the NEWS Trina Zide ’95 Skate Park Development Teams Up with Tony Hawk On June 4 hundreds from Burlington, Vermont, came together at a local skate park to honor the memory of a well-known local DJ, Andy “A-Dog” Williams, who passed away from cancer in 2013. Trina Zide ’95, owner of Maven Skate Shop, hosted the event and was one of the original visionaries for the skate park, working closely with Burlington Mayor Mario Weinberger to make this a reality. Professional skateboarder Tony Hawk and others surprised the locals when they showed up for the dedication. The park received $10,000 from the Tony Hawk Foundation in 2010 and is the 500th THF-assisted skate park to open.
Alison Moncrief Bromage ’97 Receives T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry Alison’s book of poems Daughter, Daedalus won the T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry and will be out in September from Truman State University Press. The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded by the Poetry Book Society (UK) to “the best collection of new verse in English first published in the UK or the Republic of Ireland” in any particular year.
Kenny Yongkiettakul ’01 Kavant and Sharart Jewelry
Tom Greene ’87 Author of If I Forget You Thomas Greene ’87 released his fifth novel, If I Forget You, in June. It traces a chance encounter of two former lovers on a New York street. Told from altering points of view, the story explores lasting love and secrets we carry. Tom earned Suffield’s Alumni Leadership Award in 2014, the year his best-selling novel The Headmaster’s Wife was released. He is president of Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Kavant and Sharart is a Thailand-based design house led by Kenny Yongkiettakul ’01 and wife, Shar-linn Liew. The couple has earned two Centurion Emerging Designer Awards, a JCK Jewelers’ Choice Award, a Gemological Institute of America Student’s Choice Award, and recognition from the Cultured Pearl Association of America. Kavant and Sharart’s designs have been featured on the covers of Cosmopolitan and Marie Claire, and celebrities including Katy Perry, Gabrielle Union, Kristen Stewart, and Adriana Lima have been photographed in their luxury jewelry. Their design styles merged when they married in 2007.
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