Alum Links

Majka Burhardt, '90 LCS alum, is a writer, climber, and guide. Based in Boulder, Colorado, her assignments take her throughout the world.  Majka has spent the past three years focusing her work, learning, and inspiration on Africa. To read about Majka's current projects, go to http://www.majkaburhardt.com/.

Martin Dosh, '86 LCS alum and musician, is a percussionist who uses various electronics to compose his own pieces and collaborates with other local and nationally known musicians. He has performed at Carnegie Hall, and on the Letterman and Tonight Shows. You can read more about Martin and listen to him perform on his MySpace page.

Paul Dosh, '88 LCS alum, poet, and professor, is excited to announce the release of his new book:
Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990-2005 (with photographs by James Lerager; Pennsylvania State University Press; September 2010). Read a sample chapter at: www.psupress.org/justataste/samplechapters/justatasteDosh.html.

Maud Hixson, '85 LCS alum and jazz vocalist, performs at venues around the Twin Cities and nationally. For more information about Maud's career and a list of her upcoming performance, click here.

Jessica Hopper's ('90 LCS alum) book The Girls' Guide to Rocking was nominated for the American Library Association's Excellent in Young Adult Nonfiction Award and made the 2010 Amelia Bloomer list for outstanding feminist book for young readers.  See more about the book at http://girlsguidetorocking.com and more about Jessica's writing at http://tiny.abstractdynamics.org.

Aron and Daniel Lipkin founded Homegrown Lacrosse, a non-profit organization whose mission is to encourage positive change in lacrosse players and supporters lives by developing community based programs which allow opportunities for all involved to understand and implement the values of teamwork, commitment, determination, self-respect, responsibility, selflessness and humility.  For more information, visit their website: www.homegrownlacrosse.org.

For the past three years, Dan Tanz ('92 LCS alum) has been co-writing, directing, producing and editing an independent feature film, TRIUMPH67, that was filmed entirely in Minnesota. You can read more about it at the official website, www.triumph67film.com. To see a preview of the film, visit www.kickstarter.com/projects/jwilker/triumph67-0 or attend a work-in-progress screening on Sunday October 24th, in Pepin and Stockholm, Wisconsin at the Flyway Film Festival.

 

Alum Links is a place for LCS alums to present their websites to other alums.  If you have a website about yourself and your work, let us know! Email Mary Vrabel at mvrabel@lakecountryschool.org with your information and  link.