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William H. Macy (BA RUP 72)
dishes on acting, ukuleles, and
how everything he knows about
showbiz he learned at Goddard.
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MAY
JULY
SEPTEMBER
20-25 Alternative Education Resource

Organization Conference, Long Island, N.Y.
26 Spring University Transfer
Fair, Shoreline, Wash.
1 MFAW Visiting Writer:

Dani Shapiro, Plainfield
10-17 EDU Residency, Plainfield
10-18 MFAW Residency, Port Townsend
11 Concert: Big Bang Bhangra
Brass Band, Plainfield
12 EDU Commencement, Plainfield
12MFAW Commencement, Port Townsend
24-31 MFAIA Residency, Plainfield
26MFAIA Commencement, Plainfield
TBA Port Townsend MFAW 10th
Anniversary Celebration, Port Townsend
4-11 PSY Residency, Plainfield

6PSY Commencement, Plainfield
18-25 BFAW Residency, Plainfield
18-25 UGP2 Residency, Plainfield
18-26 MFAIA Residency, Port Townsend
20 BFAW Commencement, Plainfield
20 MFAIA Commencement, Port Townsend
20 UGP2 Commencement, Plainfield
21 Brian Evenson Fiction Reading,
AUGUST
3 Discover Goddard Day: Fall Open

House, Plainfield
JUNE
4 Transformative Language Arts in
Action Reading & Reception, Brooklyn, N.Y.
6 Goddard Graduate Institute Alumni
& Student Reception, Harlem, N.Y.
26-July 3 MFAW Residency, Plainfield
28 MFAW Commencement, Plainfield
29 MFAW Visiting Professional:
Agent Seth Fishman, Plainfield
29-July 3Clockhouse Writers
Conference & Retreat, Plainfield
Plainfield
OCTOBER
1-8 EDU Residency, Seattle

2 EDU Commencement, Seattle
7-14GGI Residency, Plainfield
9GGI Commencement, Plainfield
21-28 UGP1 Residency, Plainfield
23 UGP1 Commencement, Plainfield
PORT TOWNSEND,
WASHINGTON, IS THE
SETTING FOR THE WEST
COAST MFAW PROGRAMS
10TH ANNIVERSARY
CELEBRATION IN JULY.
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BOARD
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Meg Hammond
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2015 Goddard College
Although Goddard is small, we think

big. Take, for instance, the group of
activities related to carbon neutrality
and sustainability with which Goddard
and I have been intimately involved.
HE BOARD RECENTLY
offered, and I gladly
signed, a three-year
contract as president
of Goddard College, to
start July 1st. I am pleased to drop
the interim part of the title and am
humbled by the confidence placed
in me. This is a fine yardstick and
outcome of my last year of work, and
I thank the Goddard community for
joining me in our combined efforts
to move our small school forward.
I read a piece in The Chronicle of
Higher Education in which the president
of a small college noted how much of
the day-to-day operations the president
is called upon to understand and,
sometimes, be involved with. While
the president is not required to know
how to do much of what they are called
upon to understand, they still have to
make decisions about it and coherently
communicate those decisions and
their rationale. The small college in the
article was much larger than Goddard.
Although Goddard is small, we
think big. Take, for instance, the group
of activities related to carbon neutrality
and sustainability with which
Goddard and I have been intimately
involved. Some of these activities are
small enough to be undertaken with
Goddards very capable personnel and
limited, but well used, fiscal resources.
These include insulating, weatherizing,
light replacement, mechanical systems
upgrades, ride boards, water bottle
alternatives, kitchen food sourcing,
and so on. Through these actions
we have made significant reductions
in our power and fuel oil use.
Now we are faced with a bigger
project, one that we cannot undertake
on our own. Even if we could, it
would still be wise to reach out to

our community to give everyone a
chance to have a real part in such a
significant activity of the College.
This project is the central woodchip
heating system, which is designed to
provide all the heat, and much of its
hot water, for the Plainfield campus.
Goddard has, after more than four
years, reached a critical action point in
this project. That is, we have cleared all
the technical and regulatory hurdles
to undertake the project, and we have
one last hurdle to address: financing.
The woodchip heating system
has a total cost of over $2 million.
It is an undertaking that will affect
the largest reduction of our carbon
footprint and will allow for the
most cost effective, locally centered
future for our operations.
With a target to have the system
operating for the next heating season,
we are coming up on some critical
decisions. To move this along, we are
lining up loan-based financing and
grants. We are also simultaneously
launching a campaign to give Goddard
community members and other
interested parties the opportunity to
imprint their names on the project.
This part is a crucial component; it is
the part that allows us to act in unison
in a way that helps both the College
and the local and global community,
and allows us all to take creative and
responsible action in the world.
I will end with an invitation to stay
in touch or be in touch.We value our
community and all that means.
Regards,
ROBERT KENNY, PRESIDENT

CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015 3
contents |
10
7
LOU JONES
25
COURTESY OF LONG WAY HOME
30
BOB BROWN
13
Features
7 From Rural College to Urban Planning

Vermont alumni take their Goddard education

and their passions and talents to the city streets.
BY SA M A NT HA KOLBER (MFAW 14)
Departments

2 Events Calendar
10 Controversial Matters at the

3 From the President
Heart of a Goddard Education
5 College Briefs
Last fall, the college sparked controversy when

upcoming graduates invited Mumia Abu-Jamal
(BA 96) to speak at their commencement.
12 On Air: WGDR Briefs

16 Alumni Portfolio
BY D UST IN BY E R LY (BA R UP 01)
18 Class Notes
13 Campus to Upgrade Heating System

The Vermont Supreme Court gives the colleges

woodchip project a clean bill of health.
BY GERA RD HO LMES (BA GV 89)
26 Faculty/Staff Notes
29 In Memoriam
30 Goddard in the World
31 Why I Give
14 Q&A with William H. Macy (BA RUP 72)

The Emmy Award winner talks about his career

and his wild and woolly days at Goddard.
INT ERV IEW BY DUSTI N BYER LY (BA R UP 01)
ERRATUM: Catherine (Adler)

Ramsey (BA RUP 64) wrote to tell
us that the photo of Will Hamlin
with student Amy Pett, published
on page 8 of the Fall/Winter 2014
issue, was actually taken by Amy
Pett. Catherine Ramsey was the
student pictured with Will Hamlin.
Our apologies for this error.
25 Embodying the Spirit of Goddard

Scholarship recipients show the breadth, variety,

and deep engagement of our community.
BY GERA RD HO LMES (BA GV 89)
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123 Pitkin Road, Plainfield, VT 05667
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Goddard Adds
New Trustees
college briefs |
Heartbeat
performs at
the Haybarn
in February.
THE COLLEGES Board

of Trustees recently
swelled its ranks with
four new members.
Danielle Boutet (IMA 91)
is a professor at the
University of Qubec
in Rimouski, an
interdisciplinary artist,
and a music composer.
She founded Goddards
MFA in Interdisciplinary
Arts (MFAIA) Program in
1997, and she remained
its director until 2008.
Mark Jones is director
of the Leadership
and Organization
Development Program
at Saybrook University
in California, where
he received his PhD
in Organizational
Systems. He is also a
founding partner of
The Sunyata Group.
Joseph Orange(IBA 08)
is a jazz musician and
retired health insurance
human resources
executive who
volunteers for the
BronxAfricanAmerican History
Project at Fordham
University, and as a
mentor for at-risk children
in Columbia, Md.
James C. Rossis a
longtime higher education
advocate and policymaker.
Hes currently a principal
of Ross-Holbrook
Associates, a higher
education consulting
firm in Burlington, Vt.
He received his EdD
inHigher Education
Administration from SUNYAlbany and his MEd in the
same field from NYU.
Goddard OKd for Early College Program
Youth Ensemble
Jumpstarts Haybarn
HEARTBEAT, a group of
Israeli and Palestinian youth
musicians, performed at the
Haybarn Theatre on Feb.
28 with a dynamic blend of
Eastern and Arabic music,
Western rock, hip hop, jazz
and reggae. Ranging in age
from 18-22, the ensemble
brings its powerful sound
and messages to the United
States in an effort to end
violence and promote
equality. During their visit to
campus, they also taught a
workshop called Building
Trust Across Differences
Through Art and Dialogue
for students in the
undergraduate program.
THE VERMONT AGENCY OF

Education approved Goddard
for an Early College Program
beginning in the 201516
academic year, making
Goddard the second private
college in the state with this
enrollment option for high
school students. Students
who are at least 16 years old
and enrolled full time in high
school or in an approved
home-school program may

take a full year of collegelevel classes while completing
their high school degree.
Tuition is free to Vermont
students as funded through
the Vermont Agency of
Education, though students
are responsible for books and
related fees. To learn more
about the program, go to
goddard.edu/earlycollege.
CLOCKWORKS TURNS 30This fall, Clockworks celebrates

30 years as Goddards official alumni magazine! Before 1985, it was
a newsletter called The Silo, taking its name from the building where the
Alumni and Development Office was housed. In 1985, the office moved into
the Clockhouse building and replaced the newsletter with a publication
meant to be lively and interesting. Well have a retrospective issue in the
fall. Send your memories of the magazine to clockworks@goddard.edu,
and stay tuned for an announcement about a Clockworks birthday party.
CLOCKWORKS SPRING | SUMMER 2015
college briefs |
DIVESTING FROM FOSSIL FUELS In January, Goddard
became the third college in Vermont to move its endowment funds out of fossil fuel investments and into fossil
fuel free accounts. The divestment from fossil fuel
company investments is one action in Goddard Colleges
long history of taking imaginative and responsible
action in the world, said President Robert Kenny.
Earthwalk
is having an
anniversary.
GRANT HELPS REPAIR SHINGLES IN PLAINFIELD

Goddard has been approved for a $7,000 grant from the
Vermont Division of Historic Preservation. The funds will be
used to replace damaged shingles on the silos of the historic
Community Center on the Greatwood Campus in Plainfield.
FUND OFFERS SUPPORT Halfway through the 201415
academic year, the college has awarded $2,400 in emergency
funding to 14 students from nine different degree programs, with
an average of $170 per student. The fund is supported by baked
and craft goods donated by staff and sold during residencies,
and by matching donations through GoodSearch.com.
NEW LED LIGHTS ON PLAINFIELD CAMPUS The college
achieved another small step toward energy efficiency when
outdoor lights along Pitkin Road, the parking lots, and the
library road, along with fixtures in the Community Center
and the music building, were replaced with LED fixtures. This
will save an average of 100 KWH per day, about $3,650 per
year. The improvements were made with assistance from
Efficiency Vermont and from our own Green Revolving Fund.
Bill McKibben
signs copies of
his latest book.
BILL MCKIBBEN
VISITS GODDARD
BILL MCKIBBEN, author,
climate change activist,
and the founder of 350.
org, visited Goddards
Vermont campus on
March 1 to speak about
the emerging fossil fuel
resistance being led by a
mix of indigenous people,
front line communities,
and committed scientists
from around the world.
The talk and subsequent
book signing was a
highlight of this springs
Undergraduate Studies
Program residency.
EARTHWALK CELEBRATES TEN YEARS Earthwalk is

an innovative non-profit that has offered transformative
nature education experiences to children, teens and adults
on the Goddard campus since 2005. Its students, typically
ages 7-12, hail from over 25 Vermont towns. They make
earth crafts, learn plant medicine, make fire and shelter, and
track animals, while also caring for the Goddard woods.
Journal Makes Waves
Sustainability Entrepreneurs Grant Winner
IN JANUARY, Duende, the

online literary journal produced
by BFA in Creative Writing
students, made a Flavorwire list
of 10 Unique and Funky Literary
Journals to Check Out in 2015.
The second issue went live in
March and features visual art,
poems, stories, and an interview
with Cornelius Eady, an awardwinning poet who spoke at the
Haybarn Theatre in fall 2013. The
website has been getting about
3,000 hits a month, reports
Program Director Janet Sylvester.
The mission of the journal is to
publish work, at least 55% in each
issue, by underserved writers and
artists. duendeliterary.org
WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT from Concept 2 and the Jerry

Greenfield and Elizabeth Skarie Foundation, Goddards Annual
Sustainability Entrepreneurs Grant provides
$2,500 to a student in any program whose
business proposal promises to most
effectively promote sustainable living,
social equity, climate change mitigation
and adaptation, and ecological
protection and restoration.
The winner of the 2015 grant is
Rania Campbell-Cobb, a student
in the MA in Social Innovation and
Sustainability Program. Rania is the
founder and executive director of Cloud 9
Rooftop Farm, a nonprofit established in April
2012 in Philadelphia. Cloud 9 develops rooftop gardens to grow
food for local consumption, offers educational programs about
rooftop agriculture, and supports community and environmental
resilience. Learn more at cloud9rooftopfarm.org.
FROM RURAL COLLEGE TO
URBAN PLANNING
Vermont Alumni
Take Their Goddard
Education to the
City Streets
TOP PHOTO: COURTESY OF CIT Y MARKET / KILLINGTON RENDERING: DESIGN BY HART HOWERTON
David Whites (BA RUP 77) firm worked on the development of City
Market Onion River Coop in Burlington, Vt., and theyre providing consulting and project management for Killington Village in Killington, Vt.
oddard College is synonymous with radical artists and

critical thinkers. Our students and graduates are often
activists, writers, teachers, therapists, and artists who
leave Goddard with aspirations and the tools to change the world.
What might be less known, though, is our role as an incubator for
successful city planners, real estate brokers, and urban developers.
These Goddard graduatesfrom the 1960s free-love era,

to the 1970s design-build era, to the current resurgence of
sustainability studiesare out in the world. In fact, theyre
taking it by storm with their sustainable city projects.
Last April, trustee emeritus Stephen B. Friedman
(BA RUP 68), of Chicago, Ill., was named to the American
Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) College of Fellows
for his outstanding achievements in urban planning. In
2005, he was profiled in Chicago Magazine. He is now the
president of SB Friedman Development Advisors.
When he attended Goddard in the mid 60s, he studied
Urban and Community Studies. He tells us that Goddards
BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW 14)
model of independent studies and open senior

study choices supported his interests in community
development and urban planning. Some of his
accomplishments include serving as development
advisor to the City of Park Ridge, Ill., for what
became the Shops and Residences of Uptown,
for which he received the Counselors of Real
Estates James Felt Creative Counseling Award;
and the role he played over many years in creating the
South Campus University Village at the University of
Illinois-Chicago. Stephens advice for students interested in
careers in urban development: seek a broad understanding
of how society works, from architecture to economics to
sociology. Practice systems thinkinghow things are
related to each other, he says, and be a creator!
Robert Brown (BA RUP 69-71), of Cleveland Heights, Ohio,
was inducted into the AICP College of Fellows at the same
time as Stephen. In 1990, the American Planning Association
selected Bobs project, Clevelands Civic Vision 2000 Citywide
Plan, as the best comprehensive plan in the nation. He also
Key to Peace, one of

