive—in what he calls the principle. Here Artaud approximates the surrealist Pierre Mabille’s studies of universal myths and Breton’s gradual turn toward occult ideologies. Thus Artaud’s texts show yet another facet of the surrealist concern with the revelation of hidden— though fundamentally human rather than divine—realities.

In retrospect, it is clear that Artaud did not accomplish his stated mission of convincing the Mexicans to reevaluate the indigenous cul-

tures in their midst. His “ethnographic surrealism” did, however, serve to heighten the European perception of Mexico as a site of the strange, the primitive, and the mythical.

The reception of Artaud’s writings in Mexico is difficult to gauge, but was certainly more limited and more tentative than in Europe.

More than 20 of Artaud’s articles on the Tarahumaras and other subjects relating to Mexico’s mythic past were translated into Spanish and published in Mexico City periodicals. One of the most intriguing early responses was written by the poet Bernardo Ortiz de Montellano and published in the widely read newspaper El Nacional. This article first identifies Artaud as a surrealist and cites his goal of renovating European culture. It maintains that Artaud’s particular form of surrealism tends toward “a total spiritualism of a mystic kind . . . of a kind of magical, pantheistic unity with nature, which is genuine among the indigenous cultures of America.” What follows is the most reflective and, for our purposes, the most revealing part of the essay: “We have discussed these themes more or less effectively, but we need other eyes to come from other places to reveal to us the reality of our own life as Artaud does, with passionate lyricism.”

Strikingly, Ortiz de Montellano’s attitude echoes Artaud’s by assuming the inadequacy of the Mexican people to interpret their own reality. After declaring that only art, and specifically poetry, is capable of revealing reality, Ortiz de Montellano shifts his focus toward a discussion of the “profound” difference in values between Europe and America. He claims that what Mexicans lack in ambition and thrift, they gain in a sense of life as “passion, fervor, and enjoyment, even though it be brief.”

The most notable aspect of the essay is its very ambivalence. On the one hand, Ortiz de Montellano reasserts his estimation of particular aspects of the culture that Mexicans have long valued (the passion for life, the reverence for death, the campesino’s closeness to both nature and tradition). But Artaud’s writings also prompt him to remind his countrymen that Europe can still provide a stimulus for advancement in certain areas like science and “civilization.” The ultimate irony here, of course, is that Artaud had gone to Mexico to teach its inhabitants precisely the opposite—that Mexicans should reject corrupt European culture and that Mexico’s future lay hidden in its own most ancient and marginalized peoples.

breton in the land of waking dreams Less than two years after Artaud’s enigmatic journey, André Breton arrived for a four-month stay in Mexico, and with him Mexico’s fate as a surrealist object was sealed. Although he was officially sponsored by the French government as a cultural attaché, one of the true reasons for this visit had little to do, at least directly, with Mexico or Spanish America: Breton would meet there with Leon Trotsky, whose split with the Stalinist-run Communist Party had occasioned his exile to Mexico.

Although Breton’s visit had been announced in positive terms in certain Mexican publications, notes of discord began to sound not long after his arrival. On several occasions throughout his stay, Breton

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complained—with apparent justification—that preparations for his activities had not been well organized on the part of the Mexican government and university officials. Of a scheduled lecture series, he succeeded in giving only the first, called “Artistic Transformations and Surrealism.” The subsequent two lectures were poorly announced in the press and then canceled at the last minute: Breton arrived to find the conference rooms closed.

Much of the response of Mexico’s intelligentsia to Breton’s presence, and to surrealism more broadly, was dismissive or even hostile.

The primary factor in this resistant attitude was no doubt Mexico’s overtly nationalistic discourse in the years following the Revolution of 1910, which precluded any open embrace of a movement that originated in France. The struggle to come to terms with la mexicanidad or “Mexicanness” kept the country’s focus squarely within its own borders and resisted any influences viewed as colonialist or imperialist. Moreover, in political terms, Breton’s alliance with Trotsky made him the natural enemy of the Communist Party in Mexico at a moment when many prominent leftists still sided with Stalin. In sum, if the first years of the surrealist revolution had barely shaken Mexican soil, Breton’s visit did little to change the situation.

In an interview conducted by the Honduran poet Rafael Heliodoro Valle, Breton mentions the “black humor” that he had found in popular artists such as José Guadalupe Posada, one of many factors that made Mexico for him a truly vibrant country. When Heliodoro Valle asks if there is “a surrealist Mexico,” Breton provides an answer that has since become iconic: “Apart from everything else I have said, Mexico tends to be the surrealist place par excellence.” He goes on to say, “I find Mexico to be surrealist in its contours, in its flora, in the dynamism gained from its mixture of races, and even in its highest aspirations.”

Whatever complaints Breton might have had about his official reception there, and however cool his welcome might have been, on his return to France he carried with him a set of impressions that largely verified his original fantasies. These impressions, laid out in the essay “Souvenir du Mexique” (Memory of Mexico), fed the European imagination from 1938 forward. “Souvenir” was first published as a special section of the journal Minotaure in May 1939, with a cover illustrated by Diego Rivera and photographs by the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo. From it emerges the portrait of a complex country, one that Breton wished to herald as a model to be followed. The organizing metaphor here is the agave or century plant, a kind of botanical phoenix that pulls enough moisture from the desert to periodically send up a single flowering shoot. The essay’s first sentence links the agave to the ability of human life to renew itself perpetually in Mexico: “Red, virgin land impregnated with the most generous blood, a land where man’s life has no price, always ready like the omnipresent agave to burst into a single final bloom of desire and danger!” The rhetorically conventional term “virgin” ties Mexico in the European imagination to all those places not yet “deflowered” by civilization. But in the remainder of this essay Breton seems to underscore the opposite of virginity; that is, he presents modern Mexico as a place created by layer upon layer of ancient civilizations.

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The “land impregnated with blood” in fact alludes to the preColumbian practice of human sacrifice, a practice that tied death to life in the most directly symbolic ways.

Unlike Artaud, who had little use for the historical realities of Mexico, Breton calls to mind both the 1810 War of Independence and the 1910 Revolution as evidence that “there is still one country in the world where the wind of liberation has not abated.” He sees everywhere in the countryside not only the agave and the majestic organ cactus, but also the phantasm of “a gun-bearing man with fiery eyes . . . standing there in his magnificent rags: he may, at any time, rise unaided from the depths of unawareness and adversity.” Here Breton ascribes value to the illiterate soldier (mestizo or indio)—the very figure immortalized in Mariano Azuela’s Los de abajo (The Underdogs) and other novels of the revolution—as the type of person who embodies the surrealist ideal of freedom at all costs. The political, even military aspect of liberation is highlighted as Breton praises campesino generals like Emiliano Zapata, who formed part of the “admirable upthrust that led the most shamefully exploited section of the population” to victory. In this initial portion of the essay, Breton seems content to echo the postrevolutionary narrative that posited that Mexico had created for itself a young, socially conscious democracy built from below. He acknowledges the corruption of the state apparatus, but passes over this quickly to assert that “it is nevertheless true that Mexico is bursting with the hopes that have been successively placed on other countries—the USSR, Germany, China, Spain—and that, during the last historical period, have been dramatically thwarted.” Returning to his central metaphor of the agavephoenix, Breton insists that it is in the nature of countries like Mexico “repeatedly to come back to life and blossom on the ruins of this very civilization.” As we saw with Artaud, and as is often the case with the surrealists abroad, Mexico served Breton as a blank screen upon which to project certain preconceived ideals.

The essay’s middle portion leaves aside historical and political scenarios to return to the vision of Mexico as a land of living myth.

The message of the tombs now being excavated by archeologists, says Breton, “charges the air with electricity.” Rather than a savvy political entity with lessons to teach other countries, he now sees a land just emerging from a primitive state, still under the sway of its ancient deities.

Mexico, having barely awakened from its mythological past, keeps evolving under the protection of Xochipilli, the god of flowers and lyric poetry, and of Coatlicue, the goddess of the earth and of violent death, whose effigies, more impressive, more intense than any of the others, exchange winged words and raucous calls from one end of the national museum to the other, above the heads of the Indian peasants who are the more numerous and more reverent of its visitors. As Breton is a poet (and a surrealist one at that), it would be unjust to apply to his rhetoric the strictures that we might otherwise apply to an anthropological essay. This caveat aside, it is interesting to note that, while authenticating the ancient gods as active presences in modern-day Mexico, Breton still represents its mythic past as a

state of sleep or unconsciousness from which the country needs to emerge. He seems torn between valuing progress (Mexico “awakens”; it “keeps evolving”) and valuing a past steeped in myth. The terms of this debate become even more complicated when we consider that in this passage, the vision is set in a museum, the famous National Museum of Anthropology. At a far remove from Artaud as a participant-observer in the circle of peyote dancers, Breton here is watching Indians who are in turn observers of their own past—a past that has been recovered, ordered, and re-presented to them by archeologists and museum curators.

Breton cites Xochipilli and Coatlicue among all the possible preColumbian deities because they embody the forces of life and death.

This particular juxtaposition was one that fascinated virtually all European visitors to Mexico in this period: Breton calls it in fact “the principal lure of Mexico.” Within the surrealist ideal of the reconciliation of opposites, he says, it would be difficult to find more enticing examples than Mexico’s Day of the Dead ceremonies, José Guadalupe Posada’s etchings of cartoonish skeletons playing out scenes of everyday life, or Manuel Álvarez Bravo’s photographs of a factory where caskets for children are made. (Here, in a sober nod to reality, Breton cites the infant mortality rate for Mexico at 75 percent.)

Everywhere he looks, Breton sees the marvelous within scenes of ordinary life in Mexico. In perhaps the best example of this, he recalls his visit to a 19th-century Guadalajara mansion, when he entered a darkened living room in the early morning. “There, all alone, stood a magnificent creature, sixteen or seventeen years old, her hair disarranged in an ideal way. She had answered the door and, having laid down her broom, was smiling like the dawn of the world without showing the least sign of confusion.” The girl, he realizes, is naked beneath an old evening gown. He feels such a spell cast over him that he fails to inquire who she is, and is left wondering whether she is “the daughter or sister of one of the individuals who had haunted that place in the days of their splendor, or was she of the race of those who invaded it?” He concludes that he does not need to know, because her mere existence is enough—for “Such is beauty.”

We see the entire sweep of Breton’s “Memory of Mexico” encapsulated in the image of this woman: she is young and yet ancient, clothed and yet naked, smiling and yet tragic. We might also conclude that Breton represents himself with precision in this image. Literally enraptured by what he beholds, he chooses not to ask the questions that might turn this marvelous vision into a prosaic reality. “Convulsive beauty” does not bear up under too much knowledge.

conclusion The avant-garde interest in Mexico as a destination in the 1930s, piqued by the general search for “primitive” and “authentic” civilizations and, more concretely, by the journeys of Artaud and Breton, set the stage for an influx of Europeans during the first years of the Second World War. The reasons for this were not only cultural but also political: during the Cárdenas regime (1934–40), Mexico relaxed the visa requirements for émigrés from many European countries and

photo ©Colette Urbajtel/Archivo Manuel Álvarez Bravo, SC

Left to right: Andre Breton, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky, and Jacqueline Lambe in Mexico

granted automatic citizenship to immigrants from Spain, many of whom were fleeing the Civil War and the subsequent Franco regime.

Echoing Breton’s rhetoric, the art historian Martica Sawin summarizes the particular attractions Mexico held for the visual artists associated with surrealism: The underlying pre-Columbian culture, often thinly veiled by a European veneer, along with the volcanic landscape and exotic vegetation, make Mexico the Surrealist country par excellence. The tensions between its dual cultures, represented on the one hand by the unabashedly wealthy descendants of the colonists and on the other by the Neolithic lifestyle of the Indian villages, suited the Surrealist sense of paradox. Their anticlericalism appreciated the irony of the ornate Catholic cathedrals built of the stones of the same Aztec pyramids that had formed platforms for human sacrifices to Huitzilopochtli. And the relics of earlier Mesoamerican worship embedded in the décor of Catholic churches became Surrealist subversive objects.

As we have seen, the image of Mexico that emerges in the writings of Artaud and Breton often reveals the writer’s self as much as it does the exotic other he describes. In the case of Artaud, that self was anguished, unstable, fragmented, set on a path to self-destruction. In a more positive light, Breton’s projected self was on a quest to discover the marvelous, to unleash the powers of the unconscious, and thus to create new forms of being. Both selves are in their own way emblematic of the “old world” from which they came, and they arrived seeking a kind of affirmation in the “new world” of 20th-century Mexico. Yet like the war émigrés that followed them, Artaud and Breton encountered in Mexico not an easily assimilated, fetishized object, but a real nation of people caught up in their own very modern drama.

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holiday party Nothing like a last-minute change of venue to get more than 450 Bardians in one room. The location of the 2012 Holiday Party was switched; the event, sponsored by the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, took place at Michael Jordan’s The Steak House NYC in Grand Central Station. Located on the balcony of the famous architectural landmark, the restaurant overlooks Grand Central’s stunning Beaux Arts main concourse with views of the famous clock, high windows, and constellationembellished ceiling. Bardians assembled on the side terrace, which offered a panorama of the sparkling horoscope above and New York City’s commuters and tourists below. Leaning up on the marble balustrade or against the giant pillars, they jockeyed for position to scan the crowd for old friends and professors. Alumni/ae, families, and friends arrived in droves—mostly in black (of course), with a smattering dressed in red velvet, gold, and silver. A booth was in place where people could sign up to get their names inscribed on the wall in the new Alumni/ae Center: for $100 or more they could “Join the Wall” and leave their mark in perpetuity at Bard. The Bard Alumni/ae Center will be dedicated during Commencement and Reunion Weekend 2013. photos Karl Rabe

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On and Off Campus Bard Welcomes New Trustees Bard College’s Board of Trustees welcomes three new members. James Cox Chambers ’81 is a filmmaker (Field Hand Productions) and organic farmer (owner of Honey Dog Farm in Hillsdale, New York). Cox serves on the national board of directors of Communities in Schools, a nationwide network that works within public school systems to help students remain in school, graduate, and achieve in life.

Chambers served on Bard’s Board of Trustees for two three-year terms in the 1990s, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Bard Center during the 1980s.

He is the father of James C. Chambers Jr. ’14.

Paul S. Efron is advisory director, member of the Firmwide Capital Committee, and cochair of the Credit Capital Markets Committee at Goldman Sachs & Co. He joined the firm in 1984 and was named partner in 1998. He worked in the Investment Banking Division in New York and London; his previous responsibilities included cohead of the Leveraged Finance Business, head of New Product Development for Investment Banking, and head of European Capital Markets. Efron earned his B.A. cum laude in English from Pomona College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has previously served as chair of the Pomona College Board of Trustees. In 1980, he earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton Graduate Division of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named to the Director’s Honor List.

Maja Hoffmann is a contemporary art collector and supporter and producer of international art, film, publishing, and environmental projects. She is

Faculty Grants Support Arts and Social Studies Professor of Classical and Historical Studies Carolyn Dewald has received a Visiting Fellowship at All Souls College, University of Oxford, for fall (Michaelmas Term) 2013. Visiting Fellowships are intended to provide scholars with the time and space for study and research in Oxford and to participate in the academic life of the university. During her fellowship, Dewald will continue to work with Rosaria Munson, professor of classics and department chair at Swarthmore College, on Herodotus’ Histories: Book I (Cambridge University Press), a volume in the Cambridge Classics series. This definitive series, popularly known as the Green and Yellow Series, will comprise nine volumes upon completion. Dewald and Munson’s edition serves as an introduction to the whole series as well as to Herodotus as the first historian. Incorporating recent scholarship that has revolutionized Herodotean studies, Dewald and Munson will take advantage of Oxford’s rich library holdings and have the opportunity to collaborate with renowned scholars in the field to complete their work and produce new literary and historical commentary on Herodotus’ Book I. Jacqueline Goss, associate professor of film and electronic arts and celebrated filmmaker, has been named a 2012 United States Artists (USA) Rockefeller Fellow. Goss hopes the unrestricted grant will help finance a new film. “I’m very thankful for this fellowship,” says Goss. “With few funding sources for truly experimental and independent media, the USA Rockefeller award means I can make my next film. It’s an honor to be among the 50 artists recognized this year.” Working in film, video, animation, and programming, Goss describes her work as “animated documentaries” where “historical document meets the unabashedly subjective eye.” Her most recent film, The Observers (2011), documents the climatologists who work at the Mt. Washington Weather Observatory.

Kenneth Haig, assistant professor of political studies, has been awarded a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Japan-

From left to right: James Cox Chambers ’81, photo Scott Henrichsen; Paul S. Efron, photo Pomona College; Maja Hoffmann, photo Karl Rabe

founder of the LUMA Foundation, which launches cultural and art projects worldwide. Hoffmann is president of the Kunsthalle Zürich Foundation and vice president of the Council of the Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland. She is also a member of the Board of Governors of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, a board member of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, and a trustee of the Tate Museum in London. She commissioned Olafur Eliasson to create and install the parliament of reality, the site-specific sculpture adjacent to The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College that opened in spring 2009.

U.S. Friendship Commission in support of research in Japan and South Korea.

His yearlong project, “The Greying of Democratic East Asia: The Politics of Population Policies in Japan and South Korea,” explores the social, economic, and political challenges that East Asia’s richest democracies face. Haig’s research focuses on the different experiences in Japan and South Korea, where the contemporary standard of dual-income families is shifting away from the region’s traditional model of relying on women as family caregivers for both children and the elderly. He will study gender-role changes in East Asia’s longstanding social practices and workplace cultures, as well as the impact of government-sponsored family welfare policies where few existed before.

Richard Suchenski, assistant professor of film and electronic arts, received a grant from the French American Cultural Exchange Program in partnership with Cultural Services of the French Embassy for the renewal of the Tournées Festival, a festival of new French cinema. The 2013 festival features nine films, including five contemporary French films and four related classics from the 1940s and 1950s, screened in February and March. The Florence Gould Foundation, Grand Marnier Foundation, and Highbrow Entertainment are additional sponsors. Suchenski spoke about the festival as part of a panel, “European Cinema in American Colleges and Universities,” hosted by the European Union National Institutes for Cultures in New York.

Pavlina R. Tcherneva, research associate at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and assistant professor of economics at Bard, has won the 2013 Helen Potter Prize from the Association for Social Economics (ASE). The award, created and endowed by the ASE in 1975, is given each year to a promising scholar of social economics for authoring the best article in The Review of Social Economy. Tcherneva’s article, “Permanent On-the-Spot Job Creation—The Missing Keynes Plan for Full Employment and Economic Transformation,” published in the March 2012 issue, was selected for the prestigious prize. The award was presented at the ASE annual meeting in San Diego, California, in January.

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Levy Conference on Financial Reform and Poverty

Fisher Center Celebrates Its First Decade

The Levy Economic Institute’s 22nd Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, “Building a Financial Structure for a More Stable and Equitable Economy,” is scheduled to be held April 17–19 at the New York City headquarters of the Ford Foundation.

In 2007–08, global employment and output collapsed, and an estimated 84 million people fell into extreme poverty, during the worst financial and economic crisis since the Great Depression. In the aftermath, one thing is clear: it’s time to put global finance back in its proper place as a tool to achieve sustainable development. This involves substantial downsizing, careful reregulation, universal social protections—and an active, permanent employment-creation program.

This year’s Minsky conference, therefore, addresses both financial reform and poverty in the context of Hyman Minsky’s work on financial instability and his proposal for a public job guarantee. Panels will focus on the design of a new, more robust, and stable financial architecture; fiscal austerity and the sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery; central bank independence and financial reform; the implications of the eurozone debt crisis for the global economic system; improving governance of the social safety net; the institutional shape of the future financial system; strategies for promoting poverty eradication and an inclusive economy; sustainable development and market transformation; time poverty and the gender pay gap; and policy and regulatory challenges for emerging-market economies.

Invited speakers include Federal Reserve Board Governor Sarah Bloom Raskin; Mary John Miller, U.S. Treasury Under Secretary for Domestic Finance; Federal Reserve Bank Presidents James Bullard, Narayana Kocherlakota, and Eric S. Rosengren; Thomas M. Hoenig, vice chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; Branko Milanovic, lead economist, The World Bank; George S. Zavvos, legal adviser to the European Commission and former member of the European Parliament; Robert J. Barbera, chief economist, Mount Lucas Management LP; Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University; Nora Lustig, professor of Latin American economics, Tulane University, and nonresident fellow, Center for Global Development and the Inter-American Dialogue; José Antonio Ocampo, director, economic and political development concentration, and member, Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University; and Alan Blinder, professor of economics and public affairs, Princeton University.

In the spring of 2003, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Kronos Quartet, Ballet Hispanico, and other artists of signal magnitude performed in a new venue that seemed, to preeminent architectural critic Herbert Muschamp, “to vibrate like a well-tempered mind”: The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, a two-theater, multi-studio-and-classroom complex designed by Frank Gehry.

This April, hundreds of performances and thousands of accolades later, the Fisher Center—home of the renowned SummerScape and Bard Music Festival—celebrates its 10th anniversary with a monthlong series of events. True to the Center’s (and Bard’s) mandate, the festivities embrace participants from a wide range of disciplines, including faculty and students of the College’s Dance Program and Theater and Performance Program, resident companies, and individual artists taking part in Live Arts Bard, a new residency and commissioning program for the performing arts. A celebratory gala also is planned for July 20 in the Fisher Center’s Sosnoff Theater.

“As the Fisher Center enters its second decade, we’re excited to be building on the successes of its first 10 years,” says Gideon Lester, the College’s director of theater programs. “Our programming in theater and dance will continue to bring world-class artists to the Bard community and the Hudson Valley.

We’re also planning greater integration than ever between the center’s academic and professional programs.”

Among the Live Arts residents participating in the April festivities are musician/performance artist Amanda Palmer, who currently fronts Amanda Palmer and the Grand Theft Orchestra; author Neil Gaiman (Coraline; The Graveyard Book); Jack Ferver, whose QWAN Company will present a double bill of dramatic parodies of Notes from a Scandal and Black Swan; and Lileana BlainCruz, who is directing a student production of Euripides’ The Bacchae.

Also presenting concerts this spring are the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO), the Fisher Center’s orchestra in residence, under music director Leon Botstein, which has scheduled an all–Richard Wagner program; The Bard College Conservatory of Music, which will perform Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 2 with members of the ASO and Longy Conservatory Orchestra; So¯ Percussion, which will team with Bard Conservatory students in a program that includes new music for percussion groups and works by composers in the Bard community; and Bard’s Dance Program, which will present its annual dance concert.

Resolved: Debate Team Wins Tournament Bard’s parliamentary debate team of Lee Gensler ’14 and Ian Busher ’13 won the Adelphi Debate Tournament in Garden City, New York, over the weekend of February 16 and 17. Gensler was also named third overall speaker at the tournament and Busher sixth. Five members of the Bard Debate Union participated, with four debating and one judging.

Also, the Bard Debate Union hosted more than 70 middle and high school students from Red Hook, Rhinebeck, Kingston, and all three Bard High School Early Colleges who were on the Annandale campus on March 1 for the second annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament. The students prepared and participated in two debates on the topics of gun control and mandatory civil/national service. Bard Debate Union members have been organizing and training the debate teams; the event enabled the younger students to gain tournament experience in competing with one another and with other students from the Bard network. Bard students also assisted with logistics and judging at the tournament.

The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. photo ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

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Dual Passions for Economics and Math: Alina and Janeta Marinova ’06 Depending on one’s viewpoint, it would seem either incongruous or quite likely that twins would study the same subjects at the same college. But for Alina and Janeta Marinova ’06, a double major in economics and mathematics at Bard was simply something both of them wanted to pursue. “It never felt weird that we both liked mathematics and other technical subjects, or wondered whether it was expected that, as twins, we would study the same things; we just did what felt natural to us,” Alina says. The sisters came to Bard in 2002 from Bulgaria. Janeta was interested in mathematical economics, while Alina was eager to apply mathematical knowledge to the social sciences. Both have gone on to do just that, in remarkable fashion.

Bulgaria’s best high schools provide intensive curricula in a given subject while maintaining a strong workload in other subjects, including English. The Marinova sisters attended a specialized mathematics high school; while there, they heard about liberal arts colleges in the United States. The girls immersed themselves in American textbooks; they took SATs through Bulgaria’s Fulbright Program office. “We only looked at liberal arts colleges with strong science programs,” Alina recalls. “We read about the Distinguished Scientist Scholars Program at Bard, and we perceived it as a sign of a strong institution that values science.” Adds Janeta, “I came to Bard determined to pursue my mathematics interests while taking the opportunity to explore other disciplines, including economics.” Both received the Distinguished Scientist Scholarship, which provides up to full tuition for outstanding students in the sciences.

The sisters vividly recollect a formative experience at Bard: participation during their senior year in the College Fed Challenge, an academic competition designed by, and held at, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The competition involved “proposing Fed monetary policy and defending our choice,” says Alina, to which Janeta adds, “It was the first year that Bard participated in the competition and we came in second in our division. The time and effort we spent preparing for it provided ‘close-to-real-life’ applications of macroeconomic theory to monetary policy making and enhanced our analytical thinking and presentation skills.” Janeta used this background to offer an analysis of the world financial situation in a job interview for her current position (at international credit report and information services company Experian).

Professor of Mathematics Ethan Bloch was Senior Project adviser for both sisters’ mathematics projects as well as their teacher in Calculus II, Proofs and Fundamentals, and Point Set Topology (an upper-level theory class). Bloch found the Marinovas adept at math—they completed their math Senior Projects in their junior year and economics projects in their senior year. “Needless to say, I had them work on completely unrelated Senior Project topics,” says Bloch, himself a twin. “What is striking, however, is that, in spite of their similar paths at Bard, they were really quite different in both personality and appearance.”

After graduating, Janeta became a research assistant at Harvard Business School in the finance unit, then was a teaching assistant at the University of Virginia before returning to Bulgaria in 2009. Alina earned a master’s degree in economics from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in 2008.

Since earning her master’s degree, Alina has worked in economic consulting for antitrust litigation, first in Chicago, and now in Los Angeles; her clients for the Law and Economic Consulting Group in Chicago included the European Commission. Now, as a senior analyst for Econ One Research in Los Angeles, she is part of a team that performs economic analyses for antitrust cases. Her job involves identifying anticompetitive activity, and quantifying its effects on the marketplace, for government offices and Fortune 500 companies in software, telecommunications, online media, and financial services. “Most lawyers don’t have an economics background, so they hire us for these analyses,” she says. “The antitrust cases all call for a direct application of the principles of the

From left: Janeta Marinova, mathematics faculty Lauren Rose and Ethan Bloch, and Alina Marinova at Commencement 2006. photo Courtesy of Ethan Bloch

industrial organization class I took at Bard.” But, she adds, “I have an advantage having a math degree over those with just an economics degree. I can solve problems quickly and correctly.”

Her pretrial computations are important, Alina notes: “We determine whether there was an economic impact, and if so, how much. We actually help keep the market competitive in the long run.” While at Bard, her exposure to the work of the Levy Economics Institute and her economics Senior Project adviser Dimitri B. Papadimitriou—president of the Levy Institute and Jerome Levy Professor of Economics, as well as executive vice president of the College—was essential in helping her form “a bigger picture of the public policy perspective.”

She is also involved in antitrust analyses involving cartels. “Purely competitive markets are only a textbook example; we actually live in a monopolistic competitive economy,” Alina says. “Sanjaya [DeSilva, associate professor of economics] said that unleashed profit-driven markets eventually lead to agglomeration and monopoly; that’s why we have regulation.”

Given their different personalities, perhaps it’s not surprising that despite their identical majors, Janeta and Alina now conduct analyses of diametrically different sorts: while Alina scrutinizes past economic conduct, Janeta evaluates future activities. “Analytics predict behavior so that lenders can identify the quality of applicants and screen out those who don’t match risk criteria,” Janeta writes from Sofia. She calls her work “just the right junction between the two fields of economics and mathematics that I have always wanted to develop.”

Her duties include supervising a team of up to 10 analysts who deliver statistical and financial evaluations in the field of credit-risk management. “I have opportunities to acquire knowledge of new methodologies,” she says. “The work also has a multinational touch: our projects are for companies from Europe, the Middle East, India, and South Africa.”

Her Bard studies provided solid training for her career. “Having worked in both in academia and business on two continents, I find myself very well prepared,” Janeta says. “Bard’s Mathematics Program and Economics Program provide rigorous curricula that prepare their alumni/ae to be very competitive.

Moderation and Senior Project—the experiences with the highest return, so to speak—also provide Bard students with the ability to start looking at the big picture and take opportunities from all possible situations.”

The sisters communicate through Skype, and Alina and her Canadian husband visit Bulgaria every two years or so. Alina continues flamenco dancing, which she began at Bard with Aileen Passloff, L. May Hawver and Wallace Benjamin Flint Professor of Dance (now emerita). “We were always encouraged to be curious, to overachieve, and to value education,” Alina says of the twins’ parents, who are nuclear engineers. “We have certainly accomplished those things.”

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Emerging as a Playwright in Prison: Manuel Borras Oliveras ’08 Only 10 playwrights—out of nearly 600—have been accepted into the Public Theater’s prestigious 2013 Emerging Writers Group (EWG), a selective program created to nurture the work of new playwrights. Manuel Borras Oliveras ’08 is one of them. “Being accepted into the program was one of the most satisfying experiences, in terms of being acknowledged for my writing,” says Oliveras, who takes nothing for granted, having come to playwriting via an unconventional route: while incarcerated, as a student in the Bard Prison Initiative.

With EWG, Oliveras has attended writing retreats; participated in “speeddating sessions” with agents, directors, and actors; and met established playwrights such as Suzan-Lori Parks (Venus; Topdog/Underdog) and David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly). “It’s the environment you want to be in,” says Oliveras.

“It’s school for me. I tackle it like I tackled Bard College, soaking up as much knowledge and education as I can.”

Oliveras grew up in the Bronx. Conditions in his neighborhood were harsh.

He made it to 11th grade before he dropped out of school. At 17, Oliveras ended up in prison. “My life drastically turned at that point. I did not really know anything about my future, other than the fact that I was going to do a lot of time,” he says.

Awaiting sentencing in the city’s detention center, Oliveras’s head raced.

He realized that his only option was to make the most of his time—17 years.

Once in prison, he immediately enrolled in a GED class and threw himself into the schoolwork. “I felt like I could redeem myself a little bit, instead of only bringing tears to my mother’s and family’s eyes,” he says. “When I obtained my GED, it felt monumental. I knew then that I wanted to pursue education as far as possible.”

Oliveras began applying to college-in-prison programs. Unfortunately, the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act repealed federal Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. Within months, New York State’s thriving network of postsecondary correctional higher education programs collapsed. So Oliveras began a journey of voracious independent study through books in prison libraries. “I was reading philosophy, history; I read a lot about my culture. I read Puerto Rican writers: Miguel Piñero and Julia de Burgos. My mind started expanding. I read about Pedro Albizu Campos, Che Guevara, the Black Panthers, and other influential people who had been through struggles like me.” He built friendships with older prisoners who were motivated to make the most of their time—starting and running community and educational programs on the inside.

When he was moved to Sing Sing in Ossining, New York, Oliveras enrolled in a theology program for college credit run by Mercy College. After he completed the program, he had no further opportunities for higher education until being transferred to Woodbourne Correctional Facility. “At Woodbourne, I saw a flyer for the Bard College program [the Bard Prison Initiative]. I immediately signed up. I wrote an entrance essay. Close to 200 guys applied. I thought, ‘Thank God I went through the theology program, because it taught me how to structure an essay.’ My essay got me an interview with Max Kenner ’01 [BPI executive director] and Daniel Karpowitz [BPI director of policy and academics, and lecturer in law and the humanities]. Only 11 of us were chosen. I felt so honored,” says Oliveras. “Bard came in at a time when other programs were leaving.

