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Judi Arner Brown '68 (BardCorps)
Judi Arner
Alumni/ae/x“I really didn’t learn how to do research, I learned how to approach a problem and it was, very– it was perfect for me because it went along with my own way of thinking. I came away from there believing that there was nothing I couldn’t tackle, I didn’t have to have all the information in my head as long as I knew how to get it, and knew how to think clearly, and I’ve been able to use that my whole life; I’ve taken jobs that I really wasn’t qualified for and it never bothered me, I just thought, Well you know, I’m smart, I’ll pick this stuff up before someone figures out I don’t know what I’m doing. And I think I learned that at Bard: give me a problem and I’ll find a way to solve it.”
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Charles Friou '46 (BardCorps)
Charles Friou '46
Alumni/ae/x“Some of the courses had horrendous reading lists. I remember sitting in Albee one night, like 3 o’clock in the morning, trying to read a novel that had to be finished by the next morning. And Dean Gray walks in, and says, “Oh hi, I just wondered why the lights were on!” It was that kind of intimate, personal, environment that we were in.”
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Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos, '82 (BardCorps)
Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos
Alumni/ae/x"There was a guy with a cape with white makeup following me around and acting like a vampire.There are, like, freaks here; what have I done?"
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Robert McAlister, '50 (BardCorps)
Robert McAlister
Alumni/ae/x"I am a strong believer in experiential learning and because of the experience we had as veterans, I think we brought some different perspective to the classroom."
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Linda Murphy, '88 (BardCorps)
Linda Murphy
Alumni/ae/x"Frank [Oja] pointed to that door at one point and said, 'Everybody in this room says that's a yellow door, but everybody...sees a different color yellow.' In other words, we don't all see things the same way, it's impossible. And that taught me to be accepting."
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Edie Shean-Hammond, '72 (BardCorps)
Edie Shean-Hammond
Alumni/ae/x"I came [to Bard] never having seen the place, having absolute faith in Walter Cronkite, telling me it would be okay."
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Darius Thieme, '51 (BardCorps)
Darius Thieme
Alumni/ae/x“Don’t be afraid to live with a blank page, and at the end of the day wind up with a blank page. That’s not bad. A blank page is just part of what you have to do... because you have to spend that time thinking about it.”
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Jonathan Cann, '06 (BardCorps)
Jonathan Cann
Alumni/ae/x"Even the bad days here...were part of a larger interesting story. I wouldn't do anything different."
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Margaret Castleman, '69 (BardCorps)
Margaret Castleman
Alumni/ae/x"I had a very hard time here initially. [I was] totally vulnerable to peer pressure, and to the wrong kind of peer pressure. So to have to come back and face that, and to disassociate myself [from] that sort of set the rules for my life in terms of how to be an individual. You have to go your own path."
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Tyrone Copeland, '01 (BardCorps)
Tyrone Copeland
Alumni/ae/x"To get to the beach, you had to jump off the boat and swim. Really, my swimming skills--no they're not great...I did my little doggy paddle...All those adventures pushed me to explore more."
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Jodi DeVito, '81 (BardCorps)
Jodi DeVito
Alumni/ae/x"I loved the landscape, the education; especially coming from a very traditional boarding school, it just sounded so alluring."
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Anthony Ellenbogen, '82 (BardCorps)
Anthony Ellenbogen
Alumni/ae/x"Every once in awhile I'll be loading a dumpster and one of my workers will say, 'Boy, it's a good thing that you spent all that money at Bard for an education.' And I think to myself, it may not be obvious, but it is worth it; it's why they're working for me and I'm not working for them."
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Kit Ellenbogen, '52 (BardCorps)
Kit Ellenbogen
Alumni/ae/x"I left the college a very different person than when I came."
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Kim Fisher, '01 (BardCorps)
Kim Fisher
Alumni/ae/x"So I'm just, you know, recording some of the scenery and I turned around and the class was gone. But, what I saw was three wild dogs..."
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Ralph Levine, '62 (BardCorps)
Ralph Levine
Alumni/ae/x" 'The more you know about different subjects, the more interesting your own life will be'...I thought it was a good justification for a liberal arts education."
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Pete Mauney, '93, '00 (BardCorps)
Pete Mauney
Alumni/ae/x"From having had a relatively mixed experience at Bard originally when I was a student I've ended up with a... long ongoing relationship with Bard as an employee...I've really enjoyed it."
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Jessica Moore, '81 (BardCorps)
Jessica Moore '81
Alumni/ae/x"If you talked to your teachers they really understood. A lot my teachers really understood, and inspired me...I guess the most important thing to me was the music...really being able to concentrate on classical music."
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Charles Moore, '79 (BardCorps)
Charles Moore
Alumni/ae/x"For 4 years the President could not rest...Our commencement was his commencement."
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Andrea Muraskin, '06 (BardCorps)
Andrea Muraskin
Alumni/ae/x"Everyone at Bard is an artist in some way."
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Susan Playfair, '62 (BardCorps)
Susan Playfair
Alumni/ae/x"It [Bard] had been lambasted by the Walter Winchells...It was amazing that it was able to keep going through the McCarthy era."
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Tamara Plummer, '02 (BardCorps)
Tamara Plummer
Alumni/ae/x"They came from everywhere, you know. We had really interesting conversations that I never had before about race and gender and ethnicity-- and what does it mean to be this thing? and what does it not mean?"
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Maurice Richter, '53 (BardCorps)
Maurice Richter
Alumni/ae/x"In those days we had what we called the Field Period...I worked for the anthropologist Margaret Mead in her office in the American Museum of Natural History."
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Jim Salvucci, '86 (BardCorps)
Jim Salvucci
Alumni/ae/x"I lived in Tewksbury, which was an adventure in itself."
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