CLOCKWORKS Spring | Summer 2015

Shameless William H. Macy (BA RUP ’72) dishes on acting, ukuleles, and how everything he knows about showbiz he learned at Goddard.

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MAY JULY SEPTEMBER 20-25 Alternative Education Resource 1 MFAW Visiting Writer: 4-11 PSY Residency, Plainfield Organization Conference, Long Island, N.Y. Dani Shapiro, Plainfield 6 PSY Commencement, Plainfield 26 Spring University Transfer 10-17 EDU Residency, Plainfield 18-25 BFAW Residency, Plainfield Fair, Shoreline, Wash. 10-18 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend 18-25 UGP2 Residency, Plainfield 11 Concert: Big Bang Bhangra 18-26 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend JUNE Brass Band, Plainfield 20 BFAW Commencement, Plainfield 4 Transformative Language Arts in 12 EDU Commencement, Plainfield 20 MFAIA Commencement, Port Townsend Action Reading & Reception, Brooklyn, N.Y. 12 MFAW Commencement, Port Townsend 20 UGP2 Commencement, Plainfield 6 Goddard Graduate Institute Alumni 24-31 MFAIA Residency, Plainfield 21 Brian Evenson Fiction Reading, & Student Reception, Harlem, N.Y. 26 MFAIA Commencement, Plainfield Plainfield 26-July 3 MFAW Residency, Plainfield TBA Port Townsend MFAW 10th 28 MFAW Commencement, Plainfield Anniversary Celebration, Port Townsend OCTOBER 29 MFAW Visiting Professional: 3 Discover Goddard Day: Fall Open Agent Seth Fishman​, Plainfield AUGUST House, Plainfield 29-July 3 Clockhouse Writers’ 1-8 EDU Residency, Seattle Conference & Retreat, Plainfield 2 EDU Commencement, Seattle 7-14 GGI Residency, Plainfield 9 GGI Commencement, Plainfield 21-28 UGP1 Residency, Plainfield 23 UGP1 Commencement, Plainfield

PORT TOWNSEND, WASHINGTON, IS THE SETTING FOR THE WEST COAST MFAW PROGRAM’S 10TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION IN JULY.

COVER PHOTO OF WILLIAM H. MACY BY COREY NICKOLS Goddard | president’s letter | clockworks Spring|Summer 2015

MANAGING EDITORIAL EDITOR BOARD “Although Goddard is small, we think Samantha Kolber Dustin Byerly Kelly Collar Meg Hammond big. Take, for instance, the group of DESIGNER Gerard Holmes Kelly Collar activities related to carbon neutrality Steven James Samantha Kolber and sustainability with which Goddard BOARD OF S.B. Sowbel TRUSTEES and I have been intimately involved.” Avram Patt, Chair WRITERS Mario Borunda, PhD Dustin Byerly Danielle Boutet Gerard Holmes Wayne Fawbush Samantha Kolber HE BOARD RECENTLY would still be wise to reach out to Lucinda Garthwaite Julia Ain-Krupa Mark Jones offered, and I gladly our community to give everyone a Nicola Morris signed, a three-year chance to have a real part in such a Hubert Tino O’Brien PHOTOGRAPHY contract as president significant activity of the College. Manuel O’Neil Michelle Barber of Goddard College, to This project is the central woodchip Caleb Pitkin David Halé start July 1st. I am pleased to drop heating system, which is designed to James Ross Stefan Hard T the interim part of the title and am provide all the heat, and much of its Richard Schramm humbled by the confidence placed hot water, for the Plainfield campus. Jill Mattuck Tarule TRUSTEES in me. This is a fine yardstick and Goddard has, after more than four Carey Turnbull EMERITI outcome of my last year of work, and years, reached a critical action point in Cliff Coleman I thank the Goddard community for this project. That is, we have cleared all SUBMISSIONS Peter Donovan the technical and regulatory hurdles Clockworks Stephen B. Friedman joining me in our combined efforts Goddard College Mary McCullough to move our small school forward. to undertake the project, and we have 123 Pitkin Road Clotilde Pitkin I read a piece in The Chronicle of one last hurdle to address: financing. Plainfield, VT 05667 Joan Shafran Higher Education in which the president The woodchip heating system ph 866.614.ALUM Lois Sontag of a small college noted how much of has a total cost of over $2 million. Robert Wax the day-to-day operations the president It is an undertaking that will affect is called upon to understand and, the largest reduction of our carbon sometimes, be involved with. While footprint and will allow for the the president is not required to know most cost effective, locally centered Clockworks is Goddard how to do much of what they are called future for our operations. upon to understand, they still have to With a target to have the system College’s semiannual make decisions about it and coherently operating for the next heating season, alumni magazine. We communicate those decisions and we are coming up on some critical encourage submissions their rationale. The small college in the decisions. To move this along, we are lining up loan-based financing and of news from alumni, article was much larger than Goddard. Although Goddard is small, we grants. We are also simultaneously faculty, staff and think big. Take, for instance, the group launching a campaign to give Goddard students. Please send of activities related to carbon neutrality community members and other your updates to: and sustainability with which interested parties the opportunity to Goddard and I have been intimately imprint their names on the project. involved. Some of these activities are This part is a crucial component; it is clockworks@ the part that allows us to act in unison goddard.edu small enough to be undertaken with Goddard’s very capable personnel and in a way that helps both the College limited, but well used, fiscal resources. and the local and global community, These include insulating, weatherizing, and allows us all to “take creative and responsible action in the world.” light replacement, mechanical systems I will end with an invitation to stay CONNECT W/ GODDARD upgrades, ride boards, water bottle in touch or be in touch. We value our /GoddardCollege alternatives, kitchen food sourcing, community and all that means. @goddardcollege and so on. Through these actions /GoddardCollege we have made significant reductions Regards, goddardcollege in our power and fuel oil use. Now we are faced with a bigger project, one that we cannot undertake ©2015 Goddard College on our own. Even if we could, it ROBERT KENNY, PRESIDENT

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7 From Rural College to Urban Planning Vermont alumni take their Goddard education and their passions and talents to the city streets. Departments

BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW ‘14) 2 Events Calendar 10 Controversial Matters at the 3 From the President Heart of a Goddard Education Last fall, the college sparked controversy when 5 College Briefs upcoming graduates invited Mumia Abu-Jamal 12 On Air: WGDR Briefs (BA ’96) to speak at their commencement. 16 Alumni Portfolio BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01) 18 Class Notes 13 Campus to Upgrade Heating System 26 Faculty/Staff Notes The Vermont Supreme Court gives the college’s 29 In Memoriam woodchip project a clean bill of health. BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV ’89) 30 Goddard in the World 31 Why I Give 14 Q&A with William H. Macy (BA RUP ’72) The Emmy Award winner talks about his career ERRATUM: Catherine (Adler) and his “wild and woolly” days at Goddard. Ramsey (BA RUP ’64) wrote to tell INTERVIEW BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01) us that the photo of Will Hamlin with student Amy Pett, published Embodying the Spirit of Goddard on page 8 of the Fall/Winter 2014 25 issue, was actually taken by Amy Scholarship recipients show the breadth, variety, Pett. Catherine Ramsey was the and deep engagement of our community. student pictured with Will Hamlin. BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV ’89) Our apologies for this error. 14 Clockworks Editor, Goddard College [email protected] 123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667 @ | college briefs | Heartbeat performs at Goddard Adds the Haybarn in February. New Trustees

THE COLLEGE’S Board of Trustees recently swelled its ranks with four new members.

Danielle Boutet (IMA ’91) is a professor at the University of Québec in Rimouski, an interdisciplinary artist, and a music composer. She founded Goddard’s MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts (MFAIA) Program in 1997, and she remained its director until 2008.

Mark Jones is director of the Leadership and Organization Development Program at Saybrook University in California, where Goddard OK’d for Early College Program he received his PhD THE VERMONT AGENCY OF home-school program may in Organizational Education approved Goddard take a full year of college- Systems. He is also a for an Early College Program level classes while completing founding partner of beginning in the 2015–16 their high school degree. The Sunyata Group. academic year, making Tuition is free to Vermont Goddard the second private students as funded through Joseph Orange (IBA ’08) college in the state with this the Vermont Agency of is a jazz musician and enrollment option for high Education, though students retired health insurance school students. Students are responsible for books and human resources Youth Ensemble who are at least 16 years old related fees. To learn more executive who and enrolled full time in high about the program, go to volunteers for the Jumpstarts Haybarn school or in an approved goddard.edu/earlycollege. Bronx African- American History HEARTBEAT, a group of Project at Fordham Israeli and Palestinian youth University, and as a musicians, performed at the mentor for at-risk children Haybarn Theatre on Feb. in Columbia, Md. 28 with a dynamic blend of Eastern and Arabic music, James C. Ross is a Western rock, hip hop, jazz longtime higher education and reggae. Ranging in age advocate and policymaker. from 18-22, the ensemble He’s currently a principal brings its powerful sound of Ross-Holbrook and messages to the United Associates, a higher States in an effort to end education consulting violence and promote CLOCKWORKS TURNS 30 – This fall, Clockworks celebrates firm in Burlington, Vt. equality. During their visit to 30 years as Goddard’s official alumni magazine! Before 1985, it was He received his EdD campus, they also taught a a newsletter called The Silo, taking its name from the building where the in Higher Education workshop called “Building Alumni and Development Office was housed. In 1985, the office moved into Administration from SUNY- Trust Across Differences the Clockhouse building and replaced the newsletter with a publication Albany and his MEd in the Through Art and Dialogue” meant to be “lively and interesting.” We’ll have a retrospective issue in the same field from NYU. for students in the fall. Send your memories of the magazine to [email protected], undergraduate program. and stay tuned for an announcement about a Clockworks birthday party.

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DIVESTING FROM FOSSIL FUELS In January, Goddard became the third college in Vermont to move its endow- Earthwalk ment funds out of fossil fuel investments and into fossil is having an fuel free accounts. “The divestment from fossil fuel anniversary. company investments is one action in Goddard College’s long history of taking imaginative and responsible action in the world,” said President Robert Kenny.

GRANT HELPS REPAIR SHINGLES IN PLAINFIELD Goddard has been approved for a $7,000 grant from the Vermont Division of Historic Preservation. The funds will be used to replace damaged shingles on the silos of the historic Community Center on the Greatwood Campus in Plainfield.

FUND OFFERS SUPPORT Halfway through the 2014–15 academic year, the college has awarded $2,400 in emergency funding to 14 students from nine different degree programs, with an average of $170 per student. The fund is supported by baked and craft goods donated by staff and sold during residencies, and by matching donations through GoodSearch.com.

NEW LED LIGHTS ON PLAINFIELD CAMPUS The college achieved another small step toward energy efficiency when outdoor lights along Pitkin Road, the parking lots, and the library road, along with fixtures in the Community Center and the music building, were replaced with LED fixtures. This will save an average of 100 KWH per day, about $3,650 per year. The improvements were made with assistance from Efficiency Vermont and from our own Green Revolving Fund.

EARTHWALK CELEBRATES TEN YEARS Earthwalk is Bill McKibben an innovative non-profit that has offered transformative signs copies of nature education experiences to children, teens and adults his latest book. on the Goddard campus since 2005. Its students, typically ages 7-12, hail from over 25 Vermont towns. They make earth crafts, learn plant medicine, make fire and shelter, and track animals, while also caring for the Goddard woods.

BILL MCKIBBEN Journal Makes Waves Sustainability Entrepreneur’s Grant Winner VISITS GODDARD IN JANUARY, Duende, the WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT from Concept 2 and the Jerry online literary journal produced Greenfield and Elizabeth Skarie Foundation, Goddard’s Annual BILL MCKIBBEN, author, by BFA in Creative Writing Sustainability Entrepreneur’s Grant provides climate change activist, students, made a Flavorwire list $2,500 to a student in any program whose and the founder of 350. of “10 Unique and Funky Literary business proposal promises to most org, visited Goddard’s Journals to Check Out in 2015.” effectively promote sustainable living, Vermont campus on The second issue went live in social equity, climate change mitigation March 1 to speak about March and features visual art, and adaptation, and ecological the emerging fossil fuel poems, stories, and an interview protection and restoration. resistance being led by a with Cornelius Eady, an award- The winner of the 2015 grant is mix of indigenous people, winning poet who spoke at the Rania Campbell-Cobb, a student front line communities, Haybarn Theatre in fall 2013. The in the MA in Social Innovation and and committed scientists website has been getting about Sustainability Program. Rania is the from around the world. 3,000 hits a month, reports founder and executive director of Cloud 9 The talk and subsequent Program Director Janet Sylvester. Rooftop Farm, a nonprofit established in April book signing was a The mission of the journal is to 2012 in Philadelphia. Cloud 9 develops rooftop gardens to grow highlight of this spring’s publish work, at least 55% in each food for local consumption, offers educational programs about Undergraduate Studies issue, by underserved writers and rooftop agriculture, and supports community and environmental Program residency. artists. duendeliterary.org resilience. Learn more at cloud9rooftopfarm.org.

