2014 Spring/Summer Clockworks

Victory Stand
Tommie Smith (MA G-C 74),

Olympian and lifelong activist,
receives Goddard Colleges
Presidential Award for Activism.
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ANNIVERSARY CREW
Alumni gathered in front of the
Clockhouse during the 150th
anniversary weekend in October.
See more photos on page 18.
JULY
10-20 Port Townsend Writers Conference,
Port Townsend
11-18 EDU Residency, Plaineld
11-19 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend
13 EDU Commencement, Plaineld
13 MFAW Commencement, Port Townsend
25-Aug. 1 MFAIA Residency, Plaineld
27 MFAIA Commencement, Plaineld
APRIL
5 Haybarn Theatre Fundraiser: Anas
Mitchell & Kris Gruen, Plaineld
11-19 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend
11-18 UGP2 (BFAW, IBA, BAS, BA HAS)
Residency, Plaineld
13 UGP2 Commencement, Plaineld
14 Visiting Writer: Justin Torres, Plaineld
22 Vermont Crafts Council, Plaineld
26 Discover Goddard Day, Plaineld
MAY
Haybarn Theatre Renovations, Plaineld
JUNE
12-14 Board of Trustees Meeting, Plaineld
27-July 4 MFAW Residency, Plaineld
29 MFAW Commencement, Plaineld
30-July 4 Clockhouse Writers Conference,
Plaineld
AUGUST
2 Haybarn Theatre Fundraiser, Plaineld
2 Dr. David Allen Frisby, III Symposium
on Poverty and Education, Seattle
2-9 EDU Residency, Seattle
3 EDU Commencement, Seattle
8-15 MA HAS, IMA and MA SIS Residency,
Plaineld
10 MA HAS and IMA Commencement,
Plaineld
22-29 UGP1 (BAS, IBA, BA HAS) Residency,
Plaineld
24 UGP1 Commencement, Plaineld
SEPTEMBER
5 Goddard Concert: David Wax, Plaineld
12-19 BA/MA PSY Residency, Plaineld
14 PSY Commencement, Plaineld
19-27 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend
21 MFAIA Commencement, Port Townsend
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G
REETINGS, GODDARD! As of April 30, I am pleased to be joining
the College as its interim president. I am so excited to be back at
Goddard after a three-year hiatus. While at Goddard previously, I
saw the community accomplish a lot together, and a lot has been accomplished
in the interim. As I understand it, we have much to do once again.
This is an ideal time for the College to test itself against its
mission, To advance cultures of rigorous inquiry, collaboration
and lifelong learning, where individuals take imaginative
and responsible action in the world. It is a time of change in
higher education. What others are calling disruptive forces
are at play. These forces are broad and systemic, including
cultural, sociological, economic, demographic and technological
changes. We have no choice but to rise to these challenges.
To do so well, we need to develop a solid understanding of
how those forces are pushing higher education to change,
and how Goddard should respond. This is an exciting time,
during which we can conrm our values, and our value.
Through that conrmation and with creativity, innovation,
and collaboration we can blaze the path into the future that is
imaginative and responsible, the path that is Goddards path.
In my transition period there will be many calls on my time and my attention.
They are all important. As a result, over the next few months my focus will be on
listening and paying attention. I am hoping to be invited into your discussions and
to hear your thoughts on every aspect of the College. This listening process will, no
doubt, elicit more ideas than the College will be capable of undertaking, but if an
idea is not brought
forward it cannot
be considered.
Hence, it is
important for us to
reach out to each
other to assure
that we capture
all the best ideas for consideration. There will be no end to this process of listening,
formulating ideas for actions, assessing these ideas and moving forward with the ones
that pass a rigorous review; therefore, it is hard to end this message.
However, I will do so by outlining a request I have of you to which I will hold
myself: I ask that we approach each other and these discussions with candor, care
and kindness. Candor, openness, honesty and truthfulness are all prerequisites
to high-quality actions. Care in understanding and communication will reduce
misinterpretation and unintended consequences. Finally, kindness will allow us to
heal as a community and move forward with hope and optimism.
Sincerely,
Bob Kenny, Interim President
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In my transition period, there will be
many calls on my time and my attention.
They are all important. As a result, over
the next few months my focus will be on
listening and paying attention.
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Features
7 Victory Stand
Award winner Tommie Smith (MA G-C 74)
takes another victory stand, this time
at the Plainfeld campus.
BY DUSTI N BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
10 Refections: Rural Revolution Exhibit
A recent show featured photos from Goddard
art students and faculty from the 1970s.
BY PEG TASSEY (BA RUP 79- 81)
12 Q&A with Scott Tournet
Scott Tournet (BA RUP 01), lead guitarist for
Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, talks about
his musical career and his latest project.
BY DUSTI N BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
14 Welcome to the Library!
Meet the staff members of the Eliot
D. Pratt Library in Plainfeld, Vt.
BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW 14)
16 A Tool Toward Experience
Academic programs explore new themes
during Haybarn Literary Arts Festival.
BY CERRI DWEN AKER (BFAW 14)
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Goddard Launches Fundraising
Effort for Haybarn Theatre
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PRIL KICKED OFF fundraising efforts for the
Haybarn Theatre renovation, with a $30,000
Cultural Facilities Grant from the Vermont Arts
Council, and matching grant support. On April 5,
singer-songwriters Anas Mitchell and Kris Gruen
(BA RUP 97) performed a Haybarn Theatre beneft
concert to raise money for LED theater lighting, a permanent
sound system, assisted listening devices, ADA accessible
bathrooms, and other improvements.
Phase 1 renovations start this May, with Phase 2 and 3
continuing through 2015. Stay tuned for a second fundraiser in
August; watch for updates at facebook.com/Haybarntheatre.
Join us in giving to the Haybarn Theatre Renovation Fund.
Visit goddard.edu/haybarn or contact Meg Hammond
(802.322.1685, meg.hammond@goddard.edu).
Grant Winner Announced for 2014
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AST YEAR, Goddard created a Sustainability Entrepreneurs
Grant to award $2,500 annually to a student in any program
whose business proposal promises to most effectively promote
sustainable living, social equity, climate change adaptation,
and ecological protection. Cynthia Tina, a
level six student in the BA in Sustainability
program, is the winner of this years grant
for her work with Next Global Ecovillage
Network, or NextGEN (nextgenna.org).
NextGEN is a global alliance of
ecovillage ambassadors and sustainability
educators who connect young people with
the ecovillage movement and empower
them to build sustainable communities.
Goddard would like to offer thanks to Jerry Greenfeld,
Elizabeth Skarie and Concept 2 for supporting this grant.
2014 Sustaining
Donor Challenge
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FRIEND of the college
has pledged $20,000 if
we get 100 new sustaining
donors to give $20 per month
by May 1. We need 60 donors
to meet that challenge!
Alumni participation is a
critical factor that foundations
and other funders consider.
Your giving will help us
leverage other gifts.
Make your donation online at
goddard.edu/giving, or use the
envelope in this magazine.
New Interim
Academic Dean
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TEVEN JAMES, former
MA in Psychology &
Counseling Program Director,
has been appointed as interim
academic dean and chief
academic offcer. In addition
to his experience at Goddard,
James also brings a depth
and breadth of experience
from his consulting and
foundation work.
James replaces Jackie
Hayes, who served as the
chief academic offcer for
the past year and recently
returned to the ranks of
the MFAIA faculty.
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Vermont Arts Council presents
$30,000 for the renovation.
From left, Alex Aldrich,
executive director of the VAC;
Janet Ancel, Vermont Rep.,
Calais; Meg Hammond, Goddard
events manager; and Gerard
Holmes (BA GV 89), senior
development offcer.
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Submit up to three
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Alumnas Daughter
Gives Back
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N NOVEMBER, Janis Ian,
Grammy winner and
daughter of the late Pearl
Fink (BA 80), held the second
annual Prose for Pearl
auction, a fundraiser for the
Pearl Foundation, which
supports the Pearl Fund
Scholarship at Goddard. The
auction featured donations
from George R. R. Martin, Neil
Gaiman, Pat Conroy, and a host
of notable authors, and 100%
of the profts were donated to
the foundation.
Janis also released a book of
her own The Tiny Mouse, her
frst childrens book.
Conferences Attract Goddard Alumni, Faculty and Staff
EDU Hosts Dual Language Conference
T
HE 4TH ANNUAL Dual Language
Conference, held at the EDU Seattle
residency in early February, attracted over
150 attendees in support of scholarships for
Goddards education students.
Language, Culture, and Identity, brought
together more than sixteen language groups
and presenters such as Professor Tasleem
Quasim from Shoreline Community College and
Colonel Wallace Sterling, Chief of the Moore
Town Maroons of Jamaica.
Special thanks to the hardworking group
of over thirty volunteers that made up the
planning committee. The next conference,
The Bilingual Education: Special Education
Interface, is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2015.
College Staffs Table at AWP Conference
G
ODDARD showed its colors at the Associa-
tion of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP)
annual conference, held in Seattle in February.
The college staffed an exhibit throughout the
four-day event, with students, alumni and fac-
ulty meeting and greeting attendees. Pictured in
the photo above, from left: MFAW student Mat-
thew Swihart; BFAW student Amy Cain; Senior
Admissions Counselor David De Lucca; Outreach
Coordinator Samantha Kolber; and Director of
Admissions Gariot Louima.
Goddard Leases
Building to New
High School
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leased the Stokes building
in Plainfeld to the Central
Vermont High School Initiative
(CVHSI). The CVHSI was
founded in 2011 by a group
of parents and educators;
the school uses the principles
of Waldorf education to
offer alternative educational
opportunities for high school
students in Central Vermont.
This partnership is a
harmonious combination
of Goddards mission, local
community resources, and an
initiative of Goddards fve-
year strategic plan to diversify
revenue and the use of campus.
Stokes Building
BFA Students Launch Online Literary Journal
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UENDE is the new, national, online
literary journal produced by students
of the BFA in Creative Writing program.
It takes its name from Federico Garca
Lorcas 1933 Theory and Play of the
Duende. The journal seeks authenticity and
soulfulness, earthiness and expressiveness.
Material submitted for the frst issue will
run through May 15.
Submit your prose, poetry, hybrid work and
literary collaborations to duendeliterary.org.
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Tommie Smith (MA G-C 74), Olympian and
lifelong activist, receives Goddard Colleges
Presidential Award for Activism.
Stand
Victory
BY DUSTIN BYERLY
(BA RUP 01)
After receiving their medals at the 1968 Summer Olympic
Games in Mexico City, Americans Tommie Smith (center)
and John Carlos raise their fsts in a gesture of support
for human rights and African American pride.
As Smith and Carlos took their
places on the podium, draped in
their Olympic medals, they lowered
their heads and raised their clenched
fsts covered in black leather gloves
in a historic stand for human rights,
liberation and solidarity. This
courageous act of resistance propelled
Tommie Smith into the spotlight as a
human rights spokesman, activist and
symbol of African American pride.
As a founding member of the
Olympic Project for Human Rights,
Smith had originally advocated
for a boycott of the 1968 Games as
a stance against apartheid, racial
segregation and racism in American
athletics. When the proposed boycott
ended in impasse due to the lack of
consensus among the athletes, Smith
decided to make his own statement.
My mind had been made up
that I was going to make a stand on
one of the most prominent podiums
in the world, he said. But I had to
get on the podium in order to do so.
That was the motivation that drove
me to train hard and win.
It was my victory and I stood for
human rights and equality. I stood to
draw attention to the fact that we black
athletes had been asked to represent a
country that didnt treat us as equals.
Misunderstood as a black power
salute at the time, the gesture brought
great hardship to both athletes. Smith
received death threats to himself
and his family and was permanently
banned from the Olympics, never to
race again. And although he is the
only person in the history of track
and feld to hold eleven world records
simultaneously, he has yet to be inducted
into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
Following the games of the 19th
Olympiad, Smith played professional
football under the legendary Paul
Brown with the Cincinnati Bengals for
three years. He went on to become an
assistant professor of physical education
at Oberlin College in Northeast Ohio,
where he taught sports sociology,
coached track and feld, football, and
basketball, and served as assistant
athletic director to Jack Scott.
It was Scott who encouraged Smith
to pursue his graduate degree and
suggested that he look at Goddard
College, which at that time had a
program in Cambridge, Mass. Jack told
me that he thought it was necessary for
a person with my ideas and my ideals to
go further, said Smith. I couldnt go in
mainstream America and get the degree
I thought was necessary and push my
ideas forward because I would be taught
something. No, I wanted to teach them.
Smith enrolled and was accepted
into the Goddard Cambridge Graduate
Program for Social Change in 1971. He
graduated with his masters in 1974.
The program, created in 1970, was a
collaboration between Goddard and
the Cambridge Policy Studies Institute
that provided training and certifcation
for those interested in combining the
theory and practice of social change.
My time at Goddard was an
unforgettable educational odyssey,
said Smith. I was able to bring all
of my previous academic and life
experience together, and develop my
understanding of the impact of racism
on all aspects of the human experience.
Smith used the platform he gained
from his notoriety to advocate for
racial justice and to improve the lives
of countless youth and young adults.
He spent decades as an educator and
coach, and continues in his retirement
to be a speaker, trainer, and champion
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HERE ARE FEW IMAGES that capture and preserve the essence
of an entire movement and moment in time better than the
photographs of Tommie Smith, John Carlos and Peter Norman
at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City. Tommie Smith had
just won the gold medal for the United States in the 200-meter race,
with a world record time of 19.83 seconds; Australias Peter Norman
fnished second; and Smiths teammate, John Carlos, placed third.