Bob Browns photos of
Cleveland. See more at
citybobbrown.com.
had a major role rebuilding the staff of

Clevelands City Planning Commission,
where he helped mold a talented staff to
work for the good of the community.
He studied at Goddard for his first
two years of undergraduate school,
taking advantage of a variety of
liberal arts courses, ranging from the
writings of Hermann Hesse to courses
on literature and photography.
Goddard gave me the freedom to
explore ideas and readings freely, without
the need to concentrate on required
intro-type courses, he tells us. It was
at Goddard that he stumbled over the
book, The Death and Life of Great American
Cities by Jane Jacobs, which ultimately
led him to his career as a city planner.
Bob says students should pursue a
career in city planning if they find cities
fascinating and they want to improve the
quality of life for people who live in cities.
In my experience, he says, the
best city planners are people who love
cities! Bob recently retired as planning
director of the City of Cleveland. He is
currently a city planning consultant and
creative dabbler in urban photography.
Former trustee Josh Lichterman (BA
RUP 69) of Grass Valley, Calif., worked
for over 30 years in the field of disaster
preparedness and recovery planning as
a business continuity planner. He holds
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GODDARDS OWN
URBAN LEGENDS:
1 Robert Brown
(BA RUP 69-71)
2 Margaret Grundstein
(JR RUP 65, BA RUP 67)
3 David White
(BA RUP 77)
4 Joshua Jerome
(MA SBC 11)
5 Stephen B. Friedman
(BA RUP 68);
Josh Lichterman
(BA RUP 69)
not pictured
PAUL O. BOISVERT
multiple certificates of achievement from

FEMA, and a Master of City Planning
and PhD in Contingency Planning
for Disasters from UC Berkeley. His
dissertation on how government officials
should inform the public to be prepared
for the first 2472 hours following a
major disaster became federal policy.
While at Goddard, Josh studied Urban
Studies. He tells us he couldnt have
become a student at UC Berkeley, or now
at School for the Ministry, without his
extraordinary education at Goddard.
Goddards most lasting influence
is my ability to do critical reasoning
and to think outside the box, he said.
Now 67, he is back at school to obtain
his Master of Divinity, a career change
he decided to pursue after caring for
his 94-year-old mother for the last two
months of her life. His goal is to be both
a Hospice and environmental chaplain.
Josh lives as green as possible. He
and his wife live in a straw bale home
they designed 15 years ago; they have
8.375 Kw of photovoltaics on their
roof, a solar hot water system, and
they grow some of their own food.
He hopes that todays sustainability
students focus on developing the means
to retrofit existing cities into sustainable
communities with zero carbon
footprints, local produce production,
more public transit, and much more
careful use of critical water resources.
Margaret J. Grundstein (JR RUP
65, BA RUP 67), of Los Angeles, Calif.,
received her Master of City Planning
from Yale in 1970. However, her city
planning days were put to use on a
communal farm in western Oregon, on
160 pristine acres of undeveloped land
with no plumbing or electricity. She
spent five years there building a green
community before returning to city
life in one of the countrys great urban
centers: Los Angeles. Then, in 1989, she
founded First Years Preschool in Venice.
Later, reinventing her career path again,
she went back to school and received
her Master of Family Therapy from
Loyola Marymount University in 2002.
Margarets path to city planning,
and then out of it, was unconventional.
At Goddard she studied history,
with some history of architecture.
Architecture thrills me, she tells us.
She fell in love with architecture in 1967

while reading a New York Times review of
Habitat 67, a dramatic modular structure
designed by Israeli architect Moshe
Safdi. She then asked the Times architect
reviewer out to lunch, where he told
her the field had no future. So Margaret
decided on city planning, and pursued
her masters at Yale from 1968 to 1970.
Forty years after her commune days,
Margaret describes her early-childhoodeducation career as a return to city
planning, albeit circuitously. In the early
1960s, author Jane Jacobs wrote of the
grassroots personal connections that create
communities and hold cities together,
she says. That is what a preschool does.
In addition to caring daily for the tender
to where I am, he says, is the entire

process of student-directed education.
Commercial real estate development
is a complex field, he says. Over the
course of a single week, he might analyze
environmental regulations as they apply to
a particular project, negotiate a purchase
and sales agreement, create a spreadsheet
model of the finances for a project, work
with a team of architects and engineers on
complex design issues, present a project to
a regulatory review board, or meet one-onone with neighbors to address concerns.
In 35 years, Ive never once been bored.
His firm is currently working on a
significant downtown revitalization effort
in St. Albans, Vt., and a new $100 million
in-patient building for the University of
Goddards most lasting influence is my ability to do

critical reasoning and to think outside the box.
JOSH LICHTERMAN (BA RUP 69)
beings placed in our trust, we honor,

teach, and provide connections between
individuals and families, she says.
These bonds in the community are the
building blocks of every urban center.
Margaret has a private practice as
a psychotherapist in Los Angeles and
is a proud mother and grandmother.
Naked in the Woods, a memoir about her
years in Oregon, is her first book.
David White (BA RUP 77) lives in
Burlington, Vt., and is the states only
Counselor of Real Estate. Twenty-seven
years ago he was one of the founders of the
Vermont Community Loan Fund. Between
2000 and 2005 he was deeply involved
in planning and obtaining all required
land use and environmental permits for
Fletcher Allen Health Cares $350 million
Renaissance Project. In 1990, he founded
White and Burke Real Estate Investment
Advisors, Inc., a firm well known in
Vermont for its work on the Onion River
Coop City Market in Burlington and
Hunger Mountain Coop in Montpelier.
While at Goddard in the late 1970s,
David was a liberal arts generalist:
he studied photography, education,
philosophy, took part in the Social Ecology
program, and was news director at WGDR.
Perhaps the single greatest influence
Goddard had, which ultimately led me
Vermont Medical Center, among many

other large-scale projects. His firm is also
presenting the second annual Vermont
Development Conference in November,
where hundreds of development and real
estate professionals will gatherfor a day
of networking, seminars and workshops.
There is no substitute for handson experience, David says. He advises
anyone interested in real estate to go back
to school for specialized education and
then work for a development company, in
as many positions in the firm as possible.
Joshua Jerome (MA SBC 11) of
Montpelier, Vt., is a more recent graduate
of the MA in Sustainable Business and
Communities program. He is passionate
about small downtowns and locally
owned businesses, and he was just named
executive director of the Barre Partnership.
While at Goddard, Joshua focused on
the Community Development Financial
Institution field while he also worked at
Community Capital of Vermont (CCVT).
Looking for a more grassroots approach
to community development, he came to
Goddard. At CCVT, he helped grow the
loan fund from a $300 thousand a year
loan fund to a $1 million a year loan fund.
I'm really proud to have been part of a
team that was so passionate about helping
startup businesses in Vermont, he says.
THE GODDARD DESIGN-BUILD

program began in 1970, when
President Jerry Witherspoon
hired architects David Sellers
and John Mallery to create
a Design and Construction
Program that was compatible
with Goddards pedagogy
of experiential learning. The
program was very popular,
even drawing transfer students
from Harvard and Yale. The
program ended in 1977, but
Goddard has recently seen a
resurgence of student activity
in green building, tiny house
building, sustainable food
systems, and other design
and construction projects.
Just last year, Goddard
created a new masters degree
program in social innovation
and sustainability, for students
looking to transform non-profit,
for-profit and public sector
organizations, enterprises, and
processes within the field.
Goddard helped him develop

and polish his passion for making
downtowns more resilient in the face
of big box stores, and to educate people
of the importance of buying local.
Goddard allowed me to believe that
thinking and doing things out of the
convention is necessary, he says.
In his role at the Barre Partnership,
hes building on the revitalizing
efforts the City of Barre has made
over the past few years. His goal is to
bring people into the downtown for
commerce and cultural enrichment,
and to follow the Main Street Four
Point approach, which consists of
promotions, economic restructuring,
community outreach and streetscape
design. When you are involved in any
revitalization efforts, its important
to engage with stakeholders and hear
what they want of their downtown
or neighborhood, he says. He thinks
it is important for Goddard students
to research widely. As with any
specialized profession, it's important
to have a breadth of knowledge. CW
LOU JONES
Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA 96), above,

was convicted of the 1981 murder
of Philadelphia police officer
Daniel Faulkner, but he has always
maintained his innocence. Amnesty
International found that Abu-Jamal
was deprived of a fair trial. At right,
scenes from the fall commencement
ceremony in Plainfield, Vt.
CONTROVERSIAL
This past fall, Goddard College made national headlines
and ignited a fierce debate when the graduating students
of the Undergraduate Studies Program invited controversial
prisoner and alumnus Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA 96) to speak
via recorded remarks at their commencement.
Following the announcement of the
speaker choice, Goddard endured a
barrage of scornful press reports, hatelaced phone messages, and social media
backlash. Pennsylvania Republican
Senator Pat Toomey pressured the college
to rescind its invitation, with police
and corrections officials issuing similar
calls. Goddard, citing its responsibility
to support free speech and academic
inquiry, refused to rescind the invitation
and graduation went ahead as planned.
In addition to the impassioned
messages from people on both sides
of the issue, Goddard heard from
numerous professors, law students and
high-school teachers requesting copies
of the transcript to use in classroom
discussions and debates. The controversy
ended up sparking a national dialogue.
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This wasnt the first time Goddard

supported alternative viewpoints.
In 2001, for example, Residential
Undergraduate Program students
chose David Dellinger, an anti-war
protester who was one of the Chicago
Seven, to speak at their December
commencement. He spoke about the
effect this countrys militarism and its
capitalist imperialism had on terrorist
acts, just three months after 9/11.
Tim Pitkin, Goddard Colleges
founding president, was a convener
of complex dialogues and used public
events particularly commencements
as a platform to engage students and to
discuss the issues of the day. He was a
firm believer and advocate for the rights
of the individual to freely explore and
express ones own ideas without being
subjected to unnecessary restrictions.

When politicians were trying to gag
minds and voices by passing restrictive
legislation, when individual rights
were being undermined by a political
climate of fear, Goddard was standing
firm on the sacredness of individuality,
he said in a speech in 1954.
He believed that the job of the
college in a democratic society was to
get students to think not to tell them
what to think. This was and remains
one of the main pillars of Goddards
student-centered educational philosophy.
In fact, it is at the very heart of
everything Goddard does. Faculty
encourage students to follow their
passions wherever they lead them even
if that means entering into uncharted,
seldom-discussed and potentially
uncomfortable areas of study. This past
fall, in keeping true to the mission, the
college took responsible action in the
world by encouraging and engaging
in difficult dialogue, even as powerful
forces aligned against our doing so. CW
BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
LISTEN TO MUMIAS COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS AT GODDARD.EDU/2014/10/MUMIA
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11
ON-AIR
WGDR Briefs
s it enters its 42nd year, WGDR, Goddard Colleges Community Radio Station,
continues to develop and implement best practices, both on and off the air.
Many of these practices have been part of WGDRs experience all along, while
others are brand new, both to the College and to our regular listenership. New
tools like Unattended Operation, and new initiatives like our credit-bearing
academic programs (True Stories and Indie Kingdom) are driving a visible shift
in our culture and service. Here are some of our achievements this year.
BY KRIS GRUEN (BA RUP '97), WGDR / WGDH DIRECTOR
Indie Kingdom News
PHOTO BY JOSH LARKIN
Programmer &
Local2National
Grant Winner
Alan LaPage
Local2National Grants
for Programmers
Building Community
Partnerships
Last fall, WGDR launched

a grant program for local
radio producers who create
programming thats relevant
to national audiences.
Local2National grant winners
boost their online presence for
their national content on
wgdr.orgby adding new
images, information, and
audio files to the site.
This, in turn, helps raise
awareness about the entirety
of WGDRs great, locally
produced programs.
Educational, noncommercial community

radio has become a
hub of connectivity
in many communities
throughout the country.
Here in Central Vermont,
WGDR focuses on the nonprofit community, with
such recent partners as
the North Branch Nature
Conservancy, the Cabot
Agricultural Network, the
Center for an Agricultural
Economy, Hunger Mountain
Coop, Buffalo Mountain
Coop, the Green Mountain
Film Festival, the Summit
School, and the Plainfield
Business Alliance.
Check out shows

from two of our
grant winners: Jeff Lindholm
(wgdr.org/geezer-rock)
and Alan LaPage wgdr.org/
curse-of-the-golden-turnip).
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This winter, Carl Etnier

expanded the Indie
Kingdom program
by training U32 High
School students in news
production, with their news
reports airing on Home
Grown Radio News every
Friday from 1212:30 p.m.
Also, Indie Kingdom
Program Director Jackie
Batten partnered with
Montpelier High School
Environmental Applications
Educator Tom Sabo to
produce Seed Stories,
a seed-saving interview
series produced completely
by MHS students.
Look for these

advancements this
spring & summer:
Survey of current
listeners
Survey of potential
listeners (non-profits
in Central Vermont)
Demographics of
broadcast service area
Quarterly reporting of
program activities
New mission
Training Program
Jackie Batten has welcomed
six new programmers to the
WGDR/WGDH community in
the last six months.Look for
new programs like Suzanne
Podhaizers Kitchen Counter
Culture Radio Vermont on
Tuesdays from 122 p.m.,
and John Hopkins Dollar
Bins And Local Players on
Thursdays from 24 p.m.
Dual Enrollment
Program
In January, WGDRs first

academic dual enrollment
program, True Stories:
Adventures in Nonfiction
Audio Storytelling, made
a successful launch, with
15 students from four
high schools enrolled.
True Stories is a 3-credit
course open to high school
students in Central and
Northeastern Vermont, and
is offered through Goddard
Colleges Undergraduate
Studies Program in
collaboration with WGDR/
WGDH, Goddard College
Community Radio.
New WGDR logo

with an etching
by Mary Azarian
DONT BE A STRANGER! CONTACT US AT WGDR.ORG AND LEARN HOW YOU CAN GET INVOLVED.
Plainfield Campus Plans to

