Boston International Conference June 17-20, 2020 @ Suffolk University
Fall 2019 O’Neill Society News
The official newsletter of the Eugene O’Neill International Society Contents
• EON Society at ALA 2019...... 2 • A Tribute to Kurt Eisen...... 2 • Society Annual Business Mtg...... 3 • ALA Conference May 2019 in Boston and 2020 Conference Update...... 3 • Peter Quinn wins O’Neill Award.....3 • O’Neill Festivals in Danville, CA and New Ross, Ireland...... 4 • Eisel Reflections on Long Day’s...... 5 • Babson Students to Tao House...... 5 • Dowling on NPR Radio Show...... 5 • Grad Student Paper Competition. 5 • New Film on Charles Gilpin...... 5 • 2020 Conferences for O’Neillians..6 • Garvey Comes Full Circle...... 6 • Photos from Recent Productions of O’Neill plays ...... 7 O’Neill Conferences, Festivals and • Opportunity for ePublishing...... 8 • Review celebrates 5th Decade...... 8 Performances Around the Globe The summer and fall were filled with multiple conferences, festivals and regional performances of plays by Eugene O’Neill. The activities took place in the hills of Danville, CA, at Tao House; at the American Literature Association Conference in Boston, MA; in New Ross, Ireland at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Festival, and many stops in between. We’ll highlight these events in this edition of the newsletter! Word came just as we were going to press that O’Neill Society member, celebrated scholar and poet George Monteiro died suddenly from a heart attack on Tuesday, November 5. His wife Brenda Murphy reported that he had been dealing with debilitating neurological problems for several years, a “Parkinsonism” not unlike Eugene O’Neill’s. In the end, his death came as he had wished, quickly and with minimal trouble to his loved ones. In accordance with his wishes, there will be no funeral, just a small gathering of family and a few close friends to share their memories. O’Neill Society News 1 Tribute to Kurt Eisen
O’Neill Society at American Literature Assoc. Conference in Boston by David Palmer
Once again on Memorial Day weekend, the Eugene O’Neill Society organized two panels at the American Literature It is with a profoundly heavy heart that His absence in Boston will be Association (ALA) conference, which in I write to you about the death of our heartrendingly painful for those of us 2019 was held in Boston. beloved friend and colleague Kurt Eisen, who knew him well. What I do look who passed away Friday, September forward to is joining together with the In the first panel, Yuji Omori from 13. He died at home, after battling Society, Kurt’s beloved community, to Takushoku University in Japan interpreted with lymphoma for nearly two years, in reminisce about him, joke about him, the contrasting images of the city and Cookeville, Tennessee, with his family at and mourn his loss together as a cohort nature in O’Neill’s plays; Zheng Fei, a his side. of friends who loved and admired him. Fulbright Fellow from Beihang University in China, presented a computer-aided Kurt was the soul and the conscience of Our deepest sympathies go out to his analysis of O’Neill’s use of island imagery the Eugene O’Neill Society. His masterful loving wife Rita, his daughter Anna, and in Mourning Becomes Electra; and Patrick scholarship was only overshadowed by his mother Chloe, along with all of the Midgley reported on the presentation of his warmth, his support of upcoming surviving members of his family and his his play about O’Neill and Shakespeare in scholars (like myself and so many others), colleagues at Tennessee Tech University, Sharjah, United Emirates Republic. Steve and his understated, always hilarious wit. where he served as an associate dean Bloom chaired this session. I don’t think it’s premature to tell that the of Arts and Sciences and the chair of executive committee has awarded him the English Department. He was a great Jeff Kennedy chaired the second O’Neill the Eugene O’Neill Medallion for next leader and a masterful writer. He knew Society session, which included Zander year’s international conference in Boston. O’Neill better than any of us. He had an Brietzke’s summary of his work on More His response to the email officially infectious smile. He was a good man, full Stately Mansions and O’Neill’s cycle informing him of the honor was typical stop. plays, which will be published next year Kurt--equal parts humble and hilarious: by Yale University Press as the book “I waited a day to respond, in case a ‘just - Robert M. Dowling, President of the Magnum Opus: The Extant Cycle Plays of kidding’ email followed.” Eugene O’Neill Society Eugene O’Neill. Ron Quirk, a newcomer to the O’Neill Society and an electrical engineer, presented the second paper, a psychoanalytic analysis of Dynamo from the perspectives of John Bowlby, Donald Winnicott, and Ernest Becker concerning attachment disorders and denials of mortality. The third paper was given by Ryder Thornton on O’Neill’s use of Max Stirner’s philosophy of egoism in Bread and Butter and Beyond the Horizon.
