2016 Spring/Summer Clockworks Magazine

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MAY
JUNE
JULY
SEPTEMBER
20 Concert: The Limes, Plainfield

23 GGI Info Session
Conference Call
24 MFAIA Info Session
Conference Call
9 MFAIA Info Session

Conference Call
14 GGI Info Session
Conference Call
16-18 Board Meeting, Plainfield
24-July 1 MFAW
Residency, Plainfield
26 MFAW Visiting Day, Plainfield
27-July 1 Clockhouse Writers
Conference & Retreat, Plainfield
8-15 EDU Residency, Plainfield

15-23 MFAW Residency,
2-9 PSY Residency, Plainfield

3 PSY Visiting Day, Plainfield
16-23 BFAW & UGP2
Residency, Plainfield
16-24 MFAIA Residency,
Port Townsend
17 MFAW Visiting
Day, Port Townsend
22-29 MFAIA Residency, Plainfield
23 MFAIA Visiting Day, Plainfield
30 Third Annual Dr. David Allen
Frisby III Symposium, Seattle
30-Aug. 6 EDU Residency, Seattle
AUGUST
Port Townsend
17 Leslie Jamison
Reading, Plainfield
OCTOBER
1 Discover Goddard Day:
Fall Open House, Plainfield
5-12 GGI Residency, Plainfield

6 GGI Visiting Day, Plainfield
19-26 UGP1 Residency, Plainfield
Kat Wright and the Indomitable Soul

Band perform to a sold-out crowd at
the Haybarn Theatre on Jan. 15.
COVER PHOTO OF JON FISHMAN BY PATRICK JORDAN
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2016 Goddard College
HIS ISSUE OF CLOCKWORKS,

like many others, includes a
number of stories that stand
as testament to the significant work that Goddard graduates
accomplish in the world.
This edition highlights work
undertaken in the Black Lives Matter
movement and with the global refugee
crisis, among other important work. In
other issues we have written about
accomplishments in the arts, educating
underserved communities,
implementing sustainable projects,
localizing food, founding non-profits,
experiences to deal effectively,

cooperatively, and responsibly with
those needs and problems; how to draw
informed conclusions from the
experiments and convert the conclusions
into responsible social actiononly
through such learning is humankind
likely to survive.
This reminds me to open the inquiry
once again: Is what we do here at
Goddard still relevant, vital and
necessary? Does the need for a Goddard
education still exist? Does what we do
meet that need, or do we need to make
changes? As an institution that holds
inquiry as an important tool in learning,
The major thing Goddard aims to teach

is how to carry out the inquiry: about yourself,
the world, and yourself in the world.
WILL HAMLIN, DEAN & FACULT Y MEMBER, 1948 2000
participating actors and activists for

value-based causes, and so on. I wonder
about what role the education each
student earns at Goddard plays in these
accomplishments.
One way I get feedback on this is by
meeting graduates and listening to what
they have to say. This helps me
understand Goddards role and allows
me to consider ways that we can refine
our efforts and continue to support the
next generation of graduates as they set
out to make changes in the world.
For the most part Goddard has been
using its current approach to educating
students since 1938. In 1989, Wilfred G.
Hamlin wrote a reflection on the
Goddard Way entitled, What
Progressive Education Means at
Goddard. In the piece he offered that,
The major thing Goddard aims to teach
(aims to help you to learn) is how to
carry out the inquiry: about yourself, the
world, and yourself in the world. Only
through learning how to learn and
helping others learn how to learnhow
to clarify needs and the problems they
generate; how to use books and
it seems holding ourselves to that

standard is necessary as we consider our
place in the world and how we can
continue to be creative and responsible
actors in that world.
To that end, not just students, but
faculty, staff and administrators are
encouraged to go through periods of
exploration when defining what a
Goddard education means. Limited
resources may challenge us yet that
cannot be the principle shaper of our
inquiry. We will forge forward with
questions, seek the best answers, and
design the best future we can imagine
for the College and those that it touches,
has touched and will touch.
ROBERT KENNY
PRESIDENT
CLOCKWORKS SPRING|SUMMER 2016 3
contents |
Features
7 Goddard Love Stories
Alumni couples from across the years
share their tales of romance.

BY SAMAN TH A KOLBER (MFAW 14)
10 Alumni Respond to Refugee Crisis

Goddard graduates bring

compassion and talents to displaced
peoples around the globe.
12 Q&A with Jon Fishman (BA 90)

The world-renowned drummer and
Goddard alumnus talks about his days at

the college and his life behind the drums.
10
CSAKISTI
19 The Sounds of a Movement

Goddard alumni vocalize for

#BlackLivesMatter.
BY GUN N ER SC OT T (I BA 09)
Departments
2 Events Calendar
3 From the President
5 College Briefs
16 Alumni Portfolio
19 Class Notes
22 From the Archives
26 Faculty/Staff Notes
28 In Memoriam
29 Remembering
John Warshow
30 Goddard in the World
31 Giving to Goddard
Errata
12
CLOCKWORKS SPRING|SUMMER 2016
RENE HUEMER
19
4
BY DUSTI N BYER LY (BA R UP 01)
The following are corrections from the Fall 2015 issue:

Class Notes: Lucia Capacchione (MA GGP 75) explains that it
was the Method as presented in her bestselling book Recovery
of Your Inner Child (Simon & Schuster, 1991), not The Creative
Journal, that formed the core of Cease Fires story line.
Is Activism Dead?: we printed the wrong title of Erin
Gravelles thesis. The correct title of her thesis is Skating Circles
Around Myself: A Heuristic Exploration of Storytelling and Fear.
The Clockworks Legacy: the article identified The Rooster as
a student newspaper. Glen Koenig (BA RUP 75) writes that he
started the paper in 1975 as part of his senior study in media, and
as a way to keep track of campus events and art shows. It was
originally called The Blue Rooster because he printed it on pastel
blue paper. Read the full history at goddard.edu/stories.
college briefs |
Wise Words from

Profound Poet
s part of the Visiting

Writers Series, awardwinning poet and alumnus
Mark Doty (MFA 80)
addressed a packed Haybarn
Theatre at the MFAW
residency in Plainfield in
January. For me, grad school
was more about changing
my life than changing
my art, he said. He also
visited the Port Townsend
residency in February.
Music Building
Gets a Face Lift
Radio Updates
n early May, WGDR/

WGDH, Goddard College
Community Radio, will run
its Spring Pledge Drive with
interviews, live guests,
special gifts and more. The
fundraising goal is $17,500.
WGDR/WGDH now
offers a new
online listening
method, the
Temporary
Archive. This
on-demand
archive allows
listeners to stream
everything aired on WGDR/H
for two weeks after the air
date. The temporary archive
complements WGDRs
permanent SoundCloud
archive, which offers
a selection of the best
programmer-produced shows.
A listing of temporary archive
programs can be found at
wgdr.org/on-demand.
GIVE
ONLINE
WGDR
.ORG
This winter, renovations began in the

Music Building on the Plainfield campus.
This building has long been the hangout
spot for students, who have left their
poetic, philosophical, and artistic marks
on the interior walls and surfaces. Do you
recognize your handiwork here? Chances
are, the next time you come to campus
these walls will be freshly painted. Good
thing our archivist David Hal caught
these snippets of history on camera first.
MFAIA Alumni Planning New Projects
lumni joined the Plainfield

residency in February
to enrich and reconnect
with their community. Nyx
Zierhut (MFAIA 13) and
Donia Salem (MFAIA 15)
helped facilitate workshops
on creativity and diversity in
higher education, and place,
story, identity, art making
and community, respectively.
Tyson Pease (MFAIA 15)
helped welcome graduating
students into alumnihood
during commencement. He
is now working on creating
an alumni
gathering
during the
fall 2016
MFAIA
residency
this July in
Vermont,
and an
alumni
website to strengthen
communication and facilitate
collaboration. Both projects
are in early but earnest
development thanks to a
small and committed group.
To learn more about the

MFAIA Alumni projects,
pitch other ideas, or join
the mailing list, contact
tyson.pease@gmail.com
college briefs |
Goddard Partners
with Food First
New Board
Chair, Members
n February, Goddard
signed a new partnership
with Food First, a Californiabased nonprofit dedicated
to ending the injustices that
cause hunger
and to helping
communities
take back
control of
their food
systems through
research,
education and action.
The organization sponsors
10-day educational tours,
called Food Sovereignty
Tours, that take travelers to
international destinations
to experience local food
systems and the food
sovereignty movement
firsthand. Participants in
these tours can earn a $1,000
Partnership Grant plus three
undergraduate credits upon
enrollment at Goddard.
Current undergraduate
students can also take part in
their tours and earn credits
toward graduation.
goddard.edu/foodfirst
New IT Director
Joins Tech Team
on Marion joins Goddard

with more than twenty
years of
experience
in a variety
of business
domains,
most
recently
at Copley
Hospital in Morrisville, Vt.
His experience working in
a number of information
technology disciplines gives
him a unique perspective on
the technical, operational,
budgetary, and administrative
management of IT infrastructure.
Q&A with Jane Sanders
e recently caught up
with alumna and former
provost Jane Sanders (BA
GEPFE 80) as she traveled
the country with her husband
Bernie Sanders, who is
seeking the Democratic Party
presidential nomination.
She spoke of her time at
Goddard as a wonderful
experience that gave her

confidence and shaped
her post-Goddard work.
Her outreach work now
includes encouraging people
to vote and to participate
fullyin the betterment
and transformation of our
country. Look for the full
story in the next Clockworks.
n December, Jill Mattuck

Tarule (BA RUP 64) was
elected Chair of Goddards
Board of Trustees. Tarules
parents, Robert and
Corinne Mattuck, came to
Plainfield in 1938 to help
establish the College. After
earning her bachelors
degree here, Tarule earned
a masters and doctorate
at the Harvard Graduate
School of Education.
Christopher
Lovell
Gloria
WillinghamTour
JAZZED FOR SOCIAL

JUSTICE On Jan. 30,
graduating student Ronnie

Burrage (MFAIA 16)
played a sold-out concert
at the Haybarn with
sax player Archie Shepp
(BA 59), bassist Nimrod
Speaks, and pianist Benito
Gonzalez. They performed
Burrages thesis portfolio, Lineage, which explores his family
lineage of black artists and the recent issues of police brutality
against unarmed black men. MFAIA Program Director Ju-Pong
Lin said, These artists invited us toget how artists are shaped
by the struggle for justice, and who also shape the political
discourse that makes for deep, enduring change. Shepp also
gave a commencement speech to the MFAIA graduating class.
Paul Selig
The Board welcomed three

new members at its March
meeting: retired professor and
researcher Dr. Christopher W.
Lovell; writer, psychic, and
former director of Goddards
MFAW program Paul Selig;
and the chief executive
officer of Afram Global
Organization, Dr. Gloria
Willingham-Tour. Caleb
Pitkin (BA 80), grandson of
Tim Pitkin, resigned from
the Board this spring.
Goddard Signs Agreement to Supply Solar Power on Campus
his fall, President Robert

Kenny (seated in photo)
signed a net metering
agreement with groSolar
to develop a 500-kilowatt
project to supply solar power
for Goddards Plainfield
campus. The groSolar
partnership is part of the
Colleges overall effort to
reduce its carbon footprint.
This solar project is expected

to offset about 68 percent
of Goddards total electricity
load. Also pictured, from
left to right: UGP faculty
member and sustainability
team chair Catherine Lowther,
Goddard former board chair
Avram Patt, and groSolar
business development
associate Lincoln Lande.
Goddard
Love Stories
Goddard is a
magical place.
Whether that magic stems from
the ground itselfsome believe the
Plainfield campus is imbued with
spiritual dowsing propertiesor from
the like-minded people who gather at
either campus, it is clear students have
a transcendent experience; sometimes
that includes falling in love. We asked
alumni to share their stories of those
long-lasting relationships that began
during their transformative education.
We heard from newlyweds and
best friends and those celebrating
over fifty years of marriage. Here
are some of their stories.
BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW 14)
Tales of Romance from

Across the Years
Maggie Cleveland & Jake Hasson

(IBA 08, MFAW 11) & (BA PSY 16, MA PSY 17)
MET: WINTER 2009 MARRIED: SEPTEMBER 7, 2013
Maggie was recently divorced and working two part-time jobs

while pursuing a graduate degree at Goddard when she met Jake.
They both worked at Child and Family Services in Massachusetts.
She thought I was kind of nutswhen I sidled up to her desk
one day and started batting eyelashes at her. She told me so, but,
thankfully, I was undeterred and quite persistent, Jake writes.
In the spring of 2010, Maggie brought him to visit Goddard, and
he fell in love with it. She encouraged him to apply, and after she
completed her MFA in Creative Writing, he enrolled as a student in
the Undergraduate Program. In addition to publishing poems,
Maggie works as the curriculum development and credentialing
manager for the National Elevator Industry Educational Program.
Jake received his BA in March and aims to complete his graduate
work by the summer of 2017. They feel a strong connection
with Goddard, Jake says, and theyll always consider it their
second home. Every day they fall more and more in love.
Marion Dowling & Sidney Johnson

