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APRIL 22
Regional Alumni Gathering
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

MAY 7
Regional Alumni Gathering
Brooklyn, New York

Goddard students and faculty joined thousands of

like-minded individuals on Jan. 21 for the Women's
March on Montpelier, part of the global effort to join
voices against hate and injustice. After the march, the
crowd gathered for a Unity Rally on the Capitol steps.
 Goddard | president’s letter |
CLOCKWORKS Spring 2017
President Kenny at the UGP
Commencement last fall
PRESIDENT
ROBERT P. KENNY

DEAN OF ENROLLMENT
& EXTERNAL AFFAIRS

A
GARIOT P. LOUIMA

MANAGING EDITOR
SAMANTHA KOLBER

GRAPHIC DESIGN
KELLY COLLAR

EDITORIAL BOARD
DUSTIN BYERLY, MEG HAMMOND,
SAMANTHA KOLBER, GARIOT P.
LOUIMA, WENDY E. PHILLIPS

PHOTOGRAPHY COMMON THREAD RUNNING THROUGH THE

DAVID HALÉ, STEFAN HARD, articles in this issue, which highlights the work
CARLOS IMANI, SAMANTHA KOLBER
of alumni such as Jane Sanders, women business
FEATURED WRITERS owners and leaders, and the diverse group of
KIMBERLY BROWN, SHARON CRONIN, students in our Seattle site, is that these Goddard-connected individuals
SUSAN FLEMING, DAVID HALÉ,
SAMANTHA KOLBER
accepted the call to take creative and responsible actions in the world.
Our world is, without a doubt, at a point where additional creative and
BOARD OF TRUSTEES responsible actions are needed. The all-too-common violence we read about
JILL MATTUCK TARULE Chair and experience is appalling. In some situations, there is a clear path to what
LUCINDA GARTHWAITE Vice Chair,
Chair of Trusteeship must be done to address the incident. More often the way forward is not
MARK R. JONES Vice Chair easily identified or clear. These are the circumstances that call for creative and
JOSEPH ORANGE Social Justice and
responsible actions, actions that emerge from a well-considered understanding
Inclusion Chair
RICHARD SCHRAMM Treasurer of causes and solutions and that chart and lead us down creative paths that
CATIRIANA BAKER, DANIELLE BOUTET, lead to just outcomes. There is no better place to learn the ways to do this than
AIMEE LIU, CHRISTOPHER W. LOVELL,
HUBERT TINO O’BRIEN, MANUEL F.
a place that has followed this path for over 150 years: Goddard.
O’NEILL, AVRAM PATT, ELISSA SLOAN At a time when many institutions of higher education are being asked to
PERRY, JAMES C. ROSS, PAUL SELIG, become employment training centers, where assessment of the institution’s
GLORIA J. WILLINGHAM-TOURÉ
success is based on
how the education
TRUSTEES EMERITI
CLIFF COLEMAN, PETER DONOVAN,
“OUR WORLD IS, WITHOUT A DOUBT, AT provided at the
STEPHEN B. FRIEDMAN, MARY
MCCULLOUGH, CLOTILDE
A POINT WHERE ADDITIONAL, CREATIVE institution is
PITKIN, JOAN SHAFRAN, LOIS
SONTAG, ROBERT WAX
AND RESPONSIBLE ACTIONS ARE NEEDED.” translated employment
into

and earnings for

students, Goddard and other like-minded institutions of higher learning have
CONNECT WITH GODDARD held on to the vision that educating students and calling upon graduates to
be activists for a better world is of utmost importance. Of course employment
facebook and economic viability have a place in our lives, but they pale next to the
/GoddardCollege importance of addressing the more complex challenges of our society that,
twitter when not addressed, lead to social injustices and the current appalling
@goddardcollege acts to which we are witness.
On that note, I ask you to read on, contemplate, communicate
instagram
goddardcollege with us your thoughts, and take action in your community.

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Features Departments
7 Leading Women 2 Alumni Events 28 In Memoriam
Alumnae entrepreneurs, business 3 From the President 29 Remembering
owners, and leaders make a difference. 5 College Briefs Ann Stokes
BY K I MBER LY BROW N (M FAW ’11) 14 Alumni Portfolio 30 Goddard
18 Class Notes in the World
11 Students Let It Shine 21 From the Archives 31 Giving to Goddard
Seattle Education Program focuses on 26 Faculty/Staff Notes
being relevant in today’s world and
celebrating diversity for the 21st century.
BY S U S A N F LE M ING

12 Q&A with Jane Sanders

A devoted Goddard veteran, Jane
O’Meara Sanders talks about her
life in public service and her days on
the presidential campaign trail.
I NT ER VI E W BY SA M A NT HA KOL BER (M FAW ‘14 )

16 Then and Now

Staff and students recreate scenes
from the Goddard archives.
P H OT OS BY S TEFA N HA RD

Goddard in the World

21 A Sign of the Times Transformative Educator Bárbara Martínez-
A look at educational opportunities Griego (MA EDU ’07) has become a leader
for women at Goddard, 1863–2016. in dual language higher education.
BY DAVI D H A L É » page 30

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Faculty Member
Wins Book Award
S herri L. Smith
(MFAW) received
the Southern California
Independent Booksellers
Association’s 2016 Middle
Grade Award for The
Toymaker’s Apprentice
(Penguin/Random House,
2015), a “gorgeously
imagined retelling of
the Nutcracker.”Smith, a
resident of Los Angeles,
has worked in movies,
animation, comic books,
and construction. She is
the author of Lucy the
Giant (Delacorte, 2002),
Sparrow (Delacorte, 2006),
Hot, Sour, Salty, Sweet
(Delacorte, 2008), Flygirl
(Speak, 2010) and Orleans
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2013).
| college briefs |
Group Study Begins
on Climate Science
A new group study for
undergraduate students
called “Climate Change;
Science, Action, Justice,
Resilience,” led by faculty
advisor Catherine Lowther,
began this spring. The study
covers the principles of
climate science, how we are
VERMONT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
changing the climate, how to
mitigate and adapt to climate
change, clean energy options
for our communities, climate
action groups, the effects
that climate change is having
on social-ecological systems
worldwide, climate justice, and
how we can raise awareness
about climate change.
Freaks, Radicals & Hippies A workshop
and screening
Take over Vermont of the
documentary,
The Vermont Historical Society reports that Before the
Flood, kicks
its exhibit of Vermont 1970s counterculture, off the study,
called “Freaks, Radicals & Hippies,” is thriving which will
and will be up through the end of 2017, an include readings, videos,
documentaries, a weekly
extended run due to its popularity. Many online group meeting,
Goddard alumni, former faculty, trustees, and a final paper.
and staff contributed stories and artifacts
to the society. The oral histories, and even
a few photos from the Goddard archives, $10,000 Scholarship
are online at www.digitalvermont.org. Introduced
G oddard announced a
new partnership with the
North American branches of
PEN International, the largest
literary organization in the
New Trustees Join Board
world. Beginning this fall,
T he Board of Trustees voted Catiriana
Reyes (Baker), Aimee Liu, and Elissa
Sloan Perry into its membership this fall.
members of PEN America,
PEN Canada, PEN Center USA,
and PEN Mexico are eligible to
Reyes, top, is pursuing an Individualized compete for a new $10,000
Bachelor of Arts degree with a focus scholarship to support the
on political science and public policy. completion of the MFA in
For the past 20 years, she has been Creative Writing at Goddard.
a broad-based social justice activist All members of the North
and political organizer. Liu, center, is a American PEN centers who
faculty member in the MFA in Creative don’t receive the Goddard/
Writing Program. She is author of PEN North American Centers
several novels and nonfiction books, Award are eligible to receive
including Gaining: The Truth About Life Goddard’s Engaged Artist
After Eating Disorders and Solitaire. Award, a $2,000 scholarship.
Perry (MFAW ’97), bottom, is co-director The new partnership expands
of Management Assistance Group. upon Goddard’s earlier
affiliation with PEN Center USA.
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Alumni Receive Awards to Support Artistic Endeavors

H anna Satterlee (MFAIA

’16) and Eliot Gray Fisher
(MFAIA ’15) are the fall 2016
recipients of the $500 Goddard
Alumni Arts Project Award.
Satterlee will be creating a
series of three, short dance videos
on location in Vermont and will
air them on local TV stations and
on the web, with each film edited
using a collage-like style, as if fol-
lowing a thought or emotion like a
poem. Satterlee is a dancer who has
performed with companies around
the U.S. She is a guest artist at the
University of Vermont and the direc-
tor of the Vermont Dance Alliance.
Fisher and his partner Erica
Gionfriddo joined Jayme Green
(MFAIA ‘16) and incoming student
Krista Leigh Pasini in their home
community of Billings, Mont., to
present performances and pre-
President Presents
Activism Award
sentations of works in progress,
including Fisher and Gionfriddo’s
company ARCOS’ transmedia
production Domain, a multiplat-
form piece that follows an un-
orthodox inventor grappling with
having created the world’s first
sentient artificial intelligence.
Fisher has been awarded mul-
tiple artists’ residencies at colleges,
universities, and foundations, and
has received grants from the Paul
Robeson Fund for Independent Me-
dia, Rea Charitable Trust, Hatchfund,
New Mexico Arts, and the Charles
and Joan Gross Family Foundation.

President Kenny Takes a Stand Against Anti-Immigration Action

P resident Kenny affirmed his

support to uphold Deferred
Action for Childhood Arrivals
(DACA) for all students and
others without legal residency
status who are enrolled at
Goddard. Issued by President
Obama in 2012, DACA is an
executive order that affords
many undocumented young
people two years’ U.S. residency
and employment authorization,
which provides young people
and their families some relief
from fear of deportation while
in school. As an executive
order, DACA can be rescinded
featured mfaia alumni
• Richard Ambelang (’12)
• Susan Buroker (’16)
• Kate Egnaczak (’15)
• Dan Goldman (Student)
• Tom Hansell (’11)
• Phillip Robertson (’08)
• Nanci Worthington (’16)
featured faculty
• Seitu Jones
• Laiwan
• Cynthia Ross
• Sharon Siskin
• Ruth Wallen
at any time by a U.S. president.
Enacting the Family
within legal ability to ensure
their privacy and freedom.
G oddard President
Robert Kenny
posthumously presented
Education Rights and Privacy In November, President Priscilla Ruth Davis
Act, which prohibits schools Kenny was among more than Backman (JR ‘43, BA ‘46)
from providing any outside 100 college and university with the Presidential
agency – including the presidents to sign a joint letter Award for Activism
Department of Homeland to then President-elect Donald during the Undergraduate
Security or U.S. Citizenship and Trump forcefully urging him to Commencement
Immigration Services – with “condemn and work to prevent Ceremony on Sunday,
any information from a the harassment, hate and August 21. Backman
student’s school records unless acts of violence that are being was an anti-war activist
compelled by a court of law, perpetrated across our nation, and tax resister who
the College will continue sometimes in [his] name, engaged in the anti-
to welcome all students which is now synonymous with nuclear movement as well
regardless of residency status, our nation’s highest office.” as efforts to abolish the
honor their place in the The letter appeared in Inside death penalty. She served
community, and do all that is Higher Education on Nov. 18. her community selflessly,
never looking for credit.
She died on May 8,
2015. Her son, Peter,
Gallery Presents Work accepted the award in her
of Goddard Artists honor and announced
the establishment of
F eaturing artwork by
Goddard alumni, faculty,
and students, In Praise of
The Priscilla Backman
Scholarship for Activism.
“Goddard was a huge
Water approaches the theme
part of her life…She really
of water from multiple
cared about it,” he said.
perspectives: aesthetic, ecological,
social, political, spiritual, and contemplative.
Mediums represented include photography, painting, mixed
Pictured above, the Backman
media, ceramics, printmaking, and artists’ books. This exhibition family came to the awards
was conceived as part of a celebration of the life and work of ceremony at the Plainfield
ecological artist Jackie Brookner (1945-2015) who, as a visiting campus to accept the award
artist at Goddard, inspired many to turn their attention to the on behalf of Priscilla Backman.
natural environment and the issues that impact it. The exhibit, at
the Eliot D. Pratt Library Art Gallery in Plainfield, closes April 15.

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Leading Women
GODDARD ALUMNAE ENTREPRENEURS,
BUSINESS FOUNDERS, OWNERS,
AND LEADERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE.

