Lea Bertani Vozar Newman

Such an accomplished scholar! Glad she was able to live out her life in her own home. Condolences to Mary and all her extended family.

I first met Lea in an Emily Dickinson course I was teaching at the Green Mountain Academy for Lifelong Learning from a psychoanalytic perspective. She was gathering information for a book on the poet and eager to learn different points of view on the poet. Afterwards, she expressed her appreciation and asked if I might review some chapters of her upcoming book Emily Dickinson: Virgin and Recluse and Rebel. Then followed years of email exchanges, Zoom readings of my own poetry, and summer...

Lea was the heart and soul of our Italian conversation group. Witty, with fascinating stories - and tolerant of the Italian of those of us less fluent! A perfectly wonderful woman.

Lea became a special friend after I worked for her for a few years in the late 70s. She and Kathy Emmett and I went to lunch a few times, Later we meet again at senior exercise at Anytime Fitness, We talked on the phone now and them but lost contact the past few years, I was just thinking of her the other day, then saw the obituary just now. I am so sorry for your loss, she was a lovely fun person with a wonderful laugh. I only knew Bobby when he was in high school and maybe met one or two...

I met Lea in my Yoga class with Pauline as teacher. She was so much fun and so loved by every one of us. Georgene Burrington Villanueva

We will miss you Mom

Mrs Newman was such a wonderful lady. I first knew her as a child when her son Bobby & I attended a summer day camp together and she would often give me rides. She was also a favorite professor of my Dad´s when he attended NASC as a non traditional student. Later as an adult when my career brought me back to Bennington I joined AAUW and rekindled my fondness for Mrs. Newman (I always had a problem calling her Lea!). Such a great, meaningful life she led. Godspeed.