I’m eternally grateful to Bard.”

Oliveras appreciates the quality of his Bard education, especially the focus on exploring ideas through writing. “It opened up my worldview,” he says. “It introduced me to writers like John Dewey, Plato, Shakespeare. I met professors who had written books, and I could sit down and talk to them. At those moments I felt totally free.” He was awarded an associate’s degree in 2006 and a bachelor’s degree in 2008.

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Manuel Borras Oliveras ’08

During this period, Oliveras found himself taking writing very seriously.

He cofounded Rehabilitation Through the Arts (RTA) at Woodbourne, a program that uses theater as a transformative tool, and applied what he was learning at Bard to his drama projects. “I kept reading plays and seeing what others had done,” he remembers. “I mimicked what they wrote, then I eventually started telling my own unique story.” He was the lead writer for Starting Over, a group-written play that was performed at Woodbourne and Sing Sing, and is being turned into a film as well as slated for production in New York City.

Through RTA, Oliveras met Arin Arbus, associate artistic director of Theater for a New Audience in New York City. She read his work and encouraged him to submit it to theaters on the outside. Arbus showed a writing sample—“Dear Friend,” which is a letter to a man being incarcerated for the first time—to Mark Plesent, producing artistic director of the Working Theater in New York City; based on that, Plesent commissioned Oliveras’s full-length play, Song to a Child Like Me. The play’s first public reading, attended by his sister and other family members, was held at the Working Theater while Oliveras was still on the inside.

In September 2010, Oliveras was released. Balancing a full-time job as a housing advocate for Common Ground (a nonprofit dedicated to ending homelessness in New York City), he still writes every day. “In prison, I led a monastic life fully immersed in writing and studies. Out here, I need to work, pay bills, cook,” he says. “I had to relearn all this. It takes time. But I separate at least two hours a day to write. Never neglect your writing, or the work suffers.”

EWG provides playwrights with a stipend, master classes with established playwrights, a biweekly writers’ group led by members of the Public’s Literary Department, opportunities to attend rehearsals and productions at the Public, tickets to shows at other theaters, artistic and professional support, and at least one public reading of their work. Oliveras marvels at meeting with playwrights he once read in A-block. He’s aiming for a full production of one of his plays, and hopes to be able to write full time. “It takes a lot of courage sometimes, using what I’ve learned,” he says emphatically. “There were moments that were really tough. The change wasn’t overnight. It took a lot of things. I had to grow up to be a man in prison.”

The Spotlight Series at The Public, which includes a public reading of Oliveras’s work in progress, is scheduled through April. See www.publictheater.org.

Music Makers Bitó Building Opening Celebration Arias and arpeggios have begun to pervade the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, which is to be dedicated on April 14. The building, designed by Deborah Berke Partners architects, extends the facilities of both The Bard College Conservatory of Music and the College’s Music Program, and is available for other campus programs and events. In addition to a 145-seat performance hall, the building houses teaching studios, classrooms, and a student lounge.

A busy schedule of public concerts is planned for the remainder of the spring semester.

Bitó, a Hungarian refugee who came to Bard along with 322 of his countrymen following their crushed rebellion against the Soviets in 1956, went on to become professor of ocular physiology at Columbia University and one of the developers of the antiglaucoma drug Xalatan. In addition to his gift for the new building, Bitó—along with his wife, Olivia Cariño—has been instrumental in helping the Conservatory recruit talented students from Hungary. He has also established a fund to bring musicians and faculty from Hungarian conservatories to Bard to offer master classes and concerts throughout the year. In recognition of this, the Conservatory annually designates six students from Hungary as Bitó Scholars.

In 2009, the Bitós gave $1.7 million in matching funds toward the establishment of an endowment for the Conservatory’s undergraduate program, in response to a challenge grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. At that time, Bitó wrote: “It is my pleasure to support the budding Conservatory program of Bard, remembering the support I received from the College that started my academic career.”

Left to right: Adrienn Kántor '14, Sabrina Tabby '14, Sunbin Kim '13, Péter Bársony, Rastislav Huba '16 in the world premiere of Two Mirrors by Kim at Kodály Hall, Debrecen, Hungary. photo David A. Nagy ’13

Conservatory Tours Central Europe The students and faculty of The Bard College Conservatory of Music have again ranged far afield from Annandale. As evidenced by last June’s engagements in some of the major concert venues of China and Taiwan and by a January 2013 tour of prestigious halls in Central Europe, the Conservatory is establishing itself on the global stage.

Accompanied by Conservatory Director Robert Martin and violist Péter Bársony, Visiting Hungarian Fellow, nine students and a postgraduate fellow made the January trip to Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, where they performed six chamber concerts in eight days. The touring program included Mozart’s Quintet for Piano and Winds, Schubert’s String Trio in B-flat major, Dohnányi’s Piano Sextet in C major, and a new piece for flute and strings

by Conservatory composition student Sunbin “Kevin” Kim ’13. The student musicians were bassoonist David A. Nagy ’13, who organized the trip, and Ferenc Farkas ’13, horn; Rastislav Huba ’16, cello; Adrienn Kántor ’14, flute; Carl Alex Meyer ’15, oboe; Szilvia Mikó, a Postgraduate Collaborative Piano Fellow; Renata Rakova ’12, clarinet; Noémi Sallai ’16, clarinet; and Sabrina Tabby ’14, violin.

The rector of the Liszt Academy introduced the concert at the new Budapest Music Center; the U.S. Embassy presented the program at the Pálffy Palace in Bratislava; and IES Abroad Vienna and the Konservatorium Wien University jointly offered the concert in Vienna. Along with the performances, the Bardians gave informational sessions on the Conservatory’s unique undergraduate dual-degree program. The Bartók Conservatory honored its visitors with a Bard Conservatory Day in Budapest.

Botstein to Conduct Los Angeles Philharmonic

Inside the piano room (top) and the performance hall of the László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building. photo Pete Mauney ’93, MFA ’00

Leon Botstein, president of Bard College and music director of the American Symphony Orchestra, is going to Hollywood—specifically, to the Hollywood Bowl, where, on August 27, he is scheduled to make his debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, conducting a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 (“Leningrad”). The concert, titled The Russian Resistance, will also feature Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19, with violin soloist Jennifer Koh. For ticket information, visit www.laphil.com.

Botstein continues to pursue a busy schedule as a guest conductor. In March, he led the Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra in a concert of works by Shostakovich and Mozart in Caracas, Venezuela; he is scheduled to return there in October. In April, he conducts Poland’s Pozna´n Philharmonic in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 15 and Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Violin Concerto. In June, he leads the Jerusalem Symphony, of which he is conductor laureate, in a program of works by Richard Strauss, Beethoven, and Brahms.

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MLK Day of Engagement

Top: Bard undergraduates at the Red Hook Public Library work on a fund-raising mailing.

Bottom: Bard students help 5th-graders conduct science experiments. photos Erika Nelson

Bardians Help Storm Victims The day after Hurricane Sandy struck the Northeast, Elyse Foladare ’12 headed to a community center in Woodbridge, New Jersey, to do hurricane education work and disperse advice and food. Foladare, who is the 2012–13 AmeriCorps New Jersey Watershed Ambassador volunteer, later followed up with a week at the Office of Volunteerism in Trenton. “We wanted to help out by answering questions and phone calls,” she says. “New Jersey was in a state of emergency and we tried to do everything we could.” Foladare also spent one day in December in Little Egg Harbor Township, in Ocean County, not far from Atlantic City, where she applied other skills—everything from ripping out ruined flooring to construction work. “Some people still had six feet of water in their homes,” she says.

Foladare was only one of many Bardians who sprang into action to help out in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Allison P. Shyer ’14 and Rixey Browning ’14 started Bard2NYC to connect Bard students with Sandy relief projects and to collect, transport, and distribute donations to New York City residents. Will Sanna ’13, director of Bard College Emergency Medical Services, organized one trip on the Saturday after the storm. Sanna, along with EMS members Brandon Chen ’15, Min Shinn ’14, Yasho Singh ’15, Julia Denning ’13, Mythili Sayanna ’15, and Mildred Kissai ’15, chartered a Bard bus and headed to lower Manhattan. “All EMS directors in Dutchess and nearby counties got an e-mail to deploy,” he says. “So we looked at the website of Good Old Lower East Side,

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The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’” More than 300 first-year students and 20 local agencies came together to answer that question on January 19 for the third annual Bard College Civic Engagement Day. It was organized by Citizen Science and the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) as part of the celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which was created by Congress as a national call to service.

At sites throughout Dutchess County and beyond, Bard students engaged with local youth in almost 30 different projects that included conducting science experiments at a residential home for children; creating science boxes for children in grades K–5; developing science games for children at the Mental Health Association of Columbia–Greene Counties; helping build and restore homes for Habitat for Humanity; cleaning up the Hudson River Maritime Museum, located on the historic Rondout Creek waterfront in Kingston; preparing meals for families in need; helping Girl Scouts earn their science and technology badges; and lending a hand at the Woodstock Animal Sanctuary.

Each year, the program has grown in outreach and scope. According to Jananie Ravi ’12, coordinator for the MLK Jr. Civic Engagement Day and CCE intern who organized the event, the biggest change over the years has been that Bard’s connections with local schools have grown stronger. “So much so that some of our outreach efforts have become part of their curriculum,” says Ravi.

“We’re definitely getting more ambitious, especially with the programs themselves. We are also trying to focus more on science programs and are developing new ones that require a lot of preplanning.”

This year, the program received a grant from the Corporation for National and Community Service, which helped cover costs and assisted with logistics.

One surprise was how many students wanted to make thank-you cards for local firefighters and other community organizations. “It became one of the most popular things to do,” Ravi says. As part of the Citizen Science program, Bard students also participated in science education activities in five local school districts—Germantown, Kingston, Pine Plains, Red Hook, and Rhinebeck—working with more than 1,700 students in grades K–8. which does housing advocacy work, and they pointed us toward several rallying points.” The group ended up in the Bowery Mission where, earlier in the day, celebrity chef Sandra Lee had set up a soup kitchen serving meals to those in need. Bard students helped load and unload buses and organized donations, earning themselves a mention in an article in the New York Daily News. The New York Times also covered the Bowery Mission’s efforts.

Yet another group—Shyer and Browning along with Elizabeth Von Klemperer ’14, Eden Ward ’14, Siira Rieschl ’15, Leela Khanna ’15, and Jananie Ravi ’12—helped clean and repair a damaged synagogue, West End Temple, on the Rockaway Peninsula in Queens. (The temple’s rabbi, Marjorie Slome, is the wife of Kenneth S. Stern ’75 and mother of Daniel Stern ’11.) “We also collected donations to take down to Bard High School Early College and various distribution centers in the city,” says Shyer. Lina Canney ’08 began the Hurricane Sandy Relief Kitchen in conjunction with Andrew Wandzilak, co-owner of Two Boots Brooklyn restaurant. Angela Louison ’08 joined the relief kitchen and became a volunteer coordinator. What began as an immediate, around-the-clock effort, cooking out of the back of Two Boots, soon transformed into an enterprise involving local businesses, community groups, and friends. Operating out of Old First Reformed Church in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, they have served 80,000 people affected by Hurricane Sandy in neighborhoods such as the Rockaways, Gerritsen Beach, Coney Island, Breezy Point, Gowanus, Red Hook, and Staten Island. Josephine Shokrian ’05 also volunteers with the Shore Soup Project, which brings more than 600 meals a day to people in the Rockaways.

Tracing Leprosy: Daniela Rose Anderson ’12 Speaking on her mobile phone from Uttar Pradesh, India, Daniela Rose Anderson ’12 emanates an uncommon sense of self-possession. Even from such a distance, with a patchy telephone connection and the hustle and bustle of street noise in the background, her courage, seriousness, and desire to help others comes through as crystal clear. “Leprosy in India is more significant and expensive than the government is willing to admit. There is a lot of concealment of the disease. I want to do something about all these problems, but everyone in the field says ‘don’t bother,’” says Anderson. “I want to contact Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization, in China and urge the WHO to do follow-up census reports; to change the eradication status. I know there is a lot of red tape, and nothing is black or white, but I want to have a big voice.”

Funded by the prestigious national Thomas J. Watson Fellowship, Anderson is in the midst of a yearlong odyssey, tracing the path of leprosy where it is most prevalent around the globe. As a Watson Fellow, Anderson receives a stipend of $25,000 for 12 months of travel and independent study. “I am looking at the disease, how it is treated and how local and cultural interpretations compare to the biomedical understanding. This is important because leprosy is a disease that requires a lot of self-care. You have to be very vigilant with yourself. I’m trying to see what kinds of tools are most efficient at helping patients help themselves. How are these different in different places around the world?”

Growing up in Silver Spring, Maryland, Anderson knew she wanted to become a doctor when she was 9 years old. It wasn’t until the year before she came to Bard, however, that fighting leprosy became a personal mission. She traveled to Nepal during high school and ended up volunteering at a clinic in what is now a leprosy eco-village founded by the Kevin Rohan Memorial Eco Foundation (krmef.org). At Bard, Anderson started a Trustee Leader Scholar

Daniela Rose Anderson ’12

met a lot who have had to drop out of school. Kids who are really smart, but are not allowed to be in school anymore. Girls won’t be able to marry. The boys worry about how they will work.” It’s tough, Anderson admits, but the up side is that children respond well to physical and occupational therapies—including those piano lessons. Anderson also organized a hospital shop where patients sell their handicrafts. “It’s a venue for empowerment—inspired by the ecovillage in Nepal,” she says.

In December, Anderson flew to Madagascar, where she is working with a physician mentor on the remote northeastern coast. “I’m interested in how leprosy is interpreted really far away from civilization,” says Anderson. “I want to

there is a lot of concealment of the disease. i want to do something about all these problems, but everyone in the field says “don’t bother.” project, the Bard Leprosy Relief Project, which educates about the disease, sends Bard students to work in the Nepalese eco-village, and organizes benefits for the cause. In summer 2010, Anderson biked across the United States to raise funds and awareness for leprosy. She also designed and organized a librarybuilding project in the eco-village.

Anderson’s first stop on her Watson journey was Switzerland, where she researched ideas on alternative pain management at two famous sites: the Lukas clinic and the Ita Wegman clinic. In August, she flew to India, where she was in residence for five months at the Leprosy Mission Hospital in Naini. For the first six weeks she was on rotation, working two-hour shifts in each department, including the lab, medical ward, and pre- and postsurgical physiotherapy.

Soon she became part of the hospital network with her own office for screening and diagnosing patients and writing up their reports for the doctors. “The hospital cares for 150 inpatients and gets up to 500 outpatients a day. So my volunteer work really helped,” Anderson says. “However, every Friday, I observed and assisted in the surgery—took skin grafts, sutured skin, cut bones and tendons. The surgeon believed it would be a great learning experience.”

A biology major with a focus in biomedical studies, Anderson won several academic honors including the George I. Alden Scholarship, Alumni/ae Scholarship, and William J. Lockwood Prize at Bard. She also found time to keep up with her other passion—music—and studied piano with artist in residence Blair McMillen. In India, when she was not working at the hospital, she shared her love of music through piano lessons she gave to children suffering from leprosy. “Leprosy is a disease that affects a lot of kids,” Anderson explains. “I’ve

see what kind of care exists in very remote places. My project aims to research different kinds of leprosy care.” Unable to enter the country without an outgoing air ticket, Anderson has booked her next destination: Uganda. After that, Ethiopia, Thailand, or Brazil. “I’m keeping it free,” says Anderson, who is solely responsible for creating her itinerary and making contacts in her countries of choice. “Part of the wonderful thing about the Watson is the ultimate freedom it affords.”

Despite her focus on helping others, Anderson admits to being homesick at times. “I’ve been horrible about writing letters home,” she confesses. She does, however, keep detailed records of her Watson project. “There are so many different places I’m documenting my experiences,” she reports. “My camera, visual records, a personal journal, notes for the Watson quarterly and final reports, a blog. And for every patient I see, I write a note, so I have pages and pages of medical notes.”

Anderson is applying to medical schools from abroad this spring. The Mayo Medical School, part of the Mayo Clinic, appeals most to her because she can envision continuing her work with leprosy around the world as part of her studies there. Wherever she goes, Anderson will fight for a “big voice” on behalf of those who are suffering. As she wrote in a November blog entry from India: “I am young, resourceful, stubborn, and I am here.”

To follow Daniela Rose Anderson’s journey, visit her blog: http://tracingleprosywordpress.com/.

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Science Fiction Writer Wins Bard Fiction Prize Brian Conn has won the annual Bard Fiction Prize for 2013 for his debut novel, The Fixed Stars (Fiction Collective 2, 2010). Centered on the “John’s Day” celebration of a small community, Conn’s experimental science fiction novel is set in a world that has retreated from urbanism into the pastoral, where citizens afflicted by a mysterious plague are routinely quarantined and reintegrated into society in rituals marked by a haunting brutality.

The Bard Fiction Prize committee writes: “What won the respect of the Bard Fiction Prize judges was the remarkable way the weird, perplexing bleakness of the imagined society is firmly held in place by a narrative style at once bewildered and lucid—it has the air of a kind of deadpan tragedy, of the sort Kafka scared us with, and made us yearn for more. The Bard Fiction Prize has been anxious to celebrate innovation in the novel—and in Conn’s The Fixed Stars we found a perfect match of inventive fable with disquietingly radical storytelling.”

Conn’s work has appeared both in genre magazines and literary magazines, and The Fixed Stars appeared on Amazon.com’s list of the 10 best science fiction and fantasy books of 2010. He is a graduate of Yale University, with an M.F.A. from Brown University, where he began writing The Fixed Stars and cofounded Birkensnake, a fiction annual.

He lives in California and is in residence at Bard for spring 2013.

Since 2001, the Bard Fiction Prize has been awarded annually to a promising writer who is an American citizen aged 39 years or younger at the time of application.

Whitney Curator Receives CCS Award

Bard Graduate Center Names Iris Awardees

Elisabeth Sussman, curator and Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, was honored with the Center for Curatorial Studies 2013 Audrey Irmas Award for Curatorial Excellence. The award, which comes with a prize of $25,000, is in recognition of Sussman’s dynamic curatorial vision and her dedication to the field. The 2013 award, presented at the CCS Bard Gala Celebration in April, in New York City, was designed by artist Lawrence Weiner, and is based on his 2006 commission Bard Enter, created for the entrance to the Hessel Museum of Art at CCS Bard.

Each year, CCS celebrates the achievements of a leading curator whose lasting contributions have shaped the way exhibition making is conceived of today. Among Sussman’s recent projects was the exhibition Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, which ran at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and received the 2011 International Association of Art Critics (AICA) award for best monographic show in New York.

Another Sussman exhibition, Gordon MattaClark: “You Are the Measure” earned the same award in 2007. Sussman also coorganized a full retrospective on the work of Eva Hesse at the San Francisco Museum of Elisabeth Sussman Modern Art (SFMoMA) (2002), which photo David Armstrong received the AICA’s first prize for the best monographic exhibition outside of New York in 2001 and 2002. Also for SFMoMA, Sussman organized, with Sandra S. Phillips ’67, SFMoMA senior curator of photography, Diane Arbus: Revelation, a retrospective of the work of Diane Arbus.

At the Whitney, Sussman curated the museum’s 1993 biennial exhibition, and cocurated the 2012 Whitney Biennial, alongside freelance curator Jay Sanders. Other exhibitions she has organized at the Whitney include Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Drawing (2005); Keith Haring (1997); and Nan Goldin: I’ll Be Your Mirror (1996), with David Armstrong.

Sussman was previously interim director and deputy director of programs at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, and was a fellow of the Rockefeller Foundation and the Getty Research Institute. She has also taught at MIT and Tufts University.

Four experts in the arts are recipients of the 17th annual Bard Graduate Center (BGC) Iris Foundation Awards for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts. Richard Jenrette is the patron awardee and Morrison H. Heckscher of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is the lifetime scholar. Midcareer scholar is Glenn Adamson, head of research at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London. The dealer is Adrian Sassoon, also based in London. The awards ceremony is to be held on April 17 at the Colony Club in New York City.

Jenrette, a founder of the Wall Street investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, is actively involved in restoring historic homes, including the George Baker House in New York City; Edgewater on the Hudson, Barrytown, New York; Ayr Mount in North Carolina; and the Millford Plantation in South Carolina. He served on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, as trustee for National Trust for Historic Preservation, and as director of New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Heckscher is the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing and has served for more than 30 years in key curatorial positions in the American Wing. Adamson is coeditor of the Journal of Modern Craft and author of Thinking Through Craft and an anthology, The Craft Reader, among other publications. Sassoon has spent 20 years in the art world working for major museums and now is a leading independent dealer in contemporary ceramics, glass, and silver.

The purpose of the Iris Foundation is to advance education in the decorative arts, design history, and material culture and to promote the understanding and appreciation of all cultures. The foundation is named for Iris Weber, the mother of Susan Weber, BGC founder and director. The Iris Foundation Awards were created in 1997 to recognize scholars, patrons, and professionals who have made outstanding contributions to the study and appreciation of the decorative arts as expressions of taste, ideology, and cultural aspirations.

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Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art In other BGC news, on view from April 4 through August 11 is Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Hoentschel was a significant figure in the history of collecting; the exhibition consists of more than 200 objects of primarily medieval art and French 18thcentury paneling, furniture, metalwork, textiles, paintings, and sculpture, as well as late 19th-century art pottery. Most of the artifacts have rarely been viewed since the 1950s.

Piecing Art Together: Stephen Sollins ’90 In his solo show, Piecework, at Smack Mellon Gallery in Brooklyn, Stephen Sollins ’90 exhibited five large works on paper—the size of full- and queensized bed quilts—made from used mailing envelopes. Each work was meticulously constructed with hidden seams, creating three-dimensional structures beneath the surface, much like those in traditional fabric quilts. An unusual marriage of anachronism and modernism, the patterned design of quilts and detailed envelope interiors embodied, for Sollins, geometric abstractions that predate Geometric Abstraction. “I am interested in using the geometry, grids, and systematic approaches of high modern, minimal, and conceptual art, in part to show how they do and do not relate to more popular and sentimental forms.”

Source material is key to Sollins’s art. In Piecework, envelopes and quilts also intersect as devices of cover, referencing his longstanding interest in domesticity and anonymity. Sollins has been working for more than a decade with found materials that evoke the domestic sphere—Scotch tape, worn household linens, handkerchiefs, television schedules, newspapers, daily mail. “Sometimes it takes years to figure out how a source material can be used to express the ideas I’m thinking about,” he says. Those ideas—sentimentality versus silence and noncommunication, the urge to be known versus the reluctance to divulge too much, the split between private and public—synthesize Sollins’s work, which traverses a wide range of media. “About every two years, what my work looks like changes.

The subject matter holds it all together. I find myself circling around the same issues and coming at those ideas from different directions.”

When Sollins entered Bard he thought of himself as a poet and took classes with Robert Kelly, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature. However, he soon moderated into photography, studying with Stephen Shore, Susan Weber Professor in the Arts, and Professor of Photography Larry Fink. He went on to study with Joel Sternfeld as a graduate student at the School of Visual Arts in New York. At the time, he was interested in making work that dealt with the subject of loss, and struggled with conveying his ideas through the camera.

Sollins experimented with abstraction, taking pictures of “mute” surfaces, such as a blank wall, but that did not satisfy him. “It was a failing of mind more than a failing of medium,” he says. Sternfeld gave him license and encouragement to experiment with any media he could find that would express his ideas. Sollins put down his camera and has yet to pick it back up. He began working with Scotch tape as a transfer medium, pulling off ink from daily newspapers and found photographs to create drawings. He produced 30 Drawings and Last Portraits, which were chronological sequences of the portraits printed in the obituary section of the New York Times, using this process.

Stephen Sollins ’90. photo Justine Cooper

Sollins’s art has been supported by fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Smack Mellon, and is in collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Brooklyn Museum, and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, among others. Unrestricted by medium, he is continually exploring new ways of working. Static is a series of works on paper made from redacting sequences of newspaper television schedules with correction fluid or black ink, leaving a systematic organization of information over time. “I was interested in process time and how, in a contemporary art process, repetitive mark making, when pursued over time, results in something greater than its parts.” The MoMA owns Static #4 from this series.

Another series, Untitled (Threadsuns), is an installation of 105 vintage white handkerchiefs embroidered with the shape of the uneven right-hand edge of each poem from Paul Celan’s Threadsuns—making visible the rhythms of silence, the intakes of breath between one utterance and another.

Piecework was the culmination of four years’ worth of work and exploration. “Discovering the history of American quilt making hit me like a ton of bricks. It’s a staggering quantity and quality of abstract work,” says Sollins, who immerses himself completely in whatever medium he is at work in. “I’m thrilled to be coming to end of an odyssey and excited to see what is next. I have a studio with white walls, which is very thrilling.”

Adolfas Mekas Lionized in Lithuania

Adolfas Mekas (left) and Jonas Mekas (right), 1950s. photo Courtesy of Pola Chapelle

The late Adolfas Mekas, professor emeritus of film and the first director of Bard’s MFA program, was honored by his native Lithuania with a tribute and retrospective that spanned several months. The fete began at the end of November in Vilnius, the nation’s capital, with screenings and talks at the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center (named for Adolfas’s brother and fellow filmmaker), Contemporary Art Centre, and Vilnius Academy of Arts, where John Pruitt, associate professor of film and electronic arts at Bard, lectured on the honoree’s comic iconoclasm. Films by Mekas’s former students—including Ozan Adam ’99, Chris Hume ’87, Anne Meredith ’86, Jan Peterson ’78, and Jeff Scher ’76— were shown, as was Going Home, a collaboration between Adolfas and his wife, Pola Chapelle, who made the trip with their son, Sean Mekas ’94. “It’s been hectic, but gratifying and worth every bit of the time I spent gathering material for them,” wrote Chapelle after the celebrations in Vilnius. “Adolfas has to be smiling, maybe even wearing his rabbit suit.” The tribute traveled to Klaipéda and thence to Kaunas, where its attendant exhibitions continued into the spring.

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The “Aging Maven”: Harvey L. Sterns ’65 Currently in his 42nd year of teaching at the University of Akron, psychology professor Harvey L. Sterns ’65 specializes in the field of aging and work. “When I first got here I was 29 years old and everyone wanted to know what I knew about aging,” Sterns jokes. “I just turned 70, so no one doubts me now.” Sterns began teaching at the University of Akron in Ohio in 1971. In 1976, the same year he was granted tenure, he founded the university’s Institute for Life-Span Development and Gerontology.

Today, it is a thriving institute with 60 faculty members representing 21 departments that offer 41 courses in gerontology.

Sterns has devoted his entire career Harvey L. Sterns ’65 to gerontological education. He is an photo Courtesy of University of Akron advocate for new conceptions of retirement and continuing work through midlife and beyond. “I’ve spent 40 years in a field that still feels brand new,” says Stern. “The baby boomer generation is now turning 65, which has brought the issues of aging to worldwide awareness. We need to train more professionals to work with the elderly and the ‘well elderly.’”

Sterns is interested in the question of how people can use this advanced stage of life in creative and productive ways. “A lot of people are concerned about what is going to happen with the baby boomers. What are their retirement patterns? How will people use their abilities to continue to work?”

For people who stay mentally competent, remaining in the workforce is often desirable. His recent book, Working Longer: New Strategies for Managing, Training, and Retaining Older Employees, helps employers find strategies for work-

ing with talented older people. “About 22 percent of older people choose to work longer but continuing to find meaningful work can be a frustrating endeavor,” says Stern. “There are reasons that we have the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (1967). I’m still working full-time. But ageism is just as rampant in academia as in any other field.” He points out that age is not a good predictor of who can perform a job successfully. “It is a time of gains and losses,” he says. “One experiences positives and negatives at the same time. Studies have linked a surge in creativity with aging. This life stage can be very involving and creative. Goethe wrote Faust when he was past 60.”

Bard President Leon Botstein refers to Sterns, one of the foremost experts in his field, as the “aging maven.” In 2009, Sterns was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award—now named the Harvey L. Sterns Lifetime Achievement Award in Aging—by the Area Agency on Aging, a private nonprofit organization.

Among numerous other honors, he has served on the Committee on Scientific Evidence Relevant to Mandatory Age Retirement for Airline Pilots of the National Academy of Sciences’ National Institute of Medicine, where he helped to change the retirement age from 60 to 65. “The application of biological and psychological knowledge of aging adults and their ability to perform in certain work worlds reflects a growing knowledge in the field of aging,” asserts Stern.

At Bard, Sterns was a double major in biology and psychology with a minor in religion. He went on to to complete his Ph.D. in life-span developmental psychology at West Virginia University. “Coming from a family of three generations of department store owners, I don’t think I would have had this career path if I hadn’t had such a direct and personal relationship with my undergraduate professors,” reflects Sterns. “I’ve taught classes bigger than all of Bard was back then. Most of my undergraduate experience was more like a graduate experience in the quality of conversation and interactions.” Sterns has returned to Bard for reunions over the years. His graduating class, which included actor Blythe Danner, is active and close-knit. “Reunions are very interesting in observing how people relate to each other in different stages of life—we are able to enjoy each other’s company because it is too late to impress.”

Harvard Scholar Delivers Hecht Lectures

Public Radio Station Links to Bard

The arts should be studied as a single discipline, according to scholar Daniel Albright, Ernest Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University.

Albright, who presented the fourth biennial Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities at Bard last fall, teaches in both the music and English departments at Harvard. Albright’s work “is all about integrating humanities, so in many ways, he’s the perfect person” to offer the talks, says Richard Aldous, Bard’s Eugene Meyer Professor of British History and Literature and host of the lecture series,

WHDD, the nation’s smallest NPR station, bought the College’s FM radio license last year and has expressed a strong interest in having the College contribute programs. Tri-State Public Communications, Inc., the owner of WHDD, will also offer internship opportunities for students interested in making radio, says Danielle Riou, associate director of the Human Rights Project at Bard. Riou and Max Kenner ’01, executive director of the Bard Prison Initiative and vice president for institutional initiatives, obtained the license for a Bard FM radio station

to be published by Yale University Press.

“Are there many different arts or is there one art?” asked Albright, who is particularly interested in the ways in which artistic media such as poetry, music, and painting interact with one another. During one of his talks at Bard, he drew parallels—in less than five minutes—between Heidegger, van Gogh, Socrates, Foucault, Nietzsche, and the unknown author of Genesis, a list that he skillfully wove together. Albright discovered during his week’s stay that Bard was the ideal place for his lecture series. “I’ve found many people interested in all the same questions as I am. Much more so, I think, than at Harvard,” he said.

Albright’s lectures, Comparative Arts: Theory and Practice, included: “The Purposes of Literature: Remembering, Forgetting, Pounding into Shape,” “Music’s Origin, Music’s End,” and “Painting as Music: The Art of Counterpoint,” all in Weis Cinema. Albright delivered an additional lecture, “White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts,” at The Morgan Library and Museum in New York City. The series honors preeminent poet and former Bard faculty member Anthony Hecht ’44.

in 2010. (The College’s student radio station, WXBC, is a separate entity and can be heard online at wxbc.bard.edu by those who are off campus.)

Also known as Robin Hood Radio, WHDD is a small station out of Sharon, Connecticut, that broadcasts its own and public radio programming. “The most immediate and general benefit to our community is having another locally minded public radio station to listen to,” says Riou. “As we develop the plan for how specific Bard events will fit into WHDD’s programming strategy, the ways in which interested Bard faculty, staff, and students can participate will become clearer. We’re now addressing the criteria for selecting the events.”

