October 25–27, 2013

Homecoming

Homecoming Schedule October 25–27, 2013

Friday, October 25

8:30 am– Homecoming Check-In11:00 pm Bread Loaf Inn (preregistration required)

8:30 am– Middlebury College Alumni Association (MCAA) 3:00 pm Board Meeting Bread Loaf, Davison Memorial Library, 2nd floor

11:00 am– Annual Fund Executive Committee (AFEC) Meeting4:00 pm Bread Loaf, Davison Memorial Library, 1st floor

12:15– The Eternal Monk: The Middlebury Museum’s1:00 pm Late Gothic Statue of Saint Barbara See page 9 for more information. Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts, Museum of Art

12:30– Center for Social Entrepreneurship Speaker Series1:30 pm The Center for Social Entrepreneurship’s Friday Speaker Series

features Pier LaFarge ’10.5, who will share lessons learned from his work at ICF International as a mitigation and sustainability consultant and his recent experience as cofounder and CEO of Spark, a start-up focused on building a crowd-investment platform that connects individual investors directly to small- and medium-scale, energy-efficiency projects.

The Donald E. Axinn ’51, Litt. D. ’89 Center for Literary and Cultural Studies at Starr Library, Room 219

1:00– Organic Farm Open House4:00 pm The Middlebury College Organic Farm (MCOF) is a student

organization that stewards a three-acre plot of fruits, vegetables, and perennials. The farm serves as a space that supports the holistic development of students by providing life skills, while promoting discourse surrounding pressing world food issues. For more information, visit go/organicfarm.

In the field a half-mile behind Bicentennial Hall. Walk or drive down the hill (going west) from the College on Rte. 125 for a half mile. Take a right at the wooden sign that reads “Middlebury College Organic Farm.” Leave your car at the sign and walk the short dirt road to the farm.

2:00– Open House: Center for Careers & Internships5:00 pm Welcome back, alumni. Please drop by, just to visit, or to meet

with our staff—an appointment is not necessary. Adirondack House, Library 3:00– Check-In: Alumni Leadership Conference (ALC) Volunteers11:00 pm Bread Loaf Inn, Blue Room

3:30– ALC Volunteer Reception5:30 pm Bread Loaf Inn

4:30 pm The Arts and the Media Jeffrey Brown, chief correspondent for arts, culture, and society

at PBS NewsHour, and author, poet, and Middlebury professor Jay Parini interview each other on Samuel Beckett, books, the arts, and the media. This event is presented as part of the Department of Theatre’s Cascando Project. See Sunday at 4:00 pm for more information.

Charles A. Dana Auditorium

5:30 pm Hillel Shabbat Services Associate Chaplain Rabbi Ira Schiffer will lead a brief Shabbat service for alumni. All are welcome.

Freeman International Center, the Jewish Center

5:30– Alumni Reception6:30 pm Catch up with old friends and meet new ones at this reception for

alumni and students. Refreshments will be served. Cosponsored by the African American Alliance, Distinguished Men of Color, and Women of Color.

Carr Hall

7:00 pm Film Screening: Pass It On! Presented by Will Graham Will Graham ’76 cocaptained the Middlebury football and lacrosse

teams, and he went on to earn an MA from the Bread Loaf School of English. Will is now the headmaster of a small private boarding school in California. In 2012, Will teamed up with filmmaker Peter Coonradt to find a way to show his appreciation for the coaches and teammates who helped to shape and influence the person he has become. Pass It On! resonates with ideas about the purpose and value of sport that go far beyond Middlebury. This warm, deeply personal film is both old-fashioned and radical in the broader context of American college athletics.

McCardell Bicentennial Hall, Room 216

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7:00 pm D8 Concert to Benefit WomenSafe Come see the Dissipated Eight perform in support of WomenSafe,

an organization dedicated to aiding women and children who have experienced domestic, physical, or sexual violence. Bring a buck or two if it moves you, and otherwise come enjoy some sweet music.

Mead Memorial Chapel

7:30 pm Student Panel: Ideas into Action “Every project begins with a few simple ingredients, an interest, a question,

an idea…and the commitment, imagination, and energy required to search for an answer.” —President Ronald D. Liebowitz

Rana Abdelhamid ’15, Will Potter ’14.5, Mzwakithi “Prestige” Shongwe ’16, and Joanie Thompson ’14 will reflect on their experiences in applying the liberal arts to their projects.

