Comments on: Here They Come!

By: Sarah ALBANO Wascura, BA '87, MA '90

Sarah ALBANO Wascura, BA '87, MA '90 — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 16:12:34 +0000

Even twenty+ years (and 75% of a PhD) later, I receive the course catalog in the mail each winter and ruminate about returning “just for fun and to study something ‘new.’” You just never know how much Bread Loaf will influence your life…I wouldn’t have had the base knowledge I did going into this PhD in contemporary American women playwrights without a summer of Michael Cadden and Carol MacVey. My English classrooms would never have been as dynamic without all of my Bread Loaf faculty. Who can resist the intellectual and intrinsic excitement of Isobel and Michael Armstrong, Dixie Goswami, Jimmy Britton, Nancy Martin, or Jim Moffett?!? Starting that MA as an undergraduate at Middlebury was

a gift for which I will be ever grateful and always be paying forward. I am a better scholar, teacher, and most importantly, person because of it.

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By: Margaret Smith-Braniff

Margaret Smith-Braniff — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 16:55:41 +0000

Congratulations to all of you summering with Bread Loaf staff and students.
My summers (1995, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005 at Green Mountain and Santa Fe programs–it took me a while to work my way through my program) were among the most mentally stimulating times I ever remember. Professors and students alike provided a sand-box of the mind; castles were built and pulled apart (that an intended mixed-metaphor, I might add).
No longer teaching in regular settings, I continue to be a learner — reading, writing, listening and enjoying a life that God has granted me.

Margaret Smith (the Braniff was added in 2005), from Buffalo, Wyoming

By: John G. Pomeroy

John G. Pomeroy — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 17:10:07 +0000

To me, Bread Loaf was an amazing place to be. I am a professional educator so to witness the learning and the excitement of that environment was inspirational. I was able to take that inspiration back to Iowa and apply it to my work for Drake University.

My experience at Bread Loaf was as a theatre staff member so I was not in the classroom. No matter, working with and around the students and faculty while producing theatre immersed me in this learning environment. All seven years I remember thinking that if the faculty and staff from Drake could observe how learning takes place at Bread Loaf, the learning at Drake would advance.

Ed and Victoria, it is

GREAT to see you in this video!

I miss Bread Loaf so very much. I wish everyone all the best!

John Pomeroy
Theatre Staff
1992-1998

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