this crazy band of ours has a long and very twisted history starting in 1980! following is a list of the two decades of obies who have passed through the panyard. the list is nowhere near complete, so if you have any further information, please, please, please send it to the band. this list starts with our founding members, who started something kinda neat, and we all thank ya: |
name |
instruments |
years |
contact info & life story |
Peter L. Mayer |
lead pan - original |
79-82 |
Founder; neurosurgeon |
Toby Gordon |
Seconds - original |
79-82 |
Founder; print artist |
Mike Geller |
Seconds - original |
79-83 |
Founder |
Shannon Dudley |
Seconds - original |
79-82 |
Professor of Ethnomusicology, University of Washington-Seattle |
Howard J. Supnik |
Percussion and drumset |
83 |
Landscape Architect in Pennsylvania |
Zoe Sherinian |
Double tenors - original |
79-83 |
Went to India on Shansi in 1984 |
Peter Pollack |
Lead pan - original |
81 |
Rock drummer, professional, blue man group |
John Jutsum |
Lead pan - original |
81 |
Madison symphony, broadway shows, timpanist |
Jim Chlebak |
Cellos - original |
81 |
Kansas |
Doug Schulkind |
Percussion - original |
80-83 |
doug@wfmu.org |
Carl Radens |
Percussion - original |
81 |
cittern@optonline.net |
Jim Rich |
Drum set, Percussion - original |
81 |
|
Linda Papademas |
Tenor/Percussion |
83-85 |
|
Josh Searle-White |
Cellos |
81-82 |
Professor of Psychology |
David Dunn |
Lead pan/Percussion - original |
81-83 |
Composer of the Oberlin Steel standard "Sarah's Samba." |
Naomi |
Seconds |
Fall 84 |
|
Daniel Gilfix |
Drumset |
84 |
Marketing Guru |
Roger Stratton |
Seconds |
85-87 |
|
Stuart Paton |
Percussion |
83-85 |
Full-time musician: Japanese taiko drumming, founder and
director of Burlington Taiko; West Afrikan drumming, Cuban-Haitian drumming;
jazz percussion. |
Tracey Tsugawa |
Seconds |
82-84 |
Civil Rights Investigator for State of Vermont |
Leon Alexander |
Drum Set |
81-82 |
Chief Musician, Percussion, US Navy Band |
Thomas Converse |
Cello |
83-84 |
esrevnoct@xohm.com |
Cara Coburn |
Seconds |
82-87 [?] |
|
Orestes |
Drumset |
82-85 [?] |
|
Lee Erickson |
Seconds |
82-85 [?] |
|
Lalit Loomba |
Bass |
82-85 [?] |
|
John Michener | bass - original | 79-83 | JohnMichnr @ aol.com |
Alan Herrmann | Tenor | 80-84 | Lives in the San Francisco Bay area and is an engineering manager for a Silicon Valley
semiconductor company. Married with two daughters. Played quads in two
professional steelbands in California, Santa Cruz Steel (which no longer
exists) and Pan Ramajay. Played tenor pan with a band at Chabot
College in Hayward that works with guest artists Andy Narell, Boogsie Sharpe,
and Ray Holman, to name three. now playing pan with the CSM Panhandlers (along with Anna Talamo
'91 and Devon Strolovitch '97, both Can Consortium alums) alan_herrmann @ altera.com |
Bob Bedell | Bass | 82-84 | |
Amy Kelley | Seconds | 84 | |
John Wertheimer | Tenor | 81-85 | Professor of History, Davidson College Box 7053, Davidson, NC 28035 120 Lake Davidson Cir. Davidson, NC28036 (704)892-3015 jowertheimer @ davidson.edu |
Gavin Smith | Tenor | 82-85 [?] | |
Sarah | Cellos | 82-85 [?] | |
Jennifer Kahle | Cellos | 85 | Biomedical Pre-Publication Services |