6 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 FROM RURAL COLLEGE TO URBAN PLANNING

Vermont Alumni Take Their Goddard Education to the City Streets David White’s (BA RUP ’77) firm worked on the development of City Market Onion River Coop in Burlington, Vt., and they’re providing con- sulting and project management for Killington Village in Killington, Vt.

oddard College is synonymous with radical artists and BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW ‘14)

critical thinkers. Our students and graduates are often model of independent studies and open senior Gactivists, writers, teachers, therapists, and artists who study choices supported his interests in community leave Goddard with aspirations and the tools to change the world. development and urban planning. Some of his What might be less known, though, is our role as an incubator for accomplishments include serving as development successful city planners, real estate brokers, and urban developers. advisor to the City of Park Ridge, Ill., for what became the Shops and Residences of Uptown, for which he received the Counselors of Real Estate’s James Felt Creative Counseling Award; These Goddard graduates – from the 1960s free-love era, and the role he played over many years in creating the to the 1970s design-build era, to the current resurgence of South Campus University Village at the University of sustainability studies – are out in the world. In fact, they’re Illinois-Chicago. Stephen’s advice for students interested in taking it by storm with their sustainable city projects. careers in urban development: seek a broad understanding Last April, trustee emeritus Stephen B. Friedman of how society works, from architecture to economics to (BA RUP ’68), of Chicago, Ill., was named to the American sociology. “Practice systems thinking…how things are Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows related to each other,” he says, and “be a creator!” for his outstanding achievements in urban planning. In Robert Brown (BA RUP ’69-’71), of Cleveland Heights, Ohio, 2005, he was profiled in Chicago Magazine. He is now the was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows at the same president of SB Friedman Development Advisors. time as Stephen. In 1990, the American Planning Association When he attended Goddard in the mid ’60s, he studied selected Bob’s project, Cleveland’s Civic Vision 2000 Citywide

TOP PHOTO: COURTESY OF CITY MARKET / KILLINGTON RENDERING: DESIGN BY HART HOWERTON Urban and Community Studies. He tells us that Goddard’s Plan, as the best comprehensive plan in the nation. He also

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 7 multiple certificates of achievement from FEMA, and a Master of City Planning and PhD in Contingency Planning for Disasters from UC Berkeley. His dissertation on how government officials should inform the public to be prepared for the first 24–72 hours following a major disaster became federal policy. While at Goddard, Josh studied Urban Studies. He tells us he couldn’t have become a student at UC Berkeley, or now 1 at School for the Ministry, without his extraordinary education at Goddard. “Goddard’s most lasting influence is my ability to do critical reasoning and to think outside the box,” he said. Now 67, he is back at school to obtain his Master of Divinity, a career change “Key to Peace,” one of he decided to pursue after caring for Bob Brown’s photos of his 94-year-old mother for the last two Cleveland. See more at months of her life. His goal is to be both citybobbrown.com. 2 3 a Hospice and environmental chaplain.

PAUL BOISVERT O. Josh lives as green as possible. He and his wife live in a straw bale home had a major role rebuilding the staff of they designed 15 years ago; they have Cleveland’s City Planning Commission, 8.375 Kw of photovoltaics on their where he helped mold a talented staff to roof, a solar hot water system, and work for the good of the community. they grow some of their own food. He studied at Goddard for his first He hopes that today’s sustainability two years of undergraduate school, students focus on “developing the means taking advantage of a variety of 4 to retrofit existing cities into sustainable liberal arts courses, ranging from the communities with zero carbon writings of Hermann Hesse to courses GODDARD’S OWN footprints, local produce production, on literature and photography. URBAN LEGENDS: more public transit, and much more “Goddard gave me the freedom to 1 Robert Brown careful use of critical water resources.” explore ideas and readings freely, without (BA RUP ’69-’71) Margaret J. Grundstein (JR RUP the need to concentrate on required 2 Margaret Grundstein ’65, BA RUP ’67), of Los Angeles, Calif., (JR RUP ’65, BA RUP ’67) ‘intro’-type courses,” he tells us. It was received her Master of City Planning David White at Goddard that he “stumbled” over the 3 from Yale in 1970. However, her city (BA RUP ’77) book, The Death and Life of Great American planning days were put to use on a Joshua Jerome Cities by Jane Jacobs, which ultimately 4 (MA SBC ’11) communal farm in western Oregon, on led him to his career as a city planner. 5 Stephen B. Friedman 160 pristine acres of undeveloped land Bob says students should pursue a (BA RUP ’68); with no plumbing or electricity. She career in city planning if they find cities Josh Lichterman spent five years there building a green fascinating and they want to improve the (BA RUP ’69) community before returning to city quality of life for people who live in cities. not pictured life in one of the country’s great urban “In my experience,” he says, “the centers: Los Angeles. Then, in 1989, she best city planners are people who love founded First Years Preschool in Venice. cities!” Bob recently retired as planning Later, reinventing her career path again, director of the City of Cleveland. He is she went back to school and received currently a city planning consultant and her Master of Family Therapy from creative dabbler in urban photography. Loyola Marymount University in 2002. Former trustee Josh Lichterman (BA Margaret’s path to city planning, RUP ’69) of Grass Valley, Calif., worked and then out of it, was unconventional. for over 30 years in the field of disaster At Goddard she studied history, preparedness and recovery planning as 5 with some history of architecture. a business continuity planner. He holds “Architecture thrills me,” she tells us.

8 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 She fell in love with architecture in 1967 to where I am,” he says, “is the entire while reading a New York Times review of process of student-directed education.” THE GODDARD DESIGN-BUILD Habitat ’67, a dramatic modular structure “Commercial real estate development program began in 1970, when designed by Israeli architect Moshe is a complex field,” he says. Over the President Jerry Witherspoon Safdi. She then asked the Times architect course of a single week, he might analyze hired architects David Sellers reviewer out to lunch, where he told environmental regulations as they apply to and John Mallery to create her the field had no future. So Margaret a particular project, negotiate a purchase a Design and Construction decided on city planning, and pursued and sales agreement, create a spreadsheet Program that was compatible her master’s at Yale from 1968 to 1970. model of the finances for a project, work with Goddard’s pedagogy Forty years after her commune days, with a team of architects and engineers on of experiential learning. The Margaret describes her early-childhood- complex design issues, present a project to program was very popular, even drawing transfer students education career as a return to city a regulatory review board, or meet one-on- from Harvard and Yale. The planning, albeit circuitously. “In the early one with neighbors to address concerns. program ended in 1977, but 1960s, author Jane Jacobs wrote of the “In 35 years, I’ve never once been bored.” Goddard has recently seen a grassroots personal connections that create His firm is currently working on a resurgence of student activity communities and hold cities together,” significant downtown revitalization effort in green building, tiny house she says. “That is what a preschool does. in St. Albans, Vt., and a new $100 million building, sustainable food In addition to caring daily for the tender in-patient building for the University of systems, and other design and construction projects. “Goddard’s most lasting influence is my ability to do Just last year, Goddard created a new master’s degree critical reasoning and to think outside the box.” program in social innovation and sustainability, for students —JOSH LICHTERMAN (BA RUP ’69) looking to transform non-profit, for-profit and public sector beings placed in our trust, we honor, Vermont Medical Center, among many organizations, enterprises, and teach, and provide connections between other large-scale projects. His firm is also processes within the field. individuals and families,” she says. presenting the second annual Vermont These bonds in the community are “the Development Conference in November, building blocks of every urban center.” where hundreds of development and real Margaret has a private practice as estate professionals will gather for a day Goddard helped him develop a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and of networking, seminars and workshops. and polish his passion for making is a proud mother and grandmother. “There is no substitute for hands- downtowns more resilient in the face Naked in the Woods, a memoir about her on experience,” David says. He advises of big box stores, and to educate people years in Oregon, is her first book. anyone interested in real estate to go back of the importance of buying local. David White (BA RUP ’77) lives in to school for specialized education and “Goddard allowed me to believe that Burlington, Vt., and is the state’s only then work for a development company, in thinking and doing things out of the Counselor of Real Estate. Twenty-seven as many positions in the firm as possible. convention is necessary,” he says. years ago he was one of the founders of the Joshua Jerome (MA SBC ’11) of In his role at the Barre Partnership, Vermont Community Loan Fund. Between Montpelier, Vt., is a more recent graduate he’s building on the revitalizing 2000 and 2005 he was deeply involved of the MA in Sustainable Business and efforts the City of Barre has made in planning and obtaining all required Communities program. He is passionate over the past few years. His goal is to land use and environmental permits for about small downtowns and locally bring people into the downtown for Fletcher Allen Health Care’s $350 million owned businesses, and he was just named commerce and cultural enrichment, Renaissance Project. In 1990, he founded executive director of the Barre Partnership. and to follow the “Main Street Four White and Burke Real Estate Investment While at Goddard, Joshua focused on Point” approach, which consists of Advisors, Inc., a firm well known in the Community Development Financial promotions, economic restructuring, Vermont for its work on the Onion River Institution field while he also worked at community outreach and streetscape Coop City Market in Burlington and Community Capital of Vermont (CCVT). design. “When you are involved in any Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier. Looking for a more grassroots approach revitalization efforts, it’s important While at Goddard in the late 1970s, to community development, he came to to engage with stakeholders and hear David was a liberal arts generalist: Goddard. At CCVT, he helped grow the what they want of their downtown he studied photography, education, loan fund from a $300 thousand a year or neighborhood,” he says. He thinks philosophy, took part in the Social Ecology loan fund to a $1 million a year loan fund. it is important for Goddard students program, and was news director at WGDR. “I'm really proud to have been part of a to research widely. “As with any “Perhaps the single greatest influence team that was so passionate about helping specialized profession, it's important Goddard had, which ultimately led me startup businesses in Vermont,” he says. to have a breadth of knowledge.” CW

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 9 Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA ’96), above, was convicted of the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner, but he has always LOU JONES maintained his innocence. Amnesty International found that Abu-Jamal was deprived of a fair trial. At right, scenes from the fall commencement ceremony in Plainfield, Vt. CONTROVERSIAL MATTERS This past fall, Goddard College made national headlines subjected to unnecessary restrictions. “When politicians were trying to gag and ignited a fierce debate when the graduating students minds and voices by passing restrictive of the Undergraduate Studies Program invited controversial legislation, when individual rights were being undermined by a political prisoner and alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA ’96) to speak climate of fear, Goddard was standing via recorded remarks at their commencement. firm on the sacredness of individuality,” he said in a speech in 1954. Following the announcement of the This wasn’t the first time Goddard He believed that the job of the speaker choice, Goddard endured a supported alternative viewpoints. college in a democratic society was to barrage of scornful press reports, hate- In 2001, for example, Residential get students to think – not to tell them laced phone messages, and social media Undergraduate Program students what to think. This was and remains backlash. Pennsylvania Republican chose David Dellinger, an anti-war one of the main pillars of Goddard’s Senator Pat Toomey pressured the college protester who was one of the Chicago student-centered educational philosophy. to rescind its invitation, with police Seven, to speak at their December In fact, it is at the very heart of and corrections officials issuing similar commencement. He spoke about the everything Goddard does. Faculty calls. Goddard, citing its responsibility effect “this country’s militarism and its encourage students to follow their to support free speech and academic capitalist imperialism” had on terrorist passions wherever they lead them – even inquiry, refused to rescind the invitation acts, just three months after 9/11. if that means entering into uncharted, and graduation went ahead as planned. Tim Pitkin, Goddard College’s seldom-discussed and potentially In addition to the impassioned founding president, was a convener uncomfortable areas of study. This past messages from people on both sides of complex dialogues and used public fall, in keeping true to the mission, the of the issue, Goddard heard from events – particularly commencements – college took responsible action in the numerous professors, law students and as a platform to engage students and to world by encouraging and engaging high-school teachers requesting copies discuss the issues of the day. He was a in difficult dialogue, even as powerful of the transcript to use in classroom firm believer and advocate for the rights forces aligned against our doing so. CW discussions and debates. The controversy of the individual to freely explore and ended up sparking a national dialogue. express one’s own ideas without being —BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)

10 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 _ LISTEN TO MUMIA’S COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT GODDARD.EDU/2014/10/MUMIA Many who came forward to disagree with Goddard’s “...this“...this is is the the most most regrettable regrettable actions did not adhere to a civil partpart about about having having these these discourse, and“Despite their vituperative many wonderful difficultdifficult conversations:conversations: theythey areare accusations andreasons name-calling to support Mumiaare painful.painful. They They ask ask us us to to confront confront what stood aboveas a commencement the fray in the assumptionsassumptions and and opinions opinions news. Here arespeaker, opinions Mumia from is not steepedsteeped in in powerful powerful emotions emotions a symbol...He is a man alumni, students, faculty, and the andand personal personal narrative. narrative. And And with a brilliant mind and thisthis hurts.” hurts.” – – JC JC SEVCIK, SEVCIK, MFAW MFAW ’13 ’13 world at large,an unstoppablethat intellectually pen… question andWith support so much the at role stake it of controversyonly in seems education. right that we listen.” – KEVIN PRICE (IBA ’12) “History derives no benefit from silencing those who make us “Mumia’s voice is important because “Mumia’s voice is important because uncomfortable.” hehe representsrepresents ...... struggles struggles forfor freedom, liberation and justice. He – CHRISTOPHER MORAFF, freedom, liberation and justice. He JOURNALIST, PENNLIVE.COM shouldshould notnot bebe silenced,silenced and neither shouldshould we.”we.” –– PARIS PARIS ALEXANDRA ALEXANDRA (IBA (IBA ’14) ’14)

“Once“Once again again the the forces forces of of the the state state are are trying trying toto decide decide what what students students should should hear.” hear.” – – MUMIA MUMIA CONTROVERSIAL MATTERS ABU-JAMALABU-JAMAL (BA (BA ’96), ’96), PRISON PRISON RADIO RADIO INTERVIEW, INTERVIEW, OCT. OCT. 2, 2, 2014 2014 at the Heart of a Goddard Education

