Joan Gitlow (Past Faculty) solves some of the mystery....

In response to the questions posed in the "Year at a Glance" mailing about some of the CSW icons on campus , Joan Gitlow (Past Faculty 1980-2000) wrote:  "The stone "throne" (and I think the wavy bench) are the work of kids who took a D Block stone-carving class with sculptor/parent Bernadette D'Amore (Past Faculty and PArent of Alum) in the 1980's.

We took a truck out somewhere on Route 9 where Bernadette had spotted huge hunks of discarded stone.  She talked the construction crew on site into giving them to her for this class.  How we got these things onto and off the truck, I don't remember.

Then came the discovery that stone is HARD, although ideas were easy.  The kids worked long hours after school, kept going and going and going.  They loved the results: useful, beautiful AND mighty durable!

During this time Bernadette had a one-person show of her work in our then-gallery which is now the "Alice Room" in the art building.  She insisted that it be unlocked all day because she believed above all that her work should be seen and touched, even though there were small and seductive pieces.  So when I told her that a smooth and elegant marble "egg" was missing, she brushed it off, saying that someone had loved it a lot.

Hope this helps."  Joan Gitlow (of the "Joan Room")