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Penncrest! ...a name that has lived in me in its youthful vitality, for all these many years. Uncountable are the number of moments I’ve thought of: Peter Holtz - focused and intense in a kindly way; Glenn Poinsett - good humored and friendly; Susan Raulerson - belle of vivacity; Larry Holden - a fine guy; Bob Rapp - cynically clever and always entertaining; Dayle Stapleton – classically refined and beautiful; Ray Fox – rebel with a trumpet; Robin Engle - quietly intense, always a gentleman; Susan Mair – connected to a higher world; Barbara Deighton, Bob Ewing, Carl Brodhun, Robin Macaulay, Jerry Bell, Carol Ulrich, Bob Petty, and on and on I’ve carried the whole giant list with me since those glorious days. I’m not surprised that I recall so many of you so clearly. So I send this note to those few of you whose email addresses I have, but I think of all the rest, and I do remember you very well.

Why would I think of all of you, so fondly and often, for all these years? I’ve thought of few others from subsequent teaching experiences (or even remember very many), and there have been thousands who have since passed through my classes and programs over these fast disappearing years? You were - one and all – quite special in my life! Clearly there was magic afoot in those days of youth, days when openness and kindness prevailed in a world of comparative simplicity, one uncomplicated by the complexity that drives our lives in this contemporary society governed by the forces of financial organizations.

What actually happened was that I carried you all with me as memories of good times, in remembrance of innocent joy, and in the celebration of life that drives my simple but intense daily events. You have lived as a source of hope while I watched education change from a place where thinking was cherished, to a venue for the dissemination and collection of information. You were heroes then; shards of you live in me as vibrant, energetic images, harbingers of what can be.

And all the while, growing with you from a distance, I carried on the work you helped me start on my own life’s path. In large part, much of my life experience was affected by you all. You helped me learn that ease and sharing enthusiasm made the rough road easy walking. Here are some remnants of fifty years in search of joy and love, of family, of invention, giving, exploring, and so of much more.

* I left Penncrest to teach in a medium sized public University in Connecticut (with a brand new doctorate from U Penn… at 26, this degree knew much more than its owner did, and probably still does). There I discovered how much we know... and how much more we do not. In the mid 60’s I founded a master’s degree program dedicated to an idea I called Environmental Education, and another in Experiential Learning. Both have survived the No Child Left Conscious movement of Bush-the-younger fame (though I am no longer associated with them).

* Directing the teacher education programs at several universities took up the next 20-30 years and lead me to start a Master of Arts degree granting Institute dedicated to emerging fields of inquiry. The Graduate Institute is now ten years old, serving 250 -350 participants on an ongoing basis ( WWW.LEARN.EDU ). One of our special efforts is in developing leaders who are grounded in honesty and insight, in ethical philosophy and in doing good work morally. At a significant level this effort has been sustained. See,http://www.centerforleadershipstudies.com/meet-faculty-bud-stone

* Founding a group “The Learning Collaborative” in the early 90’s I lead an effort to create Intellectual Property for other institutions of higher ed. and to carry on a number of different educational services for medically fragile kids under federal grants (PEBBLES Project), and ...well you can see this and other activities at the site http://www.learningcollaborative.net. That’s all been going on for 25 years (and I’m starting feel a little overwhelmed by it).

* Along the way I stopped occasionally to write children’s books (Prentice Hall), college texts (Wadsworth) and partook in a number of other wordsmith adventures. My most recent book (just now completed, thankfully) is entitled The Inside Story; leading at the edge of persona. It proposes that leadership and leading are solely functions of who you are inside... it’s about the effects of one’s personal values and character as they interact with and influence the outside world.

* Early on, farming became an intriguing avocation. With my daughters as partner overseers I now breed Scottish Highlanders (cattle!) on a 500 acre farm in Benson Vermont (while I continue to reside on the water front of beautiful Long Island Sound in Connecticut where the institute lives. (Were it not for a great farm manager the cows would be mighty lonely).

* I’m currently following up on my interests from the early 1970’s which center on convective loop design of homes. We built 10 of them in the 70’s and we’re now starting the next iteration of the idea in Vermont. The design (originating from James Harley, a student of Penn’s Louis I Kahn) allows building homes that operates without fossil fuel.

* On the aesthetic side of life, I continue to be in love with sculpture and thus have accumulated far too many pieces of too large art. (my sculpture web site is down right now to update its content... however you may see many of the pieces at ( www.belabacsi.com/ ...entire top row and many others ; www.darrellpetit.com/ ... about a dozen of these behemoths; and, Shone sculpture from Zimbabwe collected in person, on site, long before the faux-art world minimized the value of this art by commercializing it). Some of the overall collection is now being given to museums while the rest is finding its way into my artist daughter’s collection. My second daughter prefers books and has done very well in that arena... www.tanyastone.com

Other than these few items, I’ve been mostly kicked back for the past 50 and looking for something interesting to do. Know of anything? I hope to see you all in April. But whoever is unable to attend will still be eminently present in my heart.




