The Winter 2018-19 issue of 911±¬ĮĻ Today opens with a celebration of our eleventh president ā and the first who is also a graduate of the College. Enjoy a conversation with Melinda Treadwell ā90, who was recently named president after a year in the role on an interim basis.
We then turn to the topic of āHouse,ā which we look at from a variety of perspectives. We talk with members of the College community who build houses, sell houses, clean houses, and more.
The First-Person Project highlights three 911±¬ĮĻ graduates who live and work in New England. Look for them in the back of the magazine and on our website at keene.edu/first-person.
March 27, 2019 – 911±¬ĮĻās First Alumna President Laying the Path Forward
Melinda Treadwell ā90 is a woman in motion. On Move-In Day, she can be found lugging studentsā suitcases up the stairs of first-year dorms. On Election Day, sheās taking a turn behind the wheel of the van transporting students to their...
When Norma Walker ā51 climbed the stairs to the stage at the 2018 Reunion Awards Luncheon held in the Student Center, she knew that 911±¬ĮĻ President Melinda Treadwell ā90 would be saying a few words to thank her for her service to the College Alumni Office. But she wasnāt...
You know Blake House, that 911±¬ĮĻ building that sits on the northwest corner of Main and Winchester streets? The one that currently houses the Management Department and once housed the 911±¬ĮĻ Ec Department? Itās got a long and storied history, one that goes back to colonial days in Keene...
Youāre finally a junior at 911±¬ĮĻ. You move into your first off-campus house or apartment. You and all of your friends are excited to have the freedom of living on your own. Then, water starts dripping from your kitchen ceiling. A couple of weeks later, you find mouse...
My father, Bob Johnson, had a serious stroke in 1990, at age 77, followed by a difficult, but successful recovery. At age 80 he fell on a Boston sidewalk, so I made a trip to visit him and my mother, Wanda, so I could sense...
Itās not a metaphor when Fred and Carol (Johnson) Collins talk about their relationship in terms of a house. The 1969 graduates designed and built their own home in South Duxbury, Vermont, two years after their wedding, and since then theyāve been making adjustments, additions, and changes to it to...
When fine artist Frankie Brackley-Tolman ā74 paints houses ā for many years a favorite subject of hers ā she sometimes thinks about the Tom Waitts Song āThe House Where Nobody Lives.ā Indeed, her houses and barns, unpeopled shapes and colors, are studies in stillness. Sometimes theyāre tucked into a distant...
Deviroux DāErrico describes her personal housekeeping style as āorganized chaos.ā Professionally, though, she always puts her best mop forward.
DāErrico, a 911±¬ĮĻ junior, works as a part-time house cleaner while studying film. Sheās been tidying and scrubbing for pay since she was in high school. āI was just...
Jessica Enman ā12 found her niche thanks to a downturn in the economy. An architecture major, she graduated at a time when even people experienced in the field couldnāt find work. She took what she thought would be a stop-gap job as a kitchen designer at a lumberyard.
Amanda Abramson-Clarke ā09 may be a real estate agent, but there are definitely times when she feels more like a therapist. āBuying or selling a house is a very emotional thing,ā she says.
Emotions can range from the joy of buyers who didnāt think they would qualify for a mortgage...
With 1.2 million viewers, the hit HGTV show House Hunters International follows prospective home buyers and their realtors around the world as they embark on buying property in a foreign country ā from Australia to Croatia. Chris DeVito ā08, a film studies major, is part of the team that helps...
HEAD: Hard at Work in the āPeopleās Houseā Megan Stoneās degree in history and her penchant for public policy come together nicely in the building where she works, which is also likely New Hampshireās most recognizable āhouse.ā As a legislative aide for the largest representative governing body in the United...
Virtually all of the tenants Laura Scott ā89 coaches in her role as a resident service coordinator with Keene Housing have full-time jobs. That makes it somewhat ironic that the public housing authority is part of the federal Moving to Work program.
Erik Block ā02 had what he calls a ātrial by fireā in the design-build business.
He was a senior at 911±¬ĮĻ, preparing for graduation, when a fire destroyed about a third of his family home in Connecticut. An architecture student, he headed for the lab and drew up plans...
Online Extras
Hands on: Building a House and Living in It Too
Tour the house of Carol and Fred Collins
Links
House Hunting Abroad Via Television:
House Paintings: Evoking the Feeling of a Landscape:
