Date: Thu,
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: more Swarthmore Class of '69 news
Dear fellow class members:
I thought I would start out this email with news about Joan Goldhammer Hart.
In November, Joan was re-elected
to her third four-year term as a member of the supervisory board of the Monroe
County Community
School Corporation (MCCSC). She obtained roughly 55 percent of the
vote. Here is a link to her
campaign web site:
http://www.geocities.com/joanhart2000/
Joan remains very active in Parents of Children with Attention Deficit Disorder
(CHADD) at
both the county and national level. She is the coordinator of CHADD for
also created a web site on legal rights of children with ADHD in the public
schools. You can see it
at:
http://www.geocities.com/chaddmonroecounty/
I also do a little local advocacy for parents with children with disabilities
in the local school system.
Attending case conferences with these parents at a wide variety of schools has
been an eye
opener.
Our son Zach is 14 and a freshmen in Bloomington High School South. He is
an avid
computerphile, bicyclist, and new puppy owner. I am attaching a picture
of the new puppy.
I would like to hear from all of you about children, pets, and whatever other
aspects of your life
you want to share with the list.
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We recently visited Frank Weissbarth and his wife Randy in
boy, Billy. Their other two children are Adam (21) and Danny (14).
Adam is a mathematician and about
to enter graduate school at
state of
politicians connected with a questionable real estate deal.
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Here is some email I received in the last few weeks:
Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 11:32:05 -0300
From: goldin@ns.sympatico.ca (Valerie Goldin)
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Subject: Re: class of '69 mailing list
Hi Jeff,
I was originally with the class of '68, and was more a part of that
group than of '69, but being on the informal mailing list is OK. Now and then
the
emails you send mention someone I knew and I enjoy hearing a little about how
lives
have been lived over the years.
Here is some news re: my life -
I have been living in
retired from the practice of rural family medicine, with a specialty in
palliative
care. It was an early retirement due to illness. Now that I've adjusted to it I
rather enjoy retirement and have been learning to play the Celtic harp, a
lovely and
healing instrument. I've also become interested in environmental illness and
environmental medicine and would enjoy hearing from anyone who shares this
interest.
Thanks for all your work re: emails.
bye -
Valerie
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From: Mehatt@aol.com
Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 21:48:43 EDT
Subject: Re: more Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Glad to see this is happening -- perhaps you could ask folks to check out my
latest book of poems, Cape Cod Light -- Regards --
Michael Hattersley, '69.
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 14:33:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ken Roberts <kenarobs@yahoo.com>
Subject: more on Swarthmore athletics
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Dear Jeff and classmates, regarding the change in the sports program and allied
matters:
I wrestled and played soccer for three years in high school and four at
Swarthmore. I was an okay athlete on decent-to-good teams. I remember when the
varsity soccer team beat Navy at
That’s the way Gomer coached wrestling: big opportunity to be yourself in a way
that carries you beyond mind, pushes you up against your self-defined
limitations the way an opponent smears your sweaty face into the mat if you let
him. Gives you a chance to break through, and whether you do or don’t, you know
a little better the person who’s in there / out there. Funny thing, one of my
strongest memories of Swarthmore is this: after home wrestling meets, we would
gather in Gomer’s office with the other team and eat ice cream sandwiches
together. After leaving it all on the mat, you got to feel deep respect for and
comradeship with your recent adversary, a fellow student, fellow human being.
Seemed very Friend-ly to me at the time. Thanks for that, Gomer.
So, yes, I’m sad to see wrestling go. Football, too, for that matter, since my
younger son might have wanted to attend Swats if he could have played football.
No way, now. I know times change, I understand the college’s need to serve the
most people best with limited resources. I wish winning didn’t matter so much
to anyone but the people playing. I wish schools’ reputations didn’t ride so
much on sports teams’ "accomplishments". I wish professional athletes
didn’t have incomes that dwarf those of astronauts and child care providers and
entire villages in
Speaking of phenomenal athletes: does anyone else remember the time that Warren
Phinney was chasing a frisbee downhill on Parrish lawn, bounding along in
full flight looking over his shoulder, and turned around just in time to see
the lamp post that he then crashed into? As I recall it, he got up and walked
away like nothing had happened. Many things about
Swarthmore had a place for the athlete in everyone, and I hope it continues to.
Ken Roberts
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Several of our classmates (including me) had fond memories of Gomer Davies. I
have also fond memories of Ed Faulkner, the
tennis coach, who really taught me a lot in a seemingly effortless
manner. I used to talk about this to David
Laitin, who was an excellent varsity player, and he pretty much said the same
thing.
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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 00:14:18 -0700 (PDT)
From: Kristin Wilson <kristin_m_wilson@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: more Swarthmore news
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Hi Jeff,
Not sure how I ended up on your list, but it's cool
connecting in what is now my normal medium. I have
attended the last two 5 year reunions and enjoyed
reestablishing acquaintance with many.
Short news: I survived the internet downturn, yet got
my requisite 6 months experience at an internet
consulting company after leaving Oracle in December
1999. Was recruited out of the internet domain before
the crash by a small new media company where I am now
Director of Engineering (Software). My son Marnin
will be here for a short visit taking a break from his
several years in
his Ph.D. in Art History from
Nicolas (Nick) does HPLC research for a biotech
testing lab and plans on heading to grad school in
2002.
As far as football, I did enjoy attending games in
high school and at Swarthmore. But I thought at the
time and continue to think that somehow football and
frats were incompatible with the Quaker traditions,
such as they may be.
Love to see classmates in the Bay Area or those
passing through.
Kristin Wilson
510-420-0224, home
415-706-2786, cell
415-808-9174, work
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From: "Rika Alper" <ralper@viconet.com>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: more Swarthmore news
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 20:42:08 -0400
Dear Jeff,
okay, I think it's about time for me to get with the program and write. I am in
Rika Alper
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Date:
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore items
You can see some pictures of Margaret
Helfand presenting her ideas for a new
at Swarthmore at:
http://sciencecenter.swarthmore.edu/PrelimDesigns.html
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There is a nice bio of Michael Fields at:
http://www.npr.org/inside/bios/mfields.html
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Deborah Frazer is a specialist in the psychology of aging. She has published
articles and books on psychotherapy for older adults: see the Amazon entry at:
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Meredith Shedd-Driskel works on rare books at the Library of Congress.
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Avery Rome is editor of the Inquirer Magazine (part of the Philadelphia Inquirer
system).
There is something about her at:
http://home.phillynews.com/pni/press_releases/97/jul97/kids_mag.html
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Date:
To: hartj@indiana.edu (Jeff Hart)
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore news
Justice Randy J. Holland
The Honorable Randy J. Holland
became Justice of the Supreme Court of Delaware on
Prior to joining the Supreme Court,
Justice Holland was a partner with Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell in
Justice Holland is President of the
American Inns of Court Foundation, a Trustee of the American Judicature
Society, a member of the American Law Institute, and chair of the Advisory
Committee to the
His current term ends
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see a picture of Randy in full regalia at:
http://courts.state.de.us/supreme/justices.htm
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Date:
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
From: "Karen R. Sollins" <sollins@lcs.mit.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore items
Hi Jeff,
I am really inspired by reading about all the interesting activities and interests of our classmates.
I am a principal research scientist at MIT. My field of research is computer networks. I recently spent 2 years as a Senior Program Director at the National Science Foundation, running the research programs in network research, giving out grants to fellow academic researchers in my field. I have come away from that with a more intimate knowledge of the workings of big government than I ever imagined I would want to know; but it was certainly educational. I'm happy to be back in my academic ivory tower and working with students.
The legacy from my grandfather was
a foundation based in
My son, Peter, graduated from Swarthmore 3 years ago with a double major in Math and Astrophysics. He then spent a year teaching high school physics at Friends Central in Phillie, before embarking on a PhD at Harvard in Astronomy. He is working on large star formation (that's about all that I understand of it) with a radio astronomer there. It's wonderful to have both of us back in the same city.