On Saturday evening members of the O’Neill Society joined members of the Arthur Miller Society for a joint dinner at a Boston restaurant.
2 O’Neill Society News Steve Bloom, Patrick We had a productive annual business Midgely and Beth Wynstra lead the Society’s annual meeting in May at the ALA Conference. business meeting at the We heard a detailed report from Alex Westin Copley Place in Pettit on the Eugene O’Neill Review. Boston Alex is excited about new sections of the Review including “Lost and Found,” “Director’s Circle,” and “Used Books.” Alex is enthusiastically accepting articles on pedagogy and practice, and pointed out that future issues may be shorter and more selective so as to lower our high acceptance rates.
Patrick Midgley is working with Katie Johnson to include a greater group of graduate students in our 2020 conference. There will be a graduate panel and a prize for a graduate paper. Patrick is hoping that such graduate involvement will result in growing our membership.
Beth Wynstra reviewed policies on 2019 O’Neill Society Business E-voting: When we have initiatives/ elections for members to vote, this is Mtg at ALA Conference included done online in advance of the annual meeting. If we make any changes in 2020 Conference Update the by-laws, 2/3 of membership must approve (formerly these changes took next international conference in Boston course, our Medallion Banquet. We one year to implement; that policy has (June 17-20, 2020). Our conference are honored to award Medallions this been changed.) home will be Suffolk University, year to several deserving individuals the place where the Society’s first and groups: Kurt Eisen, Thierry Rob Richter provided a report on international conferences were held in Dubost, Zander Brietzke, The Eugene the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. the 80s and 90s. Steve and Beth, along O’Neill Foundation, and the Irish The Center is spending $250,000 on with Katie Johnson, who is organizing Repertory Theatre. The conference renovations to Monte Cristo Cottage. the paper and presentation sessions, are hotel is the beautiful Sheraton Hotel in There is interest among Center staff to excited that this conference will include downtown Boston. Room rate is $279/ begin again the O’Neill Celebration that performances, readings, interactive night. Please plan on staying at the used to take place at the Cottage in the activities, a film screening, and Sheraton as we need to fill 75 rooms! fall. Steve Bloom suggested that we conversations with directors, along with Housing will also be available in one of might hold a business meeting there. traditional paper presentations. the Suffolk University residence halls.
Steve and Beth provided a brief The conference will also include a The opening of conference registration update on the 2020 conference: walking tour of O’Neill’s Boston, a bus will coincide with Membership Preparations are well underway for the trip to Forest Hills Cemetery, and, of Renewal in December. Watch for more!
New York Irish historian Peter Quinn won the 2019 Eugene O’Neill Lifetime Achievement Award, given in the playwright’s name by the Irish American Writers and Artists (IAWA). The ceremony took place at Manhattan Manor, Upstairs at Rosie O’Grady’s in New York City on October 21. Quinn is the author of the epic novel Banished Children of Eve, a 1995 American Book Award Winner, and Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America, a collection of non-fiction pieces. O’Neill Society News 3 The 20th Annual Eugene O’Neill Festival in Danville, CA at Tao House 20th Eugene O’Neill Festival at Tao hosted a month of exciting events from August 24-September 29, many House in Danville again merges with of which traveled to New Ross, Ireland for the 2nd Annual Eugene O’Neill O’Neill Festival in New Ross, Ireland International Festival of Theatre, the McGovern was soon on a trans- merging of the two again known as Atlantic flight leading an energetic “One Festival, Two Countries.” group of Americans to Ireland, where the New Ross Festival began on October 9. Co-directed with Sean Reidy, McGovern and the Festival leadership welcomed everyone at an opening reception at the Brandon House, the host hotel for the conference. The citizens and businesses encore of the production of Long The Danville Festival featured three of New Ross are very involved in Day’s Journey into Night performed in plays: O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Danville, as well as a rare staged reading Night, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee of O’Neill’s Strange