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Victory Stand Tommie Smith (MA G-C ’74), Olympian and lifelong activist, receives Goddard College’s Presidential Award for Activism. story on page 7 spring | summer calendar For information on all programs and events | goddard.edu

APRIL JULY AUGUST 5 Haybarn Theatre Fundraiser: Anaïs 10-20 Port Townsend Writers’ Conference, 2 Haybarn Theatre Fundraiser, Plainfield Mitchell & Kris Gruen, Plainfield Port Townsend 2 Dr. David Allen Frisby, III Symposium 11-19 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend 11-18 EDU Residency, Plainfield on Poverty and Education, Seattle 11-18 UGP2 (BFAW, IBA, BAS, BA HAS) 11-19 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend 2-9 EDU Residency, Seattle Residency, Plainfield 13 EDU Commencement, Plainfield 3 EDU Commencement, Seattle 13 UGP2 Commencement, Plainfield 13 MFAW Commencement, Port Townsend 8-15 MA HAS, IMA and MA SIS Residency, 14 Visiting Writer: Justin Torres, Plainfield 25-Aug. 1 MFAIA Residency, Plainfield Plainfield 22 Vermont Crafts Council, Plainfield 27 MFAIA Commencement, Plainfield 10 MA HAS and IMA Commencement, 26 Discover Goddard Day, Plainfield Plainfield 22-29 UGP1 (BAS, IBA, BA HAS) Residency, MAY Plainfield Haybarn Theatre Renovations, Plainfield 24 UGP1 Commencement, Plainfield JUNE SEPTEMBER 12-14 Board of Trustees Meeting, Plainfield 5 Goddard Concert: David Wax, Plainfield 27-July 4 MFAW Residency, Plainfield 12-19 BA/MA PSY Residency, Plainfield 29 MFAW Commencement, Plainfield 14 PSY Commencement, Plainfield 30-July 4 Clockhouse Writers’ Conference, 19-27 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend Plainfield 21 MFAIA Commencement, Port Townsend

ANNIVERSARY CREW Alumni gathered in front of the Clockhouse during the 150th anniversary weekend in October. See more photos on page 18. Goddard c lo c k w o r k s Spring/Summer 2014 from the president

MANAGING EDITOR REETINGS, GODDARD! As of April 30, I am pleased to be joining Samantha Kolber the College as its interim president. I am so excited to be back at Goddard after a three-year hiatus. While at Goddard previously, I DESIGNER G saw the community accomplish a lot together, and a lot has been accomplished Kelly Collar in the interim. As I understand it, we have much to do once again. EDITORIAL BOARD This is an ideal time for the College to test itself against its Dustin Byerly mission, “To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration Kelly Collar and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative Meg Hammond and responsible action in the world.” It is a time of change in Samantha Kolber higher education. What others are calling “disruptive forces” are at play. These forces are broad and systemic, including PHOTOGRAPHY David Conklin David Halé cultural, sociological, economic, demographic and technological Patricia Coughlin Stefan Hard changes. We have no choice but to rise to these challenges. Andy Duback Fawn McManigal To do so well, we need to develop a solid understanding of how those forces are pushing higher education to change, FEATURE WRITERS and how Goddard should respond. This is an exciting time, Cerridwen Aker Sarah Kishpaugh during which we can confirm our values, and our value. Dustin Byerly Samantha Kolber Kris Gruen Peg Tassey Through that confirmation and with creativity, innovation, and collaboration we can blaze the path into the future that is BOARD OF TRUSTEES “imaginative and responsible,” the path that is Goddard’s path. Avram Patt, Chair Mike Hardee In my transition period there will be many calls on my time and my attention. Mario Borunda Tino O’Brien They are all important. As a result, over the next few months my focus will be on Dustin Byerly S.B. Sowbel listening and paying attention. I am hoping to be invited into your discussions and James Clay Jill Mattuck Tarule to hear your thoughts on every aspect of the College. This listening process will, no Wayne Fawbush Carl Taylor Suzanne Forsyth Carey Turnball doubt, elicit more ideas than the College will be capable of undertaking, but if an Andrea Leebron-Clay idea is not brought In my transition period, there will be forward it cannot TRUSTEES EMERITI be considered. many calls on my time and my attention. Cliff Colman Clotilde Pitkin Hence, it is Peter Donovan Joan Shafran They are all important. As a result, over important for us to Stephen Friedman Lois Sontag the next few months my focus will be on Mary McCullough Robert Wax reach out to each listening and paying attention. other to assure SUBMISSIONS that we capture Goddard College, Clockworks all the best ideas for consideration. There will be no end to this process of listening, 123 Pitkin Road formulating ideas for actions, assessing these ideas and moving forward with the ones Plainfield, VT 05667 that pass a rigorous review; therefore, it is hard to end this message. p 866.614.ALUM [email protected] However, I will do so by outlining a request I have of you to which I will hold myself: I ask that we approach each other and these discussions with candor, care and kindness. Candor, openness, honesty and truthfulness are all prerequisites Clockworks is Goddard College’s to high-quality actions. Care in understanding and communication will reduce semiannual community magazine. misinterpretation and unintended consequences. Finally, kindness will allow us to We encourage submissions heal as a community and move forward with hope and optimism. of news from alumni, faculty, staff and students. Sincerely, ©2014 Goddard College

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7 Victory Stand Award winner Tommie Smith (MA G-C ’74) takes another victory stand, this time at the Plainfield campus. BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)

10 Reflections: Rural Revolution Exhibit A recent show featured photos from Goddard art students and faculty from the 1970s. 7 BY PEG TASSEY (BA RUP ’79-’81)

12 Q&A with Scott Tournet 81 ’ Scott Tournet (BA RUP ’01), lead guitarist for 77- Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, talks about his musical career and his latest project. BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01) BY PAULA SIWEK RUP ’ ” 14 Welcome to the Library! 10 16 Meet the staff members of the Eliot SELF PORTRAIT SELF

“ D. Pratt Library in Plainfield, Vt. BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW ’14)

16 A Tool Toward Experience Academic programs explore new themes during Haybarn Literary Arts Festival. BY CERRIDWEN AKER (BFAW ’14)

14 Departments 2 Events Calendar 30 Faculty/Staff Notes 3 From the President 33 In Memoriam 5 College Briefs 33 In Remembrance: 17 On Air: WGDR Briefs Prof. Calvin Hicks 20 Alumni Portfolio 34 Goddard in the World 22 Class Notes

Send your news and notes to Goddard College, Clockworks Editor, 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, 12 Vermont 05667, or to [email protected]. STEVE LIMENTANI

4 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 | college briefs |

New Interim Academic Dean

TEVEN JAMES, former SMA in Psychology & Counseling Program Director, has been appointed as interim academic dean and chief academic officer. In addition to his experience at Goddard, James also brings a depth and breadth of experience Goddard Launches Fundraising from his consulting and Effort for Haybarn Theatre foundation work. James replaces Jackie PRIL KICKED OFF fundraising efforts for the Hayes, who served as the AHaybarn Theatre renovation, with a $30,000 chief academic officer for Cultural Facilities Grant from the Vermont Arts the past year and recently Council, and matching grant support. On April 5, returned to the ranks of singer-songwriters Anaïs Mitchell and Kris Gruen

PETER ARTHUR WEYRAUCH the MFAIA faculty. (BA RUP ’97) performed a Haybarn Theatre benefit concert to raise money for LED theater lighting, a permanent sound system, assisted listening devices, ADA accessible Vermont Arts Council presents $30,000 for the renovation. bathrooms, and other improvements. From left, Alex Aldrich, Phase 1 renovations start this May, with Phase 2 and 3 executive director of the VAC; continuing through 2015. Stay tuned for a second fundraiser in Janet Ancel, Vermont Rep., your art August; watch for updates at facebook.com/Haybarntheatre. here Calais; Meg Hammond, Goddard Join us in giving to the Haybarn Theatre Renovation Fund. events manager; and Gerard Visit goddard.edu/haybarn or contact Meg Hammond Holmes (BA GV ’89), senior (802.322.1685, [email protected]). development officer.

Calling All Grant Winner Announced for 2014 2014 Sustaining Artists Donor Challenge AST YEAR, Goddard created a Sustainability Entrepreneur’s LEASE SEND Grant to award $2,500 annually to a student in any program L FRIEND of the college IN your artwork whose business proposal promises to most effectively promote P has pledged $20,000 if to be considered for sustainable living, social equity, climate change adaptation, A we get 100 new sustaining Goddard College’s and ecological protection. Cynthia Tina, a donors to give $20 per month annual holiday card. level six student in the BA in Sustainability by May 1. We need 60 donors program, is the winner of this year’s grant Submit up to three to meet that challenge! for her work with Next Global Ecovillage digital jpeg samples to Alumni participation is a [email protected]. Network, or NextGEN (nextgenna.org). critical factor that foundations Please include the NextGEN is a global alliance of title of the piece, the ecovillage ambassadors and sustainability and other funders consider. medium, the year it educators who connect young people with Your giving will help us was made, plus your the ecovillage movement and empower leverage other gifts. name, degree program them to build sustainable communities. Make your donation online at and graduation year. Goddard would like to offer thanks to Jerry Greenfield, goddard.edu/giving, or use the Elizabeth Skarie and Concept 2 for supporting this grant. envelope in this magazine.

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Goddard Leases Building to New High School

AST SEPTEMBER, Goddard Lleased the Stokes building in Plainfield to the Central Vermont High School Initiative (CVHSI). The CVHSI was founded in 2011 by a group of parents and educators; the school uses the principles of Waldorf education to offer alternative educational opportunities for high school

LAURENCE WENSEL students in Central Vermont. This partnership is a harmonious combination Conferences Attract Goddard Alumni, Faculty and Staff of Goddard’s mission, local community resources, and an EDU Hosts Dual Language Conference “The Bilingual Education: Special Education initiative of Goddard’s five- Interface,” is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2015. HE 4TH ANNUAL Dual Language year strategic plan to diversify TConference, held at the EDU Seattle College Staffs Table at AWP Conference revenue and the use of campus. residency in early February, attracted over 150 attendees in support of scholarships for ODDARD showed its colors at the Associa- Goddard’s education students. Gtion of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) “Language, Culture, and Identity,” brought annual conference, held in Seattle in February. together more than sixteen language groups The college staffed an exhibit throughout the and presenters such as Professor Tasleem four-day event, with students, alumni and fac- Quasim from Shoreline Community College and ulty meeting and greeting attendees. Pictured in Colonel Wallace Sterling, Chief of the Moore the photo above, from left: MFAW student Mat- Town Maroons of Jamaica. thew Swihart; BFAW student Amy Cain; Senior Special thanks to the hardworking group Admissions Counselor David De Lucca; Outreach Stokes Building of over thirty volunteers that made up the Coordinator Samantha Kolber; and Director of planning committee. The next conference, Admissions Gariot Louima.

Alumna’s Daughter Gives Back

N NOVEMBER, Janis Ian, IGrammy winner and daughter of the late Pearl Fink (BA ‘80), held the second annual “Prose for Pearl” auction, a fundraiser for the

KORI WARING KORI Pearl Foundation, which supports the Pearl Fund BFA Students Launch Online Literary Journal Scholarship at Goddard. The auction featured donations UENDE is the new, national, online soulfulness, earthiness and expressiveness. from George R. R. Martin, Neil Dliterary journal produced by students Material submitted for the first issue will Gaiman, Pat Conroy, and a host of the BFA in Creative Writing program. run through May 15. of notable authors, and 100% It takes its name from Federico García of the profits were donated to Lorca’s 1933 Theory and Play of the Submit your prose, poetry, hybrid work and the foundation. Duende. The journal seeks authenticity and literary collaborations to duendeliterary.org. Janis also released a book of her own – The Tiny Mouse, her first children’s book.

6 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 Victory Stand Tommie Smith (MA G-C ’74), Olympian and lifelong activist, receives Goddard College’s Presidential Award for Activism.

BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)

After receiving their medals at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City, Americans Tommie Smith (center) and John Carlos raise their fists in a gesture of support for human rights and African American pride. CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 7 Smith receives his award from Competing at San Jose former president Barbara Vacarr. State University.

