mazing Al Amazing Alum umn nus Archie Shepp Shep p (BA ’59) receives the Goddard Award for Excellence. A host of talented talented alumni and international international performers play the Haybarn Theatre. page 7
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4 Discover Goddard Day, Plaineld,, V t. Plaineld
9 Bread & Puppet’s “The Birdcatcher in Hell,” Plaineld, Vt.
1 Damien Echols Reading & Book Signing, Plaineld, Vt.
15-June 22 350.org 22 350.org Climate Change Art Exhibit, Goddard Art Galler y, Montpelier, Vt.
13 Global Lens Film Series, 13 Global Port Townsend, Wash.
1-5 2013 Clockhouse Writers’ 1-5 2013 Conference East, Plaineld, Vt.
13-15 Board 13-15 Board of Trustees
5 WGDR/Goddard Concert: Garifuna
18 18 Alternative Alternative Media Vt. Conference, Plaineld,
Collective, Plaineld, Vt. 12-19 EDU Residency, Plaineld, Vt.
18 Combustible Cabaret/Digital 18 Combustible Vaudeville, Plaineld, Vt.
Meeting, Plaineld, Vt. 22 WGDR/Goddard 22 WGDR/Goddard Concert: Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars, Plaineld, Plain eld, Vt.
23-26 Outreach Event: AERO 23-26 Outreach Conference, New York, N.Y.
25 Great Small Works Traveling 25 Great Toy Theatre, Plaineld, Vt.
15-18 GEAR Conference, Plaineld, Vt.
24 Outreach Event: Info Session and 24 Outreach Performance at Chhandayan Center for Indian Music, New N ew York, N.Y.
28-July 5 MFAW 5 MFAW Residency, Plaineld,, V t. Plaineld
26-Aug. 2 MFAIA 2 MFAIA Residency, Plaineld, Vt.
30 Global Lens Film Series, 30 Global Port Townsend, Wash.
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AUGUST AUG UST 9-16 MA HAS Residency, Plaineld, Vt. 9-16 IMA Residency, Plaineld, Vt. 23-30 Undergraduate Program 1 (UGP1) 23-30 Undergraduate Residency, Plaineld, Vt.: BAS, HAS, IBA
20-27 MA PSY Residency, 20-27 MA Plaineld, Vt. 20-28 Undergraduate Program 20-28 Undergraduate Residency, Port Townsend, Wash.: BAS, HAS, IBA 20-28 MFAIA Residency, 20-28 MFAIA Port Townsend, Wash.
25 Outreach Event: UCLA Writers’ 25 Outreach Faire, Los Angeles, Calif.
BREAKING DAWN
Waves lap at the shore of the Puget Sound, situated just below God dard’s camp us in Port Townsend, Wash. Meet the Port Townsend staff members on page 16.
12-20 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend, Wash.
27-Aug. 3 EDU 3 EDU Residency, Seattle, Wash.
OCTOBER 4-11 Undergraduate Program 2 (UGP2) 4-11 Undergraduate Residency, Plaineld, Vt.: BFAW, IBA 8 Cornelius Eady Reading & Goddard Mini Lit Fest, Plaineld, Vt. 18-20 150th Anniversary Homecoming 18-20 150th Weekend, Plaineld, Vt. 19 Discover 19 Discover Goddard Day
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a panel discussion discus sion called “Reinvention of Higher Education; Reinvention for Whom?” sponsored by the Chronicle of Higher Education Education at the American Council on Education conference. The
discussion, attended presidents the United States, wasbya college critical reminder remi nder offrom our across urgent need to respond to t he new demands for accountability, aordability and relevance in higher education. Colleges now face extraordinary nancial pressures, coupled with rapidly changing technology. Learners now operate in an age of unprecedented access to information and bodies of knowledge. With the advent of Massive Open Online Onl ine Courses (MOOCS) (MOOCS) as one example of how higher education is responding to the call for accessibility and aordability, there has been much debate about their potential to democratize education on the one hand, or further furt her exacerbate a growing educational divide on the other. MOOCs are a current cur rent innovation; they are educational tools. Content-delivery Content-delivery tools, however, howev er, need to be held within a framewor f ramework k that takes rresponsibility esponsibility for contextualizing contextuali zing information with the direct experience that forms the basis of knowledge—the relationship between the knower and the known. That framework framework is at the h heart eart of progressive education, and that is why Goddard’s Goddard’s voice is needed, now more than tha n ever, in these national conversations about reform. For example, Goddard’s Goddard’s model of delivering education in the community, as we are doing in our Seattle S eattle Education program, o oers ers a much needed, innovative response that I believe is the next iteration of progressive education and an antidote to what ails higher h igher education.
Goddard’s model of delivering education in the community, as we are doing in i n our Seattle Education E ducation program, offers a much needed, innovative response. Designed and founded in response to a request from bilingual education students, the Seattle EDU program was founded in i n the Columbia City neighborhood, one of tthe he most ethnically, culturally and linguistically diverse zip codes in the nation. Faculty work closely with students and community stakeholders to deliver the program in the community centers, local agencies and social halls ha lls that comprise t he ““campus.” campus.” It It is a dual-language, multicultural program that supports learners as they to continue to work, parent and develop education in their own community. It is a learner/learning-centered, learner/learning-centered, community-based model that honors and embraces place, family, culture and a nd the art arts. s. It is low-residency low-residency,, responsive, exible, aordable, aordable, and accessible to urban working adults. The Seattle EDU program is the reinvention rei nvention I believe we need. It is a clear demonstration of Goddard’s Goddard’s commitment to progressive progre ssive education, and a clear commitment to social change cha nge that aligns with the Goddard mission. As educato e ducatorr Paulo Freire said, “Knowled “Knowledge ge emerges only through invention and reinvention, through the restless, impatient, continuing, hopeful inquiry that human beings pursue pu rsue in tthe he world world,, with the world, and with each other.” Let the reinvention rei nvention con continue, tinue, with Goddard at the heart of it.
Barbara Vacarr, PhD
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Features
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7 Creative Communiti Communities es
Legendary saxophonist Archie Shepp (BA ’59) and a host of international performers draw crowds to the Haybarn Theatre.
BY BRENT HALLENBEC K, BURLINGTON FREE PRESS
12 Q&A with Paul Molyneaux 12
Paul Molyneaux (IBA ’97) came to Goddard a sherman and left a writer and advocate.
BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)
14 14 Academic Partnerships
Goddard reaches into the community to meet the needs of 21st-century students.
BY JOHN ODUM (BA ’97 – ’98)
16 16 Welcome to Port Townsend! Townsend!
Meet the staff members of the low-residency program in Port Townsend, Washington.
BY DARRAH CLOUD, MFAW FACULTY
28 Creative Weavings 28 Weavings of Art
A Goddard student brings graduates and students together for a new arts festival.
BY JIM SABLE, PRISMATIC PRODUCTIONS , INC.
Departments
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2 Events Calendar
29 Faculty/Staff Notes
3 From the President
32 In Memoriam
5 College Briefs
33 In Remembrance: Remembrance: Walter Butts, 1944–2013
1 11 1 On Air: WGDR Briefs 18 Alumni Portfolio 20 Class Notes
34 Goddard in the World
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Plainfield Campus Goes Fiber Optic
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THREE-YEAR PROJECT that
involves Information Technology, Facilities and our Internet service provider is coming to fruition: a new ber optic interne t connection at the Plaineld campus. Workers dug a trench in front of The Manor in December, above, to bring ber optic data transmission into campus. The new connection, which goes live this spring, will be 15 times faster than the current connec tion.
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will read from his bestselling memoir, Life After Death, on July 1 at the Plaineld campus. Convicted of murder, Echols spent nearly 18 years on death row before his release in 201 2011. 1. His story is featured in the documentary lms Paradise Lost and West of Memphis. A Q&A, reception and book signing will follow the reading. AM IEN ECH OL S
This event is free and open to the public as part of the MFA in Creative Writing Program’s Visiting Writers Series.
HE GODDARD EDUCATION ALUMNI
Retreat, or GEAR, is the Education Program’s professional development initiative that began last July thanks to a group of alumni. The 2nd annual GEAR is July 15–18 15–1 8 at the Vermont campus. This year’s “unconference” theme is Progressive Education in Action: Passions and Challenges. There will also be roundtable conversations with fellow alumni and current students, an advisory session with Program Director Sue Fleming, and a chance to earn a certicate for 20 hours of professional development. Learn more and register at goddard.edu/GEAR.
“Unfamiliar Picnic,” an exhibit last December at the pop-up gallery in Montpelier.
Goddard Gallery in Montpelier
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received a local food sustainability award from Food Works at Two Rivers Center. He has brought the Plaineld campus to almost 80% local foods, with a goal of be coming 100% locally sourced.
showcasing local artists at a “popup” art gallery in downtown Montpelier. The gallery is a welcome presence for Goddard in Montpelier and is a great way to reconnect with the community and alumni. From May 15–June 22, the gallery will host 350.org’s Multi-Media Climate Change Exhibit, with an artist reception on June 7 ODDARD IS
during Montpelier’s Art Walk.
Stop by the gallery at 54 Main Street, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12 to 5 p.m., and Fridays and Saturdays from 12 to 7 p.m.
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and commentary by Jonatha n Katz (BA RUP ’71), ’71), two new Storyphone s tories are now available online. Listen to Ruth Greenwold Deming (BA RUP ’64–’66) tell he r tale of coming-of-age in the 1960s at goddard.edu/Ruth, or Larry Reiner (BA (BA RUP ’56) share his memories of Goddard in the 1950s at goddard.edu/Larry. EPLETE WITH PHOTOS
To record your own memories of Goddard, call the Storyphone at 1.802.230.4702. (Storyphone has a 3-minute time limit, so be prepared to speak at the beep!)
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HEF PAUL SOMERSET
Watch a video about the sustainable food program at goddard.edu/Food-Program.
Vermont Staff Staff Members Unionize
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HE VERMONT STAFF is
now part of United Auto Workers Local 2322, based in Mass., which already represents the College’s faculty. The vote was held via secret ballot on January 23 at the Plaineld campus and conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. “We look forward to engaging in a constructive dialogue with union representatives to preserve and improve a positive work environment for staff at Goddard College,” says President Vacarr.
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Never Made a Gift to Goddard? Game On! N ANONYMOUS DONOR
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offered Goddard $5,000 for the Annual Fund if we can nd 50 new donors by June 30, 2013. Won’t you join our new don or challe nge? He lp us meet our goal of 50 new donors by June 30, 201 2013. 3. We accept online donations at goddard.edu/giving.
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Hip Artists in Residence HIS SPRING, Sierra
Leone's Refugee All
Stars return to the Plaineld campus as Artists in Residence. They played a sold-out show at the Haybarn The atre last September, part of the WGDR/Goddard College Concert series. The 7-person band will rehearse on campus for a month as they prepare to record their new album this June. A second concert is scheduled for June 22.
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Tickets and more info at goddard.edu/concerts.
Got Old T-shirts from Your Days at Goddard? Send in a photo of your old Goddard College T-shirt to be added to a collection of T-shirt designs throughout the ages! We will start an album on Facebook and goddard.edu as part of our 150th Anniversary. Send your photo as a JPEG to
[email protected].
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Alternative Media Conference on May 18
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Alternative Media Conference brought 2,000 guests to Goddard and changed a lot of lives. Now, 43 ye ars later, the college is holding another Alternative Media Conference to honor its 150th Anniversary. Featured speakers include Thom Hartmann, Ellen Ratner, Maxie C Jackson III, and Andi Zeisler, among others. Along with keynotes, TEDstyle talks, and an evening program of Combustible Cabaret/Digital Vaudeville, Larr y Yurdin (BA RUP ‘67) a coordinator of the original conference, will give a present ation on the 197 1970 0 event. WGDR kicks off the conference on May 17 with special live programming of the Thom Hartmann Show with guest U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders. N 1970, THE HISTORIC
Register for the conference at goddard.edu/alternative-media.
Design-Build Update
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N MANY TANGIBLE WAYS, Goddard
is moving forward to bring the design buildings back to life. With a $4,000 grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and generous alumni donations, architect David Sellers recently completed Organic Architecture at Goddard College, a report recommending next steps for a participatory, education-based renovation of the buildings. President Barbara Vacarr is meeting with alumni whose experiences with buildings led to careers in architecture and building, and a grant from the Block Foundation is allowing Goddard to hire staff to continue planning and outreach to alumni, potential partners and community members. Plus, a community arts partnership, Central Vermont Arts, recently formed to help expand community ties and interest in reviving these buildings as arts spaces.
The project’s success depends on you! To get involved, call c all 802. 322.1 322.1767 767 or contact
[email protected].
Daughter of Alumna Wins Grammy! Gamelan Finds New Home
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moved to its new home at the Prat t Library in Plaineld. Named “Sulukala” by Dennis Murp hy (faculty, ‘67-‘81 ‘67-‘81), ), Goddard’s rst teacher of this unusual assembly of instruments, Goddard’s gamelan is the perfect vehicle to engage students in the sensibility of culture. Kathy open and Steven Light (BAanother RUP ’75) are holding gamelan rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m. To get involved:
[email protected].
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Jdaughter of the AN IS IA N,
late Pearl Fink (BA ’80), has won the 2013 201 3 Grammy Award for Bes t Spoken Word Album. Respected competitors included Bill Clinton, Michelle Obama, Ellen Degeneres and Rachel Maddow. Janis’ autobiography, Societ y’s Chil Child d , took home the award. Congratulations, Janis! In memory of her mother Pearl, Janis and her brother established The Pearl Fink Scholarship at Goddard.
Sustainability Report Shows Marked Progress
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sustainability team formed in 2007 2007,, the College has made great strides in energy efciency and reduced carbon emissions. The Vermont campus used 4,178 fewer gallons of heating oil in FY 2012 than in FY 2011 and reduced emissions from electricity by half a ton. Plans are underway for a wood chip boiler to heat the campus. Similar biomass and woodchip facilities at INCE GODDARD’S
other colleges have reduced us e of heating oil by 90 perce nt perthe year. Read the full report at goddard.edu/ semiannual-sustainability-report.
