’09 Saralee Gallien graduated with a BS from Duke University School of Nursing and has accepted a position as an ER nurse at University Medical Center New Orleans. Before she graduated, she teamed with author Neil Shirley of Chapel Hill to write the book Dixie Be Damned: 300 Years of Southern Insurrections in the American South (AK Press, 2015). She has been interviewed extensively in the South and on the East and West Coasts about the book, which is written from a unique anarchist historiographical perspective. | In January 2018, Lydia Spielberg joined the University of California Los Angeles Department of Classics as an assistant professor, having spent two and a half years as a postdoctoral researcher at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Lydia
received her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in 2015. She is still fixated on Tacitus.
’08 10th Reunion Thanks to everyone who made it back for reunion, still hard to believe it’s been 10 years. We look good! We—your hard working reunion committee of Hannah Byrnes-Enoch, Gerry Pambo-Awich, Genya Shimkin, and Ella Reily Stocker—want you to mark your calendars for Memorial Day Weekend 2023, and to stay involved with Bard. If you haven’t supported our class gift there’s still time, please visit annandaleonline.org/bcf.
Above: Francesca Carendi joined the Women’s March with Marian Villa, Joanna Tanger ’07, and Catherine Lopez ’07.
’07 Emma DeCorsey and her band, I Am The Polish Army, debuted their first album, My Old Man, which is listed as one of “15 Great Albums You Probably Didn’t Hear in 2017” by Rolling Stone. | Max P. Miller has produced the six-part miniseries What Does a C.E.O. Actually Do? for Freakonomics Radio. He also had two documentaries air recently. One, for KCRW’s UnFictional, about a fugitive who spent 31 years on the lam, and the second, on the CBC’s Doc Project, about a musician who lives in a van and performs in parking spaces.
’05 For the East Coast wedding (left to right): Adam Frowine, Anne Lawson ’07, Maggie Carson ’07, Zara Dowling ’07, Robert Harrison ’07, Heather (Gladstone) Harrison ’10, Jeremy Carter-Gordon ’11, Nicole Rhodes ’07, Joshua Rosenthal ’13, Tessa Dowling ’10, John Weinert ’07. Not pictured but in attendance: Chelsea (Sargent) Smiley ’10.
Tal Rosenberg, former culture editor for the Chicago Reader, is now the senior editor of Chicago Magazine. Rosenberg was a writer at the music magazine Stylus before joining the Reader as digital content editor in 2011. As culture editor since 2015, he oversaw and edited all arts and culture coverage for the alternative weekly.
’04 Gillian (Means) Tarr recently earned her PhD in epidemiology at the University of Washington. Her work using phylogenetics to better understand the epidemiology of Escherichia coli O157:H7 was funded in part by an NIH National Research Service Award. Gillian and her family will be moving to Calgary, Alberta, where she will begin a postdoctoral fellowship in pediatric enteric infections. | Ronan Farrow won a Pulitzer Prize and an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) award in Public Interest for his series of investigative reports in the New Yorker that exposed the sexual predation of the movie producer Harvey Weinstein. For the West Coast commitment ceremony (left to right): Ian Jones ’07, Willis Arnold ’07, Nick Risher ’07, Robert Harrison ’07, Heather (Gladstone) Harrison ’10, Sidi John Weinert ’07, Hannah Hancock Rubinsky ’07, Gracie Leavitt ’07, and Jamie Riley ’07.
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