Alumni Profile: Author and Playwright Liz Maccie - Newark Academy

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Sue Karlin ’81 in western Greenland
Nothing makes him happier than
to be back in the USA. During his
visit he had the chance to see Art
Williams, and he was visited in
Norway by classmate Eric Schneck.
A radio piece by Sue Karlin on
an arctic community aired on
National Public Radio, the WAMC
Northeast Public Radio Network
and Spectrum Radio. Sue put
together the piece from a trip she
made to Greenland last fall.
Andy Mulvihill’s daughter, Alex ’08,
graduated from Newark Academy
in June 2008. She is a freshman at
the University of Denver.
1982
Doug Polaner enjoyed seeing the
many ’82ers who made it to the
reunion party at Jeff Silverman’s
house last fall. Doug lives in
Westchester County, New York,
with his wife, Tina, and their two
boys, Mason (7) and Tucker (5).
They run a wine import and
distribution business which they
started in 1999.
After more than 20 years in
California, Karen Stockerl-
Goldstein and her husband,
Keith, moved from the San
Francisco Bay Area to St. Louis.
Keith was offered a position at
Washington University’s Barnes /
Jewish Hospital where he is an
associate professor in bone marrow
transplantation with an emphasis
on treating myeloma patients. In
addition, he serves as director of
the oncology division medical
informatics. During their time in
California, Karen earned a master’s
degree in nonprofit business
administration. She developed and
managed many community based
day and residential programs for
people who have developmental
disabilities, such as autism and
Down syndrome. Now that she
is finally settled in St. Louis she
will be looking for similar
opportunities. Her e-mail address is
Karen@mytuffy.org, and she would
love to hear from old classmates.
Julie Bick Weed and her husband,
Rogers, took their sons, ages 11,
10 and 8, out of school last spring
to travel through Turkey, Greece
and France for two months. Julie
is still freelancing for the New
York Times Sunday business
section and volunteering as
PTA co-president of her sons’
elementary school in Seattle. She
is starting to play tennis again and
fondly remembers Mrs. Newman
coaching her and the girls tennis
team at NA.
1983
Stacey Kent’s new album, Breakfast
on the Morning Tram, has received
rave reviews. Her latest tour to
promote the album has taken
Stacey to more than 27 countries,
and the album has gone “gold” in
France and Germany.
John Prokop is enjoying his work
as a financial advisor at Regent
Atlantic Capital, LLC in Chatham.
He remembers well his days at NA,
especially teachers Kim, Borlo and
Gobel. John manages to stay in
touch with quite a few classmates
and enjoyed his 25th Reunion.
After a personally challenging year,
Amy Lynn Schwartzbard has
discovered her passion in service
to others, and is happier than ever.
In March 2007, she closed her
furniture/design business of 14 years,
and made the difficult decision to
enroll her teenage daughter in a
program boarding school in Iowa.
Through programs offered by the
school she was introduced to
leadership seminars by a company
called Resource Realizations. Upon
completion of their 10-week training
program, in which she participated
in the launching of a community
center in the ninth ward of New
Orleans, Amy founded Branching
Out seminars. She formed this
company to bring leadership
training to the general population
and to those in disadvantaged
communities. Her goal is to have
youth leadership camps for kids
from challenged communities. Amy
also completed her neurolinguistic
practitioner’s certification and is
attending a 10-month quantum
coaching certification training