BY BRENT HALLENBECK Burlington Free Press Staff Writer Reprinted with permission
Goddard Fuels the Plaineld Arts Scene
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oddard College President Barbara Vacarr presented Archie Shepp (BA ’59) available with an award excellence Article in for print only just before his Jan. 19 19 concert in the Haybarn Theatre, introducing him as “a true legend” not just in the world of jazz but in the black arts movement of the 1960s. When it was Shepp’s Shepp’s turn to speak, he returned returne d the favor with praise for his alma mater. mater. CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER SUMMER 2013
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transformative experience. It changed my entire life,” l ife,” the 75-year-old saxophone player said moments moments before he and his quartet would take the t he stage. “It opened up a world for me. me.”” Shepp took the train from the heart of Philadelphia in 1955 to the small campus 10 miles east of Montpelier. He arrived on a full ful l scholarship to study pre-law, but was so enthralled with the school’s adventurous arts curriculum that he became a theater major. He wrote plays and poetry, became a social activist and fell into music, eventually playing with jazz greats John Coltrane and Cecil Taylor and earning recognition as one of the major players in the avant-garde jazz world of the ‘60s. The campus of shingle-sided buildings tucked in the woods just west of the village of Plaineld grew as the back-to-the-land “hippie” movement of the 1960s
a haven for freewheeling creativity began to fade. Shepp’s concert is the latest sign that Goddard, and by association Plaineld, is alive and well. Vacarr is overseeing an artistic renaissance permeating the campus and the town. The college presents monthly concerts at the Haybarn and is involved in a new organization called Central Vermont Arts that’s seeking to strengthen the t he creative scene in and around Plaineld. So much for the talk of the past decade that Goddard College is dead. “I don’t think that conversation is happening anymore,” said Kris Gruen, a Goddard graduate who’s director of the campus radio station and copresenter of the t he college’s concert series. “There’s a lot of energy and alumni alum ni celebration.”
An artistic arti stic history You could argue th that at tiny Plaineld Plain eld (population
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took root, with free-thinking, creative types leaving the cities in search of a simpler life in rural Vermont. Reuben Jackson, an English teacher at Burlington High School and jazz DJ on Vermont Vermont Public Radio, said at Shepp’s appearance that the cab c ab driver who brought him to campus in i n 1975 called Goddard “Little Moscow” in reference to the t he college’s leftleft-leaning leaning reputation. The small school ran into nancial trouble and eliminated its 125-student residential undergraduate
Starti ng with Shepp, just about anyone with Vermont Starting ties who’s known nationally in the arts-andentertainment world passed through Plaineld at some signicant point in their formative creative years. Phish is known for starting in Burlington at the University of Vermont, Vermont, but three of the t he four band members nished their studies at Goddard and the one who didn’t, Mike Gordon, has said he had his transcendent musical experience at a Goddard gig. Grace Potter and the Nocturnals are based in Waitseld, but the rockers recorded “Nothing But the Water” at the Haybarn Theatre and wrote in the liner notes to their breakthrough album that t hat the 1868 building provided ““aa creative force that was greater than all of us combined.” Playwright David Mamet and actor William H. Macy burst out of Goddard before before earning earni ng Pulitzers and Oscar nominations. Goddard alumnus Jay Crav Craven en became one
program in June 2002. Students continued conti nued tobut attend under Goddard’s “low-residency” “low-residency” program, only for a few days at a time rather than entire semesters. The campus presence that made Plaineld
of Vermont’s Vermont’s top concert promoters and has directed di rected lms starring Michael J. Fox and Kris Kristoerson. Creative social agitators Bread & Puppet Theater left New York York City in the 1970s and spent a few years in
“My education at Goddard inspired a fusion of in the soul and intellect. i ntellect.” ”
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BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE An eclectic mix of artists has graced the stage of the Haybarn Theatre in recent years. From left, the folk-rock group Session Americana played on Feb. 22; Debo Band brought its Ethiopian pop music to Plaineld on March 30; and Birds of Chicago per formed North American roo ts music on Nov. 1.
Plaineld at the i nvitation of Goddard before mo moving ving to their now-legendary home in the Northeast Kingdom. Plaineld lacks the urban cache of Burlington, the
drew out-of-town friends for weekend-long parties. The Azarians’ three sons were just the right age to enjoy Bread & Puppet’s performances in the ’70s. Azarian
hip energy of Brattleboro and the artsy reputation of Bennington. But it has the credentials, and the history. “It’ “It’ss a very open, tolerant and a nd progressive place,” said Art Schaller, a professor of architecture at Norwich University who attended Shepp’s Shepp’s concert with his h is wife, Anne Schaller. “That’s important in our times.” Schaller is happy that Goddard is back in the concert business. “It’s bringing to Vermont Vermont a seminal semina l jazz great,” he said of Shepp, “which is amazing amazi ng because we’re so remote.”
listens regularly to WGDR, the 40-year-old campus radio station with a devoted public-radio-like following. She was dismayed to see Goddard slide into relative obscurity, and she’s thrilled to see the campus return to the public eye. Now 72 years old and a selfproclaimed “solitary” artist, Azarian has ventured to Plaineld for a pair of performances performance s at Goddard in the past few months — one by West African guitarist Bombino and another by Bread & Puppet. “It was really faltering,” Azarian said. “Goddard “Goddard was a huge asset in this t his area, and it’ it ’s going back that way after years of almost al most not existing.”
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Plaineld and environs had “next to nothing” arts-wise when Mary Azarian and her then-husband, Tom Azarian, moved to the area in 1963, she said. The native of suburban Washington, D.C., said they were on their own “backto-the-land trip” in those days. Gradually, like-minded creative people began to join them in central Vermont. Azarian began her career as an artist in the mid‘60s, starting with woodcut note cards and a nd posters as well as decorative pillboxes. She became best known k nown as an illustrator of children’s books, winning the genre’s prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1999 for her book about famed Vermont photographer Snowake Bentley. Goddard College has been a big part of Mary Azarian’s life throughout her 50 years in central Vermont. Vermo nt. “Goddard was an a n un unlooked-for looked-for godsend when we rst moved here, in i n so many ways,” she said as she made soup and pies on a recent Thursday in the kitchen of her home ve miles outside of Plaineld.
around the arts in printRallying only Kris Gruen welcomed the crowd to Shepp’s concert,
The family’s pipes froze soon after moving to the area, Azarian said, sa id, so they went to Goddard for showers. They attended concerts on campus ranging rangi ng from a show by banjo legend Earl Scruggs to ddle conventions conventions that
noting that th at many of the nearly 400 people crowding the Haybarn Theatre were Goddard alumni. “There’s a real calling of the tribe here tonight,” he said. Gruen is part of that tribe, having graduated from Goddard in 1997. 1997. Much li ke Shepp, he attended Goddard with no plans to pursue music. “I couldn’t play a bongo,” bongo,” he said, adding tthat hat he was oversaturated by the musical world as the son of renowned rock ‘n’ roll photographer Bob Gruen. But after taking a class in New Orleans traditional music with professor Don Glasgo, he left lef t Goddard on track to become a professional musician. Along with his duties as the director of WGDR and co-presenter of the college’s concert series, Gruen is a singersongwriter nalizing plans for his third album. Music surrounded Gruen at Goddard. He remembers going to concerts by jazz heroes Lester Bowie and Kermit Runs and missing one by a then-obscure folk-punk CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER SUMMER 2013
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“As a creative-economy creative -economy advocate, I realized other areas have ski sk i resorts — we have Goddard College. College.” ” MEG HAMMOND, GODDARD EVENTS MANAGER
GLOBAL FLAVOR Left , Omara “Bombino” Moctar, an international internationally ly acclaimed Tuareg Tuareg guitarist and singer-songwriter, performs at the Haybarn Theatre. Right , President Vacarr with Archie Shepp, who received the Goddard Award for Excellence.
Goddard’ss Concert History Goddard’ From its earliest days in Plaineld, Goddard has been a place for people to come to hear live music. Here is a small list of notable music events spanning 50 years: 1945 Violinist Ernest Eniti 1963 Violinist Florence Embretsen
playing a 1650 Amati violin, Old Time Fiddlers Association, Musicians John Cage and David Tudor 1965 Premiere of “Map Room,” a performance art piece by Robert Rauschenberg 1966 An Impolite Evening with Paul Krassner, a noted counter-culture gure and satirist 1967 Amsterdam University String Quartet 1971–1973 Blue Oyster Cult, Randy Newman, Earl Scruggs, Savoy Brown, Patti Labelle and the Bluebells, Black Sabbath 1976 Martin Mull in concert 1980s Phish “Springfests” 1989 Phish at Sculpture Building 1995 Chopin Under the Stars
concert by Jon Nakamatsu
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musician named Ani DiFranco who played within a circle ci rcle of 14 listeners at the Haybarn. Gruen was at Goddard
standing concert series at Goddard. They staged their rst show in the Haybarn in September 2011 with Luisa
at the sameBrian t ime Boyes, time as central trumpeter whoVermont was part of the jazz-funk band viperHouse that a decade and a half ago was on the verge of becoming the next big musical export from Goddard. As lively as the artistic scene was, it covered a more serious nancial strain that threatened Goddard’s survival. “I had no sense that the college was at any point of change,” Gruen said. He spoke over dinner on a recent Thursday night at Positive Pie on Main Street. With him was Meg Hammond, the Goddard events manager who with Gruen presents the concerts on campus. Hammond was co-owner of the Langdon Street Café and recalls after opening that music venue and social gathering space in Montpelier in 2004 that customers would express their dismay at Goddard’s Goddard’s recent cut cuts. s. She also noticed the pool of potential employees at the café start to dissipate with the loss of residential students. Vacarr, who became Goddard president in 2010, was a frequent fre quent customer at the Langdon Street Café, according to Hammond, and
Maita, a Brazilian singer signed to the Vermont-based world-music label Cumbancha that’s run by Plaineld native Jacob Edgar. Hammond said some of those who attended met up with fellow members of the Goddard community they hadn’t seen in 25 years. They followed that concert with one by internationally known Vermont folksinger Ana� Ana�s Mitchell, wife of Noah Hahn, who was a co-owner of the Langdon Street Café with Hammond. That concert sold out. “It was really exciting to see the community want to come,” Gruen said. Goddard is not only raising its public prole through the concerts, the college is hosting renowned choreographer Liz Lerman as a visiting artist this spring. Previous administrations at Goddard built the low-residency program into a stronger position, Gruen said, sa id, and Vacarr took that a step further by introducing the community to the fact that the college remains important to the community artistically and nancially. “She said, ‘This place has to matter to the place it’s sitting in,’” i n,’” Gruen said of Vacarr. He and Hammond share that
awhich big supporter of thetwo arts.years The ago, café, closed almost was nearing its end when Gruen and Hammond began reviving the long-
philosophy. “As a creative-economy advocate,” advoca te,” Hammond said, “I realized other areas have ski resorts — we have Goddard College.” CW
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rogramming at WGDR, long dened by lack of formal direction and support, is now t for a new pair of shoes to walk down Goddard's renewed academic road. In 2010, 2010, college leaders began to envision WGDR as a more deeply integrated component of its academic programs. The result of that re-envisioning is an innovative evaluation and assessment program called the Self Directed Direc ted Inquiry (SDI), which began on March 1 1.. The SDI combines the aims and values of the College’s mission, its programmatic criteria and its strategic plan, with best community radio practices set forth for th by the National Federation of Community Broadcasters and the National Center for Media Engagement. The program was developed collaboratively with the support of the Programmer Advisory Committee and the greater WGDR programmer community at large. As part of the SDI, every programmer now submits a study/ show plan and self-evaluation, and participates in an annual review. The goal is for the SDI to support and monitor the growth and practice of each programmer while improving the listener’s experience with more focused and intentional programming.
he training program welcomed 12 new programmers to the WGDR/WGDH community in the last year. In November, the station partnered with Cabot Arts to broadcast “A Day in the Life,” a Beatles-focused radio documentary series produced by Cabot High School music students. This project inspired a revamped version of WGDR/WGDH’s Community Based Learning curriculum. Now, under the guidance of an experienced programmer, students create radio segments covering a wide range of topics, including music, lm and current affairs. Students present their segments and learn on-air broadcasting techniques mid-semester, and complete the semester by taking the programmer exam. Below, WGDR Training Coordinator Jackie Batten talks with a group of Cabot High School students on site in the station’s production studio.
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n-Air is a new standing s tanding feature in Clockworks magazine. Thank you to Training Coordinator Jackie Batten, Programmer Support Coordinator Leah Xylona, and WGDR Director Kris Gruen for compiling these notes. Look for the next “On-Air” in the next issue, or tune in for real at 91.1 FM Plaineld, 91.7 91 .7 FM Hardwick, or stream live at wgdr.org. WGDR was established in 1973 as a unique, collegebased community radio station serving the central Vermont region from the Goddard campus in Plaineld, Vt. WGDR/WGDH now operates as a true hybrid radio station, supported both by the college and surrounding communities. Over 60 local volunteers contribute to each week’s broadcast, providing music, news and public affairs programming.
GDR has joined and is now archiving shows and interviews on Sound Cloud (soundcloud.com/wgdr ), ), an audio social networking site where a global community of listeners comment, interact, and learn more about all of the radio programs produced at Goddard. On Feb. Fe b. 14, “Woman Stirred Radio” host Merry Gangemi interviewed Davida Singer, who is nominated for the 2013 Lambda Poetry Award.
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Alumnus Spotlight
with wi th Paul Paul Molyneaux Molyneaux (IBA ( IBA ’97) BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01 AND ALUMNI OUTREACH COORDINATOR)
A LIFE LES S ORDINARY
Paul Molyneaux sails with his children, Asher and Oona, left. Posing with his wife, Regina Grabrovac, and their kids in front of the log cabin they’re building behind their home in East Machias, Maine. The family is working to create a peaceful living space without electricity.
AUL MOLYNE MOLYNEAUX AUX REACHED OUT TO US last year in response to a question we asked in our winter annual appeal. The question was “Where would I be without Goddard?”
In addition to his gift to the Annual Fund, Paul included a brief answer to our question. Intrigued by his story, I followed up with him. Read this interview to learn how Paul, after years as a commercial sherman, came to Goddard, studied writing and literature, and became a successful writer and advocate for sustainable aquaculture, and how this brought his family closer close r together.
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Dustin Byerly: Can you tell me a bit about your background? Paul Molyneaux: After graduating from high school I worked in the commercial shing industry. In the late ’80s, I quit the industrial sheries and moved to Downeast Maine where I read Wendell Berry, Masanobu Fukuoka and other sustainable agriculture thinkers. I tried to apply the principles of
human-powered food production to sheries. built a dory, an ocean-worthy rowboat, and workedIalong the coast under sail and oar power. All was going well until the sheries I relied on, periwinkles and
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sea urchins, took a downturn and I saw the pattern of depletion repeating itself. I knew I had to do something dierent, and I thought it was time to write. DB: How did you find Goddard? PM: I just headed west on Route 2 until unti l I came to the sign that said, Goddard College—hahaha! A neighbor of mine had gone to Goddard
and told mebut about had an appreciation education, not it. forI institutions, or sittingfor inside, and so Goddard seemed like the perfect place for me. I inquired for information but could not
aord to go. Then, in 1995, 1995, the federal government launched the Fishermen’s Retraining Program. I qualied and was able to go to Goddard.
has focused on sustainable fisheries and aquaculture. Since you first started looking into this subject, how have things changed?
DB: What was your experience at Goddard like?
PM: Nothing fundamental has changed since I started looking into this. When people talk about sustainability, the rst thing to do is identify what they are trying to sustain: economic growth or cultures and ecosystems. My books get into this th is more deeply, deeply, but essentially essential ly the drive to sustain economic growth through industrial sheries and aquaculture, the kind of food production that ts the multinational business model, depletes resources and destroys cultures. The speculators in these businesses often rely on start-up subsidies, particularly unlimited clean water, and the ability to pass risk on to the public and the voiceless wild species. A disproportionately small amount of the available money goes into research for truly sustainable and protable aquacultu aquaculture re such as land-based aquaponics and online marketing development to aid artisanal shers. But these projects are moving forward.
