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Leigh Todd Camard ’88 and her husband, Wayne Camard, enjoy a chat before lunch with S.E.M. Alassane Ouattara, president of the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.
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Alexandra Socarides ’92 recently published her first book, Dickinson Unbound: Paper, Process, Poetics, an examination of the material history of Emily Dickinson’s poems that situates Dickinson’s creative process in relation to other 19th-century compositional practices. The book is published by Oxford University Press. Alexandra is assistant professor of English and literature coordinator at the University of Missouri. She received her doctorate in English from Rutgers University in 2007. “We recently welcomed with joy our second daughter, Sophie Davia Brueggeman,” reports Jodi Luster Brueggeman ’94. “Big sister Alexandra is very excited to have her sister finally here!”
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Renata Hoddinott ’00 and Marcus Dong were married on September 1, 2012, in Newport Beach, Calif. Classmates Kurt Malec ’00, Kathryn Bach ’00, the bride, and Chuck Kelly ’00 celebrate the happy occasion.
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Nancy Webster Gleason ’96 and her husband, Alex, welcomed the arrival of their second son, George Knowles Gleason, in May 2012. Here they pose with George and their older son, Theodore, on George’s baptism day in September. Godparents Vanessa Lisi Lyon ’96 and Ben Stout ’96 joined the family in Maine for the special occasion. George was born four days after Nancy walked in the Tufts graduation, having been conferred her doctorate in international relations.
worked side-by-side. The artists were intrigued by the notion of a collaborative residency — not merely a shared space but a truly collaborative creative process, in which each responds to her own last mark as well to the other’s, ultimately creating a call-and-response dynamic much like that in a jazz ensemble. Sarah employs an additive, fluid, and responsive process to build paintings and drawings that feature clusters of forms suggesting habitats of profuse growth. Her most recent body of work, The Cenote Series, was inspired by snorkeling in sink holes in the Yucatan, Mexico. In the collaboration at MAPSpace, she expanded beyond the confines of paper and canvas to work directly on the gallery walls with a variety of new materials. A gallery talk with the artists was held November 17, 2012, and their exhibit, Interplay: A Collaboration, was on view November 17, 2012, to January 19, 2013.
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Rachael N. Beare has been appointed the dean of admission for Keystone Academy, a new school in Beijing opening in the fall of 2014. Keystone Academy of Beijing will be primarily for Chinese students, grades 1 through 12, and will provide not only a world-class formal education and depth of appreciation for Chinese language, history, and culture