1992 Elizabeth Zimmerman Donaldson, Class Representative
Class News
ezdonaldson@gmail.com Paige McCoy Meuse writes that everything in San Francisco is amazing. Their children, Chloe, Ella and Oliver are all on the Squaw Valley ski team, which is so fun and means lots of skiing for Paige and Chad.
Ellis Avery, ’90, Sayre Graves, and Suny Monk, Director of Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, together with a painting of former CSG student Elizabeth Ireland Graves, ’32. (Photographer: Bill Winston.)
1986 25th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Committee Kelli Reavling-Cobb, reavling-cobb.1@osu.edu Suzie Cho Helgaas, bhelgaas@yahoo.com Louise Davidson-Schmich, Class Representative davidson@miami.edu
1990 Paige Conrad McIntosh, Class Representative pacmcintosh@comcast.net Ellis Avery (Elisabeth Atwood) is happy to announce a second novel coming out next summer from Riverhead Books. Set in the expatriate world of 1920s Paris, The Last Nude was inspired by the life and work of Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka. Avery’s first novel, The Teahouse Fire, set in the tea ceremony world of late nineteenth-century Kyoto, came out from Riverhead in 2006 and has since been translated into five languages and honored with three awards. Much of The Last Nude was written at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a retreat center which offers writers,
composers, and visual artists three meals a day, a bedroom, a studio, and an ideal balance of solitude and community in an idyllic rural setting. While most resident artists are asked to make a contribution toward the cost of their residency, Columbus School for Girls alumnae and faculty are eligible for a full scholarship through the Columbus School for Girls Endowment. This special program is funded through the Elizabeth Ireland Graves Foundation, which was founded by Sayre Graves in honor of her mother, a member of the Class of 1932. This is a life-changing opportunity. Take it from Ellis: you will be stunned by the beauty and tranquility of VCCA; you will meet astonishing people; and you will get so much work done! Please apply! For more information, please visit vcca.com.
1991 20th Reunion April 29-30, 2011 Reunion Giving Chair Alissa Hadley Hines, ahadleyhines@gmail.com Amy Cherup Curley, Class Representative ccurley10@comcast.net
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Liz Zimmerman Donaldson, Anne Budros Fletcher, and Marya Goldberg Cassandra hosted a wonderful fundraiser for Laurel Beatty’s campaign at Liz’s house. It was really a lot of fun to see lots of CSG classmates from 1992 and other alums, younger and older, as well. Laurel’s classmates could not help but remind her of the song she used when she ran for middle school student council, “You Gotta Fight for Your Right to Vote Beatty!” And of course all of this contributed to her win with 68% of the vote! Thanks to the entire CSG community for all of their support, and most of all their votes! Allison Deverman Vietor attended CSG in 7th and 8th grade. Although she didn’t graduate from CSG, she said it did have a profound effect on her. Allison just earned her MBA in October from Babson College and started a new job managing the Legal Department of Mercy Corps, an international NGO based in Portland, Oregon. She’s married to Nick Vietor and has one daughter, a sophomore at an all-girls high school in Portland. She would love to get together with old friends from CSG who live in Portland, Oregon or when she’s visiting her mom in Ohio. 936 SW Dolph Street, Portland, OR 97219, (617)519-7784 (mobile), adevermanvietor@mercycorps.org Sarah Lowder’s dear sister Megan Lowder Kauffman, ’89 passed away on 28 September, 2010. Her obituary is at http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/ dispatch/obituary.aspx?page=lifestory &pid=145770315. Sarah is grateful for the outpouring of love and support from the CSG community and others; it has meant a lot to the Lowder and Kauffman families. Her e-mail is sarahklowder@ gmail.com. Liz Brown Chan wrote “It’s been a busy year for us.” She and her husband, Steve, welcomed their son, David, into the