PM: I was something of a purist when I went to Goddard. At the time, I had no credit cards, ca rds, no telephone and no e-mail. I lived in a 16-foot diameter yurt i n the middle of 30 acres. I didn’t have a vehicle worthy of the trip, so I hitchhiked to the residencies. Residencies were by far the best part of any semester. For those eight days, I indulged in orgies orgie s of ideas, bouncing o all the amazing people. Then I would go home and type all my work on a manual Royal typewriter. I worked with [former faculty member] Rob Tarule (MA GGP ’83) ’83) and enjoyed hi him m immensely; he was just what I needed in the shift from sherman to writer.
My nal semester, I worked with [former faculty member] Beth Parkhurst, the t he jewel of my Goddard experience. Working with Beth was like working with a Zen master who would only speak to me in kōans. She would say say,, “You missed someth ing.” I would say, “What?” She would say no more. Drove me crazy, but wow, wow, she pushed me to dig deep into stories to question all assumptions. Writing is a gift, and Beth taught me how to use it with skill, and most importantly, how to unearth the truth of a story. DB: Did your Goddard education help you in your career?
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Paul enjoys his 1997 Goddard, graduation from above, third from left. “Residencies were by far the best part of any semester,” he recalls. “For those eight days, I indulged in orgies of ideas, bouncing off all the amazing people. Then I would go home and type all my work on a manual Royal typewriter.” typewrite r.”
DB: What do you see as some of the biggest challenges? PM: Changing what we believe. Belief often seems impervious to logic. DB: I know that you just had a new book published. Could you tell us a little bit about the book? PM: When I couldn’t publish my third sheries sherie s book,
PM: Coming out of Goddard I intended to write novels.
I started having many personal issues – nancial,
A year after I graduated, g raduated, I was writing “Outdoor” columns for The New York Times Times , had my rst book oer, oer, and was supporting my family as a writer. In 2003, I won the Alicia Patterson Journalism Journal ism Fellowship. In 2005 I published my rst book, The Doryman’s Reection. Following that, I used my aquaculture research to lay the groundwor g roundwork k for my second book, Swimming in Circles: Aquaculture and the End of Wild Oceans. Oceans. In 2007,, I won a Guggen 2007 Guggenheim heim Fellowship, which fu funded nded a trip around the world in search of sustainable sheries. So yes, I think Goddard helped fuel all that.
marital, etc. My son, Asher, age 7 at the time, asked if we could hike hik e the Appalachian Trail (AT). (AT). I said, we could thi nk about it. We did, and on March 9, 201 2010, 0, a few days before his eighth birthday bir thday,, we set out to th ruhike the t he AT AT.. My wife took my place with hi m for 260 miles, and my daughter joined us for 600 miles, and after seven months on the trail we scaled Mt. Katahdin. My son is the youngest Mainer to hike the AT. Upon our return, I wrote down the story. I asked him to do a drawing for every day we were on the trail, trai l, and now now,, three thre e years later, we are about to set out on a book tour for A Child’s Walk in the Wilderness , illustrated with 40 of Asher’s drawings. drawings. This is my rst book that is not about sheries,
DB: Looking back, what does your Goddard education mean to you? PM: Goddard gave me the best educational experience of my life: self-directed, yet demanding. DB: A lot of your writing and research
and it isseparating veryme well. And, than my writing sdoing eparating from myrather family, as it has often done, this thi s work – the trail, the book, everythi ng – has brought us closer together. CW
Check out Paul’s new book in the “Alumni Portfolio” on page 18.
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BY JOHN ODUM (BA ’97 – ’98)
Academic Academic Partnerships
Meeting the Needs of 21st-Century Students
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information culture evolve, meeting the needs of students in higher learning settings has also been forced to evolve. Goddard College has been at the forefront of the distance learning revolution since 1963.. Now, 1963 Now, the college is at the t he forefront of academic partnerships – collaborations with an array of organizations and a nd educational institutions – that take the classroom directly into communities and professional workplaces. In Game Changers , a collection of essays published by Educause, Daniel Pianko and Josh Jarrett suggest that breaking break ing up the “iron triangle” of access, quality outcomes and education costs is crucial for the future of higher education, and that academic partnerships – such as those undertaken by Goddard – are the means to that end. According to Pianko and Jarrett, “the best of these partnerships appear to be simultaneously expanding access, improving quality and delivering nancial sustainability.” Curricula based on academic partnerships have particular particu lar appeal for “nontraditional” students – a rising demographic already served by Goddard’s Goddard’s educational paradigm. According to U.S. Department of Education estimates, up to 75 percent of currently enrolled postsecondary students are dened as nontraditional, with distance education courses accounting for an estimated 12.2 million enrollments nationwide. Already a leader in distance learning, Goddard’ss early start on Goddard’ emphasizing academic partnerships make Goddard Watch a video of Erin Fristad talking particularly well-suited about Port Townsend’ ownsend’ss partnerships par tnerships to meet the needs of the at goddard.edu/Video-Partnerships 21st-centur 21st -century y student. andPartnership AdmissionsManager Counselor Heather Labor explains, “students can bring in credits they’ve t hey’ve earned in other professional
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traini ng programs and apply them toward a training bachelor’ss degree at Goddard.” bachelor’ Goddard.” A partnership like this, t his, she says, “honors their work outside the classroom. It says, ‘this is equal to college credit.’” Labor cited the example of the Birthwise partnership. Students who train at Birthwise, a midwifery school in Maine, can earn ear n up to 45 semester credits for their t heir work there, which are applied to meeting degree requirements in programs such as health arts and sciences. Along with the benets to students and the college itself, the partners providing similar professional training see the advantages on their side as well. Kate G. Stephenson, executive director of Vermont’s Vermont’s Yestermorrow Design/Build School, notes tthe he easy academic synergy between the two institutions. “We have had a number of students over the years who have taken courses at Yestermorrow while also studying at Goddard through their IBA program, and with the launch of their BA in Sustainability studies, there seem to be more students interested in exploring issues of sustainability related to the built environment,” Stephenson observed. “Yestermorrow “Yestermorrow is not a degree-granting school,” which, adds Stephenson, “allows some of our students the opportunity opportu nity to pursue a bachelor’s degree through th rough Goddard.” Academic relationships are not limited to other academic institutions. Labor took particular pride in a new partnership with the Franklin Central Supervisory Union in Vermont. Vermont. “We are going into their school district and oering a three-credit course where educators are doing individualized study and getting a grasp on what we do at Goddard so well.” Labor explained that the enthusiasm isn’t limited to the student educators. “The administrators there have been so supportive. They’re excited about this – it’s it’s a dierent way for them to oer professional development.” For Goddard, “it’s wonderful,” she says. Educators can take the course four times and then bring 12 credits into Goddard’s Goddard’s Education Program. On the other side of the nation, Erin Fristad,
Goddard’ss East and Goddard’ West We st Coast Partners Birch TTree ree Center Birthwise Sch School ool of Mi Midwifery dwifery Bon Appetit Brookdale Community College Camden County College Community College of Vermont Everett Community College Franklin Central
HELPING HANDS Jenna Schmitz (BA HAS ’13), a graduate of the Birthwise Midwifery School in Maine, works with a traditional birth attendant in an outreach program she initiated in Haiti.
director of West Coast academic and public partnerships, notes their numerous partnerships with regional community
organic way in which his institution’s partnership with Goddard took shape. “The Goddard residency site and the
colleges such as Shoreline Community College, Everett Community College, Peninsula College, and the beginnings of conversations with community colleges in northern California. In addition, she points out the expansion expan sion of what she terms “resource, or programming partnerships.” “Those are partnerships with the Madrona Mind/Body Institute, the Port Townsend Townsend Mari Marine ne Science Center, and the Port Townsend Film Institute, for example. Partners,” claim Fristad, “who, through their areas of expertise, enhance programming opportunities opportunit ies for Goddard students.” students.” Fristad explained, “Madrona Mind/ Body faculty certied in Nia, in partnership with our faculty, taught an applied physiology physiolo gy cla class ss for our students, so it was a real collaborative experience. And last September, The Marine Science Center taught our new undergrads u ndergrads a workshop called ‘The Perversion of Plankton and the Secret Life of Barnacles.’ It was a hands-on class where students collected specimens and worked in the t he lab. It was one of many collaborations available to students during our rst undergraduate residency here in Port Townsend.”
Port Townsend School of Woodworking are both located at Fort Worden State Park. Both organizations have been active in the t he development of Fort Wo Worden rden as a lifelong learning center, and I worked with Erin in the Fort Worden Partners group. There was a lot of conversation about how we could work together and, in a cli-top walk, Erin and I started to explore the idea of a sculpture jam.” To Lawson, the pairing is a natural t. “As Goddard started to explore a wider w ider array of partnerships,” he recalled, “it was natural that we signed a transfer
The potential for academic and resource partnerships are everywhere. Port Townsend School of Woodworking co-founder Tim Lawson recalls the t he easy,
credit agreement for the graduates of our 12-week woodworking foundation course. The primary benet of this has been a signicant jump ju mp in the credibil credibility ity of the [woodworking] school.” Academic partnerships are also aording students greater opportunities for cross-cultural learning, as well as furthering each institutional partner’s own goals for enriching their curricula. The Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding has a series of lectures they provide for their students, and, according to Fristad, they’re interested in inviting the Goddard community and students to come to those events. “A faculty member in our MFA in
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Supervisory Union Institute for Integrative Nutrition Lordes Institute of Holistic Study Madrona Mind/Body National E Elevator levator Industry Education Program Peninsula College Port TTownsend ownsend Film Institute Port TTownsend ownsend Marine Science Center Port TTownsend ownsend School of Woodworking Portland Institute for Contemporary Art Rowe Camp and Conference Center Shoreline Community College Teacher Institute at La Academia Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism Warren County Community College Yestermorrow Design/ Build School
TAKING WING A lectern
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Erin Fristad, Director of West Coast
Academic Acad emic and Publ Public ic Part Pa rtnersh nersh ips Erin was working on a shing shi ng boat in Alaska when she was reached by land: Goddard College was calling; they wanted her to set up a campus in Port Townsend and run it. Her response? “Well, you’ll have to wait until salmon season is over!” And that is how Goddard’s occupation of Fort Worden essentially began. Erin graduated from the Vermont campus in 2003 with her MFA in poetry. Back home, she attended a meeting of alumni in Seattle, at which then-president Mark Schulman expressed interest in bringing Goddard to the Northwest. Goddard accepted many students from the area but they rarely enrolled because of the distance from f rom Vermont. Vermont. If the students couldn’t get to Goddard, Goddard would come to the t he students. The Port Townsend Townsend community communit y has embraced Goddard, due 16 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2013
mainly to Erin’s eorts: “We “We don’t serve education to people: we ask them what they want and need then we create it with them.” In the midst of all this, Erin has managed to keep publishing her poetry in numerous anthologies, and she recently published a chapbook titled The Glass Jar. Jar.
2 Joyce G ust ustafso afson, n, Operat O perations ions Manag Manager er Before coming to Goddard, Joyce worked worked as special assistant assist ant to the director di rector of the University of California’ Cali fornia’ss Education Abroad Program, which included oversight for the international exchange program on 10 UC campuses in 40 countries. She also served as director di rector of development for Direct Relief International, disaster reliefmedical organization basedtoinpeople Santa Barbara, Calif.,a that provides assistance aected by poverty, disaster and civil unrest around the world. She served on the board of the nonprot, Friends of Tibetan
Women’ Wom en’ss Association, aan n organization she helped found 25 years ago. She has also worked with tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka and Thailand, and with underserved street kids in Brazil. An avid sailor, Joyce has spent years at sea s ea including several extended ocean passages with her husband. Joyce has held a 100-ton U.S. Coast Guard Master’s Master’s license for three decades. Whenever she hears the t he foghorn at Fort Worden, she sighs with relief that t hat she’s she’s sailing saili ng The Help Desk instead of a boat.
3 Agn Agnes es Figueroa Fi gueroa -Ma -Marti rtinez nez,, IT S peci pecialis alist t Agnes’ passion for all things techie started as early as 8 or 9 years old. To To her mother’s chagrin, she dismantled practically every electrical device in the house to see how it was built and how it worked. A self-taught geek with w ith over 15 years of experience, she managed IT operations at Bellevue College in Washington, and she teaches online onl ine in addition to her work at Goddard. Agnes lives with one foot in her native Puerto Rico, taking care of her parents, and another in her beloved Seattle. Says Agnes, inofbetween panicky students who’ve lost work in the catacombs the Internet: “Instructional technology, which goes beyond the ‘how-to’ tech training train ing and moves into the applied use of technology in pedagogy …is what I’m very passionate about. I like the challenge of nding the best tool or way to adapt a tool to a particular curricular need. I very much enjoy the rewards of that ‘aha’ moment.” moment.”
4 Gloria Lamson, Student Life Coordinator Glo is an artist art ist when she’s not helping students locked out of their rooms while standing in their towels. She creates temporary site-specic installations in nature and architectural environments, which she documents with photographs. She holds an MFA MFA in art artss and consciousness. What motivates in her artwork? awhat rtwork? “I amme, moved use art-making to weaveher together is within withtowhat is around me. Interested in ‘bringing art to life,’ I look to the process of art to shape, hold and/or carry that which is begging beggi ng my attention. For me, it is a most profound and intimate way to dialogue with w ith my life and the t he world world.” .”
5 Carmiel Banasky, Residency Assistant Carmie grew up in Portland, Ore. She earned her BA in creative writing from the University of Arizona. After college, she worked on the Kerry campaign in Oregon for six months. Burned out and disappointed, she moved to Mississippi, Mi ssissippi, where, for two years, she tried to start a Planned Parenthood BC clinic. Since earning her MFA from Hunter College in 2010, where she studied with Colum McCann, Nathan 2010, Englander and Peter Carey, she’s she’s been working at Goddard and writing at artist colonies across the country. Her secret? She makes a killer molasses cookie.
6 Christopher Robinson, Residency Assistant Chris grew up in the Seattle area, playing video games, skateboarding and reading sci- novels. He earned degrees in English and a nd philosophy at the University of Washington, fell in love with poetry p oetry on a study st udy abroad program in Rome, Rome, then taught ESL, both in Seattle and in Seoul, South Korea, and performed in a hip-hop h ip-hop group. He hol holds ds an MA in ccreative reative writing from f rom Boston University University and MFA in poetry poetr y from Hunter College. There, he met famed fa med memoirist and Goddard alumna Mary Mar y Karr (MFAW (MFAW ’79) and became her assistant. Chris’ writing has appeared in The Missouri Review , Alaska Quarterly Review , Kenyon Review , and elsewhere. Last year he was a nalist nali st for the Yale Younger Poets Prize. His secret wish is to have Ezra Pound’s hair.
