Thomas Working (AS 62, IAC 63-64, U 65, IAC St 66-68) is director of the Holland American Legion Band. The band toured Europe in June 2009, participating in the 65th Anniversary of D-Day with concerts in Ste Mere Eglise, Saint-Lo, Carentan, as well as at the Normandy American Cemetery overlooking Omaha Beach. They finished their eight-day tour with two joint concerts with bands in the Netherlands. Additional alumni in the Holland American Legion band are Vivian (Verhorst) Hoogland (AS 48), Clyde Tilton (AS 58), Donald Druart (AS 58-59), Marjorie (Hage) Hoogeboom (AS 59), Timothy Crandall (AS 64) and Nancy TenElshoff (AS 75-76).
Laurie (Laurel) Anderson (IAC 62-63) is a performance artist. Her most recent CD is "The Yellow Pony and Other Songs and Stories." Laurie was the visiting artist in the New York University Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) during the fall of 2009 and was a guest artist during the 2009 spring semester of Princeton University's Princeton Atelier program.
Nancy (Nutting) Swearingen (IAA 62-65) has a studio, Swearingen Fine Portraits, located in Northville, Mich. She creates commissioned portraits as paintings, drawings, and photographs. Nancy, will be hosting an alumni event in celebration of Joseph E. Maddy’s 118th Birthday this October 11th at her studio along with Dorothy (Cormie) Duensing (IAC 79-80), Stephanie Windisch (AS 93) and Lynne (Hadley) Fowlkes (IAC 63, IAC St 68, 70-73, 75, 77, IAO Board 06-present).
Stephanie Sheppard (IAA 62-65) has returned to Los Angeles, Calif. She is a professional photographer and taught creative photography for children in the summer of 2008. She has written a film called "SUSPECT," a true adventure story set in Los Angeles and is developing a documentary about a female artist who had a penchant for masking her persona.
Susan Crowell's (IAC 63-64, IAA 64-66) art work will be exhibited at the River Gallery in Chelsea, Mich. September - November, 2009.
John Herreshoff (IAC St 63-69) worked for the State of Michigan as a psychologist in the hospital system and completed his service when he finished implementing and managing the computer system at the hospital facility in which he worked. He and his wife have two children, an adopted daughter with Downs Syndrome and a son that will be starting law school in the fall of 2009.
Gary Brocks (IAC 64) is a jazz vocalist, lyricist, and songwriter in New York City. He continues to perform, write, and teach vocal improvisation. Gary performed recently at the Puppets Jazz Bar, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Roy Saper (IAC 65, IAA 67-68, IAC St 70) is owner of Saper Galleries and was honored by Art Business News, a national business publication serving the fine-art market, with the 2009 Gallery Excellence Award for Best Gallery Event.
Debra Cash (IAC 66-67, 69, 72) is a 2009 Scholar in Residence at the Bates College Dance Festival, teaching a course on dance in context and providing program notes and pre-concert talks for the festival's professional performances. Her series of lectures and other contextual activities "Dancing in The Present Tense," in partnership with World Music/CRASHarts, Wesleyan University and other arts presenters, resumes in the fall 2009. Based in Boston, Debra also has a career as a user experience design manager with Litl, an innovative technology start-up.
Timothy Rub (IAC 66) is the director and chief executive of Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pa.
Anthony Ranieri (IAC 67-69) is a composer and pianist teaching in Chicago and Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL. His most recent piano soloists CD is titled "Necessary Evils."
Jappie King Black (IAA 67-70) received a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in sculpture in August 2009.
Char (Charlene) Levitt (IAC 68-71) married her life partner, Jill Stevens, in San Francisco, Calif. in October 2008. Char is a managing director for Charles Schwab & Company in the Technology Infrastructure organization.
Stephanie Durham (IAC 68-69, 71) is a CT Scan Technologist and plays the violin for enjoyment.
Dr. Robert D. Ross (IAC 68-70) is a pediatric cardiologist at Children's Hospital of Michigan, where he directs the fellowship programs for all pediatric subspecialties. He has led a heart mission to the Dominican Republic since 2003, to train local medical staff to care for and operate on children with no other access to care for their heart disease.
Karen Talbot (IAC 69-72) is a librarian in Maple Heights, Ohio.
Ted A. Lane (IAC 69-71) is principal clarinetist and soloist with the American Sinfonietta and principal clarinetist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ecuador.
Leslie Stewart (IAA 69-71, IAC St 71) is director of the summer masters in music education in conducting program at Colorado State University. Since moving to Colorado in 2006, she has guest conducted the Longmont Symphony and the Youth Orchestra of the Rockies and started a new community orchestra in Ft. Collins based at Poudre Valley Hospital. Her other duties at CSU include playing 2nd violin in the faculty string quartet, teaching violin and string pedagogy, and coaching chamber music.
Larry Thomas (IAA Faculty 69-72, IAC Staff 70-73) is the editor of the literary arts magazine, Third Wednesday, an international publication that prints poetry, short fiction, and black and white artwork and photography.