BY KIMBERLY BROWN (MFAW ’11)

Chanelle John (IBA ’13)

is founder of the Whole
Soul Health and Yoga
Diversity Initiative.
 Ours is an interconnected community in which people take meaningful
action in the world. And while 2016 marked the first time a woman ran for
president of the United States, women graduates of Goddard have been
forging new ground and breaking glass ceilings as leaders, entrepreneurs,
business founders, and owners for many years. We talked to several
Goddard women graduates from the late 1960s to the present and learned
how they use their interests and passions to make a difference in the world.

Translating Success into Global Sustainability Spearheading Efforts for Special Educators

E C
llen Ratner (BA ADP ’74) is the White House arla Jentz (BA RUP
correspondent and bureau chief for Talk Media ’67) is the executive
News, which she started in 1993. She has covered director of the Massa-
the White House for more than two decades and provides chusetts Administrators for
reports to 400 national and regional talk radio stations Special Education (ASE), the
from Congress and other government agencies. She can lead nonprofit association
be seen regularly on Fox News’ The Strategy Room. in Massachusetts advocat-
For Ellen’s 60th birthday, she started Goats for the Old ing at the federal and state
Goat in order to provide goats for the people of Sudan. Ellen level for important special
had visited the area frequently and knew the difference a goat education provisions on
could make for the people of South behalf of special education
Sudan. To date, more than 7,000 administrators and students Carla Jentz with a commissioner
goats have been donated. Ellen for Children and Family Services.
across the Commonwealth.
expanded the mission of Goats for Carla was the first woman executive director at ASE.
the old Goat by establishing the She describes her time at Goddard as the best undergradu-
G.E.M.S. Development Foundation, ate experience she could have hoped for. The advising and
which stands for Goats, Education,
group studies helped her to discover a passion for public
Medicine and Sustainability. These
policy. Goddard, Carla says, taught her how to think and to
organizations provide sustainable
think out of the box. “My Goddard experience was a strong
sustenance to families and support
foundation for my continuing education accomplishments,
women who suffer from PTSD. Visit goatsfortheoldgoat.com.
leading to my leadership positions,” she says. Carla was one
Though she earned a master’s degree in education
of the first non-attorney hearing officers for the Massachusetts
from Harvard University, Ellen attributes much of her
Bureau of Special Education Appeals, where she also served
success to her time at Goddard. While studying in the
as a mediator. She received ASE’s Outstanding Service in
Adult Degree Program at Goddard, she learned to do
Leadership Commendation as well as a governor’s appoint-
individual projects and to develop her own skills. She
ment to the Massachusetts education reform readiness project.
also learned you can do a lot on a little, a principle she
employs in running Goats for the Old Goat/G.E.M.S. Her advice to young women: “Learn as much as you can.
“Putting together a study plan makes you an entrepreneur, Seek out other’s perspectives; understanding how others see the
because you have to take your idea, find the necessary issues is one of the best ways to create a coalition of people who
resources and make it a reality,” she says. “It develops will support you and the organization that you are leading.
who you are and teaches you to execute your plan.”
When she needed credentials for Talk Media News to get
into the White House, she developed a study plan. She used
the same strategy to get into the United Nations for the General “UNDERSTANDING HOW OTHERS
Assembly. Ellen served as a trustee on Goddard’s board in
1975, again from 1980-1981, 1998-2001, and in 2003. Her new
SEE THE ISSUES IS ONE OF THE BEST
book, Loving What You Do, came out in November 2016. WAYS TO CREATE A COALITION OF
Ellen’s advice to young women interested in becoming
business founders: “Find what you love or what you have a PEOPLE WHO WILL SUPPORT YOU.”
passion for, develop a study plan, and don’t take no for answer.” – CARLA JENTZ (BA RUP ’67)

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Bridging Diversity Through Yoga

C
hanelle John (IBA ’13) is the founder of Yoga Diversity
Initiative and Whole Soul Health, which bridges
yoga’s diversity divide by offering yoga classes to
people of color in under-resourced communities. It grew out
of Chanelle’s concern with the lack of diversity in traditional
yoga studios. She works with organizations such as libraries
and community centers to make yoga accessible to people who
could not otherwise afford it. When Whole Soul Health started,
Chanelle found herself running around the Boston area with
twelve yoga mats, teaching several classes a day. However,
the focus has changed from teaching classes to program “IT’S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT
design. Chanelle developed a yoga program for youth at the
Department of Youth Services, and she has taught self-love
YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO
and liberation workshops for young, queer men and women. WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE.”
In August 2014, Chanelle published a piece titled
“(More) Reasons Why Your Yoga Class Is So White” on the – CHANELLE JOHN (IBA ‘13)
Decolonizing Yoga website. In the post, she wrote about the
barriers that keep yoga out of reach for people of color and passion. Goddard taught her how to work without a lot
the need for more yoga teachers of color. Her article started a of direction and how to translate her ideas into actionable
discussion between yoga practitioners and yoga teachers who steps. She also learned how to find the resources she needed.
wanted to make a difference in Boston’s yoga community. The Chanelle credits Goddard for giving her the framework
initiative has funded full yoga training and mentorship for a to integrate her pursuit of justice into her everyday life.
woman of color. Chanelle’s advice to women interested in becoming
Chanelle sees the work she is doing as an outgrowth of her business founders and owners is to “have confidence in
studies at Goddard, where she focused on the intersections your vision and take ownership of the financial side of
of race, identity, and art. It allowed her to dive deeper into your business. It’s important to know that you have the
the issues of social justice, which have always been her ability to do whatever needs to be done,” she says.

BRINGING ART TO THE LOCAL COMMUNITY

J
anet Van Fleet (MA ’95) is the co-founder of Goddard; she studied
Studio Place Arts, a vibrant, three-floor, non- education. Prior to
profit community visual arts center in historic pursuing art full time,
downtown Barre, Vt. In 1988, she taught first through
Janet was part of a group of third grades in a multi-
artists seeking a site to pool grade classroom.
their resources and create studio “Education is life.
space. The Barre Historical It opens you up to the
Society approached the group delights of what the
about potentially taking over world needs and what
and rescuing the city’s oldest you need,” she says.
commercial building, Nichols Janet’s work often
Block, then slated for demolition. The group decided makes reference to
the space should serve the entire community and political, environmental,
designed Studio Place Arts to make visual arts accessible and social issues.
to the public. She said she believes
The space now has three galleries for art exhibition, a group of committed people are more successful
open free of charge. The group offers visual art than individuals who don’t build coalitions. She
workshops and rents studio space to working artists. also advises women not to be afraid to say “I don’t
Janet, a painter and sculptor, didn’t study art at know,” and to accept help from other people.

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 Social Justice and Inclusion Advocacy In 2005 she served as one of the organizers of the
Transsistahs and Transbrothas Conference, the first gathering

C
atiriana Reyes (Baker) is the newest member
of Goddard’s Board of Trustees, elected recently
as the student rep to the board. She lives in
Brooklyn, N.Y., but is a proud native of Louisville, Ky.,
and is a product of its progressive activist community.
In the late 1990s, as a teenager grappling with sexual
orientation and gender identity, she found her way to the
Louisville Youth Group, a peer support group for self-
identified LGBTQ youth, which was held at the headquarters
of the Fairness Campaign, Louisville’s LGBTQ civil rights
group. It was there that she found support and positive role
models, but most importantly, her voice and community.
Working as a Youth Leader for Fairness, Catiriana was
part of a delegation that lobbied county commissioners,
successfully convincing the lone, swing voter of the importance
of equal rights and anti-discrimination. Throughout the years,
she served in various roles within the Fairness Campaign,
including chair of the Community Building Committee,
volunteer liaison, cofounder of the Dismantling Racism
Committee, state fair organizer, and member of the board.
of transgender people of color in the country held in Louisville.
Two years later, with a diverse group of organizers, she founded
TECK Transgender Education Center of Kentucky to educate
and advocate for the transgender community. In November
2010, she received The Kentucky Alliance Against Racism &
Political Repression Honor for outstanding contributions to
Social Justice, The Louisville Metro Council Honor for service
in the area of Social Justice and Equality for all, and Certificate
of Special Congressional Recognition for outstanding and
invaluable service to the community from The Hon. John
Yarmuth KY Third District. Upon entering Goddard in March
2015, she became active on the Student Council, serving for
four semesters, and was appointed to the Academic Council
as a student representative while also working with Justice &
Inclusion and the Circle of Councils. In the fall 2016, along with
Jessica Giles, she cofounded the People of Color Student Union.
She is grateful for the progressive pedagogy of Goddard that
allows learners to focus on their passions and looks forward to
utilizing her skills to serve the greater collegiate community.

INTRODUCING AGRICULTURE TO CITY DWELLERS

R
ania Campbell-Bussiere (MA
SIS ‘16) is the founder and
director of Cloud 9 Rooftop
Farm, an organization that uses
rooftop agriculture as a way to en-
hance the quality of life throughout
Philadelphia. Rooftop agriculture
produces food, minimizes storm-
water runoff, extends the life
expectancy of roofing materials, and
reduces heating and cooling costs.
Cloud 9 went from building and
build, and maintain their
own rooftop farms.
“Gardening is an activity
that strengthens community
bonds and allows people
to come together and learn
from each other,” Rania says.
Rania attended
Goddard’s Social Innovation
& Sustainability program
in order to study ways in
which Cloud 9 might offer more

PHOTO COURTESY OF PHILADELPHIA MAGAZINE

maintain- founders and owners: “Find a
community resources. She was community that will support
ing farms to
working with also interested in figuring out your idea and your leadership
community how to grow the organization into role. Trust your gut as you build
organizations something that lasts. The experience your community,” she says. “As
to teach of structuring her own learning women, we often doubt our
them to has enabled her to teach others. ability and hesitate to trust our
design, Rania’s advice to women instinct. So, most importantly,
interested in becoming business trust your ability to be a leader.”

about the author: Kim Brown is the founder and executive editor of Minerva Rising Press. Her novel
Cora’s Kitchen was shortlisted in the 2015 William Faulkner/ William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition.

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Seattle Education Program Focuses on Being Relevant
in Today's World and Celebrating Diversity for the 21st Century
Students Let It Shine
BY SUE FLEMING
A
ntisar Hachem, a refugee from
Iraq, entered Goddard’s Seattle-
based Education Program after
having completed a diploma from the
Central Institute for Teachers in Iraq
and earning a year of credits from
Skagit Valley Community College.
An early childhood educator at Seattle’s
Denise Louie Education Center, Hachem
was well acquainted with Goddard College
when she decided to apply in March of
2015. Many of her colleagues had already
earned or were pursuing bachelor’s degrees
in Goddard’s Seattle program, and her
mentor, Sharon Cronin, is a member of
the faculty and the site coordinator.
Fluent in English and Arabic,
Hachem chose Goddard because she
was interested in immersing herself in
the theory and practice of dual language
early childhood education. She earned
her BA in Education in January 2017.
Hachem’s story is one of the many
exciting stories emerging from Goddard’s
Seattle program, now approaching its
12th residency. The project was conceived
by the faculty to address “Goddard’s
commitment to serve a more racially,
linguistically and culturally diverse
population and support its commitment to
serving working adults who could not easily
Our students are
community activists
and educators with a
strong background
in practice and
reflection.
About the Photos
1) FALL 2016 EDUCATION
GRADUATES IN SEATTLE
access higher education opportunities.”
Left to Right: Alexa Gabriel
The site enrolls two dozen students,
(MA EDU ’16), Flor Fernández
and about 90 percent are students of Palacios (MA EDU ’16), Alex
color from all over the world. They speak Bautista Magaña (BA EDU
English, Spanish, Garifuna (language of the ’16), Khepra Ptah (BA EDU
Garifuna people, who live mostly along the ’16), Tiffany Brown (BA EDU
Caribbean coast of Honduras), Vietnamese, ’16), Nnenna Odim (MA EDU
Arabic, and Tigrinya (spoken mainly in ’16), Melody Denise Cilenti
Eritrea and Northern Ethiopia). Their Vivar (MA EDU ’16), Noemi
ages span three decades, and the LGBTQ Teófilo-Rivera (MA EDU ’16).
community is represented and embraced. 2) ALEJANDRO BAUTISTA
Residencies are delivered in English and MAGAÑA (BA ’16)
Spanish with the assistance of a translator and Alex Bautista Magaña
translation equipment. This ensures students, crossed the border from
faculty, and staff can participate more fully Mexico with his mother
by utilizing their entire linguistic repertoire. when he was three. He
Because learning experiences are rooted served for 20 years as
in critical pedagogy around culture and the youth coordinator
language, each student is invited to make at El Centro de La Raza
in Seattle (Center for
visible his or her language(s) and culture(s).
People of All Races).
Our residency themes integrate issues
of justice, culture, race, and oppression, 3) A FAMILY AFFAIR
making the curriculum culturally relevant. Alex’s mother Hilda Magaña
The themes emerge from dialogue is also an alumna of the
between students, faculty, and staff. program (BA EDU ’15),
This learning community is a gift for all of and his wife Jamie is a
us and a model for both relevancy in higher current BA EDU student.
education and the world – and it offers a clear
4) ANTISAR HACHEM’S
image of diversity for the 21st century. CW senior study focuses on
creating a curriculum to
introduce Middle Eastern
about the author: Sue Fleming, Ed.D., is a languages and cultures to
faculty member in the Education Program. early childhood curricula.  
2 4
1 3
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 A devoted Goddard alumna,
Jane O’Meara Sanders talks
about her life in public service
and the months she spent on
the presidential campaign trail.

orn the youngest of five into an Irish-Catholic

family in Flatbush, Brooklyn, Jane O’Meara (BA ‘80)
has been in public service for more than 35 years
since she graduated from Goddard at age 30.

