Music and dance training at Western Women's College, Oxford, Ohio, 1937-41; meeting with Norman Lloyd and Martha Hill, Hood College, 1940; Bennington Summer School of the Arts, 1940-42: intense creative atmosphere, Louis Horst's music-for-dance course and his influence on her teaching, leisure time, composing for Nona Schurman; teaching: Cornell 1941-2, Bennington 1943-8; contrast between summer an d winter schools at Bennington; summer school at Connecticut College; Bennington network of contacts; recollections of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Martha Hill, Louis Horst.