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head of Emma Willard School, a private high school for girls in Troy, N.Y....Julie DeSarbo leads a very full life as director of university programs and events in the Office of the President at Columbia Univ. She enjoys all that New York City life has to offer with Jessica Bondi and other friends....Cathleen Jasper Vincent, a mom of two boys, runs a private practice as a licensed acupuncturist on Martha’s Vineyard....Ben Levy and his family moved to the D.C. area. He’s keeping his job as senior counsel at Bloomberg L.P., the financial data and information company. He joined Danielle Perry and Brian Gagne along with Elizabeth Moreau at a performance of the off-Broadway hit Othello: The Remix, starring Postell Pringle and Greg Qaiyum....Jessica Lindoerfer lives in Putney, Vt., with partner Nate and daughters Elodie (3) and Cora (1). She enjoys her work designing customized programs for SIT Study Abroad. “In July 2015 I followed in the footsteps of Alison Sculley Kolani and was a one-day champion on Jeopardy!”… Martijn Rasser joined Muddy Waters Capital, a San Francisco-based investment management firm, as chief of staff in 2015. Previously he was an officer at the Central Intelligence Agency. He lives in Alexandria, Va., with wife Karena and daughters Haley and Lily.
1999 Reunion 2019, June 7–9 class secretary Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard jennifer_bouchard@hotmail.com class president Jamie Ascenzo Trickett jamie.trickett@gmail.com Chris AhnAllen now works at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as director of inpatient psychology. “Great to be able to walk through the Arboretum to get to work and have flexibility to pick up kids!”…Rosie Lenehan teaches fourth grade in Yarmouth and is working toward a MLIS in hopes of becoming a school librarian. She lives in Portland with husband Andrew, Sam (7), and George (4). Sam rides the school bus with the kids of Scott McAuliffe and Liz and Travis Emery ’97....Greg Sundik is excited to start a new job as a senior account executive at OurMaine, in keeping with his passion for business development and strategic marketing. He still markets St. Lawrence Arts in Portland in the busy season.
2000 Reunion 2020, June 12–14 class secretary Cynthia Macht Link cynthiafriedalink@gmail.com
class co-presidents Jennifer Glassman Jacobs jenniferellenjacobs@gmail.com Megan Shelley mhshelley@aol.com
MICHAEL BROSILOW
Postell Pringle ’98 Greg Qaiyum ’98
“With authenticity, you must be prepared to have your consumers see both the good and the imperfect, and remain honest about it,” says Jesse Laflamme ’00. After a decade at Columbia Univ., Kurt Deschermeier joined Pratt Institute as director of annual giving....Kate Dodson, vice president for global health at the United Nations Foundation, wrote an op-ed for The Huffington Post declaring that women and girls are key to ending the AIDS, TB, and malaria epidemics. She noted that governments and the private sector have pledged more than $12.9 billion to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, the largest-ever replenishment of the fund. The fund not only dedicates more than half its resources to programs that benefit women and girls, “it also works to ensure that women and girls have a strong voice in designing health programs that meet their unique needs. In fact, nearly half of all decision-makers in Global Fund grant committees are now women.”…Courtney Elf Rowe is in her second year teaching in the preschool classroom after an eight-year hiatus. She also teaches private music lessons a few days a week. She and Ethan ’98 sing in a quartet, Vermilion, and in the larger Commonwealth Chorale. Julia is 10 and Madeleine 7....Trevor Emory is a partner and president of Portsmouth Anesthesia Associates and has been practicing anesthesia in Portsmouth, N.H., since completing his residency at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He is now a trustee of Portsmouth Regional Hospital and was elected vice chair of the board. He lives in Greenland, N.H., with Maria Sparks Emory ’02, Juliette (5), and Robert (3).... The Philadelphia Inquirer reported how Kate Haesche Thomson was leading efforts to denounce hate in her Glenside, Pa., community with nonpartisan lawn signs. It all started soon after the presidential election when a neighbor mentioned a sign she knew about: “Hate Has No Home Here,” it read, in several languages — a response to a number of incidents of harassment and intimidation after Election Day. She originally ordered 20 yard signs, but a community Facebook posting led to so many orders that she purchased 1,800
Postell Pringle ’98 and Greg Qaiyum ’98 perform a scene from the Chicago production of Othello: The Remix.
media outlet: The New York Times
headline:
Othello goes hip-hop. There’s humor, too
date:
Nov. 16, 2016
takeaway: You don’t need reverence to reinvent Shakespeare Othello: The Remix, with Postell Pringle ’98 in the title role and Greg Qaiyum ’98 its co-creator, “conforms broadly to the original” but is “continually infused with impish humor,” notes a glowing review by The New York Times’ Charles Isherwood. This Othello is a “musical eminence at the top of his fame and his game (think Jay Z),” writes Isherwood. “Mr. Pringle is a commanding, virile presence.” The production, which concluded its off-Broadway run in January, is by the Q Brothers, whose creative directors are GQ (Greg Qaiyum) and JQ (his brother, Jeffrey). Pringle is the director of choreography. The show is the kind of “madcap mash-up” that the Q Brothers are well-known for, and here they are “smart to play to their strengths,” creating “as much a spoof of Othello as it is a serious attempt to translate the play into a contemporary musical idiom.”
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