PDS alumnus Noah DeBiase performs in this hilarious spoof of the scandalous world of sports through December 30, 2008. For more info, visit the Chuckleball Web site; for ticket info, contact Noah.

PDS alumni/ae are doing such interesting and diverse things. Come share your professional passions and accomplishments in the "real world" with current PDS students via a new, on-campus alumni/ae forum. Let us know if you would like to offer your services for a one-hour presentation/performance/display during the 2007-2008 academic year. Our first presenter in the series was alumnus Bill McComb. Read more about his visit to PDS.

Tell us what you are up to and don't be modest; we want to hear it all: school, job, family and more. Send photos! E-mail us today! Read the previous grouping of online class notes in the Fall/Winter edition of the school magazine, Currents)

Class Notes Archive: Fall 2006 ~ Fall 2005 ~ Spring 2004

1970s

Fritz Monsma '78 received his Ph.D. from Boston College and is teaching at St. John's College (Santa Fe). Congrats.

1980s

And speaking of St. John's and Santa Fe, Geetha (Murthy) Holdsworth '86, on a leave of absence from the PDS faculty, is enrolled in a masters degree program there. Write her at 1144 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501

Kudos to Rob Handel '86, who has been recognized (once again!) for his playwriting talent, in receiving the Helen Merrill Award for Emerging Playwrights. Click here for the link to a recent piece about Rob in the Poughkeepsie Journal (December 19, 2006).

1990s

A Remarkable Coincidence: The photographer, Hillary Harvey, and her subject, the photographer, Laurie Giardino

Laurie Giardino, Poughkeepsie Day School middle school arts and technology teacher, has been basking in the glowing reviews of her photography exhibit, Totowa Book of the Dead at the Clementine Gallery in New York City (through January 6th.) Chronogram, Hudson Valley's magazine of arts, culture and entertainment, was contacted about Laurie's exhibit and set up an interview (see the January Chronogram) and photo shoot of Laurie at work in Poughkeepsie Day School's Kenyon House darkroom. Was it chance, or once again the creative forces that drive Poughkeepsie Day School students even when they have graduated, that Chronogram's photographer was Hillary (Hoffman) Harvey '93? While Laurie was experiencing being on the other side of the lens, Hillary filled us in on what she had been up to since PDS.

Hillary had been very interested in photography at PDS, designing an independent study central studies class in photography that was supervised by Barbara Wood '78. A graduate also of Bennington College, where she majored in photography, Hillary now works as a freelance photographer out of Woodstock, New York. (Her Web site is www.hillaryharvey.com.) She does weddings, editorial work and portraits as well as fine art photography. Her work has been in juried exhibitions and shown in galleries and she has kept in touch with PDS by donating her services as one of the auction items for PDS's annual Spring Gala.

Noah Lyon '97 recently exhibited his work at Printed Matter's NY Art Book Fair. His new books include collaborations with Barry McGee, Paper Rad and Matt Brinkman. From January 27 - May 13, 2007 Noah will be showing new paintings, prints and drawings along side Robert Rauschenberg, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, Robert Mapplethorpe and others in "Rock n Roll Vol. I" at the Norrköpings Museum of Art in Sweden. The exhibition travels to Norway where it will be on view June 30 - September 9, 2007 at the Sørlandet Art Museum in Kristiansand. Noah lives in Brooklyn. Sister Rebecca Lyon '02 graduated from the University of Chicago last spring and is living in the Windy City.

2000s

Great news from Adam Lundquist-Baz '03: He received an Americorps grant enabling him to join an environmental conservation team during 2007-20087 in Portland, OR. Adam will be working on a variety of projects such as controlling invasive species, trail maintenance, environmental education, etc. He graduated from Bard College last spring with a double major in human rights studies and interdisciplinary art and during senior year was one of 10 Bard students who participated in the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela.

In November, Allison Toepp '03 helped dedicate The Katherine D. Elliott Studio Arts Center at her alma mater, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, along with the president of the college and art department chair. The building features 14,600 square feet of new academic space, including classrooms, offices, studios for painting, photography and printing and wood and metal shops. Allison, who is majoring in studio art with a double minor urban studies and art history, was selected to represent the student body at the dedication.

Keep those cards and letters coming! E-mail us and we'll be sure to post your news. Photos are welcome, too!

FORMER FACULTY AND STAFF

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