RE LOG - Spring 2017

SPRING 2017 Ransom Everglades LOG 49 1971 Mark Harrison shared the following picture with his dogs at his ranch in central Florida while wearing some RE gear! 1972 Paul Curtin (See Steve Miller ’73 ) 1973 Dan Ellison , an arts attorney and advocate in Durham, N.C., spearheaded the DADA (Durham Audio Described Art) project in 2016 to provide audio descriptions of public art and architecture so those works would be accessible to people who are blind. Ellison’s service-learning class at Duke University assisted with the creation of the project, a collaborative effort of Duke University, the City of Durham’s Cultural Advisory Board, Durham Arts Place and Arts Access, Inc. The first iteration of the DADA project included audio descriptions of nine works of public art in downtown Durham. Each spring semes- ter, students in the service-learning class will create audio descriptions of additional works of public art and architecture to be added to DADA, including works on the Duke campus and at the school’s Nasher Museum of Art. Audio description has been used for specific live theatrical performances at numerous theaters for more than 35 years, both on Broadway and at local theaters. Adapting the concept to works of visual art remains in the nascent stages. Audio description enables a person who is blind to share the artistic experience. Steve Miller is alive and well in South Hero, VT, practicing and teaching law. Steve is in regular contact with Paul Curtin ’72 , and he was happy to catch up recently with Florida State champion tennis teammate John Geraghty ’73 . Chris Haub writes, “In early January, while in Los Angeles, I enjoyed Timothy Greenfield-Sanders ’ stunning photo exhibition, IDENTITY, at the Annenberg Space for Photography. While there, I was thrilled, after 50 years, to track down 1970s Timothy Knipe (pictured with me on the left). I was recently privileged to have class legend, Lee Stockdale ’70 , (pictured below) in my Chinatown studio. No one in our class could forget Lee, who is now a writer and poet living outside of Asheville, N.C.” Timothy Knipe writes, “I have been teaching English and journalism at an inner city high school that I, and a team of colleagues, started six years ago. In our short existence we have been able to break many stereotypes. In a community rife with poverty and gang violence, we have been able to achieve a 97-percent graduation rate, with students matriculating to Berkeley, UCLA and private colleges and universities such as USC, Dickinson and MIT. Prior to my career in education, I worked in the environmental field as a writer and speaker, and before that I was in the entertainment industry on the production side. Currently I am living in Los Angeles, CA, with my wife, Nancy, who is an artist and my daughter, Nathalie, who recently graduated from Berkeley.” Everglades School for Girls 1961 Chris Rosenman writes, “I have been married for 40 years to Douglas and we have three grown children: Hilary (Mo) in Brooklyn Heights with grandchild Ruby, who is two and a half; Tim (Whitney Port), who lives in LA; and Alexis, who lives in NYC. We lived in NYC for years and now reside in Warren, VT, and Juno Beach, Fla. We are kept pretty busy visiting kids, and playing tennis and golf. I have kept in touch with some of the girls from our class and was sad to lose Sandy McKay this year.” 1963 Darrow “Dutch” Hodges writes, “We old girls are still motivated by equal rights, gun safety, preserving our planet, fairness to immigrants, equitable wages for all, and compassion and civility with our leadership. Still based in Denver, but do the interpretive history on Florida Native Americans with birding travelers.” 1967 Liz Cowen writes, “One of the things I am passionate about is a program I started three