Smith receives his award from
former president Barbara Vacarr.
Competing at San Jose
State University.
for at-risk youth. In 2004, he established
The Tommie Smith Youth Initiative
to combat childhood obesity.
Smith has received numerous awards
and is recognized for his work both on
and of the feld. He was inducted into
the National Track & Field Hall of Fame
(1978), the California Black Sports Hall of
Fame (1996), and the Texas Black Sports
Hall of Fame (2012), to name a few. He
also received an Honorary Doctorate
from San Jose State (2005), the Trumpet
Award (2007), the Peace Abby Courage
of Conscience Award (2008), and the
Arthur Ashe Courage Award (2008).
His lifetime commitment to
education, activism and public service
prompted Goddard to ofer him the 3rd
Annual Presidential Award for Activism.
Smith received the award from
former president Barbara Vacarr at the
bachelor of arts commencement on
Oct. 6, 2013. Speaking in the Haybarn
Theatre to a full house of students, staf,
faculty, family and local community
members, Vacarr described Smiths
iconic gesture in 1968 as a cry for
freedom in support of human rights.
Tommie Smiths presence at
graduation was exhilarating and
authentically Goddard. He embraced
and shook hands with every graduating
student as he made his way through
the human tunnel of graduates to
his seat. As Smith took the podium
to deliver his acceptance speech, the
entire room stood up and erupted into
thunderous applause, and a row of
students lined the upper level of the
Haybarn with their heads bowed and
fsts raised in the air in recognition
of Dr. Tommie Smiths life and work.
Smith raised his clenched fst in return.
Phyllis Brown, program director
of the Undergraduate Program, was
deeply moved by the event. Brown, who
grew up in an all-white community,
remembered Smiths victory stand and
the impact it had on her as young girl.
The day after, when my class was told
to stand to do the pledgeI put my fst
up in solidarity and to show that I was
aware, that I was part of the struggle for
Civil Rights. Brown had been sent to
the principals ofce; her punishment:
to copy the pledge of allegiance 100
times with her left hand (she is right-
handed). Tommie Smiths stand on that
podium holds personal and profound
meaning for me, said Brown. It
heavily infuenced my life of activism,
community service and fghting against
racism and all forms of oppression.
Refecting on that historic moment
in 1968, Smith said in his acceptance
speech, The soul of a man was used
as a beacon to shed optimum light
on a sober situation and a struggle
for lawful, communal parityAnd
the beat goes on. Smith urged the
graduating class to trust themselves
and to take what they had learned at
Goddard into their communities. No
bird soars too high if he soars with his
own wings, he said, quoting William
Blake. Never forget that, he said.
Students were moved by Tommies
speech. The opportunity to share
my graduation with the humble, yet
powerful, words of Tommie Smith,
said Seneca Kristjonsdottir (IBA 13) of
Golden, Colo., solidifed in me further
an inspiration to pursue genuine work.
Smith, who had never attended a
residency in Vermont, was blown away
by his experience in Plainfeld. I was
surprised at the size, the history of it,
and the knowledge, respect and love
the people showed. The most exciting
thing about it was the academics: these
were some of the smartest people I had
ever metI think it is because their
souls are invested in their own truth.
His advice for young activists:
You have to understand your
program, whatever it is, will have
to be a diversifed program, and
that it will require sacrifce, and
that sacrifce is going to grow
Always consider how your work, or
program, is going to help others.
CW
My time at Goddard was an unforgettable
educational odyssey. TOMMIE SMI TH (MA G-C 74)
Speaking to a packed
Haybarn Theatre.
Reliving his famous gesture.
BY PEG TASSEY (BA RUP ' 79-' 81)
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N THE 1970S AT GODDARD,
clothing was optional. As a
photography student hired to
photograph for Goddards catalogue,
the only restriction I was given was,
No dogs and no naked people!
Thankfully, in 2013, when I curated the
Rural Revolution photography exhibit for
Goddards 150th Anniversary, there were
no such restrictions.
After seeing my old darkroom buddy
David Sinrichs gorgeous old photos
posted on Facebook, I thought it would
be fun to get a few of our classmates
together and show our work from the
late 70s in a small exhibit. The idea
grew into an exhibit spanning the
whole decade, and after searching for
six months for Goddard photography
grads willing to crawl through their
attics and send their 40-year-old prints
to me, I ended up working with 27
alums and 800 incredible photos.
These are not just snapshots of
Goddardthese are photos taken by
art students who were learning to
see the world through their cameras,
taken in a remarkable decade at the
most progressive and radical school
of the day. The teachers Jef Weiss,
John Mahoney, Dicran Derderian, and
Andrew Kline were amazing. The
photography program had made up
one-third of the student body, and
the work I received blew me away.
Curating the images wasnt easy.
There are photos of Black Sabbath in
The Haybarn Theatre; Allen Ginsberg
in the cafeteria; Meredith Monk in the
felds. There are silver tinged shots of
innocent yet serious faces; pinhole shots
of glowing gravestones. There are self-
portraits as students discovered who
they were in a way that looks so diferent
from todays constant fow of selfes.
And, of course, there are naked photos:
group shots, portraits, and even the
AN INSIDERS LOOK AT THE
Rural Revolution
Exhibition
A Showing of Photography
from Goddard Art Students
& Faculty from the 1970s
See more photos and artists bios at goddard.edu/rural-revolution.
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Stephanie McMahon
by Jon Cornell (RUP 71-74)
Reflections
veggie dorm shots replete with produce.
Naked seemed and looked diferent
in the 70s at Goddard. Naked seemed
political, rebellious, celebratory. We felt
safe, we felt strong, we felt we could
speak out and make a diference. You
can see it in the fully clothed subjects
faces as well. We knew we were involved
in something special. We were inspired,
and these 19-year-old photography
students caught the way we felt on flm.
With the help of Archivist David
Hal and Associate Director of
Advancement and Alumni Afairs
Dustin Byerly, Rural Revolution became
a reality: 300 mostly black and white
photos covered the walls of the beautiful
Martin Manor, with a 20-foot-high
slideshow presented on the night of
the opening reception Oct. 19 in the
Haybarn Theatre, while cellist Indigo
Ruth-Davis played a piece written for
the occasion. When I looked out into
the audience of Goddard alums and
the wider community, I saw tears.
People were moved by the work these
young people had produced, and
moved, it seemed, by a time that we
all remember to be an important part
of our lives and our worldview.
I am so grateful to these alums
for allowing me to show their vintage
photos and their very personal memories
in this exhibit. Most continue to make
art and show in museums and galleries
around the world. I feel honored and
privileged to have worked with them.
CW

MAKING AN EXHIBITION Clockwise from top left: Cate Caldwell, by David
Sinrich (RUP 79-81); Amy, by Susan Bein (RUP 70-74); Self Portrait Age 20, by
Karen O Hearn (RUP 76-79); Self Portrait, by Jonathan Sharlin (RUP 69-72); Allen
Ginsberg, by Neal Warshaw (RUP 70-73); Self Portrait, by Peg Tassey (RUP 79-81).
These are not just
snapshots of Goddard.
These are photos
taken by art students
who were learning to
see the world through
their cameras, taken in
a remarkable decade
at the most progressive
and radical school
of the day.
PEG TASSEY (BA RUP ' 79-' 81)
with Scott Tournet
(BA RUP 01)
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recently spoke with Goddard alumnus and musician Scott Tournet
(BA RUP 01) about his experience at Goddard, his musical career
as lead guitarist of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and his
new solo project, Ver La Luz. Scott and I both attended Goddard at
the same time and graduated in the same class in December of 2001.
Dustin Byerly: Scott, can you tell us
a little bit about your background?
Scott Tournet: I was born in a
very progressive college town in
Williamstown, Massachusetts. My
family moved to Chester, Vermont,
when I was ten years old and lived
on a large piece of land without
electricity until I was about sixteen.
DB: How did you get into music?
ST: I originally started playing music
when I was eighteen at Castleton State
College. It was quite informal at frst, but
then something took hold, and all of a
sudden it became my identity. I just lived
and breathed music. It was everything.
DB: How did you fnd Goddard College?
ST: Well, the traditional education model
wasnt working for me so I began looking
for something diferent; thats when I
discovered Goddard. I have to admit,
I was a little scared when I came to
look at it. It was a very diferent world.
Every person seemed to be such an
individual. After visiting the campus I
decided to make a move and went for it.
DB: What did you study at Goddard?
ST: I completely focused on music.
It was an amazing opportunity for
someone like me who wasnt cut
out for the more traditional music
programs. I just studied what I wanted
to which was kind of awesome.
DB: Did your Goddard education help
you in your career?
ST: Oh yeah, absolutely. I am very
proud. I went to school for music, paid
for it myself, went out and immediately
got a job in my chosen feld.
DB: You were a founding member
of Grace Potter and the Nocturnals.
How did that come to be?
ST: Up until then I had my band at
Goddard called The Big Huge, but
our momentum was stalling. My
girlfriend at the time was going to St.
Lawrence University in upstate New
York, and I left Vermont to be with
her. Thats where I met Grace (and
drummer Matt Burr), and everything
just started to come together. After
about a year and a half we all moved
back to Vermont and lived on Graces
parents property in Waitsfeld while
we played whatever gig we could get.
DB: When was the moment you realized
you had made it as a musician?
ST: The frst big moment, for me, was
when we were doing a residency at
Nectars in Burlington, Vt. The frst week
there was only a handful of people there
but one of them was a journalist from
The Burlington Free Press who wrote a
great article about the band. This was in
the dead of winter and the next week we
were peeking our heads out the door at
the back of the club and there was a line
around the block! We were so excited. It
took a long time but we went from selling
out Nectars to headlining and performing
at Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Red Rocks,
Fuji Rock in Japan, Rock in Rio in Brazil,
and playing to huge sold out stadiums.
We also established a music festival
in Burlington called Grand Point North,
and I almost get more excited about that
than I do about the bigger shows. It has
really grown over the years. We bring in
national acts but we also have a stage for
local acts and invite local vendors to set
up during the festival in order to keep
the Vermont spirit of the festival alive.
DB: Tell us about your new solo album.
ST: Ver La Luz, which means see the
light in Spanish, is an album I wrote
and recorded in San Diego. It carries
a more hopeful and positive message
than my past work. Musically it is less
guitar-driven and more lyric based.
It confronts topics like mortality,
loss, struggle and the like, but it does
so with an optimistic undertone.
DB: Are you working on any new projects?
ST: We fnished a decade as a band, and
we were touring so hard for so long, to
the point where none of us had personal
lives, that we decided last September
to take it down a notch for a year, to
appreciate that there are other things
in life. Its been a welcome break. I am
building a small studio, playing drums,
and learning to play the pedal steel
guitar. More importantly though I'm
reconnecting with family and friends
and leading a more balanced life.
DB: How do you feel about Goddard today?
ST: Im happy its here. Whether it is a
residential or a low-residency program,
the self-directed educational philosophy
is very powerful for certain people. It
fts a lot of us who otherwise wouldnt
have a home in the educational system.
DB: Looking back, what does your
Goddard education mean to you?
ST: It opened up doors. Thats the main
thing. Beyond even music. I was exposed
to so many diferent ways of thinking and
living. This massive world just opened up.
Goddard just opened up everything.
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Theres more to this dedicated crew than books. The library staff has been
busy establishing a new blog, updating borrowing policies, and providing
access to free citation tools and a satellite librarian. Read on to meet the
people behind all these good works. BY SAMANTHA KOLBER, MFAW 14
1 Paula Tamburello, Materials
Access & Acquisitions Librarian
Paula has worked at Goddard since
2007. She has her BA in Anthropology
from SUNY Geneseo, and her MLS
from SUNY Bufalo. She enjoys
helping students and faculty with
research and connecting them
to the resources they need.
Paula has a passion for books, as
you might expect, and folk music.
I am an old folkie from way back!
She has three grown children and
celebrates 30 years of marriage with
her lawyer/musician husband. Her
daughter, Claire Green (MA EDU
13), graduated from Goddard.
2 Clara Bruns, Director
of Information Access
Clara believes that open access to
information needs to be balanced
with copyright and right to privacy
concerning personal data. She began
her career at Goddard many years
ago as a cataloger. She is a single
parent of two teenage girls, which
is both challenging and a joy.
Life is a balancing act, says Clara.
She seeks to strike a balance between
job responsibilities and home life,
available resources and demands,
exercising control with the need for
letting go. I sometimes catch myself
wishing that all problems would
go away, but then I realize that life in
nirvana would be boring, she says.
3 Helen Linda, Library Systems
& Technical Services Librarian
When Helens not in a library, she can
be found driving around the state on
Vermont 251 Club quests, doing her part
to keep the Sunset Drive-In open and
thriving, and generally adhering to the
bumper sticker slogan Keep Vermont
Weird. She knits and writes, and recently
taught herself to make jam and fermented
veggies. She is a longtime labor movement
enthusiast, and shes delighted to work in
a unionized workplace for the frst time.
Helen has worked at Goddard for six
years and is always cooking up new ideas.
She drafted and began administering
Satellite Librarian last fall, and its a huge
success. This spring, she started teaching
the new student orientation workshop,
Learn Your Library: Tour, Tools, Tips,
and shes thoroughly enjoying being out
from the back-end of the Pratt Center.