Jane Sanders and news analyst Ellen
Ratner, both Goddard graduates and
former trustees, at the White House
Correspondents Dinner in May 2016.
She came to her studies and career unconventionally. She attended the
University of Tennessee at Knoxville for a year and a half but withdrew to get
married and have children. After moving to Vermont and then divorcing, she
took a job counseling youth in Burlington. She knew she needed to finish college.
O’Meara found Goddard’s Experimental Program for Further Education (GEPFE),
a radical program designed for those with little or no college background.
She met Bernie Sanders while he was running for mayor of Burlington; the rest
is campaign history.
During her years of political and service work, she kept ties with Goddard,
first serving as a member of the Board of Trustees (1992-1993), chair of the Board
(1993-1996), and then as provost and interim president (1996-1997) following Dick
Green’s resignation. Last spring, we caught up with her on the campaign trail to
ask a few questions about the role Goddard played in her life and work.

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w/ JANE
SANDERS
SAMANTHA KOLBER: Tell us about
your Goddard experience.
JANE SANDERS: It was a wonderful
experience. I came to Goddard’s
weekend program, which provided
fantastic support for people like
me with families … so much
encouragement for experiential
learning and independent direction
with the support needed to make
it academically rigorous. It was an
absolutely life-changing time for me.
I started at a time when I was ending
my marriage, which is a difficult
time … . Goddard was one of the best
experiences of my life, educationally.
SK: How did your Goddard experience
inform your life afterward?
What did you take away?
JS: Goddard instilled confidence in
me as a person, as a woman, and
enabled me to recognize that that’s
what we need to do with everybody.
All my work after that was shaped
by how I was treated at Goddard.
It’s how I learned to treat others,
with real respect and confidence
that they will find their own way.
When I went back for my PhD [at
the Union Institute & University],
it was because I had been on the
Board of Trustees. Goddard was
INTERVIEW BY SAMANTHA KOLBER (MFAW ‘14)
having trouble with accreditors, with
governance, and with its finances. [The
board and college leadership] worked
very effectively together to get the
College back on its feet, to get through
the accreditation process and get out
of debt, and get back on track with a
governance process. At the end of that,
the Board said, “You’re good at this.
We want to support you to get your
PhD,” and so they sponsored me.
SK: How did you find Goddard?
JS: I was looking for a college to go back
to part time, and I kept on looking at
all these programs with classes, and I
thought, I’ll never graduate College … .
So I started to look up independent
study and found out that Goddard had
that. It was wonderful. It was in my
state of Vermont … it fit beautifully. It’s a
wonderful school. Goddard was a pivotal
moment in my life … It is a college that I
think still has great impact on the rest of
the world. When you look at the people
who have come out of Goddard, we
are all doing significant work – at least
everybody I know. It’s a network that
carries out across international lines.
SK: We are known as an activist college,
and it is especially great when we see
graduates working in activism or social
justice. You are a Goddard role model.
JS: Goddard is a model for building
community and encouraging innovative
thinking and commitment to sharing
our knowledge and working together.
SK: Bernie’s campaign has a focus
on higher education. Did you
influence his policy positions?
JS: We’ve always talked about
these issues going back to when
he was mayor [of Burlington,
Vt.] and I was the director of
youth services. Higher education
was always a concern. The cost
has become a larger and larger
concern every year, and so his
plan to have public colleges
and universities tuition free
and to substantially lower
student debt are two pillars
of a plan that really resonate
with the American people.
SK: Are there connections
between the senator’s
positions on the economy
and the Occupy Wall Street
movement of a few years ago?
JS: I think there are. [The Occupy
movement] really focused on inequities,
having the power structure built upon
corporations and Wall Street and special
interest. I think that helped a lot in
terms of people being a little bit more
receptive to what Bernie is talking about.
Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives
Matter activism are significant critiques
of today’s society, and without them, a
lot of people would be unaware of how
we are moving into an oligarchy where
fewer and fewer people control both
our economic and our political life.
SK: What advice might you have
for today’s Goddard student?
JS: I would say participate in our
democracy. You are in a democratic
school and if we want to keep a
democratic country, you need to have
as much of a voice outside in the world
as you do inside the college community.
I would encourage them to not only
vote, but also to participate fully in
their local state, or federal community,
to put their own unique abilities
to work for the betterment and the
transformation of our country so that
we can have once again what is escaping
us: a government for the people, by the
people and of the people, to rest the
power with the people as opposed to
those with special interests.
Goddard is an institution that has
touched many lives – and many more
than the people who have actually
attended. I’m very happy to be part
of the Goddard community. CW
ADVICE TO STUDENTS?
“PARTICIPATE IN OUR
DEMOCRACY. YOU’RE IN
A DEMOCRATIC SCHOOL,
AND IF WE WANT TO KEEP
A DEMOCRATIC COUNTRY,
YOU NEED TO HAVE AS MUCH
OF A VOICE OUTSIDE IN THE
WORLD AS YOU DO INSIDE
THE COLLEGE COMMUNITY.”
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alumni portfolio
BIG BOAT
Phish
The band, which includes Trey Anastasio
(BA ’88), Page McConnell (BA ’87), Jon
Fishman (BA ’90) and Mike Gordon,
released its 13th studio album.
JEMP Records, 2016
HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR LIFE
Jim Atwell (MA GGP ’80)
This book is written for those who want
to improve their lives and can’t afford
to pay the high cost of psychotherapy.
Genetic Research LLC, 2016
I, DAGGER
Keith Backhaus (MFAW ’07)
In the dis-reality of consciousness, there
is only one truth: the future is a myth.
Empty City Press, 2016
WHAT THE DOCTORS
DON’T TELL YOU
Kimberly Beam (MFAW ’02)
The story of Beam’s diagnosis of Hodgkins
Lymphoma, from finding the lump in
her collarbone, through the ordeals of
diagnosis, to treatment and recovery.
AuthorHouse, 2016
NEVER SAY NO TO A ROCK STAR
Glenn Berger (IBA ’95)
This is a memoir about Berger’s
apprenticeship at New York’s A&R
Recording Studios, his rise to prominence
as a recording engineer, and his years
working with music luminaries.
Schaffner Press, 2016
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WORTHY
Lisa Birnbaum (BA RUP ’75)
Told in a language all its own,
Worthy is a tale of love, deception,
and the art of the “long con.”
Dzanc Books, 2016
REDBONE
Mahogany Browne (IBA ’13)
“Redbone shudders with raw ferocity,
each line shouldering the sweet burden
of her raveled roles as mother, artist and
intractable activist.” – Patricia Smith,
author of Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah
Aquarius Press, 2015
GREAT LAKES ISLAND ESCAPES
Maureen Dunphy (MFAW ’96)
Great Lakes Island Escapes: Ferries
and Bridges to Adventure explores
more than 30 of the Great Lakes
Basin islands accessible by bridge
or ferry and introduces more
than 50 additional islands.
Wayne State University Press, 2016
IN THE SERVICE OF THE BOYAR
Jason Graff (MFAW ’05)
In the land of the Boyar, a boy will fall in
love and become much more than a man.
Fleeing with his family from danger, a
boy catches a glimpse of Fifika, as their
clan travels with haste to the lands of
the Boyar, a mysterious benefactor.
Strange Fictions Press, 2016
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GEOMETRY OF LIGHT
Andrew Kline (BA GEPFE ’71-’73)
Get ready to enter the visual world of
Andrew Kline – grand master of black and
white film photography. Here he displays
some 100 photos ranging from portraits
of neighbors to the coast of Maine.
Brown Pepper Press, 2016
THE DEATH OF FRED ASTAIRE
Leslie Lawrence (MFAW ’78)
When, in the late ‘80s, the author
chooses to raise a child with her lesbian
partner, she embraces a life outside the
lines – one full of curious adventures
and everyday pleasures. This collection
of essays recounts her tale and her
life as a seeker and adventurer.
SUNY Press, Excelsior Editions, 2016
SEIZING DESTINY: THE ARMY OF
THE POTOMAC’S “VALLEY FORGE”
AND THE CIVIL WAR WINTER
THAT SAVED THE UNION
Chris Mackowski (MFAW ’01)
Here, finally, is the full story of how
the citizen-soldiers of the Army of
the Potomac overcame adversity,
seized their destiny, and saved
the nation through leadership,
perseverance, patriotism, and faith.
This is the first in-depth examination of
a crucial turning point in the Civil War,
grounded in hundreds of primary sources
that let the soldiers speak, from the
lowest private to the highest general.
Savas Beatie, 2016

BEHAVIORAL ADDICTIONS
Stephen Rich Merriman (BA ADP ’79)
Behavioral Addictions: A New Solution
to Very Old Problems expands the arena
of how addiction is regarded and the
extensive ground addictions can cover. The
book honors early pioneers who noticed
certain hallmarks of addiction in behaviors
far removed from their prior drug- and
alcohol-based addiction histories.
Four Rivers Press, 2016
SNOWY OWLS, EGRETS AND
UNEXPECTED GRACES
Gwendolyn Morgan (MFAW ’99)
In this portal to an interior landscape
that mirrors the natural world, the
poet simultaneously reflects on the
suffering of those living with cancer
and chronic illness, the on​​going habitat
destruction amidst climate change,
and the violence of war and poverty.
Hiraeth Press, 2016
DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE
Ezra Berkley Nepon (IBA ’06, IMA ’13)
Dazzle Camouflage: Spectacular
Theatrical Strategies for Resistance
and Resilience offers two profiles of
contemporary theater artists, Jenny
Romaine and The Eggplant Faerie Players,
generating analysis about their shared
transformative theatrical strategies.
Self-Published, 2016
DUE TO THE VOLUME OF NEW BOOKS, WE GIVE PREFERENCE TO THE MOST RECENTLY PUBLISHED.
ECO-HEALTH AND THE
CONTINUUM OF CARE
Roselle O’Brien (MFAW ’11)
An examination of our changing
healthcare system and the needs
of individuals living with chronic
environmental illnesses. The book covers
the basics of our healthcare system,
the doctor-patient relationship, and
the real impact of human behaviors.
Center for English Language
Arts Publishing, 2016
A LIFE WITHOUT SEASONS
Robert Overbey (BFW ’11)
In this collection of 23 stories, Overbey
presents scenes of real life – funny and
dark, bitter and tender – charged with
emotions both modern and eternal.
Alexandria Quarterly Press, 2016
MARROW ISLAND
Alexis Smith (MFAW ’07)
In this marvelously spun story,
Smith reaches into the depths of
our connections to our pasts, our
loved ones, and our devotions.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016
A HEAVEN WROUGHT OF IRON
David Spitzer (RUP ’01)
A fresh approach to The Odyssey that
weaves translated fragments from the
Greek text with a sequence of poems
drawn from an imaginative, intellectual
engagement with The Odyssey.
Etruscan Press, 2016
alumni portfolio
OF A TRANSIENT NATURE
Virginia Sutton (RUP ’76)
Sutton’s book of poetry was a finalist
for the 2015 Knut House Poetry
Prize and features original artwork
by painter Philip Neil Mandel.
Knut House Press, 2016
NANTUCKET SLEIGHRIDE
Louise Taylor (MFAW ’01)
In her new memoir, Taylor begins when
she is living with her black Labrador, Glory,
in a rundown farmhouse in Maine, jumps
back to childhood and the watery and
nautical backdrop of summers spent on
Cape Cod, and continues forward in time.
Stonewall Press, 2016
DECEPTION: THE YOUTUBE
VIDEO HILLARY AND OBAMA
BLAMED FOR BENGHAZI
Kenneth Timmerman (RUP ’73)
New York Times best-selling
author Timmerman digs into the
web of deception surrounding the
“hateful” video, with stunning new
documents, emails, and interviews.
Post Hill Press, 2016
LIKE A GIRL
Terry Wright (EDU ’14)
This anthology of poetry, prose, and art
with over 90 contributors aims to honor
a multiplicity of feminine identities and
spark conversation about women’s issues.
Lucid Moose Lit, 2015
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 RECREATING the archives

