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72 John Y. G. Walker III jwalker2353@gmail.com
Peter Brown ’72 is living in Olympia, WA and for the past 20 years has been traveling to Mexico to learn from the Huichol and Nahua people about their healing ways. This photo of Peter is at his second initiation as a Marakame (shaman) in the Huichol tradition on the shores of Santa Maria del Oro in Mexico.
Nick Johnson was on campus in March to teach a Pro Vita course. He is a professor and director of dance at Wichita State University and earned his MFA degree in dance/drama at the University of Arizona. Nick trained in New York City and has dedicated his professional career to the fusion of mime and dance in artistic production and training. He is a founding member of the School for Mime Theatre, a summer residency program based at Kenyon College, where he taught for 25 years. He has worked with and created choreography for Marcel Marceau and continues to create both mime and dance doing freelance choreography, directing, teaching and performing. He annually creates original multidisciplinary children’s physical theatre productions for the artist-in-residence
Nick Johnson ’72 dining with Ross and Joyce Hawkins, former faculty, at the Old Mill in Egremont, MA when Nick was visiting campus in March to teach a Pro Vita course.
Michele Robins ’73 and Rex Morgan ’73 had 42 years of catching up to do at Berkshire’s reception in Philadelphia last March. Michele is a psychologist at Bryn Mawr College with a practice in New York City. Rex is currently working on training projects for the drug maker Astra Zeneca.
program at the Cactus Shadows Fine Arts Center, Cave Creek, Arizona. He is the Artistic Director for the Alithea Mime Theatre, a professional company in residence at Wichita State University, and also an Artistic Director for the Wichita Contemporary Dance Theatre, the student touring company from the WSU Dance Program.
73 Leon J. Weil jerryweil.tennis@gmail.com
Will Morrison and Joanne Marino got married on April 10th in Nashville, TN. They will continue to live in
No lying on the beach for her. Resident adventurer Paula Pevzner ’73 spent her March vacation trekking in Death Valley with a group of hardy hikers. No surprise to hear that fellow hiker, a female West Point Army captain and former special ops member, admitted that even she had trouble keeping up with the mighty Paula!
Middletown, NY. Both say it was well worth the wait! Jamie Bartholomay Niemie writes: “This has been a year filled with many great changes. Two of my daughters married and I was blessed with my first grandchild, a little girl, Crawford Francis, born in April by my daughter Bailey Duffy ’05. Another daughter is
The Class of ’73 shared some holiday cheer at Berkshire’s reception in New York City. From left: Tom Mullany, former faculty Hilary Russell, Rex Morgan, Monty Reis ’71, Kevin Bruemmer ’71, John Shaker ’71, Bill Drake, Chris Groves, Mark Richardson and Jerry Weil.
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