Upgrade Heating System
Vermont Supreme Court gives the woodchip project a clean
bill of health, moving Goddard closer to carbon neutrality.
BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV 89)
N NOV. 25, 2014, the BarreMontpelier Times Argus ran a

welcome and long-awaited
headline: High Court Backs
Goddard Plans for Biomass Heat Plant.
The Vermont Supreme Court unanimously
voted to dismiss appeals by seven
neighbors to Goddards approved Act
250 Permit, and to allow construction.
First formally proposed in 2011, the
biomass, or woodchip heating system,
will replace 22 boilers in 23 campus
buildings, reducing oil usage by almost
50,000 gallons. Instead of importing
oil from afar, Goddard will heat the
campus almost exclusively with local
wood, divesting even further from the
fossil-fuel industry. The project will
greatly advance Goddards commitment
to become carbon neutral by 2020.
Goddard committed to carbon
neutrality in 2007, when former president
Mark Schulman signed the American
College and University Presidents
Climate Commitment. President Bob
Kenny, then Goddards executive vice
president, championed the woodchip
heating system from its earliest days.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
has verbally approved a low-interest
guaranteed loan for about 90 percent
of the project cost.
Woodchip heating uses the
low-grade byproducts of wood
harvested for lumber and highquality wood products, adding to
the overall efficiency of the forest
management cycle. Vermont has
many woodchip heating systems, and,
according to impartial studies, capacity
for many more. Montpelier recently built
a wood-fired district heating system that
heats downtown buildings, and many
Central Vermont schools are heated with
woodchips. National Life and Norwich
University heat with woodchips, and, in

Burlington and Ryegate, massive woodchip boilers produce electrical power.
Two things make Goddards design
special. First, like the recently built
Montpelier district system, Goddards
would transfer heat through pipes using
water instead of steam. This increases
efficiency, diminishing the quantity
of wood burned and lowering costs
even further. Second, like much larger
systems, Goddards design includes
an electrostatic precipitator (ESP).
An ESP is essentially an industrialgrade air cleaner, pulling particulates
from smoke before it leaves the chimney.
It lowers emissions so effectively that
Goddard would heat 23 buildings,
from the Manor to the Pratt Center,
with emissions equivalent to four
home woodstoves. Goddards is the
first woodchip heating system in
QUESTIONS? SEND A NOTE TO GERARD.HOLMES@GODDARD.EDU.
A model of the
campus woodchip
Vermont to combine these
heating plant.
technologies for efficiency
and emissions control.
Can Goddard afford it? By switching
to lower-cost and more predictably
priced woodchips, eliminating aging
oil boilers that would have to be
replaced over the next decade, and
fundraising for 10 percent of the
total project cost, Goddard can save
money the first year, and an average of
$84,500 for each of the next 30 years.
A task force of consultants, staff and
board members are working to bring the
woodchip heating system to fruition.
Timothy Maker, president and
CEO of Community Biomass Systems,
Inc., has high hopes for the project.
Ive been managing woodchip
heating projects for thirty years, he
says, and the Goddard project is hands
down the best Ive ever worked on. CW
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We even did a renovation on

the Haybarn TheatreI was
swinging a hammer there.
I also play a lot of ukulele.
My house is covered in ukuleles
and I play all the time.
DB: When did you first
get involved in acting?
WM: I started acting in high
school; I did a play just like
everybody else. After high school
I went to Bethany College in
West Virginia and I did a lot of
plays there. Thats all I did, which
became a problem. I got really
serious about theater when I got to
Goddard and met David Mamet.
DB: Why did you choose Goddard?
WM: My parents were putting
COURTESY OF DOG POND PRODUCTIONS/ WHM
with
WILLIAM H.
MACY
INTERVIEW BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP 01)
ecently I had the amazing opportunity to talk with alumnus

and SAG award winner William H. Macy (BA RUP 72),
an Oscar nominee and Emmy Award-winning actor whose
film credits include Seabiscuit, The Cooler, Magnolia, Boogie
Nights, Jurassic Park III, and Fargo. In addition, Macy, along with
David Mamet, is a founder of the Atlantic Theater Company.
DUSTIN BYERLY: Could you tell

us a little bit about yourself?
WILLIAM H. MACY: I did theater
for the first 20 years of my
career and then when I moved
out here [Los Angeles], I
started doing films, television
and a lot of movies. Right now
my new thing is directing.
Last year, I directed a film
called Rudderless, which is
14
available right now, released

in theaters and digitally in
October, and its doing rather
well. As a matter of factits
going to make money, and that
means I get to direct another
film. Thats how I spend my
days: figuring out how to get
another film off the ground.
Im also doing a TV series,
Shameless, on Showtime;
we just finished our fifth

season. Im married to
Felicity Huffman, an actress.
I have two girls, 12 and
14. Life is sweet. Im the
luckiest palooka. I have
a lot of hobbies. I still do
woodworking, which I did a
lot of at Goddard; I worked in
the shop with a guy named
Jim Drake, and I built sets.
the pressure on, and so I went

to look at other schools and
ended up at Goddard College
in Vermont. One look and I was
swept away. I just loved it.
DB: What was it like to work

with David Mamet at Goddard?
WM: David Mamet is a stunning
teacher, a theoretician, and a
philosopher of the arts if you
will, and he basically gave
me my aesthetic. It was the
first time Id ever been in the
presence of someone who held
the theater and the stage higher
than anything else in life.
It was the wild and woolly
days of Goddard College in
the 1970syou can let your
imagination roam and that
would only tell half the story. But
in Daves class we had to be on
time. As a matter of fact, on time
in Daves class was five minutes
early. After that, he locked the
door. If you werent prepared
hed ask you to leave. He was
just deadly serious about it.
One day he walked in and
said Ive written a play were
going to do, and he flopped
this big script down, which
was an early version of Sexual
Perversity in Chicago. This is one
of his early plays, which is now
played everywhere. I vividly
remember reading that play and
thinking, I am in the presence
of genius. I had never read
anything like that. Thats when
the die was cast and I didnt look
back. Dave always loved saying,
COURTESY OF DOG POND PRODUCTIONS/ WHM
if you have a fall back plan, you

will. And I had no fall back plan.
That was the great thing about
Goddard. All we had to do was follow our
passions, and our passions were on fire
under the tutelage of Dave Mamet.
I pretty much learned everything I know
about showbiz right there at Goddard.
It was the wild and woolly days of

Goddard College in the 1970s.You can
let your imagination roam, and that
would only tell half the story.
DB: You were recently nominated for

a Peoples Choice Award, a Screen
Actors Guild Award and a Golden
Globe for your role as Frank Gallagher
on Shameless.How does it feel to be
nominated for all of these awards?
WM: It feels very gratifyingalthough I
feel a little out of sorts about the fact that
the show itself has not been embraced
by the critical community. Audiences
love it, and I dont know why critics
dont get thatwell, I do know whyits
shocking. Its well named. Its shameless.
I think its a little too rough for people.
Im happy to be the standard bearer for
my cast, but I think a lot more people
deserve credit for the shows success.
DB: Do you see some of yourself in
your character Frank Gallagher?
WM: Oh yeah, its inevitable. From the
very first time I read the script I saw
a connection between Franks point
of view and my own. He loves to be
a rascal. Hes got an opinion about
everything: things that he knows about
and things he doesnt know anything
about doesnt matter hes got an
opinion. I love his joie de vivre, his
sense of humor, his energy. I love that
hes a party wherever he goes, or at least
he tries to be Hes sort of delusional
in a way that I recognize [laughs].
Hes such a narcissist, and that seems
embarrassingly familiar to me.
DB: What is your fondest memory or

story from your time at Goddard?
WM: My girlfriend at the time was
in a dance program and she had to
do a senior study. Goddard was on a
trimester system, and you had to study
off-campus for one trimester per year.
So I went toNew York City with her,
and I took classes with Sandy Miesner
and tap-dancing with Henry LeTang.
We went back to Goddard and my
girlfriend performed her dance study
Dave Mamet started to play Lullaby
of Broadway on the piano andI
come in dressed as a milkman, all in
white, and we broke into a tap dance.
It ended up with seven people doing
a tap-dancing chorus line, and oh my
god! Goddard lost its mind. They were
ripping the seats out. They lost their
minds at this tap-dancing extravagance.
Id never been so proud in all my life.
DB: What are your plans for the future?
WM: Well, as my wife put it, I'm in my
third act and I think I want it to beabout

directing, working a little bit less, and
having a little bit more fun. I can see
myself retiring in the next 10 years.
Maybe Ill come back to Vermont.
DB: What advice do you have for
todays Goddard student?
WM: Follow your passion. I did. I can't
think of a better piece of advice. CW
MEMORY LANE
Alumnus Neal
Warshaw (BA RUP 73)
captured these images
of Bill Macy before the
student performance
of The Boys in the
Band, featured at
the Haybarn Theatre
in the early 1970s.
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NAKED: POEMS
BOOMSLANG
Donnelle McGee (MFAW 08)
Dustin Byerly (BA RUP 01)
Part elegy, part memoir, Naked takes

the reader into a specific time and
place from Donnelle McGees life
and connects us to his origins.
Unbound Content, 2015
A self-titled debut album from Montpelier

hip-hop duo Boomslang, featuring rapper
MC Sed One (Byerly) and producer
J Ellis. Deep, atmospheric beats and fiery,
poetic lyrics form an underground sound
that is unique and highly danceable.
State & Main Records, 2014
HAAS THE GREAT BLUE HERON

Juliane Bauer (BA 97)
A heartwarming story about a father
heron who anxiously awaits the arrival
of his chick. This book introduces the
reader to the world of the great blue heron
and its habitat through story, beautiful
illustrations and interesting facts.
Save The River, 2014
CALLED HOME, BOOK 2
Ron Heacock (IBA 12, MFAW 14)

From a farm in the Deep South to the
Erie Lackawanna train station in Summit,
New Jersey, the tales in Hey, This is It,
Im Going to Die are written with an ear
for pitch and an eye for the mundane.
Libros Igni, 2014
Patricia Busbee (MFAW 11), ed.
DIALOGIC MATERIALISM
A second anthology of American Indian

and First Nations adoptee narratives.
Editors Patricia Busbee and Trace A.
DeMeyer are writers and adoptees who
reunited with their own lost relatives.
Blue Hand Books, 2014
Miriam A. Jordan-Haladyn (MFAIA 06)
LIGHTING THE WORLD

Merle Drown (MFAW 78)
In the mid-1980s, a student brought a gun to
the high school where Merle taught and took
two hostages. In the aftermath, conventional
explanations and other media events smothered the boys death. This novel tries to give
meaning to an ordinary life gone wrong.
Whitepoint Press, 2015
This book argues for the relevance

of Mikhail Bakhtins theories of
dialogism as a means of examining
the interdisciplinary nature of
contemporary moving image art forms.
Peter Lang, 2014
ONLY A DOT ON THE MAP:

ST. JOHN REMEMBERED
Charlotte Sawyer Lacey (BA RUP 56)
A collection of vignettes about
her years leave of absence from
teaching, which turned into 25
years on the island of St. John.
AuthorHouse, 2014
IMPOSSIBLE LIVES OF BASHER THOMAS
CATACLYSM & OTHER ARRANGEMENTS
Robert Detman (MFAW 06)
Kagayaki Karen Morris (MA PSY 98)
Capturing the cold war intrigue of

Denis Johnson and the harsh landscapes
of William T. Vollmann, Impossible
Lives is a masterful and evocative
exploration into the American psyche.
Figureground Press, 2014
Drawing from years of experience that

integrates Zen, psychoanalysis, trauma
study and poetry, Karen Morris poems
express her alarm for what is happening
to those trapped in the commercial sex
industry and slave-driven economies.
Three Stones Press, 2014
NAKED IN THE WOODS

Margaret Grundstein (BA RUP 67)
In 1970, Margaret abandoned her graduate
degree at Yale and followed her husband,
an Indonesian prince and community
activist, to a commune in the backwoods
of Oregon. Together with ten friends and
an ever-changing mix of strangers, they
began to build their vision of utopia.
Oregon State University Press, 2015
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HEY, THIS IS IT, IM GOING TO DIE
EVES REQUIM: TALES OF WOMEN,

MYSTERY, AND HORROR
Patricia Flaherty Pagan (MFAW 13), ed.
Thirteen stories of danger and
resilience featuring strong women.
This spine-tinglingcollection includes
suspense, horror, and mystery
stories from celebrated writers
Spider Road Press, 2014
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LONG WAY BACK TO THE END
Paul B. Roth (BA RUP 74, MA GGP 77)
alumni portfolio |
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SMALLER IMAGES TOMORROW
This is poetic prose at its finest. Roth's

sentences unfold, gradually reveal ever
deeper meanings, and then crystallize into
moments of communicable inner experience
no less drawing on the vivid particulars
of the natural world. John Taylor
Rain Mountain Press, 2014
David Levi Strauss (BA RUP 76)
TRAVELS WITH CHARLIE
EREBUS
Sol Smith (MFAW 03)
Jane Summer (MFAW 13)
A young couple sets out to explore the

U.S. and, along the way, they fall into
love and hate with the popular culture
that binds Americans together.
Brave New Genre, 2014
Told in fractured memories, images

and heartbreaking poetry, this story
retells the tragedy of the plane crash
that took the life of the authors friend.
Sibling Rivalry Press, 2015
A GUIDE FOR DEVELOPING

ZERO ENERGY COMMUNITIES
COMPANION PLANTS
John Whitcomb (MA SBC 14)
In this debut novel, a young woman blames

her religious upbringing for a friends
suicide and sets out to discover who she
is beyond the strict rules of doctrine.
Fomite Press, 2014
The ZEC guide includes an extensive

primer regarding renewable energy,
control systems, energy storage, and
hybridization of technologies.
AuthorHouse, 2014
THE RETURN OF JASON GREEN