	Salutation from A. Harris (Bud) Stone, EdD, 11th grade Physics teacher

Penncrest! ...a name that has lived in me in its youthful vitality, for all these many years. Uncountable are the number of moments I’ve thought of: Peter Holtz - focused and intense in a kindly way; Glenn Poinsett - good humored and friendly; Susan Raulerson - belle of vivacity; Larry Holden - a fine guy; Bob Rapp - cynically clever and always entertaining; Dayle Stapleton – classically refined and beautiful; Ray Fox – rebel with a trumpet; Robin Engle - quietly intense, always a gentleman; Susan Mair – connected to a higher world; Barbara Deighton, Bob Ewing, Carl Brodhun, Robin Macaulay, Jerry Bell, Carol Ulrich, Bob Petty, and on and on I’ve carried the whole giant list with me since those glorious days. I’m not surprised that I recall so many of you so clearly. So I send this note to those few of you whose email addresses I have, but I think of all the rest, and I do remember you very well. Why would I think of all of you, so fondly and often, for all these years? I’ve thought of few others from subsequent teaching experiences (or even remember very many), and there have been thousands who have since passed through my classes and programs over these fast disappearing years? *You were - one and all – quite special in my life!* Clearly there was magic afoot in those days of youth, days when openness and kindness prevailed in a world of comparative simplicity, one uncomplicated by the complexity that drives our lives in this contemporary society governed by the forces of financial organizations. What actually happened was that I carried you all with me as memories of good times, in remembrance of innocent joy, and in the celebration of life that drives my simple but intense daily events. You have lived as a source of hope while I watched education change from a place where thinking was cherished, to a venue for the dissemination and collection of information. You were heroes then; shards of you live in me as vibrant, energetic images, harbingers of what can be. And all the while, growing with you from a distance, I carried on the work you helped me start on my own life’s path. In large part, much of my life experience was affected by you all. You helped me learn that ease and sharing enthusiasm made the rough road easy walking. Here are some remnants of fifty years in search of joy and love, of family, of invention, giving, exploring, and so of much more. * I left Penncrest to teach in a medium sized public University in Connecticut (with a brand new doctorate from U Penn… at 26, this degree knew much more than its owner did, and probably still does). There I discovered how much we know... and how much more we do not. In the mid 60’s I founded a master’s degree program dedicated to an idea I called Environmental Education, and another in Experiential Learning. Both have survived the No Child Left Conscious movement of Bush-the-younger fame (though I am no longer associated with them). * Directing the teacher education programs at several universities took up the next 20-30 years and lead me to start a Master of Arts degree granting Institute dedicated to emerging fields of inquiry. The Graduate Institute is now ten years old, serving 250 -350 participants on an ongoing basis ( WWW.LEARN.EDU ). One of our special efforts is in developing leaders who are grounded in honesty and insight, in ethical philosophy and in doing good work morally. At a significant level this effort has been sustained. See,http://www.centerforleadershipstudies.com/meet-faculty-bud-stone * Founding a group “The Learning Collaborative” in the early 90’s I lead an effort to create Intellectual Property for other institutions of higher ed. and to carry on a number of different educational services for medically fragile kids under federal grants (PEBBLES Project), and ...well you can see this and other activities at the site http://www.learningcollaborative.net. That’s all been going on for 25 years (and I’m starting feel a little overwhelmed by it). * Along the way I stopped occasionally to write children’s books (Prentice Hall), college texts (Wadsworth) and partook in a number of other wordsmith adventures. My most recent book (just now completed, thankfully) is entitled The Inside Story; leading at the edge of persona. It proposes that leadership and leading are solely functions of who you are inside... it’s about the effects of one’s personal values and character as they interact with and influence the outside world. * Early on, farming became an intriguing avocation. With my daughters as partner overseers I now breed Scottish Highlanders (cattle!) on a 500 acre farm in Benson Vermont (while I continue to reside on the water front of beautiful Long Island Sound in Connecticut where the institute lives. (Were it not for a great farm manager the cows would be mighty lonely). * I’m currently following up on my interests from the early 1970’s which center on convective loop design of homes. We built 10 of them in the 70’s and we’re now starting the next iteration of the idea in Vermont. The design (originating from James Harley, a student of Penn’s Louis I Kahn) allows building homes that operates without fossil fuel. * On the aesthetic side of life, I continue to be in love with sculpture and thus have accumulated far too many pieces of too large art. (my sculpture web site is down right now to update its content... however you may see many of the pieces at ( www.belabacsi.com/ ...entire top row and many others ; www.darrellpetit.com/ ... about a dozen of these behemoths; and, Shone sculpture from Zimbabwe collected in person, on site, long before the faux-art world minimized the value of this art by commercializing it). Some of the overall collection is now being given to museums while the rest is finding its way into my artist daughter’s collection. My second daughter prefers books and has done very well in that arena... www.tanyastone.com Other than these few items, I’ve been mostly kicked back for the past 50 and looking for something interesting to do. Know of anything? I hope to see you all in April. But whoever is unable to attend will still be eminently present in my heart.
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