Jane & George Ansley
Jane & George Ansley

(JR RUP 49, BA RUP 51) & (BA RUP 51)
MET: BETWEEN 1947 AND 1951. MARRIED: 1953.
We were married so long ago that Tim Pitkin attended our

informal wedding ceremony, writes Jane. George and Jane
were just friends when they graduated from Goddard. On
a residential campus of 125 students, how could we not have
been? We renewed our friendship at a Thanksgiving
party held at the presidents house in 1952, got engaged on
December 30, and married four weeks later. In their 63
years of marriage, theyve raised four children and now have
four grandchildren. George retired as senior engineer at the
Boeing Company. Jane headed the Washington Association
for Learning Alternatives after retiring as counselor in an
alternative high school. They enjoy meeting with Goddard
visitors at their home in Port Townsend, Washington.
Sara Stalling Spitzer

& David M. Spitzer
(BA EDU 03, MA EDU 07) & (BA RUP 01)
MET: AUGUST 1997. MARRIED: DECEMBER 1999.
Writes David: You: dancing out from beneath the folds of a

great earth mother at the Bread & Puppet Earth Day event in
Montpelier. Us: sitting on the stairs in Hollister. You:
gave to me the first gift of many in our life together, Goodnight
Moon. Did you know that we would have three children to
read to, to say goodnight to the moon with? We: thrusting
skyward in joy and enjoying each other while swinging behind
Kilpatrick in the dappled spring air. At graduation, I said
my time at Goddard had been a love story. It is still being told.
Marion Dowling & Sidney Johnson

(BA RUP 59-62) & (BA RUP 61)
MET: SEPTEMBER 1959. MARRIED: FEBRUARY 28, 1960.
DIVORCED: 1961. MARRIED AGAIN: 1999.
The first time Sidney saw Marion was when she was coming
up from Chittenden and Aiken dorms. In a gaggle of new
students was a joyous, smiling face, happy in the early morning
crisp air, says Sidney. During the fall semester, he followed
Marion around. When she went home to Queens, N.Y., to visit
her family, he went too.They returned to Goddardas a married
couple. However, the marriageended after Sidney graduated, and
each of them went on with new families, children, and careers.
Thirty-eight years later, they met again at a Goddard reunion, and
ultimately remarried several years later. The happy couple lives
in a restored 1840s Greek revival home in Southern Vermont.
Suzanne & Tony Kobylski
Sarah & David Spitzer
Suzanne (Trottier)
Kobylski & Tony Kobylski
(BA ADP 81) & (BA ADP 79)
MET: SPRING 1976. MARRIED: OCTOBER 4, 1980.
While completing their degrees at Goddard, life changed for both

of them. Tony and Suzie both became divorcees with custody of
their sons. They decided to move in together to help each other.
At this time, the idea of marriage was far from our minds,
writes Suzie. It didnt take long, however, for these two soul
mates to realize just how very much in love they really were.
After graduating from Goddard, Tony pursued an exciting
career working for Rockwell Internationals space program; he
started a multi-media business and worked for Deutsch in their
classified and top-secret space program. Suzie worked as a
preschool director before becoming a licensed nursing home
administrator and a licensed assisted living administrator
specializing in dementia care. They retired in 2005, moved
to Arizona, and bought an 11-acre farm where they now reside
with a cat and three rescue dogs. After 35 years of marriage, Tony
and Suzie are still enjoying life together. They are proud of their
sons, their 11 grandchildren and their 12 great-grandchildren.
Anne Taylor Chappe

& Marc Chappe
(BA RUP 69) & (BA RUP 68)
MET: MARCH 1967.
MARRIED: NOVEMBER 1967.
Anne was fulfilling her work study

hours staffing the desk in the library
entrance. I asked her where she
thought the 19th Century Russian
literature might be shelved, and we
explored the dimly lit interior of the
library together, writes Marc. Later,
Anne & Marc Chappe
we shared a repast in Plainfield. We
were both 22, and it was clear that
something extraordinary existed
in our relationship from the outset. They missed many
cafeteria meals when Marc was reading the entirety of The Hobbit
and The Lord of the Rings trilogy aloud to Anne in his dorm room.
They married in the North Montpelier apartment of Ray
McIntyre, a Goddard music professor who played Scarlatti on
his harpsichord for their ceremony. We moved to the coast of
Maine in 1969 and have been here since. We studied and farmed
for ten years in a small Zen Buddhist community, carpentered,
ran a sawmill, raised two sons, did social work and taught
school. As in every life, theres joy mingled with tsuris, but weve
cleaved unto each other with a great and abiding love for nearly
49 years.
THESE STORIES HAVE BEEN EDITED FOR SPACE. FOR FULL VERSIONS, GO TO GODDARD.EDU/STORIES.
Left, Tom & Judith Calagna with Don Felder

(in black), former lead guitarist of the Eagles.
Above, Deborah & Philip Zuchman
Iris Arenson-Fuller &

Kim Abbott
Amy & Samuel Crider
Judith Calagna & Tom Calagna

(BA RUP 73) & (BA RUP 71)
Amy Baranow Crider & Samuel Crider
MET: 1969. MARRIED: OCTOBER 1, 1976.
(BA GV 82, MA GV 90) & (BA GV 81-82)
Tom submitted the story of how an Italian-American boy

from the Bronx met a Jewish girl from Great Neck. Judith
was unimpressed with me after our first meeting. She was
speaking to my roommate when I barged in, said a quick
hello,and proceeded to take all my clothes off and get into the
shower.Judith was a shy, reserved girl by Goddard standards
and was appalled. She found me arrogant, conceited and
obnoxious (and to be truthful she still does occasionally). So
it wasnt exactly love at first sight. We both lived on the
Northwood campus and hung in similar circles. Judith was a
dancer and I was an actorwe eventually became friends.
In 1972, on a road trip from Chicago to Vermont, Tom was
in a serious car accident. During his six-week recovery at his
fathers Pelham, N.Y. residence, his theater friends from Goddard
would visit him. He received another visitor during his
recuperation. Judith was in the New York area for a wedding.
She was heading back to Vermont and, since I was on the mend,
asked if I wanted to drive up with her. Well, as Bob Dylan
once said, it was a simple twist of fate. On that trip we fell in
love and our lives changed forever. It took some time,
writes Tom, but eventually the stars aligned; I won Judith
over and weve shared an amazing life together for 44 years.
MET: 1981. MARRIED: 2001.
Deborah Gross-Zuchman
& Philip Zuchman
(MA GGP 82) & (MA 73)
MET: 1973. MARRIED: 1974.
After graduating from Goddard, Philip moved to Philadelphia,

where he met someone very special in a life drawing class.
Deborah, a Philly native, introduced him to the many wonderful
things in the City of Brotherly Love, while Philip told Deborah
about the wonderful experience he had at Goddard. We fell
in love, writes Deborah, and the pair married soon after. She
then became busy being an art teacher and a mother of two boys,
but Philip encouraged her to go Goddard. In 1981, I took the
plunge and was accepted into the Goddard Graduate Program
for Painting. It was an extremely rewarding experience for
me, mainly because I gained the confidence to talk about my
work and validate it. Goddard has been a model for my personal
growth, as it was for Philip, she writes. They live together
in an artistically renovated Victorian home in West Philly, and
recently hosted a Goddard area alumni gathering there.
Amy, 20 years old at the time, met Sam at the WGDR, Goddard
College Community Radio station. We made several [radio
show] episodes together, but my commitment to being in the
Youre a Good Man, Charlie Brown production in the Haybarn
forced me to drop most of my studies, writes Amy. Sam
and I quickly became best friends. People assumed we were
boyfriend and girlfriend, but we were not. He only stayed
at Goddard a year, but I stayed to finish. We remained best
friendswrote to each other oftenvisited each other, she
writes. Amy then married someone else in 1985. In the early
1990s, she and Sam had a falling-out and werent friends for
about seven years. In 2000, I left my husband. I had always
felt bad about the fight with Sam, so I contacted him to make up.
We started writing again. He asked me to visit him in Chicago
for Thanksgiving. After we spent a day together he told me hed
been in love with me for 20 years! By then I realized I had always
loved him too. We are deliriously happy with each other.
Iris Arenson-Fuller &

the late Kim (Frank) Abbott
(BA RUP 64-65) & (BA 63-66)
MET: TOM YAHKUBS CLASS, 1964. MARRIED: SEPTEMBER 1966
We were pretty much inseparable after that class, writes Iris.

That evening we sat in a hallway of one of the buildingsKim
had brought his portable record playerwe listened to Beatles
and Vivaldi music all nighttalked non-stop. It didnt take long
before we declared our undying love for each other. In early
December of that yearthere was a lunar eclipse. I remember
standing outside of Kilpatrick with Kim, watching the eclipse
and being aware of the most magical feeling I had ever had,
she writes. Goddard had a profound influence on who we
were, and on our relationship. Our eldest son, Jesse Ian, was born
there in June 1968. They adopted three children between 1970
and 1978, but Kim was then diagnosed with multiple sclerosis.
One day Kim was a healthy, strong young man, running,
playing football, working on the 1851 home we had purchased
in Bloomfield, Conn., and suddenly he could barely walk, Iris
writes. Sadly, Kim died in a house fire on March 12, 1982.
He and I had been together, in love, for over 17 years, and were
married for more than 15 of themIt was Goddard that brought
us together, says Iris.
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Alumni Respond to
Global Refugee Crisis
Goddard graduates bring compassion and
talents to those displaced around the globe.
BY MARGARET HOSMER MARTENS AND PAUL A EMERY
argaret Hosmer
Martens (BA ADP 81,
MA CMHC student)
spent 15 years living in Frenchspeaking Africa with her family.
These were formative years that
shaped her lifelong concern for
refugees. Here is her story:
A Personal Experience with Refugees

I had my first contact with
Angolan refugees who fled to Kinshasa,
Democratic Republic of the Congo, while
my family and I were there
in the 1970s. There was
a horrible outbreak of
violence in Rwanda,
immediately followed
by a large influx of
Tutsis fleeing across the
border into Eastern Congo.
Margaret
These flare-ups continued
Hosmer
until the massive genocide
Martens
that occurred in 1994, when
800,000 Tutsis and moderate
Hutus were slaughtered. Seventy
percent of the entire Tutsi population of
Rwanda and 20 percent of Hutus were
massacred in a matter of weeks. The
perpetratorsthe Interahamwefled,
along with two million Hutus, across
the border. This has caused major
problems for the region ever since.
Later, while working on my Master
in Public Policy in the United States,
I volunteered at the Refugee Policy
Group in Washington, D.C. My research
there was on the fate of Rwandans
who had fled to camps in Burundi
and, in particular, to Tanzania.
Several years ago, my husband
and I returned to the United States
after almost 40 years abroad. I began
consulting with the International Rescue
Committee, coaching their staff abroad
10
and in New York. I also coach staff of the

UN High Commission for Refugees and
the UNs Department of Peacekeeping
Operations (DPKO). When I realized
that the United States was admitting
75,000 refugees from the violence in the
Congo, I wanted to help. Because of my
experience, I knew the brutality these
refugees have suffered and, even in the
resettlement camps, women are still
vulnerable. I was coaching a woman
under the DPKO based in Eastern Congo
last year who told me that, at that time,
there were more than 45 different armed
militias roaming the countryside and
the people lived in absolute terror.
I decided to take a course at the
Cape Cod Institute on how regulated
breathing practices can help to relax
victims of trauma. While there I ran
into Michele Clark, a psychology
faculty advisor from Goddard, which
planted a seed in my mind that
began to growI realized that it was
absurd to think I could go around
helping refugees with their breathing.
I knew I would need to go further. I
enrolled in Goddards MA in Mental
Health Counseling program and as a
practitioner in Somatic Experiencing,
another three-year program.
This past year, my Congolese
colleague and I opened an office in
Manchester, N.H., that specifically
serves women refugees of all
nationalities. I look forward to
growing our programs and beginning
my practicum at Goddard this
spring, working directly with the
women who suffer from trauma.
I have only spoken here about
refugees from central Africa, yet
we all realize that there are many
more who will be coming from
Syria and Iraq. I am afraid that the
plight of refugees has become one
of the major issues of our time.
aula Emery (BA 91) has a

career teaching high school
social studies at a public school
in Vermont. After 15 years, however,
she needed a break; she took a
yearlong leave to travel to Europe to
visit friends, alumna Casey Orr (BA
91) of Leeds, England, and alumnus
Tim Rogers (BA 91) of County
Mayo, Ireland. With her strong
sense of civic engagement, Paulas
trip took a turn. Here is her story:
From Plainfield to Calais, France
One of my goals for this odyssey
was to pitch in at one of Europes many
refugee camps or refugee
aid organizations.
When I got to England
in September, the
number of refugees
at the Port of Calais,
France, was beginning
to spike, and I spotted
Paula
posters advertising collections
Emery
of supplies to be transported
there. One of these posters led
me to a website, which led me
to a news article, which mentioned a group
that organizes via Facebook (Refugee
Support at Facebook.com/CMS.UKaction).
I contacted them to see if I could help.
They were a friendly and informally
organized group of medical professionals
who networked with each other to staff
three, donated first aid campers in the
IKURUCAN
ALEKSANDR LUTCENKO
camp known as The Jungle* on

weekends. These volunteers worked
all week and then headed to Calais
via ferry on Friday evenings or
extremely early Saturday mornings
to minister to the medical needs of
thousands of migrants and refugees.
My partners for my volunteer
weekend were two practicing
physicians from England. I met
them in my rented car at the Port of
Calais, and we drove together in the
camper vans into The Jungle. The
moment we opened the doors of the
caravans the lines began to form.
I am not a medical professional; my

job was to restock one of the caravans
with supplies from another and to keep
the doctors supplied throughout the
day. The three of us worked without
stoppingnot even to pee because
there arent any bathrooms. Most of the
people who came to us were sick with
colds and coughs. Many showed signs
of scabies. Several had sprains and/or
large wounds from falling off of trucks.
We spent two days there and
worked until we ran out of analgesics
and cold medicine. For all the
suffering and uncertainty the people
camped at The Jungle endured, it was

an incredibly calm and respectful place,
full of communities of people living in
tents roughly grouped by their country
of origin. Many areas of the world were
represented. If a country has undergone
the slide from colonization to Cold
War hotspot you can find its people
at The Jungle. There were Syrians,
Iranians, Egyptians, Palestinians, Iraqis,
Afghanis, Ethiopians, Eritreans, and so
on, all searching for a better life. CW
AUTHORS NOTE: Since January, the French
government has razed most of the buildings

in The Jungle and may have entirely cleared
the camp. Many people living there relocated
to the camp at Dunkirk, and the work of
Refugee Support continues. The Democracy
Now! team went to The Jungle during the
UN Climate Summit in December and did an
extensive story. Watch it at: democracynow.
org/2015/12/9/i_dont_want_to_die_this
Large photos: top, hundreds of thousands of