7 Jul Julie ie Miles Mi les,, Academi Aca demic c Ser vic vices es Specia Sp ecia list A landscape architect in Seattle for the past 15 years, Julie hails from Maryland, just outside of D.C., D.C., and spent her ch childhood ildhood and early adult years exploring the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern states. She has a BA from Dickinson College and a master of landscape architecture from the University of Virginia. She has three kids and loves hiking and kayaking in Port Townsend with her family. She is currently reading Rambunctious Garden: Saving Nature in a Post-Wild World World.. 8
Marc Gordon, Integrated Enrollment Specialist
Marc moved to the area a rea right after af ter 9/1 9/11. 1. He and his wife have two “wild yet gentle” boys and a small organic organ ic blueberry farm and artisan cidery ( finnriver.com finnriver.com) where they own and operate a guest cottage/vacation rental called the Huckleberry House. Marc travels the Northwest meeting alumni, faculty and transfer counselors at regional community colleges, and most importantly shares with prospective students the incredible opportunity opportunit y that Goddard’s Port Townsend Townsend site oers. The reason he walks walk s so slowly? “I’m “I’m steeped i n the gravity g ravity of life … …””
9 Lori Margaret, Student Life Coordinator Lori recently left Goddard to pursue other interests, but her contributions were a tremendous help to the Port Townsend site, right from the t he time she started in 2007 – when Goddard rst launched the MFAIA program. Her role evolved in conjunction with program growth and she contributed greatly to the development of a student services department. depart ment. Lori was part of the Goddard team in Seattle and supported the launch of the t he BA & MA in Education Program there. She was key, through her tireless eorts at community building and well-honed skills as a logistics wizard, to the development
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| alumni portfo portfolio lio | RAVEN OR CROW Joshua Amses (BFAW) Raven or Crow is Crow is both an “adultolescent” noir and a story of mistakes rooted in the t he ambivalence of being young and
without direction. Fomite Press, 2013 A CREATIVE CREATIV E APPROACH TO TH E COMMON CORE STANDARDS Harry Y. Chaucer (BA RUP ’72) A Creative Approach Approach shows that schools can cultivate genius while ensuring that all students realize the core skills that are crucial to all citizens. Rowan & Littlefeld, 2012 WAX Phil Duncan (MFAW-WA ’11) Raised from the grave by the shadowy shadowy gure gure of Dr. Blankenship, Yancey Muncey is now back in high school, hanging out with his best friend, and making plans for the upcoming Halloween carnival. RainTown Press, 2012 GIRLTRUTH FROM THE BELLY BE LLY Stacey Ginsburg (IMA ’08) Girltruth from the Belly is Belly is a coming of age memoir that Stacey worked on while in the IMA program at Goddard. Bone Soup Press (and Lulu.com), 2012 RETURN TO FIRST PRINCIPLES Budd Hallberg (MA GGP ’80) This examines the events that have caused the United States to depart radically from its foundational roots. AuthorHouse, 2012
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MYSTIC FOOL Andy Hill H ill (IBA (IB A ’08) A spirited romp across Southeast Asia, Mystic Fool Fool follows follows the exploits of a young man, led by alchemy
as he explores the innerand andalcohol, outer planes. CreateSpace, 2013 NEVADA Imogen Holding (MA PSY ’13) Nevada is Nevada is the darkly comedic story of Maria Griths, a young trans woman living in New York City and trying to stay true to her punk values while working retail. Topside Press, April 2013 BEAUTIFUL SNARE Laurie (Wagner Buyer) Jameson James on (MFAW ’01) Beautiful Snare Snare , the rst book in the Spirited Spirited Women Series, weaves the mysteries of love, loyalty and war into a compelling and timeless tale. Seven Oaks Publishing Publishing,, 2012 WINGS WINGS,, WORMS, WORMS , AND WONDER WOND ER Kelly Johnson (IMA ’12)
This book, which grew out of Johnson’s graduate thesis at Goddard, is a guide for creatively integrating gardening and outdoor learning into children’s lives. 1984 Printing, 2012 SIMPLY MURDER Chris Mackowski (MFAW ’01) Simply Murder Murder recounts the Battle of Fredericksburg, fought Dec. 13, 1862, and includes information and insights about the battleeld itself. Savas Beattie Press, 2012
ONE EI THE ON LEFT BEHIND Jennifer Jenni fer McMahon McM ahon (BA ’91 ’91)) “Haunting and harrowing, The One I Left Behind oers enthralling Behind suspense but also so much more: a richly poignant tale of the families we’re born into and the ones we build ourselves.” — Megan Abbott, author of Dare Me William Morrow, 2013 FALLING OFF THE WIND WI ND Richard Meibers (MA ’75) “A modern version of a Joseph Conrad adventure. Meibers has created an engaging tale of life on a Caribbean island where his challenges reect our own.” -Dwight Harshbarger Martin and Lawrence Press, 2012 PATHFINDING THROUGH THROUG H MULTIPLE PERSONALITY Stephen R. Merriman (BA ADP ’79) This book presents a panoramic, comprehensible approach to the treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder, from pre-diagnosis pre-diagnos is tthrough hrough nal integration integration,, covering all stages along the way. Four Rivers Press, 2012 A CHILD’S CHILD’ S WALK IN THE WILDERN WI LDERNESS ESS Paul Molyneaux (IBA ’97) A funny, poignant, clear-eyed account of Paul’s and his son’s modern-day wilderness adventure: adv enture: thru-hik thru-hiking ing the Appalachian Appalachian Trail over the course of seven months. Read how they handled ooded trails, snowy weather, bear country, steep climbs, temper tantrums and getting gett ing lost. Stackpole Books, 2013
| alumni portfo portfolio lio | PRACTICALLY NOTHING Carlaa Occaso Carl Occa so (MFAW ’11) ’11) A collection of short stories and essays from New England depicting the joys, pitfalls and lies that make up childhood, parenthood, pet ownership, family, aging and death. Self-published, 2012
THE SIN EATER AND OTHER OTH ER STORIES STO RIES Elizabeth Frankie Rollins (MFAW ’01) An adulterous husband, the bubonic plague, and growing tails: damage suuses the evocative stories of this debut collection. Queen’s Ferry Press, 2013
NATISHMA, SHAMAN OF THE CHESAPEAKES, FRIEND OF THE ROANOKE COLONY Richard Proescher (BA ADP ’81) What happened to the Lost Colony? In this novel, the world of a Nativee American culture is revealed at the Nativ
MEMOIR MADNESS Jenniferr Semple Jennife Sempl e Siegel (MFAW ’94) Memoir Madness Madness covers covers Jennifer’ss psyched Jennifer’ psychedelic elic days in Hollywood, her return to Sioux City, Iowa, her involuntary incarceration at a mental health facility, and, nally, her escape to Pennsylvania. Ban My Book Publishing, Publishing, 2012
time of rst contact Booklocker.com, Inc., with 2013 English people. SO YOU WANT TO BE A LEADE L EADER R Al Restivo Res tivo (MA ’85) This book helps established leaders enhance their understanding of leadership and mentors prospective leaders. Silver Thread Publishing Publishing,, 2012 MAKARA: A NOVEL Kristen Ringman (MFAW ’08) A novel about Fionnuala, a part-human, part-seal deaf woman who falls in love with Neela, a hearing woman in India. Handtype Press, 2012
MANDELA AND AMERICA AME RICA Charlene Smith (MFAIA) This is an authorized biography biogra phy about about the long and complex relationship between Nelson Mandela and the United States. This is one of three books Charlene Charlene pub published lished in 22012 012.. New Africa Books, 2012 KITSUNE Jessamyn Jessa myn Smyth Smy th (MFAW ’04) intense In this short, poetry collection – a winner in the New Women’ss Voices Series Women’ competition – Jessamyn Smyth writes about “something very like love/but love /but harder to escape.” Finishing Line Press, 2013
GASPARD AND CECILE Robert Soule (RUP ’4 ’47) 7) A ctionalized account account of the life and times t imes of Gaspard Duiopruggar, whom some still credit as the creator of the
modern violin. Traord Publishing, 2012 MARGINALIZING ACCESS TO THE T HE SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEM Camille Tuason Mata (IMA ’09) This is an analysis of the barriers minority communities face in accessing healthy, fresh foods in Oakland, Calif. University Press of America, 2013 YOU SHOUL SHOULDN’T DN’T CALL ME MOMMY Susan Tsui (MFAW ’10) ’10) A story about the dicult journey of self-disco self-discovery very,, one that explores the power of truth over illusion and the meaning of a mother’s mothe r’s love. Onieros Press, 2012 ONE WAY TICKET David Tucker (MFAIA ’04) of This collection powerful short stories, told with wit and sensitivity, challenges us to examine our own lives and the personal choices we make. Bookland Press, August 2012
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1940s Peter B. Liveright (JR ’41, BA ’43)
of Lutherville, Md., is still working at age 91! Watch a video interview with him at goddard.edu/Peter .
Jim Roos (BA RUP ’64) recently
celebrated his 82nd birthday with his wife Karen (Rexford) Roos, their sons and families and many dear friends. He is currently taki ng a memoir writing course and recalls that coming to Goddard in 1951 was an outstanding, if not the outstanding, event in his life.
1950s Joseph Levine (JR ’51, BA ’53) of Mill
Judith Arcana (MA GGP ’78)
Valley, Calif., is learning yoga at age 82 and was interviewed on The California Report on Report on Dec. 19 (californiareport.org ).
of Portland, Ore., is one of seven Oregon poets whose work will be installed on 9- by 9-foot panels printed with nature images at Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center in Hillsboro. The exhibit is the result of a competition to create poems for the new hospital, and the winners were chosen for best matching Kaiser Permanente’s interior design theme,
Jane Mink Rossen (BA ’54) of
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1970s
1960s Gale Robin Greenleaf (’64–’65 and ’67–’68) of Brunswick, Maine, married
and moved to Austin, Texas, went back to school at St. Edward’s New New College in 1988-89, attended graduate school at University of Texas (UT) for journalism journal ism and American st udies, and taught technical writing in the engineering department at UT for 10 years. She is now retired and living in Maine with her dog and three cats. Jerome Mintz (BA RUP ’65) of Roslyn
Heights, N.Y., N.Y., the founder and dir ector of Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) hopes you’ll join him for the 10th An nual AERO Conference this year at the LIU Post University in i n New York City City,, from May 23–26. Visit educationrevolution.org .
Stay connected. /Godda ddard rdCol Colleg lege e /Go @GoddardCollege /GoddardCollege
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Integral Studies. She has co-authored The Art of Ritual and Ritual and would love to connect with Goddard folks. Visit her website at reneebeckmft.com. Tasha J. Bonfanti-Balsom (BA RUP ’75) of Lexington, Mass., runs a large
family day care program with 12 children enrolled and seven teachers on sta. She also runs the nursery care program at Follen Community Church in Lexington. Learn more about it at tashabalsomdaycare.com . Margaret Holston Cheatham (BA RUP ’73) of Birmingham, Ala., is still
working with the Retired Teachers of Alabama and is the chairperson of the legislative committee. Sara Church (BA RUP ’73) of
“Tranquil Relief Through Nature.”
Minneapolis, Minn., is still drawing and painting, and she teaches art to around 700 elementary school students per week. She recently became a rst-time grandmother.
Edwina Austin (MA GGP ’73)
Pamela Sue Cloutier (BA RUP ’76) of
of Rutland, Vt., is still working as a clinical inst ructor at Castleton State College. Lucinda Stowe Baker (BA RUP ’75)
of Baltic, Conn., has been exhibiting her works of art in museums all over the world, with solo and group shows primarily in China, Canada and t he United States. Her 19-year-old son is also an artist. She visited fellow classmate Tamara Berdofe (BA RUP ’75) and husband Dane; says Lucinda of Tamara: “she hasn’t changed a bit after 38 (ahem) or so years!” She has also reconnected with alumni on Goddard’s alumni Facebook page; take a look at facebook.com/groups/2187 5331936 1936. facebook.co m/groups/2187533 Claudia Bates-Physioc (BA RUP ’75) of Midlothian, Va., is ending
her career as a social worker on a happy note, helping to create families for those seeking international adoptions. She and her husband Richard are now empty nesters.
Kennebunk, Maine, stopped by the Vermont campus in September 2012 and says it “has much improved!” She and her husband Bob created a free dental clinic in Biddeford, Maine, in 2008, and it is still running st rong thanks to volunteers. Laurel S.D. Colimon (BA RUP ’71) of
Ossini ng, N.Y. N.Y.,, reti red in June 2011 from her job as a transitional specialist and teacher trainer for the New York City schools. She now enjoys travel, music, friends and family in her retirement. Ralph E. Culver (BA RUP ’74) of
Burlington, Vt., received the 2012 Anabiosis Press Poetry Chapbook Prize for his collection, Both Distances. Distances. His poem, “For the Last Catamount,” was nominated by The Worcester Review Review for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. His son Jason, who was born on registration day of Goddard’ Go ddard’ss 1973 summer trimester, turned 40 on May 1. Vince DiPersio (BA RUP ’76) of
Renee Beck (BA RUP ’73) of Berkeley,
Calif., worked with teens and their families at Holden High School, formerly Contra Costa Alternative School, for 32 years as clinical director. She is a licensed MFC, has a private practice in Shadow & Dreamwork in Berkeley, and supervises trainees from the California Institute of
North Hollywood, Calif., produced and directed the documentary The Kennedy Detail, which Detail, which was nominated for an Emmy last year. His new series, Bomb Patrol Afghanistan , follows a Navy Bomb Disposal Unit through its entire deployment and was nominated as Best Limited Series by the International Documentary Association.
Helen L. Foster (BA RUP ’79) of Santa
Rosa, Calif., is in her ninth decade of taking courses in art, science and literature. She also recently passed her registration renewal for her nurse’s license in California.
like to hear from 1968-71 RUPs and 1975-766 Boston Reg 1975-7 Regional ional GGPs who remember the old days.” Steven Light (BA RUP ’75) of
Marsheld, Vt., helped move the gamelan Sulukala to its new home
in the Shoreline Arts Trail Open Studios Weekend held November 17–18, 2012.
in the Pratt LibraryLight in February. Steven and Kathy are holding open gamelan rehearsals on Wednesdays from 7 to 9 p.m.
