SUMMER 2013 In addition to teaching his classes, James twice directed the Law School’s legal writing program. In 2007, he founded and still directs the law school’s Academic Core Enrichment program, which provides support for first year law students especially those struggling with the transition to law school. Outside Temple, he has for several years worked as a Reporter for the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit Model Criminal Jury Instruction Committee, and he is Temple’s faculty representative to the Pennsylvania Board of Law Examiners.
THE ALMA started with some friends. Headmistress Press is publishing her first full-length collection of poems, Conjuring My Leafy Muse.
PAGE 2 Class of 1979 Cynthia Hardesty Keler, Ph.D. is an associate professor at Delaware Valley College. She won the 2013 Distinguished Faculty Member Award in the Biology department. Class of 1981 Eric Larsson has been messing around with zoning law and land use models in Portland, Maine. He still lines up for the occasional bike race, and likes to nap on the couch when his wife is at work and his daughter is in school. Class of 1985 Rachel Anthonisen Gates is teaching painting, drawing, and puppetry classes at Huckleberry Fine Art School in Rockville, MD. She is also teaching preschool art classes at Takoma Park Community Center.
Class of 1968 Head of School Tom Wilschutz visited Will King and his partner Gary in southern Florida last March. Class of 1971 Gary Karpf, MD has been a psychiatrist in Princeton, NJ for 30 years and just launched Energeze with his wife Dr. Robin Karpf. Energeze is a new direct-toconsumer pain relieving patch that uses the body’s natural surface energy to ease discomforts without side effects. He continues to enjoy an occasional good time with fellow classmates Jon Downs and Ethan Kapstein. Gary has two grown children, Sara who is finishing a graduate degree in interior design at the New York School of Interior Design, and Brandon who is beginning his third year at the United States Naval Academy. He can be reached at gkarpf@prezacor.com. Class of 1973 Richard Brostoff has published a chapbook of poetry he wrote: A Few Forms of Love. He is working on a third book now. Mary Meriam has a new website on Blogspot with lots of news. Her most recent news is the creation of Headmistress Press, a company she
Class of 1974 Karen Aruna Andes recently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida after 27 years in California. She has connected with Michael Newman ’72, Faith Roeser Larsen ’72 and Kate Stein ’73. She has been hard at work teaching trainers on her invention, Fly Gym, an aerial yoga fitness swing. She also finds many opportunities to perform with her Florida crew of theatrical dancing pirate wenches, The Fly By Pirates. Life is good! Class of 1977 Rachel Simon’s publisher released a tenyear anniversary edition of Riding The Bus With My Sister, which includes fifty pages of new material that updates the story. The Washington Post recently noted on how rare it is for a book to stay in print that long and for sales to remain strong enough to warrant a new edition. Her most recent book, The Story of Beautiful Girl, has now been translated into ten languages. In addition to writing and speaking, Rachel volunteers for hospice, travels to Florida a few times a year to help her stepfather with her mother, who now has dementia, and enjoys her marriage and cat.
Alex Komarek Bader writes in: I can’t believe the Class of 1985 will celebrate its 30th reunion in early May 2015. I’m reaching out to everyone (and you know who you are!) to put our reunion weekend on your busy calendars NOW so we can celebrate together. Frankly, I don’t feel 30 years older but my three college-aged children are apparently living proof that I am. I am very proud to say that my eldest, Blake, will be a senior at the University of Pittsburgh, my daughter Brittany will be a junior at the University of Florida and my baby, Max will be a sophomore at Roanoke College playing Division III Lacrosse with his step-brother this fall.
Life in Florida is good, and my husband Mike and I enjoy spending a lot of time outside in the sunshine. My nephew CJ Donohue will be a senior at Solebury in the fall so my family legacy lives on through him. I recently made a small donation in our dear Mariella Sundstrom’s memory this year. It was matched by an anonymous donor so I am happy to keep the art department thriving even in the smallest way. Stay in touch. There are many of us on Facebook!