Skidmore College - Scope Magazine Fall 2018

46 SCOPE FALL 2018 picture book, This is My Eye , launched this summer. Holter celebrated the 30th anniversary of Hairspray with John Waters and other cast members at an IFC Center screening in NYC. Maximum Overdrive got a deluxe reissue, and Holter was interviewed for the Blu-ray commentary. He narrated the audiobook of “Fire and Fury,” and, “since he doesn’t read but follows his bad press maniacally, I’m pretty sure my voice annoyed our fool in chief.” Holter shot the final in- stallment of a series of short films written and directed by Niav Conty ’95 . In June, Holter marked his five-year post-transplant remission from leukemia, he notes, “making me once again as medically uninteresting as the next schmuck.” Emily Sellergren is still in Boulder, Colo., with husband Pete and two boys, Max, 13, and Henry, 10. She says, “I am living the Colorado dream of hiking, biking, tele-skiing and yoga and have started up fly-fishing!” She is a counselor at a middle school and has a private practice working with adolescents. I love living in NYC. I enjoyed a spate of live theater this past year, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (a lavish musical) and The Band’s Visit (a musical that hits the deeper emotional notes more typical of a play). I still work at Scholastic, volunteer with New York Cares, and sing in the Sirens of Gotham chorus. I recently became the communications coordinator for Sweet Ade- lines International Region 15, helping keep the member- ship of our 19 choruses and 40-plus quartets in the know! This summer I had a wonder- ful time back on campus for reunion planning session. It was great to see Saratoga residents Kirsten O’Rielly Drabek and Adam Wald , as well as those who traveled in for the weekend: John Beckman , Meredith East- man Principe , Tony Reidy and Josh Weiner . Be sure to mark your calendars for May 30 to June 2, and join the “Skidmore ’94” Facebook group to build the buzz and get the latest details! Vicki Tisch vickitisch@yahoo.com ’96 Neela Vaswani ’s fourth book, This is My Eye: A New York Story , was just released by Candlewick Press. It is a new kind of picture book, with text and photos by Neela, and featuring Jason Brown and a photograph by Jennifer Livingston ’95 . For details, visit neelavaswani.com . Neela and her husband, Holter Graham ’94 , joyfully welcomed daughter Kavita into the world this spring. Eric Goss married Kim Thoa Nguyen in 2016 in Gaithers- burg, Md. Rosemary Whalen Rath ’96 was in attendance. Victoria G. King vking1@comcast.net ’98 Back in 2003 Angel Perez was one of the youngest alumni to serve on Skid- more’s alumni board, where he was chair of diversity. Today he is vice president for enrollment and student success at Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., and an important voice in the movement to provide historically underrepresented groups greater access to higher education. His most recent op-ed appears in the Aug. 6 edition of the e-maga- zine Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Michele Rothstein mdrothstein@gmail.com ’04 REUNION ’19 Liz Rave and husband welcomed a baby boy on July 29. Meryl Kenny and husband Josh Makaruk welcomed daughter Kiva in May. They continue to live in Scotland, where Meryl teaches gender and politics at the University of Edinburgh. Jacqueline Vernarelli and husband Ross MacLean welcomed a baby girl, Isla, to the family in April. Jacqueline Vernarelli jvernarelli@gmail.com ’05 Zachary Toth is living the dream in Los Angeles, where he is the senior brain- MRI research specialist at the Institute for the Developing Mind. When not at work, he is hitting the sands of Santa Monica, Manhattan and Long Beach as frequently as pos- sible. He recently graduated from Thinkful Inc. Full Stack web development coding school, and he has created a rent-based cryptocurrency. Rebecca Blum Emami got married in August 2017 and, after living in LA for the last year, she and her husband relocated to northern Virgin- ia. While California was a lot of fun and they loved explor- ing the national parks, they are really happy to be back on the East Coast. They’re looking forward to hanging out with some Skiddies and putting down roots in D.C. Kathryn Wink Gilligan and husband Sean bought their first house, in Lawrenceville, N.J., and their twins Katelyn Marie and Jack David arrived July 13 at Penn Medicine Princeton Medical Center. Michelle Bernstein Simkin, Yael Katz and Kate Bradley celebrated the twins by host- ing a baby shower in May. Kathryn expects to complete her master’s in teacher lead- ership in summer 2019. Erin DeCou was over- joyed to visit Skidmore and Saratoga this August and made sure to squeeze in visits to the Tang Museum, the racetrack, the Adelphi, and Desperate Annie’s in less than 24 hours. Erin runs a community outreach and youth development program through Smith College in Northampton and Springfield, Mass. She married Aaron Mendelsohn in February and lives in Florence, Mass. I married Samantha Oliver in Portland, Maine, in August. We celebrated surrounded by family and friends includ- ing Joanna Caliman and Kristen Helmstetter . After completing my master teach- er fellowship in September, I plan to continue as staff physician and clinical faculty member at Tufts University’s Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance. Robert Caiazzo robert.j.caiazzo.jr@gmail.com Adam Wallace has launched Spherical, which provides web design and development, social media, search marketing, production and copywriting. He made his mark in the hos- pitality industry after gradu- ation, when he signed on as director of digital marketing at NYC’s Roger Smith Hotel. A pioneer in the use of social media to promote travel and tourism, he is a sought-after speaker at conferences in the United States and Europe. Today Spherical’s clientele includes boutique hotel chains Rosewood, Edi- tion, Palisociety and Proper. “I have combined my love for art, design, culture and sustainability to create a fast- growing, innovative agency,” says Adam. Jerome Mopsik and wife Emily Mopsik ’07 enjoy life in Saratoga Springs and had fun hosting friends this summer. In July their home was featured in the annual Saratoga Soroptimists Secret Gardens Tour; they wel- comed over 800 visitors to their little slice of the city! Mikayla Nemes is a physi- cian assistant for Premise Health in a large urgent- care center in NYC. She recently moved to Brooklyn and adopted a dog named Indiana. This year has been full of amazing trips to Japan, Iceland and Greece as well as fun reunions with ’06ers. Martin Levison served as executive chef at Twitter’s headquarters in San Fran- cisco for two years. This past January, he was named pur- chasing and culinary director at Airbnb headquarters, also in San Francisco. Rachel Gordon Miller and Eben Miller welcomed their second child, Hannah, on July 15. She joins big brother Nate. The family lives outside Boston. Eben teaches eighth- C L A S S N O T E S ’06