Thursday, August 22, 2019

Orientation leaders

It's Orientation week - new students and faculty are in the house! The New School is welcoming them with more than the usual info sessions: it's our centennial, of course. So there's special signage...
I found these somewhat underwhelming posters of our male "founders" in the lobbies of 66 W12th., 55 W13th and 2W13th; the ones destined for the UC and 6E16 - a Dewey surely! - were nowhere to be found.
Good thing I included a woman's image instead in remarks I made to Lang's 550 (!) incoming students (most of them women). Let Dorothy Payne Whitney, one of our foundresses, be their image of the school!