Annual Report 2007August 1, 2006 – July 31, 2007

the commitment to craftsmanship Board of Directors Overseers

The Mission President Natalie Q. Albers of North Bennet Burton M. Harris Robert P. Bainbridge Street School is to train students for Albert G. Bangert careers in traditional Treasurer Barbara Brenzel trades that use hand S. Parkman Shaw, Jr. H. William Breyer IV skills in concert with evolving technology, Elise Brink to preserve and Clerk Judith Brown-Caro advance craft James McNeely Fenton Burke traditions, and to Peter Cabot promote greater appreciation of Jacqueline D. Blombach Nancy J. Caruso craftsmanship. David Bush-Brown Arthur F. Cook A commitment William G. Creelman Susanna Crampton to craftsmanship Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Jeremiah de Rham defines the character Bruce Dayton Peter Feinmann of the students who study at the school. Charles Fayerweather David Firestone The biographies Judy Ferenbach Murray Frank included in this Stephen Friedlaender G. Keith Funston year’s Annual John F. Gifford Nancy Gardiner Report provide an indication of what J. Kimo Griggs Barbara Adams Hebard that commitment Amos Hostetter Marilyn Heskett can require. Isaiah Jackson Brian Holt Charles L. Kline Peder C. Johnson Jonathan Levi Barbara R. Kapp Francis J. Lynch III Wallace Kemp John M. McKelway, Jr. Catherine C. Lastavica Peter Nessen Nancy H. Loucks Marie Oedel Nancy Maull Lynn C. Osborn Cheryl Marceau J. Arthur Taylor Paul F. McDonough, Jr. Lisa von Clemm Ginny Newbury Jane Wilson Christine S. Parson Gregory E. Pomeroy Adrienne N. Rabkin Frank C. Smith Elizabeth Thomson Robert A. Tomasone Tim Williams

Pictured on front cover, clockwise, from upper left: Michael Shaw, Piano Technology Saedis Halldorsdottir, Jewelry Making and Repair Paul Trombly, Violin Making and Repair Robert Dunsmore, Justin Keegan, Cabinet and Furniture Making Christina Thomas, Bookbinding C Printed on recycled, Forestry Stewardship Council certified stock Letter from the Executive Director

Friends and Alumni: I am very pleased to be able to report that this past year was a successful year for North Bennet Street School. As you can see from the Treasurer’s Report, we ended the year solidly in the black. Kevin Mack, Cabinet and Furniture Making, (left) with We had a full time enrollment Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, Executive Director. of 156, the highest in years and just one person shy of the record. Those admitted were selected from a field that started with over 4,500 inquiries over the course of the year, and indications are that the number of prospective students for next year will be even higher. These results reflect the efforts of a talented and dedicated faculty and staff. But rather than use this Annual Report as an opportunity to highlight all of our accomplishments, we have chosen to use it as an opportunity to highlight one important area in which we still have challenges to face: financial aid. The importance of providing our students with additional financial aid is an issue that the Board of Directors chose to address this year through the establishment of an endowed scholarship fund named for long time Associate Director Walter McDonald. The Case Statement for the endowment fund, found on the following page, describes the financial realities that face our students. The Case Statement presents the facts and figures, but the need for financial aid is first and foremost a personal issue, and that is why we are devoting this year’s Annual Report to profiles written by individual students who have made a significant financial commitment to come to North Bennet Street School. These students are the norm, not the exception. Some have mortgaged homes, some work nights and weekends to pay the tuition, and most have taken out loans to be able to study here. Moments after the vote to establish the Walter McDonald Scholarship Endowment Fund, $50,000 was pledged by individual Board members. The Windgate Charitable Foundation has also responded, offering an endowment challenge grant to provide up to $100,000 in matching funds each year for the next three years. It is an impressive and extremely encouraging start, and one that bodes well for the future of the school.

Thanks to all of you,

Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez Executive Director

3 The Case Statement for The Walter McDonald Scholarship Fund

Over the past 30 years, students in schools across the country have experienced a dramatic increase in their reliance on loans to pay for their education. Tuition has risen faster than students’ ability to pay these expenses out of pocket and through part-time work. The availability of scholarships and Adam Rissolo, Preservation Carpentry, New Milford, CT grants has not kept pace with the rising cost of tuition, and in 2007 students nationwide took out $85 billion in federal and private loans to pay for their education; an average of over $38,428 per student. The situation at North Bennet Street School is no different. This year 96 of our 171 full time students applied for financial aid, and the combined financial need of those applicants was over $2 million. The school was able to provide only $16,000 in scholarship funds. Those who applied for financial aid qualified for approximately $78,000 in additional state and federal scholarships, for a total of under $100,000, or less than five percent of the need. The lack of scholarship funds at North Bennet Street School hurts both the students and the school itself, and the need for a significant scholarship endowment fund has become one of the school’s highest priorities. Many students leave North Bennet Street School owing more than $40,000, and a few over $60,000. This is a great burden for them given the modest incomes students can expect as they start to build a career or a business in their respective field. The school suffers when gifted students find themselves unable to afford to attend. We have no idea how many students have given up hope and never applied for admission after looking over the school catalog to discover how expensive the training is. But we do know that this past summer 14 students declined to come after having been admitted, most of them citing financial problems as the reason for their decision. The lack of scholarship aid also impacts the school’s ability to serve potential students from the community. While the school has made efforts in recent years to reach out to the lower income students in Boston, we have never had the resources to attract capable students who have no financial resources of their own. To provide critical assistance to students seeking to fulfill their dreams at North Bennet Street, and to help the school continue to attract and retain the highest caliber students, the school’s Board of Directors has established an endowed scholarship fund, named for retiring Associate Director Walter McDonald in honor of his 30 years of service to the school. The Board intends the Walter McDonald Scholarship Endowment Fund to form the cornerstone of an ongoing campaign to support the nearly 80 percent of the student body who need some level of financial aid in order to attend North Bennet Street School.

