These are very moving, wonderfully heartfelt thoughts: both the earlier good times and the years leading to Bennett's closing, the desgracefull negligence of the Millbrook goverance and community indifference which led to this "haunted house" for those not imbued with the College campus and its inhabitants; students, faculty and administration when it was such a rich and vfital living community.
As it turned out, finally, over the years accumulated teaching in other Colleges and Universities (MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies, University of North Carolina, Dartmouth, Queens, SUNY Purchase---the latter which I left Bennett to found the Division of Visual Arts Sculpture Department) that I came to the realization that Bennett was indeed way, way up there, a remarkable school. And isn't this outpouring a testament and a well-deserved tribute to Miss May Friend Bennett's school!?
I'm going to add some more considered comments soon. In the meantime, drop me a line I'd love to hear from the extended Bennett family!
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