Ive met so many students and
faculty for the frst time, says Helen.
Its wonderful!
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David originally joined the faculty at
Goddard in 1984. He worked with both
of- and on-campus students for 20 years,
and he is now a part-time library staf
member working in the Goddard Archives.
I am honored to work in the archives,
helping others fnd meaningful answers
to questions about our very interesting
history, he says. All are welcome to
visit the archives in the Pratt Center
on Thursday and Friday mornings.
Over the years, David has worked
as a bicycle mechanic, sushi chef, and
substitute public school teacher, and he
currently teaches a photography class at
Johnson State College. His passions and
avocations include precision woodworking,
metalworking, land surveying, and making
and selling miniature, ornate plumb
bobs (you can fnd them on Etsy.com).
He and his wife enjoy their recently
emptied nest, working at home, gardening,
and selling books and collectables on E-bay.
5 Monica Nelson, Library and
Academic Support Specialist
Monica joined the library staf in March
of 2012 and she now enjoys working one-
on-one with students, focusing on time
management, organization, study skills,
applying research and critical thinking,
and helping them address hidden
disabilities and personal challenges.
Her hobbies are reading, drawing,
writing, graphic design, meditation,
yoga, and family history research. She
eats local and is a big fan of nonviolent
communication, deconstructing
constructed (and oppressive) realities,
contemplation and mindfulness.
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hen Sarah Hooker
arrived in Central
Vermont in 1979, it
made sense she would
explore opportunities at
Goddard. She had settled
two miles down the road
in Marshfeld, and she
already had nine years
of experience in higher
education, primarily at
Boston University. It was
the beginning of a 35-year
run that ended on Dec. 31,
when she closed her offce
door in the Studies Building
in Plainfeld one last time.
The frst time I walked
from the upper parking lot
to the Manor, I thought
this was a beautiful
campus, she says, But
little did I know Goddard
would become the center
of my professional life.
After a year in fnancial
aid, Sarah accepted a
position in the original Adult
Degree Program (ADP). But
1981 was a diffcult time in
the colleges history, and
Goddard sold ADP and
three other programs to
Vermont College/Norwich
University in Montpelier.
Sarah continued with
ADP and Vermont College
for many years, helping to
shepherd the program in
its move from Plainfeld,
working with others
to sustain and nourish
its guiding principles.
I continued doing my
Goddard job for 24 years,
she recalls. I loved working
with the students; they were
a never-ending source of
surprise and creativity. And
the faculty felt like family.
In 2001, Sarah became
alumni director at Vermont
College, where she enjoyed
working with former
students and institutional
advancement. Then in
2004, she came home
to Plainfeld, assuming the
same role at Goddard.
But serving students
in the academic programs
was always her primary
passion. So, in 2007, she
began her fnal tour of
duty at Goddard as a
coordinator in the academic
services department.
Looking Back: Sarah Hooker retires after a career in higher ed.
Memories from Goddard
Discovering the student freshly-
arrived from Saudi Arabia,
being dropped off a week
early for residency! Im glad I
just happened to be there!
Helping RUP grads and
low-residency grads discover
that their experiences were
more alike than not.
Working at Goddard during
one of its hardest times (1981),
then returning (2004) to stability
and optimism, when budgets
were routinely balanced.
The beautifcation of the
campus, especially the
restoration of the historic
gardens.
Putting together Clockworks
as it evolved from a newspaper
format to a full-color magazine.
Following in the footsteps of
a long line of alumni directors
who gave their hearts and
souls to Goddard.
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A Tool Toward Experience
Academic Programs Explore New Themes During Haybarn Literary Arts Festival
BY CERRIDWEN AKER (BFAW 14)
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N COMMEMORATING GODDARD COLLEGES
sesquicentennial, the BFA in Creative Writing program
(BFAW) and the BA in Individualized Studies program
(IBA) hosted the Haybarn Literary Arts Festival during the
fall 2013 residency. Held in early October on the Plainfeld
campus, the event brought together faculty members
and students from both programs to facilitate panels,
workshops, and readings. This was the frst literary festival
in the undergraduate programs prestigious history.
Goddard has shifted over the years, from seminary to
college, from on-campus to low-residency, adding new degree
programs as it grows, while still maintaining its
mission to advance cultures of rigorous
inquiry, collaboration and lifelong
learning, where individuals take
imaginative and responsible
action in the world.
This was evident with this
years literary festival, which
highlighted the six-year-old,
low-residency BFAW program,
originally cofounded by Lucinda
Garthwaite, Prageeta Sharma,
and Ruth Farmer. The frst students
enrolled in the fall of 2007 and, according to the
programs history, it is the only one of its kind.
As a volunteer and a festival participant (a
thank you to all who helped make this festival a
success!), I found it a privilege to witness HLAFs
manifestation. Its diversity of oferings was rep-
resentative of the literary aesthetics, approaches,
and interests of our BFA/IBA students and fac-
ulty. Areas ofered included new ideas on pub-
lishing, social media and writing; performance
and sound; student and faculty readings; poetry
and hybridity; persona and clichs; fction and
dialogue development; and creative nonfction.
The festival also hosted Cornelius Eady,
who read from his many books of poetry,
including Victims of the Latest Dance Craze,
winner of the Lamont Prize of the Academy
of American Poets, and The Gathering of My
Name, nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. His
energetic reading drew a large crowd and
was followed by a Q&A and book signing.
We get too obsessive about form, Eady
said during his workshop the next morning.
Form is merely a tool toward experience.
An eloquent fnish to the festival, his words
truly embodied the tone of HLAFquestioning,
diverse, experimental. BFAW Program Director Janet
Sylvester, who originated the idea for the festival, praised
the spirit of cooperation that enabled it, from Director of
Undergraduate Studies Phyllis Browns encouragement, IBA
faculty member Pam Bookers able assistance, and support
from the Advancement Ofce, to the many student volunteers.
All around, said Sylvester, it was a labor of love!
Looking ahead to my own graduation, I feel the
comforting weight of the tool belt I have acquired as both a
BFA and IBA student. I am fortifed
by the experiences fostered at
Goddard: those of community
coupled with self-reliance,
creativity paired with critical
analysis, and form contrasted with
hybridity. As the college moves
into its next 150 years, I have no
doubt it will continue to represent
this exciting educational practice.
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Cerridwen writes creative non-fction, poetry, and hybrid
material blended with photography and painting. She lives
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New Homegrown Radio Series
Focuses on Local News and Insights
BY KRIS GRUEN, WGDR/ WGDH DIRECTOR
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his new series of programs organically and locally grown right here
at WGDR/WGDH in Vermont focuses on topics and people near
and dear to our listeners hearts. The mission of Homegrown Radio
is to present topics of local interest to our listeners and recognize local
people and organizations working to build a better community and world.
On Whats Nature Doing
Now?, host David Ferland
talks about current events in
the natural world with Larry
Clarfeld from the North
Branch Nature Center.
Production Coordinator
Carl Etnier presents
Homegrown Radio
News, a weekly, half-hour
news magazine at noon
on Fridays. The program
covers local stories for both
a Vermont and national
audience. Plans are to
cover state-level stories
through the lens of their
impact on people in the
FM listening area, as well
as to develop the program
into an educational tool
for volunteers of all ages
in the production of local
news programming.
The Homegrown Radio
Farm and Food segment
features a variety of guests
discussing all aspects of
agricultural practices and
natural conservation,
farming, local food
production and preparation,
and local restaurants
and farmers markets.
We have been working
closely with the Center for
Agricultural Economy and
the Vermont Food Center,
Northeast Organic Farming
Association, the Depart-
ment of Environmental
Conservation, and a variety
of local farmers, food pro-
ducers and restaurateurs.
Homegrown Health
provides a forum for local
health practitioners in
many felds, health clinics,
and agencies to discuss
a wide range of health
issues from the State
Health Care Plan, antibiotic
therapy, and vaccinations to
home remedies,
herbal therapies, yoga,
homeopathy, and more.
Some partners include
Guido Mas and Larken
Bunce of the Vermont
Center for Integrative
Herbalism; The Peoples
Health and Wellness
Clinic; The Health Center
in Plainfeld; Dr. Marvin
Malek on public health
issues and Lauriana Capone
of Good Beginnings.
ON-AIR
WGDR Briefs
Around the Studio
1 SPREADING THE WORD
MFAIA student David Neufeld,
of Wolfeboro, N.H., leads a
vocal performance workshop
in the WGDR studio at
the February residency in
Plainfeld. The workshop was a
dynamic mix of local volunteer
programmers, fellow students,
and high school students from
Goddards newest on-campus
partners, Central Vermont
High School Initiative. If you
mention cows and chickens in
your broadcast, Neufeld says,
never miss the opportunity to
cluck and moo!
2 FACE-TIME WITH STAFF
WGDR staff members strike
a pose: (from left) Training
Coordinator Jackie Batten,
Music Library Coordinator
Josh Hayes-High, Programmer
Support Coordinator Leah
Xylona, and Production
Coordinator Carl Etnier.
3 YOUNG VOICES AT WGDR
A group of local kids came
to the studio last summer to
lend their voices to a project
developed by Chris Hancock,
of Learning Touch. He created
Words That Go!, a new
learning app featuring artwork
by Richard Scarry; the kids,
ages four through eight,
provided the audio.
Visit the online air schedule calendar at the new, mobile compatible website: wgdr.org.
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1 2 3
Top left: Dianne Vock DuPrat (MA PSY 99) and Judy Kelly
(MA PSY 99). Top right, Joseph Verilla (BA ADP 77) and
George Bradley (BA ADP 76). Bottom, Genevieve McClelland
Lee (BA RUP 69), Cristine Zern (BA RUP 65-66) and Jane
Denlinger Fraytet (BA RUP 69).
Top: Paul Zaloom (BA RUP 73) performs at the Haybarn
Theatre. Bottom left, Ann Stokes (BA 54) receives the Goddard
Award for Excellence. Bottom right, former board chair Andrea
Leebron-Clay (MFAW 02, MA SBC 09) presents the Goddard
Award for Excellence to Art Chickering (MFAW 12).
Joan Peters (IBA 04);
faculty member Karen
Campbell (IMA 96); and
Suzanne Canell (IBA 04).
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lumni and friends gathered for a
homecoming weekend last October
to celebrate Goddards sesquicentennial
and to enjoy concerts, puppetry,
art exhibits, joyful reunions, award
ceremonies, and more.
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Please note: people in the photos are identied from left to right.
Photos from Pilgrims: Portraits of Returning, the community art project by
Casey Orr (BA GV 90). Top: Dustin Byerly (BA RUP 01); MFAW student Bob Fisher with
two current MA students. Middle left: Casey Orr. Bottom: Wilmer Brandt (BA RUP 55);
hitchhikers: Mary Martin (BA GV 89), Paul Burke (BA GV 89), Julie Rosenblatt (BA GV 88).
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Top left: former President Barbara Vacarr
presents the Goddard Award for Excellence
to former trustee Peter Pratt. Top right, Clo
Pitkin (BA 53) receives the Goddard Award for
Excellence. Bottom, WGDR Program Director
Kris Gruen (BA RUP 97) presents Kirk Gardner
with the WGDR Visionary Award.
Top: Peter Schumann, founder of
Bread and Puppet Theater, performs at
the Haybarn. Bottom, John Bloch (BA
64), Allen Soule (BA 50), and Brenda
Lindemann (BA RUP 69).
Top: pianist Michael Arnowitt (BA GV 84). Bottom left: current
student Glennie Sewell (MFAW) with Lizz Schumer (MFAW 13). Bottom
right: Keith Ruskin (BA RUP 71, MA GGP 74) and Kellie Landry, wife of
Chris Landry (BA RUP 68, not pictured).
Top left: David Carroll and his wife Barbara Henkel Carroll (BA 60) with
Ann Goldsmith (BA 53). Top right: Georges Drouin (BA RUP 68) and Betty
Verilla. Bottom: a performance of Gamelan Sulukala.
Russell Aminzade (BA RUP 74); Glenn Koenig
(BA RUP 75), and Stuart Weiss (BA RUP 75).
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WORDS THAT BURN
Wayne F. Burke (BA RUP 79)
Words that Burn is a brutally honest
evisceration of one mans experience
of life on this planet, written with
verve and the unadorned yet eloquent
language of where the poet came from.
BareBack Press, 2013
CHINESE HEALING EXERCISES:
A PERSONAL PRACTICE FOR
HEALTH & LONGEVITY
Steven Cardoza (BA RUP 70-71)
Improve your health and longevity with
88 easy-to-learn exercises. Gentle enough
to be practiced by anyone, regardless
of age, gender, or state of health.
Llewellyn Publications, 2013
PKGRRL
Wm. Anthony Connolly (MFAW 02)
Ell is a special girl with a secret inside her,
centuries in the making. Its a secret some
are willing to kill for, and its a secret that
Ell will discover as she comes to know
who she is and where she came from.
CreateSpace, 2013
LELA RHOADES, PIT RIVER WOMAN
Molly Curtis (BA RUP 73)
This memoir takes us back into a world
where men chased mother grizzlies
out of their dens for their meat, where
manzanita berries were ground up
into sugar, and houses built with the
door right in the middle of the roof.
