Word: gail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Parkers--who worked together to put themselves through school--plan to share the administrative duties at Bennington. "What many be an impossible one-man job should be a manageable two-man position." Gail Parker commented...
...three Parkers--Gail, Tom and daughter Julia--are looking forward to moving to the more personal community of a smaller college. "Obviously Bennington is attractive because it doesn't have the giant bureaucracy to frustrate one," Tom Parker said...
Recently, radical students at Bennington occupied the Administration Building for nearly two weeks over an issue of faculty hiring. When asked to compare her projected handling of a similar situation to President Bok's sittight strategy for dealing with the Mass Hall occupation this Spring. Gail Parker said, "I think there's enough institutional inertia here that Bok's methods work. But I don't think putting things off works in a small community...
...think Bennington was looking for someone-some ones-who seem to be able to take a job where there are controversies with students and to behave in a way that can be seen as candid," Gail said...
...Gail Parker has taught several seminars and small courses in addition to lecturing in Harvard's large introductory American literature course, English 700. She says that she prefers the closer, more personal contact with students that a small course provides. "Lecturing is almost obscenely easy--much easier than real teaching," she commented...