Class Note 1993
If my calculations are correct you should be reading this right around the 20th anniversary of our graduation. It seems like a good time to focus on career updates!
Did you catch the New York Times this past January? Carolyn Cantor was featured in an article about female Broadway directors. Her recent projects include Amy Herzog’s Great God Plan, and she will be directing Steven Levenson’s Core Values. She was quoted as saying, “I like to think of myself as a director who adapts to the demands of the play. So, for example, a more stylized text would result in a more stylized production. But more and more I do see commonalities. I am very interested in crafting small, detailed moments with actors, and I think really simple, honest acting is a hallmark of my work.”
Catherine Cosgrove joined Preti Flaherty’s litigation group in their Concord, New Hampshire, offices (of counsel). She focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation matters, including construction litigation and professional liability claims at trial and on appeal.
If you are a member of the class of ’93 Facebook group (and you should be if you aren’t! Find it at www.facebook.com/groups/47317464568) you know that Jon Ruiz has been involved with the app Gazelle, a running app, recently voted “best running app” in About.com’s Reader’s Choice Awards.
Rob Simmelkjaer is now hosting a nationally syndicated radio show on NBC Sports Radio, aptly titled, Speaking of Sports with Rob Simmelkjaer. His first guests on the show were Bob Costas and Notre Dame AD Jack Swarbrick.
Also in the sports vein: Annie Edgerton’s quest to sing the national anthem in every Major League baseball stadium led her to Kansas City, Missouri, for the Royals’ home opener. Go, Annie!
Kari Loya’s recently released book, My Top 40 at 40: Making the First Half Count, has now been released as an audiobook.
While we can’t always mention their performances in a timely manner through this column, Richard Owen and Erik Ochsner never fail to write in and let us know about their appearances conducting various performances in N.Y.C. and around the world.
Take that as a challenge—please write in and let us know what you are up to in work, with your personal life, any cool hobbies or just to say hi!
On a more serious note, this column is being written one week after the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Thank you to all of our Boston-area classmates who wrote in to let us know you and your families are okay. I hope one of the takeaways of this is the strengthening of bonds. Though the ‘girdled earth we roamed’ in these past 20 years, the first thing I wanted to do when I heard of the bombing was to reach out to friends in the Boston area and friends who I knew might be running the marathon. I want to thank Jackie Dufault, Margaret Fawley, Marisol Negron, Monica Marlowe Stephan, W. John Burns, Jeffrey Adams, Alex Kaplan, Ken and Jennifer (Evans) Bilchick, Cindy (McCollum) Larson and everyone who wrote in to let us know they and their families were okay. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and the City of Boston.
—Beth Krakower, c/o CineMedia Promotions, 11500 Olympic Blvd., Suite 400, Los Angeles, CA 90064; dartmouth93@gmail.com