Heyday Books, 2013
MISSION STATEMENT FOR BATTERER
INTERVENTION PROGRAM
PROVIDERS AND STUDENTS
Jennie DiBartolomeo (MA GGP 78)
In her book, Dr. Jennie DiBartolomeo helps
batterers to identify their abusive behaviors
and provides the tools in which to face
and battle their controlling thinking.
Dorrance Publishing Co., 2012
I LEFT MY SOLE IN VERMONT
Nicole Grubman (MA PSY)
This is an illustrated guidebook for
walking many of Central Vermonts
circular, rural, back roads.
Red Barn Books, May 2013
THE REVIEW MIRROR
David M. Harris (MFAW 98)
In his frst poetry collection, Harris seeks
to understand life as it is refected within
shards of broken glass, and mirrors
that have changed ones memories.
Unsolicited Press, 2013
EMPATHETIC MARKETING: HOW TO
SATISFY THE SIX CORE EMOTIONAL
NEEDS OF YOUR CUSTOMERS
Mark Ingwer, PhD (BA RUP 70)
This book breaks down the complexity
of human emotion to provide an
understanding of customers core needs
and a clear path for translating emotional
insights into successful business strategy.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
BELLE FONTAINE
Laurie (Wagner Buyer) Jameson (MFAW 01)
In this sequel to Beautiful Snare, Belle
Fontaine revisits the strange worlds
of Celtic Britain around 80 A.D.
Seven Oaks Publishing, 2013
THE DARK LADYS STONE
Christie Maurer (BA RUP 61)
A medieval fantasy quest in which a
troubadour discovers that the gods
are not as he was taught, and he
must decide whether to remain
a court poet or become a prophet.
CreateSpace, 2013
CLEAR OUT THE STATIC IN YOUR
ATTIC: A WRITERS GUIDE TO
TURNING ARTIFACTS INTO ART
Isla McKetta (MFAW 10)
co-authored with Rebecca Bridge
This book includes prompts, examples,
and helpful nuggets of creative
power to set you on your way to
writing the best work of your life.
Write Bloody Publishing, 2014
THE LAME GOD
Marilyn B. McLatchey (MFAW 01)
In this debut collection of poems, the
author uses the immortal themes and
characters of classical literature to
journey through a parents anguish
in the face of a horrifc crime.
Utah State University Press, 2013
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FINDING MY WAY TO MOOSE
RIVER FARM: LIVING WITH THE
ANIMALS OF THE ADIRONDACKS
Anne Phinney (MA GV 92)
A heartwarming memoir of a happy life
spent with extraordinary creatures.
North Country Books, 2013
CELESTIAL NAVIGATION
Ellen Jane Powers (MFAW 00)
Powers Celestial Navigation reads
like a contemporary Song of Songs in
which the mystical and the biblical
commingle with the daily ministries
of garden life, sky, as well as earths
undersong of loss and passing.
WordTech Press, 2013
REFLECTIONS ON THE
PAST AND FUTURE
Rev. Carl Freeman Reynolds (BA ADP 76)
A collection of meditations and prayers
from the Creation Spirituality perspective.
Xlibris Press, 2013
SILENT NO MORE: UNLOCKING
VOICES OF OLDER POETS
Peter P. Saunders, PhD (MFAW 02)
Over 50 poets between the ages of
ffty and ninety-eight are represented
in this anthology that explores
themes of possibility, understanding,
forgiveness and wisdom.
Provincetown Arts Press, 2013
BUFFALO STEEL
Lizz Schumer (MFAW 13)
Firmly grounded in the historical and
cultural context of the Queen City, this
lyrical journey explores how a child raised
in a conservative, religious culture can
free herself from the bonds that made her,
without losing her place in that world.
Black Rose Writing, 2013
THE MAIN INGREDIENT
Margo Wilson (MFAW 01)
What does it mean to love? How does one
defy death? These are some of the mysteries
facing West Coast food editor Wendy
Whitby when she reluctantly returns to
her childhood home in Weewampum,
Wis., to await her mothers demise.
Ramsfeld Press, 2013
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THE WINTER PEOPLE
Jennifer McMahon (BA 91)
A simmering literary thriller about ghostly
secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable
bond between mothers and daughters
sometimes a bond thats too unbreakable.
Doubleday, 2014
ANGER AND RAGE ADDICTION
& THE SELF-PACT
Stephen Rich Merriman, PhD (BA ADP 79)
Merriman takes a close look at the
dynamics of anger and rage, as viewed
through the lens of Addiction Theory,
drawing on discriminating, diagnostic
criteria derived directly from the world
of alcoholism and drug addiction.
Four Rivers Press, 2013
CROW FEATHERS, RED
OCHRE, GREEN TEA
Gwendolyn J. Morgan (MFAW 99)
Gwendolyn Morgans frst collection,
Crow Feathers, Red Ochre, Green Tea, ofers
richly textured poetic renderings of and
emotional responses to natural landscapes.
Hireath Press, 2013
THE EDGE OF NORMAL
Carla Norton (MFAW 09)
This debut thriller weaves the tale of
a 22-year-old survivor of kidnapping
and captivity who struggles to
rebuild her life and ultimately
protect another young victim.
Minotaur Books, 2013
SWALLOWING COMETS
Jessica Otto (MFAW 12)
Ottos poetry collection speaks, pleads,
and prays with divine inspiration
to those who serve as oracles and
those who join together, oracular.
Folded Word, 2013
A NEW STAR
Bobbie Pell (MFAW 06)
The authors healing journey blends
her expansion of spiritual beliefs with
metaphysical techniques, Celtic folklore
elements, and psychological therapies.
Imaginary Lands, 2013
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1950s
Joanne Obermaier Koch (BA RUP 50)
of New York, N.Y., has been the executive
director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center
for 32 years. She recently co-edited New York
Film Festival Gold, a history of the festival.
1960s
Linda Elbow (BA RUP 63) of West
Glover, Vt., presented a Bread &
Puppet workshop and performance
at Goddards 150th Anniversary
Homecoming Weekend in October.
Susan Green (BA 65) of Burlington, Vt.,
wrote an essay My village, my friends:
Writer recalls the Bohemian, now famous
characters of her youth, published online
in the Burlington Free Press, on Jan. 11.
Al Hasley (BA ADP 69) of West
Vancouver, B.C., has been retired for 16
years and enjoying every minute of it.
Mary McCullough (BA RUP 63) of
Somerville, Mass., performed with The
Streetfeet Women, a culturally diverse
company of writers and performers she
helped found in 1982, at Goddards 150th
Anniversary Weekend in October.
Harvey Rosenbaum (BA RUP 64) of
Silver Spring, Md., tells us he is now in
remission with Hodgkins Lymphoma.
Barbara Ruth (BA RUP 66-67) of
San Jose, Calif., is a poet, author,
disability activist, radical lesbian
feminist, memoirist and anarchist.
1970s
Charles Adamson (BA RUP 73, MA GGP
76) of Chikushi-gun, Fukuoka-ken, moved
to Japan in 1973 and spent the last 40 years
as a teacher, researcher and professor at
various universities. He is now retired
and spends his time reading, meditating,
studying the Dharma, painting, walking,
playing Igo and preparing his photo blog
about life in Japan. henro2009.blogspot.jp
Susan L. Ahlstom (BA ADP 79) of Sterling,
N.J., received her certifcate in somatic
movement from the Education School
of Body-Mind Centering and Location
at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Craig Babcock (BA RUP 70) of Rockaway,
N.J., retired in 2010 after 42 years as a solo
mime and actor, and began working as
a fre marshal and arson investigator.
Julie Bergan (BA ADP 71, MA GGP 75)
of Concord, Mass., a school psychologist,
court investigator and special education
administrator, retired to sunny weather
and grandchildren. She had works
published on child abuse and neglect and
psychogenic learning disabilities. Currently,
she is enjoying the fruits of her labor and
would love to hear from old friends.
Theresa Kathleen Clarke (BA RUP 78) of
Berkeley, Calif., is building transit-oriented
housing in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ralph Culver (BA RUP 74) of Burlington, Vt.,
has a poem, For the Last Catamount, in the
new anthology of eco-poetry So Little Time.
His award-winning chapbook Both Distances is
available from Anabiosis Press. Ralph became
a grandfather for the frst time in November.
Jeannie Deva (BA RUP 69-70) of Sunland,
Calif., an international vocalist, celebrity
voice, performance coach and recording
studio vocal specialist, is the founder of the
Jeannie Deva Voice Studios International
Network and originator of The Deva Method,
a voice training system for stage and studio.
In 2012 she received the Women That
Transcend award, and in 2013 she was a
preliminary judge for the Telemundo TV show
La Voz Kids. Her private studios are located
in Los Angeles, where she teaches singers
both in person and online. JeannieDeva.com
Edith Gavriely (BA RUP 70) of Haifa,
Israel, has done community work for
many years as well as run Karmel Bed and
Breakfast from her home. She is currently
studying color therapy and writing
poetry. She has four collections so far.
Regina (Shulman) Gore (BA RUP 79-81) of
Buford, Ga., went on to earn a bachelors in
English from Montclair State College in New
Jersey and a master of public administration
from Drake University in Iowa. Currently
she is the annual giving coordinator
for a private high school in Georgia.
Peter Hannan (BA RUP 76) of Beverly Hills,
Calif., is a writer, producer, illustrator and
artist, and the creator and executive producer
of the Nickelodeon animated series, CatDog.
In 2012, he produced an animated comedy
Internet series for Shut Up! Cartoons called
Really Freaking Embarrassing, true stories
about real people sufering total humiliation.
His recent illustrated novel is called My Big
Mouth: 10 Songs I Wrote That Almost Got Me
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PROGRAM ACRONYMS
ADP: Adult Degree Program
BA: Bachelor of Arts
BAS: Bachelor of Arts in
Sustainability
BFAW: Bachelor of Fine Arts in
Creative Writing
EDU: Education Program
G-C: Goddard-Cambridge
Program
GEPFE: Experimental Program
in Furthering Education
GGP: Goddard Graduate
Program
GS: Goddard Seminary
GV: Goddard Five (all programs
81-91)
HAS: Health Arts & Sciences
IBA: Bachelor of Arts in
Individualized Studies
IMA: Master of Arts in
Individualized Studies
JR: Junior College
MA: Master of Arts
MAT: Masters in Art Therapy
MFAIA: Master of Fine Arts in
Interdisciplinary Arts
MFAW: Master of Fine Arts in
Creative Writing
PSY: Psychology & Clinical
Mental Health Counseling
RUP: Residential Undergraduate
Program
SBC: Sustainable Business &
Communities
SE: Social Ecology
SIS: Social Innovation &
Sustainability
TLA: Transformative
Language Arts
UGP: Undergraduate Program
VT: Plainfeld, Vermont campus
WA: Port Townsend,
Washington campus
Killed. He also wrote and illustrated a series
of middle-grade illustrated novels called
Super Goofballs. His next book is Petlandia.
Jefrey Hellman (BA RUP 71) of Santa
Clara, Calif., is working on recordings
and Google Plus Helpouts.
Kathleen Herman (BA ADP 76) of Atlanta,
Ga., received her masters in public relations
from Boston Universitys School of Public
Communication. She was the communications
coordinator for the City of Atlanta, and she
owned and operated an art gallery and frame
shop in Miamis art and design district.
Now that shes retired, she lives full time in
Panama City, in the Republic of Panama.
Ellis Jacobson (BA RUP 75) of Montpelier,
Vt., performed his comedy Adapted
from Samuel Beckett with music by Fred
Wilber (BA RUP 73) at Montpeliers
Lost Nation Theater, Feb. 2023.
Jeanne Janson (BA RUP 72) of Coral
Gables, Fla., is an independent artist
at Environmental Functional Art in
the MiamiFort Lauderdale area.
Paul Kaza (BA RUP 73) of Vancouver, Wash.,
concluded his 31-year career at the Burlington
Free Press by covering the 2011 Burlington Jazz
Festival. He works in creative direction and
copy writing for the Burlington, Vt.-based
frm Kaza Hagan. He coaches youth sports
and enjoys time with his kids and grandkids.
Roger Leege (BA RUP 71, MA GGP
75) of Venice, Fla., was featured in the
February issue of the British magazine
After Nyne (afternyne.com). He is the
proprietor of ViaNova Photographics.
Steven and Kathy Light (both BA RUP
75) of Marshfeld, Vt., along with Jocelyn
Wheeler (BA RUP 01), Janet Van Fleet (MA
GV 95) and others, performed Gamelan
Sulukala at Goddards 150th Anniversary
Sarah Hart Munro (BA RUP 77) of Mont-
pelier, Vt., is painting, singing, writing a book
about her childhood at a free school, and
building a big tree house with her brother,
Angus Munro (BA RUP 80, MFAIA 13).
Jenny Ogier (MA GC 77) of Seattle, Wash.,
retired after many years of teaching dance
and drama and doing storytelling.
Avram Patt (BA RUP 72) of Worcester, Vt.,
retired from his position as Washington
Electric Companys general manager
last June and served as Goddards acting
president from January to April 2014.
Herb Snitzer (MA GGP 74) of St. Petersburg,
Fla., recently opened the Herb Snitzer Fine
Art Photography Gallery in St. Petersburg.
Glennette Tilley Turner (MA GGP
79) of Wheaton, Ill., published Billy the
Barber: Refecting on an Untold Lincoln Story,
which launched at the Abraham Lincoln
Presidential Librarys William Florville event
in February. Turner also wrote a vignette
that was acted out on that occasion.
