Gail Hadley Rodney

Profile Updated: April 18, 2023
Gail Hadley
Gail Hadley

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Gail Hadley

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Gail Hadley

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Yes! Attending Reunion
Spouse/Partner, children, grands and steps: Bradford Rodney, spouse; William Rodney, son
More about Spouse/Partner or Special Friends: Married in 1975 and still going! Who would have guessed?
We are fortunate. We spend a lot of time More…with extended family each summer on property on Chappaquiddick.
Your personal or professional website: Gailrodneyart.com
Career History: Practicing artist since the 1980s
Military, Peace Corps, Alternative Service, Protestor: How was it for you: Vista  
City and State: New York, NY USA
Education History since Swarthmore:

After two years at Swarthmore, I spent a year and a half as a Vista volunteer in West Virginia with the Appalachian Volunteers. Having made fast friends with other volunteers, I followed them to New York to finish college at Columbia General Studies. Still uncertain about what wanted to do, I began work with AFS International Scholarships rather than pursue graduate studies, getting the chance to travel and make more life-long friends. At 30 I attended art school and found my passion. Certificate in Painting, National Academy of Art.

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Becoming a parent at 40 was the most challenging and rewarding choice I (and my husband) made. We have a wonderful son.
Second to that has been the opportunity to develope as an artist—a lifelong journey. I maintain a studio and paint five days a week.
Since my husband retired in 2014, we travel and like to stay in a place for a while, renting an apartment. Venice has become a favorite spot, and I enjoy painting there. Also life changing: observing primates (chimps and gorillas) in their natural habitat in Uganda, observing a pride of lions in Tanzania for over an hour, having time to draw them, watching penquins cross my path, back and forth, in Antarctica, as they gathered pebble for their nests.

Military? Alternative Service? Peace Corps? Protestor? Canada? If none of the above apply to you how did you relate to the war? Personally, through friends, family. Leave blank if you don't want to answer the question.

I left Swartmore after my sophmore year for the proverbial leave of absence to work in W VA.
I thought I was giving the new Sociology/Anthropology Department a chance to develop while I pursued social justice work. I discovered that year that I was not a happy community organizer, although I worked at it. But I also discovered friends and fun! (That did not happen at Swartmore--too serious a place for a serious kid.) I did not find my place in the world until I went to art school at 30.

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Posted on: Jan 01, 2023 at 5:48 PM

Happy Birthday Hal! It all seems so long ago that we travelled to Tennessee for that orientation! But it turned out to be a formative experience for me that lasted 15 months.

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Posted on: Aug 18, 2021 at 3:26 PM

Happy Birthday! A voice from the past. It was Niceto see your name appear in email.

Jul 04, 2021 at 9:23 PM

A voice from your past, Norma. I remember you from my two years a Swarthmore and enjoyed reading about your career sin teaching. I raised a child in New York. What school was it?
Happy Birthday! Gail Hadley Rodney

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I also love walking, Harriet. So nice to get a reminder from this class site if you. Happy Birthday! Is this the “big” 75 as mine will be this year?

Aug 12, 2020 at 11:03 PM

Who would have thought that 50 years later I would be wishing you a happy birthday! But I do. Today, I realize that the time I spend at Swarthmore, although only two years, was far more formative than I gave it credit at the time. I remember you, Nanine, and hope the years have been kind to you. They have for me.

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