Interlude, excellently Williams, and The Second Girl, a new performed by some of Ireland’s most play by Irish playwright Ronan Noone, celebrated actors that were directed by who was in attendance for a special Ben Barnes. conversation event on August 24. His The S. S. Glencairn plays were unique play is set in the kitchen of the encored on the Dunbrody Famine Ship Tyrone family on the same day in 1912 and noontime lunch events featured that Long Day’s Journey into Night takes the Festival as it is set in locations readings of O’Neill one act plays which place. At the heart of the festival was throughout the town. took place in New Ross restaurants. the “soul-stirring confessions of two of A new feature this year was the The American group enjoyed tours our greatest haunted poets,” the plays involvement of five O’Neill scholars of the Irish National Heritage Center, by O’Neill and Williams. Long Day’s from the US who gave presentations the John F. Kennedy Homestead and Journey into Night, presented in the Old and took questions at the Waterford Arboretum, and the Viking Waterford Barn at Tao House, was directed by Tao Institute of Technology and two Tour. The scholars group was invited to meet O’Neill descendent Alice McLoughlin at the site of Edmund O’Neill’s homestead (Eugene’s grandfather) and the remains of the
House Artistic Director Eric Fraisher sessions at the New Ross Library. Hayes, who also directed The Second William Davies King, Alex Pettit, Beth Girl. The Glass Menagerie was presented Wynstra, Zander Brietzke and Jeff by the Role Players Ensemble and Kennedy were able to give background home that James O’Neill lived in as a directed by Chloe Bronzan. on the Festival’s plays and allowed child before coming to America. We Special events during the Festival participants to ask questions about the also visited the graveyard nearby where included a concert on Sept. 5 by plays and O’Neill’s life. Alice’s family replaced their ancestor’s soprano Clodagh Kinsella, performing Plays were performed at St. Michael’s original gravestone. Amazing! “Irish Airs and Arias” and accompanied Theatre (pic on cover) and included an by Keith Stears. Three of O’Neill’s S.S. Glencairn sea plays, directed by Paul Walsh with an Irish cast, were performed aboard the 1886 square- rigger Balclutha at San Francisco’s Maritime National Park. And, O’Neill The beauty of the New Ross Festival Foundation President Dan McGovern was experiencing the Irish aspects again led the Festival’s annual Hike to of O’Neill in a rich way amongst the Tao House. beauty of his family’s homeland.
4 O’Neill Society News ss Eisel’s Reflections on Tao House Visit Completes Long Day’s Journey Pilgrimage TAKE A LISTEN TO A RECENT CONNECTICUT NPR Society Member Roberta Eisel recently and the comically tipsy portrayal of INTERVIEW ABOUT EUGENE journeyed to the O’Neill Festival in Cathleen. She noted that at the end O’NEILL WITH DOWLING Danville, and has shared how attending of the drama, when the chandelier is “Eugene O’Neill Deserves a Closer Look” Long Day’s Journey Into Night allowed turned off, “we are all left together in on The Colin McEnroe Show, featured her to “witness my favorite tragedy the darkness of the Old Barn before Society President Robert M. Dowling, both where it was conceived (Monte light is restored for the fine cast to take Howard Fishman and Jeannie Hackett Cristo Cottage, where she saw it last their bows. Quietly, even reverently at https://www.wnpr.org/post/eugene- year) and where it was ultimately and perhaps, we exit the viewing place oneill-deserves-closer-look painfully brought into this world (Tao together.” She was grateful for “an House).” She wrote that “to sit in the excellent theatre expericence,” and GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER barn and look across the darkness we’re grateful she shared it with us. AND PANEL COMPETITION of the grounds to that solitary light FOR 2020 BOSTON shining from the second floor study CONFERENCE where O’Neill crafted ‘this play of old The Eugene O’Neill Society is pleased sorrow’ is a privilege to be indulged if at to announce a graduate student all possible.” paper and panel competition for the Eisel appreciated the highlighting of 2020 International Conference, June symbols in this production, particularly 17-20 at Suffolk University in Boston. the wedding dress and chandelier, The competition is a joint effort with the Eugene O’Neill Foundation and Wynstra Brings Babson Students to Tao House the Eugene O’Neill Review to discover, For the last five years Society Secretary- support and publish the finest