1986 Andy Shanken ‘86 has just published Into the Void Pacific: Building the 1939 San Francisco World’s Fair (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015).
and his third for the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival (NDSF), Grant previously served as the Founding Artistic Director for the Richmond Shakespeare Festival (VA) at Agecroft Hall. Highlights there included helping to develop Richmond Center Stage, touring to 23 states and more than 200,000 people, and fourteen consecutive years playing Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol for Two Actors.
with frequent volunteering in both the LS library and in her children’s classrooms, Clarissa is active locally, and continues to serve on the PCDS Alumni Board, as a Forest Highlands Committee Chair, and as a Director on Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s Leadership Circle. Her latest adventure is the adoption of a new golden retriever puppy, named Barley, who joins their existing menagerie of two dogs, three fish and two hermit crabs! 1989
1987 Nicole Blaustein Spracale ‘87 “has been busy building my business and executive coaching practice. I recently joined the Board of Directors for the SySTEMS School, and the ASU Mentor Network. Speaking of mentors…I’m excited to be part of PCDS Alumni Mentorship committee—are you signed up to mentor? Let me know how I can help you get more involved!”
This spring, Will Duffy ‘88 returned a 1st edition Paddington Bear book that he checked out of the PCDS Library in the 1970s.
Roz Bolger Abero ’89 is still loving her job as Assistant Head of School at PCDS, and now it’s truly all in the family as her husband Inaudi is the Assistant Coach for Varsity Soccer and their son Edu is in 4th grade at PCDS. She loves running into PCDS alumni around town and on campus, and she still hangs out with PCDS friends Jennifer Wilson Juhl ‘89 and Katie Cesal Hennessy ‘89.
1988 Meredith Schneider Hofer ‘88 is currently working in her family’s business. “We sell luxury timepieces on the web and can be reached at www. feelgoodwatches.com.” The Grand Valley Shakespeare Festival (Michigan) recently welcomed accomplished actor, director, educator, and the Ryan Producing Artistic Director of the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Grant Mudge ‘88. Now in his nineteenth year as an artistic director 60
Will Duffy ‘88 returning his book to Lower School Librarian Evelyne Macrodimitris
Clarissa Simek Robinson ‘88 and her husband, Brian, recently moved just down the street from PCDS, which makes getting their three children, Lilly (‘22), Ellie (‘25) and Josie (‘26), to school each day even easier. Along
Miko McGinty ‘89 is living and working in Brooklyn. She and her husband Nathan have two sons, Xander (3) and Kaz (7). Miko’s husband is an artist and she is a graphic designer working primarily on art books with museums. Miko “really enjoys seeing updates from classmates on Facebook.” She’s looking forward to seeing ar tist Laurel Sparks’ ‘90 solo show in New York at the Kate Werble Gallery, katewerblegallery.com.