TELLURIDE NEWSLETTER

1993 FALL VOLUME 81. NUMBER 1

Thanks to innovative planning and a campus. As other committee, pro- stable of computers, Telluride gram, and administrative expenses Associaton President Henry Muller was rise, and the funds available to us re- able to adjourn the shockingly efficient main stable, the care and thought re- 1993 meeting earlier than almost any quired at this Convention will continue other Convention in recent memory. In to be necessary, as will the budgeting the first weeks of June, Muller and other precision made possible by the system members prepared preliminary budgets instituted by Muller this year. anda computer program to provide com- Despite the seriousness of the de- mittees and the assembled body with up- liberations at this Convention, mem- to-da te informa tionon the organization's bers made time, as they always do, for financial needs and constraints. Secre- long Telluridean gossips on the front tary Kolin Ohi recorded the proceedings porch. Michael Migiel-Schwartz, son on a rented Power Book. Even the ba- of Marilyn Migiel and Joe Schwartz, roque Telluridian proxy system was sub- demonstrated a new-found talent for ject to the lash of computerization, and standing upright, and Pinta, canine Dan Dulitz's programming cut several mascot of the Custodians, lurked at the minutes from the time that themost basic edges of the meeting like an impatient and tedious of parliamentary procedures smoker. The Association approved, reauired.1 with regret and congratulations, the The new (and newly efficient) bud- Abe:Association members Mi-1 Grew (1) and graduation from membership of JqhSdKUJrtz (T). Belau: Daniel Dulitz, Har~ get process was welcome in a year when Muller, and Kolin Ohi (I-r). Martynas Ycas after 25 years of service the Association faced difficult and some- to Telluride. His wisdom, humor, and times painful choices about its programs University's possible revocation of fund- clear-sighted dedication will be missed and fiscal responsibilities. Due to the ing for TASP meant that the Association at Conventionsfor many years to come, long-range spending formula adopted in may be forced to pick up the entire cost of and his traditional place on the porch in 1990, the amount of money available for programs at , while St. the Convention photo will be held for projects remained constant while the cost John's College is still unable to provide him, in case he chooses to return. of those projects rose. Cornell matching support for the program on its

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of making a lasting mark on the institution. These two aspects of As trustees, we have two important trusteeship often present contradictory responsibilities to Telluride Associa- demands, and each of us is drawn to Report on TASS tion. Conservation is one of them, and one pole or the other according to our its importance, at least in financial nature. As a group, it is important to terms, is made explicit in our Constitu- recognize the value of both innovation tion. Conservation also has a program- and conservation and to balance them Alumni Notes matic dimension, since traditional in our discussions and decisions. projects provide a reliable means of -from the 1993 Convention report of focusing our efforts and creating edu- President Hen y Muller.

FALL 1993 Telluride Newsletter - 1 May 2,1993 RESEARCH ASSWANT POSITION

To: Telluride Association R.H. Wrightsonand Associates is a small, well-established Re: Deep Springs College bond market research firm with offices in New York and 75th Anniversary Capital Campaign London. We publish daily commentary over an electronic delivery system and a weekly newsletter in hard-copy Early this year we earned the final dollars of the $250,000 form. We currently have an entry-level position available matching grant of The James Irvine Foundation. With that in New York for someone with solid writing skills, an event, we came to the end of the single most successful fund- affinity for numbers and a tolerance for erratic work hours. raising effort in the history of the College. We raised more A degree in economics would be preferred, experience than $950,000, which is $200,000 beyond the ambitious with spreadsheet programs is essential. Anyone who is $750,000 goal the trustees established in 1990. Your gener- interested (former TASPers, friends of former TASPers, osity made that happen. former friends of former TASPe rs...) should send a resume With this done, I resigned from the board of trustees. to: The time required by the capital campaign, the establish- ment of the Bay Area development office and other financial Louis Crandall and legal problems at Deep Springs put a strain on my Chief Economist professional practice and left too little time for my new R.H. Wrightson & Associates, Inc. family. Nonetheless, the experience of the capital campaign 99 Wall Street, 17th Floor was very special and personally quite meaningful. New York, New York 10005 Most important was the support of many friends and alumni who made the decision to give larger amounts than Note: we would like to fill the position by January, or they had ever contemplated before. I will never forget how earlier if possible. Anyone who thinks they might fit the moved one alumnus was that we were rebuilding the col- bill but won't be available by then should keep us in mind lege, not just staving off its demise. I will always remember for later. We may have other openings in the future, so we the fun we had sending to past and current donors copies of are always happy to hear from qualified applicants. the book on the natural history of the White/Inyo range, perhaps the first time Deep Springs tangibly thanked its financial supporters. ATTENTIONFORMER TASPERS More personal were the strong friendships I formed with others who were working together to raise these mon- Interested in doing more than inte~ewfor the summer ies. I think particularly of Ed Hoenicke, Bruce Laverty, Will programs? Although it may not have always been made Scandling, Ken Mahoney, George Taylor, Bill Pezick, Bob clear, Telluride Association welcomes applications for Aird, Derinis Collins and Happy Esty of the Irvine Founda- membership from any Telluride associate. Anyone who tion, Paul Todd, Paul Swatek, Bill Allen and, of course, my has participated in a TA program, including those who wife, Hilary. Particularly at times whenevenour initial goal have never lived in a Branch, may apply. TA membership seemed out of reach and alumni support seemed less wide- involves actingas a trustee for the Associationby attending spread than we hoped, the humor and encouragement of annual Conventionsand serving on committeesduring the these people kept things going. year. Trustees contribute to the perpetuation of the Asso- Filly, there is the deep satisfaction at whatwe all have ciation and the continued success of its programs by achieved together, workers and donors, by our own efforts making decisions about financial policy, selecting new to manifest our dedication to the ideals inherent in Deep members, choosing participants in the TASP and TASS, Springs. Thank you for making the possible real. planning new programs, and overseeing established ones, as well as making decisionsinvolving the House. Prospec- Donald H. Read, 0559 TA62 BB63 tive applicants need not be equally interested in all aspects of membership and all of TA's current programs, though they should share a basic commitment to participation in and perpetuation of Nunnian educational projects. For more information, please contact TA Applications Officer Koll Jensen, at (607) 272-1880.