HERE ARE FEW IMAGES that capture and preserve the essence athletic director to Jack Scott. of an entire movement and moment in time better than the It was Scott who encouraged Smith photographs of Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman to pursue his graduate degree and T suggested that he look at Goddard at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Tommie Smith had College, which at that time had a just won the gold medal for the United States in the 200-meter race, program in Cambridge, Mass. “Jack told with a world record time of 19.83 seconds; Australia’s Peter Norman me that he thought it was necessary for finished second; and Smith’s teammate, John Carlos, placed third. a person with my ideas and my ideals to go further,” said Smith. “I couldn’t go in ‘mainstream America’ and get the degree As Smith and Carlos took their me to train hard and win.” I thought was necessary and push my places on the podium, draped in “It was my victory and I stood… for ideas forward because I would be taught their Olympic medals, they lowered human rights and equality. I stood to something. No, I wanted to teach them.” their heads and raised their clenched draw attention to the fact that we black Smith enrolled and was accepted fists covered in black leather gloves athletes had been asked to represent a into the Goddard Cambridge Graduate in a historic stand for human rights, country that didn’t treat us as equals.” Program for Social Change in 1971. He liberation and solidarity. This Misunderstood as a “black power” graduated with his master’s in 1974. courageous act of resistance propelled salute at the time, the gesture brought The program, created in 1970, was a Tommie Smith into the spotlight as a great hardship to both athletes. Smith collaboration between Goddard and human rights spokesman, activist and received death threats to himself the Cambridge Policy Studies Institute symbol of African American pride. and his family and was permanently that provided training and certification As a founding member of the banned from the Olympics, never to for those interested in combining the Olympic Project for Human Rights, race again. And although he is the theory and practice of social change. Smith had originally advocated only person in the history of track “My time at Goddard was an for a boycott of the 1968 Games as and field to hold eleven world records unforgettable educational odyssey,” a stance against apartheid, racial simultaneously, he has yet to be inducted said Smith. “I was able to bring all segregation and racism in American into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame. of my previous academic and life athletics. When the proposed boycott Following the games of the 19th experience together, and develop my ended in impasse due to the lack of Olympiad, Smith played professional understanding of the impact of racism consensus among the athletes, Smith football under the legendary Paul on all aspects of the human experience.” decided to make his own statement. Brown with the Cincinnati Bengals for Smith used the platform he gained “My mind had been made up three years. He went on to become an from his notoriety to advocate for that I was going to make a stand on assistant professor of physical education racial justice and to improve the lives one of the most prominent podiums at Oberlin College in Northeast Ohio, of countless youth and young adults. in the world,” he said. “But I had to where he taught sports sociology, He spent decades as an educator and get on the podium in order to do so. coached track and field, football, and coach, and continues in his retirement That was the motivation that drove basketball, and served as assistant to be a speaker, trainer, and champion

8 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 Speaking to a packed Reliving his famous gesture. Haybarn Theatre.

for at-risk youth. In 2004, he established student as he made his way through in 1968, Smith said in his acceptance The Tommie Smith Youth Initiative the human tunnel of graduates to speech, “The soul of a man was used to combat childhood obesity. his seat. As Smith took the podium as a beacon to shed optimum light Smith has received numerous awards to deliver his acceptance speech, the on a sober situation and a struggle and is recognized for his work both on entire room stood up and erupted into for lawful, communal parity…And and off the field. He was inducted into thunderous applause, and a row of the beat goes on.” Smith urged the the National Track & Field Hall of Fame students lined the upper level of the graduating class to trust themselves (1978), the California Black Sports Hall of Haybarn with their heads bowed and and to take what they had learned at Fame (1996), and the Texas Black Sports fists raised in the air in recognition Goddard into their communities. “No Hall of Fame (2012), to name a few. He of Dr. Tommie Smith’s life and work. bird soars too high if he soars with his also received an Honorary Doctorate Smith raised his clenched fist in return. own wings,” he said, quoting William from San Jose State (2005), the Trumpet Phyllis Brown, program director Blake. “Never forget that,” he said. Students were moved by Tommie’s My time at Goddard was an unforgettable speech. “The opportunity to share my graduation with the humble, yet educational odyssey. –­TOMMIE SMITH (MA G-C ’74) powerful, words of Tommie Smith,” said Seneca Kristjonsdottir (IBA ’13) of Award (2007), the Peace Abby Courage of the Undergraduate Program, was Golden, Colo., “solidified in me further of Conscience Award (2008), and the deeply moved by the event. Brown, who an inspiration to pursue genuine work.” Arthur Ashe Courage Award (2008). grew up in an all-white community, Smith, who had never attended a His lifetime commitment to remembered Smith’s victory stand and residency in Vermont, was blown away education, activism and public service the impact it had on her as young girl. by his experience in Plainfield. “I was prompted Goddard to offer him the 3rd “The day after, when my class was told surprised at the size, the history of it, Annual Presidential Award for Activism. to stand to do the pledge…I put my fist and the knowledge, respect and love Smith received the award from up in solidarity and to show that I was the people showed. The most exciting former president Barbara Vacarr at the aware, that I was part of the struggle for thing about it was the academics: these bachelor of arts commencement on Civil Rights.” Brown had been sent to were some of the smartest people I had Oct. 6, 2013. Speaking in the Haybarn the principal’s office; her punishment: ever met…I think it is because their Theatre to a full house of students, staff, to copy the pledge of allegiance 100 souls are invested in their own truth.” faculty, family and local community times with her left hand (she is right- His advice for young activists: members, Vacarr described Smith’s handed). “Tommie Smith’s stand on that “You have to understand your iconic gesture in 1968 as a “cry for podium holds personal and profound program, whatever it is, will have freedom in support of human rights.” meaning for me,” said Brown. “It to be a diversified program, and Tommie Smith’s presence at heavily influenced my life of activism, that it will require sacrifice, and graduation was exhilarating and community service and fighting against that sacrifice is going to grow… authentically Goddard. He embraced racism and all forms of oppression.” Always consider how your work, or and shook hands with every graduating Reflecting on that historic moment program, is going to help others.” CW

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 9 Reflections an insider’s look at the Rural Revolution Exhibition A Showing of Photography from Goddard Art Students & Faculty from the 1970s

BY PEG TASSEY (BA RUP '79-'81)

N THE 1970S AT GODDARD, clothing was optional. As a Iphotography student hired to photograph for Goddard’s catalogue, the only restriction I was given was, “No dogs and no naked people!” Thankfully, in 2013, when I curated the Rural Revolution photography exhibit for Goddard’s 150th Anniversary, there were no such restrictions. After seeing my old darkroom buddy David Sinrich’s gorgeous old photos posted on Facebook, I thought it would be fun to get a few of our classmates together and show our work from the late ’70s in a small exhibit. The idea grew into an exhibit spanning the whole decade, and after searching for six months for Goddard photography grads willing to crawl through their attics and send their 40-year-old prints to me, I ended up working with 27 alums and 800 incredible photos. These are not just snapshots of Goddard–these are photos taken by art students who were learning to see the world through their cameras, taken in a remarkable decade at the “Stephanie McMahon” most progressive and radical school by Jon Cornell (RUP ’71-’74) of the day. The teachers – Jeff Weiss, John Mahoney, Dicran Derderian, and Andrew Kline – were amazing. The photography program had made up The Haybarn Theatre; Allen Ginsberg portraits as students discovered who one-third of the student body, and in the cafeteria; Meredith Monk in the they were in a way that looks so different the work I received blew me away. fields. There are silver tinged shots of from today’s constant flow of “selfies.” Curating the images wasn’t easy. innocent yet serious faces; pinhole shots And, of course, there are naked photos: There are photos of Black Sabbath in of glowing gravestones. There are self- group shots, portraits, and even the

10 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 ! See more photos and artists’ bios at goddard.edu/rural-revolution. veggie dorm shots replete with produce. Naked seemed and looked different in the ‘70s at Goddard. Naked seemed political, rebellious, celebratory. We felt safe, we felt strong, we felt we could speak out and make a difference. You can see it in the fully clothed subjects’ faces as well. We knew we were involved in something special. We were inspired, and these 19-year-old photography students caught the way we felt on film. With the help of Archivist David Halé and Associate Director of Advancement and Alumni Affairs Dustin Byerly, Rural Revolution became a reality: 300 mostly black and white photos covered the walls of the beautiful Martin Manor, with a 20-foot-high slideshow presented on the night of the opening reception – Oct. 19 – in the Haybarn Theatre, while cellist Indigo Ruth-Davis played a piece written for the occasion. When I looked out into the audience of Goddard alums and the wider community, I saw tears. People were moved by the work these young people had produced, and moved, it seemed, by a time that we all remember to be an important part of our lives and our worldview. I am so grateful to these alums for allowing me to show their vintage photos and their very personal memories in this exhibit. Most continue to make art and show in museums and galleries around the world. I feel honored and privileged to have worked with them. CW

These are not just snapshots of Goddard. These are photos taken by art students who were learning to see the world through their cameras, taken in a remarkable decade at the most progressive and radical school of the day. MAKING AN EXHIBITION Clockwise from top left: “Cate Caldwell,” by David Sinrich (RUP ’79-’81); “Amy,” by Susan Bein (RUP ’70-’74); “Self Portrait Age 20,” by –­PEG TASSEY (BA RUP '79-'81) Karen O’ Hearn (RUP ’76-’79); “Self Portrait,” by Jonathan Sharlin (RUP ’69-’72); “Allen Ginsberg,” by Neal Warshaw (RUP ’70-’73); “Self Portrait,” by Peg Tassey (RUP ’79-’81).

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 11 with Scott Tournet (BA RUP ’01)

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recently spoke with Goddard alumnus and musician Scott Tournet than I do about the bigger shows. It has (BA RUP ’01) about his experience at Goddard, his musical career really grown over the years. We bring in as lead guitarist of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and his national acts but we also have a stage for I local acts and invite local vendors to set new solo project, Ver La Luz. Scott and I both attended Goddard at up during the festival in order to keep the same time and graduated in the same class in December of 2001. the Vermont spirit of the festival alive. DB: Tell us about your new solo album. Dustin Byerly: Scott, can you tell us for it myself, went out and immediately ST: a little bit about your background? got a job in my chosen field. Ver La Luz, which means “see the light” in Spanish, is an album I wrote Scott Tournet: DB: You were a founding member I was born in a and recorded in San Diego. It carries of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals. very progressive college town in a more hopeful and positive message How did that come to be? Williamstown, Massachusetts. My than my past work. Musically it is less family moved to Chester, Vermont, ST: Up until then I had my band at guitar-driven and more lyric based. when I was ten years old and lived Goddard called The Big Huge, but It confronts topics like mortality, on a large piece of land without our momentum was stalling. My loss, struggle and the like, but it does electricity until I was about sixteen. girlfriend at the time was going to St. so with an optimistic undertone. DB: How did you get into music? Lawrence University in upstate New DB: Are you working on any new projects? York, and I left Vermont to be with ST: I originally started playing music ST: her. That’s where I met Grace (and We finished a decade as a band, and when I was eighteen at Castleton State drummer Matt Burr), and everything we were touring so hard for so long, to College. It was quite informal at first, but the point where none of us had personal then something took hold, and all of a just started to come together. After about a year and a half we all moved lives, that we decided last September sudden it became my identity. I just lived to take it down a notch for a year, to and breathed music. It was everything. back to Vermont and lived on Grace’s parent’s property in Waitsfield while appreciate that there are other things DB: How did you find Goddard College? we played whatever gig we could get. in life. It’s been a welcome break. I am building a small studio, playing drums, ST: Well, the traditional education model DB: When was the moment you realized and learning to play the pedal steel wasn’t working for me so I began looking you had “made it” as a musician? guitar. More importantly though I'm for something different; that’s when I ST: reconnecting with family and friends discovered Goddard. I have to admit, The first big moment, for me, was and leading a more balanced life. I was a little scared when I came to when we were doing a residency at look at it. It was a very different world. Nectars in Burlington, Vt. The first week DB: How do you feel about Goddard today? there was only a handful of people there Every person seemed to be such an ST: I’m happy it’s here. Whether it is a individual. After visiting the campus I but one of them was a journalist from residential or a low-residency program, decided to make a move and went for it. The Burlington Free Press who wrote a great article about the band. This was in the self-directed educational philosophy DB: What did you study at Goddard? the dead of winter and the next week we is very powerful for certain people. It fits a lot of us who otherwise wouldn’t ST: I completely focused on music. were peeking our heads out the door at have a home in the educational system. It was an amazing opportunity for the back of the club and there was a line someone like me who wasn’t cut around the block! We were so excited. It DB: Looking back, what does your out for the more traditional music took a long time but we went from selling Goddard education mean to you? programs. I just studied what I wanted out Nectars to headlining and performing ST: It opened up doors. That’s the main to – which was kind of awesome. at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Red Rocks, thing. Beyond even music. I was exposed Fuji Rock in Japan, Rock in Rio in Brazil, DB: Did your Goddard education help to so many different ways of thinking and and playing to huge sold out stadiums. you in your career? living. This massive world just opened up. We also established a music festival Goddard just opened up everything. CW ST: Oh yeah, absolutely. I am very in Burlington called Grand Point North, proud. I went to school for music, paid and I almost get more excited about that – BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)

