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Class Notes

from Connections Magazine Winter/Spring 2023

from Connections Magazine Winter/Spring 2023, page 30

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1943

Barbara Beller Seligmann b.seligmann@verizon.net

1946

Ronee Herrmann: I am the first female Dalton graduate to attend medical school. Even at the age of 92, I am still working as a consultant. I have fond memories of Dalton — a completely different school from today. Very small classes and only girls.

1953

Ann

Salfeld Lewyn

annslewyn@aol.com

1955

Lynn Gottlieb Gilbert: These last several months have been some of the most exciting of my life. My portrait of Louise Nevelson, taken more than four decades ago for the Pace Gallery, was used by the gallery as the face of the Nevelson exhibition at the 2022 Venice Biennale. Art News wrote their lead editorial on the Nevelson exhibition. The first four paragraphs were about my portrait. It described how the portrait, plastered on posters all over Venice, had become the face of this year’s Biennale. To document the ongoing story of how this portrait has grown into its iconic status, a filmmaker went to Venice with me. In December, I was invited for the second time to speak at a large photography symposium in Turkey. The topic was “Roots” because I’ve spent almost a decade documenting the interiors of Traditional Houses that no one had documented before. Every day, I learn and I’m challenged.

Anne Markham Schulz: I have dedicated my latest book to two Dalton teachers who influenced my career in fundamental ways — Rhys Caparn and Dora Downes. My book is entitled Late Gothic Sculpture in Northern Italy: Andrea da Carona and i maestri caronesi and was recently published in November 2022 in two volumes by Brepols, Turnhout, and Harvey Miller, London. This, as well as all my other books, centers on Italian Renaissance sculpture. I credit Miss Caparn, a sculpture teacher (1946–1972), for my unique appreciation of sculpture and Miss Downes, an English teacher (1934–1959), for the ease and pleasure I take in writing. Their instruction underpins everything I have done in my 60 years as an art historian, and I only regret that my tribute is so belated.

1956

George Liebmann’s new book Journal of Two Plague Years has been published. This is a collection of 70 op-ed pieces appearing in the Baltimore Sun, The American Conservative Online, the Washington Examiner, Chronicles Online, the Washington Times, and the Calvert Institute website in the two years beginning with the presidential election in January 2020. It reflects the views of a writer discouraged by the indifference to constitutional values of former President Trump and the devotion to identity politics and moral nihilism of too many of his opponents. It includes articles on President Biden’s proposals, voting rights, abortion, the minimum wage, conservation measures, New Urbanism proposals, drug and criminal justice policy, various Maryland political issues, and reflections on past political actors, including William Howard Taft and Felix Frankfurter. The book is available on Amazon in paperback or Kindle. It is a sequel to Vox Clamatis In Deserto, a collection of 110 short op-ed articles written over a 25-year period encompassing the Clinton, Bush Jr., Obama, and Trump administrations; included are a few longer pieces on welfare, reapportionment, Palestine, and civil rights’ consent decrees. This collection is followed by 20 book reviews, including works by Gary Hart, Hillary Clinton, Gabriel Schoenfeld, Victor Klemperer, Donald Rumsfeld, Frank Costigliola, John Paton Davids, Constance Jordan, Richard Evans, and Jill Lepore, and three longer essays on the original design of the United Nations, the Kennedy administration, and the aftereffect of Naziism.

1958

Whitman Knapp wknapp@gtbinsights.com

Judith Markham Hughes: In 2016, after 40 years as a professor of history at UC San Diego, I retired from teaching. I continued to write, and in 2022, my tenth book, The Perversion of Holocaust Memory: Writing and Rewriting the Past after 1989 was published by Bloomsbury Academic. For the past 30 years, I have also been a psychoanalyst. My practice is now much reduced, but I still enjoy the work a great deal.

