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Falling Forward & First Farewells, a dance concert honoring Professor of Dance Jean Churchill, who came to Bard in 1980, and Visiting Professor of Dance Peggy Florin, who has been at Bard since 1998, was presented October 21–23, 2021, in Fisher Center’s LUMA Theater. Performances by guest artists Harriett Meyer ’12 MAT ’16 and Arthur Avilés ’87 bookended pieces choreographed and danced by students. Photo by Chris Kayden

Cover: Detail from Woven No. 33, part of a series informed by the biblical narrative of the fall from Eden that uses fantastical imagery built of dense 5-by-10-foot arrangements of flora and fauna to immerse the viewer in nature’s cycles of growth and decay. Photo by Tanya Marcuse SR ’81. (See page 50.)

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Bardian FALL 2021

Virginia Hanusik ’14

Tanya Marcuse SR ’81

Tara Cronin ICP ’10

FEATURES BULLISH ON BARD 2 PAS DE PASLOFF 38 Aileen Passloff

I AM NOT THIS BODY 44

SCHOLAR, WITNESS TO HISTORY,

Barbara Ess

LOVER OF LEARNING 58

PORTFOLIO 46 Virginia Hanusik ’14

THINKING IN PUBLIC 40

Tanya Marcuse SR ’81

Masha Gessen and

Tara Cronin ICP ’10

Roger Berkowitz

Justus Rosenberg COMMENCEMENT 2021 60 OPEN MIND, OPEN HEART, OPEN SOCIETY 64 László Z. Bitó ’60

30 King Arthur, SummerScape

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BOOKS BY BARDIANS

PROFILES Nsikan Akpan ’06 8

CLASS NOTES

Elisabeth Semel ’72 16 Steven Sapp ’89 and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92 24 Beatrice Ajaero ’12 MBA ’17 32

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

BULLISH ON BARD How can I participate in the endowment challenge? Donors who want to help meet the endowment challenge can consider a planned gift or bequest. Doing so is a way to make a significant impact on Bard’s future. By including Bard in your estate plans, or designating Bard as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or other assets, you will help to provide financial security to the College and enable the continued expansion of access to a Bard education. Donors who disclose a planned commitment to Bard are recognized as members of the Margaret and John Bard Society.

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On April 1, 2021, Bard College accepted a $500 million challenge grant from George Soros and the Open Society Foundations (OSF). “This is the most historic moment since the College’s founding in 1860,” said Bard College President Leon Botstein. “When this endowment drive is complete, Bard will have a $1 billion endowment, which will ensure its pioneering mission and its academic excellence for the future.” This pledge to Bard’s unrestricted endowment is transformative for the College, and sends a powerful message that Bard’s forward-thinking and ambitious programs—in the arts and education in Annandale, in prisons, in high schools, across the United States, and around the world—are valued not just by those who have experienced them but also by those who recognize that access to a liberal arts education is a viable and necessary path to a free and open society. The OSF grant ranks among the largest gifts to higher education in the United States in recent years. (Michael Bloomberg’s $1.8 billion donation in 2018 to Johns Hopkins University, which at the time already had an endowment

of $3.8 billion, is believed to be the largest.) Soros’s pledge challenges Bard to raise an additional $500 million for its endowment over the next five years, and the College is well on its way. As of October, $330 million had been raised from trustees, alumni/ae, and friends—an impressive feat and a strong show of support. Bard may be unique in its global reach and public-service mission, but it faces many of the same challenges as other private institutions of higher education. Among these are that the basic costs of providing an educational degree program have steadily risen at the same time as the college-age prospective student population has shrunk. This imbalance has resulted in increased competition with other institutions for tuition dollars from students who can afford the cost and an increasing need to provide financial aid to those who cannot. Historically, Bard has had a comparatively minimal endowment, so it has had to be far more reliant on income from tuition and philanthropy to face crises and to grow selectively. In today’s environment, however, an endowment is a necessity for long-term institutional financial health.

Students in the Class of 2025 leave the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts after the Matriculation ceremony, photo by Karl Rabe

What will the endowment fund?

FISCAL YEAR 2019 PEER ENDOWMENT VALUES ($ MILLION)

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Source: NACUBO Endowment Study Series, 2020

Bardians are extremely well represented on the staffs and boards of nonprofits, but a few readers may be unfamiliar with their inner workings, so (at the risk of stating the obvious): An endowment is a pool of investment funds or financial assets created to provide a financial return to a nonprofit institution. By maintaining the investments over a long period of time, a portion of the returns provides a steady stream of cash income, called the endowment draw. Trustees typically set spending controls to ensure that the endowment draw is consistent and does not exceed the returns on the endowment’s assets, which is what allows the college or university to maintain the income in perpetuity. To oversimplify, if the operating budget of the College is like a checking account, the endowment is like a savings annuity, providing an income for operations on a regular basis. How much income the endowment provides depends on its size and on the draw, which at most nonprofits is set at between 4 and 5 percent of the endowment principal. Having this reliable source of income provides

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financial stability and also provides the institution with flexibility and independence. The consistency of the endowment draw allows the institution to maintain a stronger focus on the institution’s mission. Over its more than a century and a half of life, the College has endured two world wars, 17 of the country’s 19 worst recessions, pandemics, and many other ups and downs. It has been brought back from the brink several times, because what Bard does matters. Set against that backdrop, a significantly increased Bard endowment will at last provide muchneeded security, minimizing the existential threats the institution has faced and steering the College further on a stable path to financial self-determination. Bard will be able to meet its existing budgets without having to sacrifice the quality of education it offers or the commitment to bring that education to populations that have historically been excluded. In sum, it allows Bard to remain Bard as we know and love it.

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For academic institutions, the income generated by endowment funds is intended to finance a portion of the operating or capital requirements of the institution. At Bard, the endowment draw will be used to help smooth out operating expenses and ease Bard’s reliance on other forms of income to cover basic costs.

Who will benefit from the endowment? Bard’s network is vast, and the transformative challenge grant made by George Soros and the Open Society Foundations secures the endowment of the College and its programs, with the exception of Longy School of Music, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, and the Bard Graduate Center in New York City. Those three schools have their own endowments, and each is responsible for its own fundraising.

How does the endowment affect other fundraising efforts? Growing the Bard endowment is a long-term strategy to strengthen the College. The pledges toward Bard’s endowment will provide much-needed financial stability, but they are not all available immediately. That is a big reason why even the wealthiest universities— Harvard, Yale, and Stanford—continue to raise funds every year for their annual operations. Annual giving is always critically important!

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WORKING ARTISTS JOIN STUDIO ARTS FACULTY Interdisciplinary artist and educator Nayland Blake ’82 is the new chair of the Bard Studio Arts Program. Blake is chair of the ICP-Bard Program in Advanced Photographic Studies, a joint masters program run by Bard College and the International Center of Photography in New York City. They succeed Ellen Driscoll, who returns to the studio arts faculty. Blake, who has a BA in sculpture from Bard and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, has been on the faculty of the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute; California Institute of the Arts; University of California, Berkeley; Parsons School of Design; New York University; School of Visual Arts; and Harvard University Department of Visual and Environmental Studies. A comprehensive survey, No Wrong Holes: Thirty Years of Nayland Blake, was on view at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, from September 2019 through January 2020. They are represented by Matthew Marks Gallery in New York City.

Tschabalala Self ’12, who says her work “explores the emotional, physical, and psychological impact of the Black female body as icon, and is primarily devoted to examining the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality,” is visiting artist in residence. Self has a BA in studio arts from Bard and an MFA in painting/printmaking from Yale School of Art. Her work is in collections from Beirut to Brooklyn, Oslo to Shanghai, Brussels to Seoul, Harlem to Guadalajara, London to Los Angeles, Boston to Beijing, Munich to Miami. Her first solo show was in Berlin; others include Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, in London; Hammer Museum, in Los Angeles; Frye Art Museum, in Seattle; and Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston. She is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, in New York City, where her solo exhibition Cotton Mouth was on view earlier this year. Tschabalala Self ’12, photo by Christian DeFonte ’12

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HIRE AND HIRE Kobena Mercer has been named Charles P. Stevenson Chair in Art History and the Humanities. He will teach undergraduates in the Art History and Visual Culture Program and graduate students of the Center for Curatorial Studies. Mercer, whose scholarship cuts across art history, Black studies, and cultural studies, conceived and edited MIT’s Annotating Art’s Histories series, which includes Cosmopolitan Modernisms, Discrepant Abstraction, Pop Art and Vernacular Culture, and Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers; wrote the books Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies and the essay collection Travel & See: Black Diaspora Art Practices since the 1980s; and was an inaugural recipient of the Clark Prize for Excellence in Arts Writing. He has taught at Yale University; New York University; University of California Santa Cruz; and Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he earned his PhD.

“I am looking forward to collaborating with Bard’s innovative arts and humanities programs to further grow a liberal arts education that is critically responsive to the urgent questions we face today.” —Kobena Mercer

Karen Barkey, photo by Anna Claire Marx

Sociologist Karen Barkey joins the College faculty as Charles Theodore Kellogg and Bertie K. Hawver Kellogg Chair of Sociology and Religion. Her research explores the fields of comparative, historical, and political sociology and the sociology of religion, from the rise of the Ottoman and Habsburg empires to the end of these empires, and nation building in their aftermath. She is the Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity at the Othering and Belonging Institute; director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion; codirector of the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion; and professor of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. Barkey was born in Istanbul, Turkey. After she graduated from the Lycée Notre Dame de Sion, in Istanbul, she moved to the United States for her college education. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College, MA from University of Washington, and PhD from University of Chicago.

Bard’s Art History and Visual Culture Program has appointed Heeryoon Shin as tenure-track faculty. Shin, who specializes in the art, architecture, and material culture of South Asia, with a particular focus on early modern and colonial India, received her PhD in the history of art from Yale University in 2015. She is teaching new courses on the visual cultures of colonial South Asia and the history and politics of craft with a focus on 20th-century South Asia, Japan, and Korea.

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Tara Lorenzen, associate director of the Bard Dance

DANCE PROGRAM: LEAPS AND BOUNDS

Program/Gibney Partnership and visiting associate professor of dance, is originally from the hills of West Virginia. After graduating from SUNY Purchase, she became a member of the Repertory Understudy Group under Merce Cunningham. Lorenzen went on to work with Stephen Petronio Company from 2008 to 2011. Lorenzen has taught master classes and workshops for the Trisha Brown Dance Company all over the world and recently assisted in the reconstruction of Brown’s O zlozony/O composite (originally created for the Paris Opera Ballet) for Pennsylvania Ballet. She joined Gibney Company in 2011.

The Bard Dance Program sees the pursuit of artistry and intellect as a single endeavor. Elisa Clark, an award-winning artist, educator, and

Yebel Gallegos, photo by Marissa Mooney

Yebel Gallegos, from El Paso, Texas, is a new visiting assistant professor of dance. Gallegos helped found Cressida Danza Contemporánea in Yucatán, Mexico, serving as dancer, company teacher, rehearsal director, and academic coordinator for the Conservatorio de Danza de Yucatán. He has performed work by Twyla Tharp, Doug Varone, Ann Carlson, Daniel Charon, Stephen Koester, Netta Yerushalmy, Claudia LaVista, Joanna Kotze, and Jonah Bokaer, among others. Gallegos earned a BFA in dance from the University of Texas at Austin and Escuela Profesional de Danza de Mazatlán and an MFA from the University of Washington.

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administrator from the Washington, DC, area, and Amy Miller, a New York City–based dancer, choreographer, educator, and advocate, joined the faculty this fall as Gibney Dance teaching artists. Clark was a founding member of Robert Battle’s Battleworks Dance Company and served as company manager; was a featured member of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, and Mark Morris Dance Group; and performed with Nederlands Dans Theater and the Metropolitan Opera in works by Jirí Kylián and Crystal Pite. Formerly with the Ohio Ballet, Miller was a founding member and artistic associate of Cleveland-based GroundWorks DanceTheater and is now a Gibney Company director and performing member. She focuses on Gibney’s community action initiatives through facilitating movement workshops with survivors of trauma, conducting trainings for artists interested in engaging in social action, developing healthy-relationship workshops for young people, and raising awareness about the role of the arts in violence prevention. She has conducted Gibney’s Global Community Action Residencies at Mimar Sinan University and Koc University (Istanbul), University of Cape Town (South Africa), DOCH: School of Dance and Circus (Stockholm), MUDA Africa (Tanzania), and most recently in Gisenyi, Rwanda. Miller is an active member of the National Dance Education Organization’s Access, Diversity, and Equity Committee, as well as of Dance/USA’s Dance & Disability Affinity Group.

HIRE AND HIRE AND HIRE Joshua P. H. Livingston has joined the faculty as visiting professor of American studies. Livingston received his PhD in social welfare from the City University of New York Graduate Center and holds an MSW and a certificate in human services management from Boston University. He is a licensed master barber and, using the Black American barbershop as an exemplar, his work focuses on how social innovation, social enterprise, and “placemaking” can be utilized by young people of color to challenge institutional environments through the use of community forms that hold cultural significance. He is co-owner of Friend of a Barber in New York City’s East Village and brings nearly 20 years of practice experience in youth-based program development, management, and evaluation to his work. This fall he is teaching Beyond Black Capitalism.

Mie Inouye, photo by Rithika Ramamurthy

Mie Inouye, a political theorist and organizer who studies theories of political action in 20th-century U.S. social movements, has been appointed to a tenure-track faculty position with the Bard Political Studies Program. A joint PhD candidate in political science and religious studies at Yale University, Inouye investigates the ways that institutions shape people’s understandings of themselves and the social world, and the practices that allow racially and economically oppressed people to develop and exercise agency.

Ranjani Atur, who is completing her PhD in religious studies, with an emphasis in ancient Mediterranean religions, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the inaugural recipient of Bard’s Academic Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classical Studies. For two years, Atur will teach interdisciplinary courses and lead events connected to her research on Greek and Roman religion, early Christianity, and comparative religions across the ancient Mediterranean, Near East, and Asia.

Nadine Fattaleh and Oscar Humberto Pedraza Vargas are the first recipients of the Open Society University Network Center for Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College (CHRA) fellowship in human rights and the arts. They will be in residence at Bard during the 2021–22 academic year, when they will teach, offer lectures, and organize workshops at Bard. Their presence will further CHRA’s mission of supporting multidisciplinary and collaborative knowledge production on the intersection of human rights and the arts.

Recently announced notable additions to the faculty for 2022 include Clara Sousa-Silva, who has been appointed to a tenure-track position in the Physics Program; Jomaira Salas Pujols, who will be assistant professor of sociology; Lucas G. Pinheiro, assistant professor of political studies; and Yarran Hominh, assistant professor of philosophy. Sousa-Silva, a quantum astrochemist at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, investigates how molecules interact with light so that they can be detected on faraway worlds. Pujols will teach courses on the sociology of race and ethnicity; the sociology of youth; and race, space, and place. Pinheiro’s research bridges political theory and social history by focusing on the development of global capitalism, empire, and the legacies of racial slavery in the Atlantic world since the late 17th century. Hominh’s work examines how modern social and political institutions shape human agency, and how human agency can in turn be used to change those institutions.

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NSIKAN AKPAN ’06

THE STORY OF SCIENCE

Nsikan Akpan ’06 accepted a position as science editor at National Geographic in January 2020. “It was the very beginning of the pandemic,” he recalls. “The outbreak was starting to become more serious every day. I wrote a story about the novel coronavirus, which is what we were calling it back then. The story discussed how this new virus was showing signs of being similar to other serious viruses like SARS and MERS, and what that might mean.” The piece, which was written for the website, got a lot of traffic. National Geographic put Akpan in charge of its online COVID coverage. He developed a health journalism team, and his desk averaged about four new stories per week. “It was wild to suddenly have millions of people read the stories we were writing,” he says. “We were looking to report impactful stories about the coronavirus. We focused on uncovering stories in the pandemic rather than breaking health news. It was more about finding that second angle to put things into context for people. For example, we examined how

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socioeconomics played a role in millennials and Gen Z causing outbreaks. These generations spread the virus because they needed to go to work in person, not because they were going to bars or parties. In March, we wrote about how the stress of the pandemic was affecting everyone’s dreams. Several other outlets copied that story. It was a great year. We expanded the scope of National Geographic’s coverage. We were influencing the media landscape, driving the conversation, and complicating the narrative.” Passionate about communicating complex scientific ideas to a mainstream audience, Akpan ignites people’s curiosity about how the world works. “I try to cover topics that no one else is covering,” he says. “Like a random case of a person who was fully vaccinated for measles and ended up getting the measles. I can take something very technical and explain it to people. It’s about finding the scoops that people are ignoring because they are too hard to tell, sciencewise. A story in plain

view. Long-form magazine writing and broadcast are the two forms that pull on me.” Akpan’s parents came to the United States from Nigeria in the 1970s, when his father won a presidential scholarship to study civil engineering. However, he experienced racism in the program and then funding dried up, so his father left school and went to work in construction. His mother, who was trained as an accountant, also struggled to find a highpaying job, so she worked at a school cafeteria to help support their family. Akpan grew up in the Atlanta suburbs— first Alpharetta and later Woodstock, Georgia—and remembers seeing a bulletin for a KKK rally as a kid, as well as having to navigate other examples of racism. His teachers recognized his talent but had a difficult time getting him into advanced placement or gifted classes. Finally, a program called Duke TIP that seeks out promising students across the country recognized his academic potential. “In freshman year of high school, I got a

recruitment letter from Bard College at Simon’s Rock saying we found you through the Duke TIP,” he says. “There was something very attractive about starting college early. Although my mother still tells me I owe her two years for leaving home young.” At Simon’s Rock, Akpan found many mentors, including David Myers (chemistry), William Dunbar (mathematics), Emmanuel Dongala (chemistry), and Robert E. Schmidt (biology), with whom he spent a summer fishing for eels in the Hudson River on an ecological field research project. At Bard, he majored in biology, played varsity soccer, and continued to develop important relationships with mentors and friends. One of his closest friends was Justin Halsey, whose father is Mark Halsey (vice president for institutional planning and research, and associate professor of mathematics at Bard). “I was invited to their home every Thanksgiving,” says Akpan. “The Halseys were my adopted family while at Bard.” Michael Tibbetts (professor of biology) was his main adviser. “He really wanted us to be able to communicate about science,” says Akpan. “He contributed to my wanting to become a journalist. His exams were essay questions. We needed to know how to explain and to extrapolate to the next step.” Akpan went on to earn his PhD in cell biology and pathobiology from Columbia University, where he researched mechanisms of stroke neurodegeneration and novel therapeutic strategies. However, he was no longer drawn to a career in academia. “After graduate school, I could tell you everything you wanted to know about apoptosis [programmed cell death], but I couldn’t keep up with politics, a mayor’s race, or even new findings about black holes,” he says. “I wanted to explore a broader world of science.” Akpan often listened to RadioLab while doing lab work. “It clicked in my brain. This must be a job. These people are doing this professionally.” He began working as a science writer at Columbia’s Center for

Infection and Immunity while freelancing in journalism on the side. “I pitched a story idea about the impact of government shutdowns on medical research to Robin Lloyd, an editor at Scientific American at the time,” he says. “She told me she’d only accept the pitch if I could file the story that day. When you are a young journalist on assignment, you just have to go. Send out your interview questions. Write quickly and clearly. I appreciate the crucible she put me through.” Once he began freelancing, he knew he wanted to be a science journalist and pursued a master’s degree in science communication at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Akpan eventually landed a job at PBS NewsHour, where he was digital science producer and cocreator, with Matthew Ehrichs, of the NewsHour digital series ScienceScope. “I was flying by the seat of my pants,” says Akpan, “learning how to run and produce a series.” Their first episode, “What a smell looks like” won the 2016 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Silver Award in television spot news/feature reporting. He also worked on the Emmy Award–winning series Stopping a Killer Pandemic as well as the Peabody Award–winning series The Plastic Problem. “One of the cooler experiences I had at PBS NewsHour involved riding in a submersible off the coast of Bermuda while interviewing a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration marine biologist in a second submersible over radio,” he says. “The story was about whether or not coral, namely their eggs, could migrate farther down in the ocean to cooler temperatures and survive. It was a oncein-a-lifetime experience. If I had stayed in the lab, I would never have had that opportunity.” Akpan says the most challenging aspect of his chosen field has been the lack of diversity: “There are unconscious biases when it comes to science and health, and journalism too. People who are in charge have a tough time hearing a person of color correct their misconceptions. It can be uncomfortable when somebody who is

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Black is telling them, ’No, this is how this thing works. Here’s the research.’ People aren’t used to people of color being the scientific experts in the room. A lot of times I have to act dumber than I actually am. There’s a lot of kowtowing or eggshells you have to navigate as a person of color explaining science.” In January 2021, Akpan jumped at the opportunity to be back in public broadcasting. He is now health and science editor at New York Public Radio and The Gothamist. “The editor-in-chief, Audrey Cooper, is very intentional about trying to diversify the newsroom,” says Akpan. “She wants to make the newsroom match the demographics of the city. We are being intentional in hiring BIPOC writers and editors, beyond just entrylevel positions.” Akpan’s desk covers COVID and climate change, as well as other important science topics that come up. “I want to expose our audience to the broad spectrum of scientific research that is going on all around them just within the tristate area,” he says. “Just walk through Annandale-on-Hudson and there is a lab at Bard studying zebrafish.” Over his career, Akpan has been fine-tuning his sense of what sparks people’s curiosity and feels relevant to their lives. “This pandemic is pushing health and science reporting to a new level,” he continues. “People want serious, fact-based, relevant writing. The last year has shown we can’t undervalue science. If people have a better understanding of how particles work, there would be less debate on masking. They can immediately understand risk levels. Basic scientific understanding can help remove the fear.” Nsikan Akpan ’06 received the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service from Bard College in 2021.

Photo: Nsikan Akpan ’06, right, interviewing Oliver Steeds, founder of nonprofit marine research foundation Nekton, in Bermuda for the PBS NewsHour show ScienceScope, which Akpan cocreated and hosted.

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STUDENT HIGHLIGHTS

Sophia Jackson ’25 has been selected as a 2021 Frederick Douglass Global Fellow. On St. Patrick’s Day at the White House, Vice President Kamala Harris and Ireland’s prime minister, Micheál Martin, joined Nettie Washington Douglass, the great-great-granddaughter of Frederick Douglass, and representatives from the Council on International Educational Exchange, which sponsors the fellowship, to recognize the 10 winners (from a pool of more than 500 applicants) chosen to attend a fully funded four-week summer study-abroad program focused on leadership, intercultural communication, and social justice. Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs is cosponsor in Dublin, where the 27-year-old abolitionist Frederick Douglass and the Irish reformer Daniel O’Connell met in 1845.

The Music Mentorship Initiative (MMI), launched last fall by instrumentalists Aleksandar Vitanov ’25 (trumpet) and Sophia Jackson ’25 (cello) with the support of the Trustee Leader Scholar Program, offers tutoring and free private lessons to music students who otherwise cannot afford them, while allowing mentors—current Bard College Conservatory students who have completed a pedagogical training seminar—to gain teaching experience. MMI now has 33 Bard student mentors and 10 mentees from Red Hook, New York, who receive free private lessons from members of the Conservatory. The goal for this year is to disseminate the MMI model to music schools around the United States while continuing with local outreach.

Human Rights and Global Public Health major Verónica Martínez-Cruz ’24, a Bard Baccalaureate (BardBac) student, received a New York State Senate Commendation Award for her work to bridge language barriers and ensure full and equal participation of Hispanic residents in all aspects of civic, economic, and cultural life in the Hudson Valley. State Senator Michelle Hinchey (D-Saugerties) presented Martínez-Cruz with her commendation. BardBac, a full-scholarship pathway for adults to complete bachelor’s degrees from Bard College, was launched in 2020 in response to the mass unemployment precipitated by COVID-19.

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Diana McCready ’23 has been named to Gucci’s 2021 Class of

Sonita Alizada ’23 has won the 2021 Freedom Prize for her

Changemakers North America Scholars. The initiative is part of a program committed to fostering diversity and inclusion within the company and beyond. McCready will receive an academic scholarship for up to $20,000, as well as mentorship and virtual internship opportunities through Gucci America. Of the 450 students who applied for the scholarship funding, only 22 were selected.

advocacy to end forced marriage. The prize, organized by the Normandy for Peace Initiative and implemented with the International Institute of Human Rights and Peace, recognizes an inspiring young person committed to an exemplary fight for freedom and comes with a €25,000 ($30,000) award. Alizada, a rapper and human rights activist, fled with her family to Iran from her native Afghanistan as a child. She then escaped two arranged marriages and, after hearing a song by Eminem, began to tell her story—and the story of millions of other children—in rhyme. Sonita, a 2015 documentary about her, won Sundance’s Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award (World Cinema Documentary). Alizada is majoring in human rights and plans to become a lawyer.

Anna Schupack ’22 has been named a Campus Compact 2021 Newman Civic Fellow. The fellowship recognizes and supports students who are changemakers and public problem solvers. In 2019, Schupack mobilized her local community, in Albany, New York, to build crosscultural solidarity in response to the human rights crisis in Sudan. She has also addressed food insecurity in Albany with the South End Children’s Café distribution and delivery program and focused additional engagement efforts on Kakamega, Kenya, and the Kakamega Care Center, which she visits every year. Schupack, who is majoring in sociology and photography, is a course fellow for Engaged Citizenship, one of Bard’s International Network Courses, and has been active with the Center for Civic Engagement.

Photos by AnnAnn Puttithanasorn ’23 Sonita Alizada ’23 by Khadija Ghanizada

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ALUMNI/AE ACCOLADES

das Abendmahl (Last Supper), Word Book, ©Paul Chan Studio & Badlands Unlimited

John Yau ’72 is one of eight visual art journalists to receive this year’s $50,000 Rabkin Prize from the Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation. Yau has been publishing reviews and essays on art and literature since 1978. He writes for the online magazine Hyperallergic Weekend, which he cofounded in 2012. Yau has published monographs on Liu Xiaodong, Thomas Nozkowski, Catherine Murphy, John Philip Taaffe, and Jasper Johns. He is a professor of critical studies in the visual arts department at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. His latest book of poetry, Genghis Chan on Drums, was published in October.

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Artist Paul Chan MFA ’03 defies easy categorization. He works with charcoal and on computers, engages politics and erotica, and mixes the ancient with the cutting edge. For Word Book—the first English translation of Wörterbuch für Volksschulen (Dictionary for Elementary Schools) by the influential philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein—Chan did the illustrations with his nondominant left hand, giving the images an appropriately childlike feel. The dictionary was written in 1925, when Wittgenstein was already famous for Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. But the philosopher had become disenchanted, so he left his career behind and taught for six years in an elementary school in rural Austria. There he saw the need for a good dictionary for children and compiled nearly 6,000 words and phrases. It’s easy to see why such a project would interest the Hong Kong–born, Nebraska-raised Chan, who retired from art making shortly after participating in the 2009 Venice Biennale, but returned after his own six-year hiatus with an exhibition in 2015 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Of that show, Holland Cotter wrote in the New York Times, “Chan’s work is always surprising and as smart as art gets, which means, among other things, that it’s smart enough not to always give us the art we think we want.” Paul Chan MFA ’03 received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College in 2021.

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Marie Schleef ’14, photo by Hendrik Lietmann

From an initial slate of 285 theater productions, an independent jury of critics in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland selected 10 to comprise this year’s 10er Auswahl, which are at the heart of Berlin’s Theatertreffen, one of the most prominent German speaking theater festivals. Name Her. Eine Suche nach den Frauen+ (Name Her. A search for women+) by Marie Schleef ’14, a solo, long-durational performance piece in which forgotten women are called to the stage in alphabetical order to have their stories told, was one of the works chosen. #womenwhoshouldnotbeforgotten

Evan Tims ’19 is Bard’s first Luce Scholar. Tims, who earned a joint BA in human rights and written arts, was one of 18 finalists chosen from the semifinalist pool of 164. The scholarship program, which “provides stipends, language training, and individualized professional placement in Asia,” aims to enhance the understanding of Asia among potential leaders in American society. Tims plans to explore the field of climate justice, relationships between nature and culture, and the futureoriented practices of social change, as well as write stories and novels that explore the changing global environment. This is by no means his first big win: as an undergraduate he earned two Critical Language Scholarships, which funded Bangla studies in Kolkata, India; and the Bard Written Arts Prize. His Senior Project, which explored the intersections between climate and social justice using a combination of experimental fiction and academic research, garnered him the Christopher Wise Award in environmentalism and human rights. After graduation, Tims’s passion for human rights led him to become an investigator for the Civilian Complaint Review Board of New York City (CCRB), the largest police oversight agency in the United States.

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El Ruido del Bosque Sin Hojas/The Sound of the Forest Without Leaves Courtesy of the artist and El Museo del Barrio, photo by Martin Seck

Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio ’12 was one of 42 artists included in El Museo del Barrio’s Estamos Bien— La Trienal 20/21, the museum’s first national large-scale survey of contemporary Latinx art, which ran from March 13 through September 26. His piece, El Ruido del Bosque Sin Hojas/The Sound of the Forest Without Leaves, is part of a series in which he makes recurring visits to ficus trees— planted all over Los Angeles in the 1950s and ’60s, the trees grew so quickly that the roots often broke through sidewalks; many are now being cut down—and paints rubber on them until it is thick enough to peel off. “I’m interested in the ways in which human carvings happen to the tree, but over time the trunk heals itself and abstracts the marks,” he told Cultured magazine. The work also tells the story of a species being utilized and then discarded, which Aparicio sees as a “stand-in for contemporary immigration and periods of the 20th century in which the United States’ involvement in Mexico and Central America perpetuated all of these inhospitable situations.”

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MORE ALUMNI/AE ACCOLADES Isis Pinheiro ’21, a transfer student from Bard High School Early College Manhattan who majored in literature with a concentration in Africana studies, was one of 42 college seniors selected from a nationwide finalist pool of more than 150 to receive a Watson Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year. She will spend the year traveling to England, Japan, China, Italy, and Guyana. Pinheiro is a Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities student fellow; last year she was a fellow of the center’s Courage to Be Program, which explores the philosophical and religious foundations of moral and spiritual courage.

Jillian Reed ’21, a musician and activist who earned dual degrees in human rights and flute performance, won a $10,000 Davis Projects for Peace grant on behalf of Thrift 2 Fight, which she cofounded to address the need for funding among activist groups. The grant allowed Reed, who is co-CEO and director of partnerships and communication, to spend the summer traveling across New York State on a “racial justice fundraising tour through the sale of used clothing.” Reed, whose Senior Project addressed institutional ableism and disability identity and resources in the classical music world, taught flute as a 2019 MusAid Summer Teaching Artist at El Sistema in El Salvador.

“We aren’t simply teaching subjects. We are teaching to fight injustices. Our job is to be activists and organizers in collaboration with our students—to mobilize youth for any issues that exist in their community, country, or world, and work together to make it better.”—Kate Belin ’04 MAT ’05 Kate Belin ’04 MAT ’05 received the Muller Award for Professional Influence in Education from Math for America. Belin, who has taught mathematics at Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx for 17 years, was a recipient of the 2011 Sloan Award for excellence in teaching science and mathematics, and was a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Fellow to Botswana in 2016. The Muller Award is given to two New York City public school teachers who, during their tenure as Math for America Master Teachers, have influenced the teaching profession in exceptional ways. Belin received $20,000, and her school was awarded $5,000.

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George Hambrecht ’95, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland College Park, specializes in zooarchaeology with a focus on historical archaeology. He is a principal investigator on the Central North Atlantic Marine Historical Ecology Project, funded by a $1.7 million grant from the National Science Foundation’s Navigating the New Arctic Program. The two-year project, which launched in January, will subject bones from cod and other coastal species that have been excavated from archaeological sites in Iceland and the Faroe Islands over the last 30 years to a variety of biochemical analyses that will help to track population size, body length, and feeding changes over the last millennia. These analyses will be combined with archaeological and historical methods to build a new and deeper record of the relationship between cod, humans, and the environment in Iceland that will serve as an important tool in managing this relationship.

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OPEN SOCIETY UNIVERSITY NETWORK In response to a petition of a group of Bard College students studying human rights advocacy and academic freedom, Rahile Dawut, a prominent Uyghur folklorist who has been missing since December 2017, was named the first Open Society University Network (OSUN)

Honorary Professor in the Humanities. A professor at Xinjiang University in Ürümqi in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Dawut created and directed the university’s Minorities Folklore Research Center and is the author of dozens of articles and a number of books, including landmark studies on Islamic sacred sites in Central Eurasia. Dawut disappeared after telling a relative that she was preparing to board a plane from Ürümqi to Beijing. Reports indicate she was arrested and detained by Chinese authorities, but her whereabouts are unknown. OSUN is a global partnership of 34 educational institutions across 19 nations that integrates learning and the advancement of knowledge across geographic and demographic boundaries, promotes civic engagement on behalf of open societies, and expands access to higher education for underserved communities. The defense and advocacy of human rights and academic freedom, and the protection of threatened scholars, is at the core of OSUN’s mission. In appointing Dawut to this position, OSUN expressed its support for the international movement for her release and pledged to welcome her to a network institution to further her research and teaching when she is freed.

Rahile Dawut interviewing guests at a wedding, 2005, photo by studiolisaross.com

OSUN envisions a new model of global higher education— deep partnerships among diverse institutions committed to addressing global challenges collaboratively. The Open Society University Network’s

OSUN has been elected cochair of the

Threatened Scholars Integration Initiative works to defend and advocate

Taskforce on Third Country Education Pathways, launched by

for scholars whose work, livelihoods, or lives are threatened by repression, censorship, war, or other disaster. Led by OSUN partners at Bard College, Central European University, and Bard College Berlin, the initiative offers fellowships designed to help at-risk academics, students, researchers, and intellectuals build long-term affiliations and collaborations across OSUN. Host institutions will prioritize the integration and mentorship of threatened scholars who have been forced to seek alternative teaching, research, or advanced study positions outside their home countries, as well as support those who cannot relocate.

the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR). Rebecca Granato ’99, associate vice president for global initiatives at Bard College, will represent OSUN on the task force. The group is charged with developing best practices for higher education pathways that respond to the needs of refugees, internally displaced individuals, and others displaced by crises, and leading the development of strategies to ensure access and the establishment of minimum standards for institutions seeking to host students.

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ELISABETH SEMEL ’72

THE ZEALOUS ADVOCATE Elisabeth Semel ’72 was just 16 when she graduated from high school in San Francisco. “In my generation, the idea of a gap year wasn’t normal,” she says. “So I applied to a lot of the predictable schools. None were what I was looking for. I declined all my college acceptances. I wasn’t ready to go to college yet.” In the course of being profiled for a CBS documentary called The Old College Try, Semel had a conversation with the producers, who asked if she’d ever heard of Bard College. “This was during the ’60s; people on the West Coast didn’t know about Bard,” she continues. “When I discovered it, I went straight to my parents, who are native New Yorkers, and asked, ‘How could you not have told me about this school?’” The College’s liberal environment, strong foreign language programs, and politically engaged campus resonated with Semel: “I could be the very left-wing radical lover of languages that I was.” Semel majored in French, took political studies courses, and became very politically active at Bard. Professors Justus Rosenberg in literature and Bernard Tieger in sociology were her mentors. She remembers College President Reamer Kline shutting down the school so students and faculty could board a bus to Washington, DC, for a Vietnam War protest. By junior year, she realized that languages were not going to be a career for her: “My political leanings were too dominant for me not to do something with greater public impact.”

