Yergan, Dudley-Perry mourned
Longtime theater faculty member David Yergan ’80 died September 22 after a stroke; he was 54. A theater major at Skidmore, Yergan earned the depart- ment’s Margaret Ellen Clifford Award for his “remarkable abilities, commitment, and work as a student of design and technical theater,” according to his the- ater professor and later faculty colleague Lary Opitz.
Following gradu- ate studies at New York University and work at New York City theaters, Yergan joined Skidmore’s theater department in 1986. Along with design, production, and teaching, he also took on theater man- agement when the Bernhard Theater building opened in 1987. He established the department’s
scene shop and many technical courses, and he created lighting and sound for scores of department productions over the years. Risa Shoup ’05 wrote, “From Dave I learned that you hang a light with the same integrity that you direct Shakespeare.” Yergan worked in the summer too.
8FIVE LIVE
The 5 Browns, piano-playing sib- lings who’ve been hailed as “a revo -
lutionary force in classical music,” have released The Rite of Spring— The 5 Browns: Live at Arthur Zankel Music Center. Their Skidmore perform- ance marked exactly 100 years since Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring premiered in Paris. Their five-piano arrangement of it and two other pieces are on the Steinway-label album, recorded live in Zankel’s Ladd Concert Hall by the Grammy-winning producer Adam Abeshouse, P ’13.
Home Made Theater. HMT’s general manager, Stacey Mayette Barnes, says, “He always took the time to share his knowledge with newer crew members, and he seemed to delight in the oppor- tunity to teach.” Yergan is survived by his wife and their daughter, his mother, and a brother
The Jazz Institute’s director Todd Cool- man says, “He really took care of us and all the fine details…allowing us to keep our minds on teaching and playing music.” Around the region Yergan also worked with Opera Saratoga, Saratoga Shakespeare Company, Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company, Maude Baum and Co., Proctor’s, Curtain Call Theater, and
and sister. A remembrance was held by Skidmore’s theater department in Febrary. Kate Dudley-Perry, an academic advi- sor in Skidmore’s Opportunity Program for the past eight years, died October 26; she was 37. A graduate of St. Bonaven- ture, Penn State, and Sheffield University in England, she was a summer tutor in the Opportunity Program and, since 2005, an OP aca- demic counselor and English in- structor. Before Skidmore, she worked at schools and colleges from Penn State to SUNY-Adirondack. Jamin Totino, Skidmore’s direc- tor of student aca- demic services, says Dudley- Perry’s “commit- ment to students was unwavering,
and her impact was meaningful. She was as smart and genuine as they come.” Survivors include her husband and their son, her parents, and a brother. Me- morial donations may be made to Capi- tal Region Sponsor-A-Scholar, Pine West Plaza, Building 3, Washington Avenue Ext., Albany, NY 12205. —AW, SR
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PHIL SCALIA
ANDRZEJ PILARCZYK
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