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DANCER TO DESIGN STAR

Danielle Colding, '98, an interior designer from Brooklyn, N.Y., wallpapered right over the competition to become the season seven winner of HGTV's Design Star reality series. "Danielle is smart, traveled, incredibly creative, and brings a really fresh design perspective," said one of the judges, interior designer Vern Yip. Colding, a former professional modern dancer who earned an anthropology degree at Stanford, won a contract to star in her own show on HGTV. The five-episode series, Shop This Room, in which she shares her personal approach to designing a space around an inspiration item, premiered in August.

SHEIMBAUM HONORED

Longtime activist Stanley Sheinbaum, '49, received a Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in the lifetime achievement category for "his unmatched vision and courage on important issues including civil rights and civil liberties, economic justice, human rights, police reform and world peace." The awards were established by Christie Hefner in 1979, in conjunction with Playboy magazine's 25th anniversary, to honor individuals for upholding and advancing First Amendment rights for all Americans. Sheinbaum, 92, is publisher of New Perspectives Quarterly, a journal of social and political thought. He recently coauthored an eponymous memoir with William Meis Jr.

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ULTIMATE CHAMPIONS

Two Bay Area teams representing the United States took top honors at the World Flying Disc Federation 2012 Ultimate Championships in Sakai, Japan. Playing for the San Francisco-based team Revolver, Rob Cahill, '06, MS '07, Tom James, '08, MS '10, Jonathan Levy, '06, Nick Schlag, '08, MS '09, Mark Sherwood, '07, MS '09, Bart Watson, '03, and Josh Wiseman, '04, MS '07, helped defeat Great Britain 17-5 to capture the gold in the Open Division. In the Women's Masters Division, Palo Alto resident Jennifer Donnelly, MS '93, coached team Darkhorse, which includes Dominique Fontenette, '97, and Ashley Simons, '97, MS '99, MSM '09, to the gold with a 15-13 victory over Canada.

"Slept in my Olympic uniform last night since my bag didn't make it. Hoping 2 get things sorted so I'm not the stinky kid on the starting line."

—Marathoner Ryan Hall, MS '05, via Twitter on arriving in London sans luggage.