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Campus NotesJulia AlvarezTHEATRE PERFORMANCESThe Middle School performed their productionof Nicholas Nickleby, based on an adaptationof Charles Dickens’ The Life and Adventuresof Nicholas Nickleby this March. This year’sSpring Lower School selection will be aproduction of Honk! Jr., which was performedat Gordon in 2002.KARLA HARRY VISITING AUTHORJulia Alvarez, poet, educator, author and socialactivist, was this year’s Karla Harry VisitingAuthor. She worked with Gordon students insecond through eighth grade this Novemberin their writing workshops. This is the fourthVisiting Author sponsored by the Karla HarryVisiting Author Fund, established in 2007 tohonor the memory of Gordon’s beloved librarian.Julia Alvarez has written work for every agegroup, including the novels Saving the World,How the García Girls Lost Their Accents andIn the Time of the Butterflies as well as work foryounger readers like Return to Sender and theTia Lola stories. She also has pursued agricultureas a tool for social change, living on anorganic farm in Vermont and establishing, withher husband, a sustainable farm-literacy centerin the Dominican Republic, the country whereshe was raised. She has taught at MiddleburyCollege since 1988, currently serving as writerin-residence.Above: Sarah Whinery and Adrian Stone ’08Right: Sherry Romanzi ’10 and Emma Ruhl ’10HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI BREAKFASTThe December high school breakfast providedalumni from classes 2007-2010 an opportunityto reconnect with their Gordon classmates andteachers prior to the school’s winter assembly.Julia’s honors have included being a finalist forthe National Book Critics award, winning theF. Scott Fitzgerald Award for OutstandingAchievement in American Literature, and beingnamed Latina Magazine’s “Woman of the Year.”10