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go away, but then I realize that life in Welcome nirvana would be boring,” she says. 3 Helen Linda, Library Systems TO THE ELIOT D. PRATT LIBRARY! & Technical Services Librarian

There’s more to this dedicated crew than books. The library staff has been When Helen’s not in a library, she can be found driving around the state on busy establishing a new blog, updating borrowing policies, and providing Vermont 251 Club quests, doing her part access to free citation tools and a satellite librarian. Read on to meet the to keep the Sunset Drive-In open and people behind all these good works. BY SAMANTHA KOLBER, MFAW ’14 thriving, and generally adhering to the bumper sticker slogan “Keep Vermont 1 Paula Tamburello, Materials 2 Clara Bruns, Director Weird.” She knits and writes, and recently Access & Acquisitions Librarian of Information Access taught herself to make jam and fermented veggies. She is a longtime labor movement Paula has worked at Goddard since Clara believes that open access to enthusiast, and she’s delighted to work in 2007. She has her BA in Anthropology information needs to be balanced a unionized workplace for the first time. from SUNY Geneseo, and her MLS with copyright and right to privacy Helen has worked at Goddard for six from SUNY Buffalo. She enjoys concerning personal data. She began helping students and faculty with her career at Goddard many years years and is always cooking up new ideas. research and connecting them ago as a cataloger. She is a single She drafted and began administering to the resources they need. parent of two teenage girls, which Satellite Librarian last fall, and it’s a huge Paula has a passion for books, as is both challenging and a joy. success. This spring, she started teaching you might expect, and folk music. “Life is a balancing act,” says Clara. the new student orientation workshop, “I am an old folkie from way back!” She seeks to strike a balance between “Learn Your Library: Tour, Tools, Tips,” She has three grown children and job responsibilities and home life, and she’s thoroughly enjoying being out celebrates 30 years of marriage with available resources and demands, from the back-end of the Pratt Center. her lawyer/musician husband. Her exercising control with the need for “I’ve met so many students and daughter, Claire Green (MA EDU letting go. “I sometimes catch myself faculty for the first time,” says Helen.

’13), graduated from Goddard. wishing that all problems would “It’s wonderful!” PHOTOS BY DAVID HALÉ

14 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 4 David Halé, Library Assistant He and his wife enjoy their recently emptied nest, working at home, gardening, David originally joined the faculty at and selling books and collectables on E-bay. Goddard in 1984. He worked with both off- and on-campus students for 20 years, 5 Monica Nelson, Library and and he is now a part-time library staff member working in the Goddard Archives. Academic Support Specialist “I am honored to work in the archives, Monica joined the library staff in March helping others find meaningful answers of 2012 and she now enjoys working one- to questions about our very interesting on-one with students, focusing on time history,” he says. All are welcome to management, organization, study skills, visit the archives in the Pratt Center applying research and critical thinking, on Thursday and Friday mornings. and helping them address hidden Over the years, David has worked as a bicycle mechanic, sushi chef, and disabilities and personal challenges. substitute public school teacher, and he Her hobbies are reading, drawing, currently teaches a photography class at writing, graphic design, meditation, Johnson State College. His passions and yoga, and family history research. She avocations include precision woodworking, eats local and is a big fan of nonviolent metalworking, land surveying, and making communication, deconstructing and selling miniature, ornate plumb constructed (and oppressive) realities, bobs (you can find them on Etsy.com). contemplation and mindfulness. CW

Looking Back: Sarah Hooker retires after a career in higher ed. Boston University. It was its move from Plainfield, Memories from Goddard … the beginning of a 35-year working with others “Discovering the student freshly- run that ended on Dec. 31, to sustain and nourish arrived from Saudi Arabia, when she closed her office its guiding principles. being dropped off a week door in the Studies Building “I continued doing my early for residency! I’m glad I in Plainfield one last time. ‘Goddard’ job for 24 years,” just happened to be there!” “The first time I walked she recalls. “I loved working from the upper parking lot with the students; they were “Helping RUP grads and to the Manor, I thought a never-ending source of low-residency grads discover this was a beautiful surprise and creativity. And that their experiences were campus,” she says, “But the faculty felt like family.” more alike than not.” little did I know Goddard In 2001, Sarah became “Working at Goddard during would become the center alumni director at Vermont one of its hardest times (1981), of my professional life.” College, where she enjoyed then returning (2004) to stability After a year in financial working with former and optimism, when budgets aid, Sarah accepted a students and institutional were routinely balanced.” position in the original Adult advancement. Then in “The beautification of the hen Sarah Hooker Degree Program (ADP). But 2004, she “came home” campus, especially the arrived in Central W 1981 was a difficult time in to Plainfield, assuming the restoration of the historic Vermont in 1979, it the college’s history, and same role at Goddard. gardens.” made sense she would Goddard sold ADP and But serving students explore opportunities at three other programs to in the academic programs “Putting together Clockworks Goddard. She had settled Vermont College/Norwich was always her primary as it evolved from a newspaper two miles down the road University in Montpelier. passion. So, in 2007, she format to a full-color magazine.” in Marshfield, and she Sarah continued with began her final tour of “Following in the footsteps of already had nine years ADP and Vermont College duty at Goddard as a a long line of alumni directors of experience in higher for many years, helping to coordinator in the academic who gave their hearts and education, primarily at shepherd the program in services department. souls to Goddard.” CW

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 15 BY CERRIDWEN AKER (BFAW ´14) A Tool Toward Experience Academic Programs Explore New Themes During Haybarn Literary Arts Festival

enrolled in the fall of 2007 and, according to the program’s history, it is the only one of its kind. As a volunteer and a festival participant (a thank you to all who helped make this festival a success!), I found it a privilege to witness HLAF’s manifestation. Its diversity of offerings was rep- resentative of the literary aesthetics, approaches, and interests of our BFA/IBA students and fac- ulty. Areas offered included new ideas on pub- lishing, social media and writing; performance and sound; student and faculty readings; poetry and hybridity; persona and clichés; fiction and dialogue development; and creative nonfiction. The festival also hosted Cornelius Eady, who read from his many books of poetry, including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the Lamont Prize of the Academy of American Poets, and The Gathering of My Name, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His energetic reading drew a large crowd and was followed by a Q&A and book signing. “We get too obsessive about form,” Eady said during his workshop the next morning. “Form is merely a tool toward experience.” An eloquent finish to the festival, his words truly embodied the tone of HLAF—questioning, N COMMEMORATING GODDARD COLLEGE’S diverse, experimental. BFAW Program Director Janet sesquicentennial, the BFA in Creative Writing program Sylvester, who originated the idea for the festival, praised (BFAW) and the BA in Individualized Studies program I the spirit of cooperation that enabled it, from Director of (IBA) hosted the Haybarn Literary Arts Festival during the Undergraduate Studies Phyllis Brown’s encouragement, IBA fall 2013 residency. Held in early October on the Plainfield faculty member Pam Booker’s able assistance, and support campus, the event brought together faculty members from the Advancement Office, to the many student volunteers. and students from both programs to facilitate panels, “All around,” said Sylvester, “it was a labor of love!” workshops, and readings. This was the first literary festival Looking ahead to my own graduation, I feel the in the undergraduate programs’ prestigious history. comforting weight of the tool belt I have acquired as both a Goddard has shifted over the years, from seminary to BFA and IBA student. I am fortified college, from on-campus to low-residency, adding new degree by the experiences fostered at programs as it grows, while still maintaining its Goddard: those of community mission “to advance cultures of rigorous coupled with self-reliance, inquiry, collaboration and lifelong creativity paired with critical learning, where individuals take analysis, and form contrasted with imaginative and responsible hybridity. As the college moves action in the world.” into its next 150 years, I have no This was evident with this doubt it will continue to represent year’s literary festival, which this exciting educational practice. CW highlighted the six-year-old, low-residency BFAW program, originally cofounded by Lucinda Cerridwen writes creative non-fiction, poetry, and hybrid Garthwaite, Prageeta Sharma, material blended with photography and painting. She lives

and Ruth Farmer. The first students in Portland, Ore., and is expected to graduate in the fall. PHOTOS BY FAWN MCMANIGAL

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17 years 1863 1— 0 2013 5Goddard College lumni and friends gathered for a Ahomecoming weekend last October to celebrate Goddard’s sesquicentennial and to enjoy concerts, puppetry, art exhibits, joyful reunions, award ceremonies, and more.

Photos from “Pilgrims: Portraits of Returning,” the community art project by Casey Orr (BA GV ’90). Top: Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01); MFAW student Bob Fisher with two current MA students. Middle left: Casey Orr. Bottom: Wilmer Brandt (BA RUP ’55); hitchhikers: Mary Martin (BA GV ’89), Paul Burke (BA GV ’89), Julie Rosenblatt (BA GV ’88).

Top left: Dianne Vock DuPrat (MA PSY ’99) and Judy Kelly Top: Paul Zaloom (BA RUP ’73) performs at the Haybarn Joan Peters (IBA ’04); (MA PSY ’99). Top right, Joseph Verilla (BA ADP ’77) and Theatre. Bottom left, Ann Stokes (BA ’54) receives the Goddard faculty member Karen George Bradley (BA ADP ’76). Bottom, Genevieve McClelland Award for Excellence. Bottom right, former board chair Andrea Campbell (IMA ’96); and Lee (BA RUP ’69), Cristine Zern (BA RUP ’65-’66) and Jane Leebron-Clay (MFAW ’02, MA SBC ’09) presents the Goddard Suzanne Canell (IBA ’04). Denlinger Fraytet (BA RUP ’69). Award for Excellence to Art Chickering (MFAW ’12).

18 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 Please note: people in the photos are identified from left to right. CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 19 Top: pianist Michael Arnowitt (BA GV ’84). Bottom left: current Top left: David Carroll and his wife Barbara Henkel Carroll (BA ’60) with student Glennie Sewell (MFAW) with Lizz Schumer (MFAW ’13). Bottom Ann Goldsmith (BA ’53). Top right: Georges Drouin (BA RUP ’68) and Betty right: Keith Ruskin (BA RUP ’71, MA GGP ’74) and Kellie Landry, wife of Verilla. Bottom: a performance of Gamelan Sulukala. Chris Landry (BA RUP ’68, not pictured).

Top left: former President Barbara Vacarr Top: Peter Schumann, founder of Russell Aminzade (BA RUP ’74); Glenn Koenig presents the Goddard Award for Excellence Bread and Puppet Theater, performs at (BA RUP ’75), and Stuart Weiss (BA RUP ’75). to former trustee Peter Pratt. Top right, Clo the Haybarn. Bottom, John Bloch (BA Pitkin (BA ’53) receives the Goddard Award for ’64), Allen Soule (BA ’50), and Brenda Excellence. Bottom, WGDR Program Director Lindemann (BA RUP ’69). Kris Gruen (BA RUP ’97) presents Kirk Gardner with the WGDR Visionary Award.