Susan Wizowaty (MA 85)
When Jason Green was ten, he saw his
best friend die in a camping accident.
Now 18, Jason re-enters the lives of
his friends parents and their gay
next-door neighbor. This is a novel
about friendship and betrayal, love
and desire, guilt and redemption.
Fomite, 2014
AN INFATUATION
Joe Cosentino (MFAW 94)
In this romance novella, Harold
prepares for his 10-year high school
reunion and wonders whether
Mario will be as muscular, sexy, and
tantalizing as he remembers.
Dreamspinner Press, 2015
POLSKA, 1994
Isla McKetta (MFAW 10)
Structured around the poetry of Milosz and
nocturnes of Chopin, Polska, 1994 follows
17-year-old Magdas quest through her past.
In a provincial town that feels too small,
this coming-of-age story revisits oppression
and loss behind the grim Iron Curtain.
Editions Checkpointed, 2014
At this transitional moment in the

field of photography, how should we
consider what is to come for the medium?
Straus considers this in 25 essays on the
present and future of photography.
Aperture, 2014
Kathryn Roberts (BFAW 12)
SPEAK BUT THE WORD

Stephan Rich Merriman (BA ADP 79), ed.
A heroic, autobiographical account
of the healing odyssey of twenty-five
personalities, all living within one
body, and the journey they followed
towards integration and wholeness.
Four Rivers Press, 2014
A BRIEF HISTORY OF INNKEEPING

IN THE 21ST CENTURY
Shawn Kerivan (MFAW 06)
In this engaging and eclectic memoir,
the author describes the challenges of
running a small business, providing
for a young family, and reconciling
the dream of becoming a writer.
The Vermont Press, 2014
THE LAST BOOK EVER WRITTEN

Jonah Kruvant (MFAW 11)
In a futuristic American society, where all
citizens have computerized chips in their
brains, Victor Vale is an officer of the law
and a dutiful citizen of the Nation. Yet
when The Chief assigns him a case to go
undercover, Victor finds himself strangely
compelled to write and, for the first time,
starts to question the world around him.
PanAm Books, 2015
Please Note: due to the volume of new books, we give preference to the most recently published.
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1950s
John Tomlinson (BA RUP

62-63) of Windsor, Ont., is
bureau chief at Windsor Star
and senior reporter at Thomson
Chain. He received the Ontario
Secondary School Teachers
Federations Award of Merit
and he published an op-ed,
Helping Vets by Getting Back
to the Land, in November.
Pictured, John and Asha
Tomlinson at a fundraiser.
Paulus Berensohn (BA RUP

51-52) of Penland, N.C., was
recognized by the Renwick
Alliance of the Smithsonian
as a Distinguished American
Educator. He is the subject
of the 2014 documentary,
To Spring from the Hand,
which he said was influenced
by his time at Goddard.
1960s
Peter T. Macy (BA ADP 69) of
Groton, Mass., published A Fish
Tale, an eBook available where
childrens eBooks are sold.
Richard Mulliken (BA RUP
65) of Jefferson, N.Y., is largely
retired but has a small private
practice in psychotherapy.
He is the Democratic chair
for the town of Harpersfield,
and a member of the
Delaware County Democratic
Committee. He tells us his
biggest accomplishment was
spearheading the organization
that sent Senator Gillibrand to
Congress, to replace a man who
was one of Bushs buddies.
Dr. Catherine A. Ramsey
(BA RUP 64) of Milltown,
Ind., retired a few years ago as
director of Crawford County
Public Library. Her son, Dr.
Drew Ramsey, wrote the
cookbook 50 Shades of Kale.
She sends cheers to those
who remember standing
along the Reflecting Pool in
Washington, D.C., listening to
Martin Luther King give his
I Have a Dream speech.
Arnold Kraft Sherman (BA
RUP 61) of Baltimore, Md., is
an assistant college professor,
policy scientist, and community
organizer. He authored The
Social Bases of Politics and other
works, and he is finishing a
book on fear of the stigmatized
other from a multi-disciplinary
perspective, starting in Southern
Turkey in 800 BCE and ending
with the Salem Witch Trials in
18
1692. He credits Goddard with

showing him how the search
for self must be balanced with
the obligation to community.
1970s
Bernadette Bellizzi (BA ADP
79) of New Britain, Conn.,
received a masters in counseling
in 81 and has been a counselor
ever since. She recently began
showing her artwork and had
an exhibition at The Mark
Twain House Museum in
Hartford. Her work can be
viewed at bbellizzifineart.com.
Marilyn Benshelter (BA ADP
74) of Philadelphia, Pa., is
fully recovered from spinal
surgery and is back teaching
yoga. She turned 82 in January.
Richard Bilangi (BA ADP 75)
of Newtown, Conn., retired
from his role as president
and executive director of
Connecticut Counseling Centers
Inc., and from his 35-year
career treating substance abuse
and mental health patients.
Ric Chesser (BA RUP 78)
of Albany, N.Y., the founder
and executive director of
Steamer 10 Theatre, is raising
money to finish the castle
of this historic theater.
Wendy Judith Cutler (BA RUP
72) of Salt Spring Island, B.C.,
teaches memoir and facilitates
womens writing circles. She
is the co-author of Writing
Alone Together: Journaling in a
Circle of Women for Creativity,

Compassion & Connection.
Jay Einhorn (BA RUP 72) of
Wilmette, Ill., became president
of the Chicago Association for
Psychoanalytic Psychology,
where he had been chair of Peer
Study Groups for ten years.
Jay is developing a series of
conversations for therapists,
entitled CAPP Conversations.
Ford John Elsaesser (BA RUP
73) of Priest River, Idaho,
was appointed to the board
of directors of Columbia
Banking System, Inc.
Diane Gabriel (BA RUP
76) of Burlington, Vt.,
continues to make art.
Peter Hannan (BA RUP 76)
of Beverly Hills, Calif., is the
new creator, writer and artist
at Cottonwood Media.
Kathleen M. Kern-Pilch (MAT
79) of Bratenahl, Ohio, was
featured artist for the August
2014 Lamplighter Magazine,
published by the Bratenahl
Community Foundation.
Mary Lansing (MA GGP 75)
of Lake Oswego, Ore., published
Stop It! How to Intervene in Public
Child Abuse, in 2013. She is
licensed as a marriage, family
and child therapist and has
practiced for the past 35 years.
Roger Norman Leege (BA RUP
71, MA GGP 77) of Venice,
Fla., published photographs in
Gulf Stream Literary Magazine
#11, the June issue of Miracle
Magazine, and the cover of
Tupelo Quarterly (TQ4).
Beth Brown Preston (MFAW

78-81) of Philadelphia, Pa.,
published poems in The African
American Review and in Open
Minds Quarterly. She is working
on a book of poetry, Oxygen II, a
memoir, Roses, a work of literary
fiction, Circles Daughters, and a
series of essays on black female
novelists tentatively called An
Anthropology of the Novel. She
extends warm greetings to the
faculty and students who were
at Goddard from 197981.
Paul B. Roth (BA RUP 74, MA
GGP 77) of Fayetteville, N.Y.,
had his newest collection of
poems, Long Way Back to the End
named one of three finalists
in the 2014 Central New York
Book Awards for Poetry. This
is his seventh collection. Roth
has been editor and publisher
of The Bitter Oleander Press
since 1974. bitteroleander.com
Larry Rottman (MA G-C 73)
of Springfield, Mo., wrote Voices
from the Ho Chi Minh Trail: Poetry
of America and Vietnam, 1965
1993, available on Amazon.
Marianne R. Weil (BA RUP
74) of Orient, N.Y., is a fulltime faculty member in the
Department of Performing and
Creative Arts at City University
of New York, College of Staten
Island. See her sculptures
at marianneweil.com.
Fred Wilber (BA RUP 73) of
Montpelier, Vt., celebrated 42
years of operating Buch Spieler
Music on Langdon Street.
Paul Zaloom (BA RUP 73) of
Los Angeles, Calif., celebrated
four years with the live stage
show Beakman on the Brain.
1980s
Michael Arnowitt (BA 84)
of Montpelier, Vt., presented
a concert at Marlboro
College in November.
Jim Atwell (MA GGP
80) of Burbank, Calif.,
teaches psychology at Platt
College in Los Angeles.
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Michael Cooper (MA GV
83-84) of Idlewild, Mich.,
wrote and performed his
Masked Marvels and Wondertales
at the Harris Center in
Folsom, Calif., in January.
Suzi Wizowaty (MA GV 85) of

Burlington, Vt., retired from the
state legislature after six years
to concentrate on her new nonprofit, Vermonters for Criminal
Justice Reform.
Cathy Malkin Currea (BA RUP

80) of Martinez, Calif., is an
animal communicator, humane
educator, animal Reiki teacher
and founder of AnimalMuse.com.
1990s
Dennis Leoutsakas (MA

GV 85) of Portland, Ore., is a
professor emeritus, teaching
internationally and completing
a 15-year research project.
David R. McLean-Thorne (MA
GGP 80) of Bude, U.K., retired
in October from a long and
satisfying career as principal
and educational psychologist
at a special needs school
in England. He now enjoys
spending time with family
and consulting as a child and
educational psychologist and
an academic and professional
tutor at the University of Exeter.
Deborah Kennedy Michalak
(BA ADP 81) of Crestone,
Colo., is pursuing her spiritual
life working at an Ashram,
practicing a healing practice
called Shekinah Healing Arts,
and doing photography.
Bill Orleans (BA RUP
80) of Burlington, Vt., was
appointed to the board of the
Lake Champlain Regional
Chamber of Commerce.
Cynthia A. (Cynn) Chadwick

(IMA 96, MFAW 99) of
Weaverville, N.C., published
Cutting Loose, part of the Cat
Rising Series, with Createspace.
Ronald (Nadel) Harvey (MA
GV 95) of Philadelphia, Pa.,
self-published Stilettos in the
Sun, a debut novel about a
young engineer-mathematician
with adventures in wasted love.
Martin Holsinger (BA RUP 6670, BA GV 91) of Nashville,
Tenn., ran for the Tennessee
House of Representatives on
the Green Party ballot line in
2014. Without campaigning
or spending any money, he
received 1,100 votes, or nine
percent of the total. He also
became a great-grandfather in
September. His granddaughter
is in the graduate program in
international studies at the
University of Colorado-Boulder.
John Layton (MA 90) of
Norwich, Vt., exhibited his
photographs of Maine and New
Hampshire coasts in Views From
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Robert Nelson (MFAW 95) of

Branford, Conn., gave a lecture,
Eerie Connecticut: Local Myth
and Mystery, on Oct. 29, at the
Fairfield Woods Branch Library.
Jon Fishman (BA GV

90) of Linconville,
Maine, received the
Lifetime Achievement
Award from the
2015 Syracuse Area
Music Awards.
PHOTO: ANDY MANN PHISH
the Waters Edge, at the Kennedy

Gallery in Portsmouth, as part
of the First Friday art walk.
He also gave a gallery talk.
Wendy Loomas (MA GV 93) of
Benicia, Calif., worked in public
health, primarily in injury
and violence prevention, in St.
Petersburg, Fla. Her Goddard
education helped launch this
career and motivates her to
continue social change work.
Jennifer A. McMahon (BA GV
91) of Montpelier, Vt., looks
forward to her August eBook
release for The Night Sister.
David Steven Rappoport

(MFAW 96) of Chicago, Ill.,
continues to consult as part
of Millennia Consulting in
Chicago. He worked with
the State of Vermont on the
development of two successful
applications for federal
Department of Education funds
for early childhood programs.
Debora J. Seidman (MFAW
96) of Taos, N.M., is a writing
teacher and coach working with
students all over the world. She
also teaches Womens Voices
Rising for Life on Earth. Her
play, The Lilac Minyan, which
she completed at Goddard,
has been produced in many
locations, most recently at Metta
Theatre in Taos in 2013, and at
Teatro Paraguas in Santa Fe in
2014. deboraseidman.com
2000s
Angela K. Andreoletti
(IBA 03) of Barre, Vt., left
her position as senior staff
accountant at Goddard, where
she worked for fifteen years.
William Belcher (MFAW 07)
of Greenwich, N.Y., sold his
academic programs at goddard

ADP: Adult Degree Program
BA: Bachelor of Arts
BAS: Bachelor of Arts
in Sustainability
BFAW: Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing
EDU: Education Program
G-C: GoddardCambridge Program
GEPFE: Experimental
Program in Furthering
Education
GGI: Goddard
Graduate Institute
GGP: Goddard
Graduate Program
GS: Goddard Seminary
GV: Goddard Five (all
programs 81-91)
HAS: Health Arts & Sciences
IBA: Individualized
Bachelor of Arts
IMA: Individualized
Master of Arts
JR: Junior College

MA: Master of Arts
MAT: Masters in Art Therapy
MFAIA: Master of Fine Arts
in Interdisciplinary Arts
MFAW: Master of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing
PSY: Psychology & Clinical
Mental Health Counseling
RUP: Residential
Undergraduate Program
SBC: Sustainable Business
& Communities
SE: Social Ecology
SIS: Social Innovation
& Sustainability
TLA: Transformative
Language Arts
UGP: Undergraduate
Program
VT: Plainfield,
Vermont campus
WA: Port Townsend,
Washington campus
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novel Lay Down Your Weary
Tune, to Other Press. It will
be published in the fall.
Lindsey Bourassa (IBA

09) of Brunswick, Maine,
opened her own dance
studio, Bourassa Dance, in
Portland, in September. The
studio features classes in
Contemporary Flamenco,
conditioning and yoga classes
for dancers, and Flamenco
Palmas workshops, plus other
special events. Classes will also
be taught by fellow alumna
Rijah Newall (IBA 09).
Jeremy Brown (IBA 08)
of Gorham, Maine, spoke
about his original research
on mens grief (conducted for
his Goddard Senior Study) at
the Undergraduate Outreach
Event in Portland in November.
Jeremy earned his Masters
in Social Work and is now a
licensed clinical social worker
and associate director of
residential programming at Port
Resources in South Portland.
Cathleen P. Carr (IBA 08) of
Long Island City, N.Y., attended
the Peoples Climate March
along with Hartman Deetz
(IBA 16), Trish Denton (IBA
08), Victoria Estok (IBA 07),
Nina Germain (IBA 15), Julian
Pimiento (IBA 16), Griffin
Shumway (IBA 14), Gaetano
Vaccaro (IBA 09), and others.
Melanie Dante (IBA 03, MA
HAS 06) of Philadelphia, Pa.,
participated in International
Day to End Violence Against
Sex Workers on Dec. 14,
in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Charlie Bondhus (MFAW 05)

of Bridgewater, N.J., was the
featured alumni reader for the
MFAW Alumni Reader Series at
the Spring 2015 residency at the
Plainfield campus in January.
Robert M. Detman (MFAW

