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Thomas H. Connolly is the new Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Winthrop House, succeeding Thomas D. Parker, who along with his wife this summer accepted a higher position at Bennington College. Gail T. Parker, former assistant professor of History and Literature, is the new president of Bennington. Her husband is vice president in charge of Administration...
When asked if she expects to make a lifetime career of the Bennington presidency. Gail Parker said. "The ordinary tenure of a college president is only five to ten years. I might subside into teaching after that. I don't envision doing this for the rest of my life." She added, "I expect premature senility...
...Gail Parker has taught several seminars and small courses in addition to lecturing in Harvard's large introductory American literature course, English 700. She says that she prefers the closer, more personal contact with students that a small course provides. "Lecturing is almost obscenely easy--much easier than real teaching," she commented...
When a photographer from the Boston Herald-Traveler wanted to take pictures of the family, the reporter asked. "Do you want to put shoes on your little girl?" Gail replied, "Why don't you take the picture without the feet...
Julia gets her wit from her mother. When Gail asked her to improve her appearance for the reporters by pulling back her dirty hair, she restored. "But then you could see my dirty face...