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WORDS THAT BURN THE REVIEW MIRROR Wayne F. Burke (BA RUP ’79) David M. Harris (MFAW ’98) Words that Burn is a brutally honest In his first poetry collection, Harris seeks evisceration of one man’s experience to understand life as it is reflected within of life on this planet, written with shards of broken glass, and mirrors verve and the unadorned yet eloquent that have changed one’s memories. language of where the poet came from. Unsolicited Press, 2013 BareBack Press, 2013 EMPATHETIC MARKETING: HOW TO CHINESE HEALING EXERCISES: SATISFY THE SIX CORE EMOTIONAL A PERSONAL PRACTICE FOR NEEDS OF YOUR CUSTOMERS HEALTH & LONGEVITY Mark Ingwer, PhD (BA RUP ’70) Steven Cardoza (BA RUP ’70-’71) This book breaks down the complexity Improve your health and longevity with of human emotion to provide an 88 easy-to-learn exercises. Gentle enough understanding of customers’ core needs to be practiced by anyone, regardless and a clear path for translating emotional of age, gender, or state of health. insights into successful business strategy. Llewellyn Publications, 2013 Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

PKGRRL BELLE FONTAINE Wm. Anthony Connolly (MFAW ’02) Laurie (Wagner Buyer) Jameson (MFAW ’01) Ell is a special girl with a secret inside her, In this sequel to Beautiful Snare, Belle centuries in the making. It’s a secret some Fontaine revisits the strange worlds are willing to kill for, and it’s a secret that of Celtic Britain around 80 A.D. Ell will discover as she comes to know Seven Oaks Publishing, 2013 who she is and where she came from. CreateSpace, 2013 THE DARK LADY’S STONE Christie Maurer (BA RUP ’61) LELA RHOADES, PIT RIVER WOMAN A medieval fantasy quest in which a Molly Curtis (BA RUP ’73) troubadour discovers that the gods This memoir takes us back into a world are not as he was taught, and he where men chased mother grizzlies must decide whether to remain out of their dens for their meat, where a court poet or become a prophet. manzanita berries were ground up CreateSpace, 2013 into sugar, and houses built with the door right in the middle of the roof. CLEAR OUT THE STATIC IN YOUR Heyday Books, 2013 ATTIC: A WRITER’S GUIDE TO TURNING ARTIFACTS INTO ART MISSION STATEMENT FOR BATTERER Isla McKetta (MFAW ’10) INTERVENTION PROGRAM co-authored with Rebecca Bridge PROVIDERS AND STUDENTS This book includes prompts, examples, Jennie DiBartolomeo (MA GGP ’78) and helpful nuggets of creative In her book, Dr. Jennie DiBartolomeo helps power to set you on your way to batterers to identify their abusive behaviors writing the best work of your life. and provides the tools in which to face Write Bloody Publishing, 2014 and battle their controlling thinking. Dorrance Publishing Co., 2012 THE LAME GOD Marilyn B. McLatchey (MFAW ’01) I LEFT MY SOLE IN VERMONT In this debut collection of poems, the Nicole Grubman (MA PSY) author uses the immortal themes and This is an illustrated guidebook for characters of classical literature to walking many of Central Vermont’s journey through a parent’s anguish circular, rural, back roads. in the face of a horrific crime. Red Barn Books, May 2013 Utah State University Press, 2013

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THE WINTER PEOPLE FINDING MY WAY TO MOOSE Jennifer McMahon (BA ’91) RIVER FARM: LIVING WITH THE A simmering literary thriller about ghostly ANIMALS OF THE ADIRONDACKS secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable Anne Phinney (MA GV ’92) bond between mothers and daughters… A heartwarming memoir of a happy life sometimes a bond that’s too unbreakable. spent with extraordinary creatures. Doubleday, 2014 North Country Books, 2013

ANGER AND RAGE ADDICTION CELESTIAL NAVIGATION & THE SELF-PACT Ellen Jane Powers (MFAW ’00) Stephen Rich Merriman, PhD (BA ADP ’79) Powers’ Celestial Navigation reads like a contemporary Song of Songs in Merriman takes a close look at the which the mystical and the biblical dynamics of anger and rage, as viewed commingle with the daily ministries through the lens of Addiction Theory, of garden life, sky, as well as earth’s drawing on discriminating, diagnostic undersong of loss and passing. criteria derived directly from the world WordTech Press, 2013 of alcoholism and drug addiction. Four Rivers Press, 2013 REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST AND FUTURE CROW FEATHERS, RED Rev. Carl Freeman Reynolds (BA ADP ’76) OCHRE, GREEN TEA A collection of meditations and prayers Gwendolyn J. Morgan (MFAW ’99) from the Creation Spirituality perspective. Gwendolyn Morgan’s first collection, Xlibris Press, 2013 Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, offers richly textured poetic renderings of and SILENT NO MORE: UNLOCKING emotional responses to natural landscapes. VOICES OF OLDER POETS Hireath Press, 2013 Peter P. Saunders, PhD (MFAW ’02) Over 50 poets between the ages of THE EDGE OF NORMAL fifty and ninety-eight are represented Carla Norton (MFAW ’09) in this anthology that explores This debut thriller weaves the tale of themes of possibility, understanding, a 22-year-old survivor of kidnapping forgiveness and wisdom. and captivity who struggles to Provincetown Arts Press, 2013 rebuild her life and ultimately BUFFALO STEEL protect another young victim. Lizz Schumer (MFAW ’13) Minotaur Books, 2013 Firmly grounded in the historical and SWALLOWING COMETS cultural context of the Queen City, this Jessica Otto (MFAW ’12) lyrical journey explores how a child raised in a conservative, religious culture can Otto’s poetry collection speaks, pleads, free herself from the bonds that made her, and prays with divine inspiration without losing her place in that world. to those who serve as oracles — and Black Rose Writing, 2013 those who join together, oracular. Folded Word, 2013 THE MAIN INGREDIENT Margo Wilson (MFAW ’01) A NEW STAR What does it mean to love? How does one Bobbie Pell (MFAW ’06) defy death? These are some of the mysteries The author’s healing journey blends facing West Coast food editor Wendy her expansion of spiritual beliefs with Whitby when she reluctantly returns to metaphysical techniques, Celtic folklore her childhood home in Weewampum, elements, and psychological therapies. Wis., to await her mother’s demise. Imaginary Lands, 2013 Ramsfield Press, 2013

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Craig Babcock (BA RUP ’70) of Rockaway, 1950s N.J., retired in 2010 after 42 years as a solo mime and actor, and began working as a fire marshal and arson investigator. alphabet Joanne Obermaier Koch (BA RUP ’50) of New York, N.Y., has been the executive Julie Bergan (BA ADP ’71, MA GGP ’75) director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center of Concord, Mass., a school psychologist, soup for 32 years. She recently co-edited New York court investigator and special education Film Festival Gold, a history of the festival. administrator, retired to sunny weather A GUIDE TO THE and grandchildren. She had works published on child abuse and neglect and PROGRAM ACRONYMS psychogenic learning disabilities. Currently, 1960s she is enjoying the fruits of her labor and would love to hear from old friends. ADP: Adult Degree Program Linda Elbow (BA RUP ’63) of West BA: Bachelor of Arts Glover, Vt., presented a Bread & Theresa Kathleen Clarke (BA RUP ’78) of BAS: Bachelor of Arts in Puppet workshop and performance Berkeley, Calif., is building transit-oriented Sustainability at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary housing in the San Francisco Bay Area. BFAW: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Homecoming Weekend in October. Ralph Culver (BA RUP ’74) of Burlington, Vt., Creative Writing Susan Green (BA ’65) of Burlington, Vt., has a poem, “For the Last Catamount,” in the EDU: Education Program wrote an essay “My village, my friends: new anthology of eco-poetry So Little Time. G-C: Goddard-Cambridge Writer recalls the Bohemian, now famous His award-winning chapbook Both Distances is Program characters of her youth,” published online available from Anabiosis Press. Ralph became GEPFE: Experimental Program in the Burlington Free Press, on Jan. 11. a grandfather for the first time in November. in Furthering Education GGP: Goddard Graduate Al Hasley (BA ADP ’69) of West Jeannie Deva (BA RUP ’69-’70) of Sunland, Vancouver, B.C., has been retired for 16 Calif., an international vocalist, celebrity Program years and enjoying every minute of it. voice, performance coach and recording GS: Goddard Seminary studio vocal specialist, is the founder of the GV: Goddard Five (all programs Mary McCullough (BA RUP ’63) of Jeannie Deva Voice Studios International ’81-’91) Somerville, Mass., performed with The Network and originator of The Deva Method, HAS: Health Arts & Sciences Streetfeet Women, a culturally diverse a voice training system for stage and studio. IBA: Bachelor of Arts in company of writers and performers she In 2012 she received the “Women That Individualized Studies helped found in 1982, at Goddard’s 150th Transcend” award, and in 2013 she was a IMA: Master of Arts in Anniversary Weekend in October. preliminary judge for the Telemundo TV show La Voz Kids. Her private studios are located Individualized Studies Harvey Rosenbaum (BA RUP ’64) of in Los Angeles, where she teaches singers JR: Junior College Silver Spring, Md., tells us he is now in both in person and online. JeannieDeva.com MA: Master of Arts remission with Hodgkins Lymphoma. MAT: Master’s in Art Therapy Edith Gavriely (BA RUP ’70) of Haifa, MFAIA: Master of Fine Arts in Barbara Ruth (BA RUP ’66-’67) of Israel, has done community work for Interdisciplinary Arts San Jose, Calif., is a poet, author, many years as well as run Karmel Bed and MFAW: Master of Fine Arts in disability activist, radical lesbian Breakfast from her home. She is currently feminist, memoirist and anarchist. studying color therapy and writing Creative Writing poetry. She has four collections so far. PSY: Psychology & Clinical Mental Health Counseling Regina (Shulman) Gore (BA RUP ’79-’81) of RUP: Residential Undergraduate 1970s Buford, Ga., went on to earn a bachelor′s in Program English from Montclair State College in New SBC: Sustainable Business & Jersey and a master of public administration Charles Adamson (BA RUP ’73, MA GGP Communities ’76) of Chikushi-gun, Fukuoka-ken, moved from Drake University in Iowa. Currently to Japan in 1973 and spent the last 40 years she is the annual giving coordinator SE: Social Ecology as a teacher, researcher and professor at for a private high school in Georgia. SIS: Social Innovation & various universities. He is now retired Sustainability and spends his time reading, meditating, Peter Hannan (BA RUP ’76) of Beverly Hills, TLA: Transformative studying the Dharma, painting, walking, Calif., is a writer, producer, illustrator and Language Arts playing Igo and preparing his photo blog artist, and the creator and executive producer UGP: Undergraduate Program henro2009.blogspot.jp about life in Japan. of the Nickelodeon animated series, CatDog. VT: Plainfield, Vermont campus In 2012, he produced an animated comedy Susan L. Ahlstom (BA ADP ’79) of Sterling, Internet series for Shut Up! Cartoons called WA: Port Townsend, N.J., received her certificate in somatic Really Freaking Embarrassing, true stories Washington campus movement from the Education School about real people suffering total humiliation. of Body-Mind Centering and Location His recent illustrated novel is called My Big at Duke University in Durham, N.C. Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me

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Killed. He also wrote and illustrated a series of middle-grade illustrated novels called Super Goofballs. His next book is Petlandia.

Jeffrey Hellman (BA RUP ’71)of Santa Clara, Calif., is working on recordings and Google Plus Helpouts.

Kathleen Herman (BA ADP ’76) of Atlanta, Ga., received her master′s in public relations from Boston University’s School of Public Communication. She was the communications coordinator for the City of Atlanta, and she owned and operated an art gallery and frame shop in Miami’s art and design district. Now that she’s retired, she lives full time in Panama City, in the Republic of Panama.

Ellis Jacobson (BA RUP ’75) of Montpelier, Vt., performed his comedy Adapted from Samuel Beckett with music by Fred MIXING IT UP Rose Marie Prins (MA GGP ’80) of St. Petersburg, Fla., exhibited her Wilber (BA RUP ’73) at Montpelier’s mixed media work, The East Coast Years, 1996–2013, at the Mahaffey Theater Gallery Lost Nation Theater, Feb. 20–23. from November to February. Above, “Like Water,” mixed media on canvas, 61" x 37."