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Semel earned her degree in French studies, but early field experiences while at Bard, such as working in a legal aid office in Kingston, New York, influenced her to enroll in law school at University of California, Davis, where she was on track to become a public defender. She vividly remembers her legal aid experience. “We had to interview women who were trying to get a divorce in a system that required fault,” recalls Semel. “Either they had to say their husbands beat them or cheated on them. It made me feel just how disempowered these women—who were marginalized, trying to support and feed their families—were in maneuvering within the legal system.” Her career began as a deputy public defender in Solano County and later at Defenders Inc., the nonprofit defender office in San Diego County. In 1980, Semel and a group of her colleagues went into private practice together. She and one partner, Steven Feldman, eventually opened their own law firm, Semel & Feldman, in 1983. “I never planned to go into private practice,” she says. “I had a concrete view of what I wanted to do: be the most aggressive, zealous, loyal defender for my clients that I could be. There was no change in the nature of work I was doing—I was still representing clients, mostly court appointed, in highstakes criminal cases.” In 1997, Semel accepted a position in Washington, DC, as director of the American Bar Association Death Penalty Representation Project, which recruited large law firms to represent, pro bono, capital-crime clients in the South, where such resources are most needed. She also took her first academic position, combining litigation with teaching in the capital-punishment seminar at Georgetown University Law Center. “It’s immersing students, engaging their heads, hearts, and hands,” she says. “There’s nothing theoretical about it.” Since 2001, Semel has been clinical professor of law at University of Califonia Berkeley School of Law, where she launched and is director of the Death Penalty Clinic. Her time in DC influenced

the direction of the clinic. “I was going back to California, but I knew we needed to continue our work with those who are in most need of quality counsel.” The clinic was founded on the principle that the right to a fair trial and equal protection under the law are core societal values. “I was very clear when I started this clinic, I didn’t want to run an innocence clinic,” she says. “It’s important to teach students that you don’t cherrypick clients. As a public defender, you do not have that luxury. Everyone has the right to representation, and I want our students to absorb that premise. Making judgments about the nature of the crime is not what defense lawyers do. I’m comfortable with talking about those issues with sensitivity, but not with refusing those cases. You have to figure out how to work your way through those questions, because you have a responsibility to your client. You will be a zealous advocate for that client, whoever he or she is.” Issues of race have been a focus of Semel’s legal career. “It doesn’t take long as a public defender to have in your face the reality of how racist the criminal legal system is from beginning to end,” she says. “I confronted it in the late ’70s to early ’80s. It is as evident now as it was then.” Semel coauthored, with five of her students, an investigative report, “Whitewashing the Jury Box: How California Perpetuates the Discriminatory Exclusion of Black and Latinx Jurors,” and helped to draft major legislation in California addressing racial discrimination in jury selection. Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 3070 into law on September 30, 2020. “It is tremendously satisfying that the bill became law,” she says. “The topic is so fraught. There is deep opposition to changing the status quo. The statute has the potential for significantly increasing the representation on juries of Black and Latinx Californians.” Shortly after Semel graduated from Bard, the Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia ruled that capital

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punishment was unconstitutional. “What I hoped would never be a feature of my career became part of it in the late ’70s, when the so-called ‘war on crime’ was used to promote regressive criminal law procedures and moved support for capital punishment to an all-time high,” she says. Over the course of more than 40 years, she has watched popular support for the death penalty shift, and sees an opportunity in this historical moment to end capital punishment, including the federal death penalty. “For the last decade, decline in popular support for the death penalty has been very steady and in the same direction,” she says. “It’s highly significant that Virginia became the first of the Southern states that made up the Confederacy to abolish capital punishment. We’ve elected a president who has made vocal arguments against the death penalty, and could help move congressional legislation during his term. The biggest hurdle we face at the state level is the current Supreme Court. But if we take this very clear trend of abolition into the states, both at the legislative level and state supreme court level, then we will reach a tipping point. It will take courage. We need to continue to do what we are doing, which is to peel states off and to draw down the legality of the death penalty. Racism and poverty are the most salient features of the death penalty.” Semel advises aspiring lawyers to find an area of the legal system that inspires them. “What inspires and sustains me is feeling as though I’m making a difference in the life of every client,” she says. “I’ve always regarded law as a public service. Students need to take that responsibility seriously. In the legacy of [civil rights icon and Bard 2017 Commencement speaker] John Lewis, be a troublemaker, a changemaker, a catalyst to reimagine justice. In the course of one’s practice, there will be opportunities to engage in a way that does service to the greater good.” Elisabeth Semel ’72 was awarded an alumni/ae honorary doctor of laws degree from Bard College in 2016. Photo courtesy of UC Berkeley School of Law

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BARD WELCOMES NEW TRUSTEES Mark Malloch-Brown,

Juliet Morrison ’03, assistant

president of Open Society Foundations (OSF), is a British diplomat, communications consultant, and journalist. He has served on the OSF global board since 2007. A former member of Gordon Brown’s Labour Government, MallochBrown was minister of state for Africa, Asia, and the United Nations from 2007 to 2009. He studied at Magdalene College, Cambridge University, and University of Michigan; was political correspondent for The Economist from 1977 to 1979; and worked for the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees from 1979 to 1983. After acting as lead international partner at American public relations firm Sawyer-Miller, he was development specialist at the World Bank from 1994 to 1999, administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 1999 to 2005, and United Nations Deputy Secretary-General from April to December 2006. Malloch-Brown cochairs the board of trustees of Crisis Group, an international nongovernmental organization committed to preventing and resolving deadly conflict, which he helped found in 1995. He is a distinguished practitioner at Oxford University’s Blavatnik School of Government, an adjunct fellow at Chatham House’s Queen Elizabeth Program, and has been a visiting distinguished fellow at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Malloch-Brown was elevated to the British House of Lords as a life peer; he is currently on leave.

professor in the microbiology and plant pathology department at University of California, Riverside, specializes in combining computational analysis with immunological and virological methods to address questions at the host-pathogen interface. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Morrison discovered that a viral protease facilitated poliovirus and rhinovirus interferon resistance. In her postdoctoral training at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, she discovered two novel and disparate mechanisms whereby the NS5 proteins of dengue virus and yellow fever virus inhibit interferon signaling to enhance viral replication and pathogenesis. She received the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science from Bard College in 2020, Calderone Junior Faculty Award in 2017 from Columbia University, and Women in STEM Award from Bronx Community College in 2017.

Juliet Morrison ’03 was awarded the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science from Bard College in 2020.

Leonard Benardo,

Alexander Soros is deputy chair of Open Society Foundations. Soros’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, Guardian, New York Daily News, Reuters, Politico, Miami Herald, Sun-Sentinel, Place, Forward, and Sur– International Journal on Human Rights, among other publications. He graduated from New York University in 2009 with a BA in history and received his PhD in 2018 from the University of California, Berkeley. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College, an honorary fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Central European University in Budapest, and a visiting fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. He is on the boards of Bend the Arc Jewish Action and Central European University.

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vice president of Open Society Foundations, began his work with OSF at the Soros Foundation Moscow before going on to oversee grant-making activities in Russia, the Baltics, Poland, and Hungary. He was founding director of the Open Society Fellowship program, which expanded in 2016 to include four initiatives focused on individuals’ potential to advance open society. Benardo sits on the boards of Central European University, Hungary; American University of Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan; and European Humanities University, Lithuania. He holds a BA in history from the University of Michigan and a graduate degree in political science from Columbia University. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, International Herald Tribune, and Bookforum. He is coauthor of Brooklyn by Name: How the Neighborhoods, Streets, Parks, Bridges, and More Got Their Names and Citizen-inChief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents.

Leonard Benardo, Mark Malloch-Brown, and Alexander Soros, photos by Spencer Heyfron/Redux for the Open Society Foundations

In pursuit of its commitment to fostering musical and academic excellence in students coming from populations historically underrepresented in the classical music field, the Bard College Conservatory of Music is now offering up to five Inclusive Excellence in Music Scholarships for incoming first years in the undergraduate double-degree program, one for incoming first years in the Graduate Vocal Arts Program, and one for incoming first years in the Graduate Conducting Program. These scholarships, which will cover up to the full cost of tuition and room and board at Bard College for the entirety of the student’s academic career, aim to address inequities in access to higher education in music. In support of this initiative, and others, artist George Condo created a special limited-edition etching that was sold through his gallery, Hauser & Wirth, with all proceeds dedicated to supporting the arts at Bard. “During one of the most challenging times for colleges in the United States, I wanted to provide both funding and inspirational programming for students,” says Condo, whose daughter, Raphaelle, graduated from Bard in 2018. “Bard College is a place where my daughter thrived and one where the arts are central to the student experience.”

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The Bard Conservatory is offering a new bachelor of music in voice performance as part of its five-year, dual-degree track for undergraduates. Students will complete two degrees—a BM and a BA in a field other than music. The program’s faculty includes Artistic Director of the Graduate Vocal Arts Program Stephanie Blythe, Teresa Buchholz, Richard Cox, Lucy Fitz Gibbon MM ’15, Kayo Iwama, Ilka LoMonaco, Rufus Müller, and Erika Switzer. Performance opportunities include work with the Bard Chamber Singers, led by Music Program Director James Bagwell, a fully staged opera workshop at Bard’s Fisher Center, and performance classes led by Müller.

Internal Music, George Condo, 2020 © George Condo, courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth Photo by Thomas Barratt

THE ORCHESTRA NOW Buried Alive, the most recent CD from The Orchestra Now (TŌN) and conductor and music director Leon Botstein, contains three very different pieces written between 1926 and 1928, the years just before the Crash of 1929. In contrast to the emotionally harrowing Lebendig begraben (Buried Alive), which is a setting of 14 poems by 19th-century Swiss poet Gottfried Keller, Arthur Honegger’s Rugby has, as Botstein says, “a sense of humor.” As the name suggests, Rugby is a musical depiction of a rugby match, and without doubt one of the most effective artistic interpretations of a sporting contest ever created. The third work on the disc is the first modern professional recording of the Concerto Grosso by Dimitri Mitropoulos, who is remembered as a great conductor and an ardent protagonist of the new music of his time, but was a fine composer before he abandoned the discipline in his 30s, as this piece—one of his last—ably demonstrates. TŌN was founded by Botstein in 2015 as a graduate program of the College with the goal of making orchestral music relevant to 21st-century audiences by widening the education of younger musicians and their efforts to connect music to life.

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CENTER FOR CURATORIAL STUDIES’ 30TH ANNIVERSARY On August 26, the Center for Curatorial Studies (CCS Bard) announced a landmark donation of $25 million from the Marieluise Hessel Foundation in honor of CCS Bard’s 30th anniversary. The donation, part of Bard’s $1 billion endowment challenge campaign (see page 2), will be matched dollar for dollar by a commitment from investorphilanthropist George Soros, resulting in the creation of a $50 million endowment for CCS Bard. The endowment will enable the Center, cofounded in 2009 by Marieluise Hessel, to continue its work in perpetuity. The yearlong celebration of 30 years of CCS programming included the exhibitions Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection and With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985.

“It is a privilege to be able to celebrate three decades of sustained, transformational inquiry and experimentation into curatorial studies and exhibition-making with this gift. I know that this program will continue to lead the way in finding new stories to tell, artists to champion, and boundaries to push.” —Marieluise Hessel, cofounder of CCS Bard

Marieluise Hessel and Leon Botstein, photo by Susan Stava

Look Away! Look Away! Look Away!, Kara Walker, 1995, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, photo by Susan Stava

Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, an exhibition of drawings and works on paper by more than 50 artists, tracked a lifetime of collecting by philanthropist Marieluise Hessel, who cofounded the Center for Curatorial Studies in 1990. Accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that documents the entire collection of some 300 works on paper, the exhibition presented highlights that reverberate with questions of gender, sexuality, race, and politics.

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With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985 at Bard’s Hessel Museum of Art was the first full-scale scholarly North American survey of the groundbreaking yet understudied Pattern and Decoration (P&D) movement. Often described as the first contemporary art movement made up primarily of female artists, P&D defiantly embraced forms traditionally coded as feminine, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and therefore considered inferior to fine art. P&D artists adopted motifs, color schemes, and materials from the decorative arts, freely appropriating floral, arabesque, and patchwork patterns and arranging them in intricate and sometimes purposefully gaudy designs. One of the most remarkable artists in With Pleasure, Jane Kaufman, whose magnificent Embroidered, Beaded Crazy Quilt graces the cover of the 328-page catalogue (Yale University Press in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles), died on June 2 at 83. Kaufman came to Bard in 1972, and was one of the College’s first female art professors. Kaufman later became a member of the Guerrilla Girls, the feminist activist artists group that practices “creative complaining” to expose “gender and ethnic bias as well as corruption in politics, art, film, and pop culture.” Kaufman was one of the only members who used her real name; most adopted a dead female artist’s moniker, a nom de guerrilla, if you will. Art writer Elizabeth Hess ’74 told the New York Times, “She was famous for telling her female students, ‘You are all brilliant and you are all going to end up at the Met.’” As Hess went on to note, however, Kaufman’s fame did not extend to mainstream art circles. “She was an artist who floated under the radar. She was underacknowledged, though she had curated the first Pattern and Decoration show. Her work came out of her interest in women’s labor, but I think the real revelation to me about Jane’s work was its sumptuousness and beauty.” With Pleasure has gone a long way toward bringing the work of Kaufman and others in the P&D movement the recognition it deserves.

Constantina Zavitsanos, photo by Allison Harris

Constantina Zavitsanos has been named the 2021–22 recipient of the Keith Haring Fellowship in Art and Activism from the Center for Curatorial Studies and Bard College’s Human Rights Project. Zavitsanos, who works in sculpture, performance, text, and sound, addresses the material reproduction of debt, dependency, and means beyond measure in their art. Their work has been exhibited in New York City at the Brooklyn Museum, New Museum, Artists Space, and The Kitchen, and internationally at Arika in Glasgow, Scotland; Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt, Germany; and Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. With Park McArthur, they coauthored “Other Forms of Conviviality” in the journal Women & Performance (Routledge, 2013) and “The Guild of the Brave Poor Things” in Trap Door: Trans Cultural Production and the Politics of Visibility (MIT Press, 2017). Zavitsanos received the 2021 Roy Lichtenstein Award from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. They hold an MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and a BFA from Millersville University. The annual Haring Fellowship, which brings a prominent scholar, activist, or practicing artist to teach and conduct research on Bard’s campus, is made possible by the Keith Haring Foundation and embodies the shared commitment of the College and the foundation to imaginatively explore the complex connections between sociopolitical engagement and artistic practice.

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BARD GRADUATE CENTER Richard Tuttle: What is the Object?, on view at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) from February 25 through July 10, 2022, will explore the meaning of objects for Tuttle, an inveterate collector whose taste, like his art, is eclectic and very personal. Visitors will be invited to touch and interact with 75 items, ranging from ceramic teacups and decorative sculptures to vintage fabrics and antique curios, drawn from his collection. The exhibition will also feature some of Tuttle’s art works as well as sculptural furniture he designed to display the objects.

Conserving Active Matter will also be on view at BGC February 25 through July 10, 2022. For as long as people have made and kept things, they have cared for and repaired them. Through objects that span five continents and range in time from the Paleolithic to the present, Conserving Active Matter explores the ways conservators keep alive—and bring back to life—the things that sustain us. BGC and the Wyeth Foundation for American Art provided support for an innovative digital project, Shaped by the Loom: Weaving Worlds in the American Southwest, the first online exhibition to showcase the American Museum of Natural History’s collection of Indigenous textiles from the greater American Southwest. The project elevates the voices of contemporary Native artists and makers to express the cultural legacy and continued vibrancy of weaving traditions in the region. Richard Tuttle, photo by Melissa Goodwin

Meanwhile, across the river from Annandale, Martha Tuttle ’11, Richard’s daughter, has installed a large-scale, temporary, outdoor project, A stone that thinks of Enceladus, at Storm King Art Center. The piece, part of an ongoing program to support emerging artists, consists of a series of cairns built from boulders gathered at Storm King, along with molded glass and carved marble replicas of stones that she collected. The installation will be on view through December 13.

Martha Tuttle A stone that thinks of Enceladus, 2020 Stone, glass, and marble Dimensions variable Courtesy the artist and Tilton Gallery Photo by Jeffrey Jenkins ©Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

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Majolica Mania

Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915 On view at the Bard Graduate Center through January 2, 2022 Majolica Mania, photo by Bruce M. White

Deborah Krohn and Yotam Ottolenghi

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Whichever French royal actually uttered the words, “Let them eat cake” (it was almost certainly not Marie Antoinette; it may have been Maria Theresa of Spain), the link between pâtisserie and Versailles is etched in fondant. In the summer of 2018, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art invited the acclaimed chef Yotam Ottolenghi to organize a food gala inspired by the museum’s exhibition Visitors to Versailles. Ottolenghi certainly knows a béarnaise from a bechamel, but to get a grip on the historical importance of Versailles in the 18th century—when the French court was at the epicenter of European society—the chef needed a guide. The Met introduced Ottolenghi to Bard Graduate Center Associate Professor and Chair of Academic Programs Deborah Krohn, and she became an essential ingredient in the success of the event and a major character in the documentary about the process, Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (2020). “Through my research of period cookbooks and etiquette manuals, I was able to help Yotam and the other chefs involved in the gala understand the role that food played at the French court as a demonstration of power and innovation,” says Krohn. “It’s related to the research that will be on display in my spring 2023 Focus Project exhibition at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, Staging the Table in Europe, 1500–1800.”

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STEVEN SAPP ’89 AND MILDRED RUIZ-SAPP ’92

UNIVERSES IS A STAGE In February 2020, the multicultural performance ensemble Universes premiered AmericUS, a play about the state of contemporary America, to enthusiastic reviews at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. They were in conversations to take it on tour when the pandemic hit. “We watched two years of work literally get canceled, lost,” says Universes cofounder Steven Sapp ’89. “We had to turn down so many gigs,” adds fellow cofounder Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92. “But we couldn’t travel the company and be responsible for people’s lives.” They returned to Ashland, Oregon, where they and other Universes members—including Ruiz-Sapp’s brother William “Ninja” Ruiz ’03—have been playwrights in residence at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival since 2013. Universes is a collective of multidisciplinary writers and performers of color who fuse theater,

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poetry, dance, jazz, hip-hop, politics, blues, and Spanish boleros. The company was founded in the Bronx in 1995, but its origins lay earlier and farther north: Bard College in 1988. Sapp grew up in the Forest Housing Project in the Bronx and arrived at Bard via the Higher Education Opportunity Program (HEOP) and his high school guidance counselor, who gave him a brochure that read “Bard, a Place to Think.” “He said, ‘Trust me, go here,’” says Sapp. “For me, thinking about being a writer, it clicked.” At Bard, Sapp was further encouraged by Alex McKnight ’79, associate director of HEOP, whom Sapp describes as a “father figure/crazy uncle” to him. Three years later, Sapp’s Senior Project adviser, Elizabeth Frank (now Joseph E. Harry Professor of Modern Languages and Literature), suggested he create a play based on Edmund Perry, a 17-year-old Black honor student enrolled

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to attend Stanford University, who was shot to death after allegedly mugging a plainclothes police officer. Sapp was struck by the similarities between their lives. “Coming from the inner city, I felt the push and the pull my entire time at Bard. I wanted Bard students to know what students of color go through,” he says. During registration for Sapp’s final semester, McKnight introduced him to his future wife, first year Mildred Ruiz, on her first day at Bard. It was the beginning of a lifelong personal and artistic collaboration. Ruiz, from the Jacob Riis Houses on New York’s Lower East Side, intended to become a fashion illustrator, but her guidance counselor showed her the same Bard brochure. “I kept telling him, ‘I’ll think about it.’ But he said, ‘Here, this is the one. You keep saying you’re going to think about it, so go think about it there,’” she recalls.

Sapp’s Senior Project play, “Purgatory,” in which Ruiz was cast, became a rallying cry for students of color to discuss issues that they’d previously kept to themselves. “It sparked everything that happened from that moment to now,” says Sapp. “It was the beginning of being our true selves.” RuizSapp adds, “That’s where the Universes aesthetic was born.” “Purgatory” won the HEOP Award and the Reamer Kline Award, among many other accolades. It also caught the attention of the New York Times, which mentioned it in its Campus Life section. While Ruiz-Sapp finished her BA in literature, Sapp, who earned a BA in theater, worked in the Bard Admission Office. “They sent me out, as a Black man, to articulate what it’s like being at Bard,” he says. “I was honest to students of color. I said, ‘This is how it is: the good and the bad.’” The couple also volunteered at Devereux, in Red Hook, New York, working with developmentally disabled kids. After Ruiz-Sapp graduated, the pair put their Devereux experience to good use, helping to create the Point Community Development Corporation, a nonprofit dedicated to youth development and revitalizing the Hunts Point neighborhood of the South Bronx. At night, they headed downtown, becoming part of the burgeoning poetry scene at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. “The stakes kept getting raised,” says Sapp. Material that started off in open-mic stand-up evolved into 15-minute vignettes, then a whole night of poetry, music, theater, and movement; they brought in other performers, and suddenly, they were a theater company. In 2001, they created Slanguage, a hip-hop, jazz, poetry, and rap-infused subway ride from Brooklyn to the Bronx that captured the city’s sights and sounds. The Boston Herald wrote, “It’s a linguistic fireworks display, and it’s difficult not to be swept along with its percussive momentum and dazzling wordplay.” More plays followed, including Blue Suite, a trip through music history; The Denver

Project, about homelessness in America; and Ameriville, set in posthurricane New Orleans. Then came the awards, grants, rave reviews, global travel, and commissions. In 2012, the Oregon Shakespeare Company commissioned them to write what became Party People, about the next generation of the Black Panthers and Puerto Rican activist group the Young Lords. “We wanted to look at what happens to these revolutionaries, postrevolution,” says Ninja Ruiz. “We had two young people who were presenting an art exhibition, talking about the lives of the Panthers and Lords, and inviting them to come into their space.” Adds Sapp, “We wanted to write about them because we grew up around the Panthers and Lords; we saw their programs in our communities.” The trio traveled the country, talking to Panther members, including cofounder Bobby Seale, graphic artist Emory Douglas, Ericka Huggins, and David Hilliard. In Chicago, they met José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Lords, who introduced them to the mother and brother of Fred Hampton, the Black Panther leader assassinated by Chicago police in 1969 (and focus of the recent movie Judas and the Black Messiah). Party People grew out of these conversations. It premiered at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre, near Oakland, California, where the Panthers were founded. “The activists came to see the show, which was a big deal,” says Sapp. “Their relationships are complicated, and the conversations they had afterwards would not have happened had they not had a common place to come that was safe.” The New York Times raved: “In the current political climate, it may be the most frightening and exciting piece of theater now up.” In 2016, they began work on UniSon, a musical based on playwright August Wilson’s unpublished poems, woven together with their own poetry, music, and storytelling. “All of our stuff is so political,” says Ruiz-Sapp. “But UniSon is about aging and the legacy we leave

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behind. It’s about lovers and friends existing on the same stage.” Also in 2016, Bard honored them with the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters. They invited McKnight to attend the ceremony. “He kept fighting for us while we were at Bard, and we didn’t want to let him down,” she says. “We told him, ‘It’s because of you that we are here, so be proud.’ Everything we learned and experienced at Bard helped shape who we are today.” Sapp and Ruiz-Sapp spent 2020 working on commissions, such as Africantic, which traces the African musical experience; a piece about house music; and Maria, in which a young Puerto Rican woman tells her “East Side Story” journey up until Hurricane Maria hits. Ninja Ruiz, meanwhile, has been living in Puerto Rico, working as a curator and writer, and promoting the spoken word. They have also been putting their work on film, and are developing the idea of a Universes Institute. “A lot of the things we learned along the way aren’t taught,” says Ruiz-Sapp. “Such as how to tour, produce your work, and construct your design team. We want to organize all this in an institutionalized form. We’ve just passed our 25th anniversary, and we want to set down roots for ourselves and our aesthetic. We want our legacy to survive.” Steven Sapp ’89 and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92 received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters from Bard College in 2016.

Steven Sapp ’89 and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp ’92 returned to Annandale in September for a talk and conversation, moderated by Professor of Dance Jean Churchill and introduced by President Leon Botstein, in Weis Cinema. They also taught intensive workshops for students in the Theater and Performance and Dance Programs. Photo by Karl Rabe

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BARDIANS ON SCREEN

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The best movie of 2020, according to Time magazine, the Associated Press, and the New York Film Critics Circle (and no small number of Bardians), is S. William Senfeld Artist in Residence Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow. This extraordinary and deeply layered work of art—it’s a buddy film/critique of capitalism/Western/culinary appreciation/portrait of class struggle/story of the American dream/love letter to nature—appears on more than 200 top-10 lists. In February, Reichardt received Rotterdam International Film Festival’s Robby Müller award, which honors a director of photography, filmmaker, or visual artist who “has created an authentic, credible, and emotionally striking visual language.” This summer, she began filming Showing Up, a portrait of an artist whose chaotic life, as she prepares for a career-changing show, becomes the inspiration for her art.

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Ephraim Asili MFA ’11, assistant professor of film and electronic arts, and recipient of a 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship, premiered his debut feature film, The Inheritance, at the Toronto International Film Festival last fall, and it also screened at the New York Film Festival. Asili wrote, produced, directed, shot, and edited the movie, which is based on his time in a West Philadelphia Black radical collective. He says he was influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s La Chinoise, which Asili first saw as an MFA student at Bard. “I was floored,” he told Artforum. “It reminded me of my days living in a collective, but at the same time seemed to be coming from a totally different place in terms of class and culture. I knew I wanted to make what in reggae music would be called a version, or in hip-hop a remix, of La Chinoise, a critique and an homage at the same time.” In addition to Asili, the diverse group of artists, writers, scholars, and scientists who make up the 184 Guggenheim Fellows for 2021 include filmmaker Irene Lusztig MFA ’06, MFA film and video faculty A. K. Burns MFA ’10, interdisciplinary multimedia artist Luba Drozd MFA ’15, and MFA writing faculty Roberto Tejada. Guggenheim Fellowships are grants to exceptional individuals in pursuit of scholarship in any field of knowledge and creation in any art form, under the freest possible conditions.

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Son of Monarchs, a new film by French-Venezuelan biologist and filmmaker Alexis Gambis ’03, won Sundance’s Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize, which recognizes portrayals of science in film. Gambis uses monarch butterflies—their migration as well as their metamorphosis—as a metaphor for the immigrant experience in this semi-autobiographical film. Scientific American called it “stunningly photographed” and explained that the story “draws on CRISPR-Cas9mediated genome research into the iconic butterflies to step into a narrative about hybrid identities, diminishing spaces, social evolution and divided territories.” Gambis says the film goes “from the vein of a butterfly wing to the border between countries.”

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MORE BARDIANS ON SCREEN Filmmaker Rebeca Huntt ’12 was among five recipients of the inaugural Sustainable Artist Grant awarded by Brown Girls Doc Mafia in support of women and nonbinary people of color working in documentary film. Huntt, whose feature film Beba (produced by Sofia Geld ’12) had its world premiere at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival, receives $10,000, mentorship from a network of business and craft consultants, and access to industry connections. She is also an archivist for documentaries produced by Hulu, PBS, and The Fader.

Rebeca Huntt ’12, photo by Christian DeFonte ’12

Directed by Ian Samuels ’06, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things is a sweet coming-of-age love story with a timeloop, science-fiction overlay. For Mark, every day is a do-over. Until he notices Margaret, who, it turns out, is also caught in the same temporal anomaly. The teenagers decide to document the good things they witness, those “tiny perfect things” of the title. To find out how—or if— they get their never-ending day to tick over, you can stream the film on Amazon Prime Video.

Blanca Lista ’01 won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Children’s Program as coexecutive producer on The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (Netflix). She is at work on Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion animated musical version of Pinocchio and The Portable Door, a comic fantasy adapted from the Tom Holt novel of the same name.

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Buddy Enright ’84 was executive producer of the mockumentary Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (Amazon Prime), which won three Golden Globe Awards. Additionally, Enright earned an Emmy nomination in the Best Comedy Series category as a producer on Dead to Me (Netflix).

Produced by Olmo Schnabel ’17, with Executive Producer Thorvald Spartan Daggenhurst ’16, Giants Being Lonely is set in semirural Hillsborough, North Carolina, and stars Lily Gavin ’17 as a high-school beauty from a seemingly perfect home. Her life becomes entwined with those of the motherless star pitcher on the high school team, whose alcoholic father is loving but aloof, and the coach’s son, whose abusive father and emotionally distant mother are likewise of little help navigating the bumpy road toward adulthood. After screenings at the Venice and Santa Barbara Film Festivals, the film began streaming on demand in the United States in April.

Andrew Garfield as Link and Maya Hawke as Frankie in Mainstream by Gia Coppola ’09 photo courtesy of IFC Films

Mainstream, the new film directed and cowritten by Gia Coppola ’09, premiered at the Venice Film Festival on September 5, 2020, and was released May 7, 2021, by IFC Films. In it Coppola tells “a story about social media and its nefarious effects on the human psyche.”

Adam Khalil ’11 and Bayley Sweitzer ’12 won a 2021 Creative Capital Award for their collaboration Nosferasta, a vampire film and series of installations that tells the story of Oba, a Rastafarian vampire, and Christopher Columbus, Oba’s original biter, as they spread the colonial infection throughout the “new” world. Khalil, a member of the Ojibway tribe, is a filmmaker and artist from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, who subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Sweitzer is a filmmaker whose practice revolves around an ongoing attempt to repurpose the narrative film form in order to convey radical political possibilities.

Martine Syms MFA ’18 also was awarded a 2021 Creative Capital Award for her feature-length film Dumb World, which explores how athleticism, race, and fame congeal around the violent ideologies embedded within the objects of technology with which we are most intimately connected. Using a combination of video, installation, and performance, often interwoven with explorations into technique and narrative, Syms examines representations of Blackness and its relationship to vernacular, feminist thought, and radical traditions. These were among the 35 projects by 42 artists, chosen from nearly 4,000 entries, to receive up to $50,000 in project funding as well as additional career development services. Creative Capital was formed in 1999, in response to the National Endowment for the Arts’ termination of the majority of its grant programs for individual artists, as a way to support innovative, forward-thinking, and boundary-blurring artists.

Margot Robbie in Dreamland, 2019, directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ’14, photo Automatik Entertainment/Alamy Stock Photo

Dreamland, directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte ’14, with Lola Kirke ’12 as the narrator, is a Dust Bowl period piece set in the 1930s. The film was completed before the pandemic hit, but feels as if it could have been made in response to it. Margot Robbie, who stars in Dreamland, has tapped Joris-Peyrafitte to direct her Tank Girl movie, though that has been delayed by COVID. Kirke, for her part, can be seen in Lost Girls, in which she plays Kim, a relative of a missing sex worker, who is a sex worker herself. Kirke also stars alongside Ben Platt in Broken Diamonds, which premiered at the 2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

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SUMMERSCAPE, LIVE AND IN PERSON Bard SummerScape often celebrates the underappreciated and underperformed. Of Ernest Chausson’s only opera, King Arthur (Le roi Arthus), the late poet John Ashbery (former Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature) wrote, “Arthus, with its story of passion, betrayal, forgiveness, and ultimate resurrection, and its emotionally charged but transparent score . . . is a masterpiece which deserves to be known.” The New York Times called Bard’s “richly costumed and dramatically effective” production, directed by Louisa Proske, “a powerful work for this fraught, polarized moment in American life.”

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SummerScape highlights included the world premiere of I was

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Fisher Center Choreographer in Residence Pam Tanowitz and award-winning composer Jessie Montgomery, which was performed outdoors at Montgomery Place; Black Roots Summer, a two-weekend celebration of Black roots music organized and led by the rousing vocalist, bandleader, cultural commentator, and antiracism educator Michael Mwenso and his longtime collaborator Jono Gasparro; and Most Happy in Concert, songs from Frank Loesser’s The Most Happy Fella, conceived by director Daniel Fish, along with Daniel Kluger and Nathan Koci—his musical collaborators from the Tony Award–winning Bard SummerScape production of Oklahoma!—and performed by seven female and nonbinary voices backed by 13 musicians.

This year’s Bard Music Festival, “always adventuresome and provocative,” as the Wall Street Journal noted, explored the life and work of the composer, musician, and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. The festival, the first in its three-decade history to feature a female composer, highlighted work by Boulanger, sister Lili, and her teachers, contemporaries, and students, vividly illustrating the evolving world of European and American music in which this visionary musical thinker worked and spread her influence. The 2022 Bard Music Festival will turn to composer, pianist, and conductor Sergei Rachmaninoff. Nadia Boulanger, 1912, photo courtesy Centre International Nadia et Lili Boulanger

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BEATRICE AJAERO ’12 MBA ’17

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The menu at Nneji, which opened last summer in Queens, New York, perfectly illustrates the spirit of curiosity and deep commitment that Beatrice Ajaero ’12 MBA ’17 brings to everything she does. Nneji features yassa, a spicy West African soup dish, varied tomato-based jollof rice dishes, South African jerky, and other meats, sweets, and West African products. The restaurant represents a stew of its own: in a way it is the intersection of human rights, international law, Nigerian history, and Ajaero’s devotion to food culture, which was in part sparked in college. “One

experience at Bard that really impressed me and made me proud was the movement to incorporate more locally grown and produced food into our meal options, and at the same time perhaps democratizing our meal-swipe system,” says Ajaero. “The conversations around food and diet that I heard at Bard—these connections—would come back to me again in my work [in law school] representing families and agencies around children, learning, the brain, diversity, and food. I was able to look more closely and to bring these ideas [of access and sustainability] into Nneji.” Growing up on Roosevelt Island, a narrow strip of land in the East River between Manhattan and Queens, which used to house an insane asylum and a smallpox hospital, Ajaero developed an interest in the history and culture of Nigeria, a place to which she has strong family ties. When it came time to look at colleges, Bard didn’t come on to her radar until late in her application process. But accounts from her mother— a high school teacher—of great Bardian colleagues, musical and community ties to Bard, and the College’s academic rigor led Ajaero to consider Bard seriously. “At the time the Achebe family was at Bard,” she says, “so as a Nigerian, and as an Igbo particularly, that was important.” (Chinua Achebe, one of Africa’s most important and influential writers, taught literature at Bard from 1990 to 2011; his wife, Christie Chinwe Achebe, was a professor of psychology.) Ajaero would end up spending a lot of her time at Bard in Preston Hall. “Preston was where we used to screen movies,” says Ajaero. “It was also where Christie Achebe’s office was, and it was where I had L&T, so it was the first place I knew really well on campus without getting lost.” She also had a fondness “for the quiet space of Hegeman,” she continues. “It was shared with the science building,

so that brings its own energy—who you cross paths with in the hallways—and I think that always impacts what a building holds for you. I think every building on campus has its own spirit.” Ajaero also spent a lot of time at the Achebe Center, which was established in 2005 to further global Africana arts. In addition to being a center of excellence for the teaching of African literature and supporting a new generation of African writers, Bard undergraduates were able to participate in projects and events. “I had a chance to help with Africa Week, which brings a lot of artists and writers to Annandale for campus-wide programming,” says Ajaero. “That was a very special part of my time at Bard.”

helped support with a grant from the Human Rights Project.” The Senior Project that came out of that research explores the Biafran War—the Nigerian Civil War that went on from 1967 to 1970— from a perspective that balances the academic with the personal and with a lean toward anthropology. Before returning to the Bard network for an MBA in Sustainability in New York City, Ajaero—who says she was fascinated with legal writing and contracts and how they determine who gets access to certain products, especially as this relates to food—enrolled at the University of Buffalo School of Law. “The role of multinational corporations in how a certain supplement or a certain grain is made accessible meant, for me, that contracts and transactions were very critical,” she says. “It was really the skill set of the legal education that I was after more than anything else.” After earning her law degree, Ajaero opened a food and gift stall on her childhood turf of Roosevelt Island. As she told the New York Times last June, she had “always wanted to share the tastes of her childhood.” While working toward her MBA, and in response to the overwhelmingly positive feedback from customers at the Roosevelt Island market who beseeched her to make more Nigerian food and goods available, Ajaero designed the sustainability-oriented business plan for Nneji. Opening a restaurant during a pandemic may seem at the very least anachronistic, but for Ajaero—who always follows her heart, looks for ways to nurture her community, and seeks connections, even in the unlikeliest places—it fits perfectly.

The role of multinational corporations in how a certain supplement or a certain grain is made accessible meant that contracts and transactions were critical. It was the skill set of the legal education that I was after. Ajaero’s varied interests can also be seen in her academic work. Though her primary focus was human rights, she was influenced by other professors in anthropology and religion, particularly John Ryle, Legrand Ramsey Professor of Anthropology and cofounder of the Rift Valley Institute, and Bruce Chilton ’71, Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Philosophy and Religion. “I was fortunate to have mentors within the Human Rights Program,” Ajaero says. “Thomas Keenan, the director of the program, and Danielle Riou, associate director of the Human Rights Project, were very important for me, because I ended up doing research in Nigeria and in South Africa that they

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FACULTY RECOGNITION

Franco Baldasso (above left), assistant professor of Italian and director of the Italian Studies Program, Artist in Residence Adriane Colburn (above center), and James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics and Director of the Classical Studies Program James Romm (above right) were awarded 2021 Franklin Research Grants from the American Philosophical Society. Baldasso’s grant will allow him to finalize Against Redemption: Literature, Democracy and Memory in Post-Fascist Italy, the first book to distinguish, analyze, and theorize early postwar literary practices as a main vehicle for intellectual dissent. Colburn’s grant supports The Divining Forest, a suite of artworks that will explore the poetics of scientific fieldwork being conducted in the dense and biodiverse environment of the Rincón de la Vieja, a volcano in Costa Rica where high levels of CO2 have been emitted through fissures in the volcanic crust for thousands of years. Romm’s new book, The Sacred Band, focuses on the Theban hegemony (379–362 BCE), in which Thebes played a leading role in central Greek affairs and defeated the army of Sparta by deploying a corps made up of 300 male lovers, the Sacred Band of Thebes. Romm’s grant will fund research on a set of notebooks, recently uncovered, detailing the skeletal remains found in the Sacred Band’s mass grave.

Christopher H. Gibbs, James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Music, was named a spring 2022 Berlin Prize Fellow by the American Academy in Berlin. The Berlin Prize is awarded annually to American or U.S.-based scholars, writers, composers, and artists who represent the highest standards of excellence in their fields.

Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature Valeria Luiselli was named winner of the Dublin Literary Award, which promotes excellence in world literature and is one of the world’s richest prizes for a novel published in English (€100,000/$122,000), for Lost Children Archive. The award is sponsored by Dublin City Council and administered by Dublin City Libraries. Nominations are made by libraries around the world.

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Daaimah Mubashshir, playwright in residence, was one of six winners of a 2021 Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. Theatrical agent Helen Merrill established the fund as part of the New York Community Trust to help playwrights pursue their talents with less financial pressure. Since 1999, the fund has made 98 awards totaling $2.14 million. Mubashshir’s work has been commissioned by the Guthrie Theater and 3 Hole Press. Previous awards include a 2021 PlayCo Residency for Black Women Theatre Makers, 2020–22 WP Theater Lab Fellowship, 2019–22 Core Writer Fellowship (Playwrights Center), 2018 Audrey Residency (New Georges), MacDowell Fellowship, and Foundation of Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant.

Two members of the Bard College faculty have won National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowships Award (up to $60,000) to support their scholarly humanities book projects: Richard H. Davis (above left), professor of religion and Asian studies, for Religious Cultures of Early India, Up to 700 CE, and Laura Kunreuther (above center), associate professor of anthropology, to support research and writing of Interpreting the Field, Translating Global Voices: On the Labor of Interpreters in U.N. Field Missions. And Olga Touloumi (above right), assistant professor of architectural history, accepted an NEH Summer Stipend Award to support research and writing for her book project, tentatively titled The Global Interior: The United Nations and the Ordering of the World.

Assistant Professor of Film and Electronic Arts Sky Hopinka (Ho-Chunk Nation/Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians) was awarded one of four inaugural fellowships from Forge Project, a new Hudson Valley– based nonprofit that supports Indigenous communities and leaders working in the arts, food sovereignty, language revitalization, and more. Forge Project is based in Columbia County at the only house in the United States designed by Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei. The fellowship, which comes with a $25,000 award and housing on the 37.5-acre property, aims to provide time and space for Indigenous leaders to devote themselves to their practice.

Kristin Lane was elected Fellow of the Society of Social and Personality Psychology, which recognizes those who have made “extraordinary, distinctive, and longstanding contributions to the science of personality and social psychology.” For her dedication to increasing the success and visibility of women in mathematics, Associate Professor of Mathematics Lauren L. Rose was named a 2022 fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics. The National Endowment for the Arts has approved a $30,000 Grants for Arts Projects award for Freedom on the Move: Songs in Flight, a project envisioned and led by Erika Switzer, Bard College Conservatory of Music piano faculty, and Martha Guth of Ithaca College— cofounders of the art song nonprofit Sparks & Wiry Cries—along with Lucy Fitz Gibbon MM ’15, Graduate Vocal Arts Program faculty.