4 Joseph Lotito | Violin Making | , PA

I am I came to North Bennet Street School as a When I leave I will get transfer“ student from the Community College a job with a violin interested of Philadelphia. Before that I had been working maker. I am talking to for a guitar maker in Philadelphia. When I started someone in Ardmore, in money I was self-trained; I had made a couple of instru- , but I am ments on my own while I was working as a also interested in the but also in cabinetmaker’s apprentice in a high-end cabinet possibility of working the quality shop in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania. either in Ottawa or I had wanted to come to North Bennet Street Montreal, Canada. of my life. for a long time - I had known about it for years. The fifth instrument I I think since 1994 when I an ad in the back made was a viola da of Double Bass magazine. gamba, and that seems to have generated a In January, 2005, I came to Boston with $3,000 certain amount of interest. I might become a saved and found an apartment in Dorchester. specialist in baroque instruments. I could make I immediately got a job at a coffee roaster in about ten violins a year, but what I would like to Faneuil Hall, and started the violin program in do is make just a few over the year and make them February, 2005. As soon as I started in school really good. I don’t want to be in production I got a job as a student janitor and receptionist, punching out instruments. so I quit working at the coffee place. I work 36 1/2 hours per week at school - after classes, I am interested in money but also in the quality in the evenings, and on weekends. I am at school of my life. Artistic control of what I do would be at least 6 and often 7 days per week, and work as the ultimate goal. What got me interested in the much as I can in the violin studio. first place was playing instruments, and I would want to have time for that. The viola da gamba I have financed my education here with Pell is a great instrument. Right now it’s used almost Grants and subsidized and unsubsidized Stafford exclusively for early music. I would like to see Loans. By the time I leave I will have about what it would sound like playing in a band. I’m $18,000 in loans which I figure will take me interested in tying in the past with what’s going about ten years to pay off at between $200 and on now. $300 per month. ”

5 Joseph Balboni | Jewelry Making | Framingham, MA

We moved I am a Jewelry of my physical condition. At that very moment in with my Making“ student. Just I knew exactly what I wanted to do. being in college is The weeks following, my wife Anna and I, along mother, something I never with our two children, Sofia, three, and Joseph, sold our thought I would do. two, decided to enroll in NBSS taking huge risk I was a Union Laborer and financial burden to take this course. We house, for 20 years. moved in with my mother, sold our house, About five years ago cashed in my annuity and borrowed a substantial cashed in I was seriously hurt on amount of money. I would like to thank Walter the job. Shortly after, I McDonald for his guidance on the loans. It has my annuity was taking a vocational been difficult. It wasn’t only the tuition, but the rehab program when a cost of the tools, the materials and just getting here. and friend of mine who is When I met Rosemary Trainor, the teacher, she a jeweler told me didn’t look down on me because I was a laborer. borrowed a about this school, so She’s a real person. I probably wouldn’t be here I convinced the rehab if Rosemary wasn’t teaching the course. There substantial counselor to visit the was a time early on the first soldering project, amount of school. She said it was I asked Lisa Hunt, Assistant Instructor, “You too expensive and they have to tell me if I can’t do this because I can’t money. would not support my afford to waste time.” Lisa said I could do it. I enrollment. Long story wasn’t sure at the time because you really don’t short I eventually went see it at first, but she was right. Since then there back to laboring and have been other times, but I always know now worked for several that I can do it. different companies and it truly was a struggle. The whole time I thought it was a huge mistake When I went for that Town job I thought I had not to have gone to NBSS no matter what the a job for life and now I do. financial risk. I would like to thank Bob Delaney and the In April of 2006, I applied for a Town job, admissions personnel, my instructors, Lisa where I passed a physical and other tests only to Hunt, Gretchen Furse and especially Rosemary have the Head of the Water Department say he Trainor for giving me the chance of a lifetime just didn’t feel comfortable hiring me because with the opportunity to take this course. 6 ” STUDENTS

Bookbinding William Morrison* Emily Scott* Crystal Fielding* Christina Amato* Jehu Mubarek Michael Sprague Joan Lawrie* Alegria Barclay* Daniel Nelson* Seth Tanguay* Jason McDevitt* Emma Bates* Aaron Olson Vinh Tran Byron Muller* Monica Feeney Jean-Pierre Parnas Marjorie Trovato Matthew Onigman* Yumiko Harris Daniel Phillips* Locksmithing Shao-Tien Timothy Peng* Amanda Nelsen* Earl Powell Soo-Leng Stoddard* Peter Bowler* John Nove* Donald Price* Cole Bushwa* Preservation Timothy Oliverson Ryan Rhoades Carpentry Philip Siraco Jeffrey Champion* Elizabeth Rideout Andrew Athanas* Brian Smith Michael Chiesa* Christina Thomas Michael Bernstein Christoph Streubert Eugene Courtney* Wendy Withrow Joshua Bloom* Michael Torison* Michael Diamond* Cabinet & Stephen Brown* James Watriss* Kenneth Gibbons* Furniture Making Michael Kaluzny Jacob Burgette* Kevin Ainsworth Carpentry Brett Keightley* Lucas Davisson Jonathan Bacharach* Stephen P. Cunha* Aaron Nelson* Joshua Ewart David Benetello Christopher S. Delarda* Sean O’Mara Kelly Fuller* Brian Boyd Yuan Li Deng* Louis Paoletti* Michael Hevenor Andrew Bristow Jonas Andrew Eule* Apostolos Papavassiliou* Nathaniel Hill Brian Brophy Taylor Garfield* Michael Raymond Brian Horne Isaac Canney* Scott Grusby* Martin White* Tara Hrynik Matthew Clark Scott Lesser* Calvina Wong* Amy Kellett Kenneth Craggs* Jessica Lynch* Barbara Zillman* Christopher Knapp Scott Lewis* Matthew Emery Jason Nolan* Basic Piano John Ewart Aaron Rosenblatt* Technology Christopher Murphy* David Flanagan* Bryce Sullivan* Adam Reitano William Chubb III* Andrew Glenn Lamont Lee Taylor* Adam Rissolo Seth de Berry* Michael Greenberg Danielle Theisen* Jeffrey Stanley Dennis Erwin* Erin Hanley* Trevor Thomas* Jacob Gonchar* William Hettinger* Jewelry Making Larry Waldrop, Jr.* Shawn Hansen* Edwin Hinspeter and Repair Brian Willett Jon Hayden Matthew Huffman Amanda Aker* Emily Holsapple* Violin Making Christopher Kearney* Lori Allison and Repair Sakiko Isomichi* Justin Keegan Sarah Babineau Xiaodan Liu* Celeste Devlin Patrick Kelly* Joseph Balboni Kevin Luke* Eli Feuer* Kevin Kirane James Cresta Robert Purcell* Sef Gray Mike Leggett Katherine Darling* Nate Reyburn* Thomas Hyde Melissa Lombardi Jade Drakes Michael Shaw* Joe Lotito Kevin Mack Katelyn Dumont* Elizabeth Snow* Joseph McDevitt Andrew Maher Bridget Garner Emily Stafford* Wyatt Meng Nicholas Mansur Saedis Halldorsdottir Erika Safran Nicholas Maraldo* Holly Hawkins* Advanced Piano Technology Alexis Scott Tribble Keith McIntosh Jessica Manning* Paul Trombly Ryan Boyajian* Peter Michelinie Michelle Mercaldo David Truscott Susan Burgess* Joshua Miller Glee Mollan John Wenthe Louis del Bene* Tom Monahan* Michael Salandrea Arie Werbrouck

*Graduated 7 WORKSHOPS

The following workshops were offered during the past year.

