Bennington: The Alumni Magazine

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Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Winter 2019)
(Bennington College, 2019-01)
Poetry at Bennington; Bookshelf; Scalar, a solo exhibition in Usdan Gallery by Torkwase Dyson; A new fundraising program at Bennington supports scholarships for students; CAPA’s vast and growing network; A new Masters of Public Action program brings candidates merging work in art and public action; A new consortium of colleges, powered by a major grant, are studying forced migration and displacement; Devin Gaffney ’10, affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, cautions on the dangerous rise of online networks; Funded by a Lumina Foundation grant, Bennington turns inward to study its work curriculum as seriously as its academic curriculum; Going Behind the Scenes, Off-Broadway with the Lucille Lortel Foundation Fellows in Theatre; Gay Johnson McDougal ’69; Class Notes; In Memoriam.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2018)
(2018-06)
Bookshelf; Campus renewal; Members of the Commons cafe design team invite the community to design a new pattern of light; Associate Vice President for Facilities Management and Planning Andy Schlatter writes about manifesting attitudes of adaptation; How the renewal of Commons is driven by Bennington’s pedagogy; Setting the stage for a new era of innovation; Bringing Bennington’s buildings into the next century sustainably and responsibly; A two-day-only show on the third floor of Commons curated and organized by Sundara Ziegler ’18; Faculty member Sue Rees’ students animate the old Commons mailboxes with paper cut-outs; Going behind the scenes at the Penny Wilson Buildings & Grounds office; Faculty Notes; Class Notes; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Winter 2018)
(Bennington College, 2018-01)
Bookshelf; T(own): Alumni entrepreneurs making a life and living in town; The College's economic impact on the town and state; The Comeback Block: And why colleges and employers are going all in on the plan; The student-led, institutionally supported Ganas program creating community and connection with some of Vermont's 3,000 undocumented migrant farm workers; Bennington’s cultural collaborations create a hotbed for arts in the community; Inspired classes and assignments that take the town as a class and the class into town; Literature faculty member Doug Bauer reflects on his time at Bennington and beyond, a digital story; Understanding PFOA: When residents in nearby Hoosick Falls, NY and North Bennington, VT discovered their wells and water contaminated, the College stepped in to study, train, and educate students and citizens; Three Bennington alums and one staff member are shaping Vermont policy and Vermont futures; For Good: Local leaders reflect on the impact of student interns and volunteers at their organizations; Faculty Notes; Class Notes; In Memoriam; The Friends of Robert Frost gift the Frost property to Bennington College.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Winter 2017)
(Bennington College, 2017-01)
A quick view of where our alumni work, what they do, and what they’re good at based on data from LinkedIn; Bookshelf; Bennington Review: Relaunching a Literary Legacy; The Future of News (and Viewer Response); Talk Box: Design that Tunes In To Community; The Martian Chronicles: Human Exploration of Mars and New Frontiers; What Millennials Want from Work; The Feedback Loop: A 360 Look at Evaluations in Class and at Work; Books Behind Bars: Second Chance Pell Grants at Bennington; Jonathan Mann ’04 on Recording a Song a Day; Faculty Notes; Rogue One: A Marketing Story; Do You Have What It Takes to Be a Gaming Heroine?; Class Notes; Donors; Poem by Stephen Sandy; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2004 / Winter 2005)
(Bennington College, 2005-01)
Katherine Merck ’46 and Albert Merck give Bennington largest gift in College’s history; Iona Bruckner ’04 senior commencement speech; Bennington 2004 commencement remarks by the Nobel Peace Prize–winning Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi; "Earthquake: Misfortune, Injustice, or the Will of God?" Excerpt from a Dissent magazine article by Mansour Farhang; Another Look at Velázquez: an interview with Eve Sussman ’84, whose video installation, 89 Seconds at Alcazar, was at the 2004 Whitney Biennial; Quantum Leap: A Radical Idea for Keeping Kids in School; Molly Sackler ’85 and Missing in Action: The Women Behind Television’s Golden Age; Faculty Notes & Bookshelf; Class Notes & Alumni Bookshelf; Taking Creative Risks: Fran (Grossman) Bull ’60; In Memorium
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Winter 2009)
(Bennington College, 2009)
Photographer and Bennington faculty member Liz Deschenes breaks away from her own photographic tradition for a pioneering style; The curator of the Bata Shoe Museum, Elizabeth Ann Semmelhack ’86, invites you to explore one of the most unique museums in North America; Bennington on Biomass A progressive choice for a greener campus; Charles Bock MFA ’97 book excerpt Bock’s Beautiful Children; Design Labs: A Year Later Students and faculty share their experiences in these hands-on workshops piloted last year. Roxana (Barry) Robinson ’68 excerpt from book Cost; Faculty Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Class Notes. Alumni Profiles: Felicia (Warburg) Rogan ’49 is the grande dame of Virginia’s wine industry, Charlene (Solow) Schwartz ’54: The spirit to serve; In Memoriam: Remembering Rebecca B. Stickney ’43