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MORE FACULTY RECOGNITION Dinaw Mengestu, director of the Written Arts Program, was named Catherine T. MacArthur Professor in the Humanities. Mengestu, a recipient of a 2012 MacArthur Foundation Award, is the author of three novels: The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears (2008), How to Read the Air (2010), and All Our Names (2014).

The American Ethnological Society awarded Associate Professor of Anthropology Sophia

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2021 Sharon Stephens Book Prize for Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine.

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Japheth Wood, director of quantitative literacy and continuing associate professor of mathematics, and coauthor Ben Blum-Smith, won a 2021 Paul R. Halmos–Lester R. Ford Award for expository mathematical writing in Mathematical Association of America publications for “Chords of an Ellipse, Lucas Polynomials, and Cubic Equations,” which appeared in American Mathematical Monthly. Wood was also awarded an Epsilon Award for Young Scholars Programs from the American Mathematical Society to help support the Bard Math Circle’s Creative and Analytical Math Program (CAMP).

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David Ungvary, assistant professor of classics, has been selected to receive Harvard University’s Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship for the 2021–22 academic year. This highly competitive fellowship supports major research and publications in classical studies and will allow him to complete the manuscript for his first monograph, The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Antique Gaul (Oxford University Press).

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The Association for Psychological Science has named Assistant Professor of Psychology Richard Lopez an APS Rising Star, a designation that recognizes outstanding psychological scientists whose innovative work has already advanced the field and signals great potential for their continued contributions. Lopez is director of Bard’s Regulation of Everyday Affect, Craving, and Health (REACH) Lab.

CIVIC ENGAGEMENT Last fall, students in the Engaged Liberal Arts and Sciences class Advocacy Video: Clemency, cotaught by Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Human Rights Program Thomas Keenan and Visiting Artist in Residence Brent Green, worked with the Defenders Clinic at the City University of New York Law School and the human rights organization WITNESS to create a series of videos to accompany four New York State clemency applications. The practical seminar gave students an opportunity to meet with clemency applicants, work collaboratively with law students and faculty, do hands-on human rights research and advocacy, and create work that has real-life impact. On August 23, in one of his final acts before resigning as governor of New York State, Andrew Cuomo pardoned one of the four, Gregory Mingo. “There could not be a better person to leave prison and rejoin the rest of us,” Keenan and Green wrote in an email to faculty and staff. “Advocating for basic human rights and decency . . . ought to be unnecessary. The reason we teach this at Bard, and attempt to put it into practice, is that it’s not, and because sometimes it works.”

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On September 22, 2021, Dutchess County Supreme Court Judge Maria Rosa ruled—once again—in favor of a Bard campus voting site, rejecting Republican Board of Elections (BOE) Commissioner Erik Haight’s appeal of her decision to allow a polling place at the Bertelsmann Campus Center in addition to the one at St. John the Evangelist Church in Barrytown. In her ruling, Rosa reiterated that Haight had acted in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner in the selection of poll sites and that his appeal on procedural grounds was without merit. Although the matter had seemingly been decided last year, when Judge Rosa gave the go-ahead for the campus location, the BOE failed to agree on a polling site for the forthcoming 2021 elections by the March 15 deadline. That led the student-led voting rights initiative Election@Bard, joined by additional students, staff, and the president of the College, to file yet another lawsuit. Haight argued that the site should revert exclusively to the 2019 location in Barrytown, but Rosa agreed that Bertelsmann had proved to be an appropriate venue in 2020 and that it should continue to be used. It goes without saying that Haight may appeal the decision. Photo by Karl Rabe

The Posse Foundation—in collaboration with Bard College and award-winning composer, lyricist, and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda and the Miranda Family Fund—is expanding its Arts Program to recruit art students in Puerto Rico. The initiative aims to create a pipeline of diverse leaders in fine arts and performing arts, and over the next five years Bard will award more than $10 million in full-tuition scholarships to Arts Posse Scholars from Puerto Rico. The first cohort of students is set to arrive on campus in 2022.

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The Center for Civic Engagement at Bard College has launched a new certificate program that will allow students to develop firsthand experience with civic engagement through cocurricular activities in the community (at least 100 hours), while pursuing a series of courses that deepen connections between the understanding and practice of civic engagement. During junior or senior year, students prepare an analytic essay or other form of work linked to their engagement activities, or incorporate engagement analysis into an Engaged Senior Project. Upon completion of the certificate program, students will be knowledgeable about theories of citizenship, democratic participation, civil society, and social action; familiar with their local community; and cognizant of ways in which the local, national, and global are linked.

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PAS DE PASSLOFF AILEEN PASSLOFF, dancer, choreographer, teacher, and mentor, died November 3, 2020, at the age of 89. She was a longtime member of the Judson Dance Theater, ran the dance company that bore her name from 1958 to 1968, and came to Bard in 1969, where she taught until she retired in 2015. She starred, as herself, with Arthur Avilés ’87 and others, in Marta Renzi’s 2017 film Her Magnum Opus, Renzi’s ode to creativity and community. Passloff was also a passionate advocate for and performer of the flamenco tradition. The Passloff Pass, which offers Bard students $5 tickets to selected Fisher Center events, was created in her honor by an alumnus in 2017. Aileen Passloff had a profound influence on untold numbers of students, including the alumni/ae quoted here. Once, after I performed a dance I’d choreographed, she gently said, “Come here, Beauty.” (She called all her students Beauty.) She sang a nonsensical song like, “Ooh dee doe! Oh dee doe!” as she took my left arm and lightly touched my pinky, convincing it to join the rest of my body. She said in a soothing, motherly voice, “Oh, pinky wants to fly off! It’s okay, pinky. We are here. Oh, sweet pinky, it’s okay!” I hadn’t been aware that my pinkies were unintentionally shooting out from my body like antennae, betraying a nervousness that subverted and undermined the story I was attempting to tell. Aileen would say things like, “Listen to the earth as you brush your foot along the floor, as if the floor is saying something that you’re curious about hearing.” That made sense to me. I felt she’d turned my body into a listening device. —Arthur Avilés ’87, artistic director, BAAD! (Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance)

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I knew nothing about playing piano, couldn’t read a note, didn’t know a scale, couldn’t tell you the difference between a mode and a toad, but I played and played into the wee small hours most every night. How Aileen first heard me I have no idea, but she asked me to play for her class. I see myself as if in a movie, tinkling and banging away on a decrepit upright, dancers sailing across the floor wondering what the hell I was doing. But Aileen didn’t toss me out, she encouraged me to keep coming back, to keep playing, to explore sonically whatever I felt like. She never asked me to play a rhythm, to keep a beat, to evoke a mood—she just let me improvise away, taking my cues from her as she led the class. A great experience, and a great validation for me as I was swimming through an ocean of free-form, anything-goes musical adventure. Looking back, I see what rare gifts she gave us, what valuable lessons she bestowed. —Chris Wangro ’79, director and producer I almost left Bard my first year because of Aileen. She was tough on me, and her way seemed so strange. Four years later, as we sat together late one night lighting my Senior Project, she turned to me and said, “This is your rehearsal. If you want to change something, this is the time to do it.” I understood immediately she was referring to how breathtakingly luminescent the dancers’ skin became, while the same light fell flat on the material covering their bodies. I stopped everything, asked the dancers to take off their costumes, and we continued. Doing so transformed the piece. She was highly unusual in her capacity to be in tune with her students, and very skillful as she guided us to learn the artistic freedom inherent in taking risks. She wasn’t strange. Just a very rare being. —Janet Stetson ’81, Bard College director of graduate admission

In Aileen’s classes, there was room for everyone to be just who they were. She would always say that we’re wonderfully well-made, like a sweet tiger or like a tree. She would create this environment where you were expected to do your best, of course, but you were also, more importantly, expected to speak from your own point of view—to have the courage to know yourself and to share that. —Charlotte Hendrickson ’07, choreographer and dancer I first studied with Aileen in 1977, but I still hear her voice in my rehearsals urging me on, asking me to connect to my most essential self and not to be afraid to move. A few years ago, I asked her to revive one of her own works and a solo made by her beloved colleague James Waring for my company. In working with her in the studio I heard again the thoughts and ideas that had so inspired me at Bard and which had, through the years, become a part of my process at an almost cellular level. Aileen taught me to open the doors on my work, to let in influences and thoughts and chaos and silence and boredom and excitement and passion. She and I shared a love of ballet and a love of rhythm, and I saw her powerfully embody the two energies at once—blazing a path forward for me over which I would never retrace my steps. Aileen’s wisdom and insight were cherished by generations of artists and she gave of herself unstintingly. We will all miss her. —David Parker ’81, choreographer and director of The Bang Group Aileen Passloff received the Bardian Award from Bard College in 2010.

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THINKING IN PUBLIC

MASHA GESSEN IN CONVERSATION WITH ROGER BERKOWITZ Distinguished Writer in Residence Masha Gessen said on a podcast last year, “The central object of [Hannah Arendt’s] study is what happens to society when there’s too much distance, or not enough distance. . . . It is so important in her thinking that people think with one another. In order to think with one another, they have to feel their separateness from one another. You have to be an individual capable of forming an opinion, and expressing it, and exchanging it, and seeing the reflection of your ideas in the eyes of others.” This became the jumping off point for a wideranging Zoom conversation between Gessen and Roger Berkowitz, professor of political studies and human rights and academic director of Bard’s Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities. The following transcript has been edited for clarity.

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Roger Berkowitz: Your account of Arendt’s thinking is really insightful and profound. Could you talk a little about what you mean when you say, “We worry about what happens when there’s too much distance or not enough distance”? Masha Gessen: I feel funny talking to you about Arendt, because you have spent more time thinking and talking about her than I have, but as I read the Origins of Totalitarianism, and especially the last chapter, where she talks about loneliness and solitude, and also the atomized, she originally talks about how totalitarianism is really only possible to build in an atomized society, and that’s why I was talking about too much distance. But then she has this incredible image of the elimination of distance, of people being melded together into one man of gigantic proportions, which has stayed with me since my first reading of the Origins of Totalitarianism. Because I literally imagine the Soviet communal apartment, in which there is no space to be. It is extremely difficult for a person to feel their physical limits; where their immediate quotidian life ends and somebody else’s begins. And she talks about how that disappearance of distance makes thinking impossible. I was thinking a lot about what she wrote about loneliness and solitude when the pandemic struck. And we all—the lucky ones among us—ended up in isolation, which is not, as far as I remember, a term that she uses. But isolation is not solitude. It is loneliness and she thinks of loneliness as the defining condition of totalitarianism. RB: I love the way you frame this. I think of Arendt as a deeply spatial thinker. So much of her work is about spaces, and that’s where she also gets into trouble: the public space, the private space, the social space, and are they distinct? And also the space of freedom and the space of appearances, which is for her the public world: how we appear to each other. As she describes it, politics is about a concern not for individuals but for the world. And she actually makes a distinction between

loneliness versus isolation versus solitude. Solitude is being alone with oneself. She says solitude is absolutely necessary for all thinking—for artists, writers, musicians— because that’s where we get into that conversation with ourselves, where we think about the world. Isolation she thinks of as the space of tyranny, as opposed to totalitarianism. Here we are in our Zoom rooms, we can have dinner parties and we can meet for a chess club or a poetry club, but what we can’t do is go out on the street and protest, and we can’t write publicly about what we think, and so it’s a political isolation. You’re isolated in your private life. And then loneliness, which I think is something we really do have to think about. The person who I think has gotten this more right than anyone is Claudia Rankine. In Don’t Let Me Be Lonely she says loneliness is “what we can’t do for each other.” I love that formulation. MG: I want to pick up on this idea of thinking about spaces. I’ve done an unintentional experiment over the last couple weeks. I’m teaching a class on great political essays, and I decided to add lectures and political speeches to the syllabus because they are also political essays. It’s an odd syllabus, where students choose one thing to read every week from a menu and then they bring their discussion to class. I think a lot of people, including a lot of students, are having trouble concentrating on reading. So I thought, okay, I’ll add a video to every week’s selection to give people the option of watching a video instead of reading an essay. The great lectures and speeches are actually not that easy to find on the internet. We’ve only had cheap cameras for 15 years or so, and before that you had to have professional equipment to record the speeches. I found some selection in the 2000s and the 2010s, and then, of course, there’s this huge wealth of recorded talks from the last year, when politics moved onto Zoom. My great discovery is that they’re completely unusable. They are flat. It is more rewarding to watch a very bad recording taken in 2000 from a high video

camera from the back of a large auditorium than it is to watch a high-quality, two dimensional Zoom recording of somebody. This was completely unexpected to me, and I’m still trying to wrap my mind around why watching somebody minimally move through space is such an important thing. I can’t quite explain it. Again, I’m talking about a bad recording done from the back of a room so you can barely see the speaker and you can’t see any of the audience. But you can see that the person is among people. They hit a technical snag, they laugh with the audience, they stumble and get feedback. To the extent that every lecture, every speech is an act of thinking in public, I could see very clearly, over the last two weeks of going through this endless number of recordings, the difference between the act of speaking in public and the act of speaking in private; of thinking in private for public consumption. The difference is unmistakable. I think this also relates to loneliness and what Arendt was talking about in the distinction between loneliness and solitude, where solitude is necessary for thinking and loneliness makes thinking hard. RB: For Arendt, the space of this world is really about sharing a commonwealth— being in the world with others and coming to understand that the world is filled with people who disagree with you, who are unlike you. That’s what she calls “plurality.” In a piece you wrote recently you quote one of my favorite passages of Arendt, from her essay “Introduction into Politics” (which I just finished teaching on the virtual reading group). “If someone wants to see and experience the world as it ‘really’ is he can do so only by understanding it as something that is shared by many people, lies between them, separates and links them, showing itself differently to each and comprehensible only to the extent that many people can talk about it and exchange their opinions and perspectives with one another, over against one another.” There are a lot of different ways to take that quote, but you framed it in a discussion of the rise of

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subjectivism in the modern world, and this is something that, in The Human Condition, Arendt was deeply engaged with. A large part of The Human Condition is about what she calls world alienation. The way in which we are increasingly alienated from a common world that we share with others, and she traces it to a number of places. One, to the rise of science, which turns us away from the world we see of objects to theories and explanations. Also to the Cartesian idea of doubting reality and the idea that all I know is what’s in me: this subjectivism. You said something recently that struck me as so right and important, which is that even with the rise of this internalization, this subjectivism, there was still a commitment to be part of the common world, to share something. What we see, fitfully over the last 100 years, whether it’s in Nazi Germany or Bolshevik Russia or now in many places around the world, is a loss of a commitment to that common world. And this is something Arendt was deeply concerned with. Where do you start noticing this loss of a commitment to this common world? Where did that first come to you? MG: Roger, I have no idea. I’ve been thinking about it, certainly, since the Trump election. In all of my work I— perhaps disproportionally—write about language as an instrument of politics. And disproportionately not because I don’t think it’s important but because there are many other things in politics that are probably as important that I’m not quite as fascinated with. I think I come to this from that direction. How do we understand the ways in which totalitarian dictators, would-be autocrats, other kinds of autocrats, abuse language. We have an instinctive sense that they’re doing something with language that ought not be done with it. And I think that Arendt helps diagnose what it is that they’re doing with it, which is that they’re using it in antipolitical ways. They’re using it against the conversation, against the very possibility of conversation.

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RB: I think that’s right. The way someone like President—ex-President—Trump uses repeated claims that are simply not factually true is to appeal to a certain group of people, to have a conversation with them. You said before that you can’t have a political conversation without people. He loves to have people there! He thrives on that. So, he’s in a conversation, it’s just a conversation with 40 percent of the people. MG: I think there’s an important distinction, though. In a way I’m much more interested in what Trump says about the weather than what he says about the election. He has, on at least two occasions, lied about the weather. That to me is really indicative of what is going on. When he talked about his inauguration, he sent Sean Spicer to say that it was the largest inauguration ever. But also to say that it was sunny. Trump himself claimed that it had been drizzling, but that when he started speaking the sun came out and not a single drop of rain fell, and then after he finished speaking it started raining again. Weather is, in most contexts, an unambiguous shared reality. To Arendt, the most important thing about totalitarian ideology was that it subjected all perceptions of the world to a preposterous idea, and it was entirely impervious to any fact-based intervention because it could explain all of those interventions away using its own preposterous idea. RB: And that’s the connection to loneliness. For her, loneliness is the background condition for that kind of totalitarian lying. She says this modern lie, where you say it’s raining when it’s sunny out, she says can only succeed when you lie to people who are lonely, not in the sense of being alone, but in the sense of being without purpose. They need to believe in something, and they would rather believe in something that makes them feel good—a coherent fiction that makes them feel alive, that makes them feel important—than be confronted with a reality in which they’re not that important. What Arendt thinks is

new in the modern world about loneliness is that people who were desperately abandoned and feeling completely astray in the world were generally people on the margins of society—the very old, the sick, etc.—and now she thinks this is a mass phenomenon that affects all people of all political sides who all need to believe in some truth. She does say, in Origins of Totalitarianism, that as soon as the strong man or the demagogue loses power and exits the scene, the lie crumbles. It’s that famous line right at the beginning of chapter 10 where she says, as soon as Hitler and Stalin died, the lies around them crumbled. It’s not that lies are truth, it’s that truth is a consensus. That truth emerges over time is a very Arendtian idea. But Trump is no longer president, and I’m wondering, are you confident that a kind of new consensus, a kind of new truth will reassert itself once Trump is off the scene? Do you think Arendt is right that this will crumble? MG: I think that the question is not so much will it crumble as what takes its place? She wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism before Stalin died, and what we have seen since—and it’s been a long time and an instructive time—is that if there’s nothing to fill the void that’s left over from the lie, from the sense of belonging that the lie not so much gave but maybe dangled, this promise of belonging, then people will reach for it again. So you either need another lie that’s as grand and as preposterous, or you need a true story that is as intentional and as compelling. Otherwise people will reach back toward that lie. RB: What do you mean “need a true story”? MG: I’ve thought a lot about what happened to Soviet countries after that empire collapsed, and I think that one way to understand it is by making a distinction between countries that had a story to tell, and told that story, and countries that ended up without a story. An example to

me of a country without a story was Hungary. Hungary had a real problem with how to think of itself after the Soviet occupation ended, because it had been an ally of Nazi Germany during World War II. There were a couple of attempts to position Hungary as a victim of both totalitarian regimes, which is true, or truer, of most other post-Soviet countries, but wasn’t true of Hungary. That story fell apart very quickly, and I think it has a lot to do with the need for a big liar, like Viktor Orbán. RB: If I hear what you’re saying, and I think I agree, the lies, the predilection to conspiracies and coherent fictions, will continue until some sort of new American story is able to be told. Is that what you’re saying? MG: That is what I’m saying, and I think we actually have an inkling of what that story can be and should be. The question is, is there the political leadership to sweep the country up in that story? I think that story is the story of an unfulfilled American promise, and that’s the story of Langston Hughes’s Let America Be America Again and the inaugural poem by Amanda Gorman, which is its clear descendant. In Hughes’s words, “America never was America to me.” And then he says that “America will be!” That brings together that grand promise of America—that idea of radical equality and inclusion that made this country the first country to be founded on a set of abstract ideas—and the failure to deliver on that promise, systematically, for a large part of the population. I think that story can be told, and is in fact being told, but what we need, and I’m afraid that this goes against the Democrats’ political instincts, is as profound a commitment to

telling a story as I think the right has instinctively. I raise that question because I think storytelling runs counter to the dominant American understanding of what constitutes politics. In the Arendtian understanding, politics is a conversation. Politics is how we figure out how to live together in the city, in the state, in the nation, in the world. In the American media, mainstream, Democratic party understanding of politics, politics is management. RB: This brings us to a point I know you and I both care a lot about, which is hypocrisy. In a way, Hannah Arendt is a fan of hypocrisy. She says you can’t have public life without hypocrisy. If we all constantly told people what was in our hearts and what we were thinking, it would be a very uncomfortable world. You’ve said we need hypocrisy—I think it’s a very Arendtian point. Where do you see the danger of getting rid of hypocrisy, or what would a good hypocrite look like today? MG: You’re exactly right to make that connection, because I think that appeal, to the worst selves, is the throwing off the masks of hypocrisy that Arendt writes about. Let me use a strange example, but it’s one that I’m familiar with and maybe it will make this odd part of our conversation, where we suddenly are speaking in favor of hypocrisy—maybe it will make it more clear. The White House press briefings. The White House press briefings are a spectacle of accountability and transparency. They have very little to do with actual accountability and transparency. That’s not where accountability and transparency happen. It is not by any stretch of the imagination part of an important political conversation.

It is certainly not where a great reveal happens. But it is a daily reminder that this is a government of the people, accountable to the people. I think that’s what Arendt means by hypocrisy, and that’s an example of good hypocrisy. What do you think? RB: Yeah. I think it’s a great example of a compliment that vice pays to virtue, which is what hypocrisy is. That whatever the president is doing, you have to present yourself as someone who is accountable to the people, and in doing so you tell a story—to come back to stories—which is that we’re a self-government, that we’re a republic, and that story matters. I think the unity thing is a story that President Biden has to tell. But a lot of my friends on the left say we’ve entered a war. Politics is war. Stop with the unity stuff. Are we willing to keep being hypocrites and try and govern from a unified stance, or are we just going to say, Look, politics has become warfare, let’s just fight the war? MG: Well, Arendt would say that’s not politics. RB: She would say that’s not politics, but she also would say that’s what politics has increasingly become. MG: I think there’s a difference between a story of unity and the knee-jerk bipartisanship. And I actually think it’s possible to tell a story of unity that is new and radical, and radical in its inclusion. That’s the challenge. The challenge is to not tell a story of a return to normalcy; to not pretend that politics has devolved to an absence of politics—which is when both sides see each other as mortal enemies— and suppose that something else is possible.

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Barbara Ess, Stairs (Shut-In series), 2018/2019, archival pigment print, 30.56” x 21.94” Opposite: Barbara Ess, The Disappearance of the Mind/Body Problem, 1988 All images courtesy of Barbara Ess and Magenta Plains, New York, NY

I AM NOT THIS BODY BARBARA ESS, who died March 4, 2021, at her home in Elizaville, New York, was famous in the art world for her pinhole photography. A pinhole camera, essentially just a box with a hole in it, has no mechanism for focusing, and so it records images that look something like unfiltered sense impressions—well suited to an artist preoccupied with the uncertainty, and unknowability, of the world she inhabited. To music fans, Ess was a singer and guitarist in influential No Wave bands like Y Pants and The Static, as well as half of the long-running experimental duo Radio/Guitar with Peggy Ahwesh, professor emeritus of film and electronic arts. But at Bard, where she joined the photography faculty in 1997 and remained until her death, Ess was known as an inspiring and indefatigable teacher, one who, as Associate Professor of Art History and Photography Laurie Dahlberg remembers, always “had something to say to those students who weren’t drawn to all the gear and the technical stuff.” “She was always assigning articles for them to read,” Dahlberg continues, “and recommending music for them to listen to, or films to see. She was addressing the whole artist.” “She really did bring color into my life,” Katherine Finkelstein ’07 remembers with a laugh. “She’s the person who taught me color photography, which has been my passion and everything I do since then. Being around her, to me, always felt like we were conspiring, like there was a secret we were part of. . . . It just felt electric.” “It felt like having someone on your team,” adds Megan Plunkett MFA ’17. “Someone who just showed that you didn’t have to do what you thought you had to do, you just had to be yourself and use your intuition.”

Like many of her students, the sculptor and gallerist Adam Marnie MFA ’12 became Ess’s friend and collaborator. He included her undated piece The Feeling Tone of Sensation, a lead wall hanging that may have been the first piece she ever made, in a 2017 group show he curated at the New York City gallery Magenta Plains. He still remembers their first critique together. “When she thought something was good,” he says, “it meant everything. She was so skeptical of art moves and art language, but something that worked for her . . . I felt really seen.”

Magenta Plains began representing Ess after that show, and her 2019 solo debut with the gallery, Someone to Watch Over Me, which included appropriated surveillance photos as well as photos she’d taken through her apartment windows while homebound with an illness, represented an exciting new direction for her work. Ess was curating a group exhibition when she died. In tribute to her artistic vision, Ahwesh organized a show at the gallery, The Secret Life of Objects, which ran from September 9 through October 16. Works by 10 artists were on view, including key pieces by Ess as well as Radio/Guitar; drawings by Professor of Studio Arts Laura Battle; and Artist in Residence Daniella Dooling’s explorations of her grandmother’s

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channeled communications with the supernatural world. Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1944, Ess moved upstate with her parents and two younger sisters to attend high school in Peekskill. She went on to graduate from the University of Michigan with a degree in literature and philosophy, and studied briefly at the London School of Film Technique (now London Film School). She was a fixture in New York’s downtown art and music scenes through the 1970s and ’80s, and following a well-received show at Cable Gallery, exhibited her photography widely all over the world. In 2001, Aperture published I Am Not This Body, the first major overview of her photographic work, of which art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote, “Ess works in a gap between the out-there of the world and the in-here of the mind, not to heal the gap but, for truth’s sake, precisely to widen it.” But how was she able to reach so many students? When he first hired her, says Stephen Shore, Susan Weber Professor in the Arts and director of the Photography Program, “The photo department was basically myself and Larry Fink, and I’ve always thought of myself and Larry as complementary opposites. I approach students through the mind, and Larry approaches them through the emotions. Barbara came from the spirit.” “She was,” says writer Lynne Tillman, a friend and collaborator of Ess’s since the early 1970s, “always herself.”

—Will Heinrich MFA ’13 writes about art for the New York Times. His novel The Pearls was published in 2019.

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SEEING IS BELIEVING In 2005, environmental activist Bill McKibben wrote, “when people someday look back on our moment, the single most significant item will doubtless be the sudden spiking temperature. But they’ll have a hell of a time figuring out what it meant to us.” In the pages that follow, the work of three Bardian artists help us see what it means. “Art, like religion, is one of the ways we digest what is happening to us, make the sense out of it that proceeds to action,” McKibben concludes. Facts don’t move people, but art can.

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THE NURDLES Text and photography by Virginia Hanusik ’14

South Louisiana is home to some of the most heavily concentrated petrochemical corridors in the United States. The toxic industrial landscape that lines the 150 miles of the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans has been nicknamed “Cancer Alley” because of the high rates of illness among communities living adjacent to the rampant pollution. On August 2, 2020, a shipping container filled with small plastic pellets known as “nurdles” spilled from a cargo ship at the Port of New Orleans. Nearly a billion of these pollutants were dumped into the Mississippi River and washed up on its shore for months after the incident. The disaster received little attention nationally, and penalties were not issued to the company responsible for the spill. Small-scale, volunteer cleanups were organized by individuals and environmental organizations, not by government agencies. Technically, nurdles are not considered “hazardous material,” like an oil spill or chemical waste, despite the dangers they pose to wildlife ingesting them. I began photographing the patterns that these artificial pebbles made on the shores of the river in order to capture the relationship between pollution and the systems that enable its transportation. Water has been a primary factor in the development of the petrochemical industry in Louisiana; the Port of South Louisiana is the largest tonnage port district in the Western Hemisphere. The natural flow of the Mississippi River has been highly engineered—straightened, dredged, dammed, bound with artificial levees—to prevent changing course and destabilizing the country’s economy, which depends on it for trade. Images of water such as flooding in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina or the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico have become synonymous with failed environmental policies that prioritize and protect certain landscapes over others. The environmental exploitation of this region has been portrayed most notably in Petrochemical America, Richard Misrach’s photographic-series-turned-ecological-atlas with landscape architect Kate Orff, which connects the fossil-fuel industry to the degradation of the surrounding ecosystems. Campaigns to restore Louisiana’s coastal wetlands continue to gain traction, but since the 1930s the state’s loss to the sea is incomprehensively vast, totaling approximately 2,000 square miles (roughly equivalent to the size of the state of Delaware). In the canon of visuals that we use to communicate the climate crisis, disaster imagery dominates. Such photographs document the consequences of our institutional failure to stop global warming and abolish the fossil fuel industry, but often treat climate change as individualized events rather than the ongoing shift of our entire ecology that we are now experiencing daily. Instead of a sweeping aerial view from above, for this series I’m interested in utilizing different approaches to scale and light in order to depict the ways in which the petrochemical industry is not just connected to but moves with the natural landscape. As long as we continue to use these toxic substances, each shipping tank is a potential environmental disaster. These photographs are intended to speculate on how we have normalized our connection to these chemicals and how they may appear inseparable from the scenes around us. 48

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WOVEN Text and photography by Tanya Marcuse SR ’81, Artist in Residence

On a field trip in kindergarten, I got lost in the Museum of Natural History in New York City. The experience was so thrilling that the following year I got “lost” again, hiding behind the elephants until the class wandered out of sight. Alone, I peered into the nocturnal wolf diorama: December at Midnight, Gunflint Lake, Northern Minnesota. My eyes adjusted to the night scene. Two wolves seemed to run toward me, their bodies casting moon shadows, their paws leaving prints in the snow. An owl perched on a high bare branch. In the distance, the aurora borealis sprayed across the sky. The encounter was well worth the trip to the principal’s office. It’s not surprising that photography has had a love affair with dioramas. There’s a syntactical kinship in their use of vantage point, moment, and description to create an illusion of the world, a translation of a small piece of the world. But the veracity of the diorama hinges on including actual elements of the natural world. The animal is killed, taxidermied, and painstakingly posed in a frozen instant of unfolding drama. Its wildness is contained safely in these “windows on nature” (as they’re known), creating one of the most vivid dichotomies between imperialist plunder and conservation. I think of the famous taxidermist Carl Akeley’s crisis on his 1921 expedition to the Congo to “collect” gorillas. He was so moved by what he saw that he filmed the gorillas instead of killing them and spent the rest of his life on a mission of environmental conservation and education. In Woven Nº 33 (next page) there’s a play on this life-to-death-to-lifelike passage of the diorama. The five-foot-by-ten-foot wooden structure on which I composed the scene is like a garden bed tilted up at a 45-degree angle, terraced to hold dirt, plants, and rocks. A shallow living and dying diorama. Each Woven piece is constructed on this same frame, the remains or ruins of one piece becoming the foundations of the next. Most of the works from the Woven series (including Woven No. 4, opposite) feature dead and decaying flora and fauna; they foreground the cycles of growth and decay. But for Woven Nº 33 I wanted to create an image filled with life. I composed a living woodland scene, or stage set, for the rescue owls (Leo the saw-whet and Linus the screech owl) that I’d arranged to be brought in on the day of the shoot. I transplanted forget-me-nots, borrowed frogs from nearby swamps, composed mossy branches, and designed a small stream bed to trickle down the left side of the frame. An artifice of naturalism. I photographed this elaborate tableau from a scaffold, beneath a huge canopy in my backyard, the plants and animals gathered from my immediate surroundings. Transformed into a photograph, its scale slightly larger than life, it gives a sense of immersion and awe—the same feelings that thrilled my first-grade self as I gazed at those hunting night wolves. Woven Nº 4 (detail), 2015

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Woven Nº 33, 2019 62” x 124”

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THE WINDS Text and photography by Tara Cronin ICP ’10

Wind can produce gentle yet monumental structures. Though we are surrounded by them, when we explore the mechanisms of what wind can do, the monuments left behind only become more mysterious. Sea spray ineffably defies gravity, a cavernous abyss is carefully etched into the depths of the Earth, perfectly formed hills echo the majestic architecture of the pyramids in the Valley of the Kings. A deeper exploration of wind makes the observer marvel at the omnipresent intelligence carried within it. This project speaks to the hidden and the esoteric; that which is transmitted privately and orally or via keen hearing. Many mysterious and hidden landscapes are buried in myth, disinformation, topsoil, taboo, allegory, puns, rhymes, and rumors. These shattered pieces of truth are transmitted across generations. The thin veil that cloaks all nature and all landscapes can be accessed only by listening carefully with tools other than our ears. I try to identify what that veil might be (dark matter? starstuff?). Practicing speaking with the winds helps me speak with myself. Tactility and mark-making play a role in many of my pieces. I shoot film, usually medium or large format, then scan and print on archival paper, and finish by handdrawing and making repeated marks directly onto each print. I came to this process as a result of frustration with the camera and straightforward photography. And I have my partner of 21 years, Ed Chen, to thank. Ed is a scientist—his focuses are electrochemistry and physics, and a main focus is climate change. While doing an experiment in our apartment, he decided to test a material that I was using to make non-camera, photo-based work, and it ended up proving effective. Science and art often overlap in this way. Both artists and scientists are driven by wanting to learn more, to experiment, to find out the hows and the whys, to dig more deeply into a particular topic, to look for solutions. Science is sometimes cited as an “inspiration” for artists’ thinking processes. But art is often the avant-garde that breaks up the orthodoxy of science, so that science can explore new ideas outside its accepted limits. It’s perhaps not a coincidence that in the years when Einstein was refining his very new ideas on relativity, the Cubist movement was also beginning to thrive. Cubism highlighted the concept of looking at the “same” thing, a familiar thing, from a wholly new perspective. Humans had been thinking for generations about the question, What is space? Einstein just had the frame of mind and the vision to look at the question differently. The possibilities that come with the cross-pollination between the two fields fill me with excitement; art and science are similar in process, but like two interlocking puzzle pieces, if they are never placed side by side, the potential for symbiosis is lost. In a way, art and science are two of the potent winds of society.

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Winds (Lolohe), 2020 Blood and/or ink on archival pigment print 17” x 17”

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Soft, 2020 Blood and/or ink on archival pigment print 17” x 17”

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Snow, 2020 Blood and/or ink on archival pigment print 17” x 17”

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SCHOLAR, WITNESS TO HISTORY, LOVER OF LEARNING

JUSTUS ROSENBERG, professor emeritus of languages and literature and visiting professor of literature, died October 30, 2021. He was 100. Rosenberg was born to a Jewish family in Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) in 1921. At 16, he was sent by his parents to Paris to finish his education away from the growing antiSemitism in his hometown. Three years later, France fell to the Germans and Rosenberg fled south. By chance he met Varian Fry, an American journalist who helped hundreds of men and women— including artists and intellectuals such as Hannah Arendt, Marc Chagall, André Breton, Max Ernst, Alma Mahler, and Franz Werfel—escape the Nazis. Rosenberg became a valuable member of Fry’s clandestine team as a scout, spy, and courier of important documents. After Fry was expelled from France, Rosenberg went on to serve with the French Resistance and then the United States Army. He received a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart, and in 2017 the French ambassador to the United States made Rosenberg a Commandeur in the Légion d’Honneur, among France’s highest decorations, for his heroism during World War II. At the end of the war, Rosenberg was able to emigrate to America, where he finished his PhD and began his career as a teacher, first at Swarthmore, and then, in 1962, at Bard. He taught literature and many languages, including French, German, Russian, Yiddish, and, from time to time, even Polish. “Students who were fortunate enough to take his classes had the rare opportunity to study with a scholar who was also a witness to history,” says President Leon Botstein. “The Nazi genocide of European Jewry has receded from memory and become a more distant object of history. Bard students, however, had the opportunity to be in the presence of an individual who could testify to what happened. The denial of the truth of the persecution and annihilation of European Jewry has, astonishingly, persisted. Justus Rosenberg survived and witnessed the unimaginable. Yet he tirelessly and

Justus Rosenberg in Marseille, France in 1940, when he was with Varian Fry’s Emergency Rescue Committee. Rosenberg delivered messages and forged documents to refugees and scouted out safe passage, especially the overland route through Spain. Photo courtesy of the Justus Rosenberg family. Opposite: The French ambassador to the United States, Gerard Araud, awards the French Legion of Honor medal to Justus Rosenberg at the French Consulate on March 30, 2017, in New York City. Photo by Kena Betancur/ AFP/Getty Images

eloquently demonstrated reasons for hope. Despite suffering and loss, Justus sustained an unrelenting commitment to literature, the arts, philosophy, the traditions of science, and the making of art; for him they revealed the possibilities of human renewal shared by all, and transcended the differences among us. For Justus, learning and study were instruments of redemption, remembrance, and reconciliation. He possessed a magnetic capacity to inspire the love of learning.” Rosenberg retired formally in 1992, but accepted a postretirement appointment to rejoin the faculty offered to him by Stuart Levine, who was then dean of the College. Rosenberg was a loyal friend to Peter Sourian, who died in 2017, and an avid player of tennis, particularly with Jean French, professor of art history, who died in 2019. In recent decades, Rosenberg was very active promoting causes dedicated to tolerance and the fight against prejudice and hate. In 2020, he

published The Art of Resistance: My Four Years in the French Underground: A Memoir. “His death, after a long and productive life, is a call to honor his long service—his contributions as a teacher and writer—by resolving to remember, more than ever before, the events of history he was part of and the courage and commitments to freedom, tolerance, justice, learning, and respect for all human life he displayed,” says Botstein. “All of us at Bard owe him a debt of gratitude for his many years of teaching, his friendship, and the eloquent writings he penned.” Rosenberg is survived by his wife, Karin. Contributions in his memory can be made to the Justus Rosenberg Memorial Fund at Bard College, whose objective is to create an endowed chair in comparative literature in his name.

Justus Rosenberg received the Bardian Award from Bard College in 2014.

