Early Decision vs. Regular Decision Nov 9, 2009
Ellen Schulte, Director of Communications at Bennington College, said in Paul D. Rosevear s Admissions Office Q&A: Early Decision, Early Action, and Regular Decision : Most institutions do not change their standards for Early Decision applicants. The real question is still the fundamental one: Is a college the right fit for you. (Suite101.com)
From the Washington Post Nov 3, 2009
Recently a professor of mine, whom I'd studied with 20 years ago at Bennington College, died. Two weeks afterward, I learned that she had made me the beneficiary of her life insurance policy, leaving me $75,000. (Harper's Magazine)
If we leave Iraq, do we lose for good? Nov 1, 2009
His "Aladdin Sane" album (1973) was the key motif of my madly hectic years as an annoyingly prankish, loud-mouthed Amazon feminist at Bennington College, my first teaching job. "Lady Grinning Soul," a spooky song on that album, is a Romantic masterpiece in the dark artistic line of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (Salon)
Camille Paglia Oct 23, 2009
Fassbinder was a cardinal figure in my thinking throughout the 1970s, when I was teaching at my first job at Bennington College. My philosopher friend James Fessenden and I were avid Fassbinder fans. (Salon)
Manhattan to the max Oct 20, 2009
Lethem attended the High School of Music and Art and later Bennington College, dropping out in his sophomore year after feeling out of place at the expensive private school. He then moved to California where he began his writing career. (Boston Globe)
Four Sentenced in Giant Chili Heist Oct 1, 2009
The group, including two Bennington College seniors, a recent grad about to start Americorps and an applicant to an Ivy League school were originally charged with felonies for the failed prank. However, under a plea agreement the four received misdemeanor charges and two-year deferred sentences. (WCAX.com, VT)
State Looks To Rebound As Timber Business Declines Sep 15, 2009
Hull Forest Products just won the contract to provide the chips for a new biomass plant at Bennington College in Vermont, and Durst said that bio-fuel chips now make up about 15 percent of his sales. "With all of these new biomass projects in the region, we are nearing the point where the value of New England timber as an energy fuel could equal its old value as a mid-grade lumber product," said Durst. (FOX61, CT)
Mass. meditation center draws overstressed young adults Sep 8, 2009
It was just meditate, eat, sleep, said Kestrel Slocombe, 19, a student at Vermont s Bennington College who spends much of her time rushing to class, worrying about a novel she s writing, and painstakingly planning her days, sometimes weeks in advance. It was almost like being a child, she said. (Boston Globe)
Channing re-connects with her love Sep 1, 2009
She was then off to Bennington College in Vermont -- and after that, New York City. She made her Broadway musical debut as Eve Arden's understudy in "Let's Face It!" in 1941. (Erie Times-News, PA)
Sidney Zion, 75; worked to cut doctors’ long hours Aug 5, 2009
But his life was transformed on the night of March 4, 1984, when his 18-year-old daughter, Libby, a Bennington College freshman with a history of depression and cocaine abuse, was admitted to New York Hospital with fever, chills, and agitation. Her condition was not diagnosed, but two interns gave her a painkiller and sedative, a plan approved by phone by a senior clinician who had treated members of the family, and she was tied down to prevent injury. (Boston Globe)
MARSHFIELD AROUND TOWN: An un-Lucky berry raid Jul 30, 2009
By Kezia Bacon-Bernstein. Wed Jul 29, 2009, 02:48 PM EDT. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Vt. Dancers Mourn Merce Cunningham Jul 28, 2009
His techniques are regularly taught at schools including Bennington College and Middlebury College. Cunningham stayed active in dance until his death Sunday night at age 90. (WCAX.com, VT)
Dance great Cunningham dies Jul 28, 2009
I studied the Cunningham technique as a student at Bennington College in Vermont with many of his key disciples, and later briefly took some classes with Cunningham at his Westbeth studio in New York's Greenwich Village. Cunningham was mesmerising in person and as a dancer - especially the expressiveness of his gestures, with his feet almost as expressive as his hands. (BBC News)
Stage instinct intact as Channing channels past Jul 22, 2009
She followed that up with a bravura Yiddish patter song that had earned her, as a pretentious but theatrically blessed Bennington College student, the lifelong devotion of the William Morris agent Abe Lastfogel. Images. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Helen Codere, 91; anthropologist studied Rwanda, Pacific Northwest Jul 5, 2009