Bookbinding Fundamentals II of Fundamentals of Ladder Back Chair Making* Accordion Books Jewelry Making (2) Fine (14) Machine Advanced Introduction to Woodworking – Non-Adhesive Forging Fundamentals of Furniture Making Frame & Panel Chest Bookbinding Introduction to Machine Crossed Structure Stone Setting Fundamentals of Woodworking – Bookbinding (2) Machine Introduction to Woodworking (11) Shaker Style Table Double Board Coptic Wax Carving Platform Framing* Bookbinding* Furniture Loop In Loop Embellishment – Queen Anne Side Introduction to Chain Making* Shell & Fan Carving Chair Calligraphy Marketing Your Green Woodworking – I (2) Introduction to Cloth Craft* Joined Stool* Case Bookbinding (5) Working With Gold Historic Timber Seventeenth Century Carving* Introduction to Working with Framing Non-Adhesive Palladium* Shaker Oval Bookbinding (5) Introduction to Bowl Turning (2)* Boxmaking (4) Japanese Bookbinding Piano Introduction to Shaker Wall Clock* Limp Vellum Three-Month Bookbinding (2) Introduction to Piano Technology Introduction to Furniture Making Drafting Intensive (3) Jewelry Traditional Slip Seat Woodworking Introduction to Gilding Upholstery Bezel Making & Carving the Ball & Setting for Faceted Introduction to Traditional Windsor Claw Foot (2) Stones Hammer Veneering Chair Making Decorative Inlay (2) Fundamentals I of Introduction to Understanding Design Through Jewelry Making (2) Flat Edge Tool (6) Furniture Classics* Sharpening (2) Window Sash Restoration*

*Denotes new workshop ( ) Indicates a workshop ran multiple sessions

8 Brian McAlpine | Workshop Program | Scituate, MA

I have a degree in Mechanical Engineering. some of my previous Coming For“ me going to college wasn’t necessarily a waste jobs and also do some of time but it was the wrong direction for me small carpentry projects to this to take. Going to college and getting a degree was to help pay bills. For a what I thought I was supposed to do after high while I tried looking workshop school but I wasn’t sure what I wanted to get out for an apprenticeship eight hours of it. While in school I became more interested in furniture making in design majors and considered switching to because there was a lot a day Architecture or Interior/Industrial Design but I wanted to learn but I had invested too much time in my major. couldn’t do it on my hasn’t been After college I got into general fabrication and own. When I couldn’t furniture design. For the last three years I have find anything I stressful or been working as a custom fabricator and developing thought about going the different skills I had grown an interest in. back to school but I a chore but I worked at a few different places, from a sign went back and forth company to custom event fabrication and most between using my more like a recently working on set design. At the event money to buy tools company a lot of the work I did was designing and develop a work- retreat. and fabricating contemporary furniture and that shop or continue my is where my interests in mid-century modern education full time. design developed into a possible career direction. This workshop was a risky compromise but it has worked out well. I have a lot of passion for quality design and I have had access to learn and work with tools that traditional values in craftsmanship. I make modern I have wanted to try out. It has also been very furniture but I feel that recently visual aesthetics helpful to be able to talk to the teacher about have overpowered strong workmanship in not just what the class is covering but also other contemporary furniture design. For me the stan- questions I have had. The class is giving me more dards are poor, and taking this workshop is a way of the confidence I needed to push me towards for me to strengthen my personal skills because continuing to design and make furniture. I am mostly self-taught. I think the benefits to learning traditional woodworking techniques will I’m slowly heading in the right direction. My help push me forward with my furniture design. focus is to learn something new constantly and each day I get a little better. Coming to this I stopped working full-time at the event company workshop eight hours a day hasn’t been stressful about two years ago hoping it would give me time or a chore but more like a retreat. to focus on my own work. I work part-time at ” 9 I attended Savannah College of Art and I received federal loans and scholarships and my Design“ (SCAD) where I earned a degree in parents helped support me, but when I left I had graphic design in 2006. I am grateful to have a loans totaling around $20,000. I currently work design background and am happy with the skill at the school Gallery on Saturdays and during set I gained while studying there. While computer summer breaks, but my parents prefer that I graphics is often the medium of choice in graphic devote the school year to my studies to maximize design, and I enjoy using the computer, I have the learning experience. They support me for the found that I am happiest when working and additional fees that the loans fail to cover. creating with my hands. SCAD gave me a great Last year I took out more loans and I have applied foundation for hands-on work and thorough for loans again this year. This summer I worked training in computer design applications: I love as a conservation assistant at the American being able to strike a balance between the two. Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, MA, During my sophomore year in college a friend a job for which I was well prepared after my first introduced me to bookbinding. She was taking a year in the bookbinding program. It felt good to course offered in the Fibers Department, called take care of expenses myself for a few months. Experimental Bookmaking. After my friend After graduation I am hoping to spend a few showed me how to make a few books I officially summer months in Uppsala, Sweden studying in had the bug! It wasn’t until my senior year that the bindery of the Uppsala University Library. I had the opportunity to take the actual class. By I was also invited to return for another summer that time I had already discovered North Bennet position at the AAS conservation lab. In the long Street School and had dreams of continuing my run I envision myself owning my own bindery training here. Upon completion of the book- where I would like to sell new work as well as binding class at SCAD, I had made up my mind repair books for private or institutional clients. to apply to the program. When I learned I was In the meantime I would love to work in an officially accepted, it was one of the most exciting institutional conservation lab or bindery. days of my life. My main goal is to continue learning as much When I started at SCAD my resources consisted as I can about bookbinding and my time here at of personal savings, and support from my parents NBSS has been a phenomenal way to work on and grandparents. My personal savings were reaching that goal. absorbed by tuition costs the first quarter. ”

Monica Feeney | Bookbinding | Seattle, WA

Last year I took out more loans and I have applied for loans again this year. Larry Pinkerton | Locksmithing | Bangor, ME

I have I worked for 11 years in human services with me with about $5,000. always people“ with disabilities. I had two full-time jobs I took out Pell Grants - an overnight job at a respite center, and during and a Stafford Loan, been the day I worked with autistic clients, redirecting but I’m still $3,000 them from self abusive behavior. After 11 years I short, and I’m going interested went into a residential program myself for alcohol to contact the State of abuse and for treatment of bipolar disorder. to see if in locks, I went into the program for a year to get some they can help. The structure and control over my life. It was ironic, tuition isn’t that bad, maybe and humbling, that I found myself living with my but there are also the former clients. I learned to manage my mood books and the tools. because swings with treatment for depression, found Dave Troiano, the appropriate medication, and started seeing a teacher, has been a I was in counselor myself. I’ve been sober for seven years. really good mentor I’ve always been good with my hands. I grew up for me, and helped foster care in around people who earned their living me through. There are growing up with their hands, and I can’t do anything else. very few well trained I have always been interested in locks, maybe locksmiths above and always because I was in foster care growing up and always Bangor, but you can’t trying to get out of places. They are puzzles to learn locksmithing as trying to me, there are no two alike. I love the quality, the an apprentice in Maine craftsmanship, and the overwhelming ability just because no one will get out to take something apart. I studied every book on teach enough so that locks I could get my hands on before I came you are able to take of places. here. business away from I found the North Bennet Street School website them. So when I get and decided to apply. Since I didn’t have any out I’ll go back there money, I went to my Congressman to find out and I’m sure I can get a what I could do, and they connected me to the job. I’d like to be near the ocean. I don’t want Department of Human Services, which assisted to get rich - just pay the bills and be happy.” 11 FINAnCIALS

Treasurer’s report

North Bennet Street School Treasurer's Report August 1, 2006 — July 31, 2007

Ladies and Gentlemen:

I am pleased to present the Treasurer's Report for the North Bennet Street School for the fiscal year beginning on August 1, 2006 and ending on July 31, 2007.