“The“The recent recent PR PR issue issue with with Mumia Mumia “We have created a space for people, like Mumia and our AbuAbu-Jamal’s Jamal’s commencement commencement speech “We have created a space for people, like Mumia and our speechhit me hithard me as hard an alum as an and alum native and thousandsthousands of of students students and and alumni alumni around around the the world, world, who who nativePennsylvanian. Pennsylvanian. I Googled I Googled Goddard havehave tremendous tremendous obstacles obstacles to to their their educational educational ambitions ambitions Goddardthe other the day, other and dayit just and crushed it just toto unshackle unshackle their their dreams dreams and and achieve achieve their their goals. goals. We We have have crushedme to see me strangers to see strangers tearing tearing createdcreated an an incubator incubator for for thinkers, thinkers, artists, artists, healers, healers, activists activists downdown the the school school that that is is so so dear dear andand writers writers who who have have decided decided not not to to allow allow their their brilliance brilliance to be diminished or snuffed out behind the walls of any form toto my my heart.” heart.” - –LARA LARA MOHR MOHR (IBA (IBA ‘10) ’10) to be diminished or snuffed out behind the walls of any form ofof prison prison – – real real or or metaphoric.” metaphoric.” – —DR. DR. HERUKHUTI HERUKHUTI (FACULTY, (FACULTY, IBA) IBA)

“Your“Your choice choice of of Abu-Jamal Abu-Jamal as as a a commencement speaker exemplifies the commencement speaker exemplifies the “Critical“Critical thinking thinking ideals of Goddard College, and I am glad “What happens when we are ideals of Goddard College, and I am glad cannotcannot happen happen “What happens when we are to know that there are students stepping denied the right to ask, to to know that there are students stepping withoutwithout controversy.” controversy.” denied the right to ask, to outout into into the the world world who who are are willing willing to to wonder,wonder, and and to to research research our our –– ANNE ANNE RUTHERFORD RUTHERFORD (BA own assumptions? Even more looklook deeper deeper than than just just a a book’s book’s cover.” cover.” (BAHAS HAS ’04, ’04, MA MA HAS HAS ’08) ’08) own assumptions? Even more –– LEAH LEAH CAREY, CAREY, AUTHOR AUTHOR AND AND PROFESSIONAL PROFESSIONAL COACH COACH terrifying,terrifying, what what happens happens when when ourour ability ability to to speak speak freely freely and and listenlisten freely, freely, and and to to form form our our ownown opinions, opinions, is is denied?” denied?” On Oct. 16, just 11 days after Abu-Jamal’s recorded remarks were played for the 23 graduates –– COURTNEY COURTNEY BARBER BARBER (BA (BA HAS HAS ’04, ’04, and their families in the Haybarn Theatre, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives drafted MAMA PSY PSY STUDENT) STUDENT) and passed the “Revictimization Relief Act,” designed to prevent inmates from making statements that would cause a temporary or permanent “state of mental anguish” for victims and their families. The law is being challenged in court by several groups, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, who claim it is a violation of their constitutional right to the freedom of speech. CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 11 11 ON-AIR WGDR Briefs

s it enters its 42nd year, WGDR, Goddard College’s Community Radio Station, continues to develop and implement best practices, both on and off the air. Look for these Many of these practices have been part of WGDR’s experience all along, while advancements this spring & summer: others are brand new, both to the College and to our regular listenership. New tools like Unattended Operation, and new initiatives like our credit-bearing Survey of current academic programs (True Stories and Indie Kingdom) are driving a visible shift listeners in our culture and service. Here are some of our achievements this year. ■ BY KRIS GRUEN (BA RUP '97), WGDR/WGDH DIRECTOR Survey of potential listeners (non-profits in Central Vermont) ■ Indie Kingdom News Demographics of This winter, Carl Etnier broadcast service area expanded the Indie ■ Kingdom program Quarterly reporting of by training U32 High program activities ■ School students in news New mission production, with their news reports airing on Home Grown Radio News every Friday from 12 – 12:30 p.m. Training Program Also, Indie Kingdom Jackie Batten has welcomed Program Director Jackie six new programmers to the Programmer & Batten partnered with WGDR/WGDH community in Local2National Montpelier High School the last six months. Look for Grant Winner Environmental Applications new programs like Suzanne Alan LaPage Educator Tom Sabo to Podhaizer’s Kitchen Counter produce “Seed Stories,” Culture Radio Vermont on a seed-saving interview Tuesdays from 12 – 2 p.m., series produced completely and John Hopkins’ Dollar Local2National Grants Building Community by MHS students. Bins And Local Players on for Programmers Partnerships Thursdays from 2 – 4 p.m. Dual Enrollment Last fall, WGDR launched Educational, non- a grant program for local commercial community Program New WGDR logo PHOTO BY JOSH LARKIN radio producers who create In January, WGDR’s first radio has become a with an etching programming that’s relevant hub of connectivity academic dual enrollment by Mary Azarian to national audiences. in many communities program, ‘True Stories: Local2National grant winners throughout the country. Adventures in Nonfiction boost their online presence for Here in Central Vermont, Audio Storytelling,’ made their national content on WGDR focuses on the non- a successful launch, with wgdr.org by adding new profit community, with 15 students from four images, information, and high schools enrolled. audio files to the site. such recent partners as This, in turn, helps raise the North Branch Nature True Stories is a 3-credit awareness about the entirety Conservancy, the Cabot course open to high school of WGDR’s great, locally Agricultural Network, the students in Central and produced programs. Center for an Agricultural Northeastern Vermont, and Economy, Hunger Mountain Check out shows is offered through Goddard Ò from two of our Coop, Buffalo Mountain College’s Undergraduate grant winners: Jeff Lindholm Coop, the Green Mountain Studies Program in (wgdr.org/geezer-rock) Film Festival, the Summit collaboration with WGDR/ and Alan LaPage wgdr.org/ School, and the Plainfield WGDH, Goddard College curse-of-the-golden-turnip). Business Alliance. Community Radio.

12 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 ! DON’T BE A STRANGER! CONTACT US AT WGDR.ORG AND LEARN HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED. Plainfield Campus Plans to Upgrade Heating System Vermont Supreme Court gives the woodchip project a clean bill of health, moving Goddard closer to carbon neutrality.

BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV ’89) A model of the N NOV. 25, 2014, the Barre- University heat with woodchips, and, in Vermont to combine these campus woodchip Montpelier Times Argus ran a Burlington and Ryegate, massive wood- technologies for efficiency heating plant. welcome and long-awaited chip boilers produce electrical power. and emissions control. Oheadline: “High Court Backs Two things make Goddard’s design Can Goddard afford it? By switching Goddard Plans for Biomass Heat Plant.” special. First, like the recently built to lower-cost and more predictably The Vermont Supreme Court unanimously Montpelier district system, Goddard’s priced woodchips, eliminating aging voted to dismiss appeals by seven would transfer heat through pipes using oil boilers that would have to be neighbors to Goddard’s approved Act water instead of steam. This increases replaced over the next decade, and 250 Permit, and to allow construction. efficiency, diminishing the quantity fundraising for 10 percent of the First formally proposed in 2011, the of wood burned and lowering costs total project cost, Goddard can save biomass, or woodchip heating system, even further. Second, like much larger money the first year, and an average of will replace 22 boilers in 23 campus systems, Goddard’s design includes $84,500 for each of the next 30 years. buildings, reducing oil usage by almost an electrostatic precipitator (ESP). A task force of consultants, staff and 50,000 gallons. Instead of importing An ESP is essentially an industrial- board members are working to bring the oil from afar, Goddard will heat the grade air cleaner, pulling particulates woodchip heating system to fruition. campus almost exclusively with local from smoke before it leaves the chimney. Timothy Maker, president and wood, divesting even further from the It lowers emissions so effectively that CEO of Community Biomass Systems, fossil-fuel industry. The project will Goddard would heat 23 buildings, Inc., has high hopes for the project. greatly advance Goddard’s commitment from the Manor to the Pratt Center, “I’ve been managing woodchip to become carbon neutral by 2020. with emissions equivalent to four heating projects for thirty years,” he Goddard committed to carbon home woodstoves. Goddard’s is the says, “and the Goddard project is hands neutrality in 2007, when former president first woodchip heating system in down the best I’ve ever worked on.” CW Mark Schulman signed the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. President Bob Kenny, then Goddard’s executive vice president, championed the woodchip heating system from its earliest days. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has verbally approved a low-interest guaranteed loan for about 90 percent of the project cost. Woodchip heating uses the low-grade byproducts of wood harvested for lumber and high- quality wood products, adding to the overall efficiency of the forest management cycle. Vermont has many woodchip heating systems, and, according to impartial studies, capacity for many more. Montpelier recently built a wood-fired district heating system that heats downtown buildings, and many Central Vermont schools are heated with woodchips. National Life and Norwich

? QUESTIONS? SEND A NOTE TO [email protected]. CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 13 We even did a renovation on the Haybarn Theatre … I was swinging a hammer there. I also play a lot of ukulele. My house is covered in ukuleles and I play all the time.

DB: When did you first get involved in acting? WM: I started acting in high school; I did a play just like everybody else. After high school I went to Bethany College in West Virginia and I did a lot of plays there. That’s all I did, which became a problem. I got really serious about theater when I got to Goddard and met David Mamet.

DB: Why did you choose Goddard? WM: My parents were putting the pressure on, and so I went to look at other schools and ended up at Goddard College in Vermont. One look and I was with swept away. I just loved it. WILLIAM H. DB: What was it like to work with David Mamet at Goddard? MACY WM: David Mamet is a stunning teacher, a theoretician, and a philosopher of the arts if you will, and he basically gave me my aesthetic. It was the first time ’I d ever been in the presence of someone who held INTERVIEW BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01) the theater and the stage higher than anything else in life. COURTESY OF DOG POND PRODUCTIONS/WHM It was the wild and woolly days of Goddard College in ecently I had the amazing opportunity to talk with alumnus the 1970s – you can let your and SAG award winner William H. Macy (BA RUP ’72), imagination roam and that would only tell half the story. But R an Oscar nominee and Emmy Award-winning actor whose in Dave’s class we had to be on film credits include Seabiscuit, The Cooler, Magnolia, Boogie time. As a matter of fact, on time in Dave’s class was five minutes Nights, Jurassic Park III, and Fargo. In addition, Macy, along with early. After that, he locked the David Mamet, is a founder of the Atlantic Theater Company. door. If you weren’t prepared he’d ask you to leave. He was just deadly serious about it. One day he walked in and said “I’ve written a play we’re going to do,” and he flopped DUSTIN BYERLY: Could you tell available right now, released we just finished our fifth this big script down, which us a little bit about yourself? in theaters and digitally in season. I’m married to was an early version of Sexual WILLIAM H. MACY: I did theater October, and it’s doing rather Felicity Huffman, an actress. Perversity in Chicago. This is one for the first 20 years of my well. As a matter of fact…it’s I have two girls, 12 and of his early plays, which is now career and then when I moved going to make money, and that 14. Life is sweet. I’m the played everywhere. I vividly out here [Los Angeles], I means I get to direct another luckiest palooka. I have remember reading that play and started doing films, television film. That’s how I spend my a lot of hobbies. I still do thinking, “I am in the presence and a lot of movies. Right now days: figuring out how to get woodworking, which I did a of genius.” I had never read my new thing is directing. another film off the ground. lot of at Goddard; I worked in anything like that. That’s when Last year, I directed a film I’m also doing a TV series, the shop with a guy named the die was cast and I didn’t look called Rudderless, which is Shameless, on Showtime; Jim Drake, and I built sets. back. Dave always loved saying,

14 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 “It was the wild and woolly days of “if you have a fall back plan, you will.” And I had no fall back plan. Goddard College in the 1970s . You can That was the great thing about Goddard. All we had to do was follow our let your imagination roam, and that passions, and our passions were on fire under the tutelage of Dave Mamet. would only tell half the story.” I pretty much learned everything I know about showbiz right there at Goddard. COURTESY OF DOG POND PRODUCTIONS/WHM

DB: You were recently nominated for DB: What is your fondest memory or a People’s Choice Award, a Screen story from your time at Goddard? Actors Guild Award and a Golden WM: My girlfriend at the time was Globe for your role as Frank Gallagher in a dance program and she had to on Shameless. How does it feel to be do a senior study. Goddard was on a nominated for all of these awards? trimester system, and you had to study WM: It feels very gratifying…although I off-campus for one trimester per year. feel a little out of sorts about the fact that So I went to New York City with her, the show itself has not been embraced and I took classes with Sandy Miesner by the critical community. Audiences and tap-dancing with Henry LeTang. love it, and I don’t know why critics We went back to Goddard and my don’t get that…well, I do know why…it’s girlfriend performed her dance study… shocking. It’s well named. It’s “shameless.” Dave Mamet started to play “Lullaby I think it’s a little too rough for people. of Broadway” on the piano and…I I’m happy to be the standard bearer for come in dressed as a milkman, all in my cast, but I think a lot more people white, and we broke into a tap dance. deserve credit for the show’s success. It ended up with seven people doing a tap-dancing chorus line, and oh my DB: Do you see some of yourself in god! Goddard lost its mind. They were your character Frank Gallagher? ripping the seats out. They lost their WM: Oh yeah, it’s inevitable. From the minds at this tap-dancing extravagance. very first time I read the script I saw I’d never been so proud in all my life. MEMORY LANE a connection between Frank’s point of view and my own. He loves to be DB: What are your plans for the future? Alumnus Neal a rascal. He’s got an opinion about WM: Well, as my wife put it, I'm in my Warshaw (BA RUP ’73) everything: things that he knows about third act and I think I want it to be about captured these images and things he doesn’t know anything directing, working a little bit less, and of Bill Macy before the about – doesn’t matter – he’s got an having a little bit more fun. I can see student performance opinion. I love his “joie de vivre,” his myself retiring in the next 10 years. of The Boys in the sense of humor, his energy. I love that Maybe I’ll come back to Vermont. Band, featured at he’s a party wherever he goes, or at least the Haybarn Theatre he tries to be… He’s sort of delusional DB: What advice do you have for in the early 1970s. in a way that I recognize [laughs]. today’s Goddard student? He’s such a narcissist, and that seems WM: Follow your passion. I did. I can't embarrassingly familiar to me. think of a better piece of advice. CW

