Joyce Gingold

It's been more than 4 years since Ms Gingold's passing, but i'm sure she's still flying around, cycling around, singing and questioning what everyone is feeling or dreaming...what a magical being she was...my teacher at SMS, not only an art teacher but a life whisperer with a joke or an intense stare that was both soft nd insightful. I often think of her and share stories about her...her hippie dresses and odd shakes of the head in an honest reaction to anything that was 'stupid' or...

What a WONDERFUL human!! Joyce’s ripple effect is astonishing — attentive (always), discerning, powerful, dignified, industrious, learned, decisive, curious. We are lucky to still have so many parts of her influence in and around us. Hurray! -Bill Ferguson, friend of David Gingold

I was one of the many girls whose paths were shaped by Joyce Gingold. Already long retired from formal teaching when I met her, she once substituted for my art class at St. Mary’s and, seeing a line in my drawing that she found promising, urged me to take lessons from her. Looking back, those afternoons felt like a kind of therapy. I remember Joyce’s jaunty Swedish linen dresses, her discerning aesthetic judgment, her persistent warnings that we should not trifle with boys (which Lester...

So glad to have known Joyce. She and my mother, Sue Sondheim Dickerson, were best of friends, talking every day. Joyce would start the conversation by saying “speak”. What a wonderful character she was.
Here is a poem for those who will miss her:

Fond Memory Poem

We can't know why
the lily has so brief
a time to bloom
in the warmth
of sunlight's kiss
upon its face,

Before it folds...

Joy
Sending heartfelt thoughts
To U
Ellen Crouthers

This is one of the most beautiful tributes I’ve ever read. She and Lester have such a wonderful story. I’m so sorry for your loss.

I will miss Ms Joyce tremendously. May she Rest In Peace.