Articles from
August 2007
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Alumni from the 80s, 90s and the current decade, plus parents of alumni and other guests, joined Assistant Director of Alumni Relations Eli Goldsmith at Shea Stadium on Aug. 25 for an afternoon of summer heat, baseball and a lot of fun. Although the Dodgers did not win, the camaraderie made it all worthwhile.
Photo: Harvard-Westlake alumnae and sisters, Marcie Rogo '03 and Lisa Rogo '98, at Shea Stadium. Read More
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An article in the Aug. 26, 2007 Daily News features Harvard-Westlake's Jonathan Martin '08, who is the Daily News' #1 offensive lineman. For the full story, click here to go to The Daily News website.
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Jonathan Selwood ’89 has published his first novel, The Pinball Theory of Apocalypse.
Jonathan graduated from Middlebury College and earned an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University. He currently resides in Portland, Oregon.
The publisher summary states, “After years of forging Impressionist masterpieces to decorate the McMansions of the not quite Sotheby's auction rich, the painter Isabel Raven serendipitously hits on an idea that turns her into the 'It girl' of LA's art scene.
Unfortunately, just as her career as an artist starts to take off, the rest of her life goes into a tailspin. Isabel's personal-chef/boyfriend admits to having an affair with a 16 year-old pop singer who openly bills herself as the Latina Britney Spears, her sociopathic art dealer is threatening to gut her like an emu if she doesn't agree to be in the world's most humiliating ad campaign, and her reclusive Cal Tech physicist father has conclusively proven that the world is about to end.”
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Alumna Danica McKellar '93 may be best known to the general public for her roles on The Wonder Years and The West Wing. But last week, McKellar's book, Math Doesn't Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail, hit bookshelves nationwide and is receiving rave reviews. Check it out on Amazon.com .
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According to recent news reports, alumna Dara Torres ’85 won her 15th national swimming title on Aug. 3, after winning the 50-meter freestyle final at the USA Swimming National Championships in Indianapolis. Torres, who is 40 years old, the mother of one daughter and the oldest national champion in U.S. swimming history, is working toward a possible fifth Olympics appearance.
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