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NAKED: POEMS BOOMSLANG Donnelle McGee (MFAW ’08) Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ’01) Part elegy, part memoir, Naked takes A self-titled debut album from Montpelier the reader into a specific time and hip-hop duo Boomslang, featuring rapper place from Donnelle McGee’s life MC Sed One (Byerly) and producer and connects us to his origins. J Ellis. Deep, atmospheric beats and fiery, Unbound Content, 2015 poetic lyrics form an underground sound that is unique and highly danceable. HAAS THE GREAT BLUE HERON State & Main Records, 2014 Juliane Bauer (BA ’97) A heartwarming story about a father HEY, THIS IS IT, I’M GOING TO DIE heron who anxiously awaits the arrival Ron Heacock (IBA ’12, MFAW ’14) of his chick. This book introduces the From a farm in the Deep South to the reader to the world of the great blue heron Erie Lackawanna train station in Summit, and its habitat through story, beautiful New Jersey, the tales in Hey, This is It, illustrations and interesting facts. I’m Going to Die are written with an ear Save The River, 2014 for pitch and an eye for the mundane. Libros Igni, 2014 CALLED HOME, BOOK 2 Patricia Busbee (MFAW ’11), ed. DIALOGIC MATERIALISM A second anthology of American Indian Miriam A. Jordan-Haladyn (MFAIA ’06) and First Nations adoptee narratives. This book argues for the relevance Editors Patricia Busbee and Trace A. of Mikhail Bakhtin’s theories of DeMeyer are writers and adoptees who dialogism as a means of examining reunited with their own lost relatives. the interdisciplinary nature of Blue Hand Books, 2014 contemporary moving image art forms. Peter Lang, 2014 LIGHTING THE WORLD Merle Drown (MFAW ’78) ONLY A DOT ON THE MAP: In the mid-1980s, a student brought a gun to ST. JOHN REMEMBERED the high school where Merle taught and took Charlotte Sawyer Lacey (BA RUP ’56) two hostages. In the aftermath, conventional A collection of vignettes about explanations and other media events smoth- her year’s leave of absence from ered the boy’s death. This novel tries to give teaching, which turned into 25 meaning to an ordinary life gone wrong. years on the island of St. John. Whitepoint Press, 2015 AuthorHouse, 2014

IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF BASHER THOMAS CATACLYSM & OTHER ARRANGEMENTS Robert Detman (MFAW ’06) Kagayaki Karen Morris (MA PSY ’98) Capturing the cold war intrigue of Drawing from years of experience that Denis Johnson and the harsh landscapes integrates Zen, psychoanalysis, trauma of William T. Vollmann, Impossible study and poetry, Karen Morris’ poems Lives is a masterful and evocative express her alarm for what is happening exploration into the American psyche. to those trapped in the commercial sex Figureground Press, 2014 industry and slave-driven economies. Three Stones Press, 2014 NAKED IN THE WOODS Margaret Grundstein (BA RUP ’67) EVE’S REQUIM: TALES OF WOMEN, In 1970, Margaret abandoned her graduate MYSTERY, AND HORROR degree at Yale and followed her husband, Patricia Flaherty Pagan (MFAW ’13), ed. an Indonesian prince and community Thirteen stories of danger and activist, to a commune in the backwoods resilience featuring strong women. of Oregon. Together with ten friends and This spine-tingling collection includes an ever-changing mix of strangers, they suspense, horror, and mystery began to build their vision of utopia. stories from celebrated writers Oregon State University Press, 2015 Spider Road Press, 2014

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LONG WAY BACK TO THE END WORDS NOT SPENT TODAY BUY Paul B. Roth (BA RUP ’74, MA GGP ’77) SMALLER IMAGES TOMORROW This is poetic prose at its finest. Roth's David Levi Strauss (BA RUP ’76) sentences unfold, gradually reveal ever At this transitional moment in the deeper meanings, and then crystallize into field of photography, how should we moments of communicable inner experience consider what is to come for the medium? no less drawing on the vivid particulars Straus considers this in 25 essays on the of the natural world. ­— John Taylor present and future of photography. Rain Mountain Press, 2014 Aperture, 2014

TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE EREBUS Sol Smith (MFAW ’03) Jane Summer (MFAW ’13) A young couple sets out to explore the Told in fractured memories, images U.S. and, along the way, they fall into and heartbreaking poetry, this story love and hate with the popular culture retells the tragedy of the plane crash that binds Americans together. that took the life of the author’s friend. Brave New Genre, 2014 Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015

A GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING COMPANION PLANTS ZERO ENERGY COMMUNITIES Kathryn Roberts (BFAW ’12) John Whitcomb (MA SBC ’14) In this debut novel, a young woman blames The ZEC guide includes an extensive her religious upbringing for a friend’s primer regarding renewable energy, suicide and sets out to discover who she control systems, energy storage, and is beyond the strict rules of doctrine. hybridization of technologies. Fomite Press, 2014 AuthorHouse, 2014 SPEAK BUT THE WORD THE RETURN OF JASON GREEN Stephan Rich Merriman (BA ADP ’79), ed. Susan Wizowaty (MA ’85) A heroic, autobiographical account When Jason Green was ten, he saw his of the healing odyssey of twenty-five best friend die in a camping accident. personalities, all living within one Now 18, Jason re-enters the lives of body, and the journey they followed his friend’s parents and their gay towards integration and wholeness. next-door neighbor. This is a novel Four Rivers Press, 2014 about friendship and betrayal, love and desire, guilt and redemption. A BRIEF HISTORY OF INNKEEPING Fomite, 2014 IN THE 21ST CENTURY Shawn Kerivan (MFAW ‘06) AN INFATUATION In this engaging and eclectic memoir, Joe Cosentino (MFAW ’94) the author describes the challenges of In this romance novella, Harold running a small business, providing prepares for his 10-year high school for a young family, and reconciling reunion and wonders whether the dream of becoming a writer. Mario will be as muscular, sexy, and The Vermont Press, 2014 tantalizing as he remembers. Dreamspinner Press, 2015 THE LAST BOOK EVER WRITTEN Jonah Kruvant (MFAW ‘11) POLSKA, 1994 In a futuristic American society, where all Isla McKetta (MFAW ’10) citizens have computerized chips in their Structured around the poetry of Milosz and brains, Victor Vale is an officer of the law nocturnes of Chopin, Polska, 1994 follows and a dutiful citizen of the Nation. Yet 17-year-old Magda’s quest through her past. when The Chief assigns him a case to go In a provincial town that feels too small, undercover, Victor finds himself strangely this coming-of-age story revisits oppression compelled to write and, for the first time, and loss behind the grim Iron Curtain. starts to question the world around him. Editions Checkpointed, 2014 PanAm Books, 2015

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Beth Brown Preston (MFAW ’78-’81) of Philadelphia, Pa., 1950s published poems in The African American Review and in Open John Tomlinson (BA RUP Paulus Berensohn (BA RUP Minds Quarterly. She is working ’62-’63) of Windsor, Ont., is ’51-’52) of Penland, N.C., was on a book of poetry, Oxygen II, a bureau chief at Windsor Star recognized by the Renwick memoir, Roses, a work of literary and senior reporter at Thomson Alliance of the Smithsonian fiction, Circle’s Daughters, and a Chain. He received the Ontario as a Distinguished American series of essays on black female Secondary School Teachers Educator. He is the subject An Federation’s Award of Merit novelists tentatively called of the 2014 documentary, Anthropology of the Novel. She To Spring from the Hand, and he published an op-ed, “Helping Vets by Getting Back extends warm greetings to the which he said was influenced faculty and students who were by his time at Goddard. to the Land,” in November. Pictured, John and Asha at Goddard from 1979–81. Tomlinson at a fundraiser. Paul B. Roth (BA RUP ’74, MA GGP ’77) of Fayetteville, N.Y., 1692. He credits Goddard with Circle of Women for Creativity, had his newest collection of 1960s showing him how the search Compassion & Connection. poems, Long Way Back to the End for self must be balanced with named one of three finalists Peter T. Macy (BA ADP ’69) of the obligation to community. Jay Einhorn (BA RUP ’72) of in the 2014 Central New York Groton, Mass., published A Fish Wilmette, Ill., became president Book Awards for Poetry. This Tale, an eBook available where of the Chicago Association for is his seventh collection. Roth children’s eBooks are sold. Psychoanalytic Psychology, has been editor and publisher where he had been chair of Peer Richard Mulliken (BA RUP of The Bitter Oleander Press Study Groups for ten years. ’65) of Jefferson, N.Y., is largely 1970s since 1974. bitteroleander.com Jay is developing a series of retired but has a small private conversations for therapists, Larry Rottman (MA G-C ’73) practice in psychotherapy. Bernadette Bellizzi (BA ADP entitled “CAPP Conversations.” of Springfield, Mo., wrote Voices He is the Democratic chair ’79) of New Britain, Conn., received a master’s in counseling from the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry for the town of Harpersfield, Ford John Elsaesser (BA RUP in ’81 and has been a counselor of America and Vietnam, 1965– and a member of the ’73) of Priest River, Idaho, ever since. She recently began 1993, available on Amazon. Delaware County Democratic was appointed to the board showing her artwork and had Committee. He tells us his of directors of Columbia an exhibition at The Mark Marianne R. Weil (BA RUP biggest accomplishment was Banking System, Inc. Twain House Museum in ’74) of Orient, N.Y., is a full- spearheading the organization time faculty member in the Hartford. Her work can be Diane Gabriel (BA RUP that sent Senator Gillibrand to Department of Performing and viewed at bbellizzifineart.com. ’76) of Burlington, Vt., Congress, to replace a man who Creative Arts at City University continues to make art. was one of Bush’s buddies. Marilyn Benshelter (BA ADP of New York, College of Staten Dr. Catherine A. Ramsey ’74) of Philadelphia, Pa., is Peter Hannan (BA RUP ’76) Island. See her sculptures (BA RUP ’64) of Milltown, fully recovered from spinal of Beverly Hills, Calif., is the at marianneweil.com. surgery and is back teaching new creator, writer and artist Ind., retired a few years ago as Fred Wilber (BA RUP ’73) of yoga. She turned 82 in January. at Cottonwood Media. director of Crawford County Montpelier, Vt., celebrated 42 Public Library. Her son, Dr. Richard Bilangi (BA ADP ’75) Kathleen M. Kern-Pilch (MAT years of operating Buch Spieler Drew Ramsey, wrote the of Newtown, Conn., retired ’79) of Bratenahl, Ohio, was Music on Langdon Street. cookbook 50 Shades of Kale. from his role as president featured artist for the August She sends “cheers” to those and executive director of 2014 Lamplighter Magazine, Paul Zaloom (BA RUP ’73) of who remember standing Connecticut Counseling Centers published by the Bratenahl Los Angeles, Calif., celebrated along the Reflecting Pool in Inc., and from his 35-year Community Foundation. four years with the live stage Washington, D.C., listening to career treating substance abuse show Beakman on the Brain. Martin Luther King give his and mental health patients. Mary Lansing (MA GGP ’75) “I Have a Dream” speech. of Lake Oswego, Ore., published Ric Chesser (BA RUP ’78) Stop It! How to Intervene in Public Arnold Kraft Sherman (BA of Albany, N.Y., the founder Child Abuse, in 2013. She is RUP ’61) of Baltimore, Md., is and executive director of licensed as a marriage, family an assistant college professor, 1980s Steamer 10 Theatre, is raising and child therapist and has policy scientist, and community money to finish the castle practiced for the past 35 years. Michael Arnowitt (BA ’84) organizer. He authored The of this historic theater. of Montpelier, Vt., presented Social Bases of Politics and other Roger Norman Leege (BA RUP a concert at Marlboro works, and he is finishing a Wendy Judith Cutler (BA RUP ’71, MA GGP ’77) of Venice, College in November. book on “fear of the stigmatized ’72) of Salt Spring Island, B.C., Fla., published photographs in other” from a multi-disciplinary teaches memoir and facilitates Gulf Stream Literary Magazine Jim Atwell (MA GGP perspective, starting in Southern women’s writing circles. She #11, the June issue of Miracle ’80) of Burbank, Calif., Turkey in 800 BCE and ending is the co-author of Writing Magazine, and the cover of teaches psychology at Platt with the Salem Witch Trials in Alone Together: Journaling in a Tupelo Quarterly (TQ4). College in Los Angeles.

