{"id":1187,"date":"2011-06-10T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1187"},"modified":"2011-06-10T09:48:02","modified_gmt":"2011-06-10T13:48:02","slug":"professor-jean-m-frenchs-retirement-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/?p=1187","title":{"rendered":"Professor Jean M. French&#8217;s Retirement Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1188\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean-chris-kareb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1188\" title=\"jean chris kareb\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean-chris-kareb-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1188\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Karen Johnson, Junior, Christopher Richards and Jean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Friday, May 20th, in a tent behind the Barringer House on Annandale Road, Jean was feted, toasted and celebrated by the Art History program and current colleagues, past colleagues, past and current students, and many family members.\u00a0 It was a memorable afternoon with many moving testimonials and amusing recollections.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1189\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1189\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean-lily-chris.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1189 \" title=\"jean lily chris\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean-lily-chris-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1189\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean and alum Christopher McCloskey and Lily Robbins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Art History program owes its existence to the efforts of Prof. French in the 1970s to secure art history as a major at Bard College.\u00a0 The very first art history major, Randy Farber Buckingham, spoke of her experience and life long love of Medieval art as a result of being Prof. French&#8217;s student.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Tom Wolf recollected the early days when the department consisted of two faculty members, himself and Prof. French. As you can see below, the program has grown and is thriving.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1191\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1191\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/ah-dept-good.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1191 \" title=\"ah dept good\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/ah-dept-good-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1191\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Art History Department faculty and staff 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jean concluded the event with a few words of thanks and encouragement.\u00a0  Later that evening, she was awarded the Bardian Award by President  Botstein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_1192\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1192\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1192 \" title=\"jean\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/files\/2011\/06\/jean-300x257.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"257\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1192\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean saying her farewells!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, May 20th, in a tent behind the Barringer House on Annandale Road, Jean was feted, toasted and celebrated by the Art History program and current colleagues, past colleagues, past and current students, and many family members.\u00a0 It was a memorable afternoon with many moving testimonials and amusing recollections. The Art History program owes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1187"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1644,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1187\/revisions\/1644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/arthistory\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}