Music/Sound alumnus Zach Layton is a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2015 Grants to Artists. Nominated anonymously, these cash awards allow unrestricted creative exploration.
script on 20th-century history. Shneour received many commendations including an honorary doctorate of science from Bard. He is survived by his sister, Renee; sons Mark and Alan; and three grandchildren, Collin, Luke, and Trey.
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Music/Sound alumna Christine Sun Kim is a 2015 TED Senior Fellow. Christine uses the medium of sound through technology to investigate and rationalize her relationship with noise and spoken language. A Korean American artist and educator, she is working on a number of new sound installations, as well as a new listening device in which your speed of walking affects the audio you hear.
David A. Sabo, 88, of Livingston, New Jersey, died on April 15, 2015. Sabo, born in Brooklyn, New York, was a navy veteran of World War II, and attended Syracuse University College of Law. His professional career spanned 50 years with companies such as Benihana of Tokyo. During his last position as president of the Gorham Hotel (now the Blakely) in Manhattan, he was known as the “mayor of 55th Street.” Sabo is survived by his wife of 47 years, Marcella; children Jeanne, Charles, and Darcy; six grandchildren; and a sister, Rita. His son, Douglas, recently predeceased him.
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In Memoriam ’39 George Rosenberg, 99, died on August 11, 2015, of natural causes at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was born in Rochester, New York, and majored in psychology at Bard when the College was still affiliated with Columbia University. He served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II and with the Air Force in Korea, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star. Rosenberg was a former managing editor of the Tucson Daily Citizen in its heyday in the 1950s and ’60s. He was a devoted baseball fan and active in promoting the Tucson Symphony Orchestra and the Arizona Theatre Company. He cofounded the University of Arizona (UA) Humanities Seminars Program, and was involved with the UA Poetry Center. In addition to his wife of 70 years, Bobbe, Rosenberg is survived by five children, 10 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.
’49 Eva Thal Belefant died on June 12, 2015. She enrolled at Bard two years after the College began admitting women. She became an economist and was a member of the Bard College Board of Trustees from 1957 to 1962—the first woman graduate to serve on the board. She was awarded the Bard Medal in 1976, and remained active on the Bard College Alumni/ae Association Board of Governors. She lived life with vitality and genuineness and took pleasure in family, friends, gardens, and pets. She was predeceased by Marty, her husband of 59 years; and is survived by her son, Peter; sister, Margot; and many lifelong friends.
’51 Henry Oothout Milliken Jr., 88, of Duxbury, Massachusetts, died on July 18, 2015, at home. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II, and spent 40 years as an educator, including as headmaster of the Rippowam Cisqua School in Mount Kisco, New York. He was a passionate gardener, reader, chef, computer whiz, and wine maker. He was chairman and director of the Duxbury Council on Aging, where he helped establish a respite program for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers. He is survived by Sheila, his wife of 67 years; his brother, George; children Sophie, Paige, Dana, and Henry; and several grandchildren. Darius L. Thieme, 86, died on February 9, 2015, in Valdosta, Georgia. He was a professor of music at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, a member of the Society for Ethnomusicology, and had toured Europe in the 1950s with the Seventh Army Symphony Orchestra. While at Bard, he helped to build and wire WXBC, the Bard radio station. He went to graduate school in Illinois for musicology and helped create the core curriculum at Fisk. He was preceded in death by his son, Richard. Survivors include his son, Donald; granddaughter Erica; and former wife, Mary.
’55 Helene Rudolph died on March 6, 2014, in Don Mills, Ontario. Survivors include her husband, Philip; children Frank, Randi, and Trudy; her sister, Eleanor; and a grandson, Eric.
’47 Elie Alexis Shneour, 89, scientist, prolific author, teacher, photographer, and gourmet chef, died on April 14, 2015. He was born in France of Jewish heritage, and, following the Nazi occupation in 1940, fled with his family to New York City. After earning a master’s degree in biochemistry from UC Berkeley and a Ph.D. from UCLA, he joined Stanford University as a scientific researcher and lecturer. Following positions at the University of Utah— where he was awarded the Distinguished Teacher award—and the City of Hope National Medical Center in Los Angeles, Shneour moved to La Jolla, California, to serve as director of research for the pharmaceutical company Calbiochem. Ultimately, Shneour formed an independent advisory company, Biosystems Associates. His publications included Life Beyond the Earth and The Malnourished Mind (the title for which came from his then 13year-old son, Mark). He also completed a manu-
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Professor Ted Sottery (right) uses a model to illustrate a point with a student. Sottery taught chemistry at Bard from 1929 to 1963. photo Elie Shneour ’47