emerging Treasurer Beth Wynstra has brought scholarship on Eugene O’Neill. Three students studying in the Babson finalists will be chosen to present College San Francisco program to Tao their papers at the conference, have House for a day of touring, playwriting, their conference registration fees and performing. This year’s visit waived, receive a $100 from the O’Neill coincided with the O’Neill Festival Foundation Tao House Prize, and be and the production of Long Day’s invited to revise and expand their Journey into Night. Students created papers toward them being published and performed their original theater in the O’Neill Review. The submission pieces as part of a bake-off exercise; deadline is January 10, 2020. The CFP Beth provided five O’Neill-themed with instructions for submission can be ingredients that students had to viewed and downloaded at https://www. include in their plays. The group then eugeneoneillsociety.org/conference.html thoroughly enjoyed the production in the barn! Also there was Society VP, Katie Johnson, who was enjoying her time as a Tao House Fellow. Federal Theatre Project Conference October 16-19 in Toulouse, France In the week following the New Ross Geraldine Prevot, papers, panels and A new film titled Gilpin, directed by Festival, Society Members Jeff Kennedy, performances highlighted significant Arthur Egeli, focuses on actor Charles Thierry Dubost, Drew Eisenhauer, productions of the Federal Theatre Gilpin and his involvment in O’Neill’s The and Herman Ferrell, along with many Project, the Project’s Director Hallie Emperor Jones. The film is still looking for members of the International Susan Flanagan, and Glaspell’s role for a time a distribution deal and, if you would like Glaspell Society, including Noelia as the Mid-West Bureau’s Director. to lend your support, one way is to “like” Hernando-Real and Linda Ben-Zvi, the film’s Facebook page at https://www. joined other international scholars at facebook.com/GilpinTheMovie/. There the Universite Toulouse Jean Jaures you can view info about the film and see for a conference focusing on the US clips from it. Also, a trailer is available to Federal Theatre Project (1935-39). be seen at https://www.imdb.com/title/ Organized by Glaspell Society VP tt9612892/ Emeline Jouvre and O’Neill Scholar
O’Neill Society News 5 2020 Conferences for the Eugene O’Neill Society Society Conference Coordinator David entitled “Eugene O’Neill: Sources and May 21-24, in San Diego. Proposals for Palmer informs that once again this Influence.” Patrick Midgley will speak on pre-organized panels for this conference coming year, the O’Neill Society will references to Shakespeare in A Moon are due by January 30. Please email have a panel at the Modern Language for the Misbegotten; Zander Brietzke your ideas for papers or round tables to Association Convention (https://www. will explore O’Neill’s early friendship David Palmer ([email protected]) mla.org/Convention/MLA-2020), which with the painter George Bellows as a by January 10. in 2020 is in Seattle from January 9-12. source for Beyond the Horizon and an Going forward, we would like to have The Society’s session (#530), entitled inspiration for O’Neill to become “an O’Neill sessions at the American Society “O’Neill’s Path to the Nobel Prize” in a artist or nothing”; and David Palmer for Theatre Research (ASTR) conference nod to the convention’s locale, will take will present the beginnings of ideas (https://www.astr.org/) and at regional place at noon on Saturday, January 11 about two types of tragedy in Long Day’s literature conferences, which may be (Session 530). Dan Larner will chair this Journey Into Night, one modernist and easier and less expensive for graduate round table discussion. Panel members one postmodern, and consider O’Neill’s students to attend. Please email David are Steve Bloom, Patrick Midgley, and influence on Edward Albee and Sam Palmer about interest you may have in Ryder Thornton. Shepard. these. The Society also will have a three- The 2020 American Literature And, of course, there is the Society’s paper panel at the Comparative Association conference (http:// 11th International Conference on Drama Conference (http:// americanliteratureassociation.org/ala- Eugene O’Neill next spring in Boston, comparativedramaconference.org/) at conferences/ala-annual-conference/) June 17-20, which will give many of us a Rollins College in Orlando from April 2-4 will be held Memorial Day weekend, chance to be together again. Sheila Garvey Comes Full Circle With New Book by Zander Brietzke Robards as Theodore Hickman book features 