Thomas Major | Bass/Percussion | 86 | M.A. in public policy at Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota. Married to Kristen Norman, one daughter, Marissa Lynn. Program analyst with the National Center for Health Statistics. |
Jessica (Gilbertson) Roberts | Tenor | 83-86 | Previously Asst. Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at OHSU. Now in private practice in Portland, Oregon. |
Sara Hotchkiss | Tenor | 87 | Hotchkis @ ecology.umn.edu[?] |
Meighan Matthews | Seconds | 85-89 | Founder, Growing for Good 781-275-4447 26 Rand Place, Bedford, MA 01730 meighanmatt (at) yahoo (dot) com |
Josh Pawelek | Drumset | 89 | Jpawelek @ uua.org |
Brian Rice | Congas | 89 [?] | |
John Campbell | Cellos | 89 [?] | |
Ben (Saferstein) Cohen | Tenor, Seconds, Bass | 85-88 | 3745 S. Roslyn Way Denver, CO 80237 blscohen (at) gmail (dot) com |
Alison Hinderliter | Tenor | 87-89 | Project Archivist, Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Hinderlitera @ chicagosymphony.org |
Lucy Dickinson |
cellos, drumset | 89-91 | Singer-songwriter & music instructor in Bainbridge Island, WA. |
Janet Lewis | 90-92 | Minneapolis, received masters degree in public health. Works in youth
development for Edina Public Schools. Lewi0236 @ tc.umn.edu |
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Myla "Torpedo" Goldberg | Tenor | 93 | A best-selling novelist living in Brooklyn. |
Keauxgeigh "Koji" Li | Tenor | 92 | Finished law school; did masters in international law. kojili @ compuserve.com |
Pete "Dr. Hand" Wolfram | Tenor | 90s [?] | |
Carol "Ace" Arthur | Seconds | 89-91 | |
Cassie Dragt | 89-91 | ||
Craig "Air Devo" McCord | Cellos | 90-92 | |
Tom "Stretch" McFadden | Cellos | 90s [?] | |
Joshua Rothkopf | Bass | 90s [?] | |
Andy "The Flash" Russ | Percussion | 90-92 | New York |
Anna Talamo | Seconds | 91 | Playing pan with the CSM Panhandlers (along with Devon Strolovitch '97
and Alan Hermann '84, both Can Consortium alums) Berkeley, CA |
Jason Mittell | Cellos | 90-91 | Associate Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture, Chair of Film & Media Culture Department at Middlebury College. |
Evan Brubaker |
Bass, Drums, Cellos | 90-92 | Became a rock star. |
Chris "Barbalute, AKA Boomboom" Gates | Drumset | 92 | |
Justin Dudley | Seconds | 92 | |
Jesse Rowe | [?] | 92 | |
Dan "Back Door, AKA Boogie" Shafer | Tenor | 93 | |
Mak "Mac Daddy" Saito | Cellos | 93 | |
Kelsey "Running Man" Siegel |
Cellos | 93 | |
Trudy "The Intruder" Wyss | Seconds | 93 | |
Brian Bartel | Drumset | 93 | |
Alexis "Turbo" Collins |
Seconds/Tenor | 94 | |
Cynthia McGregor | Seconds | 94 | Received PhD in music theory from Northwestern University Cam506 @ lulu.acns.nwu.edu |
Ian "Ejan" Kisert | Tenor | 94 | |
Amy "U Turn" Floyd | Seconds | 94 | |
Jason "Barq's" Ritt | Bass/Cellos | 94 | |
Carlos "Curiously Strong" Walker | Percussion | 94 | |
Robbyn Kistler | Tenor | 94 | Plays pan in Pan Leggo. 8748 Dayton Ave N Seattle, WA 98103 (206) 783-2248 Robbynk @ fraec.org |
Lisa Collins | Cellos | 94 | Graduated from Oberlin in '97. |
Ellen "Thrifty, AKA Java" Clegg | Cellos/Tenor | 95 | Founder of Found Sounds 83 Fox Hill Rd Bernardston, MA 01337 (413) 648-9793 Ellen @ foundsounds.com |
Katie "Katydid" Tallman |
Cellos/Seconds | 95 | 5690 Steeplechase Dr. Longmont, CO 80303 (303) 494-8530 Tallmank @ hotmail.com |
Ben Shaykin |
Seconds | 95 | 1677 Church St. San Francisco, CA 94131 (415) 826-0117 Ben @ bitchmagazine.com |
