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Item Polanyi Made New Lecturer(Bennington Evening Banner, 1940-09-18)Item Donald Finkel, a new member of the Bennington College literature faculty, will read from his recent poems (press release)(1966-10-10)Donald Finkel, a new member of the Bennington College literature faculty, will read from his recent poems tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m. in the College's Commons Theatre.Item Marcelin Pleynet will speak on new movements in French literature (press release)(1966-10-13)Marcelin Pleynet, the Director of Tel Quel, will speak on new movements in French literature Friday evening at 8:00 p.m. in the Carriage Barn at Bennington College.Item An exhibit of 24 recent paintings by Betty Parsons (press release)(1966-11-04)There will be an exhibit of 24 recent paintings by Betty Parsons in the New Gallery at Bennington College from November 6 to December 6.Item Ben Karp, sculptor, will lecture on "Wood Motifs The American Fantasy" (press release)(1966-11-07)Ben Karp, a sculptor, will lecture on "Wood Motifs The American Fantasy" Tuesday November 8, at 8: 00 p.m. in Commons Lounge at Bennington College. There will also be a show of photographs by Mr. Karp in Commons Lounge. Both the photographs and the lecture are concerned with sawn wood ornamentation on the exteriors of Nineteenth-Century houses.Item Francis Ponge reading (press release)(1966-11-25)Francis Ponge, considered one of the great French poets, will read from his works Monday, November 28, in the Carriage Barn at Bennington College.Item Lionel Rogosin will show "Good Times, Wonderful Times" and discuss documentary filmmaking (press release)(Bennington College, 1966-12-02)Item North Vietnam Slideshow (press release)(1967-03-15)Christopher Koch, a member of the Bennington College literature faculty, will show and comment on his slides of North Vietnam Thursday March 16, at 8:00 p.m. in Commons Theatre.Item Tran Van Dinh, Washington Bureau Chief of the Saigon Post, lecture (press release)(1967-04-12)Tran Van Dinh, Washington Bureau Chief of the Saigon Post and former Acting Ambassador of Vietnam to the United States, will speak on "Liberation and Reconstruction in Vietnam" Thursday, April 13, at 8:00 p.m. in the Carriage Barn at Bennington College.Item Elizabeth Jennings Franklin, a founder of Bennington College, died May 15 at her home (press release)(1967-05-16)Elizabeth Jennings Franklin, a founder of Bennington College, died May 15 at her home in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. Mrs. Franklin was among the signers of the College charter in 1925. She was named a member of the College's first Board of Trustees that year and, with the exception of one sabbatical year, was chairman of the board from 1941 until her retirement. Prior to 1941 she was chairman of a trustee building committee and served on a committee to study the use of psychiatric service.Item Russell Baker will deliver the annual commencement address (press release)(1967-06-15)Russell Baker, editorial page columnist for The New York Times, will deliver the annual commencement address at Bennington College Friday, June 16, at 8:30 p.m. in the Marquee on Commons Lawn.Item Recent figurative art exhibition (press release)(1967-10-05)The artists represented are Jack Beal, Alex Katz, Gabriel Laderman, Al Leslie, Richard Miller, Philip Pearlstein, and Sidney Tillim, who also curated the exhibition.Item Bread and Puppet Theatre will perform (press release)(1967-10-12)Peter Schumann's Bread and. Puppet Theatre will perform tonight at 8:00p.m.. in the Commons Theatre, Bennington College.Item Homage to William Troy (announcement)(1967-10-19)"Homage to William Troy." Mr. Troy was an influential member of the generation of critics including I.A. Richards, William Empson, Kenneth Burke and Richard Blackmur. His critical essays on Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Valery Proust, Balzac, Stendhal, Henry James and James Joyce have been widely anthologized. After the panel there will be a reception in Commons Theatre.Item Milton Avery Paintings 1953-1963 exhibition (press release)(1967-11-14)A show of paintings by the late Milton Avery will open Wednesday at 8: 30 p.m. in the Carriage Barn at Bennington College.Item Bennington College Calendar of Events April 4 - 15, 1968 (press release)(1968-04-03)Community Orchestra concert; Michael Kunstler - "War Resistance and the Law."; David Williams "Planetary Influence on Human Life."; Walter Teague "Possibilities for Revolution in America" Mr. Teague is a militant anti-war activist. He will show an NLF [ National Liberation Front] film; Sue Kohn flute concert; Stephen M. Raphael Professor Raphael is professor of Law at the University of Alabama and is active in civil rights; Paul Feeley, Drawings and Watercolors art opening.Item Bennington College Calendar of Events May 1-11, 1968 (press release)(1968-05-01)Screening of "Lust For Life" starring Anthony Quinn, as a fundraiser for Senator Eugene McCarthy; Ground Breaking for the Elizabeth Harrington Dickinson Science Building; Opening for Frank Stella - Paintings exhibition; Drama production - two plays by Samuel Beckett.Item Bennington College Calendar May 8 - 18, 1968 (press release)(1968-05-08)Richard Tristman "Humanism and Anti-humanism in Kierkegaard"; Drama production Two plays by Samuel Beckett "Mime for Two Players" and "Krapp's Last Tape"; Movie for McCarthy - North by Northwest; Art Opening Frank Stella; Music concert; John Barth - Menelaiad; Drama production two plays by Alan Ormsby: Teen- Angel and InvasionItem Bennington College Calendar of Events May 29 - June 7, 1968 (press release)(1968-05-29)Dance concert; Alice Marie Nelson, Bennington '59 music concert; Movie "Seduced and Abandoned"; Movie "Crazy Quilt"; Senior Art Show opening; Student music concert; Nicholas Delbanco reading; Movie "Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner"Item Bennington College Calendar of Events June 3 - 11, 1968 (press release)(1968-06-03)Experimental Workshop Production by Jane Evans - a light-time-sculpture /space-structure theatre; Senior Concert, Robin Newhouse; movie, "Intolerance"; Senior Concert, Erica. Robin; Carolyn Bond and Joan Zucker concert.