Jeanne Janson (BA RUP ’72) of Coral Gables, Fla., is an independent artist at Environmental Functional Art in Herb Snitzer (MA GGP ’74) of St. Petersburg, piece, “Expanding Coalescences,” in the Miami–Fort Lauderdale area. Fla., recently opened the Herb Snitzer Fine honor of Goddard’s 150th Anniversary Art Photography Gallery in St. Petersburg. Homecoming Weekend in October. Paul Kaza (BA RUP ’73) of Vancouver, Wash., concluded his 31-year career at the Burlington Glennette Tilley Turner (MA GGP Yvonne Baab (BA GV ’83) of Montpelier, Free Press by covering the 2011 Burlington Jazz ’79) of Wheaton, Ill., published Billy the Vt., is the owner of Global Gifts, a retail Festival. He works in creative direction and Barber: Reflecting on an Untold Lincoln Story, store in downtown Montpelier. She is a copy writing for the Burlington, Vt.-based which launched at the Abraham Lincoln craftsperson and sells some of her work firm Kaza Hagan. He coaches youth sports Presidential Library’s William Florville event there. She has a 12-year-old son. and enjoys time with his kids and grandkids. in February. Turner also wrote a vignette that was acted out on that occasion. Michael O. Henderson (MA GV ’89) of Roger Leege (BA RUP ’71, MA GGP Traverse City, Mich., is currently a geographic ’75) of Venice, Fla., was featured in the Avrum Weiss (BA RUP ’74) of Atlanta, information systems application developer February issue of the British magazine Ga., published his book Change Happens: at InfoGeographics, Inc., and volunteers After Nyne (afternyne.com). He is the When to Try Harder and when to Stop Trying with the Traverse City Film Festival proprietor of ViaNova Photographics. So Hard in 2011. It is available on Amazon. and a local Autism support network. Steven and Kathy Light (both BA RUP Stuart Weiss (BA RUP ’74) of Burlington, Kraig Bradley Richard (BA RUP ’80) ’75) of Marshfield, Vt., along with Jocelyn Vt., is the director of learning for the South of Shelburne, Vt., is making glass, Wheeler (BA RUP ’01), Janet Van Fleet (MA Burlington School District. He and his wife building stone walls, walks and patios, GV ’95) and others, performed Gamelan have lived in the Old North End of Burlington and working on furnaces at Trow Sulukala at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary since 1977. They have two children, two and Holden. moltenmedia.org Homecoming Weekend in October. grandchildren and one more on the way. Brenda Seely (MA GV ’85) of Biddeford, Sarah Hart Munro (BA RUP ’77) of Mont- Jan Yager, PhD (MA GGP ’77) of pelier, Vt., is painting, singing, writing a book Stamford, Conn., is proud of her son’s first Maine, manages the Biddeford Opera House, about her childhood at a free school, and novel, Atom & Eve, published in 2013. and helps with the Ogunquit Playhouse. building a big tree house with her brother, In her spare time, you can find her in the Angus Munro (BA RUP ’80, MFAIA ’13). Paul Zaloom (BA RUP ’73) of Los Angeles, Boston area with her daughter’s family, Calif., performed White Like Me, a Honkey Dory babysitting for her grandchildren, traveling Jenny Ogier (MA GC ’77) of Seattle, Wash., Puppet Show at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary in and out of the country, or paddle boarding retired after many years of teaching dance Homecoming Weekend in October. near her home at Fortune’s Rocks Beach. and drama and doing storytelling. Peg Tassey (BA RUP ’80) of Calais, Vt., Avram Patt (BA RUP ’72) of Worcester, Vt., curated the exhibit Rural Revolution: retired from his position as Washington 1980s Exhibition of ′70s Era Art Student & Faculty Electric Company’s general manager Photography that was on display in The last June and served as Goddard’s acting Michael Arnowitt (BA GV ’84) of Montpelier, Manor at Goddard’s Plainfield campus president from January to April 2014. Vt., composed and performed an original from Oct. 18 through December.

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old Arts and Crafts bungalow. He writes Jordon Bosse (IBA ’06) of Holyoke, 1990s murder mysteries in his spare time. Mass., obtained a master’s degree in nursing education in December 2012. He is pursuing a doctorate in nursing at the Barbara Alfaro (BA ’90) of Berlin, Md., University of Massachusetts–Amherst published a Kindle edition of her book 2000s and was awarded a Hluchyj Fellowship. of poetry, First Kiss, on Amazon.com. Taina Asili (IMA ’08) of Albany, N.Y., Andrew Connolly (MFAW-VT ’03) of Nelson Alvarez-Febles (MA GV ’93) of was a keynote performer at the Power Ottawa, Canada, is a contract instructor at San Juan, Puerto Rico, was a staff member Carleton University in Vanier, Ontario. of the international research group, of Words Conference in October. GRAIN, in 2011, when the organization Martha Jane Balcer (BA EDU ’05) of Wm. Anthony Connolly (MFAW ’02) of received The Right Livelihood Award. Pearl River, La., is a visual art teacher. O’Fallon, Mo., had his novel PKgrrl published as an eBook and paperback. Later this year, Debbie Ardemendo (GV-BA ’92) of New David Berggren (MFAIA ’09) and Avelynn TS Poetry Press will publish his novel The York, N.Y., has been working at New York Mitra (MFAIA ’07) of Colorado Springs, Colo., Smallest Universe. He is currently on the MFA cultural institutions in education for the celebrated the birth of their son, Anders, on in writing faculty at Lindenwood University. past 14 years and is currently the manager Dec. 4, 2012, at their home. His big brother, of school programs at the Apollo Theater. John Cloud (IBA ’06) of East Haven, Tristan, and parents are thrilled at his arrival. Conn., is a fashion consultant at Timothy Brandoff (BA GV ’98) of New ElizaBeth Bontley Bando (MFAIA ’07) Viva International Group. York, N.Y., was honored with the 2013 of Forth Worth, Texas, had her show James Jones First Novel Fellowship Trisha Denton (IBA ’08) of Burlington, Acet-o-philous or Vinegar Love, accepted for his manuscript Connie Sky. Vt., directed Birth, a play by Karen Brody, at the United Solo Festival in New York, shown in November at the Main Street N.Y. She performed there on Nov. 2. Peter Burns (IMA ’95-’96) of Buffalo, Landing Performing Arts Center. N.Y., has been named to The Immaculata Paule Gabrielle Bézaire (MFAIA ’03) Academy Board of Trustees and serves Juliet Gagnon (IBA ’03, MFAIA ’06) of Wolcott, Vt., has spent the last 10 as the vice president for enrollment of the Netherlands, is the project years studying midwifery and, more management at Hilbert College. developer at Schrijfwrite. recently, grant writing. She is involved with the Central Vermont High School Julia Soto Lebentritt (MFAW ’96) published Yvette A. Hyater-Adams (IMA ’03) of Initiative on the Plainfield campus As Long As You Sing, I'll Dance in 2012. Atlantic Beach, Fla., is a new board member and is the mother of five children. at Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville. Jeanette Maher (BA GV ’94) of Victoria, Michelle Bisson (MA PSY ’08) B.C., retired as a probation officer in 2007 of Tarrytown, Mary Johnson (MFAW ’02) of Nashua, N.H., and is now a healing touch practitioner in N.Y., a professional writer and editor, along contributed to the article “2013: Atheism’s private practice. She is delighted to learn with faculty member Michele Clark, started 10 Defining Moments” published on Religion there is a campus in Port Townsend and a blog through the magazine and e-zine News Service on Dec. 31. On Oct. 25, she spoke Seattle, Wash., as she lives just a short boat Jewish Currents about the Holocaust and at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif., as part ride from there on Vancouver Island. American Jewish identity. Anyone is welcome of the Psychology Club Speaker Series. to contribute at jewishcurrents.org/thinking- holocaust-shape-consciousness-today-21139 Karen Morris (MA PSY ’98) of New York, . Susan (Peck) Keown (MA EDU ’01) of N.Y., presented her paper, “The Death of Norwalk, Conn., has been teaching middle Love in Child Sex-Tourism: Hatred, Denial Matt Borghi (IBA ’03) of East Lansing, Mich., school art at Rye Country Day School in New and Deceit,” at the International Forum on was a featured musician and composer on the York. This past summer she was awarded Psychoanalytic Education, in Philadelphia. Public Radio International-syndicated radio a grant to travel to Port Elizabeth, South She runs a study group on juvenile sex- program Echoes for his 2013 ambient album Africa, to teach with Artworks for Youth in trafficking and child pornography from her Convocation, with saxophonist Michael Teager. the Joe Slovo Township Elementary School. offices in Manhattan and North Eastern, Pa. Convocation was listed in the Top 25 for 2013. Shawn Kerrivan (MFAW ’06) of Casey Orr (BA GV ’90) of Leeds, England, Stowe, Vt., released the second U.S. photographed alumni and presented an edition of Name the Boy: Short Stories, exhibit of the photographs at Goddard’s which was originally his thesis. 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend Stay in October. A book may be forthcoming. Michael Lent (MFAIA ’09) of Newcastle upon Tyne, is a senior lecturer in fine art at Teesside Retha Powers (MFAW ’98) of New connected. University School of Arts and Media in the York, N.Y., is the editor of Bartlett′s United Kingdom. He recently completed Familiar Black Quotations published by /GoddardCollege a PhD in fine art from the University of Little, Brown and Company, 2013. Lincoln, also in the UK. He contributed @goddardcollege to the book Mobility and Fantasy in Visual David Steven Rappoport (MFAW ’96) Culture, recently published by Routledge. of Chicago, Ill., is affiliated with two /GoddardCollege consulting firms. He is recently married Kristen Lenz (BA HAS ’06) of Tampa, and lives with his husband in a 100-year- Fla., is now a licensed mental health

24 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 | class notes | counselor at Family and Adolescent Counseling Services in Largo. WHIMSICAL Chris Mackowski (MFAW ’01) of St. ILLUSTRATIONS Bonas, N.Y., edited Bloody Autumn: The Jeffrey M. Donato Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, authored (MFAIA ’12), of Ligonier, by Daniel Davis and Philip Greenwalt. Pa., exhibited Rhyme Nor David Mandel (MA PSY ’03) of Reason: A Hodge-Podge Canton, Conn., has been working in the of Illustrative Whimsy domestic violence field for 25 years. His at the Science Hall international training and consulting Gallery of Westmoreland business (endingviolence.com) focuses on County Community responsible fatherhood and improving College in Youngwood, systems’ responses to domestic violence Pa. At right is a piece when children are involved. from the exhibit: “Low Hanging Fruit from Donnelle C. McGee (MFAW ’08) of the Crystal Tree.” His Turlock, Calif., had his new novel Ghost “Tarot D: The Didactic Man accepted for publication by Sibling Rivalry Press. It is due out in the fall. Tarot,” the focus of his Goddard thesis, will Ann E. Michael (MFAW ’03) of Emmaus, be published in 2015. Pa., had her poem “Racket” featured as the SlipPage Poem of the Week in February.

Philip Moore (MFAIA ’02) of Radnor, Pa., joined the adjunct faculty at Gwynedd the flow of the medicine wheel and hearing Cathy N. Vincevic (IMA ’07) of Mercy University in November. the call, at Tulsi Tea Room during the Danbury, N.H., a painter, collage creator, Montpelier Art Walk on Feb. 7. curator, writer, performance artist and William D. Moser (MFAW ’03) of a member of Mobius since 1994, is the Homewood, Ill., founder of Ramsfield Press, Matthew Quick (MFAW-VT ’07) of director of the Gordon-Nash Library. recently published The Main Ingredient Collingswood, N.J., sold his sixth novel, by Margo Wilson (MFAW ’01). See it Love May Fail, to Sony Pictures. Dr. Hillary Webb (IMA ’06) of Portsmouth, in the Alumni Portfolio on page 21. N.H., presented “The Dance of Self and Phillip A. Robertson (MFAIA ’08) of Other,” at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary Beth Nixon (MFAIA ’09) of Philadelphia, East Hardwick, Vt., showed four new Homecoming Weekend in October. Pa., is enjoying a fellowship at New prints in the “Making an Impression” Urban Arts in Providence, R.I. exhibit at the Chandler Gallery in Randolph, Vt., from Jan. 18 – March 9. Carla Norton (MFAW ’09) of Satellite Beach, Fla., sends warmest regards to all MFAW Rebecca Lyn Saint Clair (IBA ’99, IMA 2010s faculty. Her debut fiction novel, The Edge ’02) of Dresden, Maine, and her husband, of Normal, won her a Royal Palm Literary Bo, own a small farm built in 1759. Her Grace-Anne Alfiero (MFAIA ’10) of Award in 2012 and was internationally workspace, Foolsquest Studio, is located Newtown, Pa., resigned her position as released in 2013. She wrote an article, there. She is still creating mixed media the chief executive officer of Creative Clay “The Pros and Cons of Getting a Creative shamanic/spiritual art and is working on Cultural Arts Center in St. Petersburg, Writing MFA,” on writersdigest.com. two, new Tarot/Oracle decks with Bo. Fla., and began her own consultant firm. The new firm, Arts In Action Consulting, Jodi A. Patterson (MFAIA ’05) Peter Saunders (MFAW ’02) of Chatham, focuses on grant writing, digital storytelling of Spokane, Wash., is an assistant Mass., published his first book of poetry and strategic planning for tax exempt professor of art education at Eastern in 2010, My Father’s Shoes, that grew out of organizations. artsinactionllc.com Washington University in Cheney. his thesis manuscript. “Goddard changed my life from a pedestrian engineer to a Darcy Bedortha (MA EDU ’13) of Prineville, Ellen Jane Powers (MFAW ’00) of poet,” he tells us. He turns 80 on April 25. Ore., is advocating for public education Bedford, Mass., serves on the editorial and youth voice, teaching high school, board of the Maine literary journal Off Alexis M. Smith (MFAW ’07), of the Coast, which regularly features her Portland, Ore., gave a reading from and pursuing a PhD in leadership and book reviews. She serves as editor of the her novel Glaciers at the MFAW Port change from Antioch University. She also WRIT, a publication for the New England Townsend residency in February as wrote “15 Months in Virtual Charter Hell: Poetry Club, which was founded by Robert part of the Alumni Reading Series. A Teacher’s Tale,” published on Education Frost, Conrad Aiken and Amy Lowell. Week’s Teacher Voices blog on Jan. 6. Adrienne Trego (IBA ’09) moved from Linda Pruitt (IBA ’00) of Montpelier, Vt., Pennsylvania to Fayetteville, N.C., and is the John Boyer (MA HAS ’13) of Montpelier, exhibited her acrylics on canvas show, community investments associate for the Arts Vt., is the new director of Washington Rewilding: Shamanic painting following Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County. County Youth Services Bureau.