Amy Cullinan |
Cellos | 95 | Studied biology at University of Wisconsin-Madison |
Eban English |
Percussion | 95 | Went to Chicago to become a rock star. |
Ian S. Hisert | 90s [?] | Iancho @ ix.netcom.com | |
Sara R. Webb |
Bass/Cellos | 96 | 231 Stratford Dr. San Francisco, CA 94132 (415) 333-9237 Home address: PO Box 107 Hurricane, WV 25526 Swebb @ wested.org |
Rhian Davies |
Seconds | 96 | Joined the U.S. Army |
Aryaman Shalizi |
Cellos | 96 | 1507 Varnum St. NW Washington, DC 20011 Ashalizi @ yoda.nidr.nih.gov |
Nikki Bartnicki | Cellos | 96 | Graduated from Oberlin in '99, double degree. |
Margaret Ewing |
Tenor | 96 | |
Erin Marks |
Tenor | 96 | 221 N. Kenilworth #202 Oak Park, IL 60302 Ejmarks @ suba.com |
Pat "Oh Baby" Buzby |
Drumset | 97 | Working with Tautologic and various other rock bands in Chicago. 5543 S. Dorchester Chicago, IL 60637 (1911 Edgemont Rd Upper Arlington, OH 43212) Website Pbuzby @ surfnetcorp.com |
Joel "Shakin" Hamburger |
Tenor/Seconds | 97 | 12809 Circle Drive Rockville, MD 20850 Website Jhamburg @ erols.com |
Aashish Sunil Shantilal Meganal Motilal Kantinal Kalidas Mehta |
Bass/Cello/Tenor | 97 | Completing a PhD in Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. 123 W. Gorham St. Madison, WI 53703 (608) 256-5135 Amehta @ students.wisc.edu |
David "Bacchanal" Silva |
Tenor/Percussion | 97 | 330 E 33rd St Apt 5N New York, NY 10016 (347) 239-0760 David_Silva @ world.oberlin.edu |
Devon Levy Ze'ev Louie Velvel Defyn Ap Llywelyn "Beatle
Ed" Strolovich |
Seconds | 97 | Ph.D. in Linguistics in 2005 from Cornell University, now working in
radio in San Francisco and playing double seconds with the CSM Panhandlers
(along with Anna Talamo '91 and Alan Hermann '84, both Can Consortium alums) 2416 8th Ave. #201 Oakland, CA 94606 (607) 277-8709 Website Dls38 @ cornell.edu |
Samir Succar |
Tenor/Seconds/Engine Room | 97 | 260 N. 3rd St. Apt J San Jose, CA 95112 Home address: 14510 Manor Park Dr. Rockville, MD 20853 Website Ssuccar @ cs.oberlin.edu |
Alan Wiser | Playing tenor with Pan Masters in DC Bradycakes @ yahoo.com Panjumbie @ yahoo.com |
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Yoko "Can You Ski?" Endo | Cellos/Percussion | 97 | Working as a research assistant in Tokyo at Capital Research Company,
an American asset management company. 82-4 Torigaoka, Totsuka Yokohama 244-0001 JAPAN Yokoendo @ aol.com |
Laura "The Enigmatic" Slocum | Tenor/Percussion | 98 | slpslocum @ yahoo.com |
Matt "Double-Diamond" Hill | Percussion/Cellos | 98 | Oberlin College '00 |
Liz "Cheese Nomad" Blayney | Cellos/Bass | 98 | |
Amanda "I Am Such A Slackah! (She Really Is!)" Brady | Cellos | 98 | Living in D.C., playing tenor with Panmasters |
Kristen "Captain Carrot" Jones |
Seconds/Bass | 96-99 | Playing seconds with Panmasters in D.C. Kristen.Jones @ world.oberlin.edu |
Amber "Quatsch" Ries |
Seconds | 97-99 | Neubiberger Str. 38 81737 Munich, Germany (011) 49-89-54-61-0689 Amber.Ries @ world.oberlin.edu |
Matt "Sally" Norton |
Seconds/Drumset/Percussion | 97-99 | 3448 Slade Run Dr Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 241-8260 MNorton @ cs.oberlin.edu MNorton@sbsbinc.com Matthew_Norton @ yahoo.com |
Eric "Sinead" Suquet |
Percussion/Tenor/Cellos | 96-00 | Ericsuquet @ hotmail.com Eric @ batwinandrobin.com Ericsuquet @ mindspring.com |
