volume 11 numberI Joseph Murphy: A Man Who Doesn't Stand Still Dr. Joseph S. Murphy, currently president of Murphy has served · as a consultant on economic Queens College of the City University of New York, and community development and education in becomes Bennington's seventh president on Africa, the Caribbean, Europe, India and the Pacific. January 1st. The Board of Trustees voted His professional memberships include the unanimously in favor of a recommendation from American Association of Higher Education, the the Presidential Search Committee, and an­ American Philosophical Association and the nouncement of Murphy's appointment was of­ American Association for the Advancement of ficially made on September 22nd. Science. A biography of Murphy reads in part as a Murphy's work for the community includes travelogue. He has brought his academic acuity and membership on the Queens County Art and administrative skill to bear on a broad spectrum of Cultural Center board of trustees, the board of positions, and has unstintingly courted challenge in directors of the Queens Symphony Orchestra, and many capacities. the N.Y. American Red Cross board of directors. He President of Queens since 1971, Murphy also is a board member of the Ralph Bunche Institute on served for a year as New Jersey's Vice Chancellor the United Nations, and recently served as a of Higher Education. Prior posts include a two-year member of the board for Operation Sail, part of term as director of the Peace Corps' outpost in New York's bic'entennial celebration. Ethiopia and service as an associate director of the Murphy is the author of the book "Political Jobs Corps for the Office of Economic Opportunity. Theory: A Conceptual Analysis," and is a con­ Murphy began his association with the Peace Corps tributor to "The Journal of the History of in 1965 as director of its Virgin Islands Training Philosophy." His doctoral dissertation, "The Theory Center, and later worked as an assistant to the of Universals in 18th Century British Empiricism," secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. was published in 1961. A contributor to the Putting the pieces together, one is struck by the "American Political Science Review," "The Nation," strong political and social concerns which have and numerous other journals and magazines, motivated the 43-year-old college president. This Murphy has written frequently on education, resume juggling act is brought into balance b political theory and philosophy. Murphey's , a .0. from Joseph Murphy Murphy and his wife, Peggy, have been married Brandeis University in philosophy and political 22 years and have three children, Lisa, 17, theory, Murphy has sought contemporary ap­ Murphy served on Hugh Carey's Task Force on Susanne, 15, and Peter, 7. It's a family, Murphy plications for his own education. Both his masters Higher Education, New York City Council's Com­ says, which is "not the type to put down roots. and doctoral degrees were awarded by Brandeis, mission on Adult Education, Carey's Task Force on We've I ived all over the world and we get tired of and following graduation in 1961 he spent four Transition, and New Jersey's Scholarship Com­ living in one place." more years there as an assistant professor. Murphy mission. From 1973 to 7 4, he was president of New The travelogue ends, for the moment, in the completed some work towards his masters at the York City's College Public Agency Council, and from president's office at Bennington College. Joining University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and '73 to '75 vice chairman of the Regent's Regional forces now are a college with a reputation for received his A.B. degree with honors from Olivet Coordinating Council for Postsecondary Education innovation and a man who, quite clearly, doesn't College. in New York City. stand still. The combination looks downright in­ Frequently sought as an educational consultant, Recipient of a U.S. foreign service merit award, spired. . Murphy Meets the Press Dr. Joseph Murphy won't be assuming the of the new president's total devotion to the in­ chancellor increased the other presidents backed president's office until January, but in a three-day tegrity of an institution he saved from budgetary down; Murphy alone stood his ground." advance visit to the campus early in October he strangulation. Speaking with reporters gathered in Dickinson planted favorable impressions and high ex­ In 1975, Murphy offered to sell his presidential lounge, Murphy also noted one · reason for the pectations of quality leadership that have many home in Douglaston rather than cut $160,000 from importance of addressing the Bennington budget: people here counting the days till his official the Queens budget, which caused the embarrassed "This place is better off financially healthy because arrival. He had a chance to meet with faculty, Board of Education to let the matter drop. In the fall it can bring in students of every financial and ethnic students and administrators, and the clear-headed of this year, he cut only $1.2 million from the background. I am concerned with increasing capital optimism which greeted him must have been as college's budget, refusing to fire full-time faculty to resources for generating scholarship money." cheering as the beautiful fall weather which graced make the $1.8 million cut the New York chancellor Calling Bennington an "exciting and vital place in his brief stay. of higher education had ordered. Most recently, American higher education," Murphy offered this Responding to questions from several reporters Murphy fought for and won back $2.6 million the impression of the faculty: "All of them bear a gathered for an informal press conference during chancellor had ordered cut. profound commitment to Bennington College. This his visit, Murphy offered candid opinions on a An editorial in the Queens College newspaper is not like anything I've seen before. Their salaries variety of topics. "Phoenix" stated, "Murphy's stay at the college was are low yet their enthusiasm for the college is He made it clear that evaluating the college's characterized by many personal and professional greater than what I've seen at any other college budget will be a priority concern when he arrives in sacrifices. Besides not having time to teach, he has, without exception. They love the place." January, and pointed out that student and faculty time after time, had to put his job on the line to He characterized the college as having "an interests will be paramount in his considerations. protect the college. Last year he and three other unstructured environment in which bureaucratic Though it is far too early to tel I where changes may CUNY presidents agreed to stand up to the restraints don't exist. The faculty are encouraged to be called for, Murphy's recent handling of the chancellor and refuse to cut their budgets as much Queens College budget cutbacks offers an example as he wanted them to. When pressure from the continued on page 2 be creative and productive. They hove so much and can determine where he stands ond where he probably would hove left if things were normal leeway in putting the curriculum together with ought to go in the world.' after five years , a reference to the budget students, ond this freedom is risky business by Responding to a reporter's suggestion that he problems he stayed on at Queens to see through to traditional higher education standards, but it is will be stepping into the presidency at a time when the end. worth it, especially for the students." He summed the college faces problems, Murphy remarked, " I'm An editorial in the Queens paper resolved not to up the college's atmosphere and operation by not here because Bennington is in trouble. Im no criticize Murphy for leaving that institution for what saying, " I don 't know of any place where messiah . This is a worthy place and on Interesting ore undeniably greener pastures, but instead to everything is so geared to the welfore and one . There are hundreds of liberal arts colleges in "warmly thank him for what he has done for the development of its students." this country I wouldn't go near. I wont the in­ college and its students post , present and When pressed for a near-philosophical comment tellectual stimulation I con draw from Bennington . I future. " on the value of a liberal arts .education by a don 't wont to forget that I have a broin as well as a Citing examples of Murphy 's devotion to the high reporter, Murphy grinned and prefaced his com­ green eyeshode." ideals that made Queens the undisputed best in the ment by saying he has been asked to distill his Discussing letter grades . which were recently City University system , the paper noted in par­ views on the subject many times but would attempt eliminated , Murphy remarked, " My natural In­ ticular his accessibility to students and en­ yet onother definitive remark. "A great deal of clination Is to give people options. a chance to couragement for some of their challenges of higher education hos as its objective training select either grades or no grades. But the better academic policy. 'Whenever the students needed people to categorize themselves into slots in large graduate schools will take a letter of support about assistance, Murphy was right at their side. During corporate or bureaucratic structures and making a successful student from Bennington because this lost year's student takeover of Academic II the them adapt to this particular social and economic is the kind of place which already has o lot to president agreed with student demands and, environment. The liberal arts teaches people who recommend about its students. " although he disagreed with their methods, did not they ore and whot their options are, without the Asked about the presumptive tenure system, fight them. Instead he sent over pastries and urns end goal of bureaucratic pigeon-holing. The liberal Murphy mode it dear that he must study the issue of coffee and spent the night in his office to offer arts gives people the rhetorical and conceptual at length before offering an opinion, but stressed advice." tools to describe themselves, their lives and their the fact that his role In altering the arrangement, if Perhaps the closing paragraph of the Queens goals." that become necessary would be a minimal one. paper's article on Murphy's six years at the college ''An uneducated person," Murphy continued, "A truly vital tenure system , whether its object is offers a hint of what we can expect come January . "when confronted with difficulties like losing his academic freedom or job security, comes from the "Murphy leaves behind affection , respect , ap­ job or finding that his kids haven't turned out as he faculty itself ." prehension over his successor, and o sense that o expected, feels that life Is composed of a series of When Murphy announced his decision to leave man like him comes along only once in o school 's mysterious forces operating on him. The educated Queens for the challenges of Bennington, he told a lifetime ," Now, if only we can keep him longer than person understonds the social, economic, press conference In New York, "I've been here six six years . .... psychological and political forces which affect him years. That's the longest I've held a job in my life. I

'The Ten Commandments ' Yul Brynner 's per­ formance os Rameses II fulfills the highest potential of the cinema as o medium of high culture. Every movement which Yul Brynner makes in this film is superbly choreographed: each posture he assumes Camille Paglia speaks is the incarnation of a figure from Jacques-Louis on the Image David , on embodiment of the will. " Ms. Paglia spoke of Diana Ross in her years with of the Androgyne the Supremes as having "t he sexually neuter voice the pre-pubescent boy "; her "h ermaphroditic On the evening of September 21, 1976, in Usdon voice ... tends to abstract and universalize sen­ Gallery, the Literature and Languages Division timents of otherwise banal specificity ." Ms. Paglio presented faculty member Camille Paglio in o went on to speak of the analogies between Diano lecture from her work-in-progress on the image ot Ross and the portrayal of female roles by boys on the androgyne in literature and the visual arts. This the Elizabethan stage. was the subject of Ms. Paglia 's Ph.D. dissertation ot The category to which Gracie Allen belongs has Yale University in 197 4. been named by Ms. Paglio '' the Pythoness ," an idea The selections which Ms. Paglio read from her which was suggested to her by a Michelangelo manuscript. which begins in classical antiquity and poem alluding to the Delphic oracle. Putting her In ends in modern times, dealt first with Spenser 's conjunction with a number of other famous stars, " Faerie Queene" and secondly with a series of Ms. Paglia spoke of "the emotionally 1mpenetrable figures from popular culture, Yul Brynner, Diana Gracie Allen , with her transflxlngly sibylline Ross, Gracie Allen, and French actress Stephane locutions. " She continued : ''Gracie Allen assaults Audron . her companions with her rhetorical precocity .... In her prefatory remarks Ms. Paglio stated; " As a She is regarded by them as occupying quite another feminist scholar I use the ondrogyne as a kind of Cami/le Paglia plane of extra-rational linguistic reality." lens through which to examine masculinity and Ms. Paglia preceded her discussion of Stephane femininity in a condensed way . However . the the radiant figure of precise contours, glittering Audran with the showing of slides made by Don androgyne is only the nominal subject of my work. I chastity of form , and unitary , centripetal energies. Raina from rare color movie stills from Paris. Ms. am really concerned with other things: personality, The armed Amazons Belphoebe and Britomart Paglia analyzed Audran's make -up , clothing. use of history, authority, formality, ceremony." Of her express their radical autonomy in a bloze of self­ her body, style of speech , ond general acting approach she declared, "My method is an ex­ generated light, a light like that of the Olympian method as representing a " radical exteriorization per I me nto I interdisciplinary one, combining gods In their function os expressions of the social of the inner psychological world. " Ms . Paglia psychology, art history, and anthropology. " order, and like that popular notion of 'glamour' in concluded her lecture by declaring of Audmn . "She The selections on Spenser began: "The 'Faerie which Kenneth Burke hos rightly seen 'a hierarchic is the objet d'art which hos no sex, which tran­ Queene' represents literature's greatest epiphany motive'. " scends its sexual referents. which becomes an of what I call the Apollonian androgyne, the angel. In regard to Yul Brynner Ms. Paglio stated: " In Incarnation of the ideal." Q,adrille 3

Schonbeck Premieres "Ode to Confucius'' for Town & College

Bennin gto n's foll term began with on elaborate presentat ion of a new Collage f rom Gunnar Schonbeck 's recent seri es. Septembe r 15th marked the prem iere perf or ma nce of Collage No. 37, entitled "Ode to Confu cius," which featured mu sic di visi on faculty and students along with musicians from area high schools and elementary schools , under the direction of Schonbeck himself . The event wa s on open house for the entire Arts Cent e r. which in cluded pre -concert tour s throughout the building for area resident s not yet familiar with the new building and o post -concert reception in the Newmon Court . The concert itself took pla ce in th e Greenwall Music Workshop , and made full use of the large space .