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Kim Brown (MFAW ’11) of Roswell, Ga., Jeff Eisenbrey (MFAW-WA ’13) of Facebook: How Today’s Millennials was interviewed by The Conium Review Shoreline, Wash., is a humanities teacher Fall Out of Love, An Intergenerational as the editor of Minerva Rising, the online at Cleveland High School in Seattle. Conversation Between Jeanette Geraci and literary journal (minervarising.com). Tom McBride,” on Jan. 7. themindsetlist.com She is working on the fifth issue and Bert Emerson (MFAIA ’12) of Newport, published her first chapbook in March. R.I., received a grant to continue work on Dana Heffern (MFAIA ’12) of South an installation to house his 700-year plastic Burlington Vt., and Rebecca Weisman Sarah Cedeño (MFAW-VT ’14) of Brockport, composter. It was on display October (MFAIA ’11) presented a multi-media N.Y., was interviewed for The Missouri through November 2013, at the Dorrance installation exhibit called “Excavations” Review’s Working Writers Series. H. Hamilton Gallery, Antone Academic at the Design Building at Goddard’s 150th center, in Newport. plasticcomposter.com Anniversary Homecoming in October. Jeanne K. Cosmos (MFAW ’11) of Natick, Mass., read from her murder mystery Jesse Fewkes (BA HAS ’12) of Deb Hensley (IMA TLA ’11) of Freedom, manuscript in Detroit at the National Horseheads, N.Y., is the new assistant Maine, is the new coordinator for The TLA Writers’ Union DA Conference, as well as manager at Planet Fitness. Network (tlanetwork.org). She is the author in Massachusetts at the Sisters in Crime of several books for educators and parents. Reading event. She is in the process of James R. Gapinski (MFAW-WA ’13) of securing a literary agent. She has a new Pueblo, Colo., presented a panel, “Let’s Samantha Hutchison (IMA ’13) of job teaching English, writing and critical Avoid a Quick Death, Please: Starting and Fayeteville, Ark., is the new enrichment thinking in a federal program for migrant Sustaining a New Literary Publication,” teacher at Pine Crest Private School. She will workers at the Massachusetts Migrant at the 2014 AWP conference in Seattle. He be attending Harding University for her MAT. Education Program. She continues to teach edits The Conium Review (coniumreview. at local Boston colleges and teaches military com), which recently introduced an annual Mike Kinnie (MFAW ’13) of Sackets Harbor, students just home from being deployed. Innovative Short Fiction Contest. James N.Y., held a two-day workshop featuring began teaching a fiction writer’s workshop Bill Rosenthal (MFAW ’12) at his B&B Rebecca Dalgin (IBA ’10) of Montpelier, at Pueblo Community College in February. on Wolfe Island, Ontario, last October. Vt., hosted a medicinal plant walk with a discussion on respectful wild-crafting Jeanette Geraci (IBA ’11) of Hempstead, Michael Loeffler (BA HAS ’13) of Ashland, practices at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary N.Y., was featured on The Mindset Lists Ore., is starting a new farm project and is Homecoming Weekend in October. of American History “Breaking Up on looking for supporters through the Lace Hill Farm Fundraiser at indiegogo.com/ projects/lace-hill-farm-fundraiser.

Susan Lynch (MFAW-WA ’13) of Sandy, Ore., had her poem “A Brief Explanation of the Fourth Dimension” accepted for publication in Bombay Gin, the journal of Naropa’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets.

Robyn Lynn (MFAW-WA ’13) of Everett, Wash., organized the literary reading, “I Saw Them When …,” an evening with award-winning and recently published Goddard students and alumni, in conjunction with the AWP in Seattle.

Lisa Lutwyche (MFAW ’13) of Landenberg, Pa., wrote “Journey to Find My Muse” as a contributing blogger on MivervaRising.com on August 30, 2013.

Jill Magi (MFAW ’11, former BFAW faculty) of Chicago, Ill., is now teaching at New York University in Abu Dhabi. MEGAN ROSE Ladianne Mandel (MFAIA ’13) of Charlotte, N.C., owns Flying Spoon HAMMING IT UP Rose Friedman (MA EDU ’11) of East Hardwick, Vt., Studios. FlyingSpoonStudios.net performed in the Vermont Vaudeville show at the Haybarn Theatre on Jan. 25, along with faculty member Otto Muller (UGP) and others. Above, Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12) of Pasadena, Rose is standing at center in red, and Otto is standing on the far right. Calif., has poems appearing this year in the The photo was taken at the New England Youth Theater on Feb. 22 in following anthologies: With Our Eyes Open: Brattleboro during Vermont Vaudeville’s winter tour around Vermont. Poems of the New American Century and Mo’ Joe.

J Angus Munro (BA RUP ’80, MFAIA ’13) of Montpelier, Vt., is the academic instructor

26 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 | class notes | to Castleton State and Green Mountain Sibling Rivalry Press is set to publish her College students at the Carving Studio and thesis in March of 2015. Sculpture Center in West Rutland, Vt. Keisha Thorpe (Cassia Rainne) (MFAW- Samantha Philbrick (MA SBC ’11) of VT ’13) of Bath, Pa., is now a freelance Bath, Maine, published her thesis The writer and adjunct instructor of English Maine Conscious Consumer: A Buying Guide at Lehigh Carbon Community College. for Local Living in 2012. She is working to promote local consumerism at Main Arianne Townshend (MFAIA ’10) of Street Bath as the director’s assistant. Barnet, Vt., is an artist and poet working Recently she worked to bring SNAP as a writing coach with Goddard’s (formerly FoodStamps) accessibility Plainfield campus. She also substitute to the Bath Farmers’ Market. teaches in three supervisory unions in north-central Vermont and does freelance Jess Pillmore (MFAIA ’14) of Austinville, editorial and copyediting work. Va., published her guide, Creatively Independent: Life on Your Terms with Peter Wallis (MFAIA ’11) of Pescadero, Play, Community and Awareness, with Calif., is the visual art and design teacher CreateSpace. Her essay, “The ‘Unspoken’ and the innovation lab manager at the Problem in Education,” appeared in the Sea Crest School in Half Moon Bay. He is December issue of Psychology Today. also a lead faculty member at the Putney School summer programs in Vermont. Kathryn L. Roberts (IBA ’08-’10) of Lincoln, Vt., has a short novel, Companion Shelly Weathers (MFAW-WA ’13) of Plants, coming out this year. Her fiction Chandler, Ariz., won Reed Magazine’s 2014 and creative nonfiction recently appeared John Steinbeck Award for Fiction for her in Pithead Chapel and Black Heart Magazine, short story, “The Problems of Odessa.” among other publications. Currently, she is working on two new novels and visual art. Chelsea Werner-Jatzke (MFAW-WA ’13) of Seattle, Wash., published her story, Icess Fernandez Rojas (MFAW-WA ’12) “Requiem in Betta,” in extracts, and of Shreveport, La., published “Does Being presented a panel, “Language in the Air: Latina Exclude Me From Being Black?” in Taking Writing Off the Page with Audio,” Huffington Post Latino Voices on Feb. 5. at the AWP Conference in March.

Jan Ronan (IMA ’08, MFAW ’11) of Canter- Kriota Willberg (MFAIA ’11) of New York, bury, Conn., is a life coach and productivity N.Y., performed in R. Sikoryak’s Carousel at consultant at Be the Best You Can Be. Dixon Place Theater and at the Small Press Expo in September. She taught anatomy Nicole Saunders (MFAW ’13) had a for dancers at Martha Graham School short story titled “Autographs” from of Contemporary Dance in New York. her thesis collection published in the literary journal Stone Canoe under Erin Wilson (BA RUP ’98-’00, IBA ’03, her pen name Senny George. IMA ’12) of Cambridge, Mass., presented “Islamic Feminism,” a brief discussion, Emily Scott (MFAW ’12) of Portland, Ore., at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary COLLEGIAL ART had three poems published in the Oct. 1 Homecoming Weekend in October. Bridgette Mongeon (MFAIA ’12) of Spilt Infinitive issue of , a digital literary Houston, Texas, is known for her magazine. spiltinfinitive.com/and-my-bones Cass Winner (BA ’89, MA EDU ’93, MFAW ’10) has been director of extended programs bronze sculpture of former Goddard Sequana Skye (MFAIA ’13) of Cabot, at Wilmington Montessori School for 15 faculty member Dick Hathaway Vt., was accepted into the MFA in film years and has a small pet-sitting business. (above, top), installed at the T.W. program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Wood Gallery in Montpelier, Vt. She Sarah Ybarra-Lopez (MFAIA-WA ’10) has recently created her largest Grace Asagra Stanley (MA HAS ’13) of of Port Townsend, Wash., is featured sculpture to date: a 15-foot tiger Princeton, N.J., a registered nurse and in the book 100 Artists of the Northwest. certified holistic nurse, was featured on Other artists included are Karen for Grambling State University WGDR’s The Goddard Hour, speaking about Hackenburg, Ann Morris and Phil Levine. (above) in Grambling, La., installed her recovery efforts in the Phillipines The book is available on Amazon. in December. She has also created after Typhoon Haiyan. She has a non- other college sculptures, including profit for fundraising to respond to Joanna Tebbs Young (IMA ’13) of Rutland, “The Prairie View Panther” for natural disasters. webofcampassion.org Vt., taught a workshop, “Lower Your Prairie View A&M in Texas, installed Stress, The Write Way,” at the Rutland December 2011; and “Called to Pray” Jane Summer (MFAW ’13) of Hartsdale, Regional Medical Center in March. She N.Y., had a story published in The regularly holds memoir workshops and in Dallas Baptist University in Dallas, Masters Review volume II. In addition, writing circles. wisdomwithinink.com Texas, installed in April 2013.

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RANDOM ART Ben t. Matchstick (MFAIA) of Montpelier, Vt., presented his “Randomizojustificator” at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend in Plainfield last October. He was also featured in a live television show on ORCA Media last December with the exhibit. Here Ben (right) is shown with Otok Ben-Hvar (MFAIA ’12).

exhibited another installation, Reimagined $450,000 three-year grant from the current students Topographies, at the State Theaters Building. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Kayla Feist (MFAIA) of Stoughton, Mass., Thomas Park (MFAW-VT) of Warrenton, Alex Bautista (BA EDU) of Federal exhibited her sculpture and illustrations N.C., was cast in the play, None Of The Above: Way, Wash., facilitated and presented in the Tribal Awakenings Show at Funky Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline, a workshop, “How a Community Can Stuff in Worcester, Mass., last December. which opened in Carrboro, N.C., and played Address Poverty,” at the Education at Duke University and UNC- Chapel Hill. Residency in Seattle last July. Greg Johnson (MFAIA) of Kettering, Ohio, appeared on WGDR’s “Goddard Rachel Scott Sarrett (MFAW-WA) of Theresa Barker (MFAW-WA) of Seattle, Hour” on Feb. 6 and talked about Portland, Ore., had her story, “Succubus,” Wash., had her blog post, “Found,” chosen his new concept album, which is a chosen for publication by Shoe Music Press. as WordPress.com’s “Freshly Pressed” response to the Great Recession. selections for the week of August 21, Shae Savoy (MFAW-VT) of Seattle, Wash., has a poem, “Grandmother Country,” 2013. tjbarkerseattle.wordpress.com Maggie Keenan-Bolger (MFAIA) of forthcoming in We’Moon 2015, and “Dental New York, N.Y., co-directed a troupe of Records: Heartwheat” will appear in the Andrew Bonjour (MFAIA) of intergenerational LGBTQ-individuals in a next issue of WomenArts Quarterly Journal. Steubenville, Ohio, exhibited from free performance of “Food for Thought.” The his recent chapbook, From My Faith, at performance was part of the Bridging the Willi Singleton (MFAIA) of Kempton, Franciscan University of Steubenville. Gap project in New York City last December. Pa., participated as one of seven international ceramic artists invited Christine Brubaker (MFAIA) of Samantha Kolber (MFAW-WA) to a weeklong international ceramics Toronto, was assistant director of of Montpelier, Vt., had five poems conference in Shigaraki, Japan. Alice Through the Looking Glass at chosen for Shoe Music Press′ Nefarious the Stratford Festival in March. Ballerina grand anthology. Her poem, Marty Stegner (MFAW-WA) of Seattle, “The White Place,” will appear in the Wash., is the new editor-in-chief of the Joshua DeMello (MFAIA) of Farmington, summer 2014 issue of The Meadow. literary journal The Pitkin Review. Maine, had an installation, Going Somewhere, with a canoe and suitcases Ben Munisteri (MFAIA) of New Trisha Winn (MFAW-WA) of Beaverton, of living flora, shown at the University York, N.Y., was appointed principal Mich., won runner-up in Hippocampus of Maine at Farmington’s 150th Charter visiting choreographer-in-residence Magazine’s Remember in November creative Day Celebration alumni exhibition. He at Lafayette College, thanks to a nonfiction contest for her story, “Not ’Yes.’”

