Bennington College Bennington, Vermont 05201

February, 1980 Volume 13, No. 4

For Aluntni & Friends of Bennington College

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Photo identification starts from top left and goes clockwise: Retired faculty member Catharine 0. "Kit" Foster jokes with Fred Welling, chairman of the North Bennington Village Trustees at a 50th Anniversary dinner for community friends, at which she was a speaker; NRT Music Tour students David Brody, Connie Whitman and Peter Susser tune up for a series of winter engagements; Know this foursome? (Page 4); December graduates line up for a final photo (they are identified inside); and Bill Dixon of the Black Music Division is also featured inside. Expanded workshop program ready for 1980 The summer program at Bennington, now in its these fields, will do work on their own and in based on availability of rooms. Meals will be fourth year, has expanded for 1980. Nine classes, and will meet a large number of visiting ar- available in the dining hall at Commons, and many workshops will be offered from June 29 through tists in varied disciplines. The program is directed of the on-campus events will be open to visiting July 26, carrying undergraduate credit and, in some by Bennington alumna Laura Furman, who is a alumni. Of course, most choose to use the campus cases, graduate credit. Courses offered are: Fiction, writer, and the faculty are: Harvey Sollberger, as home base for visiting friends and all the New Non-Fiction, Poetry, Children's Books, Fantasy in music; Risa Jaroslow, dance; Pat Colville, art; and England arts festivals. Schedules for festivals, driv- Childhood, Painting, Composing, Violin-Viola Shelley Hearen, writing. ing directions and other information will be Workshop and Documentary Photography. Two Because of space limitations, and because in- available at the Special Projects Office throughout one-week sessions in the history and practice of the dividual attention and works-in-progress are most the summer. For rates and more information, culinary arts, titled "A Taste in Time," will be of- important aspects of all Bennington's summer pro- alumni should contact the Bennington Workshops fered from July 13 to 26. And for those who have grams, enrollment is limited in each course. Ap- office or the Alumni Office at the College. only a weekend to spare, a two-day seminar in plications can be obtained from the Special Pro- Other groups will be on campus at various times. works of feminist writers will be offered by Vivian jects Office at the College or by writing Bennington These include a chamber music conference, a Gornick, who was the 1979 commencement Workshops, Bennington College, Bennington, Ver- mycology conference, a wood-working studio, and speaker. mont 05201. various education programs. While these last are The May O'Donnell Dance Company will be in Repeating last year's popular alumni vacation not sponsored by Bennington, information on the residence at the College from July 6 through program, the College will open its dorm doors to programs can be obtained from the College. August 2, with students on all levels. One of the alumni and their family and friends who would like The accompanying advertisement will be appear- original dancers in the Martha Graham troupe at to spend a week in Vermont. Reservations will be ing in several publications to promote the Bennington, Ms. O'Donnell has a long association accepted for the weeks July 13 through August 16, workshop program. with the College and brought her company to cam- pus last spring for the final event of Pioneer's Weekend. Topics covered during this summer's Washington Post article four-week session will be dance technique, com- position and improvisation, repertory, rhythm, headlines College's 'freedom' teaching methods, space orientation and dance form analysis. Applicants can be students, teachers Bennington was recently featured in an almost-full- quently it's a bit "scary," to quote one student or performers. page article in the Washington Post, which then who spoke with the Post writer. For the first time this year, Bennington will syndicated it to a large number of newspapers that Lescaze arrived on the campus without any par- sponsor a special program for high school students carry Post-originated material. ticular "angle" to follow, he said, except for the who are interested in the creative arts. From June The article was written by Lee Lescaze of the general purpose of learning how Bennington is do- 29 through July 26, students about to enter their Post's New York bureau, who spent two full days ing in an era of declining enrollments and increas- junior or senior years of high school will study on the campus during the final busy week of the ing financial pressures. A series of interviews was music, writing, dance and visual arts with profes- fall term. It was published the day after Christmas. arranged with various administrators, faculty sional artists. In each discipline, the master- Headlined "At Bennington, the Toughest Lesson members and students, including a former Harvard teachers will be assisted by younger artists who will Is Coping With Freedom," the article generally classmate of the writer's, Stephen Sandy of the also serve as counselors. The students will be in- follows that theme -- that Bennington's many Literature and Languages Division. troduced to contemporary ideas and techniques in freedoms tend to mirror real life, and that conse- In the article, Lescaze quoted Sandy as saying that he could not think of a Bennington graduate who went on to business school. The full quote was, "Our students go to every kind of graduate school except business school. I can't think of one who went to business school." Later, Sandy wrote a letter to the editor of the Post praising the article BENNINGTON WORKSHOPS 1980 but making a slight correction. He had thought of three recent Bennington graduates in business schools, and named them: Joanne Gallo at the University of Chicago, Jeremy Koch at Columbia June 29 - July 26, 1980 and John Sheldon at Harvard. The words of other college spokesmen are on the Campus of Bennington College in quoted in ample supply. On Bennington's lack of Southern Vermont• College Credit offered required courses and a "core" curriculum, Dean of individual instruction Faculty Donald Brown commented flatly, "Nothing forces a student to be well-rounded." Zoologist Elizabeth Sherman seemed to favor Ben- The Writing Workshops nington's freedoms: "I think this is the best way to get educated. I'm an absolute chauvinist about this Fiction• Nonfiction• Poetry•Children's Books college." Said President Joseph S. Murphy: "A lot of revolutions started here have been emulated elsewhere." The May O'Donnell Dance Company in Residence Murphy and James Vanderpol, vice president for finance and administration, were quoted about the College's traditional scorn of mail appeals and The Arts Workshops other reminders of the need for funds: "We're in the process of changing that," Murphy said. Photography•Painting•Composing•Strings "We've had to tell the alumni we can't make it unless you help us." and Fantasy in Childhood and Literature There is an infusion of Bennington's characteristic humor about itself. Said Vanderpol about what the College does to students, "We let For information: you swim. We let you drown a little. Then we pull Christine Graham you up." Bennington Workshops On the whole, most considered the article to Bennington College represent Bennington in a good light. It touched 05201 many bases in a relatively short space, and thus Bennington, Vt. reprints are being made for admissions purposes and for other public relations uses.

2 Science program Annual Fund, at halfway point, is launched on way to setting new records

A program is being initiated at Bennington design- The Annual Fund, now past the halfway point in who has also actively supported alumni activities in ed for students who have completed a college its July-to-July cycle, is well on the way to setting her region. degree but who wish to train for medical or new records of growth in contributions and par- Students last March raised $27 ,000 with their en- veterinary school. It thus bears the lengthy title of ticipation. thusiastic phone calls to alumni. When a goal of The Bennington College Post-Baccalaureate Pre- The fund set a record in 1978-79 when a $30,000 was suggested to them for this year, they Medical and Allied Health-Sciences Program. $300,000 goal was exceeded. A new goal of insisted on raising it to $35,000. (Last year's of- Dr. Elizabeth Sherman of the science faculty is $350,000 was set for 1979-80, and by mid-winter, ficial goal was $20,000.) heading the program, which allows for the increas- $260,000 had already been given. "It is important as we move through the every- ed use of existing facilities and faculty. Courses to "Alumni are clearly responding to the College's alumna/us phase of the capital campaign," Mrs. be offered for the program include Introductory need for immediately·expendable dollars," com- Lydenberg added, "to remember that the $350,000 Biology, Cell Biology, Genetics, Comparative mented Alumni Director Mary Jane Lydenberg, Annual Fund goal looms very large, and it's going Animal Physiology, Introductory Chemistry, In- "while at the same time recognizing the need for to take everyone's contribution to enable Benn- troductory Physics, and Calculus. These are building an endowment fund (through the 50th An- ington to continue to operate with a balanced already part of the curriculum. niversary Capital Campaign)." budget." A student in the program would benefit from Membership in the Bennington Associates--those She called attention to the "increased sense of some advantages inherent in the College's struc- who contribute $1,000 or more--is likewise showing optimism" at the College now because the alumni ture, such as the favorable student-faculty ratio encouraging growth with 27 new members for a are rallying. "The psychological lift is as important and the opportunity for intensive attention by the total thus far of 66. Last year the total number of as the financial assistance and generates a momen- equivalent of full professors, rather than by Associates was 84, a figure that is certain to be tum that should carry us through to a successful graduate students, as is the case at many large topped in 1980. conclusion," she added. universities. Another key element of the fund is the Parents In addition to a doubling of alumni support Science students at Bennington in the recent past Fund. Last year's brought in $24,866 from 219 compared with this time a year ago, a doubling of have had excellent results in gaining admission to donors. This figure has already been exceeded at the parents' support, and doubling of "friends"' medical schools and other graduate schools in the the halfway point with $27, 198. A parent support, foundation giving is well ahead also, sciences. phonothon was held in early January from the thanks largely to grants from the Mellon and The post-baccalaureate program, which will not Time-Life Building in New York, when 21 parents Helena Rubinstein foundations, among others. offer a degree, will typically take two years to com- telephoned 893 others and raised $5,000 in specific On a statistical basis, corporate matching gifts plete, depending on the requirements a student pledges (from 123) and there were nearly 200 open broke the top off the Annual Fund thermometer needs to fulfill. pledges as well as commitments for unspecified with contributions thus far of $5,830 compared A brochure about the new program will soon be amounts from 200 others. As of this writing the with $680 at this time last year. available. unspecified pledges have already brought in an Alumni Director Lydenberg issued a reminder unexpectedly high return. about the importance of matching gifts: be sure to December graduates The phonothon's success was largely attributed check into whether your company or your spouse's to the enthusiastic participation of Betsy and Bert is a participating member of the national corporate Twenty-seven students earned their degrees in Greenberg, the parents of Kathy '82, who recruited gifts program. If the answer is yes, go to your per- December, 1979, and thus will be eligible to take the volunteers who dialed the calls to present and sonnel office and get the necessary forms. It's an part in the once-a-year commencement ceremonies past parents. easy way to provide significant help to Bennington, next June 14. Yet to come is the student phonothon March 10 and it doesn't cost the donor anything. The list of those who graduated sans ceremony to 31, for which 160 students have already signed in December, along with their field of major is as up under the direction of Jennifer Zuch '82. Jen- follows: Dance -- Robyn Wilkin Bowie, Margaret nifer is the daughter of Susan Humbert Zuch '55, Cottam; Drama -- Anne Goodwin, Daphne Milne Groos, Christine Elizabeth Martis; Literature & Languages -- David Becker, Sadie Fellhauer, Rebecca Rachel Fiske, Barbara Carol Meili, Julia Ellen Palmore, John Matthew Savlov; Music --Jonathan David Elias; Social Science -- Deborah Anne Ivie, Gordon William Keeney; Visual Arts --Arthur Martin Heiserman, Peter David Kaizer, Martha Jeanne Kent, Julie Ostwald, Valerie Beth Storfer, Rita Elizabeth Valley, Regina Phyllis Wickham; Interdivisional -- Patricia Stevens Barford (Anthropology/Music), Eugenie Lois Barnett (Black Music/Music), Patricia Susan Frieberg (Anthropology/Music), Laurie Lee Moses (Black Music/Social Science), Gilbert Mark Sprague (Anthropology/Playwriting); General Studies -- Holly Appel Silverthorne. Those pictured on the cover are, from left to right: Martis, Heiserman, Goodwin, Savlov, Fiske, Ivie, Kaizer, Storfer, Frieberg, Kent and Barford. Mushroom conference