Karen (Rosin) Sollins '69
Karen R. Sollins, Ph. D.
Principal Research Scientist
M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science
V: 617/253-6006
F: 617/253-2673
E: sollins@lcs.mit.edu
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Elizabeth Crawford is a translator of books and other literature from German into English. I do not have an email
address for her, but you can see a list of her translations by doing a search using her name on Amazon.com.
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Barbara Skavinsky Fisher was Manager of Corporate Communications for Rayonier Corporation until recently when
moved their operations from
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Alan Hollister is a Clinical
Pharmacologist at Bayer Pharmaceuticals in
working on FDA approval of a respiratory drug called Moxifloxacin. There is more about this at:
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/99/slides/3558s1i/tsld095.htm
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Nancy Horn is married to a
pianist named Rex Cadwallader. They live in
I was not able to find out anything about
http://www.stanzausa.com/Concerts.html
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David Jacqmin works for the
NASA Glenn Laboratory near
fluid dynamics in their space research division. Here is a web site for him:
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/IFMD/People/jacqmin.html
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Peggy Hollyday is Professor and Chair of Biology at Bryn Mawr. Her web site is:
http://www.brynmawr.edu/Acads/Biology/hollyday.html
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Date
From Subhashini Ali <subhashini_ali@yahoo.com>
Subject Re Swarthmore news
To Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Dear Jeff - it really is great getting news of our
class. I am going to send you my cv when I get home!!
Anyway, I am now working both in the Communist Party
of
part of the world - and also as National Secretary of
the All India Democratic Womens Assn (website for all
who are interesting <<www.aidwa.org>> Right now I am
in
centre for powerloom workers and also beedi-making
(the Indian cigarette - rolled in a leaf). Women
worked in very large numbers in both sectors - but
World Bank prescriptions have hit them very very hard.
The powerloom sector has almost packed up due to
Govt. policies of increased electricity rates (MNC
power projects), fluctuating yarn prices and uncertain
markets; and beedis by a lot of things connected with
globalisation. We are holding the State Conference
(State of Maharashtra) of our orgn there and will have
a big rally that I am addressing tomorrow night. And
then I go to a tribal village in the neighbouring
state of Karnataka where tribal women have been forced
by poverty and hunger to sell their baby girls.
Love, Subhashini
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Rachel Kitzinger is Professor of Classics at Vassar. Her web site is
http://vassun.vassar.edu/~classics/facultypages/kitzinger.html
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Nicholas Kazan and his spouse Robin Swicord are screenwriters, living in
Santa Monica. Nick wrote "Reversal of Fortune" and "At Close Range."
He also wrote "Matilda" and "Fallen."
He wrote and directed "Dream Lover."
Robin wrote the screenplay for "Little Women."
There is an interview with Nick at
http://www.wga.org/craft/interviews/kazan.html
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Ann Judd is Business Manager for The Economic Growth Center at Yale.
Her web info is at
http://www.econ.yale.edu/~egcenter/fslist2.htm
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Tralance Addy is now President and CEO of WaterHealth International in Napa,
California after 25 years at Johnson and Johnson. His new web info is at
http://www.waterhealth.com/tralance_addy.htm
I don't have his new email address yet.
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Fred Peiffer works for Agere Corporation. This is a spinoff comprised of the
former microelectronics division of Lucent Technologies. Fred's new
email address is
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Randy Larrimore is President and CEO of United Stationers Inc.
There is a bio and a picture at
http://www.unitedstationers.com/profile/message.html
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To <hartj@indiana.edu> Subject Re more Swarthmore news
Dear Jeff,
As a card carrying parent of 7 boys (David and Matthew), I have come into my elder years with a realization that parenthood does not cease when the kids--so to speak--leave for college. In the meantime (present and long, I suppose) I have retrained in 2 new fields, joined the faculty at the John (in '96), and presently am conducting clinical research into psychosexual development of children with genital anomalies (some are among the commonest human birth defects), with sex-reassignment from male to female at birth due to grossly inadequate phalluses (i.e., into the etiology of gender identity), and into interventions for developmental deficits or psychiatric impairment of all such children.
This leaves me little time for political and social activism--although my work seems to put me into the middle of both, in regards to identity, gender roles, gender identity, and Kleinian political philosophy (how did he get into this?).
Medical politics have been particularly affected. And I've been thrown out of better places than those!
Sigh. A life of being misunderstood. (Or non-understandable).
Best wishes. (Followed by some of my myriad of address-titles-and-the-like.)
Bill
William G. Reiner MD
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Department of Urology
Division of Pediatric Urology
Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions - CMSC 343
600 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore MD 21287-3325
410-614-4236
410-955-8691 Fax
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Marilyn Allman Maye and her husband, Warren Maye, live in the Bronx. Warren is
an officer in the Salvation Army. The two recently published a book on rites of
passage for African American youth. You can read about it at
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Joanne Luoto is a medical officer at the Center for Population Research, NICHD, in Potomac,
Maryland. She works on sexually transmitted diseases.
Her email address is
luotoj@exchange.nih.gov
The website of the National Institute for Child Health and Development (NICHD) is
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Helen Lom works for WIPO in Geneva. She works on gender, science,
and technology issues.
http://www.unifem.undp.org/s&tech27.htm
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Margaret Helfand has a spiffy new website at
She writes as follows:
From Margaret Helfand <mhelfand@hmga.com>
To Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject RE Margaret Helfand
Date Fri, 27 Apr 2001 182805 -0400
Jeff-
So here is my new email! Please sign
me up for the "newsletter". Thanks.
best,
Margaret
Margaret Helfand
HELFAND MYERBERG GUGGENHEIMER architects
428 Broadway New York City 10013
t. 212.925.2900
f. 212.925.9257
e. mhelfand@hmga.com
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Thanks to Betsy Weisberger Seifter for sending me Nancy Horn's email address
From BetsywS@aol.com
Date Fri, 27 Apr 2001 190733 EDT
Subject re nancy horn
To hartj@indiana.edu
Dear Jeff, I just saw Nancy Horn and spoke of your great job communicating
with all of us.
She asked to be on the mailing list. Her email
Thanks for letting me see into all these lives, after all these years.
Betsy Weisberger Seifter
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Date Mon, 30 Apr 2001
From "Helen Lom" <helen.lom@wipo.int>
To <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject Re Swarthmore Class of 1969
Dear Jeff,
Yes, I would be interested [in being on the mailing list].
Thanks, best regards, and looking forward to hearing about/from our classmates.
Helen
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Date Mon, 30 Apr 2001
From "Julie Johnson" <johnsonj@newtrier.k12.il.us>
To <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject Swarthmore email list
Hello, Jeff--
Lance (Rips) passed along the message you sent to him for me. Thanks, and yes,
I would like to be part of a moderated email list for the class of '69. Particularly now,
as we get older, it strikes me as important for more of us to stay in touch.
This is coming to you under my work email address. I also have a home address
Thanks for handling this.
Please say hello to Joan--and look us up if you come to Evanston/Chicago at some point.
All best,
Julie Johnson
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From MCMaye@aol.com (Marilyn Allman Maye)
Date Sun, 29 Apr 2001 161340 EDT
Subject greetings 2
Hello Jeff,
My husband forwarded your email to me. It's always nice to hear from a
Swarthmorean. Sure, put me on the mailing list. My email address is
Hope you and your family are doing well.
Sincerely,
Marilyn
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Date Sun, 29 Apr 2001 105514 -0500
To Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
From jhilgers <jhilgers@onr.com> (Joan Glass Hilgers)
Jeff, thanks again for all the work on this. Nothing much to report. Life
is still fun, particularly poking fun at the transplanted Texan from
Connecticut, our president, Shrub. I am just glad to get him out of here.
He did enough damage because of the total demise of the democratic party
here. Hopefully, Washington won't be as much of a pushover.
