Rodríguez ’97 traveled to attend the ceremony and made it extra amazing. The couple lives in the Philadelphia suburbs.
’04 Yishay Garbasz participated in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts 2017 summer exhibition Art on the Front Lines in Soho, New York. Her work was reviewed in Rejoinder, a journal published by the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University.
’95 Tracy S. Feldman is enjoying family life as the father of two girls. He teaches ecology at a small college, performs music (with a few recordings out), and discovers new leaf-mining insect species in the wilds of North Carolina.
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Laida Lertxundi ’03
Merry Grissom has traveled to film festivals from California to New York to Denver with the half-hour TV pilot “Tiny House,” which Merry helped produce, codirected, and on which she is a series regular.
’02 In Berlin (L to R), Bianca D’Allesandro ’03, Molly Meikle ’03, and Lisa Savin ’03 celebrated the wedding of Leanne Pittsford to Pia Carusone ’03, along with Eben Kaplan ’03, Jane Brien ’89, and Sarah Mosbacher ’04. photo Alexa Catalin AKA “Three Clicks”
’03 15th Reunion: May 25-27, 2018 If you would like to be a member of your reunion committee along with Pia Carusone, Eben Kaplan, Mollie Meikle, Dumaine Williams, and Lydia Willoughby please let us know. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Samantha Boshnack, prolific composer and trumpeter, is based in Seattle. She leads two ensembles dedicated solely to playing her compositions and is a member of Alchemy Sound Project with Bard professor Erica Lindsay. In 2017, Samantha released Nellie Bly Project, about the 19th-century daredevil feminist and journalist. boshnackmusic.com | Ben Dangl graduated with a Ph.D. in history from McGill University, writing his dissertation on Centuries March the Streets: The Power of the Past in Bolivian Indigenous Movements, 1970-2000. He teaches at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont, where he lives with April Howard ’04, MAT ’05 and their son, Leon. | Laida Lertxundi is director of a new master’s program in San Sebastián, Spain, called Elías Querejeta Film School. She is also a faculty member in the fine art and humanities programs at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. | Alisdair MacRae exhibited various interactive sound objects in collaboration with Patrick Lacasse at the Vernon Public Art Gallery in October. Perfect Music: High Voltage takes its inspiration—particularly the idea that anyone who can make sound can make music—from Banek and Scoville’s book, Sound Designs. | Derrick Mead and his wife, Gretchen Jones, moved back to Brooklyn after four years in Portland, Oregon. He started work in July as senior strategist for aruliden, a design consulting firm with offices in New York and San Francisco.
Zoltan Feher PIE is in his first year of the Ph.D. program in international relations program at the Fletcher School at Tufts. He is working as a teaching assistant at the Harvard Kennedy School and research assistant at Fletcher. His dissertation is on U.S. grand strategy.
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’93 25th Reunion: May 25–27, 2018 If you would like to be a member of your reunion committee along with Erin J. Law, Roger N. Scotland, John Stevens, Olivier Te Boekhorst, and Paul J. Thompson please let us know. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.
Dan Hudak lives in Miami with his wife and their evil black cat, Gato. He works as a film critic and professor, and gives film lectures all over South Florida. Read him online at punchdrunkmovies.com.
’99 Anna-Rose Mathieson was named one of the Top Women Lawyers in California as well as one of the Top 40 Lawyers under 40 by California’s Daily Journal. The publication also chose the 12-attorney firm she comanages, the California Appellate Law group, as one of the top 20 boutique law firms in the state. | Beata Papp and John Berman ’98 wel-
Ty Donaldson ’92 and Jennifer Shumaker. photo Nick Karstedt
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comed their daughter, Vivienne Winter Berman, on the winter solstice in 2015. Beata and John also have an older son, Wyatt Alexander, who wants to be either an archeologist or a Broadway performer when he grows up.
Ty Donaldson married Jennifer Shumaker on June 11, 2017. The wedding happened on Marietta Street in downtown Atlanta as part of the Atlanta Streets Alive event at Terminus 330, and was attended by more than 800 people, including family and friends. #crashourwedding
’98 20th Reunion: May 25–27, 2018
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If you would like to be a member of your reunion committee along with Josh Bell, Kathleya Choitros, and Tommy Kirchmeier please let us know. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.
’97 Sean O’Neill married Chris Anderson in a ceremony in Washington, D.C., in mid-June. Bardians Christiane Andrews ’95, Dean Barker ’95, Malia Du Mont ’95, Joshua Ledwell ’96, and Pedro
J. J. Austrian won a Minnesota Book Award in the category of children’s literature for his picture book, Worm Loves Worm. | Benjamin Goldberg wrote a national award–winning application that resulted in the Williamsburg (Virginia) Regional Library Foundation being recognized with one of two prestigious United for Libraries/Baker & Taylor Awards for Friends Groups and Library Foundations. He also was instrumental in the capital campaign efforts recognized by the award.
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