THEN
OUTSIDE THE GARDEN HOUSE  In the original photo
from 1951 (lower left), Gabriel Jacobs (BA RUP ’51), a
retired teacher and principal from Shaw Island, Wash., Gert
Van Dissel (BA RUP ’51), who died in 2009, and Eda
Eisen (BA RUP ’49-’51) study for their physics class in the

& NOW
upper garden in front of the Garden House. The house was
built in 1925 with timbers salvaged
from the Ipswich Courthouse in
Massachusetts, where Susannah Martin,
ancestor to the Martin Family (original
owners of the Greatwood Estate), was
convicted and hung for witchcraft
during the Salem Witch Trials in 1697.
When Arthur Shurcliff, the architect
for the Greatwood Gardens and an
Ipswich resident, called Willard Martin in 1923 and said,
“They’re tearing down the Ipswich Courthouse,” Willard
is said to have replied, “I want those timbers as revenge
1951 against what they did to Susannah.” The oak timbers
were shipped to Plainfield and used to construct the
small building, featuring hand-carved beams and a forest
creature-themed wood frieze, as a tribute to Susannah.

 In this contemporary photo, students

in the Psychology and Counseling
program, Jake Hasson (BA PSY ’16,
MA CMHC ’17), Cadence Giles (BA/ 2016
MA Fast Track CMHC), and Jessica
Kirby (MA PSY), recreate the pose on
a hot, late summer day before going
swimming at a local pond.

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 1955
INSIDE THE SILO  In the
original 1955 photo, President
Tim Pitkin, who served from
Goddard’s founding in 1938
to 1969, looks out the window
of his office in the Silo. The
photo was taken by Ben Ross
for a Parade Magazine article,
“The Most Unusual College
in the U.S.,” which stated:
“No Ivy Twines along
the weather-beaten walls of
Goddard College near here.
The omission is significant;
it shows just how far
Goddard – enrollment 70,
faculty 20 – has gone in its
break with the time-honored
traditions of the academic
world. For Goddard, housed
2016 in a cluster of farm buildings – the president’s office
is in a silo – has none of the things people associate
with campus life. There are no grades, no credits, no
‘required’ subjects, no lectures, no exams. There are
no fraternities, no athletics. There are no diplomas.”
– Ed Kiester, Parade Publications, January 30, 1955
LAYING THE STONE PATH  In the 1940 photo,  In the 2016 photo, President Bob Kenny
students in the Work Program lay stones for a path leading helps recreate the scene. Even though the
from the back door of The Manor to the hedge maze. President’s Office is now in The Manor instead
of The Silo, the “unusualness” of Goddard
 Seventy-six years later, staff, administration, and remains the same today, though students do
students from The Initiative: A Vermont Waldorf High earn credits, cover some required content areas,
School reset those same stones, which were dug up and receive diplomas at commencement.
from the same spot, to rebuild the path during the 2016
Community Work Day in May.

1940
2016

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1960s
Carolyn Brown (BA RUP
’69) of Saint Paul, Minn., is
a freelance editor, primarily
for university presses,
making occasional forays
into translating Bengali
poetry and fiction. She lives
around the corner from F.
Scott Fitzgerald’s statue. ’72) of Los Angeles, Calif.,
Steve Jacob (BA RUP ’69)
of Victoria, BC, Canada, is
an international commodity
broker with grown children
from two families. He hopes to
make time soon to write about
his many decades of living in
the wilderness of Northwest
British Colombia. He would
love to hear from Goddard
classmates from 1964 to 1969.
Email us your notes, and we’ll
pass them on to Steve:
clockworks@goddard.edu
John Tomlinson (BA RUP
’63) of Windsor, ON, Canada,
wrote an article about Bernie
Sanders in the Active Retired
Members (ARM) Chapter 9
Newsletter last June. Glass in Lake Mary, Fla.
Robin Anne Wilson (BA
RUP ’68-’70) of Durham,
N.C., retired after 25+ years of
nursing. She writes, “Looking
for my old roommate Mary
Noguchi and my old buddy
Charlie Egleston.” Email
clockworks@goddard.edu, and
we’ll get you in touch.
1970s
Wayne F. Burke (BA RUP
’79) of Barre, Vt., published
a book of poetry, Knuckle
Sandwiches. for a graduate student who might
M. Edward Cowan (MA
GGP ’74) of Los Angeles,
Calif., publishes articles
and commentaries on the
website Opednews.com. Artemis Joukowsky, III (MA
George LeGrady (BA RUP
’72-’74) of Santa Barbara,
Calif., received a Guggenheim
this year for Fine Arts. While
at Goddard studying under
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Jeff Weiss, he created a
photographic documentary
of the James Bay Cree in
Northern Quebec who were
battling the government over
the flooding of their lands. In
2012, he received a National
Science Foundation research
grant to digitize those images
in an archival collection.
William H. Macy (BA RUP
returned for Season 7 of
Showtime’s Shameless, for
which he won a SAG award for
Outstanding Performance by a
Male Actor in a Comedy Series.
Andrew Plummer (BA RUP
’74) of Columbia, Md., and
Groveland, Fla., retired in
2009 after careers in graphic
design, corporate real estate
management, and home
improvement contracting. He
is former chair of the Owen
Brown Village Architectural
Committee and former guest
glass artist at the Gillinder
Glass Factory in Port Jervis,
N.Y. He currently blows glass
at McFadden Art Glass in
Baltimore and Monser Art
Kenneth Timmerman (BA
RUP ’73) of Frederick, Md.,
is an investigative partner
in the Fleming Timmerman
Law Group, specializing
in terrorism collection. He
also writes for TheHill.com
and the DailyCaller.com.
Felix Carrion, PhD (MA SBPAT ’79)
of El Paso, Texas, published
A Psychologist and Neurofeedback ,
which reflects on his 37-year
work as a psychologist. He
currently practices in El Paso.
Abraham Adzenyah (BA ADP ’76) of Middletown, Conn., retired and was
honored in May with the naming of the Abraham Adzenyah Rehearsal Hall
(formerly the Center for the Arts Rehearsal Hall) at Wesleyan University,
where he taught West African music, dance, and culture for 46 years.
This is the first time that a leading American university has named a
building after a traditional African musician. Students, alumni, and friends
raised more than $225,000 to establish a scholarship in his name.
Jan (Barkas) Yager (MA
GGP ’77) of Stamford, Conn.,
celebrated the 20th anniversary
of her publishing company,
Hannacroix Creek Books. She
writes, “If you are a filmmaker
or TV producer, please contact
me at hannacroix@aol.com.
Our dream is to get one or
more of our titles made into
a TV series or film.”
1980s Dr. Jay Carter (MA GGP ’78) of
Reading, Pa., wrote Nasty People:
How to Stop Being Hurt by Them
Without Stooping to Their Level,
Jim Atwell (MA GGP ’80)
of Burbank, Calif., teaches which sold over a million copies. He
also wrote Nasty Men, Nasty Women,
psychology at Platt College,
Nasty Bosses, and Idiots Guide
Los Angeles.
to Bipolar Disorder. He is looking
Mark Doty (MFA ’80) of
want to do a thesis and co-write a
New York, N.Y., read poems
book on executive functions. Reach
and held a workshop at
him at his website: jaycarter.net.
The Truro Center for the
Arts at Castle on Sept. 15.
Deborah Gross-Zuchman (MA GV ’87) of Sherborn, Mass.,
GGP ’82) of Philadelphia, Pa., collaborated with Ken Burns on
exhibited oil paintings and the documentary, Defying the
collages at the Perelman Center Nazis: The Sharps’ War, which
for Jewish Life at the University features the efforts of Artemis’s
of Pennsylvania last fall. grandparents, Waistill and
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Martha Sharp, who assisted
refugees escaping the Nazis
from 1939 to 1941. The film
aired on Sept. 20 on PBS
and is narrated by survivors Margaret Ajemian Ahnert (IBA ’97) of Ft.
and historians, along with Lauderdale, Fla., was on a coast-to-coast
Marina Goldman and Oscar- book tour for nine years for The Knock
winner Tom Hanks. at the Door. While at Nova University in
2010, she signed a copy of her book to the
Twink (Agnes) Lester (BA GV Dalai Lama, who then blessed her. She was
’85, MA GV ’87) of Biddeford, invited to give a second speech at Boston
Maine, retired from being University in November. Her essay “Fishing
a family psychotherapist for Control” was published in Brevity, and
and plans to volunteer with she is currently working on another book.
combat-injured veterans at
the Travis Mills Foundation.

Lisa Mattila (BA RUP ’80) of

Pittsfield, Mass., celebrated 21
years as the personal counselor
in the Student Development
Center at Berkshire Community
College, where she welcomes
interns from Goddard’s MA
in Clinical Mental Health
Counseling Program.
Rose Marie Prins (MA GGP
’80) of St. Petersburg, Fla.,
received a Creative Pinellas
Individual Artists Grant for
visual art, which enabled her
to travel to India in December
for a two-week residency at
the Sanskriti Foundation in
New Delhi. The art that she
creates there will be included
in a solo exhibition scheduled
for the summer of 2017 at
Studio@620 in St. Petersburg.
roles in film, television, and
theatre opposite stars such as
Bruce Willis, Rosie O’Donnell,
Nathan Lane, Holland
Taylor, and Jason Robards.
Bill Cushing (MFAW ’96) of
Glendale, Calif., had poems in
two anthologies, Getting Old
and Stories of Music, Vol. 1, now
a finalist for Colorado’s Book of
the Year Award. He had a short
story about his youth in New
York City in the spring 2016
issue of the Newtown Literary
Journal and poems in West Trade
Review and the Mayo Review.
He is working in collaboration
with a Los Angeles musician
to stage a public reading
of his own poetry with
musical accompaniment.
Stephen B. Kagan (BA GV
’91) of Victoria, BC, Canada,
graduated from CIIS in San
Francisco with an MA in
East-West Psychology and is
a desktop support technician
at the University of Victoria.
After publishing his first
speculative fiction novel on
Amazon, he is finishing up
a second novel as well as
writing and reading poetry at
Planet Earth Poetry. AnsoniaNatureCT, or stop
Carolyn E. Locke (MFAW ’96)
of Troy, Maine, gave a reading
at Vienna Union Hall on May 18
and read selections from her
haibun (a combination of prose,
haiku, and photography),
Not One Thing: Following
Matsuo Basho’s Narrow Road
to the Interior, on Sept. 26 at
Freeport Community Library.
Amie Ziner Mills (IBA ’97-’00)
of Milford, Conn., is a ranger
in the Ansonia Nature and
Recreation Center and the
marketing chair of its nonprofit
supporting organization,
FANCI. Last year, Amie had
a solo exhibit and showing
at a New Haven gallery.
Tweet her at Go Outside@
by for a visit or class or hike
through the varied habitats
of the ANRC. She would
love to hear from classmates
and advisors, she writes.
Robert Nelson (MFAW ’95) of
Branford, Conn., was awarded
a research fellowship at Mystic
Seaport Maritime Museum

1990s Lynne Meredith Golodner

Matthew Gillespie Chaney
(BA RUP ’98) of Morrisville,
Vt., is selling t-shirts and
apparel that feature a
design he sold on stickers
during his time at Goddard.
matthewchaney.threadless.com
Joseph Cosentino (MFAW
’94) of Wappingers Falls, N.Y.,
won Divine Magazine’s awards
for best mystery novel, best
humorous novel, and best
contemporary novel of 2015.
This year he published Cozzi
Cove: Bouncing Back and a
paperback anthology, In My
Heart, of his two hit e-book
novellas, An Infatuation and
A Shooting Star. As an actor,
he appeared in principal
(MFAW ’96) of Huntington
Woods, Mich., launched One
Earth Writing, a nonprofit
bringing storytelling to
tweens and teens to foster
peace and understanding.
Philippe Isler (MA PSY ’97)
of Wolfville, NS, Canada, is
a licensed psychologist in
private practice. He presented
at the 2015 conference of the
Association for Comprehensive
Energy Psychology on
“The Heart of the Therapist:
Incorporating Presence and
Intuition as Therapeutic Skills.”
In 2016, he published a self-help
Eli Clare (MFAW ’93) of Hinesburg, Vt., addressed Boston
book, Listen to Your Heart: Using
College students in April about stereotypical images of
Mindfulness to Make Choices
disabled people and how these unfair assumptions have
That Are Right For You, and
led to lasting problems for the disabled community.
an article in the International
Journal of Healing and Caring.

