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Arts
Dulcie Gilmore '69
°Chicago theater professional and long-time manager of the Arie Crown Theater at McCormick Place,
Dulcie Gilmore, was appointed to the first board emeritus of the League of Historic American
Theatres (LHAT), a national organization dedicated to preserving, restoring and sustaining historic
theaters. Dulcie service on the national LHAT board for 13 years, from 1999-2011, and was board
president in 2005-07. She received the League's Outstanding Individual Contribution Award in 2012.
Alisa Didorenko '09
°Alisa's latest paintings are currently available for sale at: www.alisabogodarova.com. She is also
preparing her first book for publication.
John Austin, faculty alumnus
°New York's Center for Contemporary Opera has committed to staging faculty alumnus John Austin's
lyric drama Heloise and Abelard. Since funding is shared by CCO and the composer, John seeks
generous angels interested in this adventure. Robert P. Morgan, Emeritus Professor of Music, Yale
University, author of Twentieth Century Music (W.W. Norton, New York), The Cambridge Companion
to Schoenberg and a wide variety of articles on music theory, wrote of Heloise and Abelard: "John
Austin's outstanding opera Heloise and Abelard is a work of great seriousness and beauty. Its music
is handsomely composed and based on an exceptionally fine libretto by Christine Froula [John's
wife]. I have no doubt that it will become a hallmark of the American operatic stage. As an important
contribution to the critical contemporary operatic genre, Heloise and Abelard deserves strong support
and many performances; and it has my most positive recommendation." For details, John can be
contacted at 847.869.0133 or jbamusic@yahoo.com.
In Print
° Charles Bane, Jr. '70 of award-winning poetry, Love Poems is now available for pre-order at
Charles Bane's second book
kelsaybooks.com/pre-ordering_kelsay_books
° Lony Ruhmann '74
Bite This Book is the first book written especially for dogs by dog lover and film producer Lony
Ruhmann. Published by Mirror Publishing, Bite This Book is a compilation of 24 different vignettes
that explore how dogs experience life, in 36 pages with whimsical illustrations by Pritali Joharapurkar.
Bite This Book is available online at Amazon.com.
Erens '81
° Pamelasecond novel, The Virgins, has been named an Editor's Choice selection by The
Pamela's
Chicago Tribune, Library Journal and The New York Times, where John Irving called it
"flawlessly executed and irrefutably true." The novel has also been featured in O, the Oprah
Magazine, Vanity Fair, Redbook.com, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Daily Beast, and
New York magazine's blog, The Vulture. Part of the book takes place in Chicago!
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