Joan Shore

We just arrived back in Vermont (5/21) after spending 2 months in Indiana where my father passed away - to learn Joan had also passed. I so enjoyed my time with Joan in the Brattleboro Senior Orchestra, in fiddling with Jill Newton...and the many visits with her at her home. She was such a special person with wonderful warmth- gracious hospitality- and a sense of real joy and passion in the things she participated in. And she so loved her family. Our deepest sympathy to you...Roberta and...

I had the privilege of getting to know Joan in her final years. We shared great music and conversations together. Sometimes we would just sit together and hold hands. I loved her dearly and miss her every day. Peace and love to her family and friends!

Note to Becky: you certainly played violin in the group. Did you alternate with Joan or Hanna? Feel free to write me at [email protected]
Fred

When I was a paraprofessional at Canal Street School in the kindergarten room downstairs (1977), Joan taught second grade upstairs. She was most kind to me, a novice teacher looking to start my career. I learned a lot from her about teaching and about life.

Joan was my teacher for my 5th and 6th grade years, 1954-56. This was at the Little School, for children of Putney School faculty, located in a 2-story converted chicken house at the Lower Farm. She taught the 5th-8th grades, about 10 students in all. I think she might have been pregnant with her first child for some of that time. It was a wonderful way to spend my preadolescence. I have many fond memories of Joan and the school she helped create for us little faculty brats.

I remember fondly the evenings of music my family shared with the Shore family with Joan and Hanna on violin, Kathe on viola, Geo on cello and I must have been on clarinet for the Mozart clarinet quintet. Ed was there along with the rest of my family as audience, but if I remember correctly, Ed was a flautist. And I remember being at their house celebrating with great jubilee the night Nixon resigned!