1959

Marjorie Cohen Scharfspitz marjorol@hotmail.com

1960

Edwin Stern ehs111@aol.com

1962

Ann Tanenbaum anntanenbaum44@gmail.com

1963

Mary Bartos marybartos@gmail.com

1964

Thea Volpe-Browne thealbrowne@gmail.com

Margaret (Peggy) Rosten Muir’s first children’s book is just out. Luca and the Bookstore Standoff (Author House) is a true story of her four-year-old grandson taking her to the local bookstore and refusing to leave because “We haven’t read ALL the books!” Many strategies were tried unsuccessfully. Getting this book out is a major check on Peggy’s bucket list.

1965

Joan Brodsky Schur jbschur@gmail.com

1967

Penny House pencilh@gmail.com

1968

Deborah Markewich Lazarus deborahlaz@aol.com

Nancy Roth Remington nancy.remington@gmail.com

Patricia Braun Silvers pbsny86@gmail.com

1969

Wendy Weingarten Miller wmiller528@aol.com

Annette Miller annettemiller@comcast.net

Carol Flaxman Richter carol.t.richter@icloud.com

1970

Garrett Glaser and his life partner, David Schmerler, recently celebrated 22 years together. They have returned to their new home in La Jolla, California, after a three-week cruise to North Africa, Portugal, and Spain, which Garrett described as “spectacular.”

1972

Ellen M. Iseman emitqo@aol.com

Jonathan Miller jonathan.david.miller@verizon.net

1973

Gita Mehta gmehta1148@gmail.com

Alan Forrest: I was on Antiques Roadshow. I received the first appraisal, was on camera for a long time, and then you see both me and my wife, Wendy, at the end of the episode in the feedback booth. It was so much fun!

1979 Kenneth Lane kglane@mac.com

Jon Ross: Since moving back to New York from Los Angeles a few years ago, I have been able to reconnect with many of my old friends from Dalton. I go to museums with Clark Wakabayashi, who lives in Brooklyn, and I see Karen Strauss when she is in from Arizona. Daisy Friedman and I recently enjoyed a delightful afternoon at MoMA. And Brad Roaman and I have gotten together for pizza and traded construction sagas — he just finished building his dream home on Long Island. When Aaron Mack is visiting from Minnesota we try to have tea and a catch-up. Recently, I visited Oren Clark in Rhinebeck. As a true city kid, I had never taken the train that far north—it’s a gorgeous ride along the Hudson. Kele Baker lives up there, too; she came into the city and joined me for lunch at a favorite spot, Via Quadronno, on the Upper East Side. And Bennett Levine treats me to a four-star restaurant experience on occasion.

I’ve also crossed paths with Neil Kornfeld ’81, Mike Melkonian, Madeleine Dreyfuss, Vanda Jamison, and Suzanne Sunshine Mendel ’81. Ken Lane, Alan Spalter, Scott Galin and I have a lunch date pending.

As a base of operations for me and my nonprofit, MicroAid International, microaidinternational.org — which rebuilds permanent houses for disaster survivors around the world — New York City is great. While I oversee our ongoing projects in Nepal, and between my own travels to the field, I’ve been enjoying the city for all the culture and other opportunities that exist here. It’s also a good place to do fundraising. Many Dalton alums are donors, including Jenny Blum, Hildi Rosenfeld, Jan Elsbach ’78, Michele Abeles ’80, Suzie Palitz, Jamie Lawrence, and Bart Elsbach —thank you. And fellow Daltonian, Rico Williams ’81, recently joined the MicroAid board of directors.

1974

Sita Sarna princesssita@me.com

1978

David Cremin david@frontiervc.com

Linda Saxl Minton purpleny@verizon.net

Ivy Abrams Silverman ivy.abrams@usa.net

Last year, I was in Mexico for five months building a house for an earthquake-survivor family, and two years before that I revisited Nepal to personally meet all the families we have helped over the last five years. It was such an honor to be given presents of fruit and flowers and blessings. It reminded me of the time in Samoa, where they made me a chief in the village where we were building canoes to replace the ones they lost in a tsunami.