Schonbeck teaches the audience their vocal port In his orchestra.

"Ode .' ord inary orc hestral inst ruments and a bell ­ ri ngers choir were joined by o bond of wooden instruments , pointed in bright primary colors ; giant Egyptian harps on six .foot sound boxes ; glockensp iels built like jungle gyms ; and gian t wooden marimbas . Phebe Choo , on loon from the literature div ision , nar rated in Chinese, joined by vocal ist Richard Frisch In a counter -point duet . Leroy Logan captivated the aud ience with his Chinese costume and athletic socks , and offered narration in English. Instrumental solos struck through the orchestral timbre from time to t ime , ployed by Sue Ann Kahn , Jacob Glick , Morta Ptosynzska, Henry Brant and Mus/dons wait for o cue os Richard Fr/sch. Phebe Louis Calabro , all of the music faculty . Choo and Leroy Logan narrate . In planning "Ode to Confucius " for o local Arts Chinese ritual ceremony. Five dancers portrayed Center open house, Schonbeck stressed the im ­ Gunnar Schonbeck before the concert. the roles ordinarily assumed by hundreds of ob­ portance for neighbors of the college to see the servers and participants in the ancient ceremonies . new building in action. He feels that the Arts The composition relied on Schonbeck 's ability to The melodic lines underlying the directed im ­ Center must be used not only by the immediate coordinate, conduct and think on his feet provisation were transcribed from papers and college community , Because the building is so large throughout the performance. With instrumentalists journals on ritual music, and were simple and and versatile, many groups , organ izations and stationed along three walls, Schonbeck was effective. schools should investigate the possibility of using constantly in motion , offering cues to performers The ceremony on which the composition was the Center for performances , sympos ia or other and reminding the audience of the ir port in the bosed was traditionally performed for the Chinese gatherings. orchestra os chanters of sounds like "ming -ling " emperor in the Third Century B.C., presented at the During the performance , Schonbeck strolled and "fu -yi. " The audience rehearsed their ports in temples of the great sage, Confucius. In Chinese through the scores of musicians . cueing the ir the composition with the composer 's guidance ritual, there ore lucky autumn days for ritual entrances with a confident air , as well he might. before the concert began . and their unabashed ceremonies and particularly for ritual music in Each of his Collages have enjoyed warm audience participation mode the performance particularly honor of Confucius . On these occosions , dancers reception and hove successfully blended complex gratifying . perform the "evolutions " of respect . sounds . More importantly . perhaps, his events have From the responsive and sensitive in­ The instrumentation utilized by Schonbeck in his on aura of excitement and envelop the entire hall strumentalists , Schonbeck elicited the sounds and classes , performances and events always deserves in a feeling of cooperation and community . It was a textures he sought for the modern adaptation of a close observation and musical attention . In the fine way to begin the new year .

QUADRILLE is published four times o year by the Development Office of Bennington College. QUADRILLE newsletter , which carries the news of the campus , appears towards the middle of each term ; QUADRILLE magazine , designed to reflect the thoughts and activities of post and present members of the college community. op· volume II pears at the beginning of each term . The editors invite suggestions, opinions and contributions from all members of the community. EDITOR: Alex Brown CONTRIBUTORS: Susan Clark numberI ALUMNI EDITOR: Susan Edelmann Christine Graham photographs : Alex Brown Q,adrille ;t

Bennington asked him if he would come and read. reality beneath appearance . He received the 1958 2. What Happened At The Albany-Rensselaer National Book Award for his novel The Wopshot Station Chronicle , ond has also published o sequel. The John Cheever Reads Disembarking from his train waiting to be token to Wopshot Scandal Cheever's insights into American Bennington, Cheever sow the Bennington student suburbia, where he prefers to live as well as at Bennington who hod been assigned to pick him up walk over to document , form o basis for many of his short stories o large bold man wearing o derby and smoking o as well as the 1969 novel Bullet Pork. cigar, and say . "You 're John Cheever, aren't you?" His most recent novel. A World of Apples, was At The Reading published in 1973. Story collections include The In Commons Theatre, known by dancers for its Enormous Radio and Other Stories, The Novelist and short story writer John Cheever efficient dance work space, Cheever read a short Housebreaker of Shady HIii and Other Stories, ond read from his fiction in Commons Theatre in mid· story, "The Death of Justina ," which , he told his Some People . Places and Things That Will Not October as a guest of the literotvre & Languages audience, hod been rejected some years ago by Appear In My Next Novel . faculty. He was introduced by faculty member The New Yorker on the grounds that they were "not Cheever was born in 1912 in Quincy , Bernard Malamud . an art magazine, " and then o long story, "The Massachusetts, and was educated at Thayer Alumni Susan Clark, who attended the reading Swimmer, " which bore no outward resemblance to Academy. He spent two years writing television and conversed with Cheever afterwords, offers this Burt Lancaster. " Speaking of screenplays, " come a scripts for the serial "Life With Father, and taught report : question from the audience afterword , "what advanced composition ot Barnard College, and Two Stories by John Cheever connection did you have to the screenplay of 'The later at Baston University. He received a 1951 1. How He Came To Read At Bennington Swimmer'?" " I picked up the check, " Cheever Guggenheim Fellowship , the O'Henry award for He was at a dinner In Los Angeles with three men answered, explaining that what went wrong with short stories in 1956 and '64, and a grant from the who had beards which were exactly the same - the movie was Sam Spiegel's interference. Notional Institute of Arts and Letters ,n 1956, ond the same shape. the some color in short, the Cheever read quickly and gently , in o deferential the Howell Medal for Fiction in 1965. some beard. One was X, one was Y and one was a monotone , and finished in time, he noted, for He lives at present in Ossining, New York with professor at Bennington College ("Professor of everyone to catch the American League playoff his wife, two sons ond o daughter , ond hos been what I still don 't know "), and the only way Cheever game in the fourth inning. tea ching o writing workshop ot nearby Sing Sing could tell them apart was by looking at their shoes. Prison. His forthcoming novel, " Falconer ," has, not In the course of the evening the professor from Cheever's work is a continuou s search for the so uncoincidentolly, o prison setting.

educate yourselves. " Direc.tor of Admissions Jean S. Aldrich found Bob Woodworth Greets the 45th Entering Class occasion on the opening days of the term to provide information on this year's odmh,!iions 1n com • por,son to other year s at Bennington and to similar Acting President Robert Woodworth welcomed emphasized doing things. feeling that such ex ­ schools . At Bennington, applications are now - ,-~­ 196 entering students early in September os part of perience is one of tho best methods of learning ," steady and somewhat up from earlier in the year . the fall semester's orientation week . The new Woodworth remarked. The quality of applications and the interests ond students , including 39 sophomore and junior The Acting President also referred to the abilities of candidates hove remained high. transfers . constitute on overflowing class which democratic process by which the college operates. While the number of entering students is seven represents a wide geographic distribution. While inviting students to take port in the gover ­ less than last yeor, the class is overfull for In a brief welcoming speech, Woodworth re­ nance of the college, he said, " It is always projected totals. With a trends towards urban ferred to his own first days at Bennington 41 years changing. Each year about 1-3 of the student body schools and postponement of the college years, ago and to the self -sufficiency he encouraged on consists of new individuals who hove new ideas and with the sheer number of college-age students campus during World War II when he was manager Students , faculty and administrators all participate fewer this year, most colleges ore suffering a drop of the college war form . He urged the students to in making decisions . Everyone con be heard. You in enrollment. Bennington is maintaining a full think of their educations as occasions for learning will hove o major role in fashioning your own social campus of students whose talents and potential are to learn, learning by doing and taking respon­ regul otions ." as high as in the sixties' boom years. sibility for individual accomplishments and Woodworth characterized the months ahead for Woodworth closed his remarks by suggesting, directions. the new students : "While working here, you will be "Rother than listen to more of this heady stuff, it is "Bennington College hos always been different recalling the past, studying our present and more important that you meet one another . Greet from most colleges . We pioneered the inclusion of shaping our future, with a faculty which is proud of your neighbor . You all hove something in com · 1 the arts in our curriculum and we hove always Bennington. That faculty will be helping you to mon . '

May 13-15 REUNION May 13-15 REUNION May 13-15 II) I ... t') I ' t') REUNION ...... >a >a ca Bennington's Historian ca Plan now. Save the dote. Faculty seminars and :E :E Reunion at the College, with a lectures. .. alumni per­ Needs Your Help very special invitation to the formances. .. student work . z z clas_sesof 1951, 1952 and 1953. Food for the body, food for 0 0 the soul. -z Please send me your thoughts on Dance in the -z :::, Leigh years, whatever your major or bias. I have ::, LIi Martha and Bill on tape but need comments from .... 0: the taught and compfollowers. a: Tom Brockway u, R.D. 1 ... Full details later, but plan now North Bennington, Vermont 05257 I ...fl') to save the dote. >. ca :E I: REUNION May 13-15 REUNION May , 13-15 REUNION Q,adrllla S

Alumni Association News from Sue Edlemann, Alumni Director

In Connecticut , Regional Chairwoman Condace who 's doing what. Abry Bacher (201 )379-5883). who ore co-chairing deVries Olesen , and other Fairfield county alums are staging a Bennington night for secondary From Son Francisco Chairwoman Ann Mac­ On campus at Bennington October 8th were school guidance counselors in the area . Lois Farlone Richter reports that area alums plan a several Annual Fund workers for a meeting with Schulman Chazen will host, with Alumni Director February benefit of the world premiere per · Fund Chairwoman Nancy Reynolds Cooke. Sue Edelmann and Polly Runyon of the Admissions formance at the Opera House of a new dance work Office down from the College to lend a hand . by alumna Julie Arenol '60 . Washington, D.C. will be the city for the January In New York. the season 's big event is the 7-9 winter meeting of the Alumni Council, In The Washington , D.C. regional group hos am· November 17th theater benefit with an ofter-the ­ keeping with Council President Willie Eaton's ef­ bitious plans for on area Career Council. Chair­ show supper at Sardi 's. This year 's ploy is "The forts to vary the setting for these meetings from woman Denise Rzewski Bredt recently mailed to all Oldest Living Graduate ," from Preston Jones 's "A time to time and thus give more alums a chance to alumni there to survey their interest in exchanging Texas Trilogy. " For ticket information , coll participate. Council members : Save the dote I coreer information and guidance and to find out Marianne Byk Schnell (212 -535-9499) or Claudine