Jen "Don't Mess With Me" Prosser |
Tenor | 97-00 | nextjustsky @ hotmail.com |
Jibrail "Tex" Nor |
Drumset/Seconds | 97-00 | Jibrailnor @ hotmail.com |
Alex "Road Mama" Mack |
Tenor | 97-00 | 2041 Oak St. #2 San Francisco, CA 94117 (415) 221-0794 Roadmama2 @ hotmail.com |
Alex "The Noo" Pojedinec |
Seconds | 00 | |
Jackie "Surdu Crack Lady" Davis | Cellos | 98-01 | In Alaska. |
Alexa "Genius" Kunitsugu | Seconds/Quads | 97-01 | In Seattle? |
Lillian "Sunset" Kehler | Cellos | 98-01 | In California. |
Jess "Honey Brown" Boehland | Cellos | 98-01 | East Coast somewhere? |
Luke "Mindy" Fasano | Drumset/Percussion | 99-01 | Working in Manhattan. |
Molly "Rusty" Benson | Seconds/Quads | 00-01 | In Los Angeles, working with movie stars. |
Stefan "Mr. President" Kamola | Tenor/Bass | 00-01 | In Siberia throatsinging on a Watson's fellowship. |
Tom Jeanne | Tenor/Bass | 99-02 | Residing in Madison, WI. thomas.jeanne @ world.oberlin.edu |
Abigail Chapin | 02 | abisquale @ hotmail.com | |
Connie Brichford | Cellos | 02 | |
Anne Siegler | 02 | ||
Peter Meredith | 02 | ||
Joaquin Espinoza | Percussion | 02 | |
Leah Patriarco |
Tenor/Bass | 01-03 | Graduate studies at Northwestern. l-patriarco @ northwestern.edu |
Scott Weaver |
Cellos | 01-03 | Germany? |
Patia Maule |
Tenor/Bass | 00-03 | Teaches Spanish in Maine and performs with community steelbands there. |
Amy Cobden |
Tenor/Quads | 01-03 | |
Cat Richert |
Seconds | 01-03 | |
Lilly Rosenman |
Tenor | 00-03 | |
Sarah Buck |
Cellos | 01-03 | |
Tessa Shanks |
Seconds | 02-04 | Working in New York City. tessa.shanks @ world.oberlin.edu |
Adam Czernikowski |
Guitars | 03-04 | Graduate Studies at the University of Florida. Adamcz @ gmail.com |
Nansamba Ssensalo |
Tenor/Bass | 01-04 | Tagging music for Pandora in CA. |
Oliver |
Cellos | ?-04 | |
Timothy Gibbon |
Percussion | 01-04 | Living in DC? |
Abigail Sackmann |
Seconds | 05 | |
Ryan Brazell |
Quads/Bass/Double Tenor/Percussion | 03-05, 07-08 | Living in San Francisco. |
Andy Callaway |
Percussion | 02-05 | Living in Aspen, CO, giving snowmobile tours. |
Carolyn Mraz |
Cellos/Seconds/Tenor | 03-05 | |
Emily Schultz |
Tenor/Cellos | 02-05 | |
Noah Smit |
Drumset | 01-05, 08-09 | Living in Pittsburgh, PA after a stint in D.C. playing drumset for the Pan Masters Steel Orchestra. Recently played drumset for the winning band in the Trinidad National Panorama 2008, Clico Sforzata. |
Nadia Fellah |
Tenor, Seconds, Bass | 03-06 | |
Mia Casale |
Tenor, Seconds | 03-06 | Living in Italy. |
Luke Eddins |
Tenor | 03-06 | Living in New York City. |
Wayne van Lieu |
Percussion | 03-06 | Living in Mexico. |
Stephen Lind |
Seconds | 03-06 | Playing organ & doing software engineering in California/Switzerland. Plays annually for Sonatas steelband in NY panorama. |
Katherine Erickson |
Quads, Cellos, Double Tenor, Tenor | 03-07 | |
Michael P. Geraci |
Cellos, Tenor | 04-07 | Working as a co-founder on Reducify in NYC after a cross-country bike trip. (email: mgeraci@gmail.com.) |
Lenore Braford |
Quads, Tenor | 04-07 | Making art in Asheville and farming in Australia. |
Paul Drake |
Drumset | 04-07 | Living in Carboro, NC. |
Hannah Neprash |
Seconds | 04-07 | Doing medicare policy research & writing limericks in Washington, D.C. |
Katelyn Mueller |