Avrum Weiss (BA RUP 74) of Atlanta,
Ga., published his book Change Happens:
When to Try Harder and when to Stop Trying
So Hard in 2011. It is available on Amazon.
Stuart Weiss (BA RUP 74) of Burlington,
Vt., is the director of learning for the South
Burlington School District. He and his wife
have lived in the Old North End of Burlington
since 1977. They have two children, two
grandchildren and one more on the way.
Jan Yager, PhD (MA GGP 77) of
Stamford, Conn., is proud of her sons frst
novel, Atom & Eve, published in 2013.
Paul Zaloom (BA RUP 73) of Los Angeles,
Calif., performed White Like Me, a Honkey Dory
Puppet Show at Goddards 150th Anniversary
1980s
Michael Arnowitt (BA GV 84) of Montpelier,
Vt., composed and performed an original
piece, Expanding Coalescences, in
honor of Goddards 150th Anniversary
Yvonne Baab (BA GV 83) of Montpelier,
Vt., is the owner of Global Gifts, a retail
store in downtown Montpelier. She is a
craftsperson and sells some of her work
there. She has a 12-year-old son.
Michael O. Henderson (MA GV 89) of
Traverse City, Mich., is currently a geographic
information systems application developer
at InfoGeographics, Inc., and volunteers
with the Traverse City Film Festival
and a local Autism support network.
Kraig Bradley Richard (BA RUP 80)
of Shelburne, Vt., is making glass,
building stone walls, walks and patios,
and working on furnaces at Trow
and Holden. moltenmedia.org
Brenda Seely (MA GV 85) of Biddeford,
Maine, manages the Biddeford Opera House,
and helps with the Ogunquit Playhouse.
In her spare time, you can fnd her in the
Boston area with her daughters family,
babysitting for her grandchildren, traveling
in and out of the country, or paddle boarding
near her home at Fortunes Rocks Beach.
Peg Tassey (BA RUP 80) of Calais, Vt.,
curated the exhibit Rural Revolution:
Exhibition of 70s Era Art Student & Faculty
Photography that was on display in The
Manor at Goddards Plainfeld campus
from Oct. 18 through December.
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MIXING IT UP Rose Marie Prins (MA GGP 80) of St. Petersburg, Fla., exhibited her
mixed media work, The East Coast Years, 19962013, at the Mahaffey Theater Gallery
from November to February. Above, Like Water, mixed media on canvas, 61" x 37."
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1990s
Barbara Alfaro (BA 90) of Berlin, Md.,
published a Kindle edition of her book
of poetry, First Kiss, on Amazon.com.
Nelson Alvarez-Febles (MA GV 93) of
San Juan, Puerto Rico, was a staf member
of the international research group,
GRAIN, in 2011, when the organization
received The Right Livelihood Award.
Debbie Ardemendo (GV-BA 92) of New
York, N.Y., has been working at New York
cultural institutions in education for the
past 14 years and is currently the manager
of school programs at the Apollo Theater.
Timothy Brandof (BA GV 98) of New
York, N.Y., was honored with the 2013
James Jones First Novel Fellowship
for his manuscript Connie Sky.
Peter Burns (IMA 95-96) of Bufalo,
N.Y., has been named to The Immaculata
Academy Board of Trustees and serves
as the vice president for enrollment
management at Hilbert College.
Julia Soto Lebentritt (MFAW 96) published
As Long As You Sing, I'll Dance in 2012.
Jeanette Maher (BA GV 94) of Victoria,
B.C., retired as a probation ofcer in 2007
and is now a healing touch practitioner in
private practice. She is delighted to learn
there is a campus in Port Townsend and
Seattle, Wash., as she lives just a short boat
ride from there on Vancouver Island.
Karen Morris (MA PSY 98) of New York,
N.Y., presented her paper, The Death of
Love in Child Sex-Tourism: Hatred, Denial
and Deceit, at the International Forum on
Psychoanalytic Education, in Philadelphia.
She runs a study group on juvenile sex-
trafcking and child pornography from her
ofces in Manhattan and North Eastern, Pa.
Casey Orr (BA GV 90) of Leeds, England,
photographed alumni and presented an
exhibit of the photographs at Goddards
150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend
in October. A book may be forthcoming.
Retha Powers (MFAW 98) of New
York, N.Y., is the editor of Bartletts
Familiar Black Quotations published by
Little, Brown and Company, 2013.
David Steven Rappoport (MFAW 96)
of Chicago, Ill., is afliated with two
consulting frms. He is recently married
and lives with his husband in a 100-year-
old Arts and Crafts bungalow. He writes
murder mysteries in his spare time.
2000s
Taina Asili (IMA 08) of Albany, N.Y.,
was a keynote performer at the Power
of Words Conference in October.
Martha Jane Balcer (BA EDU 05) of
Pearl River, La., is a visual art teacher.
David Berggren (MFAIA 09) and Avelynn
Mitra (MFAIA 07) of Colorado Springs, Colo.,
celebrated the birth of their son, Anders, on
Dec. 4, 2012, at their home. His big brother,
Tristan, and parents are thrilled at his arrival.
ElizaBeth Bontley Bando (MFAIA 07)
of Forth Worth, Texas, had her show
Acet-o-philous or Vinegar Love, accepted
at the United Solo Festival in New York,
N.Y. She performed there on Nov. 2.
Paule Gabrielle Bzaire (MFAIA 03)
of Wolcott, Vt., has spent the last 10
years studying midwifery and, more
recently, grant writing. She is involved
with the Central Vermont High School
Initiative on the Plainfeld campus
and is the mother of fve children.
Michelle Bisson (MA PSY 08) of Tarrytown,
N.Y., a professional writer and editor, along
with faculty member Michele Clark, started
a blog through the magazine and e-zine
Jewish Currents about the Holocaust and
American Jewish identity. Anyone is welcome
to contribute at jewishcurrents.org/thinking-
holocaust-shape-consciousness-today-21139.
Matt Borghi (IBA 03) of East Lansing, Mich.,
was a featured musician and composer on the
Public Radio International-syndicated radio
program Echoes for his 2013 ambient album
Convocation, with saxophonist Michael Teager.
Convocation was listed in the Top 25 for 2013.
Jordon Bosse (IBA 06) of Holyoke,
Mass., obtained a masters degree in
nursing education in December 2012. He
is pursuing a doctorate in nursing at the
University of MassachusettsAmherst
and was awarded a Hluchyj Fellowship.
Andrew Connolly (MFAW-VT 03) of
Ottawa, Canada, is a contract instructor at
Carleton University in Vanier, Ontario.
Wm. Anthony Connolly (MFAW 02) of
OFallon, Mo., had his novel PKgrrl published
as an eBook and paperback. Later this year,
TS Poetry Press will publish his novel The
Smallest Universe. He is currently on the MFA
in writing faculty at Lindenwood University.
John Cloud (IBA 06) of East Haven,
Conn., is a fashion consultant at
Viva International Group.
Trisha Denton (IBA 08) of Burlington,
Vt., directed Birth, a play by Karen Brody,
shown in November at the Main Street
Landing Performing Arts Center.
Juliet Gagnon (IBA 03, MFAIA 06)
of the Netherlands, is the project
developer at Schrijfwrite.
Yvette A. Hyater-Adams (IMA 03) of
Atlantic Beach, Fla., is a new board member
at Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville.
Mary Johnson (MFAW 02) of Nashua, N.H.,
contributed to the article 2013: Atheisms
10 Defning Moments published on Religion
News Service on Dec. 31. On Oct. 25, she spoke
at Ohlone College in Fremont, Calif., as part
of the Psychology Club Speaker Series.
Susan (Peck) Keown (MA EDU 01) of
Norwalk, Conn., has been teaching middle
school art at Rye Country Day School in New
York. This past summer she was awarded
a grant to travel to Port Elizabeth, South
Africa, to teach with Artworks for Youth in
the Joe Slovo Township Elementary School.
Shawn Kerrivan (MFAW 06) of
Stowe, Vt., released the second U.S.
edition of Name the Boy: Short Stories,
which was originally his thesis.
Michael Lent (MFAIA 09) of Newcastle upon
Tyne, is a senior lecturer in fne art at Teesside
University School of Arts and Media in the
United Kingdom. He recently completed
a PhD in fne art from the University of
Lincoln, also in the UK. He contributed
to the book Mobility and Fantasy in Visual
Culture, recently published by Routledge.
Kristen Lenz (BA HAS 06) of Tampa,
Fla., is now a licensed mental health
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counselor at Family and Adolescent
Counseling Services in Largo.
Chris Mackowski (MFAW 01) of St.
Bonas, N.Y., edited Bloody Autumn: The
Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864, authored
by Daniel Davis and Philip Greenwalt.
David Mandel (MA PSY 03) of
Canton, Conn., has been working in the
domestic violence feld for 25 years. His
international training and consulting
business (endingviolence.com) focuses on
responsible fatherhood and improving
systems responses to domestic violence
when children are involved.
Donnelle C. McGee (MFAW 08) of
Turlock, Calif., had his new novel Ghost
Man accepted for publication by Sibling
Rivalry Press. It is due out in the fall.
Ann E. Michael (MFAW 03) of Emmaus,
Pa., had her poem Racket featured as the
SlipPage Poem of the Week in February.
Philip Moore (MFAIA 02) of Radnor, Pa.,
joined the adjunct faculty at Gwynedd
Mercy University in November.
William D. Moser (MFAW 03) of
Homewood, Ill., founder of Ramsfeld Press,
recently published The Main Ingredient
by Margo Wilson (MFAW 01). See it
in the Alumni Portfolio on page 21.
Beth Nixon (MFAIA 09) of Philadelphia,
Pa., is enjoying a fellowship at New
Urban Arts in Providence, R.I.
Carla Norton (MFAW 09) of Satellite Beach,
Fla., sends warmest regards to all MFAW
faculty. Her debut fction novel, The Edge
of Normal, won her a Royal Palm Literary
Award in 2012 and was internationally
released in 2013. She wrote an article,
The Pros and Cons of Getting a Creative
Writing MFA, on writersdigest.com.
Jodi A. Patterson (MFAIA 05)
of Spokane, Wash., is an assistant
professor of art education at Eastern
Washington University in Cheney.
Ellen Jane Powers (MFAW 00) of
Bedford, Mass., serves on the editorial
board of the Maine literary journal Of
the Coast, which regularly features her
book reviews. She serves as editor of the
WRIT, a publication for the New England
Poetry Club, which was founded by Robert
Frost, Conrad Aiken and Amy Lowell.
Linda Pruitt (IBA 00) of Montpelier, Vt.,
exhibited her acrylics on canvas show,
Rewilding: Shamanic painting following
the fow of the medicine wheel and hearing
the call, at Tulsi Tea Room during the
Montpelier Art Walk on Feb. 7.
Matthew Quick (MFAW-VT 07) of
Collingswood, N.J., sold his sixth novel,
Love May Fail, to Sony Pictures.
Phillip A. Robertson (MFAIA 08) of
East Hardwick, Vt., showed four new
prints in the Making an Impression
exhibit at the Chandler Gallery in
Randolph, Vt., from Jan. 18 March 9.
Rebecca Lyn Saint Clair (IBA 99, IMA
02) of Dresden, Maine, and her husband,
Bo, own a small farm built in 1759. Her
workspace, Foolsquest Studio, is located
there. She is still creating mixed media
shamanic/spiritual art and is working on
two, new Tarot/Oracle decks with Bo.
Peter Saunders (MFAW 02) of Chatham,
Mass., published his frst book of poetry
in 2010, My Fathers Shoes, that grew out of
his thesis manuscript. Goddard changed
my life from a pedestrian engineer to a
poet, he tells us. He turns 80 on April 25.
Alexis M. Smith (MFAW 07), of
Portland, Ore., gave a reading from
her novel Glaciers at the MFAW Port
Townsend residency in February as
part of the Alumni Reading Series.
Adrienne Trego (IBA 09) moved from
Pennsylvania to Fayetteville, N.C., and is the
community investments associate for the Arts
Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County.
Cathy N. Vincevic (IMA 07) of
Danbury, N.H., a painter, collage creator,
curator, writer, performance artist and
a member of Mobius since 1994, is the
director of the Gordon-Nash Library.
Dr. Hillary Webb (IMA 06) of Portsmouth,
N.H., presented The Dance of Self and
Other, at Goddards 150th Anniversary
2010s
Grace-Anne Alfero (MFAIA 10) of
Newtown, Pa., resigned her position as
the chief executive ofcer of Creative Clay
Cultural Arts Center in St. Petersburg,
Fla., and began her own consultant frm.
The new frm, Arts In Action Consulting,
focuses on grant writing, digital storytelling
and strategic planning for tax exempt
organizations. artsinactionllc.com
Darcy Bedortha (MA EDU 13) of Prineville,
Ore., is advocating for public education
and youth voice, teaching high school,
and pursuing a PhD in leadership and
change from Antioch University. She also
wrote 15 Months in Virtual Charter Hell:
A Teachers Tale, published on Education
Weeks Teacher Voices blog on Jan. 6.
John Boyer (MA HAS 13) of Montpelier,
Vt., is the new director of Washington
County Youth Services Bureau.