WHDD more than tripled its size by rebroadcasting from a transmitter on the Annandale campus; the new signal, called WLHV (for lower Hudson Valley), is at 88.1 FM and can be heard by up to 150,000 people. Its programming includes NPR’s Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Mountain Stage; BBC World News; Public Radio International’s This American Life; and shows with personalities from Bard’s area, like Mahaiwe Opera Lecture by Scott Eyerly, Radio Unleashed with DJ Dave Leonard, Border Line with Dutchess County bookstore owner Dick Hermans, and A Way to Garden with Columbia County’s Margaret Roach.

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BPI Celebrates Largest-Ever Commencement Sixty students—56 men and four women—graduated from the Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) on January 26, making it the largest commencement in BPI’s 10-year history and bringing the total number of degrees awarded to 250. The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III, pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem and president of the State University of New York (SUNY) College at Old Westbury, was commencement speaker. Butts is considered one of New York’s most tirelessly engaged community, educational, and spiritual leaders. For a generation, he has been at the center of many of the city’s most important social struggles, including a successful boycott campaign to rid inner-city neighborhoods of egregiously racist and misogynist billboard advertising.

Forty-seven students earned associate in arts degrees and 13 were awarded bachelor of arts degrees. The men received their degrees in a ceremony at Eastern New York Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Napanoch, Ulster County. The four women, from the Bayview Correctional Facility in the Chelsea section of New York City, were originally slated to receive their degrees in a ceremony in December 2012. But after Hurricane Sandy caused extensive damage to Bayview, causing evacuation of the prison population, the women were given their degrees in absentia at Napanoch. Degrees

The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III. photo Karl Rabe

included B.A.s in social studies, literature and the humanities, and mathematics, while Senior Project topics ranged from chaos theory (mathematics) to antebellum ideas of democracy (literature).

Longy of Bard in LA and London The master of arts in teaching (MAT) degree in music—a partnership between Bard College, Longy School of Music of Bard College, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic—launched in January with an inaugural group of five students. A further 15 will be added in the summer quarter. “The curriculum is designed to build context and experience in socially based teaching, with an emphasis on the growing El Sistema movement in this country,” says Elsje Kibler-Vermaas, associate director of teacher education at Longy in Los Angeles, referring to the Venezuelan-based philosophy of empowering students and transforming communities through music. “Students improvise, compose, and arrange music, which prepares them to design and implement curricula that place musical creation at the center of learning.” The intensive 12-month MAT curriculum takes place at the Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA) campus (www.take-a-stand.org) and integrates advanced studies in musical performance and education with the daily demands of the classroom. Seven visiting faculty members teach in the program, to be joined by an additional five who are LA Philharmonic musicians.

MAT students also experience hands-on learning with Youth Orchestra Los Angeles (YOLA) and teach in local public schools.

Longy was also involved in “Futureplay: Music Systems in the 21st Century,” an international three-day Take a Stand symposium that explored the role of music in society and its potential for social change. Take a Stand is an El Sistema–influenced education initiative between the LA Philharmonic, Longy, and Bard that supports social change through music. It took place at London’s Barbican Centre in March and was presented by the LA Philharmonic.

It was the orchestra’s first international residency and brought together some of the world’s top musicians, artists, and educators. The introductory talk was by composer John Adams; director Peter Sellars gave the keynote address; and panel discussions were chaired by Sir Nicholas Kenyon, managing director of the Barbican Centre, and Deborah Borda, president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association. The three days culminated in an open rehearsal—conducted by El Sistema’s most notable success story and LA Philharmonic music director Gustavo Dudamel—which involved young musicians and teachers from YOLA and from some new music hubs in East London. Take a Stand also helped organize many of the workshops during the symposium.

Emily H. Fisher. photo BCSR/Paige Orloff

Simon’s Rock Honors Emily Fisher Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College hosted “Rock the Community,” a day of community service in honor of Emily H. Fisher, chairman of the Board of Overseers for Simon’s Rock and vice chair of the Bard College Board of Trustees. A celebratory kick-off was held on a fall Friday in the Kellogg Music Center to thank Fisher for her leadership and dedication to Bard. Peter Laipson, Simon’s Rock provost and a vice president of Bard; Bernard F. Rodgers Jr., Emily H. Fisher Chair in Literature at Simon’s Rock; and junior Laura Zhu spoke at the event.

During “Rock the Community,” more than 200 students, faculty, and staff gave approximately 530 hours of service to 17 different community projects.

Volunteers spanned out to sites from Sheffield to Lenox, Massachusetts.

Projects included removing invasive plants at The Nature Conservancy or Project Native; roadside cleanup with Adopt-a-Highway; mulching and gardening at the Berkshire Botanical Garden; erosion control at the Housatonic River Walk; cleaning the drop-in center of the Railroad Street Youth Project, where young people find peer and adult support; trail maintenance and construction on the Appalachian Trail; work on the Simon’s Rock community garden; and writing letters to U.S. troops, thanking them for their service to the country.

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Arendt Conference Explores Judgment Modern-day mass murder, genocide, and atrocity are the focus of the Hannah Arendt Center conference “Judgment in Extremis,” to be held in Berlin on May 16–17, inspired by the 50th anniversary of the publication of Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Keynote speaker is Christoph Menke, professor of practical philosophy at Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main.

Sponsored by ECLA of Bard: A Liberal Arts University in Berlin and the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, the gathering of artists, business people, academics, and intellectuals will debate such questions as, “How can we respond to great wrongs with judgments that help give meaning to our world?” “Can we justly respond to truly evil and enormous crimes through law?” and “What is judgment, especially in the face of inhuman wrongs?”

According to Roger Berkowitz, academic director of the Arendt Center and associate professor of political studies and human rights at Bard, “Arendt famously addresses the question of how to respond to great wrongs in her report. In Eichmann in Jerusalem, Arendt never doubts the glacial reality of Eichmann’s wrongs; she does insist, however, that legal judgment was an inarticulate response to extraordinary wrongs.” Berkowitz points out that Arendt’s book caused controversy for all the wrong reasons. “The truly radical claim in her book is that great crimes require extraordinary judgments—judgments that

“Bard Works” Tackles Life after College Thirty-five juniors and seniors imagined their dream careers—and how to get there—during Bard Works, a weeklong, mentor-based professional development program aimed at preparing students for life after Bard. Students met with mentors in a variety of fields including the arts, law, publishing, teaching, and business in a series of sessions, held both on the Annandale campus and in New York City, where the key was individualized attention. More than 29 alumni/ae spoke on panels or ran workshops along with staff and friends of Bard.

Sponsored by the Center for Civic Engagement, Career Development Office, Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, and the Office of Student Affairs, participants heard June Stoddard, president and consultant, JS Executive Search, and parent of Chloe and Jessica Chappe ’16, discuss “How to Interview” in a workshop with her sister Eloise Stoddard-Levitt, a corporate education consultant. Cinta Conti-Cook ’03, associate attorney, civil rights and criminal defense, Stoll, Glickman & Bellina LLP, and other panelists discussed “Legal Careers and What to Do with a Law Degree.” Conti-Cook described her journey to become a prisoners’ civil rights attorney, emphasizing that she was inspired by her work as a student with the Bard Prison Initiative.

Taking part in a seminar about “Artists and Entrepreneurs” were Crichton Atkinson ’05, video artist and codirector, Nothing Space; Joel Clark ’05, screenwriter and musician; Richard Frumess, founder and owner, R&F Paints; Galen Joseph-Hunter ’96, executive director, Free103point9 / WGXC 90.7 FM; Kale Kaposhilin ’99, managing director and producer, Evolving Media Network; and Caitlin Kaposhilin ’03, former content specialist and music reviewer, Pump Audio 6. All the panelists stressed the role Bard played in forming their careers, and that the groups they had been part of at Bard were like none other since.

They encouraged students to “make things happen” with their friends and faculty while at Bard and take advantage of all available opportunities. Each speaker had examples of group creativity from her or his time at Bard, such as Olde English, a comedy troupe Clark helped start, or Kale Kaposhilin’s multimedia arts cooperative—both of which continued after graduation.

Dylan Byers ’09, blogger, Politico, and Gaia Filicori ’09, senior public relations manager, Condé Nast Traveler, were among those who helmed a panel on “Journalism, Writing, and Publications.” At a session on business and finance, three alums—Anna Neverova ’07, associate director, UBS AG, corporate lend-

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cannot address the legality or illegality of the wrongs,” he says. “If law seeks to judge Eichmann’s compliance with rules or to assess his moral character— whether he had a guilty mind—Arendt insists that extreme cases demand, rather, a judgment that asks: Ought we to reconcile ourselves to the world as it is with Eichmann in it? She answers that we cannot justly live in a world in which someone like Eichmann continues to live.”

In February, the Arendt Center sponsored “Why Fixing Wall Street and the Economy Is Critical to the World,” with journalist Matt Taibbi ’92 and Sandy Lewis—the ex–Wall Street broker who now runs Lewis Family Farm, the only USDA–certified grass-fed organic farm in the nation. The Arendt Center’s next conference, “The Educated Citizen: Can Education Save Politics?” is scheduled for October 3–4. The conference will examine how the most literate society of all time has produced politically uneducated citizens, and asks whether we can educate our youth to be politically engaged.

The center’s mission is to think through contemporary ethical and political questions in the spirit of Hannah Arendt. Past speakers have included the founder of Médicins Sans Frontières, Bernard Kouchner; maverick inventor Ray Kurzweil; the irreverent journalist Christopher Hitchens; activist and presidential candidate Ralph Nader; businessman Hunter Lewis; author Zadie Smith; and essayist Lewis Lapham. For more information about the conference and the Arendt Center, go to http://bard.edu/hannaharendtcenter. ing; Leslie Chen ’09, associate, PwC Consulting, financial services; and Lucas Pipes ’08, vice president/senior analyst, Brean Murray, Carret & Co.—advised students to be prepared to prove everything that’s on their résumés, research the employers, dress appropriately, and be careful of what they say on social media—because it will be scrutinized. Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95, design and publishing consultant and president, Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, addressed “Planning a Career After the First Job”; while the cofounders of Greene County’s Greene Bee Greenhouse, Briana Davis ’03 and Eli JosephHunter ’00, were panelists at a session covering green business. “Government and NGOs” took center stage in a career panel featuring Pia Carusone ’03, executive director of Americans for Responsible Solutions; Alysha Glenn ’09, development officer, Human Rights Watch; and Anna Pycior ’09, communications associate, Demos: Ideas and Action; while Dan Wilbur ’09, comedian, writer, and performer, described in “Social Networking and Promoting Your Brand” how he stretched his comfort zone while he was a student by performing his stand-up material at open mic events where he knew no one.

In “Entrepreneurship and Engagement,” Peter DeBartolo ’07, director of administration for the Levermore Global Scholars Program, Adelphi University, asked, “How can we do good in the world, but still remain financially stable?”

DeBartolo said that while the 20th century was dominated by technical problems, the 21st is defined by “adaptive problems” that don’t have clear-cut solutions and require different skills. The top ten jobs most in demand in 2010 were entirely different from those that existed in 2004. “We need to prepare people to create their own solutions, distinguish themselves in the workplace, and make a difference,” he said.

“Bard Works drew upon the breadth and depth of Bard’s vast network, and highlighted for students just how much the Bard community at large cares about their success,” said Erin Cannan, associate director for the Center for Civic Engagement and dean of student affairs. “One consequence of this first Bard Works program was the tremendous outpouring of support and good will from all corners of that network. From Bard parent mentors, who were assigned to guide all student participants, to panels filled with alumni/ae, Bard Works provided a foundation for students to take their education to the next level—finding a rewarding and flourishing career. Students could not stop talking about how much the connections they made alleviated their job search anxiety, knowing that so many people were interested in their achievement.”

Tech Meet-Up Joins Alumni/ae Day

Top: Kate Hartman ’03. Bottom, from left: Eric Hoffman ’94, Ross Shain ’91, and Bradford Reed ’93. photos Karl Rabe

The Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, the College’s Computer Science Program, and Career Development Office (CDO) collaborated on a panel about new technology during the annual Alumni/ae Day. The Tech Meet-Up panel consisted of seven young alumni/ae who are in very different areas of work but who all use technology to achieve their artistic and professional goals.

The panel included Kate Hartman ’03, an artist, technologist, and educator with a B.A. in film and electronic arts. Her work, in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, spans the fields of physical computing, wearable electronics, and conceptual art. Her projects include “Botanicalls,” which lets thirsty plants place phone calls for human help, and “Lilypad XBee,” devices to enable clothing to communicate. Michael Walker ’11 got his B.A. in computer science; worked at Zynga, where he helped launch the Facebook version of the game Words with Friends; and founded Scribe, a webbased tool to help composers create and publish sheet music. Also a computer science major, Jacqueline Bow ’10 is malicious code analyst at MIT Lincoln Laboratory, where she conducts in-depth research on malware, applying the results to problems involving national cybersecurity. Rebecca Bray ’98, manager of interaction design and strategy for the Smithsonian Institution, creates digital tools that allow visitors to participate in the scientific process. Her Bard degree was in sociology. Also on hand were Eric Hoffman ’94, founder and creative director of a multidisciplinary graphic design studio; Ross Shain ’91, film software designer and chief marketing officer for Imagineer Systems; and composer, performer, producer, and instrument inventor Bradford Reed ’93.

Alumni/ae Day ended with the annual men’s basketball Alumni Games, featuring two matches: alumni versus the varsity team and alumni versus alumni; a reception in the new Alumni/ae Center; and the chance to admire an exhibition of vintage Bard drama and dance posters from the collection of Professor of Dance Jean Churchill and Bard’s longtime drama/dance technical director and “den mother” Natalie Lunn.

Green Vehicle Expo Comes to Bard Means of transport powered by electricity, grease, and even human muscle were on display during Bard’s Green Vehicle Expo. Visitors checked out the plugin hybrids Chevy Volt (which they could test drive) and minicar Spark, an allelectric Nissan Leaf, a grease-powered van, and 1972 Triumph Spitfire with electric conversion. Also on hand during the event, sponsored by the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and Bard Office of Sustainability, were vehicles owned by Zipcar, a membership-based, car-sharing company with a location on campus. Transportation on two wheels was represented by Bard’s bicycle co-op.

A panel discussion, “An Addiction to Cars: Air Quality and Policy Challenges in the U.S. Transportation Sector,” featured green transportation experts. “We were excited to have this conversation at Bard with panelists ranging from academia to industry to government, from New York City to the Hudson Valley to Albany,” says Molly Williams CEP ’08, assistant director of graduate admissions and alumni/ae affairs at the Bard Center for Environmental Policy. “I came away with a sense that we are making real progress through stricter vehicle emissions standards, policy leadership in New York City, and electric vehicles hitting the mainstream again. This is very encouraging, given that we live in a carcentric society. Greening transportation is a win-win-win for public health, the environment, and lessening our dependence on fossil fuels.” Panel speakers were Andrew Bata, chief for strategic improvements and best practices, Metropolitan Transit Authority/New York City Transit; Keith Kerman, deputy commissioner for New York City Department of Citywide Administrative

Examining cars at the Green Vehicle Expo. photo Karl Rabe

Services and New York City’s first chief fleet officer; Mark Lytle, Lyford Paterson Edwards and Helen Gray Edwards Professor of Historical Studies and coordinator of Bard’s Environmental and Urban Studies Program; John Maserjian, director of media relations for Central Hudson Gas and Electric Corp.; and Adam Ruder, associate project manager for the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority. Eban Goodstein, director of the Bard Center for Environmental Policy and of the Bard MBA in Sustainability, moderated.

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T. J. Lah of Yonsei University speaks at a roundtable discussion, during the Bard CEP conference "Water, Forests, and Communities in Asia." photo Emily Krohn

Bard CEP Forum on Environment and Asia From January 31 to February 2, the Bard Center for Environmental Policy (Bard CEP) hosted a three-day conference on improving the integration of Asian and environmental studies. With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Bard College is exploring opportunities for intensive research, experiential education, service learning, and student and faculty exchange partnerships in China, Japan, and South Korea. The conference, “Water, Forests, and Communities in Asia,” focused on how field experiences, cross-university connections, and NGO partnerships inform higher education curricula in Asian studies, environmental studies, and other relevant disciplines across undergraduate and graduate programs.

Bard Conference Promotes Liberal Education in Russia “In the end, liberal education is probably the best antidote for the most dangerous of human experiences, which is boredom,” Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, told delegates at “Liberal Education in Russia and the World,” a conference that took place at the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Science, St. Petersburg State University (Smolny College). “If we are successful,” continued Botstein, who was keynote speaker, “there will be fewer people who are angry with their life because of its predictable, uniform, and boring character.”

The October conference was aimed at helping develop the liberal arts in the former Soviet Union—a country where the concept of a liberal education is still a novel idea and whose entire higher education system is designed around specialization and lack of individual choice and student interaction. It was held in partnership with the Smolny Center for Liberal Education and Bard’s Center for Civic Engagement, with the support of the Open Society Foundations.

More than 100 participants attended, including representatives of Russian institutions of higher education, as well as educators from the former Soviet Union, United States, Europe, and Central Asia. The conference played out against the backdrop of the trial and subsequent sentencing—for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”—of members of the feminist punk rock band Pussy Riot for staging a protest in a Moscow cathedral denouncing the Russian Orthodox Church’s support of President Vladimir Putin. Their treatment and subsequent two-year sentence was a harsh price to pay for expressing an opinion, participants noted, and a seeming irony that went counter to the heart of what the conference was all about: promoting a more liberal, less restrictive approach to education in Russia.

Bard speakers included Jonathan Becker, vice president and dean for international affairs and civic engagement. He told delegates, “We’re not trying

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Faculty, students, and staff from neighboring institutions were invited to explore the question: what are the opportunities for field education and East-West partnerships to better merge Asian studies with environmental awareness?

A keynote address by T. J. Lah of Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea, “Green Growth Policy in Korea,” and welcoming remarks from Bard President Leon Botstein opened the conference. Other highlights included a roundtable discussion moderated by Associate Professor of History Robert Culp and Assistant Professor of Political Studies Kenneth Haig on how to meet environmental challenges in Asia, and a talk by Machiko Nishino of Biwako Seikei Sport College, former head of integrated analyses at Lake Biwa Environmental Research Institute, on the restoration of Lake Biwa in Japan. This keynote speech was followed by discussions on “slow water” in Oaxaca, environmental policy in Myanmar, sustainable land management in Kyrgyzstan, dam-building in the eastern Himalayas, and other environmental projects in China, Japan, and South Korea. Other keynote talks included Hu Tao of the World Resources Institute on environmental policy in China; Chris Coggins of Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The Early College on feng shui forests in China; and Jon Schwartz, section chief of the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, on ecosystem services and the New York City Watershed.

Graduate students and Professor Monique Segarra of Bard CEP also led a panel discussion on integrated lake management. Students presented two North American lake management scenarios—Lake Ontario and Lake Champlain—and explored how these compare to international lake management systems, in particular restoration projects at Lake Biwa and Lake Poyang (the largest body of fresh water in China). The case studies analyzed approaches that might be applied to the waters of East Asia and presented pivotal discussion topics for global water management: prioritization, adaptive management, and the balance between community, science, and policy. to transform the whole education system, but work with partners to create an alternative, which we believe leads to engaged citizens and an effective form of communication.” Becker also spoke of “forming partnerships to . . . adapt what Bard does to the local conditions to try to promote a different type of education, which we believe is important.”

Voldemar Tomusk, director for policy and evaluation for the International Higher Education Support Program of the Open Society Institute in Budapest, discussed the university’s social mission and the importance of knowledge.

“Knowledge, after nearly a thousand years, is divorced from inwardness and literally dehumanized. This we see in many parts of higher education. People tend to believe that knowing or learning anything does not make much sense because knowledge is changing, is moving around . . . and we all become knowledge managers, without actually knowing much of anything.”

Other panelists included Aleksei Kudrin, dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Smolny College; Andrei Zorin, professor at Oxford University and academic programs director, Faculty of Government Management, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow; Ilya Kukulin, National Research University, Higher School of Economics, Moscow; Svetlana Karas, rector, Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Moscow; Thomas Rommel, rector and provost, ECLA of Bard, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Berlin; and Andrew Wachtel, president, American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan.

Now in its 15th year, Smolny College was the first institution in the Russian Federation to be granted a license from the Russian Ministry of Education to award degrees in the program of “arts and humanities,” the Russian equivalent of a liberal arts degree. Smolny works with other Russian liberal arts degree– granting institutes (an estimated 13 in total), and together, they lead an “academic methodological alliance” to “hone the craft of liberal arts education, student-centered learning and the interactive classroom.”

Family Weekend Draws a Crowd

Top: Three generations of the Ellenbogen family: Kristina ’83, Max ’17, Kit ’52, and Tony ’82 (with Bruno). Bottom: Parents take a Citizen Science class. photos Karl Rabe

Keeping Score Baseball Comes Back to Bard After more than a 75-year hiatus, varsity baseball has returned to the College.

The team trains at Red Hook Recreational Park and is playing its home games in Wappingers Falls, New York, at Dutchess Stadium (home field of the Hudson Valley Renegades A-level team of the Tampa Bay Rays) and Gruner Field in Lake Katrine, New York.

In fall 1929, the St. Stephen’s College Athletic Department announced that baseball would supplant lacrosse as the spring sport. At the time, College leaders believed that, to be competitive, the school should promote sports that didn’t require a steep learning curve. About five years later, St. Stephen’s College became Bard College and in 1937, baseball was voted out as a varsity sport after a questionnaire was distributed to the student body, which consisted of 106 men. Fast forward to 2013, when Bard played its first Liberty League baseball games. The team swept a doubleheader against Yeshiva during its first return to play. Other colleges in the league that offer baseball are Clarkson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, St. Lawrence, Skidmore, Union, University of Rochester, and Vassar.

“We are excited and happy to have Ed Kahovec joining the staff,” Director of Athletics Kris Hall says of Bard’s new head baseball coach and assistant athletic director. Says Kahovec, “To be able to recruit nationally for such a strong academic school, in a strong conference I have a lot of familiarity with, is a challenge I look forward to.” A member of the Liberty League Coaching Staff of the Year in 2009, Kahovec played professional baseball in Germany for the Erbach

The Bard Legacy Family Reception, held at the College’s new Alumni/ae Center, extended a warm welcome to Bard students, alumni/ae, and their family members attending the 2012 Family Weekend. During the three-day event, more than 1,000 people—the most ever—enjoyed sample classes, athletic events, panel discussions, tours, and student performances. Highlights included a performance by the American Symphony Orchestra, conducted by President Leon Botstein; a parents’ question-and-answer session about Bard with Botstein; and an opportunity to try out the Citizen Science lab experience with Matthew Deady, professor of physics and director of the Physics Program. Attendees could meet New Yorker cartoonist Danny Shanahan (father of Finnegan ’14 and Render ’12 and husband of Janet Stetson ’81) and the magazine’s former art director, Lee Lorenz, as the two men displayed work, told amusing anecdotes, and shared the story of their 25-year mentor/mentee relationship.

Some parents attended student performances of Kassandra, a twist on the well-known Trojan War story directed by Artist in Residence Jean Ruth Wagner, which played to sold-out crowds. A faculty roundtable discussion, Presidential Debates Today, featured Jonathan Becker, vice president and dean for international affairs and civic engagement and associate professor of political studies; Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities; David O’Connell, visiting assistant professor of political studies; and Ruth Zisman, visiting instructor in humanities and Bard Debate Union faculty adviser.

Other events of the weekend included a showcase of Bard student bands; a workshop, “Deconstructing the College Essay for Bard Parents and High School–Age Siblings,” presented by the Institute for Writing and Thinking; a program on public-speaking principles and authentic speaking technique by Paul Marienthal, dean for social action and director of the Trustee Leader Scholar Program; guided tours of the CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art; horticultural walking tours; and “Behind the Music,” a presentation on the music of the ’60s with rock historian Barry Drake.

Grasshoppers (where he was team MVP for one season). He spent three seasons on the baseball staff at his alma mater, University of Rochester, where he was a top player for four years; he graduated in 2008.

Squash Team Tops Notre Dame, Ithaca The Bard College men’s squash team went 2–1 in the Hawthorn Cup Division at the College Squash Association National Team Championships hosted by Yale University in February. Seeded fifth in the division, Bard won a pair of close matches to finish third overall. The Raptors opened play with a 5–4 victory over Notre Dame before falling to eventual runner-up University of California, Berkeley. In the consolation round, Bard edged Ithaca, 5–4.

Lacrosse Player Gains Recognition Joanna Regan ’15 came into this lacrosse season carrying a distinct honor: she was named to the All-Liberty League Second Team for 2012, even though the Bard College women’s lacrosse team was new to the league; it is completing its fourth season as a varsity program and its second season in the Liberty League.

Regan broke the school records in points (26 goals, 14 assists), ground balls (66), and caused turnovers (41) last year. The math major from Selden, New York, led the league in ground balls per game and caused turnovers per game, and was fourth in the league in draw controls. She is also a starter on the women’s soccer team and the women’s basketball team.

In other lacrosse news, the College has hired Hannah Taylor as head women's lacrosse coach and assistant athletic director. Taylor comes to Bard from Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

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COMMENCEMENT AND ALUMNI/AE WEEKEND May 24–26, 2013 REUNION CLASSES: 1953, 1963, 1973, 1983, 1988, 1993, 1998, 2003, and 2008 Join this year’s honorees on Friday night at the annual President’s Awards Ceremony and Dinner, and stay for the whole weekend to celebrate being a Bardian with family and friends. Highlights include:

Annandale Roadhouse | Friday night only, 9 p.m. – 1 a.m.

Kline Commons. Kids welcome. Outdoor terrace, lounge, music, pizza, cash bar.

American Symphony Orchestra, with student performers and composers, conducted by Leon Botstein | Friday, 9:30 p.m.

Sosnoff Theater, Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Free; no reservations required.

Reunion and BBQ Dinners at Blithewood | Saturday, 6:30–8:30 p.m.

Join classmates and friends at the reunion receptions and dinners. Enjoy tasty barbecue or bring a picnic to watch the fireworks over the Hudson River and dance the night away under the big tent.

BardCorps Airstream Trailer | All weekend Be part of BardCorps, the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association Oral History Project.

Find the Airstream parked at the north entrance of the Bertelsmann Campus Center.

Details at annandaleonline.org/commencement photo ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto

Class Notes Editor’s note: More extensive versions of many of these notes, and additional notes, are posted on AnnandaleOnline.org. Class Notes of any length, with accompanying photos, may be posted there.

For Reunion details, click on the tab on our website, AnnandaleOnline.org, or contact the Office of Alumni/ae Affairs at alumni@bard.edu or 800-BARDCOL.

serve as president of Instant Tees. | Yiwen Shen (B.Mus.) composed a clarinet concerto that won first place in the National SCI/ASCAP 2012 Student Commission Competition. He is currently a C. V. Starr Doctoral Fellow and teaching assistant at The Juilliard School. | Andrew Simon received his M.Sc. at the London School of Economics and Political Science and serves as special assistant to the chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C.

’12 Siyao Du works in the global management trainee program at Daimler China, concentrating on project management and process improvement for financial services. | Diana Pitcher is a Peace Corps education volunteer in South Africa. | Marianne Rendon is attending The Juilliard School’s first master of fine arts program in drama.

’11 Fiona Edwards is studying for a master of environmental studies degree at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington. | Benjamin Pesetsky’s musical compositions were performed in San Francisco by Allegra Chapman ’10, Emanuel Evans ’10, Nikola Printz, and Andy Ramirez. | Johanna Warren was recently awarded a National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) fellowship to support the translation from Spanish of the complete works of Salvadoran short-story author Claudia Hernandez. Following a talk by Lorin Stein, editor of The Paris Review, Johanna participated in a panel of recent Bard graduates organized by the Senior Colloquium. It also included Bridget Behrmann ’10, Len Gutkin ’07, and Ella Maslin.

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and Mike Smith. | Lucas Pipes was named a Rising Star in Institutional Investor’s annual All-America Research Team survey for 2012. He is vice president and senior analyst, equity research at Brean Capital, LLC. | A music video directed by Lucius Ace Salisbury won Best Music Video at the 2012 Toronto Independent Film Festival. | Molly Simpson has been living in the Washington, D.C., area for the past four years and is completing her master’s degree in sustainable urban planning from George Washington University. She has accepted a position as program manager of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing.

Nes¸ e (S¸ enol) Devenot organized the first universitysponsored psychedelics conference in the United States, held at the University of Pennsylvania and sponsored in part by Perelman School of Medicine. | Ricky Gluski is living in the Dominican Republic, where he is producing a documentary, Blanco, about a group of albino children who live in a mountain town. | Vanessa Katon received her doctor of osteopathy degree from University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine. | Zachary Kussin received a degree from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and works at The Real Deal magazine as a web producer. His freelance work has appeared in The New York Times, Newsweek, and on the PBS website. | Brittany Rode is running a party/cooking club in Boston. If you love good food and company, check out the blog at www.cibariouscontemplations.blogspot.com.

From left, Molly Peters ’10, Mike Smith ’08, Kat Statman ’08, Shannon Mohrman ’08, and Sarah Elger ’08 celebrate Shannon and Kat’s wedding. photo Temple Webber Photography

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Len Gutkin is in the doctoral program in English at Yale. | Jen Holup works in Los Angeles as a French teacher at Flintridge Preparatory School. | Eduardo Mills received his master’s degree in political stud-

Please join the reunion committee of Hannah ByrnesEnoch, Gerry Pambo-Awich, Patricia Pforte, Lucas Pipes, and Genya Shimkin at your reunion in May.

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Katherine Clair (KC) Brazeau (B.Mus.) was a visiting artist at The American Academy in Rome from 2011 to 2012. In Rome, her oboe engagements included a premiere of Rome Prize–winning composer Sean Friar’s Etudes for English Horn and Piano, as well as other solo and ensemble concerts. | Allegra Chapman (B.Mus.) was a pianist for the September 2012 Fall for Dance Festival in New York City. She completed her master’s degree in May 2012 at The Juilliard School. In March 2012, she performed Cage’s Winter Music at Juilliard with pianists simultaneously performing in California and Japan in Beyond the Machine 12.1: Synchroneity. | Reginald Raye has been doing design work and business development for a 3-D printing start-up called Hallirand and continues to

Emily Hamilton received her master’s degree in social work from UCLA in 2011, and began work as a primary therapist with Eating Disorder Center of California in Los Angeles. Through UCLA, funded by a National Institute of Health grant, she is also conducting research on medical marijuana dispensaries and their effect on neighborhoods. | Ariana Jostad-Laswell has been living in the Bay Area for the past three years, and works as a diabetes and nutrition educator at a community health clinic.

She recently started a doctoral program in medical sociology at UC San Francisco. | Shannon Mohrman and Kat Statman were married on June 25, 2011, in Houston, Texas. Other Bardians in attendance included Sarah Elger, Molly Peters ’10,

ies from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. In late 2011 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he has been working as a director of investigations for Southern Pulse, a field-based political and security risk–consulting firm focused on Latin America.

’06 Nsikan Akpan graduated from Columbia University in October 2012 with a Ph.D. in pathobiology and molecular medicine. He works as a staff science writer for Columbia’s Center for Infection and Immunity. His writing has been featured in Scientific American and Nature. He lives in Brooklyn. | Sarah Elia is in her fourth year as a fulltime lecturer of English as a Second Language at SUNY New Paltz. She serves as second vice president–elect of New York State Teachers of English

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Kate Travers married Phillip Sexton in September 2012. In attendance were Josh Diaz, Suzy Salamy, and Barbara Schlarp.

as a Second Language (TESOL), based at Columbia University. | Elizabeth Stemmer is pursuing a master’s degree in teaching English at Brooklyn College while working full time at Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) Manhattan as the attendance coordinator. | Jessica (Leinwand) Tartanian married fellow Bardian Angelo Joseph Tartanian in West Milford, New Jersey, on September 15, 2012, amidst the love and support of many other Bardians.

