Class Note 1994
Issue
If any of you saw the Phillies game back in April where a dad reached out over the balcony railing with one hand, effortlessly caught a fly ball and then handed it to his beaming young son—all while also holding a baseball-hat shaped dish of ice cream—well, that was our very own David Cohen! If you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube along with more than 100,000 other viewers to date. The clip of the amazing catch set the sports blogosphere on fire and was picked up by a number of national sites, including sports.yahoo.com, yahoo video and fark. See it for yourself and read about it in David’s own words on the Phillies blog he writes for, The Good Phight, at www.thegoodphight.com/2010/4/15/1425401/the-catch-of-a-lifetime. Well worth a few moments of your day.
Brigid Pasulka, whose first novel Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True was published last year, was recently named the 2010 recipient of PEN/Hemingway award. This prestigious prize is awarded annually for a distinguished first book of fiction. Brigid received her award from Patrick Hemingway in a ceremony at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston in March. Past winners of the PEN/Hemingway include Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies and Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End, among many other well-known authors and titles.
Brigid will receive an $8,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and a one-week residency in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho’s M.F.A. program in creative writing. She will also receive a Ucross Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, a retreat for artists and writers. If you haven’t already checked out her book or if you want to see what else she’s up to (word is she’s working on a new novel set in Italy!) or read her blog, visit her website at www.brigidpasulka.com. I also heard that she got married this past May in Chicago—so congratulations are in order all around.
Belated congrats also go out to Kim (Gantcher) Spodek and her husband, who welcomed a third child, a little baby girl named Siena Lea, last April.
And for lack of more news I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to. I recently started a support group for parents of children with food allergies in Westchester County, New York, just north of New York City. Westchester Food Allergy Support Team (WestFAST) has helped create a social network among parents of food-allergic children, enabling them to share valuable resources and information. I am also excited that the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) has chosen to hold a fundraising walk in Westchester this year and will be helping out with that as well. If you or someone you know has a child with food allergies and lives in or near Westchester county, please feel free to contact me either at the below e-mail address or through WestFAST’s Facebook page for more information.
And speaking of Facebook (and what column would be complete without paying homage to the DAM secretary’s favorite new resource?), we’ve also finally started a Dartmouth ’94 group on Facebook, so next time you’re on, please take a moment to join us.
—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suzanne.fromer@alum.dartmouth.org
July - Aug 2010
If any of you saw the Phillies game back in April where a dad reached out over the balcony railing with one hand, effortlessly caught a fly ball and then handed it to his beaming young son—all while also holding a baseball-hat shaped dish of ice cream—well, that was our very own David Cohen! If you missed it, you can watch it on YouTube along with more than 100,000 other viewers to date. The clip of the amazing catch set the sports blogosphere on fire and was picked up by a number of national sites, including sports.yahoo.com, yahoo video and fark. See it for yourself and read about it in David’s own words on the Phillies blog he writes for, The Good Phight, at www.thegoodphight.com/2010/4/15/1425401/the-catch-of-a-lifetime. Well worth a few moments of your day.
Brigid Pasulka, whose first novel Long, Long Time Ago & Essentially True was published last year, was recently named the 2010 recipient of PEN/Hemingway award. This prestigious prize is awarded annually for a distinguished first book of fiction. Brigid received her award from Patrick Hemingway in a ceremony at the JFK Presidential Library in Boston in March. Past winners of the PEN/Hemingway include Jhumpa Lahiri for Interpreter of Maladies and Joshua Ferris for Then We Came to the End, among many other well-known authors and titles.
Brigid will receive an $8,000 prize from the Hemingway Foundation and a one-week residency in the Distinguished Visiting Writers Series at the University of Idaho’s M.F.A. program in creative writing. She will also receive a Ucross Residency Fellowship at the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, a retreat for artists and writers. If you haven’t already checked out her book or if you want to see what else she’s up to (word is she’s working on a new novel set in Italy!) or read her blog, visit her website at www.brigidpasulka.com. I also heard that she got married this past May in Chicago—so congratulations are in order all around.
Belated congrats also go out to Kim (Gantcher) Spodek and her husband, who welcomed a third child, a little baby girl named Siena Lea, last April.
And for lack of more news I’ll let you know what I’ve been up to. I recently started a support group for parents of children with food allergies in Westchester County, New York, just north of New York City. Westchester Food Allergy Support Team (WestFAST) has helped create a social network among parents of food-allergic children, enabling them to share valuable resources and information. I am also excited that the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) has chosen to hold a fundraising walk in Westchester this year and will be helping out with that as well. If you or someone you know has a child with food allergies and lives in or near Westchester county, please feel free to contact me either at the below e-mail address or through WestFAST’s Facebook page for more information.
And speaking of Facebook (and what column would be complete without paying homage to the DAM secretary’s favorite new resource?), we’ve also finally started a Dartmouth ’94 group on Facebook, so next time you’re on, please take a moment to join us.
—Suzie Fromer, 26 Irving Ave., Tarrytown, NY 10591; suzanne.fromer@alum.dartmouth.org