Goddard College is a private, liberal arts college located in Plainfield, Vermont, offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Goddard College currently operates on an intensive low-residency model. Goddard is nationally and internationally recognized for its leadership in educational innovation, its deep commitment to the ideal of democracy and for its active efforts to live consciously as stewards of the earth. Students design their own curriculum; the college currently uses a student self-directed, mentored system. Residencies require the student's attendance every six months for approximately eight days, during which time the student engages in a variety of activities and lectures from early morning until late in the evening, and creates a detailed study plan outlining what learning they will engage in once back in their home communities. During the semester students study independently, sending in "packets" to their faculty mentor every three weeks. The content of the packets varies with each individual, but focuses on research, writing, and reflection related to their study plan.

Corey White (born October 1, 1985 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an American football fullback free agent who has played for Green Bay Packers of the National Football League. He was originally signed by the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He was released as a part of the Packers 2007 cutdown to 53 players. He played college football at UAB.

Linda Mary Montano (born January 18, 1942, Saugerties, New York) is a central figure in contemporary performance art. She was raised in a devoutly Roman Catholic household, partly Irish and partly Italian, that was surrounded by artistic activity. Both her parents played in an orchestra but Linda's fascination with Catholic ritual and desire to do humanitarian service led her to join the novitiate of the Maryknoll Sisters after one year studying at the College of New Rochelle. After two years with the order, however, Montano was suffering from severe anorexia, weighing only 80 pounds (36 kg), and she left the order to return to her former college, from which she graduated in 1965 as a sculptor.

During the rest of the 1960s, Linda continued to study and began performing, and by 1971 she was devoting herself exclusively to performance art. Around this time she married the photographer Mitchell Payne. During this period, Montano drifted away from the Catholic Church, but despite this loss of faith, Montano was consistently to acknowledge the influence of her strict Catholic upbringing on her work - for instance in how the discipline of convent life and her family's loyal work-ethic made her able to carry out extremely disciplined performances in her later career. Montano's first major performance, Chicken Woman (1972) was based on her MFA sculpture show at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. There she exhibited nine live chickens in three 8-foot (2.4 m) by 16-foot-long (4.9 m) minimalist chicken wire cages on the roof of the art building. It was titled "The Chicken Show" from 1969.