As always, my Dalton education and connections inform my experiences… and follow me around the world. I will be in New York City for the next couple of months. One of the great little-known things to do here during the summer is lawn bowling in Central Park. Amy Farber ’91 is a lawn-bowling regular.

1980

Stephen Hermanos stevehermanos@yahoo.com

Christopher Lee chrisleedalton@yahoo.com

Kathy Dicks McNicoll km1@dalton.org

Leslie Weingarten Singer lsinger@bhsusa.com

Michele Abeles works with the New York State Attorney General reviewing transactions for not-forprofit corporations. Her daughter is a freshman in college, and her son is a junior in high school. They both learned to drive last year.

Jason Abrams: Following his tenure at the State Department and United Nations, Jason joined Perry Gershon’s campaigns for the U.S. Congress. Jason is now looking for professional opportunities to indulge his passion for writing and editing.

Kayla Schwartz Burridge is a psychotherapist in New York, married to a Broadway musician, and has a 20-year-old basketball-playing son.

Melissa Eisenstat is living mostly in Colorado, teaching music and English and studying jazz piano.

Alex Epstein lives in Montreal and writes video games and loves it. He made a game called We Happy Few.

Lisa Hunter Epstein: Greetings from Montreal!

Danielle Epstein founded and runs Marble House Project, a multidisciplinary artist residency in Dorset, Vermont. In her spare time she makes art, designs houses, and spends a lot of time driving between New York, Vermont, and Sag Harbor where she lives with her partner and her two sons.

Charles Garner was thrilled to see everyone at the reunion. He lives on the Upper East Side where he’s been forever. His daughter is living in Detroit and working hard and life is good.

Lorraine Garcia: I received my MSW from NYU in 2016 and now live in Williamsburg, Virginia. I am a mom of a stunning and brilliant 23-year-old daughter who is a caring nurse and a 10-year-old Morkie. I am a mental health counselor at Health Brigade in Richmond, Virginia. Health Brigade was previously known as the free fan clinic and offers low-cost mental health and clinical services to the surrounding community. When I am not busy with these aspects of my life I still find time to sew and quilt and volunteer in my community.

Chris Lee: I am proud to be included in Pierogi 2000 Gallery’s Make Art Not War, a collection of artists, mostly from the Williamsburg, Brooklyn scene in the 1990s who came together in a show to benefit Ukrainian relief efforts. Check the website pierogi2000.com for details. I will also be featured in a book, Art in the Making , published by The Fisher Press later this year. Follow me @chrisleedalton on Instagram.

Kathy Dicks McNicoll lives in New York. She works at Dalton and loves it. She has been married for 31 years and has two sons in their 20s.

Laura Modlin launched Civilian Journalist in November and says that this new initiative includes products she created for self-guided environmental education using methods she learned as a journalist, as well as her nature photography prints. She hopes to inspire a new generation of environmentalists to go forth unafraid to create their own unique projects leading the way in areas of importance for the future. Visit her at civilianjournalist.com.

Amy Rappaport Koreen’s two oldest children are following in her footsteps and going into psychiatry. Her youngest is in business and all are living in the New York area. Her husband of 35 years is a dermatologist.

Julia Kossack: Looking forward to new adventures now that the kids are grown up! Please come visit me in California!

Jennifer Low is semi-retired and still engaged in scholarship and is living in Montclair and Manhattan.

Brad Peck is living in the city. He has two sons, one just graduated from Dalton a year ago and another son is a junior in high school.

Alison Levy Schlesinger is living in Manhattan, has two kids in college, and is working for a company that supports entrepreneurs who are primarily women and people of color.

