RE LOG - Spring 2017

54 Ransom Everglades LOG SPRING 2017 1984 Karen Beber , the founder of MEO, which creates and manufactures artistic labels designed uniquely for laptops, smart- phones and smart watches, writes, “I’m so proud of MEO! Not only of my incredible team and our fantastic products, but, more importantly, of our commitment to social responsibility. Founding a startup – espe- cially one that introduces a new product category and new brand – is hard, and the support I have received from my kids ( Zander ’15, Elle ’17 and Nik ’19 ) is something for which I am eternally grate- ful. It definitely fuels the fire! MEO prod- ucts have been incredibly well received, and we’re now planning to obtain licenses from universities and professional sports teams, to produce logo’d merchandise, as well as to provide online customization and personalization. The most satisfying ‘product’ of the MEO brand is the Good, in our triad, Function. Style. Good. It’s great to be functional, in that we are solving a problem; it’s good to have style, of course! But it’s really best and most satisfying to be able to make a difference in people’s lives. Social responsibility is woven in to the fabric of our brand, and of this I am most proud.” Kenny Broad ’84 , University of Miami marine anthropologist, participated in a panel discussion with actor Leonardo DiCaprio after an Oct. 4 screening of DiCaprio’s Before the Flood – a National Geographic documentary on climate change – at the New World Center on Miami Beach. Broad and DiCaprio were joined by producer Brett Ratner, Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine, marine biolo- gist and Miami Waterkeeper Executive Director Rachel Silverstein and Before the Flood Director Fisher Stevens. The docu- mentary premiered Oct. 30. 1985 Alexandra Campbell-Howe is shown here at her son’s graduation in Darien, Ashley Brinson Cusack writes, “While I am involved in many areas of the commu- nity, my most fun area of volunteering right now is coaching the girl’s lacrosse team at RE. This is my fourth year with the team. I got involved when the team began and have loved watching it grow and thrive! This is our fourth season and we have a great group of girls and should be a force to be reckoned with again this year.” Maria (Asako) Toyoda writes, “Some quick updates: I moved to Boston last year to become Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Government at Suffolk University. My two sons are now 11 and 15 and enjoy being closer to their cousins in Newport, RI. Aunt Yoko Toyoda ’87 is in Denver and I should probably ship them off to her this spring for a visit. We’ve booked tickets to Portland, OR, in August to visit friends and see the total solar eclipse, about a once-in-a century event in North America. Otherwise, I’m on the road for work a bit and will get to China and Japan this spring. We have a campus in Madrid that I have not visited yet, but looking for- ward to that maybe in the fall.” 1986 David Arnold reports: “We just celebrated Elanah’s Bat Mitzvah. She and Eliza are very busy with basketball at Ransom Everglades and Beth Am and Ella is right behind cheering them on. Mary keeps us all on track while I continue to practice head and neck surgery at the Sylvester Class Notes Comprehensive Cancer Center and the University of Miami Hospital where I am the chief of the head and neck surgery service. I have also been asked to serve as the Chief of Surgery at The Lennar Foundation Medical Center on the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami. I continue to stay in touch with Ransom Everglades on the alumni board, and Mary and I thoroughly enjoy being RE parents!” Franklin Einspruch While maintaining a studio practice as a painter in Boston, Franklin Einspruch is also active in art criticism and comics, and has long experience in alternative publishing. His art has appeared in 18 solo exhibitions and 37 group exhibitions. He has been an artist in residence at programs in Italy, Greece, Taiwan, and around the United States. Einspruch has authored 182 essays and art reviews for many publications including The New Criterion and Art in America. He pro- duces one of the longest-running blogs about visual art, Artblog.net, and a webcomic, The Moon Fell On Me. His imprint, New Modern Press, publishes the anthology Comics as Poetry. Inspired by a successful workshop with Annie Bissett over the summer, he returned to Zea Mays Printmaking last fall to work in silkscreen with Daniel Chiaccio. He also crafted the following new writings: On Walter Darby Bannard, 1934-2016, at artcritical. On Art Basel Miami Beach, at The New Critierion. On fake news in the New York Times, at American Greatness. On Gustav Klimt at the Neue Galerie, in the January 2017 issue of The New Critierion. Online version available though paywalled. On Guido Cagnacci at the Frick Collection, published at The New Criterion. Nick Ferber writes, “I very recently made a HUGE career change. After spending the past sixteen years as an executive recruiter, I was finally enticed to join one of my clients. I now head up the talent acquisition team for Integrated Dermatology Group, www.my- dermgroup.com. IDG owns, manages and Conn., this past May, where she has resided with her husband James Howe, and three children, Nicholas (21), Jeremy (18) and Isabella (17) since 1998. Also pictured are her in-laws, Robert and Jo-Ann Howe and her mother, Leonor Campbell. The RE alum continues her career as a journalist in New York City, and is currently a contributing writer for NBCNews.com.