’97 Eve Caroline Stahlberger is one half of “Eve and Candace,” the world’s foremost unknown swim vloggers. They can be found at www.youtube.com/ evecandace. | Laura Stamas and her partner Abby are delighted to announce the birth of their daughter, Lucy Wren Stamas Mnookin, in April 2012. Her beautiful smile and spirit are delightful.

’04 Lucas Carter, Yale Chasin, and Sophie Cassidy ’05 recently attended a secret pop-up dinner party hosted by Max Leer ’05. The event combined Japanese and Spanish flavors, and included a live music performance by Jacob Mitchell’s new spinoff band Saxual Harassment, a strictly saxophonebased ensemble that includes Frank Antonoff ’06.

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Alexis Gambis ’03 (left) meets with Corey Sullivan ’03 in Abu Dhabi. photo Courtesy of Alexis Gambis

work with LevenBetts Architects, LTL Architects, and the New School.

10th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join your reunion committee of Pia Carusone, Cinta Conti-Cook, Jacob Cottingham, Rebeccah Johnson, Eben Kaplan, J. P. Kingsbury, Mollie Meikle, Corey Sullivan, and Dumaine Williams at your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details or e-mail Mollie Meikle at mmeikle@bard.edu.

Vanessa Ruth Bombardieri and Cynthia Anne Marion were married June 23, 2012, at The Players in New York City. Their wedding was officiated by Rosalie Tamar Purvis ’98. Vanessa is managing director and Cyndy is producing artistic director of the White Horse Theater Company in New York. | Pia Carusone, Eben Kaplan, and Mollie Meikle celebrated the holidays in Washington, D.C., with fellow Bardians. They are very much looking forward to seeing everyone in May at their 10th reunion. | Alexis Gambis was invited by New York University’s arts/humanities and science departments to NYU Abu Dhabi. He gave a talk in a film class, and saw Corey Sullivan, who teaches theater there. | Robert Lee lives in Hong Kong and works in the financial industry. He received a master of science degree from the University of Pennsylvania. | Sarah Schendel spent more than two wonderful years back home in Ashland, Oregon, working as the immigration attorney at the Center for NonProfit Legal Services. She now lives in Somerville, Massachusetts, and works as a criminal defense and immigration attorney at a small firm in Boston. | Carrie Schulz attended the master’s program in architecture at Parsons, with the Design Workshop a primary point of interest.

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’02 Jean-Marc Gorelick ran a 10K race in Senegal organized by the Peace Corps to benefit girls’ education, with Lewis Lukens, U.S. ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. | Jonah Weiner is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and pop critic at Slate. His Slate profile of Kanye West was included in the Best American Magazine Writing 2011 anthology and his New York Times Magazine story about the video game Dwarf Fortress was included in The Verge‚ America’s Best Tech Writing.

’01 Elise Dietrich and Gary Stanley Howarth II were married in New Orleans in 2012. Elise is a doctoral candidate in Latin American studies at Tulane, from which she also received a master’s degree. | David Homan has released two CDs of classical and rock music and in March 2013 premiered a major new work at Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater with Ariel Rivka Dance. He is finishing his seventh year as executive director of the AmericaIsrael Cultural Foundation.

Emily Stuart and her husband celebrated the birth of their daughter in October 2012. Emily was back at the veterinary clinic in January 2013, offering acupuncture for animals after completing a course from International Veterinary Acupuncture Society.

’95 Megan Demarkis is director of codification at Harlem RBI, a youth development organization, where she has worked with East Harlem youth and families for 10 years. She is a 1997 Teach for America alumna and taught bilingual second grade in Washington Heights. She lives in Brooklyn with her son, Abacus Jack, and her partner, Hypewonder. | Malia K. Du Mont started a new job as strategist in the U.S. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. She also has a new position in her capacity as an Army Reserve officer—action officer for China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan in the Directorate for Strategic Plans and Policy, U.S. Pacific Command. | Photography from Joe’s Junk Yard, by Lisa Kereszi, is being exhibited in Memphis, Tennessee; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and Troy, New York.

’99 Jacob Mitas just finished building a cabin in Oregon, and continues to restore fine violins and bows at home and abroad.

’98 15th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join the reunion committee of Josh Bell, Kathleya Chotiros, and Jen Novik at your reunion in May. Check annandaleonline.org for details.

From left, Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02, an unidentified Peace Corps volunteer, and U.S. Ambassador Lewis Lukens warm up before a 10K race in Senegal. photo R. P. Avone

Lisa’s fourth book has a forward by Bard Professor of Photography Larry Fink and was designed by classmate Michelle Dunn Marsh. Lisa returned to campus to talk to photography seniors in 2012. | Dana Rudolph owns My Bead Gallery in Englewood, Florida. She will be published in Wirework, Bead & Button, and Beadwork magazines in 2013 and is still designing jewelry.

’94 Mark Feinsod is writing and directing a new comedy web series for the People’s Improv Theater (The PIT) in New York City. It’s called Beige Ops and is about two mismatched private investigators—one is a by-the-book stickler for the rules and the other a wisecracking loose cannon—as they solve their latest case. Episode 1 can be seen on YouTube. | Heidi Harding lives on a small farm in Columbia County, New York, with her husband, Tim, and daughter, Lillian. She practices acupuncture and classical Chinese medicine in Spencertown, New York. | Eric Hoffman is the founder and creative director of New York–based Hoffman Creative, a multidisciplinary graphic design studio specializing in advertising, branding, packaging, and editorial and digital design.

Hoffman Creative recently art-directed the ad campaign for Lady Gaga’s first fragrance, Fame, photographed by Steven Klein. Eric returned to Bard in October 2012 as a panelist during Alumni/ae Day. | Anne Becker Upton lives in London with her husband, Simon, and daughter, Matilda May. She received her master of fine arts at New York Studio School, and her work can be viewed at annebeckerpainting.com.

’93 20th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join the reunion committee of Erin Law, Roger Scotland, Olivier te Boekhorst, and Paul Thompson at your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details.

Erin Law and partner Christine Reindl are pleased to announce the birth of their twin children, Caroline and Dylan, in October 2012. The twins join big brother Owen, who is now 3. Erin works in the Legal and Compliance Division at Morgan Stanley and recently became a member of the board of directors of the Ali Forney Center, a nonprofit organization that provides services to homeless LGBT youth in New York City. | Malerie Marder lives and works in Los Angeles. She will have a solo exhibition in the fall of 2013 at Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects in New York City and a new book of work, Anatomy, published concurrently by Twin Palms.

Books by Bardians Garnet Poems: An Anthology of Connecticut Poetry since 1776 edited by Dennis Barone ’77 wesleyan university press Connecticut looms large in the annals of American literature. Selections by 42 poets—from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wallace Stevens to Richard Wilbur and Susan Howe—present a nuanced portrait of the state known as “the land of steady habits.”

The Intellectual Origins of the Global Financial Crisis edited by Roger Berkowitz, associate professor of political studies and human rights; and Taun N. Toay ’05, research analyst, Levy Economics Institute fordham university press Using Hannah Arendt’s thinking as a lens, this volume examines why the current financial crisis happened. Leading scholars and business executives examine the cultural and intellectual foundations, philosophical ideas, political traditions, and economic movements that underlie this recession and offer diverse perspectives on ways to respond.

Everything Happens Today

by Jesse Browner ’83 europa editions This novel follows a day in the life of Wes, an introspective teenager attending a prestigious prep school while living in a dilapidated Greenwich Village townhouse with his fractured family. On this day, everything will change—including losing his virginity to the wrong girl— as he gropes for life’s meaning.

Disappearing Shanghai

by Howard W. French; introduction by Teju Cole, Distinguished Writer in Residence homa and sekey books French, a journalist celebrated for his documentary photography, explores daily life in the rapidly disappearing workers’ quarters of central Shanghai. His compelling and honest visual record of a diminishing urban culture captures Shanghai—its alleys and people—with a sense of intimacy anomalous to the fast-moving metropolis.

The Immanence of Myth: An Anthology

by James Curcio ’01 weaponized Curcio explores the influence of myth in art, literature, and our everyday lives. The book investigates how the power of myth determines—both consciously and unconsciously—how we engage with the world, relate to ourselves and to one another, and even make decisions about our future.

Gods in Print

by Richard H. Davis, professor of religion mandala publishing This beautiful and impressive collection of early printed hand-colored lithographs, multiple-block chromolithographs, and offset-print images is the first of its kind. Arranged chronologically, the full-color plates offer a striking look at India’s pantheon—including Ganesh, Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, and Kali—as well as many lesser-known Hindu deities.

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David Cote and composer Stefan Weisman report that their opera The Scarlet Ibis is being produced

by HERE Arts Center and Beth Morrison Projects, in association with American Opera Projects, and will have its world premiere at the Prototype Festival in January 2014. Mallory Catlett will direct the production; Joseph Silovsky ’91 will design the set. | Brian Stefans is an assistant professor in UCLA’s English department, teaching new media studies, postmodern and contemporary poetry, and film studies. His new book of poems was published in 2012. Among his research projects are a critical/historical anthology of Los Angeles poetry from the Spanish era to 1975 and online anthology of Los Angeles post-punk called Scavenged Luxury.

Elizabeth Cornell Goldwitz is a predoctoral fellow in the English department at Fordham University in the Bronx.

’91 Paul Bissex lives in western Massachusetts with his wife, Kathleen, and their twin baby boys, Jasper and Nico. Having worked in publishing, technology, and education, he is now a full-time software developer with Cox Media Group of Atlanta. | Tim Clifford is coauthor with Jack Flam and Katy Rogers of Robert Motherwell Paintings and Collages: A Catalogue Raisonné, 1941–1991, published in 2012 by Yale University Press. This monumental three-volume catalogue documents 2,700 artworks by Motherwell, one of the preeminent abstract expressionist painters and the leading American spokesman for modernism in the second half of the 20th century. | Kim Lennen planned on spending six months in London, and has now lived there for 10 years. He is the executive director and European recruiter for JPMorgan Chase, and would be happy to meet other Bardians in London. | Ross Shain was awarded a Scientific and Engineering Plaque in February by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at its annual Scientific and Technical Awards Presentation in Beverly Hills, California. Ross shared the award with three others for Imagineer Systems Ltd.’s creation of mocha planar tracking and rotoscoping software. He is the chief marketing officer of Imagineer. He lives with his wife, Jenn Labelle ’92, and daughter in New York’s Hudson Valley. He returned to Bard in October 2012 as a panelist during Alumni/ae Day.

’88 25th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join the reunion committee of Sibel AlparslanGolden, Brett Fialkoff, Cormac Flynn, Amy Kupferburg, Jennifer Lupo, Carolyn Mayo, Allison (Villone) Radzin, and Al Varady at your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details.

Dena Seidel is director of the Rutgers Center for Digital Filmmaking. She recently returned from Antarctica, where she directed a feature documentary for the National Science Foundation about an interdisciplinary research team studying climate change. Twelve film students are collaborating with Dena to shape the hourlong film for broadcast. Antarctica: Beyond the Ice is one of three long-form documentaries that Dena is producing with her students.

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’79 Alexander McKnight is the author of Never Seen, Only Heard, published in November 2012, and the children’s book, Waiting for Ding.

’78 Constance (Targonski) Clemmons and Thomas Clemmons have three daughters from China, Madeleine (18), Elisabeth (14), and Julia (9).

Constance was a founding member of the nonprofit organization Children from China. The orphanage assistance program has raised more than $2 million for children without families in China. | Hugh Crawford put on an art installation at the Brooklyn Public Library during 2012. The project addressed memory, books, libraries, Coney Island, Brooklyn, severe weather, the old and the new, the old future,

Andrew Bauer has been appointed director of music and coordinator of performing arts for Manhattan College.

the new future, Apollo, and Laoco. | David Segarnick was appointed adjunct associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey/New Jersey Medical School. He is teaching a course, Pharmacology and Drug Marketing, during this spring semester at the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences–Newark.

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Harold “Buddy” Enright produced a New Media television series, Dirty Work, which won the 2012 Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media, Original Interactive Television Programming, at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on September 15 in Los Angeles.

Russell Shane is employed as a real estate representative for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. He has been married to Delaine for 19 years, and they have a daughter, whom they adopted from China.

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’76 ’83 30th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join your classmates Jesse Browner and Jim Hart for your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details.

Tim Long produced a half-hour documentary, Stories from the Overseas Highway, for Florida PBS. | Sharon Spector is the new director of sales for the Frontline Medical Communications publications Current Psychiatry, Clinical Psychiatry News, and Neurology Reviews.

Grant Harper Reid received the Honorary Doctorate of Courage degree from the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City, in recognition of the courage and fortitude he has demonstrated amid life’s challenges and many obstacles. | Catherine Hazard has donated 75 paintings to various institutions that help those most at risk in the community. Her work is also in the permanent collection at the Bronx Museum. | Iris Levy is a psychoanalyst in a private practice in New York City.

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’90 Thalia “Debra” Feilen has a successful law practice serving professionals, artists, and other New York City residents. She provides valuable advice and support to facilitate her clients’ achievement of commercial and personal goals.

mother” of Bard’s Drama/Dance Program for more than 30 years.

’82 Catherine Grillo and Lisa Vasey ’84 organized a celebration at the remodeled Rhinecliff Hotel to honor Natalie Lunn on the occasion of her 75th birthday. More than 100 alumni/ae, faculty, and friends came from all over the country to celebrate a woman who was the technical director and “den

Christine Wade’s novel, Seven Locks, was published

by Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books in January.

Christine credits Bard for giving her cross-disciplinary courage: “I was a painting major and have a master’s in epidemiology from Columbia and a long list of peer-reviewed science publications.”

’73 40th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013

Annandale Blues: A Journey in Ralph Ellison’s America

Please join the reunion committee of Randy Buckingham, Steve Busch, Barbara Grossman, Leslie Philips, Donna Shepper, and Karen Zabrensky for your reunion in May. Visit your class Facebook group for details.

by Guy Ducornet ’60 charles h. kerr publishing company In 1959, French student Ducornet won a Fulbright scholarship to attend Bard College, where writer in residence Ralph Ellison became his mentor.

In this riveting memoir, Ducornet, now a famous painter, writer, and translator, retraces his travels and cultural adventures in an America on the cusp of the civil rights movement.

Felicity Shelness-Pine has coauthored Success in School: The Essential How-To Guide for Students of All Ages, a teaching tool and reference manual to support students throughout their school careers. | Tina Thuermer continues to teach Theory of Knowledge at Washington International School, and serves as director of alumni relations.

’71 Richard Gerber and his wife operate a rare and collectible book business (rmgerberbooks.com). His reviews have appeared in the James Joyce Quarterly and James Joyce Studies Annual, and he is writing a one-act play about Joyce. In 2012, Richard presented a paper on Lewis Carroll, James Joyce, and John Lennon at the annual Northeast Popular Culture Association conference in Rochester, New York.

’69 Please send your up-to-date e-mail address and news to your class correspondent, Ellen Giordano Cartledge, at ellencartledge2@cox.net.

Chester Brezniak has been a professional clarinetist/teacher since 1971, when he graduated from New England Conservatory with a master of music.

He has performed hundreds of concerts to critical acclaim both here and abroad, including in Brazil, Greece, and France. As instructor of clarinet in the music departments of UMass/Boston, Clark University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute, he continues to teach many students. | Tina Chisena is learning to play the banjo and attended a weekend banjo camp in May 2012 in Massachusetts. Also during 2012, she was on a team of demonstrators at the Artists Blacksmiths Association of North America (ABANA) conference in Rapid City, South Dakota; traveled to watch warblers on Plum Island, Massachusetts; and took a trip to Utah. | Charlie Clancy is enjoying his wife’s retirement, as well as his at-home college son, motorcycling, and classic rock/blues band. He is curious to learn about Bardian rock, blues, or jazz groups in the New York metro area; contact him at cbclancy@aol.com. | Pierre Joris published an anthology, coedited with Habib Tengour, titled The University of California Book of North African Literature (volume 4 in the Poems for the Millennium series). Artforum included the anthology among its Books of 2012. Pierre’s son,

We Have Your Husband

by Jayne Garcia Valseca with Mark Ebner ’82 berkley books Set in a picturesque town in the mountains of Mexico, this true crime story recounts an expat woman’s dream life turned into hell when a gang of thugs kidnaps her husband. Valseca, unable to come up with the ransom, writes about the campaign of torture she and her husband endured.

Clerks of the Passage

by Abou Farman, visiting assistant professor of anthropology linda leith publishing These essays are rooted in the oral histories of Iranian immigrants who, like the author, fled to Canada in the 1980s to escape the newly established Islamic Republic. Farman weaves personal narrative into a meditation on human migration, from the 3.5-million-year-old bipedal hominids of Laetoli to modern-day political refugees.

Suite for Three Voices

by Derek Furr, literature faculty, MAT Program fomite Exploring the “lyrical borderlands” of prose genres, this collection is structured like a dance. The chapters, named after musical suites, offer the reader three voices—personal narrative, short fiction, and essay. For example, in “Sarabande,” memoir about Furr’s grandfather waltzes with fiction about 9/11 and literary commentary on waterfalls.

Robert Ashley

by Kyle Gann, associate professor of music university of illinois press Robert Ashley is one of America’s most innovative composers in the post-Cage era. Taking an in-depth look at Ashley’s life and work, this book includes research into his early days, extensive interviews with Ashley and his collaborators, and a close examination of his operas and several minor works.

The Selected Letters of Anthony Hecht

by Anthony Hecht ’44, faculty from 1952–55 and 1962–66; edited by Jonathan F. S. Post johns hopkins university press This collection chronicles Hecht’s correspondence with family, friends, colleagues, and fellow writers from 1935 to 2004. Selections include letters he wrote as a 13-year-old camper in Maine, a college student at Bard, a soldier in World War II, and eventually one of America’s most influential poets and critics.

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Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ’14, contributed translations from French to the book. | Carola Madrid graduated from Marist College in 2010 with a bachelor of science degree in integrative studies with concentrations in psychology and public praxis. She is substitute teaching for Hyde Park Central Schools and lives in Poughkeepsie. | Ellen Ordendorf-Carter has a balanced life with friends, a long career in social work, and gardening, lawn care, and cultural activities to keep her busy. Bard College opened up her world. | Linda (Harrison) Sitnick received a kidney from her husband of 40 years on October 11, 2012. She is doing well. | Rob Stephenson is close to retiring after 39 years with Scotiabank. He and his wife plan to retire together, and will winter in Siesta Key, Florida, and summer at their cottage on Lake Huron. When in Florida, they look forward to visiting their daughter Kate, an equine veterinarian who practices in Ocala. | Devorah Tarrow gives presentations for children at museums and libraries about the Underground Railroad and Harriet Tubman, and teaches about the philosophy of aesthetic realism. She gave a seminar, “Can a Woman Be Both Kind and Powerful?” in February 2013 at the nonprofit Aesthetic Realism Foundation in New York City.

’68 Judith Arner is chief development officer at the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America. | Tony Marzani was proud to be able to marry his companion of more than 33 years, Harry Schroder, in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in September 2008. | Richard Ransohoff received the 2012 John Dystel Prize for Multiple Sclerosis Research by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Academy of Neurology. | Douglas Stearns received a master of fine arts in 1993 from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts. He has two grandchildren.

’67 Barbara Hochman wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851–1911, which won the 2012 DeLong Book History Prize, awarded by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing. | Johanna Shafer was awarded the Bishop’s Cross by the Rt. Rev. Mark S. Sisk, 15th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New York and honorary trustee of Bard College. She is also a councilperson for the town of Stanford, and chairperson of the Indaba project.

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Deborah Sussman has been inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame.

(We know many of you celebrated last May with the Class of ’62, but if you want to come back and celebrate in 2013, we’d love to see you.)

Nan-Toby Tyrrell recently published a chapbook of 18 poems, Where I’ve Come to Be. She gives piano recitals in her community, and offers music and poetry workshops.

’58 Penny Pugliese Shaw is looking forward to Commencement and Reunion Weekend, when her grandson, Charlie Heller ’13, will graduate from Bard. Charlie’s grandfather was Peter Shaw ’58.

Penny has been the director of Project HAPPY (a Saturday recreation program at Hunter College for young people with disabilities) since 1981, and has a private practice as a teacher of the Alexander Technique.

’57 Maria Kuethe is still practicing psychology in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her husband passed away in 2005, and she lives in the same 1822 farmhouse where she’s been since 1967. | An exhibition of Mari Lyons’s paintings is scheduled to open in October 2013 at First Street Gallery in New York City. Her website is www.marilyonsstudio.com.

’56 Miriam Roskin Berger was keynote speaker and led a dance therapy workshop in July 2012 for international students from Great Britain, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, and the Netherlands at an Expressive Arts conference at the Sorbonne in Paris, France.

’54 Elinor Levin writes that The Morningside Players put on a staged reading, to a full house, of Ten Thousand Mornings, a history play by the late Judson Levin ’52 about the meeting of Frederick Douglass and John Brown before Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry.

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Hope North Bernstein is the proud mother of two wonderful grown children and two granddaughters. She loves living in Chelsea, and is involved in many activities, primarily community theater and an occasional modeling assignment. Bard was an unforgettable and marvelous experience; she was in the first group of women accepted in 1944.

Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts ’14 Sabisha Friedberg had a solo exhibition of visuals, texts, and audio works, LEVITATION: Universe – Flex – Triad, at Audio Visual Arts in New York in December 2012. | Sadie Laska presented a solo exhibition, Left Hand, at Galerie Bernard Ceysson in Paris from December 2012 to January 2013.

’13 Michael Bell-Smith’s exhibition of four new, single-channel videos, mbs_fp_090712, opened at Foxy Production in New York in September 2012. | Travis Boyer had his first solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Today in Me, at Johannes Vogt gallery in New York in fall 2012. | Christine Sun Kim was named a 2013 TED Fellow. She uses the medium of sound through technology to investigate and rationalize her relationship with sound and spoken languages.

’12 Natalie Häusler, Brett Price MFA ’10, and Ed Steck founded the press American Books in 2011.

Their first project, Solicitations, was released in August 2012. | Alexander May presented a solo exhibition of paintings and sculptures, Palm as Line, at Galerie Balice Hertling in Paris in September and October 2012.

’11 ’53 60th Reunion: May 24–26, 2013 Please join the reunion committee of Bob Amsterdam, Naomi Bellinson Feldman, Helaine Kopp Kushner, Charles Naef, Roger Phillips, and Sherman Yellen at your reunion in May. For more information, call 845758-7406 or visit annandaleonline.org.

’66 Esther Wanning remains active in politics, and is in a private psychotherapy practice. She also leads DUI groups.

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Rhoda Levine and Martha “Marti” Wagner met for lunch and reminiscences at the home of William Crawford III ’54.

Trisha Baga finished 2012 with her first solo shows in the United States: Plymouth Rock 2 at the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Biggest Circle at Greene Naftali Gallery in New York City. | Richard Garet presented an exhibition of eight works, The Spacious Now and the Scale of the Instantaneous, at Studio 10 in Brooklyn in November and December 2012. | Duron Jackson was named one of “100 Artists to Watch” by Modern Painters and received a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Brazil for 2013, where he’ll concurrently be artist in

residence at Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia (MAM) in Salvador da Bahia. He also presented a solo show at the Brooklyn Museum and participated in three group shows in New York and Los Angeles in fall 2012. | Alfredo Marin premiered his new composition, Death Is Progressive, at Roulette in Brooklyn in December 2012. | Sara Wintz’s first fulllength book, Walking Across a Field We Are Focused on at This Time Now, was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in December 2012. The book, a lyric poem spiraling out of year-by-year Wikipedia searches to tell the story of the 20th century, features cover art by Caitlin Keogh.

’10 Paul Branca’s first solo exhibition in Romania, L’origine de l’espace privé &&& at Galeria Sabot, opened in October 2012. | Graham Collins unveiled his first solo exhibition, Shade Tree, at Soloway in Brooklyn in September 2012, and received a glowing review in The New Yorker. | Stephanie Loveless presented a new quadraphonic piece, Cricket, Tree, Crow, as part of the Electronic Music Foundation’s Ear to the Earth festival in New York last October.

’09 Kabir Carter led two workshops on listening to waterborne sounds within New York’s harbor and presented a temporary installation on Governors Island as part of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council exhibition Transforming Function in September 2012. | Lucy Raven presented a 35mm film installation at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and was interviewed in the fall 2012 issue of Bomb magazine.

’08 Jessica Feldman collaborated with architect Steven Gertner on The Glass Sea, an installation with looping video, audio, and texts detailing the schedules and lives of inmates and patients on Rikers, Roosevelt, Randall’s, and Wards Islands, which was on view at Petrosino Square in New York in fall 2012. | Sabrina Gschwandtner’s first solo show in New York, Sunshine and Shadow, took place at LMAKprojects in September 2012. The exhibition featured five quilts constructed from 16mm film based on the “sunshine and shadow” quilt pattern, a concentric diamond pattern created by squares of color in dramatically intertwined light and dark hues.

’07 Corinne May Botz had a solo show, Haunted Houses, on view through December 2012 at Alice Austen House on Staten Island.

The Invention of the Sequel: Expanding Prose Fiction in Early Modern Spain

by William H. Hinrichs, language and literature faculty, BHSEC Queens tamesis books Hinrichs traces the history of the early modern Spanish novel and shows how the literary form of the sequel was developed in Spain during that period. Offering a panoramic perspective, the book provides a framework for understanding the subsequent imaginative expansion that occurred in other periods and traditions in Hispanic literature.

More Powerful Than Dynamite: Radicals, Plutocrats, Progressives, and New York’s Year of Anarchy

by Thai Jones, history faculty, MAT Program walker and company In 1914, anarchists prematurely detonated a bomb intended for John D. Rockefeller Jr., son of the world’s wealthiest man. This event forms the crux of Jones’s history of New York City’s year of hunger, homelessness, and the threat of “bread or revolution” against the plutocrats who prospered while others starved.

Phoebe and the Ghost of Chagall

by Jill Koenigsdorf ’77 macadam/cage Marc Chagall’s ghost appears to Phoebe, an artist living in Sonoma’s wine country, on her 40th birthday. On a comic journey through the south of France, the pair begins to uncover the mysteries surrounding Chagall’s missing works, including one that is rightfully hers but was stolen after World War II.

Waiting for the Barbarians: Essays from the Classics to Pop Culture

by Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities new york review books Mendelsohn’s scope is evidenced in this collection with sections on “Spectacles,” “Classica,” “Creative Writing,” and “Private Lives.” Essays range from dissections of pop culture phenomena, such as Mad Men and Avatar, to examinations of how classics shape contemporary culture, essays on the art of fiction, and commentary on autobiography.

Thousand Years Waiting and Other Plays

by Chiori Miyagawa, playwright in residence seagull books In Miyagawa’s plays, characters move between disparate worlds.

A New York City woman begins to live in an ancient Japanese society; characters sit at the same table as Chekhov during a 2005 wedding reception; and Sophocles’s Antigone lands in Buddhist bardo— a transitional state—where she contemplates all of human violence.

At Element

by Leonard Schwartz ’84 talisman house In this collection of poems, Schwartz writes not about nature but of nature. As he posits in his preface, these works reflect a poetry that recognizes a poet is “not above Nature, not positioned so as to write about Nature, but speaking from inside it, as if Nature were the Unconscious.”

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Elisa Lendvay presented Small Sculpture at Jason McCoy Gallery in October. A review of the show was written up in the Huffington Post blog. | Mary Weatherford received a favorable review in The New York Times for her solo show, Manhattan, at Brennan & Griffin in September.

Ann Calamai is a contractor with the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development, working as the special assistant to the research coordinator for the EPA’s study of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources. | Brandy Chambers was hired in September 2012 in the New Hampshire Office of Energy and Planning as an energy analyst.

Brandy did her internship at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C. | Jessica LeClair is excited to put her master’s degree to use examining the mitigation side of climate-change efforts in her work for Connecticut’s Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s Bureau of Energy and Technology Policy. She was among the first group of students to graduate from Bard CEP with an M.S. in climate science and policy. | Keith McHugh is living in Middleboro, Massachusetts,

’05 Allison Gildersleeve’s solo show, Static Electric, at Galleri Andersson/Sandström in Umeå, Sweden, opened in October.

’04 Marc Swanson presented a solo show, A Step Away from Then, at Richard Gray Gallery in New York last fall.

’01 Sam Martineau presented Fair Touching, a solo exhibition at Rawson Projects in Brooklyn in September.

’98 100 Thousand Poets for Change, a 95-country, 450-city poetry reading on September 24 initiated

by Michael Rothenberg of Big Bridge, an online journal of poetry and poetics from Northern California, included a recital of Arpine Konyalian Grenier’s “Lost to Numbers.”

’97 Poet Carolyn Guinzio and designer Stephenie Foster founded Yew, an online journal of innovative poetry, hybrid writing, and images by women.

View it at yewjournal.com.

Bard Center for Environmental Policy Five alumni/ae participated in the third annual Bard CEP Alumni/ae Panel at the 2012 orientation to give students an idea of the type of work they can go into upon completion of their M.S. degrees.

On hand were Enid Cardinal ’04, senior sustainability adviser to the president, Rochester Institute of Technology; Ben Hoen ’06, principal research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Electricity and Markets Policy Group; Todd Paul ’06, project director at Clean States Energy Alliance; Rebecca Massey ’09, sustainability liaison, New York City Department of Design and Construction; and Michel Wahome ’10, program associate in innovation and sustainability at the New York Academy of Sciences.

and working for Ocean Spray Cranberries, Inc. as a sustainability analyst. He works directly with plant operations to identify, track, and measure progress against sustainability targets in the areas of water, energy and climate, waste, and packaging, and to determine the most appropriate measures to help reduce their input.

’07 Tanya Rosen runs the Tajikistan Snow Leopard Program for Panthera, an organization dedicated to the conservation of wild cats. She invites Bardians to visit Khorog, in the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Oblast (GBAO), where she lives. | Jie Wu works as an energy market analyst for a private firm, ESAI Energy, where she examines the Chinese energy market (oil/alternatives/carbon), Asian gasoline market, global fuel oil, and business development in China.

’05 As the natural resources manager for Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources in Fairbanks, Melissa Head manages, studies, and evaluates land-use activities on state-owned land throughout the North Slope to minimize impacts to Alaska’s natural resources.

’04 ’10 Matthew Guenther is a sustainable development analyst for Williams-Sonoma, Inc., based in Singapore. His duties include collection of environmental impact data from supply chain partners, ensuring they comply with the company’s environmental policies and provide environmental leadership support to supply chain partners and colleagues in the Asia-Pacific region. | Kaleena Miller served as an AmeriCorps member in Butte, Montana, after graduation. After 15 months, she became Montana Energy Corps Coordinator. In her current position, Kaleena maintains federal grant requirements for the national AmeriCorps program and develops partnerships with community organizations, schools, government agencies, businesses, and community members.

’09 George Fishler works with EBM Services in Millbrook, New York, which specializes in designing and building energy infrastructure such as energy management and monitoring solutions; alternative energy solutions; and data center monitoring for industrial facilities, medical facilities, and large or complex residential projects.

’08 Christine DeBoer (MAT ’08) has been executive director since September 2009 of the Wallkill Valley Land Trust, a not-for-profit organization that

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works with willing landowners to put conservation easements on their property. The trust is doubling the length of the Wallkill Valley Rail Trail, including restoring the iconic railroad trestle in Rosendale, New York.