Somalis waited for help in the Dadaab refugee
camp in Dadaab, Somalia, in 2011; bottom,
refugees just arrived from Turkey disembark from
the boat to the shore of the Greek island of Lesbos,
2015. Polaroids, Paula Emery and other aid workers
in The Jungle refugee camp in Calais, France, 2015.
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PHISH DRUMMER AND

GODDARD ALUMNUS
JON FISHMAN (BA 90)
TALKS ABOUT HIS DAYS
AT GODDARD AND HIS
LIFE BEHIND THE DRUMS.
w/ JON
FISHMAN
INTERVIEW BY DUSTIN
BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
hree of the four members of the renowned jam

band Phish, which formed in 1983, graduated
from Goddard in the late 80s and early 90s.
Since then, the band, comprised of Trey Anastasio
(BA 88), Page McConnell (BA 87), Jon Fishman (BA 90)
and Mike Gordon, has played more than 1,500 live
shows, sold millions of albums and built up a loyal and
committed following. Recently, I spoke with Jon Fishman
about the important role Goddard played in laying the
foundation for the bands continued success.
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DUSTIN BYERLY: When did

you first know that you
wanted to be a drummer?
JON FISHMAN: As early as I can
remember I wanted to play
drumsI was given my first
real drum set when I was seven
or eight. My mother took me to
see Buddy Rich when I was ten.
When I was 13, my dad bought
me a used real Ludwig drum kit.
I always had a physical attraction
to drums as an instrument.
to do with my life.
From that point
on, it was just all
drumming.
KEVIN CROCHETIERE
PETER YANG
DB: Can you talk

about how the band
was developing
during these years
at Goddard?
JF: We had the
Garden House all
to ourselves for
practiceevery
day from 4:00
to 8:00 p.m. The
only interruption
in my drum practicing
was band practice.
Trey was constantly writing
music and we were always
learning new songs. I was
developing drum beats that
were getting plugged into the
new material he was writing.
Treywrote beyond what the
four of us, including him, were
capable of playing at first. A lot
of things he conceived of and
wrote were beyond our ability,
so we had to work hard to get
to where our imaginations
were capable of reaching,
and so I feel like I was being
stretched by being in Phish.
ABOVE, the members of

Phish: from left, Mike
Gordon, Trey Anastasio
(BA 88), Jon Fishman (BA
90), and Page McConnell
(BA 87). RIGHT: Fishman
at a Goddard College
Phish show, c. 1987.
C TAYLOR CROTHERS
DB: Did your family support

your musical interests?
JF: I always marched to the
beat of my own drumno
pun intended. My parents
were incredibly supportive.
They never said you have
to take lessons if you want
to play the drums. They
just let me do it because
I was so self-driven.
DB: How did you hear about
Goddard, and what made
you decide to enroll? JF: From

Page, who was already at
GoddardI wanted to stay
in Phish, which was sort of
a musical school in and of
itself, but I also wanted get
a college degree. The only
way for me to do that was
Goddard because any other
place put requirements on
me that would have taken
away from my time behind
the drum kit. So I showed
up at the Admissions Office
one day and I said, Look, if
I come here, can I lock myself
in a room and play drums 12
hours a day for the next three
years and get credit for it?
They said yes. That was it.
DB: Did you study anything
else at Goddard? JF: I studied
alternative education
with Steve Schapiro and
environmental studies with
Charles Woodard. These were
great courses and I loved
them, but Phish was still my
first choice and eventually
the other courses became a
distraction. I was at Goddard
to find my pathand to
discover what I really wanted
DB: It sounds like Goddard

was really fertile ground. Did
Goddard give you the freedom
to explore your passion?
JF: Definitely, without a doubt.
If it hadnt been for the creative
incubator that Goddard was
for us, I dont think that Phish
would have had the career
that it has. Goddard gave
us a place to practice and
develop our sound. I honestly
feel like it was the most in
terms of our developmental
period concentrated and
creative period as a result of
the intense focus we were
able to dedicate to the band.
DB: A lot of your early shows

took place at Goddard. Do
any of them stand out?
JF: In 1989, we had our
Halloween show in the
Sculpture Building. It was
an amazing show. I shaved
my entire body and painted
myself gray in an attempt to
become a cartoon elephant. It
wasnt convincing, though. I
was just a shaved naked guy
with a bunch of paint on me.
DB: What do you think it is
about Phish that draws people
to it? JF: Fellow musician
Robert Walters (of the The
Greyboy Allstars) told me
that although he didnt
listen to a lot of Phish, and
it wasnt really his cup of
tea, he really appreciated us
because we were the weirdest
thing to have ever gotten
this big and that was good
for all musicians who were
trying to break out of the
box. The fact that Phish could
succeed gave hope to all of the
other guys who were doing
things unconventionally.
DB: Looking back, what does
your Goddard education and
the experiences you had here
mean to you? JF: It was great
for me. It was an invaluable
developmental period, for
me as a musician and for the
band as a whole. I have not
had a three-year stretch since
where I have logged as many
hours on the drum kit, week
in and week out. It was a
very intensive study period.
I was able to devote the vast
majority of my daily hours and
energy to a single-minded goal
of doing my part in making
Phish as good a band as it
could be. Goddard provided
the space for me to do that. CW
IF IT HADNT BEEN FOR THE CREATIVE

INCUBATOR THAT GODDARD WAS FOR
US, I DONT THINK THAT PHISH WOULD
HAVE HAD THE CAREER THAT IT HAS.
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alumni portfolio
LAY DOWN YOUR

WEARY TUNE
W.B. Belcher (MFAW 07)

A ghostwriter whos crafting
the memoirs of a reclusive
folk-music icon attempts to
glean fact from fiction, only
to discover the deeper he digs
into the musicians past, the
more his own past surfaces.
Other Press, 2016
OFF SOMEWHERE
SCHOOLS ON TRIAL
THE TRIPLE
Jeremy Davies (BA RUP 99)
Nikhil Goyal (UGP student)
Mary Hardcastle (MFAIA 04)
Perverse, playful, and

highly comical, this debut
collection of short fiction
runs the gamut from parody
to tragedy and back again.
David R. Godine Press, 2016
Schools on Trial is a stark

critique of the U.S. public
education system and a
hopeful blueprint for change.
Doubleday, 2016
Set in the 1930s Golden Age

of Circus, this is the story of a
young trapeze artist who becomes lost in the underworld
of Chicago, searching for
her soul and the one person
who truly knows her heart.
Fallen Brothers Press, 2015
THE MOST FUN YOULL

HAVE AT A CAGE FIGHT
Rory Douglas (MFAW 10)
This short story collection is

filled with characters who
are seeking recognition
and empowerment in a
world thats suddenly
become baffling.
Whitepoint Press, 2015
This is a real-life sports

story about what happens
when a normal person
attempts to become a
professional athlete, and an
exploration of the exploding
interest and participation
in mixed martial arts.
University of Hell Press, 2015
DRAMA MUSCLE
THE GLASS JAR
In this mystery-romance,
theatre professor Nicky
Abbondanza and his favorite
colleague look into the
murders of bodybuilders in the
physical education building.
Lethe Press, 2016
A collection of poems and

prose spawned from Fristads
fifteen years of commercial
fishing. A surprisingly
human and direct path into
the mind and heart of todays
commercial fishing deckhand.
Finishing Line Press, 2016
William Bozzone (MFAW 78)

under pen name Z.Z. Boone
Joseph Cosentino
(MFAW 94)
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THE KNACK OF DOING
Erin Fristad (MFAW 03)
CONVERSATIONS WITH
A MASKED MAN
John L. Hadden (MFAW 03)
Conversations with a
Masked Man is a series of
conversations Hadden had
with his father about the
older mans 30-year career
as a CIA officer and how
American policy affected
the family and the world.
Arcade Publishing, 2016
FEMINIST ON FIRE
NAZIS AND NUDISTS
RUN, FEED, RUN
David Haldane (BA RUP 72)
Synnika Lofton
(IBA 04, MFAW 06)
Likened to On the Road

for Boomers (Ken Borgers,
Audible.com), this memoir
is a series of poignantand
sometimes humorousessays
recounting a lifelong spiritual
pursuit for true love and
a place to call home.
Black Rose Writing, 2015
Coleen Kearon (MA 88)

Feminist on Fire is a mosaic of
memories that travels freely
back and forth through a life
touched by mental illness,
intermittent good health, and
extraordinary potential.
Fomite Press, 2015
Zombies have started to

ravage Hampton Roads,
Virginia, with a furious
pace and an equally furious
carnage. Their crazed feeding
causes Virginians to rethink
their place on the earth.
Guerrilla Ignition Publ., 2015
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LIFE SAVINGS: NAVIGATE

THE FINANCIAL COURSE
Pi Luna (MFAIA 12), coauthored with Edward Worden

A comprehensive approach to
the mathematics of financial
literacy and small business
entrepreneurship, engaging
students through projectbased learning opportunities.
Engage Press, 2015
THE SONORAN DESERT
Eric Magrane (BA RUP 98),

coedited with Chris Cokinos
A groundbreaking book
that melds art and science,
this collection of creative
essays and poetry also
features illustrations and
scientific information.
Univ. of Arizona Press, 2016
GHOST MAN
HOW ONE LOSES

NOTES AND SOUNDS
Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW 12)

An exploration of Mei
Chucs experiences as a
refugee from her homeland
in Vietnam after the war to
the present, told through her
passionate and vivid poetry.
Word Palace Press, 2016
3D TECHNOLOGY IN
FINE ART AND CRAFT
Bridgette Mongeon (MFAIA 12)

Mongeon explores 3D
printing, scanning, sculpting
and milling, demonstrating
how to navigate their digital
components and showing
their real world applications.
Focal Press, 2015
THE 87 RULES FOR COLLEGE
Donnelle McGee (MFAW 08)
Jake Shore (MFAW 12)

and Drew Moffit
Gritty, lyrical, and characterdriven, Ghost Man is the story

of contemporary American
marriage and masculinity in
crisis. McGees skillful prose
trains an unblinking eye on
life, love, and sexuality.
Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015
The quintessential college

guide that will show you how
to succeed and fail in the best
ways possible, this book is
packed with funny, awesome
ways to get ahead without
forgetting to have fun.
New Chapter Press, 2015
JERKBAIT
Mia Siegert (MFAW 12)

This debut work is a dark,
contemporary young adult
novel set in a junior hockey
world that revolves around
twins, gay teen suicide,
and online predators.
Jolly Fish Press, 2016
ILSES FATE
David Solmitz (MA EDU 00)

Ilses Fate is a novel that
takes place in Germany
between 1913 and 1945. It
incorporates the experiences
of the authors parents,
family and friends before and
during the Nazi Holocaust.
Page Publishing, 2015
RAGMANS ROLL
MURDER IS FOREVER
Roger DeBeers (MFAW

94, MA EDU 96)
A Kindle edition mystery
about a novice detective
and a former government
operative on the case of a prolife congressman murdered
in the parking lot of a New
Hampshire abortion clinic.
Friesen Press, 2015
TRAJECTORIES
Sam Eisenstein (MA GGP 75)

Eisensteins debut book
of poetry is both funny
and achingly sad, with
the woes of marriage,
parenthood and the bad
business of growing old.
Eyewear Publishing, 2016
Jon Wallace (MFAW 12)
COLLATERAL
Ragmans Roll is the story

of the unsung hero of the
Civil War, General William
HL Wallace. The main story
follows two men, Tom and
Will, who are Lincoln aides
and help Lincoln win the
nomination for president.
Strategic Book Publishing
and Rights Co., 2014
This chapbook centers on the

police stop of Sandra Bland
that led to her death while
in police custody on July
13, 2015. With documentary
poetic techniques, John
critiques race and gender
supremacy in America.
Octopus Books, 2016
DUE TO THE VOLUME OF NEW BOOKS, WE GIVE PREFERENCE TO THE MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
Simone John (IBA 12, MFAW 14)
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BY GUNNER SCOT T (IBA 09)
The Sounds
a Movement
Goddard Alumni Vocalize

for #BlackLivesMatter
OF
lack queer activists Alicia

Garza, Patrisse Cullors,
and Opal Tometi created
the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter
in 2013 as a call to action
against the acquittal of George
Zimmerman for the killing of
17-year-old Trayvon Martin.
fighting to change that system.