Eva Freund (MA GGP ’79) of
Susan Lynn Price (MA GGP ’75)
David H. Conn., Frank (BA ’71) ofpotter Guilford, was RUP a featured
Vienna, Va., published her article, “The Evolution of IEEE Std. 2012,” in the American Society Quality Software Division’s journal, Software Professional 0. 0. Ann Goldman (BA RUP ’74) of Red
Bank, N.J., just sent her youngest o to college in January. Kathleen M. Kern-Pilch (MA SBPAT ’79) of Bratenahl, Ohio, has retired
after 30 years as an art therapist with the Art Studio - Metro Health Medical Center. She currently runs programs for inner city children at the St. Jerome School and for seniors at the Metro Health extended care. She serves as a Reiki practitioner for pain management related to spinal cord injuries and for oncology patients. She is also an honorary member of the Buckeye Art Therapy Clinic. Deborah Nadoolman Landis (BA RUP ’73) of Beverly Hills, Calif., edited
Hollywood Costume and Costume and curated the exhibition of the same name at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. The exhibition from 20, 2012 through Jan. 27, 27ran , 2013 andOct. showcased over 100 of the most iconic movie costumes from across a century of lmmaking, including the gi ngham pinafore and ruby red slippers worn by Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz. Oz. To see photos and learn more about the exhibition, go to vam.ac.uk and search for “Hollywood custume.” Roger Norman Leege (BA RUP ’71, MA GGP ’75) of Venice, Fla., retired
as CTO of the Tolland Public School District after 40 years as a teacher administrator. Since then, he has worked as a digital artist, doing photography, collage and mixed media. His work was included in “Photography “Photog raphy by Design” at the Darkroom Gallery Gall ery in Essex Junction, Vt., which ran through Jan. 4. Says Roger, Roger, “I’ “I’d d very much
of Kenmore, Wash., received a master of science in nutrition at Bastyr University. She is a practicing Certied Nutritionist in Seattle and Issaquah. Susan is married to Steve Gins. She is looking for classmate Beverly Gordon (MA GGP ’75). Annellen Simpkins, PhD (MA GGP ’74) and her husband
taught a workshop in January on “Neuroscience for Clinicians: Brain Change for Stress, Anxiety, Trauma, Moods and Substance Abuse.” The workshop, presented in Burlington, Vt., Manchester, N.H., and Portland, Maine, was sponsored spo nsored by PESI/ PESI/CMI. CMI. Glennette Tilley Turner (MA GGP ’79) wrote Fort Mose: And the Story of
the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America , which won The Golden Kite Honor Book from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. She also received the 2012 Wilber H. Siebert Award from the National Park Service’s Underground Railroad Network to Freedom for her steadfast dedication and commitment to the Underground Railroad.
Avrum Geurin Weiss (BA RUP ’74) of Atlanta, Ga., published his second
book, Change Happens: When to Try Harder and When to Stop Trying So Hard , in 2011. 2011.
1980s Mark C. Helmke (MA GGP ’81) was
a press and policy adviser to Indiana U.S. Senator Richard Lugar and gained international recognition for his work
Jill Watts (MA GGP ’77) of Worcester, Mass., published two books: A St. Lucian Inspired Fairy Tale and and Stories Stories from Piaye: Piaye: the World Through the Eyes of the Children. Children. She wrote both while serving in the Peace Corps from 2010 to 2012. Proceeds from the books go to the children’s school in St. Lucia. Both of the books are available on Amazon.com.
in the Philippine democratic revolution and the end of the Apartheid regime in South Africa. He helped start an internationall consulting rm that internationa grew from ve to 450 employees. He worked in Ukraine and Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union. After 9/11, he returned to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to work on arms control, public diplomacy, and climate change. He is now a professor of strategic communications at Trine University in Angola, Ind.
Marianne R. Weil (BA RUP ’74) of
David Hoberger (BA ADP ’81) of
Orient, N.Y., N.Y., was a featu featured red gues guestt on the WNPR-CT Faith Middleton show on Nov. 20, 2012. She is an assistant professor of sculpture at City University of New York College of Staten Island. Visit her website at marianneweil.com .
ART WALK
Deborah (MA GGP ’77) and Philip Zuchman (MA GGP ’73) of Philadelphia, Pa., presented their exhibit, “Walk in the Woods,” in February at the Old City Jewish Art Center. Deborah gave a painting demonstration and Philip discussed his work and signed copies of his book, Summer on the Hill . Above, by Deborah Debora h Gross-Zuchman, “The Sentrees,” oil on pap er, 30" x 22."
Arnold, Md., is serving as the facilities manager for all eight chapels at the United States State s Naval Academy. Anita Mendes-Lopes (BA ADP ’81) of Hancock, N.H., received a
master’s in social work, University of
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| class notes | Connecticut in 1987; case management from 1987-1995; psychotherapy from 1995-2009 and does voluntary work on committees that involve issues of racial, social, and economic justice. She is c urrently ret ired.
Gregory J. Speck (MA GGP ’80) of
Nancy Anne MillerConn., (MA GV ’88) of Washington, is a
Leatrice Weiss-Miller (BAisADP ’80–’81) of Levittown, Pa., saddened
Bermudian poet, and has a Master of Letters from the Univ. of Glasgow. “Somersault,” a poetry collection about Bermuda, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2013. She is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and teaches poetry workshops in Bermuda.
by the recent losses los ses of her daughter, sister, mother and a close friend. She notes that their spirits remain with her, and she gives thanks to Goddard for remaining a living spark within her.
, Lorilee Schoenbeck (BA HAS ’86) , of Burlington, Vt., came back to the Plaineld campus during the spring 2013 residency and gave a public presentation entitled “Bringing Complementary & Alternative Medicine to the Mainstream. Mainstream.”” Lauren Shea-Sillars (BA ADP ’80)
of Santa Fe, N.M., is restarting her 8-year-old business, Organize LLC, which she began near Princeton, N.J., as Organize of Santa Fe, LLC. Her three children are now grown grown:: the two eldest are working in architecture and fashion advertising, and the youngest is a student at Warren Wilson College.
Rensselaerville, N.Y., retired from teaching high school English and is now playing music full-time in the New England region and in New Orleans, La.
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David R. Behl ing (MFAW-W (MFAW-WA A ’08) of Albert Lea, Minn., wrote and published his article, “NRA Blew an Opportunity to Lead on Guns,” in t he Albert Lea Tribune on Tribune on December 28, 2012.
of Jersey City, N.J. is enjoying her retirement from Hudson County Community College. John Hiller (IBA ’95, IMA ’97)
Jordon D. Bosse (IBA ’06) of Auburn,
of Alexandria, Va., retired from the Smithsonian and changed from cinematography to ne art landscape photography photo graphy.. His work is shown regularly at the Del Ray Artisans Gallery in Alexandria, where he is a member of the gallery’s board of direc tors. You can nd his photo stream on Flickr.
Maine, just earned a master of science in nursing education from St. Joseph’s College of Maine. He is a sta nurse at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center and an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of New England.
Jennifer Fargo (BA RUP ’98) of North
Berwick, Maine, recently branched out and took over a oral design business i n southern Maine. She and her husband, Jim Fargo, moved to Sugarloaf workchildren, and ski for the winter. Theirtothree Caspian (10), Gracie Mae (7) and Piper (2), love being on the mountain, mounta in, skii ng and snowboarding. Arlene Hampton (MA EDU ’96)
Andre Souligny (BA RUP ’98)
pounds to beat the world record – 305 pounds – for her age and weight division.
of Davis, Calif., is a health care reporter for Capital Public Radio in Sacramento.
Albany, Ore., explores intra-species relations through performance, video and various forms of narrative. Since 2010, she has enjoyed association with artists and anthropologists of the Multispecies Salon, including Deanna Pindell (MFAIA ’11). Recent projects have appeared in New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Czech Republic, and Australia, Austral ia, and her essay, “R.A.W “R.A.W.. Assmilk Soap,” will be featured in Multispecies Salon: Gleanings from a Para-Site in Para-Site in 2014. She recently moved to Oregon where she continues a long-term collaboration with Emily Stone (MFAIA ’08) and gathers fresh inspiration from Goddard’s Portland alumni community.
Montpelier, Vt., is a co-owner and co-founder of Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier, which was just named a top 100 Beer Bar in the country for the third year by Draft Draft magazine. magazine. He was also interviewed on WCAXWCAX-TV. TV.
broke two American Powerlifting A ssociation world records at the 201 2012 2 CrossFit Games. She deadlif ted 320
Pauline E. Bartolone (IBA ’01)
Karin M. Bolender (MFAIA ’07) of
Scott Kerner (BA RUP ’96–’99) of
GET A LIFT Lee Lipsitz (BA GV ’87) of Orange, Conn.,
2000s
of Roxbury, Vt., works works as one of Vermont’s two designated prisoners’ rights investigators through the Oce of the Defender General. He and his partner Heather Holter (BA RUP ’95) homeschool their three wondrous daughters, and Heather still volunteers at WGDR.
Jeanne K. Cosmos (MFAW ’11) of
Natick, Mass. taught 11 dierent English, writing and psychology classes in 15 weeks at three local colleges. She also taught “Spies in Novel and Film” and “Mystery Writers” at Brookline Adult Education and is revising her own work. The Canoe Expedition for Maine Girls, the graduate thesis project of Kirstin Edelglass (MA EDU ’02) of Marlboro, Vt., thrived for six summers (2002–2007) before evolving into what is now Camp Chewonki for Girls near Mt. Katahdin. Karen Engelmann (MFAW ’09)
of Dobbs Fer ry, N.Y Y.,., has been o out ut on a book tour with her historical ction novel, The Stockholm Octavo. Octavo.
OSCAR WORTHY Silver Linings Playbook , a lm adapted from the novel by Matthew Quick (MFAW ’07), received eight Oscar nominations this year, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Bradley Cooper), Best Actress (Jennifer Lawrence) Lawrence),, Best Supporting Actor (Robert DeNiro), Best Supporting Actress (Jacki Weaver), Best Director (David O. Russell), and Best Adapted Screenplay (David O. Russell). Jennifer Lawrence won for Best Ac tress! His new novel, The Good Luck Right Now , has been purchased by DreamWorks Studios. Matthew is affectionately known by friends and family as “Q.”
Ralena Gordon (IBA ’08) of Nederland,
Cara L. Homan (MFAW ’09) of
Colo., presented her photography exhibit and fundraiser, “The Empty Places: America’s Historic Mental Institutions Fundraiser,” with special documentary documentary-in-pr -in-progress ogress screening on Oct. 26, 2012 at Salto Coee Works in Nederland. Her photos capture abandoned mental hospitals, a project she started as her thesis at Goddard in 2007. Learn more at theemptyplaces.com .
New York, N.Y N.Y., lect ured at Oxford University this year as part of their Global Scholars Symposium. Her novel, So Much Pretty , has been released release d in the United Kingdom and translated into Portuguese and French. This spring, she is a writer in residence at Air Le Parc Project and Research Center in Toulouse, France.
Roz Grossman (MA HAS ’09) of
Burlington, Vt., received third-year funding from the Victoria Buum Endowed Fund to teach the workshop “Mindfulness Tools for Health and Wellness” for cancer patients and caregivers at Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington. The workshop is based on Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program. Roz is owner of The Neshamah Center. Learn more at mindfulstressrelief.net . Richard J. Hodgson (IBA ’01, IMA ’07) of Midland, Texas, is doing
free workshops at senior citizen meetings. He is attempting to publish a book of poetry, The Gathering , and has started writing a novel.
Terry Holmes, Sr. (BA EDU ’00)
of Virginia Beach, Va., earned his MEd from Regent University and is the evening school principal at Granby High School in Norfolk, Va. Shawn Kerivan (MFAW ’06) of Stowe, Vt., and Chris Millis (MFAW ’07) of
Saratoga Springs, N. N.Y. Y.,, prese presented nted a panel at the 2013 AWP Conference in Boston: “Story Autopsy: How I Wrote a Novel in Three Days And Then Adapted It Into a Movie Starring Billy Crystal.”” Millis adapted his prizeCrystal. winning novel, Small Apartments , into an independent dark comedy that premiered at SXSW 2012 and was released by Sony Worldwide Pictures in 2013. The cast co-stars Dolph Lundgren, Johnny Knoxville, Knoxvil le, James Caan and Billy Crystal, among others.
academic programs ADP: Adult Degree Program ADP: Adult BA: Bachelor BA: Bachelor of Arts BAS: Bachelor BAS: Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability BFAW: Bachelor BFAW: Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing EDU: EDU: Education Education Program G-C: Goddard-Cambridge G-C: Goddard-Cambridge Program GEPFE: Experimental Experimental Program in Furthering Education GEPFE: GGP: Goddard GGP: Goddard Graduate Program GS: GS: Goddard Goddard Seminary GV: Goddard Five (all programs from ’81-’91 ’81-’91)) HAS: Health Arts & Sciences Program IBA: Bachelor of Arts in Individualized Studies IMA: Master Master of Ar ts in Individualized Studies IMA: JR: JR: Junior Junior College
David Mandel (MA PSY ’03) of
P I C C A A D OR .C O M
Canton, Conn., traveled to Singapore last November at the invitation of the Ministry of Social and Family Development and the Singapore Police Force. He spoke at their National Family Violence Networking Symposium and gave an interview on family violence to Good Morning Singapore , the national morning news show that reaches across the Pacic to large audiences in China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand. Tara B. Meyer (BA R RUP UP ’01) of
Montpelier. Vt., is a family nurse practitioner who recently joined the Giord Health Center at Berlin, Vt. Donnelle McGee (MFAW ’08) of
Turlock, Calif., has a prose piece, “Her Time with Beethoven,” in the 2013 California Prose Directory. Directory. His poetry will be in upcoming issues of SLAB Literary Magazine and Magazine and Brain, Child , and his poet ry manuscript, Naked , has been accepted accepte d for publication by the independent publishing press, Unbound Content.
A KEY TO THE ACRONYMS
MA: Master Master of Arts MA: MAT: Master’s Master’s in Art Therapy MAT: MFAIA: MFAIA: Master Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts MFAIA-WA: MFAIA-WA: Master Master of Fine Arts in Interdisciplinary Arts in Port Townsend, Wash. MFAW: MFAW: Master Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing MFAW-WA: Master Master of Fine Ar ts in Creative Writing in Port MFAW-WA: Townsend, Wash. PSY: PSY: Psychology Psychology & Counseling Program RUP: RUP: Residential Residential Undergraduate Program SBC: Sustainable Sustainable Business & Communities SBC: SBPAT: SBPAT: Summer-Based Summer-Based Psychology in Art Therapy SE/Sum: Social Social Ecology/Summer Programs SE/Sum:
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| class notes | Susan O’Riley (MA EDU ’09)
of Williamstown, Mass., is an international service volunteer with Rural Literacy Project. She has worked in many locations, including Venezuela, Nicaragua, Tanzania, Ecuador, the United States, and most recently, Mexico. She will be returning to La Manzanilla, Mexico, to work with the foundation La Catalina to start a public library, the rst in the area. She has two beloved young grandsons, Zinedine and Augustus. Emiry S. Potter (BA RUP ’03) of
Burlington, Vt., received a master of arts in clinical mental health counseling with a concentration in addiction and substance abuse from Antioch University, New England i n 2011 2011..