Jeff Akins, who has been with the Dutchess County (New York) Department of Public Works for more than seven years, is lead county representative for the state Department of Environmental Conservation MS4 stormwater management program. He and his wife bought 10 acres in Vermont and have finished building a small, three-season primitive camp—outhouse and all. | As eastern regional director at Earthworks, Nadia Steinzor evaluates the health impacts of oil and gas development, specifically natural-gas development in the Marcellus and Utica shale region. Nadia spoke to first-year Bard CEP students this past August about health risks from natural gas development using hydraulic fracturing. Nadia was cited by Huffington Post in December for her work as lead author of the report, Gas Patch Roulette: How Shale Gas Development Risks Public Health in Pennsylvania.

Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture ’12 Einav Zamir is head manager of the New York branch of ArtWatch International, an organization that advocates for the conservation and stewardship of historically significant works of art and cultural monuments by publishing articles and organizing conferences.

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A Painter’s Path through the Adirondack Mountains

Anna Kaplan teaches design history courses at Daemen College in Amherst, New York, and celebrated the second anniversary of her vintage clothing business. In May 2012, she married Stephen Malczewski; the couple resides in Buffalo, New York. | Christian A. Larsen (Ph.D. candidate) was one of 10 fellows to receive a research practicum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s Latino Museum Studies Program. He surveyed the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s collection of 60,000 objects spread across 27 historic sites for important examples of Latino history and culture.

by Robert Selkowitz MFA ’84 creative seminars Illustrating a series of journeys into Adirondack Park, this book captures the rhythms of that awe-inspiring mountain range. Selkowitz’s paintings convey the joy of the Adirondacks on a stunning day—just as the artist experienced it on one of his many hikes.

The Book of Books

by Stephen Shore, Susan Weber Professor in the Arts phaidon press In 2003, Shore began to make a series of limited-edition books—visual records of his day wherever he happened to be in the world—using Apple’s iPhoto print-on-demand service. With only 250 copies in print, this two-volume opus includes the complete series of those 83 highly coveted photo books.

’07 Amanda Morgan earned a master of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in June 2012.

She was awarded the Betty Peting Traveling Fellowship and spent three weeks in Malmö,

The Inner Lives of Medieval Inquisitors

by Karen Sullivan, Asher B. Edelman Professor of Literature university of chicago press Closely analyzing writings by and about key perpetrators of the Inquisition, Sullivan provides insight into the moral justification of torture and death in serving a higher spiritual purpose. Each chapter, devoted to a different medieval inquisitor, examines the personal choices and degree of charity or zeal he imposed on accused heretics.

Sweden, investigating social housing built during the Million Program of the 1960s and 1970s. She lives with her partner, Karen Munro, in Portland, Oregon.

’06 Daniella Ohad Smith (Ph.D.) directs the course Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights at the New York School of Interior Design, the first comprehensive educational program devoted to the study of collecting modern and contemporary design. Daniella also writes a column, “Collector’s Choice,” for Modern, in which she engages with collectors of modern and contemporary design. | Amy Sande-Friedman (Ph.D. ’12) is director of the Von Lintel Gallery in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood.

Tivoli: Community and Character

by Bernard Tieger, professor emeritus of sociology village books press Covering more than three centuries, Tieger’s definitive history of Tivoli details the origins and evolution of the small Hudson Valley settlement.

Chapters alternately focus on pivotal historical figures and larger socioeconomic conditions that have shaped the community, including the ongoing synergy between Bard College and the village.

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How Not to Read: Harnessing the Power of a Literature-Free Life

Katherine Danalakis continues to work as collections manager at the Jewish Museum and now is also an adjunct instructor at New York University, teaching museum registration and collections management. Katherine was recently married in New York.

by Dan Wilbur ’09 perigee books Named one of Vanity Fair’s best gift books for 2012, this tongue-in-cheek guidebook shows readers how to fake one’s way through literary conversation and get through books one “has to read” as quickly and painlessly as possible. In one 22-page section, Wilbur sums up the entire Western canon.

’00 Anne Eschapasse is the new director of exhibitions and scholarly publications at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec. In 2015, the museum will open a new pavilion designed by OMA-Rem Koolhaas, which will double the exhibition and program space.

’99 Sophie Davidson works with Australian aboriginal landowners to ensure a secure future for Arnhem Land rock art, which at 50,000 years old is one of the oldest examples of rock painting in the world.

Center for Curatorial Studies ’12 Jenny Jaskey is assistant curator at The Artist’s Institute in New York, where she recently curated the fall season with artist Haim Steinbach. Jaskey also organized The End(s) of the Library, a series of commissioned installations, lectures, performances, and workshops that consider the state of the library at the Goethe-Institut New York. | Leora Morinis is a curatorial assistant in the

Department of Media and Performance Art at MoMA, New York. She is working on a program of 12 performances for 2013 and an exhibition of sonic-related art practices.

’11 Nathan Lee participated in the Kessler Conversation “AIDS/Activism/Art, Looking Backward/Looking Forward” at CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and published essays in Bookforum and Film Comment.

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’10 Daniel Mason curated The Sabbath of History: William Congdon at the Knights of Columbus Museum in New Haven, Connecticut, and edited the 236-page catalogue that accompanied the exhibition.

’08 Sarah Bachelier is artist Raquel Rabinovich’s studio assistant in Rhinebeck, New York. | Milena Hoegsberg is acting chief curator at Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter in Høvikodden, Norway, where she curated solo shows with Omer Fast and Ann Cathrin November Høibo. Milena edited the publications Omer Fast: 5000 Feet Is the Best and Shaped

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Graduate Vocal Arts Program

In Memoriam

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Matthew Morris performed the lead role of Le Mari in a special revival of an English language production of Poulenc’s Les Mamelles de Tiresias in October 2012 at Aldeburgh Music Festival.

Ariadne Greif ’10 sang the female lead, Tiresias, in the production. In November 2012, Matthew sang the baritone role in the jazz trio in Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti and the roles of the Clock and the Cat in Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges in a double bill in Caen, France. In December 2012, he won the Metropolitan Opera National Council audition, Philadelphia District.

Colin Reid Erdwurm, 100, died on March 29, 2012, in Washington, D.C. When he entered Bard College, it was still known as St. Stephen’s College.

In 2009, he was listed as having 50 years of service with the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York and was a member of the Trinity Episcopal Church, Chocowinity, North Carolina. He was predeceased by his wife, Dorothy.

’09 ’07 Chen Tamir is curator at the Center for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv, Israel.

’06 Geir Haraldseth is director of Rogaland Contemporary Art Center in Stavanger, Norway.

She also published “Great, I’ve written something stupid . . . ”.

’03 Jimena Acosta Romero curated Solidarity: A Memory of Art and Social Change at Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery, Columbia College Chicago.

Solange Merdinian took part in the world tour of the revival of Einstein on the Beach, an opera by Philip Glass. In February, she performed the title role in the tango opera Maria de Buenos Aires, by Ástor Piazzolla, with the Lexington Philharmonic in Kentucky. In March, she appeared in an opera by Henry Purcell with a Baroque orchestra at the Britten-Pears Young Artists Program in England. | Patrick Cook was tenor soloist with the Washington Chorus at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in its “Essential Wagner” concert in May 2012, performing selected scenes from Die fliegende Holländer and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

’08 ’02 Luiza Interlenghi is a Ph.D. candidate in art history and criticism at Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She curated Beatriz Milhazes: a graphic trajectory in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil.

’00 Tracee Robertson organized Heard, a new performance by visual artist Nick Cave. More than 800 North Texans collaborated with Cave to build, choreograph, and perform the piece in March 2012.

’97 Brian Wallace is curator and academic liaison for art and artifacts at Bryn Mawr College, where he teaches curatorial and museum theory and practice.

’96 Regine Basha is an independent curator and writer living in Brooklyn. Most recently she curated Paul Pfeiffer: The Rules of Basketball at Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas.

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Kristin (Ezell) Bograd relocated to Dallas, Texas, where she has a private voice studio and teaches voice at Booker T. Washington High School for Performing and Visual Arts and Red Oak High School. | Yulia Van Doren continues her busy performance career with debuts at Netherlands Radio Philharmonic; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; and John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; among others. She was the lead female role in the world premiere of Shostakovich’s opera fragment “Orango” with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. She married jazz musician Justin Purtill in July 2012, and moved to New York City in September. | Yohan Yi appeared as bass soloist in Handel’s Messiah at Avery Fisher Hall at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in December 2012. He also performed as bass soloist in Bach’s St. John Passion at Bard’s Fisher Center in March and is to appear in Benjamin Britten’s Noye’s Fludde with the Los Angeles Opera in April.

’36 Dr. Frank Serena, 100, died on June 18, 2012. A longtime resident of Norwalk, Connecticut, Serena was head of orthopedics at Norwalk Hospital. He served in the U.S. Army Medical Corps during World War II as head of orthopedics in France and Germany. A passionate outdoorsman, painter, and pianist, Serena is survived by his wife, Ruth; son, Frank Jr.; and stepdaughter, Melissa. He was predeceased by his first wife, Florida Ann.

’38 Charles E. McManus Jr., 98, died on August 23, 2012. A longtime Towson, Maryland, resident, he was executive vice president of Crown Cork and Seal Co., Baltimore, and served on the boards of United Way and the Maryland Independent College Association, as well as the Board of Trustees of Bard College from 1956 to ’64. He was predeceased by his wife of 72 years, the former Mary Schaffer. Survivors include his sons, Charles and David; a daughter, Eva; and three grandchildren.

’40 James “Jim” Forbes Chapin, 89, died on July 4, 2009, in Fort Myers, Florida. Chapin invented the drumming technique known as coordinated independence. His 1948 book, Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, known as “the Chapin Book,” remains one of the best-selling drum instruction publications in the world. It was followed by Advanced Techniques for the Modern Drummer, Volume II, in 1971. During his career as a jazz musician he played with Tony Pastor, Tommy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra. Most of his children and many of his grandchildren are musicians. His son Harry Chapin had international success in the 1970s with chart-topping songs “Taxi” and “Cat’s In the Cradle.” Survivors include sons Thomas, Stephen, Christopher, Paul, and David; and daughters Lisa, Carol, and Gale; and several grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, nieces, and nephews.

his life. According to his son, Lewis, “He was a scientist, world traveler, hiker, and civil libertarian, but beyond his many accomplishments, his greatest and most enduring achievement was his genuine humanity.” In addition to his wife, he is survived by his sons, Richard “Terry” and Lewis; and a grandson, Lars.

’49 Henry Adams Frothingham, 83, died on Monday, July 16, 2012, in his home in Nutley, New Jersey.

Born in New York City, he lived in Bloomfield and moved to Nutley several years ago. He served in the U.S. Army and later worked for Maidenform Corporation, Bayonne, New Jersey.

Richard “Dick” Frederick Koch ’40. photo Lewis Koch

Richard “Dick” Frederick Koch, 92, died on September 23, 2012, at his home in Berkeley, California. A lifelong supporter of the Bard community, he grew up in Cedarhurst, New York, and studied physics and engineering at Bard when it was still part of Columbia University. In 1941 he joined the U.S. Army’s Signal Corps as a second lieutenant, and after radar electronics training, he was posted to England during the blitz as a U.S. observer. His top-secret work helped introduce radar technology to the United States. In 1942, he married Janet Phillips, a social worker and union activist. Some of their fondest memories were of weekends spent at Bard for alumni/ae events.

After the war they settled in Lynbrook, New York.

An electronics engineer, Koch worked with Airborne Instruments Laboratory for 35 years. In the 1970s, he became a freelance inventor, and developed the AmBiChron™—a device that exploited early microchip technology by modulating recorded sound without distorting the pitch— for which he received a U.S. patent. Later, he was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Koch devoted much time to community service. He was a 45-year trustee of Lynbrook’s public library; a long-term board member of the South Shore Child Guidance Center in Freeport, New York; and a member of Valley Stream Hiking Club and the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association.

He was a volunteer reader at Lighthouse for the Blind, and in his 70s and 80s delivered Meals on Wheels to the homebound, many of them younger than he was. He was an active member of Temple Emanu-El in Lynbrook for nearly 50 years, and in 2011, was awarded the Bard Medal, the alumni/ae association’s highest honor. After his wife died in 1987, Koch remarried, at age 89, to longtime family friend Gladys Perez-Mendez, of Berkeley, California, where he relocated for the last years of

’50 Robert J. MacAlister, 85, died on September 14, 2012, in Frederick, Maryland. He served with the U.S. Navy in World War II and later worked in the Peace Corps and U.S. Foreign Service. A Bard friend and classmate remembers him: “We met at Bard in 1948. He was a leader from the outset: moderator of Convocation, president of the student council.

He was also, like me, a waiter in the Dining Commons. One St. Patrick’s Day, food from the kitchen came out green. An epic food fight ensued.

Bob clutched his serving tray and laughed boisterously; in the face of mob rule, wise leaders know when to step back. Bob earned his M.A. in economics from the University of Chicago, then worked with the late Senator Claiborne Pell at the International Rescue Committee. He worked in Africa on government aid programs, training volunteers to help villagers raise poultry or build roads.

Bob knew how to channel his idealism into pragmatic outcomes. Over the years, at lunch, we talked of Bard; his wife, Nina; and their four children. I last saw him in 2010, at the Fisher Center.

(Bob was there for our 60th class reunion.) A good man” (Brandon Grove). In addition to his wife, MacAlister is survived by his children, Hillary, James, Linda, and Heather; and seven grandchildren.

’53 Larry Martin Hagman, 81, died on November 23, 2012, in Dallas. Hagman, who became one of the most beloved and infamous screen villains of all time—J. R. Ewing—in the popular TV series Dallas, was filming an episode of cable channel TNT’s revival of Dallas at the time of his death. Hagman was born in Fort Worth to Mary Martin, then 17, who would become famous for her performances in South Pacific, Peter Pan, The Sound of Music, and other Broadway shows. His father, Benjamin Hagman, was a lawyer whose clients included wealthy Texas oilmen; Hagman’s memory of them helped shape his portrayal of J. R. Hagman studied

drama and English at Bard. In the 1950s he spent four years in the Air Force as a director of USO (United Service Organizations) shows in Europe.

Hagman went to Hollywood in the ’60s and landed his breakthrough role as astronaut Tony Nelson on I Dream of Jeannie. Dallas came along in 1975. He married Maj Axelsson in 1954. She survives him, as do his son Preston; daughter Kristina; half-sister Hellar; five granddaughters; a niece; and three nephews.

’64 Martha H. Anderson, 70, died on October 13, 2012. She grew up in Manhattan, and studied art at Bard. Her passions included oil painting and using her computer to create digital paintings. She loved politics and world affairs and fought to prevent development of open land in Craryville, New York, where she lived for many years. Survivors include her brothers, Abraham and Maxwell, and many close family members and friends.

’65 Andrew Marum, 69, died on July 13, 2012. He lived in Riverdale, New York, and was a longtime social worker for the City of New York. He received graduate degrees from Indiana and Columbia universities, and was the author of Follies and Foibles: A View of 20th Century Fads. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Lisa; his daughter, Maria; and his sister, Deborah.

’67 Marya (Lebensohn) Huseby, 68, died at her home in Westminster West, Vermont, on May 23, 2012, from pancreatic cancer. She was born in Washington, D.C., and studied modern dance at Bard. In 1967, she began teaching dance at The Putney School, and taught there for more than 25 years. She was a founding member of Collaboration Danceworks Company and performed throughout Vermont from 1975 to 1981.

She also taught young children at local schools and through the Brattleboro Music Center’s summer arts program. She is survived by two children, Kaia and Josh, and four grandchildren.

’68 William Annesley Kromer ll, 66, of Hancock, New York, died on October 3, 2012, from injuries suffered in a motorcycle accident. He was a longtime English and Spanish teacher at Downsville Central School in Delaware County, New York. He received an M.S. in education from SUNY New Paltz and an M.A. in English from Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury, Vermont. He was not only fluent in Spanish but also spoke French, Italian, Portuguese, and Latin, and had a rudimentary knowledge of

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Romanian and Cherokee. He was active in the Downsville Fire Department, sang in the Delaware County Men’s Choir, and played the organ. He is survived by his wife, Blana, daughters Rosetta and Isabel, and brother Jonathan.

’69 Katheryn White, 64, died on February 24, 2012.

She received an M.A. in performance studies from New York University and worked for Time Warner, where she researched more than 50 Time-Life books. A member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Twelfth Night Club, Inc., and Pen and Brush Club, she was also a founding member of the Jersey Shore Writers group. She was an English and acting teacher at Saint Peter’s College, Jersey City, and Brookdale College, Monmouth County. She is survived by her son, Joseph, and her sister, Susan Kovalcik.

Faculty Chinua Achebe, 82, Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor Emeritus of Languages and Literature at Bard College and an internationally acknowledged giant of African letters, died on March 21, 2013, in Boston. Born in Ogidi, Nigeria, in 1930, Achebe came to the world’s attention in 1958 with the publication of his debut novel, Things Fall Apart, which unflinchingly portrayed the collision between African and European cultures in an Igbo village and sold more than 10 million copies in 45 languages. “It would be impossible to say how [the novel] influenced African writing,” said Princeton scholar Kwame Anthony Appiah, quoted in Achebe’s obituary in the New York Times. “It would be like asking how Shakespeare influenced English writers or Pushkin influenced Russians.”

Achebe wrote five novels, as well as essays, short

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stories, and poetry; his work was honored with many awards, most notably the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement in 2007.

Achebe came to Bard in 1990, following an accident that left him in a wheelchair and compelled him—as did the mounting abuses of Nigeria’s military dictatorship—to immigrate to the United States. Until 2009, he and his wife, Christie, lived on the Bard campus and taught at the College. Known to his friends, colleagues, and students as a soft-spoken, gentle man, he was nevertheless a fierce, outspoken critic of racism, Western chauvinism, and the corrupt and brutal rulers of his native country. On two occasions— in 2004, and again in 2011—Achebe refused the Nigerian government’s proffered bestowal of a national honor, citing the moral bankruptcy of those in power. In addition to his wife, Achebe is survived by two daughters, Chinelo and Nwando, and two sons, Ikechukwu (“Ike”) and Chidi ’92.

A feature story on Chinua Achebe’s legacy at Bard will be published in the Fall 2013 Bardian.

Michael Foster, 34, died on June 14, 2012, in Brooklyn, New York. He earned an M.S. degree in environmental policy from Bard, and a second degree in marine-estuary-environmental sciences at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore. He was a nationally recognized leader in, and activist with, the Black Men’s Exchange. He was chief operating officer for the African American Advocacy, and was an environmental policy analyst. A gifted speaker, his expertise led him to travel to Taiwan, South Africa, and California, where his work was celebrated by his peers. He is survived by his parents, James E. and Constance Knox Foster; sister Michelle; maternal grandmother Mildred; and a host of uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Lenore Latimer, 77, visiting professor of dance at Bard for 36 years, dancer, choreographer, and inspirational teacher, died on September 26, 2012, after a long illness. She majored in dance at the University of Wisconsin and earned her B.A. from Juilliard. She studied choreography with Doris Humphrey and Louis Horst—two of the first to teach it as a discipline—and began ballet with Antony Tudor at Juilliard. She danced with the José Limón Dance Company, American Dance Theater at Lincoln Center, Valerie Bettis Dancers Foundation, and was a guest artist in Bonn, Germany, and Tuscany, Italy. She formed Latitudes Ltd.—The Lenore Latimer Dance Company in 1979 and served as artistic director until 1983. She

’86 Ruth Bramson, 49, died on October 25, 2012, in Dallas. She was a founding member of the Michigan chapter of the American Liver Foundation, and a member of Christian Women’s Connection.

Survivors include her mother, Mary Hamlin; father, Leon Bramson; stepmother, Nathalie; a sister, Rachel; a brother, Samuel; a nephew, Noah; a niece, Abigail; and extended family.

’98 Erin Leigh Cochran, 39, died on November 26, 2012, at her home in Midland, Texas. She had been working on her master’s degree in psychology at University of Texas of the Permian Basin.

Cochran’s first love was her daughter, Olive Jane, and her second love was painting. Additional survivors include her father and mother, Jerry L. and Mary; a brother, Ryan; his wife, Marcy; and their children, Presley, Miller, and Juniper.

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began teaching at Bard in 1976 and continued until the last semester before her death. Her works have been produced by the American Dance Festival, International Dance Workshop, Dance Theater Workshop, and Symphony Space, among others. She was artist in residence at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; University of Iowa; American University, Washington, D.C.; and Washington University, St. Louis. One devoted Bard student commented, “Old enough to do whatever she wants, and fabulous.”

Barton “Bart” Paul Meyers, 76, visiting professor of psychology at Bard who also taught in the Bard Prison Initiative, died on January 27, 2013. He was born in Washington, D.C., and graduated from George Washington University in 1958. He earned a Ph.D. in neuropsychology from the University of Michigan in 1963, and that same year joined the faculty at Brooklyn College, where he taught for 39 years. He was a leader in the campus antiwar movement and remained active in politics throughout his life. His enthusiasm found expression in countless ways; he was a compassionate teacher and scholar dedicated to sharing knowledge. He dedicated much time to the community of Woodstock, where he served as a volunteer firefighter and emergency medical technician.

Survivors include Alice Radosh, his wife of 40 years; his brother, Larry Meyers, and his children and stepchildren; a son, Gregory; a stepdaughter, Laura Radosh, and a stepson, Daniel Radosh; and five grandchildren.

Staff Larry C. Benson, 64, a 10-year employee of the Office of Safety and Security, died on December 31, 2012, at Kingston Hospital, from complications of the flu. Born in Kingston, New York, he was a veteran of the Vietnam War, and a former employee of Lehigh Portland Cement Company.

He was beloved by Bard students, to whom he was devoted. A life member of Saugerties Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #5034 and Saugerties Landowners Association, he loved to fish and made annual treks up to Lake Ontario, Maine, and Cape Cod. Survivors include his parents, Max and Alice; his wife, Kathleen; sons John, Adam, and Chad; a daughter, Brandy; brothers Mark and Aaron; sisters Linda, Alice, and Maxine; seven grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

photo Scott Barrow

Acknowledgment of

DONORS July 1, 2011 – June 30, 2012

For the first time in the Bardian, we are delighted to recognize all donors who contributed to the College during the 2012 fiscal year. Their support is essential in the lives of our students and the future of Bard.

An expanded list, the Report of Gifts, will be e-mailed in May to alumni/ae, friends, and parents; look for it in your inbox. It will also be available online. In an effort to reduce our environmental impact, a printed version will be available by request only.

Dear Alumni/ae, Parents, and Friends: It is my pleasure to present to you this report of gifts as a way of thanking and recognizing donors from the 2012 fiscal year. These gifts resulted in $42,014,898 in funds raised to support scholarships and annual operating expenses, create and enhance endowment funds, and finance capital projects.

Financial contributions are critical to the operations of the College; so too are the many volunteers who give of their valuable time and resources. My deepest thanks go to the Board of Trustees, Board of Governors of the Bard–St. Stephen’s Alumni/ae Association, Parents Advisory Council, and members of the Boards of the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard Graduate Center, Conservatory of Music, Richard B. Fisher Center, Levy Economics Institute, Bard Music Festival, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Center for Civic Engagement, Smolny College, the Friends of the Bard High School Early College Council, and our newest group, the members of the Longy School of Music of Bard College.

Two years ago we launched a five-year comprehensive campaign that had the ambitious goal of raising $594 million for our endowment and capital projects. To date we have met 63 percent, or $372,825,907, toward that goal. The campaign has already provided funding to expand Kline Dining Commons, renovate and add new squash courts to the Stevenson Athletic Center, and build an Alumni/ae Center, which houses the Office of Development and Alumni/ae Affairs. And in April 2013 we are proud to celebrate the new László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building.

All that we have accomplished in the last year has been made possible by philanthropy— the generosity of individuals. Bard has never had the privilege of an endowment to support its operations. It has managed to operate in the black for the last 37 years, owing to the trustees, alumni/ae, parents, friends, students, staff, and faculty who give each year. Our annual fund is our living endowment. The more than $30 million we give every year in scholarships is paid for annually by donors.

On behalf of all of my colleagues at the College, I want to thank our donors for their financial support. It makes possible what we do.

Bard is more than a worthy cause. It is a priority. Every gift affects the life of a student.

Each gift supports the reform of public education, the extension of international education, and the arts. These are, and must remain, vital dimensions of our contemporary democratic society.

Cordially, Leon Botstein, President, Bard College

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Donors by Giving Societies CORONAM VITAE $1,000,000+ Anonymous (2) Marieluise Hessel and Edwin L. Artzt Martin T. and Toni Sosnoff Charles P. Stevenson Jr. PRESIDENT’S CIRCLE $500,000–999,999 Anonymous (1) Fiona Angelini and Jamie Welch Lynda and Stewart Resnick FOUNDER’S CIRCLE $100,000–499,999 Anonymous (4) Howard and Judy Berkowitz Stanley Buchthal and Maja Hoffmann Gale and Shelby Davis Emily H. Fisher and John Alexander Jeanne Donovan Fisher Audrey M. Irmas Dr. Herbert J. Kayden Mr. and Mrs. George A. Kellner Sandy and Barbara Lewis Patti and Murray Liebowitz Lisa and Robert W. Lourie Nancy A. Marks Kate and Al Merck Mr. and Mrs. James H. Ottaway Jr. Marilyn and Jim Simons Francesca C. Slovin Prof. Alan N. Sussman Felicitas S. Thorne Alice and Tom Tisch Jeffrey W. and Laura H. Ubben Susan Weber SCHOLAR’S CIRCLE $50,000-–99,999 Anonymous (1) Hon. Anne Cox Chambers Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg Chris and Morton Hyman Gregory James Estate of Charles Flint Kellogg ’31 Bruce Ratner and Dr. Pamela Lipkin Courtney Sale Ross Laura-Lee Woods FELLOWS $25,000–49,999 Anonymous (2) Jan and Warren J. Adelson Helen ’48 and Robert L. Bernstein Sybil B. Bernstein Dr. Leon Botstein Alexandre and Lori Chemla Mitzi and Warren Eisenberg Kit Kauders Ellenbogen ’52

Elizabeth W. Ely ’65 and Jonathan K. Greenburg Selma Ertegun Stefano Ferrari and Lilo Zinglersen Eric Warren Goldman ’98 Michael D. Haddad Jennifer U. Johnson Michael L. and Rosalind Keiser Mrs. Mortimer Levitt Adam Lindemann Jennifer and Marc Lipschultz Fredric S. Maxik ’86 Christopher and Susan Molineaux Karen Ranucci and Michael Ratner Ali R. and Sabine Sarikhani Irene and Bernard Schwartz Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Selz Denise S. Simon and Paulo Vieiradacunha David Teiger Helena van Zuylen Caroline Keller Winter Richard W. Wortham III TEWKSBURY ROUNDTABLE $10,000–24,999 Anonymous (1) Fadi and Yasmine Agha Helen and Roger Alcaly Kathryn Keller Anderson and Scott Anderson Roland Augustine Anthony and Donna Barrett Marshall S. Berland and John E. Johnson Sallie and Thomas Bernard Cornelia S. Bessie David Birnbaum Carolyn Marks Blackwood March Avery Cavanaugh and Philip G. Cavanaugh Edward Lee Cave Gustavo Cisneros and Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Michelle R. Clayman Paula Cooper Arnold J. Davis ’44 Mr. and Mrs. Gonzalo de Las Heras Thomas Dengler ’61 Beth Rudin DeWoody Dr. Michèle Dominy Catherine C. Fisher and Gregory A. Murphy Adaline H. Frelinghuysen Charlotte Furth Dr. Joy P. and Robert J. Greenberg Barbara S. Grossman ’73 and Michael Gross Agnes Gund Catherine Gund Sally and William Hambrecht Prof. Frederick Fisher Hammond Barbara Haskell Charles and Laurence Heilbronn Bruce L. Helford Susan Hirschhorn and Arthur Klebanoff Tessa Huxley and Andrew Reicher Benjamin and Cathy Iselin

Barbara S. ’50 and Ralph Italie Curtis and Jill Kaufman Belinda and Stephen Kaye Susan and Roger Kennedy Richard F. Koch ’40* and Gladys Perez-Mendez Edna and Gary Lachmund Evelyn and Leonard Lauder Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Dorothy Lichtenstein Elisa Loti Prof. and Mrs. Mark Lytle Amy and Thomas O. Maggs Grace and Shepard R. Morgan Patricia and Peter A. Nadosy Dimitri B. and Rania Papadimitriou Alexander Ribbink David E. Schwab II ’52 and Ruth Schwartz Schwab ’52 Gregg Seibert Paula Sholachman Shaw ’62 William S. ’68 and Claire E. Sherman Lewis J. Silvers Jr. ’50 John-Paul Sliva Bruce and Francesca Slovin Courtney Smith Laura Stanley and Charles Collins Richard A. and Jill F. Stuckey Beth Uffner Illiana van Meeteren Dr. Jan and Marica Vilcek Margo and Anthony Viscusi Shelby White Millie and Robert Wise David Zwirner WARDEN’S SOCIETY $5,000–9,999 Anonymous (1) Kathleen Augustine Mary I. Backlund Alexander Bazelow ’71 and Wendy Bazelow Jonathan I. Berger Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 Thomas R. Berner. Esq. Aviva and Charles Blaichman Diana Blank Mr. and Mrs. Peter M. Brant Gavin Brown Kenneth and Kathryn Chenault Joan K. Davidson Edmund and Joanne Ellis Leonard Feinstein Britton Fisher Jane Furth Michael and Susan Gelman S. Asher Gelman ’06 Jin Xun Goh ’12 Elissa Goldstone ’07 Marian Goodman Mark Gordon Margaret Griffin

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James Grosfeld Amar and Padmini Gupta Eliot D. and Paula K. Hawkins Ernest Henderson III* J. Tomilson Hill III and Janine Hill Alan Hilliker and Vivien W. Liu Marguerite S. Hoffman Linda K. Jacobs, Ph.D. Josh Kaufman ’92 Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith Christopher W. and Parthenia R. Kiersted Ralph S. Levine ’62 Jane K. Lombard Christopher J. and Jamie L. McGurk Constance McPhee Nancy Milliken and Sergei Smirnoff Joseph and Cynthia Mitchell Barbara and Howard Morse Karen G. Olah ’65 Alexandra Ottaway Tricia and Foster Reed Stanley A. ’65 and Elaine Reichel Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman Mr. and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn Rick Rosenthal and Nancy Stephens Donald Rubin Jacqueline and Mortimer Sackler Janet Zimmerman Segal ’50 Prof. Peter and Eve Sourian Geoffrey E. Stein ’82 Dr. Kathryn E. Stein ’66 Lisa Stern Dr. Sanford B. Sternlieb Michael Stevens Michael W. Stout Vesna Straser ’95 and Brandon K. Weber ’97 Robert B. and Toni Strassler Paul Sullivan Seran and Ravi Trehan Alison M. and James A. von Klemperer John A. Werwaiss Susan and Jeffrey Winn Iwan Wirth Mitchell Wolfson Jr. BARD COLLEGE COUNCIL $2,500–4,999 Ellen and Kenneth Aidekman Robert ’53 and Marcia Amsterdam Alexander R. Baldwin III Valerie Barr and Susan Yohn Melissa R. and Samuel F. Bayard Roger Berkowitz and Jenny Lyn Bader Jack A. Blum ’62 Dave Chase Kathleya Chotiros ’98 Krieger Rosemary Dolphin Marcia Ely and Andrew McKey Robert S. Epstein ’63 Larry Fuchsman and Dr. Janet Strain Emel Glicksman and Justin Israel Matthew M. Guerreiro and Christina Mohr Karen Hagberg and Mark Jackson Boriana Handjiyska ’02 Margaret Hempel 50 acknowledgment of donors