WHIMSICAL
ILLUSTRATIONS
Jeffrey M. Donato
(MFAIA 12), of Ligonier,
Pa., exhibited Rhyme Nor
Reason: A Hodge-Podge
of Illustrative Whimsy
at the Science Hall
Gallery of Westmoreland
County Community
College in Youngwood,
Pa. At right is a piece
from the exhibit: Low
Hanging Fruit from
the Crystal Tree. His
Tarot D: The Didactic
Tarot, the focus of his
Goddard thesis, will
be published in 2015.
Kim Brown (MFAW 11) of Roswell, Ga.,
was interviewed by The Conium Review
as the editor of Minerva Rising, the online
literary journal (minervarising.com).
She is working on the ffth issue and
published her frst chapbook in March.
Sarah Cedeo (MFAW-VT 14) of Brockport,
N.Y., was interviewed for The Missouri
Reviews Working Writers Series.
Jeanne K. Cosmos (MFAW 11) of Natick,
Mass., read from her murder mystery
manuscript in Detroit at the National
Writers Union DA Conference, as well as
in Massachusetts at the Sisters in Crime
Reading event. She is in the process of
securing a literary agent. She has a new
job teaching English, writing and critical
thinking in a federal program for migrant
workers at the Massachusetts Migrant
Education Program. She continues to teach
at local Boston colleges and teaches military
students just home from being deployed.
Rebecca Dalgin (IBA 10) of Montpelier,
Vt., hosted a medicinal plant walk with
a discussion on respectful wild-crafting
practices at Goddards 150th Anniversary
Jef Eisenbrey (MFAW-WA 13) of
Shoreline, Wash., is a humanities teacher
at Cleveland High School in Seattle.
Bert Emerson (MFAIA 12) of Newport,
R.I., received a grant to continue work on
an installation to house his 700-year plastic
composter. It was on display October
through November 2013, at the Dorrance
H. Hamilton Gallery, Antone Academic
center, in Newport. plasticcomposter.com
Jesse Fewkes (BA HAS 12) of
Horseheads, N.Y., is the new assistant
manager at Planet Fitness.
James R. Gapinski (MFAW-WA 13) of
Pueblo, Colo., presented a panel, Lets
Avoid a Quick Death, Please: Starting and
Sustaining a New Literary Publication,
at the 2014 AWP conference in Seattle. He
edits The Conium Review (coniumreview.
com), which recently introduced an annual
Innovative Short Fiction Contest. James
began teaching a fction writers workshop
at Pueblo Community College in February.
Jeanette Geraci (IBA 11) of Hempstead,
N.Y., was featured on The Mindset Lists
of American History Breaking Up on
Facebook: How Todays Millennials
Fall Out of Love, An Intergenerational
Conversation Between Jeanette Geraci and
Tom McBride, on Jan. 7. themindsetlist.com
Dana Hefern (MFAIA 12) of South
Burlington Vt., and Rebecca Weisman
(MFAIA 11) presented a multi-media
installation exhibit called Excavations
at the Design Building at Goddards 150th
Anniversary Homecoming in October.
Deb Hensley (IMA TLA 11) of Freedom,
Maine, is the new coordinator for The TLA
Network (tlanetwork.org). She is the author
of several books for educators and parents.
Samantha Hutchison (IMA 13) of
Fayeteville, Ark., is the new enrichment
teacher at Pine Crest Private School. She will
be attending Harding University for her MAT.
Mike Kinnie (MFAW 13) of Sackets Harbor,
N.Y., held a two-day workshop featuring
Bill Rosenthal (MFAW 12) at his B&B
on Wolfe Island, Ontario, last October.
Michael Loefer (BA HAS 13) of Ashland,
Ore., is starting a new farm project and is
looking for supporters through the Lace
Hill Farm Fundraiser at indiegogo.com/
projects/lace-hill-farm-fundraiser.
Susan Lynch (MFAW-WA 13) of Sandy, Ore.,
had her poem A Brief Explanation of the
Fourth Dimension accepted for publication
in Bombay Gin, the journal of Naropas Jack
Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets.
Robyn Lynn (MFAW-WA 13) of Everett,
Wash., organized the literary reading,
I Saw Them When , an evening with
award-winning and recently published
Goddard students and alumni, in
conjunction with the AWP in Seattle.
Lisa Lutwyche (MFAW 13) of
Landenberg, Pa., wrote Journey to Find
My Muse as a contributing blogger on
MivervaRising.com on August 30, 2013.
Jill Magi (MFAW 11, former BFAW
faculty) of Chicago, Ill., is now teaching
at New York University in Abu Dhabi.
Ladianne Mandel (MFAIA 13) of
Charlotte, N.C., owns Flying Spoon
Studios. FlyingSpoonStudios.net
Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW 12) of Pasadena,
Calif., has poems appearing this year in the
following anthologies: With Our Eyes Open:
Poems of the New American Century and Mo Joe.
J Angus Munro (BA RUP 80, MFAIA 13)
of Montpelier, Vt., is the academic instructor
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HAMMING IT UP Rose Friedman (MA EDU 11) of East Hardwick, Vt.,
performed in the Vermont Vaudeville show at the Haybarn Theatre on
Jan. 25, along with faculty member Otto Muller (UGP) and others. Above,
Rose is standing at center in red, and Otto is standing on the far right.
The photo was taken at the New England Youth Theater on Feb. 22 in
Brattleboro during Vermont Vaudevilles winter tour around Vermont.
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to Castleton State and Green Mountain
College students at the Carving Studio and
Sculpture Center in West Rutland, Vt.
Samantha Philbrick (MA SBC 11) of
Bath, Maine, published her thesis The
Maine Conscious Consumer: A Buying Guide
for Local Living in 2012. She is working
to promote local consumerism at Main
Street Bath as the directors assistant.
Recently she worked to bring SNAP
(formerly FoodStamps) accessibility
to the Bath Farmers Market.
Jess Pillmore (MFAIA 14) of Austinville,
Va., published her guide, Creatively
Independent: Life on Your Terms with
Play, Community and Awareness, with
CreateSpace. Her essay, The Unspoken
Problem in Education, appeared in the
December issue of Psychology Today.
Kathryn L. Roberts (IBA 08-10) of
Lincoln, Vt., has a short novel, Companion
Plants, coming out this year. Her fction
and creative nonfction recently appeared
in Pithead Chapel and Black Heart Magazine,
among other publications. Currently, she is
working on two new novels and visual art.
Icess Fernandez Rojas (MFAW-WA 12)
of Shreveport, La., published Does Being
Latina Exclude Me From Being Black? in
Hufngton Post Latino Voices on Feb. 5.
Jan Ronan (IMA 08, MFAW 11) of Canter-
bury, Conn., is a life coach and productivity
consultant at Be the Best You Can Be.
Nicole Saunders (MFAW 13) had a
short story titled Autographs from
her thesis collection published in the
literary journal Stone Canoe under
her pen name Senny George.
Emily Scott (MFAW 12) of Portland, Ore.,
had three poems published in the Oct. 1
issue of Spilt Infnitive, a digital literary
magazine. spiltinnitive.com/and-my-bones
Sequana Skye (MFAIA 13) of Cabot,
Vt., was accepted into the MFA in flm
program at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
Grace Asagra Stanley (MA HAS 13) of
Princeton, N.J., a registered nurse and
certifed holistic nurse, was featured on
WGDRs The Goddard Hour, speaking about
her recovery eforts in the Phillipines
after Typhoon Haiyan. She has a non-
proft for fundraising to respond to
natural disasters. webofcampassion.org
Jane Summer (MFAW 13) of Hartsdale,
N.Y., had a story published in The
Masters Review volume II. In addition,
Sibling Rivalry Press is set to publish her
thesis in March of 2015.
Keisha Thorpe (Cassia Rainne) (MFAW-
VT 13) of Bath, Pa., is now a freelance
writer and adjunct instructor of English
at Lehigh Carbon Community College.
Arianne Townshend (MFAIA 10) of
Barnet, Vt., is an artist and poet working
as a writing coach with Goddards
Plainfeld campus. She also substitute
teaches in three supervisory unions in
north-central Vermont and does freelance
editorial and copyediting work.
Peter Wallis (MFAIA 11) of Pescadero,
Calif., is the visual art and design teacher
and the innovation lab manager at the
Sea Crest School in Half Moon Bay. He is
also a lead faculty member at the Putney
School summer programs in Vermont.
Shelly Weathers (MFAW-WA 13) of
Chandler, Ariz., won Reed Magazines 2014
John Steinbeck Award for Fiction for her
short story, The Problems of Odessa.
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke (MFAW-WA 13)
of Seattle, Wash., published her story,
Requiem in Betta, in extracts, and
presented a panel, Language in the Air:
Taking Writing Of the Page with Audio,
at the AWP Conference in March.
Kriota Willberg (MFAIA 11) of New York,
N.Y., performed in R. Sikoryaks Carousel at
Dixon Place Theater and at the Small Press
Expo in September. She taught anatomy
for dancers at Martha Graham School
of Contemporary Dance in New York.
Erin Wilson (BA RUP 98-00, IBA 03,
IMA 12) of Cambridge, Mass., presented
Islamic Feminism, a brief discussion,
Cass Winner (BA 89, MA EDU 93, MFAW
10) has been director of extended programs
at Wilmington Montessori School for 15
years and has a small pet-sitting business.
Sarah Ybarra-Lopez (MFAIA-WA 10)
of Port Townsend, Wash., is featured
in the book 100 Artists of the Northwest.
Other artists included are Karen
Hackenburg, Ann Morris and Phil Levine.
The book is available on Amazon.
Joanna Tebbs Young (IMA 13) of Rutland,
Vt., taught a workshop, Lower Your
Stress, The Write Way, at the Rutland
Regional Medical Center in March. She
regularly holds memoir workshops and
writing circles. wisdomwithinink.com
COLLEGIAL ART
Bridgette Mongeon (MFAIA 12) of
Houston, Texas, is known for her
bronze sculpture of former Goddard
faculty member Dick Hathaway
(above, top), installed at the T.W.
Wood Gallery in Montpelier, Vt. She
has recently created her largest
sculpture to date: a 15-foot tiger
for Grambling State University
(above) in Grambling, La., installed
in December. She has also created
other college sculptures, including
The Prairie View Panther for
Prairie View A&M in Texas, installed
December 2011; and Called to Pray
in Dallas Baptist University in Dallas,
Texas, installed in April 2013.
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Alex Bautista (BA EDU) of Federal
Way, Wash., facilitated and presented
a workshop, How a Community Can
Address Poverty, at the Education
Residency in Seattle last July.
Theresa Barker (MFAW-WA) of Seattle,
Wash., had her blog post, Found, chosen
as WordPress.coms Freshly Pressed
selections for the week of August 21,
2013. tjbarkerseattle.wordpress.com
Andrew Bonjour (MFAIA) of
Steubenville, Ohio, exhibited from
his recent chapbook, From My Faith, at
Franciscan University of Steubenville.
Christine Brubaker (MFAIA) of
Toronto, was assistant director of
Alice Through the Looking Glass at
the Stratford Festival in March.
Joshua DeMello (MFAIA) of Farmington,
Maine, had an installation, Going
Somewhere, with a canoe and suitcases
of living fora, shown at the University
of Maine at Farmingtons 150th Charter
Day Celebration alumni exhibition. He
exhibited another installation, Reimagined
Topographies, at the State Theaters Building.
Kayla Feist (MFAIA) of Stoughton, Mass.,
exhibited her sculpture and illustrations
in the Tribal Awakenings Show at Funky
Stuf in Worcester, Mass., last December.
Greg Johnson (MFAIA) of Kettering,
Ohio, appeared on WGDRs Goddard
Hour on Feb. 6 and talked about
his new concept album, which is a
response to the Great Recession.
Maggie Keenan-Bolger (MFAIA) of
New York, N.Y., co-directed a troupe of
intergenerational LGBTQ-individuals in a
free performance of Food for Thought. The
performance was part of the Bridging the
Gap project in New York City last December.
Samantha Kolber (MFAW-WA)
of Montpelier, Vt., had fve poems
chosen for Shoe Music Press Nefarious
Ballerina grand anthology. Her poem,
The White Place, will appear in the
summer 2014 issue of The Meadow.
Ben Munisteri (MFAIA) of New
York, N.Y., was appointed principal
visiting choreographer-in-residence
at Lafayette College, thanks to a
$450,000 three-year grant from the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Thomas Park (MFAW-VT) of Warrenton,
N.C., was cast in the play, None Of The Above:
Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline,
which opened in Carrboro, N.C., and played
at Duke University and UNC- Chapel Hill.
Rachel Scott Sarrett (MFAW-WA) of
Portland, Ore., had her story, Succubus,
chosen for publication by Shoe Music Press.
Shae Savoy (MFAW-VT) of Seattle, Wash.,
has a poem, Grandmother Country,
forthcoming in WeMoon 2015, and Dental
Records: Heartwheat will appear in the
next issue of WomenArts Quarterly Journal.
Willi Singleton (MFAIA) of Kempton,
Pa., participated as one of seven
international ceramic artists invited
to a weeklong international ceramics
conference in Shigaraki, Japan.
Marty Stegner (MFAW-WA) of Seattle,
Wash., is the new editor-in-chief of the
literary journal The Pitkin Review.
Trisha Winn (MFAW-WA) of Beaverton,
Mich., won runner-up in Hippocampus
Magazines Remember in November creative
nonfction contest for her story, Not Yes.