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Mark Vonnegut is a pediatrician working with Milton Pediatric Associates, an arm
of the MassGeneral Hospital for Children. There is a short bio at
http://www.mgh.harvard.edu/children/dept/primary/milt_doc.html
I do not have an email address for Mark. Mark continues to do a lot of work on
ADHD issues. His book on depression, The Eden Express, is widely used in
universities for teaching purposes.
there is a good review of the book at:
http://www.duke.edu/~crh4/vonnegut/eden.html
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Rob McKay is Professor of Humanities at Norwich University in Vermont. The
website for Norwich is:
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Glenda Rauscher teaches English at the Xavier College Preparatory School in
Phoenix, Arizona.
Her web page there is
http://english.xcp.org/rauscher/index.html
I do not have an email address for her.
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Kristina Nygaard is an Assistant General Counsel for Hydroelectric Licensing with the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. I do not have an email
address for her. The website for FERC is
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Penelope Bellamy is an associate with Wiggin & Dana attorneys in New Haven.
She works on utility matters. There is a picture and a blurb about her at
http://www.wiggin.com/attorneys/bio.asp?id=b755336941
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Chad Stone has moved from the White House to the Senate Budget
Committee to become their Chief Economist for Revenues for the
minority staff. I don't have
his email yet, but the relevant web site is
http://www.senate.gov/~budget/democratic/contact.html
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Juan Quintero is Environmental Specialist at the World Bank. His
email address is
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Until recently, Michael Quick was curator for American art at the Los Angeles
County Museum. Now he is an advisor to the Timken Museum of Art in
San Diego. I don't have his email address.
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Richard Laquer is a partner in Capenter & Laquer attorneys in Oklahoma
City. They specialize in criminal law. I do not have an email address
for Richard.
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Ginny Moore sent me a URL for Nancy Hope Wilson. Nancy is a writer of
children's books. Her latest is called Mountain Pose. There is a picture
of her on the web page at
http://www.author-illustr-source.com/nancyhopewilson.htm
My son Zach read Nancy's book A Nose for Trouble about six years ago and
enjoyed it greatly.
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Adrienne Asch teaches and does research on reproductive rights issues at
Wellesley College. Her web info is at
http://www.wellesley.edu/ReproIssues/homepage.html
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Anna Maria Anderson Borg is married to Parker W. Borg, who until recently
was U.S. Ambassador to Malaysia. Anna and Parker were stationed previously
in Mali and Iceland. Anyone knowing their current whereabouts, please let me know.
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My old email address for Glen Castore and Barbara Zaveruha Castore is not
working. I would be glad to get their new email addresses if anyone has them.
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I did a little web searching for Fania Davis. Apparently she is a civil liberties
lawyer based in Oakland, California. She was working on a Ph.D. but I was not
able to find out whether she completed it. There is a ton of stuff on the web back
from the days when Fania's sister Angela was much in the news. Anyone with
current information about Fania, please send it along.
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My email address for Carol Reid Gill is also no longer working. Help! Also,
if anyone has email for Dorothy Twining Globus, please send it along.
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Julie West Johnson is on the staff at the New Trier High School in Winnetka,
Illinois.
Date Mon, 30 Apr 2001 095336 -0500
From "Julie Johnson" <johnsonj@newtrier.k12.il.us>
To <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject Swarthmore email list
Hello, Jeff--
Lance (Rips) [Julie's spouse] passed along the message you sent to him for me. Thanks, and yes, I would like to be part of a moderated email list for the class of '69. Particularly now, as we get older, it strikes me as important for more of us to stay in touch.
This is coming to you under my work email address. I also have a home address juliewj@attglobal.net.
Thanks for handling this.
Please say hello to Joan--and look us up if you come to Evanston/Chicago at some point.
All best, Julie Johnson
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Alan Brooks is Regional Director of the Quoddy Regional Land Trust. He lives in
Lubec, Maine. There is some info about the Land Trust at
http://www.mltn.org/trusts/QRLT.HTM
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Lauren Brown is Director of Land Conservation for the New Haven Land Trust. She also teaches botany as
a visiting faculty member at Wesleyan. She continues to publish in that field also. I do not have an email
address for her.
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Betsy Kanwit is an obstetrician/gynecologist with a private practice in Berkeley, California. She is
somehow associated with Alta Bates Hospital. Again, I do not have an email address for her.
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John McKendry wrote some articles in the early days of Crawdaddy. Maybe Paul Williams
can tell us what happened to him. He is listed as living in Hingham, Mass.
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Donna Allen is now named Arisika Razak. She is a nurse midwife and performance
artist associated with the California Institute of Integral Studies. Web site info at
http://www.ciis.edu/faculty/razak.html
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Linsdsay Richards is an obstetrician/gynecologist associated with the Western Montana
Clinic in Missoula, Montana. I don't have her email address.
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Felix Rogers is a doctor of osteopathy at Downriver Cardiology Associates in Michigan.
His email address is
I just added him to the list.
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Deborah Prince Smith is an illustrator. She has worked with Don Stokes on a book
on wild shrubs and plants
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0871066386/qid=989269583/107-6670812-4741337
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Sue Tripp Snider is an M.D. at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.
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Don Stokes has published a number of nature-oriented publications including the
one illustrated by Deborah Prince Smith mentioned above. You can just do a search
on his name at Amazon.com to get a list.
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Roger Wood is an attorney with the firm of Dilworth Paxson LLP in Philadelphia
where he specializes in corporate law. He seems to be working on ecommerce issues
these days also. His web info is at
http://www.dilworthlaw.com/frameset_attorney.html
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Peter Max Zimmerman is People's Counsel in the Baltimore County Office of
Planning. His web info is at
http://www.co.ba.md.us/p.cfm/agencies/planning/peoples.cfm
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Sandy Zimmerman is a physician living in Brunswick, Maine. I do not have an
email address for him.
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I did a rough count of classmate
professions
and came up with the following figures:
34 professors or teachers
17 for-profit businesspersons
11 government or intergovernmental organization people
10 lawyers
9 doctors (M.D.)
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81 total
The total number of people on the list is 279. Most of them
are not identified by occupation. I have not counted up the people
working for nonprofits but there are quite a few in this category
also. The numbers above include some double counting of
people in more than one category (e.g. professor-lawyers or
professor-doctors).
Here are some news items from classmates:
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Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 19:31:31 -0400
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: Ron Thomas <rthomas@cba.neu.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore '69 Notes
Jeff:
Thanks again for the email about classmates of '69; please keep me in the loop,
including the full email listings. What a richly diverse set of paths we've
followed!
I'm still teaching international management and e-commerce at Northeastern
University's College of Business Administration (since 1988). My students and I
talk a lot about the pros and cons of globalization and the emerging globally
networked society. Just learned I'm the recipient of the University's
Excellence in Teaching Award for 2000-2001.
If anyone passes through the Boston/Cambridge area [where socially conscious
student activism may be resurgent] and wants to say hi, let me know.
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Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 22:34:32 -0400
From: David Wright <dwrightmusic@earthlink.net>
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Jeff,
In addition to your just-posted information on Adrienne Asch, we should
mention that, in recognition of her scholarship and her prominent public
role in debates on bioethics, Swarthmore will award her an honorary
degree at this year's Commencement, June 4. She's now hard at work on
her address to the Class of 2001. It will probably be available on the
College's website:
http://www.swarthmore.edu
All best,
David Wright
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From: PeterRush@aol.com
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 22:37:40 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Hi, Jeff, Peter Rush.
I was laid off from my previous job in early January, which has proven to be
the good news, as I found a very much better job working for SRA, a
medium-sized company mainly doing government contracting in the Washington,
D.C. area. I am working on a massive database project for the Department of
Defense, creating a unified personnel and pay system for the entire armed
forces.
Also, I would love feedback from any of you who might have experience or
knowledge about Sylvan Learning. Both my to-be fifth grader and to-be fourth
grader need some serious supplementary work in several areas, and I've heard
both good and bad things about Sylvan, which has a center near us. We can't
decide whether they will really make the difference they promise.