The Mycological Society of New York will hold a three-day conference at Bennington this summer, from August 22 to 24. There will be several promi- nent mycologists on hand to examine specimens discovered during local forays, and to conduct small seminars. For more information, write: Arline Deitch, The New York Mycological Society, 180 Carrini Boulevard, New York, New York 10033. Know this foursome? See Page 4.

3 50th campaign moves on to West Coast

Two more dinner meetings for class area heads and James Vanderpol, vice president for finance and helpers in Bennington's 50th Anniversary Capital administration, were at each. Campaign have been held, both in California. (An In San Francisco, Joel Wells Schreck '54, a article in the December Quadrille detailed some trustee of the College and chairman for Year III events in Phase II, or Year II, of the campaign.) (1980-81) of the campaign, chaired the meeting and On January 22, the Los Angeles group met at made a statement which appears on this page. the home of Tama and Bob Taub (Tama Alcott In Los Angeles, Nancy Miller Mahoney '53, class '59) for an instructional dinner meeting and discus- chairman, and from the East Coast, joined sion, and on January 23 the San Francisco heads Stickney and Vanderpol in helping to explain pro- and helpers met at the Bank of America Building cedures and timetables. She was to be in the area for the same kind of meeting and dinner. Rebecca long enough to solicit her classmates there before B. Stickney '43, director of the campaign, and returning to the East.

Left to right in Los Angeles were Tama Alcott Taub '59, 'That's what Bennington is all about ... ' Penelope Hartshorne Friedman '50, Joyce Keener '67 and Irene Borger '71. Others at the Los Angeles meeting were The following is the text of a statement by Joel nel vision, to pursue a specialized course of study. Louise Friedberg Strouse '36, Elizabeth Joan Bayne Wells Schreck '54 at a dinner meeting in San Fran- Some highly trained specialists have found Williams '44 and Nancy Miller Mahoney '53. Those who cisco on January 23. Mrs. Schreck will be chairman themselves without options, without the freedom to met in San Francisco were Margaret Stein Frankel '41, Suzanne Heller Harris '41, Elisabeth Evers Ori/finger '47, of Year III, the final phase, of the 50th Anniver- grow into new endeavor, because of a simple twist Susan Schapiro Brody '54, Mary Lou Peters Schram '56, sary campaign: of technological fate. Required "Western Civiliza- (coordinator for the dinner meeting), Carol Bennett We all know that we care a great deal about Benn- tion" is designed to create the potential for choice, Schoenberg '57, Sarah Southern Pease '59, Renee Engel ington and are thoroughly committed to its the background for informed problem solving. I Bowen '65, Beverly Rantoul Turman '67, Claire Weinraub welfare. But do we know why we share such deter- prefer Bennington's everyday commitment to seek- ;71 and Andrew Schloss '74. mination, why our Bennington experience is so im- ing solutions, the real-life participation in an ac- portant to us and convinces us that our par- tive, working, intellectual community. ticipatory educational system is the key to the While I am convinced that required courses will future? create more than the well-rounded student, or It seems clear to me that the whole idea of an cueball, I am convinced that the computer will 8-to-1 student-faculty ratio provides the stimulation have a profound effect on learning techniques. The for a constant exchange of ideas. Students are urg- ABCs, the nitty-gritty facts of practically any sub- ed, even compelled, to take initiative to seek diver- ject under or beyond the sun, will be available by sity and variety. A student can explore, test, argue computer. By the time students decide to go to col- and live in an unconstrainted intellectual communi- lege they will have had a smorgasbord, a Sesame ty and is given every opportunity to act, to func- Street, of advanced thinking made available to tion and to take primary responsibility for his or them. Where will they go next? Will they decide to her own involvement in that community. Benn- stick with a single discipline or will a few, having ington provides an environment, an attitudinal been given such an exhilirating view, continue to freedom, from which innovation and creativity push all the buttons they can find? grow. That's the key to Bennington! We continue to Many colleges, like Harvard, and more recently look for the seekers, the innovators, the connec- Stanford, have returned to required core curricula tors, the people who will use the varieties and per- in order to get their students to diversify, to get mutations, the links, in knowledge. That's what In San Francisco, left to right: Sue Rayner Warburg '52, some historical perspective, rather than, with tun- Bennington is all about. Dorothy Mc Williams Cousins '39, Emily Knight Oppenheimer '45, Dana Walker '78 and, partly hidden, Janet Roosevelt Katten· '51.

Also in San Francisco: Emily Knight Oppenheimer '45, Nancy Hauck Russell '49 and Susan Hedge Hossfield '42.

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Editor: Tyler Resch, Director of Publications. Alumni edilor, Mary Jane Lydenberg, Alumni Director. Contributors to this Know this foursome? This photo and the others on the cover, and on Page 3, were found in the archives unidentified. issue: Valerie Restivo, Florence Burggraf, R.B. Stickney, Those with identification should write to Quadrille . Results will be published in the next issue. Christine Graham, Lois Chazen. Principal photography (unless otherwise credited) by Tyler Resch.