In A Herstory of the
#BlackLivesMatter Movement,
Alicia Garza noted that Black
Lives Matter is an ideological
and political intervention in
a world where Black lives are
systematically and intentionally
targeted for demise. It is
an affirmation of Black
THAT SIMPLE HASHTAG IGNITED
folks contributions to this
A MOVEMENT, BRINGING A
society, our humanity, and
MEDIA SPOTLIGHT TO A REALITY
our resilience in the face
of deadly oppression.
IN BLACK COMMUNITIES ACROSS
Goddard alumni Synnika
THE COUNTRYTHE DEATH OF
Lofton (IBA 04, MFAW
OFTEN UNARMED BLACK PEOPLE
06) and Tana Asili (IMA
AT THE HANDS OF THE POLICE.
TLA 08) are two such
people embodying Garzas
The stories of Tamir Rice, Tony
affirmation. Their contributions
Robison, Eric Garner, Walter Scott,
to our society include art, poetry,
Freddie Gray, Sandra Bland and
teaching, writing, and music.
Tanisha Anderson have risen to the
Asili is a Puerto Rican singer,
top of the news feed. With each
songwriter and bandleader
story, each protest, and each gathcombining powerful vocals with
ering, from Ferguson to Baltimore,
an energetic fusion of Afro-Latin,
#BlackLivesMatter amplified and
reggae and rock. For her new
echoed the systematic and institupiece Freedom she collaborated
tional racism that still exists in this
with Detroit-based poet Michael
country. The growing movement is
Reyes. The song and video are a
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tribute to the movement for Black

lives, encompassing the historical
roots of mass incarceration and
anti-Black racism of today.
Lofton is an award-winning
poet, artist, activist, and educator
teaching literature at Chesapeake
Bay Academy and English courses at
Norfolk State University in Virginia.
His new EP and video American
Outlaw were inspired by the
tragic deaths of Trayvon Martin,
Sandra Bland, Tamir Rice, and the
#BlackLivesMatter movement.
In a conversation with each of
them, I explored their work, their
art, their activism, and why now is
the moment for this movement.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gunner Scott is a queer/trans/
FTM activist and the director of
programs at Pride Foundation
in Seattle, Wash. While studying
at Goddard, he completed the
oral history project Boston
Area Transgender Community
Leaders and the ENDA Crisis.
GS: Why Black Lives Matter?

Why now? TA: We are a
movement of resistance...
on a continuum; this is not
starting at this moment in a
time, but in the past when
people wanted to get free
from slavery and today, in
particular, some powerful
individuals have used social
media as a potent way to
talk about oppression and
violence. Social media has
changed how we see our
reflection and our resistance,
and has made more visible
the violence we have been
experiencing, such as police

assaults and incarceration.
This has allowed us to be
more unified and visible
and has helped a resistance
movement become more
unified and visible.
I have seen some amazing organizing happening
around the country with
#BlackLivesMatter chapters and as they develop
and grow, they bring hope.
It is definitely more than
just a Twitter hashtagit
is a movement of people
together. When I think of
received extremely well

picked up by major media
outlets like Mic.com, which
called the song a Black
Lives Matter anthem,
Latina.com, Bitch Magazine,
Feministing, Color Lines,
Democracy Now!, and
Truthout, among others.
Those who are inspired by
#BlackLivesMatter and who
have watched my video use
it as a tool for conversation.
GS: Whats next for you?

TA: I am continuing with
organizing against mass

incarceration in the Albany
area and I will continue to
make art, including a new
music video for the song
We Walk, which is about
environmental justice with
a focus on people of color,
calling them to protect the
environment. I will continue
to exist and live as a queer
Puerto Rican Black woman
on this planet and pave a
pathway for my children. CW
AMANI OLUGBALA
GS: How has it been

received? TA: It has been
Harriet Tubman, we know

the statistic that she freed
over 100,000 people. It
is really hard to see how
many we have saved today.
But I believe lives are being
changed and saved every
time we awaken people
to see the reality of Black
peoples lives, every time
we hold police and government accountable for their
wrongdoings, and it will
have greater impact as the
movement strengthens.
Scenes from Tana Asilis

music video, Freedom.
GAITANO VACARRO
TANA ASILI
GUNNER SCOTT: What was the

inspiration for your work?
TANA ASILI: Freedom was
inspired by my prisoner
justice work, which I did for
over a decade, as well as
Michelle Alexanders book
The New Jim Crow: Mass
Incarceration in the Age
of Colorblindness, which
speaks to the relationship of
mass incarceration and the
history of Black experience
since the beginning of the
Jim Crow era in the U.S.
Currently there are
more Black people in
prison than there were
in slavery. The song talks
about a relationship of
mass incarceration and the
resistance movement. Black
liberation, Black Lives Matter
and the legacy of resistance,
like the Underground
Railroad. This idea of
literally, figuratively and
spiritually getting our people
free, that is where the
video concept came from,
with the representation of
Black Lives Matter activists
today and with activists
from the Underground
Railroad in the late 1800s.
GAITANO VACARRO
TA N A
A S I LI
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SY N N IK A
LO F TO N
GUNNER SCOTT: What was
your inspiration for your
work? SYNNIKA LOFTON:
American Outlaw came
together because how we
make decisions is based
on who you are in this
countrywhat your race is,
what your class is, what your
creed is, and what it takes
to not just survive but to
continue to dreamthats a
big part of my life right now.
When I wrote American
Outlaw, I wanted to put
all those experiences into
one really great song, to not
only express the rage, but
to express the compassion
and the things that go
into being an artist and a
person of color in America.
The video was really
amazing to make. I have
cousins in Ferguson and
a lot of those folks were
on the front lines; I asked
them to send me video
clips. At that time a lot had
happened, a lot of people
had died and a lot of young
people were caught up
in this wave of political
activism. So I wanted to
put together some really
A scene from Synnika Loftons

music video, American Outlaw.
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awesome visuals that

represented my perspective
of What is an American
Outlaw? Along with what
it means to a generation of
people basically struggling
against a system that was
not really built for them.
GS: How has it been
received? SL: The response
has been amazing: the video

has over 3,600 views on
YouTube and counting. It
has definitely caught some
viral fire. There are other
songs on the album project
as well, but American
Outlaw seems to be the
one people gravitate to.
I received some good
feedback from brilliant poets
in the area and from one
particular celebrity, Malcolm
Jamal Warner (he was on
The Cosby Show years ago)
who said he loved it.
GS: Why Black Lives Matter?
Why now? SL: Black lives
have always mattered.

Prior to the media coverage
of #BlackLivesMatters
initiatives and activists, there
were already groups across
the country that have been

out there, re-educating
the community [on issues
of racism]. Black lives have
always mattered, and now
its a media sensation
because we have more video
cameras, more people who
are aware, who are more
conscious, and more people
who are documenting
whats happening. I think
what you see is that the
momentum has picked up.
With media attention
and scrutiny you can have
the misperceptions and
stereotypes, but I like the
way the movement is going. And I love to see the
disruptionswhen Bernie
Sanders got disrupted that
one time in his campaign
I said, I see, I understand
where they are coming
from. But I am hoping
there is long-term strategy
as well. [Disruptions] make

more people aware of the
situation happening in the
country. We need alliances.
GS: Whats next for you?
SL: I will be doing a video
shoot for a love song for

my wife. This is a love song
about her and for her. I am
also working on another
book of new poetry and
some new music. CW
Synnika in the recording studio.
BLACK LIVES HAVE ALWAYS MATTERED.

NOW ITS A MEDIA SENSATION,
BECAUSE WE HAVE MORE VIDEO
CAMERAS, MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE
AWAREAND MORE PEOPLE WHO ARE
DOCUMENTING WHATS HAPPENING.
1950s
1970s
Jane Mink Rossen (BA

RUP 54) of Charlottenlund,
Denmark, taught Ethnomusicology at Copenhagen
University for 12 years.
David Appel (MA GGP 77)

of Brooklyn, N.Y., premiered a
new solo at Dixon Place as part
of the Under Exposed series.
Archie Shepp (BA RUP 59)

of Amherst, Mass., received a
2016 NEA Jazz Masters Award.
1960s
Margaret J. Grundstein (BA
RUP 67) of Los Angeles,
Calif., gave a talk in February
at the Curry Public Library in
Gold Beach, Ore., about her
book, Naked in the Woods.
Andrew Jackson (BA RUP
66) of Montpelier, Vt., retired
as publisher at Vermont Life
Magazine, plays guitar with the
Vermont Fiddle Orchestra, and
built a website for traditional
musicians (natunelist.net) to
answer the perennial question,
How does that tune go?
Jacqueline Moore (BA RUP
69) from Ambler, Pa., retired
in 2010 from caring for
terminally ill children and
high-risk maternity patients.
Jed Proujansky (BA RUP
6769) of Northfield, Mass.,
is wrapping up 16 years of
service as an elected official
with the town of Northfield;
he is a leader in the Municipal
Coalition against the pipeline;
he spends time visiting his
three children and three
grandchildren in Brooklyn.
Paul Armin Winer (JR 63,
BA RUP 66) of Quartzsite,
Ariz., performed a Boogie
Woogie Blues winter show
in Jan. at the Quartzsite
Improvement Association Hall.
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Elizabeth Baxt (BA RUP

73) of Claremont, Calif., is a
private practice psychotherapist
with two offices in Southern
California.
Mark Crosley (BA RUP 74)
of San Francisco, Calif., selfpublished Some Way Outa
Here, the story of the year
leading up to his first year
at Goddard in 1970. To learn
more, visit marklauden.com.
Jay Einhorn, PhD, LCPC
(BA RUP 72) of Wilmette,
Ill., a psychologist/counselor
and singer-songwriter, was
president of the Chicago
Association for Psychoanalytic
Psychology (CAPP) in 2015.
He directed and presented at
CAPPs annual conference on
the adopted child; presented
on Psychotherapy, Religion
and Spirituality at the 2015
Parliament of the Worlds
Religions in Salt Lake City; copresented on Useless to Useful
in Evaluations of Learning
and Attention Disorders at
the 2015 conference of the
Association for Educational
Therapists; and presented on
Parents and Children Reading
Together at the 2015 Illinois
Resource Center conference
on Multicultural Education.
He blogs at psychatlarge.com
and has a music website at
elephantinthedark.com. Jay
performed at the Sidewalk Cafe
in Greenwich Village in March.
Pamela L. Handrow (MA
GGP 78) of Racine, Wis., was
appointed executive director
of Bethany Apartments, which
provides transitional housing
for women and children
suffering from domestic abuse.
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Susan W. Pearson (MA GGP 79, former faculty) of Temple,

Maine, retired in January after nine years teaching in the
undergraduate and graduate Health Arts and Sciences
programs. She says of Goddard: Its a beautiful community,
and the process of being involved with students in their
passions and discoveries has always been the highlight for me.
I have been moved and inspired by their earnest devotion, vision,
and the unique voices they bring to crucial issues of our time.
Michael Eric Kligerman (BA

RUP 74) of Mercersburg, Pa.,
is the leader of the monthly
ukulele club at the Black
Cat Music Shop & Studio in
Berkeley Springs, W.Va.
E. Jean Lanyon (BA ADP
74) of Wilmington, Del., was
commissioned to do artwork
for the cover of Dreamstreets #51
last January. She participated
in a winter show at the Darley
Art Center and displayed a
painting at the Hotel DuPont.
She guest lectured at OSHA,
was an Artist in the Garden
for the Kennet Square Library
Fundraiser, did a group exhibit
in the Station Gallery, and was
interviewed in a PBS WHYY
video that aired last August.
George C. Moscona (GGP
73) moved his practice and
retreat center to Las Cruces,
N.M. He continues to do
mental health counseling
as a Licensed Professional
Clinical Counselor, conduct
retreats as a minister of Breath
of Life Ministries of AIWP,
and facilitate educational
workshops and seminars.
george@geomosco.com
Walter Mosley (BA RUP 71