Phillip Hewat-Jaboor Irene Hollister Frederic K. and Elena Howard Anne E. Impellizzeri Roger D. Isaacs ’49 Steven Johnson and Walter Sudol Jr. Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan Dr. Patricia Karetzky John S. M. Katzenbach ’72 Max Kenner ’01 The Keon-Vitale Family Anton Kern William L. Kistler Rahmi Koc Chris Lipscomb and Monique Segarra Amy Natkins Lipton ’75 Dr. Michael J. Maresca ’86 Peter F. McCabe ’70 Richard and Ronay Menschel Barbara Miral ’82 and Alberto Gatenio Andrea and Kenneth L. Miron Stephen R. Nelson Jim and Talila O’Higgins Martha J. Olson Monica and Julian Parks Mike and Carol Pratt Andrea Rosen Eliza and Jim Rossman Joan A. Schaffer ’75 Jodi and Marc Schneider Stephen H. Smith Sarah and Howard Solomon Melissa Schiff Soros and Robert Soros Allan and Ronnie Streichler Walter Tillow Judith Tolkow and Leland Woodbury David Tsang ’03 Prof. Marina van Zuylen Merida Welles and Chip Holman Irene Zedlacher ST. STEPHEN’S SOCIETY $1,000–2,499 Brooke Alexander Richard Amerling Arshes Anasal and Dena M. Davis Nada Andric and James Goettsch Ian and Margaret Ball Alexander and Margaret Bancroft Nancy Banks and Stephen Penman Joel Barclay Robert C. ’57 and Lynn A. Bassler Prof. Jonathan and Jessica K. Becker John C. and Julia P. Begley Eva Thal Belefant ’49 Elizabeth and Richard K. Berman Elizabeth C. Birdsall ’93 Norris J. Bishton Paula Fuchs Blasier ’68 Anne Donovan Bodnar and James L. Bodnar Sarah Botstein and Bryan Doerries Stuart Breslow and Anne Miller Laurel Meinig Brewster ’71 Christopher W. Brody C. Ann and James Brudvig

Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond J. Learsy Reginald Bullock Jr. ’84 Bruce and Bettina Buschel Constance R. Caplan Donald Capoccia Mary Ellen Caponegro ’78 David C. Carter and Carol J. Parks Richard and Lisa Cashin Barbara B. Castelli Lydia Chapin Melissa L. Chevalier ’92 Andrew Y. Choung ’94 Peter Coan and Lauren Mundy Jim and Jane Cohan David Cohen Eileen and Michael Cohen David Collins and Maura Kehoe Collins Fiona C. and Stewart A. Copeland Erin Dearborn Coryell ’99 John J. Coyne ’00 Arthur D. Crane ’74 and Dorothy Dow Crane Lyell Dampeer and Valerie Belli Blythe Danner ’65 George F. and Marsha Davis Thomas Joseph Deegan Day Nathalie and Charles de Gunzburg Ernest de la Torre Barbara and Richard Debs Dr. Richard C. Dehmel Charles Deull and Laurel A. Dutcher Erin R. DeWard ’86 and Ioannis Tsakos ’87 Hester Diamond Dr. William T. Dickens ’76 Jacob and Suzanne Doft Bruce B. Doris Paul D. and Rebecca Downs Christine Downton Malia K. Du Mont ’95 Amy K. and David Dubin Carol and Roger Einiger Deborah Elkind and Gregory Shatan Anthony M. ’82 and Kristina E. ’83 Ellenbogen Ines Elskop and Christopher Scholz Jerrold N. and Sally Ann Fine Douglas K. and Faith W. Finnemore Matthew Follett Garson and Nicole Foos Charlotte and Bill Ford Tobias Forster-Fader Kevin R. Foster ’92 and Donna Jarvis Dr. Richard G. Frank ’74 Alice Franklin and Dennis Hawk Dr. Richard C. Friedman ’61 Shelly S. Friedman Ford and Mari Fujii Gillian Fuller David Gahan and Jennifer Sklias-Gahan Klemens Gasser Helena and Christopher Gibbs Sam Glazer and Elise Siegel Robert Gober and Donald Moffett Stephanie A. Goldfine Tori Golub Eleonora S. and Joseph E. Granda Alison Granucci

Eugene Groelle Lawrence C. Grossman ’85 Tanja Grunert Prof. Marka Gustavsson and Prof. John Halle Susan F. Gutow ’63 Bruce and Diane Halle Dr. Joseph A. Halpern ’74 George F. Hamel III ’08 Thomas and Bryanne Hamill Joyce R. and Paul J. Hanly Martha Hart ’05 Barbara S. Herst ’52 Michele L. Hertz ’81 and Lawrence Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Herzner Marcus Hewitt Carol A. and James H. Hinton Linda Hirshman and David Forkosh* Dr. Ann Ho ’62 and Harry Harper Janny Huisman and Todd Silverblatt Dakis Joannou Charles S. Johnson III ’70 James E. Jordon Francis W. and Joan M. Jump Drs. Harriette Kaley ’06 and Gabor Kaley* Rachel and Dr. Shalom Kalnicki Dr. Michael and Robin R. Katz Blaine K. Keller ’09 Fernanda Kellogg and Kirk Henckels Frederick R. and Rose Kessler Renee N. Khatami ’77 Linda Kleban ’64 Dr. Seymour and Harriet Koenig Lawrence Kramer and Dr. Nancy S. Leonard Andrew N. Krinsky Elizabeth Kujawski Barney Kulok ’05 Carole and Winston Kulok Garry Kvistad Christine Kwiatkowski and Robert Abraham Barnett Kord and Prof. Ellen Lagemann Mark H. Lambert ’62 Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder Dr. Givi Lauren Geraldine and Kit Laybourne John C. Lerner M. Michael Lerner Dr. Michael A. Lerner Mr. and Mrs. Pierre Levai Amala and Eric Levine Harold J. and Shari B. Levy Mark Lewis Timothy H. Lewis ’10 Dr. William V. Lewit ’52 and Gloria Lewit Christina and James Lockwood John R. Low-Beer Mary B. Marcy Robert V. Marrow ’62 Vera Mayer Nion McEvoy Sr. Catherine A. McNamee and Christopher D. Miller Mollie Meikle ’03 George H. Miley Mona Pine Monroe ’52 Frank and Nina Moore

Herbert Morris Charlotte Moss Martin L. and Lucy Miller Murray Jeffrey and Ora Nadrich Anna Neverova ’07 Dr. Daniel R. O’Connor Dr. Daniel Fulham O’Neill ’79 Melinda Florian Papp Dr. Richard Pargament ’65 Mr. and Mrs. Frederick P. Payton Kleanthis and Kleopatra Phili Susan Pollack ’70 Ann Pyne ’07 Peter M. Rainey ’62 Jennifer L. Reck ’94 and Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 Ilene Resnick ’87 Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Romay Dr. George D. Rose ’63 James P. and Linda Rosenbloom David K. Ross Stuart Ross Ellen J. and Paul N. Roth Jonathan Roth Cathy M. and Harry M. Rubin Stephen H. Sachs Amy Sackin Theresa Sackler James G. Salvucci ’86 Pamela S. Sanders Dr. Karen S. Saxe ’82 Dr. David C. Schiffman ’61 David L. and Rebecca Y. Schroedel David A. Schulz Sarah Seaver and John Spielberg Elisabeth Semel ’72 and James Thomson Kendall Serota ’04 Tara Shafer and Gavin Curran Beth Kobliner Shaw Judith A. Shepherd ’69 Samantha Shubert and Steven Young John D. and Marsha A. Shyer Hildi and Richard Silbert Nina Skaya Ellynne Skove Olivia Smith Rosalie K. Snyder and Stephen P. Snyder ’62 Dr. Nina Soberman Shelley Marcus Sonenberg Dr. Ingrid A. Spatt ’69 Spyridon and Phoebe Spetsieris Frederick M. Stafford Debbie Waxman Staw ’86 Selda Jerrold Steckler ’48 Edwin Steinberg Darcy Stephens Janet Stetson ’81 and Danny Shanahan Peter and Sarah Sweeny Emily Tarsell Dr. Naomi Parver Taylor ’62 Lynn Thommen Gordon VeneKlasen Chris Vroom and Illya Szilak Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner Lindsay F. Watton Jr. Chantal and David Weinman

Daniel Weiss ’87 David Weiss ’86 Count Nicholas Wenckheim Rosemary and Noel Werrett Dr. Stephen A. Wertheimer ’59 David Wetherill Robert and Melanie Whaley Aida and Albert Wilder David and Joan Sylvester Wise Deborah Miller and William D. Zabel Mr. and Mrs. Martin S. Zubatkin Elli and Leo Zucker FRIEND $500–999 Anonymous (1) Mustafa K. Abadan Mrs. Russell B. Aitken James Akerberg and Larry Simmons Mrs. Coleen M. Alexander ’00 and Mr. Matthew Alexander Bruce H. and Terri S. Alpert Miriam Ancis and Daniel M. Mandil Claire Angelozzi ’74 Richard Armstrong and Dorsey Waxter Armstrong-Robitaille-Riegle Joshua J. Aronson Malgorzata Babiak Donald Baier ’67 and Marjorie Mann ’68 Moira Bailey and Thomas Duffy Mark A. Barnett ’71 Hon. Didi and David Barrett Jeffrey S. Barrett and Diana J. Stenzel Nancy K. and Dr. Peter S. Bauer Gadi Behar Susan Bell and Philip Hart Jonathan A. and Judith A. Benowitz Brendan Berg ’06 Hugo W. Berkeley Jordan Berkowitz ’03 Laurie A. ’74 and Stephen H. Berman ’74 Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge and Richard Tuttle Richard R. Bilangi ’72 Sasha Boak-Kelly Brian D. Bonnar ’77 Daniel J. Brassard ’84 Dr. Alan S. Brenner and Mrs. Ronni C. Brenner ’64 Jane A. Brien ’89 Warren A. Briggs ’60 Randy F. Buckingham ’73 and Ian Buckingham Judy Bunzl Robin Burnett Anne Monteleone Burr Ronald Burrows Qiaomei Cai and Feng Liu Loredana Calin ’94 Dr. Maureen Callahan and Steve M. Victore Carla A. Camp ’50 John Carroll Jr. ’85 Margaret Castleman ’69 Fu-chen Chan Sally D. Charnow Kendall Christiansen and Carol Shuchman Dr. Kathy Christman and Mark Matlock Christine Churchill donors by giving societies 51

Charles B. Clancy III ’69 Robert and Isobel Clark Amy M. Coes ’99 Scott and Nijole Colabuono Erich Cramer Christine Cuddy and Harry Gittes Elizabeth R. Cutler and Thomas Kreutz Barbara and Ernest D’Amato Prof. Timothy M. Davis ’91 and Prof. Lisa Sanditz J. Roberto De Azevedo Leland Ray Deeds ’96 Jason Del Col ’95 Koulas Delianides Anthony Delorenzo Liz Dempsey ’05 Anne Wellner de Veer ’62 John A. Dierdorff Prof. David A. Dilworth Betty Ann and David Director Fred and Michele Doner Alden Lowell Doud John and Denise Dunne Rachel Edelson Ruth and William S. Ehrlich Peter G. Eschauzier ’62 Sarah Megan Everitt ’92 Daniel M. Faber and Dr. Rachelle L. Shaw Nicole J. Fanarjian ’90 Naomi B. Feldman ’53 Jack Fenn ’76 Gaia Filicori ’07 Lawrence Flick Dr. Eva B. and Sean F. Foley Janice and William Forsyth Andrew F. Fowler ’95 and Amanda Burrows-Fowler ’98 Adriana Friedman William and Lucy Friedman Gail Garlick Felice and Yorman Gelman Laura Genero Joshua S. Geraghty ’02 Omar Gharzeddine and Hala Schourair Alberta Gilbridge-Wonderlin Laura and William Glasgall Jeffrey E. Glen Jay Golan and Rabbi Barat Ellman Amy A. ’90 and Benjamin J. ’91 Goldberg Donald Goldberg ’69 and Tracy de la Mater Goldberg Judith Kateb Grace Martin D. Gruss Warren L. Habib and Alexis P. Walker Pamela Hanson Nancy C. Hass and Bob Roe Ruth Helfeld and Ali Nasir Rizvi Gloria Hidalgo Stephanie Hodor Drs. James S. Hoffman and Karen Zabrensky ’73 Martin Holub Lucas Hoogduin and Adriana Onstwedder Rupert and Yanina Hope Maggie Hopp ’67 Stephen Horowitz Elizabeth D. and Robert Hottensen Dr. Dwayne Huebner Chris Hughes 52 acknowledgment of donors

Amy Bachelder Jeynes and Scott Jeynes ’90 Barton and Debby Jones Daniel Josephs ’79 and Miriam Fishman Peter W. Josten’ 48 David W. Kaiser and Rosemary Hicks Alexandra and Paul Kasmin John Keenan Elaine and Arthur Kelton Erica Kiesewetter J. P. Kingsbury ’03 Jeffrey A. and Karen R. Klafter Christina Nye Koons Peter Kosewski ’77 Neil A. Kotey ’91 Trudy C. Kramer Jill and Peter Kraus Dr. Nicholas T. Ktistakis ’83 Laura Kuhn Mara Kurka Wonmi Kwon Emmanuel A. Kypraios ’97 Stephanie Lamartine-Schwartz ’85 and David M. Schwartz ’84 Martin Langfield Alison L. and John C. Lankenau James and Justine Laugharn Erin J. Law ’93 Alexa Lennard ’04 Elise and Jeffrey Lennard Toby D. Lewis Glenn Ligon Robert Longo and Barbara Longo Sukowa Jane R. ’63 and George P. ’65 Lynes II João Magalhães Susan C. Mann ’78 Paul Marcus ’76 and Katherine Juda Marilyn J. Marinaccio Jonathan Massey ’85 Katherine Massey ’98 Liese Mayer ’05 Elizabeth I. McCann Amie McEvoy Misale and Dr. Samson Mebrahtu Mr. and Mrs. Gregor Medinger Anthony and Celeste Meier Lynne Meloccaro ’85 John S. and Laura L. Meyer Barbara L. and Arthur Michaels Barbara Miller and Peter Jensen Michael M. Miller ’63 Maureen Jo Missner Kelly Moody Fred Moreno Valerie J. Muesse Ridaa and Sarah Murad ’04 Charles R. Naef ’53 Erika Nelson and Rich Montone Melanie B. Nicholson Michael E. and Rebecca M. Nolan Diane L. Nye Harold Oaklander Thelma Olsen Sarah Elizabeth Coe Paden ’09 Amy D. and Thomas H. Paris Cynthia O. and David W. Parr

Karen and Vincent Parrinello Jodi Passarella Jeanine S. and Ronald M. Pastore Jr. Debra R. Pemstein and Dean Vallas Christopher Pennington ’87 Lorelle Marcus Phillips ’57 and Roger Phillips ’53 Lucas Pipes ’08 Susan R. Playfair ’62 Arlene H. Pollack Dr. Stuart Posner ’64 Marina L. Preussner Michael Pulitzer Justin P. Quinn Jr. and Cynthia Staples-Quinn Melanie and Philippe Radley Steven B. Richards ’72 Frederick Richmond Margaret Roche Marguerite Rodgers Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Dr. Joan Shufro Rosenblatt ’56 Dr. James Ross Nancy Ruddy ’74 David Saltonstall Barbara A. Schoenberg Deborah A. and Stephen G. Scholl Andrew Schulkind Louise Tachau Schulman ’51 Jimmy Schwarz ’49 Henry Seltzer ’06 Margaret Mary Sheahan Edith Shean-Hammond ’72 Richard M. Sherman ’49 Michael Shuman Amy Denison Sillman ’95 Robert B. Silvers Lea Hillman Simonds Florence and Warren J. Sinsheimer Linda Harrison Sitnick ’69 Brian and Laura Small Betsy Covington Smith Bev Smith Stephen N. Sollins ’90 Nancy Solomon Carol Furth Sontag David Sorkin Clive A. Spagnoli ’86 Jennifer Joli Spirer ’68 Joseph A. Stanco Jr. ’99 Cynthia Staples-Quinn Jeremy Steinberg Barbara Stone Mark Street ’86 Patricia F. Sullivan Marina Park Sutton ’78 Nancy Swett Art and Jeannette Taylor Carolle Thibaut-Pomerantz Governor Tipton and Julia Saunders Lora L. Tredway ’71 James and Sean Turner Elizabeth H. Van Merkensteijn Anthony Vitale Dr. Siri von Reis Jonathan F. Walker ’86 Marla and Brian Walker

Stefanie C. and Daniel S. Walker Alan C. Wanzenberg Sally Ward Ilyas Muhammad Washington ’96 Laura E. and Jay M. Weinman Roger Weisberg and Karen Freedman Wendy J. Weldon ’71 Lynne Beringer White ’75 Maureen A. Whiteman and Lawrence J. Zlatkin Sallie Wiggins Barbara Crane Wigren ’68 Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Ari Wiseman Arlene T. and Milton Wittels Dr. Emanuel C. Wolff ’55 Sturgis P. Woodberry Thomas C. Woodruff Dr. Elena L. Zhukova Anthony and Sally Zunino $250–499 Anonymous (4) Elizabeth Abbe and Lewis A. Schneider Constance Abrams and Ann G. Verber Maria Louisa Achino-Loeb Susan and André Aciman Lawton Adams Jr. Caroline and Stephen E. Adler Joseph Ahern and Leland Midgette Ellenor M. Alcorn ’77 Dr. Lefa E. Alksne ’85 Richard Allen ’67 Dr. and Mrs. Morton Alterman Gigi Alvare ’77 Gail Levinson Ames ’78 James and Margaret Anderson Carolyn Antrim ’65 Richard Asaro Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63 and Dr. Jerome Haller Megan Baldrige Barbara B. Barre ’69 Ronald Bayer and Jane Alexander Jane Bealer and Dr. John Taylor Joshua A. Bell ’98 John Bessonette Kurshed Bhumgara Sally T. Bickerton ’89 Sandee L. Blechman and Steven H. Goldberg Ellen Bogdonoff and Jeffrey A. Horwitz Jacqueline Bogner George and Leila Bonner Thomas W. Bonnett and Karen Kahn Jeffrey J. Bott and Ginny L. Miller Lisa and Robert Brainard Craig and Camille Broderick James P. Browne ’86 Drs. Sally Browning and Richard S. Pelman Alfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth Gary P. Buonanno and Susan M. Danaher Maria E. Burgaleta-Larson and Mark S. Larson Dr. Margaret Burroughs Karyl and Peter Cafiero Dr. Robert and Rev. Ann Callender Madison Calvert ’04

Anne Jennings Canzonetti ’84 and Matthew Canzonetti ’84 Amy Cappellazzo Lisa Carnoy Pia Carusone ’03 Lynn Aarti Chandhok and Robert S. Dieterich Sharad Chaudhary Drs. Quin-Zene Chen and Yen-Fang Keng Laurence J. Chertoff ’78 and Rose Gasner Ellen Chesler and Matthew J. Mallow Pamela Chow and Ted Smith Alice Chung and Casey Mack Win Clevenger Frederick and Jan Cohen Drs. Joanna A. Cooper and Charles H. Pollack Andrew F. Corrigan ’00 and Jennifer Macksoud ’99 Peter J. Criswell ’89 Charles L. Currey ’61 Vicki D’Anna Shirleyann Dardaine Lea Daugherty ’88 Thomas J. Davis ’58 Nicole M. de Jesús ’94 Christopher Deering and Jane van Dyke-Deering Daniel Desmond ’00 Laurie Dien and Alan Yaillen C. Douglas and Leslie Dienel Cristina M. Duarte ’86 Svetlana Dubovik Emma E. Dunch Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95 Elisabeth Dyssegaard and David Kallick Karin and Robert Eaton Dr. David G. Ebersole ’74 Robert C. Edmonds ’68 Edward H. Eigerman ’93 Mitch Epstein and Susan Bell Patricia and Dr. Roy Eriksen Mica Ertegun Barbara E. Etkind and Jack A. Luxemburg Joseph M. Evancich Sameh Fakhouri Kevin R. Flach and Merideth W. McGregor Harvey B. Fleetwood ’68 Arthur and Susan Fleischer Jr. John W. Flower ’86 F. Frederic Fouad Dr. Mark S. Freedman ’73 Harvey and Mary Freeman Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 Richard Fuchs and Judith Hochman Frances A. and Rao Gaddipati Ann and Peter Geismar Scott Gerber Ralph M. Gerth IV Linda and Richard S. Gesoff Rick Gladstone Edith Glassey Jay L. Glazer ’07 G. Carson Glover and Stephen Millikin Robert A. Goldfarb ’59 Mark Gooley Richard Gottlieb Katherine Gould-Martin and Robert L. Martin Drs. William Gratzer and MaryAnne Cucchiarelli

Leon Stewart Greene ’98 Dr. David and Zelda Greenstein Nancy Greenwood Sara Griffen Douglas and Patricia Gross Hannah S. Gross ’71 and Mark A. Gross ’69 George Grunebaum Madeleine Gryrsztejn Peter Hajnal William Hammerstein ’87 Rosemary and Graham Hanson Dr. Rebecca L. Harris-Warrick ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Robert M. Hart Sr. Ramy Nagy Hemeid ‘05 and Mia McCully ’07 Donald B. Hilliker Jr. Jo Anne and Albert C. Hoffman Heather and Richard Houstoun Patti Hughes Mary Ann Hult ’94 Kirsten Peterson Hunter ’96 Josephine Lea Iselin David W. Jacobowitz ’65 and Linda Rodd Barbara Jacobson Liz Jankowski Miani Johnson Roger A. Johnson ’68 and Catherine Sheehan Kathleen B. Jones, Ph.D. Allison Julius Phyllis Kaplan John and Mary Kelly Francoise and Dr. William Kenney Dr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Kerenyi Alison Kinney Mehmet Kirdar Anthony Kiser Albert and Kathleen Klein Patti Q. Konopka ’68 Eric Koopmann ’64 Rose and Josh Koplovitz Kenneth M. Kroll Erol Kulahlioglu Drs. Regina Kuliawat and Frank Sun Dr. Robert M. Ladd ’52 Debra Laks and Robert Marx Phyllis Lambert Drs. Cynthia and Stephen LaMotte Knight Landesman ’73 Patricia Lapeyre Fleur H. Lawrence Dr. Charles R. and Christine M. Lazarus Arline Lederman and Edward Friedman Franklin and Irene Lee Louis Leibowits Dr. Robert G. Levenson ’67 Lou Lewis Richard C. Lewit ’84 and Alison J. Guss Rudy and Joann Licul Martin S. Lippman Michael and Susan Litman Apostolos and Edith Livitsanos Philip Loeb Hollis Logan and Robert Weinberg Linda Lopez Susan Lorence Glenn and Susan Lowry donors by giving societies 53

Sara Maud Lydiatt ’02 Janet Scott MacMillan ’85 Malcolm N. MacNeil ’97 Charles S. Maier Elinor Mannucci Barbara and William Maple Kenneth A. Margolis and Ellen Smithberg Richard Margolis Susannah W. Marks Gavin P. McCormick ’88 Kathleen M. McKenna ’78 John Melick Noga Menashe and Jean-Claude Ribes Angelo and Christine Merola Hon. Fred and Lynne Mester Pauline C. Metcalf Carlin Meyer Gregory R. Miller Karen M. Miller-Alexander ’83 Anne M. Morris-Stockton ’68 Diana J. Moser ’85 Carroll Moshier ’62 Maria Mottola and John P. Loonam Elizabeth R. and Gary J. Munch Alan G. Neumann Elizabeth A. Nicholas ’70 Dr. Brian Nielsen ’71 Sarah Ann Nisenson ’62 Elizabeth M. Norton ’95 Dr. Thomas Novella and Jane Wheatley Steven Nussbaum ’83 Marilyn and Peter Oswald Talma Ovide Elisa Owen Joseph H. and Karen Page Anne Elizabeth Palmer ‘96 Sky Pape Harris and Elsie Parsons Leslee Nadelson Paul ’70 John Pelosi Mary L. Perry Ellen and Eric Petersen Karen A. Peterson Gary and Luba Peysakhovich Aaron R. Phillips ’92 Harry Phillips III Leslie Phillips ’73 Margrit and Albrecht Pichler Roger Pierro Jr. Joanna Pousette-Dart Eve Propp Abhay Puskoor ’08 Jamie Raab Emily Rafferty John and Claire Reid Robert F. Reynolds ’94 Jane L. Richards Nancie L. Richards Richard Eveland Riegel III Christopher J. Riley ’93 Catherine Roche Erica T. and Dr. Robert C. Rollings Anne Rorimer Dr. Neil and Tamar Rosenberg

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Dr. Naomi Fox Rothfield ’50 and Dr. Lawrence I. Rothfield Devon Russell Philip Russotti, Esq. Sherri K. Saget Beth Salovaara Melissa Salten and Richard Rothman Regina Santella Louise A. Sarezky ’66 Elaine Sargent Pam B. Schafler Monroe B. Scharff ’48 and Edwina K. Scharff ’48 Patricia M. Schluter Thomas Schoenenberger Alice W. Schwarz Douglas T. Schwarz Susan Schwimmer and Harry Sunshine ’76 Joyce and Isadore Seltzer Ilene Shack Lizbeth and Stephen Shafer Yee Stacy Shau Michael Shea ’75 Elizabeth M. Sheehan Anthony Shorris Barry Silkowitz ’71 Lowery S. Sims Jeanne V. Sloane George A. Smith ’82 Eileen Sottile Dr. Abraham Spector ’47 Nancy Spector Raissa St. Pierre ’87 Bonnie J. Stacy ’05 Shawn C. Steele ’11 Mr. H. Peter Stern and Helen Drutt English Elizabeth Stribling Jeremy Strick Drs. Albert ’48 and Eve M. ’49 Stwertka Karen Elizabeth Swann Walter E. Swett ’96 Kornelia Tamm ’00 Frank Tang Stephen Tappis Ronald S. Tauber Thomas Teepen Marlene Tejada ’09 Alice J. Tenney Craig S. and Deborah C. Thompson Gayle Tilles Barbara and Donald Tober Leslie Tonkonow Dr. Kim M. Touchette ’77 Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69 Stephen B. Tremaine ’07 Randy J. Tryon James H. and Maris Van Alen Mary E. Van Egmond ’84 Scott D. Vanderbilt Connie Casey and Harold E. Varmus John Vinci Victoria Voytek and Robert Fogelson Douglas Walla Jida Wang Ian Wardropper Alisse Waterston and Howard Horowitz

Joan Canter Weber Dr. David S. and Miriam W. Weil Don and Barbara Weinreich Hilton Weiss Diane Wells Gail Wiederwohl ’69 Marian Williams Matt Wing ’06 William Wolz Arlene C. and Thomas J. Wszalek Andrew J. Yoon ’94 Matthew Zuckerman $100–249 Anonymous (3) Michael and Susan Abrams Kristen Accola Dr. Alberto Accomazzi and Andrea Koenig ’86 Teresa A. Ackerly ’83 Chris Adamson Diane Adler and Jeffrey Israel J. David Adler Eric Ahern ’00 Rowaida Ahmed Mulu Aklilu Abigail K. Alcott Carl Alexander Dr. David and Deborah Alexander Margaret B. Alexander ’68 and Richard A. Alexander ’68 Rebecca A. Allan Heather Aman Saga M. Ambegaokar Rob Ames Linda Anderson ’81 Daniela Ana Silberman Anezin ’98 Dr. Jean M. Antonucci ’76 Jose A. Aponte ’73 Joan Archer and Robert Merriam F. Zeynep Aricanli ’85 Prof. Myra B. Armstead Jacqueline M. Atkins ’06 Charles Atlas Rochelle J. Auslander ’65 David Avallone ’87 Judith Axe and Mark Fitterman Dr. Karen Laice Axelsson Hetty Baiz ’72 and James S. Perry ’71 D. H. Baker Deborah Lynn Baker ’76 Sybil Baldwin Susan G. Balfe E. R. Nash Balinton Christina Ball ’09 Susan and Clayton Banks Steven A. Barbash ’55 Siri L. Bardarson Drs. Andrew L. Barlow and Martha A. Jessup Kay Barned-Smith and St. John Smith Harold and Tracy Barnes David N. Barnett Jack L. Barnett Paul F. Barns and Dr. Jane G. Cashell Claudia Barron Emile and Vickie Bashir

Dr. Allen W. Batteau ’68 Rob Bauer ’63 Zoe Baumgardner ’06 Rosalyn Baxandall David J. and Susan R. Beattie Douglas Beaty Al and Arlene Becker Dr. Johanna K. Becker ’60 Leigh Beery and Jonathan Tunick ’58 Lynn Behrendt ’81 Dr. Clifford Beinart and Stephanie R. Low Brett Beldock Christine and Michael Benenati Julie A. Bindeman ’00 Charles W. F. Bell Howard and Mary Bell Antonia Bellanca Elizabeth Phillips Bellin ’00 and Marco M. S. Bellin Dr. Gwynedd A. Smith Benders ’99 Sandra Bendfeldt Dr. Regina Bendix Dr. Jess and Madeline Benhabib Amanda S. Benowitz Joan A. Benowitz Richard L. Benson Sally and Laurence Berg Drs. Daniel Berkenblit and Philippine Meister-Berkenblit Robert and Steffi Berne Bernard B. Berner and Carol A. Klein Elizabeth V. Bernstein Daniel Berthold Dr. Morton M. Besen ’52 Prapti Bhandary ’11 Sunil Bhardwaj Theresa Bhoopsingh ’00 Prof. Mario Bick and Diana Brown Alexander and Joyce Biener Priscilla Bijur Iva Bittová Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Blacklow Donald B. Blaikie Evelyne J. Blaikie Marge and Ed Blaine Sandra and Dr. A. John Blair III Jill Blakeway Stella and Omar Blasco Lisa S. Blinn ’92 Sarah Blos and David Brooks Sara Blumberg ’87 Katya R. Bock ’65 Susan H. Bodine ’72 Erica Bodwell Susan Bokan Linda Boldt ’68 and Martin W. Burman ’66 Sofia Bonami ’12 Suzanne Bonamici and Michael Simon Noemi Bonazzi and Rob Buchanan Rufus Botzow ’69 Laura J. Bourhana Sherry Boyar ’77 Carol D. Brannigan Doris Brautigan James K. Breene III Patricia L. Breitung

Frances and Jonathan Brent Martin I. Bresler Denise Bricker ’85 Jeff and Wendy Bricmont Madge Briggs Drew Broach and Robin Peters Ruth Brody Joanna Brotman and Mark A. Seltman Jerome A. Brown ’49 Peter Scott Brown Jr. ’97 William Eric Brown Peter J. Browne ’67 Jesse Browner ’83 and Judith Clain Theodora Budnik Joanne Maaloe Burdick ’54 Janice Burns Dr. Carol August Butler ’63 Judith and Lloyd Buzzell Charlotte Byers Hannah Byrnes-Enoch ’08 Renata Cafiero ’55 Joan and William Cain Megan Callaghan and Jeffrey T. Jurgens Sean Eliot Callender ’05 Clayton Calvert ’05 Deborah A. and Dr. James B. Campbell Wendy W. Campbell ’72 Thomas L. Campoli Diana Canales Dr. Cynthia Carmichael Nadja Hull Carneol ’00 Steven M. Carpenter ’87 and Amanda Katherine Gott ’96 Dan Charles Carroll ’96 Drs. Thomas Cartelli and Jacqueline Miller Mary and Stephen Carver Gail and Tony Cashen Drs. Mariana C. Castells and Bernardo J. Perez-Ramirez Vanessa Grace Catambay ’03 Barbara Chaffe and Andrew Weir Marc and Nicole Chalamet Jean Chan Mei Wan Chan Henry P. Chandler Jr. ’43 Geraldine Chapman Harold and Barbara Chapnick Norman and Maranda Cheng Daniel G. Cherubin ’87 Arlene Chiara Cecibell Chilan Margaret S. Chin Magdalena Ching Michael Chirigos and Elizabeth Rexrode Helen T. Chow Richard N. Chrisman Dr. David Christensen and Ruth Horowitz Daniel Chu and Lenore Schiff Barbara and Joseph Ciccone Carol Cina David Clain Geoffrey W. Clark and Suzanne F. Smith Jan A. Clark Judy Clark ’52 Marcelle Clements ’69

