Congratulations to the Classes ending in 0's and 5's, who are celebrating their reunions in the 2015-2016 school year!
RIVERDALE ALUMNI
1958 Please send your news to your Class Correspondent before MAY 1, 2016. 1958 David F. Lahm dflahm@gmail.com
Bennett Galef has moved to Durham, NC, and has trips planned to West Africa (Benin, Burkino Fasso and Ghana) and to Chile. From Alex Garvin: “In the spirit of Goeff (I remember the old spelling), I still have not moved from the Upper East Side, I am still teaching three courses a year at Yale, and in the next two months I shall be traveling to Toronto, Zurich, Bern, and Los Angeles.” Frank Clarke writes, “Finally planning to retire in 2016 and move full-time to Stuart, FL. So now are into downsizing possessions. Will do some consulting and board work from there. Vera keeps busy with her home staging business. “Of our 11 grandchildren, three are now in college in the northeast. One more follows next year— he spent some of the summer building a school in Peru. “We traveled to Cambodia and Vietnam last January.”
The latest novel from Ken Burrow 58’s wife, Erica Jong.
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From Jim Marrow: “My wife Emily and I will be resident in Cambridge, England, from late October through December and would be delighted to see or put up any classmates who might pass through. I am busy writing entries for the catalog of a major exhibition ("Pages from the Past: Illuminated Manuscripts from Boston-Area Collections") that will open in September 2016 at three venues in Boston: the Houghton Library (Harvard University), McMullen Museum (Boston College), and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Emily published her first book (E.M. Rose, The Murder of William of Norwich: The Origins of the Blood Libel in Medieval Europe, Oxford University Press, 2015) to rave reviews in the London Sunday Times, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Huffington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
Paul Jablow writes, “I recently completed perhaps the most exciting project in over a decade of freelancing (following more than three decades of newspapering). I was co-producer of Glen’s Village, a documentary about a West Philadelphia youth who went from selling crack on street corners to the University of Pennsylvania Class of 2017. The filmmaker/ producer was Dorian Geiger, who was exactly 50 years behind me at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The film was named best short documentary at a festival in Flagstaff, AZ, and is a finalist at eight other festivals. The project was sponsored by the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a newspaper and website covering the Philadelphia schools, under a grant from the van Ameringen Foundation. You can see it at https://vimeo.com/127166555. Phil Proctor writes, “Glad to see we’re all still buzzing around out there! “When not editing my memoirs, Where’s My Fortune Cookie?, I’m writing and taping a new web series, Boomers on a Bench, with my comic partner, Jamie Alcroft: www.boomersonabench.com. “My voice can be heard in Pixar’s Inside Out and The Good Dinosaur, as a villain in the ‘Batman:Arkham Knight’ game, and I still appear regularly in various live audio presentations and in readings at the Antaeus Company here in LA. “Like many of us, I’ve lost an amazing number of friends recently, including Marcia Strassman, Karen Black, Stan Freberg, Judy Carne, Merl Reagle, and another founding member of The Firesign Theatre, Phil Austin. “Nonetheless, Phil’s genius will soon be on view in Everything You Know Is Wrong: The Declassified Firesign Theatre 1968-1975, a DVD compilation of films, including TV interviews, commercials, live
performances and rare home movies, available at our website this fall. “And my wife, Melinda, returned to Italy in September, acting in an American Playwrights’ Workshop at La Mama International Theatre Symposium in Spoleto, while I stayed home and fed the cats. “Last year, we stayed with George White in England, and next year, we hope to visit Sevan Minasian in his new digs in Deutschland, with a side trip to Bern, Switzerland, in search of my Amish ancestors. “You can keep up with my shenanigans on Facebook or at www.planetproctor.com.” Phil also wanted to let his classmates know about Ken Burrow’s wife’s new book, Fear of Dying. Ken’s wife just happens to be well-known author Erica Jong. Mari Gold writes, “Not reporting news unless you consider a terrific three weeks in Italy last May— first in Rome, then two weeks in Puglia—followed by a very busy summer in many places, including Maine (which included a visit to Campobello) newsy.” To which Class Corrsepondent David Lahm says, “Newsy and envy-provoking, Mari.” He also reports, “For myself, it’s been a busy summer and fall here and in SW Michigan, where I spend about half my time. Plenty of music both places; I'll be playing in a cabaret for the first time since 2008 when I accompany the Granats (father and daughter) at the Metropolitan Room (W 22nd St) at 7:00 p.m. on November 23.”