Education: Hollins College, 1959 - 62
University of Michigan summer school, 1963
Spouse: Chris Stack, MD
Children: Chris Stack (Jr.) actor
Career: 1964 - 68 Assistant Editor, Viking Press Publishing
Company, New York, N.Y.
1978 - 98 Founding Publisher, Arts Indiana Magazine and Hopewell Review
Non Sibi: - Urban Design Oversight Committee, Urban
Design Indianapolis
Governing boards include:
- Indianapolis Museum of Art
- Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
- International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
- Indianapolis Opera
- Indiana Arts Commission
- Maple Road Development Association
Sibi: Being in my actor son's audience anytime, anywhere;
enjoying the literary, performing and visual arts; walking the streets
of great cities; sitting on a beach with a great book; sharing life
with my husband Chris and our son Chris.
Personal Essay and Reflections:
Geometry often kept me in the Abbot library on Saturdays while my friends
walked into Andover and I passed chemistry, according to my teacher
Mrs. McKinley, because I tried so hard. On the other hand I loved to
read and looked forward to Mrs. Warner's English classes. I also looked
forward to Saturday morning train rides to Boston where I shared dusty
sundaes, pizzas and movies with friends before returning to Andover
in the early evening. Remarks by William Sloan Coffin at the Andover
Chapel and by the editor of the Christian Science Monitor to our senior
class at Abbot Hall indicated to me that my mind, if not brilliant,
was at least an intellectually curious one. My senior roommate Nona
Porter was brilliant and great company, too, and my family and I adored
her. It was Nona who introduced me to, along with foreign films and
dramatic theatre, my first Tiki Tiki drink at Trader Vic's in the Plaza
Hotel in Manhattan. After Thanksgiving dinner at the Ritz in Boston,
it was Nona who helped my cousin and our classmate Joanie Fisher and
me convince my mother to take us to the French film And God Created
Woman with Bridget Bardot. We were delighted with my mother for taking
us to such a worldly film and the experience inspired me to learn more
about the culture and language of France, so temptingly different from
my own.
Alas, the structure and rules of Hollins College in 1959 were too similar
to those of Abbot. During spring vacation of my junior year, I bolted
and went skiing in Colorado where I stayed to work and ski for two seasons.
When the second spring came, I continued my education with a class in
English literature at the University of Michigan's summer school. The
course and professor built my self-confidence enough so that when my
grades wouldn't allow me to transfer from Hollins to the University,
I went to New York and secured a job at Viking Press. The four and a
half year experience at the publishing house and in Manhattan provided
me with access to great writers and editors and world culture. My interest
in literature and film expanded to include theatre, music, visual art,
and the city itself. Later when I moved to Chicago with my husband Chris
and then to Indianapolis with Chris and our son Chris, I was relieved
to find that everything I thought I would miss in New York was also
present, although in less abundance, west of the Hudson River.
This year, for the first time in 40 years, the Indiana Primary made
a difference in the Presidential Primary and young people flocked to
register. For the first time ever, candidates for President of the United
States included an African American man and a woman. Our country has
come a long way since we graduated from Abbot, yet the last seven years
of an arrogant and destructive administration make clear that there
are still many essential contributions to be made to our communities
and country by the class of 1959.
6 word memoire: Love my life's buffet; bloomed late.
On the Web
Retired publisher of Arts Indiana Magazine, Ann
M. Stack, was the speaker for the University's 1997 Commencement.
Stack is a long-time supporter of Historic New Harmony, the New
Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, and USI arts programs. During
the ceremonies she received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree
in recognition of her leadership in advancing the arts in Indiana.
(USI)
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