Class of 1964 50 TH REUNION BENNINGTON COLLEGE Class of 1964 Patricia Cronin Adams Valarya Cliffton Myra Goldberg Ruth Reich Alpert Yola Englander Coffeen Marjorie Goldstone Greenberg Deborah Sprague Arnold-Roht Cora Cohen Donna Raye Gurian Greene Sarah Scattergood Ashe Maryanne Conheim Susan Holland Greenleaf Diane Sullivan Bacro Carlotta Crissey Laurie Manulis Harmon Gale Feuer Barish Carol King Daly Elizabeth Walker Hasegawa Diane Litman Benjamin Paul Day Brannon (Barbara) Heath Corinne Biggs Biggs-Hyman Sarah Verone Lawton del Bourgo Barbara Thacher Herpin Elizabeth Blum Elena Carter Delbanco Susan Groehl Hofmann Alison Creel Bodelon Wendy Gunshor DeMegret Jessica Howard Renee Bonner Alexandra Ramsay DiLuglio Diana Chace Hoyt Damaris Low Botwick Edith Keppel Drury Elizabeth Yeomans Hunt Babette Amberger Brackett* Bronwyn Jones Dunne Jaqueth Hutchinson Joan B. Brainard Deborah Dupee Laurence Hyman Virginia Howard Brecher Andrea Boroff Eagan* Judy Isacoff Ann Lane Breit Alexandra Eames Lucy James Alexandra Broches Amy Ehrlich Alix Kabat Betsy Brotman Barbara Ireland Fajardo* Faith Kaltenbach Elizabeth Adele Brown* Betsy Feist Ruth Chute Knapp Pamela deWindt Burke Marilyn Frasca Karen Muson Latil Julia Faunce Carragan* Gretchen van Horne Ganz Marya Randall Levenson Judith Armstrong Chance Julie Rogers Gittins Jon Lightfoot Nancy Farnam Charles Vivian Bachrach Glick Suzi Brandt Lipes Carol Abbt Ciscel Janet Gohres Victoria Greene Maddux Karen J. Clemmer* Belinda Gold Dorothy Henken Malachowski * Denotes Deceased 50TH REUNION CLASS OF 1964 1 Nancy Annis McDowell Erna Crown Reingold* Linda Tolbert Tarnay Alexandra Herter Mead Naomi Rothman Rhoads Jill Mattuck Tarule Patricia Cronin Adams Ann Harvey Mendershausen Susan Pattison Roberts-Smith Holland (Virginia) Taylor Information based on article submission, “Windows to Your Help,” Susan Merrill Donna Romero Diane Sherer Tucker Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Fall 2013, by Robert L.A. Adams, Patricia’s Gael Rockwell Minton Hannah Hewat Rose Julia Turner husband. Jinx Nolan Kate Spoerl Rose Pegeen Daly Valentine Patricia’s husband describes her as a “very intelligent and beautiful woman, a wonderful companion, a selfless person who was sensitive to Patricia Nichols Norvell* Carole Hedlund Seigel May L. Vaughan the feelings of others and a highly respected, beloved pediatrician who Heather Maycock Ogilvy Patricia Seymour Betsy Vickers gave much of herself to enhance the lives of others.” When the Adamses moved to Berwick, Maine, they restored a home built in 1789. Patricia, Jane Owen* Kaye Grossman Shackford Nancy Nelson Weiss a physician, earned degrees from Dartmouth Medical School and Helen Jane Weisbord Perin Nancy Smith Julie Wellings Harvard Medical School and joined the pediatric practice of Robert Wilson, MD and Sol Rockenmacher, MD that later became Dover Wendy Garrett Pierson Stephanie Spinner Kimber Wheelock Pediatric. Later, she served the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital as a Ann Pitkin* Jacqueline Klein Starkey Barbara Alrich Wichura physician, a member or chairperson of numerous committees, a presenter of education programs for nurses and physicians, president of Elizabeth Mason Possidente Carter Dunlop Stewart Susan Amadon Wilt the medical staff, and as a trustee. Sadly, Patricia became the victim of Alzheimer’s disease at age 50. In honor Ellen Sigward Prescott* Erica Stoller Anne Wirgin of her work, the Patricia C. Adams, MD Endowment Fund for Children’s Care supports programs offered by the Wentworth-Douglass Hospital and other entities that enhance the quality of life for children, particularly Jillian Krueger Printz Nina Pelikan Straus Karen Jackel Wunsch those with special needs. Jean Morgan Reed Pamela Strauss Sullivan Barbara Jacobson Zimmerman Susan Friedman Reed Edith Stebbins Sweeney * Denotes Deceased 2 CLASS OF 1964 50TH REUNION 50TH REUNION CLASS OF 1964 3 In the last years I began making what I call Light Sarah Scattergood Ashe Sculptures (sarahashe.net): paper sculptural shades on bases that I put together from plumbing pipe Name while at Bennington: Tatty Scattergood and stones. I also paint, mixed media and oils. My 36 South St., Middlebury, VT 05753 (May to January) husband has become a very accomplished wood 4914 Tchoupitoulas St., New Orleans, LA 70115 (January to May) turner, leaving his MBA finance jobs behind. We live most of the year in Middlebury, Vermont [email protected] (where we moved after Katrina). Here, I enjoy (802) 388-6981; (504) 813-0720 (cell) volunteering for hospice, elderly services, and other community organizations, singing with a I came to Bennington from an urban Quaker school and felt community chorus and gardening. Our winters overwhelmed by Bennington’s all-female environment. Most women are spent in New Orleans where Tom’s children seemed to know what they wanted and how to get