eAlumNotes Spring 2010 :: San Francisco Conservatory of Music

eAlumNotes Spring 2010

Dear Alumni:

It is hard to believe that the 2009-2010 academic year at San Francisco Conservatory of Music is nearly over. Within weeks, graduating seniors, second-year graduates and professional diploma students will walk across the Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall stage, grab their diplomas and, for many, enter into a world of unknowns. I am sure many of you can remember that feeling well.

Now, however, perhaps more than ever, SFCM’s current graduating students will feel a greater sense of support upon leaving the friendly confines of 50 Oak Street. The Alumni Network Committee, now finishing up its second year of existence, continues to strengthen the connection between current alumni and the institution. At the same time, however, through numerous events this year, we have attempted to instill a sense of continuity for current students as they move towards graduation and beyond. While keeping in touch with and supporting all of our alumni is of great importance, doing so with the newly graduated these past two years seems to have created a momentum and environment we do not want to lose.

At various alumni events this year, there was a palpable feeling that things were happening—that SFCM was moving forward vis-à-vis our alumni support and outreach towards our current and future graduates. It’s a good feeling! Here is just a taste of what the Alumni Network Committee plans to continue to offer next year, as well some exciting, new ideas that we anticipate will interest our entire alumni community.

Alumni Orientation Concert
The year’s biggest alumni event last August was such a huge success that we plan to make it an annual occurrence. Please join us again for a kick-off reception to meet and mingle with new, current and past SFCM students as well as a very special evening of alumni performances on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010. Mark your calendars!

Alumni Studio Classes
Alumni Studio Classes in violin, piano and composition were marvelously successful this year. Many thanks go to Bettina Mussumeli, Ian Swensen, Mack McCray,

Yoshi Nagai and Dan Becker for pulling these together and leading the way. We expect to continue with classes in these majors next year and definitely plan to add additional classes in other majors as well. Be on the lookout for an audition class in October led by our stellar opera department!

Find us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter
If you are not already one of the over 1,350 fans of SFCM on Facebook, you can “fan us” here (www.facebook.com/SFConservatoryofMusic). Do you “tweet?” If so, follow SFCM’s Twitter feed @SFConservMusic. Both social networking sites are the perfect medium for current students, alumni, concert goers and donors to keep up with on what is happening at 50 Oak Street.

NEW FACEBOOK PAGE!
Be sure to be on the lookout for our ALL-ALUMNI Facebook Page later this spring. It is sure to allow graduates to reconnect with one another, to update fellow alums about performance and career information, special ticket giveaways to select SFCM performances and to find out even more about what’s going on in the concert halls and classrooms.

NEW EVENT! Alumni Commencement Concert
Details are being sorted out to create an all-new networking and performing event alongside SFCM’s Commencement activities. Currently scheduled for the early evening on Thursday, May 20, the evening will include a casual reception that will allow alumni to meet graduating students and their families. This will be followed by a short alumni performance. We expect the evening to conclude around 7:30 p.m., giving everyone just enough time to have a nice meal somewhere in San Francisco before the Commencement Celebrations begin the next morning.

NEW EVENT! Career Seminar
Talks are also underway to produce a Career Seminar next year that will feature recent and not-so-recent graduates, Bay Area performers and arts leaders as they talk about what it takes to get ahead in today’s music marketplace. As career-oriented events have been something many alumni have requested over the past year, this could be the first of many such events scheduled in the future.

As always, there is even more in store. I urge you to stay connected and to update us with your achievements. I thank you for your support during the past year and wish you a fantastic summer.

Thank you,
Gary Rust, M.D. (B.M. piano, ’83)
Alumni Network Committee Chair
Board of Trustees

Commencement Alumni Reception and Concert
Thursday, May 20, 2010
New Event! Concert featuring alumni and graduating students the night before Commencement

Orientation Alumni Reception and Concert
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Back by popular demand, alumni concert and reception for new and returning SFCM students

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Alumni Feature
Switchboard: An All-Embracing Alumni Collaboration

For another perfect example of how Conservatory connections can sustain long-term musical creativity, look no further than San Francisco’s Switchboard Music Festival. The brainchild of Jeff Anderle (M.M., clarinet, ’06), Ryan Brown (M.M., composition, ’05) and Jonathan Russell (M.M., composition, ’03), this “bold eight-hour expedition through convention-crushing terrain led by musical fire-eaters” (SF Weekly) just finished its third annual program on March 28, making waves with “unpredictable musical goings-on” (San Francisco Chronicle) and a “lineup of killer acts with a few surprises thrown in” (San Francisco Classical Voice).