Stephanie Tanner was recently selected for a 2022 Service and Leadership Award from the American National Standards Institute. Stephanie won the Maureen Breitenberg Medal for reducing complexity and redundancy in conformance assessment. As the lead engineer for the Environmental Protection Agency’s WaterSense program, she designed the process by which WaterSense labeled products are independently certified for efficiency and performance. The process she developed is now a model used by other voluntary labeling programs. Stephanie has also helped other countries develop water efficiency labeling programs and participated in the development of the international standard for water efficiency labeling. During her acceptance speech, she thanked her Dalton Physics and Chemistry teacher, the late Dr. David DeSantis, for encouraging her to become an engineer. After graduating from Dalton, Stephanie got her BS from the US Merchant Marine Academy and MS from The George Washington University.

1984 Melissa Dunst Lipman melissa.dunst@warnermedia.com

Alan Pardee alanpardee123@gmail.com

Abigail Scheuer Atema abigailscheuer@gmail.com

Charles Simon charlesasimon@mac.com

Carla Van de Walle carla@vandewalle.us

1985

Stephanie Tanner

1981

Jonathan Weintraub weintraubjonathan@gmail.com

1982

Lisa Podos lpodos@yahoo.com

David M. K. Silver jdcsilver@gmail.com

Congratulations to Lee Dunst on his new job. He was recently selected by The Board of Judges of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York to serve as a Magistrate Judge for a term of eight years

Kate Feiffer had the honor of illustrating The Lamb Cycle: What the Great English Poets Might Have Written About Mary and Her Lamb (Had They Thought of It First) by David R. Ewbank, to be published on April 1, 2023, by Brandeis University Press. The rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb” is told in the style — and substance — of the great English poets from Edmund Spenser to Stevie Smith. So D.H. Lawrence’s Mary longs for her lamb as any woman longing for her lover, whilst T.S. Eliot’s Mary is recollected by an old man looking back on his life. Feiffer’s illustrations have been called “brimming with wit and wonderment.” For more information go to Kate’s website: www.katefeiffer.com.

1983 Peter Buttenwieser petermsa@hotmail.com

Marci Kenon coachmarcinyc@gmail.com

Joshua Olesker joshua.olesker@gmail.com

Adam Cifu: Pamela Geismar and I have collaborated on work for a podcast: The Clinical Excellence Podcast, sponsored by the Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence here at the University of Chicago. I am one of the hosts and Pamela, through her design company pamelageismar.com, did the art. Our first collaboration since our Peer Leadership group in ’84/’85.

1986

Jeffrey Bernstein jeff@simplysports.net

Jimmy Frischling jimmy@brandedstrategic.com

Leslie Abbey: I started an exciting new position this year as Chief Executive Officer of Hot Bread Kitchen. Hot Bread Kitchen promotes women’s economic mobility – particularly women of color and immigrant women – using New York City’s vibrant food industry as a catalyst. Housed in the former Food Network studios in Chelsea Market, we provide culinary training and job placement, incubate new small food businesses owned by women (we’ve helped start 250+ new food businesses in our 15 years), and work to improve culinary jobs. If anyone is interested in learning more or getting involved, please reach out to me at LAbbey@hotbreadkitchen.org. On the homefront, our son, Graham, is a sophomore at Boston College, and our daughter, Hannah, is a rising senior at Nightingale, and we’ve made it through the last two years safely, thankfully!

A.J. Jacobs visited the Dalton Senior elective “You Are What You Eat: A Critical Investigation Into Food Production, Consumption, and Justice” to discuss his work and the insights it provides into contemporary food systems and pathways. A.J. applied concepts from his books Thanks a Thousand, Drop Dead Healthy, The Year of Living Biblically, and more as he illustrated the forces that bind us in an interconnected world. Thanks a Thousand details A.J.’s effort to thank every person involved in producing his cup of coffee; Drop Dead Healthy covers his mission to radically improve every element of his body and mind; while The Year of Living Biblically chronicles A.J.’s attempt to live a full year obeying the tenets of the Bible.