Cornell Branchmembers invite all of you former housemember and associate types to donate a copy of a book you have published. We are launching a project to add an alumni collection to the House library. Please send books (we'd love it if you signed them) to LibeCom, 217 West Ave. Ithaca, NY 14850. If you have any questions, please call (607) 272-1880 and ask for Prop/LibeCom or Jessica Ca ttelino.

2-Telluride Newsletter 1993 FALL L.L. NUNN: A MEMOIR

by Jessica Cattelino, SP91 CB92 TA93 While most Telluriders tell witty or dramatic tales of life at to "make scholarship relevant to reality, relevant to conscience, TASP, CBTA, or Convention, it is rare to find a Tellurider with and part of examined life." a good store of Nunn stories. Scott McDermott, SP84 CW McDermott approaches Nunnian history more as a TAM, wants to help remedy this. The second edition of Stephen Tellurider than as a strict academichistorian. He emphasizes to A. Bailey's L. L. Nunn: A Memoir was published by Cayuga Press readers the importance of engaging with Nunn's writings this year, with a new and insightful introduction by McDermott. directly as individuals. Furthermore, he asserts that Telluriders Currently writing his thesis on Nunn, McDermott brought "have a different relationship to Nunn than a scholar does, and significant experience and expertise to the project. we have a right to assert that." McDermott speculates that this The memoir reprinting was sparked by the observation of unique relationship may forever prevent Telluridersfrom writ- TA office staff that the inventory of first edition memoirs would ing Nunn's definitive biography, but it should not prevent us soon be exhausted. Rachel Dickinson, TA Administrative from making every effort to further explore Nunn's writings. Director, brought a proposal to the 1992 TA Convention to McDermott cites historical discomfort with Nunn's sexual- reprint the memoir, and thus the project began. This edition ity as a primary reason for the dearth of Nunnian biographical adds McDermott's introduction to the unchanged knowledge among Telluriders today. McDermott memoir, written inthe late 1920sby Stephen Bailey. In asserts that "Nunn really wanted his life to be known. 1889, the young Bailey moved out west to join Nunn His love for men wasnot really a secret in his lifetime. in the mining business, and later became a manager at What people have reacted to so negatively is the Nunn's Telluride Power Company. Nunn's and reductivenessof the labels [applied to Nunn's sexual- Bailey's relationship was rocky, and culminated in an ity]." McDermott says that the Association should estrangement which lasted through Nunn's death. not beafraid to talkabout Nunn's life, but "peopleon However TA commissioned Bailey in 1926 to write all sides should bechallenged by what they find inthis the memoir, and in 1933 Cayuga Press published the evidence." McDermott urges people who do not first edition. Sixty years later, McDerrnott added the connect Nunn's personal life with his theories to see - preface, in which he explores the history of the memoir, reveals the way that Nunn'sthoughtand androphilia wereintertwined, more about Nunn's life, and discusses the relationship between while those who focus on Nunn's personal life should see that the "homosexuality problem" and Nunnian history. Nunn was not a contemporary homosexual but maintained a - While not a Nunn enthusiast through all of his Telluride different approach to his sexuality. years, McDermott grew increasingly fascinated with Nunn and The work of McDermott and other members has sparked his legacy and now feels that Telluriders and Deep Springers Telluride Association and Deep Springs to explore our should more vigorously cultivate interest in Nunn and his founder's life and our organizations' histories. The creation of writings. The introduction to the memoir, according to the TA/DS History Project Committee signals a new interest in McDermott, "was a lot of fun to write." McDermott, seeing our institutionalhistory. Projects include opening positions for Nunnian history as a "great, unexplored terrain," spent many students at Deep Springs and CBTA to work as archivists. The long hours poring over archival materials in Cornell's Olii student archivists will organize the extensive Nunn holdings at Archives, and found that "there's a good story to be told" about Deep Springs and Olin Library, making the writings more Nunn. McDermott's mission was to uproot some of the "cyni- accessible. call reductiveviewsof Nunn" whichheclaimssomeTelluriders Though sixty years have passed since the publication of the hold. Of most interest to McDermott was Nunn's intellectual memoir, we still lack a definitive Nunn biography. However, backgroud and how Nunn's intellectual influences were re- the newly reprinted memoir allows Telluriders to catch a flected in his application of theory to practice. McDermott glimpse into the life and writings of L.L. Nunn. Whether your found that Nunn was a "very conscientious reader, passion- curiosity lies with Nunn's business endeavors, his religious ately interested in ideas, and interested in making them a part of convictions, his positions on class, or a host of other issues, you his life." McDermott urges readers to follow the influence of will find something of interest in the Nunn memoir. Nunn's theories through his politics, his business dealings, and McDermott's challenge is to engage with Nunn's writings, and his personal life. to recognize that these texts are intimately tied to our current When asked what Nunnian institutions should do to carry institutions. If "there's a good story to be told" about Nunn, on the legacy of Nunn, McDerrnott replies that he interprets then Telluride and Deep Springs affiliates should consider Nunn's "ultimate mandate" to be "to develop a purpose: for becoming more familiar with our own traditions. each individual and each institution to develop a purpose." McDermott feels that "The Association as a whole could use a Copies of L.L. NUMIT: A MEMOIR may be obtained fiom the little more of an identity, and one place we could look is at Telluride Association Ofice,217 West Avenue, Ithaca, New York Nunn. But I don't think we should take a fundamentalist 14850, (607) 273-5011. Cost :$5.00 per copy if you can pick it up, approach, either." Rather, TA should use Nunn and his ideas $7.00 per copy to mer mailing expenses.