Peter Rush
PeterRush@earthlink.net
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From: "Adrienne Asch" <aasch@wellesley.edu>
To: <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 11:33:56 -0400
Thank you, Jeff, for all this work. I am sorry to have posted nothing myself,
but perhaps sometime I will have something worth saying. Please do give me
emails for everyone.
There is a little Swarthmore '69 group here at Wellesley College: George
Caplan and I are on the faculty, and David Wright's wife is the
Wellesley music librarian. Thanks to your list, I found that out, called them
after they arrived here on campus, and have stayed in touch with all of them. I
have really enjoyed it. So, I owe you and your list a very nice addition to my
life.
Hello to Joan,
Adrienne
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From: "Foster, Carolyn" <carolyn.foster@spcorp.com>
To: "'Jeffrey Hart'" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:00:37 -0400
Hi, Jeff- It's great of you to take the time to do this. I was
particularly pleased to get Adrienne Asch's info, since our daughter,
Meri,
has decided to go to Wellesley next year. (It seems we dragged her to too
many S'more reunions, and she wanted her own college experience, not ours!)
I'm hoping she'll have the opportunity to study with Adrienne.
My info is correct, but you could add that I'm Sr.Principal
Scientist at the Schering-Plough Research Institute.
Carolyn Foster
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From: "Krall, Ronald L" <ronald.krall@astrazeneca.com>
To: "'Jeffrey Hart'" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:02:02 -0400
Jeff,
A small but important correction to my email address, resulting from
completion of the systems integration following the merger of Astra and
Zeneca into AstraZeneca:
I'm participating in what I think will be a fascinating symposium on the
pharmaceutical industry this weekend at West Chester University
(http://www.wcuppd.org/agenda.html).
Anybody in the area with an interest
in blend of ethical, scientific, business and regulatory issues in the
discovery, development and provision of drugs and biologics to the health
care system should join us!
Ron
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From: Robert Snow <RSnow@uua.org>
To: "'hartj@indiana.edu'" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: FW: FW: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 13:53:57 -0400
Hi, Jeff --
Looks like you may have started something! I forwarded your most recent
email along to my friend Astrid Devaney in the Alumni Office. Clearly she
was impressed.
Thanks for all of your work,
Bob Snow
*****************
-----Original Message-----
From: Astrid Devaney [mailto:adevane1@swarthmore.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 9:44 AM
To: Robert Snow
Subject: Re: FW: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Bob, This is a wonderful way to share information about classmates. I'll
send a copy to Jeff Lott (magazine) in case there's anyone of interest to
him and I'll use it as an example of what other classes can do to stay
connected. Thanks!
I had fun checking everyone out.
-Astrid
At 05:15 PM 5/8/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi, Astrid,
>
>Thought this latest project from Jeff Hart might be of interest.
>
>Bob Snow
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 17:47:50 -0500
To: hartj@ucs.indiana.edu
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore news
Dear classmates,
I would like to see some real conversations on the list about
important issues. Yesterday, Joan and I met Shirley Chisholm,
former candidate for the Presidency, at a meeting sponsored by our
local community college. A lot of the conversation at the meeting was
about the lack of discipline in today's children, poor child-rearing
practices, and unsafe schools. We were struck by how much of
a caricature of real K-12 life dominated this discussion. But a possible
topic for discussion among our class could be what is wrong and
what is right with K-12 and post-secondary education in the US and
what should be done to correct what is wrong.
Another topic that might interest the group is what the computers
and the Internet have done to alter daily life for ourselves, our
families and coworkers, our children -- or even not-so-daily
life as in political organizing or in scholarly communication -- of
all of us. Again the discussion could focus on good and evil and
especially how to combat the evil.
I am impressed by the incredible range of interests and talents
represented by the lot of us. It seems like we should be able to mobilize
these talents in some synergetic, non-atomistic way.
Here is some recent correspondence:
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Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 18:11:08 -0400
From: Donald Fujihira <donf@3rdAlternative.net>
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
CC: Paul Peelle <peelle@MassEd.net>
Subject: Paul Peelle
Hi Jeff,
I was just talking with Paul Peelle and got his email address for the
list: peelle@MassEd.net
One of the things, we were discussing was how great it will be with your
email address list to plan and coordinate our next reunion.
Obviously, everyone appreciates the time and effort you've put to
maintaining our electronic class notes. Last summer, I printed all the
messages you'd sent--already quite a stack--and took them to a meeting
to show the Alumni Office staff and the Alumni Association officers what
could be done with electronic communications. Needless to say, everyone
was quite impressed.
Thanks again for all you're doing,
Don
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From: Margaret Helfand <mhelfand@hmga.com>
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore news
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 16:16:57 -0400
Hi Jeff-
Thanks for all your efforts on behalf of '69. It's great to catch up on
everyone. Just to update your information, in addition to the Kohlberg Hall
project, my firm is design architect for the new Unified Science Center, a $50m
project to expand and interconnect Dupont, Cornell Library and Martin.
Construction will start this summer. Even though I am not an official
Swarthmore graduate, I feel I've more than done my time- having been working
with the College since 1993! You can see the Science Center project on the
college website,
http://www.sciencecenter.swarthmore.edu/
For those who have not seen Kohlberg, there are photos on our firm's
website www.hmga.com (PLEASE NOTE CORRECT URL). Also, please
note my correct email address is mhelfand@hmga.com.
For those who remember the Blue Route debates of the 60's, you should know that
the "native" stone walls of Kohlberg are made from local stone (to
match Parrish) blasted out for the construction of the road thirty years ago.
It was stockpiled at a local quarry waiting for a buyer. We showed up in l995
and bought the ENTIRE pile. Just enough for Kohlberg! The Science Center will
use Wissahickon schist, another local stone used for Trotter and Martin. Can
you believe architects get excited about these details?
I would love to hear anyone's comments on Kohlberg. Especially constructive
criticism (we learn to love this kind at Swarthmore, yes?)
Margaret Helfand
HELFAND MYERBERG GUGGENHEIMER architects
428 Broadway New York City 10013
t. 212.925.2900
f. 212.925.9257
e. mhelfand@hmga.com
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From: asrnh@juno.com (Alan Hollister)
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 23:13:00 -0400
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
X-Mailer: Juno 4.0.11
Dear Jeff, et al.,
I, too, am a physician (Internal Medicine) and scientist (Ph.D. in
Pharmacology) who trained in Clinical Pharmacology at Vanderbilt
University, then taught in medical schools at Vanderbilt and the
Unversity of Colorado for 15 years. Three years ago I joined Bayer's
Pharmaceutical Division, where I perform studies of new drugs when they
are first used in humans. Lately, however, I've been Bayer's internal
specialist on the EKG, and have been dealing with regulatory bodies in
the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia. The note you distributed about me
was my presentation on the effects of Bayer's new antibiotic,
moxifloxacin, on the EKG to a Scientific Advisory Committee for the FDA.
In my other life, I've been married for 31 years to Susan Blair and
raised a daughter, Rebecca--living near Vail, CO--and a son, Nathan--a
freshman at Northeastern Univ.
Lately, I've been singing in The New
Haven Chorale, and we will be presenting Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
in
Yale's Woolsey Hall on Sat. May 12, and again at SUNY Purchase on Sun.
May 20--y'all come.
Another Swarthmorean, Peggy Rae '66 (I don't know
her maiden name), also sings in the Chorale. Susan and I went with the
Chorale to Paris last summer, where we performed high mass in Notre Dame
cathedral and concerts in La Madeleine and over in Chartres cathedral.
While in Paris, we visited with Tom O'Donnell '69, and found him to be
absolutely delighted to be in Paris.
Regards,
Alan
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From: MAKOHN@aol.com
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 18:21:59 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Dear Jeff
Thanks so much for all of your work on the Swarthmore Class of 69
network. I love reading the news, though I don't have time to zero in on
everyone's web site. I don't have one yet.
