BardCorps is a collaborative oral history project of the Alumni/ae Office and the Bard College Archives. This is modeled on the famous StoryCorps initiative that travels the country recording personal stories in an Airstream trailer. We are recording the stories of Bardians to preserve memory, and to document and expand our collective understanding of Bard’s history.
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Marisa Vural, '01 (BardCorps)
Marisa Vural
Alumni/ae/x"I'm like, this New York City girl who likes to sneak Newport cigarettes in the staircase, but I studied opera at Bard. Who would give me the opportunity to sing opera?"
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Christopher "Chris" Wangro '80 (BardCorps)
Christopher "Chris" Wangro
Alumni/ae/xWangro on being admitted: “Anyway, so, they were like, “Oh you do a lot of theater and you’re a clown, you’re in.” So it was a different kind of experience.”
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Shelley Weinstock, '76, Lisa Pence, '75, and Deborah Bornstein-Gichan, '76 (BardCorps)
Shelley Weinstock '76, Lisa Pence '75, and Deborah Bornstein-Gichan '76
Alumni/ae/x"I loved how we used to sit around the Dining Commons and all of us would be so excited about our different studies....It gave us the opportunity at that time to go, 'You know what? I've never taken that type of class. I think I want to.' And we could."
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Susan (Wender) Lowenstein-Kitchell '48 (BardCorps)
Susan (Wender) Lowenstein-Kitchell '48
Alumni/ae/x“One springtime, they were not going to give us a spring break, but they had a very–there was a real water problem, they were only on one pump, and they said if you take a shower, make it quick. And there was one young woman who really wanted spring break, and she went in and turned the showers on and the pump broke and they sent us home, but they expelled her. And I don’t know if I should mention her name, but … she flew her plane over Commencement and buzzed the group, and I’ve never forgotten that.”
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Francis Whitcomb, '47 (BardCorps)
Francis "Whit" Whitcomb
Alumni/ae/x"[Tony Garvin] was my adviser in American History, and advised me on my senior project about my great grandfather...He must have been high in social circles...and my senior year he was having a garden party in Rhinebeck, and he comes up to me and he says, 'Frank I want you to meet Mrs. Roosevelt.'"
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Elizabeth White (BardCorps)
Elizabeth White
Friend of Bard"It was very lush. And, you know, I only remember the sunshine."
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Emanuel Wolff, '56 (BardCorps)
Emanuel Wolff
Alumni/ae/x"So I had this wonderful true liberal arts education that went beyond organic chemistry and physical chemistry and calculus and all of that stuff."