Switchboard was borne of a desire by its three co-founders to accommodate music that transgresses traditional boundaries. “Ryan Brown, Jonathan Russell and I started Switchboard Music to create a venue and some institutional support for music that combines musical styles and falls in the cracks between genres,” Anderle notes. “As composers and/or performers of this type of music, we often found that it was difficult to find an appropriate venue for this music and decided that we should just do it ourselves.” Guided by models like New York’s Bang on a Can and Opus 415, a marathon concert (also with strong Conservatory affiliations) that operated for many years in San Francisco, the trio launched its first festival in 2007 and now has a solid foundation for continued sustainability.

Anderle cites a number of Conservatory-affiliated ensembles that have graced the Switchboard stage, including the Del Sol String Quartet (all of whose members are alumni), and Classical Revolution, started by alumni Charith Premawardhana (Artist Certificate, chamber music, ’06). The festival particularly attracts alumni composers and performers “who have developed something that is not quite classical, but not quite anything else either.” Beyond the performers and co-directors, Switchboard’s newly created board of directors also has Conservatory links, including faculty member Dan Becker, staff member Alex Brose and staff alumna Lisa Petrie.

With performer names like Thorny Brocky, Squonk, Billygoat and Sabbaticus Rex, Switchboard is obviously not your grandmother’s music festival. Still, there are some serious musical chops behind these clever sobriquets. “Many of the performers on Switchboard are classically trained musicians who also love rock, metal, jazz, world music, or all of the above and more, and want to find a way to integrate these seemingly disparate styles into something that is uniquely theirs,” according to Anderle. This creative impulse also speaks to the education these musicians receive at the Conservatory. As Anderle puts it, “In addition to turning out successful classically trained musicians, SFCM seems to also be producing more and more alumni who are innovators, bridging the gap between classical and popular music and creating a vibrant musical life in San Francisco.”

So how did things go at the festival itself? “The performance was great! Everything went very smoothly, and it was packed all day,” says Anderle. “The audience was very attentive and responsive to all of the groups, and I think the performers responded in turn to the size of the crowd.” With Switchboard’s third marathon in the books, it’s now full speed ahead for number four. “There will definitely be a fourth festival, on March 27, 2011. We’ve already started talking to some headliners, but if people want to recommend groups they can send an email to info@switchboardmusic.com.” Mark your calendars!

Alumni Spotlight
My Week of Living Dangerously
by David Tanenbaum (B.M., guitar, ‘78)

In the days ahead I’ll be conducting 20 guitarists in Steve Reich’s Electric Counterpoint (April 4 as part of the student-led Hot Air Music Festival at the Conservatory) and then playing with a string quartet comprised mostly of faculty in Aaron Jay Kernis’s 100 Greatest Dance Hits (April 7, as part of the Chamber Music Masters series, also at SFCM in the Caroline H. Hume Concert Hall.) This article is not so much to advertise these events as to muse on the repertoire, the guitar and the week ahead.

I met Aaron when we were both students here at the Conservatory in 1978. We became instant friends, but I also have to admit that I was on the prowl for talented composers in the student world around me. (My life working with composers had begun not long after I started playing guitar, when my composer-father planted a new piece he had written for me on my music stand.) Aaron went on to study with my father at the Manhattan School of Music, and in 1998 he became the second-youngest composer to win the Pulitzer Prize. Through the years he has written me five works, none more successful than 100 Greatest Dance Hits. I have played it more than 50 times with string quartets far and wide, and recorded it twice. A great piece from a great friend + musical fun and depth + lots of work = one happy guitar player!

Even the piece’s origins speak to the versatility of the guitar. Aaron wrote it in 1993, during a period of rapid growth in his career, when he was spending long days in his New York apartment composing for orchestra. At night he would go out and hear very different music from what he had created all day—Latin music blaring from cars in Washington Heights, kids rapping on subways—and he started to wonder if he could somehow close the gap between his day and night music. So he pitted the most classical of ensembles, the string quartet, with the most crossover of instruments, the guitar, and wrote a classically structured piece that embodies the various languages of pop.

