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Sunday – 2/1/15

Continuing our Super Bowl Weekend.

Johnny D’s for Brunch with Boston gang. Frank Tadley, Ellen Feldman, Ruth Goodman attending. Spent most of the time taling with Frank. He told long story of a bike ride in early ’70s from Scotland to London. Then drove to Cindy Weisbart’s house. She is recovering from back surgery. Debbie Milligan appeared. Lunch with Ruth and Paul Richards at Cheescake Factory at Chestnut Hill Mall.

Backyard in Belmont

Backyard in Belmont

 

Back to Bill and Nancy’s house in Belmont. Weather forecast is for large snowstorm to move in so we care considering leaving to return to Hudson tonight and not be stuck here until Tuesday morning.

Good talk with them over Iggy’s pizza before game. Game was very exciting with Patriots pulling it out in a very unpredictable ending in the last seconds.

Drove to Hudson that evening. Began to snow seriously in the Berkshires on Mass Pike. Near white out conditions on Taconic at end.

Sunday – 1/25/15 – Karen at Center for Photography Woodstock

Went to Woodstock to see exhibition at Center for Photography at Woodstock.

Had a great bite to eat at Oriole 9.

Then to CPW. Last day of this exhibition:

HOME GROWN: Fellowship Recipients 2005 – 2014

Curated by Ariel Shanberg & Helena Kaminski

Featuring Craig J. Barber, Karen Davis, Isaac Diggs, Tara Fracalossi, Danny Goodwin, Deb Hall, James Heil, Yumiko Izu, Chad Kleitsch, Kristina E. Knipe, Mark Lyon, Tanya Marcuse, Jennifer Lynn Morse, Harvey Osterhoudt, and Phil Underdown.

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Karen’s “Little Procedures”

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Wednesday – 1/21/15 – back to UTM

Gym in the morning. Lasted only 15 minutes on bicycle. Very out of shape.

Met with Seth for first time since December. 2 hr history of last six weeks at UTM. More craziness because David continues to drop people into the mix with no consultation or plan. Latest is Angie Keefer who is another of David’s infatuations. She appeared at a meeting last December and claimed to know things about web design and user experience. No evident experience on mobile though. While I was away she caused a ruckus attacking the revised website as outdated before it was even launched.

 

Monday – 1/19/15 – Letterbox Farm Collective

Feeling substantially de-jet lagged.

Faith Gilbert

Met with Faith Gilbert about business plan forLetterbox Farm Collective. She is very bright and numerate. Hopefully they will get their grants and loans. As she noted, part of this is just jumping through the hoops. The loan application is over 60 pages long.

Need to invoice for this work.

 

Taft School 1965 – Rise to Power of Stalin and Khruschev

ISP Winter 1965 Taft School

In my second Independent Studies Program session, over the Winter of 1965, I worked on a paper that came to be titled, “The Rise to Power of Stalin and Khrushchev: the role of the party”. My faculty sponsor was Walter A. Foley. I honestly cannot imagine why he supported me since I was a very run of the mill achiever in the grades department. The paper reads well if not obviously the naive work of a 17 yr old. Prof. Frederick L.  Schuman of Williams College, Torrey’s alma mater, read it and described it as comparable to a Senior thesis at Williams. Seems a bit of a stretch.

I do remember the miracle of asking for books and articles at the Taft School library and have them show up several weeks later, gathered from Yale and elsewhere. Then, the arduous task of converting my handwritten drafts into a type written document including a carbon copy. Even back then I regretted never having had the opportunity to learn to type properly. My hunt and pecking technique, still very much in use, was perfected then.

 

Taft has published a puff piece for the 50th anniversary of ISP “50 Years of ISP” – download it here.

Download the paper (13.5 MB)

 

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