You may add my work phone number, 202-667-2330, and you could add that my
profession is that of lawyer. Otherwise the information on the html
formatted document for me was correct. Some day soon, when I find a spare
moment, I will write an update on what I am doing.
We appreciate your dedication and enthusiasm.
Margy Kohn
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Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 17:57:34 -0400
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
From: Bonnie Inouye <bonnieinouye@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Hi, Jeff,
I looked at your list, which is such a service for us all. Thank you very much!
I am moving on May 25, to our summer home at the Rocky Mountain Biological
Laboratory. This is the same place that Dr Enders used to run, and Dr Rawson
also worked there for a few summers. We have been there every summer since
1971, but this time we plan to stay for the coming school year as well. David
has a sabbatical leave from the University of Maryland. We'll be in South
Africa in January and I am teaching in New Zealand in April and May of next
year, but our home address will be:
Bonnie Inouye
P.O. Box 519
Crested Butte, CO 81224
telephone (970) 349-5801
and I have a new web page address, which at the moment just connects to the old
one but should have more information at some point in the future. You can
include it, anyway:
www.bonnieinouye.com
The address you have listed for me, in Maryland, is the house we
own near the University of Maryland. We've rented it out for the coming year
but our mail should be forwarded.
I am still working as a professional weaver. My book, Exploring Multishaft
Design, is doing quite well and is the best book available for weavers
using more than 8 shafts and designing with computer software. You can read
more about it on my home page. Most of my time is spent in teaching workshops
for weaving guilds and conferences in many places, and I also write articles
and am working on a second book. I once overheard somebody explain my approach
to weaving as what you might expect from a Swarthmore grad who took up weaving
(this from a fellow weaver who married a Swat alum). I was interested in art
and math while in college, and weaving is a way to use both.
I still make shawls and afghans to sell, but got tired of craft fairs and have
been teaching more and producing less over the past 10 years or so. My 2 boys
are grown now. Brian graduated from Swarthmore in 1991, finished both a PhD and
a Masters from Duke, and is currently on a postdoc fellowship at UC-Davis with
his wife. Kevin graduated from Earlham College 2 years ago and is working in Seattle,
so I just got home from teaching for the weaving guild in Seattle.
The Colorado home is a cabin we built, at 9,600 feet on the western slope of
the Rockies. Very pretty place, far from cities.
yours, Bonnie
Bonnie Inouye
www.geocities.com/bonnieinouye
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From: "Miller, Michael" <MMILLER@co.napa.ca.us>
To: "'Jeffrey Hart '" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore Class of 1969 address book
Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 14:17:03 -0700
Hi Jeff --
Great work you've been doing. Please keep me in the loop.
I'm in the midst of a "mid-life" (we're all going to be over 100,
remember?)
job crisis, but I'll give you current info anyway, and change it whenever
the move happens.
Michael Miller
current job title: Deputy Planning Director
employer: County of Napa
category: government (note: planners are professionals, you know, even
though no one seems to care...)
Work phone (direct line): (707) 259-8228
Preferred email: [mmillermrpjd@netscape.net]
Thanks again.
Mike
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From: Thomas.A.O'Donnell@BAKERNET.com
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Subject: RE: Swarthmore news
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 00:25:10 +0100
Dear Jeff:
Just to bring everyone up to date, I can confirm Al Hollister's observation
that I am very satisfied to live and work in Paris. It was a real pleasure
seeing Al and Susan here last summer, And the New Haven chorale sang
really well!
I sing tenor in the choir at the American Cathedral of Paris on Avenue
George V most Sundays. This keeps my hand in on singing. I haven't
developed the courage to wander into one of the numerous Irish bars of Paris
and sit down and play a set of traditional songs on my guitar. But there is
certainly scope for that here-very little good Irish music despite over 20
"Irish" bars.
Meanwhile, our son, Jed, is going to be in 10th grade at the Taft School in
Watertown, Conn. Starting this September. The school he's in in Paris just
isn't too good, and he wasn't happy with the immense turnover in class
composition, etc. Taft looks wonderful-course description sounds more like
Swats than high school. Anyone have any personal experience with Taft (too
late, I already sent them the deposit)? I think Jed is going to miss the
"adult" treatment he gets in Paris; he certainly won't have waiters offering
him a glass of wine in restaurants!
We have been trying to organize a Swarthmore alumni event here in Paris, but
not having much luck. The only 69 alum I know of here is Judith Lorick, but
she lives in the sourth of France and doesn't get to Paris, so I haven't
seen her. I thoroughly recommend her CD, however; Judith's voice remains
outstanding. I even sat down with my son the other day and we listened to
the entire recording of the 1965 Hamburg Show, which features Judith (along
with a miscast of hundreds). The record holds up better than it deserves.
Of course, my son was more fascinated, in some ways, by seeing his first
"record player" in action.
We invite all classmates to contact us when coming to Paris, and to come by
for a visit. The least you'll get is a nice cocktail in our apartment,
which ain't too bad.
Thanks for all your good efforts,
Tom
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Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 12:29:14 -0400
From: "M.A. Ross" <maross@mindspring.com>
To: hartj@ucs.indiana.edu
Subject: Swarthmore news
Dear Classmates,
As always, I too am grateful for Jeff's hard work on interconnecting our
class. I also appreciate his suggestion (as I interpret it) that
besides sharing our individual news with each other, our class may wish
to work on becoming/functioning as a community. Bellah et al's Habits
of the Heart comes to mind here--especially their discussion of the
traditional notion that friendships comprising civic community ought to
be based on shared commitments to the good.
I also find Bellah et al's concept of the "community of memory" very
relevant to our class in light of the sad news about another one of our
classmates, Alaric Vickers. Should we not join together to remember him
and all of our deceased classmates at our next milestone reunion? I
would love to work on preparing proper eulogies for them and
establishing some kind of memorial to them at Swarthmore. Please e-mail
me or the group via Jeff if you're interested in such an effort.
On a personal note, I would appreciate my classmates' keeping me in mind
on June 4, when Maryland's "supreme court" (Court of Appeals) will hear
oral argument on my case against the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore
concerning civil service employment. I am fortunate to be represented
now by a very fine attorney who is widely regarded as the dean of
Maryland's appellate bar, Melvin Sykes. Peter Max Zimmerman referred me
to him when my previous lawyer backed out at the worst possible time and
Mr. Sykes graciously took on my case because he considers the issues it
presents to have broad significance. (Mr. Sykes is a 70-year-old
consummate profesional who always wears Mickey Mouse ties.) My thanks
to Ellen Daniell and especially Peter for their previous expressed
support of me in this ongoing struggle.
Yours,
Marguerite Ross (formerly Peggy)
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From: "Audrey D. Melkin" <amelkin@catchword.com>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 11:41:12 -0400
Jeff:
It is a great resource! All my data was correct and I believe you wrote earlier
what CatchWord is and what I do, but if not I'll add a bit now:
We are now part of a bigger company called ingenta, inc., so my title will
change to Vice President , Publisher Relations at ingenta. I continue to run a
NYC office for the company though ingenta has a US presence in Cambridge, MA.
Like CatchWord, however, ingenta is headquartered in Oxford. Basically we put
journals and other scholarly and research content online for publishers. So my
job is to sell our service to publishers - who may be university presses
(Indiana University Press is putting their new title, e-Service Journal on
CatchWord this summer!), commercial publishers, or societies - the American
Statsitical Association is a new customer of mine. More info at www.catchword.com and more about ingenta at www.ingenta.com.
Besides working at this challenging and interesting job for the last 2 1/2
years - a complete change after 20 years in more traditional publishing with
Oxford University Press, John Wiley & Sons, and Henry Holt - I am taking
piano lessons after a 35 year hiatus. It is the real joy of my life along with
going to concerts, opera and practicing as much as I can!