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Taking Back Imaginative Autonomy Send Alumnae Launch New Clockhouse Literary Journal HAT STARTED AS A journal is countering that.” Wpassionate idea ten Cullen-Dupont adds the us your years ago is now a reality. The journal aims to be more like a Clockhouse Writers’ Conference “farm-to-table version of reality, (CWC), run by alumni from like slow food versus fast food.” news. the MFA in Creative Writing Their mission statement reads: To submit a note, Program, has teamed up with “Dare. Risk. Dream. Share. Goddard to put out a new, Ruminate. How do we please send an e-mail national, annual literary magazine understand our place in the to clockworks@ affectionately titled Clockhouse. world, our responsibility to goddard.edu. Editor Julie Parent (MFAW ‘05) it, and our responsibility to and Publisher Kathryn Cullen- each other? Clockhouse is an Dupont (MFAW ’05) met as eclectic conversation about students in the MFAW program the work-in-progress of in 2003 and became fast friends. life—a soul arousal, a testing As I spoke with them about ground, a new community, Clockhouse at their kick-off a call for change. Join in.” reading at the Plainfield campus Consider Clockhouse slow in January, it became clear food for your soul. Purchase how strong their friendship copies and submit your work truly is: they are wont to finish (current students ineligible) each other’s sentences. online at clockhouse.net. “Pop-culture and reality – BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW ’14) programming is replacing reality with a hyper-reality,” says Parent of the impetus behind DYNAMIC DUO Kathryn Cullen- starting a national literary Dupont (left) and Julie Parent journal out of Goddard. “So this brought the journal to fruition.

Ronnie Burrage (MFAIA) of Bellefonte, Pa., released a new album, Heal, with his Burrage Band.

Heather Trommer-Beardslee (MFAIA) published Dance Production and Management, a how-to book for anyone involved in dance management.

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Danielle Abrams (MFAIA) rejoined the Magnason, Sjón, Kristín Ómarsdóttir, and Fellow for 2013-2014. He is engaged in MFAIA-VT faculty for the spring semester. Auður Ava, with musical performances a yearlong collaborative exploration of by Elin Ely, Robert Forster and Lay Low. sustainability, teaching and learning. Kyle Bass (MFAW-VT) was commissioned Dustin Byerly (Advancement, BA RUP by the Onondaga Historical Association to Deborah Brevoort (MFAW-VT) was inducted ’01) has been promoted to associate director write a play based on events in 1839 involving into the National Theatre Conference. She of advancement and alumni affairs. a fugitive slave, abolitionist Gerrit Smith was in residence at CAP 21 in New York and a young Elizabeth Cady Stanton. City to further develop Crossing Over, her Francis Xavier Charet (IMA, UGP) Amish Hip Hop musical. She received an published three articles: “Ram Dass: The Todd Beaton (Academic Services, IBA ’07, ASCAP Plus grant and will teach at the Vicissitudes of Devotion and Ferocity IMA ’11) was promoted to manager of San Miguel Allende Writer’s Conference in of Grace,” in Homegrown Gurus: From student academic support, where he Mexico. Embedded premiered at the Fargo Hinduism in America to American Hinduism; supervises staff, programs and services. Moorhead Opera in March, and The Polar Bat “Jung and the Spirits,” in The Spiritualist He and his wife Catherine welcomed premieres at the Anchorage Opera in April. Movement; and “Consciousness,” in the their son, Faolan Skye Beaton, born A Time Traveler’s Trip to Niagra Falls premieres Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion. Feb. 24 and weighing 6 lbs., 11 oz. at the Hudson Theatre Guild in New York City in May. The Velvet Weapon will receive a Jan Clausen (UGP) and Eva Swidler (UGP) Deborah Bloom (Academic Services) workshop at U-C Santa Barbara in July and co-authored an article, “Academic Freedom joined Goddard as a student academic a production at Trustus Theatre in South from Below: Towards an Adjunct-Centered support coordinator. She brings academic Carolina in August. The Bloomsburg Theatre Struggle,” published in the American and technological experience from Ensemble will perform Blue Moon Over Association of University Professors’ annual Champlain College, Lesley College and Memphis in Pennsylvania in August. Journal of Academic Freedom. Jan Clausen’s Norwich University. A recent Peace Corps story, “Unhappy Secret,” has been accepted volunteer, Deborah has international Rebecca Brown (MFAW-VT) published for publication in Hotel Amerika. Her long- experience as a leader and facilitator of multi- Literary Subversions of Homonormalization. She poem-with-prose-elements, “definitive cultural communications and events. participated in speaking events with Michelle mechanisms for monetizing forests,” has been Dunn Marsh of Photo Center Northwest; with accepted for publication in Tupelo Quarterly, Ryan Boudinot (MFAW-WA) hosted Ryan Boudinot and Eric McMillan at Hugo and her long poem, “Found on Double Bluff events to discuss Seattle’s bid to become a House; and with Kim Fu at Project Room. Beach,” will be published in Silk Road Review. UNESCO City of Literature and presented about the topic at Hugo House. On Oct. Bob Buchanan (IBA) is one of two scholars Darrah Cloud (MFAW-WA) 31, Ryan read in Reykjavik during the outside the University of Vermont to premiered Our Suburb this winter at Iceland Airwaves festival, with Andri Snær participate as a UVM Sustainability Faculty Theater J in Washington, D.C.

Jim Fitzgerald (MA PSY) retired in February after a thirteen-year career with Goddard. He and his partner of several years, Scott, are looking forward to enjoying international travel and outdoor activities. Jim continues to be involved in numerous progressive causes, such as the Human Rights Campaign, and local politics.

Susan Fleming (EDU) returned to the education program as a faculty advisor after serving as education program director for 11 years. Sue is also open for consulting work and advising individuals and organizations in transition.

Kenny Fries (MFAW-VT) spent four JOHN FUKUSHIMA JOHN months in Germany with the support of a DAAD (German Academic Exchange) PUBLIC ART Laiwan (MFAIA-WA) received a commission by the Vancouver grant. While there, he presented “Disability Heritage Foundation for a public art installation at The Wall, located at the Arts and Disability Studies in the United downtown CBC Vancouver Plaza. She created a large-scale printed artwork States and Canada” at the Working Group focusing on the metaphor of water and expressions of fluidity in the city’s for Disability Studies at the universities of built environment. Curated by Joni Low in collaboration with the Centre A Hamburg and Bremen. He also presented arts organization, the project launched in March and is on view this entire “Disability is the Mainstream” at the Haus der Wissenschaft in Bremen, and “Darwin year (vancouverheritagefoundation.org/special-projects/the-wall). Laiwan and Disability: Adaptation and Variation” will be guest curator of the Visual Arts Exhibition for the Vancouver Queer at Humboldt University in Berlin. His essay Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Arts Center, opening in July. Above, from “Stumbling Over History” was translated left: Joni Low, CBC archivist Colin Preston, and Laiwan. into German and published in Junge Welt. www.jungewelt.de/beilage/art/3265

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Maike Garland (UGP, MA GV ’91) gave Susan Kim (MFAW-VT) will see a mass- a presentation on racism in Vermont with market paperback imprint of Brain Camp, the the goal of fostering cultural competency to graphic novel she co-wrote with Laurence the school coordinators of Everybody Wins Klavan, coming out from Square Fish Vermont, an organization pairing elementary paperback imprint for Macmillan Children’s, school children with adult reading mentors. in spring 2015. Her documentary, Icebound, premiered at the Alaskan Film Festival. Beatrix Gates (MFAW-WA) published her book of poetry, Dos. Michael Klein (MFAW) interviewed Eve Ensler for Guernica in December. His poem, Elena Georgiou (MFAW) read and signed “The Talking Day,” which appears in his books at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum on book of the same title, was nominated for Dec. 11, 2013. a Pushcart Prize. An essay he wrote for the keynote presentation at the January Jessica Giles (Registrar’s) left her position MFAW-VT residency will be published as switchboard operator and admissions in Poetry Magazine’s summer edition. His assistant and became the Registrar’s Office poem, “Poetry,” will be published in the manager in January. July issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine.

Newcomb Greenleaf (UGP) presented Petra Kuppers (MFAIA-WA) has been “Mathematics and War: from Temple enjoying many artist residencies: Rancho Geometry to Pearl Harbor,” at Goddard’s Paradiso near Joshua Tree National Park, 150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend. Calif.; the Dansbyran Dance Research Studio in Gotenburg, Sweden; exploring Jacqueline Hayes (Administration, disability culture in London, England; PHOTO QUALITY Wendy University of Hawaii at Manoa with dance MFAIA) has left her post as academic dean. Phillips, PhD (MA PSY) exhibited She will serve as a senior administrator students; Auckland, New Zealand, meeting photographs at Soho Photo Gallery for the first half of 2014 and then return to dance artists; A Different Light Company in in New York City as part of the the MFAIA faculty in Vermont in July. Christchurch, New Zealand, collaborating with actors; and a month at the Bundanon Alternative Processes Competition. Christopher Ilstrup (IT) is the new Trust Artist Residency in Australia. She also exhibited at Hammonds director of information technology. He House Museum in Atlanta, Ga., was also accepted into the Marlboro Lan Thao Lam (MFAIA-VT) is part of the as part of the 20th anniversary College Graduate School for the BS in recently published anthology, Troubling celebration of Sistagraphy, and Managing Information Systems Program. Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature at the Clark Atlanta University by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora. Museum. Wendy began her second Steve James (Academic Affairs, former year of study with the New Orleans Aimee Liu (MFAW-WA) spoke about writing MA PSY Program Director) celebrated 20 Jungian Seminar, which is the first years at Goddard College and was appointed at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles last October, along with mystery author Dick level of Jungian Analyst training. interim academic dean. He was also named She also continued in the first year as consulting editor on the editorial board Lochte and author-actor Bruce Boxleitner. of Embodied Imagination training. of a new journal of the APA, Psychology of Gariot Louima (Admissions Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. He is Above, “Trickster Figure from Director) had his story, “The Taken,” a president emeritus of APA’s Division 44. Carnaval, Veracruz, Mexico” published in Tupelo Quarterly. Seitu Jones (MFAIA-WA) exhibited Collard Ralph H. Lutts (IBA, IMA) is a member of Greens Manifesto, a parallel journey of his the board of directors’ executive committee winner Bobby Moresco as a producer. ancestors and the plants he holds dear, at and chairman of the program committee Also, several of his monologues are being the University of Minnesota Urban Research of Blue Ridge Heritage. BRH is a nonprofit published in Monologues for Latino Actors: and Outreach-Engagement Center Gallery. organization using $1.2 million in federal A Resource Guide into Contemporary Latino/a He unveiled a new public artwork, Alice’s and state seed funds to develop a visitor Playwrights for Actors and Teachers. Storyteller Bench, at the Rondo Community center, economic enhancement, and Outreach Library in St. Paul, Minn., in education project in southwestern Virginia. Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (IMA, HAS, SIS) honor of retired librarian Alice Neve. led an interfaith writing retreat with minister Micheline Aharonian Marcom′s (MFAW- Bhanu Kapil’s (MFAW-VT) work was Thea Nietfeld for the Kansas Leadership WA) sixth novel, The New American, will be Center in Wichita, Kan. Her book about noted in a review of The HarperCollins Book published by Simon and Schuster. She was her journey as Kansas poet laureate will be of English Poetry in India’s Millennium Post. interviewed on Numéro Cinq in February. Last September, she spoke on a panel at the released this spring. From January through &NOW festival of experimental writing in Douglas A. Martin′s (MFAW-VT) novel, May, Caryn has been giving presentations on Boulder, Colo., and she performed as part Once You Go Back, is available on Audible. Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor of an exhibit of Michael Merighi’s photos of and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and early Valie Export performances. Her India: Rogelio Martinez (MFAW) was hired to Found Each Other, throughout Kansas and Notebooks is a nonfiction travel narrative of a write a film about the life of Yoani Sanchez, Oklahoma. In May, she will present a writing road trip between Chandigarh and Delhi. a Cuban blogger, with Academy Award workshop at The Loft in Minneapolis, Minn.