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"Service begins with the recognition of the greatness of others and the desire to lift it up." —Patrick Gaspard

COMMENCEMENT 2021

Commencement 2021, photos by Karl Rabe

The 398 undergraduates who received Bard degrees on May 29, 2021, were part of a cohort of roughly 4 million students who earned diplomas from colleges in the United States this year. And since the founding of St. Stephen’s College, in 1860, somewhere in the range of 20,000 to 25,000 souls have been educated in the College’s hallowed halls—and a few tents. But it was likely the uniqueness of the experience of the Class of 2021 that led commencement speaker Patrick Gaspard to, as he said, “interrogate the very notion of [the graduates’] exceptionalism and the broader question of our national exceptionalism at this moment when history is balanced on a knife’s edge.” Gaspard, former president of the Open Society Foundations and a key figure in President Barack Obama’s

administration, went on to ask, “How do we advantage ourselves from the great toll of experiences that we’ve just had?” His answer began with a “deexceptionalization of the self and the nation,” and encouragement to “help repair the world and protect against future calamities by being one of many players in it.” This moment challenges all of us to reimagine the world and our place in it; the status quo reinforces and exacerbates the inequities and injustices that have been laid so painfully and brutally bare over recent months. The Class of ’21, said Gaspard, has an “exceptional opportunity to be great.” He quoted Rev. Martin Luther King—“He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”—and shared his vision of the way forward, which

requires us to “look up from our navels and look up from our phones and realize at last that service to others is the only leadership that has legacy. . . . Service begins with the recognition of the greatness of others and the desire to lift it up. . . . Revel in that greatness. Elevate it. Celebrate it. Be in the service of it and your own brilliance will shine on through. You can be that servant.” In his charge to the class, President Leon Botstein focused on the “link between the life of the mind and the task of creating harmony, happiness, justice, and peace in the world: all the opposites of evil and violence. That link is the ideal of truth based in reason.” He went on to outline a number of challenges to accomplishing “the task of restoring and perhaps improving the ‘normal’ conduct of life, after the pandemic

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recedes into memory,” and called on those assembled to “shed a peculiarly American habit: puritanism. Embrace fallibility. Apply skepticism to yourselves. Shed the belief not only that you are right, and those who think differently must absolutely be wrong, but they should be silenced and punished for being wrong. In the place of puritan orthodoxies we ask you to pursue the life of the mind, the pursuit of knowledge through reason. Embrace the principles that protect our freedom of speech and inquiry, our right and capacity to dissent in public and in private, to agree to disagree, to change our minds because we have been persuaded by argument and not by the fear of punishment, retribution, ostracism, and ridicule, a fear that renders us silent and makes cowards of us all.” Doctor of humane letters degrees went to Gaspard, economist William A. Darity Jr., Rev. Vivian D. Nixon, whose life work has been dedicated to ending mass 62

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incarceration; and Turkish-British novelist and activist Elif Shafak. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 received a doctor of fine arts alumni/ae honorary degree; Audra McDonald, the only person to have won a Tony Award in all four acting categories, also was awarded a doctor of fine arts degree; and Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science and director of Penn State’s Earth System Science Center Michael E. Mann and oncologist, cell biologist, and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee accepted doctor of science degrees. Campuses throughout the Bard network also awarded degrees to members of the Class of 2021, including bachelor of arts and master of arts in teaching at AlQuds University in East Jerusalem on October 13; bachelor of arts and master of arts in teaching at American University of Central Asia in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on June 5; associate in arts and bachelor of arts at Bard College at Simon’s Rock: The

Early College in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, on May 22; bachelor of arts at Bard College Berlin: A Liberal Arts University in Berlin, Germany, on May 22; associate in arts at Bard Early College New Orleans on May 21, Bard High School Early College Baltimore on June 21, Bard High School Early College Cleveland on June 12, Bard High School Early College Manhattan on June 22, Bard High School Early College Newark on June 28, Bard High School Early College Queens on June 21, Bard High School Early College Washington, DC, on June 24; associate in arts and bachelor of arts to students at the Bard Prison Initiative in Coxsackie, Eastern NY, Fishkill, Green Haven, Taconic, and Woodbourne Correctional Facilities; master of music at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 15; and master of arts in teaching at Longy School of Music of Bard College in Los Angeles on July 30.

BARD COLLEGE AWARDS CEREMONY

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(1) Charles S. Johnson III ’70, a longtime Bard trustee whose law career has been dedicated to advocacy for civil rights through public policy, health care law, and education policy, among many other areas, was awarded the Bard Medal. The John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science went to (2) Brianna Norton ’00, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and attending physician at Montefiore Medical Group’s Comprehensive Health Care Center. The focus of Norton’s work is HIV and hepatitis C infection, and opioid dependence. Artist, writer, and publisher (3) Paul Chan MFA ’03, whose practice is rooted in an expansive sense of drawing, thinking, and technology that exemplifies the interdisciplinary framework of Bard’s Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, received the Charles Flint Kellogg Award in Arts and Letters. (4) Nsikan Akpan ’06, health and science editor at New York Public Radio (WNYC), added the John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service to his list of accolades, which also includes a Dr. Marian Eisenberg Rudnick Dunn ’60 Scholarship as an undergraduate, not to mention a Peabody Award and an Emmy. Poet, essayist, and playwright (5) Claudia Rankine received the Mary McCarthy Award. She is professor of creative writing at New York University, and cofounder of the Racial Imaginary Institute, which fosters an extraordinary range of artistic collaborations on the subject of race. Bardian Awards went to (6) Peggy Florin, who taught dance at Bard—all levels of ballet, modern dance, dance composition, embodied anatomy, and, most recently, a favorite class called “Moving Consciously”—for decades; artist and painter (7) Medrie MacPhee, Sherri Burt Hennessey Artist in Residence, whose career includes more than 30 solo exhibitions and 70 group exhibitions in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship as well as Anonymous Was a Woman and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants; and (8) Amie McEvoy, who came to Bard in 1981 as administrative assistant to the president and leaves after 40 years as executive assistant to the president and secretary to the Board of Trustees and the Bard faculty; her titles didn’t begin to reflect her myriad responsibilities and accomplishments.

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OPEN MIND, OPEN HEART, OPEN SOCIETY LÁSZLÓ Z. BITÓ ’60 died November 14, 2021, at the age of 87. Born in Budapest on September 7, 1934, he and his family survived the Soviet siege and victory in that city in 1945. The Soviet occupation that followed lasted 45 years and left deep scars. In 1951, when Bitó was a teenager, he and his family were among those “internally deported” to the Hungarian countryside by the Stalinist regime. Later, during a period of forced labor in a coal mine, he wrote short stories and hid his notebooks deep underground. When Bitó and his fellow slave laborers disarmed their officers during the Hungarian Revolution of October 1956 and headed to Budapest to fight the occupying Russian forces, he had to leave his notebooks behind. He would come back to the vocation of writing later in life, eventually publishing more than 20 books, including 10 novels and seven volumes of essays. In December 1956, after receiving asylum in the United States, Bitó and a group of approximately 300 Hungarian freedom fighters were invited to Bard College for a Winter Term of language study and orientation to the United States. At the end of that period, Bitó and his fellow Hungarians delivered a proclamation (which hangs on the wall in the lobby of Ludlow) expressing appreciation to the members of the Bard community “for the tremendous efforts exerted . . . to orient themselves to us Hungarian students.” They conferred the title of “Honorary Hungarian College Professor” on the Bard faculty “who thought that they could teach us the English language.” In January 2007, Bard held a three-day conference and a 50th reunion for the Hungarians who studied in Annandale in 1956. Bitó won a full scholarship to Bard and stayed to earn a degree in biology in 1960. He went on to a doctorate at

Columbia University in cell biology and biophysics. He pursued a research career first in London and later at Columbia, where he rose through the ranks to become professor of ocular physiology. He published more than 150 scientific articles, many reviews, and several scientific monographs. He held numerous patents, including one for Xalatan, the most widely used drug to treat glaucoma. After the fall of communism in Hungary, Bitó returned and took up residence in Budapest, where he became politically active in defense of civil liberties, social justice, and freedom of the press. László’s home with his wife, Olivia Cariño, became a gathering place for writers, artists, and thinkers in postcommunist Hungary, and in recent years, a center of opposition against the illiberal regime of Viktor Orbán. “László was one of the most idealistic, distinguished, multitalented, and accomplished graduates in the history of Bard College,” wrote President Leon Botstein. “He was grateful to Bard and unfailingly generous.” In 1994, at the age of 60, Bitó embarked on a new career. He published fiction (mostly novels of ideas) and essays that formed the basis of many volumes. One of his books is due to come out in English next year. Bitó had a deep passion for the arts, particularly music, and with Cariño generously supported the arts in Hungary and at Bard. His first gift to Bard came in 1962, when he donated $15. Over the next 60 years Bitó contributed millions of dollars to the College and became one of the most generous alumni/ae in its history. He was an early supporter of Smolny College in Russia, and made substantial gifts to the Bard College Conservatory of Music, funding annual and endowed scholarships. He made possible the construction of the

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László Z. Bitó ’60 Conservatory Building, and supported the teaching of science at Bard and the building of new science facilities. Bitó and Cariño, have supported visiting professorships and many conferences and events. In 2021, they endowed an annual music series that will begin in 2022 with an exploration of the work of György Kurtág, as well as collegewide lectures on the origins and consequences of ideas and texts close to his own imagination and sympathies. The couple’s displays of gratitude to Bard extended beyond exceptional monetary gifts to endless small kindnesses, as the many Bard staff, faculty, and alumni/ae who have paid them a visit while traveling through Budapest can attest. The first class of students in the Conservatory was filled with Hungarian students recruited single-handedly by Bitó and Cariño. “László was a scientist, citizen, humanist, and writer who remained devoted to ideals of the liberal arts,” continued Botstein. “He was a true patriot, dedicated to a vision of a humane, tolerant, and progressive Hungarian nation. Bard College and I have lost a true and gracious friend, a fearless defender of the power of education, and a civic leader of uncommon courage, curiosity, imagination, and conscience who made a transformative contribution to medicine and science. László Bitó mirrored and realized the highest intellectual and civic aspirations of his alma mater.” Bitó is survived by his beloved Olivia and two sons, John and Buck. László Z. Bitó was awarded the John and Samuel Bard Award in Medicine and Science in 2001 and received an honorary doctor of science degree from the College in 2007.

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BOOKS BY BARDIANS The Tarot of Leonora Carrington by Susan Aberth, Edith C. Blum Professor of Art History and Visual Culture, and Tere Arcq A life-size facsimile of the recently discovered Major Arcana—the most recognizable and impactful 22 cards of the tarot deck—by renowned surrealist artist Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) is at the heart of this beautiful book, which explores the significance of tarot imagery within Carrington’s wider work, her many inspirations, and mysterious occult sources. Riemenschneider in Rothenburg by Katherine M. Boivin, associate professor of art history and visual culture Boivin investigates how medieval urban planning and artistic programming worked together to form dynamic environments, demonstrating the agency of objects, styles, and spaces in mapping Rothenburg ob der Tauber. The book explores how artwork in the city propagated civic ideals. Looking Over the Abyss by Steven Colatrella ’82 This book argues that only by breaking decisively with capitalism—particularly the lowstandard-of-living capitalism now developing most notably in China—and aligning themselves with the majority of the world’s people against exploitation can citizens of Europe and the United States save their societies. Colatrella proposes concrete steps to move beyond capitalism and helps clarify key concepts that are practical and useful for social change.

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Natch by Sophia Dahlin ’08 Dahlin’s first full-length poetry collection is by turns dreamy, hysterical, earthy, and perverse. She says the book “is about feeling taking over the body’s functioning, desiring leading you past deciding, . . . trusting and mistrusting certain parts of the body, so the body is parts, each part with its own dynamism. It’s about being so lustful that you are not dead when you have finished dying.” Trafik by Rikki Ducornet ’64 Quiver, a mostly human astronaut, chases visions of an elusive redhaired beauty through a virtual reality called the Lights. Her highstrung robot partner, Mic, entertains himself exploring his records of the obliterated planet Earth, searching for Al Pacino trivia, unfamiliar recipes, and highfashion trends. When an accident destroys their cargo, they set off on a madcap journey through outer space toward an idyllic destination: the planet Trafik.

Hush by Dylan Farrow ’07 A powerful feminist fantasy full of surprising insights, Farrow’s stunning debut novel casts a ray of light into the shadows of a society based on silencing and lies. Reading and writing are considered dangerous and are forbidden, ink is said to spread a deadly plague, and Shae, the novel’s fierce 17-year-old protagonist, wants answers, truth, and justice.

The Neil Gaiman Reader by Neil Gaiman, professor in the arts Few writers have such devoted fans, so it’s appropriate that the 52 pieces of fiction in this collection were chosen by his readers. This captivating volume includes excerpts from each of his five novels for adults— Neverwhere, Stardust, American Gods, Anansi Boys, and The Ocean at the End of the Lane—and nearly 50 of his short stories. The perfect Gaiman primer, or gift for the Gaiman lover.

Urban Legends by Peter L’Official, associate professor of literature A Bronx native, Peter L’Official draws on literature, music, visual arts, social science, and everyday people to paint a nuanced picture of his borough. Lazy thinking, bias, and political opportunism aside, the Bronx was not a decades-long funeral pyre, nor was hip-hop its lone cultural contribution. L’Official presents a new history of what it meant to live, work, and create in the South Bronx.

The Arc of a Covenant by Walter Russell Mead, James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities Mead overturns the conventional understanding of the IsraeliAmerican relationship. He contends that both pro- and antiZionists have unintentionally collaborated in a myth of monolithic American-Jewish support for Israel that overstates the influence of Jewish lobbyists and underestimates the potential for change in the Israeli-American relationship.

The Antebellum Origins of the Modern Constitution by Simon Gilhooley, assistant professor of political studies This book shows how, in navigating the existence of slavery in the District of Columbia and the fundamental constitutional issue of the enslaved’s personhood, antebellum opponents of abolition came to promote an enduring but constraining constitutional interpretation that remains powerful today: the belief that the historical spirit of founding holds authority over the current moment.

Talk and Textual Production in Medieval England by Marisa Libbon, associate professor of literature Libbon argues that talk among medieval England’s public, especially talk about history and identity, was essential to the production of texts and was a fundamental part of the transmission and reception of literature. By revealing the pressures that talk about the past exerted on textual production, this book relocates the power of making culture and collective memory to a wider, collaborative authorship in medieval England.

Three Rings by Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities Combining memoir, biography, history, and literary criticism, this genre-defying book tells the stories of three exiled writers— Erich Auerbach, François Fénelon, and W. G. Sebald—who turned to the classics of the past to create masterpieces of their own. Three Rings’ climactic revelation forces readers to reconsider the relationship between narrative and history, art and life.

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Museum Collection Ethics by Steven Miller ’70 In the first book devoted solely to the ethical concerns museums face regarding their collections, Miller discusses the complexities inherent in acquiring, preserving, and making accessible to the public the extraordinary range of culturally significant objects entrusted to museums. He provides an encompassing look at the intellectual, practical, and stewardship duties that museums, by definition, assume.

Loved and Wanted by Christa Parravani ’99 Parravani was 40, in a troubled marriage, and in bad financial straits when she learned she was pregnant with her third child. This passionate story of a woman’s love for her children is also a poignant and bracing look at a nation where policies and a cultural war on women leave them without sufficient agency over their bodies, their futures, and their children’s lives.

The Forger’s Daughter by Bradford Morrow, professor of literature; Bard Center Fellow Part mystery, part case study of the shadowy side of the book trade, and part homage to the writer who invented the detective tale, The Forger’s Daughter portrays the world of literary forgery as diabolically clever, genuinely dangerous, and inescapable—it would seem—to those who have ever embraced it.

Who Invented Oscar Wilde? by David Newhoff ’88 A photograph of Oscar Wilde became the subject of the Supreme Court case that asked how a machine-made image could possibly be a work of human creativity and challenged copyright protection for photography. This book makes a case for intellectual property law, from copyright’s ancient beginnings to its relevance in the digital age, and argues that copyright is an essential ingredient to upholding the principles on which liberal democracy is founded.

Survival of the Fit by Daniel Fulham O’Neill ’79 Survival of the Fit is a guide and template for a revolution regarding physical education (PE) and sports in our nation’s schools. This revolution will change the way we consider, program, and fund PE. Most important, it will ensure the health of the next generation of children as they negotiate this increasingly complex world that is moving far faster than human evolution.

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The Vixen by Francine Prose, Distinguished Writer in Residence It’s 1954, and Simon Putnam— recently graduated from Harvard and, more recently, nepotistically installed at a distinguished New York City publishing firm—has his first big assignment: edit The Vixen, the Patriot, and the Fanatic, a lurid bodice-ripper improbably based on the trial and execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. The book is laugh-out-loud funny and painfully smart in its skewering of ambition, greed, and moral bankruptcy. Yes, it’s a tale for our time.

The Nun in the Synagogue by Emma O’Donnell Polyakov ’98 This book documents the religious and cultural phenomenon of Judeocentric Catholicism that arose in the wake of the Holocaust, fueled by survivors who converted to Catholicism and immigrated to Israel as well as by Catholics determined to address the antiJudaism inherent in the Church. Through an ethnographic study of selected nuns and monks, Polyakov explores how this Judeocentric Catholic phenomenon began and continues to take shape in Israel. Men I’ve Never Been by Michael Sadowski, director of inclusive pedagogy and curriculum; associate professor, Bard MAT Program By turns comic and tragic, this nuanced memoir uncovers the false selves we create to get along in the world and the price we pay to maintain them. Through wrenching tragedy and tense, lifethreatening challenges, Sadowski learns to find love, purpose, and healthy self-regard, and comes to grasp the damage of his troubled upbringing and the traumas caused by toxic masculinity.

Faux Pas by Amy Sillman MFA ’95 Sillman, a highly regarded painter known for large-scale gestural paintings that blend abstraction with representation, is one of the few artists working today who can really write. This is the first significant compilation of her original and thought-provoking essays, reviews, and lectures, which are accompanied by drawings, most done for this book.

Tiger Girl and the Candy Kid by Glenn Stout ’81 Set against a Roaring ’20s backdrop, this story of two lovestruck working-class kids with ambition, good looks, and no compunctions about robbery, murder, or mayhem, makes Bonnie and Clyde look like a Disney cartoon. Stout brings the research skills of a historian and the storytelling chops of a Bard written arts major to this vivid portrait of our previous postpandemic period.

Maybe the People Would Be the Times by Lucy Sante, visiting professor of writing and photography Sante pays homage to Patti Smith, Rene Ricard, and Georges Simenon; traces the history of tabloids; surveys the landscape that gave birth to the Beastie Boys; explores the back alleys of vernacular photography; and sounds a threnody for the forgotten dead of New York City. The book traces Sante’s deep engagement with music, experience of the city, progression as an artist, and love life and ambitions.

Foreign Sounds or Sounds Foreign by John Yau ’72 Yau’s interests and talents are equally wide ranging. He is a poet, critic, fiction writer, and publisher, and in these essays and reviews he examines subjects from John Ashbery to Leni Riefenstahl to Ai Weiwei, all with a keen critical eye and profound aesthetic sensibility. “Can we reinvent ourselves before it is literally too late?” Yau asks. This book will help.

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CLASS NOTES What an incredible time to be Bard alumni/ae! The George Soros endowment challenge and the accompanying campaign are mapping a path forward that puts the future of the College in its most secure position ever. I couldn’t be prouder. The community has worked hard for this moment and we have many people to thank for that— especially the trustees of the KC Serota ’04, photo by Karl Rabe College, alumni/ae, and faculty and staff donors. I hope you will consider joining us to help complete the endowment challenge and include Bard in your legacy. More information on this can be found in the article on page 2. Over the last 40 years, Bard’s reputation has grown and now exceeds that of many of its peer institutions. We only need to look at our efforts in the past year to know how true this is. From Annandale and around the world, Bard is making a major impact on individual lives, communities, and national education policy. The challenges of this global endeavor have become harder than ever: the campus of Bard partner Al-Quds University in East Jerusalem was attacked, the Bard– St. Petersburg University partnership was abruptly ended by the hostile Russian government, and efforts to bring Afghan students and scholars to Bard have been difficult, to say the least. Still, Bard continues to educate underserved populations and provide resources and aid for all Bard students.

This summer, I saw the Bard College Berlin campus, where Managing Director Florian Becker gave me a tour of the facilities. I was amazed at how much that campus accomplishes. It has a serious dedication to refugee education, important both for its programming and for showing other German institutions how a little flexibility can be life changing on so many levels. The campus manages to feel like Annandale while being distinctly Berlin as well. Two new residence buildings now grace the campus, but a lot of work remains to update existing facilities and build up the college grounds. I trust you’ve enjoyed reading in this issue about the new faculty, new programs, the TŌN recording, and all of the accomplishments of Bardians in film, among other highlights. We are out in the world in so many fields that our Bard College Alumni/ae Association supports a variety of affinity groups, and we plan on creating more. I encourage you to join one and take the opportunity to connect professionally or geographically with current students and other fellow Bardians. I hope that we’ll all be able to gather for a major celebration in person at Alumni/ae Reunion Weekend in 2022. It is long overdue. What a party that will be! Bardian and Proud, KC Serota ’04, President Bard College Alumni/ae Association PS. As you can see, my letter now opens the Class Notes section of the Bardian. Please consider sending in a class note and keep your friends up to date on paper. I always turn to Class Notes first. I look forward to reading YOURS.

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2018

UK-based record label Trapped Animal released Emma Houton’s Senior Project in music, a vocal album titled The Bath, on May 21. Emma originally wrote The Bath as a piece for eight voices to be performed live. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, they ended up recording all eight parts alone in their childhood bedroom, mixing and producing it with the help of their Senior Project adviser, Matt Sargent, visiting assistant professor of music.

Hasani J. Gunn has been actively supporting the City of Chicago’s COVID-19 mass vaccination operations. He worked with the mayor’s office to develop two large-scale, sector-specific vaccine distribution and equity plans to guide the city’s mass vaccination efforts, serving as the vaccination operation center point of contact and lead planner for the manufacturing and food and agriculture industries. Hasani organized and coordinated vaccine administration for more than 2,000 individual businesses, through city pointsof-dispensing sites, community-based and thirdparty mobile strike team units, and partnering with local pharmacies. Following his disaster-response work with the city of Chicago, Hasani accepted an offer from Harvard University to pursue his master of public policy. As part of his graduate studies at Harvard, Hasani will serve as a public policy and international affairs fellow for the Kennedy School of Government. Ashley Sheppard-Quince was featured in the Hollywood Reporter on March 4 for being part of a new Black Hollywood executive entertainment pipeline program.

2013 Marcel Rudin ’17 and Cyril Kuhns ’16 married on October 10, 2020, in a small, outdoor wedding near Austin, Texas. The couple, who met at the Root Cellar six years ago, will host an East Coast reception when it is safe to gather. Fraiser Kansteiner was among the Bard alumni/ae in attendance and recited “Having a Coke with You” by Frank O’Hara during the ceremony.

Grayson Morley is now a digital content editor in the Office of Communications at Bard College. He lives in the Hudson Valley with his wife, Jade Jones, and their dog, Fraya. Simone Salvo graduates this spring with a master of professional studies from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU Tisch (alongside two other Bard alumnae, Lizzy Chiappini ’16 and Pippa Kelmenson ’17). Simone is celebrating seven years at the Magnum Foundation, where she works as head of creative communications. She is

a 2021 Women Photograph mentor and is also proud to be serving on the newly expanded BGIA Alumni/ae Board!

2012 Zach Israel was elected advisory neighborhood commissioner (ANC) for Single Member District 4D04 in Washington, DC, on November 3, 2020, with 71.2% of the vote, and was sworn in for his two-year term on January 2, 2021. In his role as ANC, he will represent roughly 2,000 residents in the Petworth and Brightwood Park neighborhoods within Ward 4 and serve as part of his neighborhood’s official voice in advising the district government (and federal agencies) on things that affect the neighborhood, including traffic, parking, recreation, street improvements, liquor licenses, zoning, economic development, police protection, sanitation and trash collection, and the district’s annual budget.

2010 Emily DeMartino completed their doctor of nursing practice at Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing in 2020. Emily’s doctoral research, “Centering Trans and Gender Diverse Individuals in Assessment of LGBTQ+ Embedded Primary Care,” surveyed trans and genderdiverse patients at the University of Pennsylvania’s largest primary-care practice, evaluating characteristics of the patientcentered medical home. Emily works as a full-scope primarycare provider at Penn’s Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, where they provide primary care for individuals across the lifespan, with expertise in genderaffirming hormone therapy. Emily codirects the department’s LGBTQIA++ healthcare work, precepts family medicine residents in the LGBTQ+ clinic,

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Last year, Abhinanda Bhattacharyya '13, a journalist with a background in technology, math, and education, was one of 10 people selected from a record pool of 220 applicants for the two-year Hearst Journalism Fellowship. She started her fellowship at the San Francisco Chronicle, and was recently brought on full-time at the paper. Today, she continues to build data-driven interactive projects for the Chronicle and for other newspapers owned by Hearst.

and consults for the health system in development of equitable and patient-centered practices around care for trans and gender-diverse individuals. Emily facilitates a monthly discussion group for providers of trans-affirming care in Philadelphia that centers queer and trans health advocates, trainees, and providers across disciplines. Reginald “Reggie” Raye cofounded TOMO, a 3D printing studio focused on the design of affordable art and technology. Reggie says, “It’s been an exciting year: I got a job at MIT Sloan and started Instant, a pop-culture Tshirt company, which has done so well that I’ve quit my day job.” Check out tomo.love and InstantTees.com.

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Howard Megdal has signed a contract to publish a second edition of The Baseball Talmud, in the spring of 2022. Howard is the founder and editor of The Next, a women’s basketball newsroom, and The IX, a six-day-a-week newsletter dedicated to women’s sports. He’s also covering baseball at Baseball Prospectus and numerous other outlets.

Sasha Wallinger was named chief marketing officer at Nest. She joins Meghan Black ’11 at the New York City–based organization that endeavors to connect craftspeople, brands, and consumers in a circular, humancentered value chain.

Major Alex Weinstein is serving as a communications officer in the Marine Corps Reserve and works as a manager at an international consulting firm in the DC area.

2005 Natalie Franz is assistant director of the Texas Freedom Colonies Project, a historic preservation and social justice digital humanities project to document and protect Texas historic Black settlements, at Texas A&M University. For the previous decade she had been a planner for the Midwest Region of the National Park Service based in Omaha and Denver. Alexander Klebanoff is working as an actor, producer, and writer and living in West Hollywood, California. He recently executiveproduced and starred in a crime-thriller movie, The Decipio. The plot is about undercover agents infiltrating an organized crime ring run by women. The film was selected to be screened by the Marina del Rey Film Festival. In addition to acting, Alex has also been playing guitar for more than 25 years, and while at Bard he played in several alternative rock bands. He recently founded his own business called the Kleb Guitar Experience, which provides virtual guitar lessons to beginners of all ages. He encourages Bardians to visit his website, alexanderklebanoff.com, or if they want to learn guitar to visit klebguitarexperience.com.

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2000 Artist Julia Christensen’s Upgrade Available documents an ongoing investigation into the perceived notion that we need to constantly upgrade our electronics to remain relevant, and how that fundamentally impacts our experience of time. In a personal narrative interspersed with related interdisciplinary artwork and conversations with experts from different fields (other artists, archivists, and academics), Julia takes readers along a path from the international e-waste industry to institutional archives, eventually leading her to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Her yearslong investigation into upgrade

George Smith ’82 is proud to report that as of April 1, 2021, he will be both a Minisink town justice and a village justice for Unionville. Both communities are in New York.

culture leads to design concepts that potentially transcend technological obsolescence altogether.

1999 Susan Broyles Sookram lives in Austin, Texas, where she’s been since 1997 (except for one year in Nashville). She’s a research associate with the Institute on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and the Bureau for Business Research at the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated from UT Austin with her PhD in human development, culture, and learning sciences in 2019. She married her husband, Brian, in 2011 (Stephanie Schneider was there) and their twins were born in 2016.

Ellen Adams ’78 recently retired from the community agency where she provided mental health and substance-abuse treatment for 16 years. She is now preparing to open a private telehealth practice, River Oaks Counseling and Wellness, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, where she raised her three marvelous children and lived for more than 30 years. Ellen is a practicing witch in the Reclaiming Tradition, which connects her to social justice and earth-based practices. She lives on the ancestral land of the Manahoac and is honored to be a steward to their land that was taken from them many years ago. She loves bird watching, nature photography, and exploring the trees in the region.

1998 After 22 years in Florida, Patricia Moussatche moved to California with her family in December 2020 and started at Stanford University’s School of Medicine as the quality assurance/quality control program manager for its clinical and translational science award hub (Spectrum). She is very excited about this new phase in her life. Archana Sridhar is delighted to let fellow Bardians know that her debut chapbook, Renderings, has been published by Temz Review. Renderings focuses on themes of midlife and feminism, woven together with stories and images of ancestors and South Asian culture. Archana lives in Ontario, where she is assistant provost at the University of Toronto.

Pierre Joris ’69 has won the 2021 PEN/Manheim Award for Translation, which is bestowed every three years by a subcommittee of the PEN America Translation Committee to a translator whose body of work demonstrates a commitment to excellence. Joris’s most recent translation, Memory Rose into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, gathers the poet Paul Celan’s first four books, written between 1952 and 1963, which established his reputation as the major post–World War II German-language poet. With its publication, Joris has now translated Celan’s entire oeuvre. Photo ©Nicole Peyrafitte

“To Yourself You Must Always Tell the Truth.” In 1964, Harper & Row published Harriet the Spy, written and illustrated by Louise Fitzhugh ’51. In a revealing new biography, Sometimes You Have to Lie, Leslie Brody—who adapted the classic children’s novel for the stage in 1988—“assembles the clues to the personal history that shaped Fitzhugh’s conscience and creative convictions,” as Liesl Schillinger writes in the New York Times. The great poet James Merrill was Fitzhugh’s faculty adviser, and they remained friends to the end of her life. (Though they were both gay, they attempted a love affair that, predictably, did not last.) Their correspondence was a rich source for Brody’s book; Fitzhugh did not like writing letters, but made an exception for Merrill. Though he did not attend Fitzhugh’s memorial, Merrill sent an elegy to be read aloud. Never would there be a heaven or hell, We once agreed, like those of youth. Louise, if you’ve learned otherwise, don’t tell. Just stick to your own story, Humorous and heartrending and uncouth. Its little tomboy damozel Became the figure in our repertory Who stood for truth. Farewell. Photo: Louise Fitzhugh ’51 posing for Fred Segal ’49. Bard College Archives

1997 Rachel Saunders is proud to tell fellow Bardians she is running for election as Dutchess County Family Court Judge. After Bard she got her JD from Howard University’s School of Law and devoted more than two decades to representing vulnerable populations, including victims of domestic violence, people diagnosed with a chronic mental illness, veterans, and elderly residents. For the last five years, she’s been Dutchess County’s attorney-in-charge at Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, advocating on behalf of the county’s most at-risk residents. She lives in Beacon with her partner and two children and would love to hear from Bardians interested in her work, her campaign, or public advocacy law. rachelforfamilycourt.com or @RachelForFamilyCourt.

1993 Jonathan Walley’s Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia was

published by Oxford University Press last summer. Jonathan teaches in the Department of Cinema at Denison University and lives in Columbus, Ohio, with his wife, Jane Greene, and his dogs, Asta, Mr. Smith, and Blue.

1980 Linda Jämsén’s first book, Odyssey of Love: A Memoir of Seeking and Finding (Tulipan Press), was published June 1. The memoir, which recounts Linda’s search across Europe for a “tall man with glasses,” was an Amazon Hot New Release. For the last 17 years, Linda has lived in Helsinki, Finland, where she sings with various choruses. She has also performed in Hungary, the UK, and Israel. She continues to fundraise for organizations close to her heart, including one that provides musical instruments for talented refugees. lindajamsen.com

1972 Billy Steinberg greatly enjoys staying in touch with Bard

friends. He recently bought artworks by classmates Hetty Baiz and Rick Klauber and says, “They do beautiful work and I derive extra pleasure living with it because of the Bard connection.” August was a big month for photographer Julie Gelfand. She published Hello to My Imperfect World: The Stories of Jaffe and Martha (julie-gelfand.myshopify.com) and attended Jimmie Dale Gilmore’s Advanced Songwriting workshop at Omega Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, with her husband, Steve Piper. Zoe Peterschild-Ford ’20, Julie, and workshop crony Noah Shapiro wrote and performed an original composition (a video of which has been leaked to the Bard College 1970s Facebook group). The song is, spoiler alert, sick!

1970 In March, Charles Johnson III was honored at the ACLU’s Dare to Create a More Perfect Union benefit in Georgia, which was in

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support of free and fair elections. Charles, a seasoned trial lawyer, is now vice president for external affairs and general counsel at Tuskegee University, a Bard Open Society University Network (OSUN) partner. He was also the 2021 recipient of the Bard Medal, the Bard Alumni/ae Association’s highest honor. He serves on the Board of Trustees of Bard College.

1964 Of Rikki Ducornet’s new novel, Trafik, Kirkus writes: “This slender book captivates with its ferocious curiosity, quick wit, and ultimately tender generosity. Carried along by the bumptious rollick of its language, this tale is full of sound and fury, signifying literally everything.” Trafik is Rikki’s 10th novel and first sci-fi. A glimpse of her newest fiction, “The Plotinus,” appeared in Conjunctions 75: Dispatches from Solitude.

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Origins Each temple is a small universe that has to be placed in relation to the larger one. And must fall in line with the position of the earth in relation to the movement of the sun (not unrelated to the Brahmin who worships facing east). “As the temple has to be properly situated in space, so it has to be situated in time” When the appropriate place for a temple has been selected (which often comes to the patron in a dream), a gnomon or a sanku is created that represents the vertical-central axis, between Zenith and Nadir, Brahma and Ananta Around which is drawn a circle (whose radius is one fourth of the length of the ground on which the temple will be built) and on it are established the eight cardinal points and their presiding deities Along with the Nagabandha and the Yogini-Yantra.

Under each temple is a serpent called Ananta, whose thousand heads support the earth, and whose body circles the building site—Nagabandha (tied together by the serpent) & Divided into eight parts—(and there in the connection between the spatial and the spiritual) and thus the eight Dikpalas (the deities that preside over the eight directions) The serpent turns its head towards each direction every three months. And thus the birth of seasons. But it doesn’t stay still in the interim. Rather, it moves its head by one degree each day, and thus the connection between geometry and geography—space and time—and because the door of the temple must face the head of the serpent, a temple can only be built when the serpent is in a position suitable to divinity. Though this seed of the temple is a feature largely imagined.

The Ground Landscape depends entirely upon light. So the success of a site that is destined to home a temple depends on the way a lamp burns. Whose wick is rolled by a young girl, they say (the entire history of architecture is dependent on a single woman) Or the noise that you hear when you are measuring the circumference Or the smell that emits when you are stretching the string to measure the ground & if the radius grows then the temple must be built because the Chief Architect is both god and human, artist and mathematician in whose hands bodies of stone change genders, splinter, the centuries a temple outlives is inversely proportional to the length of his shadow as he walks home after a good day at work. And even the most fluid sculptures are governed

Still To look at any landscape is to worship. So, the author mentions the village of Bhubaneswar, with the most radical architecture from the last millennium. These days cities diminish as we make a headway. (I catch a glimpse of his chest & on it patterns entire constellations) Like photographs of temples from a hundred years ago found in this book

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in which the couple sits still.

If they move, we won’t survive. Say Mangaleswar Mohini (I must seek you out when I Make it back home) Into which a tree has grown, from seed to stone, and vice-versa. Progress turned against itself. How I wish my home remained a dumb paperweight.

is an assistant professor in the Department of Comparative Literature and English at the American University of Paris. Recent books include MC3 (Essay Press), Hubble Gardener (Spuyten Duyvil), and Ancient Guest (HarperCollins).

IN MEMORIAM 1946 Richard Maris Loving, 97, died March 27, 2021. Richard graduated from Ethical Culture Fieldston School, and after Bard he attended the New School for Social Research and the Art Students League, sometimes bribing his way into New York City morgues to study anatomy by drawing partially dissected bodies. He taught drawing, painting, and anatomy at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1971 to 2004. His work was exhibited in many solo and group shows and is represented in many major collections. He is survived by daughters Julia and Katharine and his companion of many years, Katherine R. Bateman.

1948 Edwina Kuhn Scharff, 95, died September 16, 2020. After Bard, Edwina attended the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, graduating as a physical therapist in 1949. Throughout the Second World War, she was active in the war effort, volunteering with Bundles for Britain and knitting socks for sailors. Edwina was married for more than 70 years to the late Monroe “Monty” B. Scharff ’48. She is survived by her children, Stuart and Peter.

1949 Rosemarie Becchetti Vacca, 94, died August 29, 2020. A lifelong resident of Poughkeepsie, New York, Rosemarie studied voice at Juilliard after Bard. She sang with the Hudson Valley Opera Theatre and was a song leader and director of the choir at Holy Trinity Church. She taught voice to many students privately at her home and was a member of the New York Singing Teachers Association. Her husband, Rocky Vacca ’52, died in 2016.

1950 Inge Schneier Hoffmann, 92, died May 16, 2021. She and her parents emigrated to the United States in 1938, after Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria. Inge was a Schepp Foundation Scholar at Bard and spent her junior year at the University of Zürich and then at the University of Geneva with Jean Piaget. In 1953 she earned an MA in international affairs with a specialty in psychology from Harvard University and later completed postgraduate studies in Paris at the Sorbonne with psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan and social theorist Herbert Marcuse. For five decades, she was a licensed psychologist, specializing in helping creative individuals. Her passion was the study of how creative individuals use inner conflicts, traumas, and other life challenges as sources of strength and inspiration. She also played piano, was an accomplished soprano who sang Schubert Lieder, did freelance design in Paris for Nina Ricci and loved to wear clothes with stunning color combinations and exotic fabrics, and was the recipient of a painting fellowship from the Museum of Modern Art. Her husband of more than 50 years, Stanley Hoffmann, a founder of the Center for European Studies at Harvard University, died in 2015.

1951 Ned Adams, 93, died March 6, 2021. Ned was a machine gunner in the Army during WWII in the First Cavalry Division in the Philippines and Japan and worked for Hartford Insurance Co. for 30 years. He is survived by his sons, Henry and William, and daughter Victoria P. Kirby. Renée Karol Weiss, 97, died April 28, 2021. Renée and her husband, the poet Theodore Weiss, edited the legendary Quarterly Review of Literature (QRL) from 1943 to 2003. Renée was a respected writer in her own right,

and in their last years together she and Ted wrote poems together. Renée was a gifted gardener, modern dancer, and violinist, and performed frequently with local orchestras and chamber groups wherever she and Ted were in residence. She is survived by her sister, Roz Karol Ablow.

1952 Barbara Schamberg Strauss Cowan Herst, 91, died April 6, 2021. After Bard, Barbara attended the Illinois Institute of Technology to study interior design and went on to practice professionally for many years. A loyal Bardian who stayed in touch with the College, Barbara is survived by her children, John and Patricia, and three stepchildren, Bruce, Jan, and Judy. Jonathan Oseas, 91, died April 17, 2021. Born in New York City, Jonathan was a longtime resident of Hurley, New York. He met his wife, Iris Lipskar Oseas ’52, at Bard, and they returned to campus often over the years. Jonathan was an electronic engineer at RCA and was involved with the computer that monitored the presence of Russian missiles in Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis. In addition to Iris, Jonathan is survived by his daughters, Leah and Miriam, and son, David.