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Rosalind Moger Bernheimer '72 ,Anne Frey Jane Berry Vosburgh '58 7 5 Winslow Rood 35 School Street 3459 MacArthur Drive Waban , MA 02168 Hanover. NH 037 55 Murrysville , PA 15668 617 -969 -6849 and 412-327-8012 and Alene Potter Widmayer '36 9 Conant Rood Rochester Hanover , NH 037 55 - Jill Underwood Bertrand '65 603-643 -2187 Priscilla Boker Reveley '45 43 Un ion Park 24 Harvard Street Boston , MA 02118 Long Island Rochester, NY 14607 617 ·423-2791 716-473 -1634 Hudas Schwartz Liff '47 Denver 8 Casey Court Son Francisco Huntington, NY 11743 Harriet Moger Watson '68 516-427-1702 Ann Macfarlane Richter '51 1108 Monroe Street 32 Sotelo Ave. Denver , CO 80206 Los Angeles Piedmont, CA 94611 303-377 -0236 41 5.547 -5532 Roberto Ross Moore '65 Chicago 930 9th Street Hermosa Beach, CA 90254 Washington , D.C. Richard Rotman '73 213-379-2370 Harshe -Rotman & Druck , Inc. and Denise Rzewski Bredt '56 108 N. State St, Tama Alcott Taub '59 381 2 Harrison Street , NW Chicago, IL 60602 1100 Georgina Ave . Washington , D.C. 20015 312-346 -6868 Santo Monica , CA 90402 202-244 · 1474 213-395 - 1705 Fairfield Westchester County, NY County , CT Metropolitan New York Lenore Jonis '55 Candace deVries Olesen '50 Vida Ginsberg Deming '41 26 Easton Ave. 39 Stonybrook Road 150 East 89 Street White Plains , NY 10605 Westport , CT 06880 New York, NY 10028 914-948-2669 203-226 -5463 212-289-3390 and Sophie Ruderman Weber '52 Hartford Miami 177 Duxbury Rd. Purchase, NY 10577 Janet Maccoll Taylor '44 Neiso King DeWitt '54 914-761 -7662 Reservoir Road 10200 S.W. 62 Ave . Farmington , CT 06032 Miami , FL 33156 203-6 77 1462 305-661 -3044 Q,adrille I

evening gown , maroon velvet with sloshed sleeves. Mitchell 's Initial appearance , however , was classic : his narcissistic self -absorption as Claire . intensely Review: "The Maids" communing with herself in her hona •mirror , ranks for me with two other immortal moments. The first by Camille Paglia was Nico ,n Warhol's "The Chelsea Girls " (1966) , in which Nico , on one side of the split screen , pains · A production of Genet's "The Maids " was tokingly snips at blonde bongs for twenty prHented at Bennington October 7 through 11, minutes, looking impassively into the eye of the 1976, starring Mitchell Lichtenstein and Rick Oller camera as if it were a mlrror. The second was Ford and directed by M.A. candidate Alison Gobbeo, model Leno Konsbod, whom I observed in August who also ployed the role of Madame. Ms. Gobbeo bei ng photographed in front of the Plaza Hotel for o graduated from Bennington lost June and studied Bloomingdole's Kenzo od for the 'New York throughout her senior year with Lee Strosberg in Times :" at one point , turning in motionless Egyptian New York . profile to the crowd of onlookers. she took what Genet explicitly requested the use of moles in seemed fully f ive minutes to slowly touch up her the female roles of "The Maids, " but nevertheless lipstick with o tiny brush , contemplating her very few productions hove attempted this. In on reflection raptly in o compact mirror . It was a passage from Mishimo was used improvisationally appendix to " Saint Genet " Sartre speaks of Genet 's superb moment of self -divinizotion , of a in the five weeks of rehearsal for "The Maids ." transvestite intention here as being "from the very theatricality intensified by a magnetic solipsism. Ms. Gobbeo devised o number of other in• start to strike at the root of the apparent .'' and Mitchell Lichtenstein s self -entranced , nearly teresting improvisations tor her production. She finally to achieve on " absolute state of artifice. " autistic prolegomenon was equal to these other hod the two actors invent movements representing The audience at the Bennington production of "The epiphonic episodes : the spectator was filled with "romantic notions of slaves " female Egyptian Maids could be left In no doubt that the use of on emotion which combined owe with an aesthetic slaves, geishos , Southern block women slaves - . males In this ploy supplies o further metaphysical pleasure of the purest kind . Moreover, I hove and some of these gestures and "affectations " density too work which is already fascinating in its were retained for the ploy. A small and "prison• profuse and volatile fictions . like' ' space in the new arts building was chosen In The production originated lost spring in the order to create the garret of the maids , which is presentation of o scene from the ploy in o drama alluded to but never shown in the ploy . o spoce doss by Mitchell Lichtenstein and Rick Oller , who which also reproduced Genet's prison-cell ; here the were then recruited this foll by Alison Gobbeo to octors did improvisations involving the two sisters act in the complete ploy , the first she hos ever at various prior stages of their development , for directed . Ms. Gobbeo began the ploy in darkness , example. at pube1cence . There were im ­ in which was heard o famous Doors' song, ''The provisations for two days in the graveyard con­ End," with Its protracted Oedipal psychodrama. As tiguous to the campus, below Franklin House : the the music continued, Rick Oller was seen onstoge actors read from Sade's ''Juliette. " At another time os the maid Solange , who began to perform o Ms. Gobbeo cut up phrases from Genet's other symbolic dance . He mode gestures with his rubber works and handed them to the actor, to read gloves which reminded me alternately of Rita onstoge ; these phrases were committed to memory Hayworth In "Gilda" and Cocteau's "Orphee; " he for mental use in the silent moments of "The seemed to strangle himself and then bizarrely to Maids ," so that the actors "would not slip out of the twist his head off his shoulders , his face meanwhile world of Genet." a mask of stony menace, on archaic Gorgoneion, o Ms. Gobbeo hod the actors use a voice which was Toltec idol. intermediate between mole and female, except David Bowie's "lady Grinning Soul" was heard as when they were imitating Madame. when they the attention shifted to Mitchell Lichtenstein as the used "a breathiness and smoothness of style " maid Claire. This was o moment of great brilliance. which was drown from Moe West and Marilyn The Bowle song provided o luxurious setting for Monroe. In order to get the actors to achieve what Mitchell's first appearance. Dressed only In o block the director regarded as "female internal sen­ slip, he sot at o vanity table, and, holding o hand­ sations " and "o female center," which would aid mirror. he slowly and sensuously mode up his face, them in their walk and physical stance, she hod moving his body with o suppleness and fluidity them do "flow exercises," to enable them "to in­ ternalize their mole sex organs." She talked to which one has seen only In great female film stars. Mltche/1 L/ctensteln os the self-absorbed Clo/re. I was particularly struck by on habitual exquisite them about essential female experiences like lifting of one shoulder. like the Sonsovino Apollo in menstruation and childbirth and attempted to get Venice ; In this one detail Mitchell's performance written a good deal in my own work about the them to redirect their sexual sensations upward, to was more convincingly feminine than, for example , portrayal of female roles by boys in Elizabethan Induce responses from, for example , their Delphine Seyrig's in "Lost Year at Morienbod ," drama. but never in my life hove I seen this shoulders . (One cannot help feeling that these where the some gesture is used repeatedly. There phenomenon with my own eyes, as I did in Mitchell exercises must hove strongly influenced Mitchell seemed to be In Mitchell a kind of anatomical Lichtenstein 's performance . The spectator at this Lichtenstein's remarkable physical virtuosity .) The ambiguity of shoulders and arms, which seemed production of 'ihe Maids " seemed to see Rosalind 's director chose all the costumes. She selected a slip female until the viewer was disoriented by the wooing scene with Orlando in "As You Like It ," in fleeting suggestion of o powerful thigh- or bicep­ which o boy plays o girl ploying o boy ploying o girl. muscle : this disturbance seems to be exactly what I Interviewed director Gobbeo for Quadrille on Genet envisioned for his ploy. The overwhelming the ideas which went Into her production of the impression, however , was one of ravishing beauty : ploy. She cited o number of direct influences : the Mitchell, with his golden skin, his shining hair, his Marquis de Sode, Botoille's "Death and Sensuality ," Adonis-like throat, his pink cheeks and white teeth, "Venus in Furs, " and Gilles Deleuze's "Socher­ his Vivien Leigh smile, was on unforgettable image Mosach " (o book which Is virtually unknown in this of freshness, of androgynous adolescent per ­ country but which was brought to Bennington from fection, what the ancients called the transient England by former philosophy teacher Jomes moment of "bloom ." Fessenden). Ms. Gobbeo used " Saint Genet " At times Mitchell reminded me of the trans· heavily for its gesture-theory , which she ac­ vestlte Katharine Hepburn of "Sylvia Scarlett. " centuated by the continual use of mirrors One felt , particularly when he put on his dangling throughout the ploy . She also drew upon Mishlmo s rhinestone earrings, that he was not conspicuously 'Temple of the Down ," with its parable of the land less feminine than fashionable women of the of the Pomegranates , in which one class , the Twenties : this observation was confirmed when he Beautiful, Is exploited by another, the Deformed, appeared later in the ploy in on elegant Thirties who eventually enact a "Murder Theater. " This Q,adrille 7 for Mitchell which wos emphatically flat, so as not to give the impression of "deflated breasts ;" she - wished "to get at the feminine quality of the actual male chest." She hod Mitchell point his nipples onstoge in order , once again, "to drow attention to his male breasts " and, presumably, to increose the sense of sexual paradox. Ms. Gobbeo conceives of "The Maids" as "o ceremony within a ceremony within o ceremony,'' and she characterizes her direction as one which emphasized ritualism and choreography . Details from the crime of the Papin sisters. which was Genet 's source , were used to enrich the gestures in the ploy, and in fact an actual photograph of the sisters was reproduced in the program. I remarked to Ms. Gobbeo thot the ploy was many times allowed to take a tone of high comedy which seemed natural to it. The American Film Theatre production of "The Maids " permitted this only when Vivien Merchant was on camera: the absence of this dimension in the scenes between Glendo Jackson ond Susannah York tended to create a certain monotony and, ultimately, stridency. For this spectator, one of the distinctions of the Ben· nington production of "The Maids" was its achievement of o unique conflation ?f comedy, horror, and glamour. Oller and Lictenstein surround director Gobbeo.playlng the port of Madame .

structor ot Williams College since then. For Recipient of three master diplomas, with distlnc· Williams she also served as assistant to the director tlon. she has done advanced studies with Nadia of the College Art Museum. Her articles hove Boulanger in Fronce and at the Cleveland Institute appeared in the Princeton Art Museum Record and of Music in Ohio. She has performed and had her o catalogue entitled "Five Themes From Genesis. " compositions ployed in Europe and the United Krouse speaks French, Germon and Italian, and States, and hos music published through PWM in received her 8.F.A. cum laude from Franklin & Poland and Leduc In Paris. Marshall College In 1971. Each term the drama division hosts another guest The dance division welcomes Anthony Lo Giglio director at Bennington, and this year David Sch­ for the entire year. The choreographer and dancer weizer will supervise direction of foll productions. has worked with Martha Graham. Charles Schweizer has worked with Joseph Popp, Nikos Weidman, Erick Howkins, Merce Cunningham and Psocharopoulit of the Williomatown Festival the Dance Theatre Workshop. His works hove been Theatre. and Mory Levenstein of the Circle in the premiered at the YH-VWHA of Mid-Westchester , Square Theatre in New York. A graduate of Vale , Riverside Church in New York, the University of Schweizer hos directed in major regional theatres , Nine New Utoh, Birmingham Creative Dance Group . Packer opera theatres. summer theatres and experimental Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, the Cubicul Theatre workshops. He previously taught at New York Faculty Members in New York and New York University, among University and hos been awarded the Bates This Fall many other places. Since 1968 he has danced with Fellowship ot Vale , o Noble Foundation grant. and seven varied companies and performed works by was nominated for the Drama Desk Award for the foremost contemporary choreographers. He Distinguished Direction for his production of hos taught at colleges, schools and comps, and also "Troilus and Cressido" at Lincoln Center. New members of the teaching faculty include given master classes. David Grahame Shane hos been hired as a two­ both one or two term replacements for instructors John Doniel Longer is a two -term replacement in term replacement in the visual orta, teaching ar­ on sabbatical or leave, and some newly contracted the social science division teaching American chitecture. He has recently been working ot Cornell members. History and Diplomacy and Russian History. He University , where he received o Ph.D. lost June in George Finckel hos come back from retirement comes to Bennington from Yale University. where orchitecturol and urban history. Shone also hos on to fill in the music division's opening in string and he has been on acting instructor, and where he M.Arch. in Urban Design ond on A.A. in or· cello work. Well known in this area for his received his Ph.D. in 1975 and his M. Phil. In 1973. chitectural design from the Architectural tremendous impact on music at the college ond in Langer was winner of the Jomes Birdsall Weter Association School of Architecture in London . He the surrounding cc. nunity, Finckel retired of­ Prize and recipient of o research grant from the hos published articles in "Architectural Design" and ficially in 1971 but has been active since then . He Yale Concllium on International and Area Studies ,n "AA Projects, " as well as the "Journal of the Society will be teaching for the foll term. 1973. He is also a member of Phi Beto Koppa. of American Architectural Historians. " He hos Coral Hoerer ,s also o one -term replacement, Marta Ptoszynsko rejoins the music faculty this taught at the University of Manitoba . and hos been teaching drawing in the visual art division. She has year . She was born and raised in Poland, where she o traveling lecturer in Paris , Bordea ux, London, had several one-woman exhibitions of her work, received nearly all that country 's young composer's New York ond Boston. and hos taught ot New York University and also at awards before she came to the United States. In Arlene Wyman , on instructor in Biology. Is o new Bennington in the post. Her husband, artist Philip addition to her excellent reputation in this country member of the science division . Dr. Wyman Wofford , is also a faculty member. and Europe os a composer. Ptoszynska ,s on expert received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Harvard in Patricio Krouse will fill in for the foll term in percussionist. She is well known to the Bennington 1974 and her B.A. in Chemistry from Cornell in v,sual art also, teaching History of Art . She community for o piece commissioned and 1968. Since 1969 , she hos taught in Harvard received on M.F.A. in Italian Renaissance Art at premiered by the Sage City Symphony during one University 's Biological Chemistry deportment , and Princeton University in 1975 and hos been an in - of her previous terms teaching at the college . the Biological Lobs of Harvard Medical School. Q,adrille 8