Warm regards to all and please feel free to call if you're in the area!
Thanks, Jeff, for your efforts!
Audrey
Audrey D. Melkin
Vice President, Sales - North America
CatchWord, an ingenta company
31 E. 32nd Street, Suite 300
New York, NY 10016
Phone: 212-481-8484, ext. 336
Fax: 212-481-9582
email: amelkin@catchword.com
www.catchword.com
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Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 18:28:06 -0600
From: "Lindsay Richards" <LRICHARD@wmclinic.com>
To: <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Hi Jeff--thanks for tuning me into this fun ongoing event.
Speaking of mid-life, I highly recommend a very slender, readable book by a
Jungian named James Hollis: "Middle Passage--From Misery to Meaning at
Midlife".
Cheers to all! Lindsay Richards
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From: RWL1001@aol.com
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 19:44:14 EDT
Subject: Randy Larrimore
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Jeff,
You're doing such a great job getting us connected again I decided to finally
participate. As it turns out, I was asked to write a biographical sketch for
my upcoming 30th business school reunion. Thinking it might be of some of
interest to some of my classmates at Swarthmore, I've copied it below.
Facing the immediate prospect of visiting Vietnam after graduating from
Swarthmore, I enrolled in ROTC at Harvard Business School (HBS) to postpone
what appeared to be the inevitable. However, the end result was entering the
Army Reserves and spending a total of 4 months on active duty at Aberdeen
Proving Grounds in Maryland.
I married Judy Cutright '71 between my two years at business school and
between her junior and senior years at Swarthmore. After graduating from HBS
in 1971, Judy and I moved to Manhattan (and later to Westport, CT), where I
worked for Richardson - Vicks in product management. After peddling Lavoris
mouthwash, Sinex nasal spray, and Vicks and Victors cough drops for almost
five years, I decided to broaden my experience by joining McKinsey &
Company.
I spent the next five years consulting for consumer package-goods companies.
It was a terrific experience that I enjoyed immensely, but I wanted to
return to line management. In 1980, I joined PepsiCo, one of my clients, in
London. After a year there, Judy, Jake (born in 1979) and I moved to Rome,
where I became president of Pepsi-Cola Italia, with responsibility for Italy,
Libya and Malta.
We had a great time in London and Rome (my favorite), where we loved the
food, the wine and the people. In fact, the romance of the country was
infectious: our second son, Alex, was born in Rome in 1982.
After three years of living internationally, we decided we didn't want to
our children to be nomads and moved to Winnetka, IL (20 miles north of
Chicago) when I joined Beatrice in late 1983. Shortly thereafter I became
President of Twentieth Century Companies, a group of five plumbing-parts
manufacturers, and a division of Beatrice. During this period, Beatrice
experienced a succession of management and ownership changes that eventually
led to the formation and spin-off of E-II. E-II, and my company, were bought
by American Brands in early 1988. I was promoted to Vice President of
American Brands (now called Fortune Brands) and President of MasterBrand
Industries, Inc. which manufactures Moen faucets, Master Lock padlocks,
Aristokraft kitchen and bath cabinets and Sears Craftsman tool boxes and
chests (by Waterloo). By the end of 1996, MasterBrand was the largest
subsidiary of American Brands with sales of about $1.4 billion.
In May 1997 I joined United Stationers as President and CEO. United
Stationers is a $4 billion, 8,000 employee Fortune 500 company that is the
largest distributor of business products (office supplies, office furniture,
computer consumables, janitorial and sanitation supplies, etc.) to
independent office products dealers and national contract stationers like
Boise, Staples and Corporate Express. Our forte is picking, packing and
shipping individual, broken-case items within a few hours of order receipt to
allow our customers to provide next day delivery to their customers. Please
visit our website, www.unitedstationers.com
for more information or send me
an e-mail and I'll send you an annual report.
I enjoy the challenges that being CEO of a public company brings, the
personal satisfaction of dramatically changing the company's culture, and our
success in repositioning United Stationers as a logistics and marketing
service provider. It's also been very gratifying that United Stationers has
won the industry's Wholesaler-of-the-Year Award every year since 1997 and
that in 1999 I was named our industry's Executive of the Year.
I've also been able to continue my 15 year involvement with City of Hope,
an outstanding cancer research and treatment center in California. During
2000 I helped raise $4.5 million for City of Hope and received the Spirit of
Life Award at a testimonial dinner. Over $380,000 of this was raised by
United Stationers associates in over 60 facilities through bake sales,
raffles, bowl-a-thons, car washes, tag sales, etc. I am very proud to be
working with people who are so caring and giving. I also enjoy serving on the
boards of directors for Olin Corporation, Evanston Northwestern Healthcare
(our local hospital) and Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE).
Last year, Judy and I celebrated 30 years of a wonderful marriage. We
have two terrific boys; Jake (22) is a senior at Pomona College and Alex (19)
has just finished his freshman year at Connecticut College. With good
health, lots of happiness, a wonderful family and close friends, life is very
good. Although the next several years and retirement in the not too distant
future will bring new challenges, I am optimistic and excited about what lies
ahead.
Randy Larrimore
Since many of you know Judy, I asked her to add a few comments:
Having married Randy in August 1970, I spent my senior year at Harvard.
Swarthmore was really great about transferring credits back from Harvard so I
could graduate with my class in 1971. I also found that Harvard did not live
up to its reputation. I certainly feel I received a much better education at
Swarthmore where the professors know how to teach even though they may be
using books written by someone at Harvard. After graduating, I discovered
that a woman with a philosophy major was then not of great interest to the
corporate world so I held a variety of paralegal jobs, finally finding my
niche as a market researcher with General Foods (now part of Kraft).
Nine years after our marriage, Jake was born (in 1979). A short attempt
at combining motherhood with a career led to the abandonment of the latter
and opened the way to our living abroad for 3 years.
We've lived in Winnetka for 17 years, no longer the transients who moved
10 times during the first 13 years of our marriage. Despite the weather, the
people make it a great place to raise kids, and for us to also live happily
ever after. So Randy can focus on business and charitable activities, I
continue to have the major responsibility for the "home front,"
including
ongoing renovations of our Illinois house, a National Historic Landmark built
in 1850. Even with 2 grown boys (though largely physically absent, they're
"ever-present" -- we wouldn't have it any other way), I'm still
waiting for
soap operas and bon bons, and Jake's still waiting for his baby book! Maybe
someday I'll even learn to play golf. Future possibilities seem endless.
Judy Larrimore '71
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From: Nmade@aol.com
Date: Sun, 20 May 2001 19:41:20 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Dear Jeff,
I would love to get the email addresses of everyone. I was so surprise
to realize that Alan H. was in the New Haven area and singing in the New Haven
Chorale! I
feel that I am rather alone Swarthmore-wise in this area, although I know
lauren Brown and Penny Bellamy are here. Thanks for your help.
Nancy Horn
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From: "Tralance Addy" <taddy@plebys.com>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore news
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 23:27:33 -0700
Dear Jeff,
Let me add my thanks for the worthy effort on your part. While the
coordinates listed for me would work, I would like to suggest the following
revisions to my professional affiliations. Although I am serving as
President and CEO of WaterHealth International, I am primarily President and
CEO of a "holding company" that develops young companies like
WaterHealth.
My company listing should therefore be:
Plebys International, LLC
Ph: 949-888-1679
Fax:949-459-1973
Business Address: 22342 Avenida Empresa
Rancho Santa Margarita, CA 92688
Email: taddy@plebys.com
Tralance Addy,
President & CEO
Plebys International, LLC
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From: RFMILLER@brandeis.edu (Robin Feuer Miller)
Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 17:28:17 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Dear Jeff,
Your messages are always so interesting. I suspect that the
turnout at our next reunion will be much larger because of the
conversation you have sparked. Chris and I are excited that
our youngest daughter, Lulu, will be attending Swarthmore in the
fall. Best,
Robin
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From: "Sue Snider" <ssnider@m-y.net>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 18:53:27 -0400
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400
Dear Jeff,
I too greatly appreciate the chance to see people's news. Glad I'm not class
secretary any more, having to compete with instant electronic media!