I find that many students and young guitar professionals have a similar musical dichotomy that Aaron did—they practice classical music during the day and walk around with headphones listening to anything but classical guitar the rest of the time. I want them to integrate those worlds, to take chances creating a repertoire that they want to listen to on headphones, and if they do that my experience is that the audiences will follow their enthusiasm. Along those lines, Dan Becker and I are organizing a collaboration for next fall between the composition and guitar departments, where students will write new works for students to play. We hope that some lasting artistic collaborations will result, and, like Aaron and I did, we hope they stay in touch long after they become alumni.

I was privileged to be involved in creating Reich’s Electric Counterpoint. I advised him during the writing of the piece, and after Pat Metheny did the world premiere, I toured the piece with Steve Reich and Musicians for two years. Reich borrows from many musics around the world—the first movement theme in this piece is African—but he always uses Western instruments, and in Electric Counterpoint he has written an exciting and challenging work for a soloist with multiple guitars.

So in this week I’ll be performing two terrific new ensemble works by leading American composers, both of whom found in the guitar something that spoke of a culture outside of what we normally teach in Western conservatories. These pieces are fun and interesting to play and listen to, and they are from and about our times. I listen to them on my headphones.

I wonder what next week will bring...

The Afiara String Quartet, featuring Yuri Cho (Artist Certificate, violin, ‘06), Adrian Fung (B.M., violin, ‘08) and David Samuel (Artist Certificate, viola, ‘06), recently became the first quartet to visit Stanford University as part of the St. Lawrence String Quartet’s Emerging String Quartet Program. This program provides intensive training workshops to emerging string quartets on the skills, execution, development, presentation and organization of community outreach programs, planting seeds for young ensembles when returning to their home communities to foster similar programs and connections. Currently the graduate string quartet in residence at The Juilliard School, the Afiara Quartet also recently won first prize at the Munich ARD International String Quartet Competition.

Wedding bells rang this past November in Charleston, SC for Megan Allison (M.M., violin ’05) and Alan Molina (M.M., chamber music ’05). The new husband and wife (who returned to SF to see 50 Oak Street for the first time this month) both hold violin positions with the Charleston Symphony Orchestra and also play with Chamber Music Charleston. Congratulations!

Violinist Erin Benim (B.M., violin, ‘01) got to enjoy the thrill of performing live onstage at the Grammy Awards when her string quartet, Quartet Rouge, played with East Bay punk band Green Day in a medley of their recent hits. Benim’s group worked on Green Day’s musical adaptation of the blockbuster album “American Idiot,” which opened at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre last year and is now heading to Broadway.

Allen Biggs (M.M., percussion, ‘89), principal percussionist of the Santa Rosa Symphony, was recently profiled in the Santa Rosa Press Democrat in connection with the symphony’s recent performance of Christopher Rouse’s Der Gerettete Alberich. “It’s unusual to have a percussion solo, but percussion has really come into its own as a solo instrument on the world stage,” Biggs told the paper. The Rouse piece calls for a staggering array of instruments—four log drums, four tom-toms, two bongos, two timbales, snare drum, steel drum, marimba, two guiros, pedal-operated bass drum and drum set. “Not many percussionists play such a big battery of things,” Biggs said. “The skills required are expanding exponentially for percussionists. . . . That stretches out the art form, and I like how it’s stretched me.”

Meredith Brown (M.M., horn, ‘96) was profiled in a recent San Francisco Classical Voice article on the Vallejo Symphony, which she called “an undiscovered jewel. . . . It attracts some of the very best players.” Speaking about a March 27 concert in which she was featured as horn soloist in Richard Strauss’s Concerto No. 1 for Horn, Brown observed, “[Attendees] will really see a higher quality performance than you might expect from a group that size — much higher. We have one of the best conductors in the Bay Area.” Brown, who also plays with the Fremont and Napa symphonies, is featured in the film Freeway Philharmonic, directed by Tal Skloot, about how freelance musicians struggle to “balance a love of music with a road warrior lifestyle that often requires traveling hundreds of miles a day to rehearse, teach, and perform.”

