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In April, an Alumni Art Exhibition opened in the Perakos Family Cares Art Gallery in the Thomas S. Perakos Arts and Community Center, featuring paintings, drawings, photographs, sculpture, and furniture created by more than a dozen Gunn alumni from classes spanning seven decades. Curated by Visual Arts Chair Andrew Richards P’20 ’23 and Lincoln Turner, Visual Arts faculty, the exhibit was three years in the making and included work by alumni artists, including: Roman Cohen ’18, Peter Cree ’71, Phil Dutton ’81, Tim Gaillard ’61, Andy Glantz ’67, Charles Hollinger ’04, Robert Houser ’85, David Kaplan ’81, Sarah Kushwara ’00, Davina Perl ’86, Sarah Rinaldi ’04, and Robert Shillady ’66.

There were also three black-and-white portraits by Rowland Scherman ’55, one with singer-songwriters Joni Mitchell and Judy Collins in a tree house; one of John Lennon at a protest in London in 1971; and one of a young girl holding a pennant close to her face at the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Scherman donated all three photographs to the school, and came to see the exhibit on Alumni Weekend in June. It was the first time he had been back on campus in many years.

A highly published photographer for LIFE magazine, and the first photographer for the Peace Corps, Scherman captured some of the most iconic people and moments in American history in the 1960s and ’70s, In 2013, his life and work became the subject of an award-winning PBS documentary, “Eye on the Sixties: The Iconic