REPORT ON THE FINANCES OF BENNINGTON COLLEGE

WITH A LIST OF DONORS

July 1, 1975-June 30, 1976

In a year when the presen ce of support wos as important os ifs financial im­ pact, annual gifts from alumni. parents, friends, foundations , and corporations to Bennington College exceeded those of the previous year and convincingly demonstrated the warmth which the greater Bennington family feels toward the College. Annual giving in 1975-76 totalled $277,453. Tho College received, in addition, $111,565 in capital gifts for endowmen t, the Arts Center. and the Ed­ ward Clarke Crossett Library. These ore not easy times for fund raising, and yet your intense interest. generous gifts , and continuing concern encourage us to project for the future not only a steadily increasing stream of annual con­ tributions, but also a successful major capital funds drive. Many of you made second gifts during the Spring of 1976 , and many, who had not previously supported the College. mode a generous first financial com­ mitment, The challenge grant to match new and increased gifts was successfully met and surpassed as well. These were importa nt elements in our fund -raising success. Although I hove left the Acting Presidency, the Trustees hove asked me to become Chairman of the Capital Campaign Steering Committee. and I hove happily accepted. In this role, I will be seeking your support for Bennington s pressing capital needs. But this will not diminish the intensity of our annual giving campaigns. The College must hove your involvement in many ways, and your recurrent annual contributions will remain a necessity of life for Bennington. The College hos a strong future but it depends on your consistent financial suppor1. We thank you heartily for your gifts to the annual fund in 1975-76 and hope you will continue and increase them, as we increase our efforts, in 1976 and 1977.

Joseph S. Isen1an Acting President, February 6-June 30, 1976 Q,adrilla 9 .

A List of Contributors

Alumni by Classes Class of 1976 Class of 1975 Class of 19 73 William C. Bauman Peter Barnet .John Bohne Francie Camper Linda Beard Alison Booth Leon Felder Pamela Brownlow Robin Dee Brickman Michele Foyer Finvola Drury Sheldon Brown Roger Kimba ll Sarah Garfield Amanda C'hurch Gerald Kleiner Twig George Bonnie Coren Carol Lazarus Martha J. Hadley Linda C ina Davidson Ralph Mack Lynda Hoover Gl end a S. Green Mitchell Markowitz Alexandra Ormond Hughes 1',Jancy Halverson El 11.abef h Meyer Henrietta Buschman Jordan Gillian fVI. Haven Susan Feldman Rotman Jill Miller Anne Lyman Henry Christine Rago Schulman Deborah Morse Nancy Hindle Ann Spanel 1lka Christine Paddock Morse Sharon Jacobs Nancy Ann Slone Laura Geiser Perloff Beth Kaminstein Paulis Waber Peta Raabe Sheila L. Kerrigan Liz Reisberg .Jacqu1::line Kramer Deborah Rohr Maria Lattimore Richard Rotman Danie l Levitan Class of 1974 Doris Ginsberg Traub Pauline T,i llard Doris Andrews Thomas Turkington Ann Jamison Loftin Catherine Askow Robert Turner iii Shawn MacKenzie Peter Bergs1 rom A. elise Weinrich David A. Mann Clifford Garber Lucy McNeece Peter Go lub Pamela Morgan Maeve Dem ing Guesdon Class of 1972 Nancy Moskow Charlotte Hanna Anne Abrons Lisa Myerson Gay Hubert David Victor Appel Jane Nisselson Clarke Jordan Steven Ashe John Perkins Jeremy Bowen Koch Elizabet h Ayer Ellen Amelia Rogers C' harlotte Melin Joan Balter Amy Sawe lson Rache l Ames Michaud Arthur P. Becker Anne M. Schwartz Helen S. Nunberg Megan Bierman Joseph Slomka Leslie Parke Jane Blumgarten-Miller Sandra II. Sorlien Sarah .Jane Rodman Starlina Peyson Bradbury Riva Spear Elizabeth Schu lz Ann Welch Campbell Andrea Silverman Daphne Smith Mary Chi as son Deborah Teller Susan Still Mary Patricia Carey Citronbaum Suzanne Temp le Newton Rock Townsend Ferris C' ook Laurie Westley A lee Wilkinson Bonnie Cos t ello Katherine T Young Judith Ann Wil son Sharon Couch Richard Zigun Gloria Winograd Victoria Cowles Q,adrllle 10

Caroline B. Darby Thomas E . O'Connor Sally Donaldson Judith DiMaio Ellen M. Pollak Mab Cockrell Englehart Pamela Donnelly Susan Toepfer Doris Pavelle Feiszli Alexander David Epstein Hilary Apjohn Trigaux Marilyn Sibley Fries Susan Goldberg Cristina Guiu Wood Deborah Clements Gessner Susanna Bluestone Harris Zai Zatoon Susan Bryant Hadley Margaret B. Hunnewell Joan Harkness Hantz Elizabeth Chatfield Jaques Tracy K. Harris Carole Jameson Mann Class of 1969 Adria Heyman Hillman Erik Nielsen Kathleen F'isk Ames Amy Oolgin Jaffe Karen Alexandra Oram Margaret Wise Auer Carol Kinne Sharon Ott Daiva Balkus Sheila Kiley Largay Elizabeth Burrill Phillips Starr Siegele Behringer Margaret Rood Lenzncr Kathleen Pottick Caroline Cochran Boynton Mary Tolbert Matheny Charlotte Albright Renner Alice Purne 11 C Cannon Victoriu Kirsch Melcher Jean Day Roggio Deborah Choate Elizabeth Clark Nigro Gail S. Rothman Jane Fox Costello Polly Notkins Karen Sorg Schlenker Virginia Creighton Letitia Anne Peplau Samuel Schulman Mary Crowe Elizabeth Frank Perlmutter Sandra Shu man Elizabeth Niebling Dawson Laurie Kohn Steele Martha Siegel Sally Lloyd Elion Susan Mauss Tunick Susan Swire Barbara Rudnick Glass Beverly Rantoul Turman Rhonda Bernstein Usher Christine P . Graham Geraldine Rapf Van Dusen Amy Yasuna Elizabeth Johnson Grieder Martine C herau Walker Judith Zenge Grumbacher Londa Weisman Merrilee Roberts Hull Class of 1971 Rachel Kahn Fogel Trene M. Borger Jane Kaufman Class of 1966 Jane E. Carlstrom Sarah Magee Paul Fink Aaron Louise Baum John H . Cauman Margaret McCain Sharon Sperl Berry Joan Poor Clarke Kathleen Norris Lane DeMoll Anna Cronin Ormsby Sally f. Bowie Elizabeth Cutler Michele Geller Wendy Perron Lisa T aylor Emerson Judith Gershman Diana Elzey Pinover Katherine Garnett Kathy Halbreich Jane Platt Jean McMahon Humez Joan B. Harris Ronnie Steinberg Ratner Susan West Ingersoll Antoinette Jacobson Beverly Brown Freemountain Red Olivia Kopp ell Christopher .Johnstone Pauline Adoue Scanlon Jacob Liberles Susan Kunstler Deborah Shapiro Eileen Thaler Lordahl Anne Cunningham Leader Martha Weiss Pamela Moore Cynthia Cole Mairs Goldie Morgentaler Karen Mc Au l·~Y Denise Provost Class of 1968 Gillian Robin Kncubuhl Nadel Ann Rose Harriet Bing Alexander Adrienne Franklin Parker Martha Harvi Soehring Barbara Lazear Ascher Judith Dunl ,)p Ransmeier Sarah Tenney Sharon Zync Alper Susanne Snyder Rappaport Martha Von Blon Ellen Clarke Brown Dorette Kagin Sarachik Tamsin Willard Gillian Cockburn Burch Ruth Felsher Schreiber Victoria Woolner Lydia Allen Feely Ellen Bcskind Smart Heidi Koring Zacharias Judith Gerson Barbara Matthews Spar Doris Dronski Zelinsky Peggy Kohn Glass Heidi Jost Von Bergen Martha Armstrong Gray Constance Wallace Maria Huffman Elizabeth Richter Zimmer Class of 1970 Ernest T. Kirby Valerie Arning Carol Levin Evelyn Thal Bennett Karen Manulis Class of 1965 · Naomi R. Bennett Phoebe Pettingell Isabella Holden Bates Joanna Cobb Biermann David Schreiber Elizabeth Underwood Bertrand Patricia Prandini Buckler Cecilia Guiu Searle Renee Engel Bowen Jane Larkin Crain Allison Simmons Mary Okie Brown Elizabeth Acer Crawford Marie McKenney Tavernini Susan Hadary Cohen Christopher Delaney Harriet Moger Watson Claire Thoran Crosier Victoria English Barbara Fisher Williamson Elizabeth Gallatin Gerard Deborah Roseman First Joan Golden Pamela G ranbery Polly Drinkwater Gordon Joel Harvey Class of 1967 Francine Smerka Hall Linda L. Lawton Leslie Gieseke Bose Ann Abel Hatcher Carole A . McGuirk Sally Levin Brotman Sophia Healy Rebecca M. Mitchell Pamela Acheson Covington Elizabeth Norris Hendrickson Q,adrllle I ·- Lorna Katz .Tame~ Payton Aviva Dubitzky Neuman Barbara Von Eckardt Klein Susan Pickering Rath Gretel Hoffman Pelto Lucy Kostelanetz Barbara Reinhold Rauch Gail Rodier Schonbeck Anne Boyd Kraig Barbara Goldberg Rohdie Harriet Zarling Schuman Edith Anderson Kraysler Carolee Gould Russack Lucy Sloan Caryn Levy Mag id Judith Speckman Russell Lynn Goldberg Small Mary Kelley McMeen Elizabeth Truslow Russell Monica Wulff Steinert Roberta Ross Moore Brenda Samara Barbara Bartelmes Surovell Inez Ingle Oberteuffer Carole Hedlund Seig~l Karen Egeberg Warmer Marjorie Perloff Rhea Rabinowitz Smith Margot Ad ler Welch Deborah Rankin Ellen Kaplan Sulkin Carolyn Green Wilbur Ruth Jacobs Rubin Adrienne Jaffe Thorne Susan St. .John Jane Aul:)hn Vaughn Wendy Slote Peggy Adler Walsh Class of 1960 Priscilla Smiley Tama Rib Zorn Laurie Va.nee Adams Margaret Donald Snider Carol Roos Bell Lynne Tishman Speyer Stanley Berke Susan Tarlov Class of 1962 Linda Mazer Berkowitz Barbara Lawrence Train Barbara Halikman Balaban Elizabeth Lewy Bland Lisa Livingston Voorsanger Saida Heyman Baxt Frances Finesilver Blumenthal Rima Gitlin Wolff Judith Beatie Susan Sims Bodenstein Rosalind Moger Bernheimer Judith Albert C' roner Nancy Guy C zak Mary Humes C' rowe Class of 1964 Baroara Fink Enzer Manuel Duque Patricia Cronin Adams Joan Borkum Epstein Sabra Stee l Flood Gale Feuer Barish Margot Graham Fass Barbara Black Frank Joan Brainard .Frances Hamilton Glover Ruth Ann Fredenthal Jane Burkhardt Josephine Penick Guzzetti Esther Hidary Friedberg Alexandra Broches Calabro Fausta Price Hammarlund Beverley Mountain Galban Nancy Farnam Charles Mary A. Hutton Leslie Korn Glucksman Carlotta Crissey Patricia Johanson Joy GoHsmi th Tracy Keppel Drury Susan Weiss Katz Berte Sc hinde lheim Hirschfield Bronwyn Jones Dunne Victoria Nes Kirby Damaris Smith Horon Betsy Feist Dorothy Goldman Mann Carol Carlisle Jimenez Julie Rogers Gittins Jane Vance McCauley Franka Culberg Jones Vivian Bachrach Glick Dorothy Willett Oliver Shirlienne Kazanoff Janet Gohres Sheila White Sam ton Amy Miller Levine Marjorie Goldstone Greenberg Marilyn Brooke Goffstein Schaaf Jane Lipman Donna Raye Gurian Greene Sandra Kesselman Slotnik Robin Wilson Litchfield Diana Chace Hoyt Linda Horne Small Martha Terrell McCall Judy Isacoff Miriamne L. Spector Matilda McE wen Mendez Gail Rockwell Minton Barbara Ma1·cus Sprafkin Stephanie Hartshorn Miller Jane Weisbord Perin Barbara Buchtel Tacy June King Nichols Susan Friedman Reed Susan Rosenbaum Nobel Mary Susan Pattison Roberts Rochelle Sholder Papernik Susan Merrill Rockwell Class of 1961 Phyllis Ann Baron Plattner Hannah Hewat Rose Kaye Donoho Benton Gloria Dibble Pond Ellen Sigward Marjorie McKinley T'havnani Cornelia Patsy Rogers Nina Pelikan Straus Judith Schneider Bond Shelley Carleton Seccombe Diane Drew Sherer Tucker Edna Goodman Burak Cora Gordon Silberman Nancy Nelson Weiss Susan Burack Carter Elaine Staber Steward Barbara Alrich Wichura Nancy Markey Chase Patricia Dinsdale Turner Elizabeth Baum Williams Mariel Stephenson Davis Beverly May Vail . Karen Jackel Wunsch Patricia Groner Dubin Susan Berns Wolf Dorothy Tulenko Feher Marian Zazeela Young Gail Cherne Gambino l Class of 1963 Julie Eiseman Ginsburg Georgia Mary Atkins Buttrick Meryl Whitman Green Class of 1959 Judith Selis Davidson Arlene Bollinger Hayward Marcia Margulies Abramson Betsey Dingman Eidinoff Susan Loomis Herrmann Valerie Reichman Aspinwall Jean Pavelle Garment .Julie Cavanagh Kaneta Rona King Bank Jane Witty Gould Margaret Katz Kaufman Elisabeth Posselt Barker Linda Appleman Guidall-Shapiro Barbara Kapp Kuh Constance Richardson Boden Priscilla Rendell Haertl Martha Bertelsen r .eonard Deirdre Cooney Bonifaz Arlene Heyman Judith Bars1