Cellos | 05-07 | Working for a video game production company in the San Francisco Bay Area. |
Laila Williams |
Percussion | 05-07 | Dancing in Israel. |
Zeev Saffir |
Double Tenor, Tenor Bass, Tenor | 05-08 | Selling dental supplies, coding websites, & transcribing Panorama arrangements after a year of teaching steelpan at Horace Mann High School in New York. |
Anna Vanderhorst |
Tenor | 05-08 | Going to medical school at UNC after two years of research at the UCSD Memory Research Laboratory. |
Maya Curry |
Tenor | 06-08 | Living & working in Amsterdam after a stint working for Time Magazine in DC. |
Jody-Ann Allen |
Tenor | 06-08 | |
Sam Lasser |
Seconds | 06-08 | Teaching English in Oman. |
Pete Steffy |
Percussion | 06-08 | In Mexico on a Fullbright scholarship. |
Jeff "Jaff" Vaudrin-Mcclean |
Percussion | Fall ’05–Spring ’09 | India? |
Mona Barber |
Seconds, tenor | Spring ’06–Spring ’09 | Working at a violin shop in Seattle and sailing quite frequently. |
Toussaint Mears-Clarke |
Tenor Bass | Fall ’06–Spring ’09 | At the University of Chicago Medical School. |
Nathaniel "Natty Boom-Boom" Meyer |
Tenor | Spring ’07–Spring ’09 | Working for Green Corps in PA. |
Rebecca Eiseman |
Quadrophonics | Fall ’07–Spring ’09 | Working at a neighborhood market in San Francisco & playing with the CSM Panhandlers. |
Leah "Sharpshooter" Bakst |
Tenor | Spring ’08–Spring ’09 | Grad student in neuroscience at UW in Seattle. |
Phil Kingsmith |
Tenor, cellos, percussion | Fall ’06–Fall ’09 | Playing music in Philly. |
Andrew Lawrence |
Six bass, tenor bass, seconds, percussion | Spring ’07–Spring ’10 | Playing with Organ Yank in Chicago. |
Zeke Runyon |
Seconds | Spring ’07–Spring ’10 | Living in San Francisco and working at a fruit company. |
Zach Diamond |
Cellos | Fall ’07–Spring ’10 | In Peru on a Fulbright scholarship. |
Becca Page |
Seconds | Fall ’07–Spring ’10 | In China on a Fulbright scholarship. |
Lam La |
Double tenor | Fall ’07–Spring ’10 | Building furniture in Boston. |
Sarah "Bruiser" Grabinski |
Tenor | Fall ’08–Spring ’11 | Biology research assistant at Case Western. |
Luke Hoffman |
Drumset | Spring ’08–Fall ’09 | Running a painting business in Oberlin. |
Jon McCall |
Tenor/Six Bass | Spring ’08–Spring ’10 | Teaching in his hometown of Charlottesville, VA. |
Shannon Rieke |
Percussion | Spring ’08–Spring ’10 | Going to law school. |
Katarina Lunde |
Tenor/Quads | Spring ’09–Spring ’11 | Being awesome. |
Rachel Saudek |
Seconds | Fall ’08–Spring ’11 | |
Tyler Stoll |
Tenor/Double Tenor | Fall ’08–Spring ’11 | Raising ducks, slaughtering rabbits, and doing non-profit work in Durham, NC. |
Rosa Tu |
Tenor Bass | Spring ’09–Spring ’11 | Traveling to Ukraine |
Anne Thompson |
Tenor/Double Tenor | Spring ’09–Spring ’12 | Teaching English near Clermont-Ferrand, France. |
Chris Canning |
Tenor/Six Bass | Fall ’09–Spring ’12 | Interning for the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation. |
Caroline Chen |
Quads | Fall ’09–Spring ’12 | |
Will Georges |
Drum Set | Fall ’09–Spring ’12 | Teaching for America on the Big Island in Hawaii. |
Jeremy Siegel |
Tenor | Fall ’09–Spring ’12 | |
Galen Rogers |
Cellos | Spring ’10–Spring ’12 | Left his soul in the Badlands. |
Meade Klingensmith |
Tenor | Fall ’10–Spring ’12 | Research assistant at a public policy journal in NYC. |
updated 9 june 2012