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Kitty Rauscher ’67 and John Tucker ’69 confer in a chemistry lab, fall 1966.
Kitty Rauscher ’67 and John Tucker ’69 confer in a chemistry lab.
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Psychology Professor Frank Oja leads a class discussion in a basement classroom in Tewksbury, 1965.
Professor Oja taught at Bard for forty-three years until his retirement in 2000.
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Hilton Weiss, 1965.
Weiss is a professor emeritus; he taught chemistry at Bard from 1961 until the spring of 2005.
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Laboratory scene, ca. 1957.
Gregory Tucker ’54 holds a live alligator as an unidentified woman feeds it, perhaps as part of a biology class demonstration. Professor Donald Hartman, who taught biology at Bard from 1950-1957, looks on.
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Torchlight procession, February 1957.
In late December 1956, Bard welcomed 325 Hungarian refugee students fleeing a failed revolution in their home country. These students were offered a two-month orientation program that included intensive English language instruction and help adjusting to life in the United States. This image captures the torchlight procession marking the conclusion of this Hungarian Student Orientation, during which participants made their way to the homes of President Case and staff members. Director of the program Willie Frauenfelder and his wife Helene are at the center, reading a message of thanks from the students.
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Blithewood garden, 1957.
Bob Bassler ’57 begins the process of reparations to the damaged Blithewood garden pool that would result in its ability to hold water, as well as to host his senior project fountain sculpture. The repairs and installation were completed just in time for the June marriage of President James Case’s daughter, Susan, in the garden.
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Bob Bassler’s cast stone fountain sculpture, “Seclusion,” aka “The Bard Nymph,” in the Blithewood Garden site for which it was intended as a major component of his Senior Project in the spring of 1957.
This photograph of a sculpture entitled "Seclusion" was taken by the artist, Robert Bassler, class of 1957, shortly after her installation in the fountain at Blithewood garden. The sculpture was created as part of his senior project, and at the time replaced an earlier floral fountain that had fallen into disrepair. "Seclusion" was removed from Blithewood during its restoration in the early 1990s. The sculpture occupied the site for thirty years. She was subsequently reproduced and positioned in the Meditation garden near the Chapel as a cast bronze memorial. While not as visible in this location, she commemorates the life of Anna Margaret Jones, a former student who died while at Bard. The original sculpture was restored and returned to Mr. Bassler in California where she once again presides over a garden fountain.
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The literature division of Bard, 1953.
Standing, from left, are professors Keith Botsford, Saul Bellow, Irma Brandeis, Tony Hecht, and William Frauenfelder. Seated are Jack Ludwig, William Humphrey, Warren Carrier, and Andrews Wanning.