The School closed the fiscal year with net assets of $4,282,573. This is an increase of $383,140 over last year. The change is driven by net profits from increased tuition revenue, successful fundraising activities, and the effects of positive changes in the investment portfolio.

On the expense side, management did an excellent job of controlling costs. Most budgeted items ended the year as anticipated. Anomalies will be resolved in the current year as management settles its staffing needs and executes its strategic plan.

I want to thank our able Executive Director and his staff for this admirable financial performance.

Sincerely,

S. Parkman Shaw, Jr. Treasurer

12 Statement of Activities

North Bennet Street School Statement of Activities For the Years Ended July 31, 2007 and 2006

July 31, 2007 July 31, 2006 % Change Revenue Tuition & workshop fees $2,560,892 $2,449,714 4.54% Contributions, gifts and grants 679,162 509,300 33.35% Project and instrument revenue 193,191 56,064 244.59% Special event revenue 66,027 58,537 12.80% Investment income 63,565 68,884 -7.72% Gain on Investments 149,945 26,812 459.25% Other 273 2,319 -88.23% Store sales net of cost of sales 35,798 27,440 30.46% Total Revenue $3,748,853 $3,199,070 17.19%

Expenses Program expenses $2,719,072 $2,703,118 0.59% General and administrative 424,593 368,659 15.17% Fundraising and development 222,048 168,758 31.58% Total Expenses $3,365,713 $3,240,535 3.86%

Increase in net assets $383,140 $(41,465) Net assets, beginning of year $3,899,433 $3,940,898 Net assets, end of year $4,282,573 $3,899,433

This statement is an excerpt from the audited financial statements of North Bennet Street School

Revenue fy 2007 Expenses fy 2007

Other 0.0%

Store sales 0.9% Gain on Fundraising and investments 4.0% development 6.6% General and Investment Income 1.7% administrative 12.6% Special event Program revenue 1.8% Expenses 80.8% Project & instrument revenue 5.2% Contributions, gifts & grants 18.1% Tuition & workshop fees 68.3%

13 Tim Oliverson | Bookbinding | San Antonio, TX

I went to Brigham Young University in Provo“ Utah. Before my last year I took a course on The History of The Book and we went on a field trip to tour the university’s book conservation lab. That was my first real introduction to book conservation. I discov- ered the world of rare book conservation and I knew it was what I wanted to do. I talked to Mark Pollei (BB’94), the director of the conservation lab. He let me know about all the different options and helped me decide that coming here was the best thing that I could do. My senior year I took a course in book arts in the art department, and Mark was able to get funding from the library to give me a part time job in the conservation lab that last year. I just had a real struggle in college wondering what I was going to do. It took me 3 years before I decided on my major, linguistics. I enjoyed linguistics, but not because I thought it would provide me with employ- ment. All my friends were studying business, medicine, law- but nothing really called out to me. I knew that I just wouldn’t be happy with the average person’s working day job. Then I felt this spark of interest when I discovered the world of old and rare books and that fact that you could make a career working with them. The year I worked with Mark Pollei in the lab at BYU solidified it. I knew it was something I would enjoy. My wife Amy and I live in Somerville with our daughter Clara, who is 3 years old, and our son Forrest, who is one month old. I didn’t really have any savings when I moved here after college. I tried working at a part- time job in a bookstore nights and weekends, but I didn’t get enough sleep and it was affecting my work, so I quit and Amy decided to get a part-time job instead. She worked until she had to stop because she was too pregnant. She would be willing to go back to work now, but after paying for day care we would just break even, so it isn’t worth it. The first year I took out Stafford Loans and a commercial loan from Wells Fargo. The second year we took out a similar amount in Stafford Loans and another commercial loan. We are also getting benefits from the state of Massachusetts, WIC, food stamps and fuel assistance. We figure we will owe about $75,000 when I get out, and it I discovered will take about ten years to pay back, at a cost of about $900 per month, but we might the world take 15 years instead. of rare book I hope to get a full-time job in a university or institutional library and start paying conservation back the loans immediately. But what I would really like to do is build up a private and I knew clientele doing rare book conservation and whatever I can find doing new books on it was what commission. Our family will go wherever the best job is, but someday I hope to return I wanted to either Texas or Washington - to one of our homes. to do. 14 ” Michael Shaw | Piano Technology | Cumberland, RI

I had savings I left New England for the SunBelt when I was covered through the 25.“ I have spent the last 20 years in Florida working first year. In June some at that point, at various jobs. In 1991 I went to seminary in New great summer intern- Orleans and graduated in 1996, when I returned to ships opened up, so I and I was Florida to work as a parish priest. Just prior to com- applied and was accept- ing here I was the Catholic campus minister at ed at , Colorado. able to live Florida State University in Tallahassee. Since it’s easier to ask with my My interest in piano technology started because I for forgiveness than loved to play. My father was in education, and we permission, I simply sister, didn’t have any extras, so growing up I didn’t have a wrote the bishop and decent piano in working order. I had several pianos- told him what I was so I was three were given to me, and I learned a little tuning going to do. I got a and how to paste the action parts together using letter back from the covered thread. I was an undergraduate majoring in piano/ finance director who performance before I got my first “real” piano. said very politely that through the my stipend would end After 20 years in Florida I began to realize that I in July and health first year. wouldn’t have my family around forever, so I wanted insurance would end to move back to New England. I asked my bishop for in December. a transfer but he turned me down. The only future for me as a diocesan priest was to become a pastor, a At this point my savings CEO of a parish. I didn’t have those skills, running a are pretty much dried up. I am doing a little tuning parish and raising money, and I couldn’t see learn- and regulating on the side, and I also have taken out ing them. My bishop said “Do you want to take a sab- loans, both subsidized and un-subsidized. By the batical?” and I said “You bet”. He suggested sending time I complete the second year I will have taken out me to Rome for three months on sabbatical with about $13,000 in loans. other priests, but I wanted to get totally away. I had a What’s next? I can’t tell you. I was invited back to family friend who went to North Bennet Street Aspen for next summer. I would like to live in New School to study Preservation Carpentry for two years, England to be close to my family and start a piano and across the street at FSU a woman had started a technician business. I don’t have any capital right Masters program in Piano Technology. I wanted to now, but that doesn’t mean I’ll always be in that go there, but she said I would have to go to a place position. Being a priest was a great gig because there like North Bennet Street first. I looked up the web were so many aspects to the job, writing, teaching, site and I thought this is what I want to do right now. social work, pastoral counseling, sacramental Finally the bishop agreed. My diocese continued my ministry. It was the times that I didn’t have any monthly stipend through the first year because I independence that I started to bristle. I don’t have thought I was coming back. I had savings at that any regrets about any of my major life decisions. point, and I was able to live with my sister, so I was It’s all been good. ” 15 ContributORs