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Michael Cooper (MA GV Suzi Wizowaty (MA GV ’85) of Robert Nelson (MFAW ’95) of ’83-’84) of Idlewild, Mich., Burlington, Vt., retired from the Branford, Conn., gave a lecture, wrote and performed his state legislature after six years “Eerie Connecticut: Local Myth Masked Marvels and Wondertales to concentrate on her new non- and Mystery,” on Oct. 29, at the at the Harris Center in profit, Vermonters for Criminal Fairfield Woods Branch Library. Folsom, Calif., in January. Justice Reform. David Steven Rappoport Cathy Malkin Currea (BA RUP (MFAW ’96) of Chicago, Ill., ’80) of Martinez, Calif., is an continues to consult as part animal communicator, humane of Millennia Consulting in educator, animal Reiki teacher Chicago. He worked with and founder of AnimalMuse.com. 1990s the State of Vermont on the Cynthia A. (Cynn) Chadwick development of two successful Dennis Leoutsakas (MA (IMA ’96, MFAW ’99) of Jon Fishman (BA GV applications for federal GV ’85) of Portland, Ore., is a Weaverville, N.C., published Department of Education funds professor emeritus, teaching ’90) of Linconville, Cutting Loose, part of the Cat for early childhood programs. internationally and completing Rising Series, with Createspace. Maine, received the a 15-year research project. Debora J. Seidman (MFAW Lifetime Achievement ’96) of Taos, N.M., is a writing David R. McLean-Thorne (MA Ronald (Nadel) Harvey (MA teacher and coach working with GGP ’80) of Bude, U.K., retired GV ’95) of Philadelphia, Pa., Award from the in October from a long and self-published Stilettos in the 2015 Syracuse Area students all over the world. She satisfying career as principal Sun, a debut novel about a also teaches Women’s Voices and educational psychologist young engineer-mathematician Music Awards. Rising for Life on Earth. Her play, The Lilac Minyan, which at a special needs school with adventures in wasted love. PHOTO: ANDY MANN © PHISH she completed at Goddard, in England. He now enjoys Martin Holsinger (BA RUP ’66- spending time with family has been produced in many ’70, BA GV ’91) of Nashville, the Water’s Edge, at the Kennedy and consulting as a child and locations, most recently at Metta Tenn., ran for the Tennessee Gallery in Portsmouth, as part educational psychologist and Theatre in Taos in 2013, and at House of Representatives on of the “First Friday” art walk. an academic and professional Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe in the Green Party ballot line in He also gave a gallery talk. tutor at the University of Exeter. 2014. deboraseidman.com 2014. Without campaigning Wendy Loomas (MA GV ’93) of Deborah Kennedy Michalak or spending any money, he Benicia, Calif., worked in public (BA ADP ’81) of Crestone, received 1,100 votes, or nine Colo., is pursuing her spiritual percent of the total. He also health, primarily in injury life working at an Ashram, became a great-grandfather in and violence prevention, in St. Petersburg, Fla. Her Goddard 2000s practicing a healing practice September. His granddaughter called Shekinah Healing Arts, is in the graduate program in education helped launch this Angela K. Andreoletti and doing photography. international studies at the career and motivates her to (IBA ’03) of Barre, Vt., left University of Colorado-Boulder. continue social change work. her position as senior staff Bill Orleans (BA RUP accountant at Goddard, where ’80) of Burlington, Vt., was John Layton (MA ’90) of Jennifer A. McMahon (BA GV she worked for fifteen years. appointed to the board of the Norwich, Vt., exhibited his ’91) of Montpelier, Vt., looks Lake Champlain Regional photographs of Maine and New forward to her August eBook William Belcher (MFAW ’07) Chamber of Commerce. Hampshire coasts in Views From release for The Night Sister. of Greenwich, N.Y., sold his

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novel Lay Down Your Weary Tune, to Other Press. It will be published in the fall.

Charlie Bondhus (MFAW ’05) of Bridgewater, N.J., was the Beckie M. Sheloske (BA featured alumni reader for the RUP ’01) of Montpelier, Vt., MFAW Alumni Reader Series at opened a new business, the Spring 2015 residency at the Rebel Intuitive Perfumerie, Plainfield campus in January. creating natural perfume Lindsey Bourassa (IBA compositions using non- ’09) of Brunswick, Maine, synthetic aromatics. In the opened her own dance photo, Beckie (at right) with studio, Bourassa Dance, in her partner Katy Knuth. Portland, in September. The Visit rebelintuitive.com. studio features classes in Contemporary Flamenco, conditioning and yoga classes WALLACE-BRODEUR JEB for dancers, and Flamenco Palmas workshops, plus other special events. Classes will also Robert M. Detman (MFAW Bollard, for his colorful musical premiered at the 2015 Sundance be taught by fellow alumna ’06) of Oakland, Calif., is a career. Benb was the emcee Film Festival, where it won the Rijah Newall (IBA ’09). proud new father. He has at the UGP outreach event the Global Filmmaking Award. Jeremy Brown (IBA ’08) fiction forthcoming in Akashic in Portland in November. She was interviewed by George of Gorham, Maine, spoke Books’ Thursdaze and Em: A Stephanopoulos on ABC News. David M. Gallaher (BA RUP about his original research Review of Text and Image. ’02) of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a new Maria James-Thiaw (MFAW on men’s grief (conducted for Deborah Di Bari (BFAW ’09) writer at IDW Publishing. ’09) of Camp Hill, Pa., his Goddard Senior Study) at of New York, N.Y., received her was published in O Taste the Undergraduate Outreach Roberto Guzman (IBA ’05) MFA from The City College, & See: Auvillar Edition. Event in Portland in November. CUNY in 2012 and is launching of Laredo, Texas, received an Jeremy earned his Master’s a literary website and blog, Artist Fellowship, Inc. grant and Shelley Jesso (BA RUP ’99-’02) in Social Work and is now a Fresh Snack Literary Press. a Gottlieb Foundation grant to of San Diego, Calif., has a new licensed clinical social worker She is publishing a collection help defray his health care costs radio show, Holistic Vibrations and associate director of of her own short stories and associated with an accident that (holisticvibrationssd.com). residential programming at Port is at work on a novel. left him paralyzed. You can Resources in South Portland. contribute to a care fund set up Shawn T. Kerivan (MFAW ’06) Victoria A. Estok (IBA ’07) of by Joni Cobbet (BA RUP ’03) of Stowe, Vt., has an upcoming Cathleen P. Carr (IBA ’08) of Beacon, N.Y., produced a sound at gofundme.com/qbynmw. book, Creative Composition: Long Island City, N.Y., attended collaboration, “Overtones and Inspiration and Techniques for the People’s Climate March Undercurrents,” performed in Ian B. Haight (MFAW ’03) Writing Instruction, being along with Hartman Deetz the Riverside Drive Viaduct of Yigo, Guam, won Ninth published by Multilingual (IBA ’16), Trish Denton (IBA tunnel in New York City on Letter’s 2014 Literary Award in Matters and edited by fellow ’08), Victoria Estok (IBA ’07), Oct. 4, with support from the Translation for poetry for his co- alum Danita Berg (MFAW ’06). Nina Germain (IBA ’15), Julian West Harlem Art Fund. translation of “Poem Given to a Pimiento (IBA ’16), Griffin Nun While Staying in a Taoist Kathryn R. Klein (MA EDU Shumway (IBA ’14), Gaetano Paul Freedman (MA EDU ’08) Monastery” by the 16th-century ’06) of Chicago, Ill., says she Vaccaro (IBA ’09), and others. of Orcas, Wash., was a featured Korean poet Nansorhon. uses the knowledge she gained speaker at The TedX Orcas at Goddard every day. She is Melanie Dante (IBA ’03, MA Island Conference in November. Alexandria Heather (MFAIA an instructional support leader HAS ’06) of Philadelphia, Pa., ’05) of Montpelier, Vt., has made in the Chicago Public Schools. participated in International Benb Gallaher (IBA ’00, IMA over 400 paintings on discarded Day to End Violence Against ’02) of Brunswick, Maine, was wooden windows and was Jeffrey Lockwood (MFAW ’04) Sex Workers on Dec. 14, featured this fall in Portland, featured on boredpanda.com. of Manistique, Mich., has a novel, in Anchorage, Alaska. Maine’s arts magazine, The boredpanda.com/i-paint-on- Anomie, coming out this spring discarded-wood-windows from Harvard Square Editions.

Cara Hoffman (MFAW ’09) Donelle McGee (MFAW of New York, N.Y., was the ’08) of Turlock, Calif., was Stay connected. visiting alumni reader for nominated for a Pushcart for the MFAW residency in Port his poem “Cinnamon Man,” /GoddardCollege /GoddardCollege Townsend in February. Her published in Unbound Content. book, Be Safe, I Love You, was @goddardcollege goddardcollege listed on BookPage.com’s “The Ann E. Michael (MFAW 25 best book titles of 2014” and ’03) of Emmaus, Pa., appears was made into a movie that in the anthology So Far…So

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Close/Portada y Contraportada: David Robson (MFAW ’06) of for Integrative Nutrition storytelling and audio Contemporary Writers of Wilmington, Del., showcased Conference in New York documentary podcast called Tarapaca and Pennsylvania. his play, Playing the Assassin, City in November. He also “The Smallest Bone.” at the Penguin Theater last fall released a CD called The Susan Maier Moul (IMA and received a great review Goddard Project, a collection GaBrilla Ballard (IBA ’15) ’07) of Lenox, Mass., won the in the Sunday edition of The of music formed at Goddard of Needham Heights, Mass., Munster Literature Centre Sean New York Times in September. residencies with collaborators had an essay, “Trauma and O’Faolain Prize for fiction. Gailanne Amundsen (former Self-Care: Taking Care of Your Her story was published in Gunner Scott (IBA ’09) of IBA student) of Longwood, Present While Processing your Southword and nominated Seattle, Wash., was appointed to Fla., Lindsey Nogueira (BA Past,” published this summer for a Pushcart Prize. the Seattle LGBT Commission HAS ’14) of Milford, Mass., on the website, For Harriet: and is working for Pride Desmond Peeples (IBA ’14) of Celebrating the Fullness Ezra Berkley Nepon (IBA Foundation as director of Brattleboro, Vt., Kevin Price of Black Womanhood. ’06, IMA ’13) of Philadelphia, programs. He launched a Pa., received the 2014 Leeway (IBA ’12) of Pennsauken, N.J., new practice, Making Waves Patrick Beall (BAS ’14) Foundation Transformation Johnny Ridenour (BAS ’14) of Coaching and Consulting. of West River, Md., is an Award and published an article, Urbana, Ill., Dan Wall (IBA ’13) oyster restoration specialist “Zamlers, Tricksters, and Travis Shores (BA RUP ’02) of of Ghent, N.Y., and current IBA Queers: Re-Mixing Histories in South Dennis, Mass., received students Siobhán Butler of New at the Chesapeake Bay Yiddishland and Faerieland,” his master’s in cultural studies York, N.Y., James Day Leavitt of Foundation. He spends his in the anthology Transformative from Dartmouth College and Portland, Maine, Allen Makere days restoring the population Language Arts in Action. is conducting research abroad of Chicago, Ill., Jeffrey Parry of oysters, which have been at the Museum of the History of Northfield, Vt., and Jasper threatened by industrial Carla Norton (MFAW of Science at the University Robards, of Santa Monica, pollution, and advocating ’09) of Satellite Beach, Fla., of Oxford. He also earned a Calif. cdbaby.com/cd/aly13 for stewardship of the bay. announced that What Doesn’t PGCert in English Literature Kelly Allen (BAS ’14) of Kill Her, the sequel to The Edge in Chaucer and Shakespeare John Boyer (MA HAS ’13) of Hamilton, Va., started a paid of Normal, will be out in June. from Exeter College, Oxford, in Montpelier, Vt., and his partner internship as a viticulturist England, where he respectfully Gypsy Lew welcomed a baby Jen Pia-Needleman (BA (cultivator of grapes) at declined an offer of admission boy to the world on Dec. 19. RUP ’98, MA EDU ’03) of for a DPhil and MSc in 2014. Fabbioli Cellars in Leesburg. Montpelier, Vt., became a He lives with his wife, Hannah She is learning about the wine Eileen Brunetto (MFAW homebirth midwife, earning J. Rudy (BA RUP ’01). making process and winery ’12) of Hinesburg, Vt., was her national CPM credential business. Check out her interviewed in the Oct. 23 and her state license. She Nancy Shaprio (BA HAS blog, The Vine Whisperer. Spotlight on Higher Education started a homebirth business ’08) published Tilting Toward issue of The Montpelier Bridge. (bornhomebirth.com), and is Chaos on Kindle at Amazon. Richard Ambelang (MFAIA- passionately working to bring VT ’12) of Plainfield, Vt., choice of birth provider and David M. Spitzer (BA RUP had a solo show of medium setting to Vermont families. ’01) of Harrisburg, Pa., had his format transparency photos, manuscript, A Heaven Wrought Approaching Abstraction: Baba Israel (IBA ’04, MFAIA Wanda Pothier-Hill (MFAW of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey, From the Montpelier Boxcars ’08) of New York, N.Y., was ’07) of Ashburnham, Mass., was accepted for publication by I & II Series, at City Center, a featured presenter at the guest speaker at the House of Etruscan Press for release Montpelier, through Jan. 30. MFAIA residency in Plainfield Peace and Education in Gardner, in Spring 2016. He and Sara in January. He gave a talk and Mass., on Oct. 8, and read from Stalling Spitzer (BA EDU ’03, Mark Anderson (IBA ’14) of workshop on his latest project, her novel, The Road Home. MA EDU ’07) celebrated their Evergreen, Colo., launched a “The Spinning Wheel.” 15th wedding anniversary. Matthew Quick (MFAW ’07) of They met at Goddard in 1997. Collingswood, N.J., was listed on BookPage.com’s “The 25 An upcoming production and best book titles of 2014” for his tour for When Marie Took the novel, The Good Luck of Right Power, the first of the Marie Now. Catch and Release Films Plays written by Carolyn is developing an adaptation Nur Wistrand (MFAW ’07) of of his best-selling novel Flint, Mich., and directed and Boy21, with Lasse Hallstrom designed by David I.L. Poole as the director and Andrew (MFAIA ’07) of Savannah, Ga., Lanham as the scriptwriter. was produced in February.

