Word: gail
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...Board of Trustees of Bennington College Saturday named Joseph S. Iseman '37, a board member, as acting president of Bennington. Iseman replaces Gail Thain Parker '64, a former assistant professor of History and Literature at Harvard, who resigned the presidency of the embattled Vermont school last week...
Iseman agreed with Parker's analysis. "Everything Gail and Tom did they did because the board asked them to," he said. "When the chips were down, it became difficult for the trustees to support them...
...MAGIC IMAGE by Cecil Beaton and Gail Buckland. 304 pages. Little, Brown. $19.95. This is that rarest of items: a photography book in which words are more important than pictures. Authors Beaton, noted stage designer and photographer, and Buckland nave attempted nothing less ambitious than a full history of photography and its practitioners from 1839 to the present. Beaton's introduction is elegant and concise, as are the biographical sketches of more than 200 photographers. Inevitably, gaps and biases appear. Salon and experimental artists receive favored treatment, while the works of such realists as Matthew Brady, Jacob Riis...
When she was appointed president of avant-garde Bennington College three years ago, Gail Parker seemed a natural for the job. She was a refreshing 29, a feminist and a literature professor at Harvard. What was more, her husband Tom, 30, an assistant to a Harvard dean, would come along as Bennington's vice president. Last week the glow was gone from Bennington. President Parker was the object of a campus revolt and the center of a fight for control of the college. The faculty had taken an overwhelming vote of no confidence in her performance and decided...
...Gail T. Parker '64, the embattled president of Bennington College, released to the college's faculty late Wednesday a transcript of her remarks to a Tuesday meeting of the Bennington board of trustees...