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Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Winter 1978 Connecticut College Digital Commons @ Connecticut College Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Alumni News Archives Winter 1978 Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Winter 1978 Connecticut College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews Recommended Citation Connecticut College, "Connecticut College Alumni Magazine, Winter 1978" (1978). Alumni News. 207. https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/alumnews/207 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by the Linda Lear Center for Special Collections & Archives at Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. It has been accepted for inclusion in Alumni News by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Connecticut College. For more information, please contact [email protected]. The views expressed in this paper are solely those of the author. r EDITORIAL BOARD: Allen T. Carroll '73 Editor (R.F.D. 3, Colches- President / Sally Lane Braman '54 Secretary f Platt Townend Arnold ter. Ct. 06415). Marion Vilbert Clark '24 Class NOles Editor, Elizabeth '64 Treasurer . '56 Damerel Gongaware '26 Assistant Editor, Cassandra Goss Simonds '55, Directors-at-Large: Michael J. Farrar '73, Anne Godsey Stinnett '. Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 ex officio Terry Munger '50, Gwendolyn Rendall Cross '62 / Alumni Trust~esk Official publication of the Connecticut College Alumni Association. All Virginia Golden Kent '35, Jane Smith Moody '49, Joan Jacobson Krome. publication rights reserved. Contents reprinted only by permission of the '46 I Chairman of Alumni Giving: Susan Lee '70 I Chairman of NOIm- editor. Published by the Connecticut College Alumni Association at Sykes OF noting, Committee: Joann Walton Leavenworth '56 I CI'wlrlna n 'j Finance Alumni Center, Connecticut College, New London, Conn. four times a Committee: Sally Lane Braman '54 / Chairman of Clubs Committee: Sue year in Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall. Second-class postage paid at New Weinberg Mindlin '53 / Chairman of Classes Commitlee: Anne GOdJeiJ London, Ct. 06320. Application to mail at additional entry Post Office Stinnett '56 / Chairman of Programs Committee: Gwendolyn Ren a pending. Send form 3579 to Sykes Alumni Center, Connecticut College, Cross '62 / Executive Director: Louise Stevenson Andersen '41 ! Young New London, Ct. 06320. AAC member Alumni Representative: Ken Crerar'77 . f the EXECUTIVE BOARD OF THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION: Britta Communications to any of the above may be addressed 10 care 0 Schein McNemar '67 President Mariana Parcells Wagoner '44 Vice- f Alumni Office, Connecticut College, New London, Ct. 06320 The Connecticut Colleae AlumTn Magazine VOLUME 55 NUMBER 2 WINTER 1978 The College The Art of the Feud 2 AD F in Retrospect 5 Four Giants of the ADF 9 Have Students Changed? 13 The Twenties Limited Flapperhood 14 Barbara Tracy Coogan '27 The Post- War Years Were We Really That Innocent? 16 Roldan Northup Cameron '51 The Sixties Our Revolutionary Moment 18 Katie O'Sullivan See '70 The Seventies We Dug Idealism's Grave 20 Elizabeth Pollard 79 Everything Changes, Nothing Changes 21 Alice Johnson Work, Love and the College Mystique 23 Richard Birdsall Needed: Skill, Perspective, Humor 24 Robert Lorish In Memoriam 27 Letters 27 Class Notes 28 Everything You Wanted to Know About Gifts ... 30 Photo (opposite) by David Arnold r I I The Art of the Feud A small-college saga, wherein is revealed the dissolution of an old friendship, the Byzantine workings of politicsin academe. and the promise of a new place in the summer sun for the beleaguered arts. The American Dance Festival has left summer program of classes, demonstra- most problems at colleges the~e days, Connecticut College. After thirty sum- tions and performances that will include money was the source of the split. In.re- mers in New London, disputes with the l dance, studio art, theater and music. cent years, the Amencan' Dance Fesuva . its College over money and expansion plans had grown impressively, broaderunk led the director of the Festival, Charles rogram to include ballet, lecture-demon- Reinhart, to accept an offer from Duke P strations new commumit y-oriented func- . I University in Durham, North Carolina. tions workshops' for entice,. .VI 'd ea specrar That offer was sweetened by the promise , . costs ists and therapists. In the meanume. f rn of a $1 million endowment from business, had increased enormously. lncomeldroot political and cultural leaders in North . ts cou n tuition and box 0ffice receip Carolina. '11 . ce commu- Two years of growing disagreement be- meet these costs, especia y.sln had been nity support for the FestI.val ding tween Connecticut College and Festival lagging. The College found Itself spe~ for leadership left the College less than total- ly surprised by the move. In spite of a about $50,000 a ~ear on.t.he .Fes~~~~ok_ committment by President Oakes Ames everything from air condlt1.om~g in only I. keeping, with the ADF