Arina Burcéva (M.M., guitar, ‘09) was recently interviewed for an artist profile in Guitar International magazine, in connection with the pending release of her first recording of original compositions for solo guitar. Speaking of her work, Burcéva said, “I’m inspired by different styles of music, as well as legends and mythology. I like to draw from the myths and legends of Greece, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Brazil. When I’m reading these stories, and trying to translate them into my music, I’m also checking out that country’s musical language, which I also bring into my compositions. In the end I create pieces that bring out the cultural heritage of these countries through a study of their music, folklore and mythology. It’s a very different approach to composing for the classical guitar than most people take, but I find that it really works for me.”

To inaugurate its brand-new Nelson Mandela Hall, the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill’s opera department will perform Searching for Spinoza, a musical drama about the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza written and composed by Conservatory alumnus and faculty member Thomas Conroy (M.M., composition, ‘03), with a book by Suzanne Ishee. Opera workshop singers from the university will perform the show, backed by an 11-piece orchestra. Conroy calls his creation “a cross between musical theater and opera. The lyric writing clearly reflects the approach given to good musical theater. The musical forms are classically based, and some are in Baroque sequences and models. This was important to me; I wanted to keep the integrity of the era of Spinoza somehow intact with the musical structure while leading it into a contemporary sound.” For more details, visit http://www.spinozaeffect.com/searching-for-spinoza.html.

Lauren Cony (M.M., piano, ‘85), currently a piano instructor in the Preparatory Division, gave two recitals with cellist and fellow alumna Dana Glinski McComb (M.M., cello, ‘94) in January. Besides a recital of piano and cello works at the Conservatory, Cony and McComb performed for the Noontime Concert Series of Old St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco on January 12.

Two Conservatory alumni, Gustavo Hernandez (B.M., voice, ‘05) and Alyssa Stone (Postgraduate Diploma, voice, ‘09) perform in New Conservatory Theatre Center’s production of Terrence McNally’s Master Class from March 26 to May 6.

Jeremiah Duarte Bills (B.M., flute '06) recently took the stage alongside flute legend Carol Wincenc during a concert at The Juilliard School that celebrated Ms. Wincenc’s 40 year career as a performer. Collaborating with her on a piece written by Andrew Thomas called “A Samba,” the piece also featured a 40-person flute choir and four dancers. Mr. Bills received his M.M. from Juilliard after graduating from the Conservatory.

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Edwin Huizinga (M.M., violin, ‘08) recently performed with his early music ensemble, Passamezzo Moderno, through the Berkeley Chamber Performances series. He will also be featured as a soloist with the San Bernardino Symphony, performing Barber’s Violin Concerto, Op. 14 in a May 1 concert, part of a musical tribute to San Bernardino’s bicentennial.

Ben Jones (M.M., voice ’08) has been globetrotting around the world as one of the newest members of the acclaimed, Grammy Award winning all-male vocal ensemble, Chanticleer.

Warren Jones (M.M., piano, ‘77), recently named “Collaborative Pianist of the Year” by Musical America magazine, will deliver the keynote address at the Conservatory’s commencement exercises in May.

Tiantian Lan (M.M., viola, ’09), recently won the principal viola position with the Berkeley Symphony.

Megan McClendon (M.M., violin, ‘04) has been named second violinist with the Delray String Quartet.

Adam Meza (M.M., voice, ‘08) will appear as an Opera Santa Barbara Young Artist for 2010.

Kaileen Miller (M.M., voice, ‘08) will be an apprentice artist this summer with the Central City Opera Company in Colorado, where she will be featured in their opera productions.

Tenor Daniel Montenegro (B.M., voice, ‘02) has been accepted into the San Francisco Opera’s 2010 Merola Opera Program.

The Nexus String Quartet recently won the grand prize at the Plowman Chamber Music Competition, and has also been selected as one of two chamber groups to attend the Aspen Music Festival (on full scholarship) and the Banff Centre this summer. The group comprises first violinist Eric Chin (B.M., violin, ‘08), second violinist Andrea Oh (M.M., violin, ‘09), violist Daniel Jang (Artist Certificate, chamber music, ‘08) and cellist Charles Akert (M.M., cello, ‘08)

Lang Nixon (M.M., voice, ‘08) won the 18-and-over category of Livermore’s 2010 Talent Competition, earning a $2,500 cash prize.

