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vote, while at the same time encouraging Japan to disarm peacefully and formally renounce any future war plans.”
M E E T M E AT T H E H E L D Seems former Head of the Department of Theater, Speech and Dance Kevin Held continues to make a good impression at his new school in Taiwan. Known for his boundless creative energy, Held, who taught at SG from 1999-2011, was recently honored when an anonymous donor came forward, purchased the naming rights to the Taipei American School’s black box theater, and named it the Kevin B. Held Black Box Theater. “I can hardly believe it!” reported Held, who spent this summer working in New York after a visit to Iran.
REMEMBERING THE SIXTIES Denis O’Neill ’66 contributed his recollections of life in the Vietnam War era to the sweeping 10-part CNN documentary produced by multiple Emmy Award-winning producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman called “The Sixties.” The segment in which he’s featured, “The War in Vietnam,” was released on June 19. O’Neill, who earlier this year was interviewed on Robin Young’s NPR program “Here and Now,” said he documented most of his memories in his book, “Whiplash: When The Vietnam War Rolled A Hand Grenade Into The Animal House,” published last fall. The book examines his senior year at Dartmouth College. “It was a tumultuous time stuck between Woodstock in August of 1969 and Kent State in May of 1970 ... with the reinstatement of the draft lottery on Dec. 1, right in the middle,” recalled O’Neill. ”[That made] my college class of 1970 the first since WWII to graduate with a diploma and a draft number.”
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Julie Bowen ’87 (née Julie Luetkemeyer) is featured on the cover of the July/August New Beauty magazine. A two-time Emmy Award winner and four-time Screen Actors Guild Award winner, Bowen is best known for playing the role of Claire Dunphy on the sitcom “Modern Family.” In the magazine’s lead feature, Bowen, a Brown University grad, recalls her teenage attitude toward makeup, and dishes about real life on the Red Carpet.
PART OF TH E CREW Nick Dana ’05 has earned a coveted spot on Team Alvimedica, a U.S. entry in the international Volvo Ocean Race, the offshore round-the-world sailing race touted as one of the most challenging in the sport. It will be Dana’s third Volvo Ocean Race, but his first time as a member of the race crew. Previously, he served as a member of the shore team for PUMA Ocean Racing in 2008-09; he was the onboard media person for Abu Dhabi Ocean Racing in 2011-12. The 2014-15 race begins in October in Alicante, Spain, and ends in Gothenburg, Sweden. It stops in Newport next May.