I too have a website, mostly put together by the American Academy of Family
Physicians. It's got some great health information and links to health and
environmental websites. Address is www.familydoctor.org/susansnidermd.
Big news is a fire in the office last month, which basically gutted the building.
Fortunately no one was hurt and most of our charts were saved, though we lost
huge amounts of equipment and supplies. It's very disorienting. I had been in
that office for 18 years (divorce, deaths of my brother and father, son in
prison for LSD, new marriage, six different houses... it was my stable point).
Swarthmore and med school diplomas burned; the replacement will have Al Bloom's
signature! Makes me feel young :).
Both email addresses work: sniders@med.unc.edu
and ssnider@m-y.net.
Thanks again,
Sue Tripp Snider
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From: Lorick4jaz@aol.com (Judith
Lorick)
Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 04:27:13 EDT
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Dear Jeff,
After five months of almost non-stop travelling I am finally back at home and
preparing to enjoy a lazy summer, as one should in this part of the world! It
won't be totally lazy since, after allowing my management consulting practice
to consume most of my time for the past year, I am finally going to start
working on my second cd, which I would like to record by mid-2002.
I just wanted to thank you again for the time and energy you have spent on
giving all of us the pleasure of seeing "Swarthmore news" so often
when we go
on line.
Thanks,
Judith
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Date: Thu, 24 May 2001 13:49:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Robert McKay <mckay@norwich.edu>
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Jeff --
Let me check in as well. After graduation, I spent two years teaching
public school in Putney, Vermont. Then to University of Chicago: MA
1973, PhD. 1980 in Philosophy. Married Barbara Avellone, 1977. Lucky to
find a college teaching job, in Vermont no less, at Norwich University
in Northfield, where I've taught since 1981. Two sons, Robbie, now 15,
and Willy, now 12. Address information as follows:
Work: Philosophy
Norwich University
Northfield, VT 05663
802-485-2449
robmckay@norwich.edu
Home: 1710 Greenbush Rd.
North Ferrisburgh, VT 05473
802-425-7028
Rob McKay
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From BHFITTSCAL@aol.com (Barbara
Hayden Fitts)
Date Sat, 26 May 2001 170133 EDT
Subject Swarthmore news
To hartj@indiana.edu, BHFITTSCAL@aol.com
Dear Jeff,
I felt a flash of recognition when I read Sue Snider's account of the
fire in the building which housed her medical practice for eighteen years. I
am aware at mid-life of the absence of life's expected gifts - love did
finally find me - a surprise to us both - but he was long married and
happily so. I am aware also of the presence of unexpected gifts. The
children I did not have were replaced, after time, by time with a young
niece, Alexis Fitts, whose career as a flute player and new love, Dan Lano, a
clarinet student at New England Conservatory, bring her from Philadelphia to
Boston with increasing frequency. My parents' deaths in my twenties paved the
way for my early ascension as doyenne of a beloved family farm in Jackson,
N.H. My law practice brings neither fame nor fortune. But the opportunity to
fashion a practice in which I serve others on issues that matter to me brings
challenge, engagement and joy every day of my life.
I now know that even the unexpected gifts cannot be taken for granted.
For the time when I may face the challenge Sue Snider now faces - the loss
of/rebuilding of what she describes as her 'stable point' through death,
divorce and more, I keep in my mind words of Robert Frost, which I came
across reading Wallace Stegner's Crossing to Safety. Frost wrote
" I could give all to Time except---except
What I myself have held. But why declare
The things forbidden that while the Customs slept
I have crossed to Safety with? For I am There
And what I would not part with I have kept. "
Hayden Fitts
Office
Barbara Hayden Fitts
Counsellor at Law
10 Derne St./P.O. Box 9505
Boston, MA 02114-9505
617-742-5252
(bhfittscal@aol.com)
Home
31 Russell St.
Brookline, MA 02446
617-738-6066
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Date: Sun,
10 Jun 2001 06:09:14 -0700
To: hartj@indiana.edu
From: The Averills <edaa@teleport.com>
Subject:
Dear Jeff and classmates,
I had the opportunity last week to attend Commencement at Swarthmore. My
niece, Laura Jane Seeley, was among the graduates.
One of the highlights of the day was hearing Adrienne Asch's remarks after
being awarded an honorary degree for her work in bioethics. The work she
is doing is fascinating and so very relevant at this time. She received a
well-deserved standing ovation. I had a brief opportunity to speak with
her after the graduation. Even though we had not been close friends while
in school, she was delighted to speak with one of her own classmates.
After graduation I had dinner with my niece, her parents (my brother and
sister-in-law), and Laura's boyfriend and family. One of those at the
dinner told me that she had been rejected by Swarthmore and ended up
attending Grinnell in Iowa. She related a joke that was bandied about
during her undergraduate years at Grinnell. Students there "wondered" if
Swarthmore College actually existed. They imagined that Swarthmore really
was just one little old lady (Quaker?) sitting in a room sending out
rejection letters!
Life goes on here. I continue to work in child welfare, special needs
adoptions for the State of Oregon, and I am beginning to ponder what else
life has to offer. I feel as if there's more for me to accomplish, but I
am uncertain what that may be. Meanwhile I am looking forward to a brief
vacation in Hawaii later this month, just to relax and regroup.
My best to all of you.
Sincerely,
Deborah Seeley Averill
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from: tweisser@thewalters.org (Terry Drayman-Weisser)
dated: June 21, 2001
It's been great reading all the news of Swarthmore 69ers. Thanks!! As for
me, I am Director of Conservation and Technical Research at the Walters Art
Museum in Baltimore. My division is responsible for preserving, restoring,
and carrying technical studies on works of art. The perfect job for me
combining science and art. I have no personal web page, but the museum has
one that may prove of interest to others on your distribution list. Go to:
I recommend clicking on "The Archimedes Palimpsest" for history of
math/science buffs. A story about the importance of discoveries being made
here about the Palimpsest has made the cover of this past Sunday London
Times Magazine.
All the best,
Terry Drayman-Weisser
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From:
MDean@LNP.COM (Mark Dean)
To: Jeff Hart <Jeffrey_Hart@Hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 08:38:09 -0400
Hi, Jeff.
I continue to enjoy the e-mail updates from classmates you forward. Many
thanks again for all your work on this. In addition, I would like to be
"invited" to your "ofoto" site described in last week's e-mail -- sounds
like fun.
I saw Paul Peelle, Don Fujihara, and David Wright at Alumni Weekend last
month. David made an Alumni Council award presentation at the Alumni
Collection -- he did a nice job, and I enjoyed talking with him at lunch.
The Class of '71 (including my wife Martha) were celebrating their 30th of
course, but there was not a very good turnout. I think the college
governance controversy has turned off a lot of people, and they simply
stayed away. We probably would have also, if we didn't live so close.
Hope your summer is going well.
Mark.
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From:
Thomas.A.O'Donnell@BAKERNET.com
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:05:17 +0100
Dear Jeff:
My news is that we'll be moving to the Zurich office of Baker & McKenzie
later this year. I have been asked to head the Firm's global private
banking practice. I am very pleased with the professional opportunity;
Cathy and I are not so pleased about moving to Zurich. We have greatly
enjoyed Paris, and were within range of French fluency. Can't say either of
us are enamored by Switzer Deutsch, but it doesn't appear to be a necessary
accoutrement.
I shall still be reachable at the same e-mail address, and, in due course,
the College will get my new home address.
Meanwhile, thanks again for your efforts to keep us in touch.