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Spring / Summer 2010)
(Bennington College, 2010)
On Rwanda and Resurrection; Faculty member Amie McClellan’s research on “helper” protein may provide insight for cancer treatment; Jonathan Lethem ’86’s latest novel, Chronic City, is lauded; Carolyn Crossett Rowland ’37 and OceanaWilson, director of library and information services, discuss Bennington College’s Edward Clark Crossett Library, which turns 50 this academic year; Patricia Johanson ’62 creates public spaces that integrate infrastructure, social and recreational space, wildlife habitat, and art into a unified whole.; Michael Bibbo ’89 is NASA’s go-to guy for television and radio programming; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Faculty Notes; Your Gift atWork: Crossett Library; Class Notes; Alumni Profiles: Irene Borger ’71 remembers her friendship with J.D. Salinger, Kay Dickersin ’73, professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Clinical Trials at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, discusses how consumers can change public health care, Isabel Rose MFA ’97 on being a multitalented artist, John Boyd ’03 helps save the world on 24, Rachel (Emmons-Bradley) Embraza ’00 talks about why she gives to Bennington; Alumni gathering in New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon. In Memoriam: Emalea Warner Trentman ’36, Grace Ewing Huffman ’44, Lionel Nowak MA ’55, P’85, Kenneth Noland, former trustee.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2017)
(Bennington College, 2017-06)
Bookshelf; Judith Butler ’78 on what makes for a livable world; “Dreaming in Foreign” by Safiya Sinclair ’10; Black Spring exhibition and courses; August de los Reyes ’95, head of research and design at Pinterest, gained a valuable perspective that would reorient the focus of his work and challenge the paradigms of 21st-century design; MacArthur “Genius” and international civil rights leader Gay Johnson McDougall ’69 shares her story of working to help free South Africa from apartheid rule; Alumni at Netflix; Google, Harvard, PBS, and the Vermont State House on why employing Bennington interns is good for business and good for education; Employers are looking for internships on students’ resumes, and more colleges than ever before are requiring them as part of an education. But with so many unpaid internships, how can these opportunities be made accessible to all students?; Gail Hirschorn Evans ’63 worked at the White House in the Office of the Special Counsel to the President during the Lyndon Johnson Administration and was instrumental in the creation of the President’s Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity and the 1966 Civil Rights Act. Decades later she is challenging our biases and raising the volume on civil conversations; Faculty notes; Class notes
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2014 / Winter 2015)
(Bennington College, 2015)
Mariko Silver Looking back on the year; A fall 2014 exhibition, (Un)governed Spaces; Bookshelf; An interview with The Story of Land and Sea author Katy Simpson Smith MFA ’13 and an excerpt; Exploring alternatives to incarceration; Faculty member Jon Isherwood on the renowned sculptor and former faculty member Sir Anthony Caro; Leading the way for a more nuanced application by Claudia Rowe ’88; A fall 2014 exhibition, Slipped Gears; Alumni Stories; A summer 2014 exhibition, Abstract Modernism; A conversation with Bennington faculty member Allen Shawn; An academic investigation of the Keystone XL Pipeline by faculty member David Bond; A coast-to-coast call for an alumni-led, alumni-designed cooperative; Faculty note; Honoring books as objects with director of library and information services Oceana Wilson; Class notes; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2015)
(Bennington College, 2015)
Following a major gift from the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Bennington names the Visual Arts Center in her honor; Following the earthquake in Nepal, Ujwal Thapa ’00 rose to the occasion and now is rising in political popularity; Bookshelf; Megan Mayhew Bergman MFA ’10; How worker organizations can remain effective and agile in a digital landscape; How recent graduate Catherine Weingarten ’13 changed Facebook; two major solo exhibitions mounted by faculty member Liz Deschenes; Retracing the work of retired faculty member Andy Spence; Becky Godwin’s journey to and through Bennington; Luke Mogelson ’05 builds a career in the shadow of 9/11; Faculty Notes; Faculty member Charles Schoonmaker on dressing characters; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2014)
(Bennington College, 2014)
Mariko Silver's inaugural address; Highlights of inauguration weekend; Recently published works by Bennington alumni and faculty; Bennington’s Master of Fine Arts in Writing program looks back on two decades of literary excellence (Writing Seminars); The architect of STEAM, Babette Allina ’81, director of government relations at Rhode Island School of Design, is bringing art into STEM initiatives; What retiring faculty member Mansour Farhang has taught and learned during his two-and-a-half decades at Bennington; Ousseynou Diome,’14 a story about how to start a movement; Jonathan Lethem ’86 reflects on former faculty member Bernard e and writing and Bennington; Will Larsen ’17 is one of 16 students working with the College Board; Faculty Notes; Two new online courses: Portraying Conflict: 35 years of Instability in Afghanistan and Understanding Japanese Culture and Aesthetics through Ikebana; Class Notes; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Spring 2013)
