February
28 , 2003
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Sampler
12, by Carleen Sheehan
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Sample Some
Art On Sunday, March 9, from 1 to 3 pm, there will be
an opening reception for an exhibition of work by MHC visiting
artist Carleen Sheehan at the Drury Gallery at Marlboro College
in Marlboro, Vermont. The art on view, which Sheehan calls Sampler
Series (2002–2003), is a group of paintings on paper
and canvas. The artist describes the pieces as "an abstraction
of content into pattern, and an attention to the interconnectedness
of visual forms and processes across categories and disciplines."
Says Sheehan, "Images sampled from a range of sources are
woven and collaged into densely layered fields. As the series
title suggests, references to sampling in the musical sense, and
to the act of stitching or quilting, relate to the way imagery
is collected and compiled." The gallery, which is open Sunday
through Friday from 1 to 5 pm (closed Saturdays), is about an
hour's drive from South Hadley, near Brattleboro. The show
will be up March 2 through April 4. Visit http://www.marlboro.edu/admissions/directions.html
for
directions and http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/art/faculty/sheehan/sampler.html
to see some of Sheehan's images.
In Memoriam
Mary Lyon Professor Emeritus of French Ruth J. Dean died
February 3 in New York. She was one hundred years old. A graduate
of Wellesley College, Dean also completed a B.A., an M.A., and
a D. Phil. at Oxford University. Her expertise in Anglo-Norman
literature and culture earned her an international scholarly reputation
and numerous awards and fellowships, including a Guggenheim Fellowship
and a senior fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
She was elected a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in
1969 and became the academy's first woman president in 1973.
Dean taught at Mount Holyoke from 1934 to 1967. After retiring
from the College, she taught at the University of Pennsylvania,
but remained involved with MHC through the Ruth Dean Lecture Series,
which was established by contributions from colleagues, friends,
and former students. That series continues to bring outstanding
medievalists to the MHC campus. Dean's many publications
include Anglo-Norman Literature: A Guide to Texts and Manuscripts
(Anglo-Norman Text Society, 1999), which in 2001 was awarded the
Prix Honoré Chavée by the Académie des Inscriptions
et Belles-Lettres, the second oldest of the five academies of
the Institut de France. Dean is survived by her sister, a niece,
and a nephew. Said Dean's colleague and friend Margaret
Switten, Class of 1926 Professor of French, "Ruth Dean will
long be remembered as a warm and generous colleague and teacher
and as a scholar whose book on Anglo-Norman literature is an extraordinary
achievement and an invaluable legacy to future scholarship."
Martha "Mollie" Leeb Hadzi, Professor
Emeritus of Art History, died January 25 in New York. A graduate
of Vassar College, New York University's Institute of Fine
Arts, and Yale University, Hadzi was an authority on ancient Greek
art. She lived in Rome for twenty years and was recruited to teach
at the College upon her return to the United States. She taught
at Mount Holyoke from 1972 to 1985. Hadzi's writings include
the catalog for a Mount Holyoke College Art Museum exhibition
titled Transformations in Hellenistic Art and Contributions
to Samothrace 5: The Temenos (Princeton University Press,
1982), edited by Phyllis Williams Lehmann. She was also a European
correspondent on the editorial staff of Art in America. Her son
Stephen Hadzi plans a memorial service at Grace Church in Amherst
in March.
Henry W. "Hank" Stallman, Jr. died February
3 in the Holyoke Hospital at the age of seventy-seven. A lifelong
resident of South Hadley and assistant fire chief for the South
Hadley Fire Department, Stallman worked at Mount Holyoke from
1942 to 1987 as a systems mechanic. Stallman is survived by his
wife, Cylestus Wilkin; his brother and sister-
in-law, Edward C. and Barbara Stallman; his sister-in-law, Beverly
Stallman; nieces Debra Phelan and Donna Rhicard; nephew Chuck
Stallman; grandniece Dana Rhicard; and grandnephews Michael and
Tyle Phelan and Owen Rhicard.
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