Class of 1996
Laura Alpert, Heller MM’98, is vice president of philanthropy at Boston Arts Academy Foundation, which supports Boston’s only public high school for the visual and performing arts. During the pandemic, Laura has been working remotely at the Rensselaer, New York, home she shares with husband Peter Perry Jr. and their Boston terrier, Daisy. Julie Weiner, daughter of Lisa Goldstein ’89, remotely interned with Boston Arts Academy Foundation this summer. Marnie Pariser is a fourth grade teacher at Legacy Traditional School in southwest Las Vegas, after taking a four-year hiatus from full-time teaching to tutor, work in fashion retail sales, substitute-teach in Las Vegas private schools, and take online coursework in fashion and psychology. In June, Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Arielle Silver released a new Americana-music album, “A Thousand Tiny Torches,” funded by fans through a Kickstarter campaign. In January, the U.S. Senate confirmed Matthew Solomson as a judge on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, in Washington, D.C. He took the oath of office and entered on duty the following month.
MOTHER OF EXILES: “Liberty,” an acrylic-on-canvas painting by Boston artist Eddie Bruckner ’96, was selected in a public-art competition that sought pieces commenting on New York City’s diversity. The painting was turned into a flag, one of 193 that flew in an installation around Rockefeller Center’s ice rink and restaurant plaza in August.