FALL 1993 Telluride Newsletter - 3 Six people have held the executive remember his early assurance that only the Office need concern me: the respon- oficer position of Telluride Associa- sibility for all else in the House lay with tion since 1930 and the title has the resident gentlemen. Another legend! changedfrom Chancellor to Execu- Big Willie--illiterate, cheery, strong , tive Secrefay to Administrative enough to lift a bank of steel files, but ' Director. Beatrice MacLeod was the regularly undone by the alcoholic sprees following each paycheck, is an indelible Executive Secrefay of Telluride memory. Felled by pneumonia one Association from 1960 to 1983, and Christmas break when the House was Bea 's predecessor, E .M. "Johnny" empty, he was taken, terrified to the hos- vital. Since mine was the onlv local name Johnson, was Chancellor of the he could tell them, they call& me. That Associationfor the preceding thirty became an unusual Christmas. When Mr. Johnson began his years. Only Willie and Mr. Johnson could association with Telluride it was as CONFESSIONS communicate with the Telluride Ghost-- a "pinhead" at one of its Branches, the founder's ne~hew.Frank Whitman. who periodicali and 'silently appeared so when he served as Chancellor, it OF AN in need of a pallet on~thefloor, a haircut was as an insider. When Mrs. and a bus ticket. Johnny died, Willie was EX-EXEC-SEC let go, and the ghost was never seen MacLeod began what was to be a again. twenty-three year affiliation with (WITH APOLOGIES) the Association, there was trepida- None but those who have lived through TA Conventions really believe tion on the part of many Association by Beatrice MacLeod the tales of those annual 3day 3-night members who could not imagine an orgies of self-examination and redirec- outsider, much less a woman, taking tion. My early exposure was to such returning elder statesmen as John the place of Johnny Johnson. But Although is was nearly fifty years before Lindenbaum, Gerry Loewenberg, Bob under Bea's tenure the summer we got together, Cornell's Telluride Gatje, Don Noel ... To hear Paul Szasz House and I were bothbom in 1910. And argue a case for selective investment was programs more than doubled, the as we approach the century's end to- as close to a legal education as I would Association and the Branch began to gether, the historic facts of my office ever get. ~nd~oel'shumanist passion at accept women as members, and years, recorded in Minutes and files, are 3 A.M. after a full day of committees and blurring into an archivist's fog. What report-writing-could there be nobler Ro- Telluride inched its way into the emerges in their place is a portrait-gal- man? I sat hi incredulous, exhausted electronic age. Bea's remarkable lery--long, now shadowed, now brilliant- awe. -each face framed in memory-polished contributions to Telluride Associa- distinction. Each of you has scores of As Conventions rolled on, those el- tion continue to astound as we Telluride friends and memories; for me, der statesmen'were replaced by younger peruse the files in search of what it's hundreds, and volumes. The price- men-or did they just seem younger be- less legacy of Telluride, for all of us, is cause I knew them better? Deep Springs must seem to many of you like people. emerged from a mythical kingdom to an ancient Telluride history. And extraordinary reality, in a setting of idyl- In the beginning, of course, there lic beauty, producing such indispens- fbrtunately, when we need tidbits of was Johnny Johnson--genial, devoted ables as David Webb, Jan Vleck, Denis information about pre-1983 Tellu- heir and trustee of the Association's early Clark, Eric Swanson. Well, somebody ride events or people we can still call legends, retiring filly to write them had to know how to fix things around the down for posterity--a task he was not to T-House. on Bea's expertise. finish. With a chuckle of hindsight I

