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BardCorps -- Alumni Oral Histories

 
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  • Charles Friou '46 (BardCorps) by Charles Friou '46

    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.”

  • Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos, '82 (BardCorps) by Kathryn Kaycoff-Manos

    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?"

  • Robert McAlister, '50 (BardCorps) by Robert McAlister

    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."

  • Linda Murphy, '88 (BardCorps) by Linda Murphy

    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."

  • Edie Shean-Hammond, '72 (BardCorps) by Edie Shean-Hammond

    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."

  • Darius Thieme, '51 (BardCorps) by Darius Thieme

    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.”

  • Eva Thal Belefant, '49 (BardCorps) by Eva Thal Belefant

    Eva Thal Belefant, '49 (BardCorps)

    Eva Thal Belefant
    Alumni/ae/x

    "We consider it the Bard Family."

  • Jonathan Cann, '06 (BardCorps) by Jonathan Cann

    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."

  • Margaret Castleman, '69 (BardCorps) by Margaret Castleman

    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."

  • Tyrone Copeland, '01 (BardCorps) by Tyrone Copeland

    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."

  • Jodi DeVito, '81 (BardCorps) by Jodi DeVito

    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."

  • Anthony Ellenbogen, '82 (BardCorps) by Anthony Ellenbogen

    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."

  • Kit Ellenbogen, '52 (BardCorps) by Kit Ellenbogen

    Kit Ellenbogen, '52 (BardCorps)

    Kit Ellenbogen
    Alumni/ae/x

    "I left the college a very different person than when I came."

  • Kim Fisher, '01 (BardCorps) by Kim Fisher

    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..."

  • Ralph Levine, '62 (BardCorps) by Ralph Levine

    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."

  • Pete Mauney, '93, '00 (BardCorps) by Pete Mauney

    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."

  • Jessica Moore, '81 (BardCorps) by Jessica Moore '81

    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."

  • Charles Moore, '79 (BardCorps) by Charles Moore

    Charles Moore, '79 (BardCorps)

    Charles Moore
    Alumni/ae/x

    "For 4 years the President could not rest...Our commencement was his commencement."

  • Andrea Muraskin, '06 (BardCorps) by Andrea Muraskin

    Andrea Muraskin, '06 (BardCorps)

    Andrea Muraskin
    Alumni/ae/x

    "Everyone at Bard is an artist in some way."

  • Susan Playfair, '62 (BardCorps) by Susan Playfair

    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."

  • Tamara Plummer, '02 (BardCorps) by Tamara Plummer

    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?"

  • Maurice Richter, '53 (BardCorps) by Maurice Richter

    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."

  • Anthony Rivera, '01 (BardCorps) by Anthony Rivera

    Anthony Rivera, '01 (BardCorps)

    Anthony Rivera
    Alumni/ae/x

    "Bard was my getaway from the ghetto."

  • Jim Salvucci, '86 (BardCorps) by Jim Salvucci

    Jim Salvucci, '86 (BardCorps)

    Jim Salvucci
    Alumni/ae/x

    "I lived in Tewksbury, which was an adventure in itself."

  • Miranda Spencer, '81 (BardCorps) by Miranda Spencer

    Miranda Spencer, '81 (BardCorps)

    Miranda Spencer
    Alumni/ae/x

    "I realized that I was a weird and quirky person. When I was at UNH everyone thought I was a complete freakadoid. When I came to Bard everyone thought I was so straightlaced. They called me 'Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'"

 
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