Windsor Mountain School
A Beloved Berkshire Institution
Published on 21. October 2014
161 pages
978-1-62584-976-2 (ISBN)
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When their Jewish heritage and progressive philosophies made the Bondy family a target of the Nazi regime, they were forced to sell their school and start anew in America. Max and Gertrud Bondy first opened their innovative school in Windsor, Vermont, and moved the campus to Lenox, Massachusetts, in 1944. Windsor Mountain School was ahead of its time--the faculty honored diversity, and it became the first co-ed integrated boarding school in Berkshire County. Families like the Belafontes, Poitiers and Campanellas were attracted to the school for its multicultural and international curriculum. From its golden age to the rock-and-roll era, Windsor Mountain strived to stay true to its mission until hard financial times forced the school to close in 1975. Roselle Kline Chartock captures the spirit of this Berkshire boarding school that still lives on in the hearts of its alumni.
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Roselle Kline Chartock is professor emerita of education at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in North Adams, Massachusetts. She is co-editor of an anthology on the Nazi holocaust and author of two education texts. After forty-five years of teaching on all levels, Chartock is now an artist and writer and lives with her family in the Berkshire Hills.
Content
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. The Bondy Family of Educators: Six Life Stories
- 2. The 1920s and '30s: A Humanistic Philosophy Evolves Out of Trauma: The Bondys Flee from Nazis and Reestablish Their School in America
- 3. The 1940s: Windsor Mountain School in a Decade of Transitions, Geographical and Psychological
- 4. What Was Unique about the Education at Windsor Mountain School?: A Handbook for Humanistic Education, or Why Windsor Still Matters
- 5. The 1950s and Early '60s: Windsor as a Place of Refuge, Diversity and Utopian Possibilities
- 6. Windsor Attracts Prominent Families, from Monk and Belafonte to Shultz
- 7. 1965-74: Drugs, Sex and Rock-and-Roll: Windsor as a Reflection of the Times
- 8. 1975-2014: Windsor Mountain School Closes Along with Others
- Their Properties Take on New Lives
- Epilogue: The Bondy Legacy Continues
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Author
