10th Reunion, Class of 1998
’96 Class correspondents Gavin Kleespies, gwkleespies@hotmail.com Abigail Morgan, abigail@floatchinesemedicalarts.com Jessica Burr and Matt Opatrny had a baby! Evelyn Thayer Opatrny Burr was born on November 16, 2007, and has been a source of perpetual joy and entertainment for her parents ever since. Matt and Jessica’s theater company, blessed unrest, is still going strong. For more information, including performance schedules in New York City, visit www.blessedunrest.org. Holly Graff and Nick Kolba ’94 and their daughter, Lucia (7), spent seven months in Paris in 2007, where Nick worked on a special assignment for Reuters, and Holly and Lucia enjoyed the unschooling life, Parisian style. To read about their school-free life and philosophy, visit http://www.unschoolgirls.blogspot.com/. David Johnson lives in Brooklyn and works as the sous chef at Chanterelle in Manhattan. Talya Rubin is based in Montreal, where she makes solo work for the stage and teaches theater at McGill University. In early 2008 she performed her original solo play The Girl With No Hands at the Wildside Theatre Festival at Centaur Theatre in Montreal, a curated festival of cutting-edge work, and directed a production of the opera Cendrillon by Massenet, with the voice performance students at McGill. Talya writes that she is “married to a fabulous Australian man and will be living in Sydney for a good part of 2008.”
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Aaron Schottenfeld was the eighth-grade English teacher at Bohanon Middle School in San Lorenzo, California, for the 2007– 08 school year. Ben Schwabe is in hiding with his partner, Emi, and their 4-yearold daughter, Aziza. Jennifer Abrams Thompson, husband Michael, and daughter Nazhlah welcomed to the family Noah Michael, born December 19, 2007. The happy family lives in Troy, New York, and enjoys the tiny city. Jennifer continues to teach English as a second language in a neighboring community.
’95 Noah K. Mullette-Gillman has finished writing his first fantasy novel, The Song of the Feathered Serpent, and is looking for a publisher. He would love to be in touch with any/all Bardian literary agents. His e-mail address is noahlot@gmail.com.
’94 15th Reunion: May 22–24, 2009 Staff contact: Sasha Boak-Kelly, 845-758-7407 or boak@bard.edu Jennifer Reck is a policy analyst at a nonprofit organization promoting policy options for state legislatures to control drug costs and to increase access to safe, affordable drugs. She and Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 plan to renew their vows on their upcoming 10th wedding anniversary. They love watching their daughters, Daphne and Stephanie, grow up on the beaches and snow banks of Maine