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Class Notes Claudia B. Czeczyk 5/15/2013  
I had recently published my second novel 'Nevermore, Quoth the Raver' under the pen name Brianna Claire Olson. This one is published by Outskirts Press!
Class Notes Michael Passaretti 5/15/2013  
Michael Passaretti (SBU '09) is Principal Associate Counsel in the Corporate Governance Office at Capital One Financial Corporation in McLean, Virginia. He provides legal support on corporate governance matters affecting Capital One and its board of directors, board committees and senior management committees. Prior to joining Capital One, Michael was a contracts specialist with ING DIRECT USA, where he provided legal support in connection with Capital One's $9 billion acquisition of the ING DIRECT.

Michael previously held positions at Pepper Hamilton LLP, Berwyn, PA, Corporate & Securities Group; Beachcroft LLP, London, UK, Commercial Law Group; Villanova Federal Tax Clinic, Villanova, PA; Constitutional Law Research Assistant, Professor Louis Sirico; and Bankruptcy Law Research Assistant, Professor Waltar Taggart.

Michael attended Villanova University School of Law, where he was an associate editor for the Environmental Law Journal and the Vice President of the Corporate Law Society. He received his J.D. cum laude from Villanova in May 2012. He graduated from Stony Brook University in 2009 with a B.S. cum laude in finance and economics.

Michael has appeared on several syndicated television programs, including two appearances on CBS' "This Morning" and one on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." More recently, Michael was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the Villanova Corporate Law Society, "Legal Career Paths: Private Practice or In-house?"

Michael is originally from Farmingdale, New York. He currently resides in Falls Church, Virginia.
Class Notes Michelle Z. Lindo-Rice 3/18/2013  
My name is Michelle Lindo-Rice and I am a single mother of two teenaged sons. I graduated in the year 1995 in Education. I live now in Florida, and am pleased to announce that I'm a published author with Urban Books, an imprint of Kensington. My debut Christian fiction novel is called SING A NEW SONG and it is available on Amazon, kindle, nook, and other book stores. My website is www.michellelindorice.com Please look me up on FB, LinkedIn and Twitter @mlindorice
Class Notes Kelly Gentry 1/9/2013  
In 2009, I married Steve Gentry (SB Class of '06). We have known each other since 3rd grade and began dating in 2002. In November 2012 we welcomed our first daughter, Lily, to our family. She is beautiful and the best holiday gift we could have asked for!
Class Notes Lawrence Schulman 10/16/2012  
LONDON, August 9, 2012 JSP Records will issue in the U.K. in early 2013 a 4-CD box set of entirely remastered Judy Garland recordings titled CREATIONS 1929-1962 -SONGS SHE INTRODUCED, which will contain 94 tracks and over 5 hours of music. The goal of the release is to include songs Judy Garland was the first to perform. Lawrence Schulman, who was behind such other Garland sets as Child of Hollywood (RPCD, 1993), Judy Garland at the Paris Olympia (Europe 1, 1994), Classiques et inédits (Frémeaux & Associés, 2008), Lost Tracks (JSP, 2010), Smilin' Through (JSP, 2011), and The Carnegie Hall Concert (JSP, 2012) will compile, annotate, and provide the discography and many rare photos for the set. Christopher Finch (author of Rainbow: The Stormy Life of Judy Garland; The Art of Walt Disney: From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdoms, and Beyond; and Chuck Close: Life), Will Friedwald (author of A Biographical Guide to the Great Jazz and Pop Singers; Stardust Melodies; and Sinatra! The Song Is You: A Singer's Art), and John Meyer (author of Heartbreaker; and Operation Ruby Slipper) will contribute essays to the brochures. Peter Rynston of Tall Order Mastering will be in charge of audio restoration and Andrew Aitken the graphic design. John Stedman, head of JSP Records, will produce.
Class Notes Lawrence Schulman 10/16/2012  
Schulman (Schulman) Lawrence (1976) writes, "JUDY GARLAND'S FIRST RECORDINGS, FOUND IN TRASH, TO BE RELEASED IN THE U.K. AFTER 75 YEARS" LONDON, June 22, 2010 - JSP RECORDS is proud to announce that Judy Garland's first studio recordings from 1935 will be released in the United Kingdom on August 2, 2010 in the 4CD box set, Judy Garland - Lost Tracks. Produced by John Stedman, and compiled and annotated by Lawrence Schulman, the entirely remastered collection of rare and never-released tracks from private collections includes one hundred performances by Judy Garland on radio, stage and in film between 1929 and 1959. Fifty-five have never before been released. Making their world première début and never heard in 75 years are the then 12-year-old Judy Garland's very first studio sides. The long-lost 1935 Decca tests were made on March 29, 1935 in Los Angeles, with Garland's mother, Ethel Gumm, at the piano. "Moonglow," "Bill," and a medley of "On the Good Ship Lollipop/The Object of My Affection/Dinah" were all, however, rejected at the time by Decca, which kept no copy of them in their vaults, and gave them back to the Gumms. The records' whereabouts were unknown until 1960. At that time, "Bill" and the medley were found on the street in a trash heap in front of Garland's recently sold and vacated house. Judy Garland - Lost Tracks heralds the first time Judy Garland's radio performances from 1935 to 1953, including many new finds, have ever been brought together in one set. For further information, please contact: John Stedman: john@jsprecords.com (U.K.) Lawrence Schulman: lschulman@HallQuarry.us (U.S.) JUDY GARLAND - LOST TRACKS 1929-1959 can be ordered at: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003T0J450?ie=UTF8&ref_=sr_1_1&s=music&qid=1277550845&sr=8-1&assoc_ss_swlb=1
Class Notes Edward M. Belfar 8/16/2012  
My first book, a collection of short stories titled Wanderers, was published by Stephen F. Austin State University Press in 2012.
Class Notes Warren Leggiere 7/31/2012  
Attention all alums from the 1980s, I host a stonybrook reunions group page on facebook - where you can receive updates on the latest achievements of the school, fellow alumni, and notifications on upcoming reunions for people our age. if you cant find the group, just send a request to me directly.