4 Faculty Division: Black Music According to Bill Dixon, the Black Music Division "wasn't done by design; it just happened." With an original proposal for an institute vetoed, the This article begins a series of dialogues and features on each of Bennington's eight academic division was formed in 1973. "Our approach," divisions, with the emphasis on f acuity members and their activities in the arts and professions as well as their roles as teachers at Bennington. The rest of the series will include a brief discussion says Dixon, "is that you're not teaching a voca- of each division, and then a focus on one or two of its members. tion; you're teaching an art. Creativity is fine, but The Black Music Division is unusual in several respects. Among other things, it is the only divi- you've got to have the skills to use it. We teach sion in which all faculty members are on part-time status (most of them also work part-time in aesthetics, philosophy, criticism-the social condi- other divisions), and until recently it was the only division in which a major was not possible. tions that have made this music what it is. Nobody Now, following a vote of the faculty in November, a major is offered. any more questions the fact that there is a Black In addition to f acuity members Bill Dixon and Stephen Horenstein, who are featured in this ar- aesthetic in music." ticle along with teaching assistant Arthur Brooks, others in the division are faculty member "This is the only full-fledged Black Music divi- Milford Graves, a multi-percussionist, performer and teacher, and teaching assistants Nadi sion in the country; others are either an institute or Qamar, a pianist' and composer who specializes in African instruments, and Larry Jacobs '78, part of another department. I am not so na- who teaches guitar. The article was written by Valerie Restivo, a free-lance writer and longtime tionalistic that I only feel comfortable doing this observer of Bennington; the series will continue in future issues. music in Harlem. We still have the stigma of nightclub playing behind us. This is a very serious program. Criticism is given in the way you give work-the art and the teaching and the composi- criticism if you want people to improve." tion become the same thing. (Seriousness of purpose is not to be confused with Horenstein: "I've come through a different humorlessness; Dixon emphasizes the importance route. I've traveled and performed with Bill. For of humor in major creative works.) me, it's always a process. "What we're doing now-we're in the vanguard Brooks: "I was preparing for another career. I'd of what Bennington College was originally intended been dabbling in sociology (at Antioch). But I'd to do." always been playing music. I didn't think I was "We believe that the music we do is an art and good enough. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. also a language," Stephen Horenstein explained, as In the aspiring Black middle class you were suppos- he and Arthur Brooks shared some of their ex- ed to become a professional. The Black musician periences and observations on a chilly December was ahead of the rest of the Black community in so evening. "The elements can be taught to anyone many ways; he saw the world. But I grew up with who wants to learn. This is America's only in- an image of musicians as drug addicts ... no digenous art music. Along with modern dance, it money ... a wild night life ... death at an early age ... provides us with the two most important contribu- tions (to international culture)." It's like running away from your shadow: I turn- ed around and there it was-the music." "In the Black Music Division, we take a Horenstein: "I woke up in the middle of the minimalist point of view; we don't try to teach the night and realized that was what I wanted to do. I full spectrum. A student doesn't have to study any was about 18, ready to drop out." (He started other music to get a basic education in music. Our studying literature in college.) "For a while, I curriculum is set up to provide the discipline studied to be a cantor, at Jewish TheolQgical necessary to become a full musician. We try to Seminary. The idea of leading people in prayer strip everything down to a musical level. It's a repulsed me, so I gave up the cantor idea! I went complete kind of education, but first and foremost to the Hartt School, studied ear training, theory, musical." piano. I came to Bennington as a student of Marcel Arthur Brooks clarified his own perspective: Moyse, in flute. "Teaching has become so much a part of my per- ''I met Bill and decided 'This is where I want to formance, I see them as the same. The nature of If the music I work on has to be learned." Asked be.' it weren't for Bill I wouldn't have dealt with Bill Dixon the source. Like most white musicians, I would how he feels about making music with students in- have been with the periphery." stead of professional musicians, he said, "In some "The two biggest fears I have are being mediocre ways I find it easier here. The students are familiar with my language, and they haven't been so in- and being anonymous. I told that to Bill and he fluenced by the economic pressures that demand said, you can' t control anonymity, but you do have that a musician develop a specific style. There's less control over mediocrity.'' deconditioning to do." "The goal in this division is for students to learn Horenstein: "I'm in complete agreement. to speak through their instruments. We feel that Students don't have the attitudes professional musi- the best way to do that is to involve them in our cians do. Sometimes it' s hard to get a piece of professional work. When they stand up and music done. Bill (Dixon) is the master of the art of play-even though it's in the woods-that musical taking these students and making things real. Some world is the real world. It's just as important as of it he couldn't get done with professional musi- playing a gig in New York or Paris.'' cians. There are some sounds that require such Brooks: "Bill says that note you will play might delicacy-the trumpet not sounding like a conceivably change the world. Once you have trumpet ... " (It's easier to get students to explore played it, it's out there somewhere. It doesn't en- the less traditional ways of playing their in- tirely disappear. We have responsibility for that struments.) note.'' "You work so hard during the term, that is your work. I have started to amass a small body of works (created as part of the Bennington ex- Chamber forum perience rather than outside it). It's all the same. The Chamber Music Conference and Composers Composing is part of it." Off campus, he doesn't Forum of the East meets at Bennington this year always find the world so accepting of his work. from August 10 to 24. "I'm known as the mad saxophonist of North Ben- If you would like to meet other music lovers, nington," he said with as much pleasure as embar- play chamber music with professional coaching, rassment, explaining that some of his neighbors are meet and hear the works of several composers, and less than appreciative of his long hours of practice. spend a week or two on the campus of Bennington, Brooks: "I've taken several ensembles outside write for information to: Judith Ensign, Box 535, the school-to Boston, Putney, other places. I pro- Steve Horenstein Purchase, New York 10577. duced a record with my students. This is my Four paintings by Paul Feeley, two of them major with edges blended and stained into a ground ot the postcard invitation to the sale. works, will be auctioned at Sotheby Parke Bernet mustard yellow. A/maack, painted in 1964, is in the The Motherwell collage is an unusual early work, in New York in early spring. A new painting by New York, hard-edged style for which the artist is donated by the artist some years ago. It has in- Kenneth Noland, Cant, a collage completed in 1959 best known. A similar Feeley painting was shown spired a great deal of interest in the artistic com- by Robert Motherwell, Sea Lion With Red Stripe, by Eugene Goossen at the Museum of Modern Art munity in New York as has a Motherwell and a smaller sculpture by David Smith, The "Art of the Real" exhibit. The fourth painting is monotype in the collection given by Mr. and Mrs. Raven, are among the works donated to the sale an elegant untitled work, 30 by 30 inches. Three of Walter Bareiss (Mary Stimson '41). sponsored by Bennington College. these paintings were donated by Helen Feeley The Visual Arts faculty is well represented in the The four Feeley paintings span three distinct Wheelwright, Paul's widow, an alumna, and for Sotheby sale and exhibition preceding. Pat Adams phases in the artist's development. Three Marine many years alumni director at the College. has given a delightful painting, New Day. Philip Bathers, 40 by 34 inches, is a representational The Noland painting, 36 by 103 \14 inches, is a Wofford has donated Green Earth Beard, 60 by 60 work, oil on canvas, done in 1948. Betty Parsons beautiful, irregularly shaped canvas from the same inches. Nuances of color, metallic pigments and has donated a later work, Paros, completed in 1958 series shown at the Leo Castelli Gallery this fall. colored pencils are used in Carol Haerer' s lovely and shown at her gallery in 1970 with other Feeley The painting was given to the College by the artist painting Harlequin. Frances Barth, who taught at paintings of that period. The canvas, 94 by-68 in- and will appear on the cover of the auction the College several years ago, has given her book ches, has a large central motif of cerulean blue catalogue. The Motherwell collage will appear on of the Russian alphabet, each letter illustrated by

College sponsors art auction at Sotheby's March 7 to 11

Roy Lichtenstein poster, 1969.

Robert Motherwell's "Sea Lion with Red Stripe, " collage, 1959..

"Bagatelle, " tinplate, by Robert Cronin. handcolored etching and aquatints. Richard Haas an affordable range of prices, are included. There colors. has donated his new color print of the are two prints by Roy Lichtenstein, one a. poster Originally, Sotheby Parke Bernet offered three Metropolitan Museum of Art at dusk. There will for his Guggenheim retrospective in 1969 and the days of exhibition to the College, March 8, 10 and be several prints and a painting on paper by other Yellow Still Life, as well as others by Robert 11 at the New York gallery, 980 Madison Avenue. Thelma Appel. Others formerly on the art faculty Rauschenberg and Ray Parker, to name a few. This was recently expanded to include March 7 as and participating include: Anthony Caro; Peter Digadigado, a varnished steel sculpture by alum- well. Since Sotheby's has relinquished its customary Stroud, who taught at Princeton and now heads na Jaqueth Hutchinson '64, will be exhibited as commissions, all proceeds of the sale will go to the painting department at Rutgers University; well as three table pieces, one of them in bronze, Bennington College. An order bid sheet, to send Robert Cronin, who now teaches at the Worcester by Andrea Woodner '70, who assisted Anthony offers before the sale, will be included in each auc- Museum School; and Vincent Longo, now at Caro and Isaac Witkin after completing her studies tion catalogue. Catalogues may be obtained before Hunter, who has given a lovely print, Aka/a (C). at Bennington. Susan Crile '65, who is well known the sale by sending $6 for each and your name and There will be a number of large canvases in- for her rug paintings and is represented by Droll- address to Mrs. Emil Mosbacher Jr., (Patricia cluding one by Cora Cohen '64 and '72, an alumna Kolbert Gallery in New York, has given a beautiful Ryan '49) Nipowin Island, Mead Point, Greenwich, and former graduate student at the College, Horse two-part pastel drawing, 38 by 100 inches. Joanna Connecticut 06830. Latitudes, 76 by 104 inches. A number of fine Pousette-Dart '68, whose last show was this fall at prints, many of them by well-known artists and in the Susan Caldwell Gallery, has given two water-

Pat Adams' "New Day," acrylic on canvas, 1979.

Barnet Newman etching.

Paul Feeley's "Three Marine Bathers," 1948. "Bagatelle, " tinplate, by Robert Cronin. Paul Feeley's "Three Marine Bathers," 1948. Class Notes

