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unusual facts about Connecticut College


Nathan Cummings Foundation

His endowment created the Nathan Cummings Arts Center at Stanford University and the Joanne and Nathan Cummings Art Center at Connecticut College in New London.


Christopher Catherwood

He currently teaches students from Connecticut College, Tulane, Villanova, Wake Forest and other American universities in the Cambridge-based INSTEP program, teaching 20th century history and also church history.

Sasson Soffer

Among other activities, the Foundation has gifted Soffer’s sculptures to sites in various countries, among them China, Cuba, and Israel; and to various colleges, including Connecticut College and Queens College.


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Sherman Fairchild Foundation

Notable Grants: 10 Million Dartmouth College, 10 Million Caltech, 10 Million Columbia, 5 Million Connecticut College, 5 Million MIT, .48 Million Bryn Mawr College

Talitha MacKenzie

Following her time at Connecticut College, MacKenzie worked at the Manhattan record store World Tone Music, where she immersed herself in the "exotic modes and unusual rhythms" of folk dance from around the world.