College with a master’s of administra- tive studies in business in 2006. She is the founder of Audrey & Emma LLC, which sells luxury handbag liners for Louis Vuitton and Longchamp. She also started greeting card company Hashtag the Planet. Elissa, who draws a Web comic with the same title, has been a featured guest at the New York Comic Con for the past three years. She lives in Brooklyn. KATE NEDELMAN HERBST 35 HOLLINGSWORTH AVE BRAINTREE, MA 02184-5518 781-843-5140
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antyogaboston.com), where she also launched a nonprofit project called Yoga for Single moms. Whitley Tucker and her partner, Sarah, welcomed son Tennen into the world on May 4, 2013. Whitley is thrilled that he is a happy, curious, and sweet boy and they are head over heels for him! Sarah and Whitley were married on August 3 in Seattle, Wash. Betsy Low Bertoni passed along the tragic news that Lauren Anne Adolfsen passed away on January 20 of cervical cancer. Betsy recalls Lauren, who earned an MFA in graphic design from Yale, as “a wonderfully bright and very creative young woman.” Last April, when Lauren was diagnosed with acute stage 4 cancer, she wrote a moving article in an online magazine. (www.youbeauty .com/health/living-with-cervical-can- cer). Many classmates fondly remember her senior thesis project, Snack Mountain that featured claymation food charac- ters riding a roller coaster. Kara Burke ’04 reflects, “I loved getting caught up in Lauren’s enthusiasm, for big things and little things. She was a smart, mature woman, but she had a sense of wonder and excitement that most peo- ple lose when they grow up.” Sarah Lutenski observes, “I always admired Lauren’s energy, creativity, and intelli- gence, but I treasured her warmth, hon- esty, and curiosity. She was one of those rare people who make you instantly feel you’ve been heard and understood.” The class extends condolences to her family. BRIDGET CUMMINGS DORMAN
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Chanel Luck opened a yoga stu- dio in Boston, Mass. (www.radi-
Elissa Danella West graduated first in her class from Boston
around the corner! Please join us on campus May 31–June 1 for a fabulous week- end filled with fun activities and great friends. Visit www
.skidmore.edu/reunion. Jenna Spackman and husband David Monahan welcomed a baby boy, Shay, on October 2. The family lives just outside Boston, Mass. Shay, who has already been introduced to Julie Lutz ’05, Alexis Colantonio, and Liza Gorman, can’t wait for his first trip to Skidmore in May! Heather Drabek and John Prendergast were married at their home in Moreland Hills, Ohio, on October 6, 2012. The bridal party included Jo Bartell and Jaime Jansen Welch. Heather practices immigration law in Cleveland. Leah Margolis Nathan and Ben Nathan live in Saratoga Springs with their daugh- ter, Eliza, 1. Ben is a project manager at Witt Construction and Leah runs Leah Margolis Design. Their biggest joint proj- ect to date was the complete gutting and renovation of their own home, featured in two national magazines this spring. I recently accepted a tenure-track faculty position at Fairfield University, which will begin this fall. We are looking forward to seeing everyone at Reunion! JACQUELINE VERNARELLI 1909 N. OAK LANE STATE COLLEGE, PA 16803-1316
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press secretary to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Willio Jeudy is co-founder of Applied
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.at, a free Web-based application that allows job seekers to download and organize job listings on any mobile device. He is working as a financial ana- lyst at Healthfirst. ROBERT CAIAZZO 120 JOSEPHINE AVE, APT 2 SOMERVILLE, MA 02144
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comed a daughter, Nora Lane, on December 17, 2012. Conrad, who gradu- ated from the Mortiz College of Law at Ohio State University in May 2013, is a first-year associate at Ballard Spahr in Philadelphia, Pa. Megan enjoys working
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Timothy Conrad Bower and Megan Gingrich Bower wel-
Nick Merrill left his job at the State Department and is now
Our 10th re- union is right
AT WORK Art in motion P
ainter and textile designer Andrea Bergart ’06 describes her work as colorful and
celebratory. She likes to push traditional boundaries, and draws inspiration from African art as well as subway graffiti. After graduation, Bergart earned an MFA
from Boston University and then traveled to Western Africa to research patterns on beads and textiles. She now lives in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens.
While cycling past a concrete supply compa-
ny last year, she eyed some 30 cement trucks behind a fence and thought, why not paint the barrel of a cement mixer? How cool would it be to have a painting on the streets of New York? Bergart pitched the idea to the company
owner, who agreed to her plan. Her first mural, based on an animal print, quickly became a sensation, with photos appearing on the Internet and stories in the local press. Her second mural, funded by the Queens Council on the Arts, recasts and celebrates traditional West African Kente cloth, known for its multicolored patterns and geometric shapes. (Peter Brock ’06 was an artist assis- tant for the mural.) “I love the shape of the cement truck,”
Bergart says in the documentary video Cement Truck Mural: Kente Mix, produced and directed by photographer Simon Biswas ’06, with assis- tance from Jesse Flower-Ambroch ’06 and others. “It’s like this giant bead. It’s rotating and it’s also moving. I can’t believe that no one has wanted to paint it before. It really opened me up to what’s possible, where art can live, what materials you can use, what it can reference, and who it can affect. That’s why art is so exciting to me.”
Bergart has since finished her third truck, and gets a call whenever a new barrel arrives. “Who knows,” she says, “maybe I’ll get to paint the whole fleet.”—PM
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