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1996

Ann Marie Przywara
aprzywar@skidmore.edu

Art dealer Christine Zehner was pictured, in her NYC apartment packed with works by emerging young artists, in the October 3 edition of the New York Times magazine. Christine sits on the young collectors’ committees for both MOMA and the New Museum.

Amy Drapeau works in the public affairs office of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, which opened in September.

Neela Vaswani, author of a collection of short stories called Where the Long Grass Bends, has been hailed as “one of the most versatile writers of her generation” by literary critics.

In May Victoria Freund Powers and husband Michael welcomed twins Hunter and Christopher. The boys were also greeted by their twin cousins, Molly and Charlotte. Victoria and the boys had a great time when aunt Mee-Ae Choi ’95 came for a visit in the fall.

Dan Klotz (klotz_dan@hotmail.com) moved to Pawtucket, RI, to join the sociology department at Bryant University. He is teaching introductory sociology and an advanced seminar on race and ethnicity. Dan, who was recently elected president of the New England Sociological Association, presented a paper at the national conference of the Association of Humanist Sociologists in Louisville in November. He is involved in creating Unity Rhode Island, a program celebrating diversity and multiculturalism based on an event he arranged in Boston last year. Invited speakers include Dan’s dad, Ken, former mayor of Saratoga Springs and a longtime Skidmore UWW faculty member, and Pat Trosclair, president of the Society Organized Against Racism and former Skidmore staff member. Dan is teaching an online course in urban sociology, through Skidmore’s University Without Walls. He is often in contact with Los Angeles, CA, resident Chad Snow ’97.

Special education teacher Alison Raymond is teaching first grade at Glenwood Elementary School in Short Hills, NJ.

Abigail Murray Mankouche and husband Steven live in Birmingham, MI. He is a professor of architecture at the University of Michigan; she is pursuing graduate work at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

Katharine Alexis Ryan married Alexander Downs Hrabe in Little Compton, RI, on September 12. They are both actors in Los Angeles; Alexis has most recently appeared in the independent film Kill Another Day.