71) of Lakeville, Conn., was
interviewed on NPR on Aug. 8
about life in Louisiana before
and after Hurricane Katrina.
Jake Plante (BA RUP 73)
of Brunswick, Maine,
published Uncle Sam and
Mother Earth: Shaping the
Nations Environmental
Path with CreateSpace.
Daniel Joseph Shea (MA
SE 78) of Pleasantville, N.Y.,
does investigations for the State
of New York out of the Supreme
Court Building in Brooklyn.
Stuart Steinberg (BA ADP
76) of Terrebonne, Ore.,
graduated from law school in
1980, received his LLM from
Georgetown in 1982, and
practiced law until 1989. He
was a defense investigator
until he retired in 2004. In
2005, along with eight other
Vietnam veterans, he helped
found Central Oregon Veterans
Outreach in Bend, where
he served as the director of
veterans benefits programs
until late 2010. In 2009-10, he
was an adviser to a brigade of
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the Afghan Border Police in
Afghanistan, taught classes
related to counter-narcotics
operations, and helped develop
interdiction operations. In
2013, he published This Is
What Hell Looks Like (available
on Amazon Kindle), a book
about his experiences as an
Explosive Ordnance Disposal
(EOD) operator during his
time in Vietnam. Stuart
currently serves on the board of
directors of the National EOD
Association and the National
Veterans Rights Association.
1980s
Glenn R. Couture (BA GV
89) of Ansonia, Conn., is in
his 24th year teaching physics
at Norwalk High School and
completed a 13-year run of
working with the State of
Connecticut Alternate Route
to Certification program as
the lead methods instructor
for the physical sciences. He
and his wife welcomed a
daughter, Noa Quinn Couture,
into the world. Glenn also
serves as the president of
TheatreWorks New Milford.
Regina Gore (Shulman)
(BA RUP 7981) of Buford,
Ga., is the annual giving
coordinator at Pinecrest
Academy in Cumming, Ga.
Coleen Kearon (BA GV 88)

of Montpelier, Vt., gave a
reading with alumna Jennifer
McMahon (BA GV 91) at
Bear Pond Books last fall.
Danine Dolphin (BA GV
8889) of Phoenix, Az., is
an economic development
specialist with the U.S. Small
Business Administration.
Beth Brown Preston (MFAW
7881) of Philadelphia, Pa.,
published two collections
of poetry with the Lotus
Press and completed a
third collection for which
shes seeking a publisher.
1990s
Glenn Berger (IBA 95) of New
York, N.Y., wrote an article,
Real Vinyl: In The Studio
With Dylan, Jagger, Sinatra
and More, published on
Huffington Post in February.
Joseph Cosentino (MFA 94)
of Wappingers Falls, N.Y.,
published three new e-books:
The Naked Prince And Other Tales
From Fairyland, A Shooting Star,
and A Home For The Holidays.
Jeremy M. Davies (BA
RUP 99) of Nyack, N.Y.,
was interviewed in the Paris
Review, March 1, 2016.
Roger DeBeers (MFAW 94,

MA EDU 96) of Windsor,
Calif., is editing his short story
collection titled Desifinado, and
is working on upcoming books
The Boy With A Broken Smile, a
memoir, and B-17 and The Red
Tails, a story of the black fighter
pilots and the white crew of
the B-17 Flying Fortress.
was selected to be the lead

sensory motor trainer for the
companys national training
center in Hauppauge, N.Y.
George Dorner (IBA 94,

MFAW 97) of Willits, Calif.,
retired and is now an active
editor of Wikipedia; he created
over 1,300 articles with about 60
main page appearances.
Amie Ziner Mills (IBA 94

97) of Milford, Conn., exhibited
40 years of her artwork at 101
Threads, the Gallery at 118
Court St. in New Haven.
Suzanne Flint (IMA 99)

of Sacramento, Calif., is
a consultant and health
educator whos worked for the
California State Library since
2005. She administers a grant
program for public libraries
throughout the state, and she
was recently interviewed in the
Sacramento Business Journal.
Marion Hecht (MA PSY 91)
of Livingston, N.J., became
certified as a master addiction
counselor and a substance
abuse professional through
NAADAC. She has been
counseling since 1991 with a
practice in West Orange, N.J.
Margaret (Megan) Hudson
(BA GV 91) of Holyoke,
Mass., executive director of the
Brain Balance Achievement
Center on Riverdale Street,
Carolyn E. Locke (MFAWVT 96) of Troy, Maine,

published her third book,
The Place We Become, through
Maine Authors publishing.
Karen L. Morris (MA PSY 98)

of New York, N.Y., received
the Gradiva Award for her
book of poetry, Cataclysm and
Other Arrangements (Three
Stones Press, 2014), from
the National Association
for the Advancement of
Psychoanalysis. Karen is
a psychoanalyst in private
practice in Manhattan and
Honesdale, and a faculty member
at the Institute for Expressive
Analysis in New York.
Robert Nelson (MFA 95) of
Branford, Conn., held a talk
at the Fairfield Public Library
about the Fairfield Witch Trials,
the ghostly White Lady of
Monroe, and Dudleytown, the
most haunted place on Earth!
Carmelo Ruiz (MA GV
95) of San Juan, Puerto
Rico, published his op-ed,
academic programs at goddard

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
GGI: Goddard Graduate Institute
GGP: Goddard Graduate Program
GS: Goddard Seminary
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GV: Goddard Five (all programs 81-91)

HAS: Health Arts & Sciences
IBA: Individualized Bachelor of Arts
IMA: Individualized Master of Arts
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/CMHC: Psychology & Clinical
Mental Health Counseling
RUP: Residential Undergraduate

Program
SBC: Sustainable Business &
Communities
SBPAT: Summer-Based Psychology in
Art Therapy
SE: Social Ecology Program
SIS: Social Innovation & Sustainability
TLA: Transformative Language Arts
UGP: Undergraduate Program
VT: Plainfield, Vt., campus
WA: Port Townsend, Wash., campus
SEA: Seattle Residency Site
Corporate Misconduct
Needs to be Punished in
the Columbia Daily Herald.
David Sclarow (IBA 99)
of Brooklyn, N.Y., received
a rave restaurant review in
the New York Times about his
best brick-oven pizzas at
his new restaurant, Pizza
Moto @ John Grace Bakery.
Debora J. Seidman (MFAWVT 96) of Taos, N.M., won a
New Works Festival award
for her play, The Lilac Minyan,
which was produced in
Brooklyn and New York City in
1999. She was produced in Taos
in 2013 and Santa Fe in 2014.
She teaches writing workshops,
retreats and tele-classes and
works as a private writing
coach. She received a Wurlitzer
Foundation Writing Fellowship.
Carolyn J. Vaughan (IMA
97) of St. Louis, Mo., runs a
book design and complete
book layout business.
2000s
Carol A. Amore (MFAIA 03)
of Beverly, Mass., premiered her
documentary Grampas Future,
a tribute to her father, who
passed away at age 95 in 2012,
at the Larcom Theatre. The film
is part of fundraising activities
to support the purchase of a
wheelchair van for her specialneeds daughter Sarah. To
contribute, visit: helphopelive.
org/campaign/6690.
Julia R. Bouwsma (MFAW 07)
of New Portland, Maine, won
the 2015 Cider Press Review
Book Award for her thesis
manuscript Work by Bloodlight,
which will be published by
Cider Press Review in 2017.
Pat Catterson (MFAIA 09)
of New York, N.Y., directed
and choreographed NOW,
a multimedia performance
installation event, at NYUs
Tisch Dance and New Media
Department in January.
Harry Dodge, III (MFA 01)
of Kodiak, Alaska, published
three books: Kodiak Island and

its Bears (2004), Kodiak Tales
(2010) and The Hunts (2011), and
his story The Ginger Snap
appeared in the Mount Hope
Magazine fall 2015 issue.
Scottie Jacob Fingar (MA HAS
03) of Tampa, Fla., published
Therapeutic Breathing: Resources
for Healthcare Professionals (and
the Rest of Us), a book based on
her Goddard work, with Whole
Nurse Press in 2013.
John L. Hadden (MFAWVT 03) of Landgrove, Vt.,
is touring New England
with readings and a
solo performance piece
derived from his new book,
Conversations with a Masked
Man: My Father, the CIA,
and Me (Arcade Publishing,
2016). Find events and
other news on his website:
maskedman.org. He is also a
new and happy grandfather.
Cara L. Hoffman (MFAW
09) of New York, N.Y.,
was interviewed on ABCs
Burgers & Books with George
Stephanopoulos about her
book, Be Safe I Love You. She
was the Visiting Alumni
Writer at the Port Townsend
residency in February.
Baba Israel (IBA 04, MFAIAVT 08) of Manchester, UK, and
Yako Prodis (IBA 03, MFAIAVT 09) completed a successful
run of The Spinning Wheel, a
multimedia performance and
interactive gallery exhibition.
Ronni Komarow (MFAIA-VT
08) of Brighton, Mass., was
honored as an Unsung Hero
for her arts advocacy in her
Boston neighborhood last June,
where she received honorary
citations from Mayor Marty
Walsh, the Boston City Council,
The Massachusetts State Senate
and the Massachusetts State
House of Representatives at an
awards dinner. She was also
appointed to teach at Bunker
Hill Community College
and Newbury College.
Synnika A. Lofton (IBA 04,
MFAW 06) of Chesapeake,
Va., won Teacher of the
Year from Chesapeake Bay
Bobbie Pell (MFAW 06) of Marshall, N.C.,

taught a class, Writing Childrens Books,
as part of The Writers Workshop in Asheville
in March; in February, she published her
collection of fairy tales, Just One Wish:
Realms of Faerie, available on Amazon.
Academy in Virginia Beach,

was nominated for Teacher
of the Year for the state of
Virginia, and was awarded one
of the WGDR Local2National
grants for his weekly Guerrilla
Ignition Radio program.
Bryan F. Marovich (IBA
07) of Derby Line, Vt.,
was interviewed on VPR
about his local news blog,
newportdispatch.com.
Donnelle C. McGee (MFAWVT 08) of Turlock, Calif.,
is teaching creative writing
at Mission College.
Kevin McShane (IMA 04)
of New Sharon, Maine,
published his childrens book,
Felixs World, a humorous
take on relativity taught by a
goldfish, with CreateSpace.
Lysa R. Mosca (MA PSY 08)
of Putney, Vt., is a program care
coordinator in a residential
program in southern Vermont
for young adults ages 1825
who are experiencing firstbreak psychosis. She is a
certified yoga teacher with an
emphasis on trauma informed
body/mind practice.
Nancy Norbeck (MFAW 09)
of Lawrenceville, N.J., released
an Amazon Kindle edition of
her book, The Silver Child.
June E. Parker (BA EDU 02) of
Bainbridge Island, Wash., was
accepted into Eastern Virginia
Medical School and began her
two-year Physician Assistant
Masters Program in January.
Jodi Patterson (MFAW 05) of
Richland, Wash., was elected
chair of the higher education
division on the Washington Art
Education Association board of
directors; is a co-editor of the

scholastic journal Artizein: Art
and Teaching Journal, which
is produced by the School of
Art and Design at Southern
Illinois University Carbondale;
had an installation on display
in Paris in conjunction with
the COP21 Climate Talks;
showed work at the Reese
Museum in Tennessee; and
finished a small works show in
Budapest, Hungary.
Clarissa Rogers (IBA 04,
IMA 09) of Cape Vincent,
N.Y., is administrator for The
Institute for Anarchist Studies,
and recently launched Blue Elf
Consulting, which specializes
in supporting nonprofit and
activist organizations; she is
studying the work of Paulo
Freire at the Freire Institute
and recently appeared in
a production of The Vagina
Monologues. In 2014, she
won first prize for creative
nonfiction in JCCs North
Country Writers Contest.
Loretta A. Schoettler (IBA
05) of Harpers Ferry, W.V.,
owns a homestead and market
garden with her husband,
where they grow chemical-free
produce, raise 40+ chickens,
and are entertained by their
Tennessee fainting goats. They
have a 40-member CSA.
Hannah Schwartz (IBA 01)
of Hardwick, Vt., is executive
director and co-founder of
Heartbeet Lifesharing, a
community for adults with
special needs. She is wrapping
up a $2.2 million campaign to
build a new community center
in the Northeast Kingdom
dedicated to inclusion and the
arts. Take a tour or learn more
by contacting (802) 472-3285
FROM THE ARCHIVES
Maple Syrup Time

A sweet piece of Goddard history
N 1934, Goddards founding president Royce

Tim Pitkin, prior tomoving back to Vermont
tohelp guidethe Goddard Seminary to a Junior
College,was serving as headmaster in the New
London, N.H., public school system. In that year
he published a book for young adults titled Maple
Sugar Time that describes
the entire process of making
maple syrup as practiced by
the Pitkinfamily in Marshfield,
Vt., going backas far
as1838.More than 80 years
later this book is still in print
and available to readers young
and old interested in this ageold sweet Vermont tradition.
Most Clockworks readers
know the story of how
Tim, who graduated from
the Goddard Seminary in
1919,convinced the Board
of Trustees to give up on the
five-story brick building in Barre, Vt., and,along with
a small group of staff, faculty and students, move
to Plainfield to begin Goddard College, a Vermont
school for living,in 1938. Some years after the
College got on its feet, Tim proposed a cooperative
venture that was called the Maple Store, a mail order
business that offered Grade A Goddard Maple Syrup
to customers all over the country for about $2.50 a
quart. The profits went to a scholarship fund that
provided tuition assistance to Goddard students. The
hard work of making maple syrup and marketing it
was tasked to the Work Program students, with help
from a few local community members.
An annual sugaring off party at the Pitkin Farm
was held so that local participants could see the
process of sugar making as guided by President Pitkin.
Forjust 50 cents, visitors could sampletraditional
sugar on snowfresh hot maple syrup served on
snow with a donut and a sour pickle.
The Maple Store business was advertised in
several national magazines. As the business grew
it also offered soft maple sugar in a two-pound tin
and both Cabot Cheddar and Cabot Sage Cheddar
Cheese in three-pound blocks.In 1957, then Board
of Trustees Chair Eliot Pratt crafted 200 four-inch
tallstoneware jugs that were filled with Goddard
Maple Syrupas a special offering.
A renowned food editor from the New York
Herald Tribune once described Goddard College
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Boiling down the maple sap with

President Tim Pitkin, holding skimmer,
c. 1949. Others pictured: Bob Fisher
(BA RUP 54), stands at the far left,
above others; Binnie Schuler, woman at
left; and Clo Pitkin, woman at right (JR
RUP 51, BA RUP 53). Below, enjoying
sugar on snow, from left: Hester Phelps,
librarian; Robert Mattuck, faculty; and
Robert Gagne (JR RUP 40, BA ADP
56). Photo courtesy of Robert Gagne
SOME YEARS AFTER

