Here's news about what our Sunshine classmates are up to!
Ann Bennett Spence published a book of photos taken by her father during China's Civil War 1946-1949. Ann wrote the introduction to the photos, which focus on the Dong Yue Miao. The original photos were donated to the Harvard Yenching Library, an archive of Chinese books, research materials, and photos.
Hell Lost: Demolished Figures of FInal Judgment. Luminare Press, October 2024.
Ann's website is www.biananspence.com
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Lea Vaughan Feinstein's show Chrysalis opened Saturday, September 28, 2024, running through October 7, 2924. The opening live performance featured twenty models walking a runway in unique sculptural garments. Lea pushes the scultural potential of Tyvek by cutting, sewing, pleating and weaving new and recycled works - transforming them into vibrant new forms.
Curator Lorraine Heitzman, Keystone Artspace Gallery, 338 S Ave 16, LA 90031. Open 12-5 pm daily.
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Lee Sonastine Sproull began quilting seriously in 2015 after retiring from her first career as a professor of business and sociology. You can see images of her work and information about her art career on her website at www.leesproull.com. The calendar lists exhibits as current as September and October 2024.
Send Lee an email if you would like to be added to her mailing list, or if you would just like to chat. lssproull@gmail.com.
See example titled Pentimento.
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Leslie Pickering Francis and John G. Francis published a book on bioethics and intra-national differences in health care.
States of Health: The Ethics and Consequences of Policy Variation in a Federal System. Oxford University Press, August 2024.
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Helen Currie Foster published the ninth book in her Alice MacDonald Greer mystery series.
Ghost Bones. Stuart's Creek Press, June 2024.
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Kristin Elliott wrote a children's photo story about Kristin's rescue cat.
In Sneakers: the Munchkin Cat Whose Every Day is an Adventure. Independently published, May 2024.
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Dawn Kramer WC 63-65. She transferred to Sarah Lawrence for the program in dance and performing arts.
Her most recent work entitled Sueño was a serendipitous improvisation made at Mar de las in Pampas, Argentina in March, 2024.
Sueño (Dream) was created by Dawn Kramer and Maria Gloria Bocchieri Coyle. See short video and more information at
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To see more choreography, please visit Dawn's website:
http://dawnkramer.info/index.html
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Kristin Elliott Kristin shares her story of growing up on Boston's North Shore.
You All Look Alike: A Family Memoir. Independently published, November 2023.
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Ruth Stubblefield Simmons attended Wellesley during our junior year through the Guest Junior program and has gone on to a very distinguished academic career. This is the story of her life through her college years.
Up Home: One Girl's Journey by Ruth J. Simmons. Random House, September 2023.
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Anne Drury Hall recently published a book about why people should reread books assigned in college that were once considered "great books" but deemed no longer up to date. Anne asserts that these books are indeed still great, and are helpful in navigating our lives. She dedicates her book to three great teachers she had at Wellesley: Bob Garis, David Ferry, and Beverley Layman, now all deceased.
Where the Muses Still Haunt: the Second Reading. St. Augustine's Press, 2023.
Anne also wrote this essay about David Ferry.
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Merilee Serrill Grindle reports, "After retiring from an academic career that I loved, I have been working on a biography of Zelia Nuttall, a pioneering anthropologist." The book is now published.
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations, Harvard University Press, 2023.
Merilee S. Grindle
Edward S. Mason Professor of International Development, emerita
Harvard Kennedy School
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Kathy Gustafson Byers co-authored a book intended to raise awareness about policy practice and its relationship with the aims of the social work profession.
Policy Practice for Social Workers: An Ethic of Care Approach, Routledge, 2nd ed., 2023.
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Vivian Witkind Davis wrote a memoir sharing her efforts to maintain emotional balance and survive her own health challenges while caring for her disabled husband, Jack.
Down on Court Five: Lessons Late in Life, Kindle, 2022.
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Jeannette Grunhaus de Gelman's memoir is the story of Jeannette's parents' efforts and determination to survive as they journey from a shtetl in Eastern Poland to a new life in Venezuela.
On Sunny Days We Sang: A Holocaust Story of Survival and Resilience, Kindle, 2022.
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Phyllis Winston Ringler wrote a story about her father's paternal grandfather.
"The Midshipman Writes Home," in Foothills Voices: Echoes of Southern Appalachia, Volume 2. Independently published, April 2019.
Phyllis Winston Ringler published a mystery novel.
The Mayan Clue. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, May 2016.
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