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1 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 1999 SPRING VOLUME 86. NUMBER 2 Telluride Association President i a+ $i ~~m~z- Telluride House circa 1912, and McGraw Tower 1996. On July 7,1911, the Telluride Constitution was completed and signed, bringing with it the prescription that the Association should convene annually to assess its progress, renew its mission, and set new goals. Thus, for eighty-seven years, our mem- bers have met to review the work of a year gone by and to chart the course of the one to come. On June 10, as the voice of the desert melds with the campanile chime, we will take up this challenge once more. continued on mctpage Alumni Notes Corneil Branch Community Service Projects Cornell Branch Graduates Deep Springs Main Building Renovation Summer Program Scholarship Winners SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 1 PHOTO: CONVENTION 1990 AERIAL VIEW PHOTO: CAROL OWEN AND JON PEASE DURING 1990 CONVENTION WITHIN OLD SHELL obse~ations,drawn from various will progress a bit more toward writings by and about L.L. Nunn, as to becoming such a trustee. In the By L. Jackson Newell, DS56 There are many small tasks to be the principles on which Association meantime, we will practice by being President of Deep Springs College accomplished in preparation: commit- members might productively reflect. good trustees of Telluride Association. tee preference forms to be completed, reports to be written, and plane tickets Our founder's goal, in creating the In practical terms, this year, that If you had awakened at Deep Springs this morning after to be purchased. There are at least two educational institutions that were his means reviewing our established an absence of a year or more, you would have blinked as large ones, as we expect to purchase the life's best work, was to provide his projects and planning their continued you gazed at the Main Building. It appears just as you site for our Michigan Branch and to students opportunities to seek "the success. It means meeting the mem%rs remembered it, but on closer examination you notice the select an administrative director eternal moral truths of the universe" - of the pilot branch of Telluride Associa- stucco and paint are both fresh, and there is neither a crack between now and June 10. Yet, as not merely so that we might know tion at the University of Michigan, and nor a sag in the great beam over the front porch. A closer important as these tasks are, they these truths, but so that we might live working with them on the inaugural look reveals graceful porches on the north and south ends should not overshadow the more vital them. In his vision, as we searched for Branch project (which, like its succes- of the building, large windows where high little ones once PHOTOS: (ABOVE) MAlN BUILDING AT DEEP SPRING TAKEN IN 1971; (BELOW) preparation of individually refreshing those truths, we would learn temper- sors, will address the concept and illuminated the library, and skylights dotting the roof from MAlN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION IN PROGRESS. 1999. our sense of Nunnian purpose before ance, loyalty, charity, and courage. We practice of governance in the broader end to end. Walk up on the front porch, open the freshly we convene as a body. If we do not would marry the ideal with the society). It means examining proposals varnished old door, and you blink twice. The Main Room approach our Convention with this practical, and find "hard work for head by the Custodians, the A.dvances-in-Aid is seven feet wider and the ceiling rises from both sides to sense, we will fail to make the most of a and hand." We would grow wise, and Audit Officers, and the Risk a pair of beams across the middle. To the right of the old vital opportunity to transmit our valuing knowledge not for its own sake Management and Personnel Commit- fireplace and mantle, a door leads outside to a small institutional values to our younger but for what we could accomplish with tees to determine what directions we courtyard. Down the south hallway, the office is generally members and associates. it. We would find a way to make should take in those areas. And, as you remember it, but when you reach the old library practical that which to others seemed perhaps, it means conducting our final things are different. You find the classroom is in the Telluride Newsletter Many of you make a practice of only visionary. Ultimately, Nunn Ithaca Convention for this millennium, corner now (big windows on south and west exposures), and a student committee room, two faculty offices, and Thls publicatton Is produced two tlmes a year In Ithaca, rereading our Constitution and other believed, we would dedicate ourselves as we expect to have the facilities for an New York. Submit news. letten, or comments lo: institutional writings in preparation for unselfishly to lives of sewice. Ann Arbor Convention in 2000. two guests rooms fill the David Mossner Memorial addition of the 1970s. Go back through the Main Room Edltor, Tellurlde Assoclatlon. 