Elizabeth Capehart Donenfeld has revived her Joseph Palamountain, on commission. Elaine '37 interest in sculpture and attends the Sculpture and her husband Seymour, a professor of phar- '43 Center in New York City, "where the heritage macological science, live in Stony Brook, New Barbara Saul Jacobson is still serving on the of beloved Simon Moselsio and Herta are very York. board of managers of Haverford College, and much in evidence"--the two people who stir her is a member of the board of directors for the fondest memories of Bennington. Elizabeth, Katharine Kidner Wise is serving on the Alicia Ruhl Mac Arthur reports about her six Foulkeways Retirement Community. Barbara her husband Harvey, and their two daughters legislative advisory council of a local hospital, children: five are currently enrolled in private also does volunteer work for the Quaker U.N. live in Manhattan. and she and her husband Harry are on the schools or colleges, and the other is considering program, a non-governmental organization. SAAC (Sub-area Advisory Council) for the graduate school. "Whew!" Alicia does She and her husband, Solomon, live in New Michigan stale Health Systems Agency. She is volunteer work for S.0.S. College Foundation Hope, Pennsylvania. still active on the boards of two Detroit social and for the Friends of the Library, and lives in services agencies--one a settlement house and Medford, Oregon. Elisabeth Paine Merriss has finished a large the other a multi-service agency dedicated to 1/2 '40 design for a needlepoint wall tapestry, 5 by innovative programs and demonstration pro- 4 feet. She takes on free-lance art commissions, jects. Katharine is st ill devoted 10 the doll- and completed two dog portraits for house and miniature field, and is a volunteer in Christmas. Elisabeth is still sculpting and at- pediatrics. The Wises' children are away from Cynthia Banks Alexandre received the '44 tended an illustrator's workshop at Fairfield home, two are married, and they have a two- Distinguished Service Award of the University, Fairfield, Connecticut, where she year old granddaughter. Katharine and Harry Metropolitan Golf Association at that group's lives. In addition, she is a part-time researcher live in Birmingham, Michigan, and travel as annual dinner meeting in New York last for Houghton Mifflin. much as possible. November. Cynthia is the first woman to A recent show in the Third Street Gallery, Joan Brush Parish writes with joy that she and receive this award; she has been very active in Philadelphia, featured bas-relief (planes) and husband Edward have a great-grandson, Max- golfing associations in New Jersey and has wall hangings (knottings) by Elizabeth imilian Parish Brown. The Parishes have three been a member of the women's committee of Stockstrom Augustine and Sherry Wheat. Bet- children and live in Peterborough, New Hamp- the USGA since 1969. She and her husband '42 sy's geometric bas-reliefs are mostly made of shire. Joan is doing portraits in pencil and oil. DeWitt live in Far Hills, New Jersey; they have wood or styrene plastic with modular, three children and five grandchildren. triangular shapes--forms she developed in an attempt lo depict the intersecting roof lines of Anne Thomas Conklin does sculpture in weld- Nancy Fahnestock Denniston's poetic bent has the Philadelphia row houses and the play of light across them. One large piece in the exhibit ed steel, mostly animals and birds. She has a resulted in publication of some poetry in a studio at home, but also works al the Creative local paper and one poem in the hardback was constructed by the two women working '38 together--of textured wool (Sherry's medium) Arts Workshop. She is a board member of the "Charleston Poetic Review." This in the incorporating Betsy's interest in planes. Betsy Peabody Museum of Natural History. Anne adverse circumstance of a daughter's radical and her husband George, an architect, live in cancer surgery (successful) and her own second and her husband, John, a professor of anatomy al Hahnemann Medical College, live Anne Bretzfelder Post's drawings and sculpture Woodbridge, Connecticut. They have two cataract operation. Nancy has moved recently in Philadelphia. were exhibited for the benefit of the Academy daughters and three granddaughters and, in to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. of Medicine in New York City, her home town. April, they rented a house on the Island of Joseph, her husband, is a professor of Nevis and had a great reunion with the whole Enid Klauber Dillon is playing the harpsichord medicine at the New York University Medical family. and studying conlinuo theory. She is a School. The Posts are expecting a grandchild volunteer for the San Francisco Early Music '47 next summer. Helen Rotch (Buxton) was married to Dr. Society and the Bennington Alumni Associa- Harry M. Rose on July 30, 1979. Until her tion. Meantime, she is looking for technical remarriage, Helen had been a volunteer for St. writing work related to the architectural world. Luke's Hospital in Lakeville, Massachusetls. Enid has moved to San Francisco, where she Joanna Alling received a B.A. from Sarah The Roses are living in Center Harbor, New lives in a 100-year-old Victorian house. Lawrence College in 1976 and now has an Hampshire. '39 MSW from Columbia University School of Mary Hammond Rodman has been active in Social Work. She is employed as a psychiatric International Year of the Child and Baha'i social worker and family therapist in the field Faith projects this past year. Her paintings and of alcoholism and substance abuse for Hall- Harriet Brigham Dickson writes that she is '41 prints have been shown in the Milwaukee Art Brooke Hospital. Joanna lives in Westport, tutoring children in a local elementary school Center Museum rental and also in the Wustum Connecticut, and has three grown sons. who have learning disabilities, on a volunteer Museum in Racine. Mary lives in Wauwatosa, basis, and that she is also a family counsellor Wisconsin, with her husband Thomas; they Beatrice O'Connell Lushington teaches French for the Cape Cod Family and Children's Ser- have three.children and three grandchildren. to small boys at Brickwall House in Northiam, Elaine Pear Cohen is doing a portrait sculpture vices. Harriet and her husband live in South East Sussex, England. Her husband, Stephen, Orleans, Massachusetts. of the president of Skidmore College, Dr. Deaths ESTHER KUH (Betsy) ASK OW '46 of Winnetka, JOYCE BESKIND GRODNICK '44 of association with Bennington College and served as Illinois, died January 17, 1980 after a long illness. Maplewood, New Jersey, died November 12, 1979. her class chairman; and she was an active volunteer She is survived by her husband Irwin, her daughter Born in Brooklyn, New York, she is survived by with the Rocky Mountain Planned Parenthood Catharine '74, and son Daniel. Another daughter, her husband Marton Grodnick, and her three sons, Association of Boulder and Mesa Vista Susan, predeceased her. William, Leslie and James. She once served as a Sanatorium. After leaving Bennington, she studied graphics at member of the board of trustees of the Bennington the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. She Alumnae Association, and had worked as assistant was a graphic artist specializing in printmaking, to the head of the social anthropology department etching and photography, and was a member of the at Connecticut College for Women. Mrs. Grodnick Results IMP Printmakers, a group of Chicago area artists was an active volunteer in many local charity and printmakers who meet to share their use of groups including United Jewish Appeal, the Field As a result of a plea in the December issue of techniques and experimental ideas. A resident artist Settlement House in Newark, and was a life Quadrille for copies of the Barbara Jones book at the Noyes Cultural Center, Evanston, Mrs. member of Hadassah. Two of her nieces, daughters Bennington College: The Development of an Askow exhibited in the sales and rental gallery of of her brother Herbert, also graduated from Educational Idea, and of the Winter, 1976 the Art Institute of Chicago and was a professional Bennington--Ellen Beskind Smart '66 and Joanne Quadrille, we received five books and two back member of the Arts Club of Chicago. She exhibited Beskind Rivkin '71. issues of Quadrille. Thanks for replenishing the with the Oxbow, a summer art colony in files. Three copies of the book have been given to Saugatuck, Michigan, was on the board of and ex- the Crossett Library. hibited with the North Shore Art League, and was WINIFRED GRAHAM DOWNSBROUGH '55 of a member of and exhibitor with the Renaissance La Jolla, California, died September 30, 1979, Back copies Society of the University of Chicago. In addition, after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, whe worked as a volunteer for Recording for the Peter, and four sons. She will be remembered for Due to computer problems during the last six mon- Blind and spent many hours reading, and monitor- her service as her class chairman and for her ap- ths, the College is aware of several alumni who ing readers forblind graduate students. pearance in theatrical productions and as a dancer. have not received Quadrille on a regular basis. Mrs. Askow was a lifelong resident of the There are extra copies in storage, and we would be Chicago area, and her husband was a Winnetka glad to send back issues on request. village trustee for three years, two of which he PAMELA HANFORD LAWRENCE '51 of A probable list of missing copies would be: served as village president; he is a trustee of Benn- Boulder, Colorado, died September 28, 1979, after Winter 1979 (Vol. 13 #3), Spring/Summer 1979 ington College. An endowed scholarship fund for a three-month bout with cancer. She is survived by (Vol. 12 #4), August 1979 (Vol. 13 #1), October visual arts students has been established in Mrs. her husband Robert and by her son, Vernon and 1979 (Vol. 13 #2) or December 1979 (Vol. 13 #3). Askow's name. daughter, Viki. Mrs. Lawrence was proud of her Write to the College Publications Office.