(Bennington College, 2013)
Excerpting Commencement 2013; One Alumna’s Gift Keeps Giving; #Bennington; Bookshelf; First Lines from Thread, The Bennington Radio Project’s Live Storytelling Event; Trading Places to Learn New Technology; How an Unexpected Gift Can Change Everything; 2013 All-Class Reunion and 5x7 Exhibition; The Worlds of Business, Technology and Politics Consult with Bennington to Explore New Approaches; A senior reflection essay; Brian Morrice ’10 Sees the Country Staying Only with Bennington Alumni and Students; Faculty Notes; Class Notes; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2013 / Winter 2014)
(Bennington College, 2014)
An excerpt of Convocation remarks delivered to the Class of 2017 by faculty member Nick Brooke; Bookshelf; Except of Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem ’86; The Making of Bennington's 10th President, Mariko Silver; How Princess Yasmin Aga Khan ’73 and Spencer Cox ’90 took on health crises; The Stranger Visions of Heather Dewey-Hagborg ’03; Alumni art exhibition; Field Work Term as exploration; Faculty notes and news; Honoring Elizabeth Coleman; Alumni online course Americans in Paris, taught by French faculty member Stephen Shapiro; Three hundred and ten alumni spanning the classes of 1943 to 2013, hailing from as far as Odense, Denmark to as close as North Bennington, Vermont returned to campus for Reunion; Class notes; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2012)
(Bennington College, 2012)
Paradise Found: An excerpt from Megan Mayhew Bergman’s MFA ’10 universally praised debut Birds of a Lesser Paradise; Faculty Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; MFA Faculty Win Top Honors; Champions of Verse A special gift from Henry Dale Smith, Jr. and Deborah Klang Smith P’05 reasserts poetry’s prominence in, and beyond, a Bennington education. (Poetry at Bennington series); Faculty member Milford Graves retires; Art faculty members Liz Deschenes and Yoko Inoue are two women whose names—and work—are no longer the best-kept secrets in the art world; The “impossible” dream that became Bennington’s astonishing production of Angels in America; Local alumni Anthony Cafritz ’85, Constance Kheel ’67, and Jessica Howard ’64; Bennington pays tribute to Helen Frankenthaler ’49; Former trustee Loet Velmans and his wife Edith make a generous bequest; Class Notes Marri Davis’s ’86, Julieanne Smolinski ’05, Miranda Kennedy MFA ’12; In Memoriam Life Trustee Carolyn “Crossie” (Crossett) Rowland ’37; Edith (Noyes) Muma ’36; Pamela (Richards) Brooks ’41; Elizabeth “Betty” (Haas) Pfister ’43; Ethel Winter Hyman ’45; Miriam (Hermanos) Knapp ’55; and Anne (Schlabach) Burkhardt, former faculty member.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine. Special Edition (Fall 2012 / Winter 2013)
(Bennington College, 2013)
Letters to Liz; 25 Years The Cliff Notes; Excerpted remarks from President Coleman’s remarks at Cooper-Hewitt Museum (May 1987); Excerpted remarks from President Coleman’s inauguration speech (October 1987); Selection of courses taught by President Coleman(1987–present); Excerpts from accreditation reports prepared by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education (1983–2003); A Liz Coleman story; A presidential endorsement; An excerpt of President Coleman’s TED Talk; What it is to work with Liz; Donor Report; Class Notes; In Memoriam.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Spring / Summer 2011)
(Bennington College, 2011)
Faculty Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Longtime faculty member in theatre and mediation; Faculty member Allen Shawn’s new memoir, Twin, explores the mysteries of family and autism; Brenda Kydd ’69 talks about an unusual gift to the College; Joan Goodrich, Vice President of Planning and Special Programs retires; A Bennington Insider’s Guide to the Can’t-Miss Experiences in Art; Katherine Perkins ’11 traces the tangents that have made up her Bennington education; Why Do You Give? Thoughts on why a Bennington education deserves support; Your Gift at Work; Alumni Gatherings; Class Notes and Alumni Spotlights; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2011 / Winter 2012)
(Bennington College, 2012)
Commencement 2011 Actor and arts leader Tim Daly ’79 and senior speaker Keenan Walsh ’11; Q&A with the College’s new Chairman of the Board, Alan Kornberg ’74; Pas de Deux Three faculty members, four students, and one prestigious invitation: Bennington College dance goes to France; $10 Million for Excellence and Innovation Laura-Lee Whittier Woods ’48 honors beloved former faculty member Peter Drucker; The long lost musical treasures of former faculty member Gunnar Schonbeck are rediscovered by MASS MoCA; Faculty Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; An Entrepreneur’s Approach to Giving; You Are Here Alumni explain why the Bennington campus still lingers in their memories…and why those memories need to be preserved; Now Open: CAPA; Alumni survey; Donor Book; Class Notes and Alumni Spotlights Ella Russell Torrey ’47, Michael Pollan ’76, Bill Scully ’94; In Memoriam.
