Willard Maas (June 24, 1906 – January 2, 1971) was an American experimental filmmaker and poet.
21-558: The Wagner Seahawks are composed of 23 teams representing Wagner College in intercollegiate athletics. Sports sponsored for both men and women are basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, tennis, track & field (both indoor and outdoor, which the NCAA classifies as two separate sports for each sex), and water polo. Sports sponsored only for men are baseball and football. Women-only sports are fencing, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, and triathlon, and field hockey. The Seahawks compete in
42-558: A Craftsman Style cottage; and Main Hall (1930, restored 2012) and Parker Hall (1923), built in the Collegiate Gothic style. Main Hall provides classroom and office space and a theater auditorium. Parker Hall, first built as a dormitory, is used for faculty offices. Two cottages built in the early 1920s provide administrative space for the college's Public Safety and Lifelong Learning offices. Three dormitory facilities were constructed during
63-468: A kind of "exercise". According to their associate Andy Warhol , "Willard and Marie were the last of the great bohemians. They wrote and filmed and drank—their friends called them 'scholarly drunks'—and were involved with all the modern poets." In the 1960s, Maas was a faculty member at Wagner College and an organizer of the New York City Writer's Conference at the college, where Edward Albee
84-856: The Cincinnati Bengals ' defense, while Patrick Graham was formerly defensive coordinator for the Miami Dolphins . The football team's home venue is Hameline Field (designated in 2012) at Wagner College Stadium , while the basketball teams play their home games in the Spiro Sports Center 's Sutter Gymnasium. Six of Wagner's student athletes have been NEC Student-Athlete of the Year winners (2013–2018). Wagner's campus has been featured in several films, television-show episodes, and advertisements. Shoot dates (where shown) are from Wagner College location contracts on file on campus: Willard Maas Maas
105-669: The NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) and are members of the Northeast Conference for all sports except water polo, in which the women compete in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference and the men compete in the Collegiate Water Polo Association , and triathlon, in which all currently competing NCAA institutions are officially classified as independents. A member of
126-568: The Northeast Conference , Wagner sponsors teams in 11 men's and 14 women's NCAA-sanctioned sports. This article about a sports team in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wagner College Wagner College is a private liberal arts college in Staten Island , New York City. It was founded in 1883 and has an enrollment of 1,947 students as of 2023. Wagner has an academic program known as The Wagner Plan for
147-799: The 2014 regular season, those 223 victories ranked fifth among active head Football Championship Subdivision head coaches and remains in the top 10 among all Division I -FCS coaches in the United States. Notable Wagner sports coaches of the past include former Seton Hall University, NBA head coach and current TV analyst P.J. Carlesimo (head basketball coach 1976–1982), former Marquette University and Wagner head coach Mike Deane , Jim Lee Howell (head football coach 1947–1953), and former University of Florida head football coach Dan Mullen (assistant football coach 1994–1995). In 2019, two NFL coaches who had previously been Wagner assistant coaches were elevated to defensive coordinator positions. Lou Anarumo now heads
168-640: The 2023 edition of Best Colleges by U.S. News & World Report is Regional Universities North, tied for #69. Wagner College offers athletic scholarships and competes at the NCAA Division I level in all intercollegiate athletics. Football competes at the NCAA Division I FCS – formerly I-AA – level. Wagner is a member of the Northeast Conference . Men's varsity intercollegiate teams are fielded in 10 sports: baseball, basketball, cross country, football, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and track & field (indoor and outdoor) and men's water polo, which
189-450: The Cunard mansion ( c. 1851 ), is extant (now Cunard Hall), as is the neighboring former hotel annex that was built in 1905 (initially named North Hall, now called Reynolds House). The college soon expanded to 57 acres (23 ha) after it acquired the neighboring Jacob Vanderbilt estate in 1922. In the 1920s, the curriculum began to move toward an American-style liberal arts curriculum that
210-710: The Practical Liberal Arts. It is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education . Wagner College was founded in 1883 in Rochester, New York , as the Lutheran Proseminary of Rochester . Its purpose was to prepare young men for admission to Lutheran seminaries and to ensure that they were sufficiently fluent in both English and German to minister to the large German immigrant community of that day. The school's six-year curriculum (covering