it...my approach of and grandchildren live, my daughter and family waiting and taking what was left was clearly not going to work very are nearby in Katy, TX; winter is a family time. well. It was a hard four years, I think I never felt at home. Luckily, I My son is a musician and composer/keyboard made some wonderful lifetime friends. Babs Zimmerman and Alix Mead player; it makes me happy that at least someone shared those stumbling years in Kilpatrick and then Bingham. Gael in the family is pursuing his art full time. With my husband Tom Dunne Minton, Gale Barish, Alix, and I shared a Cambridge NRT apartment I realize increasingly that Bennington led me into to great hilarity and adventure. Later, I re-met fellow ceramic student, Ann Mendershausen in Tijuana and we a life I would never have encountered otherwise. It is a life that has been full of challenge, joy, and always the have shared many visits and adventures since. arts. Bennington (as well as the Peace Corps) taught me resilience, the value of exploring new ideas and I came to Bennington because it offered applied art courses and a non-resident term. Being a struggling reader experiences, to try to make small differences in people’s lives, and the importance of love, friendship, and at the time, it seemed hopeful that I had found a place to explore my art interest while getting a liberal arts companionship along the way. education. I enjoyed Bob Woodworth’s biology classes, botany with John Frederick Wohnus, and Kit Foster’s comedy class. The six-workshop course introduced me to the art faculty and helped me land in the ceramics studio where Stanley Rosen taught me to see and experiment, and opened my mind. I had several campus jobs including table waiting and assisting in the ceramics studio, which I deeply enjoyed. On leaving Bennington, I joined the Peace Corps and finally encountered success. I think Bennington taught me to try new things no matter how scary, to pursue meaning in art (technique can be learned but have something to say), to read for the joy of it no matter how slowly, and a love of Vermont, its people, politics, countryside, and seasons. I married a Peace Corps friend, Jeff Ashe. We lived in Ecuador and Costa Rica for five years before settling in Lexington, MA, and have two children. After 13 years, we divorced. It was then time to seriously make a living. Using my Spanish language skills I got a human resources job in a South Boston factory, ultimately becoming an HR director for a dental insurance company. I lasted about 15 years in corporate America. In 1999, having reconnected with my old Peace Corps supervisor, Tom Dunne, a recent widower, I moved to New Orleans. We got married, I became a consultant and job coach, and acquired three wonderful stepchildren. Ever since college I have made art of one kind or another...it continues to be central to my life. Me, Ann Harvey Mendershausen, and Alix Herter Mead Gael Rockwell Minton, me, and Martha Rockwell 4 CLASS OF 1964 50TH REUNION 50TH REUNION CLASS OF 1964 5 David and I married and moved to Carmel Valley where he was a public Gale Feuer Barish defender. We had two children, Leah and Noah, and enjoyed 28 years of parenting them. Combining my parenting and working part time as a high 79 Hitchcock Canyon Road school ceramics teacher was both exhausting and rewarding. It was during these Carmel Valley, CA 93924-9734 years that I faced my biggest challenge. I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Then, years later, I had thyroid cancer. With excellent medical care, the love and [email protected] support of family, friends, and the macrobiotic diet, I was cured. (831) 659-4785 Gale Feuer Barish in Naples My life is good. It centers around my family and especially my four grandkids, with Mount Vesuvius in Eliel, Ketriel, Sivan, and Elijah. I just got back from a Feuer family reunion the background Bennington was a big change. I grew up in Brooklyn, New York, the where four generations were together for a long weekend. only child of two older parents. I was a public school kid. I was ready to leave home to go to college at 17. I would like to hear from Bennington friends. A social person, I made friends at Leigh. And, the next year, I had a terrific roommate and friends to share a flat with in Cambridge, during NRT. I felt part of the Bennington Community. Classes were stimulating and I had to work hard. I was playing catch up. I was beginning to know myself and what I was interested in. I had some amazing teachers during my four years: Katherine Osgood Foster, Louis Carini, Stanley Rosen, Barton Bernstein, and Stanley Edgar Hyman. My major was psychology, but I was also interested in art. I decided to go to graduate school in education because I had great experiences teaching English in Japan during junior year NRT and teaching in a two-room schoolhouse in Peru, Vermont, senior year NRT.