RANDOM ART
Ben t. Matchstick (MFAIA) of
Montpelier, Vt., presented
his Randomizojustifcator
at Goddards 150th
Anniversary Homecoming
Weekend in Plainfeld
last October. He was
also featured in a live
television show on ORCA
Media last December
with the exhibit. Here Ben
(right) is shown with Otok
Ben-Hvar (MFAIA 12).
Heather Trommer-Beardslee
(MFAIA) published Dance
Production and Management,
a how-to book for anyone
involved in dance management.
W
HAT STARTED AS A
passionate idea ten
years ago is now a reality. The
Clockhouse Writers Conference
(CWC), run by alumni from
the MFA in Creative Writing
Program, has teamed up with
Goddard to put out a new,
national, annual literary magazine
affectionately titled Clockhouse.
Editor Julie Parent (MFAW 05)
and Publisher Kathryn Cullen-
Dupont (MFAW 05) met as
students in the MFAW program
in 2003 and became fast friends.
As I spoke with them about
Clockhouse at their kick-off
reading at the Plainfeld campus
in January, it became clear
how strong their friendship
truly is: they are wont to fnish
each others sentences.
Pop-culture and reality
programming is replacing
reality with a hyper-reality, says
Parent of the impetus behind
starting a national literary
journal out of Goddard. So this
journal is countering that.
Cullen-Dupont adds the
journal aims to be more like a
farm-to-table version of reality,
like slow food versus fast food.
Their mission statement reads:
Dare. Risk. Dream. Share.
Ruminate. How do we
understand our place in the
world, our responsibility to
it, and our responsibility to
each other? Clockhouse is an
eclectic conversation about
the work-in-progress of
lifea soul arousal, a testing
ground, a new community,
a call for change. Join in.
Consider Clockhouse slow
food for your soul. Purchase
copies and submit your work
(current students ineligible)
online at clockhouse.net.
BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW 14)
DYNAMIC DUO Kathryn Cullen-
Dupont (left) and Julie Parent
brought the journal to fruition.
Ronnie Burrage (MFAIA)
of Bellefonte, Pa., released
a new album, Heal, with
his Burrage Band.
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Alumnae Launch New Clockhouse Literary Journal
Danielle Abrams (MFAIA) rejoined the
MFAIA-VT faculty for the spring semester.
Kyle Bass (MFAW-VT) was commissioned
by the Onondaga Historical Association to
write a play based on events in 1839 involving
a fugitive slave, abolitionist Gerrit Smith
and a young Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Todd Beaton (Academic Services, IBA 07,
IMA 11) was promoted to manager of
student academic support, where he
supervises staf, programs and services.
He and his wife Catherine welcomed
their son, Faolan Skye Beaton, born
Feb. 24 and weighing 6 lbs., 11 oz.
Deborah Bloom (Academic Services)
joined Goddard as a student academic
support coordinator. She brings academic
and technological experience from
Champlain College, Lesley College and
Norwich University. A recent Peace Corps
volunteer, Deborah has international
experience as a leader and facilitator of multi-
cultural communications and events.
Ryan Boudinot (MFAW-WA) hosted
events to discuss Seattles bid to become a
UNESCO City of Literature and presented
about the topic at Hugo House. On Oct.
31, Ryan read in Reykjavik during the
Iceland Airwaves festival, with Andri Snr
Magnason, Sjn, Kristn marsdttir, and
Auur Ava, with musical performances
by Elin Ely, Robert Forster and Lay Low.
Deborah Brevoort (MFAW-VT) was inducted
into the National Theatre Conference. She
was in residence at CAP 21 in New York
City to further develop Crossing Over, her
Amish Hip Hop musical. She received an
ASCAP Plus grant and will teach at the
San Miguel Allende Writers Conference in
Mexico. Embedded premiered at the Fargo
Moorhead Opera in March, and The Polar Bat
premieres at the Anchorage Opera in April.
A Time Travelers Trip to Niagra Falls premieres
at the Hudson Theatre Guild in New York
City in May. The Velvet Weapon will receive a
workshop at U-C Santa Barbara in July and
a production at Trustus Theatre in South
Carolina in August. The Bloomsburg Theatre
Ensemble will perform Blue Moon Over
Memphis in Pennsylvania in August.
Rebecca Brown (MFAW-VT) published
Literary Subversions of Homonormalization. She
participated in speaking events with Michelle
Dunn Marsh of Photo Center Northwest; with
Ryan Boudinot and Eric McMillan at Hugo
House; and with Kim Fu at Project Room.
Bob Buchanan (IBA) is one of two scholars
outside the University of Vermont to
participate as a UVM Sustainability Faculty
Fellow for 2013-2014. He is engaged in
a yearlong collaborative exploration of
sustainability, teaching and learning.
Dustin Byerly (Advancement, BA RUP
01) has been promoted to associate director
of advancement and alumni afairs.
Francis Xavier Charet (IMA, UGP)
published three articles: Ram Dass: The
Vicissitudes of Devotion and Ferocity
of Grace, in Homegrown Gurus: From
Hinduism in America to American Hinduism;
Jung and the Spirits, in The Spiritualist
Movement; and Consciousness, in the
Encyclopedia of Psychology and Religion.
Jan Clausen (UGP) and Eva Swidler (UGP)
co-authored an article, Academic Freedom
from Below: Towards an Adjunct-Centered
Struggle, published in the American
Association of University Professors annual
Journal of Academic Freedom. Jan Clausens
story, Unhappy Secret, has been accepted
for publication in Hotel Amerika. Her long-
poem-with-prose-elements, defnitive
mechanisms for monetizing forests, has been
accepted for publication in Tupelo Quarterly,
and her long poem, Found on Double Bluf
Beach, will be published in Silk Road Review.
Darrah Cloud (MFAW-WA)
premiered Our Suburb this winter at
Theater J in Washington, D.C.
Jim Fitzgerald (MA PSY) retired in
February after a thirteen-year career with
Goddard. He and his partner of several
years, Scott, are looking forward to enjoying
international travel and outdoor activities.
Jim continues to be involved in numerous
progressive causes, such as the Human
Rights Campaign, and local politics.
Susan Fleming (EDU) returned to the
education program as a faculty advisor
after serving as education program
director for 11 years. Sue is also open for
consulting work and advising individuals
and organizations in transition.
Kenny Fries (MFAW-VT) spent four
months in Germany with the support of
a DAAD (German Academic Exchange)
grant. While there, he presented Disability
Arts and Disability Studies in the United
States and Canada at the Working Group
for Disability Studies at the universities of
Hamburg and Bremen. He also presented
Disability is the Mainstream at the Haus
der Wissenschaft in Bremen, and Darwin
and Disability: Adaptation and Variation
at Humboldt University in Berlin. His essay
Stumbling Over History was translated
into German and published in Junge Welt.
www.jungewelt.de/beilage/art/3265
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PUBLIC ART Laiwan (MFAIA-WA) received a commission by the Vancouver
Heritage Foundation for a public art installation at The Wall, located at the
downtown CBC Vancouver Plaza. She created a large-scale printed artwork
focusing on the metaphor of water and expressions of fuidity in the citys
built environment. Curated by Joni Low in collaboration with the Centre A
arts organization, the project launched in March and is on view this entire
year (vancouverheritagefoundation.org/special-projects/the-wall). Laiwan
will be guest curator of the Visual Arts Exhibition for the Vancouver Queer
Arts Festival at the Roundhouse Arts Center, opening in July. Above, from
left: Joni Low, CBC archivist Colin Preston, and Laiwan.
Maike Garland (UGP, MA GV 91) gave
a presentation on racism in Vermont with
the goal of fostering cultural competency to
the school coordinators of Everybody Wins
Vermont, an organization pairing elementary
school children with adult reading mentors.
Beatrix Gates (MFAW-WA) published
her book of poetry, Dos.
Elena Georgiou (MFAW) read and signed
books at the St. Johnsbury Athenaeum on
Dec. 11, 2013.
Jessica Giles (Registrars) left her position
as switchboard operator and admissions
assistant and became the Registrars Ofce
manager in January.
Newcomb Greenleaf (UGP) presented
Mathematics and War: from Temple
Geometry to Pearl Harbor, at Goddards
150th Anniversary Homecoming Weekend.
Jacqueline Hayes (Administration,
MFAIA) has left her post as academic dean.
She will serve as a senior administrator
for the frst half of 2014 and then return to
the MFAIA faculty in Vermont in July.
Christopher Ilstrup (IT) is the new
director of information technology. He
was also accepted into the Marlboro
College Graduate School for the BS in
Managing Information Systems Program.
Steve James (Academic Afairs, former
MA PSY Program Director) celebrated 20
years at Goddard College and was appointed
interim academic dean. He was also named
as consulting editor on the editorial board
of a new journal of the APA, Psychology of
Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity. He is
a president emeritus of APAs Division 44.
Seitu Jones (MFAIA-WA) exhibited Collard
Greens Manifesto, a parallel journey of his
ancestors and the plants he holds dear, at
the University of Minnesota Urban Research
and Outreach-Engagement Center Gallery.
He unveiled a new public artwork, Alices
Storyteller Bench, at the Rondo Community
Outreach Library in St. Paul, Minn., in
honor of retired librarian Alice Neve.
Bhanu Kapils (MFAW-VT) work was
noted in a review of The HarperCollins Book
of English Poetry in Indias Millennium Post.
Last September, she spoke on a panel at the
&NOW festival of experimental writing in
Boulder, Colo., and she performed as part
of an exhibit of Michael Merighis photos of
early Valie Export performances. Her India:
Notebooks is a nonfction travel narrative of a
road trip between Chandigarh and Delhi.
Susan Kim (MFAW-VT) will see a mass-
market paperback imprint of Brain Camp, the
graphic novel she co-wrote with Laurence
Klavan, coming out from Square Fish
paperback imprint for Macmillan Childrens,
in spring 2015. Her documentary, Icebound,
premiered at the Alaskan Film Festival.
Michael Klein (MFAW) interviewed Eve
Ensler for Guernica in December. His poem,
The Talking Day, which appears in his
book of the same title, was nominated for
a Pushcart Prize. An essay he wrote for
the keynote presentation at the January
MFAW-VT residency will be published
in Poetry Magazines summer edition. His
poem, Poetry, will be published in the
July issue of Provincetown Arts Magazine.
Petra Kuppers (MFAIA-WA) has been
enjoying many artist residencies: Rancho
Paradiso near Joshua Tree National Park,
Calif.; the Dansbyran Dance Research
Studio in Gotenburg, Sweden; exploring
disability culture in London, England;
University of Hawaii at Manoa with dance
students; Auckland, New Zealand, meeting
dance artists; A Diferent Light Company in
Christchurch, New Zealand, collaborating
with actors; and a month at the Bundanon
Trust Artist Residency in Australia.
Lan Thao Lam (MFAIA-VT) is part of the
recently published anthology, Troubling
Borders: An Anthology of Art and Literature
by Southeast Asian Women in the Diaspora.
Aimee Liu (MFAW-WA) spoke about writing
at the Braille Institute in Los Angeles last
October, along with mystery author Dick
Lochte and author-actor Bruce Boxleitner.
Gariot Louima (Admissions
Director) had his story, The Taken,
published in Tupelo Quarterly.
Ralph H. Lutts (IBA, IMA) is a member of
the board of directors executive committee
and chairman of the program committee
of Blue Ridge Heritage. BRH is a nonproft
organization using $1.2 million in federal
and state seed funds to develop a visitor
center, economic enhancement, and
education project in southwestern Virginia.
Micheline Aharonian Marcoms (MFAW-
WA) sixth novel, The New American, will be
published by Simon and Schuster. She was
interviewed on Numro Cinq in February.
Douglas A. Martins (MFAW-VT) novel,
Once You Go Back, is available on Audible.
Rogelio Martinez (MFAW) was hired to
write a flm about the life of Yoani Sanchez,
a Cuban blogger, with Academy Award
winner Bobby Moresco as a producer.
Also, several of his monologues are being
published in Monologues for Latino Actors:
A Resource Guide into Contemporary Latino/a
Playwrights for Actors and Teachers.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg (IMA, HAS, SIS)
led an interfaith writing retreat with minister
Thea Nietfeld for the Kansas Leadership
Center in Wichita, Kan. Her book about
her journey as Kansas poet laureate will be
released this spring. From January through
May, Caryn has been giving presentations on
Needle in the Bone: How a Holocaust Survivor
and Polish Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds and
Found Each Other, throughout Kansas and
Oklahoma. In May, she will present a writing
workshop at The Loft in Minneapolis, Minn.
PHOTO QUALITY Wendy
Phillips, PhD (MA PSY) exhibited
photographs at Soho Photo Gallery
in New York City as part of the
Alternative Processes Competition.
She also exhibited at Hammonds
House Museum in Atlanta, Ga.,
as part of the 20th anniversary
celebration of Sistagraphy, and
at the Clark Atlanta University
Museum. Wendy began her second
year of study with the New Orleans
Jungian Seminar, which is the frst
level of Jungian Analyst training.
She also continued in the frst year
of Embodied Imagination training.
Above, Trickster Figure from
Carnaval, Veracruz, Mexico
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Nicola Morris (MFAW-WA) published
a poem in the Ithaca Times, and another
poem won frst place in a Central
Vermont poetry competition.
Karla Haas Moskowitz (EDU, MFAW
13) presented Research for Revolution:
Phenomenology, Portraiture, Ethnography,
Homecoming Weekend last fall.