THE COLLEGE GOT
ON ITS FEET, TIM
PITKIN PROPOSED A
COOPERATIVE VENTURE
THAT WAS CALLED THE
MAPLE STORE, A MAIL
ORDER BUSINESS THAT
OFFERED GRADE A
GODDARD MAPLE SYRUP
TO CUSTOMERS ALL
OVER THE COUNTRY.
Maple Syrup as such: this is

fancy syrup for sure...a syrup
refined to diamond purity;
delicate as a sunbeam and of
the same pure gold.
The specially imprinted
Goddard Maple Syrup cans
declared that purity and
described the syrup as delicate
and golden, a sovereign
remedy against the grouches
of the world, it goes fast.
Today, 50 years after the
Maple Store closed its doors,
Earthwalk staff and students,
who use the Plainfield
campus as their classroom
and laboratory, hang a few
buckets on campus maples
and boil the collected sap
when it runsto produce some
of the same delicate and
golden remedy that can only
be made in the hard-earned
Vermont spring. CW
BY DAVID HAL
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or info@heartbeet.org. Visit
them on Facebook or at their
website: heartbeet.org.
Sherman Walter Wright
(MFAIA-VT 07) of Lowell,
Mass., announced XFest
2016, a festival of improvised
music, visuals and
movement, in February.
2010s
Richard Ambelang (MFAIA
12) of Plainfield, Vt., was
one of 20 Vermont artists to
exhibit their photography at
the Vermont Statehouse from
Feb. 29March 31 in the Art
Resource Associations 40th
anniversary exhibition.
Ananda Bena-Weber (MFAIA
15) of Long Island City, N.Y.,
was one of three artists to
perform at TEDx Carson City
on April 8 at the Brewery
Arts Center. She is also an
adjunct professor of dance at
Marymount Manhattan College
and a teaching artist for the
Dance Theater of Harlem.
Noah Bowman (MA EDU
14) of Louisville, Tenn.,
was promoted to assistant
director of learning services at
Maryville College, where he
also designs and facilitates the
Honors Tutorial Program, the
100+ Dean and Presidential
Scholar academic mentors, MC
tutors, group study leaders,
supplemental instruction
leaders, Cooper Success Center
mentors, and, with colleague
and Goddard alumna Jannis
Taylor (MFAW 12), the
Writing Center consultants.
Kim Brown (MFAW 11) of
Roswell, Ga., reports that
Minerva Rising, the journal she
founded in 2012, is listed as
a Notable Special Issue in
Best American Essays.
Heather A. Bryce (MFAIA 14)
of Brooklyn, N.Y., moved her
dance company to New York
City, where she premiered new
work and new dancers. She
is a teaching artist and parttime coordinator for strategic
planning initiatives at Alvin

Ailey American Dance Theater
and a dance teaching artist at
the Center for Arts Education.
Casey Caronna (MA EDU 11)
of Olympia, Wash., is the new
graduate studies administrative
assistant at St. Martins
University. He and his wife
recently bought a home.
Romn Ito Carrillo (BA
EDU 09, MA EDU 10) of
Menifee, Calif., and Zoila
Cartagena will lead a cultural
exchange between Puerto
Rican and Filipino cultural
expressions at City College of
San Francisco on April 28.
George Chappell (MFAW 11)
of Rockland, Maine, teaches
creative writing to veterans
at the Togus VA hospital in
Augusta. Last August, he
self-published his second
book of poems, When Souls
Walk Away, which includes
his students writings.
Ryan Conarro (MFAIA-WA
15) of Brooklyn, N.Y., and Ping
Chong of New Yorks Ping
Chong + Company, received
a grant from the Network of
Ensemble Theaters to travel
to urban and rural Alaska
communities to conduct
interviews and gather material
for their performance piece
in development, Where the Sea

Breaks Its Back, about Alaskan
identity and Arctic life.
Suzin R. Daly (MFAIA
11) of Youngsville, N.C.,
published her book of free
verse poetry and photography,
Listen to the Spirit Within, with
Daly Publishing in 2015.
Chris Dell (MA HAS 13) of
Corning, N.Y., is an acting coach
and instructor at Wilhelmina
in Rochester. His film, The
Torture Tree Incident, was
selected for the Scare-a-Con film
festival in Verona, N.Y.
John Eichenberger (MA PSY
11) of Sodus, N.Y., opened the
private practice Hope and Help,
specializing in complex trauma
and adolescent emotional
regulation, in Fairport, N.Y. He
is developing training events
for substance abuse counselors.
Eliot Fisher (MFAIA-WA
15) of Austin, Texas, was
awarded a commission for
a performance installation
titled ANNI at the 15th Annual
Symposium on Arts and
Technology at Connecticut
College in New London. He
also served as guest artist-inresidence at Colorado College
and Texas State University.
Ann Hedreen (MFAW
10) of Seattle, Wash., has a
new documentary in postproduction called Zona
Intangible, set in Peru.
Chanelle John (IBA 13)
led two events during the
UGP residency this spring:
a workshop, Working for
Liberation: How Inspired
Entrepreneurship Can Support
Social Justice, and a yoga
session, Whole Soul Health
Vinyasa Flow All Levels Class.
Annalee Dunn (MFAW 11) of

Bellingham, Wash., Isla McKetta
(MFAW 10) of Seattle, Wash.,
and Ellen Welcker (MFAW 10)
of Spokane, Wash., have poems
published in All We Can Hold: A
Collection of Poetry on Motherhood
(Sage Hill Press, April 2016).
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Simone John (IBA 12,

MFAW-WA 14) of Stoughton,
Mass., had her thesis, Testify,
accepted for publication with
Octopus Books in 2017.
Brianna Johnson (BFAW
10, MFAW-VT 13) of New
Prague, Minn., had her thesis,
Fire Sale, published as a digital
chapbook from Essay Press.
Kathline Carr (BFAW

11) of North Adams,
Mass., won AROHOs
2015 Clarissa Dalloway
Prize for her manuscript,
Miraculum Monstrum,
forthcoming from Red
Hen Press in 2017.
It was also a prose semifinalist in UC-Boulders 2014

Subito Open Press contest.
Jeremy Johnson (IMA 13) of
Wantagh, N.Y., is the president,
treasurer, and webmaster of the
Jean Gebser Society.
Dawn Renee Jones (MFAWWA 14) of Chicago, Ill., is
the winner of Southern Rep
Theatres 2015 Ruby Prize for
her play, A Heap See, which
was her Goddard thesis.
Nambi E. Kelley (MFAIA
11) of Chicago, Ill., premiered
her drama, For Her as a Piano,
at Pegasus Theatre Chicagos
launch of their 2015-16 season.
Juanita Kirton (MFAW-VT
15) of Stroudsburg, Pa., is the
poetry editor for Clockhouse
Literary Journal, and she
publishes Persimmon Tree,
an online magazine of the
arts for women over 60.
Sarah Kishpaugh (MFAWWA 14) of Edmonds, Wash.,
signed a book contract with
Red Hen Press to publish
her thesis manuscript, The
Shame of Losing, in 2017.
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Nicole Kallio (MFAW 10) of
Hortonville, Wis., is involved
with Wide Open Writing, a
writing retreat founded by
alumni Regina Tingle (MFAW
11) of Coppell, Texas, and
Dulcie Witman (MFAW
11) of Topsham, Maine. In
2014, the retreat held its first
weeklong retreat outside of
San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy,
with about 12 writers from
North America and Australia.
Two new retreats are planned
for 2016 in Tuscany and Tucson.
wideopenwriting.com
Samantha Kolber (MFAW

14) of Montpelier, Vt., had a
poem published at Root + Rise
Quarterly (rootandrisequarterly.
com) and she facilitated a
reading and writing workshop,
The Poetry of Parenthood, for
PoemCity 2016 in Montpelier.
Lindiwe Priscilla Krasin (IMA
15) of Saco, Maine, hosted the
first black power event in the
history of Maine in March 2015,
under her Mama Africa Black
Power Feminist Organization.
She plans to hold other events:
13TOOMany, in honor of the
13 black females sexually
assaulted by Oklahoma City
police officer Daniel Holtzclaw,
and a 2019 conference aimed
at decrying racial and sexual
violence against black women
and girls in America.
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David Neufeld (MFAIA-VT

16) of Wolfeboro, N.H., was
accepted into the Chandler
Gallerys exhibit Salvage in
Randolph, Vt.
Xiomara Nino (MA EDU 15)
of New York, N.Y., teaches
music at a Title I PreK7
public school where she runs
a multicultural, multimedia,
multigenerational program.
Suzanne Ostersmith (MFAIA
13) of Chattaroy, Wash.,
introduced interdisciplinary
arts as a new minor at
Gonzaga University, where
she is an instructor and the
dance program director.
Ben T. Matchstick (MFAIAVT 16) of Montpelier, Vt., and

his collaborator, Pete Talbot,
launched the PinBox 3000, a
build-it-yourself cardboard
tabletop pinball machine. It
has gained the support of Make
Magazine and educators around
the country for its embedded
STEAM curriculum potential.
They exhibited at the New
York City Toy Fair at the Jacob
Javits Center in February.
Andy Pederson (MFAW 10)

of Berkeley, Ill., is the resident
playwright at the Saltbox
Theatre Collective in Chicago;
they produced his play The
Generals Cat, featured at MaryArrchie Theatres Abbie Fest
XXVII. In The Soundless Awe, a
play he co-wrote, premiered at
the New Light Theatre Project in
New York in November. He was
head writer for the Lutheran
Church-Missouri Synods
National Youth Gathering;
he collaborated with Jason
Narvy on Banish all the World,
which premiered at Concordia
University Chicago.
Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW

12) of Pasadena, Calif.,
has a villanelle, Fried
Pork Skins, coming out in
Consequence Magazine.
Nikki Sao Pedro-Welch

(MFAIA-VT 16) of Salem,
Mass., showed new work at
the Dumbo Dance Festival in
Brooklyn, N.Y.
David Poznanter (MFAIAVT 10) of Vista, Calif.,

performed last December in
Nutz Re-Mixed, a full-length
variety spectacle that playfully
reimagines the traditional
Nutcracker for a familyfriendly holiday extravaganza,
at the University of California
Santa Cruz Mainstage Theater.
Laurel Radzieski (MFAW-VT
14) of Scranton, Pa., is a grant
writer for a new nonprofit and
was an adjunct instructor at
Keystone College for the 2014
15 school year. She is a writerin-residence at the Wormfarm
Institute, an evolving
laboratory of the arts and
ecology in Reedsburg, Wisc.
Cassie Ross (MFAIA-WA

14) relocated to Nashville,
Tenn., and started 9daughters
(9daughters.com) offering
services as a creative doula,
helping artists birth their
projects. She is now in preproduction of an independent
dark comedy feature film titled
CARPE DM: You Cant Block
Heartbreak. thefilmcarpedm.com
Lacey Ruskin (MA EDU
13) of Denver, Colo., works
at Kunsmiller Creative Arts
Academy teaching secondary
theatre arts through a lens of
mindfulness and empathy.
ruskintheatrearts.weebly.com
Dawn Sagar (MFAIA-WA
12) of Port Townsend, Wash.,
paints landscapes in Port
Townsend and was featured in
a Port Townsend Leader article
in February, Landscape of
a Life: Dawn Sagar.
Safa Samiezad-Yazd (MFAIA
10) of Denver, Colo., was a
visiting speaker in February at
Austin Peay State University,
where she discussed Arabic
calligraphy, graffiti, street
art and urban culture. She
is producing an upcoming
CNN original series, Believer.
Megan Sandberg-Zakian
(MFAIA-VT 11) of Somerville,
Mass., directed Danai Guriras
The Convert, presented at
Underground Railway Theater.
Lucas Peters (MFAW-WA 14), now of Paris, France, and his

wife welcomed a baby boy, Zephyr Alistaire Peters, weighing
6 lbs. 15 oz. and measuring 19 in., on February 10, 2016.
Catharine Slusar (MFAIAVT 15) of Philadelphia, Pa.,

won a Barrymore Award for
Outstanding Actress in Whos
Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
David Sokal (MFAIA-WA
14) of Seattle, Wash., is a
new member of Gallery
110 in Seattles Tashiro
Kaplan building.
Craig Thornton (MFAWVT 10) of Watertown, N.Y.,
is the recipient of a 2016
NYSCA Public Fellowship
Arts Grant for his project
tentatively entitled Quartet.
Storme Webber (MFAIAWA 14) of Seattle, Wash.,
was awarded the James W.
Ray Venture Project Award.
Riva Weinstein (MFAIA-VT
14) of Stanfordville, N.Y., took
part in February in the 6th
Annual International Juried
Exhibition, Recycled, Repurposed,
Recovered: Found Object Art, at
the A.D. Gallery University of
North Carolina Pembroke, and
in Smaller Footprints, the 2016
WEAD exhibition hosted by the
Museum of Arts and History
in Lancaster through April.
Wendy Weissner (MA HAS
14) of Biddeford, Maine,
published Ayurveda and
Biomedicine: Toward an
Integrated Science in the fall
2015 issue of the Ayurveda
Journal of Health. She was also
interviewed for the same
publication and now serves
as one of the journals editors.
She welcomes articles from
those studying Ayurveda:
wweissner@gmail.com.
Chelsea Werner-Jatzke
(MFAW-WA 13) of Seattle,
Wash., had her chapbook of
flash fiction, Adventures in
Property Management, accepted
for publication in 2017 by
Sibling Rivalry Press.
Joanna Tebbs Young (IMA
13) of Rutland, Vt., writes
the Circles of Community
column for the Rutland Reader.
Katie Zeitz (BFAW 15) of

