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One morning Jason Murphy ’09 and Ben Hall ’04 walked into the Russell Street Deli for a bite and came out with a restaurant. “We’d worked there on our breaks from Bennington, learned the operation inside and out, and so the owner asked us if we’d be interested in purchasing it.” Despite the Recession, the pair increased sales by 20% after they re-branded, transitioned to green business practices, and expanded the menu.

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7KH 0HPH )DFWRU\ Patrick Davison, SteSKHQb%UXFNHUW DQG 0LNH 5XJQHWWDbKDYH EHHQ VWXG\ing internet memes and sharing what they know with audiences around the world during a fast-paced and whirlwind tour they call part lecture, part Vaudeville act.

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The Meme Factory performing at Social Media Week, SĂŁo Paulo.

7KH :DU )DUP In 1943, all Bennington students tended to the College’s War Farm. Sue Hedge Hossfeld ’42 remembers some of her time: “Working next to me a good deal of the time—as we hoed down the broccoli and hoed down the potatoes—was a 6 ‘ tall Eve Glass ’43. She was one of those people who could remember everything. So I hoed for a month with Eve reciting everything from MaCaulay’s ballads to Keats’ odes to Shakespeare’s sonnets.” captions tk

&+$03,216 To public health activist Eric Ramirez-Ferro ’85, Tanzania is a battleground in the ˉJKW DJDLQVW $,'6 7R $\HVKD Mawjii ’95, a photographer, it’s home. Together they worked on the CHAMPION 3URMHFWȞD ˉYH \HDU SXEOLF health initiative that challenges the centuries-old gender roles in a society starved for change.

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%RUGHUOLQH 5HOLJLRQV Noryang Yeshi ’11 studied anthropology and photography, Keenan Walsh ’11 studied literature and philosophy, and together they traveled to sacred Buddhist locations in China and India to study— through personal interviews and conversations— how one multifaceted religious culture manifests across a region and over borders. http://www.kickstarter.com/ projects/chonor/cho-nor-ageocultural-study-of-thesacred

%RRWK 5HGHVLJQ Kathleen Oliver Parker ’47, an interior designer and philanthropist, brought her talent back where it began— Booth House. In 2009 she teamed with the College to complete a stem-to-stern renovation of Booth. The KRXVH ZDV RXWˉWWHG ZLWK ˉYH QHZ EDWKURRPV D QHZ kitchen, an updated common URRP DQG UHˉQLVKHG ˊRRUV throughout.

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Hannah Barry ’11, Kestrel Slocombe ’12, Winnie Rubin ’12, Lydia Viallon ’12, Christina Cary ’14, and Charlotte Lethbridge ’14 have built a kind-of, sort-of Coffee Hour website – keeping them connected to the world and WR HDFK RWKHU b:RQGHULQJ about the name? From their ZHEVLWH ȢˉND bLV D VRFLDO institution in sweden; it PHDQV KDYLQJ D EUHDNbZLWK one’s colleagues, friends, GDWH bRU IDPLO\ b:H DUH D group of individuals that life has scattered across the world, and this site is where we reconnect, have a conversation and share ideas. This blog is our global FRIIHH EUHDN ȣb KWWSV ˉNDFRIfeebreak.squarespace.com/

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After forming at Bennington and watching a few simple recordings on their Myspace SDJH FDWFK ˉUH DFURVV WKH Internet, Mountain Man—the harmonizing folk trio of Amelia Meath ‘10 Molly Sarle ‘12, and Alex SauserMonnig ‘09—quickly realized how powerful their music could be. Before they could even piece together a debut album (Made the Harbor), they were invited to play at SXSW, the Glastonbury Festival, and even toured the U.K. They have since been featured on NPR, in The New York Times, and have toured internationally with Jonsi, The Decembrists, and Feist— for whom they currently provide backup vocals.

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In 1934, modern dance pioneer Martha Hill founded Bennington School of the Dance, which became a crucible for American modern dance.

“One unique thing about Bennington was that our performing arts productions didn’t depend on one discipline or one person.

Everything was a collaboration. We did plays that combined drama, dance, music, literature. Ben Belitt and Kit Osgood were the main collaborators in literature; in music we had Gregory Tucker.

Faculty performed sometimes, too: Wallace Fowlie was in several productions. :H GLG WKH ˉUVW VXFFHVVIXO Americana at Bennington before it hit Broadway.”

