West Milford Bradley J. Bender, a former president of the West Milford Board of Education and currently a Rutland, Vt., primary art teacher, was one of four art teachers in the state of Vermont selected to create murals for the Vermont Department of Education offices in Montpelier. Bender was a member of the West Milford Township High School class of 1973 and took his bachelor’s degree from William Paterson University in 1977. He has done his graduate work at St. Michael’s College and Castleton College in Vermont. He is pictured here with the students with whom he created the four-panel “Seasons-of-the-Year” mural.