Katy Rife (M.M., percussion, ‘09) performed during every medal ceremony in Whistler during the recent 2010 Winter Olympic Games.

Guitarist/composer Gyan Riley (B.M., guitar, ‘99) recently gave the world premiere of his “Stream of Gratitude, in Response to Bach’s Suite for Lute in C minor, BWV 997,” co-commissioned by the 92nd Street Y, at the New York Guitar Festival’s fifth biennial guitar marathon. The New York Times called Riley’s piece “a virtuosic meditation couched in Bachian figuration wrapped in a harmonically updated (and mildly jazz-tinged) cloak.”

The Mexican-American folk-roots group Los Cenzontles’s recent recording “American Horizon,” featuring Eugene Rodriguez (M.M., guitar, ‘88) plus guest appearances by Taj Mahal and David Hidalgo of Los Lobos, was featured in a New York Times story on December 8.

Manly Romero (B.M., composition, ‘91) won the first annual San Francisco Conservatory of Music Hoefer Prize, an award that includes a $15,000 commission plus copying costs, a residency the week of the performance and a professional recording. Romero will collaborate with Nicole Paiement to produce an original work for the Conservatory’s New Music Ensemble, slated for a March 2011 premiere. The Peter and Jacqueline Hoefer Alumni Composers Fund was created by the trustees of the Jacqueline Hoefer Fund and will award an annual Hoefer Prize.

Quartet San Francisco’s recording “QSF Plays Brubeck,” featuring Alisa Rose (M.M., violin, ’07), was nominated for Grammy Awards in the “Best Classical Crossover” and “Best Engineered” categories. The album was recorded at Skywalker Sound in Marin last year, and has the quartet playing string arrangements of the jazz legend’s most celebrated compositions. Rose, who is also on the Conservatory’s Preparatory Division faculty, has additionally been winning a smattering of awards lately with her bluegrass outfit, 49 Special.

Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai (M.M., voice, ‘02; Postgraduate Diploma, ‘04) recently performed the role of Siebel in Center Stage Opera’s production of Gounod’s Faust.

Jessica Slatkoff Arteaga (M.M., voice, ‘05) is singing the title role in Federico Moreno Torroba’s zarzuela Luisa Fernanda with the Hispanic Heritage Festival in Miami.

Elza van den Heever (M.M., voice, ‘04) won a Grammy Award as part of the San Francisco Symphony’s “Best Orchestral Performance” award for its recording of Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.

Xi Wang (M.M., voice, ‘09) is enrolled in the Artist Diploma program at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music and was accepted into the Young American Artist Program at Glimmerglass Opera for summer 2010. She will sing the Shepherd Boy in Tosca and understudy Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro.

Tell us what you are up to! Please email Alex Brose at awb@sfcm.edu with your updates, accolades and announcements.

AUDITIONS:

Organization: Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Position: Principal Trumpet
Application Deadline: April 9, 2010
Audition Dates: May 24-25, 2010 (Prelim); May 26, 2010 (Semi-final); June 1, 2010 (final)
Website: http://www.detroitsymphony.com/page.aspx?page_id=48

Organization: San Francisco Opera
Position: Principal Oboe
Application Deadline: April 16, 2010
Audition Dates: tentatively scheduled for June 22-25, 2010
Website: http://sfopera.com/employment.asp?mID=116&T=1&I=159

Organization: San Francisco Opera
Position: Second Bassoon
Application Deadline: April 19, 2010 (postmark)
Audition Dates: tentatively scheduled for June 14-17, 2010
Website: http://sfopera.com/employment.asp?mID=116&T=1&I=160

Organization: Orlando Philharmonic
Position: Assistant Concertmaster
Application Deadline: April 26, 2010
Audition Dates: May 3, 2010
Website: http://orlandophil.org/auditions/

Organization: Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Position: Cello 6
Application Deadline: May 1, 2010
Audition Dates: May 14, 2010
Website: http://tucsonsymphony.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=179

Organization: Orlando Philharmonic
Position: Second Bassoon
Application Deadline: May 3, 2010
Audition Dates: May 10, 2010
Website: http://orlandophil.org/auditions/