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| class notes |
Academic
Programs
ADP: Adult Degree Program
BA: Bachelor of Arts
BAS: Bachelor of Arts
in Sustainability
BFAW: Bachelor of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing
EDU: Education Program
G-C: Goddard-
Cambridge Program
GEPFE: Experimental
Program in Furthering
Education
GGI: Goddard
Graduate Institute
GGP: Goddard
Graduate Program
GS: Goddard Seminary
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: Master’s in
Art Therapy
MFAIA: Master of Fine Arts
in Interdisciplinary Arts
MFAW: Master of Fine
Arts in Creative Writing
PSY/CMHC: Psychology
& Clinical Mental
Health Counseling
RUP: Residential
Undergraduate Program
SBC: Sustainable Business
& Communities
SBPAT: Summer-Based
Psychology in Art Therapy
SE: Social Ecology Program
SIS: Social Innovation
& Sustainability
TLA: Transformative
Language Arts
UGP: Undergraduate
Program
VT: Plainfield, Vt., campus
WA: Port Townsend,
Wash., campus
SEA: Seattle Residency Site
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to write and publish about
artifacts in the museum’s
collection. He was promoted
to associate professor of
developmental English at
Housatonic Community
College in Bridgeport, and
he celebrated his 20th year
teaching at Yale University’s
English Language Institute.
Last June, he organized a
benefit concert to raise funds
for victims of the April
earthquakes in Ecuador that
killed 272 people. His six-
piece band, Elegant Primates,
performed along with other
local acts to raise $700 for the
Ecuadorian Shelter Initiative.
Susan O’Brien Rodgers (BA
GV ’95, IMA ’98) of West
Bath, Maine, self published
her book, Surrender: A Journey
of Adoption: Mending Fences:
Building Bridges, in 2015.
Carmelo Ruiz (MA GV
’95) of San Juan, Puerto
Rico, was interviewed on
Counterpunch Radio last June.
2000s
Marcia D. Anderson
(IBA ’05) of Fairview, Pa.,
completed her master’s degree
in community counseling
through Endinboro University
in 2012. She is the program
support coordinator for the
autism initiative at Mercyhurst
University in Erie, Pa.
Taina L. Asili (MA GGI
TLA ’08) of Albany, N.Y., was
featured in Yes! Magazine
about the anthem she wrote
for Black Lives Matter.
Kimberly J. Beam (MFAW
’02) of Merion Station, Pa., is
a social worker and clinical
therapist earning a Master of
Social Work from West Chester
University. with Commercial Sexuality,”
Jacob A. Bennett (MFAW ’09)
of Chester, N.H., is pursuing
a doctorate in Education at
UNH. After being an English
professor for the past seven
years, he is now concentrating
on higher education policy,
specifically the intersections
of policy, labor law, and
adjunct activism on religiously
affiliated campuses.
Julie Daniels (MFAW ’07) of
Los Angeles, Calif., won the
Ronald Berz essay competition
at the Women of Resilience
Conference in Santa Fe, N.M.,
last February. Recent work
includes a short memoir,
“An Exodus,” published in
Psychological Perspectives in 2015,
and Addiction in a Home of Love,
a memoir published by TheFix.
com. Her current Screenplay
Walkin’ on to Freedom’s Land,
about former slave and L.A.
heroine Biddy Mason, placed in
the top 10 percent at the Nicholl
screenwriting competition at
the Motion Picture Academy.
It was a second rounder in
the Austin Screenwriting
contest. in both the Tishman Review
Melanie (Goodman) Dante
(IBA ’03) Philadelphia, Pa., was
interviewed in Philadelphia
Gay News about her dedication
to anti-violence efforts as
discussed in her 2003 senior
study, “XXX: A Cultural
Exploration of Contemporary
Feminism’s Relationship
which has been published,
posted, reposted, utilized for
testimony, and discussed on
panels at live conferences.
She had a creative nonfiction
piece published in the Noir
Riot Anthology as part of the
2016 Philadelphia Noir Con.
JOSH LARKIN
Dustin Byerly (BA RUP ‘01,
Staff) and Erin Tittel (IBA ‘03)
of Montpelier, Vt., were married
in a private ceremony presided
by Avram Patt (BA RUP ‘72) on
July 8, 2016. They spent their
honeymoon in St. Martin.
Heather DeLeone (MA EDU
’03) Williamstown, Vt., is the
new development director
for Arts Bus, Inc., a nonprofit
that delivers art, music, and
drama programming to
children in 13 rural towns
on the wheels of a renovated
school bus. artsbusvt.org
Robert M. Detman (MFAW
’06) of Oakland, Calif., had
new fiction in Decomp Magazine
and Literary Orphans, a review
in Newfound, and essays
and Fiction Southeast.
Meg Kallman Feeley (MFAW
’02) of Brooklyn, N.Y., is
organizing adjuncts for her
chapter of PSC-CUNY at
Kingsborough Community
College. She also cares for her
two-year-old granddaughter,
Eleanor.
Felicity Fenton (IBA ’04,
MFAIA ’07) of Portland, Ore.,
and Stephanie Brachmann
hosted “The Dreaming
Dirt,” a multidisciplinary
forum for works in process,
served open-mic style at The
Waypost in October.

A Sign of the Times
Educational Opportunities for Women at Goddard
I
N 1863, Goddard was conceived
as an institution that would
serve both young men and
women students in an era when
co-ed secondary education was not
universally accepted. Between 1929
and 1937, the Goddard Seminary
transformed into the Goddard School
for Girls in response to the economy,
shifting demographics, and what was
thought by Goddard Seminary’s Board
to be a natural shift in terms of the
future viability of the institution.
When Goddard College, “A Vermont
School for Living,” was established in
Plainfield in 1938, co-ed colleges in the
U.S., such as Oberlin, had been around
for approximately 100 years. More than
half of the original Plainfield faculty
was comprised of women, and the
first group of students was about 75%
women. Evalyn Bates, who worked
as Founding President Tim Pitkin’s
administrative assistant and as the
director of adult education, designed
and launched the Adult Degree
Program that began in 1963. The ADP
Then & Now The ratio of female to male students at Goddard, 1939 and 2015.
1939 48 students: 39 : 9, or 81.3% female
*Includes anyone who identifies as female, regardless of gender assigned at birth.
targeted students who had started
college but for one reason or another
had not completed their degree.
According to Richard Hathaway’s The
Friendly Pioneer—An Informal History
of the Adult Degree Program, “About
three-quarters of the ADP’s population
was made up of women with an
average age of 39.”
Many opportunities for women at
Goddard blossomed in the ’60s and
’70s. What was first identified as a
need for some form of a Women’s
Studies Program at Goddard was later
renamed Feminist Studies. Various fac-
ulty and staff members joined together
in consciousness-raising groups while
women’s dorms were organized on
both the Northwood and Greatwood
campuses. A Women’s Center was
set up on Northwood, and various
trimester-long courses and workshops
were offered. Women speakers, activ-
ists, theater groups, and musicians
were invited to the College.
In the 1980s, the reorganized,
smaller Goddard V included a Feminist
2015 512 students: 370 : 142, or 72.3% female
he
From tves
A rc h i
Studies concentration and a
speaker/workshop series called
Moon Over Vermont each semester.
At the same time, then faculty mem-
ber and now board chair Jill Mattuck
Tarule, with then faculty and former
board member Mary Belenky, co-au-
thored (along with two other writers)
Women’s Ways of Knowing, a book
that helped to shape national and local
discussions about the ways that God-
dard might move toward becoming a
more feminist institution while helping
address the specific learning needs
of women. Workshops and ongoing
dialog about these issues were at the
center of community and faculty meet-
ings, where possible changes in the
administrative structure of the College
were imagined.
Top left photo: the first group of ADP stu-
dents in front of Kilpatrick Dormitory, 1963.
Above: the newest group of Psychology and
Counseling Program students, 2016.
Today, Goddard’s low-residency
model, which allows students to be
able to maintain their jobs and family
obligations while creating a mutually
supportive educational community,
continues to provide educational
opportunities that appeal to and fit
well into the lives of women.
— BY DAVID HALÉ
*
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Forrest Stephen Roth (MFAW
’04) of Huntington, W.V., was
named a semi-finalist in the
2015 Book Contest in Fiction
by the editors of Noemi Press
for his novel Gary Oldman
Hillary S. Webb (IMA ’06) of
Portsmouth, N.H., published
two chapters in Transpersonal
Ecosophy, Vol. 1: Theory, Methods,
and Clinical Assessments.

John L. Hadden (MFAW ’03)
of Landgrove, Vt., produced
an hour-long solo show based
on his book, Conversations with
a Masked Man, in theaters in
Vermont and Massachusetts.
He played in the A.R. Gurney
play Later Life in Portland,
Maine, and had a nice season
at Shakespeare & Co. last
summer. He was on Joe
Donohue’s book show on
WAMC, and his hand-made
octagon house is available
for vacation rentals. Check
it out at vrbo.com/747130.
Bill Lorenzo (IMA ’03) of
Newton, N.J., established the
World War II and Holocaust
Research Center at Warren
County Community College
(WCCC) in Washington, N.J.,
where he is a senior adjunct
professor of history. The New
Jersey Commission on Holo-
caust Education designated
WCCC as an official Holocaust/
Genocide Resource Center.
Chris W. Mackowski (MFAW
’01) of St. Bonas, N.Y., published
Grant’s Last Battle: The Story
Behind the Personal Memoirs
of Ulysses S. Grant, for which
he received the Lieutenant
General Richard G. Trefry
Award, a Distinguished
Writing Award from the
Army Historical Foundation.
Allison Marshall (MFAW
’00) of Asheville, N.C., won
the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction
Prize for her story Catching Out,
which was selected by author
Tracey Pilch (MFAIA ’07),
below, of Anchorage, Alaska, is
an art professor in Anchorage
where she was honored as
outstanding adjunct this year.
and prize judge Ron Rash. She
receives $1,000 and publication
in the spring 2017 edition of The
Thomas Wolfe Review. Alli is the
arts and entertainment editor
and writer at Mountain Xpress.
Carla Norton (MFAW ’09) of
Satellite Beach, Fla., won two
2016 book awards: the Nancy
Pearl Award for Best Book,
Genre Fiction, from the Pacific
Northwest Writers Association,
and the President’s Book Award
Gold Medal, Suspense/Thriller,
from the Florida Authors and
Publishers Association, for her
novel What Doesn’t Kill Her.
Jody McGrath (MA PSY
’06) of Stowe, Vt., is the
new psychological health
coordinator for the Vermont
Army National Guard.
Leslie J. Pickering (IBA ’05,
IMA ’07) of Buffalo, N.Y.,
was on tour talking about
the FBI frame-up attempt
against Burning Books.
Alfonso N. Ramirez (MFAW
’09) of New York, N.Y.
completed two years as adjunct
professor at Herkimer College
and is now teaching college
writing courses at Union
County College in New Jersey.
2010s
is a Building You Must Walk
Through, which is forthcoming
from What Books Press of Los
Angeles in fall 2017.
Morgan Andrews (IBA ’09,
Marie Shanahan (MA HAS MFAIA ’16) of Philadelphia,
’06) of Granby, Mass., co- Pa., pictured below, was
authored with Veda Andrus interviewed on The Pulse
(former HAS faculty), on WHYY-FM last June. He
the article “Evolving and performed for the New Jersey
Redefining: Transforming Self Commission for the Blind and
and System,” published in Visually Impaired on Sept.
Nurses as Leaders: Evolutionary 29 and at Cabrini University
Visions of Leaders in 2016. on Nov. 15, and performed
She was also recognized as his immersive theater piece
Holistic Nurse of the Year by Red Planet, One Way Red
the American Holistic Nurses at the Philadelphia Fringe
Association at their conference Festival Sept. 21-25, at Colgate
University on Oct. 6,
in Bonita Spring last June.
and at Rutherfurd Hall in
Nicholas Quin Serenati
New Jersey in October.
(MFAIA ’09) of Saint
Augustine, Fla., presented
and published “Illness
is a Window: Reframing
Leukemia through Dharma
Art” for the 6th Annual Global
Conference on Trauma: Theory
and Practice in Budapest,
Hungary. A forthcoming
hard copy volume from
this conference is expected
for fall 2017. Dr. Serenati’s
most recent experimental
documentary film, The
Structure of Illness Space,
and correlating paper were
delivered at the Humanities in
Medicine Symposium at Mayo
Porschia Librecht Baker
Clinic in Scottsdale, Ariz., in
(MFAIA ’12) of Long Beach,
November. He is a professor of
Calif., has poems in the
communication and medical forthcoming anthology
humanities at Flagler College. Solace: Writing, Refuge, and
LGBTQ Women of Color, and
Liz Simmons (IBA ’05) a poem in the recent issue
of Brattleboro, Vt., played of Thank You For Swallowing,
guitar with her trio, Low Lily, Volume 2, Issue 2.
comprised of husband Flynn
Cohen on mandolin and guitar Stephanie Baugh (MFAIA
and Lissa Schneckenburger ’14) of Monmouth, Ill., is a
on fiddle, at Next Stage in new full-time faculty member
downtown Putney last April. teaching graphic design
and printmaking in the art
Sol Smith (MFAW ’03) of department at Monmouth
Huntington Beach, Calif., is College. She also teaches
the new chair of liberal arts the freshman integrated
at Laguna College of Art and studies course, ILA.
Design, where he has been
teaching part-time in the Jennifer Berger (MFAIA ’12)
department since fall 2015. of Burlington, Vt., exhibited