S I R R A H Y D N A
David J. Robson (M FA FAW W ’06) of Wilmington, Del., had his play Assassin presented Assassin presented at the Great Plains Theater Conference in 2012. Forrest Stephen Roth (MFAW ’04)
of Lafayette, La., graduates in May from the University Lafayette with a PhDofinLouisianaEnglish. Peter P. Saunders (MFAW ’02)
of Chatham, Mass., edited Silent No More—Unlocking the Voices of Older Poets , an anthology of 52 poets from 50 to 97 years old. Gunner Scott (IBA ’09) of Jamaica
Plain, Mass., has been executive director of the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition for the last ve years. He led the legislative campaign that resulted in the passage of the Transgender Equal Rights bill in the Massachusetts legislature in 2011. He has written articles on LGBTQ equality and transgender issues for Boston Phoenix and Phoenix and Bay Windows. Windows. He also co-authored a study and followup article in the American Journal of Public Health on Health on transgender health in Massachusetts. In addition to his social justice act ivism, he is als also o passionate about saving wild lions from extinction and captivity and advocates with the Obama administration for lions to be added to the Endangered Spec ies Act. Find him at gunnerscott.com . Gail South (MFAW ’05) of
Charlottesville, Va., was a nalist for her work, The Solitude of Memory , in the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially REVOLUTIONARY POET Award-winning poet
Synnika Lofton (IBA ’04, MFAW ’06) of Chesapeake, Va., just released relea sed his second si single, ngle, “Televi “Televised sed Revoluti Revolution.” on.” Read more about Synnika and watch a performance at goddard.edu/people/synnika-lofton .
Engaged Fiction in 2012. Erin Tittel (IBA ’03) received her
master of accountancy degree and the Master of Accountancy Outstanding Graduate Award from Golden Gate University. Cathy Nolan Vincevic (IMA ’07)
Gretchen Rae (IBA ’05) of
Shokan, N.Y., N.Y., has be been en promoted to watershed educator for the new Ashokan Watershed Stream Management Program. Kristen Ringman (MFAW ’08) of Johnston, R.I., along with Allison Polk (MFAW ’12) of Washington, D.C., D.C., gave a reading on March 8 at the AWP Conference in Boston, “How to Catch a Pair of Flying Hands: a Reading by Deaf Writers.”
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of Deereld, N.H., is director of The Gordon-Nash Library in New Hampton, N.H. Her recent works include: saltaction saltaction with with Mari Novotny Jones at Lumen 2012, Staten Island; Low Concept: Experimental Theater at Mobius; Mobius; part of The Art of the UnGrand #3 curated #3 curated by Jane Wang; 100 Years at Boston University; and rabbit, rabbit , , a solo performance with a plastic didgeridoo, voice and lm projector. Learn more at mobius.org/artist/cathy-nolan .
Cory Wanamaker (MFAIA ’02) of
Prague, Czech Republic, received a Fulbright Fellowship to England, followed by three years in Moscow, where he worked as an educator and artist. He currently lives in Prague and curates Airy Hill Studios. Learn more at airyhillstudio.com . R. Scott Youmans (IMA ’05) of Morton, Pa., is working toward ordination as a Universalist minister in the MDiv program at the Starr King School for the Ministry.
2010s Kim Brown Br own (MFAW-W (MFAW-WA A ’11) of Roswell, Georgia, and Dulcie Witman (MFAW-WA ’11) of Topsham, Maine,
created a new literary journal, Minerva journal, Minerva Rising.. Issue 1, “Beginnings,” was Rising released in September, and Issue 2, “Winter,” in December. The third issue, “Rebellion,” is due out in May. Visit minervarising.com . Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12) of
Pasadena, Calif., had an interview with Rattle in Rattle in December about her family’s ight from war-torn Vietnam and her new book of poetry, Red Thread. Thread. Mary Pacifco Curtis (MFAW-WA ’12) of Los Gatos, Calif., published
an article on TheRhumpus.net in December. Her poem, “Between Rooms,“ appeared in the summer 2012 Naugatuck River Review. Review. Robert Descoteaux, Jr. (MA PSY ’12) of Lewiston, Maine, is
an ACT Team Clinician at TriCounty Mental Health Services. Kathleen Iwanowski (MFAIA De nver, Colo., to be ’10) moved to Denver,
closer to family. Her work includes grant writing with fellow alumna Grace Anne Alfero (MFAIA ’10); teaching art appreciation at Columbia Southern University; and being a nurse with Evercare Hospice and Palliative Care. She plans to publish a book on her daily mandalas. Elizabeth Jamar (IBA ’09) of New York, N.Y. N.Y.,, had an ex hibit in Southampton last July titled “Fiberworks: Traditional Techniques in Contemporary Form.” In October, the book American Sewn Rugs: Their History with Exceptional
Examples was released, by Jan Whitlock Examples was with Jamar. Jamar is also a docent at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton.
Thomas Palmer (MFAW ’13) of
Kelly Johnson (IMA ’12) of Neptune
Jai (Julie) Richards (MA PSY ’10)
Beach, Fla., has been traveling the
of Saskatoon, Canada, published her
country presenting book,forWings, Worms, and Wonder: her A Guide Creatively Integrating Gardening and Outdoor Learning Le arning Into Children’ Children’ss Lives Lives.. She has built a business around the book, including includi ng book events, school and community garden workshops, school garden consultations, and blogging. Visit wingswormsandwonder.com.
thesis manuscript article, “Giving Voice to the Trans Community on GID GI D Reform in the DSM-5: A Saskatchewan Perspective,” in the Canadian Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy. Psychotherapy.
The short lm Undercover EM, written and directed by Mike Kinnie (MFAW ’13) of Sackets Harbor, N.Y., was a featured short at the Kingston Film Festival in Kingston, Ontario. Mike and his wife are opening a B&B on Wolfe Island in April; they plan on hosting writer’s retreats, among other things. Visit wolfeislandmanor.com. Jordan Laney (BFAW ’10) of Vilas,
Denver, Colo., published h is es essay, say, ““A A Little Thing,” at Connation Press: An Online Artifact.
Icess Fernandez Roja s (MFAW ’12) of Shreveport, La., had a ction
piece, “Beginning,” published last September in Minerva in Minerva Rising. Rising. Bill Rosenthal (MFAW ’12) of Pacic
Palisades, Calif., nished a writing stint for Showtime’s Nurse Jackie. Jackie. He also completed Greetings From Home , his rst Internet series, available at
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A Partial Dislocation” at the Haybarn Theatre in December. The show was a one-time performance of dance and spoken narrative choreographed and produced as part of her thesis. It featured Vermont dancers Candace Fugazy, Chelsea Palin, Nathan Burton, Isadora Snapp, Kara Lake, Genevieve Pellman and Debbie New. Lizz Schumer (MFAW ’13) had two
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poems in the September 2012 issue of Wordgathering Wordgathering.. Her short stor y, “Remedial Reading,” was included in the inaugural issue of Limn Literary &
Kiera Sauter (IBA ’13) of West
Arts Journal, founded Journal, founded by Will Mallon (MFAW ’11). Schumer’s “Terminal
Danville, Vt., performed “Subluxation:
Central,” part of her thesis memoir,
SWEET GENIUS
Neely Cohen (BA HAS ’12), of Peterborough, N.H., won Food Network’s Sweet Genius dessert competition! Her episode, “Twinkling Genius,” aired on Dec. 13. Read more at goddard.edu/Neely .
N.C., married mandolinist Aaron Ramsey, who recently released his solo album Gathering Gathering.. Laney receives her master’s in Appalachian Studies from Appalachian State University this May. Her graduate work has been presented at the Appalachian Studies Association’s annual conference and the Global Initiatives Conference hosted by UNC-Chapel Hill. Liz Latty (MFAW ’12) of Oakland,
Calif., was a 2012 Lambda Literary Fellow and attended the annual Retreat for Emerging LGBT Writers last July July.. Jennifer Mackenzie (MFAW ’13)
of Wilmington, N.C., is teaching advanced screenwriting to graduate students in the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington this spring. Burney Carl Marsh (MFAW ’12) of
Statesboro, Ga., is teaching writing at Georgia Southern University. In January, he released his edited anthology, The Best of Clapboard House. House. Visit clapboardhouse.wordpress.com . Caroline Mason (MA PSY ’12) of
LOCAL MOVEMENT Brian Boyes (BA RUP ’95, MA EDU ’11 ’11)) of Plaineld, Vt.,
Asheville, N.C., passed the four-hour, 200 question National Counselor Exam and is one step closer to becoming becomi ng a Licensed Profes Professional sional Counselor Associate.
directed The Saturn People’s Sound Collective, a 20-person band, in concert in December at the Haybarn Theatre at Goddard as p art of the Local Spotlight Concert Series. Brian is pictured at center. Learn more about his work at brianboyes.com .
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| class notes | will be included in the 2013 compendium from Robocup Press, run by Tamryn Spruill (MFAW ’12). Her “Lessons From My Parents” will appear in a new collection from Familius Press, which is due to be released in May.
In November, Lida Winfeld (MFAIA ’11) brought her one-woman dance and
Jonathan MatthewinSmucker (IBA ’12) authored chapters two books: one
a learning disability. Read more and watch the video at goddard.edu/Lida .
in We Are Many: Critical Reections on Movement Strategy from Occupation Occupatio n to Liberation and Liberation and seven in Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution. Revolution. Learn more at beautifultrouble.org . Carolyne St. Clair (MA EDU ’12)
of Key Biscayne, Fla., fullled her dream of returning to the Navajo Indian reservation to conduct faculty development training and in-class coaching at the Atsa Biyaazh Community school in Shiprock, N.M. Keisha Thorpe (MFAW ’12) will be a monthly contributor to Identity Magazine ( Magazine (identitymagazine.net ) under her pen name, Cassia L Rainne. Flour, a Flour, a web series she helped to produce, direct and act in, is an ocial selection in LAWEBFEST IV. Learn more at flourseries.com . Lynne Esther Vanderpot (MA PSY ’12)
of Housatonic, Mass., is pursuing her PhD in practical theology with a focus on spirituality and healthcare at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. Her dissertation will explore the long-term eects of antipsychotic medication on a person’s spiritual life. She was a guest blogger for the MA in psychology and a nd counseling program at goddard.edu . Lisa Wells (BFAW ’12) of Iowa City,
LIVING SIMPLY Aldo Lavaggi (IBA ’10) of Saugerties,
N.Y., ofcially moved into his tiny house, above, last summer. He started building it in March 2010 while he was still a student. The house is 7 by 16 feet and has solar panels, no running water or Internet service, and a composting toilet. He gave a talk to a class at Columbia-Greene Community College on living simply and shrinking one’s environmental footprint.
Iowa, was interviewed on Late Night Debut to Debut to talk about her essay collection, Yeah. No. Totally. Totally. She holds a Provost fellowship in poetry at The University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop Workshop.. Chelsea Werner-Jatzke (MFAW ’13) of Seattle, Wash., was one of 12
writers selected as a 2013 Jack Straw Writer. Learn more at jackstraw.org.
spoken word performance, In Search of Air , , to Brown University. This dance and theater performance, developed in part while a Goddard student, is based on her experience growing up with
Amy Woodru (MFAIA ’11) of New
Orleans, La., staged her original solo show, Moon show, Moon Cove , a ghostly multimedia multimed ia folktale about her Acadiana ancestors, in New Orleans last fall. In January she appeared in the title role and designed and built seven historical costumes for The Insanity of Mary Girard , presented in New Orleans by Theatre Louisiane.
current students Kyle Bella (MFAW) of San Francisco,
Calif., wrote “Traveling Through Time and Embracing Queer History,” published on Hungton Post on Feb. 12. Read it at huffingtonpost.com. Sarah Cedeño (MFAW) of Brockport, N.Y. N.Y.,, had a po poem em published in the Bellevue Literary Review and Review and a poem published in the anthology Love Rise Up Up.. Her short story, “Fledgling,” has been nominated for a Pushcart Pushca rt Prize. Douglas Craig (MFAW) of Oxford,
Mo., had his short story, “Elemental Love,” and two poems, excerpted from his thesis, accepted for publication in the 2013 Wayne Literary Review. Review. Justin Hall (MFAW) of San
Francisco, Calif., edited the new comic, No Straight Lines: Four Decades of Queer Comics , which was featured on NPR Books.
Peter Wieczorek (MA EDU ’11)
of Clear Lake, Wisc., was named director of Northwest Passage High School, a charter school and leader in progressive education focusing on project-based project-b ased learning, experiential education,, and expeditionary learning education in Coon Rapids, Minn.
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Ron Heacock (IBA ’12, MFAW)
of Portland, Ore., had short stories published in Elohi Gadugi Journal , , PaperTape PaperT ape Magazine , Connotation Press (an Press (an on-line artifact) and the Limn Literary & Arts Journal special Journal special horror and Halloween edition.
| class notes | David Henderson (MFAW) of
Rosemary Urato (MFAIA) of
Rochester, N.Y., N.Y., presented his solo play, The Gay Fiancee (née Fiancee (née Steal the Moon), Moon), last September at the inaugural First Niagara Rochester Fringe Festival.
Hillsborough, N.H., created a mural at the Hillsboro Waste Transfer Station to create awareness and inform the community of how important it is to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Brianna Johnson (BFAW) of Bloomington, Minn., had excerpts
Her artwork can also be seen in conservation areas.
from her manuscript, Fire Sale , published online by Tarpaulin Sky. Sky.
Carlos Mason Wehby (MFAW) (MFAW)
of South Hadley, Mass., had a ction piece selected as a nalist in the Modern Grimmoire: Fairy Tales, Fables and Folklore competition and will be published in the forthcoming Modern Grimmoire Anthology. Anthology.
Chukwuweike Nwabukwu (MFAW) of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
taught a Capoeira Angola workshop last January at the Haybarn Theatre. Thomas Park of (MFAW)
Warrenton, N.C., published a chapbook, Park Town: New and Collected Poems. Poems. He published two poems in the spring issue of The West Trade Review , and he founded the Artists’ Market in Warren County. Ti Randall (MFAW) of Wilmington, Del., was selected for Toe Good Poetr y' y'ss literary mag for his tanka series “these hands, which have never held a knife, held a gun, have held you.” toegoodpoetry.com Andrea Savage (BA EDU) of
Capitola, Calif. was interviewed and featured on Eduventurist.com . Shae Savoy (MFAW) of Seattle, Wash.,
published a poem in the 2012 edition of Paper Nautilus. Nautilus. Two of her poems will appear in We’Moon 2014. 2014. Je Simonds (MFAW) of Castleton,
N.Y N.Y., had a story publi published shed iin n Pif Magazine. Magazine.
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Trisha Winn (MFAW) of
HISTORY IN THE MAKING Robert Rufn
(MFAW) of Mobjack, Va., above, presented
his play, Kiss My Little Girls–1861: Coming Home , in Yorktown, and Kiss My Little Girls–1862: The Healing Child , in Gloucester, to commemorate the Civil War’s 150th anniversary. The Cook Foundation commissioned him to write a children’s musical about the life of Pocahontas.
