’67 Class correspondent Pamela Dendy Knap, pdknap@optonline.net The past few years have been measured in extraordinary highs and lows for Jeff Levy and his family. Jeff and Della’s oldest son, Ben, won a position in the bass section of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 2003, and he and Jenn Turner were married last September. Jeff and Della’s daughter Sarah teaches in Denver and son Mark is a senior in jazz percussion studies at the New England Conservatory. In 2003 Jeff was diagnosed with lymphoma. Treatment was successful, but side effects of chemotherapy forced an unwelcome early retirement. He looks at his career in medicine as exceeding his expectations for opportunities to serve both the patients and institutions with which he was associated for the past 30 years. Mack McCune had a full house for a few months after Hurricane Katrina. He and his ex own a house in New Orleans that was temporarily uninhabitable, so she and three of her children came to stay with him in Maryland. Mack is “appalled at the lack of support the federal government has provided the citizens of the Gulf Coast to this day.” Kevin Fitz Patrick coordinates photography for the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its newly developed National Alliance, which encompasses numerous national parks and recreation areas, including Acadia National Park and the Boston Harbor Islands. He is a member of the board of directors of Discover Life in America, which oversees the ATBI Project. He moved from Concord, Massachusetts, to Asheville, North Carolina, on May 1.
’68 40th Reunion: May 23–25, 2008 Staff contact: Jessica Kemm ’74, 845-758-7406 or kemm@bard.edu
Class correspondent Barbara Crane Wigren, bcwigren@aol.com Frank Davenport writes that he had a rock band in 1964 with Peter Lee ’60, Charlie Messing, and other “musical genies.” They played in the gym several times and the Magdal Inn on occasion. He would love to hear from any old friends at ancientcityentertainment@yahoo.com. Vickisa Feinberg is an artist exhibiting at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station, California, and in other venues. She is an art teacher, volunteer firefighter, and emergency medical technician in West Marin and a radio host on KWMR, the West Marin community radio station. Andrew Frank retired after 35 years as a member of the Music Department at the University of California, Davis. In January 2007 the department honored his service to the University with a concert of two recent pieces plus works by his former teachers, Jacob
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As the baby boomers hit their sixties, many of them are celebrating with former classmates. Bardians gathered in New York City for the birthday of William Sherman ’68 are (left to right) David Perry ’69, Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65, William (wearing his birthday crown and holding a picture of himself at Bard), Barbara Crane Wigren ’68, Blake Fleetwood ’68, Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68, Michael Dewitt ’65, and Marylyn Donahue ’68. Barbara writes that they all are “grateful for the friendships that have lasted decades.”
Druckman from Bard and George Crumb from the University of Pennsylvania. Guy Frank lives in Richmond, Virginia, “that hotbed of social rest” (Will Rogers). He enjoys writing and performing his songs, playing guitar and piano, and reading and writing poetry. He works resettling refugees in Richmond. Sandy Hubert has done soul healings and readings for over 20 years, and works at the Healing Zone in Montclair, New Jersey. Her book, Soul Encounters: Love Letters from the Soul is available on line. Her next book, Food Obsession No More, about how she cured herself of food obsession, will be printed soon. Susan Morse lives with her husband, Frank Ludovina, near Monterey, California. They both teach part-time at California State University, Monterey Bay, after retiring from many wonderful years with the Migrant Education Program.
’69 Class correspondent Elaine Marcotte Hyams, eshyams@yahoo.com Although Lilja Finzel did not graduate from Bard, she still considers it the “school of her heart.” After a serendipitous career in bank information systems, audit, and security and 10 years of independent consulting in the same field, Lilja is now, happily, a “professional volunteer” in Vernonia, Oregon, in the heavily forested northwest corner of the state. She is involved with the county cultural association, local arts group, and historical museum.