note: while i support all the activities of the alumni association and their mandate to solicit donations, my group page does not involve any of that.
Class Notes Rosetta Swinton 7/20/2012  
I am a College Of Nursing alumni class of 1976. I returned to my hometown of Charleston South Carolina 1990. I have been an ICU, ER and Faith Community Nurse until Feb. 2008. March 2008 I have been a full-time Missionary Nurse in Blantyre Malawi Central Africa. Jan 2010 I became a Pastor in Blantyre Malawi . So far we have planted a church with plans to build a church, school, free clinic, orphanage and a centre for women. I am the grandmother of Simone 6 years old and Franklin 41/2 months old. Would love to return to school with the help of God and friends. Would love to hear from any CON alumni from 1976. You all have an open invitation to visit me in the "Warm Heart Of Africa"- Malawi
Class Notes Uda. B. Bartholomew 5/17/2012  
Hi!

This will be a VERY informal, stream-of-consciousness, past-oriented entry, quite unworthy of further publication, in hopes of connecting face-to-face with compadres of The Era.

I was called Francine Braithwaite in the Class of '74 when I knew you at Stony Brook:
the AIM Program,
G-Quad,
Black Dorm/ The Black Choir,
the Infirmary,
Student Rep to the Executive Committee of the Faculty Senate,
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship/ IFES,
Three Village Church,
dancer at gym concerts
[Does anybody- perhaps from The Statesman- have a comprehensive list of the major and "minor" lectures/ concerts/ residencies/ master classes of the 1967-1975 era? It's worthy of a website/ book, alone!],
hanger out with the guys of the 3rd floor,
Black Dorm Year 2 Returnee -->
The Experimental College,
the Coffee Houses,
the drop-ins,
The Rockefeller Program for Urban Studies and Policy Analysis...

Faculty:
Armistad Robinson,
Mr. Bayles (sp?),
David Swinton,
Owen Carroll (sp?),
David Schroer- who visited me twice in Philly in the '90's,
Richard Dyer-Bennet,
Marvin Kalkstein--> SUNY's Empire College,
Steven Schwartz- Physics,
C. N. Yang- niceguy!,
T. J. J. Altizer (with whom I produced a debate with Arthur Katz).

I'd love to connect with any of that era, having come from Jamaica High, as well.