1987

Gabrielle Zaklad Levene

40 W 67th St Apt 3D New York, NY 10023-6231

1989

Erica Kornblau Katz ericaskatz@gmail.com

Michael Shuman michael@4f.io

Lili Rosenberg Siegelson lili@siegelson.com

1990

Doug Feinberg: Being a sportswriter for The Associated Press has let me travel around the world covering women’s basketball at the Olympics and World Championships. This past September I had the pleasure of visiting Australia for the FIBA World Cup and crossing that country off my bucket list.

The U.S. continued its dominance winning the tournament. As much fun as it was to cover the World Cup as one of a few U.S. based journalists there, the highlight for me was taking a morning trip to a wildlife park and meeting my new friend “Hoppy” the kangaroo. It was so cool to get to walk and feed and pet the kangaroos and take a photo with a koala.

One of the other joys of the trip was a chance to walk around Sydney Harbor and see the Opera House and view the Harbor Bridge as well as take a side trip to Bondi Beach. Finally, it was a small thing but cool nevertheless: There was a horse racing track across the street from my hotel, and I dropped by one day; it was neat to see the horses run in the other direction going clockwise instead of counterclockwise as they do in the U.S. Until next time….

1991

Emily Mindel Gottlieb emgottlieb@gmail.com

Loren Goldstein Mortman lmortman@equityny.com

Nicole DiGiorgio Orphanos norphanos@elliman.com

Elizabeth Planet: I live in Philadelphia now! My oldest son is entering his senior year of high school (we’re deep in the college application process), and my two youngest are entering 8th grade. I am a consultant to nonprofit organizations (more info at www.elizabethplanet.com), and I also own a little shop in our neighborhood in West Philly, Spruce Hill Provisions (on Instagram @sprucehillprovisions). We inherited a second dog a few months ago too — my cup runneth over!

1992 Abbe Gluck abbegluck@yahoo.com

Jerusha Klemperer jklemperer@gmail.com

Michael McCloskey michael2222@yahoo.com

Amy Kisch joined Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, www.ybca.org, as Chief Producer to lead the San Francisco Arts institution’s public programming, partnerships, audience cultivation, and long-term strategic development. Amy will work to reimagine its programs across visual arts, performing arts, film, civic, and community engagement — reflecting the diverse array of artists and communities they serve. Amy said that she is honored to take on the unique opportunity of working with artists and trusted community leaders in one of San Francisco’s most history-rich dynamic public squares. She could not imagine a more exciting platform in the Bay Area for creative interventions, civic engagement, and for artists to lead us through the most pressing issues of our time. Amy previously served as the Founder + Artistic Director of the Art+Action Coalition and Founder + CEO of AKArt Advisory. Among other major projects, she was commissioned by San Francisco’s Office of Civic Engagement & Immigrant Affairs (OCEIA) to develop an arts-driven campaign for the 2020 Census to combat census-suppression efforts. In response, she developed Art+Action — a coalition of more than 100 private and public entities — commissioning more than 50 artists and trusted community messengers to mobilize constituents and winning an unsolicited Ford Foundation grant to expand the movement nationwide. Amy lives in the East Bay with her husband, 7-year-old son, and dog, Otis.

Lauren Lazare Ratner married Seth Ratner on September 10, 2022, at the Long Island Aquarium in Riverhead, NY. In attendance were her brother Marc Lazare ’88, Bridesmaids Rebecca Zackin ’92 and Elissa Ganz, Bridesman Graham Reed ’92 , Abbe Gluck ’92, Dylan Lauren ’92 , Daniel Laikind ’92, Barbara Feldstein ’92 , and Melissa Breitbart ’91.

1993

Andrew Fabian andrew.b.fabian@gmail.com

Marc Bamuthi Joseph: In September 2022, I had the great pleasure of returning to the Martin Theater to speak to assembled students, faculty, and staff at a High School assembly. The theater holds so many memories for me, and given that I now make opera and dance theater for a living, it’s literally the incubation space for how I’ve continued to vision the world. The focus of my assembly presentation was the role of dignity and creativity in a transformational future. That said, I think the kids mostly got a kick out of my references to the past, including pictures of me on the soccer pitch and the dance studio from 30 years ago. Having sat through a litany of assembly speakers back in the day, my primary goal was to survive the hour without creating the opportunity for a mass morning nap, and I can proudly report that I definitely cleared the bar, and even earned some raucous applause by the end of our time. Thanks to Randi Sloan for the invitation to give back to the Dalton community, and thanks to all the faculty and staff (and, of course, the spirited student body) who made me feel so welcome on my return to the building. Check out The Cartography Project on the Kennedy Center’s website.