06) of Oakland, Calif., is a
proud new father. He has
fiction forthcoming in Akashic
Books Thursdaze and Em: A
Review of Text and Image.
Deborah Di Bari (BFAW 09)
of New York, N.Y., received her
MFA from The City College,
CUNY in 2012 and is launching
a literary website and blog,
Fresh Snack Literary Press.
She is publishing a collection
of her own short stories and
is at work on a novel.
Victoria A. Estok (IBA 07) of
Beacon, N.Y., produced a sound
collaboration, Overtones and
Undercurrents, performed in
the Riverside Drive Viaduct
tunnel in New York City on
Oct. 4, with support from the
West Harlem Art Fund.
Paul Freedman (MA EDU 08)
of Orcas, Wash., was a featured
speaker at The TedX Orcas
Island Conference in November.
Benb Gallaher (IBA 00, IMA
02) of Brunswick, Maine, was
featured this fall in Portland,
Maines arts magazine, The
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Bollard, for his colorful musical

career. Benb was the emcee
at the UGP outreach event
in Portland in November.
David M. Gallaher (BA RUP
02) of Brooklyn, N.Y., is a new
writer at IDW Publishing.
Roberto Guzman (IBA 05)
of Laredo, Texas, received an
Artist Fellowship, Inc. grant and
a Gottlieb Foundation grant to
help defray his health care costs
associated with an accident that
left him paralyzed. You can
contribute to a care fund set up
by Joni Cobbet (BA RUP 03)
at gofundme.com/qbynmw.
Ian B. Haight (MFAW 03)
of Yigo, Guam, won Ninth
Letters 2014 Literary Award in
Translation for poetry for his cotranslation of Poem Given to a
Nun While Staying in a Taoist
Monastery by the 16th-century
Korean poet Nansorhon.
Alexandria Heather (MFAIA
05) of Montpelier, Vt., has made
over 400 paintings on discarded
wooden windows and was
featured on boredpanda.com.
boredpanda.com/i-paint-ondiscarded-wood-windows
Cara Hoffman (MFAW 09)
of New York, N.Y., was the
visiting alumni reader for
the MFAW residency in Port
Townsend in February. Her
book, Be Safe, I Love You, was
listed on BookPage.coms The
25 best book titles of 2014 and
was made into a movie that
Beckie M. Sheloske (BA

RUP 01) of Montpelier, Vt.,
opened a new business,
Rebel Intuitive Perfumerie,
creating natural perfume
compositions using nonsynthetic aromatics. In the
photo, Beckie (at right) with
her partner Katy Knuth.
Visit rebelintuitive.com.
premiered at the 2015 Sundance

Film Festival, where it won the
the Global Filmmaking Award.
She was interviewed by George
Stephanopoulos on ABC News.
Maria James-Thiaw (MFAW
09) of Camp Hill, Pa.,
was published in O Taste
& See: Auvillar Edition.
Shelley Jesso (BA RUP 99-02)
of San Diego, Calif., has a new
radio show, Holistic Vibrations
(holisticvibrationssd.com).
Shawn T. Kerivan (MFAW 06)
of Stowe, Vt., has an upcoming
book, Creative Composition:
Inspiration and Techniques for
Writing Instruction, being
published by Multilingual
Matters and edited by fellow
alum Danita Berg (MFAW 06).
Kathryn R. Klein (MA EDU
06) of Chicago, Ill., says she
uses the knowledge she gained
at Goddard every day. She is
an instructional support leader
in the Chicago Public Schools.
Jeffrey Lockwood (MFAW 04)
of Manistique, Mich., has a novel,
Anomie, coming out this spring
from Harvard Square Editions.
Donelle McGee (MFAW
08) of Turlock, Calif., was
nominated for a Pushcart for
his poem Cinnamon Man,
published in Unbound Content.
Ann E. Michael (MFAW
03) of Emmaus, Pa., appears
in theanthology So FarSo
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Close/Portada y Contraportada:
Contemporary Writers of
Tarapaca and Pennsylvania.
Susan Maier Moul (IMA
07) of Lenox, Mass., won the
Munster Literature Centre Sean
OFaolain Prize for fiction.
Her story was published in
Southword and nominated
for a Pushcart Prize.
Ezra Berkley Nepon (IBA
06, IMA 13) of Philadelphia,
Pa., received the 2014 Leeway
Foundation Transformation
Award and published an article,
Zamlers, Tricksters, and
Queers: Re-Mixing Histories in
Yiddishland and Faerieland,
in the anthology Transformative
Language Arts in Action.
Carla Norton (MFAW
09) of Satellite Beach, Fla.,
announced that What Doesnt
Kill Her, the sequel to The Edge
of Normal, will be out in June.
Jen Pia-Needleman (BA
RUP 98, MA EDU 03) of
Montpelier, Vt., became a
homebirth midwife, earning
her national CPM credential
and her state license.She
started a homebirth business
(bornhomebirth.com), and is
passionately working to bring
choice of birth provider and
setting to Vermont families.
Wanda Pothier-Hill(MFAW
07) of Ashburnham, Mass., was
guest speaker at the House of
Peace and Education in Gardner,
Mass., on Oct. 8, and read from
her novel, The Road Home.
Matthew Quick (MFAW 07) of
Collingswood, N.J., was listed
on BookPage.coms The 25
best book titles of 2014 for his
novel, The Good Luck of Right
Now. Catch and Release Films
is developing an adaptation
of his best-selling novel
Boy21, with Lasse Hallstrom
as the director and Andrew
Lanham as the scriptwriter.
Alfonso Ramirez (MFAW 09)
of New York, N.Y., had a short
play, Yin/Yangwritten while a
student at Goddardproduced
as part of the Venus-Adonis
Theater Festival in New
York City in January.
David Robson (MFAW 06) of

Wilmington, Del., showcased
his play, Playing the Assassin,
at the Penguin Theater last fall
and received a great review
in the Sunday edition of The
New York Times in September.
Gunner Scott (IBA 09) of
Seattle, Wash., was appointed to
the Seattle LGBT Commission
and is working for Pride
Foundation as director of
programs. He launched a
new practice, Making Waves
Coaching and Consulting.
Travis Shores (BA RUP 02) of
South Dennis, Mass., received
his masters in cultural studies
from Dartmouth College and
is conducting research abroad
at the Museum of the History
of Science at the University
of Oxford. He also earned a
PGCert in English Literature
in Chaucer and Shakespeare
from Exeter College, Oxford, in
England, where he respectfully
declined an offer of admission
for a DPhil and MSc in 2014.
He lives with his wife, Hannah
J. Rudy (BA RUP 01).
Nancy Shaprio (BA HAS
08) published Tilting Toward
Chaos on Kindle at Amazon.
David M. Spitzer (BA RUP
01) of Harrisburg, Pa., had his
manuscript, A Heaven Wrought
of Iron: Poems from the Odyssey,
accepted for publication by
Etruscan Press for release
in Spring 2016. He and Sara
Stalling Spitzer (BA EDU 03,
MA EDU 07) celebrated their
15th wedding anniversary.
They met at Goddard in 1997.
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for Integrative Nutrition

Conference in New York
City in November. He also
released a CD called The
Goddard Project, a collection
of music formed at Goddard
residencies with collaborators
Gailanne Amundsen (former
IBA student) of Longwood,
Fla., Lindsey Nogueira (BA
HAS 14) of Milford, Mass.,
Desmond Peeples (IBA 14) of
Brattleboro, Vt., Kevin Price
(IBA 12) of Pennsauken, N.J.,
Johnny Ridenour (BAS 14) of
Urbana, Ill., Dan Wall (IBA 13)
of Ghent, N.Y., and current IBA
students Siobhn Butler of New
York, N.Y., James Day Leavitt of
Portland, Maine, Allen Makere
of Chicago, Ill., Jeffrey Parry
of Northfield, Vt., and Jasper
Robards, of Santa Monica,
Calif. cdbaby.com/cd/aly13
storytelling and audio

documentary podcast called
The Smallest Bone.
Kelly Allen (BAS 14) of

Hamilton, Va., started a paid
internship as a viticulturist
(cultivator of grapes) at
Fabbioli Cellars in Leesburg.
She is learning about the wine
making process and winery
business. Check out her
blog, The Vine Whisperer.
John Boyer (MA HAS 13) of

Montpelier, Vt., and his partner
Gypsy Lew welcomed a baby
boy to the world on Dec. 19.
Richard Ambelang (MFAIAVT 12) of Plainfield, Vt.,

had a solo show of medium
format transparency photos,
Approaching Abstraction:
From the Montpelier Boxcars
I & II Series, at City Center,
Montpelier, through Jan. 30.
Mark Anderson (IBA 14) of
Evergreen, Colo., launched a
GaBrilla Ballard (IBA 15)

of Needham Heights, Mass.,
had an essay, Trauma and
Self-Care: Taking Care of Your
Present While Processing your
Past, published this summer
on the website, For Harriet:
Celebrating the Fullness
of Black Womanhood.
Patrick Beall (BAS 14)
of West River, Md., is an
oyster restoration specialist
at the Chesapeake Bay
Foundation. He spends his
days restoring the population
of oysters, which have been
threatened by industrial
pollution, and advocating
for stewardship of the bay.
Eileen Brunetto (MFAW

12) of Hinesburg, Vt., was
interviewed in the Oct. 23
Spotlight on Higher Education
issue of The Montpelier Bridge.
Baba Israel (IBA 04, MFAIA

08) of New York, N.Y., was
a featured presenter at the
MFAIA residency in Plainfield
in January. He gave a talk and
workshop on his latest project,
The Spinning Wheel.
An upcoming production and

tour forWhen Marie Took the
Power, the first of the Marie
Plays written by Carolyn
Nur Wistrand (MFAW 07) of
Flint, Mich., and directed and
designed by David I.L. Poole
(MFAIA 07) of Savannah, Ga.,
was produced in February.
2010s
Aly (IBA 14) of Takoma Park,
Md., spoke at the Institute
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Juanita Butler (BFAW 14) of
Austin, Texas, was nominated
for a Voices of Women
Worldwides Successful
Achievement Award in 2014.
Virginia and launched new

courses on information literacy
and social media, based on
the curriculum she created for
her Goddard Senior Study.
Pamela Callender (MFAIA

11) of Sarasota, Fla., founded
Fogartyville Community Media
and Arts Center in downtown
Sarasota in 2014, a project of
the Peace Education and Action
Center (sarasotapeacenter.org).
Jacqueline E. Dawkins (IBA

06, MA HAS 13) of Beckley,
W.Va., is working as a family
advocate at Just For Kids, an
organization that treats children
who are victims of sexual abuse.
Tamra Carraher (BFW 11)

of Audubon, N.J., launched
a new magazine called
Alexandria Quarterly, and
the first issue featured
several Goddard alumni.
alexandriaquarterlymag.com
Erin Cisewski
(IBA 12) of Ithaca,
N.Y., is teaching
English on a rural
island in Japan.
Stacy Clark (MFAW 13) of
Tampa, Fla., published her
piece Sitting with a Soldier
in the Sept. 7 issue of The
Boston Globe Magazine. She
was also published in the
anthology Three Minus One,
Stories of Parents Love and Loss.
Maggie Cleveland (IBA 08,
MFAW 11) of Fairhaven,
Mass., published poems
in the Winter 2014 issue of
Cape Cod Poetry Review and
in the anthology Devouring
The Green: Fear Of A Human
Planet. She also celebrated one
year working at the National
Elevator Industry Educational
Program, where she helped
develop a Goddard partnership.
Neely Cohen (BA HAS 12)
of Peterborough, N.H., opened
Vicua Chocolate Factory and
Cafe last October. Visit at 15
Main Street in Peterborough,
or online at vicunachocolate.
com. She was interviewed on
WGDRs Goddard Hour.
Joanna Cole (IBA 12) of
Annandale, Va., teaches at
The New School of Northern
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Nicholas Dean (MA EDU 12)

of New Orleans, La., is the new
principal at Crescent Leadership
Academy, a school whose
students have been removed
from other public schools or
are re-entering school from
the criminal justice system.
Lindsey Desrochers (MA EDU
12) of Port Jervis, N.Y., teaches
at The Bellwether School.
James DeWitt (BA HAS
14) of Minneapolis, Minn.,
is working as a research
assistant at the University of
Minnesotas Program in Human
Sexuality for a project called,
Working with Transgender
Communities to Assess PrEP
Knowledge and Acceptability.
Alison Downs (BFAW 13)
of Stafford Springs, Conn.,
published three poems in the
latest issue of Meat for Tea:
The Valley Review; essays on
HelloGiggles.com and xoJane.
com; and she is a host, oncamera reporter, and writer on
Dev, a news show for new web,
mobile, and game developers.
Zee Dunfee (IBA 12) of
Portland, Ore., was accepted
to Johns Hopkins University
for a dual masters degree in
Museum Studies and NonProfit Management. Zee started
her graduate studies last fall.
Annette Arguello Falkman
(BA HAS 14) of Gillette,
Wyo., practices horsefacilitated learning at her
organization, Spirithorse. She
launched a program called
Fortifying Families.
Lisa Fantelli (MFAIA 10)
of Plainfield, Vt., resigned
from her position in the
Admissions Office at Goddard
Rachel Hooper (IBA

