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Alumni Trustee Steve B. Turner ’86 was elected to a four-year term on the Taft Board of Trustees in May. He became executive managing director at Standard & Poor’s in 2004, where he co-headed the Financial Data & Analytics Division and served as a member of the Operating Committee. Prior to that, Steve co-founded and was co-CEO of Capital IQ, which provided high-impact information and workflow solutions to leading financial institutions, advisory firms and corporations. Steve left S&P in July 2008 and moved to New Zealand, initially to take a year off and travel with his family, but that has recently turned into a more permanent move to New Zealand. This was the first time all three alumni trustee candidates were married to fellow Tafties. Steve married classmate Shannon Engels in 1995 and they now live in Wanaka, New Zealand, with their three kids, Sam, Callie and Will.
Collective Disorder
Time Turns Elastic Trey Anastasio ’83 Rubber Jungle Records, 2009
Morning Glory Farm and the family that feeds an island Tom Dunlop ’79 Vineyard Stories, 2009
Flashbacks Art Hansl ’49 Robertson Publishing, 2009 v Eliza Geddes ’97, 2008 Untitled, wood, silk and cardboard, 34’’ x 24’’
Eliza Geddes ’97 showed some of her recent sculptures in April at the Boomerang exhibition at “Room” in Lower Manhattan. Eliza’s sculpture works “examine her interests in surface and texture,” writes New York Art Beat. “Her assemblages examine the breakdown between painting and sculpture by combining painterly methods with sculptural uses of space.” There is no reverential treatment of the canvas in her work; it is ripped up, sculpted and treated with various wood stains and other substances, often incorporating ordinary items such as T-shirts and rubber bands with more traditional fine art materials. By combining both mediums of 6 Taft Bulletin SUMMER 2009
painting and sculpture into one work of art her sculpture work is an ongoing study of the two. Major influences in Eliza’s work have been Antoni Tapies, Eva Hesse, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock and Cy Twombly. A portion of the proceeds from the exhibition went to New York Restoration Project, a nonprofit organization founded in 1995 by Bette Midler, dedicated to reclaiming and restoring New York City parks, community gardens and open space. Eliza also had a duo show in London last December at “Holster Projects” called Collective Disorder.
The Bitter Road to Freedom: A New History of the Liberation of Europe William I. Hitchcock ’82 Simon & Schuster, 2008