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her project “Think of Others,”
a collaboration with seven
local artists in conjunction
with Vermonters for a Just
Peace in Palestine, Israel, at
the 2016 South End Art Hop,
Sept. 9–11, in Burlington.
Heather Bryce (MFAIA ’14)
of Brooklyn, N.Y., accepted a
teaching artist position with
Lincoln Center Education.
This is in addition to her work
with Alvin Ailey American
Dance Theater.
Tamra Carraher (BFAW ’11)
of Audubon, N.J., obtained
her MFA from New England
College and founded Alexandria
Quarterly, a curated portfolio
of art and literature, and
Alexandria Quarterly Press,
which recently published its
inaugural book of fiction, A
Life Without Seasons & Other
Stories, by alumnus Robert
Overbey (BFAW ’11).
Shelley Chamberlin (MFAIA
’11) of Portland, Ore., and
artist Michelle Daly, had
a collaborative exhibition,
Everything I Never Told You:
Secrets Too Beautiful To Keep,
at the Massachusetts College
of Liberal Arts, Gallery
51, through Nov. 20.
Ryan Conarro (MFAIA ’15)
of Brooklyn, N.Y., directed
the Pulitzer prize-winning
play The Flick at Gainesville
Theatre Alliance, Sept. 15–18.
He performed Saints of Failure
in October at University of
North Georgia’s Ed Cabell
Theater in Oakwood.
Traci Dolan-Priestley (MFAIA
’12) of Saint Albans, W.V.,
self-published a collection of
linked stories, The Down Johns
Collection: Stories of Ugly Truths,
available on amazon.com.
Sam Drazin (BA EDU ’10) of
Norwich, Vt., was an invited
speaker at the Ridge Middle
School during the school’s
“One Grade One Book”
program. Sam was born with
Treacher Collins syndrome, a
craniofacial anomaly and rare
genetic condition that affects
bone and tissue development,
which afflicts the main
character of Wonder, the book
by R.J. Palacio selected for
the six-week program.
Justin Hall (MFAW ’15) of
San Francisco, Calif., received
a Fulbright to teach American
graphic novels in the Czech
Republic at the Masaryk
University in Brno this fall.
Chera Hammons (MFAW ’14)
of Amarillo, Texas, won second
place in the 2016 Common
Good Books Poetry Contest for
her poem “Bounding Flight,”
read by Garrison Keillor on
the May 21 broadcast of NPR’s
A Prairie Home Companion. She
published her book Recycled
Explosions, and she teaches
at Clarendon College. manuscript, Movies by Movers: 21st Century Dance Film in Critical Context
Brianna Johnson (BFAW ’10,
MFAW ’13) of New Prague,
Minn., has experimental
prose called The Axe Lectures
forthcoming from Spout
Press in 2017.
Christine Kalafus (MFAW
’16) of Pomfret Center, Conn.,
was named assistant director
of Avon programming for
Westport Writers’ Workshop,
a nonprofit adult literary
center in Connecticut.
Samantha Kolber (MFAW
’14) of Montpelier, Vt., and
her husband, Chris Pyatak,
welcomed a daughter, Saskia
Evelyn Kolber Pyatak, born
on June 11 in Burlington. The
new arrival was 7 lbs., 13.8
oz. and 20 inches long. The
whole family, including big
brother Emmett, is doing great.
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ROBERT GELBER
Cara Hagan (MFAIA-WA ’12) of Boone, N.C., secured her first book
contract through the McFarland Publishing Co. to complete her
(working title). She completed a new work titled Cella with freshman
students at Appalachian State University, where she works as assistant
professor. Cara’s short dance films, Without Boundaries and Picnic,
have been screened at The Cascadia Festival of Dance and Cinema, the
Greensboro Dance Film Festival, and the NW Screendance Festival.
Liz Kellebrew (MFAW ’15) Allegra Kuhn (MFAIA
of Seattle, Wash., had short ’13) of Stockton Springs,
stories published in The Maine, and her partner,
Coachella Review, Elohi Gadugi Peter Walls, founded Two
Itinerant Artisans, a traveling
Journal, Vine Leaves Literary
artist tradition around
Journal, Mount Island Magazine,
Maine and New England.
Section 8 Magazine, and The
Conium Review, Vol. 5. Daniel Levy (MFAW ’12) of
Alexandria, La., published an
article with American Football
International. He is the head
coach of the Belo Horizonte
Eagles, of Brazil.
Ariel Luckey (MFAIA ’14) of
Oakland, Calif., received the
Butler Koshland Fellowship
in Arts and Civic Engagement
at Oberlin Dance Collective
(ODC) in San Francisco. He
will work closely with Brenda
Way, ODC’s founder and
artistic director, to curate and
produce innovative community
programming in celebration
of ODC’s 50th Anniversary.
Ariel is also recording an
album of music inspired by
the hip hop Klezmer score
of his solo play Amnesia. The
album, titled rememory, will be
released in early 2017.
Pi Luna (MFAIA ’12) of
Santa Fe, N.M., was the
alumni guest artist during
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the fall 2016 MFAIA residency
in September, where she
facilitated a workshop,
“Financial Sustainability for
Artists,” and provided private
consultations. Her book, Life
Savings, is a finalist in three
categories – business, young
adult, and parenting and family
issues – for the New Mexico-
Arizona Book Awards. ’11, MA EDU ’12) of Roxbury,
Lorei McGee (Imani Uzuri)
(MFAIA ’12) of New York,
N.Y., is a 2016 MAP grant
winner for composing GIRL
Shakes Loose Her Skin.
Teresa Mei Chuc (MFAW ’12)
of Pasadena, Calif., has a poem
in the fall/winter 2016 issue
of Poet Lore. workshops and classes and
Lev Grigorovich Mirov (IMA
GGI ’14) of Hagerstown, Md.,
had two poems nominated
for the Rhysling Award:
“The Woman Sings Her
Marriage Into Being” and
“An Unexpected Guest.” His
short stories appear in the
anthologies Myriad Lands,
Volume II: Tales From Many
Lands and Sunvault Anthology of
Solarpunk and Eco-Speculation.
His first novel, The God of
Small Things, co-written with
his wife, Goddard alumna
Emilia “Anya” Moniz
Mirova (IMA ’10) under a
pen name, will appear late
this year. See his blog at
levmirov.wordpress.com. band Magnetic Fields, which
Bridgette Mongeon (MFAIA
’12) of Houston, Texas, was
named one of the 30 most
influential women in 3D
printing by All 3D Printing.
Her book, 3D Technology in
Fine Art and Craft: Exploring
3D Printing, Scanning,
Sculpting and Milling, is based
on her Goddard thesis.
Gretchen Morse-Dobosz
(MA EDU ’14) of Shelburne
Falls, Mass., is the principal
of R.H. Conwell School
in Worthington.
Kimberly Myck-Rawson
(MFAIA ’16) of Redmond,
Ore., and her community
arts project ARTNIK have
been granted federal 501(c)3
nonprofit status. had a successful first Festival
24 CLOCKWORKS SPRING 2017
Margaret Nomentana (MFAIA
’12) of Lovell, Maine, taught
“Reading History, Making Art:
A Look at Portraits, Self and
Otherwise” in October. Her
large abstract paintings were
on exhibit this fall at the Jewish
Museum in Portland. for eight of his custom brick ovens,
Roselle P. O’Brien (MFAW
Mass., is the director of the
Center for English Language
and Creative Arts, where
she designed and runs
two creative arts therapy
certification programs, an
eco-health care certificate
program, and an eco-health
home health aide certificate
program. Roselle also offers
has published several books:
Eco-Health & the Continuum of
Care; Understanding MCS: A
Therapist’s Guide to Multiple
Chemical Sensitivity and
Environmental Illness; The
Division of Space; and The
Preschool Curriculum Handbook:
An Arts-Based Curriculum. Md., was a guest contributor on
Mark O’Maley (MFAIA ’13) of
Kingston, N.J., was the lighting
designer on the world premiere
of Man In Snow by Israel
Horovitz, which opened at the
Gloucester Stage Company
in Massachusetts, on Sept. 29
and played at La MaMa E.T.C.
in New York City on Nov. 10;
and 50 Song Memoir with the
opened at the Massachusetts
Museum of Contemporary Art
on Nov. 18 and then presented
at the Brooklyn Academy of
Music’s Next Wave Festival
Dec. 2-3. It will tour across
the U.S., as well as to London,
Edinburgh and Melbourne.
Jessica Plumb (MFAIA ’10)
of Port Townsend, Wash., won
the Best Writing in Science
Media Award at the Harvard
Arts Museum on Sept. 21, for
her film, Return of the River.
Luke Rackers (IBA ’09, MFAIA
’12) of Denver, Colo., founded
the nonprofit Abundant Silence
that supports the work of living
composers through publishing,
promoting, preserving, and
producing their works. They
David Neufeld (MFAIA ’16) of
Wolfeboro, N.H., returned home
from his graduation to requests
(truebrickovens.com). Forty
“found” object sculptures that
were pivotal in his portfolio were
on exhibit from June 30  –  Sept.
11, and included two public talks,
one in collaboration with Jungian
scholar Reverend Gina Finnochiaro.
for Creative Pianists last June, N.C., had his master’s thesis,
helping 30 students in the Spiritual Ecology: Overcoming
Rocky Mountain region. the Onlooker Consciousness
& Healing Our Alienation
Seema Reza (BFAW ’12, IMA from the Earth, published
GGI TLA ’16) of Rockville, last fall as part of Waldorf
Publications’ Online Waldorf
Feminist Wire, which published Library. His book review of
the speech she delivered Craig Holdrege and Steve
as the commencement Talbott’s Beyond Biotechnology:
address at her GGI (TLA) The Barren Promise of Genetic
graduation last February. Engineering was published
in the fall 2015 issue of Wise
Mary Rothschild (IMA ’11)
Traditions in Food, Farming
of Brooklyn, N.Y., teaches
and the Healing Arts. He is
Digital Media and Public
developing a series of lectures
Responsibility, and Gender
on the foundations of spiritual
Images in Media in Fordham
science for presentations in
University’s communications
the Asheville, N.C., area.
department. This spring,
she will teach Children and
Jake Shore (MFAW ’12)
Media as she did previously
of Brooklyn, N.Y., self-
at Adelphi University.
published A Country for Fibbing
Samantha Rush (IBA ’14) of and wrote and directed a new
Dover, N.H., is the program play, Holy Moly, that ran
director at Friends Forever, August 3–13 at The Flea
a nonprofit that utilizes Theater in the TriBeCa
a grassroots approach to section of Manhattan. The
help youth from conflict- play works in harmony with
prone regions of the world his novel and is the first
build lasting friendships synergistic, simultaneous
across cultural, religious, release of a play and novel
and political divides. in United States history.
Kristin Schwab (IBA UGP Mia Siegert (MFAW ’12)
’16) of Philadelphia, Pa., is of Flemington, N.J., had her
the new co-op organizer debut novel JERKBAIT listed
at The Philadelphia Area as #4 of six on Goodreads’
Cooperative Alliance. Best YA of May. The novel,
which sold out of its first
Andrew (Andy) Shaw print run in seven days, was
(IMA ’13) of Alexander, reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly.

