’70 Robert Melnick is semiretired from the University of Oregon, where he has taught landscape architecture since 1982. His current research is on the impacts of climate change on cultural landscapes in the national parks. Recent reports can be seen at nps.gov/subjects/culturalland scapes/climate-change.htm.
’68 50th Reunion Now that was a reunion! More than 70 classmates and friends attended the many special events we organized over the weekend. Thank you to the committee members for all their work: Bob Edmonds, Mark Favus, Diana Hirsch Friedman, William Sherman, and Barbara Crane Wigren. If you haven’t already, there is still time to support the Class of 1968 Scholarship in honor of our reunion.
Honorary Degree Billy Steinberg ’72 James C. Chambers ’81, chair of the Board of Trustees (left), and songwriter Billy Steinberg ’72, who received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. photo China Jorrin ’86
Stephen Kessler is the recipient of the 2017 Northern California Book Award in poetry translation for his version of Save Twilight: Selected Poems by Julio Cortázar. This is the fifth major honor Stephen has received for his work as a literary translator. His previous awards, all for his translations of the Spanish poet Luis Cernuda, include an NEA Fellowship, a Lambda Literary Award, the Academy of American Poets’ Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and a PEN Center USA Literary Award.
’67 Kevin FitzPatrick, Blainie Logan, Spencer Mosse ’68, Pam Dandy Knap, and Joan Elliott were drama students at Bard and have been getting together every year in New York City since 2004 to hash out old stories and discuss favorite times at Bard.
Class of 1968 50th Reunion photo Brennan Cavanaugh ’88
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