- 4-Telluride Newsletter 1993 FALL The Summer Programs, started by Johnnyin a small way (he firmlybelieved that the high schools able to produce worthy candidates could be counted on his ten fingers) were hitched to the na- tional resources of the Educational Test- ing Service, and suddenly there were potential young by the hundreds, from Texas to North Dakota. Puerto Rico to Madm4 l MBrriseUI, CB58 TA59 SPF69,P1 Telluridetbvsc in lhe 1970s Alaska, and even beyond the oceans. The search for Association-connected inter- viewing each spring intqduced me to daughter and her doctor in case of need. viewers produced an unsuspected people and places I'd neyer have seen on When she finally left us, after five years, wealth of accomplished and willing my own, and young interviewees whose the house presidents of those years were alumni, and I found pen-pals like Ted later associationwithTelluridehasbeena honored to serve as her funeral pall-bear- Rust, Greg Votaw, Bob Fortuine, Thomas source of strength and pride--Alex Gold, ers. Fairchild, and countless others. Nancy Glazener, Janice Willis, Fred Maus, Harry Stahl, I could name you all, The effort to include in the Branch Meanwhile, changes were in the air but you know who you are. It was Tellu- foreign scholars inaddition to the Lincoln right on West Avenue. The disturbing ride friends who saw me through the Exchange was always a major charge on possibility that TA's purposes and plans dark year of '72, when I lost husband and my agenda. The von Fakenhausen con- might be furtheredby the participationof son. Some found their way to the tact was well-established and helpful women was debated with Telluridean MacLeod Arms on State Street, where with Europeans, but locating qualified thoroughness. The invitation to Frances guest-room or quiet study or tree-shaded candidates from the Philippines, from Perkins to become a resident faculty lawn offered sanctuary. Steve Fix ulti- Africa and Asia was more complicated. guest was revolutionary, but proved so mately deserted the T-House for the gar- Shadrack Kwasa and Michael Echeruo successful that it was extended to perma- den apartment at 957 where Nabokov both made valued contributions to the nency--and Telluride's world survived. had finished Lolita. I remember sessions House as residents and later as alumni. A tentative experiment offering "partial around the fireplace with Michael Shortly after the end of the Biafran War, preferment" to selected undergraduate Davidson, with Steve Machooka from ~che&opaid a summer visit and shared women was less than satisfactory, but Kenya (the champion runner who was a with TASPers then in residence his expe- change was blocked by the university's waiter at the Branch), with Jan Svejnar riences as a fighter on the losing side of a residence rules. and his visiting mother, with David civil war in his own country. It was an Marshall. And there was the summer afternoon those TASPERs and I will not Solution appeared in the person of when Marilyn Migiel lived with me, forget. A collection of Andrew Harvey's Gayatri Chakravorty, graduate student hedge-clipping and garden-tidying. poetry marks another Telluride-made from India, brain and beauty of the cam- Dawidoff found the mint-bed at julep- friendship. Philip Grierson, Radha pus, particularly admired by the resi- time, and Weller used the apartment Sinha, continue to keep in touch. And I dents of the Yellow Brick House. Gradu- when he came to town as TASP faculty. count Romila ~ha~ar'asa very special ate students, said the Dean's office, could These memories go on and on-- and permanent friend. livewhere theyliked. Thenon temporary leave at Cambridge, Gayatri was asked if The privilege of sharing contact with Now I've left the homeplace for an she'd be interesd in applying to Tellu- the succession of faculty-guests was no apartment downtown. Sensiblybut wist- rideon her return. And so came aboutthe meandividend. Etched in my recall is the fully. Play-reviewing continues, and a first femalestudent resident. All too soon kindly head-shake of Linus Pauling, monthly gossip-column on theater af- she left the House to marry--but the ice stopping-by my desk to disapprove the fairs seems to have a wide readership. was broken. And happily. What else is cigarette I hadn't quashed quite soon Walking to Telluride is a bit more of a there to tell? Laura Wolfowitz became enough. Nor will I forget the smiling trudge than it used to be, but bothering the first woman member of the Associa- comment of Mrs. I.F. Stone: "Thisis what Rachel is a worthy objective. And the tion, and in due course Kathy Maus and Izzy's always wanted--a bunch of bright contrast between her overflowing tom- Andrea Kavaler have both served splen- boys and an all-night kitchen!" To this puterized office and the placidity of did terms as president. day I cherish a seashell brought to me Johnny's long afternoons of reminiscing from California by Frances Perkins. Her with early-day Telluride men, perfectly Unfortunately, a real oral history of presence in the House was something of illustrates the resilience of a unique Edu- the ExecSec's 23 in the Association office a responsibility, and in my desk drawer cational Trust. The founder might not would extend to volumes. TASP inter- were the telephone numbers of her approve, but many of us do!