McCullough Student Center, Social Space

7:30 pm Alumni Panel Discussion Sponsored by Distinguished Men of Color. The Janet Halstead Franklin ’72 and Churchill G. Franklin ’71

Environmental Center at Hillcrest, The Orchard

8:00– Cocoon10:00 pm Inspired by the popular storytelling organization The Moth,

a special evening of true stories will be told live and without notes. The diverse range of stories will revolve around the theme “metamorphosis.” This community-wide event is produced by the creators of Middlebury College’s famed student storytelling organization, the Middlebury MothUP. A reception with the storytellers follows. Sponsored by the Mahaney Center for the Arts and Committee on the Arts. Tickets: $10/8/5

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

9:00– Student/Alumni Networking10:00 pm Sponsored by PALANA House. PALANA House

9:00 pm– Alumni Homecoming ReceptionMidnight Meet up with friends and enjoy the Bob Gagnon Trio, known for

its funky jazz inspired by Charlie Parker, Django Reinhardt, and Ahmad Jamal.

51 Main Street

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Saturday, October 26

6:30– Breakfast for Bread Loaf Guests9:30 am Bread Loaf Inn, Dining Room

8:00 am– Check-In: Bread Loaf Accommodations11:00 pm Bread Loaf Inn (preregistration required)

8:30– Welcome and College Update with President Liebowitz10:00 am Suzanne Daley ’96.5, president of MCAA, and President Ronald

D. Liebowitz welcome alumni back to campus, and President Liebowitz provides an overview of Middlebury today, sharing insights on how the College is defining a liberal arts education for the 21st century and answering questions from the audience.

Atwater Dining Hall

9:00 am Peter Westra ’99 Memorial 5K Run Registration is at 9:00 am; the run starts at 9:30 am. Mahaney Center for the Arts, Plaza

10:00 am– Alumni Showcase: Creating Impact through Design12 noon Cofacilitators: Cloe Shasha ’11 from TED and

Annie Makela ’11.5 from the Aspen Institute. Come join students, alumni, and staff for an interactive session

with young alumni who are on the cutting edge in design. There will be time for short alumni presentations, as well as networking and small group discussions at the end. Bagels, coffee, and juice will be served.

McCullough Social Space

10:15 am– ALC Volunteer Workshops for Class Agents, Reunion1:00 pm Committee Members, and Cane Society Representatives Atwater Dining Hall

10:30 am Special Collections Presentation “To fight & to die...for the maintenance of our cherished

institutions...” (Orlando French, Jan 13, 1863) A decade of building the Middlebury College research archive of Civil War history as seen through letters of those who fought it, 2002–2012.

Presenter: Andrew Wentink ’70 Davis Family Library, Harmon Reading Room

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11:00 am– Organic Farm Open House3:00 pm See Friday at 1:00 pm for information and directions.

1:00 pm Football: Middlebury vs. Trinity Youngman Field at Alumni Stadium

2:00– ALC Volunteer Workshop: Social Media and Technology3:00 pm Davis Family Library, Room 105

3:00– Open House: 118 South Main Street5:00 pm All are welcome to learn more about the Programs on Creativity

and Innovation (PCI), the Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Community Engagement, and MiddCORE.

118 South Main Street (behind the Davis Family library)

3:00– Open House: Solar Decathlon, Self-Reliance5:00 pm Middlebury was the first liberal arts undergraduate college to

compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon. The Solar Decathlon is an international green-building competition that challenges teams across the world to design, build, and market net-zero homes. Middlebury has competed in both the 2011 and 2013 competitions. The 2011 Solar Decathlon entry, Self-Reliance, is now student housing on campus, and the 2013 Solar Decathlon house, InSite, is currently traveling back to Middlebury to become Middlebury’s second net-zero, student-built home.

Please stop by Self-Reliance, and meet the students who have just finished competing in Irvine, California. Make sure to ask them about their innovative use of solar panels!

Porter Field Road between Porter House and Meeker House

3:00 & Hirschfield Series: A Touch of Sin8:00 pm Come see a four-part story, inspired by real-life events, about

loosely connected individuals whose lives are touched by violence or death. This latest film from internationally acclaimed director Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life) focuses on the violent impact, and hefty human sacrifice, enacted by the Chinese economic boom on its own citizens. “An angry, painful, satirical lunge into what the director clearly sees as the dark heart of modern China.”