ANNUAL FUND David Firestone J. Arthur Taylor, Artisan Furniture ’00 John F. Gifford, ($250 - $499) Legacy Patron Jewelry ’97, Furniture ’01 Robert Weir Jess Delaney ($10,000+) Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, Mary Willett Furniture ‘99 Jane Wilson Peter Feinmann, Anonymous Nehemias Gorin Carpentry ’83 Norman & Rosita (Pres. Carpentry) Bruce Dayton Charitable Foundation Winston Foundation, Inc. Doris C. Freitag Burton M. Harris, J. Kimo Griggs “The ” Charitable Furniture ’97 Deborah J. Hall Foundation Paula J. Garbarino, Furniture ’88 (Furniture) William Hettinger, Bryan T. Hartzler, Furniture ’07 & Corinna Piano ’00 (Piano) Master Christopher Grant Hettinger Andrea M. Hill Craftsperson Gary W. Green, High Meadows Fund Furniture ’96 (Furniture) Brian Holt, ($500 - $999) Amos & Barbara Furniture ’05 Deborah M. Hauser Hostetter Walter Hunnewell, Jr. Charles C. Ames Francis & Elizabeth Sunfield Foundation Hunnewell Foundation Inland Underwriters Albert G. Bangert, Lisa von Clemm Insurance Agency Furniture ’03 (Furniture) Thomas & Vera Kreilkamp (in honor Barbara R. Kapp Beasley & Reidy NBSS Restoration, of Peter McGhee, Living Treasure Wallace Kemp Pres. Carpentry ’03 Furniture ’04) L. Patton Kline Family (Pres. Carpentry) LAB Security Systems ($1,000 - $9,999) Foundation, Inc. Patricia Belden Andrew Ladygo Edith Alpers (Jewelry) Charles L. Kline, Elise Brink Harry J. Leschen III Furniture ’05 Norine Anderson Columbia Contracting (Pres. Carpentry) (Bookbinding) Catherine C. Lastavica Corp., (Pres. Carpentry) John Leschen, H. William Breyer IV, Francis J. Lynch III Judy Ferenbach, Preservation Carpentry ’04 Furniture ’97 Nancy Maull Bookbinding ’97 (Pres. Carpentry) Jacqueline D. Blombach, Walter McDonald (Bookbinding) Daniel Levitan, Piano ’75 (Piano) Preservation Carpentry ’02 James McNeely G. Keith Funston, Jr. Cheryl A. Marceau Restoration Stephen E. Memishian Elaine Garneau Supply (Pres. Carpentry) Phantom Housewrights, Peter Nessen David M. Harris Judith Brown-Caro (Bookbinding) Inc. (Pres. Carpentry) Norfolk and Dedham Jim Rogers Fenton J. Burke, Group Brent Hull, Furniture ’95 Preservation Carpentry ’93 Marie Louise Scudder Paul H. O’Connell, (Pres. Carpentry) David Bush-Brown Preservation Carpentry ’87 Lawrence M. Tuttle, Judith Cahoon Francis & Elizabeth Furniture ’80 (Furniture) Marie Oedel, Hunnewell (Jewelry) Bookbinding ’02 Frank S. Wright, Walter Hunnewell, Jr. Furniture ’00 John O. Carroll Richard Oedel, Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Furniture ’05 Caroline Mortimer William G. Creelman Carol O’Hare Thomas Mulligan Journeyman Furniture ’00 (Furniture) John M. Driggers, Ann O’Rahilly, ($100 - $249) Furniture ’87 Bookbinding ’95 Christine S. Parson Acme Bookbinding Robert & Joanna Ecke Lynn C. Osborn Sheila D. Perry Thomas F. Adams (Bookbinding) Morgan Palmer Adrienne N. Rabkin Jeffrey Altepeter, Charles & Carol Finley Perry S & H Construction Fayerweather Bookbinding ’99 Pomeroy & Co., Inc. Sidney Schwartz (Bookbinding) Peter Feinmann, Sholley Foundation Carpentry ’83 S. Parkman Shaw, Jr. Susan Gray Barbarossa, Yong Hee Silver Bookbinding ’96 Fiduciary Counseling, Inc. Sepp Gold Leaf Products Reiko Shoji Elizabeth Thomson Walter Beebe-Center, Mary & Tim Williams Preservation Carpentry ’94 Eloise G. Smyrl (Pres. Carpentry) Woodcraft Supply Corp.