FALL 1993 Telluride Newsletter - 5 TASP

6-Telluride Newsletter 1993 FALL TASS

The summer of 1993 saw the fortieth anniversary of the presence of strong African-American peers who value TASPs and the very first TASS. One of Telluride education as much as I do." Association's newest endeavors came to fruition this sum- At the most recent Convention, the Associationvoted mer when fourteen African-American sophomores de- to continue TASS in the summer of 1994. The seminar for scended on the campus of Indiana University-- the program is entitled "Self and Society: African-Ameri- Bloomington. The Telluride Association Sophomore can Autobiographical Writings" and will be taught by Seminar differs both in structure and purpose from the Professors Audrey Thomas McCluskey and Fred TASPs and is considered by many a welcome (and McElroy. Both are faculty in the department of Afro- needed) addition to the Association's projects. Dynishal American Studies at Indiana University. The seminarwill Gross, SP89 CB90 TA92, was one of the tutors at this focus on the published memoirs of African-American summer's TASS, along with Isaac Kalumbu, a graduate from slavery to the present, and will also incorporate the student from Indiana University. The professors were students' own autobiographical writings. Portia Maultsby and Bill Wiggins, both faculty in the Afro- by Rebecca Sherouse, SP91 CB92 American Studies de~artmentat Indiana Universitv. The subject of the TASS seminar was "Play and Performance: African-American Music and Sports in Twentieth Cen- tury America." One of the main differences between the TASS and the TASPs was the age of the participants. The younger TASSers, as th~werecanemre somewhat less pre- pared for the considerable workload of the seminar. To this end, they were asked to write daily reading responses and each student met with a tutor for a weekly writing conference. The seminar itself met fortwo and a half hours every day and was considered a success by the partici- pants as well as the professors and tutors. ~lthoughthere was not gender parity at the TASS (eight women and six men), it was not perceived as a problem by either the TASSers or the tutors. The participation was balanced in seminar, with all members of the communitycontributing insights both from the texts and from personal experience. The social aspect of the TASS was also considered a success by Dynishal and the TASSers themselves. Several field trips were taken during the six week program: a Fourth of July outing to Lake Lemon in Bloomington, a day-long trip to Indianapolis, and frequent barbecues at the professors' houses. In addition, the tutors organized a Parents Weekend at the end of the third week of TASS. This helped alleviate the homesickness of many of the TASSers, and allowed them to renew their enthusiasm for the TASS. At Indiana University itself, the facilities were excellent. The TASSers had access to several computer labs, the library and athletic facilities, and were encour- aged to explore the campus by their professors and tutors. Through informal lectures, the group met many of the other faculty at the university, while a more formal tour brought them into contact with other departments. Dynishal is seriously considering Indiana University for her graduate studies, and many of the TASSers were similarly impressed with the school. The students themselves were overwhelmingly en- thusiastic about their experience at TASS. In the final evaluation of the program one student wrote, "For some reason many blacks find it uncool to develop their talents and become academic scholars. I was pleased to be in the 1993 Telluride Association Sophomorr Seminar

FALL 1993 Telluride Newsletter - 7 PETER T. GEACH, CBG59, writes "Since international trade agencies, has been I last wrote, a mixture of joy and sorrow. named General Counsel of the Export- LORD MURRAY OF NEWHAVEN, Our lives for the last year has been over- Import Bank of the United States. The CBG28, recently sent the Association Of- shadowed by the needs of a daughter bank is a government agency that helps fice a copy of his book Recollections. He who is slowly recovering after a (techni- finance and promote the sale of U.S. writes, "I was your graduate guest in cally successful) brain operation. On the goods and se~cesaround the world. 1928-29 and it was indeed a memorable other hand, I am very glad to have lived to year in my long life." see the celebration in London, under the CARL KAY, SW3, remains President of auspices of the Polish Ambassador, of the Japanese Language Services, Inc., of Bos- 200th Anniversary of the Polish Constitu- ton, a transla tion and consultingfirm. He tion of May 3, 1791: a musical concert, willbe movingwithhiswife,YokoIkeda, DR. WARD J. FELLOWS, DS31 CB34 largely of Chopin, followed by feasting and son Wataru Aaron to Osaka in 1995 TA34, and Mrs. Fellows served this sum- on traditional [foods] with lots of vodka. to open a Japan branch office of the com- This was in the Palace of Whitehall." mer as members of a deleeation to the pany. Commonwealth of IndepGdent States under The Citizen Ambassador Program LESLIE FEDER LEONARD, SP76, and family announce the birth of Isaiah of People to People International, which JANET PIERREHUMBERT, nee Herschel Leonard on June 22,1993. was originally established by the Breckenridge, SP70, has been promoted Eisenhower Administration, but has to Professor of Linguistics at Northwest- PHILIP GRIERSON, CBG76, received an been privately supported since the 1960s. em University. She is also the recent Dr. Fellows, Emeritus Professor of Phi- honorary LL.D. from his own University recipient of an NSF Faculty Award for of Cambridge (England) on June 10. He losophy at the College of San Mateo, was Women Scientists and Engineers. a delegate from the American Academy writes, "My regards to Rachel, Henry of Religion, which selected and directed Muller, and any of the House who may RICK SHEPRO, SP70, has been elected to remember me. I hope to see you on my the Religious Education Delegation to membership in the American Law Insti- usual fewdays visit when in the States Ukraine and Russia. tute. next fall."