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Andrea Parkins (MFAIA) received a Darcey Steinke (MFAW-VT) published a residency at Harvestworks Digital Media book review, “The Kingdom of the Little Arts Center in New York City, where she Wounds,” in the Dec. 22, 2013 edition will complete a sound composition. of the New York Times Book Review.

Rachel Pollack (MFAW-VT) was a keynote Maia Stone (President’s Office) became speaker at a conference on “Writing engaged and left Vermont to relocate Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and to Germany to be with her fiancé and Criticisms,” in Winnipeg, Canada. In March, to study engineering. she returned to Beijing to teach. She will attend a Tarot conference in Chengdu in Eva Swindler (IBA, HAS, BAS) authored October, and she received an invitation to the environmental history chapter in teach in Taiwan. Last November, a theater Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through COVER MATERIAL Paul Selig company in Poughkeepsie, Half Moon Theatre, put on a reading of her Oedipus Rex. the Liberal Arts, which recently won a (MFAW Program Director) was featured Critics Choice Award from the American on the cover of OM Magazine and Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (MFAW-VT) is Educational Studies Association. interviewed about his new book, The featured in YES! Magazine’s article about Book of Knowing and Worth. The audio the Hedgebrook Cookbook, in which she has Janet Sylvester (BFAW Program Director, rights of this book and I Am The Word a piece published. She also has a piece in a BA ADP ’75, MFAW ’78) presented at have been sold to Gildan Media, and new anthology, Local/Express: Asian American AWP in Seattle on a pedagogy panel titled Paul will do the recordings. He was Arts and Community in '90s New York City. “What’s Next: Pressures and Opportunities recently on tour in San Francisco, New in Undergraduate Writing Programs.” Michael Sakamoto (MFAIA-WA Program York, Venice, Topanga Canyon, Calif., She was appointed to AWP’s committee Director) is artist-in-residence at-large for and Asheville and Hendersonville, N.C. on professional standards, where she’ll Bangkok University′s theater program. He be working on, among other things, a will tour two dance theater duets in the U.S., Canada and Thailand. Flash, a butoh and hip- K-12 creative writing initiative. hop performance with dancer-choreographer Nicola Morris (MFAW-WA) published Karen Werner (IBA) presented a digital Rennie Harris, will be presented at Brown a poem in the Ithaca Times, and another University in Providence, R.I.; Vancouver storytelling workshop at Goddard’s 150th poem won first place in a Central International Dance Festival; University Anniversary Homecoming last fall. Her Vermont poetry competition. of Wisconsin, Madison; and Barnes short audio piece, “Montague Ball Drop,” was broadcast as part of the Kinokophone Karla Haas Moskowitz (EDU, MFAW Foundation and Painted Bride Arts Center Collective’s Sound Cinema event at ‘13) presented “Research for Revolution: in Philadelphia. Gherm, his collaboration Phenomenology, Portraiture, Ethnography,” with Thai dancer Waewdao Sirisook, is being Lincoln Center’s Library for Performing at Goddard’s 150th Anniversary performed at Bangkok University and the Arts in New York in February. Homecoming Weekend last fall. University of British Columbia. Herukhuti Williams (IBA) launched a Otto Muller (IBA, MFAIA) joined the Bonnie Schock (MFAIA-WA) received crowdfunding campaign to develop a MFAIA-VT faculty for the spring semester. an Intermedia Arts’ Creative Community sexuality, spirituality and culture news and Leadership Institute Fellowship for 2014. e-learning website (http://o.ffbe.at/nneOct). She is the program officer at the Minnesota Victoria Nelson (MFAW-WA) gave lectures He participated in the first White House State Arts Board, overseeing the largest state- at the universities of London and Lancaster forum on bisexual public policy issues and and at the British Film Institute during its funded arts grant program in U.S. history. co-presented about HIV/AIDS and bisexuals. four-month nationwide program on the He moderated the Black Queer Activism Gothic in film. Her chapter “Daughters of Sharon Siskin’s (MFAIA) recent exhibitions Darkness,” about Gothic heroines, appeared include: Made of Money: Art from the collection and HIV panel at the Schomburg Center for in its companion volume Gothic: The Dark of Davis and Louise Riemer, The Mills Building, Research in Black Culture. He published an Heart of Film. She published essays in Aries San Francisco, Calif.; Art as Activism, Jerry article in Bi Magazine on Nelson Mandela and the Journal of Performance and Spirituality. Adams Gallery, Berkeley City College; and LGBT rights in South Africa. He helped The Art of Recology, San Francisco Airport plan the LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration in New Devora Neumark (MFAIA-VT) published a Museum; Finding Common Ground Through York City and was interviewed about Black new paper, “Drawn to Beauty: The Practice Sacred Words, Islamic Cultural Center of LGBT observance of Kwanzaa for ebony.com. of House-Beautification as Homemaking Northern California, Oakland; Do Not amongst the Forcibly Displaced,” in the Throw Away: Art from the Recology Artist in Lori Wynters (IMA, MA HAS, MFAIA journal Housing, Theory and Society. Residence Program, Cañada College, Redwood ’03), an emerging leader in Muslim Jewish City, Calif.; and Sacred Words: Finding Engagement work in the New York City Richard Panek (MFAW-VT) wrote an essay Common Ground, at Marin Osher Jewish area, is composing a documentary on the about art and science that appears in the Community Center, San Rafael, Calif. catalogue for artist Pedro Barbeito’s “The profound experience of Jewish summer camp God Particle.” His collaboration with Temple Juliana Spahr (MFAW-WA) published and how the Jewish spiritual tradition has Granding, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across An Army of Lovers, co-written with thrived in the diaspora, with implications the Spectrum, won the Goodreads Choice David Buuck. They went on a Pacific for the survival of other cultural groups. She Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 2013. Northwest tour in February. is also writing a book, Music as Medicine.

32 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 | in memoriam |

Robert W. Bickford (BA RUP ’77) Peter J. Kaschuluk (BA RUP ’71) at Bankstreet College of Education in died on Oct. 16, 2013. died on Nov. 3, 2013. New York, N.Y., and was retired from her role as education director of the John J. Flynn (BA ADP ’76) died on Sept. Susan “Sue” Ann McNulty (BA Mount Vernon Day Care Center. 22, 2013. He received his MA in creative ADP ’80) died on Nov. 11, 2013, at writing from Boston University; he the age of 79. She received her MS in Frank M. Taylor (MA SE ’98) died on Aug. wrote poetry, short stories and novels. special education from Antioch. 24, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. He spent 30 years as a community service worker in Jerry A. Gatten (BA SE ’79) died at Michael Lee Meiners (IBA ’98, agricultural and community development the age of 56 on Sept. 30, 2013. MFAW ’11) died on Dec. 1, 2013. with the SEVA Foundation and ASECSA.

Carole Hardy-Ekstrom (MA GV ’94) Rhonda Patzia (IMA ’04) died on Jan. 1, Paul Herbert Van Wyk (MA GGP ’75), died on May 15, 2012. 2014. She graduated magna cum laude from psychologist, sex educator, therapist, Westmont in 1991. She wrote and published chemist, and musician, died on Oct. 16, James J. Hassett (BA ADP ’73), age 80, Mindfully Unraveling: Body Awareness As I Slip 2013, at the age of 74. Van Wyk earned a of Fredonia, N.Y., died on Jan. 7, 2014. Away (The Write Place, 2013), about her battle PhD in psychology from Illinois Institute Hassett served in the U.S. Air Force with multiple sclerosis and body changes. of Technology in 1982, having reanalyzed during the Korean Conflict where he the original Indiana University Kinsey attained the rank of staff sergeant. Herbert Pratt (MA GV ’88) died on Jan. 23, data to explore origins of psychosocial 2014, after a brief illness. Pratt received his development of homosexual, bisexual Karen Casler Horton (BA RUP ’75) died BA from Tri-State College of Engineering. and heterosexual behavior. on Sept. 25, 2013, at the age of 60. In 1983, He took a job with Dupont in 1952 and she earned a master’s in social work from retired in 1985. Following his retirement, Peter Vincent (BA RUP ’73) died earlier this Bridgeport University in Connecticut. he received his MA from Goddard. year. Vincent was part of David Mamet’s (BA RUP ’69) troupe and was featured Douglas Ireland (BA RUP ’65-’66) died Robert F. Quinn (BA ADP ’76) along with William H. Macy (BA RUP on Oct. 26, 2013, at the age of 67. He was died on Sept. 20, 2013. ’72) in several noteworthy productions. an activist, journalist, and blogger who wrote about politics, the media, and gay Patricia Renaud (MFAIA ’13) Janet Marion Weiss (MA GV ’85) issues in The New York Post, The Village died on Jan. 1, 2014. died peacefully on Oct. 4, 2013, at the Voice, New York Magazine, The New York age of 95, at Stamford Hospital. She Observer, The Nation, the French daily Eleanor Skinner (BA ADP ’70) died was 70 years old when she received Libération, and other periodicals. on Dec. 18, 2013. She completed her MS her master’s degree at Goddard.

Founder and Director of Goddard College’s Third World Studies Program Dies at 80

ROFESSOR CALVIN HICKS passed away on Aug. 25, 2013. He Pwas the founder of Goddard’s Third World Studies Program in 1970, and he directed the program until it closed in 1974. He was also a co- founder of the Black Educators Roundtable in Boston, Mass., and from 1974 to 1975, he was a graduate fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Graduate Department of Urban Planning and Urban Studies. Hicks graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where he studied journalism and political science, then moved to New York City where he was engaged in the national and international liberation struggles of the 1960s. While in New York, he founded and chaired the On Guard Committee for Freedom, which included members Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp, and A.B. Spellman. He was also member of the prestigious Harlem Writers Guild, and Goddard featured he worked as an instructor at Brooklyn College, City College and Richmond College. Professor Calvin Hicks In 1969, Hicks was the first African American to be offered a professorship in the on the cover of this Sociology Department at Brandeis University. 1970 issue of The Silo, In 1984, he received his master’s degree in the philosophy of education from the publication that Cambridge College in Massachusetts. preceded Clockworks.

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2014 33 Goddard in the BY SARAH KISHPAUGH (MFAW ’14) Passionate Teacher Brings the World Goddard Model to West Africa

cultural backgrounds. “I always knew I wanted to teach internationally,” continues Mamadou. “Attending Goddard just solidified my passion. Teaching is all about relationships and feeling safe.” Mamadou is proud to serve as a linguistic mediator, using his Spanish and French skills to help families get by in the international school system. With his certification, he is empowered to create his own curriculum using the creative methods he adopted from Goddard. This approach is collaborative to reflect the needs of the PRIMARY LEVELS school’s student body. Mamadou Traore at the It’s easy to imagine how International School of Dakar. as soon as Mamadou steps foot in his classroom, his “kids” bubble forth with oddard students city on the African mainland, inclusion in an environment the same enthusiasm he seeking the path of is a metropolis of 2.4 million that often feels like what exudes, calling him by his Grigorous, cultural people. The fact that it is he considers to be a nickname, “Mr. Papis.” inquiry hail from around a major point for trans- “miniature United Nations.” They point eagerly to their the world. Mamadou Atlantic and European trade “Coming from a clean desks or freshly-hung Traore (BA EDU ’14), whose makes its internationalism developing country where art projects. Seeing the family and friends know profound. The International over half the children don’t shiny young faces glow him as “Papi,” embodies School of Dakar is a private have access to even primary with excitement secures Goddard’s holistic approach international school modeled school, I was inspired to Mamadou in feeling that to education. Originally from after the U.S. style of contribute to the sense of he’s doing the right thing. Senegal in West Africa, he education, with English tight community Goddard “Goddard was the right traversed the globe to the taught as the primary modeled,” he says. “I felt choice for me, because now Plainfield campus, where language. It supports like I was an important part I know the significance of he earned his bachelor of students starting at Pre-K of my cohort even while how nurturing the child arts degree in education. through the twelfth grade. studying from abroad.” enhances the community,” “I always knew I wanted The range of ethnicities As a middle school he says. “No matter how to work with young among families and faculty soccer coach, he has taught children,” he says. “I worked old, what language you first-time players, always as a kindergarten assistant resonated with Mamadou, speak, or where you come at the International School who was able to harness emphasizing how to deal from, we all need each other. of Dakar while attending Goddard’s mission of with people from different That’s the way it works.” CW Goddard. It was hard, but so worth it. When I take the praxis this summer, I can be I always knew I wanted to teach internationally, a full-fledged teacher with a classroom of my own.” and attending Goddard just solidified my passion. Dakar, the westernmost “” Teaching is all about relationships and feeling safe.

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