Clockwise from left: Ben Goddard ’09, Elizabeth Conn-Hollyn ’09, Anna Carnohan, Emma Rose Mead, Marten Elder ’08, Louis Heilbronn ’10, Robbie Brannigan, Ruby Jackson ’16, Lisa Sanditz, Walead Beshty ’99, Nicole Katz ’02, Antoine Midant ’16, Virginia Wilcox ’08, Cory Seigel, Sebastian Nicolau ’16, Jackie Bao ’11, and Evan Whale ’09. photo Tim Davis ’91
’82 35th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Please come back in May for your reunion. Your classmates and members of the reunion committee Chris Kendall, Jimmy Rodewald, and Geoffrey Stein look forward to seeing you. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.
’78 Emily Rubin had a great time returning to Bard in the fall of 2016 to teach Write That Story! as part of the Lifetime Learning Institute. In February, she was on a panel at the Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Washington, D.C. Her first novel, Stalina, was a winner of the Amazon Debut Novel Award Contest. emilyrubin.net
’77 40th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Please come back in May for your reunion. Your classmates and members of the reunion committee Marvin Fell and Michael McNulty look forward to seeing you. For more information, call 845-7587089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Michael McNulty will be attending his 40th reunion class this spring. He is completing 30 years with JPMorganChase in the technology division. He
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and his wife cruised their sailboat from Florida to Annapolis, Maryland, last year with plans to cruise the Northeast this year. He has a son and daughter who both attend RIT. They are frequent visitors to Columbia County, where they ski at Catamount and paddle the Hudson. He is looking forward to catching up with his classmates this spring.
’72 45th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Please come back in May for your reunion. Your classmates and members of the reunion committee Laurie Krieger and Elisabeth Semel look forward to seeing you. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org. Catharin Dalpino has been appointed to the Academic Advisory Council of Friends of Florence, a binational nongovernmental organization that supports the restoration and preservation of Florence’s cultural treasures. She is currently working on a project to support the restoration and reopening of the Geographic Map Room in the Uffizi.
’68 Judith Arner Brown is the new president and CEO of the ALS Association Greater New York Chapter. | Stephen Kessler is the recipient of the 2016 PEN Center USA Translation Award for his book
Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems by Luis Cernuda. Stephen’s earlier translations of the Spanish poet, Desolation of the Chimera and Written in Water, were winners, respectively, of the 2010 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award (from the Academy of American Poets) and the 2004 Lambda Literary Award for Gay Men’s Poetry. Stephen lives in Santa Cruz, California. stephenkessler.com
’67 50th Reunion: May 26–28, 2017 Please come back in May for your reunion. Your classmates and members of the reunion committee Joan Elliott, Maggie Hopp, and Don Moore look forward to seeing you. For more information, call 845-758-7089 or visit annandaleonline.org.
’63 Penny Axelrod volunteers twice a week at the Plimoth Plantation Bakery while learning techniques of baking in a wood-fired oven from master bakers. Last year she traveled on a bicycle-barge trip through parts of Holland and Belgium. Penny participated in the Women’s March in Boston. She feels very fortunate, after a career that began even before she graduated from Bard and ended only two and a half years ago, to be able to spend her time exploring and experiencing life.