Alfonso Ramirez (MFAW ’09) of New York, N.Y., had a short play, Yin/Yang – written while a student at Goddard – produced 2010s as part of the Venus-Adonis Theater Festival in New Aly (IBA ’14) of Takoma Park, York City in January. Md., spoke at the Institute

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Juanita Butler (BFAW ’14) of Virginia and launched new Austin, Texas, was nominated courses on information literacy for a Voices of Women and social media, based on Rachel Hooper (IBA Worldwide’s Successful the curriculum she created for ’10) of Burlington, Achievement Award in 2014. her Goddard Senior Study. Vt., exhibited It’s Pamela Callender (MFAIA Jacqueline E. Dawkins (IBA Electric, her original ’11) of Sarasota, Fla., founded ’06, MA HAS ’13) of Beckley, digital prints made Fogartyville Community Media W.Va., is working as a family with mobile apps and Arts Center in downtown advocate at Just For Kids, an and public-domain Sarasota in 2014, a project of organization that treats children images, in the maker the Peace Education and Action who are victims of sexual abuse. space’s first art Center (sarasotapeacenter.org). exhibition in August. Nicholas Dean (MA EDU ’12) At left is “Lost on Tamra Carraher (BFW ’11) of New Orleans, La., is the new Earth,” courtesy of of Audubon, N.J., launched principal at Crescent Leadership Generator. a new magazine called Academy, a school whose Alexandria Quarterly, and students have been removed the first issue featured from other public schools or several Goddard alumni. are re-entering school from alexandriaquarterlymag.com the criminal justice system. after almost nine years two new dance works and of dedication to pursue a received a 2014/2015 Individual Lindsey Desrochers (MA EDU position with the Vermont Artist Choreographic Erin Cisewski ’12) of Port Jervis, N.Y., teaches Department of Agriculture. Fellowship from the North at The Bellwether School. Carolina Arts Council. (IBA ’12) of Ithaca, Heather Jo Flores (IBA ’06, James DeWitt (BA HAS N.Y., is teaching MFAIA ’14) of Portland, Ore., Scott Harris (MA EDU ’12) ’14) of Minneapolis, Minn., completed yoga teacher training of Plainfield, Vt., adopted a English on a rural is working as a research and now lives in Northern dog, Wilson, from the Central assistant at the University of California, where she is writing Vermont Humane society. island in Japan. Minnesota’s Program in Human a memoir. She will be touring Sexuality for a project called, the U.S., Canada and the U.K. to Christopher Hatley (BA “Working with Transgender organize events to help people HAS ’14) of Brooklyn, N.Y., Stacy Clark (MFAW ’13) of Communities to Assess PrEP grow their towns into healthy, interned with the Healthy Youth Tampa, Fla., published her Knowledge and Acceptability.” sustainable communities. Program at the Washington piece “Sitting with a Soldier” She founded the original County Youth Service Bureau Alison Downs (BFAW ’13) in the Sept. 7 issue of The chapter of Food Not Lawns in Vermont during his last year of Stafford Springs, Conn., Boston Globe Magazine. She in 1999 in Eugene, Ore., and at Goddard. The internship published three poems in the was also published in the wrote Food Not Lawns: How to has become a paid job. He is latest issue of Meat for Tea: anthology Three Minus One, Turn Your Yard into a Garden a technical writer while also The Valley Review; essays on Stories of Parents’ Love and Loss. and Your Neighborhood into a working toward his drug and HelloGiggles.com and xoJane. Community as her final project Maggie Cleveland (IBA ’08, alcohol counseling license. com; and she is a host, on- in the IBA program, which MFAW ’11) of Fairhaven, Chris is also pursuing radio camera reporter, and writer on was then published in 2006. Mass., published poems Dev, a news show for new web, storytelling as a tool for public health, specifically around in the Winter 2014 issue of mobile, and game developers. Chriztine Foltz (MFAIA ’14) chemical dependency. Cape Cod Poetry Review and of Lunenburg, Mass., celebrates in the anthology Devouring Zee Dunfee (IBA ’12) of 11 years as a professor at The William Homestead (MFAW- The Green: Fear Of A Human Portland, Ore., was accepted New England Institute of Art. VT ’13) of Putney, Vt., had Planet. She also celebrated one to Johns Hopkins University year working at the National for a dual master’s degree in Sacha Fossa (IMA ’12) of his long critical paper, “The Elevator Industry Educational Museum Studies and Non- Rockport, Mass., created Sacred Language That All Things Program, where she helped Profit Management. Zee started Temple Arts (sacredtemplearts. Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of develop a Goddard partnership. her graduate studies last fall. com), a holistic business that Nature,” published in Voice and focuses on sex, relationship and Environmental Communication. Neely Cohen (BA HAS ’12) Annette Arguello Falkman intimacy coaching, healing, Samantha Hutchison (IMA of Peterborough, N.H., opened (BA HAS ’14) of Gillette, and bodywork, through private ’13) of Fayetteville, Ariz., Vicuña Chocolate Factory and Wyo., practices horse- sessions in person or via Skype. Cafe last October. Visit at 15 facilitated learning at her is the new senior museum Main Street in Peterborough, organization, Spirithorse. She Krista Gromalski (MA SBC educator at Crystal Bridges or online at vicunachocolate. launched a program called ’13) of Greeley, Penn., launched Museum of American Art. com. She was interviewed on “Fortifying Families.” Coal Cracker in 2013, a youth- WGDR’s Goddard Hour. led newspaper that was the Kathleen Iwanowski (MFAIA Lisa Fantelli (MFAIA ’10) focus of her Goddard studies. ’10) of Denver, Colo., is now Joanna Cole (IBA ’12) of of Plainfield, Vt., resigned a Reiki practitioner/arts in Annandale, Va., teaches at from her position in the Cara Hagan (MFAIA ’12) healthcare facilitator at Creative The New School of Northern Admissions Office at Goddard of Boone, N.C., premiered Health Partners, LLC.

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Chanelle John (IBA ’13) Center about writing classes Nancy Otter (MFAW ’14) of production of his short was featured on Black Yogis, and the many outlets for Hartford, Conn., won first film, Raise a Good Man. a website that promotes publishing last September. place in the Working People’s the visibility of black yoga Poetry Contest for “Rana Desmond Peeples (IBA practitioners. In August, Sara Ybarra Lopez (MFAIA- Plaza,” a poem about the factory ’14) of Brattleboro, Vt., is her article “(More) Reasons WA ’10) of Port Townsend, collapse in Bangladesh. The now an associate literary Why Your Yoga Class is So Wash., self-published Galatea: poem appears on the website agent with DCdesign. White” was published on Heart of Port Townsend, based partisanpress.org and in Blue on her creative thesis, in 2014. Lucas Peters (MFAW-WA ’14) Decolonizing Yoga’s website. Collar Review. “Chattel Is,” part of Covington, Wash., wrote a of Nancy’s Goddard thesis, Jessi Lucas (MA HAS ’12) of 400-page guidebook of Morocco Jeremy Johnson (IMA ’13) of received Honorable Mention in Wantagh, N.Y., presented his Shrewsbury, Vt., was inter- for Moon Travel Guides. viewed in The Times Argus in the Lois Cranston Poetry contest essay, “The Penumbra of Electric September: “Goddard graduate sponsored by CALYX Press. Cody Pherigo (MFAW ’15) Light,” at the 2014 International of teaches ’Aerial Yoga,’” and was Port Townsend, Wash., had a Jean Gebser Society Conference Patricia Flaherty Pagan the featured @thisisvt Tweeter in New York in October. He (MFAW-VT ’13) of Houston, handful of poems published of the week of Nov 17-24, 2014. works at Evolver’s Learning Texas, won the Houston Writers this winter in Gay City Anthology Volume 6: Up Close and Personal. Lab series and serves as Jasmine Marsh (IBA ’15) of Guild short story prize for editor for psychedelic culture Winooski, Vt., was accepted into her story, “Bargainings.” Jess Pillmore (MFAIA ’14) at the digital magazine Johnston State College’s Master Thomas Park (MFAW ’14) of Austinville, Va., has a Reality Sandwich. of Arts in Counseling Program. of Warrenton, N.C., had five new job as artistic director Nikki Kallio (MFAW-WA Jennifer Martineau (BA pieces of poetry accepted at Creatively Independent. ’10) of Hortonville, Wis., HAS ’12) of Savannah, Ga., in the third issue of the had a short story, “Shadow,” published her Goddard Senior on-line journal Barking in issue 16 of Midwestern Study, The Feral Ache: How a Sycamores. “Ghetto Child,” Gothic. She is teaching a New Science Virgin Decided to Go All his puppet show about rural Writing Focus class at The the Way, as a Kindle book. children staying in school, was Neel Murgai (MFAIA ’10) Mill: a Place for Writers. presented at the Warren of Brooklyn, N.Y., with his Gerardo “Tony” Mena (MFAW- County Library on Nov. 6. musical group, The Neel Annis Karpenko (MFAIA VT ’15) of Columbia, Mo., was Murgai Ensemble, gave a ’14) of Mississauga, Ont., interviewed by the Columbia Dylan Pasture (IBA ’10) of concert on Jan. 17 at the was appointed executive Tribune, and his tribute essay Brooklyn, N.Y., has finished Haybarn Theatre in Plainfield. director of Visual Arts to the late author Walter Mississauga in Ontario. Dean Myers was published in Hunger Mountain Journal. Maggie Keenan-Bolger (MFAIA ’14) of New York, Lisa E. Melilli (MFAW ’13) N.Y., with co-founder of Brooklyn N.Y., was named Rachel Sullivan, brought a finalist in the Soundings new work of their Honest Review First Publication Contest Accomplice Theatre to for her short story “The Sotah.” the University Settlement She was also named a finalist building in New York City. for the New Letters Alexander Patterson Cappon Prize for Sarah Kishpaugh (MFAW Fiction for a short story excerpt ’14) of Edmonds, Wash., spoke from The Offering, the novel at the Edmonds Conference she completed for her thesis.

Anne Rosenvald Moore (MFAIA ’10) of Lake Wales, Fla., is adjunct professor of humanities at South Send Florida State College. Victoria Mosey (IMA ’13) us your of Raleigh, N.C., started a new job as inreach peer news. support specialist at Alliance Behavioral Healthcare. To submit a note, please send an e-mail George Obermiller (MFAW- WA ’10) of Corpus Christie, to clockworks@ Texas, had his one-act play, One goddard.edu. Night in Paradise, performed in Austin’s FronteraFest! on Feb. 6 at Hyde Park Theatre.

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Hannah Pitkin (IBA ’12) of Joslyn Jordan Robinson Jeffrey Simonds (MFAW a recent issue of The Nation, Marshfield, Vt., granddaughter (MFAW ’14) of Rockville ’13) of Castleton, N.Y., was a a journal featuring analysis of Goddard’s founding Md., wrote and published featured reader at Hartwick on politics and culture. president Tim Pitkin, married an article, “The Formidable College’s New American Nicholas Clark, formerly Fairy Tale: A Writer’s Guide,” Writing Festival in November. Kakwasi Somadhi (GGP ’76, of Belchertown, Mass., in on the-artifice.com. MFAW ’10) of Elk Grove, Calif., Haley Sladek (MA EDU ’12) of their home on Jan. 31. The published her debut novel, Loveland, Colo., credits Goddard Coming Forth by Day. She is ceremony was officiated David Sammarco (MA EDU ’10) for her organizing a 600-person writing, promoting her book, by her father, Caleb Pitkin of Windham, Maine, celebrated six years as a international conference in and organizing a local writing (BA ’80) and attended by an fundraising and political 2013 and working at a public conference and book fairs. intimate group of family and consultant and educator. library doing progressive friends. The two are planning community outreach. Carolyne St. Clair (MA EDU a honeymoon in Norway. Ryan Sartor (MFAW ’12) of Key Biscayne, Fla., ’12) of Milford, Conn., Douglas Smith (MFAW-WA opened her own learning center Mike Puckett (BAS ’15) of published a short story at ’14) of Shoreline, Wash., had in May 2014, making a lifelong Kamuela, Hawaii, presented his The Collapsar in September. one new critical piece and one dream come true, she tells us. senior project, “Soil Solutions,” from his thesis accepted online in Hawaii this December. Shae Savoy (MFAW ’14) of at Behemoth Review and issue Deborah Grace Staley (MFAW Seattle, Wash., had a poem, Crooked Shift ’11) of Maryville, Tenn., Clayton Redfield (MA PSY #2 of . He has “Nude New Hampshire completed his PhD application. published her thesis, I’ll Be ’12) of Tawas City, Mich., News,” selected as the first There, as a Kindle on Amazon. joined adjunct faculty at place winner in the Elizabeth Jan Smith (MFAW ’14) of Alpena Community College R. Curry poetry contest at Taos, N.M., is completing a Emily Stern (MFAW-VT ’13) in the Criminal Justice SLAB Literary Magazine. Writing Residency this spring of Santa Fe, N.M., published Department teaching juvenile at the Vermont Studio Center, an excerpt of her memoir, justice in ACC’s Huron Shores Casey M. Siegel (MFAW and her memoir, Blink Like When Doves Cry, in Entropy Facility in Oscoda, Mich. ’10) of Brooklyn, N.Y. is the Crazy, won first place in the Magazine on March 4. new executive assistant at 2014 SouthWest Writers contest. Angel “Balancé” Reyes (BA Little, Brown and Company. Ashley Summers (MFAW ’14) EDU ’09, MA EDU ’11) of Jonathan Smucker (IBA ’12) of Bend, Ore., teaches English Kissimmee, Fla., taught Puerto Nessie Pruden Siler (IBA ’11) of Providence, R.I., had his and works as a language Rican Bomba Classes at the of Manteo, N.C., is a member article, “What’s Wrong With the services specialist in Germany. MLK FAME Community of the state’s Developmental Radical Critique of the People’s Center in Seattle in February. Disabilities Council. Climate March” published in » continued on page 29