1954 Judith Ann Heimann, 87, died August 23, 2020. Judy was a ballet and modern dancer, and had a keen interest in painting and sculpture. She is survived by her brother, David Zinman.

1955 Ezra Shahn, 88, died February 7, 2021. After Bard, Ezra received a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania and went on to teach math and science for 46 years at Hunter College. At 80, he reunited with fellow Bardian Rona Kay Shahn

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’58, who came back into his life after his friend Kit Ellenbogen ’52 (a fellow resident of Medford Leas in New Jersey) urged him to contact her. Ezra and Rona were married in 2013!

1956 Skip Sigler, 85, died April 10, 2021. He was the proprietor of the iconic Seagull Inn Bed & Breakfast in Marblehead, Massachusetts, for 27 years. Skip was born in Red Hook, New York, and at age nine he was an honor guard at Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s funeral. Skip is survived by his wife of 61 years, Ruth, and three sons: Bill, Randy, and Eric.

1959 Tennant Glenn Davitian, 83, died May 20, 2020. At Bard, she found her tribe of fellow actors, musicians, and artists, helping organize the 1958 Bard Jazz Festival with Ran Blake ’59 and performing in it along with Jonathan Tunick ’58, Jeanne Lee ’60, and Blake. Tenny was a prolific artist; ran galleries in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Montpelier, Vermont; and had a clothing shop in Maine. She was predeceased by her parents, Bob and Bea; older brother, Sturgen; former husband, Sam Davitian; and longtime partner, Jo-Ann Golden. She is survived by her daughter, Lauren-Glenn, cofounder and executive director of CCTV Center for Media and Democracy, Channel 17, in Burlington, Vermont. Erwin “Erv” Machol, 89, died November 5, 2020. Erv was born in Berlin in 1931; his family managed to escape from Germany in 1939 on one of the last ships to make it safely to the United States before the war. He attended Stuyvesant High School, and after graduating from Bard went on to a career in engineering.

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1960 Antonia Meltzoff, 81, died August 20, 2020. After Bard, Antonia studied literature in Italy on a Fulbright scholarship and, in 1977, earned a PhD in clinical psychology from New York University. After divorcing her first husband, poet Mark Strand, she married Dr. Julian Meltzoff. The couple lived in New York City, and Florence, Italy, before settling in La Jolla, California, in 1978, where she had a private clinical practice for almost 40 years. Survivors include her daughter, Jessica, and her brother, Alexander.

1961 Al Ellenberg, a legendary newspaper editor, died March 4, 2020. He was 84. Born in the Bronx, Al attended New York City public schools, won the National Scholastic Magazine Poetry Award in grade school, and graduated from De Witt Clinton High School. Al led reporting teams that uncovered the cause of the space shuttle Challenger disaster and exposed Leona Helmsley’s tax fraud. He is survived by his wife, Nora Sheehan, and sons, Sholom and Luke.

1962 Susan Playfair, 80, died February 7, 2021. Susan was known to many at Bard for her work on the Board of Governors and her regular visits to campus at Reunion and Alumni/ae Weekend with her classmates and friends, especially Penny Axelrod ’63, Jack Blum ’62, and Ann Ho ’62. After working on Wall Street and then as an investment executive for Goodbody & Company in Boston for several years, Susan opened The Sunspot in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she sold clothes designed from imported fabric printed with woodblocks. She then became a fashion designer, selling her resort wear under the Playfair name to Bergdorf Goodman and other outlets. In the 1980s, Susan’s

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career shifted from fashion design to contract interior design, and she established Interaction, which provided interior design to commercial clients around New England. Susan’s interests came together in her final career as an author; she published books about the changing nature of New England industries tied to the land and the sea. She spent many happy years sailing on Buzzards Bay with her late husband, Richard J. O’Connell, and her daughter, Lily, on their Alden yawl Whisper, and she traveled around the world exploring coral reefs in Fiji, bird-watching in Patagonia, and learning more about nature everywhere from Martinique to Hawaii. In addition to Lily, she is survived by her sisters, Marsha and Holly. Donations can be given in her memory to Manomet at manomet.org or to Bard College at annandaleonline.org/bcf.

1963 Harold Donohue died February 18, 2021. Harold described himself with a smile as a “political hack,” by which he simply meant an activist working diligently, and at times single-mindedly, on local causes in which he believed. He was involved in tenant issues, was a past president of the Independence Plaza Tenants Association, and worked on the staff of Assemblyman William Passanante for many years. Melissa Shook, 81, died August 27, 2020. A documentary photographer, artist, and educator, Melissa taught at MIT’s Creative Photography Lab and, from 1979 to 2005, at UMass Boston. Boston’s homeless people and those of the back side of Suffolk Downs were among the many subjects close to her heart. A devoted single mother, she documented her biracial daughter’s life from the age of 1 to 18. Images from this series were acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Fotografiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden.

1964 Judith Anne Drum, 80, died April 16, 2021. Judy lived and studied in Egypt, Beirut, and Brazil in her formative years. She is survived by her son, Buddy, twin sister, Kimberlee, and brother, Geoffrey.

1967 Elizabeth Lisa Moore Karrick, 76, died March 25, 2021. Lisa was an artist, ballet dancer, writer, and healer. She is survived by her brother, David, and her daughters, Jennifer and Sarah.

1968 Roderick Bromley, 74, died September 11, 2020. When he wasn’t “Captain Roderigo” the airline pilot, flying passengers across Africa or Europe, he was immersed in his love of art, music, and history. He is survived by his wife, Shaunagh, and his children, Toby, Siobhán, and Gordon. Lincoln D. Hard, 77, died May 13, 2020. Lincoln served in the U.S. Navy from 1960 to 1964 and then worked for the military as a standard labs technician in Vietnam and the Philippines. He worked for many years as an adult care worker with Rhinebeck Country School, Devereaux, and for the State of New York. He is survived by his wife of 46 years, Franciska Kish, and children Nathan, Bethany, Lisa, and Naomi. Robert David Judd, 76, died March 14, 2021. After 15 years working in hospital administration, Robert took a year off to read, think, hike, and refocus his professional life toward human services and community engagement; he also met his wife, Linda, and a shared passion for wilderness and nature was the origin and continuing focus of their life together. In addition to Linda, he is survived by his siblings, Nancy and Russell, and three stepdaughters, Caroline, Christin, and Lisa.

Peter Joseph Levy, 77, died February 15, 2021. Peter had a rich and varied career in business, photography, and real estate, but his passion was helping others through hands-on healing. He earned his chiropractic degree from Cleveland College of Los Angeles in 1984, was frequently invited to teach anatomy to UCLA premed students, and practiced for 36 years in the Santa Barbara community. He is survived by his wife, Guylaine Therrien (Ghee), and daughters Sonya, Julia, Kira, and Marissa.

1969 Marie Gangemi, 73, died April 12, 2021. The focus of Marie’s career was helping others grow. She was an avid scholar, constantly eager to share her knowledge. Her passion for history led her to do research for the New York City Landmarks Commission, and her love for music led her to sing with the Oratorio Society of New York for decades. Marie is survived by her daughter, Bernadine, and her two brothers, Robert and Daniel D’Ambrosio.

1971 Dery Dyer, 72, died September 25, 2020, in Costa Rica. Dery was the former owner, publisher, and editor of The Tico Times, a newspaper known as a champion of free and independent journalism. She oversaw English-language coverage of some of the biggest stories in an era that saw Central America immersed in war and Costa Rica taking center stage in the peace process. The newspaper made a specialty of environmental reporting, chronicling the rise of Costa Rica as a global leader in habitat protection and resource conservation. Her book, The Return of Collective Intelligence: Ancient Wisdom for a World Out of Balance, was published earlier this year. She is survived by her husband, Jim Molloy.

1973 Sanford “Sandy” Page Mayshark, 69, died April 5, 2021. A true renaissance man, Sandy had a lifelong passion for building and carpentry as well as baking and cooking. A skilled craftsman, talented musician and singer, and beloved friend to the community, Sandy is survived by his sons, Duncan and Graham; brother, Joseph; and sister, Cassandra. Joseph Palombo, 69, died December 2, 2020. He was a gay activist, theater and opera enthusiast, committed patron of the arts, and supporter of human rights. He is survived by his sisters, Kathleen and Lisa, and was predeceased by his partner, Kenny St. Onge.

1974 Ellen Judith Tabachnick, 68, died March 24, 2021. Ellen believed wholeheartedly in civil liberties, justice, and a level playing field. In 1973, she organized volunteers to teach in Matteawan, a prison for incarcerated people with mental illness in Beacon, New York. She went on to earn her JD. Ellen championed the Hmong community’s right to communicate with government agencies in their own language. She spent her final years as a pro bono advocate for undocumented persons, including minors threatened with deportation.

1980 Janet Sapadin, 61, died March 25, 2021. After earning her BA in studio arts at Bard, she studied calculus, chemistry, and physics at Lehman College and then attended Columbia University, where she earned a master of public health degree in 1990. Janet had a superb contralto singing voice and was an excellent improvisational chef. She was diagnosed with ALS in 2007, and as her mobility declined she stayed intellectually engaged through the internet and by listening to books on CD and watch-

ing movies. Janet is survived by her husband, John Ruston, daughters Anya and Eliza, and older brothers Michael and Randy. Charles Arthur Wagner, 63, died December 30, 2020. His Senior Project on the Italian Marxist philosopher Antonio Gramsci was consistent with his lifelong and ardent leftism. After graduation, Charles volunteered for the Peace Corps and served in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo). After leaving the Peace Corps, he taught English as a Second Language in Japan. After he moved back to the United States he worked primarily as a writer. He is survived by his wife, Mary Anne (Mopsey), and his sister, Sarah Lynn Wagner-Ranes.

color, movement, and energy. Grace was awarded artist residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, and Byrdcliffe Artist Colony. She taught for the Nature Conservancy on Shelter Island for more than 25 years, connecting children to nature and encouraging them to be creative and imaginative.

1993 F. Peter Rose (MS), 88, died March 20, 2020. A philanthropist and nature lover, Peter received his undergraduate degree from the University of Vermont and nearly 40 years later earned a master’s degree in environmental studies from Bard and began devoting his life to environmental affairs, especially to the conservation of sea turtles.

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Amy Heil, 51, died January 13, 2021. She studied political science at Bard and at Reed College before joining the US Air Force in 1991. Amy’s eight-year career as a medical technician took her to Texas, Mississippi, California, and Japan. As a Quaker, Amy worked passionately for peace, volunteering for the Friends Committee on National Legislation as well as Veterans for Peace, and attending rallies, protests, and marches. She is survived by her husband, John Worsley; daughter, Brooklyn Williams; and father, Chuck.

Charles Taylor, 55, died January 18, 2021. Charles was born in Virginia, grew up in Tennessee, and spent most of his adult life in New York and Connecticut before moving to Savannah, Georgia, in 2013. He started his business career as showroom designer for Milliken and Company in Spartanburg, South Carolina, and later was the production and operation manager for visual merchandising and store design for Macy’s Herald Square. In New York City and Connecticut, he owned and managed an interior design firm and event-planning company. He was a supporter of many arts and social organizations and cared deeply for his community. He is survived by his husband, Samir Nikocevic; parents, Millard and Patsy; sisters, April and Hope; and brother, Bryan.

1991 Carol L. (Klase) Kessler, 86, died December 2, 2020. Carol took great pride in having returned to college later in life to earn her degree from Bard through the Continuing Education Program. She is survived by her daughters, JoEllen and Tammy, and her son, Michael.

1992 Grace Markham (MFA), 67, died February 26, 2021. Her art, which has been featured in many exhibits in New York City and upstate, was like her—full of vivid

1997 Robert Fenz, 51, died August 8, 2020. He was a world-renowned lyrical filmmaker, intellectual, and humanist. Robert left home at 16 and at 18 moved to San Francisco. He then went east to Bard, where he made his kinetic film Vertical Air (1996). It was

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also at Bard that he met the great trumpeter and composer Wadada Leo Smith and filmmaker Peter Hutton. As a senior, he collaborated with professor Peggy Ahwesh on her film Nocturn. Robert’s films are personal and poetic portraits of people and places he encountered during his travels in countries such as Cuba, Mexico, Brazil, and India. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2004 and a DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program scholarship in 2006. His work can be found in the permanent collections of many of the world’s top museums. He is survived by his mother, Karin; siblings, Erik, Ingrid, John, and Heidi; and wife, Virginia. William Harnish, 47, died August 23, 2020. William had a long career in libraries, holding positions at Pennsylvania State University, Towson State University, and North Carolina State University, where he received the Provost Unit’s Award for Excellence in 2019.

1999 Heather Jane McCormick (MA), 53, died September 27, 2020. Heather was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduated from Dalhousie University, and earned her BFA at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. She was one of the first students to enroll at the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) and wrote her master’s thesis on Ernst Plassmann, one of New York City’s great sculptors and carvers. She went on to earn her MPhil from BGC in 2009. Heather was instrumental in the publication of the BGC textbook History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400– 2000. She is survived by her mother, Joanne, husband, Ian, and brother, James.

2006 Gwendolyn Torsky, 36, died May 29, 2020. Gwen graduated from Voorhees High School in Hunterdon County, New Jersey;

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earned a dual degree in dance and history from Bard; and worked as an art restorer and in development at American Ballet Theatre. She was a passionate and outspoken advocate for women’s reproductive rights and gender equality, and through her writing and one-on-one support used her experience with breast cancer to help other young women dealing with the disease. Gwen is survived by her parents, Ron and Judi, husband, Max, and siblings, Lara and Travis.

2016 Ryan Fabian, 38, died April 6, 2021. He was an alumnus of the Bard Prison Initiative who excelled in math and computer science courses, and he had ambitions for a career in tech.

2021 Bryan T. Callaghan, 48, died March 19, 2021. Bryan was a student of the Bard Prison Initiative. A math major, he was working on his Senior Project, which addressed the impact of road salinization on the waterways of the Adirondacks. Bryan’s degree was conferred posthumously. He is survived by his daughter, Cassidy; mother, Brenda; stepfather, Greg; and sister, Bridget.

2022 Ashley Figueroa, 26, died October 24, 2020. She was a student of Bard Microcollege Holyoke, a Bard College degree program developed in partnership with The Care Center of Holyoke, Massachusetts.

Faculty Malcolm Cecil, 84, died March 28, 2021. He was a Grammy Award–winning musician, audio engineer, record producer, and pioneer in the development of synthesizers. For the last decade, Malcolm contributed greatly to Bard’s Electronic Music program and was a mentor to many. He taught masterclasses, gave lessons and performances, and even 78

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aided in the repair of sensitive electronic music equipment. Malcolm was originally from London, England, where he played in the BBC Orchestra as a young man and learned about the circuitry that would later inform his work developing electronic instruments while in the Royal Air Force. He was the chief technical engineer at Mediasound studios, and was famous for his work with Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Minnie Riperton, and many others. Malcolm will be remembered as the genius who designed TONTO (The Original New Timbral Orchestra), the world’s first and largest multitimbral, polyphonic analog audio synthesizer. He made remarkable contributions to the creation of pop music and experimental sound, and Bard was fortunate he chose to make his home nearby in Ulster County. His creative and original mind and his generosity as a collaborator and teacher will not be forgotten. Terence Francis “Terry” Dewsnap, 87, died September 24, 2020. Terry received his AB in math and MA in English literature from Boston College, where he edited the student literary magazine and sang with the glee club, and earned his PhD in modern British literature from the University of Wisconsin. While in class at Boston College, as a result of alphabetical seating, he met Catherine Margaret Desmond. Together they raised five children—Terence F. “Ted” Dewsnap Jr. ’82, Ellen Dewsnap, Ann Cwiklinski, Desmond Paul Dewsnap, and Molly Meinhardt. Terry’s teaching career began at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. In 1963, he started teaching at Bard College, where he remained for 53 years, until his retirement in 2016, chairing the Division of Languages and Literature, directing the Irish and Celtic Studies Program, helping found the Victorian Studies Program, serving as faculty representative to the American

Association of University Professors, and teaching countless students to love Victorian detective stories and novels—and a few to love Finnegan’s Wake. His essays and reviews on subjects and authors including Christopher Isherwood, Richard Murphy, Flann O’Brien, the Irish Big House, and Watergate autobiographies have appeared in several journals. While a graduate student, he wrote booklets on W. H. Auden, William Golding, and Thomas Wolfe for the Monarch Notes series. In 2008, he published Island of Daemons: The Lough Derg Pilgrimage and the Poets Patrick Kavanaugh, Denis Devlin, and Seamus Heaney. He had recently completed a manuscript on James Joyce’s Catholicism. Terry is survived by Ted, Ellen, Ann, and Molly; his sister, Marilyn Buckley, and brother Paul. His brother Donald died in childhood. The family suggests that donations in Terry’s memory be made to scholarships for students with financial need in the Bard Higher Education Opportuniy Program. For more information, call 845-758-7405.

Staff Brian T. Moore, 61, died January 13, 2021. A familiar face in Shipping and Receiving at Bard, Brian was also well known in Red Hook, New York, where he grew up, and was often seen at sporting events with his camera. He launched Northerndutchesssports.com in 2009 to keep his passion for Red Hook sports thriving. Richard Murphy, 74, died August 18, 2020. The Physics Program lab technician, Richard came to Bard in 2016 after 41 years as an engineer for IBM, putting his wealth of practical knowledge toward helping members of the community build, make, or repair almost anything. He is survived by his wife, Kate, and daughter, Coleen Ann Kern.

Tim Thompson, 58, died January 20, 2021. Tim worked for more than 20 years in the College’s dining services. He was so beloved by students that he was once nominated as Senior Class staff speaker at the annual Senior Dinner. Tim is survived by his wife, Christine; daughters, Alyssa and Olivia; a son, Zack; his mother, Marsha; and sisters, Laura and Jennifer. The College has extended tuition remission benefits to Tim’s grandchildren, and is creating a memorial fund to be used in a manner consistent with his family’s wishes.

Friends Shirley Young, 85, died December 26, 2020. A groundbreaking marketing executive, first at Grey Advertising and then at General Motors, Shirley was a valued supporter of the Bard College Conservatory of Music, a member of the Conservatory Advisory Board, and a dear friend of the US-China Music Institute, where she served on the Artistic Counsel. She stood out professionally as one of the few women and one of the few Asian Americans in her field and for her success bringing quantitative research into marketing, but her true passion was music, and she will be greatly missed for her generous advice, activism on behalf of young musicians, and deep commitment to the arts and culture. She is survived by her sons, David, William, and Douglas.

For additional tributes to alumni/ae, including Edison J. Nuñez Jr. ’47, Patricia Goodheart ’61, Louis Proyect ’65, Lisa Morris ’81, T. J. Ozorio ’85, Kevin Begos ’88, and faculty and staff, including Floyd M. Burgher Sr., Kim Ellison, April Freely, Catherine Moore, William T. Mottoshiski, and Teresa Vilardi, see the next issue of the Bardian.

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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS JULY 1, 2020 – JUNE 30, 2021 Dear Alumni/ae, Families, and Friends: The following pages contain the names of more than 6,000 individuals who generously supported Bard College during the 2020–21 fiscal year. I hope everyone who is included on the following pages is proud to see their name listed here. I particularly thank those who have been highlighted for their continuous annual support of the College and those who have chosen to put Bard in their estate plans. Alumni/ae, families, faculty, staff, and friends of the College have ensured that Bard continues to offer its unique liberal arts and sciences education in Annandale, throughout the country, and around the world. Gifts to the Bard College Fund allow the College to hire and retain outstanding faculty, offer scholarship aid to more than 70 percent of the student body, maintain its bucolic campus, create and present meaningful arts programming, and—importantly—bring a liberal arts education to underserved populations. The significance of your ongoing annual support goes even further than strengthening the College year to year. Your participation and your demonstrated enthusiasm for your alma mater is what positioned Bard this past year to accept the extraordinary challenge grant from George Soros and the Open Society Foundations to build a muchneeded endowment for the College. The loyalty of the Bard community is what will secure Bard’s future, and for that we are deeply grateful. On behalf of myself and my family, I want to thank you for believing in the mission of Bard and the transformational power of education. Cordially, Leon Botstein, President

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James and Elizabeth Fentress Rafael Lima de Freitas ’04 + ˆ Kate Fullerton + Susan H. Gillespie + Henry N. Goodman ’76 Charles and Laurence Heilbronn + Joseph Holtzman Joseph Kahn and Shannon Xian Wu + Helene L. and Mark N. Kaplan + Stephen and Belinda Kaye + Edna and Gary Lachmund + Alison L. Lankenau + Peter Levin Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 + Dominique Levy Y. S. Liu + Janine Luke Mark and Gretchen Lytle + Amy and Thomas O. Maggs + Wendy and Peter F. McCabe ’70 + Hanna and Jeffrey Moskin + Governor Philip D. Murphy and Ms. Tammy Snyder Murphy Wende Namkung Luke O’Neill Dimitri and Rania Papadimitriou ˆ Lorna H. Power + Michael Privitera + Drs. M. Susan and Irwin Richman + Michael Ringier Amanda J. Rubin + Emily Sachar Hiroka Sakurazawa Joan A. Schaffer ’75 + Ellen Louise Schwartz ’64 + William S. ’68 and Claire E. Sherman + Lewis J. Silvers Jr. ’50 + Danielle Sinay ’13 and Ian J. Lloyd ’12 + Jonathan Slone ’84 and Elizabeth J. Kandall PhD ’84 + Geoffrey W. Smith + Eve Sourian Jerry I. Speyer + Geoffrey E. Stein ’82 + Dr. Kathryn E. Stein ’66 + Adrienne Sternlicht Vesna Straser ’95 and Brandon K. Weber ’97 + Valerie Suwanseree Emily Tarsell Olivier te Boekhorst ’93 Aaron Tugendhaft Beth Uffner and Robert A. Goldfarb ’59 + Illiana van Meeteren + Will K. Weinstein + Leslie K. Williams and James A. Attwood Jr. + Neil Williams Anita and Poju Zabludowicz + Sandra Zane ’80 and Ned W. Bennett +

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St. Stephen’s Society, cont. Christopher W. and Parthenia R. Kiersted + Erica Kiesewetter + Tom Klebba MAT ’14 and Jay Lesiger Reynold A. Klein ’78 Peter Kosewski ’77 and John Dennis Anderson The Kumhyr Family Rose Kuo and Lawrence Gross ’74 Garry Kvistad Jennifer L. LaBelle ’92 and Ross Shain ’91 + Dal LaMagna Jo Carole and Ronald Lauder + Courtney F. Lee-Mitchell ’90 and Marcus Q. Mitchell + Kristen Lengyel John C. Lerner Gideon Lester and Tom Sellar + Jake Lester ’20 ˆ Amy T. Levere Katherine Levin and Robin Shapiro + Mark Lewis Todd M. Li + Aaron Lichtman ’86 + Beth Lief and Michael Simonson Glenn Ligon + Scott W. Lithgow ’80 + ˆ Laura & Stuart Litwin + Craig Livingston ’66 Christina and James Lockwood + Robert Lonergan + Richard and Jod Lourie Valarie M. ’06 + Manjari Mahajan and Uday Mehta Imteaz Ibne Mannan ’97 Bonnie Marcus ’71 and Ted O’Neill + Ellen F. Marcus Marcus-Greenbaum Family Robert Marrow ’62 + John Wills Martin and Barbara Schock + Charlotte Maskin Liese Mayer ’05 + Susan McGowan Dr. David Meikle + ˆ Robert A. Meister Robert Z. Melnick ’70 and Suzanne Bunker + John S. and R. Geraldine Merriam Idith Meshulam-Korman and Benjamin Korman Dr. John O. Meyerhoff and Lenel Srochi-Meyerhoff + Alan Miles James O. and Jennifer Mills + The Minin Family ˆ Gail Monaghan Karen and Roland Morris + Juliet Morrison ’03 Barbara and Howard Morse + Karl Moschner and Hannelore Wilfert + Siddharth Motwani Martin and Lucy Murray + Jeffrey and Ora Nadrich Jamie Nelson Mark Nichols ’91 Sam and Anthia Nickerson + Dr. Daniel Fulham O’Neill ’79 Timothy O’Neill and Julie Harris Lynda Pak ˆ Daisy and David Paradis Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Pemstein Debra R. Pemstein and Dean Vallas + Noah and Stephanie Perlman + Michael Perlow Sharifa E. Perry +

Rina and Bill Pertusi Claire Phelan ’11 and Gary Price + ˆ Samuel and Ellen Phelan + Roger Phillips ’53 + Stacey P. Pilson ’91 + Lucas Pipes ’08 and Sarah Elizabeth Coe Paden ’09 + Susan R. Playfair ’62* + Allie Plepler Susan Pollack ’70 + Ana Porzecanski James Putnam + ˆ Ameet Rawal Catherine and Barry Reed George and Gail Hunt Reeke Alysia Reiner and David Basche Susan and Joseph Reisert + Richard Replin Shayna Rich and James Maggio ˆ Craig Risinger Joseph Risse and Sharon Risse Ted Ruthizer and Jane Denkensohn + Richard S. Rogers Dr. George D. Rose ’63 + Maria Rosenblum and Brian Katz ˆ Steve ’75 and Patricia Rosencranz Jim and Eliza Rossman + Alexander S. C. Rower Dr. Jacqueline Royce M Anne Sa’adah and Charles S. Maier ˆ Ann and Paul Sagan Thea Mohr Saks ’87 + ˆ Dr. Linda Salzman Myrna Sameth + Louise A. Sarezky ’66 + Nancy Masem Sargent and Michael Manning Sargent Jeffrey Scales Gale and Paul J. Schaefer Anne Schamberg ’73 and Jay F. Schamberg Dr. David C. Schiffman ’61 + David A. Schulz + Marianne Schwalen and Verne Jones Sarah Seaver and Dr. John Spielberg Elisabeth Semel ’72 and James Thomson + ˆ Laurent Serog and Kumiko Terao + Dr. Marguerite S. Shaffer and Bennett M. Jacks Adam Shaheen Bill and Dina Shaheen Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg + Polina Shchukina and Alexander Moseley + Judith A. Shepherd ’69 + John D. and Marsha A. Shyer Mackie H. Siebens ’12 and David Lindholm + Michael Sirotta and Janet Sirotta + Nancy W. Smith + John L. Solomon ’58 and Ruth L. Solomon ’57 Susanne Son and Ryan Kamm Clive A. Spagnoli ’86 and Theresa Dimasi + Darcy Stephens + Lilian Stern and David Sicular + Janet Stetson ’81 + ˆ Ruth Stevens Nancy Stoffel ˆ Peter Straub Douglas A. and Micki J. Strawinski ˆ Mark Street ’86 and Lynne Sachs + Allan and Ronnie Streichler + Mary and James Strieder + ˆ

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Alice Stroup Ben Strubel + Thom and Valerie Styron Maryann B. Sudo Alan N. Sussman James and Victoria Sutton + Susan Takao ’71 John Taylor and Julian Arcila + Judy E. Tenney William Mark Thompson + Thrift 2 Fight Rachel Jeanne Tieger Dr. Jonathan Tiemann and Valerie A. Gardner Limor Tomer Elizabeth Farran Tozer and W. James Tozer Jr. Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69 + Dr. Hoa Tu ’95 Mandy Tumulty ’94 + Leigh and Jonathan Tunick ’58 + Paul and Susan Ulmer Nancy Y. Urban ’91 + Wojciech Uzdelewicz Sharon Van Epps and John Clements Susan E. Van Kleeck ’78 and Paul Garrigue + Olivia van Melle Kamp + Mac Van Wielingen + Elizabeth VanZandt + Prof. Marina van Zuylen and Stephan Wolohojian + Pierpaolo Vidali ’04 + ˆ Elizabeth von Klemperer ’14 + Suzanne Vromen + Robin Liebmann Wallack ’67 and Alan M. Wallack ’65 + Christine Wallich James Wallner + ˆ Anne S. Waltuch ’56 and Dr. George F. Waltuch ’56 + Elizabeth H. Wang Fredrick Warshall ’66 PhD + Dr. Kristin B. Waters ’73 + Drs. Elisabeth and Richard Waugaman + ˆ Elizabeth Weatherford Paul H. Weinstein ’73 Dr. Zoe Weinstein + David Weiss ’86 and Martina Arfwidson + Hon. Rebecca Westerfield + Alexander W. White Jr. Pamela Wilkins Diane S. Williams ’66 + David C. Wilson Peter Windhorst and Georgia Windhorst Joan Sylvester Wise Dr. James P. Wolberg Florence Wolohojian + Alfre Woodard and Roderick Spencer Sara Wotman Yuan Xu ’12 Andrew J. Yoon ’94 + Kate and Bill Young + Dr. Lorraine Yurkewicz ’75 Deborah H. and Dr. Michael G. Zahn + Bill Zifchak + Gabriel Zimmerman Nathan Zimnik Friends $500-999 Anonymous (35) Peter Aaron ’68 + Michelle Aboodi ’18 Beth Shaw Adelman ’74 + ˆ Richard Allen ’67 +

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Arshes Anasal and Dena M. Davis + ˆ Claire Angelozzi ’74 + ˆ Carolyn Antrim ’65 Cynthia Atkison + Arthur Aviles ’87 + Margaret Aylward ˆ Amy Bachelder Jeynes ’90 and Scott Jeynes ’90 + Moira Bailey and Thomas Duffy + Christina Ball ’09 Barbano Family Nancy Barber and William Stone + Richard Bogart Barber and Ann Hathaway Schaetzel + Karl Barkley Scott Baron ’74 MD + Lionel R. Barrow ’11 + Christina Bartley ˆ Alex Basson Matthew Bateman + ˆ Timand Bates ’02 + Naralys Batista ˆ Jonathan M. and Susanna B. Baum ˆ Douglas L. Bayer Frank Beane David J. and Susan R. Beattie + Roseanne and Arthur Berger Susannah M. Bergmann ’91 Kuih Beri Marilyn Isabella Bernard ’96 and Gino Anthony Castriota ’96 Catherine Fenton Bernath Robin Bernstein and John Ruskay + Cheryl and John Bero Jesika R. Berry + Reema & Ashis Bhattacharya Marie and John Blackwood Douglas Bloch ˆ Elizabeth A. Bobrick and Andrew S. Szegedy-Maszak + Dr. Katherine Morris Boivin and Mr. Benoit Boivin Leah Rugen and Andy Boral Rufus Botzow ’69 + Chandra Bourne Ann Allston Boyce and Robert Mansfield + Thomas Brandon Daniel J. Brassard ’84 + Dr. Alan S. Brenner and Mrs. Ronni C. Brenner ’64 + Nathaniel J. Brown and Patreese A. Martin William Burgan Robert C. Caccomo ’81 Matthew Cahill VAP ’12 + ˆ Dr. Maureen Callahan and Steve M. Victore Prof. Mary Caponegro ’78 + Steven M. Carpenter ’87 and Amanda Katherine Gott ’96 Laura A. Caruso ’86 + ˆ Maria Cristina Castelli ˆ Drs. Mariana C. Castells and Bernardo J. Perez-Ramirez + David and Linda Caughey + Lydia Chapin and David Soeiro + Laurence J. Chertoff ’78 + Jane Chin Susan Christoffersen + Allison Clark + Nancy Clark and Tobi Bergman + Marcelle Clements ’69 Kristin L. Cleveland ’91 Erin E. Clune Eileen and Michael Cohen +

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Gary N. Comorau ’68 + ˆ Miles Conant ’12 + ˆ Heather Connors ˆ Olivia Conti ’19 Drs. Joanna A. Cooper and Charles H. Pollack Thea C. Cooper ’82 Anibal Cortés ’08 Suzanne Costom Dr. Margaret M. Coughlin Carol Countryman Eric John Crahan ’96 and Sarah Elizabeth Smirnoff ’96 + Jeremy Creelan Harriet Croman Simin Curtis Carole and James Daley Nancy Neal Davis Anne DeBevoise and Philip Gibney Bill and Eurydice Decker Alan Devenish and Kathleen Kane + Michael DeWitt ’65 and Wenny DeWitt + Jennifer Diaz ˆ Kathleen E. Diffley ’72 Clement Dinsmore Deborah Duke and Steven Rosenberg + Dunbar Family Tony Dunlop ’86 Dr. Marian F. Dunn ’60 + Marcia Easterling ˆ Elizabeth W. Easton + Richard and Hildegard ’78 Edling + Lance Ehrenberg and Terry Sidell + Benjamin Eichler Matthew A. Elliott ’01 Mary Jo Emanuele John Esposito Martha Evenson Naomi B. Feldman ’53 + Edna Felix ’78 Jack Fenn ’76 + ˆ Gene S. Fisch Martha J. Fleischman + Debra Flott ˆ Mary Flower Lisa Wilson Foley Patricia Forsberg and Stephen F. Speckart Janice and William Forsyth + Elaine Frankle + Amanda and Greg Friedman William and Lucy Friedman Jim and Alison Fritzsche Larry Fuchsman and Dr. Janet Strain + Ruth Garbus ’59 ˆ Drs. Elizabeth A. Garofalo and Jeffrey S. Warren + Jen Gaudioso ’95 + ˆ Mr. & Mrs. David E. Gaynor Jr. + ˆ Sebastian F. Geoffroy ˆ Andrew C. George ’94 Joshua S. Geraghty ’02 + Marisa Gerla Nancy and David Gernert + Caleb Gibbs and Charlotte Gibbs ’02 Deborah and Gregory G. Gichan ˆ Laura and William Glasgall + Barbara Glassman and Arthur Rubin + Cynthia Glozier & Roberta Cerniglia Carol Goldberg + Roger and Cindy Goldstein Andrew Gordon ’67 Sinane Goulet ˆ Patricia Gray ˆ April Greener

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Reetu Grewal Mark A. Gross ’69 and Hannah S. Gross ’71 + Prof. Marka Gustavsson and Prof. John Halle + Thomas A. Hagan ’77 Karen Hagberg and Mark Jackson Michael Haggerty ’01 and Stephanie S. Rabins ’01 + Bethany A. Halford ’97 + Linda and David Hamlin Frederick Hammond + Mary Hang Jessica Hankey ’02 Harvey and Jeanne Hansen Kathy Haranzo and Craig Russell Shannon and Ben Harell Shelley and Steven Harris Nancy Hathaway + Steve Held and Pam Madeiros Derek B. Hernandez ’10 + ˆ Orin Herskowitz Elizabeth Hess ’74 Louise Hildreth + Kirsten and Curt Hill Gisela Hobson + Mary Burns Hoff ’73 + Miller J. Hoffman + Inge Schneier Hoffmann ’50* + Caryn Horowitz Mr. and Mrs. Michael J. Horvitz David H. Hughes Jr. Lam Hui and Shuk Shan Lee + Albert Hwang Dr. Shelly Isaacs ’68 + Maki Ishibashi David W. Jacobowitz ’65 and Linda Rodd + George Jahn and Karen Kaczmar + Anna Jardine Suneth Jayawardhane ’00 William K. Johannes ’70 + ˆ Thomas N. John and Mary M. Stewart Falona Joy Susan Karayannides + Jessica Post Kemm ’74 + David Kennedy Tess Kenner and Geoffrey O’Donoghue Debra Kenyon Maud L. Kersnowski Sachs ’86 + ˆ Stephen J. Kessler ’68 and Daniela Hurezanu + Gabriella Kiss and Chris Lehrecke + Zina Klapper ’73 and Douglas Zwick ’75 + Vatan Koc and Luba Poliak Cathy R. Kornblith + Polly Kornblith and Mike Newman + Danielle Korwin and Anthony DiGuiseppe + Ken Kosakoff ’81 + Robert James Kurilla + Isabel B. Kyriacou ˆ Jane Landry-Reyes Joan Kersnowski-Langmack David and Deborah Lawrence + Robert N. Lear ’64 + ˆ Willy Lee Alexa Lennard ’04 + Elise and Jeffrey Lennard + Roxanna Leone ’65 Teena and Larry Lerner Susannah Lescher Andrew Levinson and Deborah Reik + Drs. Brent and Amanda Lewis + Maureen and Thornton Lewis + Diane Liftig Saslow ’70 +

Marilyn Salkin Lindenbaum ’69 + Barbara Lindheim Johanna Lindholm and John Oppenheimer John P. Linton* Tyler J. Lory and Michael Rauschenberg + Lumey Family + Edward and Judith Lund + Loretta Lundberg and Robert Tillman Jill Lundquist and Douglas Baz + Andrew Maas and Maria Vivar + Adam MacLean ’04 Janet S. MacMillan ’85 The Malinowski Family + Anya Manning and Elie Lehmann + Barbara and William Maple + Dionisio Martins ’07 and Anna Neverova ’07 + Barbara and Tom Mathieson + Julia Mayer ’07 + Kathryn W. McAuliffe ’03 Ms. Beatrix Medinger Jonathan C. Medow Linda Mellgren + Karina Mendoza ˆ Dinaw Mengestu + Michael Meola Anita Merk and Danny Kahn Ryan Mesina ’06 + ˆ Debra Meyer and Eric Rosenthal Jonathan Meyers David Michaelis Deborah Mintz Andrea and Kenneth L. Miron + Shawn Moore ’11 Hannah Morrill ˆ Dan Morrow The Morton Family ˆ Sarah Mosbacher ’04 + ˆ Bob Murad Charlie Naef ’53 + Ted and Sara Naureckas + James and Andrea Nelkin + Marion Nestle + Susanne Neunhoeffer Elizabeth A. Nicholas ’70 Reverend Vivian Nixon Bethany Nohlgren + ˆ Joy Nolan Brian O’Gorman Keith O’Hara and Mary E. O’Hara + Karen G. Olah ’65 + Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Opatrny Jane E. Osgood ’75 + Suzanne and Theodore Otis + Alison Paalz Christopher L. Paragamian ˆ Inez Parker Karen and Vincent Parrinello + Hadley Parum ˆ Courtney Payne Ellen M. Pechman Janet Peckinpaugh The Peebles Family Louis and Carole Pepe Ariana Perez-Castells ’15 Bryan Perkinson Family Jim Perlstein and Lolly McIver + Jennifer Perry Penny Pilkington Estate of William Pitkin ’49 + Tracy Pollock ’07 + ˆ Steven R. Polson Sandra Poltorak ˆ Rosamond Pope ˆ

