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Note:
Undergraduate alumni are
designated as ’90.
Graduate alumni are
designated as *90.
1970s
Michael Acebo ’72. Many memories,
Jay Dusard, Leonard Ossorio, Roy
Smith, Ronald Nairn, Vern Taylor,
Larry my horse, and more. Many trips
later, length of Baja by kayak, across
the Atlantic by sailboat, etc. Prescott
College is always there. Proud father of
two daughters—Kyle a junior at
Willaims College and Paige in ninth
grade. Happily married to Pamela, who
met me while skiing in Colorado, married
me, and moved to Maine so I
could learn wooden boatbuilding. She
has been my support through many
relocations following a career in the
marine industry: 55 and still at it—sea
kayaking, sailing, iceboat builder and
racer, http://homepage. mac.com/macebo.
Prescott College, great people,
great times. Thanks to all, drop a note.
macebo@mac.com.
Kristin (Day) St. Clair ’72. After
Prescott, I continued my varied interests,
first my ballet in New York, then the
music business in New York and
London, marrying an Olympic skier and
raising three fantastic children in the
Rockies in Colorado. And after getting
my medical degree in 1995, I worked
Medicaid on the Navajo Reservation.
Now I have an ‘NGO’ which is involved
in HIV/AIDS education with the Masaai
in Tanzania near Mt Kilimanjaro. I feel
as though Tanzania is my first home.
aidsedu@earthlink.net.
Kate Cronkite ’73. I will be part of
the Today Show series on Women and
Depression running Sept. 7 to 10 due
to my work in mental health advocacy,
my book On the Edge of Darkness, and
my own experiences. Loving living in
Austin, Texas, and summering at my parents’
in Martha’s Vineyard. Love my
boys; John just starting high school,
studying Japanese, and Will, campaign
manager for a state judge.(They’re on
the show, too.) All my speeches this fall
are in battleground states, so I’m planning
to help out a little everywhere I go.
kcronkite@attwireless.blackberry.net.
Tony Chiaviello ’74. Since leaving
Prescott and graduating from Oberlin
College in ’76, and the University of
Denver in ’81 (M.A. in mass communications),
I’ve been in and out of hightech
publishing and public relations,
finally landing in college teaching as a
44 TransitionsFall 2004
Alumnae values Prescott
College art education
Sheila Kollash ’95,
was the subject of a story
in The Arizona Republic,
which lauded her years
of dedication to nurturing
the Phoenix art
scene. Kollash describes
herself as having dual
careers: one as a working
artist and one as a museum
professional. She
holds a part-time job as
a museum assistant for
the Phoenix Airports
Museum Program and
spends the balance of
her time hiking and
painting for exhibition.
“My work reveals the
intimate relationship I
have with the wilderness,”
Kollash said. “The
exhilaration of an
extended hike or outing
results in paintings that share with the viewer my joy of tumbled
boulder piles, broken cliff faces, festooned streambed pebbles, and
delicate plants striving for a foothold on life in precarious places.”
Kollash earned her bachelor’s degree in art from Prescott
College through the Adult Degree Program after becoming disillusioned
with Arizona State University, where she had received a full
four-year art scholarship.
“My Prescott College education is what, as a high school senior,
I had believed college should be like,” she said. “As an adult
I was thrilled to find that I could attend Prescott College and
discovered that I finally did indeed receive the very quality of
education that I had dreamed of having 25 years earlier. Better
late than never. Attending Prescott College was one of the two
most important decisions of my life.” Kollash had two breadths:
museum studies and liberal arts.
She was curator/registrar at the Desert Caballeros Western
Museum in Wickenburg for 10 years. She has exhibited at the
Tucson Museum of Art and the Mesa Southwest Museum.
Kollash and artist Jim Elder collaborated on a two-person exhibition
for the Arizona Commission on the Arts Traveling Exhibits
program. The exhibition, Arizona Landscapes: Prints, Pastels,
and Paintings, was one of the most popular exhibitions and
enjoyed bookings nationally during its three-year tour.
Kollash said she welcomes hearing from members of the
Prescott College family regarding projects and ideas that
incorporate art.
“I would be honored to brainstorm the use of art in environmental
projects or to be the visual arts person to sit on a panel in
order to include the artist’s perspective,” she said. She can be
reached at landscapeart@cox.net.