Di Deckard .Tudith GrP -nhill Speyer P.tl ricia Buatty DuC'k Class of 1957 Cynthia Shl!ldnn Stibolt ' Sully Wason Stoc·kwcll V1Jaya Gulhati Duggal C lnudine Abry Bachl!r l~li zabeth Partridge Durant Myrna ,Janoff Baldinger .Alice I .yon Thompson Katharine Durant Edgar Helen Tsaacs Barer Hence Patenautl Turolla Joan T rooboff Gecttcr Evelyn Stein Benjamin Marshall Tyler Alida Van l)crhoeven Van Horn Phyllis Saretsky Gitlin Hcl en All entuc-k Bronhcim Arline lsrnel Weishar Carol Grossman Gollob Stephanie Brown C nrlcton Michelle Rogers Zwirn ,Janet Mccreery Gregg Louise Carty C'avanaugh Mary Lynn Hanley Darcy Lay Doyle Linda Wittcoff Hanrahan Margaret Ward Dye 1955 Edith Swan Harrison Class of b:dith Ke n Parley Elizabeth Green Appleton Sandra Siegel Kaplan C ristol Schwarz Fleming Shc1 la Gallagher Arnaboldi M . Ilka Hewitt Kerr Adrienne Sc hlang Garnett .Joyce Orgel Rasche Gail Ruslander Levin Barbara Kelly Glovic h Sibyl Totah Belmont Sandra McClellan MacGrcgar Eleanor Kronish Goldstein Margaret E. Buckley Sonia Berlin Michelson Marjorye Hirsch Goldstein Helen Burgin Buttrick Barbara Plapler Morris Constance Golub Gorfinkle Ellen Huddleson Delatorre Barbara Dain Nemiroff Hadassah Houtz Hoffman Suzanne Thomas Dolloff Jenny Polson Ono Marcia Sang Tsaac-s Joan Geiger Doyle Emily Carota Orne Harriet I ,asker Katz Josephine Brown Emery Joan Matz Partington Elaine Silverman Lewis Beatrice Appel Halsted Ann Little Rubenstein Claudia Tucker Lewy Dorothea Booth Katz Carol Foley Surkin Lois Landau Mayer Miriam Hermanos Knapp Tama Alcott Taub Margot Wurtzburger Milch Sandra Stewart Little Ilsa Klotzman Wolfe D~borah Miller Selina F. Little Abby Fink Zit:> Elaine Libcrstein Pitt Joan Morris Manning Janet Marcus Zuckerman Louisa Perkins Porter Linda Schandler Perlich Lois Ballon Rabinowitz Helene Rattner Pesin Alyce Hastings Rogers Mancia Schwo.rtz Propp Class of 1958 Judith Levine Rubin Toby Carr Rafelson Gail Gutterman Abrams Dorothy Franks Sellers Carol Rubenstein Suzanne Wolf .l\pplcfeld Laura Kesselman Skoler ,Jean Woodard Salladin Jane Eisner Bram Anne Cremer Smith Stella Spanoudaki Sjchel Anne Harriss Bugbee Joan Rosenthal Sovern Ruth Fidel Silverman Frieda Rowell Carnell W. Leonard Taffs M.1rgot Hartman T enncy Joy Carpenter Chadwick Margery Beck Wicsenthal Susan Humbert Zuch Susan Ullman Chapro Ketti F'inkle Wineberg Frances Allen Cooper Madalene Olander Woodbury Elinor Stockheim Davidson Winston Case Wright Class of 1954 Rachel Shor Donner Lynn Sakowitz Wyatt Brett Ginnings Bell Phoebe Crary Ellsworth Greta Stuckens Brennan Patricia Falk Claire Radoslovich Clark Amy J . Ferrara Class of 1956 Judith Beach Damon Marjorie Rubin Freeman Dorothy Callman Bart Neisa King DeWitt Ana Berliant Glick Lois Schu lman Chazen Jean Diamond Frank Ruth Berman Greer Joan Simons Constantikcs Judith Rosenberg Hoffberger Rosemarie Yellen Heyer Alma Sachs Daniel Barbara Elliott Ingraham Sarah F. Holt Jean Segal Fain Genevieve Wheeler Jewell Judith Outerbridge Hughes Joan Rice Franklin Joan Keams Sheila Hirschfeld Jacobs Evan n e Schreiber Geltzeiler • Abbey Peskin Klein Joanne Goldstein Katz Ellen MacVeagh Gilbert Susan Powers Lagunoff Priscilla Alexander Kornfeld Carrie McLeod Howson Stephanie Taubman Low Carole Glover Lawder Carol Fri -dman Kardon Hope Irene Mason Ursula Ruppel Lawder Anna Carbone Lau tore Helene Fox Metzenberg Christine Loizeaux Susan Gurian Lowell Abigail Oleson Newberger Patricia Sullivan Meyers Gretchen Lindblad Mamis Anne C' rosby Nichols Jennifer Seward Montgomery Greta Einstein Miller Sarah Holt Parsly Bourne Gafill Morris Uli Beigcl Monaco Barbara Nelson Pavan Margaret Beckwith Parsons Kay Crawford Murray Joel Wells Schreck Carol Rob ins on Perlman Anstiss C'has!,cll Nadler .Judith VanClute Schur l Treva Silverman Riva Magaril Poor Charlene Solow Schwartz r Donna Schacter Sinanian Audrey Rosenthal Reichblum Jane Watt Shapard Frema Sindell Solomon Elisa Starr Rudd Luc:y Byck Shapero Katharine Kirkham Turner Margery Baer Schwartz Anne .Johnson Sharpe Rosamond Tudor van der Linde Suzanne Stern Shepherd Carole Press Stavenhagcn Jane Berry Vosburgh Willa Katz Shulman l~llcn Firestone Stein Kathryn Kading Wheeler Elaine Gordon S1lcts Lynn Staley Sternik Q,adrille 13