Her academic years spanned five decades and included professorships at Vassar College, the University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, Bennington College, and the University of Pennsylvania ... After teaching at Bennington College in Vermont in 1963 and 1964, Dr. Codere moved to Massachusetts and taught at Brandeis, where she later served as dean from 1975 until she left the university in 1977. (Boston Globe)
Big Cuts at Bennington College Jun 25, 2009
Bennington College is tightening its belt ... Bennington College's endowment of about $10 million has reportedly shrunk by more than 20 percent as a result of the weak economy. (WCAX.com, VT)
Hylie Pappenheimer, 86, violin teacher in Cambridge Jun 5, 2009
Mrs. Pappenheimer attended Brearley, a private school in New York City, then graduated from Bennington College in Vermont before pursuing graduate studies at the Juilliard School of music in New York. In the late 1940s, one of her teachers from Bennington arranged for her to meet John Pappenheimer, when the two were in Western Massachusetts, attending Greenwood Music Camp in Cummington. (Boston Globe)
Critic's corner May 7, 2009
Alda plays Milton Greene, a teacher at Bennington College, and I suspect he's quite different from Jack. To use last week's catchphrase, "Twist!". (Boston Globe)
Wall Street Boomer Bows Out in Banking Shakeout That Brought Vermont Beard Apr 28, 2009
His Dominion severance payments were nearly up, and his son, Mickey, had been accepted at Vermonts Bennington College, where tuition and other costs add up to about $50,000 a year. The IIF job was for three months, Roberts was told, and he hoped it would be made permanent. (Bloomberg)
Direction key in Zone 2 Apr 28, 2009
Education: Bachelor s degree in science and early childhood education from Bennington College, master s and doctorate in biological chemistry, both from UCLA.. Community service: Coordinator of the Start Making a Reader Today program at Hamilton Creek School, Hamilton Creek PTA/PTO treasurer, co-founder of the Hamilton Creek read-at-home program, temporary service on the Lebanon Community School District budget committee, service on and fundraising work for the Lebanon Talented and Gifted... (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Total board candidates up to nine (13) Mar 26, 2009
Alperin has a bachelor s degree in science and early childhood education from Bennington College, and a master s degree in biological chemistry from the University of California Los Angeles. She holds a doctorate in biological chemistry from UCLA.. (Lebanon Express, OR)
Village wants Bennington College to contribute Mar 22, 2009
(AP) - A committee of the Village of North Bennington is asking Bennington College to pay the community a voluntary yearly stipend. Members of the committee believe the college owes to the community in the same way state sites sometimes give towns payments in lieu of taxes. (WCAX.com, VT)
Merrill House welcomes new writer Ivy Pochoda Feb 20, 2009
She is currently in an MFA writing program through Bennington College in Vermont. Her craft is one she has pursued throughout her life in the form of journalism, playwriting, poetry, editing and most recently in the publishing of her first novel of literary fiction, The Art of Disappearing. (Westerly Sun, RI)
Architect John A. Holabird dies Feb 18, 2009
He started working for the firm after graduation, but left after a year to teach at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and Bennington College in Vermont, according to the bio material. He came back to Holabird in 1955, the Art Institute site says. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Kevin L. Dolan, led Boston publisher Little, Brown Feb 15, 2009
Mr. Dolan was also active in the community and served as a trustee of the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, the National MS Society-Central New England Chapter, and Bennington College in Vermont. He was a longtime member of The Union Club of Boston. (Boston Globe)
TED ends with hope clever solutions will trump daunting woes Feb 7, 2009
"What do you do when you feel overwhelmed?" Bennington College president Liz Coleman asked rhetorically. "You have a mind and you have other people; start with those and change the world." Barbie dolls and prison inmates are among the surprise allies that tree researcher Nalini Nadkarni enlists in her battle to protect forests and their biologically rich canopies. (Yahoo! Asia News)
