Van Wallach ’80

Van Wallach ’80

Van Wallach is a writer based in Katonah, NY. A native of Mission, Texas, he started in journalism and then switched to corporate communications. Van’s a language buff, having studied Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Yiddish and Russian (don’t ask him to speak any of them). His first book, A Kosher Dating Odyssey: One Former Texas Baptist’s Quest for a Naughty and Nice Jewish Girl, appeared in 2012 (available on Amazon). He blogs at both the Times of Israel and mission2moscow.blogspot.com. His open-mic appearances are at venues like the Hudson Valley Writers Center, Museum of Sex’s Wide Open Wednesday series, Delaware Art Museum and Katonah Village Library. He’s been the webmaster for the Great Class of 1980 since 2001 and wears Reunions gear as often as possible. Van’s pandemic creative project is a novel set in the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border.