1\nn e t\d uns l I mlauf Dorothe a Hare.ling I .ob~0nz Pendop c Hartshorne Batchelcr Ha. ma Kl t>tnicks \'l!Sl'!i8 .J~ me Lee:,; Lyne h rnge C' hwang C'al'ol G~wirt7 , Yuuain .Judith l~rdmann Makriane~ Elsa Hinchm~n C lnrk .Joan Olmsted Oates .Joun Mcgnin C' li !'ford 1)1anc Boyden Pesso Barbara Bowle~ Coolidge Class of 1953 Nanette Offray Rich Louise Wynne Corbett .Esther Al>rnham Abrams .t\nn e Cohen Hobinowi t z Kay Hrown Cunningham June Wineburgh /\ltgelt Hhoda 'Iurteltaub Hosenthnl Anne Whittier Geier Betsy Rrown Bell 1Vlarilyn Bernstein Seide .Jane Roberts Gicdraitis Susan I ,i ebman Bendheim Martia Reed Smith Carol Baumgarten Goldwyn Jennifer Mc1•tcns Brock Sydney Brucker Sowles Jane C' ochrane Ilallowell Rita Lukes Brunner Carol Haffner Strauss Sondra Parkoff llenry Franc inc .Jupp Buckner Mary Dempsey Vos Edmar Von Henke Hoppe Solveig Peterson Cox Elisabeth Newman Ward Virginia Allen Jensen Ruth Miller C urwen So;)hie Ruderman Weber Corinne Silverman Kyle .Judith Fertel Davilrnan Barbara Schwanda Weedon Constance Terhune Lancaster Susan r:dclmrum Darleen Butcher Wilcox Lois Klopfer Levy Martha Ann Dow 'Fehsenfcld Helen Shapiro Wi ll oughby Susan Worc,i:'iter Light I• Ruth Maslow Fischer Alice Edge Wittenberg Cynthia Lee MacDonald Judith Wilson F'ouser Fay Sigel Witz Martha Klein Macdonald Barbara A. F'ritz Linda Borden McKean I Dorothy Whittier Grillo Elizabeth Uyer Merri ll Anne Wasson Harney Class of 1951 Kiriki De Diego Mctzo Nancy Price Hiestand Joy Bryan Bac6n Suzanne r .ochhead Mink Lorraine Nichols Higbie Ann lrwin Bourgois Norma Dinnerstein Morris Betsy Mautz Klode Kathleen VanWyck Brown Marjorie Wood Murray Valerie Silverman Kovitz Sarah Pickells Burrill Candace De Vries Olesen Frederica Leser Barbara Ushkow Deane Judith Vanorden Peacock Sheila Stires Lloyd Mary Carpe Desantis Barbara Connally Pijoan Ann Guttmacher Loeb Lorna Payson Dorsey Kathryn Ballantyne Polansky Nancy Miller Mahoney . Barbara Bedell Dow Deborah C . Ritt er Marcia Tobey Martin Elai ne May Dre w Gail Greig Sc hl egel Virginia Derochemont McReel Dorothy Pearlman Edelman Marianne Byk Schnell Anndte Cottrell Smith .Joan Elliott Ellis Sally Liberman Smith Joan Stahl Milora.dovitc h Carol Diamond Ferner Marcia Eastman Snider Maureen Mahoney Murphy Olivia Pattison Garfield Joan Luce Stnuffer .Janet Gay Newman Marie Maxon Hadwen Joan Borden Stuart Carolyn Lissner Ottley Olga Landeck Heming Joanne Brandenburger Surasky JoycP Howen Scarborough Doris Chapman Hinds Martha Jane Woodcock Sutton Louif:ie Gantc1· Taylor Barbara Kent Turner Ives Wendy Keate Voelzow Nancey Horst Trowbridge ,Janet Roosevelt Katten Jane Walker Warren Barbara Howe Tucker Barbara Allen Kennedy Joanne Mee atlum Wasley Greta Mayer Vardi .Joan Swafford Kent Petrie Manning Wilson Carolyn Baldwin Vilain Laurel Melnick Koufman Jane Stewart Young Joa n Hutton Landis Pamela Hanford r,a wrence Class of 1952 Sylvia Canova Lukens Class of 1949 Carolyn Pennybacker Accola Prances Wells Magee Paula Cornell Amy Augusta Welfer Bartlett Helen Cappel Miller Catherine Bangs Appleton I Kay 2arson Elizabeth Winslow Moore Florence Gallup Atkins Jill Warburg Cartter Gail Gardner Newman Jean McAllaster Baker ! Hester Haring Cason Cynthia Kelley O'Neill Phyllis Sidenberg Benham Virginia Sweet Cobb Ruth Rigler Olincy .Jeannette Winans Bertlcs Edi th Askin Ehrlich Doris Robbins Ornstein Kay Eppich Black Seena Israel Fish Renee Bennett O'Sullivan Mary White Boyd Miriam Tanenbaum Gerstler Priscilla Taft Palo Marcia Ireland Brookbank Elizabeth Ivory Gre~ne Nancy Tho len Prince Jane Lougee Bryant Eli - abeth Corey Guthe Ann Macfarlane Richter Margaret Leake C' raig Barbara Gail Harris Suzanne Mosher Saul Kate Crichton I Winifred fi'arrell Hawkes Nancy R. Smith Wilhelmina Eaton . Turri Rhodes Herndon Renee Hubert Spencer Helen Frankenthaler Jane Neal Keller Suzanne Lembe.rg Usdan Carol Stett inius Gorman Priscilla Norton Kennedy Elizabeth C . Wagner C'arolc Grossman Honigsfeld Caroline Crane Kiyabu Jeannette Peirce Woman Carolyn Vreeland r..,c Boutillicr .Toan Pauley Lamb Victoria Harrington Loring Peggy Lampl Sally Brown Lutyens .Nola Spiero Langner Class of 1950 Barbara Corey Mallonee Virginia Wilson La.Plante Helen Johnston Ammen Jean Moffat Miraglia Quadrille 14

Cynthia Moller Joan l· unk Root i\urdia \klnlyre Kbyf Diane Krcmm Nolan Michal Isb,!ll Thomp!-5on Edith l)inlol·kcr T,uhn Cecily Henderson Pennoyer Ella Russell Torrey l)orot hy Ca plow Lang Byrd Symington Platt Ros tyn Long l dow Carol Skinner Luwsun Felicia Warburg Roosevelt lndia Moffett William8 Barbara l)cm ing Linton t Challis Jones Snyder Barbara S1ark Marcus Faith Hussey Staub 8mily Dimock Mnttingly Susan Pierce Stewart Class of 1946 Rosalie Iloltsberg Mayer Elizabeth ,Johnson Stickney Charlotte Cullingham /\ccr Carol ,John81tm McGrew Lois Barnett Vail Est her Kuh i\skow .8mily Knight Oppenheimer Rosemary Brown Vanamee Virginia Belding Olga Von Hartz Owens Sally Wells Whiteley Mary Wiggin Bcrtaccini Emilie Worthen Paine Barbara Burton Boyle Lee i\v~ry Poor Luu ise Perry C urpenter Julia V. N . Handall Class of 1948 Narcisse Chamberlain Priscilla Baker Reveley Simone Cadgcne Attwood Louise Rockwood Cics Margaret Goodwin Rice Eleanor Carlson Castro Patricia Chapin Condon Jane Crowell Rieff el Mary Wells Cypher Joya Bovingdon Cox Carol Greenfeld Rosenstiel Marion Day Idolene Hegemann Darrow Mary Crane Rossiter Cynthia Whitney Drayton Kelita Boas Dinsmore Rita Friedman Salzman Marilyn Lord Dux Shirley Cohen Goelz Margaret Dunn Stebens Barbara Edwards Janet Hart Golden Barbara Oldden Smith Elizabeth St. .John Fennel Mary Sutherland Gussow Virginia Timberlake Taylor Baba Foster Freeman Nancy Kluge Hall Virginia Addis Vila Diane Bishop Gersten Frances Harris Polly Ridlon Wilson Sonya Rudikoff Gutman DCl't':I l .ucas l dam! .lcssie Nelson Engle !\ant) Tl. Bulke l ey Margaret Brush Vanclcrmacle Phyllls H. Epstein :vta1·.v :\chilies Coggeshall llclcn l\lasenhimcr \ erduin I sabclla Perrott a Erickson J~lir.al>cth Bope l)eWindt Mary Wood \le tor T.avina Kelly Jo'akoncr Marjorie Handwerk r)uncan .Joan Strong Warmbrunn T .c i la V ..ult Fett .er J\nm ? Mic hit> l•'ni rbank l\larion Colt Williamson St cphanic Town~cnd Ilend Tina S:.ifr.mski Fred 'ricks Cynthia .J cnkintion \ andcll Barbara Willis Hein r 1c h Elinor Carr Glass Doria Higgins Huth Davis Green l\.larnc I loyd Smith Hornblower Merrell llopkins Hamb let on 1941 Florence l ptegrove Horton Class of .J anc Stilwell Leigh Teress:.1 Blumberg Hoffman Edith Barbour \ndrcws l\.1arjor'ie l)eGrceff Litchfield .Joan Tiyntt Sarah ~napp •\uchinc toss l\lolly Howe Lynn /\nn l\1 ills Tlycl e .Tenn Davidson Baldwin He Lena Mason T.yon Nancy Hay Incy Helen Cummings Vanderbilt 8lconora Eaton Brooks C .i.roline Sizer Cochran Martha Lockwood Van Emburgh Elizabeth Schocppcrlc Colman .roan T. eonard Caryl ,Janet Walker Dorothy McWilliams Cousins Patricia Hiller Chadwick Ann Browne Ward /\nn Whit<.>ley Childs Charlotte Good win (' raig Dotha Scaverns Welbourn Charlotte Watson Cole Harriet Brigham Dtckson Ernestine Reutter White Enid Klaubcr Dillon Elizabeth Capehart l)oncnf eld Katharine Kidner Wisc ,Joan Callier Donofrio Alice Pulsifer Doy le Sylvia Thayer I· erry Nancy Forgan Farnam Diana Marvin Gibson .Janet /\ustrian Fisher GrPte Schuyler Haberman Class of 1940 Mary Harriman Fisk Dorothy Coffin Ifarvi Joan Greenebaum /\dler Laura .James Foster Susan Hedge Hossfeld .Janet Johnson l\.lcxander Jamie Port er Gagarin Deborah Froclicher Howe Aline Wharton Appel Honora Kammerer Gifford Celine Holl Karraker .loan Ellett Benjamin Marion Hepburn Grant 8ls a Wooclbringe Kistler Mimi Wallner Bloom Virginia Irvin Hagopian Helen Levine Koss Phyllis Torrey Bosee Caroline Welch Huntington Mary Heed T .eckie Lucy Glazebrook Bradley Constance Fox Ingles Elizabeth Whee l •r Lomele Jean Pett ibonc Butz Laura Jennings Ingraham Margaret Ramsey I\Ieachem Margaret Myers Byrne Faith Heyher Jackson ffa'r"rict Grannis _;\loore Hoima I· orbes Cherau .Janet Fraser Jones Ellen Hartt qrckn Anne Thomas Conklin .Janet Heywood Kinnicutt Valerie Pottberg Prime Alic.:e Borchard Couch Marcia Savage Klopman Mary Hammond Rodman Edwina Pattison Daniels .Jenn II . Lee Katharine Wyman Roll l\nn /\gry Darling Vera James Levi.son Hilda Wheelwright Sewall Virginia Todahl Davis Joan Mc/\rthur MacKinnon Eleanor Kammerer Spence Carolyn Gerber Diffenbaugh Natalie Kimball McMillan Nina Howell Starr Vera Hall Dodd Antoinette Dangler Newman Joyce Abbot Noyes Hetty Richardson Phillips Barbara Howes Smith Helen Strong Oechler Anne Bretzf elder Post Harriet Stern Strongin Mary Jones Riley Tacie Sergeant Ranson Ruth Magnusson Dunn Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall Edith Miller Roberts Helen Webster Wheelwright Barbara Sapinsley Barbara Webb Rockwell June Parker Wilson Emily Flesheim Schaffner .Jean Hinton Rosner Virginia Lunsford Scull Suzanne Stockard Underwood >:

Current Students

Gi ll ian D. Angle Regional Alumni Groups Harvee E . Briggs WHO CONDUCTED FUND-RALSING Brenda Sue Herman PROJECTS IN 1975-76 David Jacobson Signa Lynch Read C taudia Shwide Ben ni ngton, Vermont Chicago, lllinois David Winte r Boston, Mass. New York , New Yorl< Senior C lass Gift Fairfield County, Conn . Washington, D. C.

The success of regiona l fund-raising projects must be attributed Special Students to the many a lumni, parents, and friends who support them . We express a collective thanks to all invo lved. Susan Stevens Beary Q,adrille 17

' Faculty & Administrators past and present

Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Bloustein Miss Mary S. Hopkins Mr. Henry Brant Mr . and Mrs. Joseph S. Iseman Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Brockway Ms . .Joanna Kirkpatrick Mr!:>. Mary I. Bunting Mr. Kendall Landis Mr. and Mrs. Frederick II. Burkhardt Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Malamud Mr. Remy Charhp NJ.r. Kenneth Noland Mr. AlanCheuse Ms. Camille Paglia Mr. and Mrs. E. TT. Cumpston, .Jr. Ms. Marta Ptaszynska Dr. and Mrs. Oliver Durand .:,Miss Mary Josephine Shelly Mr .. John D . Forbes Mr. and Mrs. l\rnold Sundgaard Mrs. Thomas Foster Mr . Sidney Tillim Mr. Eduardo Gonzalez * deceased Cont ributors to the New York Theatre Benefit

(Only the names of those actually purchasing tickets or making a contribution have been included)