16 Victor Bélanger, Phyllis D. Kayne, Kenneth P. Tucker, Scott Ingram Piano ’94 (Piano) Jewelry ’99 Piano ’83 (Piano) Catherine L. Johnson, Lisa Bielefeld Christopher H. Kendig, Tom & Alice Walsh Furniture ’85 (Furniture) Howard A. Bouve, Piano ’00 (Piano) Tatiana Wilcke, Daniel R. Kinsley, Locksmithing ’90 Paul Klitzke, Furniture ’89 (Furniture) Furniture ’80 (Furniture) (Locksmithing) Piano ’86 (Piano) Harold A. Wilson, Lee S. Klein, Robert & Juliana Brazile Silas Kopf Furniture ’01 (Furniture) Piano ’96 (Piano) Barbara Brown, Rebekah Lord-Gardiner, Valerie A. Wyckoff, John Krauspe Furniture ’04 (Furniture) Bookbinding ’93 Bookbinding ’89 Alison Kuller, Robert P. Burchard (Bookbinding) (Bookbinding) Bookbinding ’99 Fenton J. Burke, Christine Lovgren, Kazuo Yoshizaki, (Bookbinding) Furniture ’95 (Furniture) Piano ’81 (Piano) Piano ’99 (Piano) Thomas Lee, John R. Mannheim Furniture ’87 Ira Carp Apprentice Samuel P. Chase, Peter S. McGhee, Lance Levine, Furniture ’04 (Furniture) Piano ’02 (Piano) Furniture ’89 (Furniture) ($1 - $99) Sara B. Chase Andrew McInnes, George Lewis Furniture ’95 (Furniture) William Alvarado, William D. Lilly Arthur F. Cook Furniture ’98 (Furniture) Consuela G. Metzger, Nancy H. Loucks Chilton Club Bookbinding ’93 Neldy Arsenault, Kathleen A. Markees, Juliet R. Davenport, Gretchen A. Meyers, Locksmithing ’88 Piano ’95 (Locksmithing) Bookbinding ’92 Furniture ’01 (Furniture) (Bookbinding) Thomas M. Decatur, Don Michael Rachel A. Burchard Preservation Carpentry ’88 Daniel Michaels, John J. Mohr Patricia M. Cabot, Carpentry ’98 (Carpentry) (Pres. Carpentry) Piano ’94 (Piano) Robert G. Delaney, Jon Molesworth, Judith B. McDonough Furniture ’99 (Furniture) Cate Carulli, Preservation Carpentry ’00 Piano ’87 (Piano) Patrick Muecke, Robert H. Montgomery Furniture ’96 (Furniture) Tia C. Dennis, Robert Cashman, Furniture ’03 (Furniture) Richard P. & Claire Furniture ’90 (Furniture) Paul Murphy Morse Foundation Jeremiah de Rham, Judith Cohen, Amanda Nelsen, Furniture ’83 David Nadworny, Bookbinding ’98 Bookbinding ’07 Jay Doster, Piano ’72 (Piano) (Bookbinding) (Bookbinding) Furniture ’80 (Furniture) Notarangelo Carpentry, William Contente, J. David Osborne, Robert and Joanna Ecke (Pres. Carpentry) Piano ’81 (Piano) Furniture ’86 (Furniture) Larry Fine, C. William Rich, Mark DeGrandpre, David Polstein, Piano ’76 (Piano) Jewelry ’02 (Jewelry) Jewelry ’94 (Jewelry) Violin ’89 (Violin) Robert F. German, Laurie L. Riordan Daniel Dover, Clarissa B. Porter Piano ’76 (Piano) Ilya Rutman, Piano ’90 (Piano) Marion Rabinowitz, Michael J. Gratz, Violin ’92 (Violin) Sarah & William Dwyer Piano ’78 (Piano) Piano ’71 William L. Saltonstall Frederick H. Fricka, Jr. Jack L. Renner Linda Greene Zoe A. Sherman, Locksmithing ’00 Barbara St. Clare Post Nathanael B. Greene Piano ’00 (Piano) (Locksmithing) Israel Stein, Fred Gunter Rebecca Smyrl, John K. George Piano ’86 (Piano) Bookbinding ’05 Irving B. Gerber, David Thomson, Barbara Halporn, (Bookbinding) Bookbinding ‘06 Furniture ’85 (Furniture) Piano ’86 (Piano) Mary C. Soutter Amanda C. Hegarty, Luisa Granitto, Philip Wales, Bookbinding ’91 (Bookbinding) Lewis J. Surdam, Bookbinding ’88 Preservation Carpentry ’93 Piano ’80 (Piano) (Bookbinding) (Pres. Carpentry) Jeffrey Hohl, Preservation Carpentry ’05 Joseph S. Tanen Dylan Guthrie, Leslie Wills, (Pres. Carpentry) Jonathan Tetzlaff, Locksmithing ’05 Furniture ’04 (Furniture) (Locksmithing) Robin Howell, Piano ’02 (Piano) John V. Yore, Bookbinding ’88 Wendy Thaxter Beth Ann Harrington, Piano ’03 (Piano) Furniture ’94 (Furniture) (Bookbinding) James Tiernan, Jeanne Huber Piano ’99 (Piano)

17 Jean-Pierre Parnas | Cabinet & Furniture Making | Natick, MA

It was Before I came to It took from the time I applied to the full time a huge North“ Bennet Street program in March until the middle of August to School I was an archi- finally make the decision, and to go to my firm financial tect. I graduated from to tell them I was leaving. It was a huge financial MIT and had been difficulty because I am a single parent. My wife difficulty working in the field passed away six years ago, and after that I made because for 18 years. I think I the decision to sell our large house and get a got disillusioned by smaller one where I could erase our mortgage I am being more of a lawyer and put an addition on to make it more mine. than an architect, writ- I did that, but ended up borrowing against the a single ing memos all day. I new house to take out equity so I could pay for had vaguely heard school. I work doing small scale residential additions parent. about woodworking on the side, and that relieves some borrowing. I courses and I looked recently applied for Mass Health which is now on the web and found paying for most of my health care. I also get a the workshops. It small amount of Social Security for the kids. seemed like that’s really All in all, I will have borrowed about $50,000 what I wanted to do. I took both fundamentals to come here. At the moment I’m paying interest workshops and it cemented the idea for me. only. As I look to the future, it’s a little scary. Part of the process of thinking through coming I’ve been toying with the idea of moving to here was going back through all the positions I Vermont. The difference in house prices is a had as an architect. I always felt I had more in huge financial incentive. I plan to keep both the common with the builder. I was pretty good at residential additions and the furniture making Construction Management, and I felt a lot more going when I leave. I have set up a website that connected there, but it was still all paperwork. shows both. I realized that what had inspired me about archi- If I had the money, I would start a scholarship tecture school was the design and the hands on for single parents. It’s a special set of circum- building which is part of architectural education, stances to have to take care of the kids while but lacking in the professional world. you’re going to school.”

