INGRID STADLER

She sat on albert einsteins lap

I received a memory from Legacy.com and couldn’t let the opportunity pass without honoring once again the wonderful Ingrid Stadler. In 2011 as a landscape architecture student at Boston Architectural College I attended a class called “Civilization and Ideas” taught by Professor Stadler and Amy Van Lauwe. I quickly learned what an absolute privilege it was to be in Ingrid’s class. Her brilliant mind and beautiful heart were as expansive as her intellect, eloquence, academic achievements, humor...

Ingrid Stadler was the most inspiring teacher I have ever known. It was an absolute privilege to have had the opportunity to be her student, and her wisdom and intellect will inspire me for the remainder of my life. Kind thanks and blessings to you, Professor.

It is a true testament of a good teacher when after decades, you still remember inspiring and intriguing things they taught you in your youth. I will never forget her stories about teaching Sylvia Plath, and also her love for existentialism and great poetry. Condolences to her husband. Rest peacefully, Mrs. Stadler.

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Ingrid was a wonderful teacher. I enjoyed the seminar I took with her so much. She pushed us to think and explore and synthesize new ideas. She was the epitome of a Wellesley professor. My condolences to Steven and to all who knew her.

I was also lucky enough to take a class with Professor Stadler at Wellesley. She had this way of making you feel like you were so much smarter and creative than you could ever imagine yourself aspiring to be. I'm sure I took on challenges I never would have done without the Professor's impact. I see this elegant radiating professor walking across the quad to Founders...

Ingrid was the first professor I felt connected to at Wellesley. She helped transform me from a shy first-year into an emboldened philosophy major senior used to being taken seriously. I loved our long afternoon talks in her office in Founders, riding in that beautiful car, eating cheese and crackers in her Cambridge apartment, and the way she always replied immediately to any correspondence, even a mass-produced family holiday card. Ingrid, you were one of a kind.
Rest in peace, fierce...

I just today heard of Ingrid's death, and even though the news brings sadness, I'm smiling at the memories of this super-smart, honest, funny, quirky, sophisticated, generous marvel of a human being who adored Steven, art, Siamese cats, harpsichords, music, poetry, students, design, food, and a million things I don't know about. I met Ingrid in the 70's at Wellesley; she heard about an interdisciplinary course I was trying to create, and she agreed to teach it. That began a lifelong...

I am one of the lucky ones - to have known and studied with Professor Stadler at Wellesley College in the early 1980s. She was wonderful and inspiring and elegant. When Professor "taught" philosophy, it was thrilling. After Wellesley, I too, studied at Oxford and her words and teachings were never eclipsed - only enhanced - by my studies at Oxford. RIP Professor. You will be missed by so many, but never forgotten.