Alumni in the News

Buster Olney ’82, a senior writer for ESPN The Magazine, will be on National Public Radio’s "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" on April 24. Olney visted campus this winter for the annual Hot Stove League, a confab with faculty member and baseball coach Dick Peller and other NMH enthusiasts. Click here to read about it and see Olney’s ESPN blog on the NMH event, or view the event in pictures .

 

In August, Olney will be honored by the Vermont Lake Monsters, a minor-league baseball team, in Burlington. Five-hundred Buster Olney bobble-head dolls will be given away at the event!

 

Elizabeth (Liz) Bard '92 authored Lunch in Paris (Little, Brown and Company), which is on the New York Times bestseller list. You can find Bard’s memoir on amazon. The Publishers Weekly review on amazon praises the work on how to live and eat “à la française”: “Her memoir is really a celebration of the culinary season as it unfolded in their young lives together: recipes for seduction (onion and bacon); getting serious over andouillette; learning to buy what's fresh at the Parisian markets (four and a half pounds of figs); surviving a long, cold winter in an unheated apartment; and warming up their visiting parents over profiteroles. Bard throws in some American recipes that feel like home, such as noodle pudding, and comforting soups for a winter's grieving over the death of the father-in-law. Bard carefully observes the eating habits of her impossibly slender mother-in-law for tips to staying slim (lots of water and no snacking). Bard keeps an eye to healthful ingredients (Three Fabulous Solo Lunches), and, as a Jewish New Yorker, even prepares a Passover seder in Paris, in this work that manages to be both sensuous and informative.”

 

Bard will deliver a reading from her book on campus April 20 at 7 p.m.

 

The International Acoustic Music Awards organization (IAMA) announced, on February 6, 2010, that guitarist El McMeen '65 won First Prize in the Instrumental category of IAMA's 2010 international music competition. McMeen's original instrumental "Le Mans" was the winning piece. Read the full story.