Organization: Orlando Philharmonic
Position: Substitute and Extra Musicians
Application Deadline: May 26, 2010 (Woodwinds); June 2, 2010 (Strings, Harp, Percussion); June 9, 2010 (Piano, Brass)
Audition Dates: May 29, 2010 (Woodwinds); June 5, 2010 (Strings, Harp, Percussion); June 12, 2010 (Piano, Brass)
Website: http://orlandophil.org/auditions/

JOBS:

Position: Director of Communications
Organization: Berkeley Symphony
Description: Oversee the organization’s communications and marketing, helping to generate $200k a year in support of Berkeley Symphony’s operations. A minimum 3-4 years of marketing and/or communications experience with increasing responsibility. (Email for a complete job description.)
Deadline: until filled
Website: http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/contact.htm#auditions
Contact: jobsearch@berkeleysymphony.org
Send to: jobsearch@berkeleysymphony.org

Position: Senior Manager, Annual Fund/Membership
Organization: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Description: Responsible for acquiring, upgrading, renewing and servicing all annual donors under $10,000 and identifying and cultivating prospects for major gifts. Plan and implement with Deputy Director the direct mail, telefunding and online campaigns, personal solicitation and cultivation, stewardship programs, donor events, membership benefits and fulfillment. Manage all activities of the direct response campaign, including campaign logistics, direct mail and telefunding solicitation and pledge fulfillment and integrate donors into the annual giving cycle.
Deadline: until filled
Website: http://www.laphil.com/about/jobs/details.cfm?id=309
Contact: see website
Send to: see website

Position: Marketing Intern (summer job)
Organization: Los Angeles Philharmonic
Description: Marketing processes including grassroots outreach, promotions and advertising, as well as gaining firsthand marketing experience in the day-to-day operations of a nonprofit arts organization.
Deadline: until filled
Website: http://www.laphil.com/about/jobs/details.cfm?id=305
Contact: see website
Send to: see website

Did you know that all Conservatory Alumni are guaranteed ONE free ticket (space permitting) to any ticketed, SFCM performance at 50 Oak Street? It’s easy—simply call the box office ahead of time at 415-503-6275 to claim your seat. PLUS, if you “fan” the SFCM Facebook page, you’ll be first in line to receive announcements about ticket giveaways for closed-to-the-public special events at the Conservatory. Don’t believe it? Just ask the TEN ten lucky alums who recently got to witness Emanuel Ax’s private master class in the Sol Joseph Recital Hall.

The San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Alumni Community continues to generously support the future of music! As of today, alumni have donated over $59,000, of which $2,865 has been directed to the Collegiate Scholarship Program, while $2,120 was earmarked by donors towards the new Student Professional Development Fund, an alumni-driven initiative that provides current students with resources to help pay for competition fees, flights to auditions, headshots for casting calls, etc. If you would like to contribute to the SPDF, or to any fundraising initiative, please proceed here. Your gift, particularly as an alumna or alumnus of the Conservatory, is tremendously valued and appreciated. Even a small donation goes a long way.

Do you still live in the Bay Area? Have you been placed on the Alumni Access List? If you wish to gain entry to 50 Oak Street, stop waiting for someone to sign you in and just show your ID to the guards when you arrive. Simply see Michael Williams in Room 414 or call him at 415-503-6245 to set up an appointment to sign up for the list. As always, however, please remember: alumni are not permitted to use the Conservatory’s practice rooms at any time of the day. We regret this inconvenience, but our current student body must have priority to use our practice facilities at all times.

Have any questions or concerns for the Alumni Committee? Find us!

Gary Rust, MD, ’83, chair, trustee
Karla Avila '03
Christopher Basso '82, '04, staff
Marnie Breckenridge '96
Alexander Brose, staff
Cem Duruöz '94
Heather Mathews '93, '97
Mack McCray, faculty
Bettina Mussumeli, faculty
Eric Peterson '69
Jen Seaman, ’05, ’06, staff
Regina Schaffer, ’05, trustee
Raeeka Shehabi-Yaghmai '02, '04
Jonathan Smucker '01, '03, '04
Robin Sutherland '75
Wayne Van Lieu, ‘09

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