10) of Burlington,
Vt., exhibited Its
Electric, her original
digital prints made
with mobile apps
and public-domain
images, in the maker
spaces first art
exhibition in August.
At left is Lost on
Earth, courtesy of
Generator.
after almost nine years

of dedication to pursue a
position with the Vermont
Department of Agriculture.
Heather Jo Flores (IBA 06,
MFAIA 14) of Portland, Ore.,
completed yoga teacher training
and now lives in Northern
California, where she is writing
a memoir. She will be touring
the U.S., Canada and the U.K. to
organize events to help people
grow their towns into healthy,
sustainable communities.
She founded the original
chapter of Food Not Lawns
in 1999 in Eugene, Ore., and
wrote Food Not Lawns: How to
Turn Your Yard into a Garden
and Your Neighborhood into a
Community as her final project
in the IBA program, which
was then published in 2006.
Chriztine Foltz (MFAIA 14)
of Lunenburg, Mass., celebrates
11 years as a professor at The
New England Institute of Art.
Sacha Fossa (IMA 12) of
Rockport, Mass., created Sacred
Temple Arts (sacredtemplearts.
com), a holistic business that
focuses on sex, relationship and
intimacy coaching, healing,
and bodywork, through private
sessions in person or via Skype.
Krista Gromalski (MA SBC
13) of Greeley, Penn., launched
Coal Cracker in 2013, a youthled newspaper that was the
focus of her Goddard studies.
Cara Hagan (MFAIA 12)
of Boone, N.C., premiered
two new dance works and

received a 2014/2015 Individual
Artist Choreographic
Fellowship from the North
Carolina Arts Council.
Scott Harris (MA EDU 12)
of Plainfield, Vt., adopted a
dog, Wilson, from the Central
Vermont Humane society.
Christopher Hatley (BA
HAS 14) of Brooklyn, N.Y.,
interned with the Healthy Youth
Program at the Washington
County Youth Service Bureau
in Vermont during his last year
at Goddard. The internship
has become a paid job. He is
a technical writer while also
working toward his drug and
alcohol counseling license.
Chris is also pursuing radio
storytelling as a tool for public
health, specifically around
chemical dependency.
William Homestead (MFAWVT 13) of Putney, Vt., had
his long critical paper, The
Language That All Things
Speak: Thoreau and the Voice of
Nature, published in Voice and
Environmental Communication.
Samantha Hutchison (IMA
13) of Fayetteville, Ariz.,
is the new senior museum
educator at Crystal Bridges
Museum of American Art.
Kathleen Iwanowski (MFAIA
10) of Denver, Colo., is now
a Reiki practitioner/arts in
healthcare facilitator at Creative
Health Partners, LLC.
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Chanelle John (IBA 13)
was featured on Black Yogis,
a website that promotes
the visibility of black yoga
practitioners. In August,
her article (More) Reasons
Why Your Yoga Class is So
White was published on
Decolonizing Yogas website.
Center about writing classes

and the many outlets for
publishing last September.
Jeremy Johnson (IMA 13) of

Wantagh, N.Y., presented his
essay, The Penumbra of Electric
Light, at the 2014 International
Jean Gebser Society Conference
in New York in October. He
works at Evolvers Learning
Lab series and serves as
editor for psychedelic culture
at the digital magazine
Reality Sandwich.
Jessi Lucas (MA HAS 12) of

Shrewsbury, Vt., was interviewed in The Times Argus in
September: Goddard graduate
teaches Aerial Yoga, and was
the featured @thisisvt Tweeter
of the week of Nov 17-24, 2014.
Nikki Kallio (MFAW-WA

10) of Hortonville, Wis.,
had a short story, Shadow,
in issue 16 of Midwestern
Gothic. She is teaching a New
Writing Focus class at The
Mill: a Place for Writers.
Jennifer Martineau (BA

HAS 12) of Savannah, Ga.,
published her Goddard Senior
Study, The Feral Ache: How a
Science Virgin Decided to Go All
the Way, as a Kindle book.
Annis Karpenko (MFAIA

14) of Mississauga, Ont.,
was appointed executive
director of Visual Arts
Mississauga in Ontario.
Maggie Keenan-Bolger
(MFAIA 14) of New York,
N.Y., with co-founder
Rachel Sullivan, brought a
new work of their Honest
Accomplice Theatre to
the University Settlement
building in New York City.
Sarah Kishpaugh (MFAW
14) of Edmonds, Wash., spoke
at the Edmonds Conference
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Sara Ybarra Lopez (MFAIAWA 10) of Port Townsend,

Wash., self-published Galatea:
Heart of Port Townsend, based
on her creative thesis, in 2014.
Jasmine Marsh (IBA 15) of

Winooski, Vt., was accepted into
Johnston State Colleges Master
of Arts in Counseling Program.
Gerardo Tony Mena (MFAWVT 15) of Columbia, Mo., was

interviewed by the Columbia
Tribune, and his tribute essay
to the late author Walter
Dean Myers was published
in Hunger Mountain Journal.
Nancy Otter (MFAW 14) of

Hartford, Conn., won first
place in the Working Peoples
Poetry Contest for Rana
Plaza, a poem about the factory
collapse in Bangladesh. The
poem appears on the website
partisanpress.org and in Blue
Collar Review. Chattel Is, part
of Nancys Goddard thesis,
received Honorable Mention in
the Lois Cranston Poetry contest
sponsored by CALYX Press.
Patricia Flaherty Pagan
(MFAW-VT 13) of Houston,
Texas, won the Houston Writers
Guild short story prize for
her story, Bargainings.
Thomas Park (MFAW 14)
of Warrenton, N.C., had five
pieces of poetry accepted
in the third issue of the
on-line journal Barking
Sycamores.Ghetto Child,
his puppet show about rural
children staying in school,was
presented at the Warren
County Library on Nov. 6.
Dylan Pasture (IBA 10) of
Brooklyn, N.Y., has finished
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production of his short

film, Raise a Good Man.
Desmond Peeples (IBA
14) of Brattleboro, Vt., is
now an associate literary
agent with DCdesign.
Lucas Peters (MFAW-WA 14)
of Covington, Wash., wrote a
400-page guidebook of Morocco
for Moon Travel Guides.
Cody Pherigo (MFAW 15) of
Port Townsend, Wash., had a
handful of poems published
this winter in Gay City Anthology
Volume 6: Up Close and Personal.
Jess Pillmore (MFAIA 14)
of Austinville, Va., has a
new job as artistic director
at Creatively Independent.
Neel Murgai (MFAIA 10)

of Brooklyn, N.Y., with his
musical group, The Neel
Murgai Ensemble, gave a
concert on Jan. 17 at the
Haybarn Theatre in Plainfield.
Lisa E. Melilli (MFAW 13)

of Brooklyn N.Y., was named
finalist in the Soundings
Review First Publication Contest
for her short story The Sotah.
She was also named a finalist
for the New Letters Alexander
Patterson Cappon Prize for
Fiction for a short story excerpt
from The Offering, the novel
she completed for her thesis.
Anne Rosenvald Moore
(MFAIA 10) of Lake Wales,
Fla., is adjunct professor
of humanities at South
Florida State College.
Victoria Mosey (IMA 13)
of Raleigh, N.C., started
a new job as inreach peer
support specialist at Alliance
Behavioral Healthcare.
George Obermiller (MFAWWA 10) of Corpus Christie,
Texas, had his one-act play, One
Night in Paradise, performed
in Austins FronteraFest! on
Feb. 6 at Hyde Park Theatre.
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Hannah Pitkin (IBA 12) of
Marshfield, Vt., granddaughter
of Goddards founding
president Tim Pitkin, married
Nicholas Clark, formerly
of Belchertown, Mass., in
their home on Jan. 31. The
ceremony was officiated
by her father, Caleb Pitkin
(BA 80) and attended by an
intimate group of family and
friends. The two are planning
a honeymoon in Norway.
Mike Puckett (BAS 15) of
Kamuela, Hawaii,presented his
senior project, Soil Solutions,
in Hawaii this December.
Clayton Redfield (MA PSY
12) of Tawas City, Mich.,
joined adjunct faculty at
Alpena Community College
in the Criminal Justice
Department teaching juvenile
justice in ACCs Huron Shores
Facility in Oscoda, Mich.
Angel Balanc Reyes (BA
EDU 09, MA EDU 11) of
Kissimmee, Fla., taught Puerto
Rican Bomba Classes at the
MLK FAME Community
Center in Seattle in February.
Joslyn Jordan Robinson

(MFAW 14) of Rockville
Md., wrote and published
an article, The Formidable
Fairy Tale: A Writers Guide,
on the-artifice.com.
David Sammarco (MA EDU
10) of Windham, Maine,
celebrated six years as a
fundraising and political
consultant and educator.
Ryan Sartor (MFAW
12) of Milford, Conn.,
published a short story at
The Collapsar in September.
Shae Savoy (MFAW 14) of
Seattle, Wash., had a poem,
Nude New Hampshire
News, selected as the first
place winner in the Elizabeth
R. Curry poetry contest at
SLAB Literary Magazine.
Casey M. Siegel (MFAW
10) of Brooklyn, N.Y. is the
new executive assistant at
Little, Brown and Company.
Nessie Pruden Siler (IBA 11)
of Manteo, N.C., is a member
of the states Developmental
Disabilities Council.
Become a
Jeffrey Simonds (MFAW

13) of Castleton, N.Y., was a
featured reader at Hartwick
Colleges New American
Writing Festival in November.
Haley Sladek (MA EDU 12) of
Loveland, Colo., credits Goddard
for her organizing a 600-person
international conference in
2013 and working at a public
library doing progressive
community outreach.
Douglas Smith (MFAW-WA
14) of Shoreline, Wash., had
one new critical piece and one
from his thesis accepted online
at Behemoth Review and issue
#2 of Crooked Shift. He has
completed his PhD application.
Jan Smith (MFAW 14) of
Taos, N.M., is completing a
Writing Residency this spring
at the Vermont Studio Center,
and her memoir,Blink Like
Crazy,won first place in the
2014 SouthWest Writers contest.
Jonathan Smucker (IBA 12)
of Providence, R.I., had his
article, Whats Wrong With the
Radical Critique of the Peoples
Climate March published in
a recent issue of The Nation,

a journal featuring analysis
on politics and culture.
Kakwasi Somadhi (GGP 76,
MFAW 10) of Elk Grove, Calif.,
published her debut novel,
Coming Forth by Day. She is
writing, promoting her book,
and organizing a local writing
conference and book fairs.
Carolyne St. Clair (MA EDU
12) of Key Biscayne, Fla.,
opened her own learning center
in May 2014, making a lifelong
dream come true, she tells us.
Deborah Grace Staley (MFAW
11) of Maryville, Tenn.,
published her thesis, Ill Be
There, as a Kindle on Amazon.
Emily Stern (MFAW-VT 13)
of Santa Fe, N.M., published
an excerpt of her memoir,
When Doves Cry, in Entropy
Magazine on March 4.
Ashley Summers (MFAW 14)
of Bend, Ore., teaches English
and works as a language
services specialist in Germany.
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Scholarship recipients show the

breadth, variety, and deep engagement
of the Goddard community.
BY GERARD HOLMES (BA GV 89)
Embodying the Spirit of Goddard
COURTESY OF LONG WAY HOME
Thanks to
Matthew Paneitz,
kids in rural
Guatemala have
a new school.
oddards tuition remains low

compared with other small, liberal
arts colleges, but even so, our students
financial need is great. During the
2013-14 academic year, 84 percent of Goddard
students received financial aid, and 38 percent of
undergraduates lived below the poverty line.
Fortunately, scholarships can lessen the burden.
In 2007, the Spirit of Goddard Scholarship Fund
became the main scholarship endowment. Made
up of generous donations from our alumni, the
fund gives awards of $500 or more to students
whose proposed work embodies the socially
engaged, self-directed spirit of the College.
The Pearl Foundation Scholarship was established
in memory of alumna Pearl Fink (BA ADP 80, MA
84) by her children. Pearl returned to college in her
40s after decades in the working world to discover
her talent as a playwright. Her daughter, the musician
Janis Ian, said that Goddard was the most important
thing in the world to her next to her children.
Each year, the scholarship committee has the
difficult task of choosing among the many applicants
who both demonstrate financial need and do
remarkable work. This year, the committee read
nearly 75 applications for the $20,000 available in
scholarship funds. At right are some of the students
who were selected for awards. They represent the
breadth, variety, and deep social, political, and
personal engagement of the Goddard community.
They truly embody the Spirit of Goddard. CW
Some of Our 2014-15 Scholarship Recipients
atthew Paneitz
(BAS 12 and MA
in Education student),
received a Pearl Foundation scholarship.
He is the founder of
Long Way Home, an
educational initiative
in Guatemala thats
staffed with people
from around the globe.
We are architects,
builders, farmers,
educators, administrators, and above
all, students, says
Paneitz. Together,
they are constructing
a 20-building, 100
percent sustainable
campus to provide
poor, rural Guatemalans
with an alternative
to what he calls the
banking model of
education commonly
practiced there.
Other Pearl Foundation
scholarship recipients
include Susan Sakash, a
graduate student in the
MA in Social Innovation
and Sustainability
degree program studying

cooperative and
solidarity economics; a
writer and parent who
enrolled in Goddards
MFA in Writing program
after 12 years as a stayat-home mom; and a
community organizer
and rape-crisis counselor
who, in working
toward her MFA in
Interdisciplinary Arts,
has edited an anthology
that focuses on the
communities with whom
she engaged in her work.
This Spirit of Goddard
scholarship has gone
to a number of worthy
students, including an
educator who moved at
age ten from the Czech
Republic to Windsor,
Vt., unable to speak a
word of English. Through
her studies at Goddard,
she is developing a
multicultural program
in her hometown that
supports diverse learners
through inquiry, imagination, and sensitivity.
Another educator is
based in Senegal, where
she moved in 2011, and
works as a teaching
and library assistant
at the International
School of Dakar. She
manages a program that
fosters collaboration
between the schools
staff and families to
combine education
with social well-being.
A third Spirit recipient
is an artist who, with
her family, converted a
7x16-foot cargo trailer
into an environmental art
and living experiment.
The trailer is designed
as a long term and
permanent housing
solutionincorporating
mindful/conscious
living practices, such
as solar and wind
energy sources. The
family plans to travel
widely and evolve
their project into massproduced affordable
and sustainable
housing solutions.
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Annie Abdalla (IBA) is
immersed in a creative
project she calls, The
Process of Abstracting:
Searching for Essence.
Pamela Bookers (IBA) play,
Seens From the Unexpectedness
of Love, will be included
in the anthology Blacktino
Queer Performance. She also
published, Tilling Soil and
Soul in the Aftermath of
the Climate March, on her
blog, greens4squares.com.
March in New York. In October

he, Catherine Lowther (UGP)
and Otto Muller (UGP)
attended a Vermont rally
against fracking, sponsored by
Rising Tide and 350VT.org.
Neema Caughrans (UGP)
ceramic sculpture, Kwan Yin,
was accepted into a statewide,
juried show held as part of the
annual Colorado State Fair.
Last October, she attended
the annual Association for
Contemplative Mind in Higher
Education Conference in Seattle.
Ruth Farmer (GGI Program