Jeffrey Simonds (MFAW ’13)
of Castleton, N.Y., was one of
eight members of the creative
writing faculty at Hartwick
College for the New American
Writing Festival in November.
Willi Singleton (MFAIA ’16) of
Kempton, Pa., completed a two-
week printmaking residency
at the Herekeke Arts Center
in Taos, N.M., last August.
Lucy A. Snyder (MFAW ’16) of
Worthington, Ohio, had a story
published in Turn to Ash and
poems published in the new
anthology Scary Out There. Project (based in Seattle)
Stephanie Strasburg (IBA
’11) of Oakmont, Pa., won the
National Association of Black
Journalists’ award for best
single image photo among
newspapers under 150,000
circulation for “Mother Loses
Son,” a photo of a grieving
mother being comforted
after losing her son to gun
violence in Pittsburgh. The
same photograph previously
received first-place honors from
the National Press Club, the
National Headliner Awards,
the Association for Women
in Communications’ Clarion
Awards, the Pittsburgh Black
Media Federation and others.
William Sweger (MFAIA ’16)
of Seattle, Wash., is the new
registration, membership and
engagement director at Richard
Hugo House in Seattle.
Mahogany L. Browne (IBA
’13) of Brooklyn, N.Y., had her
poem “litany” featured on the
Academy of American Poets’
Poem-a-Day on May 25, 2015.
Scott Michael Wilson (BFAW
’15) of Phillipsburg, N.J.,
was the winner of the 50th
Annual Wergle Flomp Humor
Poetry Contest sponsored by
Winning Writers. Over 4,800
contestants from around
the world competed.
Terry Wright (MA EDU ’14)
of Torrance, Calif., was the
contributing editor for Gutters
and Alleyways: Perspectives
on Poverty and Struggle. She
is an adjunct instructor in
reading at El Camino College.
| class notes |
current Lydia Valentine (MFAW)
had three poems as part
of the historic boundary of
Portland city limits.
students
of the Tacoma art gallery
display Check the Volume: Harlan Wallner (MFAW)
A Revolution of Self-Love. performed in The Telling
Project, in which veterans
share their real experiences
Olaronke Akinmowo Tamara Wallace (MFAIA)
through a stage show, at
(MFAIA) and The Free Black created, along with 5th
Lowndes Shakespeare Center
Women’s Library have been grade students at Harrison
in Orlando, Fla., last fall.
granted a one-month residency Park School, a performance
for an art and biblio installation
exploring themes of Chelsea Weidmann (MFAIA)
at Wendy’s Subway, a reading community and identity for accepted a faculty position
room in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Annexation and Assimilation: at Ballet West Academy at
for the month of October.
East 82nd Avenue, a multi- the new Park City campus
Rosemary Alpert (MFAIA) media exhibition on the history in Salt Lake City, Utah.
was invited by The Kayla
to be a guest artist at Art
Wings Urban Festival in
Matanzas, Cuba in October.
Jarrett Mazza (MFAW) has
a short story in The Wake
of the Moon, an anthology
forthcoming from the Poetry
Institute of Canada in
February 2017.
Deanne Meek (MFAIA)
sang at a recital at the UPCOMING ALUMNI GATHERINGS
Frye Museum Auditorium
in Seattle on Sept. 17.
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Anaïs Mitchell (MFAW) had
her musical, Hadestown, which
was co-conceived with Ben
T. Matchstick (MFAIA ’16), SATURDAY, APRIL 22nd
reviewed in the New York Times. 3:00 – 6:00 pm
Scott Morris (MFAW) had
BROOKLYN, NY
his essay, “Costa Rica,”
published in coldnoon.
Darlene Reilley (MFAW) SUNDAY, MAY 7th
had her poem, “We Are the
Explorers,” launched into
3:00 – 6:00 pm
space on the OSIRIS-Rex
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due back on Earth in 2023.
Goddard College is committed to building
Patricia Taylor-Rydman a robust and engaged alumni organization.
(MFAIA) was the Please join us at a gathering near you to be
choreography and artistic part of a growing alumni network.
director of BREATH, a
powerful testament to the For event information visit goddard.edu/alumni or
African-American spirit, email meg.hammond@goddard.edu.
told through the movement,
music and language of jazz,
performed by JazzAntiqua
Dance and Music Ensemble SAVE-THE-DATE
and presented by Ebony
Repertory Theatre at Nate
Goddard Alumni Weekend Residency
Holden Performing Arts
Plainfield Campus - October 6-9, 2017
Center on Nov. 12.
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| faculty & staff notes |
Kenny Fries (MFAW) saw the
world premiere of “Takimi-no-
chaya, Rikugien,” the seventh
of eight poems in his In the
Gardens of Japan cycle, set by
Japanese composer Kumiko
Takahashi on September 16
as part of “The Traditional
in the Contemporary —
Ninety Years of Japanese
Compositions,” at Orvis
Auditorium, University of
CASEY ORR Hawaii at Manoa, in Honolulu.

Maike Garland (UGP) is the

new Education Licensure
Coordinator at Goddard.

David Halé (Library, former

Annie E. Abdalla (UGP)
showed paintings in the
exhibition Stone’s Throw: Stones
From Away at The Thorsten
Gallery in Windsor, Nova
Scotia. annieabdalla.com/stones
Kyle E. Bass (MFAW) is
working as a dramatist with
renowned visual artist and
MacArthur Genius Carrie
Mae Weems on the creation
of her first-ever theater piece,
Grace Notes: Reflections for
Now. Following its premiere
earlier this summer at Spoleto
Festival USA in Charleston,
N.C., Grace Notes was presented
in sold-out performances at
Yale Repertory Theatre.
Michele Clark (PSY, CMHC)
was interviewed about her
intentional community
experiences for the Vermont
Historical Society’s 1970s
project. She also gave a
presentation about these
experiences at their annual
meeting. She was interviewed
for Yvonne Daley’s book
about Vermont in the 1970s
and Joyce Antler’s book about
Jewish feminists in the 1970s.
Both books were published
in 2016. Michele publishes
a blog about Jewish life on
New York’s Lower East Side
between 1940 and 1965 at
rivingtonatessex.blogspot.com.
David Halé
David E. Ferland (WGDR)
was featured on the program
“Video Chat with Nat”
in the online edition of
The Montpelier Bridge.
Harris L. Friedman, PhD
(PSY, CMHC) received the
Abraham Maslow Award,
a lifetime achievement
recognition “given to an
individual for an outstanding
and lasting contribution to
the exploration of the farther
reaches of human spirit” at
the American Psychological
Association Annual
Convention in August. He also
published numerous papers.
faculty) retired in January
after a total of 36 years of
teaching photography (he had
been teaching as an adjunct
at Johnson State College). He
now creates work in wood
and metal, is an enthusiastic
backyard maple sugar operator
with a 40-square-foot tiny
sugarhouse and nine taps. He
lives across the street from
Goddard and would love to
hear from or visit with any
former Goddard folk from
the ’80s and ’90s, he says.
Laiwan (MFAIA) had an
image selected from Barnacle
City, her recent video work
commissioned for the “Coastal
City” series, for installation at
the City Centre Skytrain Station
in downtown Vancouver,
where it will be on display for
approximately six months.

Herukhuti (UGP) directed two performances of his play, My

Brother’s a Keeper, at the BlakTinX Festival at the Bronx Academy
for Arts and Dance in New York City on Nov. 12. His social
enterprise, The Center for Culture, Sexuality, and Spirituality,
partnered with the Movement Advancement Project to publish
Invisible Majority: The Disparities that Bisexual People Face and M. E. Lawlor (Human
How to Remedy Them. This document is based on the federal Resources), above, attained the
regulatory and sub-regulatory policy recommendations Herukhuti Distinguished Toastmaster
drafted with Heron Greenesmith, Esq., LGBT Movement and Policy Award, the highest award in
Analyst at MAP, and Dr. Lauren Beach, JD, PhD, Director of LGBTI Toastmasters and recognition
Research at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, for the of a high level of achievement
2015 White House Bisexual Community Public Policy Briefing. in both communication and
leadership. She is the Division
G Director in District 45.

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Conference in Cartagena,
Columbia in September.

Victoria Nelson (MFAW) won Albert Sabatini (Kitchen)

a Guggenheim Fellowship in
literary criticism for the 2016-17
academic year. She is spending
it in London doing research at
the British Museum for the third
book in her Harvard trilogy
on allegory old and new.
SYLVIA PLACHY
was hired as the new
executive chef in June. He
hails from Pennsylvania
and brings with him a
wide range of chef/kitchen
management experience.
Eva Swidler (UGP) published
an article called “Radical
Leisure” in the June issue
of Monthly Review and was Ju-Pong Lin (MFAIA
interviewed about the article for Program Director) attended
the radio show This Is Hell. She the Under Western Skies
also published an article and Conference at Mount Royal
blog post in the September/ University in Calgary, Alberta,
October issue of Academe. Canada, in September,
In October, she attended the where she presented
conference “Translating Across “1000 Gifts of Decolonial
Time and Space: Endangered Love.” This participatory
Languages, Cultural performance embellishes on

Revitalization, and the Work the intersection between

Douglas A. Martin (MFAW)
was interviewed by poetry
critic and scholar Andy
Fitch in Rain Taxi. His poem
“Eelgrass” was chosen for
the Poem-a-Day project of the
American Academy of Poets.
Rogelio Martinez (MFAW)
taught a ten-day writing
workshop in Teatro Oficina
in Portugal in May. In July,
he traveled to the University
of Targu Mures in Romania
where his play, Born in
East Berlin, was translated
by the students in both
Romanian and Hungarian.
Jen Morin (Academic
Services), a former admissions
counselor at Goddard,
rejoined the community as
a writing coach in June.
Andrea Parkins (MFAIA)
presented the Canadian
premiere of Two Rooms from the
Memory Palace: Variation 1
at AKOUSMA Festival 13
in Montreal on Oct. 22.
Mendez and scholar Joseph
Jordan at the Conference of the
Afro/Latin American Research
Association (ALARA) in
Willemstad, Curacao in August.
The theme of the conference
was “Violence, Systemic
Racism, and African Diaspora
Communities: Causes and
Consequences.” She presented
a paper and poster at the 31st
Latin American Psychoanalytic
of History” at the American
Philosophical Society.
Lise Weil (GGI) published
issue #4 of Dark Matter: Women
Witnessing, Making Kin, Part 1.
Read it at: darkmatterwomen
witnessing.com.
Karen Werner (UGP) is the
first American to receive
the Grand Prix Maruli, an
international radio prize, for
Laws of Lost and Found Objects,
a radio documentary about her
family. She accepted the award
cultural memory and non-
western epistemologies
and blends a paper-folding
tutorial with an enactment
of cultural memory. Devora
Neumark (MFAIA-WA)
gathered “Letters to Water”
throughout the conference.
in Hvar, Croatia in May. Her
radio piece, Swimming Through
Butterflies, was broadcast on
the October 14 episode of
Soundproof on the Australian
Broadcast Corporation. She
was on a radio arts residency
at studio das weisse haus
in Vienna for the fall.
Arisa White (BFAW) published
a new book of poetry, You’re
The Most Beautiful Thing That
Happened, with Augury Books.
Jane E. Wohl (MFAW)
retired from Goddard during
the fall 2016 semester.
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in “La Sombra y el Espíritu:
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with Dominican artist Lucia