18 Supporters of North Bennet Street School’s Annual Evening of Traditional Craft

Underwriter South Shore Millwork Michele Bilodeau Phil Lowe ($5,000) Jane & James Wilson Elise Brink Thomas J. MacDonald Amos & Barbara Douglas V. Brown David Manley Hostetter Sponsors Fenton J. Burke Timothy & Julia ($500) Kevin C. Cain Marsters Benefactors Natalie Q. Albers W. Mickey Callahan Mr. & Mrs. Paul McDonough, Jr. ($2,500) Ann Beha Architects Nina Castellion Peter S. McGhee Boger Construction Robert Bainbridge Robert Churchill Stephen J. Mead, Jr. Co., Inc. Albert & Donna Bangert Eli Cleveland Jonathan & Jane Metcalf Boston Society of Boston Gems & Chase L. Cooney Architects/AIA Leslie Mills Findings, Inc. Bert Dane Bruce & Lynn Dayton Barbara W. Moore William M. Braucher Nina Danforth Feinmann, Inc. Donald Morris David & Mary Bush- Barbara David Firestone & Parson Brown Stephen Morrison Timothy Davis Stephen Friedlaender Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Herbert & Virginia Stanton M. Felton Burton & Shirley Harris & Sue Stasiowski Oedel Audrey Ferrante Marilyn & James Heskett William G. Creelman Carol O’Hare David Firestone Lynch & Lynch Jeremiah de Rham Herbert Osborne Lori Foley McNeely & Pauli John M. Ellis Elizabeth Padjen Architects, Inc. Keith & Grace Funston Doris C. Freitag Joe Palladino M.F. Reynolds, Inc. Frederick Goldstein Richard Friberg Morgan Palmer Osborn Studio + Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez Claire Fruitman Kimberly Parmentier Pomeroy & Co., Inc. Goody Clancy John Ganson Chris Rifkin Dan & Mary Gregory Richard F. Gantt James V. Righter Patrons Peder C. Johnson Paula J. Garbarino David & Carter Christopher Grant ($1,000) Jonathan Levi Rountree Stephen Gray Jacqueline D. Blombach Architects, Inc. Beatrice Roy & Michael A. Duca Barbara R. Kapp & Deborah J. Hall Vincent Ryan George David Paul Mitarachi Edward S. Hand Charles Sawyer Charles & Carol Catherine C. Lastavica John & Brooke Heraty John W. Sears Fayerweather Lie-Nielsen Toolworks William & Corinna Laura & William Shucart John F. Gifford Jerrold & Ann Mitchell Hettinger Yong Hee Silver Grogan & Company Peter & Beatrice Nessen Patrick Hickox & Allen L. Snyder Bridgette Williams Hemenway & Barnes S + H Construction Peter H. Sprayregen Gordon Holmes Hollingsworth & Vose Star Contracting Co., Lewis J. Surdam Inc. Wendy L. Hubbard Brian Holt Susan F. Surdam Mr. & Mrs. J. Arthur Walter Hunnewell, Jr. Kimo Griggs Architects, Taunton Press Taylor Peter & Julie Hyde Inc. Christine Thomson Elizabeth Thomson Isaiah & Helen Jackson Charles & Charlotte Elizabeth Thomson Kline Lisa von Clemm Jean E. Keamy Charles Turi Kochman Reidt + Haigh Mary & Tim Williams Wallace Kemp Cabinetmakers Lucinda & Alexander Gretchen G. Keyworth Vanderweil Mark Richey Contributors Gordon Kingsley & Woodworking & Theodore W. Vasiliou William & Nancy Ames Mary Ford Kingsley Design, Inc. Matthew Wajda Ben Barrett David & Peggy Kirk Walter McDonald Samuel Wakeman Henry & Jean Becton Charles Kline Richard & Marie Oedel David & Anne Webb- Paul & Gay Larsen Pasek Corporation Walter Beebe-Center Johnson Catherine C. Lastavica Adrienne N. Rabkin Catherine S. Benison Andree Desiree Wilson Andrew Lippman Mr. & Mrs. S. Parkman Michael Bentinck-Smith Nanette Wilson Shaw, Jr. Peter Bernard Dr. & Mrs. Frederick H. Jay Worthen Lovejoy 19 GIFTS & SUPPORT

Matching Gifts Bequest Firestone & Parson Ann O’Rahilly, Pioneer Investments Bookbinding ’95 In Memoriam Gifts Grants In Memory of Bette Chase, Anonymous Furniture ‘98 A.C. Ratshesky Esther E. Chandler Foundation David J. Doucette Frank M. Barnard Foundation Margaret M. Dooner Massachusetts Cultural Christina Thomas, Bookbinding, Oren, UT Robert Ehrlich Council Raymond & Evelyn Rothschild Scholarships Dampp-Chaser Monica Medollo (Jewelry) Electronics (Piano) Greg Comly Scholarship RFT Associates, Inc. In Memory of Clayton Ecke Samuel Ellenport Ginny Newbury, Robert & Joanna Ecke Fund W. Michael Comly Steve Fujan (Piano) Vice President, (Locksmithing) In Memory of Harry Hauser, Sepp Gold Leaf Products Linda Greene (Violin) Ann O’Rahilly, In Memory of Dr. Lewis Pizer, Scholarshp Marsha Hassett In Memory of Jack Calechman Peter Sepp Bookbinding ’95 to the Hauser Endowment Fund Ingersoll-Rand (Bookbinding) Deborah M. Hauser Awards Company (Locksmithing) Laura Pieters Cordy 2007 “Cartouche” Integrated Security, Inc. (Preservation Carpentry) In Memory of Harold Ionson, (Locksmithing) to the Harold Ionson Furniture Honorarium Rep Works (Locksmithing) Scholarship Fund Society of American Period Kawai America Dean L. Reyburn (Piano) Furniture Makers Corporation (Piano) Barbara & Doug Kimberly Russo, Holdridge Daryl Keil (Preservation Furniture ‘04 Carpentry) Society of American Gifts of Goods Gillian Rogell (Piano) Period Furniture Makers and Services LAB Security Systems, Gerald G. Roraback, Steinway and Sons In Memory of Marilyn McDonald Douglas J. Atkins, Executive Vice President (Piano) Peter & Jean Stringham Piano’97 (Piano) (Locksmithing) Peter Stringham Janet Atkins & Tarleton Brooke Lipsitt (Piano) (Preservation Carpentry) In Memory of Barbara Watkins (Piano) Theobald, Violin ’90 Login Lock (Locksmithing) Christine Tyler Barr Specialty Tools (Locksmithing) Joanne D. Bovey (Workshop) Lucy Mack (Piano) James & Charlene BCS Sales, LLC John J. McColgan Callahan (Locksmithing) (Bookbinding) Restricted gifts are noted in Spencer Loft Paul Caldera John P. McCormack, Condominiums Furniture ’88 (Furniture, parentheses. Richard Corkey Workshop Program) Dorothy A. Walka (Carpentry) Graduates of North Bennet Street School’s full-time programs are indicated by their program and graduation year.

North Bennet Street School relies on contributions to help control tuition costs while improving the quality of our programs and our physical space. It is because of our supporters that North Bennet Street School continues to thrive and grow as an institution that trains individuals for careers in traditional craft and trade. If you are interested in making a gift to North Bennet Street School, please contact the Development Office at (617)227-0155 ext. 111. I am originally from Michigan, but I came hands-on and what I really wanted to do was here“ from New Haven, Connecticut. I was a the actual physical work. I sent away for the theater major at Michigan State University and brochure, came for the Open House and fell took an internship in the scene shop at Long in love with the school. Wharf Theater upon graduating. I planned to I was really excited and impressed by the school pursue acting professionally, but I realized that it and what it had to offer but I needed to stop wasn’t what I wanted to do after working behind thinking about it romantically and think realistically the scenes. if I could afford the program. It was a lot of I started at the theater as the intern and moved money for me especially when I wasn’t sure if this my way up to senior carpenter over the course of possible new career was right for me. I have the six years. I miss the theater, and I loved what I support of my family, and I couldn’t do it without did there, but I had a job and wanted a career. them. My father took out a loan in his name I could have moved up in the theater world by because he could get a lower interest rate than I pursuing a career as a technical director or a set could. I’ve also taken out financial aid loans, and designer, but my heart wasn’t in either of those have a part time job that helps with pocket money two positions. and some small bills. Preservation Carpentry is something I had been In June I will return to a job that I started as thinking about for six years ever since I moved to an intern last summer working for the National New England. I saw all these beautiful old homes Park Service at the Historical Preservation around New Haven in such disrepair. I said to a Training Center in Frederick, MD. The program friend of mine, “These houses need so much is a way to full-time employment in the Park help. I would love to work on a team that does Service. What I like about Preservation is the the research and repairs to restore them to their history involved and the excitement you get original beauty.” “You can go to school for that, peeling away the 20th century materials to reveal you know. It’s called Historical Preservation,” original historic fabric and seeing the craftsman- she said. ship people were able to do at a much simpler It was the first time I had heard of that, and I time without fancy power tools. It’s pretty amazing. never forgot about it. When I knew it was time What I have always loved about construction is to leave the theater, I looked into schools and I the sense of accomplishment at the end of the found North Bennet Street. I looked into other day. Look what I did! And having your work last preservation programs as well, but they weren’t is something I think about.” Tara Hrynik | Preservation Carpentry | Detroit, MI

