1970s

Fraught Art Landscape

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-04-24T12:09:20-0400

Lisa Phillips ’75, director of The New Museum, joined Thelma Golden, director of the Studio Museum in Harlem, for a conversation with The New York Times about launching expanded buildings and staying focused on their missions at an uncertain time for cultural institutions.

Skating Senator

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2025-03-05T12:11:26-0500

Vermont State Senator Brian Collamore ’72 wrangles legislation by day and hockey players by night.

50 Years a Potter

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-05-26T18:10:17-0400

Christine Lansdale Willis, who matriculated with the class of 1977, is exhibiting art from her 50-year ceramics career at the Center for the Study of Modern Ceramics in Athens, Greece.

Buried Tales, Haunted Storyteller

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-04-25T15:41:29-0400

In an interview with People magazine, Julia Alvarez ’71 shares insights from her latest (and possibly last) novel, which is her response to the question of growing old as an artist.

A Chapter Closed

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-03-19T16:02:08-0400

Over 23 years in the English department at Colorado State University, Sarah Sloane ’79 helped hundreds of students tell their stories. In honor of her retirement, CSU profiled Sloane about lessons learned, memories made, and what comes next.

Red State, Green Initiatives

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2024-01-22T14:21:08-0500

60 Minutes featured the energy innovation work of Wyoming governor Mark Gordon ’79 and Cully Cavness ’09, whose company is redirecting gas flares to power supercomputers.

1970s Lesbian Life

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-07-05T15:19:04-0400

Browse more than 1,500 images from the Bee Ottinger ’70 Lesbian Collection, which is now available online. Ottinger documented life in the early ’70s at the Lesbian House, a community in Los Angeles for queer women rejected by their families.

Taking the Patriarchy to Task

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-04-18T09:39:53-0400

V ’75, the creator of The Vagina Monologues, addresses racism, colonialism, and sexual violence in her new collection, Reckoning.

Midd Alum, UVM Dean

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2023-04-11T15:44:22-0400

Katharine Shepherd ’78 has been appointed as dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont.

Prospective Growth for Danforth Pewter

yanderson@middlebury.edu — 2022-01-24T14:45:21-0500

Danforth Pewter is seeking a $425,000 state grant that would allow it to grow its Seymour Street campus.