25 photographs that teamed with director José Quintero document its beginnings off-Broadway and producer Ted Mann of the Circle as a non-profit, negotiations with trade in the Square Theatre to produce an unions, the establishment of a theatre iconic production of The Iceman Cometh school, and the creation of a venue for in 1956. Their success downtown blacklisted artists. Naturally, actors are convinced Carlotta Monterey to give at the center of the story, and many them the rights to produce Long Day’s of them have deep ties to O’Neill: Journey Into Night on Broadway later Geraldine Page, Colleen Dewhurst, that same year. Robards, with Quintero George C. Scott, James Earl Jones, Philip After conducting years of dogged directing, went on to play other leading Bosco, Al Pacino, and many others. research, including dozens of personal roles in O’Neill’s final dramas, including Sheila Hickey Garvey is a professor interviews, Sheila Hickey Garvey will Nat Miller in Ah, Wilderness!, Erie Smith emerita of theater at Southern culminate her academic career with in Hughie, Con Melody in A Touch of the Connecticut State University in New the publication next spring of Circle in Poet, and James Tyrone, Jr. in A Moon Haven, CT. She is a professional director the Square Theatre: A Comprehensive for the Misbegotten. The Players Club and actress, a member of Actors Equity History (McFarland 2020). She spoke awarded Robards the Edwin Booth Association, and a past president of the about her forthcoming book November Lifetime Award in 1999. A sketch of Eugene O’Neill Society. She co-edited 9 at The Players Club in New York City. Robards as Melody downstairs in Jason Robards Remembered, also from Founded by Edwin Booth in 1888 at his The Players Grill commemorates that McFarland, in 2002. Circle in the Square residence on Gramercy Park South, the occasion. Robards signed and wrote: “To Theatre is scheduled for publication Club displays a number of impressive the Players—What a night!! Frame me in April 26, 2020 and is now available for theatrical portraits, including a full- The Grill (and Bar).” pre-order from the publisher or through length study of Booth by John Singer The Circle in the Square production Barnes & Noble or Amazon.com. Sargent and another of the actor in sparked an O’Neill renaissance, but the character as Richelieu by John Collier. It organization earned recognition for Sheila Hickey Garvey also features two paintings and a sketch other landmark revivals and premieres with painting by Everett of Jason Robards, the main subject of of new plays as well. Garvey’s study Raymond Kinstler of Garvey’s presentation. The evening was presents the entire seven-decade Jason Robards as James staged as a symposium to raise funds for history of the organization from Tyrone, Jr. in A Moon the continued restoration of the Players’ its nightclub origins to its status as for the Misbegotten permanent collection of paintings. Broadway’s only arena stage. The at the Players Club, Gramercy Park, NYC 6 O’Neill Society News Society Members tour Tao House during ALA conference SocietyPhotos Members from tour Productions Tao House during of ALA O’Neill conference Plays in 2019
Long Day’s Journey into Night - KNOW Theatre A Moon for the Misbegotten - Ensemble Theatre Binghamton, NY - Directed by Tim Gleason - Feb 8-24 Cleveland Heights, OH - Directed by Ian W. Hinz - Mar 14-31
Long Day’s Journey into Night - Irish Players of Rochester Long Day’s Journey into Night - American Stage - St. Petersburg, Rochester, NY - Directed by Jean Gordon Ryon - Apr 5-20 FL - Directed by Brendon Fox - May 29-June 30
A Moon for the Misbegotten - Jewel Theatre Long Day’s Journey into Night - The Rouge Theatre Santa Cruz, CA - Directed by Joy Carlin - Sept 4-29 Tucson, AZ - Directed by Cynthia Meier - Sept 12-29 (pic also on cover)
Long Day’s Journey into Night - Ubantu Theater Project Long Day’s Journey into Night - Oberlin Summer Oakland, CA - Directed by Michael Socrates Moran - Oct 4-Nov 3 Theatre Festival - Directed by Paul Moser - July 5-27 O’Neill Society News 7 Miranda Gives Opportunity for ePublishing Emeline Jouve has informed us that she O’Neill. There are two issues each year Upcoming Events is in charge of the Theatre section for an and the next issue will be in April 2020 for the O’Neill ejournal titled Miranda. Ariel/Theatre with papers due by March 25 (Fall issue has “non-academic” papers (that are is in November and papers expected Society 2020 formal scholarly essays): reviews of by Oct 10). You are welcome to reach plays/exhibitions, interviews of artists/ out to Emeline