In Memoriam

We extend our sympathies to friends and family of the following members of the Bennington community who have died. These members have died between October 11, 2019 – September 9, 2020. Community members for whom we have just received notice of their deaths are also included.

ALUMNI Barbara Ridder Irwin ’44 December 22, 2019 • Sara Cree Smith Norris ’44 November 24, 2019 • Rebecca Grafton Sparks ’44 May 19, 2020 • Jane Crowell Rieffel ’45 January 30, 2020 • Joya Bovingdon Cox ’46 June 1, 2020 • Mary Lou Chapman Ingwersen ’47 January 27, 2020 • Mary Watson ’47 October 22, 2019 • Ethel Benson Nalle Wetherill ’47 April 14, 2020 • Jane Cole Graves ’49 May 31, 2020 • Marie Maxon Hadwen ’51, P ’78, P ’81 February 5, 2020 • Joan Olmsted Oates ’52 April 3, 2020 • Rhoda Turteltaub Rosenthal ’52 November 18, 2019 • Lorraine Nichols Higbie ’53, P ’85 April 12, 2020 • Joan Davidson Aaron ’54 March 25, 2020 • Carole Cassel Postelnek ’54 November 15, 2019 • Marjorie DeWitt Rose ’54 April 29, 2020 • Marcia Dorothy Gross Starr ’54 October 18, 2019 • Mancia Schwartz Propp ’55 November 29, 2019 • Mary Garst ’58 May 25, 2020 • Edith Evans Swan ’59 May 3, 2020 • Judith Albert Croner ’60 December 12, 2019 • Sandra Johnson Van Hoven ’60 January 7, 2020 • Ann Ruth Maslow Kaplan ’60 April 26, 2020 • Marjorie Daniel Van Name ’61 April 21, 2020 • Jennifer Creel Frimmel ’62 April 12, 2020 • Dorothy Willett Oliver ’62, P ’88 May 18, 2020 • Jane Rosenthal ’63 April 2, 2020 • Jane Weisbrod Perin ’64 January 2020 • Caryn Levy Magid ’65, P ’95 August 23, 2020 • Diana Elzey Pinover ’69 March 1, 2020 • Darrell Sweeney Nichols ’70 June 9, 2020 • Barbara A. Abercrombie ’71 April 1, 2020 • Dinah Dietrich ’73 June 26, 2020 • Amy Schwartz Fenno ’77 January 23, 2020 • Danielle “Dani” Signoracci Solomine ’91 December 15, 2019 • Sharah T. Horton ’93 October 19, 2019 • Jamie Davis ’94 February 29, 2020 • Mardah Chami MFA-W ’22 January 22, 2020 FACULTY, STAFF, TRUSTEES, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS Kendall Shaw, friend October 18, 2019 • Marion Bourn, former staff November 3, 2019 • Jonathan Hoyt, friend November 6, 2019 • Wendy Gartner Rowland, friend November 25, 2019 • David W. Russell, friend December 2019 • Franklin E. “Sonny” Monroe, friend December 30, 2019 • Edward Eaton, P ’21 January 16, 2020 • Geoffrey A. Brown, Jr., friend January 18, 2020 • Zoe Caldwell, friend February 2020 • Orson Bean, friend February 7, 2020 • Virginia Bloedel Wright, friend February 18, 2020 • Sarah Ames Ellis, friend March 9, 2020 • Jerry Roth P ’84, ’91, GP ’19, ’21 March 21, 2020 • Thomas Lyons, friend March 23, 2020 • Maurice “Maurie” Deane, friend April 9, 2020 • Ronald Peter Jones, friend April 27, 2020 • Paul Marks P ’85 April 28, 2020 • Stanley G. Eskin, former faculty April 29, 2020 • Dorothy Ann Sweeney, friend May 23, 2020 • Dr. Harry D. Wilson, Jr., friend August 9, 2020 • David D. Walter P ’16 June 23, 2020 JUST RECEIVED We acknowledge the passing of the following members of the Bennington College community, of which we were only recently notified. ALUMNI Fay Mowery Moore Donoghue ’41 August 16, 2016 • Helena Howard Cole ’46 August 1, 2019 • Simone Cadgene Attwood ’48 January 11, 2017 • Marilyn Carlson Schneider ’48 December 15, 2014 • Lois Pfaff Abrams ’49 May 13, 2013 • Dorothy Pearlman Edelman ’51 April 17, 2014 • Barbara Paige Fahrnbauer ’51 December 4, 2015 • Joan E. Glover Gorman ’51 April 25, 2019 • Helen Rattner Pesin ’55 July 18, 2019 • Linda Schandler Porter ’55 September 25, 2019 • Barbara Krevitz Corcoran ’57 August 15, 1998 • Cecile Schachnow Engel ’57 September 6, 2016 • Sheila Crawford Sullivan ’58 October 2013 • Margaret Elizabeth Beckwith Parsons ’58 April 10, 2015 • Eve “Fred” Rudd Webb ’62 2019 • Julia Hall ’70 June 27, 1992 • Barbara Wells ’70 January 3, 2009 • Karen Lierley ’71 June 23, 2017 • Marion C. Collier ’86 April 19, 2018 • Elizabeth D. Stabler ’04 November 21, 2014 FACULTY, STAFF, TRUSTEES, PARENTS, AND FRIENDS Doris deKeyserlingk, former faculty February 21, 1989 • William Sherman, former faculty October 9, 1992 • Roger Corrigan, former faculty September 1, 1993 • Thomas Smith, former faculty September 26, 1994 • Norman Klein, former faculty December 20, 2000 • Alice Smiley P ’65, former faculty February 16, 2001 • Bruce Mikel, former faculty August 26, 2003 • Charles Wood, former faculty February 11, 2004 • Arthur Sainer, former faculty November 18, 2007 • Marlowe Bergendoff P ’78 March 31, 2012 • George Stabler P ’04 November 11, 2012 • Francis X. Sutton P ’81 December 18, 2012 • William J. Clark GP ’93 July 17, 2013 • Bill Walsh, friend November 16, 2013 • Halton Arp P ’91 December 28, 2013 • James St. Lifer P ’10 May 4, 2014 • Joseph Hill Torres P ’78 September 2, 2014 • Jonathan Davis P ’92 October 2014 • Anne Pugliese, friend April 6, 2016 • Jerry G. Jones P ’93 December 29, 2016 • Lawrence Alan Propp, friend February 20, 2017 • Thomas Marschall P ’06, P ’00 April 21, 2017 • Arthur Goldwyn, friend September 6, 2017 • Norman Baker P ’93 November 22, 2017 • James William Gartner P ’00 December 20, 2017 • Addison Parks P ’19 January 3, 2018 • Debra Spadaro-Meguid, friend March 12, 2018 • Jill Ker Conway, friend June 1, 2018 • Robert Taub P ’96 July 11, 2018 • Louise Himelfarb, friend 2019 • Paul N. Gardner, friend January 13, 2019 • Gaylord Liggins P ’21 February 2, 2019 • Miles Maiden P ’21 February 5, 2019 • Peter R. Brock, friend February 19, 2019 • Adele Herter Seronde ’47, GP ’07, ’11 April 16, 2019 • Charles A. Poe, Jr. P ’10 May 2, 2019 • Marie Croatti GP ’06 May 11, 2019 • Joseph Edward Shackford P’84 July 5, 2019 • Martina Tietje, friend September 14, 2019 • Mary Lou Beitzel P ’82 September 26, 2019