“They really and truly had the interests of the children at heart”: Ault interview by Zars.
Several of Ros’s and Dorothy’s former pupils spoke: “In Memory of Rosamond Underwood Carpenter.”
Ferry had arranged the service, and presided with his usual aplomb. He lived to the age of ninety-four, working on the ranch until the end. He died in his bed on December 12, 1980. His three children were there, and his son Ed swore that his last words were “Do you want to hear a story?”
drove up from Strawberry Park with their new dance teacher, thirty-year-old Agnes de Mille: Lucile Bogue interviewed Portia and Charlotte about the square dance, which Bogue describes as taking place at a country schoolhouse on a mountain behind Hayden. The school, undoubtedly, was Elkhead. I evoke the scene as Charlotte described it to Bogue, Dancers, 82–83. Charlotte later recalled that when she and Portia saw Rodeo performed in New York, “we thought we caught overtones of this joyous outburst.” Ingrid Matson Wekerle, “Charlotte Perry, in Loving Memory, December 21, 1889–October 28, 1983,” 8.
among them Merce Cunningham and John Cage: Silverman, 64.
Bogue writes that “Cage inserted nails and paper in the piano strings,” shocking even Portia and Charlotte with his innovations. That year Cunningham, still relatively unknown, headed the dance department. Portia said, “ ‘The girls liked him, although his defiance against the normal basic rhythms of dance shook them up a good deal. He was a severe teacher.’ ” Bogue, Dancers, 105–6.
In the late 1920s, over three summers, Ferry Carpenter had taken his young nephew Richard Pleasant: By all accounts, Pleasant was a shy, awkward teenager. Carpenter had no use for him on the ranch, but encouraged him to spend time at the camp and helped him get into Princeton. Pleasant and Lucia Chase started American Ballet Theatre in 1940. Ibid.,126–27.
Ferry’s son Willis told me that even though Ferry showed little interest in Pleasant around the ranch, Richard worshipped Ferry and left everything in his will to him. “Dad went to NYC,” Willis wrote in an e-mail on July 6, 2010. “Cleaned out Richard’s apartment in one weekend, selling everything (including valuable art pieces) to a junk dealer for a pittance, and came home with only a huge load of Navajo blankets (the only items of ‘value’ in Dad’s estimation). Dad took great pride in his efficiency as an executor!”
The graduates of 1920 described: They also wrote, in their foreword: “Manahna is an Indian word meaning ‘The Years.’ We have chosen it as the name for our book, because this is, not merely the history of our senior year, but the story of our school; of our hardships and our pleasures, our organizations and our classes—in fact, the history of our life during the four pleasant years that we have spent at Elk Head.”
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