What I have always loved about construction is the sense of accom- plishment at the end of the day. Look what I did! Robert Dunsmore | Carpentry | Fort Thompson, SD

I am 46, a Crow Creek I am 46, a Crow I got to Boston in September ’06, and started “Creek Sioux from Fort looking for schools to give me the training Thompson, South I needed. I looked at Middlesex Community Sioux Dakota. I was in the College and was going to take bits and pieces from Fort Army from 1978 to of courses here and there, until North Bennet 1981, post Vietnam, as Street School came up. It had everything I needed. Thompson, a helicopter crew chief. They got me a house in Lowell, and I get a ride to When I got out of the school from one of the students in my class. South service I worked If he can’t take me I take the VA van from Lowell numerous jobs. I to Bedford, and then there’s a bus straight to Dakota. worked for the casino Arlington. for awhile. In the late Mass Rehab and the work therapy program pay the ‘90s I lived in Rapid rent. The tuition is covered by the Mass Rehab and City and worked for a Veterans Employment Assistance. Right now I’m construction company for a few years. living on my savings, but I’m short. I don’t have In April ’06, I went back to the reservation to any personal loans; that would be the last resort, help my brother who was disabled, and I got and if I have to I will. In October I went with a involved with Construction Work Therapy, a pro- group of vets to Washington to talk to Congressmen gram for veterans run by the Black Hills Veterans about getting more money for this program. We Administration office. One of the directors there asked for $20,000 more for each person to pay said “Do you want to go to Boston to train at the for school. Bedford Veterans Construction Team Program?” When I finish here I will go back. I imagine I’ll live I said yes. in Sioux Falls, where the reservation is two hours The program in Bedford trains Native American away, but I’ll be in the field all the time because vets so we can start our own Veterans Construction they want me to be a program director, recruiting Team (VCT) on the reservation. Right now, and telling everyone what we’re trying to do. That everything is built on the reservation by outside will change my life. It’s an opportunity, not really contractors and they don’t hire local help, so all for me, but for the program. Instead of waiting the money leaves the reservation. Under the VCT for 20 years for help, like after Vietnam, we’re program we can bid on construction projects, and going to help the vets now when they come back, since we are both Native American and vets, we go and there are going to be a lot of vets coming back. to the top of the bidding list. If they can get help early it will help everybody in 22 the long run.” STAFF & FACULTY

Administration Carpentry Sidney Schwartz David Bush-Brown, Miguel Gómez-Ibáñez, Francis Sullivan, Piano Technology Co-Chair Department Head Executive Director Larry Fine Daniel S. Cheever, Jr. Walter McDonald, Jewelry Making Bruce Dayton & Repair Lewis Surdam Associate Director Preservation J. Kimo Griggs Frank Baird, Rosemary Trainor, Burton M. Harris Department Head Carpentry Building Manager Charles L. Kline Megan Holst Sara Chase Janet Collins, Jonathan Levi Workshop Director Lisa Hunt William Finch James McNeely Ken Craggs, Locksmithing Andrew Ladygo William McMillen S. Parkman Shaw, Jr. Gallery Manager David Troiano, Robert G. Delaney, Department Head Violin Making Finance & Facilities Director of Admissions Piano Technology & Repair David Polstein Committee Lillian DiGiorgio, David C. Betts, Admissions Office Manager Chris Reuning S. Parkman Shaw, Jr., Department Head Chair Stacie Dolin, Debbie Cyr Marilyn Wallin Workshop and Student William G. Creelman Christine Lovgren Services Assistant Board Standing Stephen Friedlaender Elaine Garneau, Jack Stebbins Committees J. Kimo Griggs Business Manager Preservation Burton M. Harris Carpentry Executive Sara Goodrich, J. Arthur Taylor Assistant to the Executive Robert Adam, Committee Director Department Head Burton M. Harris, Nominating President & Governance Jason Gregoricus, Steven O’Shaughnessy Committee Director of Student and Violin Making S. Parkman Shaw, Jr., Alumni Services Treasurer Peter Nessen, & Repair Chair Sheila D. Perry, James McNeely, Roman Barnas, John F. Gifford Director of Development Department Head Clerk Laurie L.Riordan, Jacqueline Blombach, Burton M. Harris Development Coordinator Advisors Member-at-Large Amos Hostetter Ronald Santos, David Bush-Brown, Lynn C. Osborn Bookbinding Custodian Member-at-Large Lisa von Clemm Sam Ellenport Pat Schrom, Judy Ferenbach, Committee Accounting Assistant Doris Freitag Member-at-Large of Overseers Kara Stepanian, Paul Parisi Francis J. Lynch III, Associate Director Jacqueline Blombach, Deborah Wender Member-at-Large Co-Chair of Development John McKelway, Jr., Eleanor Tait, Cabinet & Marie Oedel, Furniture Making Member-at-Large Co-Chair Receptionist Peter Nessen, William Doub Personnel Brian Weldy, Member-at-Large Committee Workshop Manager John LaGatutta Marie Oedel, Mark Richey Member-at-Large John M. McKelway, Jr., Chair Instructors Silas Kopf Audit Committee Charles Fayerweather Carpentry Bookbinding Francis J. Lynch III, Burton M. Harris Arthur Massaro Chair Mark Andersson, Lynn C. Osborn Department Head Gregory F. Pomeroy Charles Fayerweather Jane Wilson Cabinet & Jewelry Making Burton M. Harris & Repair Ad Hoc Furniture Making Walter Hunnewell Faculty Liaisons Steve Brown, John F. Gifford John McKelway, Jr. Bruce Dayton Department Head Laurie Hartley Peter Nessen Judy Ferenbach Dan Faia Barbara Lawrence Development Burton M. Harris Alex Krutsky Locksmithing Committee Isaiah Jackson Lance Patterson Lewis Alessandrini Judy Ferenbach, Co-Chair Micheal Samra 23 Non Profit Org. U.S. Postage PAID Boston, MA Permit No. 52223

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