1994

Elizabeth Topp liztopp@gmail.com

1995

Lauren Rosenberg Gershell lauren@gershell.com

Simon Gluck simonarigluck@gmail.com

Lauren Katz lkatz737@gmail.com

David Kleinhandler david.kleinhandler@cbre.com

Carla Murphy: Just sharing good career news in the hopes that readers want to connect. Starting this Fall 2022, I’m a tenure-track assistant professor at Rutgers-Newark in their undergrad journalism program. I’ll continue consulting as part of a small team that is evaluating the MacArthur Foundation’s Journalism and Media portfolio, and participating in efforts to grow our nation’s civic infrastructure. Academia’s a new step for me, so I invite all support, advice, etc. You can reach me at carla.m.murphy@gmail.com.

1996

Nicholas Suplina: Hi all! I’m currently living in Brooklyn with my wife, Amy; son, Ollie, 15; daughter, Tess, 12; and dog, Biggie, 36 in dog years. After stints clerking, in private practice, and multiple roles at the New York Attorney General’s office, I am now Senior Vice President for Law & Policy at Everytown for Gun Safety, www.everytown.org, the country’s largest gun violence prevention organization. I oversee our 50-state government affairs, legal, policy, research, investigations, and community impact initiatives. It’s tough but ultimately rewarding work, as when we passed the first major federal gun safety law in 30 years earlier this summer. The bipartisan bill was the result of years of effort and going to the White House to celebrate with the President was the highlight of my professional career. There are lots of ways to get involved, so don’t hesitate to reach out at nicksuplina@gmail.com to connect or catch up!

1997

Jonathan Lewis jlewis2k7@gmail.com

Rachel Altfest Maimin rachelmaimin@gmail.com

Stefanie Hirschtritt Ruch stefanieruch@gmail.com

Jennifer Kops Stemkowski jennik3379@gmail.com

1998

Ethan Bregman ethanbregman@gmail.com

Alexandra Certilman Kay alexandrackay@gmail.com

Jessica Levitas jlevitas@gmail.com

Andrew Martin mistermartin@gmail.com

Richard Rothfeld rothfeld@gmail.com

Michael Stillman mstillman@qualitybranded.com

1999

Anne-Carmène Almonord annecarmene@gmail.com

Sarah Mohr Fabian smohr80@gmail.com

Morissa Falk-Freedman morissa@gmail.com

George Suttles george.suttles@gmail.com

Sarah Mandel’s memoir debut Little Earthquakes is coming out in April 2023. A clinical psychologist and mother, she said that her goal is to de-stigmatize mental health conditions and provide readers with a guide, of sorts, for how to manage the inherent uncertainty of our lives: In 2017, I was diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer while eight months pregnant with my second child. In the span of a year, I went from pregnant and apparently healthy to metastatic cancer patient to miraculously achieving NED status, or “no evidence of disease.” While I was living through the crisis days, life had an unreal quality to it. But bringing words to that haziness helped me emerge from the dissociative fog and gain clarity. Writing became a source of validation – my experience was real, those words upon the page were the story of my life. I could take the helm in managing my memories and create meaning from them. As a trauma specialist in my psychology practice, I recognized that I now had a trauma of my own. I wondered if the treatment I had provided for my patients could help me, too? In an experiment in healing, I embarked upon a trauma treatment called narrative therapy, piecing together my story and sharing my insights as a clinical psychologist along the way. My story is one of sickness, trauma, unpredictability, and pain; but, most of all, it is a story of healing. I’m so grateful for the supportive, rigorous, and well-rounded education I received at Dalton.