at emeline.jouve@gmail. scholars, reports, or any other forms com, and you can view the journal January 1: RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP by to invent. She reports they have had at https://journals.openedition.org/ going to Society website and choosing contributions around Susan Glaspell miranda/7735 “Membership,” where you can pay online and would love to get papers on for another year’s membership in the Society. Eugene O’Neill Review Enters Fifth Decade by Alex Pettit, edtor, Eugene O’Neill magnificence is harder to grasp than to January 10: Paper submissions for Review sense? Zander Brietzke explains all. Want American Literature Asssociation more on stage directions, following Bess Conference in San Diego due to David Probably Eugene O’Neill Review 40.1 Rowan’s fine piece in 39.2? Director Eric Palmer ([email protected]) is already perched atop your Must-Read Fraisher Hayes discusses his creation of a Stack, ready to welcome you into Decade “third voice” for his controversial Hughie. January 11: O’Neill Society Panel at Five of that journal’s storied life. Or is And since we’re pondering O’Neill’s own Modern Language Association (MLA) using the new issue to celebrate the Big (abortive) work for film, what better Conference in Seattle, WA (Session 350) Four-Oh #FakeNews, because twelve occasion for Dan McGovern’s smart of the EOR’s years were actually the EO overview of O’Neill filmed, televisioned, Newsletter’s years? I’ll punt. But we all videoed, and livestreamed? Lily-gilding: like pretending that numbers don’t lie, a 1921 newspaper piece on O’Neill and and who needs an excuse to celebrate, Joseph Conrad, introduced by John G. anyhow? So open it up and join the Peters, “the leading American Conradian,” WE HAVE A NEW EMAIL ADDRESS FOR festivities! says the New Yorker. THE SOCIETY!!! Please send all emails And this issue does feel like a The photoplays and the Conradiana you would like to go to the Secretary- celebration. What are we celebrating? initiate the EOR’s “Lost & Found” Treasurer or to be passed on to the Globalism and diversity, for starters. feature, a formalization of our Executive Leadership Team to: Contributors hail from China, Japan, commitment to “publish[ing] little- [email protected] Ireland, and the US. Performance reviews known or rediscovered documents, cover productions from Canada, Japan, with appropriate contextualizing” Two Ireland, and, yup, that place that Texans more features will debut in 40.2. “Used call “the YOU-nited States.” The new Books” will reappraise published classics editorial board comprises colleagues in and obscurities of O’Neill studies. In Spain, France, China, and Ireland as well “Practitioners’ Colloquia,” theatre workers NEWSLETTER EDITOR: Jeff Kennedy as the US of A, this time meaning (let’s will discuss their recent engagements pretend) “[us], [a]gain.” And what an “us” with O’Neill’s work. Did someone suggest For future newsletter submissions, send this issue and its sponsoring society— more essays on pedagogy? That, too, to the editor at [email protected]. you, our readers—make. . . . looms. Deadlines are March 15 and October 15. We’re also celebrating the generosity I intend to honor, cherish, and of two colleagues—Zander Brietzke and promote the EOR’s commitments to For up-to-the-minute news, like and/or Ryder Thornton—who have signed on as verve and miscellaneity—and excellence. follow the “Eugene O’Neill International book- and performance-review editors, Previous editors Frederick Wilkins, Society” Facebook page. respectively. Zander Brietzke, William Davies King, As always, we’re celebrating first-rate and Kurt Eisen have paved that road The Eugene O’Neill International scholarship and lively prose. And— smoothly and well. I know I’ll enjoy the Society Web site: http://www. drumroll!—pop a cork for the first drive. And unlike “that ugly monkey, eugeneoneillsociety.org/ publication of two “photoplays” that Smythe,” I’ll keep both hands firmly on O’Neill dashed off in 1926, sharply in the wheel. For info on submitting to the O’Neill contradiction to his aloof attitude toward Perhaps you could drop me a line Review, go to our web site, then “Journal” Hollywood. after you’ve read volume 40. What’s Thought you knew everything working? What’s not? The EOR is the about Chinese adaptations of Desire Society’s journal, so if what we print isn’t Under the Elms?(!) Think again—or read ringing your bell, we’ve got a problem. Shouhua Qi’s fascinating essay on that I’m standing by at [email protected]. subject. Ever wonder why Sara Melody’s Thanks. 8 O’Neill Society News