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Maria Sucher ’18: “Picking just one memento was so difficult but this one most closely captured most of the opportunities I was offered at UMass.

Music provided by Pete Seeger, Malvina Reynolds and Guy Davis.' There were over 30,000 attendees to this festival over the course of one weekend. The speakers included Buckminster Fuller, Julian Bond, Murray Bookchin, Hazel Henderson, Barry Commoner, Ann Wigmore, Ralph Nader, Helen and Scott Nearing, and Helen Caldecott. I helped screen print the signs which were hung up around the campus, constructed chain link fencing around the festival area, and drove to the Hartford airport to pick up speakers coming to the festival. All volunteers had multiple responsibilities to organize and prepare for a festival of this size. I was the volunteer site coordinator for the 120 booths surrounding the campus pond. This event explored alternative energy systems, housing for the future and sustainability concerns. This photo is of the program cover for the “Toward Tomorrow” fair held June 24 –26, 1977, on the UMass campus. in Environmental Design and Urban Planning from the Class of 1975. Mindy Sue Cohen ’75: 'Hi fellow Umies, I graduated with my B.S. Officially calling myself sharing the pride In the corners of my mind are picture perfectĬherished memories of the radiant afternoons Of brilliant colors that adorn the ever-changing We still together rejoice when the glorious palette With his expertise in precisely custom frames. The four elements of color, shape, patter, and line Starting our early partnership of joys the sameįinishing touches of art works with basic design Linseed oil liquid gold used by the masters of old.īest of all, my first and forever collegiate crush Learning every size of my brand-new brushes Invented at the time when the ImpressionistsĬould paint “en plein air” (outside) to gain fame. I learned to stretch a white canvas with pliersįilled the tiers of a tackle box with tubes of color This oil painting of “Autumn in Amherst” is the first subject of my beginning studio classes. In Fine Arts and Elementary Education, I became Having two majors, my future careers to form Judy Fredman Feola ’61: “ Autumn in Amherst Painting However, I sat on the field for both graduations! 1970 had graduates entering the football field to a drum roll and protests of the Vietnam War. 1971 graduation was a more traditional ceremony in music and program as students marched into the stadium. Those confusing, chaotic 1960s-1970s were in some ways different, yet, in some ways, very similar to the present.' Bruce took four years and graduated in 1970. I finished my requirements in spring 1970 but student taught in fall 1970 at Quabbin Regional, completing with extra credits and my diploma says February 1971. We married in 1973. This photo is of our “Mugbook” (annual directory of freshmen photos)-the UMass paper precursor to Facebook.Īs to the date of my graduation, that’s a story in itself. I taught high school English a couple years at the then brand new Triton Regional High School in Byfield MA.

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I attended UMass both summers and winters, completing graduation requirements in three years. We lived in the then beautiful new Southwest Residential area and our dorm windows faced each other. We both finished UMass requirements in 1970 and, with the Vietnam War in full swing and a Draft Number of five, Bruce enlisted in the Navy, serving all over the country but ending his four-year tour of duty stationed on Old Ironsides. Bruce Cooper and I met at a “ mixer” at the Student Union in Spring 1968. Kendra (Gordon) Cooper ’70: 'My husband W.

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