—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian. Sponsored by the Hirschfield International Film Series in lieu of the previously scheduled film The Grandmaster.

Charles A. Dana Auditorium

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3:30– Alumni Volunteer Reception5:30 pm All volunteers are welcome!

Kirk Center

4:30 pm Dodge Ball: Alumni vs. Students Sponsored by Distinguished Men of Color. Pepin Gymnasium

4:30 pm A Concert/Conversation about Collaboration Cellist Maya Beiser and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer

David Lang discuss their work together on “World to Come,” commissioned for Beiser by Carnegie Hall. Free Mahaney Center for the Arts, Room 221

5:00– Opening Reception for the Squash Center6:30 pm Celebrate the opening of Middlebury’s new squash center at

the Peterson Family Athletics Complex. Hosted by President Ronald D. Liebowitz and his wife Jessica. The Peterson Family Athletics Complex

5:45– Class of 1964 50th Reunion Committee Dinner8:00 pm McKinley House

8:00– 51 Main at the Bridge: Brent Thomas Quartet10:00 pm The Brent Thomas Quartet features jazz musicians from the

greater Burlington area playing jazz standards with traditional and modern interpretations.

8:00 pm WRMC Alumni Reception Join WRMC DJs past and present for a night of music and

dancing. Students and all alumni are welcome. There will be a band and a DJ set. Light appetizers and cash bar.

Atwater Dining Hall

10:00 pm– Black Pearl Ball Featuring DJ Basiq2:00 am Please join fellow alumni and current students for a delectable

evening of dance and great music. This year’s theme is women’s health. This special Homecoming event is hosted by Middlebury’s Women of Color and several other sponsors.

Coltrane Lounge, behind Adirondack House

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Sunday, October 27

7:30– Breakfast for Bread Loaf Guests9:30 am Bread Loaf Inn, Dining Room

8:00 am– Checkout: Bread Loaf AccommodationsNoon Bread Loaf Inn

10:00 am– Alumni Brunch2:00 pm Sponsored by Women of Color. Carr Hall

10:00 am Homecoming Events at the Middlebury College Snow Bowl Ride to the top of the Snow Bowl on the Worth Mountain chair

lift and join the Middlebury Ski Club for a pancake breakfast benefit. The ticket office and the Snow Bowl Ski Shop will be open for season pass purchases, and Snow Bowl and Rikert snow school personnel will be on hand. Proceeds will benefit the Ski Club. Breakfast and lift rides are free for all season pass holders and $5 each for those not holding season tickets.

10:30 am Programs on Creativity and Innovation (PCI) Alumni Brunch

PCI alums are invited to stop by for brunch at Liz Robinson’s home any time from 10:30 am to 1:00 pm.

1043 Sheep Farm Road, Weybridge

2:00 pm The True Story of Peter and the Wolf The Vermont Symphony Orchestra presents its second-annual

Halloween family event. This kid-friendly woodwind quintet concert includes an introduction of the instruments and several seasonally spooky selections. The highlight of the performance is an arrangement of Prokofiev’s classic Peter and the Wolf with a special guest narrator, music professor Peter Hamlin ’73. Audience members young and old are invited to come in costume for a parade. Sponsored by the Mahaney Center for the Arts. Tickets: $8 adults, $6 seniors and children, $16 families (up to 5 people)

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Concert Hall

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4:00 pm Cascando A workshop exploration of Samuel Beckett’s Cascando, a rarely

produced short radio play originally subtitled “a radiophonic invention for music and voice.”

The audience is invited to attend an intimate staged reading of the play in an informal salon setting and then discuss the work with director Dare Clubb, composer David Lang, cellist Maya Beiser, and performers Jeffrey Brown and Alex Draper ’88. Following the discussion, the artists will reconfigure the workshop staging and perform the piece a second time. Conversation and conviviality will end the session.

