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. PAGE 14 spring | summer calendar For information on all programs and events | goddard.edu 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 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 3 | contents | 10 30 7 BOB BROWN 25 COURTESY OF LONG HOME WAY LOU JONES 13 Features 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.