CLASS NOTES
1960s Kathleen Coty ’64 I’m semi-retired but still working part-time as a psychotherapist, living and loving DeSoto Acres in Sarasota (two acres of Florida native land right near New College). After the first two months of the shutdown, I started to expand my social network to six small, socially distanced dinner parties and soirees. I bought a grand piano so that I can have musicians here to play. I found the slowdown a gift but have so much sorrow and grief in my heart for the many who lost so much. As you can imagine, as a therapist, I have been busier than ever, with little time for my fused glass artistry. I’m going to a twoday glass workshop to stimulate my artistic spirit. I miss most the connection with students (I used to host small dinners for them but that has not been possible). So I’m alive and well. Glenda Cimino ’64 I’m living in Ireland. In December 2019, I was invited to give a paper in Athens at a Myth and Art Conference based on my play, Puppets of the Gods. During the third COVID-19 lockdown in Ireland, prohibiting most normal human contact and activities, I have been writing with a
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considerable degree of success at publication. I have had poems published in the Bealtaine Workshop pamphlets, a haibun in the international Haibun Journal, haiku in Seashores, and senryu in Failed Haiku online. My documentary film, Donnybrook’s Hidden Treasure, about an ancient cemetery in Dublin, has been shown in festivals and won third place in the international Spotlight Festival in Atlanta. My short play, Deja Vu, was shortlisted in the international Short and Sweet festival last year, and another haibun won an honorary mention in the 2021 Genjuan International Haibun Contest. And yet I feel I am doing nothing at all except attending Zoom meetings and sometimes walking the dogs. I now have three young Irish grandchildren, who I hope to visit when the present lockdown ends (they live on the other coast in beautiful Dingle).
we have presented a series of events, including concerts, lectures and art exhibitions—starting with a large show of more than 30 American and European artists entitled Metamorphosis and the Living Forces of Nature. This was followed by a first-time exhibition of Swedish artworld sensation Hilma af Klint, as well as works by M.C. (Mary Caroline) Richards (author of Centering, which was very popular with New College students in the late 1960s); Judy Pfaff; and numerous other artists, including some that were shown in the United States for the first time.
David Adams ’67 After several years of planning, I helped purchase an approximately 9,000-square-foot, 19thcentury commercial building in 2019 in the downtown historical district of Hudson, New York. That December, some local artist friends and I opened a new multi-purpose visual arts center called Lightforms (lightformsartcenter. com). Since then, despite the pandemic,
Although retired now from nearly 30 years of teaching art history, I continue to edit, do layout, administrate and often write for an international visual arts magazine called the Art Section Newsletter (which, like Lightforms, emphasizes artwork created out of spiritual or idealistic inspiration, especially relating to anthroposophy). Recently, Lightforms was added by
