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In October Peggy Adler ’63 received the Marquis Who’s Who Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognized her work in the arts and entertainment industries.

Janine Beichman ’63 received the National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship and PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant for translations of the poetry of Yosano Akiko (1878–1942), Japan’s leading modern female poet.

In January 2018, Kathleen Norris ’69 received a Lifetime Achievement Award in the Christianity and Literature section of the Modern Language Association.

In May, Susanna Reich ’75 was given the 2018 Rip Van Winkle Award, which is chosen by the school librarians of seven Hudson Valley counties. The award recognizes a regional children’s book author for “outstanding contributions to the world of children’s literature.”

Thomas T. Chin ’87 won an honorable mention from the 37th Annual Photography Contest, hosted by Photographer’s Forum, for one of his blackand-white photos. It was also featured in Best of Photography 2017.

Eugenia Kim MFA ’01 was awarded a 2018 DC Commission on Arts and Humanities Fellowship towards work on her third novel.

Jeanne Bonner MFA ’16 won the 2018 PEN Grant for the English Translation of Italian Literature. The award, which was announced by PEN America in February and was the largest translation grant the organization disbursed, will provide $5,000 for the continuation of Jeanne’s translation of Mariateresa Di Lascia’s A Walk in the Shadows.