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David M. Price MAT ’13 Susan Rabinowitz and Joel Longenecker Maryann and Rian Rainey Catherine K. and Fred Reinis + A Revolutionary Press Peter and Debra Richman + Shirley Ripullone and Kenneth Stahl Susan J. Robbins and Sidney Rothberg B. A. Rogers + Jacqueline Rose + Roth-Dishy family Sharon and Edward Rubin Nancy J. Ruddy ’74 + Saskia Rueda ˆ James Sailer + Jim Salvucci ’86 and Marie Sennett + Beatriz Elizabeth Santos and Nelson Yuman ˆ Ann Sayers and Peter Slocum Marc and Jodi Schneider + Dr. Andrew Schonebaum and Chava Brandriss + Richard Seelig Subramani Seetharama and Lavanya Subramani Judith Segal PhD and James Kelley PhD + Arlene and Gilbert Seligman + William David Selman ’96 Fekade Sergew and Kara Sulmasy + Kendall Serota ’04 + Anne-Marie Serre Alix Shafer ’78 and Denis Duman + ˆ Tripp Shannon ˆ Samuel Sharmat ’91 MD Valerie A. Sharper ’81 Alexandra E. Sheedy and Becket Lansbury ’16 + ˆ Linda Shekita Eric and Olga Shewfelt Ginger and Stephen Shore Alex Simons ’08 + Arvinder Singh ˆ Courtney Smith + George A. Smith ’82 + Rosalie K. Snyder and Stephen P. Snyder ’62 Thatcher Kupple Snyder ’16 Susan Somerville-Hawes and Gregg Hawes + Marcia and David Speck Gerlinde Spiess Tija Spitsberg and David Weiner + Archana Sridhar ’98 and Kevin O’Neill + Katharine Parks Sterling + Daniel Stern and Katherine Fraser John A. W. Stevens ’94 + Jonathan Stillerman Trevor Straight ˆ Julia Strand and Richard Miller The Stutzman Family Drs. Albert ’47 and Eve M. ’48 Stwertka + Vivian Sukenik + Sally Sumner Joseph M. Sweeney Geoffrey Swindells ˆ Amy Tague and Ted LaCrone Karen Targove + Christopher Tavener Dr. Naomi Parver Taylor ’62 + Michael S. Terris + Paul ’93 and Saskia Thompson + Helene Tieger ’85 and Paul Ciancanelli + ˆ Andrew Tobias Mark Todd ’99

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Friends, cont. Stephen B. Tremaine ’07 and Karen E. Gardner ’12 + Eric Trudel + Patrick C. and Valerie Turlan + ˆ James and Sean Turner Tim and Toni Urban Lucia Vail + Jeanne Vanecko Leslie Vosshall Dr. Ellen S. Waldinger + Jonathan F. Walker ’86 Zijian Wang ’11 Barry Weeks John B. Weinstein and Brian L. Mikesell + Mary and Ron Weinstein + Todd & Isabelle Weinstein, Barry & Cheryl laKritz Family, Lee & Elaine Weinstein Family, Sue & Mitch Tokowitz Family Wendy J. Weldon ’71 + Peter Wells Henry Westmoreland Lynne Beringer White ’75 + Stanley and Laura Wiegand + Richard and Dee Wilson + Sesenu Woldemariam Robin and Peter Wolf + Gale Wolfe ’90 Laurie Wolfert + Meyer J. Wolin + Ann Ramenofsky Wood Amy R. Wrynn ’87 Noreen Wu and Benjamin Fried Sigrid Wurthmann Jacob Jagop Yahiayan Guy Yarden ’84 Anat and Yoram Yossefy Supporters Up to $499 Anonymous (309) Luc Aalmans and Abigail B Erdmann Alexandra Abella ’06 Michael Abram Lisa Bernstein Abramovich ’71 + Rachel Abramson Katerina T. Abright Ann Aceves Cherie Acierno David Ackerman Ellen Adams ’78 + Nicole Adams Samantha Adams ’89 + Thomas Adams Chris Adamson and Gladys Perez + Marcus Adamson Charlotte and Garth Adcock Alexis Adler Mitchell Adler Kathryn M. Adorney + Shree Agnihotri Jan Ahlgrim Shumaila Ahmed Cory Ahn Andrew Aho ’11 Elizabeth Aho Alan J. Aidala Amanda L. Aiken Ebolutalese Airewele ˆ John and Mara Aistars Taner Akcam Jeffrey Akeley + Torey Akers ˆ Farah Akhtar ’12 Laurieann and Salman Aladin ˆ Yara Imad Izzt Alafandi ’14 ˆ

Jose Alarcon + Carol and Ross Albert + Martin and Anne Albert Dorothy C. Albertini ’02 MFA ’08 + Abby Alcott + The Alden-Herrods Russ Alderson and Liz Titone + Elise Bell Alexander ’19 Kimberly Alexander Margaret B. Alexander ’68 and Richard A. Alexander ’68 + Pauline Cerf Alexander ’76 Yisely Alexander ˆ Marley C. Alford ’17 David S. and Kathleen A. Allardice Margaret M. Allardice ’16 Aimee M. Allaud Julianne Allaway and Ben Allaway David Allen Fred Allen and Erica De Mane Lotte Allen ’10 Lyssa Myska Allen Tony Allicino Michael R. Allison ’91 Beveryly Allyn Chloe Almour-Kramer + Jesus J. Alonso and Alice G. Glasner Elena Alschuler ’06 and Max Parness Dr. Christiane K. Alsop Anita Altman Meghan Altman MBA ’18 Johnny Alvarado and Ana Valverde Bryce Ryan Alvari ˆ Heather Aman Deven Amann-Rao Miriam Ruth Amari Olive Amdur ’19 Richard Amdur Kali-Ahset Amen Luke Amentas ’02 + Joseph Amiel and Nancy Amiel Nancy Amis ’79 Ruth M. Amster ’56 Kostas Anagnopoulos MFA ’99 and Jesse James ’94 + ˆ Frank S. and Susan Anastasi ˆ Beverley A. Anderson Claudene Anderson Jacqueline Anderson Lilah E. Anderson ’12 Linda Anderson ’81 Lydia Anderson ’03 + ˆ Mia Anderson Qin-Hong and Garrett Anderson Richard H. Anderson Shannice Anderson Joshua Andrix Robert Andruskiewicz ’08 Julia Aneshansley + Sam Angell + Nadia Anggraini Eric Angress James Anok Another Antiracist Book Club Traci and Brian Anton Elaine M. Anton-Lotruglio Dr. Jean M. Antonucci ’76 + Jessica Anzelone ’02 José A. Aponte ’73 and Cynthia Reyes Aponte + Hilary Appelman Matthew Apple ’94 Sharon B. Applegate Moshe Arad Birgitta A. Arapakis Shurelle Archer ’09

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Brandon Archuleta Peter and Pauline H. Argondizza Martin Arick + Diego Arispe-Bazan ’05 Ralph Arlyck Susanna E. Armbruster Daniel Armenti ’07 Prof. Myra B. Armstead + ˆ Angela Armstrong Naja Armstrong Dr. Bruce Arnold ’71 + John F. Arnold III Katie Arntson ˆ Eric S. and Gayle Arnum + Judy Aronson Linda Faye Aronson Joseph Arra Matthew R. Arruda Richard Arum and Joan Malczewski + Rita Z. Asch Sharon Ascher Esme P. Ashley-White ’18 Judith A. Asphar Jack Aston + ˆ Jane Evelyn Atwood ’70 + John C. Aubry Arthur Auclair Jr. John G. Aufderheide ’80 Melissa Auf der Maur Derek Augsburger Joyce Austin David Avallone ’87 Indra A. Avens Etai Aviel + Jesse Aylen ’05 Elizabeth Ayoola ˆ Liz Ayre Rowena Azada-Palacios + Shane B. ˆ Penny Babel Karen Baccaro Liam G. Bach ’21 Steven H. Bach and Frances M. Maenza Nina Bachinsky ’05 Andy Bachman ˆ Stephen T. Bachman Carol B. Backus Susan S. Badder G. Báez and S. Cooper John T. Bagg ’64 Cathy M. Baiardi + Arlene Baily Robert Bain Karli Bainbridge Barbara Bair Eileen Baird Hetty Baiz ’72 and James S. Perry ’71 Deborah L. Baker ’76 Deborah Siegel Baker + Mr. and Mrs. Louis Baker + Michael Baker ’93 + Jan Baker-Finch Sarah Baldwin ˆ Sybil Baldwin + Ronald Balinsky Susan Ball + Mary Jo Bang Lynette Bangaree Mary Beth and John P. Bankson III + Lynne E. Bannister ’64 Sabrina Barach Isabel Schaetzel Barber ’11 Deborah Barbiere Jane Barbieri William Barcham Bard Zoom Bar 2020–21

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Sadie Bardfield Stephen Bardfield + Uma Bardfield Mary Bardis Julie Bare Michael Barickman and Catherine Eskin Judith Barish Dean T. Barker ’93 Dr. Donald Barker and Rosanne Stein + Darya Barna Grace Barnes Tracy Barnes and Liz Rogers William G. Barrett + Douglas Barrows James Barry Jen Barry ’11 ˆ Jerome Barth Jonathan and Laura Bartick Barbara Baruch Janis Baskind Dr. Joseph Bass + Randall J. T. Bass ’82 Stuart Bassel Ms. Idara E. Bassey, Esq. + James Bassi Andrew and Kyoko N. Bata Adria Bates Martha A. Bates ’70 Jun-Dai Bates-Kobashigawa ’01 Norton Batkin and Rachel L. Cavell Olivia Battelle Ferrarini ’58 Dominique Bauer Rob Bauer ’63 + Kaye and George Baum Phineas Baxandall + ˆ Carol Bay Zachary Bayman Gregg T. Bayne and Catherine Lightfoot Bayne Shila Bayor Sheila R. Beall Judy Beasley Alexandra Beaumont Michael Beautyman Brenden Beck ’07 + Rachel Beck ˆ Dr. Alvin and Arlene Becker Carol Becker + Diane Becker Eric Becker Hannah Becker ’11 + ˆ Jamie Becker Jeffrey S. Becker ’88 + Olga Becker + ˆ William J. Becker Karen Bedrosian-Richardson Eric R. Bees + ˆ Grace C. Beggins ’94 Tom Begich ’82 + David Behl Steven Behr Lynn Behrendt ’81 + Judy Behrens Rachel Belanger Julie Bindeman Belgard ’00 Carolyn Bell Cary Bell Dwight Bell Jeff Bell Joshua A. Bell ’98 + Leonie F. Bell ’12 LouAnn Bell and Adam Walker + Michael Bell ’82 + Martine R. Bellen ’78 Neil M. Bellinson Barri Belnap

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Renate Belville Dr. Evelyn Bender Gwynedd Smith Benders ’99 + ˆ Laurie and Jim Benedek + Melissa T. Benedek ’21 Emily Benedetto ’02 + Cathy Benedict + Jeannette G. Benham ’12 + ˆ Judith Benjamin Julia Benjamin Martine Benmann and Ilya Levinson Elaine Bennett Elizabeth Bennett Jennifer Bennett ’84 + ˆ Jennifer Bennett Suzanne Bennett Melissa Benson and Kieran Beer + Dr. Gregg D. Beratan ’94 Vern Bergelin + Andrea Berger ’00 Ellen Berger Henry Berger ’83 Michele Tracy Berger ’91 Steven Bergquist Carol Bergson Sheila Berke Burton Berkovitz ’74 Marjorie E. Berman ’78 Jaime Bernanke Erika Bernich Jeffrey Berns Carey Bernstein Charles Bernstein and Susan Laufer Matthew C. Bernstein Ronda Bernstein Suzanne Bernstein + Marissa Bernstein-Gimeno ’96 + Katherine Berry Stacey Bertin Susan Bertoni Wyatt Bertz ’13 + ˆ Bekka Besich Bradley Best Todd Betts John Bevan ˆ Dale A. Beverly Tarun Bhatia Samrat Bhattacharya + Matthew and Marie Bianco + Barbara Bickford Marvin Bielawski + John Bierbusse Montana Billings and William Kennedy Talia Bilodeau Peg Birmingham William Bissell Kim Bistrong ’89 + Jonathan Bixler Nancy Blachman Colin Black Nancy and Michael Black Sharon and George Black + Sophie Cabot Black Elysa Blacker and John Whealan Andrea J. ’92 and David A. ’91 Blacklow + Dr. and Mrs. Robert S. Blacklow Clare Blackmer ’89 Corinne Blackmer Dr. Marge and Edward Blaine + Kenneth R. Blake ’80 Randi Blanco Stephanie R. Blanco ’21 Celia H. Bland and Alexander B. Zane Paula Fuchs Blasier ’68 Hillary Blass ’80 and George P. Hirose ’79 Laurence Blau and Karen Johnsen

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Esther Bloch Harriet Bloch and Evan Sakellarios David Bloom ’13 GCP ’15 + ˆ Peggy Bloomfield Roselee Blooston Diane and Ronald Blum + David Blumel and Sharon E. Garbe ’83 + Holly Ledis and Larry Blumenstyk Prof. Leonard Blussé Sasha Boak-Kelly and John T. Kelly + Kenneth Bock and Marian Cocose Shane Bockman ˆ Sarah Bodley ’15 Susan Bodo Eva Bodula ’99 Connor Boehme ’17 Reinhild Boehme and Kevin Kautenburger Dinette Boer Milena Boeva-Rashba Cynthia A. Bogart ’98 Celestine Bohlen and Vladimir Lebedev Joyce H. Bol Rana J. Boland ’98 The Boll Family Caitlyn ’07 and Luke ’09 Bolton Vanessa Bombardieri ’03 Louise Bonanno Stephano Bonetti and Lisa Senior Stephen K. Bonnett ’07 Robert and Marilyn Bookchin Caroline Bookhout Garvin Boonsong ˆ Katherine Booska Richard C. Bopp Edith Borchardt Julia C. Borden ’11 Alana Bortoluzzi ’16 Palash J. Bosgang ’93 Ruth Botwinik Alexander O. Boulton ’69 Kristen F. Bowden and Gregory Bowden Brenda Bowen Sarah M. Bowen Christina Wilson Bowers ’91 Norman Bowie + The Boyce Family Louise M. Bozorth Julia Bradford Martha Schwartz Bragin ’68 + ˆ Lisa and Robert Brainard + Robert Brainin Stuart Braman Robyn Bramhall Justin Brannan Emily Schoen Branch Rev. James and Suzanne Brandis Noel Brandis ’01 and Jason Gunder David Brangaitis + R. Alexander/M. Branson Kimberly G. Braswell + Marie-Louise Brauch Peter Brauch ’04 Carol Braun Eli Braun and Alyce Thompson James Braun and Kirk N. Lawson Richard Braun Juliet Braver and Ira Haskell + Taylor Brean ˆ Amy Breedlove John Breen Winifred Breines Farrell Brenner Frances P. and Jonathan Brent Martin I. Bresler Shirley Bresler

John Gerard Brett + Frank Brice Jr. Denise Bricker ’85 + Jeff and Wendy Bricmont John Brigham Diane Brinkley Emma Brinkman ’09 and Benjamin Eskind MAT ’20 + Aspen Brinton Patrick and Missy Briody Gene T. Brion Barbara Jean Briskey Mary C. Brittingham ’74 Ronae Brock Geraldine Brodsky + Roberto Brodsky Hans Broekhuisen + Roberta Brooks Matthew Brophy ’02 + Ellen Broselow and Daniel Finer Brittany Brouker Kristen Brouker Alysha Brown Carole Brown + Deloss Brown Desmond Brown + Diane Brown ’04 Donald Brown + Elizabeth A. R. Brown and Ralph S. Brown Jr. Gavin Brown Hannah M. Brown ’16 Inge Brown Joy and Timothy Brown ˆ Kent Brown and Nat Thomas + Kira Manso Brown Roberta Brown Summer Brown Mr. Edward Browne Jill Browne Jim Browne ’86 ˆ Ricky Browne ’87 + Jesse Browner ’83 and Judith Clain Shannon Browning-Mullis ˆ Jared Brubaker Lenore Bruce + Bruderhof Communities David Brumfield and Edward Handlin William J. Brumley Mark Brungs and Dolorosa Arrumm-Brungs Mr. and Mrs. Allen Bryan Teresa Buchholz and James D. Bagwell Dennis Buck Thomas J. Buckley and Jasmine M. Shumanov + Pamela Buehler Ann Bookman Buehrens Jhamil Bueno-Abdala Ken Buhler Stephanie Buller ˆ Sarah Ann Bullock Kristin Bundesen ’81 Gary P. Buonanno and Susan M. Danaher + Jedidiah Burack Monica L. Burczyk and DeWitt A. Godfrey Pamela Burdman Dorothea Burgess Kirby Willis Burgess Renee Burgevin Jennifer Buri Da Cunha Brendan Burke Jane and Lawrence Burke Sharon Burklund +

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Brian and Gail Burlant Jessica Burlingame Mary Burmaster K E Burns Lael Burns Phil Burpee + Dr. Margaret Burroughs + Theo Burry Jeffrey and Ellyn Burstein Adi Burton Ian Buruma and Eri Hotta James Bush Harriet Bussel Josh Buswell-Charkow and Emily Rusch Butensky Family + McCall Butler Dr. Paul Buttenwieser Lisa Buxbaum Maria Cabildo Thomas Cademartrie Patricia Cadley Elizabeth M. Cawley and Arthur Cady Sara Caffrey Smith ’79 and Dr. Louis W. Smith + Nathalie and Philippe Cahlik Richard C. Cahn Jack Cain William and Joan Cain + Joe and Meg Cairo + Evangeline Caliandro Dennis F. Callaghan Robert and Sandra Callaghan + Mark S. Callahan ’78 Diego A. Callenbach ’21 David O. Cameron ’74 William J. Cameron Jr. + Amy E. Campbell Bogie MBA ’17 Heather Campbell ˆ Wendy Weingarten Campbell ’72 + Frederick Campion David Campolong and Erin Cannan-Campolong ˆ Dora Jeanette Canaday Estelle & John Canerot Beverly Canin + Serena Canin and Thomas Sauer Alexis L. Canney ’10 Shelley Canon ˆ Carol A. Cantagallo Elizabeth Canty Anne Jennings Canzonetti ’84 and Matthew Canzonetti ’84 Dai T. Cao ’14 James Capalino Julie Capehart Bella Caplan Tatiana Carayannis Ann Whitney Carey Patrick J. Carey and Carol Carey Daniel Carno Candace Carponter Bridget P. Carr + Lindsay Davis Carr ’06 and John Carr + Verna Carr Claire J. Carren ’73 Polly Carroll W. C. Carroll Jr. + Brian Carter PhD Robin Carter Susan G. Carter Dr. Laurence M. Carucci and Mary H. Maifeld + Izzy Casdin Anne Zitron Casey ’83 PhD + Teresa M. Casey ’95 and Colin W. Quin ’94 Eugene Cash

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Supporters, cont. Susan Taylor Cashman Janice Caskey-Thomas + Jean-Pierre Cassarino Daniele Cassels Sophia Cassidy ’05 Thomas J. Cassidy ’82 Vicki Lynn Cassidy and James Cassidy Scott C. Cassin Sergio Castellani Saulo Castillo ’19 Sebastian A. Castillo ’11 Claude Castro Jennifer Castro ˆ Harriet D. Causbie Gina E. Caywood Maria Sachiko Cecire Eric Cha-Beach María Chacón Susan Chadick and Robert Weiss + Judith Chaifetz Ana Rienzo Chairez ˆ Sarah Chalfant Bruno Cham ˆ Leah Chambers Michael Chameides ’01 + Caitlin Chan Cassandra M. Chan ’78 Balakrishnan Chandrasekaran Shay Chang ˆ Mason Chant Brianne Chapelle Wendy Chappel + Sharon Charde Debora Charmelus Sally D. Charnow Stephanie Chasteen ’95 Dereck Chavez ’20 William Cheeks + Lujie Chen Winston Cheney’s Family Maxine Chernoff Rebecca Chernoff Udell ’03 + Adrian Chernok Dr. Phyllis Chesler ’63 Prof. Omar Cheta Mindy ’75 and Ali Chettih + Jim Chevallier ’72 + Andrew Chignell + ˆ Rev. Dr. Bruce Chilton Jr. ’71 and Mrs. Odile S. Chilton + Chibunna O. Chimezie Connor Chin Michael Chirigos and Elizabeth Rexrode George Chochos ’08 and Amie Chochos Karmen Chong ˆ Richard N. Chrisman + ˆ Sarah Christ Dr. David Christensen and Ruth Horowitz + David Christi Anastasia Christman ’91 + ˆ Kathy Christman Daniel and Jennifer Churchill Ava Ciliberti Dr. Anthony and Karen Cinquemani Prof. Robert Cioffi + George Ciscle Gabrielle Civil Alexandra Clarfield Cheryl Clark Judy Clark ’52 Lon C. Clark Marsha S. Clark Robert and Isobel Clark + Sara Clarke-De Reza ’06 Wayne D. Clayton

Tim Clifford ’91 + Lesa Cline-Ransome Darrah L. Cloud + Jennifer Cloud Scott Clugstone + Rachel and Steven Coates Frederick and Jan Cohen Joan Cohen + Lisa Aber Cohen Lizabeth Cohen + Lynn Cohen Madeline Cohen Marion R. Cohen and Fred J. Ferson + Matthew L. Cohen Saul Cohen Laura Coker Nancy and Nafi Coker Andrea L. Colby + Gina Cole Rosalind Cole Tom Cole Diane and Thomas Colello Alice M. Coleman Jennifer Coleman MBA ’19 Aldyth and Mark Coler Mary Ann Colgan Dennis and Maura Colling Karen L. Collins Kathleen Collins Maria V. Collins Rebecca R. and Richard E. Collins III Eugene Colucci Comiskey Family + Jac Conaway PhD Natalie Condon Patricia W. Cone ’78 Michael G. Conelly ’92 Raven Connel ’09 Margaret Connolly Laurence and Barbara Connors Susan Connors Adam Conover ’04 + Helen Conover and Robert Minor + Marella Consolini ’82 and James Rodewald ’82 + Marianne Constable Cindi A. Conti ’83 Victoria M. Contino, Esq. Alexandra and Juan Contreras Anita G. Cook ’73 Emily K. Cook Lauren Cooke ’18 Ann Forbes Cooper Kristine Cooper Leroy A. Cooper Mary Cooper Mary Ann B. Copp Marion Corbin John Corcoran and Elizabeth Macrae Roel R. Cordero Jennifer Cordivari Nicholas Corrao ’01 Nancy Corshen Rob and Jan Corzo James Costello and Laura Cannamela + Bruce Costom Joseph A. Cotsirilos ’14 Jefferson Cotton Sylvia L. Cotton Tom* and Lee Coughlin + Estate of George M. Coulter ’51 Richard C. Coursen + Harris Courson Catherine Courter Michael Cowan Catherine Anne Cox

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Larry Cox Mark V. Cox + Nigel Cox Bradley Craig Erich Cramer + ˆ Dorothy Dow Crane and Arthur D. Crane + Robert Crawford Alexandra Criscuolo Laura Crisp Peter J. Criswell ’89 + Mr. and Mrs. William Crivelli Avery Evelyn Cross ’17 Kara Cross Katharine Crost Christian A. Crouch + Jeffrey Crow + ˆ Caroline Crumpacker + Roy Victor Cuellar Groshe and Jack Culaj Jelena Culibrk Susan Cullen Catherine Cunningham Lisa Cunningham Alison Cuomo George M. Curran Charles Currey ’61 + Eileen Curry and John Curry Josephine G. Curry ’11 Lauren Curtis Karen Cutler ’74 and Andy Gold + Dr. Bruce Cuttler and Joanne E. Cuttler ’99 + Coral Cyzewski ’11 Kimberlea Daggy Susan E. D’Agostino ’91 and Esteban Rubens ’97 + ˆ Shari Daley Ali Dalfen Alexander D’Alisera ’15 Alexander Dal Piaz Dr. Barbara and Mr. Ernest D’Amato + Derian Kavita D’Andrade ’05 Elizabeth Dane Meredith Daneman Robert D’Angelo and John Kenny + Janay Daniel ’06 Elaine Daniels Sara Dapson Teresa Darcy Susiawati Darmawan and Hutomo M. Santoso Sheila M. Darnborough Duhita Das ’21 Yelena Malcolm Dasher Kassie Daughety ’03 Deep Dave ’15 Krista David ’96 MD + Nina David ’61 + ˆ Natasha David-Hays ’07 + James Davidson Anne Davis Elizabeth Davis James Davis and Jody Madell Jane Davis Kathryn Davis Katie Ryan Davis ’96 + Lauren Davis Lynn Davis and Rudolph Wurlitzer Nikita Davis Timothy M. Davis ’91 and Prof. Lisa Sanditz + John Dawson ’07 + Brian Dean ’07 Thomas M. Dean Sara DeAngelis and Archil Pichkhadze

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Emma DeBald ˆ Mia de Bethune and Dean Wetherell Tate DeCaro ’02 Sam De Forest-Davis Theun de Groot ˆ Marjolijn De Jager Jose M. de Jesus Jr. Nicole M. de Jesús ’94 and Brian P. Walker + Johnathan De La Cruz and Kelyber De La Cruz ˆ Koulas and Angelo Delianides + David Dell ˆ William Deltz and Donna DeLorenzo-Deltz + Leonardo J. Deluca MBA ’19 Isabel Del Valle Rebecca De Mornay Yanpei Deng ’21 Brittany Dennison Sam Dennison Michael Denny Nicolas de Paillerets Lisa De Pasquale Deanna DePietro ’16 Paul Derksen Priscilla Derven and Stephen MacDonald Amish Desai Sudhir Desai Robert de Saint Phalle ’08 ˆ Katrina Descorbeth Richard Desir + Carla B. Desouza Miles DeSouza ˆ Randal Despommier Thomas De Stefano + Abigail de Uriate ’13 + Marsha DeVance Molly J. Devine ’21 Tamara Devine ’03 Carole DeVito and Pasquale DeVito + Lara Devlin Amelberga De Walsche Michael and Deborah Meyer DeWan BCEP ’92 Ryan Dewar Erin R. deWard ’86 and Ioannis S. Tsakos ’87 Terence Dewsnap Jr. ’82 + Jeffrey Tyler Dhedouville Cynthia Diamond Drs. Karen C. Diaz and Joseph E. Johnson Sebastian Diaz ˆ Lily Diaz-Kommonen + Catherine Dibble Joseph and Phyllis Dibianco + Vincent M. Dicks Ruth and Steve Dickstein Michael Diederich C. Douglas and Leslie Dienel + Nancy J. Dier and Lee Rassnick Tara Diestel Lynn DiGiacomo Sara M. Dilg ’94 and Michael A. Dilg + Jon Dilks ’03 Matthew Diller and Katherine Kennedy John DiMiceli and Josephine Corro David Diner Dr. Elizabeth Ditmars Carol Diuguid & Sohrab Habibion + Elsa Dixler and Jeff Schneider Troy Dixon Robert W. Doane Katharine Dobbins and Patrick Dobbins ˆ George B. Dobbs ’78 Mike Dockhorn ’05

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

John M. Doelp II ’14 + ˆ Allan and Lois Doescher Karen Dolan Francine Dolins Dr. Michèle Dominy and Ms. Martha Gearhart Olivia Domowitz ˆ Jeremiah Donahue Ty G. Donaldson ’92 Sarah Donnatien Hannah M. D’Onofrio + Daniel Donohue and Bonnie T. Goad + ˆ William Donohue + Mary Donovan Susan and John Donovan Marguerite M. Dorn Marisol Dothard Anne Dotter Dave Douglas Sarah Douglas Lancy Downs Noreen Doyle Angelina Drake Sally A. Drake ’95 Dree Dray Gregory Drilling ’16 Andrea N. Driscoll Prof. Ellen Driscoll Nina Drooker ’54 + Jason P. Drucker ’93 and Jeff Goldman Nancy Druckman Chloe Drummond ’07 GB Dryvynsyde Fang Duan Parijat Dube Richard B. Du Boff Anne du Breuil and Fred Markham Seymour Dubrow Rikki Ducornet ’64 + Jason Dufair and Tammy Swales John Duffy An Dufraing Clara Duman ’18 + Leila Duman ’14 + Lulian Dumitriu Rosemary DuMont + Emily J. Duncan John M. Duncan + Judith A. Duncan and Philip Duncan David Dunn Jodi Dunn Susan Dunn Rachel Blau DuPlessis Paula Duprat Brendan K. Duprey BCEP ’09 Priscilla Duskin Abby H. and John B. Dux Robert Dweck Jonathan Dworkin Alison Dykstra Wilhelmina Martin Eaken ’68 + Laura Eastman ’92 John Q. Easton and Sem C. Sutter Dr. David G. Ebersole ’74 + David Ebony and Bruce Mundt + Paige L. Eckensberger ’19 ˆ Liz Eckstein + Eliza L. Edge MBA ’20 Angela J. Edman ’03 Andrea and Donald Edwards Karen Edwards Scott Edwards Mark Egan ˆ Robert and Ann Egan Sara F. Egan Tim Eggebrecht

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Claudia Ehrlich ’89 and Julio R. Sobral Ruth and Bill Ehrlich J. Einstein Eleanor Eisenberg Esq. ’61 + Marcia R. Eisenberg + Steven Eisenpreis ˆ Brandon N. Ekweonu ’16 Jacquelyn Elbel and Mark Sitler Mariana Elder Sarah Elger ’08 Derek Elgin Elena Elisher Deborah H. Elkind Max S. Ellenbogen ’16 and Maeve Grogan Weber ’16 Joan Elliott ’67 + SJ Ellison Sterling and Barbara Ellison Emma Ellman Golan ’08 Katie C. Ellman MBA ’18 Steven Ellman Anthony Elloway Sharon Barcan Elswit ’68 Lydia Ely Marcia Ely and Andrew McKey Elizabeth and Charles Emerson John Engel + Lewis Engel Aaron B. English ’96 Leslie B. English Joan and John Ensminger + Joy Wolfe Ensor Emily Epstein Helen Epstein Lauran Epstein Ballinger ’89 + Michael D. Epstein and Susan Bevl Scott D. Epter Ilgaz Gurur Ertem Peter G. Eschauzier ’62 Arthur and Janet Eschenlauer + Manon Escoffier ’15 Katie Esposito ’21 Tom Esposito and Irene Esposito Onita Estes-Hicks James Etkin and Kim Larsen + Barbara E. Etkind and Jack A. Luxemburg Damon Evans Timothy Everett Amy Ewing Diane Eynon Cynthia Eytina Qiana F. Joan S. Faber Dr. Carole Fabricant ’65 + Face to Faith Ministries Randy Faerber ’73 and Harvey Walden + Jonathan S. Fain ’78 and Terry S. Szold ’80 Pamela Fairbanks Kirkpatrick ’71 + Richard Fairman Tim Fall Steve and Joan Fallon Beverly Fanger and Dr. Herbert S. Chase Jr. + Connell Fanning + ˆ Bart Farell and Dr. Diane Matza + Wendy Faris Susan and Tim Farrar Vera A. Farrell + Richard Farris Mark Favus ’68 + Ademola Kazeem Fayemi ˆ Aleksandr Fedchin ’20 Alvin Feder

Alex Federman Leonora Feeney ’57 + Deborah Fehr ’77 Thalia A. Feilen Esq. ’90 Flo Feinberg Arnold and Milly Feinsilber + Mark L. Feinsod ’94 + ˆ Jin Xu (Feiszli) ’98 George Feldman + Greg Feldman Janet and Robert Feldman Dr. and Mrs. Mark Feldman + Steven Feldman Tracy S. Feldman ’95 + Elizabeth Felicella ’89 Stevie Feliciano ˆ Erica Felker-Kantor Marvin C. Fell ’77 and Caridad T. Fell + Estate of Aldred T. Felsberg ’41 Nancy R. Felson + Phyllis E. Fenger David Fenner Meredith Ferber + Ryan Ferber, Hadley Ferber, and Greyson Ferber Jane Ferguson Mr. and Mrs. Paul ’70 J. Ferla Bill Ferrari Robert J. Ferrari Marianne Ferraro Rosemary Ferreira + ˆ Ward Feurt ’69 + Brett H. Fialkoff ’88 Daniel Fiege Cal Field Carolyn Field Nancy Fieldman PhD Robin Fields and Peter Fields Vanessa Fields ’17 Mr. Ben D. Fiering ’14 + Bronson Fikus Dr. Peter Filkins and Susan Roeper Heinz Filzer + Carole K. Fink ’60 + Lawrence and Rolene Fink + Susan Bette Fink Harriet S. Finkelstein Martin Finkelstein Paula Finnerty Janice Finney Kevin S. Finney ˆ Lilja Toban Finzel ’69 + Richard and Catherine S. Fischer ’79 + David Fisher + ˆ Hoot Fisher ’17 Johanna Fisher + Marcia Fisher + Marilyn Fish-Glynn ’61 Lana and Ralph Fishkin + Karen Fitchett Iris Fitz Erin Fitzgerald John Denis FitzGibbon Maria Fitzgibbon Joshua Fjelstad ’11 Evan Flach ˆ Barbara Grossman Flanagan ’60 + Lee-Anne Flandreau SR ’88 + Fern Fleckman Trish Fleming Pamela R. Fleshman Marjorie Fletcher Matthew Fleury and Elise Passikoff Drs. Marvin ’56* and Carol ’61 Flicker Jonathan Flombaum Cormac J. Flynn ’90 +

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Dylan Flynn ’06 + Teri Flynn Robert Flynt Patricia A. Fogarty Lisa Folb ’93 + ˆ Aasmund Folkestad ˆ The Fopeano Family + Eben Forbes ’92 and Yasmin Padamsee Forbes ’92 Donna Ford ’80 and Neal Grover ’79 Rosemary Ford Terry Ford Claudia Forest Harrison Sebrin Forman ’18 Rose Forman Max Forman-Mullin ’07 John Fortner Ned Foss Lynn V. Foster Richard A. Foster + Wendy and Bill Foulke Grace Fowler ˆ Gary Fox Steven Fox and Terri Bernsohn Vilmarie Fraguada Beatrice Francais Anthony R. Franco Jana Frank Peter M. Frank + Sam B. Frank ’18 + Bonnie Low Frankel ’69 + Gregg and Jean Frankel + Richard H. Franklin and Donna Blackwell + Ronda Franks Tracy Franz Kate Frasca Robert H. Fraser Alicja Fratczak ’13 + ˆ Rachel Freed Laura Freedlander Joan and Richard Freedman Dr. Mark S. Freedman ’73 + Chester Freeman Rahsul J. Freeman ˆ William L. Freeman ’21 Bruce R. Freifeld Lynn C. French Patricia Fried Lilah S. Friedland ’93 ˆ Carola P. Friedman C. Robert Friedman and Vernon Mosheim Daniel Friedman ’66 + Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 + Edward Friedman and Arline Lederman Jeffrey Friedman Jill Friedman Lewis Friedman Matthew Friedman Renate L. Friedrichsen + Jeb Fries and Carmen Quinones Miriam Frischer Sara Frischer Lori A. Fromowitz ’01 Heidi Frost + Hal Fuchsman ’07 + Angel Fuentes + Kerrin Fueracker Mark Fuerst and Lisa Reticker + Katy Fulfer + Jane Fuller Karen Furey Chris and Tanis Furst Frank F. Furstenberg Lizzy Furth Gwendolyn Fyfe

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Supporters, cont. Carol T. Gable Ann and Mirko Gabler + Marc Gabor ’08 Dr. Marilyn G. and Mark G. Gabriel + Tantri Gadway Tiffany Galano Ronald Gall and Mary Gall Aimee L. Gallagher ’24 Francis and Susan Gallagher Suzanne Gallant ’83 Andrew S. Galloway and Ellen E. Lane JoAnne Galvin and Richard P. Galvin Nancy S. Gamble + Deborah Gang ˆ Bryce Gangel David H. Gans Lara Ganz, Esq. ’94 and Chad J. Kleitsch ’91 Gavin B. Garay ’12 Cassandra Garbus Yulia Garcia Julie P. Gardiner Jacqueline Michaels Gardner ’55 + Stephanie Gardner ’99 Jitin Garg Matthew Garklavs ’07 + ˆ Joan Garnar Christine Garner Sandra Garner Andrew Garnett-Cook ’95 + Ann Garrett ˆ Harold Garrett-Goodyear Lisa Garrison ˆ Adam Garth Andrea L. Garvey and Alfred M. Gibson Elizabeth T. Garvey Mark J. Garvin and Diane A. Menio + Meg Gatza ’07 + Mary Gaughan ’87 Suzanne Gault Peter and Charlene Gay + Kindred Gaynor Patrick Gearing Tamara Gedankien Peter K. Geddes Christine Gehringer ’09 Anne Gehris Philip Geier Carl H. Geisler ’64 and Sheila C. Geisler Ann and Peter Geismar + Joseph W. and Joyce Gelb Julie Gelfand ’72 Eric Geller John Geller and Alan Skog Mneesha I. Gellman ’03 and Joshua Dankoff Felice Gelman + Laura Genero Jonathan F. Gentry Christine A. George ’07 Joyce George Madeline George Barbara Smolian Gerber ’66 Adam Gerson Alison Block Gerson Carole M. Gersten Tavit Geudelekian ’05 Angie Geuder Ronald C. Geuther Kristi B. Gholson and William C. Kerr Jorge Giannareas David A. Gibb Katherine H. Gibbel ’11 Anthony E. Gibbons and Caitlin Moore Grayson Gibbs ’15 + Jazondré Gibbs ’19

