Class Note 1987
Issue
The holidays kicked off for your co-secretary at the December 4 party hosted by Heather Myers and Tim Bixby at their very smart Chelsea loft. This annual event is a must-attend for New York’s literati and digerati—friends and colleagues of Heather’s from the book publishing world and of Tim’s in connection with LivePerson (the real-time assistance and expert advice provider of which Tim is president and chief financial officer). The Bixby-Myers fete was also, definitively, an ’87 mini-reunion. Rob Armstrong Martin was there, along with three other theatrical ’87s—Sean Abbott, David Huang and Jeffrey Lazarus, plus Jeff’s wife, Julia Weill ’90. “Where’s Brendan?” everyone in this group kept asking one another—meaning Brendan Connell, who’d apparently “said he’d be here.” But no Brendan that night. His absence was attributed to his demanding job as director and counsel for administration at the Guggenheim Museum. But Evan Azriliant, another regular in this crowd, showed up with his wife, Debbie. Evan practices trust and estate law in Manhattan and Florida while also keeping all the books in order for the Dartmouth Club of New York as its treasurer. The Azriliants live in New York City and have two boys.
Rob Martin is operations director at Scientiae, the medical education and training company. He’s also writing plays, acting (he was Grover Jr. in The Egg in 2008, a short film based on the Sherwood Anderson story) and organizing theater junkets for his classmates. David Huang lamented his own inattentive attendance at a recent show with Rob because he was suffering from jet lag: “But you don’t miss Finian’s Rainbow if Rob Martin tells you he has a ticket for you—you just don’t do it.” David had been vacationing with his partner, Henry Jacobowitz, in Korea and Cambodia. Sean Abbott traded opinions with David about the management of Angkor Wat (“They shouldn’t let the cattle graze freely in the temples, don’t you think?”) and was himself back from a trip, having taken his two kids to London over Thanksgiving for his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary celebration. He reported on Christo Brock’s “famous victory garden—it was in the L.A. Times” at Christo’s home “up there in twisty-turny David Lynch country” (Topanga Canyon). A producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Long Way Home, Brock was working hard last year editing the documentary film Running Forward for 2010 release, following in the spirit of the Christo Brock-edited Spirit of the Marathon. Jeff Lazarus and David Huang reminisced about their labors as director and choreographer, respectively, of This Is the Place, the ’87 cabaret. Having cut his teeth designing (with Erin Foster) the program for that show, David now designs elaborate illustrated books for celebrity authors (e.g., Barbra Streisand). “David blames all his problems on book editors,” said Sean Abbott, a book editor. Jeff Lazarus stayed typically above the fray. Jeff is the chief executive officer of Realtime Music Solutions (www.rms.biz), the creators of Sinfonia, a technology capable of following a conductor’s tempo and musical nuance during live performance. December’s unofficial Manhattan mini-reunion was prelude to the real thing, coming right up, coast-to-coast, in March and April. Mini-reunion chair Laura Gasser e-mailed us with the news that, “likely locations for our 87th night mini-reunions include Amherst, Atlanta, Boston, Hanover, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, Park City, San Francisco and Washington.” For all the details, visit our Web site www.dartmouth.org/classes/87 or feel free to contact Laura directly—lgx@cpuc.ca.gov.
—Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net; Wendy Becker, 2 Kensington Gate, London, England, W8 5NA; wendy.becker.87@alum.dartmouth.org
Mar - Apr 2010
The holidays kicked off for your co-secretary at the December 4 party hosted by Heather Myers and Tim Bixby at their very smart Chelsea loft. This annual event is a must-attend for New York’s literati and digerati—friends and colleagues of Heather’s from the book publishing world and of Tim’s in connection with LivePerson (the real-time assistance and expert advice provider of which Tim is president and chief financial officer). The Bixby-Myers fete was also, definitively, an ’87 mini-reunion. Rob Armstrong Martin was there, along with three other theatrical ’87s—Sean Abbott, David Huang and Jeffrey Lazarus, plus Jeff’s wife, Julia Weill ’90. “Where’s Brendan?” everyone in this group kept asking one another—meaning Brendan Connell, who’d apparently “said he’d be here.” But no Brendan that night. His absence was attributed to his demanding job as director and counsel for administration at the Guggenheim Museum. But Evan Azriliant, another regular in this crowd, showed up with his wife, Debbie. Evan practices trust and estate law in Manhattan and Florida while also keeping all the books in order for the Dartmouth Club of New York as its treasurer. The Azriliants live in New York City and have two boys.
Rob Martin is operations director at Scientiae, the medical education and training company. He’s also writing plays, acting (he was Grover Jr. in The Egg in 2008, a short film based on the Sherwood Anderson story) and organizing theater junkets for his classmates. David Huang lamented his own inattentive attendance at a recent show with Rob because he was suffering from jet lag: “But you don’t miss Finian’s Rainbow if Rob Martin tells you he has a ticket for you—you just don’t do it.” David had been vacationing with his partner, Henry Jacobowitz, in Korea and Cambodia. Sean Abbott traded opinions with David about the management of Angkor Wat (“They shouldn’t let the cattle graze freely in the temples, don’t you think?”) and was himself back from a trip, having taken his two kids to London over Thanksgiving for his parents’ 50th wedding anniversary celebration. He reported on Christo Brock’s “famous victory garden—it was in the L.A. Times” at Christo’s home “up there in twisty-turny David Lynch country” (Topanga Canyon). A producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary The Long Way Home, Brock was working hard last year editing the documentary film Running Forward for 2010 release, following in the spirit of the Christo Brock-edited Spirit of the Marathon. Jeff Lazarus and David Huang reminisced about their labors as director and choreographer, respectively, of This Is the Place, the ’87 cabaret. Having cut his teeth designing (with Erin Foster) the program for that show, David now designs elaborate illustrated books for celebrity authors (e.g., Barbra Streisand). “David blames all his problems on book editors,” said Sean Abbott, a book editor. Jeff Lazarus stayed typically above the fray. Jeff is the chief executive officer of Realtime Music Solutions (www.rms.biz), the creators of Sinfonia, a technology capable of following a conductor’s tempo and musical nuance during live performance. December’s unofficial Manhattan mini-reunion was prelude to the real thing, coming right up, coast-to-coast, in March and April. Mini-reunion chair Laura Gasser e-mailed us with the news that, “likely locations for our 87th night mini-reunions include Amherst, Atlanta, Boston, Hanover, Hartford, Los Angeles, New York, Park City, San Francisco and Washington.” For all the details, visit our Web site www.dartmouth.org/classes/87 or feel free to contact Laura directly—lgx@cpuc.ca.gov.
—Melissa Wallshein Smith, 77 Benedict Hill Road, New Canaan, CT 06840; melissaj@optonline.net; Wendy Becker, 2 Kensington Gate, London, England, W8 5NA; wendy.becker.87@alum.dartmouth.org