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May 3,
2002
Quidnunc
Horses of A Different
Color Paintings
by Marion Miller, MHC professor of art, will be on display May
7–25 at First Street Gallery in New York City. A continuation
of a 1998 exhibition, Horses Indoors, Part II will feature paintings
of horses and riders, subjects that MHC English professor Christopher
Benfey calls, "Miller's instruments for exploring the mysterious
world of space and light." Miller's work is exhibited regularly
in New York and across New England and has won her awards and
residencies from the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Ingram
Merrill Foundation, and others. She has taught at MHC since 1976.
Good Sport Laurie
Priest, MHC's director of athletics, received the National Association
for Girls and Women in Sport (NAGWS) Honor Award April 12 at the
annual convention for Alliance for Health, Physical Education,
Recreation, and Dance (AAHPERD) in San Diego, California. The
award recipients were selected by a special committee established
by NAGWS. According to the event program, Priest was chosen for
her "extraordinary contributions to NAGWS and to all girls
and women in sport. She has been involved with girls and women
in sport at the state, regional, and national level, for more
than twenty years. Her more visible contributions include president
of NAGWS, chair of the NCAA Women's Committee on Committees, and
member of the executive board of the National Association of Collegiate
Women Athletic Administrators. Noted for her tremendous energy,
Laurie has earned a reputation for accomplishing the task and
doing so with class."
Remmler Review
Karen Remmler, associate professor of German studies and codirector
of the Weissman Center for Leadership, and Amir Eshel of Stanford
University coedited a special fall 2001 issue of German Quarterly
focusing on "Sites of Memory." Remmler wrote the introduction,
in which she raises questions about the popularity and prevalence
of interdisciplinary approaches to studying the intersections
between space and memory. The articles in the volume explore the
underpinnings of theoretical discourses on memory and space within
the German-speaking realm. Sites of memory may be actual, physical
sites, portrayals of sites in literature and poetry, or memorial
spaces, Remmler says. She also coedited, with Leslie Morris of
the University of Minnesota, an anthology titled Contemporary
Jewish Writing in Germany (2002, University of Nebraska Press).
The collection of translations includes an introduction by the
editors on the major issues facing Jewish writers who write in
German and the work of four second-generation Jewish authors.
The writers' stylistically diverse work represents four different
approaches to remembering the Holocaust, to depicting German-Jewish
relations in the present, and to understanding contemporary European
identities. Remmler also wrote the lead article, titled "Encounters
across the Void: Rethinking Approaches to German-Jewish Symbioses,"
in a collection titled Unlikely History: The Changing German-Jewish
Symbiosis, 1945–2000 (2002, Palgrave).
On the Horizon
Elizabeth Lloyd-Kimbrel, assistant to the vice president for enrollment
and College relations, reports that her "very short sort-of
children's story, ‘Halcyon Horizon,'" was selected by
the Beast Fable Society for presentation at its ninth International
Congress titled "Animals in Fact, Fable, and Scripture: An
Ecumenical Examination," which will be held in Malta in June.
Meter Readers
Katharine Sapper FP was runner-up in the College's seventy-ninth
Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate Poetry Contest, which was
held at MHC April 26 and 27. First place was awarded to Keayr
Braxton of Vassar College. Also competing were student poets from
Brandeis University, Colby College, Hampshire College, and the
University of Connecticut. Serving as judges this year were poets
Glyn Maxwell, Rosanna Warren, and Karl Kirchwey.
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