Dr. Gordon Livingston ’56 Patricia Sutin Dowse ’63 2011-2012 Alumni/ae October 3 November 2 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. Speaker Series The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel The Alumni/ae Speaker Series provides an Dr. Gordon Livingston ’56 was born in Memphis, Tennessee and raised in Patricia Sutin Dowse ’63 graduated from Albany Academy for Girls in 1963 upstate New York. He graduated from The Albany Academy in 1956 and and received her B.A. in art from Brown University and Rhode Island School of opportunity for accomplished alumni/ae to return to attended the U.S. Military Academy. Upon graduation as an infantry officer, he Design in 1967. She first illustrated science textbooks from 1969-1971, and then our campus and share their special experiences and was trained as a parachutist and an Army Ranger. Dr. Livingston served for two created her own business, Erda Inc., a handbag design company. wisdom with The Albany Academies community. years in the 82nd Airborne Division before attending medical school at Johns Ms. Dowse started making deerskin bags in 1971 while she contemplated what SPEAKERS: Hopkins University from which he graduated in 1967. she wanted to become when she “grew up.” Her abstract expressionist bags • Dr. Gordon Livingston ’56 – October 3 He interned at Walter Reed General Hospital before volunteering for Vietnam have a distinctive identity with vivid, texture-rich fabrics, exotic deerskin, and where he served as the Regimental Surgeon for the 11th Armored Cavalry sculptural shapes. • Patricia Sutin Dowse ’63 – November 2 • Lt. Col. Joseph R. Clearfield ’88 – January (TBD) Regiment. Dr. Livingston was awarded the Bronze Star for valor. While in Located in Maine, Erda Inc. is housed in an old factory building in the middle Vietnam, he registered a public protest against the war and subsequently left the of three acres of corn, ten miles from the nearest small town. Ten women • Peter Kyunghwan Kim ’87 – February 13 Army. collaborate with Ms. Dowse to create the ideas she generates. • Barbara Blatner ’67 – March 1 Dr. Livingston trained in Adult and Child Psychiatry at Johns Hopkins where • Pamela Sargent ’64 – April 11 he is now a part-time Assistant Professor. He is a parent, twice bereaved, and his first book, Only Spring, described the death of his six-year old son from leukemia. Dr. Livingston is the author of the bestseller, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, which is now in its tenth printing and has been translated into 22 languages. His most recent book, How to Love, was published in May 2009. He has written for a variety of magazines and newspapers, including the Readers Digest, San Francisco Examiner, Washington Post, and Baltimore Sun. He is the father of four grown children and lives with his wife, Clare, in Columbia, MD where he continues to practice psychiatry. He is currently working on his fifth book, Reflections on Fear and Courage. g d y R oa 12208 NY adem y, Ac 2011-2012 Alumni/ae Speaker Series albanyacademies.or ww w. Alban www.albanyacademies.org 135 www.albanyacademies.org Lt. Col. Joseph R. Clearfield ’88 Peter Kyunghwan Kim ’87 Barbara Blatner ’67 Pamela Sargent ’64 January (TBD) February 13 March 1 April 11 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. 2:15 – 3:00 p.m. The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel The Albany Academy, Caird Chapel

Lt. Col. Joseph R. Clearfield ’88graduated from The Albany Academy in 1988 and from Peter Kyunghwan Kim ’87 MD, FACS is a general and trauma surgeon in the Bronx. Dr. Barbara Blatner ’67 is a playwright, poet, and composer. New York Quarterly Books Pamela Sargent ’64 sold her first published story while still a student at SUNY Union College in 1993 with a B.A. in History after attending Columbia University in Kim was born in Schenectady and is a 1987 graduate of The Albany Academy. He was the published her verse memoir, The Still Position, and a second full-length poetry collection, Binghamton, where she earned a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy. She has won the New York City. He is also a graduate of Command & Staff College, Amphibious Warfare Major of the Cadet Battalion and co-captain of the swimming, tennis, and football teams. Living With You. Her chapbook of poems, The Pope in Space, was published by Intertext Nebula and Locus Awards and is the author of the novels, Cloned Lives, The Sudden School, Infantry Officers Course, The Basic School, Airborne School (Honor Graduate), Dr. Kim loved science and mathematics and was fortunate to go to Harvard College where Press in 1986 and poems, fiction, and reviews have appeared inBeloved on this Earth, Star, Watchstar, The Golden Space, The Alien Upstairs, Eye of the Comet, Homesmind, Alien Naval Senior Officers Legal Course, and the Recruiting Management Course. he concentrated and wrote his thesis on the molecular biology of immune cells, graduating Heliotrope, House Organ, Poetry Northwest, The New York Quarterly, Lift, Apalachee Child, The Shore of Women, Venus of Dreams, Venus of Shadows, Child of Venus, and Climb Lt. Col. Clearfield’s past assignments include: Platoon Commander and Executive magna cum laude in 1991. He attended the Weill Medical College of Cornell University Quarterly, 13th Moon, and others. the Wind. Officer Company F, 2nd Battalion 2nd Marines, 1994-1997, where he participated in where he studied the biology of HIV and graduated in 1997. During medical school, Dr. Ms. Blatner’s play, Year of Sky, was given a workshop