'. 8 is headmaster of this independent boarding her dissertation. The Landises live in Swar- dustry and schools, and has a private she composes, teaches, and performs with the school which specializes in the treatment of thmore, Pennsylvania, their home since Ken psychotherapy practice. Her husband Richard Da Capo Players, which celebrated its 10th an- dyslexic boys aged I 0 to 18. became a vice president of Swarthmore Col- is a professor at Harvard University. They live niversary recently with a concert at Alice Tully lege. in Belmont, Massachusetts, with their pre-teen Hall. Joan also sits on evaluation committees daughters Jennifer and Sarah. for the National Endowment for the Arts and Sylvia Canova Lukens has a two-person college the New York State Council on the Arts. '48 exhibit this month at the Athenaeum Museum Gloria Dibble Pond is chairperson of the State in Alexandria, Virginia, and reports that she is Power Facility Evaluation Council (Connec- a trustee of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts ticut), a quasi judicial board regulating public Association (which is affiliated with the need at reasonable cost and environmental im- Virginia Museum in Richmond). Sylvia's hus- pacts of electric generating and transmitting '63 Sonya Rudikoff, a writer, has received a band, Walter, is a vice president of Litton In- faci:ities, gas lines, telecommunication towers fellowship from the National Endowment for dustries, and they make their home in Alexan- and CATV. She also serves on two New the Humanities for 1980-81. Her husband, dria. England siting policy boards. Gloria lives in Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary Robert Gutman, is a professor of sociology at Woodbury, Connecticut. of the United States to the republic of Mali, Rutgers University and lecture of architecture Renee Hubert Spencer and her husband, Earle, Anne Forrester Holloway was sworn in on at Princeton University. Sonya and Bob, with have become avid curlers. They curl out of the November 19 and wrote that she arrived in their two children, John and Elizabeth, live in Winchester Country Club, north of Boston, Bamako on December JO, and was settling into Princeton, New Jersey. and Renee is now first vice president of the her new duties at the embassy. After Benn- U.S. Women's Curling Association. She is '61 ington, Anne went on to an M.A. from "dedicated to doing as much as ... possible to Howard University in 1968 and a Ph.D. from '50 introduce the uninitiated to this great sport, Antioch-Union Graduate School in 1975. She and to increase the membership in existing curl- Patricia Groner Dubin is working for GEICO, taught for a few years at her alma mater, Nor- ing clubs .. . would love to hear from any Benn- a large property-casualty insurance company. thfield School, then lectured at Howard ington alumnus who might happen to be a Primarily she develops marketing/advertising University, was director of the Drum and Spear curler." They are also eager, though mediocre, strategy for homeowners and marine insurance. Press publishing house for a year, was visiting Virginia Allen Jensen has been writing, she says, golfers. Though they live in Win- Pat has been a single parent for nine years; she assistant professor in the Black and African translating and agenting children's books for chester, Earle is advertising manager of a trade co-owns a house in Arlington, Virginia, with studies program at SUNY Buffalo, associate many years, both in Scandinavia and the publication in New York City. Their son and another single parent which they call a mini- director for legislative affairs of the Southern U.S.A., and has also been teaching and tutor- two daughters have completed college and are 200--two mothers and four kids. It's an Christian Leadership Conference, executive ing in Danish. She lives in Gentofte, near working but not married. Earle Ill's Williams economic alternative that has more advantages director of the Black Student Fund, and from Copenhagen, with her Danish husband, Flem- commencement coincided with his father's 25th than disadvantages. Pat's 13-year-old daughter 1975 to 1977 she was legislative assistant for ming, and three daughters Merete, Annette and reunion there. Jessica would like to go to Bennington; foreign affairs to then-Congressman Andrew Kirsten. 10-year-old Matthew isn't sure yet. Young. Since 1977 she has been special assis- Now, as a result of a chance encounter with tant and director of the State Department of- a teacher of blind children, Virginia has pro- The Poughkeepsie Journal quotes Joan Tower, fice of Andrew Young, ambassador to the duced an astounding picture book for very '57 in an early November issue, about life as a United Nations. young blind children, and is already at work on woman composer. "It's a rarity to hear a work Anne's quiet forcefulness has been apparent another. by a woman composer. .. there are no models. throughout her life and her friends say her What's Thal was released in Britain by Col- We have no models. We have no Beethovens or evolution is one of adaptability, not com- promise. Anne says, "With each new ex- lins in 1977 and has been published in 11 coun- Helen Allentuck Bronheim remarried in Stravinskys, although a number of works by It perience I have grafted onto the old. I don't tries. is Virginia's translation and adaptation January, 1978, and is now Helen Horowtiz. women composers, written during the 18th-and of Lionni's Hvad er de!?, assisted by artist 19th-centuries have been uncovered. Women shed. My point of view is one that takes into She's an account executive at the public rela- account all competing points of view." She in- Dorcas Woodbury Haller. This picture book tions firm of Howard J. Rubenstein Associates, have to be good at pushing themselves, with a simple story, only 400 words long, although they are evaluated more stringently sists she is "quite ordinary," but the impact New York City; her husband, Or. Sidney she makes, in whatever situation she en- about four friends' search for a hidden Horowitz is associate dean of the School of than men ... I grew up as a pianist--the idea of playmate, is designed to be read by a child's composing as something on paper--1 had no counters, is her own, and certainly not or- Dentistry, Columbia University. The dinary. mother or teacher, while the child follows the Horowitzes live in Manhattan. one around me wbo composed ... I have become action on embossed pages by touch. a cause person." The article affirms she is a Anne's husband, Marvin Holloway, directs a Even the script took years to perfect, for it woman and a composer and her biggest cause private relief program for southern Africa. was necessary to change some expressions to right now is proving that the two can mix. Home for the Holloways and their 8-year-old convey the proper image through the tiny '58 Some of Joan's work was heard on campus twin daughters is now Department of State, fingers. "Tall" had to be "long," and "fat" when she and five other composers who are Bamako, Washington, D.C. 20520. had to be "wide," because tall and fat were Bennington grads came together for a concert not precise enough. The aid of a 74-year-old in April, 1968. She lives in Manhattan where Louise Reichlin of Los Angeles and her hus- 1 printer was enlisted and he spent four years creating a machine which could mass-produce Margaret Beckwith Parsons is .a volunteer do- the book's cast of heroes and achieve a relief cent for the Litchfield Historical Society, and printing technique to raise the characters in her husband, Levi, is lay reader for the braille fashion. Episcopal Church. Margaret is a poet and artist Letters The story is about some abstract shapes call- in her free time, and recently wrote a poem, a ed "Little Rough," "Little Shaggy," "Little study of Jane Austin which is on the level of From South Pacific to Denmark Stripe" and their friends. Each shape is made her dance at Bennington and New York City. Margaret changed her pursuit for health of raised plastic dots or lines and each is easily In the seven years since my graduation (Class and directs documentary films, primarily reasons. The Parsons live in Litchfield, Con- distinguishable from the others and pleasant to of '72), I've visited Bennington several times, ethnographic films, both for the general public necticut. the touch. For those with vision, the bright most recently two years ago with my husband and for educational use. yellow pages are delightful. - but I haven't written until now. I've been This past summer we spent six weeks in the To quote Ann Pellowski, director-librarian compelled to write now because of the several South Pacific - on Fiji, Samoa and the of the Information Center on Children's issues of Quadrille which my parents have sent Solomon Islands. Two years ago, Kristian Cultures, UNICEF/USA: "At a conference on '60 me from New York, in which I read news of made a film about the impact of proposed children's literature in Denmark, when I men- old friends and classmates now scattered in dif- phosphate mining on the island of Bellona in tioned that I thought it [another book] was my ferent parts of the world. the Solomons, which is a subsistence economy only true candidate for a universal picture I'd like to tell a little about what I've been society, and this summer we returned there, book list, Virginia Allen Jensen stepped up and doing these past years. together, mainly because the island was recent- said 'Yes, but what about blind children who Laurie Vance Adams is a full-time potter with After graduation I moved to Boston and ly hit by a cyclone which destroyed the crops cannot easily grasp the abstracts of color?' her own .shop and is also doing a lot of worked at McLean Hospital and the Beth Israel and homes on the island, and which has (lucki- And she then showed me her adaptation of wholesale work. It all happens in Camden, Hospital, at the Adolescent Day Center and the ly) indefinitely delayed any plans for mining. What's Thal by Lionni, the first printed picture Maine, where she lives with her two children Jn-Patient Psychiatric Unit, respectively. Two Kristian also went to organize and mobilize book for blind children. I have since taken it to Matthew and Sarah. years later I moved to Copenhagen, where I relief aid in the form of building materials, more than 30 countries, using it with all types entered a Ph.D. program in clinical food, clothing and money, to be sent to the of children, and I must revise my statement Pamela Abel Hill is often in the news. Her in- psychology. l received my degree in June 1979, island. It was quite an experience being there, and say that now Wha1's Thal is my only can- terest in documentaries dates back to 1964, and now am engaged in an occupational health and would be even better if PanAm would find didate for the truly universal picture book when she watched Fred Freed's "Decision to study of locomotive engineers (!) at the In- the suitcase with all our film, which they have list." Drop the Bomb," and she pointed herself in stitute 'of Social Medicine, University of "misplaced"! It will be a long time before the publishers that direction in 1965 when she joined NBC Copenhagen. Although I like living in Denmark, I often can expect to see any profit. But the impact of News, New York, as a researcher for its Last winter I took two months off for a miss the possibilities for closer contact with Whal 's Thal could be remarkable. There is a documentary unit. At ABC News, New York, study tour to India; I received a travel grant friends and family in the States. I'd like to crippling lack of material for handicapped since 1973, and now vice president of the from the UNDP, and spent most of the time in hear from some of my classmates, whom I young children. Virginia hopes other creative documentary unit, with a budget comparable to South India, where l was interested in the haven't been in touch with for quite a while. people will use their imaginations to produce other networks and her own staff of 31, she psychological impact of malnutrition on With fond thoughts of Bennington, objects with form and shape for young children will produce 12 network hours of ABC News (primarily) pre-school children. This meant who cannot see. Closeup documentaries a year. Pam prides visits to villages, clinics, hospitals and day-care Lisbeth Shore Paludan herself on keeping an open mind a looking all centers in the slums of cities as Madras, Copenhagen, Denmark the time--she feels the conventional narrative Mysore and Bangalore. I've written a series of form is necessary but has faith in the newspaper articles on my impressions and ten- usefulness of the nonnarrative. She stresses ex- tative findings, (for use now in the Interna- Memorabilia wanted '51 cellence in accuracy, authenticity, writing, tional Year of the Child), and have made a photography. Her ideas about future film photo exhibition which is now being circulated If you were a student at Bennington during the documentaries are legion, and we can expect to throughout the country's public libraries. I'm years Lewis Webster Jones was president, see independent documentaries besides the planning to continue a study of the dynamics please write me about your teachers, fellow Joan (Dusty) Hutton Landis writes that their Closeups. of the mother-child interaction and its im- students, social life, the farm, NRTs, basic boys are all away: Chris is a third-year ar- Pam and columnist Tom Wicker, her hus- plications on the condition of malnutrition, in courses, your major, evaluation of the College chitecture student at Columbia, Joshua has band, live in Manhattan; most of their children conjunction with a primary health project th:en and later, and so forth. Until March 15 I graduated from Swarthmore and is teaching at and stepchildren are away from home. established by the Danish Agency for Interna- will be at 321 East York, Savannah, Georgia a school in Beirut, Lebanon, and Ethan is a tional Development. 