pitching and arts faculty members to maintain- THE FESTIVAL'S OVER or and, in fact, broaden-the summer arts $5,000, American MONEY DOESN'T JUST program, planning for the ADF's replace- Before the 1976 season, the. If as a TALK-IT FIGHTS Dance Festival incorporated. use that ment was slow in getting off the ground. PrevIOus to Now, with the hiring of a part-time admin- non-profit orgaruzauon. definition istrator, plans are well under way for a The factors that led to the ADF's move to time, there had been no wntte~ Festival North Carolina are legion. But, as with of the relationship between t e 2 and the College: Suddenly, financial mat- thousand a season [the approximate in- "It's a loss to this part of the country." ters became the source of legal negotia- come of a $1 million endowment] would Myers will be in North Carolina with the tion between the two entities, and ulti- give you a big cushion. That's two to three ADF this summer, and will be on leave mately a source of dispute. That year the times what we can underwrite." for the 1978-79 academic year. It is per- Festival pitched in its usual $5,000. But haps inappropriate to editorialize here, when financial negotiations began in the but we fervently hope she returns to Con- fall of 1976, the College, painfully aware necticut College to stay. of its budget pinch, asked the AD F to Again, Martha Myers: "People look on come up with more than five times its cus- Connecticut College as still a center, a tomary share of the operating costs. creative force." It is difficult to determine Dance Festival Director Charles Reinhart how much of the American Dance Festi- balked. The figure was eventually brought val's excellent reputation will follow it to down to $15,000, but Reinhart slilibalked. Duke, or whether Conn will benefit from The 1977 season was saved by the receipt its afterglow. But there is little doubt that of $7,500 each from the Connecticut Com- momentum is important to the future of mission on the Arts and the Southeastern the dance program at Connecticut. The Connecticut Chamber of Commerce. The II. failure to execute a successful summer disputing parties agreed to try to agree THE DANCE DEPARTMENT or dance program in 1978 and in succeeding after the 1977 season, but this was one NOT THE LAST TANGO years could spoil the College's reputation IN NEW LONDON wound that time didn't heal. in the dance world and spell trouble for Operating costs were not the only prob- the dance department. That is why the re- lem. The expansion of the ADF resulted The effect the Festival's departure will cent progress in planning for this sum- in increased demands on College facilities have on the dance department is unclear. mer's activities is so encouraging. at the very time that Oakes Ames and The dance major program, which used to others were considering expanding the require participation in at least one season summer program to include other activi- of the ADF, now allows its students to ties in the arts. Reinhart received notice participate in anyone of a number of sum- that the campus was not entirely his for mer dance programs at other locations, the asking. Reinhart's search for a new including the relocated ADF. Ifeverything home for the ADF, which had been con- goes as planned, Connecticut College will tinuing for some time but was thought by be offering a limited summer dance pro- many to be a ploy for greater College and gram in 1978, and Department Chairman community support, was stepped up. Martha Myers believes at least some of There were also personality problems. the dance majors will be participating. The mention of Reinhart's name in Fan- The master's degree program still requires ning Hall still arouses considerable wrath. two summers with the Festival and one III. Many people at Connecticut feel that winter at Connecticut. "This no longer THE PAUSE Reinhart took advantage of the ADF's in- makes sense," said Martha Myers; the corporation to take away what was, for dance department intends to change the Until mid-November, however, there historical if not legal reasons, part of Con- req uirements next year. wasn't much room for optimism. The arts necticut College. They feel that Reinhart "The students," said Myers, "are wait- committee, which had been called to- was unappreciative of the College's sup- ing to see what happens. Several years gether by President Oakes Ames and in- port of the Festival. Reinhart, on the ago, if the Festival was leaving, students cluded faculty representatives from dance, other hand, felt that the administration's would be occupying the president's office. music, studio art, theater and English de- demands for increased financial help from But now the feeling is, 'there's no more partments, had been meeting intermit- the ADF and its unwillingness to give the game in Africa, the water doesn't work tently for a year or so and had come up Festival "the keys to the campus," as any more-and the Dance Festival is leav- with the rough outlines of an interdiscip- Ames once put it, reflected a "change in ing.' There's a new stoicism, in a way." linary summer arts program.
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