2000

David Alexander davidtalexander@gmail.com

Melissa Frey Levine melissakfrey@gmail.com

Alexis Feldman Olinsky alexis.feldman@gmail.com

2001 Jeremy Barr jerbarr@gmail.com

Ariana Cooper Berry ariana.cooper@gmail.com

Zachary Goldstein zachary.n.goldstein@gmail.com

Daniel Haykin dchaykin@gmail.com

Malcolm Hochenberg mhochenberg@proskauer.com

Lauren Alexander Jupiter laurentjupiter@gmail.com

Na’eema Thompson naeema.thompson@gmail.com

2002

Jennifer Neff Davidson jenniferneffdavidson@gmail.com

Sophia Hutson sophie.hutson@gmail.com

Jonathan Stein jonathanastein@gmail.com

2003 Michael Cooper mcooper@jd10.law.harvard.edu

Lindsey Counts lindsey.counts@gmail.com

Joseph Franken joseph.franken@gmail.com

2004 Amanda Soled Blechman amanda.soled@gmail.com

Christopher Cameron chriscameronx@gmail.com

Jessica Crystal jessicacrystal1@gmail.com

Jennifer Glickel jglickel@gmail.com

Lea Marin lea.marin@gmail.com

Matthew Mittenthal mattmittenthal@gmail.com

Jason Squire jasonmsquire@gmail.com

Stacy Mohr Walder stacymohr7@gmail.com

Julianna Wilson julianna.n.wilson@gmail.com

2005 Benjamin Cirlin benjamin.cirlin@gmail.com

Maxime Glass Harnik maximeglass@gmail.com

Erik Lindman erik.lindman@gmail.com

Kyle Koeppel Mann kyle@koeppel.com

Samuel Shikiar s.shikiar@gmail.com

Joanna McClintick: I’m so proud to share that I published a children’s book this year, called ’Twas The Night Before Pride, about a queer family getting ready to attend their local pride march and discuss the Stonewall Riots. If you’re looking for ways to talk about queer history with young children, please check it out!

Julia Pilcer Lichtenstein juliaplichtenstein@gmail.com

2006 Mallory Factor malloryfactorii@gmail.com

Nicholas Lechich nlechich@dalton.org

Julie Stein julie.r.stein@gmail.com

2007 Courtney Salzberg Berman courtneydberman@gmail.com

Jonathan Ehrlich jon.ehrlich@gmail.com

Brett Kantor bekantor@gmail.com

Samantha Greenblatt Lexton samantha.lexton@gmail.com

Ava Feuer McCartney avafmccartney@gmail.com

Allison Mishkin afinemishkin@gmail.com

Johnathan Pryor johnathanpryor@gmail.com

Arman Rogers armanrogers0015@gmail.com

Adam Savaglio adam.savaglio@gmail.com

Ashley Tien ashleytien121@gmail.com

Sarah Weissman smweissman@gmail.com

2008 Amanda Hemenway ahemenway@dalton.org

2009 Tanvir Gopal tanvirg@gmail.com

Melissa Urfirer Gottesman mugottesman@gmail.com

Isabella Hiigel ihiigel@gmail.com

Parijat Samant parijatrsamant@gmail.com

Elizabeth Angeles: I was recently named in the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center “40 Under 40: The Rising Stars in NYC Food Policy.” You can read more at www.nycfoodpolicy.org.

Hunter Armani Cotton: I’ve been selected by the Panama National Team to compete in the FIBA World Cup qualifiers against the Bahamas and Canada.