231-578: The Wagner Union in 1970. Two building projects have expanded earlier structures. In 1999, a significant expansion of the 1951 Sutter Gymnasium created the modern Spiro Sports Center. And in 2002, a pair of Prairie Style cottages constructed around 1905 were refurbished and joined by a bridge building into Pape Admissions House. Three substantial resources on the physical history of the Wagner College campus have been published: Wagner College's ranking in
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#1733093183346252-587: The college's major building drive: Guild Hall (1951), Parker Towers (1964) and Harbor View Hall (1969), later complemented by Foundation Hall (2010), a residence hall for upperclassmen. About two-thirds of undergraduates live on campus. Another dormitory building, Campus Hall (1957), now provides classroom and office space. The Horrmann Library (1961) contains over 200,000 volumes and holds the collection and personal papers of poet Edwin Markham . The Megerle Science Building and Spiro Hall were opened in 1968, followed by
273-753: The conclusion of the NYC Writers Conference, has provided encouragement for several notable playwrights, including: Terrence McNally for This Side of the Door (1962), an early version of "And Things that Go Bump in the Night"; Adrienne Kennedy for Funnyhouse of a Negro (1963); Lonne Elder III for an early version of Ceremonies in Dark Old Men (1965), and Jonathan Larson in 1993 for an early version of Rent . Prominent early buildings include Cunard Hall (ca. 1851); Reynolds House (1905); Kairos House (1918),
294-472: The conference, it served as a training ground for poets of the New York School. Maas himself was a significant figure in the New York avant-garde world of the 1950s and 1960s; Edward Albee used Maas and his wife, experimental filmmaker Marie Menken , as the models for his lead characters in the early masterwork, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? The Stanley Drama Award, which began as a prize given at
315-549: The director of athletics and 34 years as head football coach at Wagner (1981–2014), won the school's only National Championship with a 19–3 victory over the University of Dayton in the 1987 NCAA Division III Championship game (also known as the 1987 Stagg Bowl ). He was named NCAA Division III Coach of the Year in 1987. During his 34-year coaching career, Hameline amassed an all-time record of 223–139–2 (.615) at Wagner College. Upon his retirement as head football coach following
336-504: The high-school and junior-college years) was modeled on the German gymnasium curriculum. In 1886, the school was renamed Wagner Memorial Lutheran College , after a building in Rochester was purchased for its use by John G. Wagner in memory of his son. The college moved to the 38-acre (15 ha) former Cunard estate on Grymes Hill, Staten Island , in 1918. An Italianate villa called Westwood,
357-678: The hill and has commanding views of the New York Harbor , the Verrazzano Bridge , Downtown Brooklyn , and Lower Manhattan . From 1956 through the late 1960s, Wagner College was the home of the New York City Writers Conference, which brought some of the leading lights of the literary world to campus each summer. Instructors included Saul Bellow , Robert Lowell , Edward Albee , Kay Boyle and Kenneth Koch . From 1961 to 1963, while English professor Willard Maas directed
378-527: Was a writer in residence . The filmmaker Kenneth Anger indicates that Maas and Menken may have been a significant part of the inspiration for the characters of George and Martha in Albee's 1962 play Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . Maas died in Brooklyn Heights on January 2, 1971, four days after Menken had died of an alcohol-related illness. He was cremated. The Maas/Menken materials and letters are at
399-730: Was born in Lindsay, California and graduated from State Teachers College at San Jose . He came to New York in the 1930s and continued his education at Long Island College and Columbia University . He was the husband of filmmaker Marie Menken . The couple, married in 1937, achieved some renown in New York City's modern art world from the 1940s through the 1960s, both for their experimental films and for their salons, which brought together artists, writers, filmmakers and intellectuals. Maas had extramarital homosexual relations, but Menken apparently did not resent them; their shouting matches were instead
420-414: Was established in fall 2016. Women's varsity intercollegiate teams are fielded in 14 sports: basketball, cross country, golf, lacrosse, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis, track & field (indoor and outdoor), and water polo, in addition to three newly added sports in fencing (2016), triathlon (2018) and field hockey, which was reinstated in 2018. Walt Hameline , in 38 years (1982–present) as
441-507: Was solidified when the state of New York granted the college degree-granting status in 1928. The college admitted women in 1933 and introduced graduate programs in 1951. The college expanded further when it purchased the W.G. Ward estate in 1949 (current site of Wagner College Stadium ), and again in 1993, when the college acquired the adjacent property of the former Augustinian Academy , which has largely remained wooded green space and athletic fields. The college now occupies 105 acres (42 ha) on
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