Otto Muller (IBA, MFAIA) joined the
MFAIA-VT faculty for the spring semester.
Victoria Nelson (MFAW-WA) gave lectures
at the universities of London and Lancaster
and at the British Film Institute during its
four-month nationwide program on the
Gothic in flm. Her chapter Daughters of
Darkness, about Gothic heroines, appeared
in its companion volume Gothic: The Dark
Heart of Film. She published essays in Aries
and the Journal of Performance and Spirituality.
Devora Neumark (MFAIA-VT) published a
new paper, Drawn to Beauty: The Practice
of House-Beautifcation as Homemaking
amongst the Forcibly Displaced, in the
journal Housing, Theory and Society.
Richard Panek (MFAW-VT) wrote an essay
about art and science that appears in the
catalogue for artist Pedro Barbeitos The
God Particle. His collaboration with Temple
Granding, The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across
the Spectrum, won the Goodreads Choice
Award for Best Nonfction Book of 2013.
Andrea Parkins (MFAIA) received a
residency at Harvestworks Digital Media
Arts Center in New York City, where she
will complete a sound composition.
Rachel Pollack (MFAW-VT) was a keynote
speaker at a conference on Writing
Trans Genres: Emergent Literatures and
Criticisms, in Winnipeg, Canada. In March,
she returned to Beijing to teach. She will
attend a Tarot conference in Chengdu in
October, and she received an invitation to
teach in Taiwan. Last November, a theater
company in Poughkeepsie, Half Moon
Theatre, put on a reading of her Oedipus Rex.
Rahna Reiko Rizzuto (MFAW-VT) is
featured in YES! Magazines article about
the Hedgebrook Cookbook, in which she has
a piece published. She also has a piece in a
new anthology, Local/Express: Asian American
Arts and Community in '90s New York City.
Michael Sakamoto (MFAIA-WA Program
Director) is artist-in-residence at-large for
Bangkok Universitys theater program. He
will tour two dance theater duets in the U.S.,
Canada and Thailand. Flash, a butoh and hip-
hop performance with dancer-choreographer
Rennie Harris, will be presented at Brown
University in Providence, R.I.; Vancouver
International Dance Festival; University
of Wisconsin, Madison; and Barnes
Foundation and Painted Bride Arts Center
in Philadelphia. Gherm, his collaboration
with Thai dancer Waewdao Sirisook, is being
performed at Bangkok University and the
University of British Columbia.
Bonnie Schock (MFAIA-WA) received
an Intermedia Arts Creative Community
Leadership Institute Fellowship for 2014.
She is the program ofcer at the Minnesota
State Arts Board, overseeing the largest state-
funded arts grant program in U.S. history.
Sharon Siskins (MFAIA) recent exhibitions
include: Made of Money: Art from the collection
of Davis and Louise Riemer, The Mills Building,
San Francisco, Calif.; Art as Activism, Jerry
Adams Gallery, Berkeley City College;
The Art of Recology, San Francisco Airport
Museum; Finding Common Ground Through
Sacred Words, Islamic Cultural Center of
Northern California, Oakland; Do Not
Throw Away: Art from the Recology Artist in
Residence Program, Caada College, Redwood
City, Calif.; and Sacred Words: Finding
Common Ground, at Marin Osher Jewish
Community Center, San Rafael, Calif.
Juliana Spahr (MFAW-WA) published
An Army of Lovers, co-written with
David Buuck. They went on a Pacifc
Northwest tour in February.
Darcey Steinke (MFAW-VT) published a
book review, The Kingdom of the Little
Wounds, in the Dec. 22, 2013 edition
of the New York Times Book Review.
Maia Stone (Presidents Ofce) became
engaged and left Vermont to relocate
to Germany to be with her fanc and
to study engineering.
Eva Swindler (IBA, HAS, BAS) authored
the environmental history chapter in
Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through
the Liberal Arts, which recently won a
Critics Choice Award from the American
Educational Studies Association.
Janet Sylvester (BFAW Program Director,
BA ADP 75, MFAW 78) presented at
AWP in Seattle on a pedagogy panel titled
Whats Next: Pressures and Opportunities
in Undergraduate Writing Programs.
She was appointed to AWPs committee
on professional standards, where shell
be working on, among other things, a
K-12 creative writing initiative.
Karen Werner (IBA) presented a digital
storytelling workshop at Goddards 150th
Anniversary Homecoming last fall. Her
short audio piece, Montague Ball Drop,
was broadcast as part of the Kinokophone
Collectives Sound Cinema event at
Lincoln Centers Library for Performing
Arts in New York in February.
Herukhuti Williams (IBA) launched a
crowdfunding campaign to develop a
sexuality, spirituality and culture news and
e-learning website (http://o.ffbe.at/nneOct).
He participated in the frst White House
forum on bisexual public policy issues and
co-presented about HIV/AIDS and bisexuals.
He moderated the Black Queer Activism
and HIV panel at the Schomburg Center for
Research in Black Culture. He published an
article in Bi Magazine on Nelson Mandela
and LGBT rights in South Africa. He helped
plan the LGBT Kwanzaa Celebration in New
York City and was interviewed about Black
LGBT observance of Kwanzaa for ebony.com.
Lori Wynters (IMA, MA HAS, MFAIA
03), an emerging leader in Muslim Jewish
Engagement work in the New York City
area, is composing a documentary on the
profound experience of Jewish summer camp
and how the Jewish spiritual tradition has
thrived in the diaspora, with implications
for the survival of other cultural groups. She
is also writing a book, Music as Medicine.
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COVER MATERIAL Paul Selig
(MFAW Program Director) was featured
on the cover of OM Magazine and
interviewed about his new book, The
Book of Knowing and Worth. The audio
rights of this book and I Am The Word
have been sold to Gildan Media, and
Paul will do the recordings. He was
recently on tour in San Francisco, New
York, Venice, Topanga Canyon, Calif.,
and Asheville and Hendersonville, N.C.
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Robert W. Bickford (BA RUP 77)
died on Oct. 16, 2013.
John J. Flynn (BA ADP 76) died on Sept.
22, 2013. He received his MA in creative
writing from Boston University; he
wrote poetry, short stories and novels.
Jerry A. Gatten (BA SE 79) died at
the age of 56 on Sept. 30, 2013.
Carole Hardy-Ekstrom (MA GV 94)
died on May 15, 2012.
James J. Hassett (BA ADP 73), age 80,
of Fredonia, N.Y., died on Jan. 7, 2014.
Hassett served in the U.S. Air Force
during the Korean Confict where he
attained the rank of staf sergeant.
Karen Casler Horton (BA RUP 75) died
on Sept. 25, 2013, at the age of 60. In 1983,
she earned a masters in social work from
Bridgeport University in Connecticut.
Douglas Ireland (BA RUP 65-66) died
on Oct. 26, 2013, at the age of 67. He was
an activist, journalist, and blogger who
wrote about politics, the media, and gay
issues in The New York Post, The Village
Voice, New York Magazine, The New York
Observer, The Nation, the French daily
Libration, and other periodicals.
Peter J. Kaschuluk (BA RUP 71)
died on Nov. 3, 2013.
Susan Sue Ann McNulty (BA
ADP 80) died on Nov. 11, 2013, at
the age of 79. She received her MS in
special education from Antioch.
Michael Lee Meiners (IBA 98,
MFAW 11) died on Dec. 1, 2013.
Rhonda Patzia (IMA 04) died on Jan. 1,
2014. She graduated magna cum laude from
Westmont in 1991. She wrote and published
Mindfully Unraveling: Body Awareness As I Slip
Away (The Write Place, 2013), about her battle
with multiple sclerosis and body changes.
Herbert Pratt (MA GV 88) died on Jan. 23,
2014, after a brief illness. Pratt received his
BA from Tri-State College of Engineering.
He took a job with Dupont in 1952 and
retired in 1985. Following his retirement,
he received his MA from Goddard.
Robert F. Quinn (BA ADP 76)
died on Sept. 20, 2013.
Patricia Renaud (MFAIA 13)
died on Jan. 1, 2014.
Eleanor Skinner (BA ADP 70) died
on Dec. 18, 2013. She completed her MS
at Bankstreet College of Education in
New York, N.Y., and was retired from
her role as education director of the
Mount Vernon Day Care Center.
Frank M. Taylor (MA SE 98) died on Aug.
24, 2013, in Anchorage, Alaska. He spent
30 years as a community service worker in
agricultural and community development
with the SEVA Foundation and ASECSA.
Paul Herbert Van Wyk (MA GGP 75),
psychologist, sex educator, therapist,
chemist, and musician, died on Oct. 16,
2013, at the age of 74. Van Wyk earned a
PhD in psychology from Illinois Institute
of Technology in 1982, having reanalyzed
the original Indiana University Kinsey
data to explore origins of psychosocial
development of homosexual, bisexual
and heterosexual behavior.
Peter Vincent (BA RUP 73) died earlier this
year. Vincent was part of David Mamets
(BA RUP 69) troupe and was featured
along with William H. Macy (BA RUP
72) in several noteworthy productions.
Janet Marion Weiss (MA GV 85)
died peacefully on Oct. 4, 2013, at the
age of 95, at Stamford Hospital. She
was 70 years old when she received
her masters degree at Goddard.
Founder and Director of Goddard Colleges
Third World Studies Program Dies at 80
P
ROFESSOR CALVIN HICKS passed away on Aug. 25, 2013. He
was the founder of Goddards Third World Studies Program in 1970,
and he directed the program until it closed in 1974. He was also a co-
founder of the Black Educators Roundtable in Boston, Mass., and from
1974 to 1975, he was a graduate fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Graduate Department of Urban Planning and Urban Studies.
Hicks graduated from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, where
he studied journalism and political science, then moved to New York
City where he was engaged in the national and international liberation
struggles of the 1960s. While in New York, he founded and chaired the On Guard
Committee for Freedom, which included members Amiri Baraka, Archie Shepp, and
A.B. Spellman. He was also member of the prestigious Harlem Writers Guild, and
he worked as an instructor at Brooklyn College, City College and Richmond College.
In 1969, Hicks was the frst African American to be offered a professorship in the
Sociology Department at Brandeis University.
In 1984, he received his masters degree in the philosophy of education from
Cambridge College in Massachusetts.
Goddard featured
Professor Calvin Hicks
on the cover of this
1970 issue of The Silo,
the publication that
preceded Clockworks.
World
Goddard in the
G
oddard students
seeking the path of
rigorous, cultural
inquiry hail from around
the world. Mamadou
Traore (BA EDU 14), whose
family and friends know
him as Papi, embodies
Goddards holistic approach
to education. Originally from
Senegal in West Africa, he
traversed the globe to the
Plainfeld campus, where
he earned his bachelor of
arts degree in education.
I always knew I wanted
to work with young
children, he says. I worked
as a kindergarten assistant
at the International School
of Dakar while attending
Goddard. It was hard, but
so worth it. When I take the
praxis this summer, I can be
a full-fedged teacher with
a classroom of my own.
Dakar, the westernmost
city on the African mainland,
is a metropolis of 2.4 million
people. The fact that it is
a major point for trans-
Atlantic and European trade
makes its internationalism
profound. The International
School of Dakar is a private
international school modeled
after the U.S. style of
education, with English
taught as the primary
language. It supports
students starting at Pre-K
through the twelfth grade.
The range of ethnicities
among families and faculty
resonated with Mamadou,
who was able to harness
Goddards mission of
inclusion in an environment
that often feels like what
he considers to be a
miniature United Nations.
Coming from a
developing country where
over half the children dont
have access to even primary
school, I was inspired to
contribute to the sense of
tight community Goddard
modeled, he says. I felt
like I was an important part
of my cohort even while
studying from abroad.
As a middle school
soccer coach, he has taught
frst-time players, always
emphasizing how to deal
with people from different
cultural backgrounds.
I always knew I wanted
to teach internationally,
continues Mamadou.
Attending Goddard just
solidifed my passion.
Teaching is all about
relationships and feeling
safe. Mamadou is proud
to serve as a linguistic
mediator, using his Spanish
and French skills to help
families get by in the
international school system.
With his certifcation, he
is empowered to create
his own curriculum using
the creative methods he
adopted from Goddard. This
approach is collaborative
to refect the needs of the
schools student body.
Its easy to imagine how
as soon as Mamadou steps
foot in his classroom, his
kids bubble forth with
the same enthusiasm he
exudes, calling him by his
nickname, Mr. Papis.
They point eagerly to their
clean desks or freshly-hung
art projects. Seeing the
shiny young faces glow
with excitement secures
Mamadou in feeling that
hes doing the right thing.
Goddard was the right
choice for me, because now
I know the signifcance of
how nurturing the child
enhances the community,
he says. No matter how
old, what language you
speak, or where you come
from, we all need each other.
Thats the way it works.
CW
Passionate Teacher Brings the
Goddard Model to West Africa
PRIMARY LEVELS
Mamadou Traore at the
International School of Dakar.
BY SARAH KISHPAUGH (MFAW 14)

I always knew I wanted to teach internationally,
and attending Goddard just solidified my passion.
Teaching is all about relationships and feeling safe.
Goddard College
123 Pitkin Road
Plainfeld, Vermont 05667
866.614.ALUM (2586)
www.goddard.edu
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PLAINFIELD, VERMONT | PORT TOWNSEND & SEATTLE, WA
CONTACT AN ADMISSIONS COUNSELOR TODAY
800.906.8312 | admissions@goddard.edu
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