production in New York City in Ruler of the Sky, her 1993 historical novel about Genghis Khan, was a bestseller in Operation Uphold/Restore Democracy, Haiti 1994, and Operation Assured Response, Kim spent a year in research at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland as 2010 by Scripts Up!, and will continue to be developed by the company. Her verse play for Germany and Spain, where she was invited to speak at the Institute of American Liberia 1996 with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable). a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Scholar studying genes involved with programmed Epiphany, No Star Shines Sharper, was produced for stage and radio by the Mystic Theatre Studies, the University of Barcelona, and the Complutense University of Madrid. She Operations Officer and Executive Officer Recruiting Station Baltimore 1997-2000. cell death. As a resident in surgery, he spent three years in the laboratory at the University Company in 2004, published by Baker’s Plays in 1990, aired on National Public Radio also edited the Women of Wonder anthologies, the first collections of science fiction by Commanding Officer, Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines 2001-2003, 11th Marine of Pittsburgh Medical Center developing gene therapy vectors for cancer and liver disease. stations, and was acquired by New York’s Museum of Television and Radio. Grassy Knoll women, published in the 1970s by Vintage/Random House and in updated editions Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) during Operation Enduring Freedom was produced in the First Annual Boston Theatre Marathon and appeared in Baker’s Plays during the 1990s by Harcourt Brace. A short story, “The Shrine,” was produced for the 2002, (Persian Gulf), and Regimental Combat Team 1 during Operation Iraqi Freedom At The Albany Academy, Dr. Kim studied Latin, Spanish, and French. The summer after he left the Academy he traveled on a class trip to Spain and visited several countries in and in New York’s Turnip Theatre Short Play Festival. Shadow Play received a workshop syndicated TV anthology series, Tales from the Darkside. 2003. Operations Officer, 2nd Battalion, 1st Marines 2003-2004 where he participated production in the Cleveland Public Theatre’s 1993 New Plays Festival. in Operation Iraqi Freedom II including Operation Vigilant Resolve, Fallujah, IZ. Head Europe by Eurail. During college he learned to speak Korean and spent a semester abroad Tor Books reissued Ms. Sargent’s 1983 young adult novel, Earthseed, and a sequel in Coach Naval Academy Sprint Football Team 2005-2007 while instructing Midshipmen in South Korea where he lived with relatives and watched the Summer Olympics in 1988. Ms. Blatner’s adaptation of Tadeusz Borowski’s, This Way for the Gas, Ladies and early 2007, Farseed, chosen by the New York Public Library for their list of best books in combatives and ethics. Current Operations Group Section Head, Plans, Policies, and After college he took another year abroad traveling and hiking in Australia, New Zealand, Gentlemen, was commissioned by New Voices and staged at the Boston Public Library. for young adults. A third novel, Seedship, was published in 2010. Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps. the Adirondacks, and Barcelona. This broad experience with people has helped him in his Her video, The Choice, written and produced with Diane Woodbrown, was shown in the present job at Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx taking care of the poor and underserved 1991 International Women’s Video Festival. Ms. Blatner also has work staged in Boston’s From 2009-2011 he was the Commanding Officer of Battalion Landing Team 1st patients who come from around the world to live and work in New York City. He writes New Theatre’s NeWorks series including Year of Sky, Betty and Mortie, and Marliyn Battalion, 4th Marines, the Ground Combat Element of the 15TH Marine Expeditionary about his experiences regularly with editorials that appear in General Surgery News. Monroe in the Dessert. Clearing and White Ashes were finalists in the O’Neill International Unit deployed to Pacific Command and Central Command where he served as the Playwrights contest while Postures was staged by the Capital Repertory Company. Officer Conducting the Exercise for Theater Security Cooperation Exercises in Indonesia, Dr. Kim is Assistant Professor of Surgery at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He Maldives, Kuwait, and Jordan as well as the Mission Commander for recapture of the M/V lives in Pelham, NY, with his wife Sarah and two children, Thomas and Jason. Ms. Blatner is the founder of the Albany Playwrights’ Workshop where she worked Magellan Star from Somali Pirates. as director, writer and composer under a CETA grant for four seasons and where The was produced. She has also taught Creative Writing and Composition at Yeshiva His personal decorations include the two Bronze Stars with Combat “V,” Meritorious Fair Service Medal, Navy-Marine Corps Commendation Medal with three Gold Stars, and University since 2002. She received a Doctor of Arts in English from the University the Combat Action Ribbon with one star. In 1996 he won the “Tarawa Award” for the at Albany, an M.A. in Creative Writing from Boston University, and a B.A. in Music outstanding Platoon Commander in 2nd Marine Division. Composition from Vassar College. He is married to Kimberly Regan Blaisdell ’87. They have two daughters.

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