Beaverton, Mich., had a lyrical prose piece published in Elohi Gadugi;; a nonction piece Gadugi published online by Citizens for Decent Literature; Literature; and a vignette published by TOSKA TOSKA.. Peninsula College Press will publish her critical work, “Ecofeminism and Cultural Memory in Joy Harjo’s Poetry: Writing in ‛The Enemy's Language,’” La nguage,’” in its inaugural journal. Mimi Yahn (IBA2) of Putney,
Charlene Smith (MFAIA) of Cam-
bridge, Mass., published a Smartphone app, South Africa Travel: The Rainbow Nation, through SutroMedia in San Franciso, which ranked it as one of their top 10 apps of 2012. She won the Harvard bookstore essay competition for “The Lost Cat,” published in New England Essays in Essays in October. She addressed the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 26 on “The Life and Legacy of Nelson Mandela.”
Vt., had her article on bullying published in the winter issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice. Justice. Mimi wants to thank her advisor, Bobby Buchanan, for all his assistance and support in writi ng the article during her rst semester. Castle Yuran (MFAW) of Norfolk,
Conn., is featured in The Registered Citizen.. She will teach a writing course Citizen at University of Connecticut-Torrington as part of her teaching practicum.
Port Townsend, continued from page 17 of the Community Campus in the Columbia City neighborhood. Her contribution enabled Goddard to successfully deliver a revised and rejuvenated low-residency model set in an urban location. Lori gracefully supported hundreds of students in their transformation at Goddard. Goddard. For every every community member, she has been available with a generous ear and a nd thoughtful questions. She also knows how to organize
one righteous ping-pong tournament! Good luck, Lori!
10 Joe Walden, Walden, Residency Residency Assistant At the time of press for this article, Residency Assistants Joe and Walden were soaring over the Pacic on Evie wings they built themselves as Skysailors extraordinaire. More on them when they land in a future issue of Clockworks Clockworks!! CW
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BY JIM SABLE, BUSINESS MANAGER OF PRISMATIC PRISMA TIC PRODUCTIONS, INC.
Creative Weavings of Art Goddard Student Brings Students and Graduates Together for New Arts Festival
N R E F F E H A N A D
Above, a scene from “Antidote: A Performative Performa tive Dinner and Installation,” by Dana Heffern (MFAIA ’12). Right, the cover of John Ollom’s book, Internal
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assimilated into the creative weavings of art across the world. With interdisciplinary art, numerous artistic elds are interwoven to create new and in novative ways to live in the world. world. When John Ollom (MFAIA (MFAIA ’14) ’14) fo formed rmed his non-prot company in 2003, he wanted to support the strength of the diversity of the arts, but never realized that his growth as an artist would include so many past and present artists from the Goddard community. For the past 10 years, John’s company, Prismatic
and Installation,” Insta llation,” by Dana Heern (MFAIA ’12), ’12), which was presented at Goddard College’s College’s Plaineld campus in July of 2012. By completely completely immersing t he observer and participant into the life of a diabetic during an everyday meal, this experiential work educates the viewer about Type I diabetes. John Ollom and his company company of movem movement ent artists will present Prisoner of My Projection , based on his graduate research combining Jungian depth psychology,, dance, movement art aand psychology nd surrealism. Lighting design and special eects created by
Landscapes .
Productions, Inc. I nc./ /Ollom Movement Art, has been presenting presenti ng summer programs for artists in Northampton, Mass. These intensive programs have often exposed movement artists to other art forms to help incorporate related concepts into their work. Guest faculty and artists have come from the elds of visual art, poetry, lm, music, voice and musical theatre. The inclusion of these artists as part of the learning experience has been the highlight of the program. This year, Suzan ne Scott (MF (MFAIA AIA ’01 ’01)) and Lynne Constantine Constanti ne (MFAIA ’1 ’14) 4) will be oeri ng a special workshop on art aesthetics, bringing their fresh perspectives of art as it relates to culture and queer and second-wave second-wave femini feminist st theory. To celebrate the c ulmination of 10 years as a non-
Barry Whiteld Wh iteld (MFAIA ’14) ’14) and a unique u nique fabric set designed and produced by Chriztine Foltz (MFAIA ‘1 ‘14) 4) will invoke the unique world of this work. The festival will also include lm, movement arts, ne arts, class demonstrations and a book reading. In addition to bringing all this creative work into the world this summer, John will be starting his G5 (nal semester) at the time of the festival. He will wil l graduate in February 2014. CW
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OR 150 YEARS, Goddard graduates have
prot, Prismatic Productions, Inc./Ollom Inc./Ollom Movement Art is presenting its rst arts festival. Featured in the program will be “Antidote: “Antidote: A Performative Dinner
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The Ollom Art Summer Program runs from Aug. 3–10, and the Ollom Art Festival takes place Aug. 9–10 on the Smith College Campus in Northampton, Mass. For more information about the summer program or the O llom Art Festival please visit ollomart.com/summerprogram or like them on Facebook.com /Ollom.Art .
| faculty & staf stafff notes notes | Danielle Abrams (MFAIA) rejoined
Goddard as a faculty member in the MFAIA-Vermont Program. Read more at goddard.edu/people/ danielle-abrams-mfa. Rick Benjamin (MFAIA) has been
appointed State Poet of Rhode Island by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee. He teaches a course on “Poetry and Community Service” at Brown University and is on leave from Goddard this spring. Ryan Boudinot’s (MFAW) novel,
Blueprints of the Afterlife , was a nalist for the Philip K. Dick Award. Deborah Brevoort’s (MFAW)
new play The Comfort Team , about military wives during the surge of Iraq, premiered at the Virginia Stage Company in Norfolk, Va Va.. Her play, The Velvet Weapon , a backstage farce about democracy, received a stage reading in the NJ Playwrights’ Contest Festival at William Paterson University.. Deborah has been University b een commissioned by the Virginia Stage Company to write Homestead , a new play about Martha Washington. Rebecca Brown’s Brow n’s (MFA (MFAW) W) two
short pieces, “Breath” and “Love Poem,” have have been translated by Lise Honneaux, and were published in September in Kunsttijdschrift Vlaanderen , , a Flemish art magazine. Vlaanderen Her story “Heaven,” translated by Motoyuki Shibata, will be published in the paperback edition of Translation Translation Clas Classroom sroom..
Laiwan (MFAIA-WA) received a BC Arts Council Visual Arts Award for 2012–13 2012–13 to create a serie seriess of drawings and music graphic scores for internationally renowned clarinet virtuoso virt uoso Lori Freedman. As board chair for for Grunt Artist-RunArtist-RunCenter in Vancouver, she curated and produced the Eclectic Cabaret, a fundraiser with performances performances by Rosalyn Tate (MFAIA ’12) and Stacy Dawson Stearns (MFAIA ’12) , , as well as Laiwan’s own rock band. Jan Clausen (MFAW) has two poems, “Veiled Spill #2” and “Veiled Spill #8,” in the Adanna Literary Journal special Journal special issue i ssue on Women Women and War. Her poem “Ghazal: For Us” was accepted by Theodate , the HillHil lStead Museum’s poetry journal. Darrah Cloud (MFAW) and her
team forgoing theirto musical, musical, Makeover Makeover , , will be the University of Iowa this fall for an in-depth page-to-stage workshop. Her play, Our Suburb , will be produced in the 2013–14 2013–14 season at Theatre J in Washington, D.C. And What’s Bugging Greg? was published in 2012, after winning the Macy’s Theatre for Young Audiences Award. All of Darrah’ss made-for-television Darrah’ made-for-television movies re-ran on Lifetime last fall. Kenny Fries (MFAW) has written
the libretto libret to for “The Memory Stone,” a chamber opera commissioned by Houston Grand Opera, which premiered at Asia Society Texas in Houston on April 9. Scored for shakuhachi, 21-string koto, string
quartet, and four singers, the libretto explores the invisible bond between two women who have been aected by the devastation of Japan’ss earthquake and tsunami. Japan’ tsu nami. Dr. Tracy Garrett (PSY)
was a presenter at the 44th Annual Association of Black Psychologists Conference last July in Los Angeles. Her presentation introduced participants to the basic elements of NTU (Harmony, Balance, Authenticity, and Interconnectedness). NTU is a Bantu term that loosely translates into “life force” or “essence of life.” Bea Gates ( MFA MFAW) W) was
a presenter on a tribute panel about Adrienne Rich at the Association of Writers in & March. WritingShe Programs Conference will teach a workshop, “Creating “Creating Character, Using History,” in Assisi, Italy this summer with Art Workshop International. Gale Jackson (MFAIA) completed
her PhD, bringing together a lifetime lifeti me of work in women’s women’s studies and the study of Africa, with the sacred song performance and publication of Put Your Hands on Your Your Hips and Act Like a Woman: Song, Dance, Black History and Poetics in Performance. Performance. Her Bridge Suite project was published in The African American Review , and some selected poems in Artists and Inuence. Gale has expanded her Ehecatal Olin
Kenny Fries (MFAW) wrote the libretto libret to for The Memory Stone , a chamber opera commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera.
EXPERIMENTAL ART Dr. Wendy Phillips’ (PSY) photograph,
“Dance of the Bulls,” was part of a month-long group show in March at Soho Photo Gallery in New York City. The exhibition, called the “Krappy Kamera,” featured the work of international photographers who work with experimental cameras. Another photo was selecte d for exhibition in the National Competition at Soho last August. Wendy’s paper, “Double Personality: The Relationship Between Human and Animal Tono in Chautengo, Guerrero, Mexico in 2005” was published last fall in Anthropology of Consciousness. “Dance of the Bulls,” by Wendy Phillips
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| faculty & staf stafff notes notes | Learning Studio Collaboration with a series of writing workshops and one-to-one sessions this spring.
Theater Company did a public workshop of his play Elk Cloner last Cloner last year.
Bhanu Kapil’s (MFAW)
received a 2013 Creative Capital Literature grant
John McManus (MFAW)
work is currently featured in Review of Contemporary Fiction , Los Angeles Review of Books , Books , CutBank , Galatea Resurrects #1 #199 , and New York Quarterly Review. Review. Kapil’s work work also appears iin n three new anthologies: The HarperCollins Book of Engl English ish Poetry by Indians , I’ll Drown My Book: Conceptual Writing by Women and Women and The Sonnets. Sonnets.
for his novel about the gay refugee community in Cape Town, South Africa. Two excerpts from his novel, The Cultivationists , , were published in Fiddleblack Fiddleblack and and Plots With Guns. Guns. He completed a Ucross Foundation Literature Residency in December, and this summer he’ll be a resident artist at the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. Also, he is a ction judge for the 2012 Best of the Net Awards and the 2013 Delaware Press Association
Susan Kim’s (MFAW) Brain
Camp , the 2010 graphic graphic novel she co-wrote with Laurence Klavan, was selected as one of the most popular paperbacks for young adults by YALSA, the young adult division of the American Library Association. Her short story, “Recurrence,” was sold to the British horror magazine, Black Static. Static. Jake Klein (IT) joined
Goddard as an IT support specialist in Plaineld in October. Jake is the son of Goddard neighbor, farmer and alumnus Joey Klein (MA SE ’95) and former Goddard sta member Betsy Ziegler.
ARTISTS DOWN UNDER Andrea Parkins
Writing Awards.
(MFAIA-VT) had her multi-dif fusion audio work, “Faulty (Broken Orbit),” featured in the MADA Gallery G allery a att Monash Univer sity in Melbourne, Australia. The exhibition, “With Hidden Noise,” was curated by sound artist Stephen Vitiello and featured works by Vitiello, Pauline Oliveros, and others.
Julie Miles joined Goddard
Michael Klein’s (MFAW) new book,
The Talking Day , was reviewed by the Los Angeles Review of Books and Books and on HuPo. His poems, “There is where my sympathy comes to an abrupt end” and “What happened,” were accepted for publication in Court Green. Green. Samantha Kolber (Advancement, MFAW ‘14) , , outreach coordinator
and managing editor of Clockworks , is engaged to Christopher Pyatak of South Newfane, Vt. A June 29 wedding in southern Vermont is planned. Jeanne Mackin’s (MFAW) new
novel, Lightfall , , will be published by NAL in 2014 2014.. She has also been invited to give a workshop at the 30 CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2013
annual Historical Novel Society Conference in Florida, and she is reviewing books for their journal. Micheline Ahoronian Marcom (MFAW) has been named a USA
Rockefeller Fellow for 2012. Her 2004 novel, The Daydreaming Boy , won the 2005 PEN/USA Award for Fiction, and in 2006 she received a Whiting Writer’s Award. Douglas A. Martin’s (MFAW)
Italian translation of his novel Outline of My Lover appears Lover appears on the Indie For Bunnies list of Best Books of 2012. His story, “Other Residences, Other Neighborhoods,” Neighborhoods,” appears in Best Gay Erotica 2013. 2013. Rogelio Martine Ma rtinez’s z’s (MFAW (MFAW-WA) -WA)
play Tang/Laika Tang/Laika was was workshopped by Asolo Rep as part of their Ignite Festival, with a public reading held in April. New York’s Atlantic
as the new academic support specialist in Port Townsend in January. Julie received her BA from Dickinson College and her Master of Landscape Architecture from the University of Virginia. Caryn Mirr iam-Goldb iam-Goldberg erg (IMA) is nishing her four-
year term as poet laureate of Kansas. The Kansas Humanities Council adopted her long-term project to keep the poet laureate program alive, in spite of the dissolution di ssolution of all state funding for the arts. Caryn gave a keynote on writing and healing at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Bet hesda, Md., and two readings at Brookdale Community College in Lincroft, N.J N.J.. Brookdale, which has a transfer partnership with Goddard. Jen Morin (IBA ’11, Admissions) ,,
of Colchester, Vt., joined Goddard as an admissions counselor in Plaineld in January. She works with the Vermont campus undergraduate programs: IBA, I BA, BAS, BA HAS and BFAW. Jen previously was an employment services coordinator for Northwestern Counseling and Support Services.
Jill Muhr (HR) joined
Goddard in December as director of human resources. Jill is a long-standing human resources professional who has held leadership roles at t he Vermont League of Cities and Towns and the New York York Historical Society. She most recently served as director of operations at HR Sentry. Sent ry. Monica Nelson (Library) , , library assistant at the Eliot El iot D. Pratt Library Library,, came to Goddard last March. Previously, she worked at Naropa University at the Allen Ginsberg Library in Boulder, Colo., Colo., and worked with her partner in their permaculture plant nursery in Pennsylvania. She currently lives in Burlington, Vt. Victoria Nelson’s (MFAW (MFAW,, BFAW)
book Gothicka Gothicka was was published by Harvard UP in 2012. She gave an interview on the novel with John Morehead of Theofantastique. Victoria is contributing a chapter to the companion volume for the British Film Institute’s national series on the Gothic later this year. The playwright Sibyl Kempson published a two-play volume, The Secret Death of Puppets and Ich, Kürbisgeist , , as an homage to Victoria. Victoria.
