August 1, 2016
Service
JoAnne and I (along with JoAnne’s sister, Mary Lou) spent four days last week at the Democratic National Convention. None of us were delegates; we were volunteers, helping to host the visitors to our city. JoAnne and Mary Lou agreed to lead the team of volunteers responsible for supporting guests and participants with disabilities. I served as one of those […]
June 16, 2016
Sustaining Friendships
I did a one day graduate workshop on friendship a few years ago. One of the bits of feedback I got was that people were interested in more attention on how to sustain the friendships they had. As a result, I organized a mini-workshop on that topic for the last Gathering of the EE graduate community. As is our practice, […]
May 16, 2016
David Crump
David Crump died on February 29. I am glad he came to our 25th anniversary event last October. Here is the text of what I said at his memorial services in California and Philadelphia. I first met David the way thousands of others did. He was the guy up in front of what we learned to call the “Arc,” conducting […]