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24 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 Scholarship recipients show the breadth, variety, and deep engagement BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV ’89) of the Goddard community. Embodying the Spirit of Goddard

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oddard’s tuition remains low Some of Our 2014-15 Scholarship Recipients compared with other small, liberal atthew Paneitz degree program studying Another educator is arts colleges, but even so, our students’ M(BAS ’12 and MA cooperative and based in Senegal, where financial need is great. During the in Education student), solidarity economics; a she moved in 2011, and G2013-14 academic year, 84 percent of Goddard writer and parent who received a Pearl Foun- works as a teaching students received financial aid, and 38 percent of dation scholarship. enrolled in Goddard’s and library assistant undergraduates lived below the poverty line. He is the founder of MFA in Writing program at the International Fortunately, scholarships can lessen the burden. Long Way Home, an after 12 years as a stay- School of Dakar. She educational initiative at-home mom; and a manages a program that In 2007, the Spirit of Goddard Scholarship Fund in Guatemala that’s community organizer fosters collaboration became the main scholarship endowment. Made staffed with people and rape-crisis counselor between the school’s up of generous donations from our alumni, the from around the globe. who, in working staff and families to fund gives awards of $500 or more to students “We are architects, toward her MFA in combine education whose proposed work embodies the socially builders, farmers, Interdisciplinary Arts, with social well-being. engaged, self-directed “spirit” of the College. educators, admini- has edited an anthology A third Spirit recipient The Pearl Foundation Scholarship was established strators, and above that focuses on the is an artist who, with in memory of alumna Pearl Fink (BA ADP ’80, MA all, students,” says communities with whom her family, converted a Paneitz. Together, she engaged in her work. 7x16-foot cargo trailer ’84) by her children. Pearl returned to college in her they are constructing This Spirit of Goddard into an environmental art 40s after decades in the working world to discover a 20-building, 100 scholarship has gone and living experiment. her talent as a playwright. Her daughter, the musician percent sustainable to a number of worthy The trailer is designed Janis Ian, said that “Goddard was the most important campus to provide students, including an as “a long term and thing in the world to her next to her children.” poor, rural Guatemalans educator who moved at permanent housing Each year, the scholarship committee has the with an alternative age ten from the Czech solution…incorporating difficult task of choosing among the many applicants to what he calls “the Republic to Windsor, mindful/conscious banking model” of Vt., unable to speak a living practices,” such who both demonstrate financial need and do education commonly word of English. Through as solar and wind remarkable work. This year, the committee read practiced there. her studies at Goddard, energy sources. The nearly 75 applications for the $20,000 available in Other Pearl Foundation she is developing a family plans to travel scholarship funds. At right are some of the students scholarship recipients multicultural program widely and evolve who were selected for awards. They represent the include Susan Sakash, a in her hometown that their project into mass- breadth, variety, and deep social, political, and graduate student in the supports diverse learners produced affordable personal engagement of the Goddard community. MA in Social Innovation through inquiry, imagi- and sustainable They truly embody the Spirit of Goddard. CW and Sustainability nation, and sensitivity. housing solutions.

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Annie Abdalla (IBA) is March in New York. In October Ruth Farmer (GGI Program the Protestant University of immersed in a creative he, Catherine Lowther (UGP) Director) and Caryn Mirriam- Applied Sciences in Bochum, project she calls, “The and Otto Muller (UGP) Goldberg (GGI-TLA) co-edited as well as at Salon 4 and Process of Abstracting: attended a Vermont rally the anthology Transformative Humboldt University in Berlin. Searching for Essence.” against fracking, sponsored by Language Arts in Action. It Rising Tide and 350VT.org. features essays by and profiles Maike Garland (UGP) Pamela Booker’s (IBA) play, on dozens of transformative finished her Master Gardener Seens From the Unexpectedness Neema Caughran’s (UGP) language artists, including: Training at University of of Love, will be included ceramic sculpture, “Kwan Yin,” Suzanne Adams (IMA ’08), Vermont’s Extension Services. in the anthology Blacktino was accepted into a statewide, Taina Asili (IMA ’08), Minna In December, she gave an Queer Performance. She also juried show held as part of the Dubin (IMA ’08), Patricia interview on WGDR about published, “Tilling Soil and annual Colorado State Fair. Fontaine (IMA ’07), Larry systemic racism in Vermont. Soul in the Aftermath of Last October, she attended Greer (IBA ’03, IMA ’06), Beatrix Gates (MFAW-VT) the Climate March,” on her the annual Association for Deb Hensley (IMA ’11), had two poems accepted blog, greens4squares.com. Contemplative Mind in Higher Richard Hodgson (IBA ’01, by Cultural Weekly. She was Education Conference in Seattle. IMA ’07), Yvette Angelique awarded a residency as a Poetry Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Arts for 2015.

Elena Georgiou (MFAW) Deborah Bloom (Student Services) was named acting program welcomed Henry Yves Morrissette, born director of the MFAW Program in December. on Feb. 20, 2015 at 9:04 p.m., weighing Newcomb Greenleaf (UGP) 6 pounds 15 oz. and 20 inches long. participated in the Eco Dharma Everyone is healthy and taking naps. Conference at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in New Hampshire in August. His essay, “Art & Spirit in Mathematics: The Lessons of Japanese Temple Geometry,” was Jan Clausen (MFAW-VT) was Hyater-Adams (IMA ’03), Kao featured on the Science and interviewed about her new book Kue (IMA-TLA ’12), Vanita Non-Duality website. on Tarpaulin Sky in January. Leatherwood (IMA ’08), Katt Ryan Boudinot (MFAW-WA) Inside Higher Ed published her Lissard (GGI faculty, MFAW Bethe Hagens (UGP) has resigned in February after op-ed piece, “Why We Invited ’00), Lisa McIvor (MFAW ’11, been transforming a former teaching at Goddard since 2007. Mumia Abu-Jamal,” last fall. IMA-TLA ’14), Nancy Morgan dump into a terraced (IMA ’02), Ezra Berkley Nepon permaculture forest garden Deborah Brevoort (MFAW-VT) Darrah Cloud (MFAW) (IBA ’06, IMA ’13), Seema in Kennebunkport, Maine. had two plays, The Women of is teaching playwriting to Lockerbie and The Comfort Team, Reza (BFAW ’12), Angie undergraduates at Vassar Pam Hall (MFAIA) published by No Passport Press. River (IMA-TLA ’15), James College this spring. showcased “HouseWork(s),” Her backstage farce, The Velvet Sparrell (GGI faculty), Brian an interdisciplinary art Weapon, was workshopped Chip Cummings (Admissions) W. Sunset (IMA ’03), Scott exhibit at Kamloops Art in the Launch Pad program was hired in January as an Youmans (IMA ’05) and Joanna gallery in Kamloops, B.C. at UC Santa Barbara and admissions counselor for the Tebbs Young (IMA ’13). produced at the Trustus Theatre Goddard Graduate Institute and Harris Friedman (MA PSY) is Dr. Herukhuti (UGP) co- in Columbia, S.C. She was the MFA in Interdisciplinary an editor of The Praeger Handbook sponsored and moderated a commissioned to write a libretto Arts Program. He has of Social Justice and Psychology. panel at the Schomburg Center for Mozart’s The Impressario for experience as an accreditation for Research in Black Culture the Anchorage Opera, where evaluator and reader for the Kenny Fries (MFAW-VT) on using the seven principles it premiered in February. Middle States Association received a Toronto Arts Council of Kwanzaa as principles of Colleges and Schools, grant for his new Germany- Rebecca Brown (MFAW-VT) of development in Black and was previously the based book, Stumbling Over published an article, “The Fall LGBTQSGL communities. His Alumni Admissions Program History. Composer Michael Is Hard–Just Look at All the Art organization, Center for Culture, regional chair, class agent and That’s Been Made About It,” Djupstrom’s setting of his poem Sexuality and Spirituality, in The Stranger in September. interviewer for the Middlebury “In bed together” had its world launched the Sacred Sexuality Readings include the Shunpike College Admissions Office. premiere at Phoenix Concerts Practitioners of Color Network APRIL fundraiser in Seattle and Chip holds a BA in English in New York City in November, website, where he wrote an the Seattle Repertory Theatre. from Middlebury College, as part of the program, AIDS article analyzing LGBTQ a Certificate in Advanced Quilt Songbook. He had poems responses to the Black Lives Bobby Buchanan (UGP) and Placement English from published by The Good Men Matter movement. He was Eva Swidler (UGP) organized Fordham University, and a Project (goodmenproject. named a Thought Leader for the a Goddard presence at the Certificate in Grant Writing com), and he gave readings Association of Black Sexologists September People’s Climate from Keene State College. and lectures in Germany at and Clinicians for 2015.

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Peter Hocking (MFAIA) is now Do Open. He was a finalist for Stephen Locke for their Sara Norton (UGP) retired in a lecturer in history, philosophy, a 2014 New York Foundation collaborative photography February after 25 years with and social science at Rhode for the Arts Fellowship in and poetry book, Chasing Goddard. Sara taught in the RUP Island School of Design. Poetry. He resigned from Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests, and the off-campus program of Goddard in February to take an and Thunderous Skies in Word the 1980s, the off-campus BA/ Laleh Kahadivi (MFAW-WA) assistant professor position in MA program of the 1990s, and became an adjunct faculty and Image, chosen as a best book the English Department at the by the Midwest Independent began in the UGP in the early member of the MFAW Program University at Albany, SUNY. Booksellers Association. She 2000s. She advised students in Port Townsend in February. across a myriad of disciplines was keynote speaker in April Her first novel, The Age of Ju-Pong Lin (MFAIA including psychology, at the National Association Orphans, received a Whiting Program Director) delivered expressive therapies, movement for Poetry Therapy conference Writers’ Award and a Barnes and a performative lecture called arts, humanities, international Noble Discovery Award, was “Unscreening Our Mobile in Black Mountain, N.C., and studies, sustainability, organic nominated for the Dublin IMPAC Devices” at the Under Western participated in three readings farming, and social activism. Award and translated into eight Skies conference, and a paper, and a panel at the AWP Sara was one of the organizers of languages. She has served as “Unraveling the Biopolitics of Conference in Minneapolis. the Goddard College Employee the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow Doctor Who Through a Cross- She also published an article, Union and represented off- at the University of Wisconsin, cultural Ecocritical Practice,” “Why I’m a Transformative campus faculty bargaining Madison, Fiction Fellow at at Eco-imaginaries, a Tufts Language Artist” in for the first contract. Looking Emory University, and was a University Graduate Humanities Huffington Post last August. toward her life after Goddard, finalist for the Rolex Mentor- conference. She was named Protégé Initiative. Her second program director in January. book, The Walking, was published in 2013. She lives in California. Aimee Liu (MFAW-WA) was selected as the Orlando Susan Kim’s (MFAW) graphic Short Fiction Judge for the novel, Brain Camp, was re- Spring 2015 Orlando Prizes released as a mass market at A Room of Her Own. Wendy Call (BFAW) had an essay paperback this spring. on Mexican-Zapotec literature Gariot Louima (Dean of published in the November/ Michael Klein (MFAW-VT) Admissions) had his essay December issue of Orion. She had three poems accepted “Timoun Etranje: Constructing will be on the faculty of the Port Ploughshares' for winter and Identity in the Space Townsend Writers Conference in spring issues. “It’s Derby Day” between Haiti and the U.S.” July and complete a one-month was accepted for publication published in Representations residency at Willapa Bay Artist in by Oxford American, and of Internarrative Identity. He Residence program in August. an essay, “Halfway Open,” is completing his Ph.D. in was accepted by Slice. Interdisciplinary Studies at the Union Institute & University. Petra Kuppers (MFAIA) received The Women’s Caucus Catherine Lowther (UGP) for Art’s 2015 President’s Art & and the rest of the Goddard Activism Award on Feb. 12, 2015, Sustainability Team have been Otto Muller (UGP) had his she will continue her research in New York City. She wrote a working to divest Goddard’s piece, “Memor2.26.12a for projects, psychotherapy practice, new textbook, Studying Disability endowment from fossil fuels. Flute, Melodica, Piano, and and lead classes in Tai Chi, Arts and Culture: An Introduction. Electronics,” performed by Aikido and authentic movement. Douglas A. Martin (MFAW-VT) Antoine Beuger and D. Edward Laiwan (MFAIA-WA) gave a talk on the work of poet Dr. Wendy Phillips (MA PSY) Davis at the Klangraum presented “Architecture without Alice Notley at a symposium presented her photograph, concert series in Dusseldorf, Predetermination” for Emily “Atlanta Black Crackers, 2001” at the Bay Area Public School. Germany in August. Carr University’s archive project He was interviewed in October in the Kids (Not Cute) exhibition in October. She presented at Essay Daily. His essay Victoria Nelson (MFAW-WA) at Umbrella Arts Gallery in “Speculative-Spectaculative on poetics appeared in the gave lectures at an Esalen New York City this winter Fictions” at the Undivided February Evening Will Come: A Institute symposium on the (umbrellaarts.com/exhibitions). Colours Dance Symposium Monthly Journal of Poetics, and imagination in October and was She also presented a body of in November. This year she he taught a six-week cross- keynote speaker for a conference photography-based mixed served on a variety of arts juries genre class at Poets House. on Gnostic Countercultures: media work in the Baggage Claim including the British Columbia Terror and Intrigue held at exhibition at the Washington, Arts Council, The Canada Shaka McGlotten (UGP) gave Rice University in March. D.C. Arts Center last October. Council for the Arts, and the a talk, “The Political Aesthetics British Columbia Women’s of Drag,” at the ICI Berlin Devora Neumark (MFAIA) Rachel Pollack (MFAW) had and Children’s Hospital. Institute of Cultural Inquiry in wrote a commissioned article her novel, The Child Eater, Berlin, Germany, in October. for Recherches féministes’ published in England and listed Michael Leong (BFAW) won the special issue (volume 27: in The Guardian’s list of top 2014 Burnside Review Chapbook Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg 2) Où en sommes-nous avec le Science Fiction/Fantasy novels Contest for Fruits and Flowers (GGI) is on a 15-city tour with féminisme en art? (Where are of the year. It will be published and Animals and Seas and Lands weather chaser/photographer we with feminism in art?). in the United States next year.