Arlington, Mass., received
honorable mention in the
2015 AWP Intro Journals:
Creative Nonfiction for her
manuscript, First Kiss.
Linda Dobson Porter (IMA

GGI) of Bristol, Maine, gave a
workshop, Martial Arts and
Menopause, at the Spectrum
Generations Coastal Community
Center in December.
Autumn Phillips (MFAW-VT)

of Carbondale, Ill., is executive
editor of the Quad-City Times,
which covers news from Iowa,
Illinoi and the Quad-Cities.
Read it at qctimes.com.
current
students
Dianna Farrell (MA HAS

GGI) of South Portland, Maine,
graduated from the Institute
for Integrative Nutrition
Health Coach program.
Jason Sheets (IBA UGP) of

Salem, Mass., had twelve
poems published in eight
literary journals in 2015.
Patricia Connelly (MFAW)

of Alexandria, Va., premiered
her play Princess Margaret at
the Trinidad Theatre last fall.
She is the founder of Thelma
Theatre (thelmatheatre.com).
Follow her @PatriciaConnel7@
ThelmaTheatre.
Kyle Bella (IBA 12, MA
SIS GGI) of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
is a contributing writer at
Medium; he has been collecting
stories in Mexico and South
Africa for his archive, Our
Viral Lives (ourvirallives.
org), and presented the
research he conducted while
in Johannesburg, South Africa
as part of the Uses of Anger
series at the Bureau of General
Services-Queer Division.
Elizabeth Bisegna (MFAIAWA) of Portland, Ore.,
created artwork for cards that
promoted local businesses
in the Mount Vernon
Downtown Association.
Brenda Bowyer Farmwald
(MFAIA-VT) of South Bend,
Ind., won a regional Emmy
in October for her poverty
series Big Questions in the
Outstanding Achievement for
Public Affairs/Current Affairs
Programming Series category.
She presented a lecture, Care
to Sustainability: Why Evoking
Empathy is the First Step to
Creating Ethical Concern and
Sustainability, at the 22nd
International Vincentian
Business Ethics Conference in
New York in November.
Kathryn Chapman (MA
HAS GGI) of Guttenberg,
N.J., performed at a pre-mass
for Pope Francis at Madison
Square Garden with the choir
Broadway Inspiration Voices.
Erin Lavelle Lundeen

(MFAIA-WA) of Minneapolis,
Minn., is producing the
Northern Spark Festival in
downtown Minneapolis
on June 11, 2016.
Deanne Meek (MFAIA-WA)
of New York, N.Y., presented a
workshop in Key West, Fla., of
the opera A Thousand Splendid
Suns; debuted with the Seattle
Symphony; and performed in
the world premiere of Algebra
of Night at the Smithsonian
American Art Museum in
Washington D.C., and at the
Jacobs School of Music at
Indiana University in October.
Paul Molyneaux (IBA 97,
MFAW-VT) of Whiting, Maine,
published his compilation of
short shorts, The Last Deer, as a
Kindle edition on Amazon in
April 2015.
Pittershawn Palmer (MFAWVT) of Laurel, Miss., had her
speculative novel, When We
Were One (Peace In The Storm
Publishing, 2015), written
under pen name Zaji, selected
as a must-read by USA Today.
Pat Taylor-Rydman (MFAIAWA) of Los Angeles, Calif.,

and members of her company
JazzAntiqua Dance & Music
Ensemble, presented a lecturedemonstration and jazz dance
master class at the 28th Annual
International Association of
Blacks in Dance Conference
in Denver, Colo., in January.
Jon Ulrich (MFAW-VT) of
Newfield, N.Y., was #1 on
Cornell Presss Bestselling
Books in September for
his book Winter in the
Wilderness: A Filed Guide to
Primitive Survival Skills, coauthored with Dave Hall.
Fua Nascimento (BA EDU 15) of

Montpelier, Vt., teaches capoeira in
schools and local studios, as well
as at the University of Vermont and
other colleges. He and his wife were
featured in the Seven Days article,
International Relations: Three
Love Stories, in February. They are
expecting their first baby in June.
JEB WALLACE-BRODEUR
Earle Sewell (MFAW 15) is

now a professor with the City
Colleges of Chicago.
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faculty & staff notes |

Beatrix Gates (MFAW-WA)
was a 2016 artist-in-residence at
Quest University in Squamish,
B.C., where she split her time
between teaching The Words
To Say It: Poetry and Prose
and working on her poetry
project, Good Seeing: A Poem
of the Full Sky, East to West.
This summer, she will be one
of 12 artists invited to Great
Spruce Head Island Art Week
in Maines Penobscot Bay.
Sarah Bobrow-Williams (GGI

faculty) was part of a small
group of women selected for
Bioneers 2015 Cultivating
Womens Leadership
training, held July 2025 in
Northern New Mexico.
Deborah Brevoort (MFAWVT) had her play, The Blue-Sky
Boys, produced at Capital Rep
in Albany, N.Y., from March
11April 3. Embedded, her
Edgar Allan Poe opera, will
be produced at Fort Worth
Opera from April 24May 7,
and her opera Steal a Pencil for
Me is one of the winners of
the Frontiers Competition at
Fort Worth Opera. Last fall,
she spoke about her works
and influences at Mount Saint
Mary College in Newburgh.
Rebecca Brown (MFAW)
participated in an exhibition,
Genius / 21 Century / Seattle, at
the Frye Museum. She spoke on
the topic of Why Seattle?
Jan Clausen (MFAW) signed
a contract for the reissue of
her 1999 memoir Apples and
Oranges: My Journey Through
Sexual Identity. Originally
published by Houghton Mifflin,
the book will come out next
year from Seven Stories Press
in print and e-book versions
and with a new introduction.
Kenny Fries (MFAW-VT)
received a Fulbright (Germany,
2016-17) and grants from
the Canada Council for the
Arts and the Ontario Arts
Council to work on his book,
Stumbling Over History.
Darrah Cloud (MFAW-WA)

was the guest artist for Key City
Public Theatres 20th Annual
Port Townsend PlayFest in
March, where she presented a
reading of her latest play, The
Posthumous Democrat. Her play
for teens, Joan the Girl of Arc,
was published in the March
issue of Dramatics Magazine,
and she produced Half Moon
Theatres 5th Annual 10-Minute
Play Festival. She co-hosts their
writers group with playwright
David Simpatico and writes
frequently on theatre for the
Poughkeepsie Journal. Her play
The Sirens will be produced
at the Gallo Arts Center in
May and benefits the Haven
Womens Center of Stanislaus
County. Sabina, a musical for
which she wrote the lyrics, will
receive a workshop in April
at The Cell in New York and a
showcase production in the fall.
Dr. Herukhuti (UGP) was

named to the editorial board of
the Journal of Black Sexuality and
Relationships and the governing
board of the journals parent
organization, the Association
of Black Sexologists and
Clinicians (ABSC). He is
helping to organize the ABSCs
Pan African Summit on Sexual
Wellness, Decolonization, and
Indigenous Knowledge to be
held in Kigali, Rwanda July 30
Aug. 7. In February, he received
the Brenda Howard Memorial
Award from PFLAG; was guest
lecturer in the sexuality course
of Dr. Donovan Caesar at CSU
East Bay; and presented a
workshop on queer sexuality
at NYUs LGBTQ Center.
Herukhuti was the keynote
speaker at the BECAUSE
Conference, April 810.
Laleh Khadivi (MFAW-WA)
was one of 37 writers selected
from 1,763 eligible applications
to receive a $25,000 NEA 2015
Creative Writing Fellowship
in Prose. Also, Lalehs story
Wanderlust was awarded a
2016 Pushcart.
Newcomb Greenleaf (UGP) had

his long poem, The Emptiness
of 108, published in Catherine
Eaton Skinner: 108 (Radius
Books, 2016) and created his own
108-inspired visual art. The number
108 is a potent symbol in Eastern
spiritual traditions. Here, images
pose the six integer rectangles
with area 108 in front of tree
bark. Newcomb used the Gimp
program to combine the geometry
with his photos of tree bark.
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Michael Klein (MFAWVT) published his book

When I Was a Twin (Sibling
Rivalry Press, 2015) and two
poems in the winter 201516 issue of Ploughshares.
Petra Kuppers (MFAIAWA) participated in
NYU Tisch School of the
Arts Form in Question:
Ensemble-ImprovisationPerformance in January.
Laiwan (MFAIA-WA) has been
commissioned by the City of
Vancouver Public Art Program
to develop a video exhibition
for the large LED video screens
at Robson and Granville Streets
in downtown Vancouver. Her
work will run from June 13
July 10, 2016. Also, Vancouver
artist Leah Weinstein has
been awarded a 2016-17
mentorship from the British
Columbia Arts Councils Early
Career Development Grant in
Canada to study with Laiwan.
Their work together includes
renovating a 40-foot school
bus into a mobile, artist-run
center and performance venue.
Katt Lissard (GGI) presented
at Trans Cultural Exchanges
International Conference
on Opportunities in the
Arts: Expanding Worlds
at Boston University. In
February, she was a panelist
at MIT and spoke on The
Art of Connecting Worlds:
Cultural Technologies and
Sustainability. Contributions
from all the panelists will be
published in a book in 2018.
faculty & staff notes |
John McManus (MFAW-VT)

published a new collection
of stories, Fox Tooth Heart
(Sarabande Books, 2015).
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
(GGI) along with her coauthor, weather chaser Stephen
Locke, shared multi-media
presentations of poetry, stories,
videography, and photography
about their book Chasing
Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests,
and Thunderous Skies in Word
and Image at several Kansas
libraries and at Johnson County
Community College. Caryn
taught two classes through the
Osher Institute based on her
book, Needle in the Bone: How
a Holocaust Survivor and Polish
Resistance Fighter Beat the Odds
and Found Each Other. On Feb. 8,
she published a blog post,
Three Ways to Find the
Writing Voice You Never Really
Lost, on Huffington Books.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom

(MFAW-WA) finished the first
installment of a digital, webbased oral history project,
The New American Story
Project (NASP), documenting
stories about unaccompanied
Central American children who
came as part of the so-called
surge on the U.S. border
in 2014. Watch video clips at
newamericanstoryproject.org
Keenan Norris (MFAW-WA)

is new to Goddard. He is the
author of the award-winning
novel Brother and the Dancer,
and regularly publishes
scholarly essays and short
works. His forthcoming short
story, A Murder of Saviors,
will be published in the 2016
collection Oakland Noir by
Akashic Press. Keenan is a
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
fellow and think tank member.
Mark Schulman (former
president) has been appointed
to serve as provost at Presidio
Graduate School.
Harris Friedman (PSY/CMHC)

co-authored Transcultural
Competence: Navigating
Cultural Differences in
the Global Community
(American Psychological
Association, 2015).
Victoria Nelson (MFAW-WA)

published a review of Vladimir
Sorokins The Blizzard in the
Jan. 8 issue of the Times Literary
Supplement of London, and
an essay, Walter Benjamin
and the Two Angels, in
Raritans winter 2016 issue.
She was also awarded a 2016
Guggenheim Fellowship.
Paul Selig (former MFAW

Program Director) retired after
20 years of service to the MFA
program at Goddard. Under
his leadership, Goddards MFA
program earned a national
reputation for supporting
writers around the world
as they develop and deepen
their craft. He welcomed
vising writers such as Nilo
Cruz, Mary Gaitskill, Thomas
Glave, and Chris Abani,
who generously shared their
craft with students through
readings, workshops and
discussions. His newest book,
The Book of Mastery, book
one of The Mastery Trilogy,
was published in January.
(Tarcher/Penguin, 2016).
Muriel Shockley (UGP
Program Director) became
program director of Goddards
Undergraduate Program last
August. Muriel is a longtime
UGP faculty member and has

served in a variety of roles
over the years, most recently
as president of the Goddard
College Faculty Union.
Sherri L. Smith (MFAW-WA)
is the award-winning author
of young-adult novels Lucy
the Giant, Sparrow, Hot Sour
Salty Sweet, Flygirl, Orleans,
and the bestselling middle
grade historical fantasy, The
Toymakers Apprentice (G.P.
Putnams Sons). Her books
have been listed as Amelia
Bloomer, American Library
Association Best Books for
Young People, and Junior
Library Guild selections. Sherri
was a 2014 National Book
Awards judge in the Young
Peoples Literature category.
She is a three-time writerin-residence at Hedgebrook
retreat in Washington, and
a resident at Wassard Elea
retreat in Ascea, Italy.
Eva Swidler (UGP) and
Jan Clausen (MFAW) have
an article they co-wrote,
Academic Freedom from
Below: Towards an Adjunct
Centered Struggle, from the
fall 2013 issue of the AAUPs
Journal of Academic Freedom,
reprinted in a new teaching
edition of the novel Fight For
Your Long Day by Alex Kudera
(Hard Ball Press, April 2016).
Lise Weil (GGI) had an excerpt
form her memoir In Search of
Pure Lust printed in the fall/
winter 2015 issue of Womens
Wendy E. Phillips, PhD (PSY/

