Mary Gregory

Mary “Molly” Gregory, born in 1914 and hailed from Framingham, MA. Gregory majored in sculpture while attending Bennington College and graduated as one of the first class in 1936. At Cambridge School in Weston, Massachusetts, she taught sculpture and drawing, while building on an interest of woodworking. It was here she learned of BMC and became intrigued by its methods and beginnings. She started off teaching a plastics course at BMC in 1941. After learning from Josef Albers, she was eventually appointed Instructor of Woodworking. This was after a year of being misnamed “Instructor of Craft.” Following the drafts for WWII, she took the role in the woodworking shop that had been previously held by Robert Bliss. She taught the students to build furniture the school needed from bookshelves and tables for the studies building, to benches for the Quiet House.