Dr. and Mrs . Jacques Abry Mrs . W. A. Flagg Mrs . Paula Levin Mr .. Jack R. Aron Mrs . g, Lang l ey F letcher Mr . and Mrs. Kenneth Lipper Mr . and Mrs . Fred Bacher Mrs. Wi ll iam Fox, Jr. Mrs . Mildred Loew Mr . and Mrs. Robert Bendheim Mrs. James Freund Mr. William H. Long, Jr. Mrs. Dorothy L. Beskind Mrs . Andrew Gagarin Mrs. Madeleine Low Mr . and Mrs. Arthur H. Bienenstock \Irr. and Mrs. Arnold L. Ginsburg Mr. and Mrs. David B. Magee Mr. ancl Mrs. Leonard Birnbaum Mr. and Mrs. Will iam T . Go lde n Mr s . Willi am G. Magu i re Mr . and Mrs. Ed win D . Bodman Mr. Gui do Gold man Mrs . Barnett Malbin Mrs. John .J. Bookman Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gottlieb Mrs. William M. Manger .Mr . and Mrs. William Bram Mr. and Mrs. Tra .J. Green hill Mrs. William Mazer Mrs . William C. Breed Mr. and Mrs. T. Edward Hambleton Mr . .John G. McCullough Ms. Ann C. Brown Mrs. E. Roland Harriman Mrs. Barbara McHam I Mr. I\. M. Bullowa Mrs . Clarence L . Hay Mrs . Chase Mellen .i\'lr. and Mrs. Marshall Butler Mr. Pater S. Hearst Mr. and Mrs. Albert W. Merck Mrs. Martin P. Carter Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Heiskell Mr. and Mrs.Norman J. Merksamer Mrs. Cass Canfield Mr. and Mrs. William B. Heller Mr. and · Mrs. Matthew I\. Meyer Mr. and Mrs. John Carver Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos Mr. and Mrs. George Meyerson Mrs. William C. Chanler Mrs. C hartes D. Hilles Mrs. Alexander P. Morgan Mary nn Chiasson Mrs. Walter '\. Hirsch Mr. and Mrs. Stanley G. Mortimer Mrs. F. Ambrose Clark Mr. Hnrold Hochschild Mr. and Mrs. John Muma Mrs. l\rthur ,J. Cohen Mr. and Mrs . W.:tlter Hochschild Mr. and Mrs. Archibald R. Murray Mrs. Howard Cohen Mr. R. Wolcott Hooker Mr. and Mrs. Crocker Nevin Mr. and Mrs. Richard Cohen Mrs. J ,awrence Hughes Mrs. John W. Nielcls Mr. Seymour Cohn Miss Margot A. Hunt Mr. Sheldon Oliensis Mr. and Mrs. ,T. Cooke, ,Jr. M1·. and Mrs .. Joseph S. Iseman Mr. and Mrs. E. Granger Ottley Mr. and Mrs. Gardner Cowles Mr. and .lvlrs. William Israel Mrs. Richard S. Parker Mrs. Mildred H. ummings Mr. and Mrs. Alexander F. Ix, .Tr. Mrs. Brisbane Philbin Mr. and Mrs. Edward TI. Cumpston Mr. George ft'. James Mrs. Lillian L. Poses lrs. Pierre David-Weill Mrs. Lenore ,Janis l\Irs. Robert l. Powell Mr. and l\lrs. Maurice Deane Mrs. Emily Mason Kahn Mr. and l\1rs. Alfred Rand Mrs .. J. Reid Detchon 1\Tr. and Mrs. :vt. C. Kaplan Mrs. Howard G. Rapnport Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Dickinson :vi r. Theo,Jorl:! Kaplan Mr. Richard .A. Rappaport Mrs. Valerie Diker i\.1r. and Mrs. Stanley L. Kaufm~n Mrs. E:. !"rank Rayner Mrs. Thomas F. Dillon Mr. and :\rrs. Walter Kaye Mr. II. V. Richard i\lrs. F'rederick Ducrhren l\;lrs. Karen .r. Ke land Mr. and Mrs. Toby G. Ritter Ms. Wilhelmina. 1\11.T~aton Mi.·s Ruth A. Kelley Mr. and Mrs. Hicharcl Roaman i\liss Susnn 1•:delmann ~I rs. Spencer Kellogg :Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Rohdic .ivl1'. J\lbert .I. Elias Mr. Saul Kramer Mrs. Abner Hosenthal .i\l rs. Richard S. Emmet Mr. and :i\lrs. William Kreizc:l Mrs. Charles Rosenthal Nliss Pauline l~mmc1 Mr. Daniel H. r ,avezzo, ,Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Marcus Rothschild ;\llrs. William ,\. l~pstein Mr. and Mrs .. Jay Kay Lazrus Mr. nnd Mrs. Oscar Ruebhauscn Mr. and Mrs. !\Tyron S. Ji'alk, .Jr. Mr. and Mr·s. Joseph Leff Mrs. William Salomon Mr. ;:incl Mrs. Robin T... Farkas Mrs. Herbert H. Lehman Mr. Robert Savin Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fish Mrs. Leo K. Lemle *deceased Q,-i111e 18

Or. Morton A. Schiffer Mr. Alfred Stern Mr. Jacob Ullmann Mr. and Mrs. Seymour Schnell Mrs. Donald Straus Mr. Clarence E. Unterberg Mr. Martin J. Schwab Mrs. Carol Teller Mr. and Mrs. Thomas ttnte rberg Mrs. Boaz M. Shattan Mrs. Warren Tenney Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel IL Usdan Mr. Jerome A. Siegel Sarah Elizabeth Thomas Mrs. Lrving Valentine Mr. and Mrs. Saul Skoler Mr. Arthur J. Thornhill. Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Weishar Mrs. A. P. Slaner Mr. and Mrs. John L. Tishman Mrs . .roseph W. Welsh Mr. Rudolf G. Sommeborn Mrs. Robert Tishman Mrs. Edward Welton Mrs. Hamilton Southworth Mrs. Seth Tobias Mrs. Alexander M. White Mrs. Virgil Stark Mrs. William T. Tooker, .Jr. Mrs. Knight Woolley Mrs. Millon Steinbach Mr. and Mrs. Alexander B. \'lrs. Patricia N. Woolner Mr. Leonard L. Steiner Trowbridge Mrs. Stanley Preston Young Memorial Gifts Anne Hambleton '60 Virginia Leigh Herrick '43 Audrey Stern Hess '45 In Memory Of Stanley Edgar Hyman In Honor Of Mr. Bertram Jolles Mrs. Sadie Altman Dr. Robert D. Leigh Mr. S· Mrs. Sydney Drooker McCandless Charles '74 Mrs. Fart ey Marcus Susan Edelmann '53 Mr. Roy Coppelman Ernestine Cohen Meyer '37 Mrs. Richard S. Emmet Claire deGolyer Mr. Charles Norton Mr. g Mrs. Mitchell Epstein Joan Sydney Drooker '54 Sandra Mallin Plehn '56 Dorothea Hast Miss Nancy Oruker Sara Jane Troy Schiffer '43 Joseph S. Iseman Michelle Godbout Armand Sommer Mr. & Mrs. Martin Lauday Jean Morgenthan Goodkind '38 Edward M. Stein Mr. 8-, Mrs. Jack Plotkin Catherine Johnston Greene '6 3 Peter Thompson Mr. & Mrs. Abraham Yarchin Parents of Alumni & Students

Mr. and Mrs. Irving Adler Mrs. Arthur J. Cohen Mr. and Mrs. O. Greenwald Mrs. Priscilla L. Alexander Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Cohen Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Griggs Mr. and Mrs. James Andrews Mr. and Mrs. Warren L. Court Mr. and Mrs. Roy L. Gussow Mrs. Leonard Aries Mr. and Mrs. Julian Creighton Mr. and Mrs. Earl H. Hamner Mr. and Mrs. Dexter F. Arnold Mrs. Marguerite S. Decker Mr. and Mrs. John T. Hanna Ms. Kate A rvins Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Dick Mr. and Mrs. John C. Harkness Dr. Robert C. Ascher Mr. and Mrs. Robert Oiebboll Mr. and Mrs. David G. Hast Mr. and Mrs. James O. Ash Mrs. Thomas W. Dinlocker Mr. and Mrs. Gear ge A. Holt Mrs. Charles R. Austrian Mr. and Mrs. Donald Dobkin Mr. and Mrs. Lewis J. Hoover Mr. and Mrs. Karl Bakke Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Drooker Ms. Constance C. Houle Mrs. Fannie Bakst Or. and Mrs. Herman Edelberg Mr. and Mrs. J ,awrence Hughes Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Baldinger Mr. and Mrs. Henry Edelmann Mr. and Mrs. Trumbull Huntington Mrs. E. C. Bancroft Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Epstein Mr. and Mrs. William Tsrael Mrs. Sara R. Baron Mrs. McClure Fahnestock Mr. and Mrs . .Jerome H. Jacobs Mr. and Mrs. Howard L. Beer Mr. and Mrs. Alfred E. Falk Mr. and Mrs. Charles Johnson Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Belzer Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. S. L. Kanner Mr. and Mrs. Jacob M. Bennett Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Faunce, Sr. Mrs . .Janet R. Katten Elizabeth Bergstrom Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Feiner Mr. and Mrs .. James J.Kerrigan,.Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert A. Berman Dr. and Mrs. Leonard Ferber Mr. and Mrs. John C. Kiley, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. John F. Bertles Mr. and Mrs. Ronald M. Ferry, Jr. Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Korn Mrs. Dorothy Beskind Mr. and Mrs. Martin Feuer Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Knoop Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Bess Mr. and Mrs. Jack A. Fink Mr. and Mrs . Kirk Koortbojian Mr. and Mrs. Edmund L. Bohne Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Fish Mr . and Mrs. Robert A. Lazear Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Bowron, Jr. Mrs. J f>Seph Fishman Mrs. Robert D. Leigh Dr. and Mrs. Jonas Brachfeld Mrs. Lillian S. Frank Mr. Roy Lichtenstein Mr. W. L . Brown, Jr. Mr. Albert W. Frey Mr. and Mrs .. John S. Lillard Mr. and Mrs. Grinnell Burke Mr. and Mrs. Roy J. Preidman Mr. Franklin Lindsay Mr. and Mrs. Perry N. Burkhart Dr. and Mrs. Louis R. Goldberg Mrs. Sheila S. Lloyd Mrs. Dorothy Burlingham Mr. and Mrs. Harold Goldstein Mrs. Clarence Loeb Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Bush Dr. and Mrs. Edwin Gordy Mrs. Ella Macey Mrs. H. George Caspari Mr. and Mrs. Leo Gottlieb Mr. and Mrs. Max E. Mann Mr. Henry T . Chandler Mr. and Mrs. Homer H. Grafton Dr. and Mrs. Irving II. M uuss Mr. and Mrs. Max Chechik Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gray Mr. and Mrs. Walter Maynard Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Green Q,adrllle Ill'

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*Abbott Laboratories ,:::<*Israel Goldstein Publications *>!•U. S. Coast Guard James H. & Alice I . Gould•~r Foundation 1,~'(u. S. Marine Band •:•Houghton Mifflin Co. ':t* • S. Navy Household Finance Corporation ·:

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"The Twenty -Fifth Clock. " His new novel , Conference at the University of Michigan , Ann FACULTY NOTES "Possession ," will be published by William Morrow Arbor (April 1976), on "Aspects of Consciousness in February . 1977 . Among Educated Working Women of Bangladesh : PAT ADAMS has received a Notional Endowment A Preliminary Report ." This paper will be published for the Arts grant in pointing for 1976 -77. Over On April 23 VIVIAN FINE's Cantata , "Meeting in The Occasional Papers of The South As ia Center , Long Weekend this fall she will go to the University for Equal Rights 1866 ," commissioned by Copper Michigan State University . of Iowa as a Visiting Artist . Union with the assistance of the N otlonal En- -<>- Other papers ore scheduled for the New York dowment for the Arts, was given its premiere Conference on Asian Studies at SUNY, Albany Earlier this year HENRY BRANT received a grant performance by the Oratorio Society of New York . (" Report on Bangladesh '' for a panel on women in from the National Endowment for the Arts for his This took place at Cooper Union , on Moy 20 the As ia). the Midwest Conference on Asian Affa irs at space-opera in progress, " Everybody , Inc." He has Oratorio Society repeated the work at Al ice Tully the University of M innesota , Minneapo lis ( 'The in Lincoln Center . recently completed a "Spatial Concerto " for piono · Holl Image of the Primitive in East Bengal Ethnography . forte with 7 orchestral groups and chorus, com­ On May 22 the premiere performance of Then and Now " for a panel on Bangladesh) , and the missioned for recording by the pianist Hilde Somer . "Teisho, " written with the assistance of o grant American Anthropological Association annual During 1976, Bront composed 3 commissioned from the National Endowment for the Arts, was meeting in Washington , D.C. ("Autonomy and spatial works on bicentennial themes: "American given In the Visual and Perform ing Arts Center of Identity as Aspects of Women 's Consciousness in Weather ," for the Westminster Choir; ''American the College. as part of the dedication ceremonies. Indio and Bangladesh " for a panel on Equality & Commencement ," for Vermont Low School; and Written for eight singers and string quartet. the Inequality) . November 1976 . "American Debate ," for publicatlon by Corl Fischer, work was performed by the Sine Nomine Singers Her book , "The Sociology of an Indian Hospital Inc. and Richard Frisch of the Bennington music faculty . Word ," is to be published by Firma K. L. The new recording of his "American Requiem ," o and the Contemporary Quartet, in which Jacob Mukhopadhyay , Calcutta . multi -spatial symphonic work. performed by the Glick, also of the music faculty, ployed viola. American Wind Symphony . hos recently been 0n August 28 the premiere performance of JACK MOORE was Guest Choreographer for the released . Last April, Brant spent a week at the "Romantic Ode ," for string orchestra with solo Harvard -Radcliffe Dance Company. They performed University of Minnesota conducting concerts of his violin , viola and cello, was given by the Chamber Moore' s "Winter Places" {first version) at the Hasty orchestral space-music and leodlng seminars In Music Conference of the East in the Greenwall Pudding Theatre on May 7. a and 9, 1976. which students and faculty collaborated with him in Music Workshop in the Arts Center . This piece was --o- producing large group " instant composing. " commissioned by the Conference with the (Bennington style) . assistance of the Vermont Arts Council. Jacob Glick A chapter on Spenser 's " Faerie Oueene " from His next work will be a "Spatial Concerto tor wos the viola soloist at this occasion. "Romantic CAMILLE PAGLIA 's work -in-progress on the an­ Three Bassoons" and 8 orchestral groups for the Ode" will be ployed by the Vermont Symphony at drogyne In literature and art is to be published In Denver Symphony, Brian Priestman, conductor, for its concert in Bennington on Oct. 30. the scholarly journal " English Literary the opening of the orchestra's new auditorium in On Oct. 8 The New School in New York presented Renoiuance ." 1978. o program of music by Vivion Fine. The composer --o - performed her "Concerto for Piano Strings and SIDNEY TILLIM received a grant in pointing from LOUIS CARINI publ lshed on article critical of the Percussion for One Performer ;" also on the the Ingram -Merrill Foundation for 1976 -7. An operant conditioning and association views of program were the Fantasy for Cello and Piano , exhibition of his drawings. organized by the Ed, learning in the Spring 1976 Issue of ''The Urban Missa Brevis for Four Cellos and toped voice , and monton Art Gallery , will tour Canadian galleries Review ." It Is entitled "Theories of Learning and the Two Neruda Poems for meno and piano . and museum s through 1977. The draw ings Education of Children ." --<>- illustrate Kori Shapiro's poem " Eden Retold ." JOANNA KIRKPATRICK was on leave from Tilllm was o visiting artist at the Emma Loke Art Together with Hayden Carruth and Galway Bennington in 1975-76 to be the Ford Foundation Camp of the University of Saskatchewan in July of Kinnell, NICHOLAS DELBANCO was o judge for this Consultant in Teaching-Research with the Village this year . His recent article, "The Ideal and Literal year 's awards in literature from the Vermont Studies Program of the Institute of Bangladesh Sublime · Notes on Pointing and Photography ," was Council on the Arts. He has completed a radio ploy , Studies , Rojshohl University , Bangladesh. She gave published in the Moy , 1976 issue of "Artforum .'' commissioned by Notional Public Radio and titled a paper at the Twelfth Annual Bengal Studies -o -

Next in QUADRILLE: editor's journal WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

When last we met on the printed page. I Issued deduction on your income tax through a con· an oblique threat. suggesting that I was more than trlbution to the college's Annual Fund (runners-up Literature at Bennington ready to replace the name "Quadrille" with a title and those completely disinterested in retitling the more engaging and representative of Bennington's magazine may also toke advantage of this The spring , 1977 edition of Quadrille will focus buoyant nature. To date, both hue and cry on this possibility) : or a chunk of genuine pressed, dried on the teaching and practice of literature, with matter hove been utterly absent from my daily moil Vermont foll foliage . The possibility of a com­ works and commentary from the people who pouch, placing me in what nature herself abhors, a memorative audience with the Board of Trustees studied it at Bennington and continue to write vacuum. seems unlikely, unless you happen to be a member and publish their work. Rather than leap to hasty conclusions about of the Boord yourself . Although several manuscripts hove already Bennington apathy, I would simply like to reiterate I will be examining my mail pouch closely . I om been solicited and received, the editor welcomes my unremitting desire for o new name for this also very much on the lookout for letters to the contributions from all alumni engaged in writing publication. I am, of course, prepored to offer a editor bearing suggestions or complaints. Please projects . Your remarks on studying literature substantial reword to any Individual who originates do what you can to extract me from this hideous while at Bennington are equally necessary to a brilliant new title. Examples of my proposed vacuum. N oture. you may recall. responds to make this issue a well-rounded discussion of the largesse: a guided trip for two through the new circumstances like mine with thunder. Despite my field . Arts Center and back again without ever circling petitions to Zeus, I cannot propose ony As some of you may know, plans for this issue back on one's path; a lifetime subscription to meteorological threats. and rely instead on your began nearly a year ago. with publication delays College Week; the opportunity to realize a interest in Improving this magazine. centering around reporting of the Porkers ' resignation and the dedication of the Arts Center. To those of you who were forced to assume the issue would never see the light of galleys, our apologies for our procrastination. West Coast Admissions children . Dor, Noo and Poul. and set11ed In Berkeley Admissions Office News where I began port -time graduate work in English Office Opens at tne University of California with the help of a Graduate Fellowship for Women from the Danforth The Admissions office is pleased to announce the The Admissions Office now has a West Coast Foundation. I received on M.A. in 1970 and expect appointment of Tom Fels as on Assistant to the office , staffed by Ellen St. Sure L1fschutz 50. She to put the final period on my doctoral dissertation Director of Admissions . Tom, who grew up in the wlll be visiting schools, corresponding with ap­ later this year. college community , graduated from Amherst plicants and coordinating alumni activities such as " I hove been married since 1968 to Joseph E. College in 1969 (doss of '67) , and describes interviewing and following up inquiries. A brief Lifschut2 , a psychoanalyst in private practice and himself as on independent student and a writer of biography . 1n Ellen 's own words , follows ; clinical professor at U.C. My oldest son , Dor Ben­ non-fiction. He is married and hos a two year old "Aher graduation from Bennington in 1950.1 was Amotz, expects to graduate from Bennington this daughter. managing editor of 'The Hudson Review' in New December . My daughter Noa is starting her junior Tom joins Polly Runyon '74 and Leslie Parke '74 York until I married Israeli writer Dahn Ben-Amotz year at Bennington this foll and my younger son, (M.A. '76) on the Admi$Slons staff. Due to the in 1951 and went with him to live in Israel. There I Poul , will quite likely be joining her there next exceptionally heavy travel schedule of the others worked for a time as feature editor of 'The year . on the staff. Tom will be in the office for the Foll Jerusalem Post ,' an English -language dolly "Bennington hos been every bit as good on term, with only on occasional visit to high schools newspaper , and later free -lanced as a writer, educational experience for my children as it was and college fairs . He soys it is o pleasure to be translator and editor . for me, so enthusiasm for the college comes working in the born , among friends both old and "In 1964 I returned to the U.S. with my three naturally." new.

The New Paper Goes to Press

A student newspaper hos finally been In a statement issued prior to delivery of The Business manager Amy Spound is heading the established on campus, and has published one New Paper's first Issue, the staff said it "feels that it paper's efforts to secure display advertising and issue this term, with plans of two more to follow is time for Bennington to toke its own look at supervising the financial end of production . Senior before NRT. By the spring term, a monthly Bennington. By this we mean that Bennington must editors of the first Issue were Laine Hommer and publication schedule is hoped for if student support hove some means by which it con interpret and Amy Spound. and John Sovlov handled layout. and contrl but ions warrant. Subscriptions to The analyze the events and issues that determine the The New Paper hos already received some New Poper will become available once the paper's Bennington Experience. The New Poper will grow financial support from alumni and trustees , but the financial base is more flrmly established. with the support and enthusiasm of the Bennington dream of a self-supporting publishing venture The first issue covered reactions to the colleges Community. Without this support, this will be the based on advertising revenues Is for from recent appearance in the notional media, and first and lost issue of our student paper .'' realization. Because the paper is now distributed included an interview with Esquire feature writer The paper's editors alternate from issue to issue, free of charge, the staff seeks financial support Nora Ephron, whose "Bennington Affair '' appeared providing variety and relieving each individual from ell college constituencies. in that magazines September issue . from the pressures of what could be a full-time job , .

Bennington's faculty, she replied, "I have been It's like rowing upstream without a paddle in the lucky with teachers here. There hove been a winter, when the river is frozen, " she commented. Senior Liz Rosenberg handful of professors, not all of them In literature. "My theory of writing, If I hove one," she con­ of course, who have hod a very Important Influence tinued, "is that art ought to express what is Published in "Atlantic" on me." beautiful and true: to express that which is Rosenberg claims to hove stepped from the beautiful also because It Is true. " The November Issue of Atlantic magazine womb o literature major, though "in the interim I've Commenting on her fellows students engaged in features a short story by senior Liz Rosenberg considered drama, psychology , political science creative writing, Rosenberg stated, "There ore entitled "Memory. " It ls her first published story and nothing.' ' She plans to continue writing after many good writers at Bennington. There 's not too and sprang. she soys, from a writing workshop she graduation. and is currently working on a novel. much camaraderie that I can see, though certainly attended lost year at Bennington. "It's nice to know Once she arrived at a plot line for her new work, no enmity. Maybe they're afraid if they're in the that classe s con still be owe -Inspiring, " Rosenberg she began the story in two different forms - as a same place at the some time they 'll all be struck by remarked . fictional narrative set In a small town In upstate the some fabulous metaphor. " Currently In her last term at Bennington, New York and as on allegory about a mythical Concluding that she wouldn't hove wished to Rosenberg is now at work on a two-port literature kingdom. She ls now trying to decide which format attend any other college, Rosenberg characterized thesis, a critical work on Nathaniel Hawthorne and will best suit the endeavor. " No one ever said, I Bennington as "small , beautiful, smart and funny further prose fiction of her own. When asked about hope, t~ot writing is easy . As for os I'm concerned, besides."

Newman Performing Arts Fund Established

The Tru:.tees of Bennington College have an· value and interest to the college community and 1944 graduate of the college, and currently nounced that Or. and Mrs . William R. Wollner, the larger area community as well . director of the Yard, a dance, music and theatre (Patricio Newmon '44), hove established the The Fund will be administered by the president of project in Martha's Vineyard. The Woolner­ Jerome A . Newmon Performing Arts Endowment the college, who will give priority to the dance Newmon connection with Bennington extends Fund at the college. The announcement was timed division's needs in accordance with the Woolners ' another generation, to a 1971 graduate of the to coincide with Mr. Newman's 80th birthday, wishes. college, Victoria Woolner, Mr. Newman's grand ­ October 19th. Jerome Newman was o member of the Ben­ daughter. Yearly or bl-yearly income from the Fund will nington College Board of Trustees for ten years. His The trvstees hove expressed the community 's support visiting artist fellowships or productions in providential and wise advice and constant at­ grateful thanks to Jerry Newmon and to his the performing arts. The generous flexibility tention to oll matters affecting the college, during daughter and son-in-low for their great generosity determining the Fund's use will support the work of his trusteeship and ofter, have had far-reaching in honoring their father by giving his birthday gift performing arts divisions of dance, drama, music, and beneficial influence on the college. to Bennington College. block music and theatre, providing programs of Patricio Woolner, Mr. Newman's daughter, Is a 1

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