The 2006-2008 Board of Directors wish to welcome their newest member, Bruce Heath (DA72)

Steve Lewis MUSIC 1964 (SPAA PRESIDENT) My 40th reunion was coming up. My wife Kaye (Kandy Chernoff 65 Music) and I had lost touch with all our PA friends. I started a small PA web site to hunt down the 64 and 65 classes. SPAA ran anniversaries at the old building and with the help of SPAA my 40th and Kaye's 40 the following year was very successful. Now I am fortunate enough to be leading SPAA to the next level of a great family of Alumni.
Jo-Ann Bruggemann Victor DANCE 1964 Without a doubt, PA was one of the most amazing experiences of my adventuresome life. Both the academic and studio education I received (and ate up) gave me the opportunity to dance professionally for 20 years while getting my BA and MA. I also had the honor of teaching at PA for 2 years in the 1970's. What I learned at PA prepared me to do anything I put my mind to in later life. The amazing people I went to school with now live forever in my heart and memories. I hope to find as many of them as I can through serving on the board of SPAA and promoting anniversaries where we can all get together at our beloved PA building to reconnect and remember how special we were to have shared our high school years together in such an amazing place and at such an amazing time!	Mick Andreano DRAMA 1975 I was completely out of touch with my PA family until the occasion of my class's 25th Reunion. I soon learned of SPAA from PA75 leader Nicole Flender, and quickly found out that SPAA shared my goals of expanding and celebrating the PA experience. I have now made many new friends that span the decades of PA's existence, and I hope I can repay the enormous debt I owe PA by my work with SPAA.
Marianne Josephs Cohen DANCE 1964 My husband and I had gone to see the movie FAME shortly after it opened. As we left the movie house after it ended, he asked, "So, is that what it was like?" I was surprised by his question and answered, "More or less. Why? Wasn't your high school like that?" Because PA was my only high school experience I never imagined there was anything else. Over the years, however, I have come to truly appreciate and value what I learned at PA: perseverance, attention to detail, discipline. I am proud to say PA is my alma mater, my "fostering mother."	Ben Kushner DRAMA 1975 "Where did you go to high school?" I still love that question. If the person asking is from New York, they are SO jealous. If they are from out of town, all I need to say is, "Ever see the movie 'Fame'?" What a privilege it was to be a part of a crew who, 25 years later, reconnected and remains close through a web-based chat room and occasional get-togethers. I think we're exceptionally close as a group. New York has something to do with it but the PA Class of 1975 has a lot more. Even though everyone did not pursue our artistic discipline, we still have a good turn out of actors, dancers, musicians and supporters of the arts. That's what makes us close, interesting, and fun to be with. I love our PA family and I encourage everyone to reconnect with fellow alums and to support the school.
Barry Plaxen MUSIC 1955 (SPAA TREASURER) I graduated from PA in '55 as a Music major. From 1959 through 1973 I worked on over 50 major (and minor) Broadway and Off-Broadway shows in both creative and managerial capacities, and ran NYC’s Cherry Lane Theatre from 1963-1968. In 2004, I began co-publishing the Delaware & Hudson CANVAS, an arts & entertainment newspaper in the Hudson Valley which dedicates its "Arts in Education" page to Dr. Keller and PA. I play the recorder, enjoy classical music, classic drama and recently began channeling as a medium.	Ingrid Eisenstadter DANCE 1964 I graduated from the dance department in 1964. It does not seem that long ago when the dancers who commuted in from the Bronx would file onto the D train in the morning (“meet me in the first car”), wearing black tights, white anklets and spike heels and, while the train rocked and rolled into Manhattan, all hold on to a sense-memory pole, and try not to laugh. What I suspected then I can confirm today, my friends from PA have been the friends of a lifetime. SPAA makes it so much easier for us to be together again — by e-mail with those who moved away, and with hugs and kisses when we all come back to PA for our SPAA-sponsored reunions.
Margaret Marchisio Luca DANCE 1965 (to come)	Bruce Heath DANCE 1972 (to come)