Mary (Padykula) Kosowski 49 AD Though Mary retired from teaching many moons ago, she still loves to draw and paint— as is clear from the pieces to the left—and is still active, living in Smithfield, RI. She majored in Advertising Design at RISD— a degree no longer offered—and is looking forward to celebrating her 88th birthday in December.
cards commemorating the 25th anniversary of Square One Theatre in Stratford, CT; to support the community theater, she decided to donate her pen-and-ink and watercolor artwork. Diane teaches watercolor painting for the Bridgeport [CT] Art League, and her own work is on view at Gilded Lily Gallery in Milford, CT, where she lives.
1945 Miriam Beerman PT
(see page 56) Ruth Adler Schnee IA
(see page 18)
1950 In recognition of her 50-plus years as an innovator in home furnishings, the International Furnishings and Design Association named Ruth Clark IA (Jamestown, NC) its 2014 Luminary Award recipient.
Ruth began her career in the early 1960s as an upholstered furniture designer for Drexel and went on to design highly successful lines for Pearson, Dapha and Goldeneye Home Furnishings. In 1995 the IFDA established the Ruth Clark Scholarship, an annual award for furniture design students.
1955 Early Morning by Mary Melikian Haynes PT (NYC) was included in Outside the
Barbara Kahn 62 PT Forty-plus years’ worth of paintings went into The Ancient Oracle Deck and Handbook, which Barbara (Little Switzerland, NC; see also page 4) recently self-published. She used an original painting for each of the 54 cards in the deck and spent years composing, refining and editing the explanations in the accompanying handbook.
Lines: Modernist Drawings, a winter exhibition at the Trask Gallery of the National Arts Club, NYC. Mary’s piece is in the permanent collection.
1959 In his winter solo show Small Works at the David M. Hunt Library in Falls Village, CT, Robert Cronin PT exhibited work dating from his senior year at RISD to the mid 1990s: a mix of “things directly from nature, images totally made up, surreal concoctions, color studies, and serious abstractions” in a variety of media on paper. He also showed paintings in Color, Shape & Form II, a five-artist exhibition at Galerie Gris in Hudson, NY from December to February.
associate art director for Columbia Records and served in the US Air Force.
The fall 2015 International Print Triennial in Torun, Poland will feature work by Deena des Rioux IL (NYC) for the fifth time. Deena’s work will be shown alongside the work of an artist of her choice.
1962 In March paintings by recently deceased artist Suzanne D’Avanzo PT/MAE 70 (see page 87) were included in a four-person exhibition at Providence’s Chazan Gallery.
1963 Diane Podrat Byer AE was commissioned to create holiday
Roberta (Hopkins) Ayotte 58 TX Roberta (Sun City, AZ) recently completed this custom handwoven wall hanging. Called To the Points (45 x 58"), it relies on an overlay technique she developed and incorporates more than 200 yarns and colors.
Joe Kuszai GD (East Lansing,
MI) writes that he is retiring from Michigan State University after 50 years of service. He is responsible for creating the school’s graphic design program, which he headed for more than 25 years, and his accomplishments during that time are many: his proposal to Apple in 1984 secured the first Mac lab for a major university, and his graduates hold important positions in education, industry and private design practice. In addition to his long career at MSU, Joe was formerly an Please email class notes submissions to: risdxyz@risd.edu.
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