21 7 West Avenue, Ithaw. New Convention, and you will find your Regardless of which details we spend York 14850 [email protected]. source of inspiration there. Others, These are among the most four days discussing in June, I look and open the doors to the north wing and the beautiful new library unfolds in front of you, along with the Eonm - C.A. Carlron. and G. Bradley Mmondson however, have asked if I would distill important principles that inform the forward to continuing the pursuit of MWGINGEMOR - Nowfood Andrews some of Telluride's principles into work of Telluride Association. To be a my Nunnian education with you. relocated post office, bookstore, computer room, and Paooucnm Mwca- Cynthia EsteSmlth archive. Thanks to the visionary LL Nunn, LLC partner- COMRIWTORS- Nowfood Andrews. C.A. Carlson, Thornas Newsletter form in order to provide a part of the Association is to be commit- Hawks, Jack Newell, and Carol Owen starting point for your reflections. ted to the task of embodying them - of ship with Telluride Association, Deep Springs' Main PHOTOGRAPHCRFDKS - Raven Hall, Usa Moynlhan. Matthew Although it would be impossible to becoming a "trustee of the country's Building is nearly ready to serve students for another Trall, and the TA Archi~es capture all that Telluride means in a welfare." On June 10, we will meet in century. It will be rededicated at our 82nd Anniversary A publication of Tellurlde Association few sentences, I offer the following Ithaca with the hope that each of us Reunion on Labor Day weekend. Telluriders and Deep Springs are all invited to attend. - - 2 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER SPRING 1999 SPRING 1999 TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER 3 MICHIGAN PILOT BRANCH TAKES SHAPE PHOTOS: (LEFI) THE NEW MICHIGAN BRANCH AT 1735 WASHTENAW, IN ANN ARBOR. (BELOW) MBPRC CHAIR LARS WULFF. By Thomas Hawks, SP85 CB86 TA87 Michigan Project Director The past six months in Ann Arbor have faculty of the 1999 Michigan TASP, matic mission between the two been among the most productive ones Janet Hart and David Frye. Joining Branches, and signaled an encouraging for Telluride since the Association these guests were an assortment of TA beginning to inter-Branch relations. As decided to found a new Branch here at members - Carol Owen, Jessica the open house drew to a close, many the University of Michigan. The past Cattelino, Lars Wulff, Marilyn Migiel, enthusiastic students promised to seven years of committee reports and David Porter, and Denis Clark. By the submit applications and the visiting Convention debates have begun, at end of the evening, new friendships trustees left town expecting great last, to take on flesh for concrete, as the had been struck up and several old things from the applicant pool. case may be), and to involve both new acquaintances re-established. Many of and older generations of Telluriders. us remember the January reception as As it turned out, they were not As many TA members have remarked one of the most pleasant Telluride disappointed. We received more than to me, one of the most gratdying duties we had undertaken in some forty strong applications for the 8-10 aspects the past year has been to watch time, and we are grateful to the available places in the Pilot Branch and the Michigan Branch intrigue alumni, Livermores for opening their home to MBIC returned to Ann Arbor during- administriators and students who are us. We look fo&ard tireuniting this the weekend of March 12-14 to encountering it for the first time. As group early next year in the new interview a group of 16 finalists. After quickly the familiar rhythms of occupancy up to 70 people, possesses new faces appear in our meetings, the Branch. a lengthy day of interviewing, MBIC Telluride debate asserted themselves in large meeting rooms and dining PREFERMENT Michigan Branch begins to take on a selected 8 students as Pilot the deliberations of the Pilot Branch. facilities and a few well-appointed life of its own, which is, of course, By the weekend of the reception, branchmembers, one of whom de- public rooms. It appears to be entirely The Association Committees what its planners have hoped for all Pilot Branch recruitment was begin- clined our offer in order to study As the Pilot Branch was taking suitable to Telluride's use even in the charged with the selection along. ning in earnest as well. The day abroad. During the remainder of the shape, MBPRC was also having success absence.of any renovations. Still, of preferment recipients this following the party at the Livermores', weekend, MBIC met in intensive at last locating a building to house the MBPRC is currently working to create winterannounce are pleasedthe following to In January, we inaugurated the 50 University of Michigan students sessions with the Pilot Branch.