Timothy J. Clifford ’91 Elisabeth Armstrong Clock ’74 and Jeffrey A. Clock ’73 Rachel and Steven Coates Theodore and Trisha M. Coburn Matthew W. Cockrell and Barbara E. Holihan Dr. Lizabeth Cohen Richard D. Cohen Dr. Ruth L. Cohen Noah T. Coleman ’92 Aldyth and Mark Coler Richard Collens Cindy Colter and Iftikhar Ahmad Marie and Elio Commito Gary N. Comorau ’68 Michael Conforti Owen Conlow ’07 Helen Conover and Robert Minor Marella Consolini ’82 and James Rodewald ’82 Cynthia Conti-Cook ’03 Alexandra and Juan Contreras Mitch Coodley James P. Cooper Thea C. Cooper ’82 Iris Corcos Kayla Cort ’05 Douglas Cosgrove ’76 David R. Cote ’92 Richard C. Coursen Paul W. Cowan ’52 Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Cox III Mark V. Cox Lloyd R. Craighill and Beatrice A. Hartman Mark Crawford and Dorothy Lyon Tracey Crawford Eileen and William Crivelli Celia and John Cuk Andrew W. Cullen Joseph A. Cuomo Fred G. Curtis ’52 Dr. Bruce Cuttler and Joanne E. Cuttler ’99 Donald Cyzewski Marilyn and Larry Dale Dr. JoAnn D’Alisera Jeffrey Daniels and Katherine Miller Karen Darrell Nina David ’61 John Dawson ’07 Matthew Deady John E. Deimel ’50 Beverly Demitry Ellyn and Saul Dennison James P. Denvir and Lee Wallace Madeleine C. Deschamps Dr. Luanna E. Devenis ’76 Michelle Devereux ’04 David de Weese Jeanne Dewey Bruce S. Diamond ’71 David and Eugenie Dieck Nancy J. Dier and Lee Dassnick Lisa Di Liberto Laddie J. Dill Angelo DiRosa Anne Dittmeier George B. Dobbs ’78 donors by giving societies 55

John Dobkin Dr. Robyn Dogus Dena Doublex and David Jacobson Elaine Douvas and Robert Sirinek Dr. James N. Doyle and Lisa A. Guisbond Lisa S. Dratch ’09 Elizabeth Dreyer Aliza M. Driller ’80 Marisa Driscoll ’87 Dr. Gerald M. Drucker ’76 Kim Drummond Lawrence and Pamela Dube Joan and Wolcott Dunham Kirsten Dunlaevy ’06 Roberta Schreiber Dunn ’67 Carey R. Dunne and Kate W. Manning Elliot Dutcher ’08 Abby H. and John B. Dux John Q. Easton and Sem C. Sutter David Ebony and Bruce Mundt Elizabeth Eckstein Gerard Edery Linda Edmunds ’62 Andrea and Donald Edwards Lance Ehrenberg and Terry Sidell Bridget Elder-Milman ’83 and Kenneth Milman ’84 Sarah Elizabeth Elia ’06 Joan Elliott ’67 Michael ’69 and Sharon B. ’68 Elswit Nabila Eltantawy ’10 Dean C. Engstrom Michael I. Ennis ’97 Lauran P. Epstein ’88 and Thomas E. Ballinger ’86 Alexander Eriksen ’10 Dr. Vivian L. Eskin Barbara and Gerard Esposito Rickie Jane Faber ’70 Dr. Carole Fabricant ’65 Janet B. Fader ’81 Ann and John Falcone Patricia Falk Stefan Falke Andrey Falko ’05 Fu Fang Harold Farberman Bart Farell and Dr. Diane Matza Ginger Farley Amy L. Faust ’07 Margaret Fay Lorraine J. Fazzolare Deborah Fehr ’77 Dr. Frances M. Feinerman ’62 Andrew H. Feinman Milly and Arnold Feinsilber Dr. and Mrs. Mark Feldman Robert H. M. Ferguson Ward Feurt ’69 Dr. Peter Filkins and Susan Roeper Dr. Carole Fink ’60 Lilja M. Finzel ’69 Richard and Catherine S. Fischer ’79 David Fisher Barbara W. Flanagan ’60 Matthew Fleury and Elise Passikoff Dr. Michael and Grace Flusche 56 acknowledgment of donors

Raimond Flynn Lisa Folsom-Ernst ’81 Clifford L. Forbes Jr. D. B. Forer Jonathan and Laurie Foster Judy L. and Stephen C. Foy Andrew D. Frank ’68 Elizabeth Caffry Frankel ’01 Gregg E. and Jean A. Frankel Catherine Freedberg Dr. James Freeman Lisa Frey Ellen Fried Mitchell H. Fried Jonathan Friedan Daniel Friedman ’66 Ruth W. Friendly Ioana Frigura ’08 Joe and Yoshie Fujii Rina Fujii ’08 Anthony and Loretta Funaro Amy Furth Rene and Drew Gagnon Andrew L. Gaines Lisa A. Gesmondi Gallant ’86 Nathan Gandrud ’09 Hon. Louise Gruner Gans ’55 Ruth Garbus ’59 Judy A. Garlan Michael H. Garrety Kenneth A. Garzo ’69 Alexander Gaudio ’10 Aleksandra and Junusz Gawrysiak Karl N. and Dr. Priscilla K. Gazarian Joseph W. and Joyce Gelb Seth Gelblum and Orren Alperstein Joseph Geld John Geller Thomas A. Gentile Susan and John Gevertz Mirene Ghossein Kazimier Gieraltowski John and Ann Gifford Tara S. Gilani ’77 Elizabeth Gilbert Marvin and Maxine Gilbert Joanna Gillia Laurie Gilmore Marissa Kelley Bernstein Gimeno ’96 Dr. Jonathan Gitlin and Patricia Hodgman Christopher Given ’10 Alan L. Glaser ’68 Michael Glass ’75 Alysha Glenn ’09 Debby and Fred Glynn Arthur* and Judy Gold Nancy Gold and Kenneth Kopelman Arthur Goldberg Elyse Goldberg Neil Goldberg Mia Goldman Ellen and Paul Goldstein Rayner Gomez Diana Pilar Gongora ’84 Carlos Gonzalez and Katherine Stewart

Hector L. Gonzalez Barbara H. Goodman ’77 Blake Gopnik Andrea Gordon I. Bruce Gordon Matthew D. Gordon, Esq. ’80 Stanley L. Gordon Carina A. and Hans E. Gors Michael R. Goth ’69 Reiko A. Goto William P. Gottlieb ’69 Marie and Robert Graninger Sallie E. Gratch ’57 Rev. Neil I. Gray ’40 Dr. Judith Green ’61 Tom and Ruth Green Robert T. Greenbaum ’92 and Kara L. Miller ’93 Fayal Greene and David J. Sharpe Ellen and Norton Greenfeld Glenda Greenwald Alice and Bob Greenwood Dr. Martha Greenwood Maureen W. Gregory Jon E. Griesser ’04 Sheryl Griffith John R. Grimm Katharine J. Grosscup Lisa and Neil Grossman Martina Gruenewald ’05 Emily Grumbling ’04 Joseph Gubbay and Leslie Salzman Sarah Gray Gund Glen A. Gurner and Maureen L. O’Donoghue Michael B. and Susan R. Gushue Nicholas Gutfreund Maria Gutierrez-Logsdon and David Logsdon Daniel and Susan Gutkin Loren Gutter Ira and Marian Haber Alisa E. Hafkin Jessica Hahn Gilbert and Mary Hales Bethany Anne Halford ’97 Rebecca D. Haliscelik ’93 Bruce Hamilton and Susanna Carlisle Denise A. and Michael D. Hamilton Linnae Hamilton Dr. Evelyn Harden Jason Harootunian Lisa A. Harris ’74 Ellen Rogovin Hart ’66 Julie E. Hart ’94 Joseph and Betty Hartog Kirk Harold Haupt Dr. Alan Hausman Henry H. Hawley James Hayden Natalia Hayeem-Ladani James Haygood John Hays and Laurie Longiaru Dr. Douglas and Nancy Hazzard Michael P. Hearn ’72 Dorothy and Leo Hellerman Tanya Helmen ’96 Darren Henault

Gisela T. and Dr. William R. Hendley Delmar D. Hendricks David Henry and Lisa Price-Henry Joanne Pines Hersh’53 Betty Heugatter Daniel C. A. Hillman ’88 Jennifer ’73 and Nick ’70 Hilton Jack Hirschfeld ’59 Jennifer Hodge ’10 Dr. John and Shelagh Hodson Kim E. Hoffman ’84 Inge Schneier Hoffmann ’50 Talley Hohlfeld Charles F. Hollander ’65 Carolyn Holmes Michael B. Holmes Harold Holzer Kathleen Lynn Hoover ’96 Jan Hopkins and Richard Trachtman William J. Hornbostel ’95 Mr. and Mrs. Herbert J. Horowitz Ethan Horwitz Jafar Hosseinzadeh and Sholeh Razavi Margie Howard Christine and David Howe Andrej and Iveta Hrabovcak Maurice Hryshko ’85 Nancy Hsueh-Bruni Diane Q. Huang Deborah A. Hudson Tellervo Huima Lauren Hunt Jennifer A. Hunter ’87 Mark S. Hyacinth Joseph O. Iannacone ’93 E. B. Ipsen ’68 Lisa Isaacs ’84 Dr. Shelly Isaacs ’68 Anne Isaak Mary Iver Sherwood Ives and Sandra Sedacca Malgorzata Jablonska David S. and Susan R. Jackson Constance and Edwin Jacob Dawn and Philip Jacobs Linda Tyrol Jämsén ’80 Rajive I. Jayawardhane ’94 Dr. Dickson Jean ’94 Daniel Jenkins Robert A. Jensen ’68 Theresa Johansson and Emilio Santini Nikhil John ’04 Vernon Clark Johnson Larry Jones China Jorrin ’86 and Anne H. Meredith ’86 Toni Josey ’02 and Allen Josey Susan Joslin ’74 Christina Juarez John H. Juhl ’72 Dr. Martha Jurchak Megan M. Juring Dr. Eleanor C. Kane Dr. Ronald J. Kantor Constance E. Kaplan ’52 Darren J. Kaplan

Joern Karhausen Demetrios A. Karides Randall James Kathis Susan Kaufman John Kaufmann Edith K. Kealey Sara R. Keene Jessica Post Kemm ’74 Nick Kenner Carol Kessler ’91 Stephen J. Kessler ’68 David and Janet E. Kettler Nella Khanis Mbilizi D. Kilongo and Rutega Kinja Francis and Lena Kim Basil King Bill M. King Andrew and Linda Kittler Zina Klapper ’73 and Douglas Zwick ’75 M. Klares Josh Klein and Beatrice Weinberger Renata Ko ’03 Young Ko Cynthia Koch Andrea Koenig’ 86 Wolfram Koeppe Margaret Kolb Bastiaan Kooiman ’53 Douglas A. Koop Elinor Kopmar ’52 and Israel Kopmar Polly Kornblith Martin David Kornblum Kenneth Kosakoff ’81 Robert L. B. Koster Paul S. Kovich Dr. Alfred L. Kraft and Dr. Madalon C. Meany Kim G. Krause ’94 Susan C. Krenn and Douglas S. Miller Peter E. Kretzmer and Deborah S. Rosenberg Jay L. Kriegel and Kathryn McAuliffe Eugene D. Kublanovsky ’98 Diana Kupershmit Robert J. Kurilla W. Benjamin Lackey ’91 Heather C. Lagarde ’91 Tia J. Landau ’84 Gretchen Lang ’80 and Michael P. Wilkins ’77 Mark Lanier James A. and Joyce Lapenn Nathalie C. Larsen ’87 Kathryn and Pierre-Marie Lasseron Nancy Kay LaTorre Alfred J. Law and Glenda A. Fowler Law Dr. Allison S. Laws Wayne Lawson Carol ’65 and Spencer I. ’64 Layman Eugene L. Lebwohl ’74 Helena Lee Dr. and Mrs. Gary Lefer Christian Lehmann ’09 Carole M. Leichtung ’59 Stephanie R. Leighton ’80 Karen Leite ’88 Leon and Fern Lerner Nancy and Thomas Leue

Daniel A. Lev Kenneth and Sandra Levan David Levin Susan J. Levine ’87 Andrew Jay Levinson and Deborah Reik Alvin Lewis ’81 Gerald F. Lewis Maureen Lewis and Lewis Thornton Richard A. Lewis’ 58 Isaac Liberman ’04 Maureen H. Liebler ’68 Laura Liebman Priscilla Lincoln and John Pintar Marilyn Lindenbaum ’69 Beppe Lovoi ’04 Rev. William C. B. Lowe ’66 Susan W. Lowenstein-Kitchell ’48 Wallace A. Loza ’63 Arthur ’58 and Karla ’57 Lutz Mari Blumenau Lyons ‘57 and Nick Lyons ‘60 Molly Mackaman John P. MacKenzie Dr. Jennifer H. Madans ’73 Rebecca Mai Tom M. Maiello ’82 Robert Malcolm ’63 Robert K. and Sloane K. Malecki Fran Mallery Gayatri and Tony Malmed John A. Malnichuck ’72 Brenden Maloof Daniel S. Manning Harvey Marek Jane and Mario Marghella Dr. Bonnie Markham ’64 Elizabeth Marks Shona L. Marston Brenda Martin Cameron Martin Lynne Maser Marny Maslon Steven Maslow Mark Allen Mason ’84 David and Ellen Matheson Barbara and Tom Mathieson Melissa Mathis ’88 David Matias Kathryn Matschullat Dianne and Salvatore Mazzulo Whip McGee Stephen and Susan McInnis Charles G. McIntosh ’55 John McKeon Jeremy McKey ’10 Gregory McLean II ’10 Patrick K. McManus Sally Martin McMurray ’48 George McNeely Uday Mehta Jill K. Meilus Gregory Mellett and Susan Vitti Delia Cunningham Mellis ’86 Arnold Mellk ’64 Stacey J. Merel and Dr. Ronald W. Taffel Jessica G. Merliss donors by giving societies 57

Geraldine Fabrikant Metz and Robert T. Metz Claire Elizabeth Michie ’02 Stephen Mihm Carol H. Miller Jeffrey E. Miller ’73 Joshua Miller ’00 and Antoinette Capaccio ’00 Richard I. Miller ’74 Eduardo Mills ’07 Janet C. Mills Ken Min and Sung-Ae Min Dr. Marta Minnerop Cindy L. Minnotte David and Nancy Mintzer Dr. David Paul Mirsky ’57 William T. Mitchell Sheila M. Moloney ’84 and Prof. John Pruitt Barry G. and Whitney M. Moore Christopher S. Moore Kimberly and Stephen A. Moore Christina Garcia Moreno Roxlyn Moret and Andreas Wirz Thomas Morgan Sarah Mosbacher ’04 William Moseley Larry Moses and Susan Steinman Roy Moses Mark Moskowitz and Lyn Weinberg Doris Moss Susan Mountrey ’65 Oren Moverman Paula R. Muesse Richard J. Muller ’51 Julia McKenzie Munemo ’97 and Ngonidzashe Munemo ’00 Hillary Murtha ’99 Dr. Oscar White Muscarella Christine Nardi Frances Nash and Gerald Torres Arthur Nasson ’85 Cynthia and Thomas P. Nelis Chris Larsen Nelson ’73 Hon. Henry K. Nelson ’68 Peggy A. Nelson Marion Nestle Mallory Neuberger Charlene O. ’49 and Mortimer Newburg Nancy R. Newhouse Bo Bo Nge ’04 David K. Nichols William L. Nieman ’68 Drs. Naomi Nim and Jerome Segal Dwight and Jane Nishimura Hugh and Marilyn Nissenson Vivian Nixon Dan Noble and Catherine Orrok David Noble Eric and Karen Nodiff Tom Nolan ’84 Virginia Norman Gwen Norton Joan Kroll Novick ’52 Wendy Noyes Donna Nussinow-Burns ’79 Arliss Nygard ’75 Michael D. O’Brien ’82 and Suzanne S. O’Brien ’81 58 acknowledgment of donors

Jill Obrig Thea K. Obstler Kimberly A. O’Flaherty ’89 Sakiko Ohashi Douglas Okerson and William Williams Elizabeth J. and Sevgin Oktay Joanna M. Oldakowski David W. Oliver and Roberta B. Machado Jennifer Olshin ’98 JoAnn Shay O’Neill ’69 Sean F. O’Neill ’97 James Orchard-Hays Zulma Ortiz Fuentes Susanna Orzel Suzette A. Osadon Dr. Maureen L. Osborne ’76 Iris M. Oseas ’52 and Jonathan Oseas ’52 Jane E. Osgood ’75 Margaret Osius Dwight Paine Jr. ’68 Timothy V. and Vera A. Palmieri Gerald Pambo-Awich ’08 Anne and Paul Parker Louis Parker Floyd H. Parkman ’49 Firoozeh and Dr. Mahesh Patel Gary S. Patrik Susan Pavane Samuel Peabody Jane D. Peacock ’80 Dolores S. and William G. Doak Andrea Peirce James Pelizzari ’10 Patricia Pelizzari Mary Patricia Pellegrini ’96 Sondra Perl Deborah L. and Dr. Richard L. Perlman Alix Pearlstein James N. Perlstein Christine Perret ’82 Raymond D. Peterson Tracy Peterson Chris Pettker and Hesse Metcalf Patricia Pforte ’08 Karina N. Thomas Pietrowski ’96 Halina Pietrzycka Ruth Plager Jennifer Plassman and Bruce Polin Maxwell C. Platoff ’09 Becky Plattus and James Parrott Tamara Cecile Plummer ’02 Mayda and Dr. Ronald Podell Mathew A. Pokoik ’99 Eleanor Pollak Laura Pollakoff and Robert MacLagger Tracy Pollock ’07 Yuen Poon-Tsou Dr. Ellen J. Popenoe ’80 William C. Power ’83 David L. Powsner David Pozorski and Anna Romanski Jeffrey S. Preiss ’79 and Rebecca Quaytman Caroline D. Preston and Christopher L. Tilghman William A. Preston ’87 Mark Prezorski

Mr. and Mrs. Morton Price Christopher Lucian Pye Enayat Qasimi ’96 Florica Radu Raduns-Silverstein Family Katherine G. Raftery ’75 Carmi Rapport Betty Rauch Jeffrey Scott Rawson ’02 Jeffrey R. Ray ‘71 Kenneth S. Recu Julia E. and Mark O. Reed Lili Abir Regen Richard C. Regen Elaine Reichek Engel Beth L. and James A. Reiman John A. Reiner ’74 Barbara B. Reis Caroline Reitz and Douglas Widmann David Rice Ethan P. Rice Joan D. Rich ’63 Marcia R. Rich ’70 Mark and Patricia Richards Emilie Kate Richardson ’05 Sally C. Richmond Emma Richter ’09 Dr. John and Susan Riefler Charles H. Rigg and Nancy J. Snudden Robert Daniel Riggs ’08 Judith Rivas ’06 Bruce and Joan Robinson Gary B. Robinson ’79 Camille Rojas Robert A. Ronder ’53 Carlos Rosado Jr. ’10 Sally Rosen George L. Rosenberg ’39 Helen Rosenthal Ilse W. Ross ’49 Jane S. Rothbart Amy Routman Daniel Rozenberg ’94 Noah B. Rubinstein ’89 Dagna M. and Wlodzimierz M. Rucewicz Kara M. Rudnick ’99 Louis Ruggiero and Rosanna Scotto Scott K. Russ ’67 Dale Russakoff Jennifer Russell Emily Baillargeon Russin David Bauer and Barbara Rylko-Bauer Josephine Sacabo ’67 and Dalt Wonk ’65 Emily R. Sachs Francisco Alejandro Salinas ’05 Robert Salmon and Virginia Taylor Dr. Michael Salwen Barbara A. Sampson ’87 Gilbert E. Sanders Reva Minkin Sanders ’56 Richard and Rosemary Sanders Barbara L. ’54 and Robert Sandler Janine Santaromita Elena Saporta and John Tagiuri Penny Saranteas

Carmen T. Sargeant Sean Sargeant Diane L. Saslow ’70 William K. Sato Dorothy Savitch and Howard Lew Dr. Gloria Schafer Anita Norma Schaffer Brenda Scheider David Schmerler Mr. and Mrs. John Schmidt David M. Scholder ’90 and Tara E. Scholder ’91 Judith A. and Morton W. Schomer Ellen Schoninger Dr. Alan Schreiber Paul F. and Peggy Schubert Irene Z. Schultz ’48 Carrie Schulz ’03 Wendy Davis Schwam ’70 Naomi and Daniel Schwarzbaum Roger N. Scotland ’93 Sally Sears-Mack Douglas B. Seeley and Joanne Walsh Drs. Ellen Seely and Jonathan Strongin Jeanne Segal and Richard Williams Jeffrey M. Seward ’75 Alexandra M. Shafer ’78 and Denis Duman Harold M. and Myra Shapiro Michael S. and Vivien James Shapiro ’75 Dr. Samuel L. Sharmat ’91 Michael D. Sharp Richard T. Sharp Patricia Sharpe Christopher Shaw ’71 Claude Shaw Sarah M. Shaw Virginia Sheahan Boni J. Shevelove Nan Shipley Khalida B. Showker Jeanne Shub Julius Shultz Marcella and Thomas Shykula Peter M. and Stella Sichel Donald A. and Joanne M. Siegel Charles Siewert Natasha and Richard J. Sigmund Tomas Simko Andrew Simon ’10 Elisabeth A. Simon Katherine and Ned Simpson Mr. and Mrs. H. Lawrence Singband Alan Siraco ’86 Alan Skvirsky ’61 Lauren and Marc Slayton Judith and Lawrence Slezak Denele and Eric Small Alexander Smith and Mary Blakemore Debra A. and Robert P. Smith Duane and Regina Smith Sara Caffrey Smith ’79 and Dr. Louis W. Smith Adam Snyder ’89 Robert T. Snyder Dr. and Mrs. Meyer N. Solny John L. Solomon ’58 and Ruth L. Solomon ’57 Jeannie and Louis Sorell

Dale F. and Heidi C. Sorenson Arthur and Donna Soyk Deneen S. Spann Cynthia Spencer Scott Spencer Katie Sperling Jonathan Spitz Amy Sprecher Archana Sridhar ’98 and Kevin O’Neill Heidi Stamas Helene L. Stancato Donald H. and Gayle T. Stauffer William N. Stavru ’87 Judith and Ned Steele Abby Stein Andrea J. Stein ’92 Joan M. Stein Billy Steinberg ’72 Deborah Steinberg ’00 Mary Ann Steiner ’86 Robert C. Stempel ’52 and Razelle F. Stempel Kenneth S. Stern ’75 and Marjorie Slome Barbara and Jeffrey Stevens Kristen Stevens Thomas A. Stewart and Amanda Vaill Dr. Michael A. Stillman Molly F. Stockley ’96 Lyndsey Stonebridge Francis E. Storer Jr. Denise L. Straus ’75 Sarah Smith Strauss ’93 Drs. Marilyn J. and Robert A. Strawbridge Douglas A. and Micki J. Strawinski Ben Strubel Charles Stukenborg Dale D. and Jane Marie Sulzle Marina Prager Sun ’97 Ekundayo Sunmonu Daksha M. Susania Anna-Liisa Suurpaa ’57 William M. Swenson Drs. David and Sara Tabby Corina Tanasa ’00 Marcy Tanger Stephen W. Tator ’51 Claude Taylor ’71 Eric D. Taylor ’96 Henry K. and Mona A. Taylor Dr. James F. Taylor ’70 Barbara and Alan Tepper Thomas D. Thacher Patricia Thatcher Lisa A. Thompson ’99 Paul J. Thompson ’93 Profs. Valeri J. Thomson ’85 and John B. Ferguson Helene Tieger ’85 Jonathan Tilles ’09 Teri Tomaszkiewicz Eileen Tomson Amy Toth ’00 Roderick Townley ’65 Phuc ’95 and Susan ’96 Tran James B. Traub ’88 Kristin Trautman Jamie Treanor ’75

Stephane and Isabel Truong Arthur G. Trupp ’78 Tsu-Yu Tsao Junko Tsuchida Thu Dat Tu ’97 Mandy Tumulty ’94 Evelyn and Preston Turco Adam Turner ’06 Lawrence E. Turner ’88 Joshua Tyler ’06 Bonnie and Paul Tymniak Patricia Pickman Udell Emiljana Ulaj ’12 Jane and Lawrence Ulman Karen Unger Harlan Bratcher and William L. Usnik Jr. Arturo Valbuena Iren S. Valentine ’92 Elizabeth and Dr. Gregory Van Gundy Keith Van Horn Rachel R. Van Horn ’12 Susan Van Kleeck ’78 Gerald Van Kollenburg Mary and Richard van Valkenburg Sara Vass ’70 Dr. Paul F. Vietz ’52 Ernest Vogliano Elizabeth Vonalt Winslow G. Wacker ’82 Albert and Helen Wade Nathan Wagoner ’80 Sybil Wailand Carole Wallace ’52 Eric James Warner ’01 Jennifer Watterud ’87 Deborah Webster ’00 Elizabeth Weiner ’97 Jonah Noel Weiner ’02 Wendy L. Weinrich Paul H. Weinstein ’73 Bennett and Denise Weiss Noel N. Weiss ’58 Wesley Weissberg Lois F. Weitzner ’49 Courtney Wemyss Barbara Jean Weyant Karen and Robert Whale Francis H. Whitcomb ’47 Amy K. White Susan White Brad Whitmore C. Denese Whitney Gabriel Wiesenthal Daniel Wilbur ’09 Gordon and Virginia Wilcox Dr. Dumaine Williams ’03 and Erika Williams ’04 Robert C. Williams and Ilene V. Yates Lauren M. Willis ’01 Nicole Willis-Grimes ’97 Ruth Willner Mary Wise Karen A. Wiseman C. Theodore Wolf Lauren Wolf Melinda Wolfe donors by giving societies 59

May Wood Gavin T. Wright Richard T. Wright Amy R. Wrynn ’87 Cui Ling Wu Robert Wyatt ’74 Dr. Herbert M. and Audrey S. Wyman Valon Xharra ’04 Peggy A. Young ’80 David Yum Dr. Lorraine Yurkewicz ’75 Drs. Benjamin and Lisa R. Zablocki Dr. Theodore Zanker ’56 Mike and Kathy Zdeb Dr. Heywood W. Zeidman ’63 Ronni Zeidman Feng Zhi Zhang and Zhong Yang Christopher Zoukis David Zufall Tracy Zwick UNDER $100 Andy Aaron ’76 James B. Abbott and Dr. Barbara L. Welch Elia Abedin Lisa Bernstein Abramovich ’71 Sara E. Abramowitz ’12 Gerald F. and Rebecca L. Abualy Marc Adin Rachel N. Adkins ’08 Rev. Albert R. Ahlstrom Imran Ahmed ’02 Farah Akhtar ’12 Dorothy C. Albertini ’02 Daria M. Albini ’77 Jacqueline Allain ’11 Anne Wallace Allen ’87 Stuart Allen and Sara Oaklander Sibel A. Alparslan-Golden ’88 Sharon Alpert ’85 Enid J. and Michael P. Ames Jayson Amster and Mary K. Hanna Christine Ancey Catherine M. Anderson ’92 Michael Anderson and Lark Bergwin-Anderson Eric E. Angress Jessica Anzelone ’02 Steven and Tracy Anzuoni Mr. and Mrs. Stylianos O. Arapakis Daniel Armenti ’07 Johnna Katherine Arnold ’96 Madelein Arnstein Martha Atwell ’85 Jane Evelyn Atwood ’70 Mr. and Mrs. Stuart Auchincloss John G. Aufderheide ’80 John J. Austrian ’91 and Laura M. Austrian Hannah Avellone ’04 Hadier Aziz ’03 Marcello Baca and Dr. Isabel Godoy Brian R. Bader Robert Jon Badia Evangeline Badilla-Melgarejo Jesse D. Baer John T. Bagg ’64 60 acknowledgment of donors

Maria A. Baird and George J. Cotsirilos Dr. Richard J. Bake Jr. Dr. Cynthia Baldwin and Samuel Black Curtis and Deena Ball L. Kaelin Ballinger ’07 Jacqueline Bao ’11 Cynthia R. and James R. Barber Grace Barber ’07 Rachel Bard Robert L. Bard ’66 Hannah Bar-Giora Edison Bariani Jr. Kristi Lea Barnes ’96 Dr. Roy C. Barnes and Bernadette Seim-Barnes Bruce Barratt ’75 Joseph Batistelli Lisa and Thomas Beath Dr. Franciso and Lilia Becerra Brenden Beck ’07 Bruce Bedell ’85 Richard M. Bell ’64 Nitza Bellamy Martine R. Bellen ’78 Maurice Bendahan Carrie Benevento ’91 Antoinette and Frank Benham Geraine Benham Drs. Donald and Kyla ’82 Bennett Larry C. Benson Dr. and Mrs. Victor Bergenn Estate of William E. Berger ’17 Rhonda L. and Roger M. Berkowitz Frederick Berliner Rochelle Berliner Marjorie E. Berman ’78 Hope Bernstein ’47 Bennett Berson Lauren Bertin ’07 Fred Berthold Robyn Bianconi ’07 Cindy Bielak and Richard L. Schaffer Elzbieta Bikowski Montana Billings and William Kennedy Beatrice and David Birch Andrea J. ’92 and David A. ’91 Blacklow Kenneth R. Blake ’80 Earl and Kathie Bloom Dr. Celia Blumenthal Eva Bodula ’99 Mr. and Mrs. Ray Boedecker Dr. Jeffrey M. Bolden ’92 Whitney F. Bolton ’51 Mary F. Bonina and Mark J. Pawlak Stephen K. Bonnett ’07 Mr. and Mrs. Donald Boorse Jennifer Bornstein ’89 Rebecca Boroson ’62 Dr. John R. Bowman and Sandra Robishaw Robert A. Boyce ’68 Anne L. and Philip K. Bradford Mary Anne Bradford Martha Schwartz Bragin ’68 Marcelle Z. Brandes and Edward N. Simon Faye and Werner Brandmaier Robert Braziunas and Odile Compagnon