CAROL F. LEE, SWl, a former partner in DAVID B. GLAZER, SP77, is now living the Washington, D.C. law firm of This past August marked ROBERT in Mill Valley, CAI having recently wed Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and member RobinKohn. Botharedoingenvironmen- RICHTER'S, PB47,twenty-fifth year as an of President Clinton's transition team for independent documentary producer and tal law-Robin with the .Department of his first World of Audubon special, Gm Camp, Deep Springs, 1971 "Backlash in the Wild," about the grow- ing anti-environmentalmovement in the United States. Two other Richter produc- tions will be aired in 199WfTheMoney Lenders" and "BenSpock, Baby Doctor."

DAVID WEBB, DS53 CB56 TA56, has had plenty of travel in the last two years: two months in China as head of the U.S. del- egation to the International Quaternary Association meetings in Ice Age Studies; two months in Brazil and Argentina in connection with a recent book, The Great American Biotic Interchange; two months in Africa to look at fossil and modem mammal faunas and to see daughter Sandra at her Peace Corps work; and two months in Stuttgart tostudy the oldest known deer.

- 8-Telluride Newsletter 1993 FALL PHOTOARCHIVES PROJECT

This past summer the Telluride Association Office embarked on what will be an ongoing archival pmject. Summer office assistant Mariah Prentiss retrieved all of the photographs that were gathering dust in various locations within Telluride House and attempted to sort and identify as many individualsand locationsas possible. We obviously have a long way to go but the photographs are now rehoused in archival materials and a catalogue and accessioning system has been established. What has become obvious is that we don't have asmany historicalphotographsas wewouldlike,i.e. pre 1970s, and those we do have are not easily identifiable. So if you are looking toclean out yourown photo archivesand wouldlike to send them onto the Telluride Association Office, we not only would love to have them, wenow have a systeminplace tohandle theseimages.

If you were in any of the Branches (we don't have any pictures of Pasadena Branch), any of the TASPs, or at an ADSTA function, or at Deep Springs, we would welcome your pictures. When identify- ing your photos, don't write directly on the pichue (either the front or the back). Instead, write your information on a separate sheet of

paper and put a small number or letter on the back of your photo to - ~ ma tcK .u.k-Gth.- &=.ii;fdrmationn; Sora*er -*-& t-oss&g--*ose o-id photos, send them on to Rachel Dickinson,AdministrativeDirector, Telluride Association Office, 217 West Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850. TASP, 1954

the Interior and David with the Depart- She walked the Coast to Coast walk, member of the Phi Beta Kappa chapter at ment of Justice. He writes, "No plans for from St. Bees Head in the Lake District to Radcliffe, has been awarded the $10,000 rug-rats just yet!" Robin Hood's Bay in North Yorkshire. Sibley Fellowship for the 1993-94 aca- demic year. She will use the award to MARINA HSIEH, SP77, writes, "As EMERSON BROWN, CBG82, received complete her dissertation, "Plato's States- muchas I haveloved NYC and practicing Vanderbilt's Award for Excellenceinun- man: The Delineation of Political Theory," civil rights law, my nomadic life takes me dergraduate teaching in 1992. His most at the University of Cambridge, England, back across the country. After a 3,000 recent articles are on Chaucer's Knight where she is a teaching assistant. She mile train adventure (Nick Clifford was, and on Hardy's "Convergence of the began her studies at Cambridge in 1989 as after all, a fellow TASPer), I'llsettleinSan Twain." His wife, Cindy, CBG82, is a Marshall Scholar. Francisco and start teaching at the School thriving in her new career as a feminist of Law at the University of California, cartoonist, publishing regularly in BECKY PINNICK, SP83 CB84 TA88, Berkeley." Vanderbilt publications and freelancing writes, "I'm still living the sinfully tran- nationally. quillife of the Peace Corps volunteer in Costa Rica. The soccer is exciting, the cows LOUISA COAN, SP82 CB83 TA86, is are mean, and, apparently, the toads will PATRICIA POLLIO, SP80, is completing living in Washington, D.C. and working grab you if you urinate outside at night, her training in Obstetrics/Gynecology at for National Endowment for Democracy Happily, I continue in good health, work- New York Hospital and joining a private as Assistant Program Officer for Asia. ing on a variety of projects ranging from OB practice in New York. She and her She was elected to the Amnesty Interna- aqueducts to English classes to artisanry. husband Kirk have a mn,Jeremy, born in tional Board of Dirwtsn this past sum- I'd lbto hear from pld friends md can January 1993. mer. promise all sorts of useful information about shortening cures, interspecies JENNIFER CROMLEY, SP81, spent two MELISSA S. LANE, SP83, a 1989 summa breeding, and the cultivation of lychee weeks hiking across England by herself. cum laude graduate of Harvard and fruit trees."