By the way, I have a memory of an afternoon when I was newly at the Black Dorm in the Fall of 1970. And, in hindsight, being given my last chance to be proven worthy of social life there. I believe that I was studying Calculus 101 with Trig Functions when visited by some women who were coming to hang out with me. And my listening to some progressive-folk-art-rock station. I assume that they assumed that this white music was all that I listened to, and I could be introduced to better things, a little later, but that day, they were patient and sisterly. They seemed interested in how I could be comforted by this stuff while I studied, so I shared a little about the music, with some animation perhaps... I was so pleased that I wasn't on the hot seat for once.

Then, on came, a performance by Odetta, a grand dame of the Blues and folk scenes of the 1950's through 2008, when she was pegged by the Obamas to sing at his Inauguration- had not Death come a'knocking at her door a few weeks before. Mother Odetta's loss was Sister Aretha's gain. But I digress. I had loved many an authoritative interpretation of The Roots Repertoire that Odetta had bequeathed and popularized to so many, but, now, obviously not my Black Dorm sisters of the moment:

I grew silent, then dumbly embarrassed with a sheepish almost tearful mangled smile and a shaking "No, no..." with my head, as Odetta, in poorer voice and slipshod almost pitchy tempo meanderings gave an uncharacteristically contrived Grade-D performance of a Grade-D pop song - during what she later described as a drugged-out hippie phase... her voice. ...her lungs. ... her health. I had never heard her like this before- I knew that they must be concerned for her too. I thought- was the DJ trying to degrade her by this one horrible song-choice? Why such excellent deep tracks for everyone else that day, and most days- and this lunacy from a great Black musician? And after holding my breath for what seemed to be a verse, and a chorus, and the start of another verse, and not hearing her sing any better- I sighed, and my Dorm-mates looked at each other knowingly and without a word- left.

I think I later closed the door and cried. As I often did. I didn't notice if my Dorm-mates were kinder or less to me. I don't think I thought to see if that confusing incident was a hinge on which my life at the Black Dorm creaked. I just hated that Odetta had been humiliated that afternoon on my watch, and those young women, with whom I wanted continued dialogue, were present for the DJ's insult.

I was told two and a half decades later that the reason I was "frozen out" from that day on was that I was listening to white music joyfully, enthusiastically, and when a Black woman came on the radio, I shut down and was rejecting. Black-Self-rejecting. Rejecting them. Blackness.

I was so shocked that I couldn't speak. The phone conversation ended, without my self-defense, or my defense of Odetta, or...

I've not gotten a chance to share with all my Stony Brook Era schoolmates the blessings that they were to me, even when it was "Hard Love (hear the songs of Bob Franke, someday)". I learned SO much from all of you! And so many gave such dear gifts, students, faculty, staff, neighbors...

Fast-backward to a time in the middle to late 1970's when I chose to work in Mississippi for a time an economic development project, that took me to a Parchman Prison annex in Jackson to write letters for prisoners; when I co-managed acoustic Blues musicians in Chicago for a record label, when I went on the road with them to coffee houses and folk festivals, and was blessed to help them wherever I could. When I sprung my big "little brother" from my parents' agenda of Computer Science, Computer Science, and more Computer Science, and helped him establish life as a Jazz musician...

I still love the sounds of classic-progressive-art-folk-rock, and their roots, and a dozen other sorts of music, but I'll always love me some Blues, and better yet, my first music, some deeply loving-grace-forgiveness Black Spirituals... Especially when I get to sing them myself... Always worse than Odetta on a bad day.

Hey, do me a favor and YouTube her sometime in the next 55 hours until I see you at The First Generation gathering...

And, by the way, my name for the past 30 years or so has been Udadade bo Jesu Braithwaite Bartholomew, Uda. Bartholomew, or Uda., for short. It's a spiritual name that I was given by Apartheid-era South Africans, at a Christian peace community, in Evanston, IL, where I hung out for 5 ½ years.

But that section of my life is another thousand or so stories...

I've learned that:
Everyone has a story to which one would do well to listen. Everybody is a genius, and Everyone is learning-disabled. And I don't have to cry for 4 hours a day anymore! Life, including at Stony Brook, is intense, but also, very good.
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