Director) and Caryn MirriamGoldberg (GGI-TLA) co-edited
the anthology Transformative
Language Arts in Action. It
features essays by and profiles
on dozens of transformative
language artists, including:
Suzanne Adams (IMA 08),
Taina Asili (IMA 08), Minna
Dubin (IMA 08), Patricia
Fontaine (IMA 07), Larry
Greer (IBA 03, IMA 06),
Deb Hensley (IMA 11),
Richard Hodgson (IBA 01,
IMA 07), Yvette Angelique
Deborah Bloom (Student Services)

welcomed Henry Yves Morrissette, born
on Feb. 20, 2015 at 9:04 p.m., weighing
6 pounds 15 oz. and 20 inches long.
Everyone is healthy and taking naps.
Ryan Boudinot (MFAW-WA)

resigned in February after
teaching at Goddard since 2007.
Deborah Brevoort (MFAW-VT)
had two plays, The Women of
Lockerbie and The Comfort Team,
published by No Passport Press.
Her backstage farce, The Velvet
Weapon, was workshopped
in the Launch Pad program
at UC Santa Barbara and
produced at the Trustus Theatre
in Columbia, S.C. She was
commissioned to write a libretto
for Mozarts The Impressario for
the Anchorage Opera, where
it premiered in February.
Rebecca Brown (MFAW-VT)
published an article, The Fall
Is HardJust Look at All the Art
Thats Been Made About It,
in The Stranger in September.
Readings include the Shunpike
APRIL fundraiser in Seattle and
the Seattle Repertory Theatre.
Bobby Buchanan (UGP) and
Eva Swidler (UGP) organized
a Goddard presence at the
September Peoples Climate
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Jan Clausen (MFAW-VT) was

interviewed about her new book
on Tarpaulin Sky in January.
Inside Higher Ed published her
op-ed piece, Why We Invited
Mumia Abu-Jamal, last fall.
Darrah Cloud (MFAW)
is teaching playwriting to
undergraduates at Vassar
College this spring.
Chip Cummings (Admissions)
was hired in January as an
admissions counselor for the
Goddard Graduate Institute and
the MFA in Interdisciplinary
Arts Program.He has
experience as an accreditation
evaluator and reader for the
Middle States Association
of Colleges and Schools,
and was previously the
Alumni Admissions Program
regional chair, class agent and
interviewer for the Middlebury
College Admissions Office.
Chip holds a BA in English
from Middlebury College,
a Certificate in Advanced
Placement English from
Fordham University, and a
Certificate in Grant Writing
from Keene State College.
Hyater-Adams (IMA 03), Kao

Kue (IMA-TLA 12), Vanita
Leatherwood (IMA 08), Katt
Lissard (GGI faculty, MFAW
00), Lisa McIvor (MFAW 11,
IMA-TLA 14), Nancy Morgan
(IMA 02), Ezra Berkley Nepon
(IBA 06, IMA 13), Seema
Reza (BFAW 12), Angie
River (IMA-TLA 15), James
Sparrell (GGI faculty), Brian
W. Sunset (IMA 03), Scott
Youmans (IMA 05) and Joanna
Tebbs Young (IMA 13).
Harris Friedman (MA PSY) is
an editor of The Praeger Handbook
of Social Justice and Psychology.
Kenny Fries (MFAW-VT)
received a Toronto Arts Council
grant for his new Germanybased book, Stumbling Over
History. Composer Michael
Djupstroms setting of his poem
In bed togetherhad its world
premiere at Phoenix Concerts
in New York City in November,
as part of the program, AIDS
Quilt Songbook. He had poems
published by The Good Men
Project (goodmenproject.
com), and he gave readings
and lectures in Germany at
the Protestant University of

Applied Sciences in Bochum,
as well as at Salon 4 and
Humboldt University in Berlin.
Maike Garland (UGP)
finished her Master Gardener
Training at University of
Vermonts Extension Services.
In December, she gave an
interview on WGDR about
systemic racism in Vermont.
Beatrix Gates (MFAW-VT)
had two poems accepted
by Cultural Weekly. She was
awarded a residency as a
Poetry Fellow at the Virginia
Center for the Arts for 2015.
Elena Georgiou (MFAW)
was named acting program
director of the MFAW
Program in December.
Newcomb Greenleaf (UGP)
participated in the Eco Dharma
Conference at Wonderwell
Mountain Refuge in New
Hampshire in August. His
essay, Art & Spirit in
Mathematics:The Lessons of
Japanese Temple Geometry,was
featured on the Science and
Non-Duality website.
Bethe Hagens (UGP) has
been transforming a former
dump into a terraced
permaculture forest garden
in Kennebunkport, Maine.
Pam Hall (MFAIA)
showcased HouseWork(s),
an interdisciplinary art
exhibit at Kamloops Art
gallery in Kamloops, B.C.
Dr. Herukhuti (UGP) cosponsored and moderated a
panel at the Schomburg Center
for Research in Black Culture
on using the seven principles
of Kwanzaa as principles
of development in Black
LGBTQSGL communities. His
organization, Center for Culture,
Sexuality and Spirituality,
launched theSacred Sexuality
Practitioners of Color Network
website, where he wrote an
article analyzing LGBTQ
responses to the Black Lives
Matter movement. He was
named a Thought Leader for the
Association of Black Sexologists
and Clinicians for 2015.
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Peter Hocking (MFAIA) is now
a lecturer in history, philosophy,
and social science at Rhode
Island School of Design.
Laleh Kahadivi (MFAW-WA)
became an adjunct faculty
member of the MFAW Program
in Port Townsend in February.
Her first novel, The Age of
Orphans, received a Whiting
Writers Award and a Barnes and
Noble Discovery Award, was
nominated for the Dublin IMPAC
Award and translated into eight
languages. She has served as
the Carl Djerassi Fiction Fellow
at the University of Wisconsin,
Madison, Fiction Fellow at
Emory University, and was a
finalist for the Rolex MentorProtg Initiative. Her second
book, The Walking, was published
in 2013. She lives in California.
Susan Kims (MFAW) graphic
novel, Brain Camp, was rereleased as a mass market
paperback this spring.
Michael Klein (MFAW-VT)
had three poems accepted
forPloughshares' winter and
spring issues. Its Derby Day
was accepted for publication
by Oxford American, and
an essay, Halfway Open,
was accepted by Slice.
Petra Kuppers (MFAIA)
received The Womens Caucus
for Arts 2015 Presidents Art &
Activism Award on Feb. 12, 2015,
in New York City. She wrote a
new textbook, Studying Disability
Arts and Culture: An Introduction.
Laiwan(MFAIA-WA)
presented Architecture without
Predetermination for Emily
Carr Universitys archive project
in October. Shepresented
Speculative-Spectaculative
Fictions at theUndivided
Colours Dance Symposium
in November. This year she
served on a variety of arts juries
including the British Columbia
Arts Council, The Canada
Council for the Arts, and the
British Columbia Womens
and Childrens Hospital.
Michael Leong (BFAW) won the
2014 Burnside Review Chapbook
Contest for Fruits and Flowers
and Animals and Seas and Lands
Do Open.He was a finalist for

a 2014 New York Foundation
for the Arts Fellowship in
Poetry. He resigned from
Goddard in February to take an
assistant professor position in
the English Department at the
University at Albany, SUNY.
Ju-Pong Lin (MFAIA
Program Director) delivered
a performative lecture called
Unscreening Our Mobile
Devices at the Under Western
Skies conference, and a paper,
Unraveling the Biopolitics of
Doctor Who Througha Crosscultural Ecocritical Practice,
at Eco-imaginaries, a Tufts
University Graduate Humanities
conference. She was named
program director in January.
Stephen Locke for their

collaborative photography
and poetry book, Chasing
Weather: Tornadoes, Tempests,
and Thunderous Skies in Word
and Image, chosen as a best book
by the Midwest Independent
Booksellers Association. She
was keynote speaker in April
at the National Association
for Poetry Therapy conference
in Black Mountain, N.C., and
participated in three readings
and a panel at the AWP
Conference in Minneapolis.
She also published an article,
Why Im a Transformative
Language Artist in
Huffington Post last August.
Aimee Liu (MFAW-WA)

was selected as the Orlando
Short Fiction Judge for the
Spring 2015OrlandoPrizes
at A Room of Her Own.
Wendy Call (BFAW) had an essay

on Mexican-Zapotec literature
published in the November/
December issue of Orion. She
will be on the faculty of the Port
Townsend Writers Conference in
July and complete a one-month
residency at Willapa Bay Artist in
Residence program in August.
Gariot Louima (Dean of

Admissions) had his essay
Timoun Etranje: Constructing
Identity in the Space
between Haiti and the U.S.
published in Representations
of Internarrative Identity. He
is completing his Ph.D. in
Interdisciplinary Studies at the
Union Institute & University.
Catherine Lowther (UGP)
and the rest of the Goddard
Sustainability Team have been
working to divest Goddards
endowment from fossil fuels.
Douglas A. Martin (MFAW-VT)
gave a talk on the work of poet
Alice Notley at a symposium
at the Bay Area Public School.
He was interviewed in October
at Essay Daily. His essay
on poetics appeared in the
February Evening Will Come: A
Monthly Journal of Poetics, and
he taught a six-week crossgenre class at Poets House.
Shaka McGlotten (UGP) gave
a talk, The Political Aesthetics
of Drag, at the ICI Berlin
Institute of Cultural Inquiry in
Berlin, Germany, in October.
Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg
(GGI) is on a 15-city tour with
weather chaser/photographer
Sara Norton (UGP) retired in

February after 25 years with
Goddard. Sara taught in the RUP
and the off-campus program of
the 1980s, the off-campus BA/
MA program of the 1990s, and
began in the UGP in the early
2000s. She advised students
across a myriad of disciplines
including psychology,
expressive therapies, movement
arts, humanities, international
studies, sustainability, organic
farming, and social activism.
Sara was one of the organizers of
the Goddard College Employee
Union and represented offcampus faculty bargaining
for the first contract. Looking
toward her life after Goddard,
Otto Muller (UGP) had his

piece, Memor2.26.12a for
Flute, Melodica, Piano, and
Electronics, performed by
Antoine Beuger and D. Edward
Davis at the Klangraum
concert series in Dusseldorf,
Germany in August.
she will continue her research

projects, psychotherapy practice,
and lead classes in Tai Chi,
Aikido and authentic movement.
Victoria Nelson (MFAW-WA)

gave lectures at an Esalen
Institute symposium on the
imagination in October and was
keynote speaker for a conference
on Gnostic Countercultures:
Terror and Intrigue held at
Rice University in March.
Dr. Wendy Phillips (MA PSY)

presented her photograph,
Atlanta Black Crackers, 2001
in the Kids (Not Cute) exhibition
at Umbrella Arts Gallery in
New York City this winter
(umbrellaarts.com/exhibitions).
She also presented a body of
photography-based mixed
media work in the Baggage Claim
exhibition at the Washington,
D.C. Arts Center last October.
Devora Neumark (MFAIA)

wrote a commissioned article
for Recherches fministes
special issue (volume 27:
2)O en sommes-nous avec le
fminisme en art? (Where are
we with feminism in art?).
Rachel Pollack (MFAW) had

her novel, The Child Eater,
published in England and listed
in The Guardians list of top
Science Fiction/Fantasy novels
of the year. It will be published
in the United States next year.
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Suzanne Richman (MA HAS)
hosted 15 Goddard students
during the summer residency at
her Plainfield, Vt., homestead to
learn to cultivate shiitake mushrooms and view the woodland
food and medicine gardens.
Paul Selig (MFAW Program
Director) received a three-book
deal from Tarcher/Penguin for a
new series on spiritual growth,
and he was filmed for the new
documentary, Widowsville. He is
currently on a leave of absence.
SB Sowbel (UGP) co-facilitated
a course at the Vermont Center
for Integrative Herbalism,
Healing Presence: Cultivating
Communication Skills and
Compassionate Relationship.
Last summer, she had a solo
exhibit titled Boustrophedonerie
at the Drawing Board Gallery in
Montpelier, Vt. She published
six works in four literary
venues, with two awards1st
place Poem of the Year and
TopTen Poems in Northeast
Poetry Competition.
Darcey Steinke (MFAW-VT)
was interviewed by Douglas A.
Martin (MFAW-VT) in Believer
Magazine in September. She had
an essay, Boyfight, published
on killingthebuddha.com in
October, and was guest curator
in December for The HiFi
Reading Series featuring Noah
Blake, Laura Miller Tomaselli,
and Kevin St. John in New York.
Eva Swidler (UGP)presented
on a panel, Protecting
Campus Freedoms: Speech,
Assembly, Disruption, at the
Modern Language Association
conference in Vancouver, B.C. in
January. She attended a protest
in Philadelphia against the
Keystone pipeline and in support of sustainable green jobs.
Janet Sylvester (BFAW
Program Director) was
nominated for Pushcart Prize
for her poem After-Hours at
the Museum of Tolerance,
published in Sugar House Review.
She had poems in Colorado
Review, received a grant from
the PEN Writers Fund, and is
one of ten writers inaugurating
AWPs new mentorship
program, Writer to Writer.
28
Ruth Wallen (MFAIA)

presented a paper, Practicing
Presence: Developing
MeaningfulDialogue over
Space and Time, at the College
Art Association Conference
in New York in February.
lace panties in the first issue

of all roads will lead you home.
She received funding from the
Center for Cultural Innovation
in Los Angeles to work on a
collaborative epistolary writing
project on fatherlessness.
Diana Waters (UGP) cotaught, Inside-Out: Pathways

of Opportunity last fall.
Jane Wohl (MFAW-VT) read

at Ucross on Sept. 20. The
reading was sponsored by the
Wyoming Outdoor Council and
the University of Wyomings
MFA program and Haub
School of Natural Resources.
Karen Werner (UGP) is

teaching a dual enrollment
course with WGDR called
True Stories: Adventures in
Nonfiction Audio Storytelling.
Her audio story, Slow Down,
Mr. Werner, was nationally
broadcast and podcasted on
Radiotonic on the Australian
Broadcasting Corporations
Creative Audio Unit.
Arisa White (UGP/BFAW)
published her poem black
Sui Yee Wong (UGP) has

been named Goddards
Fulbright Program Advisor.
She participated in a panel at
the Ethnocultural Art Histories
Research Group conference,
Cultural Convergences
II: Alliances, at Concordia
University in Montreal. She was
nominated by ELAN, the Quebec
Lise Weil (GGI) launched a new

journal, Dark Matter: Women
Witnessing, which publishes
writing and artwork responding
to an age of massive species loss
and ecological disaster. The first
issue included writings by alumna
Sonja Swift (IMA 14), student
Kate Miller, and MFAW faculty
Jan Clausen. Dark Matter is now
accepting material for its third
issue. darkmatterwomen
witnessing.com
English Language Network, to

be featured in the 2015 artists
studio tour in February.
Jacqueline Woodson (former
MFAW faculty) was nominated
in the Young Adult category
for a National Book Award.
|
Celebrated Playwright Dies at 78
ISHAH RAHMAN (MA GV 85), 78, of San

