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44 • The Gryphon Fall 2014
Class Notes to www.celebnamegame.com and click either one of the purple tabs that say, “find your station” and enter your zip code. It airs at different times depending on where you live and it follows no rhyme or reason. It’s a hilarious show that will not disappoint. Craig Ferguson is the host and he’s quite good at it. Mark said, “Hope you like it and if you do, please drop a quick email to the station saying so.”
1930s
1950s
Sandra Behrens ’54 writes, “Sorry I’m unable to attend our 60th Reunion! Our class was the best of all time—thanks to Connie White ’54!”
Yesterday, the Pope came to a neighboring town and prayed for peace. I always wonder if I’ll make it through the next month which may be a good attitude in the Holy Land. The situation on the roads is like that described in Judges 5:6: ‘In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, In the days of Jael, the highways ceased, And the travellers walked through byways.’”
1960s
1970s
J. Clark Moore ’38 regrets that he was unable to attend Reunion 2014 but wishes success for all CSW alumni.
Steve Wiesner ’60 writes: “At 71 I’m semi-retired and enjoying working on grapes, olives and fig trees which I grow on recycled water. Tekoa, SE of Jerusalem, is on the edge of the Judean Desert and the climate is quite dry.
Mark Ettlinger ’71 shared with us that after four long years, his wife, Laura Robinson’s game show, “Celebrity Name Game” finally made its North American debut. To find the station and times in your area, simply go
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Harvard Physics professors Andrew E. Strominger ’72 and Cumrun Vafa were awarded the Milner Foundation’s Fundamental Physics Prize. This $300,000 prize recognizes their achievements in theoretical physics and makes them eligible for a $3 million prize, whose winners will be announced on December 12, according to Foundation representative Rob Meyer. Strominger, director of the Harvard Center for the Fundamental Laws of Nature, and Vafa were honored both for their joint publications and for their collective body of work concerning a number of challenging problems that affect our view of the universe. “One big question is: ‘What’s a black hole?’ The problem is baffling and it’s a tension between general relativity and quantum mechanics,” said Strominger. Read more at www.thecrimson.com. Logan T. Porter ’75 wrote that she is living in the panhandle of Florida after moving there seven years ago from Alaska. She works as a hospitalist in Pensacola and has two stunning kids, Margo and Everett, at the University of West Florida and two more, Corey and Sierra, in Navarre High School. She thinks of and brags about CSW all the time!
John Warrington ’75 writes that he has been growing cocoa and trees in Nicaragua. Alexandre Rockwell ’75 writes: “I’ve been busy working on a new film project which has sparked some great memories of CSW. I remember when I was voted to be on the board all those years ago and my time at CSW, with its modular system and mentor programs, changed my life. I was hopelessly dyslexic and it was a CSW teacher, Philip Parsons, who encouraged me to purchase a Bolex camera that I worked all summer sanding floors to buy. He allowed me to do a film project for my final paper, and the rest, as they say, is history. My latest independent film project is called ‘Little Feet’—which was invited to the Rome Film festival and won in Argentina this year. I am also working full-time at NYU in the graduate film department. I hope this project will be a success as it is near and dear to my heart. —Best wishes, Alex.” Kathe Mazur ’79 writes: “Steve Drukman ’81 was in LA recently for the premiere of his fantastic play, ‘Death of the Author.’ We got to spend time together and it was wonderful! My fifth season on ‘The Closer/ Major Crimes’ is beginning, and I just shot the Clint Eastwood film, ‘American Sniper.’ My brother, Dan Mazur ’77 has written ‘A Global History of Comics’— I am so proud!”
1980s
Lelia Orrell Elliston ’80, P ’18, who works in the development office at CSW, is a proud parent
of Aiden Elliston ’18. Lelia says, “I know he’ll have as rich and rewarding an experience here as I did.” Aiden is happy to report that, “CSW is the best school I’ve ever attended. I’m so happy to be here and I think the theater program is amazing.”
efforts and on creating and maintaining the agency’s social media presence.
2010s
Aundré Bumgardner ’12 ran for and won the 41st House District seat in Connecticut as
great job,’” he said. “They’re saying, ‘I can’t get a job. I’m getting out of this state as soon as possible.’” He attended Stetson University in Florida for about a year and plans to enroll in a college in eastern Connecticut.
Aiden Elliston ’18 and Lelia Orrell Elliston ’80, P ’18
2000s
Jacob Sagrans ’05 was named the student winner of the 2014 Award for Equity and Community Building at McGill University (Montreal) at a ceremony in April 2014. The award recognizes the work Jacob has done to advocate for greater inclusion of LGBT people and other marginalized groups at McGill, where he is a Ph.D. candidate in musicology. Pauline Hodgdon ’09 shares that she graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst in May 2013 and is currently working full time for the non-profit agency, Bishopaccountability.org, where she interned during college. She is currently working on global
the Republican challenger to incumbent Democrat Elissa Wright. He started in politics volunteering for Rob Simmons in 2010, worked as an intern during Tom Foley’s campaign for governor and later became field director for Paul Formica’s 2012 congressional bid. Bumgardner’s mother is the interim dean of students at Jennings School in New London; his father works for the Water and Sewer Department in East Lyme. Bumgardner said he’s running because he believes the state’s future depends on revitalizing cities. He said towns also need more independence and policies should support more job creation. “People my age are not saying, ‘Hey, I just got this
Ivy Blake ’13 gave college the good ol’ college try, and spent a year at Macalester College in St. Paul, MN. She then decided that she would rather pursue a career in the circus arts, and
Caroline Friedland ’13
is currently attending the Professional Preparatory Program at The School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA) in Seattle. What strikes her is how her participation in the dance department at CSW has supported the work she’s doing at circus school. In both her modern technique class and choreography class she hears echoes of Martha A. Gray, Carey McKinley and Nailah Randall-Bellinger. Caroline Friedland ’13 shared: “I am a sophomore at Smith College intending to declare a double major in Psychology and Education by the end of this semester. I am looking into studying abroad this summer at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where I want to take an intensive class on trauma and resilience that includes an opportunity for clinical work as well. I am hoping to study in Copenhagen at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad come Spring 2016. I’m loving college and look forward to visiting CSW at some point this year!”