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Olivia Karas was named Big Ten Freshman of the Year on March 19, after helping her Michigan gymnastics team secure its 22nd Big Ten Championship. A nine-time Big Ten Freshman of the Week and three-time Gymnast of the Week selection, four all-around victories, 12 event titles and 21 routines of a 9.900 or better mark an outstanding start for a college career. Abigail Nadler received NCAA Division III Cross Country All-American honors earlier this year. Faculty Alumni Judy Kritzberg John Austin reports the completion of music for MacArthur grantee Naomi Wallace's one-act play No Such Cold ing, the last of 13 plays in the collection e Great Game Afghanistan (Oberon Books, London 2009) commissioned by London's Tricycle eatre. "Brief as NSCT is, one exposure is not enough to do justice to its mercurial journey through layers of denial to the ultimate acceptance required of the play's two teenage Afghan girls and young GI. Accordingly, the plan is to present the play twice – the first time straight, the second time accompanied by music emanating mostly from its own sphere, as a kind of free-floating elegy for youth sacrificed to conflicts of others' making. Adventurous companies interested in presenting an unusual and provocative evening of theater, take note." David Eaton passed away on November 7. Son Christopher Eaton '81 writes: "Anyone who knew Dad would have remembered him as a big man. He was tall, with big shoulders, big hands, a big grin and a big belly. Even his accent was big. He filled whatever room he was in and didn't always leave space for other people's opinions. In the nursing home where he spent his last two years, they called him 'the professor' and called him a gentleman and that, of course, made him grin. Big. Dad spent nearly 60 of his 87 years teaching. He began as a classroom teacher giving instruction to eighth graders in every subject except English. He finished, in retirement, teaching college freshman the fundamentals of algebra. In between, as an administrator, he oversaw the faculty and students of seven different prep schools, but he always set aside time to teach. He loved seeing that sudden understanding a student would have when a tricky equation finally came out right. He loved being the larger-than-life teddy bear that people could hug and joke around with. He will always be remembered as the big man on campus." Ellie Lambrakis' legacy lives on and continues to inspire future generations. Former Latin parent Erika Musser recently contacted us to let us know that her son Dr. Siegfried Musser's '86 love for science and math sprang from Mrs. Lambrakis' enthusiastic teaching of the subjects. In fact, the family still has three books that Mrs. Lambrakis gave them, and now those books are being shared with the next generation of Mussers, who are developing a similar love of science and math. Class Notes Roman Connections Roman Connections 46