Bennington: The Alumni Magazine (Summer 2012)
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2012
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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.