FALL 1993 Telluride Newsletter - 9 ALLEGRA GOODMAN, SP84, had a tunity and education. She apologizes to tronomy at my old school, Phillips Exeter short story, "Mosquitoes," published in those friends whose letters have gone Academy, and then backpacked in Wyo- the August 9, 1993 issue of the New unanswered and offers her e-mail ad- ming and Colorado for a while. I am Ymker. dress ([email protected]) if they'd like to spending my sophomore fall at Princeton chastise her electronically for her inatten- and transferring to Harvard in the spring PHILIP G. KAPLAN, CB85 TA86, and tion. to be either a Classics or Sanskrit and Leslie B. Glickman were married on Sep- Indian Studies major." tember 5,1993 in New Haven, CT. LIZ PISARES, SP88, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in May from UC Berkeley with an After spending academic year 1992-93 MARC ABRAMSON, SP86, has begun a individual major in American Studies. studying at the University of Florence Ph.D. in Chinese History in the East This fall she entered UC Berkeley's Ph.D. (where, among other things, she figured Asian Studies Department at Princeton. program in English with a Ford Founda- out how Umberto Eco may have been tion Predoctoral Fellowship for Minori- inspired to imagine the closed off, laby- RICHARD BAUM, SF'86 CB87 TAB, was ties. rinthine library in The Name of the Rose), elected to the county legislature of Or- SUZIE HAGEDORN, CB91 TA92, has ange County, New York on November 2, SHEPARD SMITH, DS88 CB90 TA91, re- ceasedher Europeanwanderings andhas 1993. ceived a commission in the NOAA returned to Ithaca. She is happy to be Corps, the smallest uniformed service, backhome at CBTA (and inOliinLibrary), DIANA LANE, SP86, recently started and will be senring on the NOAA Ship this academic year as she works on her gradutate school in range science at Colo- Rainier for two years. The ship will be dissertation on Dank, Boccaccio, and rado State University in Fort Callings. doing hydrographic survey work off the Chaucer. She wishes her 1992 Williams She writes, "En route to my research site, coast of Alaska from March to Novem- TASPers the best of luck in their first year I pass through the town of Nunn, Colo- ber. Shep will live in Seattle during the of college and would love to hear what rado and I think of Telluride." winter. His address is: NOAA Ship any of them (especially Merv) are up to Rainier, 1801 Fairview Avenue East, Se- these days. ADAM LISBERG, SP87, writes, "I gradu- attle, WA 98102. ated from the by CAROLINE HARRIS, SP92, wasnameda the skin of my teeth, drove across the member of the Illinois All-State Aca- country, then worked as a police reporter demic Team. She told the Chicago Tri- covering fires and murders in Chicago MARTYN ATKINS, CB90 TA91, writes bune that her top experience was the before landing my current job as a mu- that he '%as completed his first year as a Telluride Association Summer Program, nicipal reporter at the Daily Southtown doctoral student at Lincoln College, Ox- saying, "The bliss of intellectual freedom newspaper. I found life in academia ford, with the minimum of scrapes and offered by considerate peers challenged stultifying, but life on the outside can be only one late night in three. He has me to define ideals and dreams that will a bit brusque. You can't win." managed to define his thesis topic as far always beckon beyond where I am." as "The Nobility of Burgundian Flanders, ALAN SCHWARTZ SP87, continues re- 1384-1453" and plans to spend the sum- search for his Ph.D. in cognitive psychol- mer in the Algemene Rijksarchief in Brus- ogy and would like to hear from his long- sels, learning Dutch and accumulating In Memoriam lost Williams SP87 friends. Please e-mail dust and data in that order. In March he CARLYLE M. ASHLEY, DS17 CB20 him ([email protected]) or was elected to a North Senior Scholarship TA20, died April 15, 1993. A native of write: 1816 Carlson Blvd., Richmond, CA at St. John's College, Oxford, and will be Indianapolis, he attended and taught at 94804-5222. taking up this appointment in the Deep Springs College, and he received a fall-however, he expects his links with mechanical engineering degree from CATHY A. CARLSON, SP88 CBS9 TA90, Lincoln to remain as strong as ever. He Comell. Over the years Ashley was in order to avoid moving her belongings would welcome visits from TA members awarded 67 patents for his work at Car- out of the Telluride attic, will remain in and associates either passing through rier Corporation, including the first high- Ithaca indefinitely as a student in Oxford or forced to stop over at efficiency gas furnace for homes. He Comell's M.F.A. program in verse writ- Heathrow, and looks forward to extend- lived in Syracuse, New York, and served ing. After finishing her undergraduate ing them the hospitality of the Lincoln as the president of that city's Museum of degree summa cum laude in May, she en- Liaison Committee, c/o The White Fine A-&, as well as in several other com- joyed a summer internship at The Atlantic Horse." Monthly under the guidance of senior munity organizations. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, three sons, and eight editor C. MICHAEL CURTIS, CB61, to DIANA GIBSON, SP91, writes, "I spent whom she is very grateful for the oppor- the summer as a teaching intem in as-

