BardCorps -- Faculty and Staff Oral Histories

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  Robert Kelly (BardCorps)

  Robert Kelly
  Faculty/Staff Asher B. Edelman Professor Emeritus of Literature 1961-2023

  “It’s not about me. It’s about them. They went on and did wonderful work..there are students of mine who have long ago retired, who’ve passed away from old age. There are students of mine who are still in their twenties. And when I think of that, over sixty years of opportunity I had– or more than sixty years, to have had the privilege of working with– ringing the doorbell of so many houses, so many minds.”

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  Ben Bortez (BardCorps)

  Benjamin Boretz
  Faculty/Staff Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts 1954 - Present

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  Paul Marienthal (BardCorps)

  Paul Marienthal
  Faculty/Staff Dean for Social Action and Director of the TLS Program 1995-

  "Treat people well, show up, be a human being...If you commit and show up relentlessly, you’re going to get something done.”

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  Joan Tower (BardCorps)

  Joan Tower
  Faculty/Staff 1972 - Present

  "To me, it’s not just an education: it’s making a whole life in music. It’s not getting a degree. It’s providing a huge future of ‘this is what I want to do, this is what I love to do, this is what I want to spend my time doing’ kind of thing.”

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  Malia Du Mont, '95, and Joshua Ledwell, '96 (BardCorps)

  Malia Du Mont and Joshua Ledwell
  Faculty/Staff Chief of Staff & VP for Strategy and Policy, Class of 1995

  "The perspectives I learned from having a more diverse group of people to learn from has helped me a lot in understanding that there's a much more multifaceted world out there."