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Crowds of people march down a city street holding various signs at the third annual queer liberation march in Bryant Park, NYC.

New York Classical Review wrote about a performance by Abendmusik, directed by Bill Barclay ’03 with Patricia Ann Neely ’75 on the viol.

Jens Austin Astrup ’22 just joined the cast of General Hospital, as reported by Soap Opera Digest.

Fulbright scholar Madeleine Freundlich ’24 was featured in a Girl Scouts of Central & Southern New Jersey article, as an International Day of the Girl Spotlight.

Composer Robinson (Robin) McClellan ’99, a curator at the Morgan Library & Museum, found a previously unknown waltz by Frédéric Chopin written on a scrap of paper in the museum’s vault, as reported by The New York Times.

Environmentalist Nikola Alexandre ’14 has been selected as one of the honorees for OUT magazine’s 30th Annual OUT100 List.

Actor Louisa Jacobson ’13 was a cast member of The Gilded Age, which was selected as one of the honorees for OUT magazine’s 30th Annual OUT100 List.

Aubrey Hays ’15, who goes by the moniker Somebody Someone, talked to American Songwriter about life, creativity, and Hays’s latest song, “Better.”

Pianist and composer Jane Strong O’Leary ’68 was a guest on RTE Lyric FM’s The Lyric Feature.

Sherrilyn Ifill ’84 delivered Harvard University’s 2024 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture, as noted by the Harvard Gazette.

Claire Isabel Webb ’10 wrote a New York Times op-ed about the NASA space probe Europa Clipper titled “Can We Please Just Find the Aliens Already?”

David Foote ’75, Chief Analyst and Chief Research Officer at Foote Partners LLC, talked about the Big Shift—tectonic changes sweeping through the workplace, driven by new high-momentum technologies of which AI is just one—on the podcast The AIX Factor.

Sarah Lester ’91, Director of Maplewood Memorial Library, was quoted extensively in a NJ.com story about the library’s new $23.5 million building.

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