10-Telluride NewsIefter 1993 FALL CURTIS 0.BAKER, PB49, died on Sep- tember 2, 1993, after a five-year battle 1992 TASPERSURVEY OF COLLEGE CHOICES with lymphoma. He retired from theU.S. Departmentof Education in 1990andhad Malinda ALLen, Cornell I lived in Jupiter, Florida, near two of his ChrfglnaChqCornelll children and his two grandchildren since Sean Coar, Cornell I John Corso. Cornell I February 1992. ChristopherDolan, Comell I Princeton University Oscar Hansa-~,Cornell I Montira Horayangura, Cornell I %Nyk?AF MAURICE DANIELS, CBG86, died Janu- John Miller, Cornell I Alrd~erstCollege ary 28,1993. After nearly thirty years of Poornlma PakUpaty, Cornell I Yale University Edward Park, Cornell 1 Haward University work with the Royal Shakespeare Com- heSUva, Comell I Cornell Unhrersity pany, Daniels, a widely-respected direc- Joanna Skter, Cornell I Smilh College LaTonya Tralter, Cornell I Willlam College tor and actor, toured the United States. Lenny Twetsky, Cornell I Yale University He spent the fall of 1986 at Cornell, ap- Amanda Watson, Cornell I ZahIr AsmaL Cornell 11 pearing in Bruce Levitt's production of Molly Bettln, Cornell U Love's Labour's Lost and directing stu- Gregory Bronner, Cornell 11 Princeton University Tad Edwards, Cornell 11 dents in his own anthology Twentieth Michael Garcia, Cornell 11 Century Blues. Daniels' friend and associ- Helen Geib, Cornell 11 Drew University Vanessa Grajwer, Cornell 11 Yale University ate David Brierly writes of the last years Mark Greif, Cornell II Haward University of the artist's life, "[This was] the most Veronica lung, Cornell 11 Haward University Abigail Marceluk, Cornell 11 fulfilling part of his life, where he com- Dushan Pelrovirh, Cornell 11 Yale Unhrersity bined his vast knowledge and skills with Daniel Trutt, Comell I1 Michael Wood, Cornell I1 Rice University his ability to communicate with wa-mh, Olivia Cmby, St. John's humour and compassion as teacher and Assad Ebrahhq St. john's David Eilenbes St. John's Haward University director." Ryan Eyster, St. John's Cornell University Jeremy Fieben, St. John's Haward University Elhan Grossman, St.John's FRED M. MOORE, TA29, died October Caroline Harris, St. John's Hanszen College 25,1992 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was Iffat lskm St. John's Yale University Yul Kwon, St. John's Stanford University born in Provo, Utah, on August 2,1906, a Samuel Marlowe, St. John's Uhok Instltule of Technology son of Frederic J. and Mildred Boshard Jennifer Phwl,St. John's Sarah Rankin, St. John's Moore. Hemamed Wanda Richmond on Idle Sulc 8.John's Haward Unkersity August 1,1932. They later divorced. He Yvonne Wei, 8. John's Leslie Abrans, Williarllr Brown University married Wanda Lambourne on January Derrick Ashong, William 3, 1946 in Berkeley, California. Fred Lars Day, Wins Casey Dugan, William Duke University graduated from Provo High School and Jacob ELiosoH, WWm from BW in 1930 where he was a cheer- Melissa Hoover, Willim Catharine Hornby, William Haward University leader for four years, attended Stanford Dennis Jowm, William University of Chicago University School of Business, was per- Danlel Kim, WWm Haward Uliversity Meredith Long,William sonnel director at ZCMI for many years, Kelly Myers, William retired vice-president at Strevell- lung-Yoon Park. William University of Pmsyivania Sandra Park, Willlam Haward University Peterson Hardware Co., president of Salt Braxton Robbason, Wtlliarm Haward Untversity Lake Exchange Club in 1958. He was Max Schi Willkrm Denise Shepherd, Willkm Stanford University active in Chamber of Commerce and Jun- MariShopsis, WiUlam University of Chicago ior Achievement, a member of the Cot- Sughd Venkatesh, William Princeton University tonwood Club, and a Sunday School president and High Priest Group Leader in the LDS Church. He is survived by his wife, Wanda, three sons, fifteen grand- The dissertation of MARY C. her family. In 1992, Mary's husband children, four step-grandchildren, and MANSFIELD, SP76 CB77 TA78, will ERIC WEFALD, SP74CB75 TA76, had four great-grandchildren. be published posthumously by a book, Do the Right Thing: Studies in Comell Univerisity Press under the LimitedRatiomlity,published posthu- title The Public Humiliation of Sinners, mously by MIT Press (with coauthor and all royalties will be donated to Stewart Russell). Telluride Association at the request of

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