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2010 / Winter 2011)
(Bennington College, 2011)
Twilight series screenwriter and Bennington alumna Melissa Rosenberg ’86 addresses the College’s newest graduates along with senior speaker Michael Cahoon ’10; The inaugural class of Fellows at the College’s Center for Public Action (CAPA; Joy Goldsmith ’60 describes her journey from philosopher to philanthropist; Faculty Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Green Zone Bennington students take the organic movement into their own hands—literally; Capturing Field Work Term; When a forgotten chapter of military history is finally rediscovered, three Bennington women receive their due as World War II heroes; Behind the Scenes with Holland Taylor ’64 One of Bennington’s most notable actresses gets up close and personal about her new role as former Texas governor, Ann Richards; Coverage of Reunion 2010; Your Gift At Work: The Bennington Fund Scholarship Campaign; Zero to 25 Bret Easton Ellis ’86 interview; Donor Book; Class Notes and Alumni Spotlights; Sarah Stanbury ’71, Glenn Horowitz ’77, Angela Sheehan ’07; In Memoriam Sara “Sally” (Brownell) Montanari ’38, Margaret (Allen) McLellan ’40, Joan Chase Hinton ’42, Elizabeth (Hubbard) Banker ’43; Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Harrington Dickinson ’43, Fay (West) McEwan ’49, Bill Dixon (former faculty member), Ken Kensinger (former faculty member), and Robert Clements (parent).
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Fall 2009 / Winter 2010)
(Bennington College, 2010)
The Class of 2009 enjoys Commencement remarks by renowned New Yorker columnist Hendrik Hertzberg and class speaker Dorothy Allen ’09; The Year in Headlines; A grant from the AndrewW. Mellon Foundation supports Bennington’s environmental program; Under the watchful eye of literature faculty member Rebecca Godwin, plain china: Best UndergraduateWriting 2009 is born; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Faculty Notes; Remembering Steven Bach, Remembering Marlene Dietrich; PatriciaWoodbridge ’68 offers a glimpse into her career as an art director; The Center for the Advancement of Public Action advances founders’ mission; Eric Ramirez-Ferrero ’85 and Ayesha Mawji ’95 collaborate on the CHAMPION Project, a five-year public health initiative aimed at increasing the positive involvement of Tanzanian men in the fight against AIDS; A look at recent campus work and upgrades; Your Gift at Work; 2009 Donor Report; Class Notes & Alumni Spotlights; In Memoriam
Bennington: The Alumni Magazine. 75th Anniversary Year in Review (Spring / Summer 2008)
(Bennington College, 2008)
The Bennington Curriculum: A New Liberal Arts; Design Labs Invite Students to Change the World; Dance at Bennington: 75 Years of Moving Through Selected images from an exhibition of the Bennington Dance; A Solid 75 Bennington’s diamond year of dance; The Bennington Reflections Project; Helen Frankenthaler ’49; Field Work Term: Then and Now; Three Master Teachers: Paul Feeley and Simon and Herta Moselsio; 75th Anniversary Celebration Takes to the Road; Pioneers Support Bennington in its 75th Year; Alumni Speakers: 75th Year Spotlights Bennington’s Own; Class Notes; Alumni & Faculty Bookcase; Faculty Notes; In Memoriam