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Dance Theatre

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Middlebury College Museum of ArtFriday and Saturday, 10:00 am–5:00 pm and Sunday, noon–5:00 pm (443.5007) Kevin P. Mahaney ’84 Center for the Arts

Friday, October 2512:15– Middlebury Museum of Art Exhibit 1:00 pm The Eternal Monk: The Middlebury Museum’s

Late Gothic Statue of Saint Barbara Madeline Firestone ’13 returns to campus to present her recent

research on the museum’s sculpture of Saint Barbara in the context of medieval surrogacy, devotion, and ways of seeing. Enjoy further conversation over a light lunch in the lobby.

Presented as part of the series Off the Wall: Informal Discussions about Art. Sponsored by the Museum, Department of History of Art and Architecture, and Committee on the Arts. Lunch is provided. $5 donation suggested; free to College ID cardholders.

Mahaney Center for the Arts, Museum of Art

Current ExhibitionsBelow is a list of the exhibitions currently on view at the museum.

Screened and Selected II: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 2006–2011September 13–December 8, 2013 This exhibition celebrates the collaboration between the museum and donor Marianne Boesky ’89, who initiated a multiyear project through which Middlebury College students selected works of art for the permanent collection. The many works acquired with these funds span the past four decades and include art by Chuck Close, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Idris Khan, Shirin Neshat, Robert Mapplethorpe, Roe Ethridge, Ryan McGinley, Tracey Moffatt, Catherine Opie, and James Welling, among others.

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Vito Acconci: Thinking SpaceSeptember 3–December 8, 2013 This exhibition marks the inauguration on campus of a replica of Acconci’s Way Station 1, which was constructed in 1983 near what is now McCardell Bicentennial Hall. The exhibition and its accompanying publication place the work in the context of Acconci’s ongoing, extraordinarily influential career. Supported in part by the Committee on Art in Public Places.

Ancient Mediterranean and Early European ArtOngoing, Lower Gallery On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early 15th-century Italian panel painting.

European and American ArtOngoing, Cerf Gallery This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside 16th- and 17th-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture.

Asian ArtOngoing, Robert F. Reiff Gallery of Asian Art On view in this gallery, in addition to a dramatic suit of Japanese ceremonial armor, is a wide range of East Asian ceramics: Chinese funerary sculpture from the Han (206 bce–220 ce) and Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing dynasties (1644–1911). Also included in the installations are Japanese tea ceremony wares and Korean celadons.

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ACTR TransportationThe Addison County Transit Resources (ACTR) has added a bus to their schedule. The bus will follow a route around campus from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm and will make stops at the areas indicated below.

• Merchant’s Row• College Street in front of Sunderland• Adirondack Circle• Bicentennial Hall Parking Lot• Corner of Ridgeline and 125• Old Chapel Road• Service Road/Health Center near Route 30• Traffic circle next to track in MCA parking lot• South Street near Chipman Park• Merchant’s Row

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ParkingDue to the construction of the new Field House, event parking is limited.

• Event parking will be available at the tailgate area, the Mahaney Center for the Arts lot, Dragone Track lot, on the north side of Porter Field Road, and in all parking lots in the center of campus. • There is no parking for students or other fans at the athletic complex. • The small parking lot behind Nelson Arena and the museum loading dock will be reserved for the game officials.• There is no parking of personal vehicles behind Kenyon Arena. This area is under construction and is clearly signed: Do Not Enter—Construction.

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General InformationTelephone NumbersMiddlebury Switchboard 443.5000Emergency/Public Safety 443.5911Bread Loaf Inn 443.2700Alumni and Parent Programs Office 443.5183Parton Health & Counseling Center 443.5135

Field House 443.5250 Friday 9:00 am–9:00 pm Saturday 9:00 am–7:00 pm Sunday 9:00 am–9:00 pm

Fitness Center 443.5840 Friday 6:00 am–9:00 pmSaturday 9:00 am–7:00 pmSunday 9:00 am–9:00 pm

Natatorium 443.5246 Friday 6:00–9:00 am 1:00–4:00 pm (Adult lap swim)Saturday 1:00–5:00 pm Sunday 1:00–5:00 pm

Platform Tennis

Two courts located behind the Fitness Center are open for play daily

on a first-come, first-served basis.

Ralph Myhre Golf Course 443.5125

Open daily at 8:00 am. To reserve a tee time, call the Pro Shop.

Alumni & Parent ProgramsPainter House • 2 Court Street

Middlebury, Vermont 05753 • 802.443.5183http://www.middlebury.edu/alumni/events/homecoming/