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RETIRING MINDS
Richard Shramm (SBC), above, a beloved member of the Sustainable Business and Communities program since 2008, retired in February. Richard rst taught at Goddard from 1991–1998 and was instrumental in creating the Goddard Business Institute, which he directed from 1993–1995. Read about his work at goddard.edu/people/richard-schramm. Paul Selig’s (MFAW Program Director) third book, The Book of
Knowing and Worth , will be published in January 2014. He was lmed for an HBO documentary by lmmaker David Sauvage, and he appeared live on Martha Stewart Radio’s Life Coaching with Sophie in Sophie in December. The audio rights to his latest book, The Book of Love and Creation , have been sold to Gildan Media Media.. Darcy Steinke (MFAW) gave
a reading at the American University of Paris last July. Maia Stone , of East Montpelier, Montpelier,
Richard Panek’s (MFAW-VT)
The 4% Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Race to Discover the Rest of Reality received Reality received the t he 2012 Science Communication Aw Award ard from the American Institute of Physics. Richard delivered lectures in Chile on his book and gave talks at venues including the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He co-authored The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum , a Publishers Weekly top Weekly top 10 notable science book this spring. Michael Sakamoto (MFAIA-WA) and Ruth Wallen (MFAIA-VT) are
now program co-directors of the MFAIA program: program: Michael directs dire cts the Port Townsend site, and Ruth directs the Vermont program.
Vt., joined Goddard in October as the administrative assistant in the President’s Oce. Previously Previously,, she taught English as a second language in Mexico and Germany on a Fulbright Grant. Maia is a graduate of Kenyon College. Eva Swidler (IBA, BAS, HAS) published a chapter on
environmental history in the new book Greening the Academy: Ecopedagogy Through the Liberal Arts.. She also published an article, Arts “The Personal and the Political: Redux,” in the December Routledge journal, Capitalism Nature Socialism. Socialism. Janet Sylvester’s (BFAW Program Director) poem “Sea Smoke,” was
featured on the New Hampshire Arts Council website.
Interdisciplinary Interdisciplinar y Arts Art s program – Seitu Jones, a boatbuilder in the Minneapolis area – took a design from f rom one of the folks at the Boatbuilding school and had Goddard students build it. The Boatbuilding school has since expressed interest in Seitu presenting to their community, to bring his interdisciplinary arts perspective, and study of boatbuilding in Ghana, to help their thei r students develop an international and multicultural understanding of the role of boatbuilding i n the world.” Developing both new and existing partnerships can only lead to more diverse educational options for students. “We’re looking at the community and seeing who would be good partners for us to align ourselves with,” Labor notes. “It’s a good way to be involved in the communities that students are coming from, and also support our own programs. I think we’ll see some really innovative developments in the next few years as we go forward with this process.” From the other side of the partnership, Lawson agrees that the potential from this institutional symbiosis is tremendous. “I see the relationship deepening and expanding in i n the future –the Woodworking Wood working School is committed to sustainable and environmentally sound practices and use of materials, which resonates with core values at Goddard. I’m hoping that we can leverage our focus as a specialist school to oer students at Goddard the opportunity to learn and understand the values of traditional craftsmanship, and how to learn with their hands.” As the demands placed on institutions of higher learning continue to shift and develop in the years to come, it’s clear that through its academic partnerships, Goddard College will conti nue to not simply follow and respond to these trends, tre nds, but to lead the way in building the new paradigms that will dene higher education for generations to come. CW CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER SUMMER 2013
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| in memoriam | Richard Olf (BA RUP ’73, IMA ’95) died
Marshall C. “Ma rsh” Anders Jr. (BA ADP ’79) a retired music
on Jan. 18.
teacher, pianist and church organist, died on Nov. 15 at age 90.
continued her education later in life when she obtained her third master’s degree in health arts and sciences at Goddard.
Lyold Jake Katz (BA RUP ’72) died Doris A. Steele (BA GV ’92)
resident of New York City, died on Nov. 3, 2012.
on March 3. He graduated from the Roosevelt School in Stamford, Conn., and after Goddard, received his MBA from Northeastern University. His
Robert C. Barab Jr., (BA RUP ’67) died
philosophy philosophy, oftena ex expressed, pressed, was “a short life, and merry one.”
died onpainti Jan. 14, agetop 69. She earned BFA BFA in ngatwith honors fromher the Pacic Northwest College of Art in Portland in 1991. Her art is represented by the Augen Gallery of Portland, Ore.
Jane Hanna Auch (BA RUP ’69) a
on Feb. 27, 2011 at age 68. Robert was an award-winning ne art photographer who traveled the world to nd beauty and share it through his images. Robert B. Bretzfelder (BA RUP ’52) who
worked for the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis as a writer and analyst and then co-owned a photography service, died on Oct. 15 at age 83. His friends will remember him as a fast-minded, entertaining entertain ing eccentric who was Goddard’ Goddard’ss “Community Chairman” Chai rman” from 195 1951-52. 1-52.
David J. Pitkin (MA ’90), retired teacher
and author, died on Feb. 13. David taught for over 25 years in Saratoga Springs and was a numerologist, spiritual counselor and religious education teacher. He helped establish a paranormal research and educational group in Saratoga during the 1970s. Upon his retirement, he wrote Saratoga County Ghosts and Ghosts and then eight more books in that genre, most recently Ghosts of the Northeast in Northeast in 2002. He created his own publishing publi shing company, company, Aurora Publications, in Chestertown.
David Brown (BA RUP 1976-78) died on Geraldine A. Pixley (BA 1968-70) died
Sept. 14, 2012. Sharon Jean Bruce (BA RUP ’73) died on
Nov. 10, 2012. Her family asks that you remember her creative and resourceful spirit, beauty, dramatic air, poise, love of horses, grace and generous heart.
on Jan. 10. Lynn Schneider (BA ADP ’75) a resident
of Millbrook, N.Y., died on Dec. 12, 2012, at age 62. Lynn practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 30 years both in Millbrook and the Upper West Side.
Robert A. Gauthier (GEPFE 197677) died on Nov. 29, 2012, at age 68.
David H. Siegle (BA RUP ’68) died
Karl O. Haupt (GJC ’48) died
on Jan. 30. He was a long-time teacher, newspaper columnist and musician.
on Oct. 16, 2012, at age 88. Cheryl Suzanne Spiese (MA HAS ’02) Joanne Homer (BA ’79), beloved wife
of Dixon Bain, died on April 17, 2012, a few weeks shy of her 60th birthday bir thday..
died on Feb. 12, at age 65. She earned an MA in German at Rice University and an MLS at the University of Pittsburgh. She
died on March 3, 2010. Patricia Ann Groening (BA ADP ’75)
Jean Wassell (MA G-C ’79) died on Aug.
6, 2012. Jean was a tireless tir eless advocate for voiceless and underserved populations. She was a lifelong activist who spent her life ghting for social justice. Muriel Wiessner (BA ADP ’66), an
intrepid community organizer, animal lover and avid skier, died on Nov. 21, 2010, 201 0, at age 95. Muriel was instrumental inst rumental in the banning of billboards in Vermont in 1968, working working to pass the t he law that gave scenic beauty a higher priority than commercial roadside messages. After a life dedicated to conservation, Muriel donated her land to the Stowe Land Trust, preserving it for future generations. Nancy “Nan” Dunn Wolcott (BA ADP ’74, MA GGP ’90) died at age 90 on Jan.
8, after a life of varied pursuits: as a mother of six, a nurse, an organizer of 4H Clubs, a school sc hool volunteer, a member of The Voluntaires Voluntaires singing group, g roup, and a world traveler. She attended Goddard and UVM late in life and earned her PhD from The Union For Experimenting Colleges and Universities in 1978.
Former Education Faculty Member Kenneth L. Bergstrom Dies at 64 enneth Bergstrom passed away on Feb. 1, following a long illness. Ken taught during the 1990s at both Goddard and Union Institute and University. He loved doing “Courage Work” and facilitated years of “Courage to Teach” retreat cycles. He lived in Massachusetts until coming to Vermont in 1967 to earn his BA at Middlebury College. He later earned an MEd and Certicate of Advanced
schools for 15 years and was a founding member of the Vermont Middle Grades Professional Development Collaborative. Throughout his career, Ken published many articles and book chapters. He was generous with both his time and resources, and he was always there to help a neighbor, colleague, friend or family member in need. He volunteered with Hospice Programs for many years, and also belonged to a men’s group, which was a great source of strength for him. Ken lived a life full of love for his family, many
Graduate Studydegree at the University of Vermont, and a doctoral in Leadership and Policy Studies. He taught middle grades in Vermont
beloved friends,impression colleagues on andeveryone students. He leaves a lasting who has known him and will be greatly missed.
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In Remembrance: Walter Remembrance: Walter Butts Faculty Member, Member, Bachelor of Fine Arts Ar ts in Writing and Individualized Bachelor of Arts Programs September 12, 12, 194 1944 4 – March March 31 31, 201 2013
“Poetry will always be essential…” Walter Butts died peacefully at home on Easter Sunday Sunday after a brief battle with cancer. Walter was New Hampshire’s Poet Laureate and an advisor at Goddard. While we will dearly miss the man himself, we are fortunate to be able to present an interview that Walter gave just a few weeks before his death. In it, he talks about his early inuences, shares writing advice, and proclaims that poetry is essential to the human condition. Editor: Do you remember your first poem? How old were you when you wrote it? WB: Both my parents were avid
readers, and as a child I was exposed to both classic and contemporary literature. I remember reading Whitman early on, which eventually led me to Emerson, Melville, and other writers. I don’t remember those poems I wrote in early childhood, but when my father passed away when I was 19, that memory of course stayed with me, and eventually I wrote a poem about the event, which led to several other narrative nar rative/lyric /lyric poems. Editor: Who Who or what most inspires and influences you in your writing? WB: I think of poetry as an
assimilation of circumstances between the poet and the natural world. Paying attention to one’s environment and place in it can lead to imaginative imagi native leaps that might not have occurred otherwise. While I’ve always been an eclectic eclect ic reader, probably probably my most signicant literary inuence has been the poet Richard R ichard Hugo, whom whom I began corresponding with in the 1970s. 197 0s. His work was the t he subject of my graduate thesis, “Paradox “Paradox and Authenticity in the Confessional Style: The Self as Persona.” Other poets who have informed my work over the years include William Matthews, Philip Levine, B. H. Fairchild, Emily Dickinson, Sharon Olds, and too
many others to include here. And of course, advising in the BFA in Writing Program at Goddard oers ongoing inspiration and helps sustain my own writing, which I’m very very gratefu gratefull for. Editor: What What writing advice do you most often give to your students? WB: Read across a broad range of literature to inform your own choices. Be willing to follow the poem beyond your original intent, toward some new discovery through th rough revision. Pay careful attention to word choice. Think about how language, diction, syntax and form might function in your work. Editor: Do you have a favorite advising moment? WB: WB: I’ve I’ve had so many revelatory advising moments it would be dicult to select one. For me, those moments most occur when, in conversation with a student their enthusiasm for whatever topic we’re we’re discus discussing sing is obvious, as is their passion for writing and genuine engagement with the individualized learning process. Their writing truly matters to them! Editor: What do you love about advising at Goddard? What are the challenges?
A Life Well Lived Lived Walter Butts was born in upstate New York and most recently lived in Manchester, N.H., with his wife, the poet S Stephanie. He was an associate assoc iate professor of English at Hesser College for 11 11 years and taught at Goddard for ve years. He will be missed by his daughter Amy and her husband Chris Brand, his beloved granddaughters Chloe and Catherine Edwards and Riley Brand of Rochester, NY, and by many poets, artists, students, friends and admirers. admirers.
PUBLICATIONS • Cathedral of Nervous Horses: New & Selected Poems • Radio Time • Sunday Evening at the Stardust Stardust Café • Movies in a Small Town • Assorted chapbooks HONORS • Poetry winner at the 2011 New England Book Festival Poetry • Winner of the 2006 Iowa Source Poetry Book Prize Prize • Finalist for the 2005 Philip Levine Prize in Poetry from the University of California/Fresno Recipient, Massachusetts Artists’ Artists’ • Foundation Award Award Recipient, two Pushcart Prize nominations nominations •
leading to sustainable one-on-one dialogue during the semester. Challenges include occasional breakdowns in communications and packet submission exchanges. Editor: What What do you think is the role of a poet in today’s world?
WB: I love the opportunity to interact
both formally and informally with w ith students. The residency provides a rare opportunity for students and faculty to form a unique community,
WB: I agree with Keats that poetry should be
an ongoing “soul-making task.” If that’s the case, poetry will always be essential to the struggles and joy of the human condition. CW
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Leading the Way Interdisciplinary arts alumna receives fellowship to produce theater connecting social justice and the arts to the community.
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FROM THE DIRECTOR’S CHAIR Scenes from plays directed by Megan Sandberg-Zakian. From left: the Boston
premiere of In the Red and Brown Water at at Company One; Danny Bryck in No Room For Wishing , a “docu-play” about Occupy Boston, at Central Square Theater and the Boston Center for the Arts; Kami Smith and Maurice Parent in The Mountaintop , about the last night of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at Underground Railway Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
BY MEGAN SANDBERG-ZAKIAN (MFAIA ’11) always knew knew I wanted to make a consistent living as an artist with a serious, professional career in mainstream American theater. A lot of people in my eld advised me to seek assistantships on Broadway, but I was not interested in moving to New York, traveling constantly, getting an agent, or working with famous people. When I graduated from Goddard in 2011, I was struggling as a freelance director, and I wondered if I should take that advice. However, my Goddard education taught me to tolerate uncertainty, to nd
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benets!) to work with the Underground Railway Theater in Cambridge, Mass. One of the best parts of the award has been the opportunity to connect with other grant recipients around the country through TCG, the national organization for the American theater. It is inspiring to witness the many unique ways that other young artistic leaders are forging their paths. I am proud that together we are leading the charge toward a more diverse
and inclusive theater eld. We are also organizing ourselves through Google docs and conference calls, another great skill I learned at Goddard! As I come to the close of my grant period this spring, I’m not even tempted to consider moving to New York. I’m I’m very grateful for the consistently vivid and meaningful reverberations of the MFAIA program
community in unexpected ways, and to value process. I was also innitely blessed to work with faculty advisors Kira Obolensky, Jackie Hayes, Ju-Pong Lin, and Anne de Marken, who helped me work more lightly and nimbly, stepping away from some of the ponderousness I had previously associated with making theater. My time at Goddard reinforced that it’s possible to nd joy not only in my own art practice, but also in being a sensitive and passionate audience member, critic, colleague, administrator, mentor, subscriber, donor, coconspirator, advocate, agitator, or dinner party hostess. The summer after graduation, I received the
Megan Sandberg-Zakian (MFAIA ’11), at left, is a theater-maker and current recipient of a Theater Communications Group Future Leaders grant to spend two seasons at Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Mass., collaborating on a constellation of development and production projects engaging artists and audiences. “I am interested in how stories that are frequently told and re-told may shape civic and community life,” says Megan. “In moments when
Theater Communications Group (TCG) Future Leaders Fellowship – a two-year grant (with salary and
our community experiences intractability, viciousness or despair, how can our narratives be re-framed or expanded to support movement, dialogue and vitality?” Learn more about Megan at megansz.com megansz.com..
in my life, and I look forward to continuing my connection with Goddard for years to come. CW
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