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Suzanne Richman (MA HAS) hosted 15 Goddard students during the summer residency at her Plainfield, Vt., homestead to learn to cultivate shiitake mush- rooms and view the woodland food and medicine gardens.

Paul Selig (MFAW Program Director) received a three-book deal from Tarcher/Penguin for a new series on spiritual growth, and he was filmed for the new documentary, Widowsville. He is currently on a leave of absence.

SB Sowbel (UGP) co-facilitated a course at the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism, “Healing Presence: Cultivating Communication Skills and Compassionate Relationship.” Last summer, she had a solo exhibit titled Boustrophedonerie at the Drawing Board Gallery in Montpelier, Vt. She published six works in four literary venues, with two awards—1st place Poem of the Year and Top Ten Poems in Northeast Poetry Competition.

Darcey Steinke (MFAW-VT) was interviewed by Douglas A. Martin (MFAW-VT) in Believer Magazine in September. She had an essay, “Boyfight,” published on killingthebuddha.com in October, and was guest curator in December for The HiFi Reading Series featuring Noah Ruth Wallen (MFAIA) lace panties” in the first issue Blake, Laura Miller Tomaselli, Lise Weil (GGI) launched a new presented a paper, “Practicing of all roads will lead you home. and Kevin St. John in New York. journal, Dark Matter: Women Presence: Developing She received funding from the Witnessing, which publishes Eva Swidler (UGP) presented Center for Cultural Innovation Meaningful Dialogue over writing and artwork responding on a panel, “Protecting in Los Angeles to work on a Space and Time,” at the College to an age of massive species loss Campus Freedoms: Speech, collaborative epistolary writing Art Association Conference and ecological disaster. The first Assembly, Disruption,” at the project on fatherlessness. in New York in February. issue included writings by alumna Modern Language Association Sonja Swift (IMA ’14), student conference in Vancouver, B.C. in Diana Waters (UGP) co- Jane Wohl (MFAW-VT) read Kate Miller, and MFAW faculty January. She attended a protest taught, “Inside-Out: Pathways at Ucross on Sept. 20. The Jan Clausen. Dark Matter is now in Philadelphia against the of Opportunity” last fall. reading was sponsored by the accepting material for its third Keystone pipeline and in sup- Wyoming Outdoor Council and issue. darkmatterwomen port of sustainable green jobs. Karen Werner (UGP) is the University of Wyoming’s teaching a dual enrollment MFA program and Haub witnessing.com Janet Sylvester (BFAW course with WGDR called School of Natural Resources. Program Director) was “True Stories: Adventures in nominated for Pushcart Prize Nonfiction Audio Storytelling.” Sui Yee Wong (UGP) has for her poem “After-Hours at Her audio story, “Slow Down, been named Goddard’s the Museum of Tolerance,” Mr. Werner,” was nationally Fulbright Program Advisor. English Language Network, to published in Sugar House Review. broadcast and podcasted on She participated in a panel at be featured in the 2015 artists’ She had poems in Colorado Radiotonic on the Australian the Ethnocultural Art Histories studio tour in February. Review, received a grant from Broadcasting Corporation’s Research Group conference, Jacqueline Woodson (former the PEN Writer’s Fund, and is Creative Audio Unit. “Cultural Convergences one of ten writers inaugurating II: Alliances,” at Concordia MFAW faculty) was nominated AWP’s new mentorship Arisa White (UGP/BFAW) University in Montreal. She was in the Young Adult category program, Writer to Writer. published her poem “black nominated by ELAN, the Quebec for a National Book Award.

28 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 | in memoriam |

Andrew R. Allen (BA RUP Gilbert “Gilly” Laferriere, ’72-’74), 60, of Patterson, (Former Staff ’86), 90, of Celebrated Playwright Dies at 78 N.Y., died Dec. 22, 2014. Barre, Vt., died Sept. 24, 2014.

ISHAH RAHMAN (MA GV ‘85), 78, of San David B. Boyce (IBA Harry Manygoats (BA AMiguel de Allende, Mexico, died Dec. 29, 2014. ’97, IMA ’99), 65, of New GV ’93-’94), 67, of Tuba Born in Harlem, she moved to Mexico in 2011 after Bedford, Mass., died Dec. City, Ariz., died Dec. 4, retiring from a 19-year teaching career at Brown 17, 2014. He was a former 2014. He retired from arts columnist for The University. Aishah also taught at Nassau Community the Tuba City Unified Standard-Times, curator College on Long Island and was an accomplished School District in 2011. at the New Bedford Art playwright and author who served as director of Museum, and director John Medeiros (BA ADP ‘74- playwriting at the New Federal Theater in New York. of UMass Dartmouth’s ’77, IBA ’01), 62, of Salisbury, Along with Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and University Art Gallery. Mass., died Nov. 19, 2008. Sonia Sanchez, Rahman was part the Black Arts Beverly Title Brown (GV Movement of the 1960s. She used a “jazz aesthetic” Caralinda “Linda” Oken ‘89) of Montecito, Calif., in her writing, which includes the dramatic plays (BA RUP ’64) died Oct. 14, died July 31, 2013. Unfinished Women Cry In No Man’s Land While 2014. After graduating from a Bird Dies in Gilded Cage, The Mojo And The Richard Alden Bull (RUP Goddard, Linda briefly Sayso, Only in America, and Chiaroscuro. She also JR ’63, BA RUP ’65), 71, served as an elementary wrote the musicals, Lady Day A Musical Tragedy, of Garnet Valley, Pa., died teacher in rural Vermont. The Tale of Madame Zora, and Has Anybody Seen Dec. 26, 2014. He worked She then went on to receive Marie Laveau? Aishah received The Doris Abramson for 30 years as a vice a master’s degree from Playwriting Award, a New York Foundation for president in the Financial Syracuse University and Division of the Philadelphia the Arts Fellowship, and a special work in the Sex Education National Corporation (now Department at the Syracuse citation from the Rockefeller Wells Fargo Bank). Upon Planned Parenthood for Foundation of the Arts for retirement from banking, many years. She also studied dedication to playwriting Alden taught mathematics computer science and was in the American Theater. and later became the In 2001 she published director of Upattinas a computer consultant. Chewed Water: A School in Glenmoore, Pa., Charlotte Elaine Pratt (BA an independent school Memoir, about growing ADP ’80), 90, of Westbrook, dedicated to democratic up in Harlem in the Maine, died on Sept. 17, ideals where students take 1940s 2014. Her degree in art and responsibility for their and ’50s. education and community. religion from Goddard served her well in her work Mary Louise Sherwood at Prides Corner Church. Cooke (BA G-C ’70), 88, of Northfield, Vt., died on Frances Rolle (MA GGP Sept. 13, 2014. She taught ’76), 91, of Santa Clarita, at several elementary Calif., died March 29, 2013. schools around Vermont until retiring in 1988. Kal Rosenberg (MFAW Class Notes, continued from page 24 ‘02), 79, of Gainesville, William Oliver DeBery Fla., died, Nov. 11, 2014. II (BA RUP ’75) Megan Taylor (MFAW story published in Eve’s , 59, of Walter “Rett” Everett ’13) of Glens Falls, N.Y., Requiem: Tales of Women, Phippsburg, Maine, Rowley III (BA RUP ‘68) is a contributing author Mystery, and Horror. died Oct. 10, 2014. of to Saratoga Wire. Bath, N.H., died Dec. 15, 2014. Nancy Volante (MFAIA-VT Anne Margaret Foley (BA Cynthia Tina (BAS ’15) of ’11) of Ridgefield, Conn., is RUP ’79), 58, of Baltimore, Seraphim Seskevich (BA Lynn, Mass., presented her the new teaching artist at Md., died Jan. 1, 2015. She ADP ’79, MA GV ’82), 75, senior study, “Confessions Brooklyn Arts Council. spent the past 27 years as of East Hartford, Conn., of a Young Activist: director of ticketing for died March 12, 2014. My Journey Into the Kriota Willberg (MFAIA- the Big Apple Circus. VT ’11) of New York, N.Y., Arlynne Stark (MA GGP Sustainability Movement” Paula H. Gould (BA at Sirius Community last showed pieces of her comic ’78), 71, of Evergreen, ADP ’66) of New York, December. She is a volunteer artwork in “Carousel Colo., died Nov. 17, 2014. N.Y., died in 2002. coordinator for InTerraTree’s Comic Art” at Dixon Place She attended the Julliard EcoVillage Build Team Gallery and presented for Mark C. Helmke (MA School of Music and was a the History of Medicine in Togo, West Africa. GGP ‘81), 62, of Angola, pioneer and early advocate and Public Health Festival Ind., died Nov. 1, 2014. of dance movement therapy. Rebecca Troy (MFAW ’13) of Medical History and of Burlington, Vt., had a the Arts in October.

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 29 Goddard in the BY JULIA AIN-KRUPA (IBA ‘11) World Trusting the Process in Poland Undergraduate program alumna reflects on her Fulbright year abroad and Goddard’s continued influence on her creativity.

My mother is Jewish, My time at Goddard helped however, her grandparents me to shape myself as the left Poland at the turn of the individual and artist that I century. My father, who is was meant to be, someone Polish, was raised Catholic who may not always fit in in a region that was once with the rest of the stream, considered Germany, and but who is able to work from so his father was drafted a deep and genuine place into the Wehrmacht army (I hope). Of course, being as a teenage boy. surrounded by such amazing people at Goddard helped This internal dissonance to give me the confidence established by my ancestral and support to evolve in this heritage created many way. I still miss them all. questions for me, and I felt compelled to move toward As for the Fulbright, it them. I had also lived in bought me time, which is the Poland as a small child, greatest thing that any artist where my parents worked in can wish for – time to focus the theater, though we left on what you love, to learn, to during Martial Law, when meet new people, to dream. Born to theatrical artists in Poland, the Solidarity movement was And I was lucky enough to Julia Ain-Krupa rising, communism falling, and be in an environment that grew up in New the bread lines were long. was stimulating/challenging York City, where art enough to enable me to do played a great role My experiences at Goddard the work that I set out to do. in her life. helped me to trust myself in the creative process, and to Now, I only wish to have feel free to “trust the process,” the chance to write more as my project changed books, and to create projects dramatically over the course that feel meaningful to me of my time in Poland. What and to others. I hope to received my Fulbright scholarship for emerged was a novel about continue to aim from the the 2012-2013 academic year. The post-war Poland. The book still heart, which is always a grant was specifically for creative addresses all of the questions challenge, but worthwhile to that I initially intended to ask, take the plunge and try. CW writing, and my intention was to and even pushes further than come to Poland—Krakow, specifically, I could have hoped to go. where a new Jewish community is thriving—to write about inter-religious marriage in Poland, which was something Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA ’11) is a writer and multi- that interested me, and which was also disciplinary artist. She is the author of Roman reflective of my own background. Polanski: A Life in Exile and has contributed to Cinema Editor Magazine. Her short films have been screened at the IFP festival, the Jung Society in New York, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Her most recent work, Dancing With Brando, was presented in conjunction with Paris fashion week. She lives in New York City.

30 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 Why I Give. contribute to Goddard’s Annual Fund because of the unique I education I received. Goddard’s low-residency program in the Pacific Northwest has spawned promising writers who believe in pushing the limits of creativity. We have experienced the personalized and professional guidance that has enabled us to become better writers and to create works that address issues of social justice, environmental concerns, and gender and racial equality—works that stimulate thought and initiate action. Join me in ensuring that others may also learn to trust the process in developing their creative voices. Your contribution today will assure that Goddard College continues to be a bastion against ignorance, prejudice, and fear. — MILTON LUM (MFAW-WA ’14)

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