—Martha Hill

9RLFHV IURP WKH )URQWV Max Nanis ’12 and Ian Pearce ’11 are two of the authors behind a recent cover story in Interactions magazine. The article, “Socialbots: Voices from the Fronts,” is based on a study they conducted with web researcher Tim Hwang on fake online identities (“bots”) that can interact with humans and even boost human-tohuman interaction on social networks such as Twitter. The results of their study were ˉUVW SXEOLVKHG LQ WKH 0,7 Technology Review. http://www.technologyreview.com/news/426668/twitter-bots-create-surprising-new-social/

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Musician John Kirsch ’89 composed the theme music for television producer and longtime friend Michael Bibbo ‘89’s Emmy-Award winning show, NASA 360, which examines how technology used in space comes back to inspire innovation on Earth. The show airs on nearly 500 public broadcasting, cable, and commercial television stations around the country, and is downloaded millions of time each year from the NASA website.

At Bennington, Bibbo, Kirsch, and friends used to make their own home movies using a VHS camcorder Bibbo’s father had given him in high school.

6HOHFWLYH 0HPRU\ A real-time video performance by Madeline Best ‘08 and Brian Rogers ‘95 was “radical in that word’s primary sense,” raved New York Times dance critic Alastair Macaulay. “Its connection of image and movement places it in the forefront of today’s many investigations of how video can connect with live performance.”

5($&7,9(IDVKLRQ Here’s an idea: a roller skate powered by a motor.

Thinking bigger: Wearable computing projects.

One part runway, one part RAM Angela Sheehan ’07 and Rebecca Grabman ’08 brought their senior project, REACTIVEfashion, to the runway—creating a fashion show that explored the interaction between technology and fashion.

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One morning Jason Murphy ’09 and Ben Hall ’04 walked into the Russell Street Deli for a bite and came out with a restaurant. “We’d worked there on our breaks from Bennington, learned the operation inside and out, and so the owner asked us if we’d be interested in purchasing it.” Despite the Recession, the pair increased sales by 20% after they re-branded, transitioned to green business practices, and expanded the menu.

The Deli made news and has been included on CNNmoney.com, NPR, and The New York Times. http:// www.russellstreetdeli.com/

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As a PhD candidate in Dr. Jason Fridley ‘97’s ecology lab at Syracuse University, Catherine Ravenscroft ‘04(??) researches the role of genetic diversity in determining grassland resistance to climate change. Dr. Fridley, Ravenscroft’s advisor, was awarded a 2012 Blavatnik Award for Young Scientists in support of his related research on the impact of climate change and invasive species on terrestrial ecological communities.

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9LVWDV Owen Cartwright ’08 has a background in music composition and jazz. Josh Nagel ’07 is a producer. Together they are Vistas, an electronic audio collaboration. http:// www.reverbnation.com/ vistas

(Vistas) Owen Cartwright (left) and Josh Nagle (right) comprise the Camden-based duo Vistas.

%2%%< A year after forming as Tom Greenberg ‘10’s senior project in music, BOBBY, a band composed of Greenberg, Maia Friedman ‘??, Paolo Menuez ‘??, and Martin Zimmermann ‘??, was signed by Partisan Records and released their self-titled debut album. The album has been featured on NPR’s First Listen series, Daytrotter.com, and elsewhere.

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In building a vocal ensemble to perform his music, composer Trevor Wilson didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need to look far beyond his friends and fellow classmates from Bennington.

Past and current members include Michael Chinworth, Anastasia Clarke, Eliza McKelway, Alice Tolan-Mee, Ethan Woods, Jessica Green, and Will Stratton â&#x20AC;&#x2122;09, among others. The editors of Bandcamp hailed Wilsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most recent album, Soft Wings, as, Ȣ'LIË&#x2030;FXOW *HQLXV ČŁ DGGLQJ â&#x20AC;&#x153;Your grandchildren will call this pop music.â&#x20AC;?

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)UHVK 0(DW A group exhibition, “Fresh MEat: A New Generation of Maine Artists,” showcased the works of seven Bennington artists: Owen Cartwright ’08, Alex Curtis ’07, Jessica Funston ’08, Joshua Nagle ’07, Nathaniel Philbrick ’07, Margaret Rizzio ’09, and Austin P. Smith.

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