Classes ending in 0's and 5's will have their reunion in the 2015-2016 school year, beginning the weekend of September 25-27. Please save the date!
CLASS NOTES solo show, The Beauty, the Banshee and Me, on Broadway as a part of the United Solo Theater Festival. Before the show, sixteen of us met for dinner, family style at Carmine’s, and had another fabulous time, orchestrated largely by Susan Tembeck. Cathy was stunning in her autobiographical work, another contribution to our collective story. “Tom, having outdone himself at last, relinquished his title and his function to Susan Tembeck and me. After 45 years, he has passed the baton, and we took it on, knowing our term could not possibly be as long as his. “Looking forward to 2019, our 50th!” Classmates who attended the on-campus reunion dinner included Barry Berman, Doug Booth, Richard Brown, Donald Duberstein, Nancy Duff Boehm, Thomas Elkind, Kevin Ellman, Ronald Feldman, Marsha Gildin, Linda Koebner, Gregory Kriser, Susan Tembeck Riccardi, Stephen Scholle, Thomas Stevens, Laurie Tisch, Russell Williams, and Samuel Williams. For more on Homecoming/Reunion 2014, see pages 24-30.
take over the company. And Alik ’07 is the next big movie star in England. I am very proud of all of my children and hope to live long enough to enjoy spending more time with them.”
1971
Class Correspondent Charlotte “Shami” McCormick is looking for new job opportunities. While looking, she continues to do a lot of gardening and, with husband Daniel, is active in stroke support groups.
1974
The class met for dinner on Friday, October 17, to celebrate their 40th Reunion at the restaurant Luna Piena. An evening of reminiscing and reconnecting was had by all; it was especially sentimental since Carly Rochester ’76 attended in remembrance of her deceased sister, Gwen Rochester Leighty. On Saturday, October 18, the class came back to campus to enjoy
lunch and Homecoming events. That evening, their celebration continued at the reunion cocktail reception and dinner. For more on Homecoming/Reunion 2014, see pages 24-30. Some of the members of the class who came to celebrate their 40th Reunion festivities were: Richard Adler, Donnamarie Barnes, Ann Becker, Andrew Benesch, Lisa Birnbach, Andy Birsh, Eve Caligor, Leonie Agnew Davis, Daniel Davis, Jon Easton, Greg Feldman, Dana Fields, Pam Finegan, Mike Gelb, Janine Golding-Ochsner, Michael Kann, Bruce Karpas, Jamie Kleinbaum, Robert Kornfeld, Amy Kuhn, John Landry, Wendy Machaver Ravaschiere, Jack Manheimer, Celia McGerr Regan, Rachel Greenfield Minkoff, Ralph Petrillo, Alina Rodescu-Pitchon, Avery Scheiner, Roger Sherman, Priscilla Stadler, and Paul Wachter.
Members of the Class of 1974 at Luna Piena on the night before Homecoming.
Please send your news to your Class Correspondent(S) before MAY 1, 2015. 1970 David Asencio david102251@msn.com Robert Kahn bob@kahnconsulting.com
1971 Jerry J. Fall fall.jerry@gmail.com Charlotte Jones McCormick shamidepot@yahoo.com
1972 Elizabeth S. Lasdon eslasdon@gmail.com
1973 Tony Melchior melchprod@aol.com
1974 Donnamarie Barnes donnamariebarnes@gmail.com
1970
Debbie Freund writes, “I moved to California in 2010 to assume the presidency of Claremont Graduate University, one of the Claremont Colleges. “A few of us are going to have a mini Riverdale reunion. Jackie Kapelman Barton, Amy Davis, Beth Rudin DeWoody and I are all getting together for dinner. Jackie is a professor at Caltech, Amy writes and edits, Beth is a curator of modern art, and I am in Claremont. Beth just moved to Los Angeles part time.” Mitch Alfus writes, “Mila is the most wonderful girl in the world. Sofi ’08 is the best protégé to
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