31401, and thereafter at RD I, North Benn- freshman at Antioch. Dusty continues to teach Patricia Kahn Light is chief psychologist at the On July 2, 1977, I married Kristian Keiding ington, Vermont 05257. I will reply. at Curtis Institute of Music and is working on Harvard Business School, a consultant to in- Paludan, a social anthropologist who produces Thomas P. Brockway Class Notes band, Alfred are both free-lance School of the Arts, Humanities and Environ- 2Y2-year-old circus; Paillette is the circus direc- Frances Dorsey, who has her studio and home choreographers and dancers; Alfred is also an ment in Seattle. A highly qualified faculty tor. In wi{lter they do street shows in the vicini· in Peterborough, Ontario, is a tapestry maker. actor and musician. Louise has been on the which includes professional artists has been ty of Paris. Home for Zoe, Paillette and their She uses traditional tapestry techniques, but faculty of the University of Southern Califor- formed and the school plans to open in small daughter is their cardinal red trailer. dyes her own yarn, uses crocheted elements as nia, Los Angeles, as a choreographer in the September, 1980. Ellen has received a grant well as bones, feathers, etc. She is starting to drama department. They have founded an um- from the Northwest Area Foundation to Cecilia Guiu Searle's first son, second child, make rugs also, and had an interview published brella company, Los Angeles Choreographers develop the humanities program for the school. Colgate Searle Ill, was born October 31, 1979. recently in Canada Crafts magazine. and Dancers, with the performing units of She is married to Paul D. Raymond, but re- Cecilia is a landscape architect, and her hus- Louise Reichlin and Special Dancers, and tains her own name; they are chief ad- band Colgate is a professor of landscape ar- Ulysses Dove was the subject of a feature arti- Alfred DeSio, Tap Dancer. Recent perfor- ministrators of the new school. Ellen has been chitecture at the Rhode Island School of cle in the Buffalo Evening News last June just mances have been given at Dance Kaleidescope contributing her services to Bennington College Design. They live in Providence. prior to his performance with the Alvin Ailey at Ford Theatre, International Dance Festival as interviewer and hostess for that area. American Dance Theater in that area. "Once I at UCLA, Bing Theatre at USC, LA Street Elaine Lasker VonBruns is a partner in Sunlite had made up my mind that dance is something Scene, and at the dance festival at the Embassy Anne Waldman has received an award of Transparencies, a decal company, making I loved and enjoyed, I decided to give it for "Discover Arts in Downtown L.A." $10,000 from the Literature Division of the Na- design cards. She is also a free-lance artist and unlimited energy and unlimited tional Endowment for the Arts for 1980. writer: she has written and illustrated a humor time ... Everything I was doing at Bennington Abbey Smith teaches art in the secondary Published in 1979 was a second printing (with column for the Valley Voice, a Vermont was geared toward my coming to New York. schools of North York and Toronto, Canada, additional poems) of "Fast Speaking Woman," newapaper, and has articles printed in Ver- !...prepared myself for the professional world and is exhibitions coordinator for the Ontario and Volume II of "Talking Poetics from batim, a language quarterly. She is developing while ... in college." Crafts Council. She has also been lecturing on Naropa Institute" edited by Anne Waldman a new category for the record library of Morn- Born in Columbia, South Carolina, he ceramics to the Saturday Morning Club of and Marilyn Webb. Anne lives in Boulder, Col· ing Pro Musica, for station WGBH-TV entered Howard University as a pre-med ma- children aged 9-14 at the Royal Ontario orado. Boston. Elaine lives in Watertown, jor, then switched to dance, went to the Museum in Toronto, her home town. Abbey's Massachusetts, with her husband, Charles, who University of Wisconsin and then Bennington; husband, Robert Greenberg, is architectural is a general agent for the American Income while there he made frequent trips to New program director for the Ryerson Polytechnical Life Insurance Company. York City. He likes the Ailey company because Institute there. They have two children, Noah, '67 it shares choreographic responsibilities, and 7, and Zoe, 4. Ailey's choreography, like Dove's own, draws upon the black exper.ience and the style is high- '69 voltage, exciting, expressive and vividly theatrical. Sally Levin Brotman has sent word of the birth "The whole business that perhaps dance is '64 of her third child and second son, Benjamin, in not for men simply never concerned me ... socie- June, 1969. Sally and her husband, Carl, live ty's attitudes toward male dancers .. . made my in Wayland, Massachusetts, with their three Katherine Aldrich is head nurse of an intensive- commitment. .. that much stronger .... With the children. Carl is a physician, and Sally teaches care unit at Sacramento General Hospital, a Damaris Low and Elroy Botwick were married whole male image changing. Men are now pottery in her studio at home. teaching hospital for the University of Califor- allowed to admit they have feelings, even in New York City on September 16. Damaris nia, Davis. Kate earned her R.N. at Boston's acquired a stepdaughter, who was her flower allowed to cry, and occasionally on television. I Carolyn Heimberger Gannon has had her Deaconess Hospital after getting a B.A. from think it's all much more realistic, taking into girl at the wedding, and two stepsons. After fourth paper published in the area of software William Smith College. She lives in Sacramen- account who we are, instead of living up to leaving Bennington, Damaris attended the verification (a branch of software engineering). to, sharing a house with a woman doctor. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, some kind of notion of who we are not. .. " She is a sol'!ware engineer for General Research Before Ailey he worked with Merce Cunn- and the School of Visual Arts, New York; she Corp. in Santa Barbara, California, where she Susan Phillis Kucsma has been named assistant ingham, Pearl Lang, Mary Anthony, and had a is a fabric designer and consultant. The lives . Her work involves a good bit of business vice president of Marsh & McLennan, Inc., newlyweds live in Manhattan. summer at Connecticut College when he had a travel and she was in Germany and Switzerland New York City. She and her architect husband, chance to work with Jose Limon. Ulysses Dove this past fall. Husband Terry is also in com- Kurt, live in the city. dances out of New York City. Linda Tolbert Tarnay appeared with her puter science, with a Ph.D. in electrical modern dance company for several days last engineering, and Carolyn has an M.S. in elec- Margaret Parker's paintings in oil and gouache After graduating from Bennington, Christina spring at the YM-YWHA in West Orange, New trical engineering--both from University of appeared in a one-person exhibition at the Na- Jersey. The performance at the Maurice Levin Mills Root studied at Teachers College, Colum- California, Santa Barbara. tional Art Center, New York City, for four bia University, and received a master's degree Theatre was the fourth program in a five-part weeks starting Christmas Day . After leaving in home and family life, and earned an M.S.N. modern dance series hosted by the club with Carol Kinne received a CAPS grant in Bennington, Margaret completed a fine arts as a pediatric nurse practitioner from Yale the support of the State Council on the Arts. graphics, in 1979, from the New Yor~ State degree at the University of Michigan and has Linda has had her own company since 1975, School of Nursing. Now Tina writes that she Council on Arts. Recent exhibitions include a made Ann Arbor her home. Besides painting, has been working on the Navajo Indian reser- and is living in Manhattan. site painting al Utica College, a branch of Margaret has designed sets for operas, vation, Shiprock, New Mexico, and Chinle, Syracuse University, April-November 1979, en- costumes and executed designs in tapestry. One Arizona. Home is Many Farms., Arizona. titled "Circle for Utica College," and a one- of her tapestries hangs in the Capital Building person show in October of her paintings in Washington, D.C. '66 1965- 1979. Carol is employed by the Gallery Association of New York State as a shop technician in Hamilton, New York, where she '71 lives. Her husband, Robert Huot, an artist, is Pamela Stowe Fisher, now remarried, has a an assistant professor at Hunter College, and family of five children and practices law full she has a stepson, Jesse. The Huots live in New '70 time as a staff attorney for Montgomery Coun- Sarah Bailey was married to William F. ty (Pennsylvania) Legal Aid. The Fishers live in Berlin, New York. Downey November 25, 1978 and they have a Ardmore. Anne Peplau was recently promoted from assis- tant to associate professor in the department of A serious painter for ten years, Dina Ruth psychology at the University of California, Los Schley was drawn to bread making while hus- Angeles, where she is actively engaged in band Charles, a research engineer, was based in research on loneliness and on close relation- Paris. She broke into the traditionally all-male ships. Anne (she has dropped Letitia) lives in French baking profession by serving a year's Sherman Oaks, California. apprenticeship with a receptive French baker, then finished a tough two-year program at a Born to Kathleen Verity Haynes Shorr and Parisien baking school with honors. Charles Gregory Ira Shorr, M.D., a daughter, was transferred to the States and the family Rosemary, in Tucson, Arizona. At two weeks settled in Santa Barbara, California, Dinah of age Rosemary was observing dance class and opened Les Belles Miches, her own French supervising Perihelion Dance Company rehear- bakery, early this year. Her children, Chip and sals. "Now, of course, mother and father Sara, have breakfast there every morning. watch her for inspiration!" Rosemary's father Dinah takes bread baking to heart, "It is a liv- is clinic director/physician for Indian Health ing thing because of the yeas!. The dough Services at Tucson, and her mother is founder changes every day. I feel a real emotional and director of the Perihelion dance company. response to my bread."

