Brown, 83, had been coaching high school basketball in Fair Lawn, N.J., when he met Daly – eventually a two-time championship coach with the Detroit Pistons but at the time an assistant coach at Duke – during a summer program for college prospects. In time Brown joined Daly at Duke ...
Anita thought about this first class discussion this summer as we entered a phase of the fall planning at Carleton where there seemed to be a lot of decisions being made that had implications for faculty and staff health and safety without the full participation of faculty and staff. While we...
Chuck Han writes: “On the summer solstice of this past leap year, I exchanged vows with Mutsuko Adachi at our commitment ceremony at the beautiful Bernardus Spa and Lodge in Carmel Valley, California. In attendance were fellow ’86ers Domenic Di Meo, John Mannato, David Geffen, and Wendy...
This summer I got to the semifinals of the U.S. Open in Venice, Calif., in singles and to the semifinals of the Nationals in St. Augustine, Fla., in doubles. Not bad for a 45-year-old!" Katherine Oxnard Ellis (see Engagements & Weddings). Ed Hu (see Engagements & Weddings, ...
My older sister, Vee-Dawg, was tasked with taking me to pre-school one summer morning. Pre-schoolers didn’t get a summer break. My sister was probably around 11 or 12 years old when she put me on the back of her bicycle to head to school. Instead of having me face the direction...
I’m raising a ten-year-old who I’ve moved away from her village: her dad, his wife, their baby who made her a big sister this summer, my mother and hers — the women who’ve helped me with the hands-on work of raising her from the moment she was born. And in so doing, I...
My daughter lies in the hammock under that tree on hot, summer days and reads or swings and sings songs (loudly). The strong breeze on this hill we live on whips the leaves and makes a melodic swishing noise on days when it is fiercely windy. It’s expansive power and the way it ...
but many of the more radical students saw a close link between free speech and racial justice. Many were inspired by the civil rights movement, and Mario Savio and other Berkeley students had participated in the 1964 Freedom Summer campaign to register black voters in the South. Jack Weinberg ...
Brown had been staying at the apartment of his grandmother, Desuirea Harris, this summer. She said Brown was excited about his future. "My grandson never even got into a fight," she says. "He was just looking forward to getting on with his life. He was on his way." ...
hot summer evening, when a brusque knock came at our door. Those kinds of knocks always shoot my stomach right up into my throat. There stood Ron, a meek individual both in stature and voice, who very calmly offered that he’d been stabbed and could we please call 911 for him. What?