AROUND THE POND
Loyd, Sasha Lyapin, Jess Matzkin ’90, Tim Palombo, Peter Press, Bebeth Schenk, and Molly Williams. Lance and Patsy Odden retired, in case you didn’t catch that earlier.
On Behalf of Liberal Arts Dr. John Agresto spoke about the merits of a truly liberal arts education at a School Meeting in March and again that afternoon with faculty. The fourth speaker in the Paduano Lecture Series in Philosophy and Ethics, Agresto is the former president of St. John’s College in New Mexico. He is the author of a number of articles and three books on constitutional democracy. He also served as assistant deputy and acting chairman for the National Endowment for the Humanities. In his address to the school, he spoke on making decisions in the college process and the spirit of education.
All-State Musicians Rockwell Visiting Artist Mitch Lyons demonstrates his clay monoprint technique in the Arts and Humanities Center studio. GREG STEVENS ’02
Rockwell Visiting Artists The school community benefited from the presence of two visiting artists this spring, funded by Taft’s Rockwell Visiting Artist program. First, Mitch Lyons, an accomplished potter turned printmaker, came to campus in April. Lyons has been experimenting with clay monoprints in his New London, Pennsylvania, studio for the last 20 years. His clay monoprints can be found in numerous private and public collections throughout the U.S., including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Woodmere Museum, American University, and the University of Delaware. He has taught at several colleges and universities and
has led more than 100 workshops over the past 10 years. Later that month, artist Alison Barnes presented a talk on the “Landscape as Lyric and Narrative.” An accomplished artist, writer, teacher, and editor, Barnes says her most recent collection of photographs was made in her hometown of Deerfield, Massachusetts, and reveal landscapes embedded with both stories of the past and contemporary times. Both artists spent the day in classes and working with students following their School Meeting talks. The fund was established by Sherburne B. Rockwell Jr. ’41 and H.P. Davis Rockwell ’44.
Seniors Foster Chiang and Sara Jacovino performed, on violin and trombone respectively, with the All-State Orchestra and Jazz Band at the Hartford Bushnell to a full house in April. “The concert was an immense success,” said music instructor T.J. Thompson, “and their acceptance to such a high-caliber ensemble is a phenomenal achievement on both their parts.”
Meditation and Memory Dr. Herbert Benson, director of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Harvard and author of The Relaxation Response, spoke with faculty in April about the research in which lowermid biology students participated this year. A cardiologist by
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