Ellen Taussig, after nine years of t.eaching and developing a humanities program in indepen- '68 dent, secondary schools in California and Washington, has joined forces with two long- standing Colleagues to form the Northwest Published in 1979 by St. Martin's Press, Babysense is Frances Wells Burke's first book. This practical and supportive guide to baby care will be followed by another. If anyone Eager to Swap: From May to October (plus with pre-school children would be willing to fill or minus), 1980, a studio guest house out a questionnaire for her second book, please (k & b), patio garden, view of La Jolla and write her at 26 East 2nd Street, New York, the Pacific Ocean, within walking distance N. Y. 10003. Frances' husband Charles is an of both U.C. & Scripps Institute of editor/writer for Fortune magazine, and they Oceanography, for a New York City apart- have a 4-year-old daughter, Caitlin. ment (same months). Call, or write Judith Horton Munk ('46): 714-453-2452, or 9530 Josephine Zoe Noyes Maisgre says a circus can La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, California be something very magical, and she ought to 92037. know because she's the trapeze star of the travelling circus owned by her husband A photograph from Bennington's archives shows Ulysses Dove '70 teaching a class at Paillette. There are nine performers in this George Washington University during 'the NRT of 1969-70.'

10 son, Robert, born last Sarah has February 26. It will include color prints made at the College of St. Rose, Albany, New York. architectural licensing in a New York City ar- been teaching art, writing children's stories and by Harold, several mural-size installations, and Teri's works arc being featured in a one-person chitectural firm. She is also a free-lance other poetry, and studying film and painting. a poster for the show published by Modernart show at the Albany Center Gallery to run photographer. Margery lives in Manhattan. The Downeys live in South Weymouth, Editions. After leaving Bennington, Harold through February 22. Teri has been working in Massachusetts. earned a B.A. in computer science from New collage, with bits of multi-colored paper: "Art Claudia Shwide's stackable ceramics were York University. He is living in Manhattan. is a process that is part of living where you featured recently in the New York Times. She After their marriage in Nairobi, Kenya, in never really arrive ... if you really think you has turned her study of ceramics, experimental 1977, Joan Harris and her husband David Jon DeVries has kept reasonably busy in have arrived, that's when you should start wor- sculpture and painting to her advantage by Wiseman (a pediatrician.and specialist in theater since graduating from Bennington. In rying. There's always some growing to be developing a line of cooking and serving tropical medicine) reported that they had mov- October, director Terry Schreiber started done." She has always been interested in casseroles. The three-part casserole, for in- ed to Kathmandu, Nepal, with the Save the casting for Abe Polsky's "Devour the Snow" teaching art therapy to the handicapped, and stance, consists of a two-quart bowl, a four- Children Fund (1978). The Harrises have now and Jon was picked to play Lewis Keseberg, she does that now at the Wildwood School. quart bowl, and a lid which can be used as a returned to David's home area, British Colum- the plaintiff. Rehearsals were to start im- The Medinas live in Albany. bowl; all are unglazed on the outside and glaz- bia, and are living on Hornby Island. Their mediately, and producer Craig Anderson was ed on the inside. Claudia is living in Manhat- first child, Elliot, was born last September. hoping to get an off-Broadway booking. tan. Brian Johnston and Beatrix Busch '75 were Jessica Hirschhorn is a registered nurse, and '75 Stephen Smith assumed the duties of married October 13, 1979; Mary Busch '74 was now she is enrolled at Georgetown University organist/ choirmaster of the Presbyterian her sister's maid of honor. Beatrix had been as a first-year medical student. Jessica lives in Thomas Kafka is making canned laughter at a Church of Upper Montclair, New Jersey, effec- working as an assistant editor with Miller Arlington, Virginia. TV studio in Hollywood, California. After tive January I. He has been organist and direc- Freeman Publications, publisher of industrial leaving Bennington, Thomas earned a B.A. in tor of three choirs, as well as a handbell choir and technical books in San Francisco. Brian, Since Alexandra Hughes earned a diploma and English from the University of New Hamp- which he founded in Middletown, New York. an actor, has appeared in plays in New York master's degree in voice and opera from shire, then went to Los Angeles. There he He is a member of the adjunct keyboard facul- and San Francisco. They are living in the New Juilliard School, she has been doing a lot of worked as a television engineer for Metromedia ty at SUNY, New Paltz, and is the organ in- York City area. free-lance singing. Last summer she par- Television and was a volunteer radio engineer structor at Shineman Chapel of Hartwick Col- ticipated in the Lake George Opera Festival. for Pacifica Radio, KPFK, Los Angeles. He lege in Oneonta, New York. A student of Amy Snyder will conduct her new work, She is a member of the New York Opera lives in North Angeles. James Weaver, director of music at Madison "Feast of Stones, Mass for 30 Trombones and Ensemble, which will perform The Marriage of Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York City, Percussion," in a performance by The Bay Figaro this month. Alexandra lives in Manhat- Martha Manno and her pediatrician husband, he has also studied under the late Dr. Claire Bones at St. Mary's Cathedral in San Francisco tan. Philip Gruppuso, had twin girls, Christina and Coci and Dr. Robert G. Barrow. Stephen has early this month. In March she will be one of Natalie, in December. Martha earned her BS in recently moved to Montclair, New Jersey. two conductors presenting Henry Brant's Allison (Alley) Mills auditioned for ABC-TV's psychology at Union College and has started a "Trinity of Spheres" with the Portland Sym- show "The Associates" last fall, and was given master's in counseling. She works as a family An exhibit of Ellen Wiener's pastel drawings phony Orchestra, Portland, Maine. Amy is liv- the role of a young lawyer from a lower-class planning counselor at the Women and Infants appeared for three weeks last fall at the ing in Shaftsbury, Vermont. family who is trying to step up by becoming a Hospital in Providence, Rhode Island, where Somerstown Studios and Gallery in Somers, partner in a New York City Law firm. This they live. New York, at the same time that a larger ex- Tamsin Willard teaches English at Benjamin situation comedy about the upper class was be- hibit of the same kind appeared in the Hillyer Franklin High School in East Harlem. After ing produced for ABC's Sunday night series. Pianist Philip Rubin was guest artist of the Hall Art Gallery of Smith College, Northamp- graduating from Bennington she attended Bank Alley has been working between Hollywood Alumni House Concert Series sponsored by the ton, Massachusetts. Martha studied at Pratt In- ·Street College of Education and earned her and New Haven, Connecticut, and her home Adelphi University Music Department at a con- stitute, the Rhode Island School of Design and M.S. in Teaching. Tamsin lives in Manhattan. address remains New Haven. cert in November. After leaving Bennington, he the University of New Mexico after graduating attended Hofstra University, had a perfor- from Bennington, and she has received resident Laurel Sprigg is assistant manager for Gibraltar mance scholarship at the 92nd Street Y School fellowships at the Ossabaw Island project, '72 Savings & Loan, traveling between 19 branches of Music in Manhattan, and worked at Adelphi Savannah, Georgia, and at Sweet Briar, in northern California. She is studying cello U. He has also studied under Blanche Abram Virginia. She's located at the Virginia Center and teaching private dance lessons; and loving for the Creative Arts in Sweet Briar. Mary Barringer, potter, received a grant this of Baldwin and Claude Frank of New York Ci- San Francisco still after five years there. year from the Connecticut Commission on the ty. Philip lives in Sea Cliff, New York. Arts. She recently had a show of handbuilt clay Elise Weinrich and Leon Geary were married pieces and work done in collaboration with a '77 June, 1978, and have been in Durham, South fiberartist. Mary lives in Hartford, Connec- Carolina, since mid-1979. Elise is a second-year ticut. '76 resident in dermatology at Duke Hospital; Lisa Braverman has completed a year in Lima, Leon is a physician in internal medicine. A note from Emo Corro tells us that she was Peru, as a visiting scholar for Rotary Interna- Environmental lawyer Randall Uenker focused born October 2, 1979 to Janis Birkeland and tional 1977-78. She has been accepted by the her efforts this past year on preventing further New York University Graduate School's pro- Pedro Corro. Her mother is an architect for destruction of Florida's wetlands and estuaries gram in Spanish language and literature. Lisa the city of San Francisco as a planner and ur- by developers, and has lectured at the universi- '74 lives in Levittown, New York. ban designer, and her dad teaches transporta- ty concerning environmental laws. Randy was tion and economics at a maritime academy Ronald Dabney returned last month from a appointed to handle all the legal work under Peter Bergstrom and Susan Still (she uses her while writing his dissertation in planning. The three-week stay in Caracas, Venezuela, where the Florida Water Restoration Act, which maiden name) have a daughter, Madeline, and family lives in El Cerrito, California. he was assisting Remy Charlip in created state-funded projects to rehabilitate a son, Nicholas. Peter is doing research for his choreographing for the modern dance com- polluted waters. Randy lives in Tallahassee Ph.D. thesis, at the University of Chicago, on pany, A Taller Danza de Contemporanea; the with lawyer husband, Paul Lehrman. Joan Glass is in her third year of a clinical parental care in Wilson's Plover, a shorebird. psychology doctoral program at Rutgers company will give a concert this spring in New He spent three and a half months in southern University. She is doing well and still loves York City at the Dance Theater Workshop. Pauline Hewitt was married to Dr. David Texas last spring watching nesting pairs from a dancing but can't give it much time. Joan is During the period September through Lautenschlager in June 1978, while both were parked truck (with temperatures up to 102° in- living in Highland Park, New Jersey. November Ron was dancing for Remy Charlip, on the faculty of Swarthmore College. The side) and plans to return next spring for more Anthony LaGiglia and Sheila Kaminsky, and Lautenschlagers live in Hastings, Michigan, data. Susan has been working part time at Nor- Lisa Honig lives and works in San Francisco, did some work for Barbara Roan. He lives in and Pauline is finishing her dissertation at thwestern University graduate school, in bet- California, where she is a fund raiser and con- Manhattan when he's not traveling or not be- Tufts. ween mothering. They live in Chicago. cert producer, self-employed. ing general factotum of Bennington's Summer Workshop program. Robin Miller is doing psychotherapy at a men- Elizabeth Caspari, potter and sometime Brant Houston and Mary Ellen Watkin '77 tal health center, as well as in private practice. weaver, is one of only 400 craftsmen invited to have moved to Missoula, Montana, where they Holly Moore Dale was married to Ernst Semple She works with individuals, families and sell their wares at the Baltimore Winter Market are pursuing their several careers--the one Howard, Jr. in Carmel, California this groups. Last summer she traveled in France, of American Crafts held this month. Last sum- writing and the other potting. September. Holly completed her degree at UC doing watercolors and drawings. Robin also mer Liz won three awards at the New England Berkeley, and is employed by Monet-Ciani throws pots and handbuilds at a clay studio, Weaving Show; rugs are her main interest and Deborah Kreda spent a year overseas after Jewelry Co. Howard is a graduate of the and sings alto in a sacred harp/shape note she has acquired a loom with six-foot weaving graduation: 4Yi months as a maid in Paris, 2 University of San Francisco and is employed by hymn singing group--all in Philadelphia, where width to enable her to create larger pieces. Her months as a worker in an Israeli Kibbutz, 5 Y2 Procter & Gamble. If anyone can furnish Hol- she lives. talent is respected both in the pottery and months backpacking through Europe via the ly's address we would be pleased to have it. weaving worlds and her works are on sale in youth hostel route. Then she worked as a Karen Oram was a tour guide last fall for the shops and galleries in Connecticut, secretary for the state senator representing her We received a note from John Sheldon some Smithsonian's first two-week tour to Spain. Massachusetts, Vermont and New York. Liz district in the California legislature. She's in time ago from Manhattan saying he is alive She also works at the Pan American Health lives in Hoosick Falls, New York, where she is the second year of her Ph.D. program in and living dangerously. Now he's living in Organization, publication department, and active on a community committee which is try- English at the University of California, Los Cambridge, Massachusetts. What happened? -teaches part-time at Catholic University of ing to spark new awareness in that area for arts Angeles, and starting the •spring quarter will be America. Her dissertation for Catholic U., on and crafts. the teaching assistant for an undergraduate 15th Century English Lives of St. Mary honors course, "The Anxious Voyage: A Main '78 Magdalene, is still in progress. Karen lives in I've Got a Feeling, a cabaret revue of the songs Theme in English and American Literature, Washington, D.C. of Shellen Lubin, was presented at the Chelsea 1400-1950." Deborah lives in Los Angeles. Encore in New York City in mid-December. Meta Bach writes that she is a student at the Kathleen Pollick was married to Jonathan M. The show included theatre songs from Jill Nathanson's abstract paintings were ex- University of Texas, Austin, hoping to com- Storm, Williams '69, last October. Kathleen is Celebrate My love, Molly's Daughters, Bad hibited at the Park-McCullough House for two plete her degree in 1981; she's working on a working toward her Ph.D. in social work and News, ladies and Dear Alex, Dear Harriet, weeks last November-December. She is instruc- double major, in music and anthropology.· psychology while doing administrative work in and a few of her non-theatre songs. Brooklyn ting art at the JASA Senior Center in She's also playing guitar in a Mariachi band. the employment services office at the Universi- is Shellen's home base. Brooklyn, is a drawing instructor at the College Meta lives in Austin,, Texas, and would love to ty of Michigan School of Social Work and of New Rochelle, and is a lecturer for Art teaching a course at the school. Jon is a copy Daphne Smith has moved to Eugene, Oregon, Tours of Manhattan. Jill lives in the New York hear from her friends (POB 8305, zip 78712). editor at the Detroit Free Press. Their home is where she is a graduate student in biology at City area. Detroit, Michigan. the University of Oregon. Laurie Moss moved to Seattle, Washington, in W;:'ve learned by word of mouth that Tarah October and is working as a bank teller. She is Teri Yarbrow-Medina got her B.A. in fine arts Nutter is playing a lead part in the movie looking forward to entering graduate school '73 at the California Institute of the Arts after "Head Over Heals," with John Heard. when the circumstances are right. leaving Bennington College, then an M.A. in Harold Davis will have a show of his painting from Otis Art Institute of Los Margery Perlmutter received her M.Arch. from wilderness photographs at the Arras Gallery, Angeles, and came back cast for another M.A. Columbia University and is working toward her New York City, for four weeks starting 11 51thAnniversary Report Comments from alumni Dear Chairmanof the Bennington College Capital Funds Drive: Enclosed is my check for the Capital Funds Drive. It is given in lasting gratitude to my teachers. They opened vistas for me and stimulated my curiosity. I have continued to build on what they taught me. So thank you, Thomas Brockway, Bob Coburn, Peter Drucker, Frances Fergusson, Erich Fromm, Nora Hasenclever, John Lydenberg, Simon Moselsio, ·Charles Smith. GBB, New Jersey

