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Patricia Baldwin Whipple Arts Center: Celebrating 25 Years thanks, we appreciate and honor the commitment to the arts on the part of her daughter, Patricia Baldwin Whipple, and we recall the many years of outstanding performances and exhibits of Berwick’s students who have benefited so much from the gift of this facility and from the school’s arts programs. While Berwick Academy is neither a conservatory nor a fine arts school, the Patricia Baldwin Whipple Arts Center has stood for 25 years now as a visible monument and tribute to the place that the arts hold in the Academy’s mission of educating the whole person. Likewise, the arts programs play a key role in supporting the school’s core values: balance, stretching through engagement, a community of excellence, and commitment to integrity. When the Patricia Baldwin Whipple Arts Center was dedicated September 14, 1985, Vincent Durnan, Headmaster, remarked, “This beautiful building will mean so much to students for many years to come, and it certainly provides a marvelous home for the arts at Berwick Academy. In our quest for excellence in education, we have long subscribed to a balanced program providing intellectual rigor, physical growth, and an appreciation for the arts.” Mrs. Winifred Barrett Baldwin, donor of the facility as a memorial to her daughter, Patricia Baldwin Whipple, was present at the dedication, and Dr. Durnan said to her, “The applause, Mrs. Baldwin, will echo throughout these walls for years to come.” As we refl ect on the 25 years of the presence of this center on the Berwick campus and what it has meant to the Academy, we remember Mrs. Winifred Barrett Baldwin’s generous gift with In speaking of his Aunt Pat or “A.P.” at the dedication ceremony, D. Stuart Dunnan focused on the quality of “A Loving Objectivity” in Patricia Baldwin Whipple’s work as an artist and an observer. He said, “In A.P.’s paintings we can see the historian’s understanding and the artist’s skill combined by this unifying perspective of loving objectivity.” He remarked that it is in her watercolors, where she sought “to create not from her own ego but rather to represent what she loved,” that this perspective is best illustrated. Mr. Dunnan expressed the wish that “the perspective of loving objectivity which this woman developed in her life …take root in this place.” He remarked, May all who learn and practice here always passionately but objectively love the world, seeking always to understand something of the truth which is refl ected within it. For in this quest for humble understanding, the gifts of the artist, the historian … and the saints are all united, just as they were united in my aunt. My aunt excelled in this quest, and it is entirely fi tting that she should be remembered here, where the same quest will be begun again a thousandfold in the years to come. (D. Stuart Dunnan. “Patricia Baldwin Whipple—A Loving Objectivity.” September 14, 1985). Indeed this quest for understanding may be seen time and again in the work of the young artists that have begun their journeys at Berwick Academy. Deloris White, Director of Fine Arts, Lower School Art Teacher, and Art Department Chair at Berwick, had this to say about the impact of Whipple Art Center: 14
The gift of this facility 25 years ago by Winifred Baldwin made the visual and performing arts highly visible at Berwick and supported our belief in the importance of education in the fi ne arts as an integral part of a Berwick education. During these past 25 years, the programs have fl ourished as our students in the visual and performing arts have learned to problem solve, take risks, make judgments in the absence of a rule, and express themselves in their visual art, music, dance and acting in traditional and non-traditional genres. The building has provided the environment and safe place for exploration; our fi ne arts faculty continue to provide the encouragement and guidance for each student’s personal growth and individual expression. Four of Berwick’s alumni have shared their refl ections on how the arts at Berwick impacted them personally over the years. The experiences of Rob Brady ’98, Sophie Green ’06, Dana Fennessey ’06, and Nicole Sylvester ’99 demonstrate so clearly that the qualities Mr. Dunnan saw refl ected in his aunt, Patricia Baldwin Chip Harding plays along with his students Whipple, did indeed take root in the lives of Berwick students, thanks to this wonderful facility, the fi ne faculty working within its walls and the programs they have created, and the Berwick community. Rob Brady ’98 “Music at BA was a part of the education I welcomed and eagerly awaited during my days in school. BA music teacher Chip Harding is one of the most disarmingly polite people I have ever met, even to this day, and working with him on music definitely allowed me not only to write pieces that I still perform for friends, but also to look at him as a mentor and friend. I had a tendency to have a multitude of ideas when I played guitar back then. Chip encouraged me to complete my pieces in a very free way musically, not something most music teachers know how to teach. When it came time for performances, instead of getting stage fright, I looked forward to it. I knew that the pieces I had spent so much time on were not ones I had learned in a book. Chip helped me cultivate my own music, which was something I wanted to communicate to the audience. The confidence he instilled in me to perform “Berwick is where I discovered a great personal strength to think creatively, which has helped me grow professionally.” - Rob Brady 15
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