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Welcome, DSA alumni! Please send me bio notes and such to post on the
Alumni Updates page. PLEASE include your graduation year and arts
major.
If you already have a note here, send me updates as needed. And if
you're on Myspace.com, or Facebook, send info here too, please!
If you're in New York, the first of our own to appear on Broadway, Jesse JP Johnson, is a member of the four-person cast of Glory Days, which opens May 6, 2008. For more info, go to www.broadway.com. And FLOBOTS, a band which includes DSA orchestra alum Mackenzie Roberts and Jamie Lurie (Jonny 5) son of former DSA teacher Sally Baker, will appear on Jay Leno June 5, 2008. A nice sample of what they do appears on youtube: "Handlebars" a fine video by a DSA cinema graduate, Iyabo Boyd.
Syl Sather, career science teacher and the DSA science department chair from 1997, the first year at Byers, until her retirement, died February 19, 2008. A flood of Syl stories passed among the faculty here who knew her, when we got this news, for she was a source of encouragement and advice. Some of you will remember attending or performing at her retirement party. A celebration in honor of Syl Sather is planned for June 21, 2008. An RSVP is required by June 10 to Judy 303-452-2662 or kathy 303-969-8909.
Our big news for the 2007 - 2008 school year is that we welcomed two
DSA alumni back as new teachers at DSA this year: Sara Finnegan-Doyon
is half-time 8th grade language arts/facilitator and half-time creative
writing. Katrina (Rewerts) Marzetta is teaching 8th grade science. DSA alumni have
taught here as visiting artists for years, but this is a milestone, having two of our own return.
Congratulations to both of them.
Mrs.
Jana Clark, after leading the
creative writing program at DSA since the day the doors opened at Cole
Middle School, retired as of May, 2007. We expect to have her guidance and visits for years
to come. While on that
topic, Ms. Patti Bippus, our principal, retired from DSA in July, 2007,
and will be opening a new school in Juneau, Alaska in 2008. Our new
principal is Linée Perroncel and she has a music performance as well as
school administration background.
The last alumni gathering was January, 2007, as detailed below. 2009 would be time for another, but there would have to be a committee of alumni to make that happen. Let me know and I'll coordinate a meeting.
Update, July 20, 2007: Joanna Ostrander, 1998, would be interested in a
10th anniversary reunion in 2008 and would do what she could from
Massachusetts to help. Anyone else interested? Please contact Joanna or
myself if so. I'd be happy to facilitate an initial planning meeting.
Having an event at DSA might be possible, but you may prefer to set up
a dinner at a hotel, with a set per-person cost, which seems to be what
a lot of alumni reunion groups do. I just talked to someone who went to
a Wheat Ridge High reunion at the Marriot, $60 per person. And you '98
folk were never in this building. Do let us know. Joanna can be
reached at
joanna.ostrander@gmail.com
The
Rose-Sanders wedding in August, 2007 at Cheesman Park was lovely
and it was a mini-DSA alumni reunion in and of itself, many of them
part of the DSA New York contingent, which seems to keep growing. No
surprise: the music was great and supplied mainly by DSA alumni. I
heard there that James Blagden and Alma Getty-Romero may soon have
wedding plans of their own...
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Nothing is constant but change, and DSA is no exception.
Many of you find fewer and fewer familiar faces as time goes by and
that of course is as it should be. But we keep the spirit and character
that you established in your tenure here, and passed on to each
succeeding class. DSA is still a place at which you can wear a bike
tire around your neck and no one will care.
Stay in touch,
Patricia Dubrava
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