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| in memoriam |
June Hill Ainsworth (BA
ADP ’72) of Plattsburgh,
N.Y., May 23, 2016.
Kathleen Bailey (BA
HAS), 47, of Tacoma,
Wash., April 22, 2016.
Otok Ben-Hvar (MFAIA
’12), 79, of New Port
Richey, Fla., July 11, 2016.
Emily F. Caigan (MFAIA
’02), of Rhinebeck
N.Y., April 29, 2015.
Billie Brey Gilfillan (MA
GGP ’74), 89, of Winston-
Salem, N.C., June 10, 2016.
Roberto Francisco Sebastian
Guzman (BA IBA ’05), 41, of
Laredo, Texas, May 11, 2016.
Linda (Towart) Hoyt (BA
RUP ’65), 72, of North
Bennington, Vt., May 11, 2016.
Charles Johnson (MA GGP
’75), 74, April 11, 2016.
Charles Kenfield (JR
RUP ’55, BA RUP ’58) of
Pembroke, Ma., April 18, 2016.
Connie Kopelov (MA
GGP ’74), 90, of New York,
N.Y., May 28, 2016. Connie
and her wife Phyllis Siegel
were the first same-sex
couple to be legally married
in New York in 2011.
Eileen M. Licciardiello (BA
ADP 78), 94, of Netcong,
N.J., April 11, 2016.
Patricia Mattson (BA ADP
’76), 76, of Naples, Fla., Sept.
9, 2016.
28 CLOCKWORKS SPRING 2017
Christie Maurer (BA RUP
’61), 79, of Scotts Valley, Wilmer Brandt (BA RUP ’55), 96, of
Calif., April 4, 2016. Marshfield, Vt., Oct. 10, 2016. Wilmer
was a conscientious objector in World
Helen Margaret O’Brien
War II. He spent the last three years of
(MA GGP ’80), 95, or
the war in Civilian Conservation Corps
Corvalis, Ore., March 15, 2016.
work camps in Pennsylvania and Florida.
He was a Quaker, farmer, forester, and
CASEY ORR
John B. O’Donnell (MA
pacifist who supported many causes,
GGP ’72), 72, of Dunedin,
including the Vermont Wilderness
Fla., April 24, 2016.
School, Vermont Refugee Committee,
Ken Phelan (BA ADP the American Friends Service, Amnesty International, Greenpeace,
’77), 74, of Westport, the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, and the
Conn., July 12, 2016. Friday Peace vigils in Montpelier, Vt. His dedication and activism
were recognized by the Vermont State Legislature in 2000.
Peter E. Reinhold (BA
RUP ’51), 89, of Boynton
Beach, Fla., March 23, 2016.
Diane Leslie Russell (BA Carolyn Grant Fay (MA GGP ’77),
ADP ’70, MFA GGP ’73) of 101, Aug. 9, 2016. Fay was a pioneer
Asheville, N.C., June 29, 2016. of Movement and Expressive Arts
Therapies with the integration of
Annellen Simpkins (MA Jungian Psychology. She was a co-
GGP ’74), 69, of Cleveland, founder of The C.G. Jung Educational
Ohio, Aug. 8, 2016. Center of Houston, Texas. Passionate
also about dance, she received
Gyla Smith (MA GGP her MA in counseling and dance
’79), 92, of Seattle, therapy from Goddard College. She
Wash., May 23, 2016. enlarged the focus of The Jung Center by creating and adding the
School of Expressive Arts. In 2014, The Jung Center named the
Loraine E. Stehle (JR RUP Humanitarian Award after Fay in honor of her 100th birthday.
’63), 74, of Ridgewood,
N.J., Sept. 3, 2016.
Larry Bruce Thurston (BA
RUP ’72), 64, of White River Paij Wadley-Bailey (BA GEPFE ’79, MA
Junction, Vt., May 9, 2016. GV ’82) 77, of Montpelier, Vt., Aug. 18,
2016. Paij developed the Lesbian & Gay
Rhoda Yvette Weissman Studies Program and Center at Goddard
IRINA MARKOVA GOLD
(MA GGP ’80), 87, of Santa College and was also the first coordinator
Ana, Calif., Feb. 26, 2016. of the LGBTQA Services Program at UVM,
while concurrently serving as faculty at
Constance A. Williams (MA each. She was a member of the board of
GV ’91), 81, of Prudence the Women’s International League for
Island, R.I., March 17, 2016. Peace and Freedom, the director of the
Vermont Anti-Racism Action Team, and the statewide director of
Ralph B. Yardley Jr. (BA Reading to End Racism. Additionally, she was an anti-racism trainer
RUP ’81), 57, of Yardley, and diversity consultant. She chose to end her life with the medical
Pa., March 14, 2016. assistance provided by Vermont’s Death with Dignity legislation.
Horace Allen Soule Jr., (JR RUP ’48, BA RUP ’50), 93, of Calais, Vt., Sept. 25,
2016. A fifth generation Vermonter and direct descendant of Mayflower passenger
George Soule, Allen graduated Randolph High School in 1941, served in the
Army Air Corps in WWII, and then attended Goddard under the GI Bill. He
served as Vermont State Archivist for a decade, editing three volumes of the State
Papers. Allen founded the Elmhill and Maplehill group homes and schools for
children in state care, for which he served as director and on the board. He acted
in films directed by David Mamet, ran for Vermont State Representative, and
was a radio DJ at WDGR in Plainfield and KXCI in Tucson, Ariz. Allen was one
of the first landowners in Calais to enter his land into the Vermont Land Trust.
 IN MEMORIAM ANN RICHARDSON STOKES
Ann Stokes receives
the Goddard Award for
Excellence in 2013; at
right, Ann at Goddard
in 1950 and with friends
at her studio space.
A nn Richardson Stokes (JR RUP ’52,
BA RUP ’54), of West Chesterfield,
N.H., died of cancer on November 20 at
her home. She was 85. She lived fiercely
and fully, and with great courage and
conviction; she lived large. So large, in
fact, that Odetta sang at her 50th birthday.
Stokes was born in Moorestown,
N.J., on June 9, 1931, the daughter of Dr.
Emlen Stokes and Lydia Babbott Stokes,
into a family of philanthropists and
supporters of progressive causes. Her
great grandfather, Charles Pratt, founded
the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, and her
mother founded the Lydia B. Stokes
Foundation, which supported women’s
health, especially Planned Parenthood.
Stokes graduated from Moorestown
Friends School before enrolling at
Goddard College in 1950.
Stokes was drawn to Goddard because
of its emphasis on the whole person.
“Goddard made you tingle,” she said.
“It’s grounded, connected to your heart
somehow, and maybe even to your soul if
you’re lucky.”
When she graduated on June 24,
1954, founding president Tim Pitkin
gave the commencement address that
Ann Stokes: 1963
a Crucial Part
College names Stokes
of the Goddard Dorm, for her mother’s
Community support of College
day. “There are hungry mouths to feed,
houses to build, diseases to conquer,
works to perform, songs to sing, pictures
to paint, lives to be lived in every land by
every people. There are ideas to grasp,
prejudices to remove, fears to dissolve,
love to fulfill, and brotherhood to gain,”
he said in his remarks.
Tim Pitkin’s words were a call to
action; Ann Stokes, it seems, heard the
call. After graduation, she lived her life
in selfless service to others, fighting for
equality and social justice. Stokes became
a talented poet, painter, writer, and
thespian. She was passionate and actively
involved in politics, women’s issues,
and environmental and world affairs.
In 1980 she participated in the
Women’s Pentagon Action during which
feminist activists spun webs of multi-
colored yarns across Pentagon entrances
to protest violence against women,
racism, and destruction of the earth.
She founded Welcome Hill Studios,
a retreat center for women’s creativity
and reflection. Her book, A Studio of
One’s Own, recounts the experience of
women building the first studio in the
early days of the feminist movement.
1969-1984
1991-1994 College dedicates
Stokes serves as Ann Stokes
Board Member Tennis Court
(June 9, 1931 – November 20, 2016)
In the 1990s, Stokes worked with the
Brattleboro Aids Project and funded the
Ann Stokes Lecture Series at Goddard,
which brought lesbian and gay speakers
and performers to the Plainfield campus.
Her staunch support of civil rights led
her to establish the American Civil
Liberties Union of New Hampshire
in 1968. From 1969-1972, she was
involved in the anti-nuclear effort, and
she was even jailed for two weeks in
1977 for her involvement in protesting
the Seabrook nuclear power plant.
Stokes was active and engaged in
local and national politics her whole life
and was dismayed by the outcome of the
recent presidential election. She spoke
up for those with no voice, took action to
improve the lives of others, and brought
so much love and beauty into the world.
A memorial service will be
held on Saturday, May 20, 2017, at
10:30 a.m., at the Putney School, 418
Houghton Brook Road, Putney, Vt.
– BY DUSTIN BYERLY (BA RUP ’01)
1994 2013
Stokes receives
Goddard Award
for Excellence
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Goddard in the
World
I
N HER ROLE AS EARLY
Childhood Education
department chair at
Skagit Valley College in
Washington State, Bárbara
Martínez-Griego provides
“leadership on campus and
in the community, through
the implementation of a
dual language approach to
college teaching,” she says.
A 2007 graduate of God-
dard’s Seattle Education
Program, Bárbara pulls from
her vast experience teach-
ing head start, preschool
and elementary school,
along with her experi-
ence as an ECE program
administrator, childcare
licensor, action researcher,
and college instructor.
Her master’s studies
at Goddard focused on
coaching, mentoring, and
accountability as a part of
the Soy Bilingüe Adult Dual
Language Model. Bárbara
documented the power
of bicultural voice in sup-
porting, with strength and
patience, the transforma-
tion of an early childhood
agency from an ineffective
English-only approach to
high-quality, dual lan-
guage programming.
Immediately, the child
outcomes improved for
the predominately Latino
children. However, the trans-
formation was not only for
the children; it also included
a paradigm shift for the
“Goddard’s emphasis on reflective practice,
individual identity, and culture inspires
the work I do, which is aimed at improving
the lives of children and their families.”
30 CLOCKWORKS SPRING 2017
In Service to the Communities
Bárbara Martínez-Griego (MA EDU ’07) is a
Leader in Dual Language Higher Education
teachers, support staff, and
administration.
Bárbara’s 15 years of
experience in community
partnerships and higher
education have benefited
other learning communities
as well. She has traveled
to China to share from her
experiences and provide
coursework on dual lan-
guage approaches to early
Bárbara
Martínez-Griego
at Lighthouse
Park in Mukilteo,
Washington
childhood education. Re-
cently, she spent a year in
her home community of Las
Cruces, New Mexico, sharing
with children, families, and
educators there, giving back
to the place and people that
nurtured her personal and
professional development.
True to her collabora-
tive and community-serving
nature, when Bárbara was
accepted into the doctoral
program at New Mexico
State University, she im-
mediately began building
bridges, making connec-
tions, and looking for ways
to help others. Bárbara has
supported over five cohorts
of dual language early child-
hood educators through
their AA or AAS degrees at
Skagit Valley College; this is
an impressive accomplish-
ment not often occurring
in colleges in Washington
State. Many of her graduates
(most of whom are bilingual,
trilingual, and speakers of
indigenous languages from
their home communities)
have gone on to leadership
roles in local early childhood
programs. Now she hopes
to encourage members of
these learning communities
to continue their studies into
graduate work, including at
the doctoral level. She has
begun discussions on work-
ing with cultural democracy,
indigenous languages,
and dual language and
trilingual ECE approaches
at the doctoral level.
Bárbara credits her
Goddard studies with
enlightening and guiding
her into this position. “It
truly prepared me to work
with my students toward the
creation of a more just and
humane world,” she says.
“Goddard’s emphasis on
reflective practice, individual
identity, and culture inspires
the work I do, which is
aimed at improving the
lives of children and their
families. Before finding
Goddard, I had spent over
30 years looking for the
perfect program to work
on my master’s degree –
the wait was well worth
it. I see the world in such
a different way.” CW
BY SHARON CRONIN,
EDU FACULTY AND SEATTLE
ACADEMIC SITE COORDINATOR
Why I Give
“Goddard was my salvation.
I couldn’t stand high school
and felt that college would be
an extension of that. Fortu-
nately, I found Goddard, and
my learning was considerably
more interesting than it would
have been any place else.
Goddard modeled learning
by having an atmosphere that
was ‘learning by doing.’ Today’s
terminology describes that as
interactive learning, the pro-
cess approach, and hands-on
learning. I owe Goddard a life
of richness because of learning
that way; it has fed my soul ever
since, and, as a result, I have
had a lifetime of satisfaction.
That is the debt I owe
Goddard, which is why I
contribute annually. Please
join me in giving to the God-
dard College Annual Fund.”
– GABRIEL JACOBS (BA RUP ’51)
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