CMHC) was appointed to the board
of directors of the International
Expressive Arts Therapy Association,
where she serves as co-chair of the
Educational Resources Committee.
Studies Quarterly. The latest
issue of the online journal
she founded, Dark Matter:
Women Witnessing, focused
on extinction/devotion, and
featured writing by Melissa
Kwasny, Debra Magpie Earling,
Naomi Shihab Nye, Deena
Metzger, Margo Berdeshevsky,
and artwork by Beverly Naidus
and Naeemeh Naeemaei.
Arisa White (BFAW) had her
poem It Smells Like an End
to a Sentence, appear in the
two-year anniversary issue
of Day One.
Jane E. Wohl (MFAW-VT)
published a new collection
of poetry, Learning from Old
Masters (Fithian Press, 2016).
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in memoriam |
Rachel Bacon Bull (BA RUP
66), 71, of Garnet Valley, Pa.,
died Aug. 13, 2015. While
earning her BA at Goddard,
she met her beloved Alden
Bull (RUP JR 63, BA RUP
65). After graduating from
Goddard she completed her
M.Ed. at Temple University and
spent many years as a teacher.
Jean Lathrop (Former Faculty, BA GEPFE 73), 71, of

Plainfield, Vt., died Aug. 27, 2015. Jean had a boundless
curiosity about all people and treated everyone as an
equal. She was a beloved and widely known adult
educator who developed and directed the Vermont
Refugee Assistance program; she housed and befriended
many individuals and families who were fleeing
conditions in Central America and Africa. Jean was an
avid and informed reader and a lifelong political activist.
Pictured here, Jean and her husband, David.
Amanda D. Capps (IBA

01), 37, of Gaithersburg,
Md., died Nov. 8, 2015.
Geraldine Daniels (GEPFE
7374), of Randolph, Vt., died
Dec. 10, 2015. Upon graduating
from high school in 1956, she
enlisted in the Womens Army
Corps as an operating room
specialist. After graduating
from Goddard, she became an
elementary school teacher.
Wendy Golden Davidson (BA
RUP 70), 70, of Burlington,
Vt., died Aug. 22, 2015. She
worked as a Montessori teacher
in Florida, a coordinator at the
San Francisco Zen Center, and a
writer and artist exploring both
London and Paris. She later
provided services for elders
facing their final passage in life.
Mary Jane Dellenback (MA
GGP 79), 87, of Medford,
Ore., died Dec. 30, 2015.
Gladys E. (Corliss) Dorfman
(BA ADP 75), 84, of
Springfield, Mass., died Oct. 11,
2015. She wrote and illustrated
seven childrens books.
Helen Mittlacher Erickson (BA
ADP 67) died Aug. 24, 2015.
Marguerite (Petie) Hayes
Ferris (BA ADP 78), 88, of
Shelburne, Vt., died Aug. 14,
2015. After graduating from
Goddard, she served as the
admissions director at Vermont
College before being appointed
dean. She was passionate about
social justice and an outspoken
supporter of womens issues.
Spencer R. Goldstein (MA
GV 87), 79, died Aug. 28,
2015. He was retired as a civil
engineering manager and
was a U.S. Air Force Veteran.
Reverend Lynda J. Hadley (BA
GV 89), 69, of Chelmsford,
Mass., died Feb. 24, 2016. She
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earned her M.Div from United

Theological Seminary.
Sandy Bart Heimann (MA
HAS 04), 73, of Owls Head,
Maine, died Sept. 21, 2015.
Sandy was a medical intuitive,
Reiki Master and dowser.
Lillian M. Hetherman (JR
RUP 48, BA RUP 51), 87,
died Mar. 3, 2016. She studied
musical composition and
philosophy, and later earned
her B.Mus and M.Mus from
Eastman School of Music, with
piano as her instrument.
Carl Hilgenberg (JR RUP 58,
BA RUP 61), 78, of Littleton,
N.H., died Oct. 30, 2015.
Sheldon Howe (BA RUP 69),
72, of Chebeague Island,
Maine, died Dec. 10, 2015. After
graduating from Goddard,
he earned his MA in Special
Education and worked for 30
years at the Linwood Center,
a school in Ellicott City, Md.,
for severely disabled autistic
children. He focused on art as
a way of reaching the children,
and he also served as a
significant inspiration to them.
Dorothy Sheldon Kirk (JR
RUP 40), 95, of Burlington,
Vt., died Jan. 30, 2016.
Thomas Alan Leonard (BA
RUP 66-69), 68, of Hanover,
N.H., died Aug. 27, 2015.
Wayne H. Mailhotte (Former
Staff), 76, of East Montpelier,
Vt., died Jan. 22. 2016. He was
a skilled craftsman and master
electrician who worked at
Goddard for many years.
Gwendolyn M. Minoli
(BA RUP 72), 93, of Barre,
Vt., died Aug. 24, 2015.
Muriel Oliver (BA RUP 52),
87, of Manahawkin, N.J., died
Jan. 4, 2016. Muriel was a
dedicated teacher for many
years, receiving her M.Ed. from
Syracuse in 1969. She taught
many different schools in New
York before retiring in 1993.
Norman Olsen (BA RUP 55
56), 77, died Feb. 14, 2016. After
Goddard, he served in the U.S.
Navy for two years. He was an
engineer and retired from the
New York State Department
of Transportation in 2005.
Glenna Daisy Rice (GS

37), 96, died July 30, 2015.
Sister Joseen Vogt (MA GV
89), 93, of Rochester, Minn.,
died Oct. 18, 2015. Sister Vogt
worked with the Peace Corps
for three decades to establish
teacher training and English
language schools in Sierra
Leone, West Africa. She was
instrumental in starting the
Catholic Office of Emergency
Relief and Refugees Language
Skills Center in Battambang,
Cambodia in 1994. Today the
school serves 4,980 adults
and children at three sites.
Beverly Beech Perry (BA

ADP 71), 81, of Fayetteville,
N.C., died Nov. 13, 2016.
She was a social worker
who advocated for adults
with disabilities. She also
volunteered in her community.
Beth C. Warrell (BA GV 83,

MA GV 85, Former Trustee,
Former Staff), 69, of Randolph,
Vt., died Jan. 22, 2016. Beth
served on the Goddard
Board of Trustees from
19841990 and in 1995 became
Goddards chief financial
officer and interim president.
Blanche J. Postelnek (BA

ADP 65), 85, of Cambridge,
Md., died Aug. 8, 2015.
Peter Roland Wolff (BA

RUP 78-79), 59, of Media,
Pa., died Dec. 10, 2015.
Ray McIntyre (Former

Faculty) died Sept. 11, 2015.
Ray taught music at Goddard
in the 1960s, was well loved
by his students, and kept
in touch with some of them
until his passing.
IN MEMORIAM:
JOHN WARSHOW
(April 18, 1956 June 28, 2015)
lthough John Warshow

attended Goddard
for a brief period of time
(BA RUP 7677), the
experience changed his life
and inspired him to become
an activist, entrepreneur
and ardent advocate for
alternative energy.
After a brief battle with multiple
myeloma and amyloidosis, John
Warshow died on June 28, 2015,
surrounded by his family and
listening to the Grateful Dead.
Warshow first arrived at Goddards
Plainfield campus in February 1976. He
was drawn to Goddards progressive,
non-traditional education and the
easy access to hiking in the beautiful
Vermont countryside. Once enrolled in
the undergraduate program, he became
involved in the anti-nuclear movement
with his professor Scott Nielsen.
In December 1976, he organized
a group of 15 Goddard students to
travel to and protest the construction
of the Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
in New Hampshire. When writing
about this experience, and about his
perspective on nuclear power in general,
Warshow said he was going to work

against it until it goes, or I do.
Warshow met his wife Jenny (BA
GV 82), Scott Nielsons daughter,
through the Goddard community.
He spoke his first words to her at the
Sun Day celebration at the Vermont
State House, after inhaling helium
from a No Nukes balloon shed
handed him. They spent the next 38
years together in Marshfield, Vt., and
raised two sons, David and Ethan.
Warshows passion for alternative
energy and his involvement in the
anti-nuclear movement continued
even after he left Goddard in 1977. In
October of that year, he was arrested
at a protest at the Vermont Yankee
Nuclear Power Plant. He was convicted
of criminal trespass and then argued
the case on behalf of all the defendants
before the Vermont Supreme Court.
In 1979, Warshow attendedand
was again arrested atanother antinuclear protest at Vermont Yankee
(see photo). This protest was where
he met his business partner and
lifelong friend, Matthew Rubin.
In the 1980s, Warshow and Rubin
channeled their anti-nuclear activism
into the development of alternative
energy and became the first independent
hydropower producers in Vermont.
Clockwise from left: Warshow marches

in a protest ralley with Bread and
Puppet Theater; this 1979 Brattleboro
Reporter photo shows Warshow being
arrested after organizing a protest
at Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power
Plant; Warshow and his wife, Jenny.
Together, they redeveloped dams in

East Montpelier, Middlesex, Winooski
and Springfield. As other technologies
advanced, Warshow worked on solar and
landfill gas projects. Renewable energy
became the basis of his working life.
Instrumental in the development of
Vermonts earliest modern hydroelectric,
he led the effortagainst significant
oppositionto assure small power
producers a return that enabled
the development of new resources.
Warshow was a true visionary whose
ideas were ahead of their time, but
his approach to renewable energy
eventually became mainstream, as the
state of Vermont adopted aggressive
renewable energy goals in recent years.
In the last eight years of his life,
Warshow had been steadfast in dealing
with Parkinsons disease, persevering
in good spirits and continuing his
activities as much as possible despite
the limitations imposed by the
disease. He never complained and
refused to be defeated. Warshow
lived his life with passion, purpose
and in service of his community. CW
BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
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Goddard in the
World
ounded in 2005 by
Andy Leebron-Clay
(MFAW 02, MA SBC 09)
and Jim Clay (MA SBC 09),
the Clay International
Secondary School is a free,
co-educational, rural high
school serving the region of
Makueni County in Kenya.
The school offers a free
education to its students,
operating under a cooperative
model, where the parents
participate in the general
upkeep of the school.
Although the school follows the Kenyan National
Curriculum, it has adopted
teaching and learning methods that emphasize critical
thinking and active participation. The school takes a
holistic approach to educationwhere the intellectual,
Clay International Secondary

School Celebrates 10 Years
With the support of volunteers and the local community,
Goddard alumni run a vibrant and sustainable educational
community in a remote section of Kenya.
physical, emotional, and
economic well being of each
student is equally considered.
Goddards fingerprints
are all over the school,
Andy says. Our students
are encouraged to question
everything, to learn by
doing, to explore their
communityand thats
where learning really occurs.
In our classrooms, our
students are involved in
ways that you wont find
anywhere else in Kenya.
For example, third-year
students work hands-on
operating a chicken business
and hatchery, where they
write the business model,
perform the husbandry and
care of the chickens, and
sell the eggs and meat.
The profits are banked for
their future needs, such as
college, after graduation.
After meeting several other
Goddard-affiliated folks while
serving on Goddards board
of trustees, Andy and Jim
recruited Bob Wax (BA RUP
73), Peter Donovan (JR RUP
63, BA RUP 65), and Daryl
Campbell (former executive
vice president) to join the Clay
School Board of Trustees.

The Goddard BOT put
fertile minds together in a
room, says Bob Wax, now
chair of the Clay School
Board, that went off to
create something truly
wonderful. The Clay School
creates students who believe
in themselves, and an
environment where they can
transform their lives, he says.
Before the school was
established there were no
secondary schools in the area,
few crops, no electricity and
the water had to be carried
in jugs from a riverbed a
quarter mile away. Today,
the school consists of 32
buildings, including a health
clinic, classrooms, science
lab, large auditorium, dorms,
guesthouses, and a computer
lab with 30 computers and

Wi-Fi powered by two sets of
solar panels. Water is pumped
via a system of pipes from
the riverbed to the village,
and a catchment and big
cistern have been installed
to gather rainwater. The land
that once was barren now
produces papaya and mango.
Jim and I founded Clay
School in the hope that we
could create something in
this village that was sustainable and socially equitable
and could be our legacy into
the future. Sure enough,
we did, Andy says. But
it couldnt have happened
without Goddard. CW
BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
To learn more about the Clay
School, visit peikenya.org.
THE SCHOOL HAS A 97% GRADUATION

RATE, AND OUT OF 235 GRADUATES,
NEARLY HALF HAVE GONE TO COLLEGE.
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Why I Give.
I contribute to the Goddard College
Annual Fund because my experience
at Goddard changed my life. The education
I received made me a better teacher and
empowered me to find more effective ways
to create positive change in my community.
After graduation, I became a sustaining
donor. Ive also included Goddard in my
will. These gifts reflect the gratitude I feel,
and my faith in the Colleges faculty and
staff, who brought such blessings to my life.
Please join me in giving to the
Goddard College Annual Fund. Even
a small monthly pledge will make a
difference. With our support, Goddard will
continue to transform the minds and hearts
of future generations of students, who will
in turn bring healing to this world.
KARA REMME (BA EDU 11, MA EDU 13)
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9 MFAIA Info Session

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10 Alumni Respond to Refugee Crisis

Goddard graduates bring

12 Q&A with Jon Fishman (BA 90)

Goddard alumnus talks about his days at

19 The Sounds of a Movement

Goddard alumni vocalize for

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lumni joined the Plainfield

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graduating student Ronnie

The Board welcomed three

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his fall, President Robert

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Tales of Romance from

Maggie Cleveland & Jake Hasson

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Jane & George Ansley

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