Brandeis Magazine

Sunny Brownrout, P’88, who lives in Sarasota, Florida, celebrated her son Todd’s 60th birthday in California along with daughters Jill ’88 and Melanie. “It was an amazing weekend,” Sunny writes. “Lots of hugging, kissing, and eating.” Michael Cohen’s CD “A Song for Silenced Voices” has been released by Navona Records. Two of the works on the disc, “String Quartet” and “Prelude,” were first performed in Brandeis’ Slosberg Recital Hall in 1959. Shepard Forman; his wife, Leona; and their children, Alexandra and Jacob, have been organizing field notes and other materials from the 15 months the family lived among the Makassar people of East Timor in 1973-74. They plan to make these anthropological records available to the East Timorese and fellow researchers through an open-access digital portal. Marcia Leventhal worked in film and theater in Paris, Rome, Los Angeles, and NYC; was one of the founders of Action Theater; taught dance and drama, and directed numerous plays and operas at Mount St. Mary’s College, in Los Angeles; and was a tenured professor and director of the graduate dance/movement therapy program at New York University for 17 years. Philippa Strum, P’98, is a global fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, D.C. Her 2022 book, “On Account of Sex,” about Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s gender-equality litigation during the 1970s, is written, Philippa says, in plain English, not legalese. (Don’t miss her feature on Ginsburg’s work as an advocate for equal rights.) Jerusalem resident Sylvia Zippor says her activities include knitting, crocheting, and reading. She has seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren (3-year-old twins).