Candlelighting

Marisa Kefalidis marisakef@gmail.com

Nicholas Ober nober@mac.com

Zachary Stone zstonezstone@gmail.com

Andrew Swift andrewwswift@gmail.com

Sarah Vallimarescu sarah.vallimarescu@gmail.com

Hunter Armani Cotton,

2010 Lily Freedman lilymirabellefreedman@gmail.com

Stephen Rutman stephen.rutman@gmail.com

Matthew Schorr matthew.l.schorr@gmail.com

2011 Samuel Browne sambrowne17@gmail.com

David Hamburger dsh4318@gmail.com

Erika Mitsui erikamitsui@aol.com

2012 Taylor Hemenway taylorhemenway@gmail.com

Allison Swaap allisonswaap@gmail.com

Congratulations to Jeremy Allen, Chief Content Officer of New Slate Ventures, in West Hollywood, who was recognized in Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” list in the Hollywood & Entertainment 2023 category.

2013 Blair Duncan, Jr. tdbdj19@gmail.com

Grant Goldman grantdgoldman@gmail.com

2016 Karina Shah karinamshah@gmail.com

Congratulations to Blu DeTiger, a musician in New York City, who was recognized in Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” list in the Music 2023 category.

Ashley LaLonde recently joined the cast of the hit Broadway National Tour of Hamilton. In the tour, she covers all three Schuyler Sisters: Eliza, Angelica, and Peggy/Maria. Performing in Hamilton has been a dream for Ashley since she first saw the show on Broadway while a Senior at Dalton. She even performed a rendition of the Hamilton song Satisfied with her Dalton a capella group, Sweet ’N Low. Ashley travels with her husband, Noah Reimers, whom she met as an undergraduate at Harvard University.

2014 Tejashree Gopal tejashreesg@gmail.com

Colette Midulla cmidulla@gmail.com

2015 Andrew Eaddy andrewjames.eaddy@gmail.com

Andrew Milich is the co-founder and CEO of Skiff Mail (skiff.com), which is a privacy-first secure email service and features a more private and secure Gmail alternative for communication and collaboration. Andrew started Skiff with his Stanford classmates over two years ago, and the Skiff team has grown to over 20 people today. The company has been written up in The Verge, Fast Company, and TechCrunch. Congratulations to Andrew, who has been recognized in Forbes Magazine’s “30 Under 30” list in the Consumer Technology 2023 category.

2017 Julia Martin martj17@hotmail.com

Josephine Shapiro josephineshapiro@mac.com

Antonia Hellman: This past November, I had the pleasure of returning to Dalton as a middle school assembly speaker. Although nearly 10 years have passed since I was a middle schooler myself, when I got up on that stage, it felt like I’d never left (in both a comforting way and also a don’tmess-this-up-or-else-it’ll-be-really-embarrassing way). I spoke to the students about my journey to becoming a start-up founder, taking it all the way back to the Little Dalton Post Office in first grade. I walked the audience through the various projects I did as a kid and how lessons learned from each of them have turned me into the entrepreneur I am today. Truthfully, my goal was to fill as much time as possible to avoid the awkward silence that accompanies a lack of questions. (In my time as a student, I had seen that happen many, many times.) But as I concluded my final slide and braced myself for crickets, hands flew up around the entire auditorium. The questions from these 6th, 7th, and 8th graders were so relevant, insightful, and funny. It was clear that they’d been paying close attention the whole time, which is something I can’t say about 90% of the adults I talk to regularly. I was thoroughly impressed. And even though I wasn’t able to answer every question before assembly ended, as I walked around the school afterward, middle schoolers didn’t hesitate to stop me in the hallways to ask their lingering questions. If anyone reading this would like to learn more about my talk, I wrote a little article about it in Toucan Events at www.toucan.events.

2018 Ryan McCormack ryan.mccormack2000@gmail.com

Marco Paz-Solano paz.marco.p4p@gmail.com

Piper Williams piperw1@icloud.com

2019 Emi Carpenter emicarpenter2023@gmail.com

2020 Phoebe Cahill cahillphoebe8@gmail.com

2022

Congratulations to violinist Isabella Marquez on winning a Grammy Award for “Best Orchestral Performance” with The New York Youth Symphony! Isa and her bandmates became the first youth orchestra ever to win a Grammy.