Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble presents Pirandello’s Henry IV August 1-5: “The Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble, under the direction of Alan MacVey of the University of Iowa, will present Tom Stoppard’s version of Pirandello’s Henry IV August 1-5 at the Burgess Meredith Theatre on Middlebury College’s Bread Loaf mountain campus in Ripton.”
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SI.com – SI On Campus – Noah’s Arc: Middlebury’s Walker making a name for himself in Israel: “In the last five years, Middlebury College grad Noah Walker has played baseball in Southern California, New England and the Middle East. He traveled to Central America, worked on a U.S. political campaign, and still found time to earn his degree. In fact, the only constants in Walker’s life have been baseball and changes of scenery. After being named the 2007 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) Player of the Year, Walker made history this summer becoming the first batter in the history of the Israel Baseball League.”
Class of 1860’s spruce tree, victim of lightning, to be reborn as library bench: “A majestic Norway spruce tree that has graced the east edge of campus for close to 150 years is dying and needs to be cut down. The Class of 1860 Spruce, located east of Old Chapel and next to the entrance to the new library, has witnessed inaugurations, commencements, weddings, funerals, and countless other milestones in the College’s history. But the tree was struck by lightning in 2006, and developed a deep crack that runs from the base of the trunk to the top half of the tree.”
Middlebury College and Brandeis University establish School of Hebrew: “Middlebury College and Brandeis University have announced the establishment of the Brandeis University-Middlebury School of Hebrew, which will open in the summer of 2008. As Middlebury’s 10th Language School, it will be the newest summer program since the Portuguese School was inaugurated in 2003.”
Dispatch: On a mission: “Creative differences, exhaustion from extensive touring, boredom or an inability to get along – bands break up for a variety of reasons. Jam-pop college favorites Dispatch, which played its final show in 2004, hit all of the above. There was one cause important enough to the entire band, formed at Middlebury College, to get them to play together again — if only for one more time. But what started as one benefit concert for Zimbabwe at Madison Square Garden in New York turned into two shows, then three and finally a fourth, the final show last Wednesday at New York’s Webster Hall.”
The cool club – The Boston Globe: “In recent American history, college students marched through the Deep South during Freedom Summer or barnstormed New Hampshire on behalf of anti-establishment candidates such as Eugene McCarthy. But today, students like Sierra Murdoch, a 19-year-old Middlebury College junior, and Jennie Hatch, 20, who’ll attend Wellesley College this fall, aren’t spending their summer vacations effecting political change. Global warming is the issue that motivates them instead, driving them to work long hours for little pay in a state neither one calls home.”
The bells of summer: College’s series of carillon concerts continues July 13: “For the 22nd year, Middlebury College offers its Summer Carillon Series on Friday afternoons and evenings. The weekly free concerts using the College’s Mead Chapel carillon have become a summer tradition, bringing carillonneurs from around the world to perform at the Vermont campus.”
Progress Report on Implementing the Strategic Plan: Spring 2007: “In May 2006, the Middlebury Board of Trustees voted unanimously to endorse a strategic plan, Knowledge Without Boundaries, that reflected the participation and the collective vision of hundreds of members of the Middlebury community — both on and off campus. The plan is available on the Middlebury College web site, and hard copies are available on campus in Old Chapel and in the College Library. The present report outlines the gains for our strategic planning agenda made this spring. For convenient reference, it lists these by referring to the specific numbered recommendations in the strategic plan.”
World Cup champion Bode Miller hires Forest Carey ‘00 as personal coach: “U.S. World Cup skier Bode Miller’s search for personal coaches has landed him two of the most logical choices – former U.S. Ski Team coaches Johno McBride and Forest Carey [Middlebury Class of 2000]. Miller helped lure McBride out of retirement last season for the position of World Cup men’s combined coach, and Miller has been a longtime friend of Carey.”
Rock ‘n’ roll guru celebrates 25 years: Times Argus Online: “When Joel Najman [Middlebury Class of 1966] was growing up in the Bronx in the 1950s, a group of Italian-Americans who called themselves Dion and the Belmonts — they took their name from Belmont Avenue — used to sing doo-wop music and their own versions of rhythm and blues songs on street corners.”