Miguel de Allende, Mexico, died Dec. 29, 2014.
Born in Harlem, she moved to Mexico in 2011 after
retiring from a 19-year teaching career at Brown
University. Aishah also taught at Nassau Community
College on Long Island and was an accomplished
playwright and author who served as director of
playwriting at the New Federal Theater in New York.
Along with Amiri Baraka, Larry Neal and
Sonia Sanchez, Rahman was part the Black Arts
Movement of the 1960s. She used a jazz aesthetic
in her writing, which includes the dramatic plays
Unfinished Women Cry In No Mans Land While
a Bird Dies in Gilded Cage, The Mojo And The
Sayso, Only in America, and Chiaroscuro. She also
wrote the musicals, Lady Day A Musical Tragedy,
The Tale of Madame Zora, and Has Anybody Seen
Marie Laveau? Aishah received The Doris Abramson
Playwriting Award, a New York Foundation for
the Arts Fellowship, and a special
citation from the Rockefeller
Foundation of the Arts for
dedication to playwriting
in the American Theater.
In 2001 she published
Chewed Water: A
Memoir, about growing
up in Harlem in the
1940s
and 50s.
Class Notes, continued from page 24

Megan Taylor (MFAW
13) of Glens Falls, N.Y.,
is a contributing author
to Saratoga Wire.
Cynthia Tina (BAS 15) of
Lynn, Mass., presented her
senior study, Confessions
of a Young Activist:
My Journey Into the
Sustainability Movement
at Sirius Community last
December. She is a volunteer
coordinator for InTerraTrees
EcoVillage Build Team
in Togo, West Africa.
Rebecca Troy (MFAW 13)
of Burlington, Vt., had a
story published in Eves

Requiem: Tales of Women,
Mystery, and Horror.
Nancy Volante (MFAIA-VT
11) of Ridgefield, Conn., is
the new teaching artist at
Brooklyn Arts Council.
Kriota Willberg (MFAIAVT 11) of New York, N.Y.,
showed pieces of her comic
artwork in Carousel
Comic Art at Dixon Place
Gallery and presented for
the History of Medicine
and Public Health Festival
of Medical History and
the Arts in October.
in memoriam |
Andrew R. Allen(BA RUP

72-74), 60, of Patterson,
N.Y., died Dec. 22, 2014.
Gilbert Gilly Laferriere,

(Former Staff 86), 90, of
Barre, Vt., died Sept. 24, 2014.
David B. Boyce (IBA

97, IMA 99), 65, of New
Bedford, Mass., died Dec.
17, 2014. He was a former
arts columnist for The
Standard-Times, curator
at the New Bedford Art
Museum, and director
of UMass Dartmouths
University Art Gallery.
Harry Manygoats (BA

GV 93-94), 67, of Tuba
City, Ariz., died Dec. 4,
2014. He retired from
the Tuba City Unified
School District in 2011.
Beverly Title Brown (GV

89) of Montecito, Calif.,
died July 31, 2013.
Richard Alden Bull (RUP
JR 63, BA RUP 65), 71,
of Garnet Valley, Pa., died
Dec. 26, 2014. He worked
for 30 years as a vice
president in the Financial
Division of the Philadelphia
National Corporation (now
Wells Fargo Bank). Upon
retirement from banking,
Alden taught mathematics
and later became the
director of Upattinas
School in Glenmoore, Pa.,
an independent school
dedicated to democratic
ideals where students take
responsibility for their
education and community.
Mary Louise Sherwood
Cooke (BA G-C 70), 88,
of Northfield, Vt., died on
Sept. 13, 2014. She taught
at several elementary
schools around Vermont
until retiring in 1988.
William Oliver DeBery
II (BA RUP 75), 59, of
Phippsburg, Maine,
died Oct. 10, 2014.
Anne Margaret Foley (BA
RUP 79), 58, of Baltimore,
Md., died Jan. 1, 2015. She
spent the past 27 years as
director of ticketing for
the Big Apple Circus.
Paula H. Gould (BA
ADP 66) of New York,
N.Y., died in 2002.
Mark C. Helmke (MA
GGP 81), 62, of Angola,
Ind., died Nov. 1, 2014.
John Medeiros (BA ADP 7477, IBA 01), 62, of Salisbury,

Mass., died Nov. 19, 2008.
Caralinda Linda Oken
(BA RUP 64) died Oct. 14,
2014. After graduating from
Goddard, Linda briefly
served as an elementary
teacher in rural Vermont.
She then went on to receive
a masters degree from
Syracuse University and
work in the Sex Education
Department at the Syracuse
Planned Parenthood for
many years. She also studied
computer science and was
a computer consultant.
Charlotte Elaine Pratt (BA
ADP 80), 90, of Westbrook,
Maine, died on Sept. 17,
2014. Her degree in art and
religion fromGoddard
served her well in her work
at Prides Corner Church.
Frances Rolle (MA GGP
76), 91, of Santa Clarita,
Calif., died March 29, 2013.
Kal Rosenberg (MFAW
02), 79, of Gainesville,
Fla., died, Nov. 11, 2014.
Walter Rett Everett
Rowley III (BA RUP 68) of
Bath, N.H., died Dec. 15, 2014.
Seraphim Seskevich (BA
ADP 79, MA GV 82), 75,
of East Hartford, Conn.,
died March 12, 2014.
Arlynne Stark (MA GGP
78), 71, of Evergreen,
Colo., died Nov. 17, 2014.
She attended the Julliard
School of Music and was a
pioneer and early advocate
of dance movement therapy.
29
Goddard in the
World
BY JULIA AIN-KRUPA (IBA 11)
Trusting the Process in Poland

Undergraduate program alumna reflects on her Fulbright year
abroad and Goddards continued influence on her creativity.
My mother is Jewish,
however, her grandparents
left Poland at the turn of the
century. My father, who is
Polish, was raised Catholic
in a region that was once
considered Germany, and
so his father was drafted
into the Wehrmacht army
as a teenage boy.
Born to theatrical
artists in Poland,
Julia Ain-Krupa
grew up in New
York City, where art
played a great role
in her life.
received my Fulbright scholarship for

the 2012-2013 academic year. The
grant was specifically for creative
writing, and my intention was to
come to PolandKrakow, specifically,
where a new Jewish community is
thrivingto write about inter-religious
marriage in Poland, which was something
that interested me, and which was also
reflective of my own background.
30
This internal dissonance

established by my ancestral
heritage created many
questions for me, and I felt
compelled to move toward
them. I had also lived in
Poland as a small child,
where my parents worked in
the theater, though we left
during Martial Law, when
the Solidarity movement was
rising, communism falling, and
the bread lines were long.
My experiences at Goddard
helped me to trust myself in
the creative process, and to
feel free to trust the process,
as my project changed
dramatically over the course
of my time in Poland. What
emerged was a novel about
post-war Poland. The book still
addresses all of the questions
that I initially intended to ask,
and even pushes further than
I could have hoped to go.
My time at Goddard helped

me to shape myself as the
individual and artist that I
was meant to be, someone
who may not always fit in
with the rest of the stream,
but who is able to work from
a deep and genuine place
(I hope). Of course, being
surrounded by such amazing
people at Goddard helped
to give me the confidence
and support to evolve in this
way. I still miss them all.
As for the Fulbright, it
bought me time, which is the
greatest thing that any artist
can wish fortime to focus
on what you love, to learn, to
meet new people, to dream.
And I was lucky enough to
be in an environment that
was stimulating/challenging
enough to enable me to do
the work that I set out to do.
Now, I only wish to have
the chance to write more
books, and to create projects
that feel meaningful to me
and to others. I hope to
continue to aim from the
heart, which is always a
challenge, but worthwhile to
take the plunge and try. CW
Julia Ain-Krupa (IBA 11) is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. She is the author of Roman
Polanski: A Life in Exile and has contributed to
Cinema Editor Magazine. Her short films have
been screened at the IFP festival, the Jung
Society in New York, and the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. Her most recent work, Dancing
With Brando, was presented in conjunction with
Paris fashion week. She lives in New York City.
Why I Give.
contribute to Goddards Annual

Fund because of the unique
education I received. Goddards
low-residency program in the
Pacific Northwest has spawned
promising writers who believe in
pushing the limits of creativity.
We have experienced the
personalized and professional guidance
that has enabled us to become
better writers and to create works
that address issues of social justice,
environmental concerns, and gender
and racial equalityworks that
stimulate thought and initiate action.
Join me in ensuring that others
may also learn to trust the process
in developing their creative
voices. Your contribution today
will assure that Goddard College
continues to be a bastion against
ignorance, prejudice, and fear.
MILTON LUM
(MFAW-WA 14)
Use the envelope

in this magazine
or give online at
goddard.edu/giving
This dramatic vista of Washingtons Puget Sound
has inspired many West Coast Goddard students.
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Upcoming Events
1 MAY 2025 | AEROS 12TH
ANNUAL CONFERENCE
The Alternative Education
Resource Organization (AERO)
makes learner-centered
education available to everyone.
Goddard staff and faculty will
be exhibiting. Cost $. Register at
educationrevolution.org.
Long Island University/C.W. Post
Campus, Brookville, N.Y.
2 JUNE 4 | TRANSFORMATIVE
LANGUAGE ARTS IN ACTION

READING AND RECEPTION
GGI Program Director Ruth

Farmer and faculty Caryn MiriamGoldberg, with others, read
from their newest anthology,
Transformative Language Arts
in Action. 7PM. Free. The Love
Shack, Brooklyn, N.Y.
3 JUNE 29JULY 3
CLOCKHOUSE WRITERS
CONFERENCE & RETREAT
4 JULY 11 | BIG BANG

BHANGRA BRASS BAND
Alumnus Brian Boyes (BA RUP 95,

MA EDU 11) leads this party that
combines the rich musical and
dance roots of Indian Bhangra,
Bollywood, New Orleans Brass
Bands, and the 1930s jungle
swing of Duke Ellington and Cab
Calloway. Cost $. 8PM. Tickets at
goddard.edu. Haybarn Theatre at
Goddard College, Plainfield, Vt.
5 JULY (DATE TBA) | PORT
TOWNSEND MFAW 10TH

ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION
The low-residency MFA in

Creative Writing Program has
been convening at its Fort Worden
campus location for ten years!
Come celebrate with readings, a
picnic, and a special guest. Watch
your email for more information.
Port Townsend, Wash.
6 SEPT 21 | BRIAN EVENSON

FICTION READING
Author of a dozen books of

fiction, most recently Windeye
and Immobility. Presented by
the BFA in Creative Writing
Program. Free. Haybarn Theatre
at Goddard, Plainfield, Vt.
7 OCT 3 | 10AM TO 3PM
DISCOVER GODDARD DAY
Learn more about Goddards lowresidency BA, BFA, MA and MFA

degree programs. Info sessions,
tours, and lunch. Free. RSVP to
goddard.edu. Plainfield, Vt.
Providing Goddard MFA in

Creative Writing alumni the time,
space and community to continue
your writing practice. Cost $.
Register at clockhousewriters.
com. Plainfield, Vt.

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3 Discover Goddard Day: Fall Open

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BY SA M A NT HA KOLBER (MFAW 14)

10 Controversial Matters at the

3 From the President

Heart of a Goddard Education

Last fall, the college sparked controversy when

12 On Air: WGDR Briefs

BY D UST IN BY E R LY (BA R UP 01)

13 Campus to Upgrade Heating System

The Vermont Supreme Court gives the colleges

BY GERA RD HO LMES (BA GV 89)

14 Q&A with William H. Macy (BA RUP 72)

The Emmy Award winner talks about his career

INT ERV IEW BY DUSTI N BYER LY (BA R UP 01)

ERRATUM: Catherine (Adler)

25 Embodying the Spirit of Goddard

Scholarship recipients show the breadth, variety,

BY GERA RD HO LMES (BA GV 89)

THE COLLEGES Board

Goddard OKd for Early College Program

THE VERMONT AGENCY OF

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GRANT HELPS REPAIR SHINGLES IN PLAINFIELD

EARTHWALK CELEBRATES TEN YEARS Earthwalk is

Journal Makes Waves

Sustainability Entrepreneurs Grant Winner

IN JANUARY, Duende, the

WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT from Concept 2 and the Jerry

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FROM RURAL COLLEGE TO

oddard College is synonymous with radical artists and

These Goddard graduatesfrom the 1960s free-love era,

BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW 14)

model of independent studies and open senior

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Key to Peace, one of

had a major role rebuilding the staff of

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multiple certificates of achievement from

She fell in love with architecture in 1967

to where I am, he says, is the entire

Goddards most lasting influence is my ability to do

beings placed in our trust, we honor,

Vermont Medical Center, among many

THE GODDARD DESIGN-BUILD

Goddard helped him develop

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Mumia Abu-Jamal (BA 96), above,

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This wasnt the first time Goddard