Class Notes other Vassar students have begun a theater company, No Fog West Theater, which is staging Moises Kaufman’s The Laramie Project this summer in Sheridan, Wyo. The play will run for seven shows during the last two weeks of July at Carriage House Theater in Sheridan. She and Adam Colton are starring in the production.
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Selected to represent the Class of 2007 as Class Agents are, from left, Derek Schaible, Etonde Awaah and Nick Rosenbaum.
Etonde Awaah Nicholas Rosenbaum Derek Schaible
Past Faculty and Staff Former Faculty and Staff news welcomed! Contact Tracy Madden at 651-696-1323, or e-mail tmadden@spa.edu. Kearn Bartholomay, former Lower School teacher, and her husband, Tom, wrote to update the SPA community on their family’s adoption process. For more information, go to www.openheartsadoption.net. Cliff Caine, Assistant Headmaster at SPA from 1972 to 1984, was named to the United States Tennis Association Northern Hall of Fame 2007 Class in May of this year. He and five other honorees joined an elite list of 80 other members and will soon have a plaque hanging in the USTA Northern Hall of Fame at the Fort Snelling Tennis and
Learning Center in St. Paul, Minn. According to the USTA, “Caine was an extremely successful college and high school coach in his career. He coached the men’s tennis team at Macalester College from 19601971, winning seven MIAC titles and finishing second four times. He then left Macalester to coach the boys’ and girls’ teams at St. Paul Academy and Summit School in Saint Paul, Minn., from 1972-1984. While at SPA he won seven Minnesota State High School League championships and finished third three times in a 10-year period. He was named the Minnesota state high school coach of the year in 1976 and was bestowed the same honor by the Northwest Professional Tennis Association in 1980. Caine was named one of the 100 Most
Influential Persons in Minnesota Tennis from 1976-1978 after founding the Minnesota Girls Tennis Coaches Association and serving as its first president. Also a longtime member of the USPTA Northwest Division, he was the Director of Tennis at Town and Country and Sommerset Country Club in St. Paul from 1964-1973. He also coached the Northwest Tennis Patrons girls’ junior team that traveled around the United States playing other top junior players in the world. He is a member of the Minnesota Tennis Coaches and Macalester College Hall of Fames.” Jane Frazee, former music
teacher, writes, “I’m pleased to let you know that my new book, Orff Schulwerk Today (published by Schott in London) was released in November. It offers a fresh synthesis of doing and understanding music that are built on the work I developed as an SPA teacher and published in a 1987 volume: Discovering Orff. The text includes contributions from seven Orff Schulwerk master teachers, including Beth Nelson, who currently teaches music at the Lower School.” Daniela Dvantman Goldfine,
Visiting SPA for a luncheon in honor of former faculty/staff in April were, front from left, Syb Woutat, Geri Riley, Kiki Gore. Back, David Sims, Cliff Caine, Wes Schultz, Caroline Roetzel, Colleen Krebs, Dutton Foster ’57, Margaret Rarig ’57, Geri Meyer, Burke Rodgers, Kearn Bartholomay, Bill Kansas, Arlene Sonday.
former Amity Intern and Middle School Spanish teacher, writes, “Since I left SPA in June 2004, I attended the University of Wisconsin-River
Falls, graduating summa cum laude with a B.S. in Secondary Education. I now have Minnesota teaching licenses in K-12 Spanish and K-12 TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). Starting this fall I will continue my education at the University of Minnesota, where I have been admitted into the doctoral program in Hispanic and Lusophone Literature. Most important, however, is that I married Dr. Leonard (Len) Goldfine in August 2006 and moved to Rochester, Minnesota. Len recently accepted an administrative position at the U of M, so now that we’ll be at the same institution together, we will be moving back to the Twin Cities this summer. We look forward to seeing everybody!” Buzz Lagos, former math teacher and soccer coach, received the Ron Wigg Award for outstanding coaching contributions in Region II, which covers a 13-state area, at the U.S. Youth Soccer Workshop in St. Louis, Mo., in early March. Recipients of this annual award are nominated and voted on by Region II staff coaches and state directors of coaching. Lagos was recognized for his commitment to youth soccer, the Olympic Development Program and the development of the Minnesota Thunder professional soccer team. summer 2007
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