Sophie L. Braziunas Paul Bregman ’64 Andrew Brenman George Brennan Dr. Barry E. Brenner ’72 and Cheryl Brenner Carol Brightman Daniel Louis Marc Brodsky ’90 Geraldine Brodsky Prof. Burt Brody Matthew L. Brophy ’02 Carole Brown Diane Brown ’04 Dr. Gwynne Brown Holly E. Brown ’89 Idee M. Brown ’75 Joanne E. and Kenneth D. Brown Diana Brownstone Richard Brownstone Robert Brownstone Lenore Bruce Robert M. Brunner ’93 Kirin Tatum Buckley ’97 Tom Buckley and Linda Ferreira-Buckley Lauren A. Bufferd ’82 Yevgeniya Bulayevskaya ’03 Caroline Day Burghardt ’97 Hannah Adams Burque ’01 Stephen W. Burr ’53 Sophie Burress ’11 Katherine Burstein ’09 John J. and Peggy H. Busher Sally and Allen Butler Brooke A. Byrne ’85 Dr. Jonathan Caine Monina Calderon Jamie Callan ’75 Randalynn D. Calloway Matthew David Cameron ’04 David R. and Shawn A. Campbell Jonathan Cann ’06 Cathaline Cantalupo ’67 Gary Capetta Eva LaSalle Caram ’56 Fabiana Carbo-Chavez Lisa M. and Richard A. Carbone Wayne Carey Claudia J. Carson Brian Carter Edna Carter Justine Carter Dr. Laurence M. Carucci and Mary H. Maifeld Laura A. Caruso ’86 MaryAnn and Thomas Case Leo Casey Dr. Shirley Cassara ’71 Frank Cassetta Thomas J. Cassidy ’82 Hugo M.J. Cassirer and Sarah Buttrick Elinor Castagnola ’58 Catherine Cattabiani ’77 Norman and Virginia Cavaliere Genevieve Cenower ’08 Ana Cervantes ’73 Jeffrey R. Champlin Laura and Raymond Chan

Michael L. and Roseanne E. Chandler Caroline Chanin and Louis Haber Frederick S. and Susan L. Channell Kathy R. Chapman and David A. Richard Louis H. Charbonneau Noah M. Chasek-Macfoy ’07 Zoe Chaves ’09 Shu-Shen Chow Chen Rebecca C. Chernoff ’03 M. David Chilewich and Deborah Weintraub Dr. Habibur R. Chowdhury Shirin Chowdhury Joan Chrissos and Kenneth S. Roberts Victoria Chu Chuc Van Chung Alicia Ciccone ’07 Kenneth Ciullo Leslie R. Cizek ’51 Darrah Cloud S. Deborah Cocco Irwin and Susan Cohen Laurence S. Cohen ’90 Toni L. Cohen Diane Colantonio-Ray ’77 Janet E. and Thomas E. Conant Patricia W. Cone ’78 Seth Congdon ’05 Eliza Conly-Dwyer ’02 Melissa Connelly Michael Connolly Andrew Gurney Cook ’96 Jennifer M. Cooke ’94 Tina M. and Steven Coons Helen-Maurene Cooper ’03 John Corcoran and Eliza Macrae Robert and Mari Cornell ’53 Blaise Corrigan and Elizabeth Olesker Dr. John Corrigan Adriane Meredith Raff Corwin ’08 Warren A. Cosgrove Desiree Costello ’07 William Costigan Jacob Cottingham ’03 Kristen M. Coulibaly ’92 Eric John Crahan ’96 and Sarah Elizabeth Smirnoff ’96 Jennifer Crivelli ’09 Christian A. Crouch Dr. Morris L. Crow and Gloria K. Felter Nelcia Cruz Karen Cutler ’74 Susan E. D’Agostino ’91 and Esteban Rubens ’97 Temma Dahan-Newman Sherwood A. Daniels ’68 Dr. Krista Jeanne David ’96 Natasha David-Hays ’07 Kathryn R. Davis ’96 Lindsay Davis ’06 Mary R. Davis Esther M. and Irving H. Dayan Eleazar De Leon Cassio Ferreira de Oliveira ’06 Cher De Rossiter Barbara Deegan Matthew Joseph DeGennaro ’96 Patricia A. DeMarsh

Cyrgue P. Dessauce Kelly DeToy ’07 Elizabeth A. Deuble Prof. Carolyn Dewald Joanna Lynn Dewald ’97 David Dewey Jr. ’71 Michael DeWitt ’65 and Wenny DeWitt Jennifer Dewsnap-Shipley ’88 Susan Diamond Stephen A. Dickman ‘65 Elise Dietrich ‘01 Deborah and Robert Dillon Ellyce Di Paola Emily Dische-Becker ’04 Leon Joshua Dische-Becker ’09 Kathleen J. diStefano ’81 Elsa Dixler and Jeff Schneider Eileen Di Yeso ’48 Robert Dodd Dona T. Dodson ’68 Ty G. Donaldson ’92 Patricia C. Donnelly Debra and Harold Donofrio Catherine Doubler Nancy Drago Kate Draper ’72 Ivan Dremov and Normandy Vincent Gideon Dresdner ’06 Nina Drooker ’54 Anne du Breuil and Fred Markham Dr. Jenny Dunning Robert E. Dunning Jack DuVall Emily L. Edahl ’08 Nancy L. Edelstein ’48 Hildegard Frey Edling ’78 Angela Edman ’03 Marilyn Clarke Edwards Rudolph Efram Kye Ehrlich Shana Nadine Ehrlich ’98 Sue Leung and Jeffrey D. Eichler Susan Anderman Einhorn and David Little Eleanor Eisenberg, Esq. ’61 Monica C. Elkinton, Esq. ’03 Rosalie Elkinton Matthew A. Elliott ’01 Richard Ellis and Theresa Pedemonte-Ellis Gila Engelman and Lee Patrick Gwen England Lisa B. Epstein ’76 Dr. Barry and Phyllis Erbsen Jennifer Erbsen ’01 Milad Ali Ershaghi Anne Eschapasse ’00 Gidon Eshel Andrew and Danica Eskind Donald Estabrook Susan Ezrati Linda and Edwin Faber Jonathan S. Fain ’78 and Terry S. Szold ’80 Kevin G. Falvey Mariam Essam Farag Patricia Lee Farley ’67 Shagufta Faroqui ’03

John R. Feare ’52 Meredith A. Feinman and Eric Seiff Elizabeth Felicella ’89 Marvin C. Fell ’77 and Caridad T. Fell Abigail L. Ferla ’11 Mr. and Mrs. Paul ’70 J. Ferla Peter Fernberger and Bronwyn Woodhead Maria Ferreira Mary Finch and Michael Tersoff Mark Finell ’73 Faith Fisher ’95 Claire Fishman ’10 John E. Fletcher Elizabeth F. Flower ’78 Dylan Flynn ’06 Jennifer Forbes Malinda L. Slayton Forman ’10 Sara E. Forrest ’95 Kate E. Fox ’11 Hillary Foxweldon ’09 Elizabeth Frank Natalie W. Franz ’05 Paul Frazer and Laura Russell Helen M. Freeman ’07 Curtis Freilich and Mireille Soria Jay Freund Rev. Mark Frickey Sophia Friedson-Ridenour ’05 Lizzy Furth ’07 Gregory and Jennifer Gadek John Gandrud Lara Ganz, Esq. ’94 Sharon E. Garbe ’83 Kristina and William D. Garcia Laura Garcia-Moreno Rita Ann Gardiner Daniel Gardner and Claudia R. Levin Georgene Gardner Matthew C. Garrett ’98 Jane Heidgerd Garrick ’94 Kevin J. Garrigus and Patricia M. Leonard-Garrigus Sarah Garvan ’05 Debra Garvey Margot Gasperetti ’11 Connor Gaudet ’04 Dr. Bart and Catherine C. Gershbein Dr. Shira J. Gertz ’97 David Vartan Geudelekian ’05 Jamie K. and Ronald S. Ghetti Gregory Giaccio ’94 Arthur Gibbons Cathy L. Gibson and Sylvia M. Watson Sharon Wing Gibson ’00 Elisabeth Giglio David J. Gilbert Stephanie S. Gilbert Nathan Gilfenbaum Jeff Ginsberg ’83 Joel Ginzberg Dana S. Gips ’84 Merryl Gladstone ’96 Maxine and William C. ’69 Gleason Jr. Denise M. Glover ’89 Cynthia Glozier John Ronald Goehlich ’56 donors by giving societies 61

Emma Ellman Golan ’08 Elaine Leicht Goldberg ’57 Timothy Edward Goldberg ’02 Marsha P. and Melvin Goldfine Sascha Goldhor ’06 Johnanna Goldschmid Howard W. Goldson Alexandra and Donald Goldstein Leon Goldstein Samuel E. Goldstein and Annette G. Jaffe Elizabeth Cornell Goldwitz ’89 and Robert L. Goldwitz ’75 Ellen Goosenberg and Donald P. Kent Mark Craig Gordon Nicole A. Gordon Stephney H. Gordon Vera Gordon Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 Gabriel I. Gould ’95 Elizabeth Graham ’05 Nat and Kelly Graham Rev. Wm. and Kathryn Graham Rebecca Granato ’99 William Grattidge Dr. Amy Green ’60 Mitch Green Ralph Green Gerald and Gretchen Greenberg Jan W. Greenberg and Kenneth L. Rosen Richard H. Greenberg Tamsen Greene Helen Greenstein Michael A. Gregory ’08 Julie Cohn Grenet ’96 Christina S. Griffith ’87 Megan A. Griffith and Robert E. Menzimer Alexandra E. Grinker ’68 Gail C. Grisetti ’68 Rae Lyn Grogan ’05 Andrea E. Gross Eric Gross ’72 David S. Gruber ’00 Ana Guaty and Ricardo R. Martinez Roberta Guerette Lawrence Gulotta Len Gutkin ’07 Kimberly L. Haas Martin Haber Roger C. and Stacey E. Haerr John Ross Hagan ’05 John Halbrooks and Kathleen McKool Elizabeth G. Hamilton Joseph J. Hampel Jr. ’66 and Karin Z. Hampel ’66 Dorothy A. Han David Handsman Caroline M. Hannah ’00 Barry D. and Donna M. Hanusik Katharine Hardy ’07 and Robin Schmidt ’07 Amelia-Rose Harrar ’10 Ashley Riegel Harrington Heather Lea Harris ’82 Jolene K. Hart ’79 Kathryn Ann Hartman ’03 Lucy Arnerich Hatch ’10 Rev. Douglas B. ’50 and Mrs. Elizabeth ’51 Haviland 62 acknowledgment of donors

Dr. David S. Hays Sheila G. Hays Spencer G. Heckenkamp Elizabeth Hegeman Thomas M. Heineman and Chieko Yamazaki Jonathan Helfgott ’06 Jacob Helfman Sarah H. Heller ’95 Deborah and Dr. Jesse Hellman Nancy S. Henderson ’77 Geraldine L. Henze Roberto A. Hernal Zulma M. Hernandez ’91 Margaret Herrity Susan Trelawny Hildum ’68 Jane M. Hill ’68 Shawn E. Hill ’88 Dr. Christine A. Hillegass ’75 Nicholas Hippensteel ’09 Adam Hirsch ’09 Cheryl A. ’76 and Thomas J. ’75 Hirsch Kathryn Hodges ’03 Susan Hoffman-Pletter Linda A. Hokin Jane N. Holland and Thomas Jenik Susan Holland Logan T. Hollarsmith Erin Horahan ’02 Mady Hornig Gregory Horowitz Tanya P. and Thomas L. Hotalen Lucas Howard ’09 Cary Steven Howie ’97 Dr. Maung S. Htoo Alice C. Huige ’62 Adela and William T. ’69 Hulbert Cecilia M. Hunt ’71 Dorothy Hunt ’85 Eveline R. Hunt Donald Hurowitz ’65 Amy Husten Kathryn A. Hynes and Mark H. Weber Mary Ickes ’87 Lydia Ignacio ’06 Jennifer Ilardo Jeannie A. Ingram ’05 Anna J. Intraub ’11 Rhonda P. Ireland Henry R. Irving and Katherine L. Olivier Karen L. Jacobson Pamela B. Jacobson ’91 Robert A. Jacoby ’87 Niles A. Jaeger ’75 Xanthe A. Jansen ’94 William Jett ’08 Albert Jimenez ’06 Abigail C. Johnson ’08 Charles G. and Helga H. Johnson Iris Yates Johnson ’58 Oliver Johnson Rebeccah Johnson ’03 Melissa B. and Dr. Vance M. Jones Robert H. and Patricia Ann Jones Ronnie Jones Khadijah Joye ’05

Nancy E. Juretie ’85 Callie Justice ‘72 Karen Kaczmar Alexander J. Kahn Eva Kamer ’08 Marc and Maxine Kamin Melinda and Peter Kaminsky Brian and Janice Kammerer Patty L. and Robert F. Kane Roseanne Kanter ’69 Suzane Kantor Eben I. Kaplan ’03 Harvey M. Kaplan and Audrey L. Zucker David Kaplin and Cerinda Survant Jeton and Teuta Karahoda Demetrios and Susan Karayannides Virginia Karl ’73 Roland Karlen Dana Kasarsky and Daniel Wise Elizabeth and Ray Kasevich Susan J. Kassirer ’74 Michael A. Katell ’89 Tema Jasper Katz Hilke and Sebastian K. Kaupert Taro Kawa ’44 Rod Keenan Andrea W. Kelley ’75 James and Jessie Kelly Mira E. Kelsey ’98 Zachary Kenner ’06 Hans R. Kern Elisabeth Spencer Kilduff ’08 Leah Killeen Hyon-Chu Kim Mallory L. King ’85 April Diane Kinser Tommy Kirchmeier ’98 Marilyn Kirchner Robert S. Kirigin ’76 Dave and Susan Kirk Pamela Fairbanks Kirkpatrick ’71 Ann Bruce Kitcher ’61 Cary Kittner ’79 Erik Kiviat ’76 Joshua Klainberg Edward E. Kleist Jr. Chad J. Kleitsch ’91 Hilary Kliros and Daniel Walworth Daniel Klubock ’56 Dr. Roger Kluck and Elizabeth Kluck-Keil Bozena Komaniecka Christine Kopec and D. Alan Wrigley Benjamin Kopin and Elizabeth Shapiro-Kopin Janet Koplos Jane Korn Adnah Kostenbauder Arlene Krebs ’67 Joel N. Krieger ’93 Martin Krinkov Simone Krug ’10 Alena Kuczynski ’06 Kersti Kuldna-Turkson ’01 Marshall Kupchan ’72 Ruth Kurschner ’58 Helaine Kushner ’53

Julia Kuskin ’86 Dawn Ladenheim Rosaline Laks Jessica L. Lambert Taylor Lambert ’11 Bodhi Landa ’10 Stephen Landon Peter Larose ’85 Jurvis J. LaSalle Jr. ’03 Carol Lashof and William Newton Katherine A. Lauster ’81 Charles Lawhon ’60 Dr. Joseph P. Lawrence Carolyn Lazard ’10 John and Linda Lazarowski Joshua S. Ledwell ’96 Eva Lee ’87 Sue Lee Amii LeGendre Rhonda and Ronald Lehrer Jennifer Lemanski ’09 Dr. Robert S. Lemon Jr. ’61 Julia and Roberto L. Lenton Rebecca Mildred Leopold ’05 Richard Leprine Andrew L. and Caren B. Les Anna Leue ’06 Robert B. Levers ’78 S.Y. Levi Elinor Wallach Levin Michael Levin ’06 Penelope Hyde Levine ’84 Rhoda J. Levine ’53 Prof. Stuart Levine and Nina Stritzler-Levine Zarah Joy Levin-Fragasso ’05 Nicholas I. Levitin Iris Levy ’76 Kenneth Levy Lydia Levy Raphael Levy-Lesko Brent M. Lewis ’09 Maricel Liboro Mimi and Charles Lieber Dr. H. David ’63 and Mrs. Madeline H. ’65 Lieberman Emily Liechty ’00 Michele Widrick Liendecker ’90 Melissa Cohn Lindbeck ’03 Susan R. Lindeberg and Andrew H. Mason Mary K. Lindon and John L. Opgenorth Susan Linich ’01 Jean R. and Robert A. Link Susan A. ’73 and William S. ’72 Lippman Jr. Blanca Lista ’01 Lucy Little ’07 Tony and Chloe Liu Loey R. Lockerby ’93 Ednah Locke-Walser and Kurt Walser Betty Lo-Francisco ’91 Laura Logsdon ’10 Mark A. and Susan E. Lopeman David M. Lord Barbara Loupanis Ellen Lourie and Burt Shulman Zazel Loven ’67 Sarah Lowe ’86

Abigail R. Loyd ’99 and Owen M. Moldow ’00 Elizabeth Lucivero Joseph Lunny Philip Lyford ’69 Susan M. Lyne ’87 Karen MacBride Patricia Griffin Mackie ’76 and Hugh C. Mackie Adam MacLean ’04 James W. and Leslye A. Madden Melissa H. Mahoney ’02 Dr. Irwin R. Maier Antoinette Major ’80 Dr. Premraj Makkuni ’95 Jesse Malmed ’07 Liz Mann ’73 Joseph and Marcia Marcantonio Max A. Marinoff Christine Marinoni and Cynthia Nixon Alina P. Marinova ’06 Linda Hirsch Markowitz ’77 Maureen and Thomas J. Marlow Kathy Marsh ’86 Susan K. Marsh ’51 Kyra Marsigliano ’09 Vic and Londa Marsigliano David W.R. Martin Earl J. Martin Yemisi Martin Margarita Martinez Sarah Martino ’07 Benjamin H. Marx ’12 Tony Marzani ’68 Sarah Phillips Mathews and John Mathews Mark Matthews George E. and Lucy F. Mattingly Naomi Matza R. Christoph A. and Julia G. Mauran ’69 Kyle Maxey ’05 Angelika B. Mayer ’54 Julia Mayer ’07 Steven V. Mazie Meghan Ann Mazzacone ’03 Daniel McBride ’88 Deborah McCaffrey-Wilson Paul W. McCarthy ’74 Patricia Megan McCombs Jovanna M. McCoy ’08 Donna McDonald-Morgan ’84 Catherine McDowell ’84 Susan-Lloyd McGarry ’76 J. Barhydt McIlduff Andrew R. McIntosh ’97 Andrew G. McKee Allie J. McKeever ’99 Anna J. McLellan ’83 Emily E. McNair ’03 John McNally Elizabeth McWilliams-Hernandez ’04 Maria Megaris Dr. David Meikle Dr. Antonia Meltzoff ’60 Alessandra Merrill ’06 Trevor G. Messersmith ’94 Maria Z. Metaute Amy Metroka

Gale and William Meyer Melanie Anne Meyer ’02 Bart Meyers Glen Mezzatesta Tracy Mezzatesta Arthur D. Holland Michel Camille and Ralph Michelini Allison Miller ’07 David B. Miller ’91 Morgan E. Miller ’95 Elizabeth Milligan Robert Milligan Jr. Henry O. Milliken Jr. ’51 Evan Weisburger Minor William P. Mitchell Gabriel R. Moffat and Molly F. Ruttan-Moffat Rick Moffitt Mona Molarsky Angelica Molero ’09 Arthur Z. Mondshein and Lana F. Pollack Jennifer Montalbano Ching Yee Mooi Anina L. Moore ’95 Coralie E. Moorhead ’72 Diane O. and Timothy E. Moran Michael J. Moran Yenton K. Morgan Donald and Stephanie Morley Lenina Marly Mortimer ’03 Gary R. Mosca ’87 David Moser ’07 Virginia L. Moss ’78 Athena and Julius J. Motal Patricia Moussatche, Ph.D. ’98 Shafat Mubin ’09 Craig W. Mudge ’72 Caroline Muglia ’04 Laura J. Muller ’90 Angela Kramer Murphy Linda Murphy ’88 Rebecca A. Murry ’09 Drucilla and Jeffrey N. Muskovin Priscilla N. Myerson ’67 Richard M. Nadeau ’75 Elisabeta Nagy Debbie Needleman ’78 Peter Neely ’07 Karen and Paul Neurath Janet L. Nicholas ’57 Jeanne L. Nickerson ’85 Russ and Kim Nitchman Felicity Nitz David A. Nochimson ’92 Bethany Nohlgren Janet L. Norris ’69 Dr. Brianna Norton ’00 Teresa Norton Aline Oakes Roland Obedin-Schwartz ’11 Monica M. Obniski ’06 Kevin J. O’Brien ’72 Anne O’Connell Katherine Mary O’Flynn ’95 Margaux Higby Ogden ’05 Barbara O’Hare ’74 donors by giving societies 63

Ian Paul Darby Olasov ’08 Kenneth A. Olmsted ’77 Sonja L. Olson ’98 Terence O’Rourke ’99 James F. O’Toole Patricia Owens B. Kent Ozarow ’51 Jennifer A. Ozols-Tracy ’93 Danielle M. Pafunda ’99 Maraima Pagan Douglass R. Paisley Liza Shippey Palmer ’99 Rosemary Paniagua Aliki Papadopoulou and Charles Weston Amit and Madhavi Parikh Carole A. Parker and Dr. John E. Smedley Amanda Parmer Karla Paschkis ’84 and Peter Turner ’83 Lucy H. Patton and David C. Petty William C. Peirce ’80 Patricia and Paul Pellegrini Daniel W. Penny ’09 Emily Peralta ’06 Meenu Nadisha Perera ’03 Gennie Perez and Philippe Mouren Dr. David G. Perry ’67 Dranpadi Persaud Emily Peters ’09 Eric Peters Molly Peters ’10 Richard G. Peters ’76 and Paulette Lemay Peters Rose Peters Daniel J. Peterson ’88 Tam Phan ’05 Sybil E. Pierot ’50 Lola Bowler Pierson ’05 Kaiya E. Pinto ’11 Charles Piper Susan B. Piro ’78 Amy V. Plumb ’76 Joseph Pogacar ’08 Hope Polidoro Scott and Karin Pollock Katherine Porter Eva M. Potts Dr. Katherine S. Pound Michael and Reita Powell Amy Pratt Dr. Karleen Preator Francis R. and Rosemary Presch Carolyn Prescott ’87 and Ralf Jaeger Tracy J. Priest ’00 Seth Prouty ’96 Samuel ’97 and Robyn L. ’99 Provost Nikea Pryor ’03 Paolo M. Pumilia-Gnarini Anne Riker Purcell ’11 Mary Frances Puskar Andrea J. and Robert M. Pyle Syed S. Quadri Nancy Ann and Thomas Qualiano Danielle L. Quigley ’91 Maggi Quinlan ’09 Marylin Quint-Rose ’85 Anna and Jay Rabinowitz 64 acknowledgment of donors

Jason Rabinowitz ’01 Reazur Rahman ’04 Nanette Rainone Thom Randall ’70 Mamoona Randhawa Peter L. and Yvonne K. Randlev Nancy A. Ranger Dr. Richard M. Ransohoff ’68 Mara A. Ranville Christina and Peter Raskin Amy Laurel Ray ’04 Reginald Raye ’10 Martha P. Reddington Allen C. ’51 and Brigitte Doris Reed Frauke Regan Leonard Judah Reibstein ’05 Heidi M. Reischuck ’87 and Nicholas T. Bensen ’87 Catherine Rentsman Donald Reynolds Gordon Reynolds ’85 Paul S. Rich ’98 Maurice N. Richter Jr. ’53 Dr. Catherine K. Riessman ’60 Nancy B. and Roger E. Rife Dave Ritchie Alejandra Rivera William G. Rivkin and Marguerite M. Soderberg Annabelle Robbins Corinne J. Robbins Leonard A. Robbins ’68 Veronica Robertson Joanne M. Robinson Lilian I. Robinson ’98 Quincee Michelle Robinson Abbie Rockwell, Ph.D. ’75 Brittany Rode ’09 Claritza and Fernando Rodriguez Will F. Rogers ’70 Joyce Romano ’85 Nanette Ronner Oren Root Ellen Schulman Roseman ’55 Carolyn and Michael Rosenbaum Mark and Preetmatie Rosidivito Barbara Ross Barbara Greener Ross ’60 Robert Andrew Ross ’09 Michael D. Rosse ’55 Gina and Henry Rosset Dr. Rosalie C. Rossi Dr. Teal K. Rothschild ’91 Linda Mulrean Rowe Martha and Robert Rowen Peter Rowland ’07 Penelope I. Rowlands ’73 Joshua L. Royte ’85 Emily H. Rubin ’78 Enid K. Rubin Joan D. Rueckert Josephine Ruisi and Warren Perrins Ruby R. Russell ’09 Timothy M. Russell Nathan C. Ryan ’98 and Rachel Sussman ’00 Patrick Ryan ’87 Sundiati Sadiq

Amy Napaporn Saekow ’07 Samantha Safer ’04 Ace Salisbury ’08 Syeda Salma and Qurrath Ain Debra Samaha Dr. David W. Sanborn Geoffrey Derby Sanborn Ann S. Sand Frances O. Sandiford ’52 Dr. Barbara E. Sang ’58 Evan Sangaline ’08 Giorgy Santos Alfred T. and Paula S. Sapsé Angelito F. and Loida A. Sarabia Arthur Sata ’72 Simeen Sattar Rachel Savain ’12 Lisa Savin ’03 Abigail Savitch-Lew ’10 Bo Scarim ’09 Molly Schaeffer ’10 Kathryn Schaffer ’98 Irwin and Denise Scheineson Joan Scheineson Kate Scherer Jeffrey Schiff and Blair Tate Lori Ann Schlachter Carol and Dr. Edward Schmiedecke Catherine M. Schmitz ’11 Carolee Schneemann ’59 Maria Schneider Rachel Schragis ’08 Finn Schubert ’06 Gerda L. Schulman Jeffrey H. Schwartz ’66 Nancy Schwartz-Weinstock Madison Scott ’72 Satsuki L. Scoville Amy E. Sechrist ’93 John and Aija Sedlak Devica Seecharran Fran Seegull Glenda Self Amanda Selin ’04 Shirley and William Selin Anne Selinger William David Selman ’96 Natalia Semenova Shelley E. Senter Dagni and Martin Senzel Thomas V. Serino ’10 Maro Rose Sevastopoulos ’00 Russell M. Shane ’77 Phyllis M. Shanley Ruth Passanante Shannon ’08 Henry B. Shapiro ’07 Joan Shaver Christie Shaw Matthew Sheahan Vivian Sheehan Dr. Christine E. Sheffer Arthur and Bernice Sherman Mary A. Shiman ’11 Genya N. Shimkin ’08 Laurence Shire

Marta Shocket ’09 Andrew J. Shookhoff ’72 Catherine Anne Shyer Alice Siewert Citizen Sigmund ’06 Aretha A. Sills ’91 Karen and Scott Silverman David L. Simon Jr. ’86 Maja Simoska and Svetislav Simoski Betty L. Singer ’47 Jackie Singer ’04 and Meghan Stahulak Lynn G. Singer Dr. John A. and Mary Anne Smallwood Audrey Mae Smith ’78 Carole-Jean Smith ’66 Dr. Eve P. Smith ’56 Dr. Richard K. Smith ’65 Magnus S. Snorrason and Adine M. Storer David S. Snyder David Soffa ’10 Beverly and Barry Solow Mark Sommer A. Elisabeth Sommerfelt Carol S. Sonnenschein ’53 Kim Soresen Ross Sormani ’85 Doris A. Soroko ’67 Naya Sou ’05 Jennifer Bell Spalding ’69 Hannah Spector Tami I. Spector, Ph.D. ’82 Linda C. Burgess Speirs ’90 Danya M. Spencer ’07 Louis and Ritha Spitz Lynn M. Spitz ’81 Esther Srole Eve Caroline Stahlberger ’97 Jeremy John Stamas ’05 Laura E. Stamas ’97 Brian M. and Elizabeth M. Stanley Lee and Rosemary Stanley Charles G. and Patricia D. Steacy Daniel Steiker Marion P. Stein ’48 Elizabeth Pashley Stemmer ’06 Theresa Adams Stevens ’86 Eden E. Stewart ’89 Vincent S. Stoll ’85 Michael A-B Stone ’00 Noreen F. Storch Laura Stout ’87 Katherine M. Straub ’91 Janice Strizever Phoebe L. Sudrow ’86 Gretchen E. L. Suess ’95 Eve Odiorne Sullivan ’62 Mark S. Sullivan Molly K. Sullivan

Carol Summers ’51 Cynthia D. Swanberg Ann D. and Peter O. Swanson Elizabeth K. Swoboda ’09 Irena and Walter Szrek Dr. Marika Ruth Glixman Taaffe ’67 Dr. Carla E. Sayers Tabourne ’69 Reiko Tahara Joanna Tanger ’07 Dr. and Mrs. E. Michael Tarazi Devorah Tarrow ’69 Maggie Bevans Tauranac ’03 Danielle Tcholakian Hon. Lynn Tepper ’74 Rev. Sarah and Nicholas Thacher S. Rebecca Thomas Scott E. Thomas ’85 Alessandro J. Thompson ’92 Robert Thompson Sarah Robins Thompson ’79 Tina Thuermer ’73 Mariam Topuria ’11 Julia Torres Normand Tourangeau Reuben Traite ’04 Laura M. Tran ’08 Seth Benjamin Travins ’97 Marion Truslow Dr. Gregory E. Tucker ’54 Patricia J. Tucker ’78 Elizabeth C. and Dr. William G. Tuel Jr. Irina Tumanyan Florence D. Tumasz Dr. Christopher G. Uchrin and Mrs. Lisa C. Uchrin ’85 Christopher Uraneck ’99 Elisa Urena ’07 Alison Vaccarino ’87 Anne Frances Vachon ’10 David Valdini ’06 Jesus G. Valle Roy Van Driesche and Sheila Marks Sarah Vasse Dominic Francis Veconi ’11 Sidney Veliz-Vanterpool Victor Victoria ’80 Mark L. Viebrock ’76 Ezekiel Virant ’09 Sandra F. Vitzthum Vanessa Volz ’00 Martha D. Wagner ’53 Holly C. Walker ’62 Karen Walker ’97 Pamela J. Wallace ’87 Edward P. and Jane Walsh M. Susan Walter Irene Warshauer Katherine Waters ’06

Adriana Waterston David Waterston Jonathan Wechsler Martin M. and Patricia S. Ween Carlos Weiner ’11 Alexander C. Weinstein ’07 John B. Weinstein Benjamin G. Weisburger Andrea B. Weiskopf ’95 Frida Weisman Robert Weiss Arlene D. and William Weissman Anna Linden Weller ’03 Mary Kathryn Wells Melinda M. and Steven A. Wellvang Heidi A. Wendel Kristin Westad ’87 Jerusha Elizabeth Westbury ’02 Neil Stewart Westman ’97 Henry Westmoreland Ryan Daniel Wheeler ’02 Arlene M. and James B. Whitley Jacob Whittaker Susan Wilcox ’87 Virginia Wilcox ’08 Beagan S. Wilcox Volz ’96 Brian and Sharon Wiles-Young Winfried Willert Alexandra K. Williams Bertha Williams Chester T. Williams Dr. Kathryn R. Williams ’67 Kristine Williams Ovita F. Williams Ethelma Wiltshire Susan M. Winchell-Sweeney Daniel and Nanci Wishnoff Chris R. Wissemann Matthew F. Witchell ’84 Lauren Wittels Rabbi Amiel Wohl Deborah and Steven Wohl Chung Sun Yoo Woo ’54 David Woolner Alexander Wright ’10 Blerina Xeneli ’06 Dr. Jonathan I. and Joy K. Yavelow Ann Yeoman ’46 Max A. Yeston ’08 Allison Yorra Robert and Lynda Youmans Mark Zaitchik Julianna Zdunich Christopher Zegar Evan S. Zekofsky ’95 Elissa Zeno ’08 Dexin Zhou ’09 Daniel Alexander Zlatkin

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Two weekends of concerts, panels, and other events bring the musical world of Igor Stravinsky vividly to life.

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The 2013 SummerScape season is made possible in part through the generous support of the Board of The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College, the Board of the Bard Music Festival, and the Friends of the Fisher Center, as well as grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.

845-758-7900 | fishercenter.bard.edu The Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Photo: ©Peter Aaron ’68/Esto