I am pleased to enclose a check for the Benn- ington College 50th Anniversary Fund, representing our family contribution for the year 1979. Recently I received the Anniversary brochure, may I take this opportunity to say: Bravo! I can't tell you what a feeling of relating it gave me--as I am sure it did for others who were fortunate enough to participate in this rare learning ex- perience. Our campaign can't help but be a success, President Joseph S. Murphy gladly accepts a check of $500 stallments will be paid this year and next. In background as I am sure there are many "who value the from Robert J. Lewis, vice president of the First Vermont are Rebecca B. Stickney '43, campaign· director, James creative effort highly ... and find a rare place in Bank & Trust, and manager of its Bennington branch. The Vanderpol, vice president for finance and administration, Bennington College where it is encouraged to bank, with which the College has its account, has pledged and Peter Donavan Jr., chairman of a local development grow .. . " $8, ()()()as an expression of support and confidence in Benn- committee for the Bennington community. ington's 50th Anniversary capital campaign. Other in- As far as earmarking the enclosed contribution-- please feel free to use these funds where they will best serve the needs of the College. Although I did A message from Virginia Todahl Davis '40, not graduate from Bennington (due to personal cir- national chairman of campaign's Year II cumstances), I have always considered it a special place where I received a lifetime gift: a love of Well, things are very much Cleveland, Detroit, Cincinnati and Miami). learning. Best of luck with all your campaign efforts. It is under way. As I write here at Our structurF for thisevery-alumna/us- home in spring-like mid- solicitation is working well. The class chairmen are sure to be a great success. MPM, Connecticut ( \ January weather, it is hard to doing their jobs superbly. Some have needed a bit ,grasp the fact that not even of prompting, but everyone who said she/he would I would be happy to increase my gift by twice if final report dates for Ver- take on the responsibility is following through. The mont, Connecticut, Washington, DC/Maryland class heads and helpers (those doing the soliciting) by next January I am gainfully employed full time. have yet occurred. But by the time you all read are hard at it. The results of their labors are good I owe the College a great debt. this, they will have, and the 50th Campaign will so far. A full report of money raised by class and BIN, Massachusetts largely be over in those areas. area will be printed in next month's Newsletter, Massachusetts will be completed in mid- and let it suffice for the moment to record with Named Funds February, California North and South are being you that of the $3,700,000 now standing in the In the October Newsletter we reported on various launched next week. By mid-March, New Jersey 50th Fund, $1,216,500 has been given by alum- funds which had been established by alumni in and Greater New York - whose campaigns begin nae/i. honor of former faculty or alumni, and all of in early February - will be finished by mid-April. To all you workers and would-be workers: Press which were part of the 50th Anniversary Fund. Maine, New Hampshire and Rhode Island are on! You are doing wonderfully well. To all you Here now is an up-to-date report on those various under way. A meeting is tentatively set for the alumnae/i those workers are soliciting: Be Funds, as well as the announcement of three Greater Philadelphia area for late February. Then thoughtful of them, look hard at yourself and give recently established funds. we're off to the Midwest and the South (Chicago, careful consideration to their solicitation. October Current Amount Amount REUNION MEMO The Ernestine Cohen Within the general time frame of the celebration Meyer Visiting Fellowship $197,800 TO: Bennington Alumnae - Classes of 1945 of Bennington's 50th Anniversary three classes, The Ben Belitt Lectureship $100,000 100,000 through 1960 '54, '55 and '56, will mark their 25th reunions. The Catharine Osgood During the weekend, President and Mrs. Murphy Foster Fund 95,00 117,100 FROM: Muriel Seelye Heineman '47 will be hosts at an At-Home in honor of these The Elizabeth Reed Keller Joan Rothbarth Redmond '54 classes. Memorial Exhibition Fund 8,600 14,560 Cora Gordon Silberman '60 A planning committee has been at work. There The Ella W oodner Macey Patsy Rogers '60 have been discussions with students, faculty and Scholarship Fund 5,000 5,000 administrators. We are working out a program The Gregory Tucker RE: The Builders Reunion, May 16, 17, 18, which will, we think, not only bring us up to date Memorial Scholarship Fund 24,450 28,180 1980 on work going on at the College, but which will The Sandra (Kesselman) The 25th Reunion for the classes of '54, provide us with both time and place to share with Slotnik Scholarship Fund 12;400 '55, '56 each other discussion of our own work, our pro- Last year the Pioneers (alumnae from the classes blems, our hopes, our views on being a woman in New Funds of 1936-44) staged a spring reunion at the College today's world, our views on how our Bennington The Barbara and Lewis Jones as part of Bennington's 50th Anniversary celebra- educations serve (or do not serve) us. Do plan to Teaching Fund $ 33,400 tion. Being planned now is the spring 1980 reunion- come! Husbands/roommates are, of course, in- The Marianna Lowell Barzun Fund 10,000 -this one for The Builders, that generation of alum-· vited. The Esther Kuh Askow Memorial nae (1945-60) which secured Bennington's reputa- Mark your calendar. Reserve May 16, 17 and 18 Scholarship Fund 2,800 tion as a college of academic excellence and which for a return to Bennington. A detailed program, built the curriculum upon which that reputation registration card, and other information will follow More 50th campaign news rests today. soon. appears on Page 4 of this issue

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