Very best,
Tom O'Donnell
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Date: Sat,
11 Aug 2001 11:11:19 -0500
From: Lyon Evans
<LDEvans@mail.Viterbo.edu>
Subject: Re: Swarthmore news
Hi Jeff,
I just returned from 3 months of teaching and traveling in China, and opening email I found your postings re Swarthmore class of '69 addresses
and the subsequent emails from alums. (Your first email is dated May 8-- the day I flew to Beijing from Wisconsin.) Thanks so much for
taking the initiative on this. I would be interested in hearing (via email) from anyone who has had experiences teaching and/or traveling in
China. In May and June I was a short-term "visiting professor of English" at the Luoyang Institute of Technology (which will soon change
its name to the Henan Provincial University). The previous year (2000) I used a spring semester sabbatical to teach in Luoyang (the "sister
city" of my home base of La Crosse, Wisconsin) and this time I went over to teach during my summer vacation (the Chinese school years runs
through the beginning of July-- 6 weeks longer than my spring term at my university in La Crosse).
In two summers of post-teaching China travels I have had a chance to visit Zhengzhou, Kaifeng, Shaolin (birthplace of
Kungfu), Xi'an, Wutaishan, Taiyuan, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Suzhou, Hangzhou, various sites in Shandong Province (Jinan, Qufu,
Taishan, Laoshan, Quingdao) and Sichuan Province (Chengdu, Jiuzhaiguo, Huanglongshan, Dujiangyan, Emaishan, Leshan) and a few weeks ago, en
route from Chongquing to Yinchang to catch a plane for Shanghai, I took a Three Gorges Yangze River cruise (which will go out of business in two
years when the dam project is completed and the Three Gorges are flooded).
Traveling in China is stunningly inexpensive for Americans--e.g., a 24-hour first-class "soft sleeper" train from Luoyang to Chengdu
was $39 and an air conditioned double room at the Travel Hotel in Chengdu (where the foreign travelers congregate) was $10 a night per
person. In Luoyang I took six people out to dinner at a good restaurant for $28. I can recommend not only traveling but also
teaching in China ..... Government-to-government tensions (and nationalistic anti-Americanism stemming from the so-called "airplane
incident") notwithstanding, Chinese students (and most other younger Chinese) are friendly and eager to meet and talk to Americans. Everyone
is learning English (6 years of secondary school and two years of university English are required); there's an explosion of Western
investment, a building boom in big cities like Shanghai and Quingdao, American-style TV commercials everywhere on the tube; American movies,
popular music (widely available on pirated CDs and VCDs) that are endlessly discussed and fascinating to Chinese students.... Golden
Arches, KFC logos everywhere in the big cities (Colonel Sanders' visage is far more ubiquitous in China these days than Mao's.... who must be
turning over in his grave). Anyway, to repeat, I'd enjoy hearing from any Swarthmoreans who may have traveled or taught in the Middle Kingdom
(or who may be thinking of doing so). In the meantime, I hope everyone is enjoying the summer.
Xie-xie and zhai jian,
Lyon Evans
Professor of English
Viterbo University
La Crosse, Wisconsin
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From:
cfoster@rdg.boehringer-ingelheim.com (Carolyn Cymbalak Foster)
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Subject: Reconnection
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 09:49:42 -0400
Jeff- The message from Swarthmore this week reminded me that I have lost
touch with your Swarthmore '69 web page and the e-mail news. David, Meri,
and I are well, and I hope that the same is true for you and the rest of our
classmates.
I have left the lab and Schering-Plough and have started a new job
in R&D Planning with Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals. David and I are
in the midst of a move to Ridgefield, CT, and Meri has started school at
Wellesley. I will save the rest of the news for another time. My new
e-mail is cfoster@rdg.boehringer-ingelheim.com, so please put me back on the
e-mail list.
Carolyn Foster
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From: Christine.Grant@doh.state.nj.us
Subject: Christine Grant, former Commissioner of the
Department of Health and Senior
Services, is now Senior Vice President, Aventis
Pasteur and can be reached
by emailing Chris.Grant@aventis.com or by phoning
570-839-7187.
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 01:00:55 -0400
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From: Nadia
Ilyin <nadia@intertrust.com>
To: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: RE: Swarthmore news
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2001 11:54:18 -0700
Hi Jeff,
I am moving back to San Francisco. New email: nadia913@earthlink.net. Future in other ways unclear.
I will defer space to those who have news about NY/DC.
--Nadia (Edna) Ilyin
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From:
Thomas.A.O'Donnell@BAKERNET.com
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Subject: RE: corrected URL for class address book
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 07:58:43 +0100
Dear Jeff:
I am in the process of transferring to the Zurich office of Baker & McKenzie. As from 1 September, I am formally at that office. Consequently, my business contact details in Paris are no longer accurate. I have given my new business address, etc., below. My home address, however, will not change from Paris to Zurich until February 2002--the move will take some time!
Very best,
Tom
Thomas A. O'Donnell
Baker & McKenzie
Zollikerstrasse 225
P.O. Box
8034 Zurich
Switzerland
Tel: 41-1-384-1440 (Direct)
41-1-384-1414 (Office)
41-79-752-5955 (Mobile)
E-Mail: Thomas.A.O'Donnell@Bakernet.com
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From: "Sue Snider"
<ssnider@m-y.net>
To: "Jeffrey Hart" <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: for class listserve
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2001 19:47:46 -0500
Dear Jeff,
A few weeks ago, my husband
Pete and I went to an event on the NC Outer Banks called "Wings over
Water", a celebration of migrating birds, with opportunities for bird watching
on foot and by boat (especially canoe and kayak), including ocean, sound and
marsh habitats. A big attraction was that the keynote speakers were Don
and Lillian Stokes, who have written numerous bird and nature guides and
hosted a series on PBS. We came home inspired to put up more feeders with
different foods. Indeed, "if you build it, they will come". In our
yard, they were just waiting for sunflower seed! Any other birders out there
might want to consider a trip to the NC coast in early November; this is an
annual event.
After the events of this fall,
something normal like migrating birds is a source of comfort. Best wishes to
all,
Sue
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From: Lorick4jaz@aol.com
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 12:32:13 EST
Subject: will wonders never cease...
To: hartj@indiana.edu
Hi Jeff,
Just a note for anyone who may be interested: I'll be singing in the States
for the first time in 14years! I've been asked to sing at the Bird of
Paradise in Ann Arbor, Michigan the week- end of January 11/12. It isn't as
strange as it sounds; I'll be there for a few weeks to work on arrangements
for my next cd, which will be a reunion of sorts with 2/3 of my original trio
from California. The website for the club is http://www.thebirdofparadise.com.
I'd be thrilled to see a familiar face or two.
Kind regards,
Judith Lorick
Les Hauts du Golf tel: +33 (0)4 92 28 05 83
760 Chemin de la Tire cell: +33 (0)6 60 11 86 59
06250 Mougins fax: +33 (0)4 92 92 07 81
France email: lorick4jaz@aol.com
website: http://www.flohr.net/judith
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Date: Tue,
15 Jan 2002 17:47:38 -0500
From: Jeffrey Hart <hartj@indiana.edu>
Subject: Swarthmore News
Dear Swarthmore Classmates,
Joan, Zach, and I were fortunate to see Terry Drayman-Weisser on
December 19, 2001, at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore where she heads
the art conservation department. Terry gave us a tour of her department
and showed us a discovery she made recently regarding an
Egyptian sculpture of a falcon. It turns out that there was a falcon
mummy
inside the bronze sculpture that no one had
noticed for thousands of years. She used a variety of techniques to
explore
the sculpture, including neutron bombardment, to determine what was the
best way to get images of the contents inside Egyptian sculptures.
You can read more about it in:
Jett, Paul, Shelley Sturman, and Terry Drayman Weisser. "A Study of
the Egyptian
Bronze Falcon Figures in the
Thanks to Terry for the tour.
here is a URL telling you about one of Terry's recent activities.
http://palimpsest.stanford.edu/waac/wn/wn11/wn11-2/wn11-211.html
there is a good picture of Terry at:
http://www.bib-arch.org/aojf00/photos.html
JH