by Provost Peggy Agouris | January 25, 2021
Provost Peggy Agouris sent the following message to the campys community on Jan. 14, 2021. - Ed.
Dear Colleagues,
I write to share the news that Scott Donaldson, Louise G.T. Cooley Professor of English, Emeritus, died of lung cancer on December 1, 2020 at his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Prof. Donaldson was a renowned literary biographer and, with his wife Vivian, a very generous financial supporter of William & Mary’s English department, endowing the English department’s Donaldson Writer in Residence fund.
Scott Donaldson was born in Minneapolis on November 11, 1928, the third and last child of Frank Arthur and Ruth Chase Donaldson, and maintained residence in that city until his late-30s. He attended Blake School, class of 1946, and Yale University 50. He earned his M.A. in English from the University of Minnesota in 1953, and served in the Army Security Agency during
WTJU Jan 21st, 2021 | By Ralph Graves
What better way to celebrate a new year than with a look back? In this case, the Classics a Day team decided to go back 100 years. For January 2021 the challenge is to post works that were completed in or recordings released in 1921.
It turns out there was quite a lot going on that year. Here are my #ClassicsaDay posts for the third week of #Classical1921
Sophie Braslau – La Girometta (1921)
This American contralto debuted at the Met in 1913 at age 21. Her greatest fame came from her recordings. Sergei Rachmaninoff and Jasha Heifitz performed at her funeral in 1935.
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Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer based in Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College, she completed her MFA in writing and literature at Bennington College, Vermont. She is a recipient of the VAI/DCC Critical Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. When it was first published, Follow Me to Ground won the Kate OâBrien Award and was longliste Sue Rainsford is a fiction and arts writer based in Dublin. A graduate of Trinity College, she completed her MFA in writing and literature at Bennington College, Vermont. She is a recipient of the VAI/DCC Critical Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, and a MacDowell Colony Fellowship. When it was first published, Follow Me to Ground won the Kate OâBrien Award and was longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Award and the Republic of Consciousness Award.
What was your original impetus for writing “American Goshawk”?
I was at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, N.H. For many years a female North American goshawk nested on the property, near one of the studios. Goshawks aren’t the largest birds in the sky by any means, but they are among the fiercest, and that summer it attacked a number of the artists in residence whose studios were on that lane, bloodying some. Dinner conversation each night often turned on who had seen it, and/or been attacked by it.
After a few days of this, all I could think of was that