Susan Nicole Gibbs + Grace C. Gibson ’84 + Avery P. Gilbert and Zachary Bendiner Elizabeth Gilbert + Ellen Gilbert Maxine and Marvin Gilbert + Stephen A. Gilbert and Geraldine Staadecker Mary Fran Gildea Deborah Gillette Liam Gillick Linda and Arch Gillies Anna Gilman Fiona Gilmour Susan Ginsburg Mariana Giusti ’07 Christopher M. Given ’10 + ˆ Amy Givens ’93 + Xavier M. Givens Diane Glancy Jeffrey R. Glass Ryan Glaubke ˆ Jeffrey A. Glaza Sam Glazer and Elise Siegel Maxine and William C. ’69 Gleason Jr. Jeffrey Glen and Rosina Abramson + ˆ Alysha Glenn ’09 and Zach Smilovitz Marilyn W. Gleysteen PhD Dr. Marika Ruth Glixman Taaffe ’67 Susan Glover Jennifer A. Glynn ’00 + Godcaresforyou Benjamin Goddard ’09 John and Kate Goegel Toshaani Goel Carly Goettel Violet-Alicia S. Goforth Jin Xun Goh ’12 + Billie Golan Jay Golan and Rabbi Barat Ellman + David Goland Tristan D. Golas ’01 + ˆ Natalie Golbuff ’10 Judy Gold + Arthur and Merle Goldberg Jesse E. Goldberg ’15 Olivia Goldberg ’14 Rebecca Goldberg ’09 + ˆ Sarah Goldberg ’20 Sascha Goldhor ’06 Matthew K. Goldman ’11 Bruce and Marjorie Goldner Daniel Goldschmidt ˆ William Goldsmith ’60 Howard Goldson and Justine Goldberg Fred Goldstein and Judy Hyatt + Howard Goldstein Leon and Jenna Goldstein + Elizabeth Cornell Goldwitz ’89 and Robert L. Goldwitz ’75 + Joao Goncalves Patrick F. Gonder Anne Gonon Andrea Gonzalez ˆ Rosa M. Gonzalez-Distefano Alan Good Barbara Mintzer Good and Howard A. Good ’73 + Diva Goodfriend-Koven Howard and Caroline Goodman Mark Goodman Ronald Goodman and Elizabeth Goodman Rona W. Goodman Cindy Goodman-Leib and Scott Leib Frances Goodwin

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Ellen Goosenberg and Donald P. Kent Rakesh Gopalan Bernice Gordon William H. Gordon Jean-Marc Gorelick ’02 Jennifer M. Gorman Neal Gosman Carol and Peter Goss + Michael R. Goth ’69 + Dr. Amy Gottfried and Vincent Kohl Jr. Maya L. Gottfried ’95 + Dr. Terry Gotthelf + Albert Gottlieb William P. Gottlieb ’69 + Robert R. Gotwals Leonne Gould Katherine Gould-Martin and Robert L. Martin + Grace Goulson Katherine Anne Grabowski Clark Cate Grady-Benson Christine Graham Donna Graham Thomas W. Graham ’74 MD + William Gralnick Roberta Gratz Drs. William Gratzer and MaryAnne Cucchiarelli Josie P. Gray ’94 + Dr. Judith Green ’61 Laura Green Molly Green + ˆ Norman Green Susan and Ronald Green Bob Greenbaum ’92 + David Greenberg Denise Greenberg Gerald and Gretchen Greenberg Jon Greenberg ’13 + ˆ Barbara Greenburg Adam N. Greene ’06 + Jonathan Greene ’65 and Dobree Adams + Ellen and Norton Greenfeld Natalie Green Giles Stephen Greenleaf Susan T. Greenstein Yonah Greenstein ’12 Rabbi Reuven Greenvald Peter Greenwald and Gail Newman + ˆ Nan and David Greenwood Sarah Greenwood Beth and Dana Gregg ˆ Jeffrey M. Gregory + Michael A. Gregory ’08 + Susan Gregory Julie Cohn Grenet ’96 Bernell Grier ’15 Chris Griffin and Monika Kurschatke Erika and Thomas Griffin + Lisa J. Griffin Catherine (Heusel) Grillo ’82 + Gail C. Grisetti ’68 + Ron Griswold Izabela Grocholski Daphne Grosett-Ryan ’66 + ˆ Helen S. Gross ’64 Michal Gross Mikaela Gross ’07 ˆ Tamara Judith Gruzko Jay Grutman ’84 Marlena Grzaslewicz + Joseph Gubernick Kristen E. Guest MDiv LMSW Charles Guice Jan M. Guifarro Benny Guillermo ˆ

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Lawrence Gulotta + James E. Gumaer Emma Gunuey ’15 Neil Gussman Daniel and Susan Gutkin Steven Gutman and Carol Gutman Susan F. Gutow ’63 + Amy and Ronald Guttman Rebecca J. Guy Hector Guzman-Orozco ˆ Kimberly L. Haas ˆ Paul and Suzette Haas + Alan and Beth Haber James Haber ’14 + ˆ Judith Haber ’00 Madelaine Haberman Alexander S. Habiby ’18 ˆ Renee Hack Audrey Hackel + Kenrick Hackett Shannon K. Hackett Jonathan and Vicki Hadfield + Tara Hadid Neda Hadjikhani Amanda Hadsell ˆ Jessica Schwartz Hahn + Hasan Haider ˆ Nancy Haimi-Cohen Pamela Haji Alzbeta Hajklova Karen and Richard Halberg Nathan Hale Patricia Hale Melissa C. Haley Meghan M. Haley-Quigley MBA ’19 Alistair R. Hall ’18 Candace Hall Diane Hall Don Hall Eileen M. Hall Kailah Elise Hall ’18 Liz and Robert Hall Penelope C. Hall Rise Hall-Noren ’73 Dr. Joseph A. Halpern ’74 Keith A. Halpern Dhana Hamal ’12 Susan Hamburger ’90 William Hamel ’84 and Juliet D. Wolff + Claudine C. Hamm ’99 Ali Hammad Katka Hammond Zachary Hammond ’10 Kaichee Han Laura Bailis and Patrick Handler Linda and Doug Handshaw Janet Hanlon Bettina Hansel Nicole R. Hansen Carol Harada and Greg Bergere Katharine Hardy ’07 and Robin Schmidt ’07 + ˆ Kenneth A. Hardy and Lillian M. Montalvo Van Hare and Zoe Edelen Hare Nikkya Marie Hargrove ’05 + Yoichi Hariguchi + Lee Haring + ˆ Charlotte Hildebrand Kathleen Towe Harleman Michaela Harnick + Lucas, Monica, and Steve Harnish Jason Harootunian and Clarissa Tartar + William J. Harper Bessina R. Harrar ’84 Elizabeth A. Harris ’06

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Elizabeth Logan Harris Emily Harris ’14 + Jeanette Joy Harris + Joseph B. Harris Katy Harris + Lisa A. Harris MFA ’74 + Margaret Harris Miriam Harris Wynd Harris Robert S. Harrison ’07 and Heather W. Harrison ’10 Stan Harrison + Rebecca L. Harris-Warrick ’70 + Becky Hart David S. Hart Julie E. Hart ’94 Martha Hart ’05 + David Harte and Kathleen Wilhoite Gabby Hartman ’21 Jacob Hartog ’12 + Sue Hartshorn Drew Hartzell Wilhelmina A. Haruk + Smadar Harush Jada-Amina Harvey Frederic Harwood Dr. Ahmad Hashemi and Evalyn Seidman + Elizabeth and Nick Haskell Grant Haskell Joseph Hasselberger Ruksapol and Holly Hatch-Surisook Ann Hatke Debrah Piston Hatlen Carolina Hausmann-Stabile Laura Hawkinson ’99 John Haworth + Elizabeth Hayes Anthony Haynor Xiaoyan He Douglas Heacock and Carolyn Heacock Evangeline Heath Amy Hebard Patrice L. Heber Sara Yakira Heckelman ’76 Fai Hegberg Wally C. Henriquez ’18 Angela Heifner Grace Heilig Malley Bragg Heinlein Laure Heinz Linda Helbling ’85 Jeri and Greg Held Jonathan Helfgott ’06 Anne C. Heller + Lucy Heller Sarah H. Heller ’95 Ronald Hellman Dr. Dennis O. Helmuth Dr. Nancy S. Hemmes Margaret Hempel + Jodi Henderson ˆ Polly E. Heninger + Marlene Hennessy ’90 Christine Heppermann Joel Herbst Lizzy Herbst Priscilla Herdman Peter Herman ’73 + José Luis Hernández Sánchez Lloyd Herod Roy L. Herrmann ’76 Beth L. Herstein + Carly Hertica ˆ Jacqueline P. Hertz Patricia Isis Heslin

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Charles Hess and Heidi Levitt + Joseph Hester Rudd and Gina Hetrick Kaet Heupel Juliet Heyer + Sabine Heylen William Hibsher and Richard Orient + Clyde I. Hicks Nicholas Hiebert Barbara Hiesiger ’75 Paul G. Higgins and Jill Welch Prof. Susan Higgins PhD Stephen A. Higginson Christina Hill Jane Hill ’68 + Kurt T. Hill ’72 + Marsha L. Hill and Joshua Wilner Patricia A. Hill Roger and Louise Hill + Carlien Hillebrink + Pavel Hillel Rhadhija Hilliard Ben I. Hillman and Amy W. Rudnick Brenda Hillman Ira Hillman and Jeremy Barber Howard C. Himelstein Leilani Himmelstein ˆ David Hincapie ˆ Jessica deCourcy Hinds ˆ Patricia Hinkein Marta Hinkle ˆ Eric Hinsdale Adam Hirsch and Jessica Hirsch + Ruth J. Hirsch ’71 Jack Hirschfeld ’59 + ˆ Anna Lee Hirschi David I. Hirsh + Kei Hiruta Amy Hitt Bonnie and Petr Hlinomaz + Holden P. Hlinomaz ’20 Dawn Hluhan Emily Hoag Karen and Perry Hoag Richard R. and Karen W. Hobbins Jenny Hobbs Jesse Hochheiser ’06 Barry and Frances Hodes ’61 Vivienne J. Hodges Heather Lynn Hoecker Kathleen Hoekstra Anne G. Hoffman Eric Hoffman ’81 + Ina Hoffman Michael Hoffman Michelle D. Hoffman + ˆ Nelson M. Hoffman Stephen J. Hoffman Deborah Hoffman Lanser Renee Hoffman-Tratt Annette and Thomas Hofmann + Michael K. Hofmann MFA ’15 + Lisbet Samdahl Hoiden + Jeanne Stibman Holden ’77 + Peter A. Holland ’86 Susan Holland + Charles F. Hollander ’65 + Wayne R. Holmen Benjamin Holmes Karen Holmes and John Henke Sally Cade Holmes Terrell K. Holmes Stephen Jon Holowid Scott C. Holstad Dr. Katharine Holt Mika Holtz

Patty Holtzman Kevin Curry & Suzanne Holzberg Lucy Doris Holzhausen Theresa Hom Melanie Hook ˆ Ava H. Hoover Maggie Hopp ’67 + Nancy Hoppin William Horan Lois Horgan Nancy Hornstein Paul J. Horowitz and Ruth Jaffe + Sam Horowitz ’10 Walt Horstman Cathrin Hoskinson Tanya P. and Thomas L. Hotalen Mark Houghtaling Jenny Hourihan Alan Houston James Gavin Houston + Adam Howard ’04 Anita Howarth ˆ Christine and David Howe Simon Howe ’11 Cary Howie ’97 + Roman Hrab and Jennifer Murray + ˆ Maurice Hryshko ’85 Scott Huang + Alexis B. Hubshman ’93 ˆ Dr. K. F. Huck Sandra Huckaby and Patrick Huckaby Gwir Huddleston Deborah J. Hudzik Carla Stough Huffman ’90 Belinda Hughes + Ingrid Blaufarb Hughes + ˆ Kimberly and Judah Hughes Patti Hughes + Katherine Huling Maureen Hull ’86 + Jennifer Hunt Denise Hunte Wenda Hunter and Paul Meyer Miriam Huppert ’13 + Donald ’65 and Elizabeth Hurowitz + Barbara and Sven Huseby + Laurie Husted Jeannie Hutchins Kai Hutton ’21 Nicholas E. Hvozda MBA ’17 Elaine Marcotte Hyams ’69 and Paul R. Hyams + David Scott Hyde ’96 and Dara Z. Roark ’96 John Hyland Laura A. Hymson Ari-Elmeri Hyvonen Stefanie Ida Dr. Malcolm G. Idelson Courtney Igbo-Ogbonna Andrea Igl Robe Imbriano Catherine A. Imbriglio + Jenny Imhoff Michael Infanger and Denise S. Mahoney Anthony and Janet Ingraffea Julia Ireland David Irons and Julie Boak Peter M. Irwin ’67 Alumit Ishai Zachary Israel ’12 + Randi L. Israelow ’89 Chiara Issa ’05 Judah Isseroff Michael Ives

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Morimi and Midori Iwama + J Earl H. Jackel ’59 Hillary Jackson Sarah Jackson T. Luke Jackson ’18 Robert Jacob Rita D. Jacobs Al Jacobsen Edward Jacobson Josiah Jacobus-Parker ’10 + Jonathan Jacoby Ronnie Sue Jaffe Denisse Mendoza Jaimes Casey Blue James Debra A. James + Rabbi Marisa E. James Vivien James ’75 and Michael Shapiro ’75 + Patricia F. James-Bailey ’92 Linda Jämsén ’80 Meg Janssen & J. Delanty The Mark Jaquette Family Lisa M. Jarvis ’97 Alexandra Jason ’11 Bruce B. Jawer ˆ j.d.d.u.k.e. Per Jebsen + Maureen Jeffreys Majid Jelveh and Marybeth Shaw Leigh K. Jenco ’99 + ˆ Emma Jenkins and Ivey Long Karen J. Jenkins Joanna M. Jenner Jill Jensen + Kim Jessor Min Hwyei Jeung Diane Jeynes Lan Jiang Celeste A. Johns Bridgette Johnson ˆ Cynthia M. Johnson Elizabeth M. Johnson Michael H. Johnson ’16 Rebeccah Johnson ’03 + Roger A. Johnson ’68 and Catherine Sheehan Roxanne Johnson Stephanie Johnson ’06 Lorraine Johnson-Coleman Ihnji Jon Steven Jonas MD Barton and Debby Jones + Nathalie Kanoelani Takiko Jones ’21 Stephen Jones Theresa Jones Violet ’14 and Gordon Jones Charles Jordan Meghan Jordan ’07 Renee Jordan Jan Jorgensen ’81 China Jorrin ’86 and Anne H. Meredith ’86 Ann Joseph Toni Josey ’02 and Allen Josey + Susan Joslin ’74 + Ellen Jouret-Epstein & Martin A. Epstein Ellen Joy Tina Joy-Montano Profs. Craig and Brooke Jude + John H. Juhl ’72 + Jeff Jurgens + Karen Kaczmar Anna K. Kaczynska ’06 Dr. Stephanie Kadison + Arnold Kahgan

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Supporters, cont. Linda G. Kahn Emma Kalff Raha Kalhor ’00 Mary Louise Kalin Marsha P. Kalina Michelle Kalka Anthology Kamai Melinda and Peter Kaminsky + Elif Kamisli Bob and Vickie Kampf + Adrianne Kamsler Arnold Kanarick Craig Kanarick and Rebecca Odes Ezra Kanarick Kathy Kane and Jay Kane Patty L. and Robert F. Kane + Daniel H. Kanhofer Dr. Ronald J. Kantor ’76 Loan-Anh Kao + George Kaperonis and Elizabeth Kaperonis Sergio Kapfer and Daphna Krim Eben I. Kaplan ’03 + Gail Kaplan Heidi Kaplan Janina Kaplan ’08 Jennifer Kaplan Dr. Steven Kaplan and Anemone Schweizer-Kaplan Deanne and Stephen Kapnick Joern Karhausen Kenneth Karpel Piotr Karpiak and Katarzyna Karpiak Dr. M. Phillip Kasofsky Kate, Matt, and Felix + ˆ Raina Kattelson Bob Katz and Laura Mandelson Jamie Katz Jeffrey and Mary Katz + Joshua Katz Liza (Young) Katz ’11 + Jacqueline Katzen and Craig Zisman Ken Kauffman Kent Kaufman Aseem Kaul Linda L. Kaumeyer Robert E. Kaus Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos ’82 Carole Kaye Pam Gilbert Kaye ’66 Tom Keane Simon Keefer Conor MacLeod Keenan ’02 James Keenan Thomas Keenan and Laura Kurgan + Susan and Peter Keitel Kimberly Keith Roz Keller Grace A. Kellman Charlotte Mandell Kelly ’90 and Robert Kelly + Daniel R. Kelly ’11 David C. Kelly and Allan C. MeNeely Dennis J. and Jennifer M. Kelly Patrick Michael Kelly ’17 Susan Brooks Kelly Andrew D. Kemp ’08 + ˆ Dan and Susan Kemp + Margaret Laurena Kemp Jennifer Kendall Helene Kendler Ann Marie Kennedy Susan and Roger Kennedy + Francoise and Dr. William Kenney K. Elliott Kenney ’13 ˆ Debbie and Kendall Kennison

Julia Kent Letizia Konderak Hans Kern ’14 + ˆ Patricia Q. Konopka ’68 + David and Janet E. Kettler + Douglas A. Koop and Constance Rudd + Jackie A. Keveson ’73 James Koopman + Keyser-Butson family Eric Kooyman and Cecily Lang Annastasia Kezar Andrew Kopas ’08 Merly Morris Khouw Sandra A. Kopell and Eric W. Kuhn + Rebecca S. Kidd Elinor Kopmar ’52 + Debra Kiefer Paula Koppish Frank and Sandra Kiepura Ann Z. Korelitz Arthur Kilongo ’20 + David M. Korn ’83* and Paul Kim Claire K. Surovell ’84 + ˆ Sue Kim Jane Kornbluh Betsy Kimball Anne Kornhauser + Ben King ’03 + Sara Kornhauser ’11 Jean King + Sheryl Korsnes ’88 Mallory L. King ’85 Richard Kortright and Claudia Rosti + Mark King and Sara Zaslow TJ Kostecky Neil King and Diana King Neil Kotey ’91 + Paul King Sophie I. Kovel Rachael King ˆ Carmen Kovens Roger Kingsepp and Herve Lafond Susan Kramarsky ’73 and Lisa S. King-Smith and Lawrence J. Merrill ’71 Bernard King-Smith Edie Kramer The Kingstone-Frei Family Sue Kramer Richard Kipling + Dr. Penny A. Krainin ’90 Noah Kippley-Ogman and Liz O’Connell + David Kraskow and Liz Hess Lola Kirke ’12 ˆ Kim G. Krause MFA ’94 + Dr. Joseph Kirtland and Arlene Krebs ’67 + Mrs. Cynthia Kirtland Jocelyn E. Krebs ’91 and Helene Kisch Susannah Morgan Nikki Kisch ’57 Benjamin Krevolin + Alisa Kishta Meg Allyn Krilov and James Fogel Glenn J. Kissack and Sylvia B. Schaindlin Mary Ann Krisa + Dr. Inna Kissen Leopold Krist ’99 Cary Kittner ’79 Jan Krogh ˆ David Kizirian Roger Kropf + Gavin W. Kleespies ’96 and Tamara Kruger Gabriel Robinson ’96 Ed Krupat Adam Klein Harriet G. and Robert W. Kruszyna + Augusta J. Klein ’17 Nanci Astwood Kryzak + Brenda Klein Dr. Nicholas T. Ktistakis ’83 James Klein ’67 + Eugene D. Kublanovsky ’98 + Katherine Klein Joachim Kubler + ˆ Peter Taylor Klein + Melora Kuhn Rhoda A. Klein Marcel and Cyril Kuhns ’16 Adam Kleinbaum Miodrag Kukrika Ronald Kleinhandler Dr. Roy and Amy Kulick + Linda Kleinhenz Kristy Kun Peter B. Kejna Peter Kuniholm Catherine M. Kleszczewski ’91 Steven and Judith Kunreuther + Meghan A. Kling (née Mazzacone) ’03 + Peter A. Kuper and Betty H. Russell + Ulrike Klopfer + Michael Kurlan Kevin Klose and Deborah T. Ashford Carl and Natalie Kurlander Michael Knaggs Christine and Matthew Kurlander Alice E. Knapp ’82 + ˆ Mary Kuryla and Eugene Yelchin Mary Susan Knauss ’81 Lindsy Kurzdorfer ˆ Linnea Knollmueller ’96 + Andrea Kust Alex Knopp Jan Kuzminski Kim Knowlton and Adam Coulter Vigdis Kvam Ayoka Perkins Knox ˆ Bonnie Kwan ˆ Jon W. Knudsen Billy Kwon ’18 Jane Knuth Rachel Kwon ˆ Andrea Knutson Zineb Laalj Christine Koch The Labby King Family + Jeremy Koch Carol E. Lachman Michael Koch ’81 Seth Lachterman Teri Kodrich ˆ W. Benjamin Lackey ’91 + Linda Koenigsberg David LaCrone Harvey Koeppel Annik LaFarge Kathleen Kofsky Andrew Lake for Justin Honce Avi Kogan Robert Lake Ernest Kohlmetz ’66 Peter Laki Jerome H. Kohn + Debra Laks Christopher and Sarah Kolda Kate LaLonde ˆ Mara Kolesas

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Margaret and John Bard Society members’ names are bolded

Stephanie Lamartine-Schwartz ’85 and David M. Schwartz ’84 Julie Lambert Drs. Cynthia and Stephen LaMotte Bill Lampeter Franziska Lamprecht Tia J. Landau ’84 + Alyssa R. Landers ’10 Dr. Lisa Aldin Landley ’76 + Brooks Landon Sara and Stephen Landon + Lara J. Landrum ’00 Faye Landsman Raquel Laneri Gerry Lang Joann Rosenberger Lang ’48 Justin Lang Patricia Langan and George Peck Steven J. Lann Shirley Lans Susan Lapinski Connie Laport + ˆ Allyson Larkin + Alessandra Larson Katherine Laqueur Larson Adrienne S. Larys ’67 + David Lascelles Patricia J. Lasher + Sarah E. Lasseron ’11 Donald Lateiner Amee LaTour Jennifer Lauby Karen A. Laudon Tesair Elise Lauve Jeannine Laverty J. P. Lawrence ’14 Kate Lawrence ’04 + Spencer ’64 and Carol Rawitz Layman ’65 Sarania Lazar Damianos V. Lazaridis Giannopoulos ’13 + Ingrid Lazerwitz Jonathan Leader + ˆ Marjorie M. Leake Eugene L. Lebwohl ’74 + Nicholas S. Lecchi ’16 Dr. Paolo Lecchi and Dr. Alessandra C. Rovescalli + Joshua S. Ledwell ’96 Alfred Lee + Camilla F. Lee + Christin Lee Debra A. Lee Heide Lee Jennifer Lee Joseph Lee Josette Lee ’99 Margaret Lee Patricia Lee Shawna Lee + Jeanette Leehr Monique Legendre Anne Legene and Laurence D. Wallach Christine LeGoff ’86 + Rhonda and Ronald Lehrer Stephanie R. Leighton ’80 Warren Leijssius ’04 + Mary Lemanek Elizabeth Lemieux Nohela Lemus Katherine M. Lenahan Roberta Lenner Arthur S. Leonard E. Deane and Judith S. Leonard + Lauren Lepore David Lerner Stephanie Lerner

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Roxanne and Timothy A. LeRoy Shannon Leslie Brandon Lev ’14 Daniel A. Lev + Aviva Lev-Ari PhD RN Peter J. and Susan B. LeVangia + Levenson Family Dr. Robert G. Levenson ’67 + Monica Jakuc Leverett Robert B. Levers ’78 + Howard Philip Levin Zarah Joy Levin-Fragasso ’05 Amala and Eric Levine + ˆ Bruce Levine Daniel H. Levine Noah Levine ’09 Susan J. Levine ’87 Mindy Levinson Daphna Levit + Jeffrey Levitsky and Laurie Posner MD Richard Levitt The Levy Family, Brooklyn Iris Levy ’76 + Edward Lewine Ann E. Lewinson ’86 Jack A. Lewis ’02 Leslie J. Lewis Richard A. Lewis ’58 + Tish Lewis Ayala Leyser William L’Hommedieu + ˆ Bing Li Jean Liang Amelia Elyse Libbey Ann and Robert Libbey Victoria and Scott Licamele ’91 Eric Lichtenfeld + Steven A. Lichtin ’14 Cherice N. Lide Erika Lieber Judith A. Lieberman MFA ’87 Gail Liebhaber Maureen H. Liebler ’68 + Laura Liebman + ˆ Jamie Liebold and William Liebold II Michele L. Liendecker ’90 + Rena Liggio Ann Lillya and Ian McFarland Zhong Lin and Guoqin Wang Lee and Karl Walter Lindenlaub + Richard Linder Vicki E. Lindner ’66 + Phillip Lindow Claire Lindsay Mickey Lindsay Zihan Ling Gary Linnen Martin S. Lippman Susan A. ’73 and William S. ’72 Lippman Jr. Dr. Marc R. Lipsius ’63 Benjamin Lipton Michael and Susan Litman + James Liu Wendy and John Livingston + Tom and Wendell Livingston and family Paula Lockard ’70 Loey R. Lockerby ’93 Ann R. Loeb Linda Loffredo Hollis Logan and Robert Weinberg Arlene D. London + ˆ Jaime Longhi Andrea Longini and Michaël Devyver ˆ Ivy G. Loo + Lillian Lopez

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Linda Lopez + Stephanie Lopez Jennifer Lord ˆ Gaby Loredo Annelies Lottman Kelly Loughran Catherine R. Lovizio ’21 Rev. William C. B. Lowe ’66 and Linda Lowe + Anne Lowell Paul Lowrey Dr. Douglas Lowy and Beverly Mock + Wallace A. Loza ’63 + Yadhira Lozano Matt Lucas ’01 Seth Lucas Paula Lucatelli Frank E. Lucente Ursula Ludz + ˆ Charles & Mary Ellen Lukavsky ˆ Erin and Ross Lum Lissa ’68 and McKee ’69 Lundberg + Carole Frances Lung-Bazile Helene Lupatkin Alex Luscher Kay Lustberg-Goldbeck + Lily G. Lustig ’21 Meredith G. Lustig Karla and Arthur Lutz Sarah Lux-Lee Philip Lyford ’69 and Mary Lyford + Michael Lyle George Lyles Andrew Lyman-Clarke ’05 Eileen Lynch Grace Lynch and John Curry Megan Lynch BCEP ’18 Nina Lynch + Clarissa T. Lyons VAP ’11 Nick Lyons ’60 + Amie A. Macdonald Jean MacDonald Laura MacDonald ’87 Neil Macdonald Dr. Linda R. MacGorman Sydney Macinnis Darren Mack ’13 + Max Macken John P. MacKenzie + Stephanie Mackenzie-Smith Kenneth MacLeish ’01 and Rachael Pomerantz ’01 Patty and Bruce MacLeish Heather Macon John Macready Ainesh Madan ’15 ˆ Dr. Jennifer H. Madans ’73 + John Madden Jr. and Liz Cooke Ruby Maddox Lisa and Dan Madera Michael Madigan Anthony Madrid Faith U. Maduka Maya Madzharova ’08 Laurie Magid Natalie Magioncalda Gabrielle Mahler ’94 Terrence Mahon + James E. Mahood ’71 Helgard Mahrdt ˆ Peter Maida Tom M. Maiello ’82 ˆ Lois Mair Antoinette Major ’80 Jon Makhmaltchi Daniel Maki

Robert Malcolm ’63 + Maryanne Malecki Konstancja Maleszynska MBA ’19 Susan Malfa and Jonathan Rose Lalita Malik Lynn A Maliszewski CCS ’17 Sandra C. Maliszewki and Andrew J. Maliszewski Fran Mallery + Gayatri and Tony Malmed + Julie Malnig May Mamiya Kristin Mammen Dati Mamukelashvili ’17 Andrew Mandel Frank Mandell ’13 Marcella Mandracchia ’07 Melanie Manion Charlotte Mann Lisa and Tony Manne Sara Mannheimer ’03 + ˆ Daniel S. Manning + Janet L. Manning Katina Manoli Nancy Manter Dara B. Marcus ’02 Madalyn Marcus Efrem Marder ’73 Deanne Marein-Efron ’61 Harvey Marek + Lauriel H. Marger Kirk Margoles Bonnie Margulis Paul Marienthal and Amii LeGendre Victoria E. Marino ’16 Patchen Markell Pamela Markham ˆ Rachel Marks Webster ’11 Michael ’03 and Sara K. ’02 Marlin + Tom and Maureen Marlow Heather Finn Marney Walter Maroney and Karen Rosenberg Kathleen K. Marsh ’86 + Phyllis Marsteller Andrew J. Martin Barry Martin Charlotte G. Martin + Elizabeth Martin Will Martin Cynthia A. Martin-Moucha Juliet Martine and John Baker Juan R. Martinez ’04 Nancy (Coco) Martinez ’71 Neftali Martinez ’77 Setsuko Maruhashi Tony Marzani ’68 and Harry Schroder + Lynne Maser Fulvia Masi and William Tanksley + Judy Masi Arthur F. Maslow Christine I. Mason Mark Mason ’84 Sonja Mason Jon Massey ’85 + ˆ Paul Massi Cameli Jason Mastbaum ’10 Vincent J. Mateo John and Sarah Mathews + John Francis Mathews Kevin Matson + Melissa Matson Drs. Helen and Randolph Matthews Lucy and George Mattingly + Meghann Matwichuk Annie Maurer Sian May

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Virginia M. and Guenther W. May Dale L. Mayer Deborah Mayer Eva Mayer Robin Mayer ˆ Roland W. Mayer + Nancy Mayne Ilaria Mazzocco ’08 Tom McAndrew Rita McBride ’82 Karen McCabe and Sean McCabe Marcia McCabe Karen McCarthy ˆ Dr. Lea McChesny ’76 and Christopher Burnett + Molly McClarnon Andrew and Dawn McClellan Alecia and Peter McClure Theodore McCombs Joseph McConaty II and Meredith Ferber Kristin Sue McCool Ashleigh McCord ’08 ˆ Robert J. McDermott + Ian McDonald Laurie McDonald Lois S. McDonald Sean McDonald Mark V. McEvoy Patricia McFarland Susan-Lloyd McGarry ’76 Brian McGowan Ian McGrady ’92 Travis McGrath ’11 + Mark McGuire + ˆ Erinn McGurn Eugene R. McHugh CCS ’09 + Andrew McIntosh ’97 + Linda J. McIntosh Mary McIntyre Zachary K. McIntyre ’21 Courtney J. McKeldin and Theodore R. McKeldin Jr. James McLachlan Scott McLain Laurel Vera McLaughlin Don and Evelyn McLean + Anna J. McLellan ’83 + Rebecca McLennan and Rebecca Groves Kevin H. McLoughlin MBA ’19 Ian McMahon ’17 David and Elizabeth McMillan Michael A. McMillen ’68 Sally McMillen Daniel J. McMinn Robert McMinn John McNally David McNeeley ’11 Bradley McNeil Douglas A. McNeill Theresa McNichol Michael D. McNulty ’77 Robert McQueen Walter R. Mead + Wendy S. Mead ’91 Jon Meador Robert S. and Susan W. B. Meehan Ann H. Mehaffey Caryn Mehler and Barry Mehler H. Craig Meichert Deborah W. Meier Marjorie N. Meinhardt Emily J. Melendes TŌN’20 Audrey Melkin Delia Mellis ’86 + Melissa Melpignano Laura Melton

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Supporters, cont. Evan R. Meltzer + Hilary and Harold Meltzer Julia Meltzer + ˆ Leslie Ann Melvin Branham C. Menard Tessa Clare Menatian ’17 Katherine E. Menconeri CCS ’09 Gabriel Mendes Michelle Mendez Sylvia Mendez ’06 Harold Menendez Saraswathi Menon Linda C. Meredith Shirley Merino ’21 Lara Merling ’14 LEI ’16 + Christine Mermier Mr. and Mrs. Angelo Merola + Morton Merowitz Susan Merriam Alessandra Merrill ’06 Elyse J. Merryman Clarissa Messer ’19 Lindsay E. Messoline ˆ Carlin Meyer + Gale and William Meyer Melanie A. Meyer ’02 Karen Meyers Victor Meyers Najet I. Miah ’18 Ryn Miake-Lye + Frank Miata Jaime Michaels Leni Michaels Kieley Michasiow-Levy and Matt Levy + EJ Michel Rikki Michels Claire Elizabeth Michie ’02 and Benjamin Sternthal + ˆ Beverly S. Mickey Sarah W. Middeleer Joanna M. Migdal + Warren R. Mikulka + Nara Milanich + Franny Milberg Anne M. Mildner Louis Milgrom Ann Miller Anne B. Miller Carol H. Miller Gary Miller Gregory R. Miller Howard Miller Jacob Miller James Miller Jane P. Miller and Steven H. Miller ’70 + Joan and William Miller Jone Miller and Steven Schoen Joyce L. Miller Kimberly K. Miller ’91 + Lawrence Miller Leta E. Miller Lior Miller Megan R. Miller Morgan E. Miller ’95 + ˆ Amanda Millet-Sorsa Steven Millies Robert Milligan Jr. + Janet C. Mills + Wynnter F. Millsaps ’21 Rakhel Milstein ’97 and Scott Milstein ’96 Melanie Mintz and Norman Mintz Karen Mintzer Nicolas Minutillo Dr. David Paul Mirsky ’57 Charles Mishaan Neville Mistri ˆ

Katalin Mitchell Frank Myers Paul and Geraldine Mitchell Joanne Myers + Liana Mitlyng Day ’13 + Jordan A. Myers Alison and John Mix Lindsay Myers Karen E. Moeller and Charles H. Talleur + Richard Myers Mary Moeller Priscilla N. Myerson ’67 Joel P. Moerschel Karam Nachar Barbara Moffat Myrna Nachman Chad Mohler Lyndsay Nadeau Shakeerah Mohmed Richard M. Nadeau ’75 and Jane Nadeau ˆ Shannon Mohrman ’08 Walter Naegle Grace L. Molinaro Joan Nagle ˆ Jeanette M. Molinaro Andrew Nagy Lawrence Molinaro and Jade Nakabayashi Whitney Redding Rachel K. Nalecz ’18 Alexandra Molot Tenzin C. Namgyal ’20 Rory Mondshein ’14 Erin Nantais Vivian Monsanto Christina Napolitano ˆ Katherine K. Montague + Laurie E. Naranch Jazmine Montoya Theresa Natalicchio and Chrystina Montuori-Sorrentino ’05 William Mezzomo + Natalie Moon Sonia and Thomas Nath Jubilith M. Moore ’91 Jane Nathanson and Andrew Newman Scot Moore ’14 TŌN ’18 Nicolas Nealon Ulvert M. Moore Tara Needham Coralie Gram Moorhead ’72 + Anne Neeley ˆ Cairo Moorman Thomas Neely + Marcos A. Morales ’90 + Valerie Nehez ’87 Martha Moran and George Meyer + Laura Neibart Michael J. Moran + Sharon Neier Tao Moran Karleen H. Neill and Baynard G. Raper Francisco Morel ’13 Melanie Neilson Daniel & Nayeli Moreno Catherine Nelson and Andrew Lenhart Abigail Morgan ’96 Rabbi David Nelson and Frederick C. Morgan ’77 Rachel Jewelewicz-Nelson + Fred Justin Morgan Devin Conrad Berg Nelson Gary Morgan + Maran Nelson Ken and Lindsay Morgan + Mary Nelson Margot Morgan Mary Lee Nelson Nicholas Morgan ˆ Paula M. Nelson and John Kleinhans Patrick Moriarty + ˆ Rowshan Nemazee Michael Morini ’03 Lenore Nemeth Grayson Morley ’13 + Natalie Nenadic Matthew K. Moroson Jessica Neptune ’02 + Anne M. Morris-Stockton ’68 + David Ness Minna Scherlinder Morse ’88 Jan Neuenschwander Jason F. Mortara MBA ’18 Patrick Nevada ’16 Andrea and Martin Mosbacher + David L. Newhoff ’88 and Bee Moser Scarlett O’Leary ’89 Diana J. Moser ’85 + Andrew Newman ’01 Dana Moskowitz Katherine Newman Benjamin Rocco Moss ’16 Lisa Newmann ’75 Gina Moss ’78 + NGEN, LLC Patti Moss Kenneth and Mary Nichols Stephen Most and Claire Schoen + ˆ Andrew J. Nicholson ’94 + Alfred Motsinger ’77 Andrea G. and Christopher H. Nielsen Kate Moulene Dr. Brian Nielsen ’71 Cynthia Moyer Carol Niles and Phillip Niles + Coralie and Gerry Mueller Sophie Niles ’21 Carolyn Mufson + Sarah Ann Nisenson ’62 + Laura J. Muller ’90 + Michael Nishball Rosemary Mulligan Jeff and Anne Nissim Belinda Munsell Marilyn Nissim-Sabat Alexa Murphy Stan and Bette Nitzky Brianne Murphy Linda and Tod O. Nixon Judy Murphy ˆ John A. Noakes ’84 Kathleen Murphy Sarah T. Noble Strohm ’21 Leah S. Murphy ’11 Michael Noga Linda Murphy ’88 + Michael and Rebecca Nolan + Mary Murray Nicole Cunningham Nolan Amalya Murrill Darien Nolin Patrick Murtagh ’07 + Mary Noll Rose Musolino Mehdi Noorani Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce Nora, Amber, and Troy Samuel Raja Mutter Ryan Northington Eric Myers Dr. Brianna Norton ’00 +

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Margaret and John Bard Society members’ names are bolded

