On Tuesday, June 7, Carolyn Goldmark Goodman ’61 cruised to victory in the Las Vegas mayoral race, eclipsing her opponent by a 60-to-40 percent margin. Goodman, the founder and longtime board president of the Meadows School, succeeds her husband, Oscar Goodman, in the mayor’s office. Oscar Goodman enjoyed enormous popularity as the city’s mayor, winning […]

The Echoing Green Foundation, which supports emerging visionaries of social change from around the world, has awarded a 2011 Echoing Green Fellowship to Deborah Ahenkorah ’10 of Accra, Ghana. Ahenkorah’s Golden Baobab Prize, an award for children’s literature by and about Africans, is one of fifteen projects Echoing Green has selected for the fellowship in […]

Update: On May 29, Story of a Beautiful Girl debuted on The New York Times Bestseller List. It has received glowing reviews in publications nationwide and was selected as the inaugural title for a new e-book club sponsored by Borders. Rachel Simon ’81, who drew national attention with her memoir Riding the Bus With My […]

The first half of 2011 included a couple of important milestones for Marianne McDonald ’58, a professor of classics and theater at the University of California, San Diego, and a philanthropist with a strong commitment to helping individuals recover from substance-abuse problems. The Trojan Women In April, the Nevada Conservatory Theatre at the University of […]