Anne Hall ’60 Rippowam Cisqua School Distinguished Alumni 2015

On October 13, the Rippowam Cisqua School Alumni Association awarded Dr. Anne Hall ’60 with the Distinguished Alumni Award for her excellence in education. The award was presented by Roger Vincent '59. Anne attended Wellesley College, received her Master of Arts in Teaching at Harvard University, and earned her Ph.D. at Stanford University. Currently, Anne is a lecturer in the English department at the University of Pennsylvania, but spent close to 25 years in the English department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

After receiving the award, Anne spoke at the Rippowam Cisqua Upper Campus morning assembly and shared several humorous stories about her time growing up in Bedford and attending Rippowam Cisqua School. From bike rides down Broad Brook Road, to her hilarious antics in sixth grade, she not only had the students laughing and applauding, but she topped off her talk by singing a rendition of Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World,” which she and her classmates were fond of singing in the bus line.

Anne rejoined us on October 14 in the school library to share the importance of rereading classic English Renaissance texts later in life, to gain even more insight into their meaning and increase their relevance. Her fellow alums, current parents, and faculty joined Anne as she again painted a vivid picture of her youth in Bedford and shared her abundant knowledge and expertise in the field of English literature. She made the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales relevant for three different age groups and convinced many of us that we could all benefit from taking another glance at the texts we read when we were younger.

It’s no wonder New York Times op-ed writer Frank Bruni profiled Anne Hall, in February 2015, when he wrote:

"She demonstrated the rewards of close attention. And the way she did this — her eyes wild with fervor, her body aquiver with delight — was an encouragement of passion and a validation of the pleasure to be wrung from art. It informed all my reading from then on. It colored the way I listened to people and even watched TV. It transformed me." Click HERE to read the full article. To read more about Anne Hall, please click HERE.

Rippowam Cisqua School salutes Dr. Anne Hall and congratulates her on the Distinguished Alumni Award.

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