Silicon Valley entrepreneur and Scarsdale Alum Daniel Rosenweig (Class of ’79) has spent the last few years as CEO of Chegg, working to improve student access to textbooks whose prices have skyrocketed over the last decade, and at the recent media leadership conference TheGrill, Dan got to share his company’s vision.  Read more here. 

Respected academic and Scarsdale alum David Scobey (class of '72) has recently overseen a major reorganization at the New School, combining the New School for General Studies and Milano The New School for Management and Urban Policy into the The New School for Public Engagement, a multi-disciplinary department that handles International Affairs, Foreign Languages, Media Studies and Creative Writing with a distinct hands-on approach.

Academy Award winning Scarsdale High School alum Barbara Kopple (class of 1964) will be premiering her new documentary A Force of Nature at the 2011 Woodstock Film Festival held this month. Her latest film follows Ellen Ratner, a journalist whose passion leads her to the American South after Hurricane Katrina and South Sudan after years of violence to help those most in need.

Peter Alderman, Scarsdale High School Class of 1994, was  killed on September 11, 2001 at the World Trade Center.  Next Sunday, September 11, 2001 there will be a screening of the full-length documentary Love Hate Love in The Bendheim Performing Arts Center at the JCC of Mid-Westchester.

Last week, Ben Brody, a reporter for the Westchester Magazine reached out to me. He was interested to know if I could provide him with a percent estimate of young alumni that come back to live in Westchester 10-15 years following their high school graduation (Classes 1997-2005).

Showtime has bought Vinyl, a spec script about the music industry in the 1970s, co-written by Todd Katzberg, Scarsdale High School '96.

Reserve the last printed Alumni Directory of the Century! That's right! We are bringing it back for one more show!!

We have contracted HarrisConnect to carry out the publishing of our 2011 printed directory.

Douglas Rushkoff (SHS class of '79) was recently interviewed by the popular tech website Mashable to discuss his new book "Program or Be Programmed", which examines the effect that the internet and social media have on the people who use it.

 Our own Dan Biederman, SHS class of '71 has been asked to help the city of Hartford with their efforts to make the city more pedestrian friendly, a project the city is calling iQuilt.

Tovah Feldshuh (SHS Class of '66) is being featured in Yale's Cabaret Conference on July 23rd, where she will her premiere her new show.