Dr. Kerri-Ann Norton ’04 + ˆ Abby Notterman + Zoe Nousiainen Dorothy Novick and Peter Kenney + Jennifer Novik ’98 + ˆ Louise Novotny Amanda Nowak Leonie Nowitz Gail R. Nunes Gail R. Nussbaum + Tara Nussbaum Kirsten Nussbaumer Donna Nussinow-Burns ’79 + Eric Nyberg Arliss Nygard ’75 Susan Oberman + M. Anne O’Connell Patricia Odell Elizabeth O’Donnell George J. O’Donnell ’90 Maria O’Donovan Marc Offenbach Margaux Ogden ’05 + Tabitha Oh Patricia O’Hanlon Denis O’Hare ˆ Nicole Okoh ˆ Sandra M. Olliges + Sophia C. Olmsted ’92 and Robert B. Santos ’90 Lance Olsen Thelma Olsen + Kristin Olson Richard P. Olson and Kris H. Sahonchik + Sonja L. Olson ’98 + Susan O’Malley Lynn O’Neal Elizabeth O’Neil Mary O’Neill Robert O’Neill Sean F. O’Neill ’97 + Njideka Onuekwusi Ursula Oppens Michael Orbach + ˆ Steven A. Orenstein + Ana N. Orians ˆ Thomas Orlando + Jose M. Orozco Natasha Orzeck-Byrnes Lithgow Osborne Dr. Maureen L. Osborne ’76 William Osborne Jonathan ’52* and Iris M. ’52 Oseas Kathleen Osgood ’86 Rana Osman Heather Osowiecki Melaine S. Oster ’94 Phyllis Oster Thomas Ostrofsky + Patricia O’Sullivan Marilyn and Peter Oswald + Cindy Ott ˆ Suzanne Ouellette + Judy Oulund Charles and Susan Oviatt Kim Ovrutsky Richard D. Owens Jen Ozols Tracy ’93 Jasmine P ˆ Guadalupe Pacheco and Linda Hanten Alice Pack Dr. Louis Packer and Ellen R. Varosi Carolyn Pagan Gwendolyn and Nick J. Pagliante Dwight Paine Jr. ’68 + Rachel J. Paine

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Jeffrey W. Palmer + Nicole R. Pamani MBA ’20 Davide Panagia Penny Panoulias Carole Papale Gustav Papanek Aristotle Papnikolaou Sky Pape and Alan C. Houghton + Aikya Param Lucy Park Su Park ˆ Robert and Martha Parke + Douglas Parker Ellen Parker ’71 Jeanette Parker Linda Levey Parker ’72 Liza Parker and Frank Migliorelli Whitney Parkerton ’04 William F. Parlato ’72 Amy ’99 and Daniel S. Parrella Sarah Parsons ˆ Jack G. Parton ˆ Denny Partridge + Catherine Paschal Gary S. Patrik + Jeffery and Faye Patterson ˆ Tyler Patterson ’12 Gary A. Patton + Lucy H. Patton-Petty and David C. Petty + Caroline Paulson + Karena Pavon ˆ Jessica M. Payne Karen Payne Andrew Ross Payton ’05 + ˆ Virginia Clare Payton ’14 Manuela Paz Clifford Pearlman Rachel Pearsall ’97 + Elizabeth Pearson Karen Pearson and Matt Wright + Alexandria Peary Erin Peck Yarema ’02 + John M. Pedergast Lucy Pedrana Deborah Pege Alea Peister Patricia Pelizzari George A. Pelletier Jr. ’92 + John Pelosi Peter Peltz ’69 Holly Pemberton Joseph L. Pennacchio + Leslie Pepper Sarina Pepper Rev. Jonathan B. Percival ’71 Catherine Perea Celestino Perez Elizabeth D. Perez Steve Perez Maria Perez Diaz Susan N. Perkins + George and Shirley Perle + Joel and Rivka Perlmann Kylea Perrott ˆ Dr. David G. Perry ’67 + Donna Perry and Neill S. Rosenfeld + Vicky Perry James J. Peters ˆ Adam Peterson Anne S. Peterson Brittany Peterson Daniel J. Peterson ’88 Matthew Petock Evan Petratos ’21 Ellen Petrino Joseph Petrucelli +

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Mather B. Pfeiffenberger Patty Emily Pforte ’08 + Hoang Pham ˆ Thinh T. Pham ’16 Kathryn Phelan Leslie Phelps Carmen Phillips Eileen Phillips Elizabeth Phillips and Mark Naison Harry Phillips III John Phillips + Kathryn Noel Phillips Sandra S. Phillips ’67 Gabriela Philo ’15 + ˆ Susan Picard John Piccolini Adrianne E. Pierce + ˆ Thea Piltzecker ’11 + Janet Pincus Jim Pingel Alla Pinsky Zorian Pinsky Denise T. Pitcher + Jennifer Plassman and Bruce Polin Maxwell C. Platoff ’09 Mary L. Platt Nancy Platt Daniel Plaxe Jacob Plotkin Peter A. Poccia Ben Pocock Ronald and Mayda Podell + Lisa Podos and Michael Wais Isaac Pohl-Zaretsky Joseph H. Polifroni Gina Pollara Peter Pollock + David Poma John Pomeranz Russell and Christine S. Pomeranz Sarah Poor Adelman ’90 and Michael Adelman ’90 + Cristina Popescu Charles Popper Beth Porter and Brooks Crichlow Don Porter Ethan Porter ’07 Katherine Porter Marcy ’79 and Scott L. ’79 Porter Jr. + Susy Porter and Jonas Basom James Porter-Brown and Quayny Porter-Brown Stephen Portman ’56 Luke Posniewski Barbara J. Post + Barbara P. Potashkin Penny Potter PhD ˆ Soroush Pour Charles E. Powell Freya Powell ’06 and Anubhav Tibrewal ’07 Michael and Reita Powell + Sandy & Bob Powell Marion Power Sara Powers ’87 David Pozorski and Anna Romanski Megan Prado Susan Prager Iris S. and Michael I. Present + Eric Press Zach Press Paige Pressley Gregory Pressman Stan Pressner Rhea E. Pretsell + Marilyn Prevatte

Jenny Prewo-Harbord + Janie Prim Mark R. Primoff Timothy Prinz Annemarie Procter Arnold Pronto Clint Pross and Amy Ecker ˆ Samuel Provost ’97 Dr. Tatiana Prowell ’94 ˆ Christopher J. Pryslopski ’97 + Elizabeth I. Przybylski ’06 Aris Psyhojos Elizabeth Pugh Natalie Pulliam Edward Purcell Abhay Puskoor ’08 Elizabeth Quackenbush Brocklin Qualls Denny Quinn Jules R. Mitchell J. Rabin ’76 Robert J. Rabin and Barbara W. Rabin Joy Rabinowitsch-Veron ’95 + Anna Rabinowitz and Martin J. Rabinowitz + Dr. Fredric E. and Janet W. Rabinowitz Donna-Marie and John Radman Marcia Radosevich Alice Radosh Allison (Villone) Radzin ’88 Reazur Rahman ’04 + Cara Raich Didi Ralph Mike Ramey Brianna Raposo Patrick Rathje Benjamin Ratner Suzanne K. and Bruce Rauffenbart + Yael Ravin and Dr. Howard E. Sachar ’68 + Jude L. Ray and Paul Trapido Linda Leigh Ray Susan Ray Reginald Raye ’10 + ˆ Diana Rayzberg Kathryn Rebillot Abby Reczek Natalie Redcross Chris Redford ˆ Tricia Redor Elizabeth L. Reed ’90 Sarah B. and Thomas A. Reed + Christopher Reeves Jennifer T. Reeves ’93 and William Wu + Kenneth Regal Reggie Emma G. Rehfeld ’18 James D. Reich Heather Reid Linda Reifler Nicholas M. Reilingh + Kathleen Reilly ˆ Chloe R. Reimann ’18 Gay F. and Peter H. Reimann Christine Reimer John A. Reiner ’74 Barbara B. Reis Vivian Reiss Adam Reiswig Susan Reiter Elizabeth Rejonis ’89 Robert Renbeck Catherine Renggli Howard Renner Christine Reppucci Peter G. Restler and Susan Restler

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Joan Retallack Ellen R. and Ronald L. Reuter Amaury Reyes Rachel Reyes Rob Reynolds ’94 Erica and Anderson Ribeiro P’24 Chiara Ricciardone Joan Spielberg Rich ’63 Patrick Rich Nancy Richard Parker Richard Richard Cohen Films Alex Richards ’01 Cynthia R. Richards Karen D. Richards Thomas Richardson Anthony H. Richter Pamela S. and William L. Richter + Amy C. Rick ’81 Diana C. Rickard ’89 Patricia Rieker Dr. Catherine K. Riessman ’60 + Susan Riley Christopher Riley ’93 + Jean Rincon (Rogers) ’72 Brian Rineer Valerie ’75 and Tim Rittenhouse + Michael Ritter Nikki Rivera Zhoura Rivera John W. Roane Ann and Thomas Robb + Theodore Ryan Robb Ray P. Roberge Camilla and Silos Roberts + Monique Roberts ’03 Neil Roberts Yvonne Roberts Anne Roberts Lister ’91 + Douglas Robertson Trina and Brad Robertson Emily M. Robichaux ’18 Elizabeth Robinson ’85 + Gerard Robinson Lilian I. Robinson ’98 + Lynn Robinson + Talaya M. Robinson-Dancy ’21 Anne B. Rodgers Patrick Rodgers ’04 Halsey Rodman + ˆ Esan Rodney Elise M. Rodriguez Edward D. Roebuck Jing L. Roebuck Brigitte Roepke Michael Rogalski Joan Rogers Jan Roggeveen Melina A. Roise ’21 Carl Anthony Rojas K. Rolff Abigail Romano Rachel Romano Pamela Romanowsky ˆ Robert A. Ronder Esq. ’53 Lester Ronick + Rabbi Gaylia R. Rooks Halley Roomberg James Rooney Oren Root + Nailah & Odin Roque + ˆ Daisy J. Rosato ’16 ˆ Arthur Rose Esther Rose Stephen G. Rose Emily Roselli

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Supporters, cont. Lynne V. Rosen Maj-Britt Rosenbaum Mary Pottker Rosenbaum ’66 Kali Rosenblum James Rosenfield Evelyn and David Rosenthal + Irwin H. Rosenthal Honorable Kate Rosenthal (retired) Sarah E. Rosenthal Barry Ross Beverly and Rev. Stephen Ross Jay and Dan Ross Laura Ross Libby A. Ross Marlene Ross Thomas N. Ross Michael D. Rosse ’55 + Anne Rossini Judith Rossman Katheryn Ross-Winnie ’02 + ˆ Joan W. Roth Marc Roth Meyer and Naomi A. Rothberg + Barbara Rothenberg Edward Leland Rothfarb Dr. Naomi Fox Rothfield ’50 and Dr. Lawrence I. Rothfield + Julie Rothman and Scott Sherman Martha Rothman Mr. and Mrs. Alan Rothschild Mary K. Rouse John Rowland Penelope Rowlands ’73 + Joshua L. Royte ’85 Tatyana M. Rozetta ’21 Emily H. Rubin ’78 Kristen Rubis Gary L. Rudolf ’76 Rose Rugendorf Diana Ruggiero ’16 + Lynn Ruggiero Jennifer L. and Joseph R. Ruggiero Charles F. Ruhe ’83 Michael Ruiz Sheila Rule and Joseph Robinson ’17 Patricia Runyan ˆ Laurie Russell Mary Russello Peter J. Russo Philip A. Russotti Esq. + Stelian Rusu ’99 Monika Rutkowski Ellen P. Ryan Greg Ryan Hillary Reuter Ryan Tim and France Ryan Kari G. Rydju ’91 Sadia Saba ’21 Kahan Sablo The Saccomanno Family Bryan Sachse Dr. Robert A. Sack ’65 Dr. Michael J. Sadowski Maria Saez Robert and Malyne Sagerman Ilya Sakayev Gayle Saks ˆ Rebecca L. Sala ’91 and Ron W. Sala Rosa Salas LMFT PhD Ace Salisbury ’08 Sherry Salman Justin Salmon Iris Salomon Robert D. Salsburg ’65 Jennifer Leigh Salter Maninder Saluja Omar Salvador

Chris and Goldberry Samp Anthony Sanchez Belem Sanchez Jonathon Sanders Edward Sandfort Barbara Landa ’54 and Robert Sandler + Janice Sandwick ’01 Francesca Sansone Rowena Santiago Dr. Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco Suzanne Sarason Ronald Sarayudej James and Nora Sarfaty Kimberly Sargeant ’14 Elizabeth Sarles and Scott-Martin Kosofsky + Paul Sartori James M. Saslow Arthur Sata ’72 + Enid Satariano Simeen Sattar Cara Saunders Dr. Alice Savage Lisa Savin ’03 Mary Savino ˆ Marokey Sawo LEI ’20 Carole Sayle Joanne C. Scannello-Dziuk Bo Scarim ’09 James Schaeffer ’69 Peggy Schapiro David G. Schardt ’71 Alan C. and Leigh Scharfe + David L. Schechter ’76 Naomi Schechter Peter Scheckner ’64 + Alexander Scheel Christian Scheider ’12 ˆ Thomas Schell ’06 ˆ Ann Scheman + Molly Schen Richard Scherr Mark Peter Scherzer Sara Schestenger Karen Schetina and David Japka Dan & Rosie Schiavone Jochewed Schifter Lois Schlegel Ulrike Schleinitz Cara Schlesinger Janet Schlesinger M. Schliesser Robert J. Schloss Debra J. Schlossberg John and Bonnie Schlueter Kurt Schmidlein ’13 Peter and Randi Schmidt Erika Schmied Anna Schmitz Chris Schmitz Matthew Schmitz Eric R. Schnadig Katy Schneider ’14 Miriam K. Schneider Jeremy Schnittman Mona Schnitzler Robert A. Schoch David M. Scholder ’90 and Tara E. Scholder ’91 + Ellen Schorr ’86 Roberta Schreiber Dunn ’67 + Jean and Frederick Schroeder + Laura Schubert ’12 + Paul and JoAnne Schubert Margot Schulman Carol Schulz Carrie Schulz ’03

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Anna Schupack Linda V. Schwab Edmundson Wendy J. Schwalb Joseph Schwaiger ’71 + Isaiah J. Schwartz ’21 Joyce S. Schwartz + Larry Schwartz Louise E. Schwartz Marilyn T. Schwartz Myra Schwartz Neil Schwartz Patricia Schwartz Sarina Schwartz Ori A. Schwartzburg and Deborah G. Shulevitz Ella Schwarzbaum ’11 Gina Sconza Roger N. Scotland ’93 + Scott & Crystle ˆ Derek and Dr. Carol Ross Scott Maggie Scott Diane J. Scrima Georgia Scurletis Patricia Seal Sky Sealey Robert Seavy John and Aija Sedlak John Evan Seery Jennifer Segal + ˆ Jennifer C. and John A. Segal + Dr. David Segarnick ’78 and Patricia Zimic Alfred Seidel Stephen Seligman Virginia Sellers Barbara Selwitz Robert Selwitz Rahul Sen Sharma + Carl Serbell Dorothy Sernaker Maro Rose Sevastopoulos ’00 + Daniel Severson ’10 + Julie Sogg Seymour and Richard Tofel Sheila Shadeed Catriona Shafer and Gurdon R. Miller + Mrs. Johanna Shafer ’67 and Rev. Michael Shafer ’66 + Nour H. Shaikh MBA ’16 Eleanor Shakin Russell M. Shane ’77 Celia Ann Shapiro Jessica Shapiro ’03 and James Braddy Karen Shapiro ’78 and Syud Sharif + Peter Shapiro ’01 + Sam Shapiro ’13 Ian Sharman Gwenda Sharp Lesley Sharp Timothy Sharpe and Alison Quinn Adam J. Shatz + James F. Shaughnessy Jr. Catherine Shavell Eleanore Beale Shaver ’70 Penny Pugliese Shaw ’58 Suzanne Shaw Levi Shaw-Faber ’15 Mike Shea ’75 + M. Tracie Shea Erin Sheehy Dr. M. Lana Sheer Mary Sheerin Raquel Sheffield Lucy Sheikh Annabel Sheinberg and David K. Turok Bonnie Sheldon and Carl Silverstein Nathanial Constantine Shelley ’20 Bryan Gutierrez Shelton ’98

Margaret and John Bard Society members’ names are bolded

Shamaal Sheppard J. Sherman Mary A. Shiman ’11 Genya N. Shimkin ’08 + Min Kyung Shinn ’14 Liza Jane Shippey Palmer ’99 and Tim N. Palmer + Judy Shiprack Andrea Sholler and Bart Mosley + Cecilia Shore William Shore Stephen D. Short Eric and Karin Shrubsole Patricia Holtsclaw Shuford Stanley S. Shuman Anna Shuster + Lindsey Shute BCEP ’07 Marcella and Thomas Shykula Arthur Siciliano and Barbara Blanchard James Siegel and Michelle Wheeler Jeffrey Siegel Judith and Jeffrey Siegel + Sandra Siegel Shari Siegel Kat and David Siegfried ’00 Dr. Christopher E. and Grace B. Silva + Don Silver Lester S. Silver Lisa Silver + Harvey A. Silverglate Theresa Sim Dale K. Simmons ’10 Barry Simon Elisabeth Simon and William Ross + Valerie Simon John Simpson Julie F. Simpson Idan Sims James Sims Joseph C. Sims ’12 Emily Sinagra H. Lawrence and JoAnn K. Singband + Madine Singer Renee F. Singer Jennifer M. Singleton ’85 + Norman J. and Charlotte T. Sissman Elizabeth H. Sitler-Elbel ’21 Oskar Siven Anne Skamai Chelsea Skorka Cory Skuldt MBA ’18 Alan Skvirsky ’61 Whitney Slaten Douglas Sloan Norm Sloan Prof. Philip R. Sloan Marjorie Slome and Kenneth S. Stern ’75 + Kira Sloop ’94 + ˆ Hannah Small Stefanie Small Jan Smeltzer Alexander Noah Smith Audrey M. Smith ’78 + Barbara Darrah Smith Barbara M. Smith Bridget Smith ’11 Carole-Jean Smith ’66 + Del Smith Elaine Smith Ellen S. Smith Gregory Robert Smith Justin Smith ˆ Kirk Smith and Rose Smith Lou Ann Smith and Mark Lenetsky + Mary Smith Phil Smith

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Putnam C. Smith Dr. Richard K. Smith ’65 + Suzanne F. Smith + Suzanne Smith ˆ Theodore J. Smith Amanda Smock Ted Smudde and Pamela Tom Fran D. Smyth + Jan and Jim Smyth + Betsy Snope Adam Snyder ’89 + Joseph Sobota + Thoko A. Soko ’20 Maritza Solano ˆ Lia S. Solensten ’21 William Solis Andrew Solomon Jonathan Solomon and Nanette Kaplan Solomon Mena Solomon Misha Solomon Beverly and Barry Solow Ruth Solow ’09 Elisabeth Sommerfelt + Carol S. Sonnenschein ’53 + Lorelei Sontag Abdol S. Soofi Katherine Sorel Jeannie and Louis Sorell + James and Noell Sottile + Mariana T. Souza MBA ’16 Kathleen A. Sova John S. Sowle Arthur and Donna Soyk + Susan Sparber Mr. and Mrs. Richard Spark-DePass Janice Sparks ˆ Sharon S. Spaulding The Speck Family ˆ Tami Spector ’82 + Linda Burgess Speirs ’90 Rilka Spieler ’10 Jacqueline Spires Andrew Spiropoulos Phillip B. Spivey Valerie Sprenz Jacklyn E. Spring Heinz Sproll Marcia Sprules + Raissa St. Pierre ’87 + Barbara & Jay Staats Paulette Staats and Paul Shriver P. William Staby and Anne Vaterlaus + Jeremy Stamas ’05 + Laura Stamas ’97 + Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins Lisa Foley Stand ’80 + John and Ann Stanley Linda C. Stanley Lindsay A. Stanley ’12 + ˆ Rhona H. Stanley Claire Stanton Johanna Staray + Shawn Starbuck Ellen Stark Gregory Starrett ˆ Glenn and Agnes Statile + John Staugaitis William N. Stavru ’87 Barbara Patrick Steck ’58 Lauren Steely ˆ David Steffen Andrea J. Stein ’92 Susan Stein Haim Steinbach Emily J. Steinberg ’04 + ˆ Karl Steinberger

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Joseph M. Steiner Russell Steinert and Janis Stemmermann Alana Stephens + Alice Stern Erica Stern Nelson Stern Diana Stetson Mavis and Harold Stevens + Michael Stevens Theresa Adams Stevens ’86 + Tyrin Stevenson ’19 Annarose Stewart ’16 and Alex Koditschek ’17 Eden Stewart ’89 Susan Stewart Elizabeth and Lester Stiel + Jake Stiel ’21 Anthony Stigliano Jonathan E. Stiles ’94 + Cheryl Still Jennifer Stitt Agnes Stoddard Gwynne Stoddart Susanna Howe and Adam Stolorow David Stone and Christina Papadimitriou + ˆ Jackie Stone ’11 Kimberly Stone and Kenneth Wexler + Richard Stone Simi M. Stone Sylvia Stone William S. Stone ’74 Joseph M. Stopper Laurie Storm Zornitsa Stoyanova-Yerburgh ’97 and Roger Yerburgh ’97 Jessica Stralkowski ˆ Amanda Straniere + ˆ Francine Strano Elijah Strauss ’11 + M Randall Strickland Georg Striedter Ali Stroker Alfonso T. Strong ’12 Sarah Strong Tracy Strong David Strout Amy J. Strumbly ’11 + Thaddeus Stryker Carol Sturm Bonnie Suchman ’80 and Bruce Heppen + Brandi Suffecool Ronald H. Sugarman Alexis Suib Ann M. Sullivan Corey Sullivan ’03 Eve O. Sullivan ’62 Grace Sullivan ˆ John P. Sullivan + Joy T. Sullivan ’94 Kinsey Sullivan ˆ Dr. Maura Sullivan + Anne M. Sunners Robin Supplee and Mike Derzon Catherine Susser and Jacques Luiggi + Sheryl Y. Sutler Marina Park Sutton ’78 + Janos Sutyak ’13 Go Suzuki Naoe Suzuki Christopher Swain Walker Swain Monty Swaney + Karen Swann + Julianne Swartz MFA ’03 and Ken Landauer

Susan Swasta Colleen Sweeney ˆ Jamilah Sweet Dr. Edgar Sweren and Mrs. Betty Sweren Tracy Swindell Erika Switzer Ellika Sy Karen Sy de Jesus + Mary K. Sykes Arthur Sze Andrew Szobody Drs. David and Sara Tabby Kiyo C. Tabery ’76 + Louise Tabouis Julia Tagliere Tague Family Kammie Takahashi and Ryuichi Takahashi Kara Takasaki Allan R. Talbot Annelies Talbot Susan Talles Puneet Talwar and Sarosh Sattar + Aparna Tambar ’95 Daniel Fergus Tamulonis + Dr. Folkert M. Tangerman and Amy R. Waldhauer Taylor Tanita ˆ Sophia Tannenbaum Robert M. Tanner ’07 Sharon Taplin Ross Tappen Stephen Tappis and Carol Travis Anita Tarnai John F. Tata Steven Tatum ’12 MAT ’13 ˆ Peter Taubkin Elaine Taule and Stephen Lord Lia Taus ’20 Charlotte Taylor Lissa Taylor M. Paige Taylor ’99 + ˆ Stefanie M. Taylor + Steve and Nellie Taylor Maxwell Jasper Taylor-Milner ’15 Christian Te Bordo ’99 and Kathryn Johnson Te Bordo ’99 + ˆ Nina Tecklenburg Ann Teixeira Tamara Telberg + Ahmed R. Teleb Ann Temkin and Wayne Hendrickson Dima Temnikov Martha Tepepa Covarrubias Lynn Tepper ’74 + ˆ Richard Terdoslavich ’92 Andrea Terkelsen ˆ Daniel Terna MFA ’09 Daniel Tessier Gabriel Andrew Tevan Anthony Thacher Sally and Nicholas Thacher + Dan Michlyne Thal + Marilyn Thaller Schwartz Madeleine Thien + Vanessa Thill Carlin Thomas James Thomas ’92 Sarah L. Thomas Veirdre Marlene Thomas Don R. Thompson Holly A. Thompson Jennifer Abrams Thompson ’96 Kimberly Thomson Evelyn Thoreau Joan Thorne

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Judith and Michael Thoyer + Tina Thuermer ’73 Jessie Thurston-Lovett ’02 Jennifer Tibbels Patricia Laub Tieger ’81 Ann Cunningham Tigue Zachary Tindell Drs. Katherine and Richard Tobey Margaret M. Tobin Judith Tolkow and Leland Woodbury + Ruxandra Toma Therese Tomaszkiewicz + Kendall Tooker Diane Topkis Jan Toporowski Maria Torres Lyn Townes TPQ Studio Roberta Tracy Frederick F. Travis Michelle M. Tremblay ˆ Joseph Triebwasser Jennifer M. Triplett Michelle and Raymond Troll Amy Trompetter ˆ Jennifer Trontz Jane Troy Randy J. Tryon + David Tsang ’03 + Thu Tu ’97 Lily Tuck Elijah S. Tucker ’05 + Jed Tucker + Patricia J. Tucker ’78 Ruth W. Tucker Esq. Susan B. Tucker + ˆ Angel T. Tueros ’13 + Mihaela M. Tufa Robert E. Tully and Anne Tully + Roberta Babbitt Tunard Garrett J. Tur ˆ Maureen Turim Lisette Turitz ’05 David Turnbull Peg Tyre Lisa Ferguson Uchrin ’85 Takemi Ueno Emiljana Ulaj ’12 + Zubeida Ullah-Eilenberg ’97 + ˆ Jane and Lawrence Ulman + Rita Ulrich Marcelo Umsza ˆ Emily Underwood-Lee Lori Ungemah ˆ Karen Unger + ˆ Joshua and Rori Unghire Molly Updike Judith Upjohn Christopher Uraneck ’99 + Tatiana Silitch Urban Raul Valdez David Valdini ’06 Vincent Valdmanis ’03 + ˆ Lena Valencia Karen and Jorge Valero Joe Vallese ’04 MAT ’06 and Alex D. Servello + ˆ Dr. Robert W. Vallin ˆ Terry Vance + Zoe Vanderboegh Charles van der Haegen Marc A. and Dana Lim Vanderheyden Amelia Sage Van Donsel Heske van Doornen ’15 LEI ’18 ˆ Jason S. Van Driesche ’93 Roy Van Driesche and Sheila Marks Jonathan Van Dyke ’05

HONOR ROLL OF DONORS

Supporters, cont. Geert Van Eekert Rachel Van Horn ’12 Annalee Van Kleeck ’85 Dr. William Van Lear Susan Van Parys Marianne Van Pelt Stephanie and Fernando van Reigersberg Tanya Van Sant Lisa A. Vasey ’84 Maria Vasilodimitrakis Robert Vermeulen + Alberto Verrilli James Versteeg Janet Viader MBA ’20 Craig Vickers Marcia Rich Vickers ’70 Nicole Vidor + Mark Viebrock ’76 Seanna Vien Vanessa Vieux Thomas Viles Loretta A. Villani Valerie Vincent Juliet Vincente ˆ Tom Vitelli + Daina Vitin + Beatrice Vizkelety Vanessa Volz ’00 Mr. and Mrs. Ronald W. Von Allmen + Michelle von Koch ˆ Konstantin von Krusenstiern Amy Voorhees M. Vose Anya Vostrova ’06 George A. Wachtel Elizabeth H. Wagenheim Ava M. Wagner ’21 Kim Wainwright John B. Waits MD FAAFP ˆ Lois Walden and Margot Harley Shimon Waldfogel J. Waldhorn Barry C. Waldorf Louise Wales + ˆ Meghann Walk David Walker Stephanie Walker + Tony Walker Walker Family + Michael Wallace Pamela J. Wallace ’87 + Cliff Wallach + Edith M. ’64 and Peter Wallis + Joan Walrond Erica T. Walsh ’21 Mary Walsh George R. Walter Judith Walter Leigh G. Walton ˆ Annie Wang Charlotte Wang ’12 + Esther Wanning ’66 Alan Wanzenberg + Gabriel J. Wardell ’93 and Tina Intra ˆ Gilda Warden Kester Warlow-Harry Jerzy B. Warman George Warner and Lisa Cunningham Stuart D. Warner Marya Warshaw ’73 David Warth ’01 Gregory and Nancy L. Warwick Ryder Washburn Melanie Wassmuth Janet Waterhouse Karen J. Watkins Adam Watson Kay G. Watson

Theo Way ˆ Margaret N. Wayne Andrew Webster Jonathan Wechsler + Donna Weeks + Erin Weeks-Earp ’01 Barbara and Michael Wegener John Wegner Albert B. Weil Drs. David and Miriam Weil Catherine Weiland Peter Weinberg ’06 Jasper O. Weinrich-Burd ’13 ˆ Jeff Weinburg Elizabeth Weiner ’97 Alex Weinstein ’07 + Jason Weinstein & Lee Gough Michael Weinstein Myles and Vera Weintraub + Amy Weisberg Laura Weisberg Brian Weisfeld Andrea B. Weiskopf ’95 Adam J. Weiss ’97 Noel N. Weiss ’58 and Diane Weiss + KB Weissman Helene Weitzner Edward J. Welch ˆ Dr. Leonard Weldon and Margaret Foxweldon + Diane Wells + Thomas Wells Ann K. Wentworth Meghan Wenzel ˆ Robert Wertheimer + Nicole West Donald and Adrienne H. Westmore + Dr. Dietmar B. Westphal Jon Wetterau ’97 Anita K. Wetzel Peter S. Wetzler Marjorie Wexler Scott Weyandt Sam M. Weyman ’78 and Jodi Williams-Weyman Elizabeth Whalen Dr. Chloe Rachel Wheatley Allen Wheeland + Elisabeth Wheeler Sarah F. Wheeler Conrad Whelan ˆ Liza Wherry ’77 Rand Whipple and Elizabeth Dowd ˆ Lisa Whitcomb Alix P. White Amy K. White Barbara and Leon White Clemence White Katrina M. White Lisa White Robert George White Shelby White + Eileen Whitener ’09 MAT ’13 and Daniel Whitener GCP ’09 Rachel Whiteread Steven M. Whitesell BGC ’07 David Wiacek ’03 + Hilary Wickes and Justin Bailey Gregory Wieber ’04 Jack Wiener Julia B. Wiener Scott J. Wiener Suzi and David Wiener Gabriel Wiesenthal Fran Wigod Barbara Crane Wigren ’68 + Dan Wilbur ’09 + Beagan S. Wilcox Volz ’96 +

Margaret and John Bard Society members’ names are bolded

Beverly J. and Keith H. Wildasin Jeremy Wilder ˆ Thomas H Wiles Betsy Wilgis and Shaw Wilgis Meghann Wilhoite Michael P. Wilkins ’77 Patricia Wilkins Amara S. Willey ’90 + Paula Willey Ann and Douglas William Ato Williams ’12 + ˆ Hon. Betty J. Williams + Dr. Dumaine Williams ’03 and Erika Williams ’04 + Emily B. Williams ’00 ˆ Helen Williams Dr. Kathryn R. Williams ’67 + LaGreta Williams + Mary Vaughn Williams Michael H. Williams Racliffe Williams and Angela Newman Rosie Williams Stephen P. Williams MBA ’17 Wendy D. Williams ’67 Tom Willingham ’70 Michael B. and Ruth Willner Lydia A. Willoughby ’03 Dr. Lawrence A. Wills and D. J. Martin Ann Wilmot-Santana ˆ Cicily Wilson Clifford Wilson Dawna Wilson Sue and Allen Wimett ˆ U Ba and Dr. Judith Win Windfall Charitable ˆ Jason Winn Michael P. A. Winn ’59 + Ken Winnick Josephine Winograd Robert K. Winters Helena D. Wippick ’16 Carl R. and Caroline G. Wirth Kathleen Wise Mary Wise Takouhy Wise Harriet Wisemab Ana Wishnoff ’15 Alice G. ’61 and George S. ’62 Wislocki Rena Wiswell Matthew F. Witchell ’84 Juliana Woda Mary Ann Wohlever Gayl P. Woityra Josef Woldense ’06 Jeremy P. Wolf ’18 + Leslie Wolf-Creutzfeldt Wendy Wolfenson Amy Wolff ˆ Virginia Euwer Wolff Evert Wolters ˆ Valerie Wolzien William Wolz + Andrew Wong Ian Wong and Kerry Callaghan Janet Wong + Celestine Woo Prof. Japheth Wood and Mariel del Carmen Fiori ’05 + Angela Woodack ’21 Lee Woodman Hartley Woodside Laurie Woolever Judyth and Lorin Woolfe David and Meliza E. Woolner + KK Wootton Dr. Athanasia L.J. Dollmetsch Worley ’68 Donald Worth Christian L. Wright ’85

+ Donor has given for three or more consecutive fiscal years

Richard T. Wright + Susan Wright Jessica Wu Y. Wayne Wu ’10 + ˆ Leo Wurtzburger Dr. Herbert M. Wyman MD + Ong Xiao Yun Yang Xiao Lindsey Xie Qun Xie Jingjing Xu Nathan Xu ’17 + Ran Xu Xinyuan Xu ’10 Wayne and Dagmar Yaddow + Eleanora Yaggy + Ruth Yang Vickie and Todd Yates David Yee ’96 Balaji Yelamanchili Riina Ylinen Rachael Yoder Lyn Yonack Belinda Yong Rebecca Yoshino Caroline Yost Robert and Lynda Youmans Aliguma Young David Young ˆ Jennella Young Krista Young Virginia Yount Elizabeth Yuan Ying-Ying Yuan Roman Zabicki Marvin F. Zachow and Lori Solensten Andrew Zack ’75 and Carolyn G. Rabiner ’76 + Mehdi Zafar Brian Zaharatos ˆ Elizabeth Zahorjan Gilda Zalaznick Elaine Zameck Jennifer Zanger Dr. Ted Zanker ’56 + Cesar A. Zapata Sheila Zarb-Harper + Mike and Kathy Zdeb + Christopher Zegar + ˆ Jordana Zeldin ˆ Carissa Zeleski ˆ Ellen Zelig Ruth Zelig Filip Zemcik The Zengotitabengoa Miller Family Vanessa Schulz Zenji ’97 Yitian Zhai Peili Zhang Yifeng Zhao Boqing Zheng ’12 Regina Zheng Dexin Zhou ’09 + ˆ Qiao Zhou William J. Zide ’87 Tracy Ziemer Michael and Naomi Zigmond Ros Zimmermann Steven Zipperstein Jeff and Diana Zisselman Sandy Zito Michael Zitolo Antonia Zitz + Mark Zivin Elizabeth Zubroff and Richard Zubroff Anna Zuvic ˆ Dr. Anthony C. and Laurie E. Zwaan + Douglas Zywiczynski +

^Monthly recurring donor

*Deceased

Board of Governors of the Bard College Alumni/ae Association KC Serota ’04, President Mollie Meikle ’03, Vice President Gerry Pambo-Awich ’08, Secretary/Treasurer Beth Shaw Adelman ’74 Robert Amsterdam ’53 Hannah Becker ’11 Brendan Berg ’06 Jack Blum ’62 Connor Boehme ’17 Hannah Byrnes-Enoch ’08, Strategic Planning Committee Chair Matthew Cameron ’04 Kathleya Chotiros ’98 Charles Clancy III ’69 Peter Criswell ’89 Michelle Dunn Marsh ’95 Nicolai Eddy ’14 Nolan English ’13 Randy Faerber ’73, Events Committee Cochair Gianna Fenaroli ’16 Andrew F. Fowler ’95 Kate Nemeth Fox ’11 Jazondré Gibbs ’19 Eric Goldman ’98 Hasani Gunn ’18 Alexander Habiby ’18 Boriana Handjiyska ’02, Career Connections Committee Cochair Nikkya Hargrove ’05, Diversity Committee Cochair Sonja Hood ’90, Nominations Committee Cochair Miriam Huppert ’13 Maud Kersnowski Sachs ’86, Communications Committee Chair Kenneth Kosakoff ’81, Development Committee Chair Jacob Lester ’20 Darren Mack ’13 Peter F. McCabe ’70 Emily Melendes TŌN ’20 Ryan Mesina ’06 Steven Miller ’70

Scot Moore’14 APS ’16 TŌN ’18 Anne Morris-Stockton ’68 Anna Neverova ’07, Career Connections Committee Cochair; Bard Music Festival Junior Committee Cochair Karen G. Olah ’65 Claire Phelan ’11, Young Alumnx Cochair Dan Severson ’10 Levi Shaw-Faber ’15, Communications Chair Genya Shimkin ’08, Diversity Committee Cochair George A. Smith ’82, Events Committee Cochair Thoko Soko ’20 Lindsay Stanley ’12 Geoffrey Stein ’82 Walter Swett ’96 Paul Thompson ’93 Kristin Waters ’73 Zubeida Ullah-Eilenberg ’97, Nominations Committee Cochair Brandon Weber ’97 Ato Williams ’12 Nanshan (Nathan) Xu ’17

Emeritus/a Claire Angelozzi ’74 Dr. Penny Axelrod ’63 Dr. Miriam Roskin Berger ’56 Cathaline Cantalupo ’67 Arnold Davis ’44 Kit Ellenbogen ’52 Barbara Grossman Flanagan ’60 Diana Hirsch Friedman ’68 R. Michael Glass ’75 Dr. Ann Ho ’62 Charles Hollander ’65 Maggie Hopp ’67 Cynthia Hirsch Levy ’65 Susan P. Playfair ’62 Roger N. Scotland ’93 Dr. Toni-Michelle C. Travis ’69 Barbara Crane Wigren ’68

Board of Trustees of Bard College James C. Chambers ’81, Chair Emily H. Fisher, Vice Chair George F. Hamel Jr., Vice Chair Elizabeth Ely ’65, Secretary; Life Trustee Stanley A. Reichel ’65, Treasurer; Life Trustee Fiona Angelini Roland J. Augustine Leonard Benardo Leon Botstein+, President of the College Mark E. Brossman Jinqing Cai Marcelle Clements ’69, Life Trustee The Rt. Rev. Andrew M. L. Dietsche, Honorary Trustee Asher B. Edelman ’61, Life Trustee Robert S. Epstein ’63 Barbara S. Grossman ’73, Alumni/ae Trustee Andrew S. Gundlach Matina S. Horner+ Charles S. Johnson III ’70 Mark N. Kaplan, Life Trustee George A. Kellner Mark Malloch-Brown Fredric S. Maxik ’86 Juliet Morrison ’03 James H. Ottaway Jr., Life Trustee Hilary Pennington Martin Peretz, Life Trustee Stewart Resnick, Life Trustee David E. Schwab II ’52 Roger N. Scotland ’93, Alumni/ae Trustee Annabelle Selldorf Mostafiz ShahMohammed ’97 Jonathan Slone ’84 Alexander Soros Jeannette H. Taylor+ James A. von Klemperer Brandon Weber ’97, Alumni/ae Trustee Susan Weber Patricia Ross Weis ’52 +ex officio

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