Martin Rubin on 'Freuds' War'
WASHINGTON TIMES Friday, March 26, 2010
REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN
Helen Fry, Freuds' War. The History Press/Trafalgar Square. 223pp. $29.95 Illustrated.
By Martin Rubin
It’s not often that a reviewer gets to point out just how the apostrophe is placed in the book’s title, but for those of us who love punctuation in its proper place, there is no denying that there is a special pleasure in doing so. At first glance, because of Professor Doctor Sigmund Freud’s special fame, it might be natural to assume that it is his war which is under discussion in these pages. But he was lucky enough to be born in 1856 and so be spared the duty to fight for his beloved native Austro-Hungarian Empire, although patriot that he was, he would doubtless have done so. . . . [A]ll three of his sons served in the Austrian military and it is they, along with some Freud grandchildren, whose varied service in both the 20th century’s world wars is the subject of “Freuds’ War.” . . .
For Martin's full review, click here or visit www.washingtontimes.com.
Alice Young Honored by NJBIZ
Congratulations to Alice Young on being recognized as one of New Jersey's Best 50 Women in Business for 2010. A press release from Alice's firm gives details:
Alice Young, Partner and Chair of the Asia Pacific group at the law firm Kaye Scholer LLP, has been recognized by NJBIZ as one of New Jersey’s Best 50 Women in Business for 2010. Each year, NJBIZ selects New Jersey’s most dynamic women business leaders based on their professional accomplishments, community involvement and advocacy for women. Ms. Young, and her fellow 2010 honorees, will be recognized on April 7, 2010, during an awards ceremony in Somerset, NJ, and will be featured in a special supplement in the April 2010 issue of NJBIZ.
In addition, Ms. Young was appointed the Chair of the Deloitte & Touche Diversity External Advisory Board. The Diversity External Advisory Board, created in 2002, consults on Deloitte's diversity recruitment and talent-development and retention efforts and provides independent advice and counsel. Ms. Young served as a member of the board for several years.
Rakesh Mohan Named to Yale Faculty
Congratulations to Rakesh Mohan, who has been appointed professor in the practice of international economics and finance at the School of Management and senior fellow in the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Rakesh has served as India's finance minister and deputy governor of India's central bank. For a March 23 Yale Daily News article on his appointment, click here.
Martin Rubin on 'Mrs. Adams in Winter'
Mrs. Adams in Winter: A Journey in the Last Days of Napoleon
By Michael O'Brien
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $27
384 pages, illustrated
Reviewed by Martin Rubin in The Washington Times, Mar. 19, 2010
This enthralling, vividly written book tells the story of an amazing journey in extraordinary times undertaken by a most uncommon woman. Louisa Catherine Adams was left behind in St. Petersburg, where her husband had for some years been the United States' minister to the Russian Empire, when he went off to negotiate the Treaty of Ghent, which made peace with Britain after the War of 1812.
His next diplomatic assignment would be in London and he awaited her in Paris, so, early in 1815, accompanied only by her young son Charles Francis and his French nursemaid, she set out by carriage across a wintry Europe to join him, a journey of nearly 2,000 miles which took her some 40 days. . . .
For Martin's full review of this book on the life of Mrs. John Quincy Adams, click here or visit washingtontimes.com.
Mitch Garner on the Vancouver Olympics
Mitch Garner and Ellen Keefe-Garner shared with us their blog reports on the Vancouver Olympics:
2010 Winter Olympics
Vancouver, Canada
February 12-28, 2010
by Ellen M. Keefe-Garner,
Vice President – Legal, Ann Arbor Figure Skating Club
and
Mitchell E. Garner
Central Region Director, Road Runners Club of America
President, Ann Arbor Track Club
Entry #5 – Journey's End
Vancouver, British Columbia
February 24, 2010
Yesterday was our final day in Vancouver for the Winter Olympics. We would gladly have stayed longer, but the press of work and other responsibilities does not give us that luxury. Ellen and I are both attorneys, and for attorneys, you can never really relax and "be on vacation." The wolves are always waiting at the door.
The highlight of our final day was a fortuitous meeting with my friend, Dr. Jolie Holschen, team physician for the United States women's Olympic hockey team. I know from Jolie from my work with the Dexter-Ann Arbor Run, the Ann Arbor Track Club's major road race each year that drew over 6,600 runners in 2009. Jolie and I both serve on the Dexter-Ann Arbor Run Committee, she as head of the medical staff team and I as elite athlete coordinator. Read more
Celebrating Yale Women Conference, Mar. 26-28
Hope to see many classmates at the AYA's Celebrating Yale Women conference at Yale, March 26-28. Speakers include our own Margaret Warner, PBS NewsHour on-air anchor, and Karen Lawrence, president of Sarah Lawrence College:
Celebrating Yale Women: 40 years in Yale College, 140 years at Yale University promises to be an amazing alumni event. Scheduled for March 26-28 and organized by the AYA, this conference will celebrate, as the name suggests, the 40th anniversary of coeducation in Yale College and honor 140 years of women in Yale’s graduate and professional schools. Although designed with Yale alumnae in mind, all graduates (men and women) are welcome. See http://women.alumni.yale.edu/node/4 for the full range of details related to the conference and our easy, online registration.
An incredible program awaits those who register. Our featured speakers include Indra Nooyi ’80 MPPM, Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo; Margaret Marshall '76 JD, Chief Justice, Massachusetts Supreme Court; Margaret Warner ’71, senior correspondent and on-air anchor, The PBS NewsHour; Karen Lawrence ‘71, Kim Bottomly, Carol Christ ’70 PhD, presidents of Sarah Lawrence, Wellesley, and Smith, respectively; Kim Goff-Crews ’83, ’86 JD, Vice President for Campus Life and Dean of Students in the University, University of Chicago; and Cathy Quense ’76 and Jennifer Staple-Clark ’03 from the non-profit sector. The weekend will also include a special look back at the coeducation of Yale College featuring Elga Wasserman ’76 JD, former Special Assistant to the President on Coeducation; Henry "Sam" Chauncey, Jr. ’57, former Secretary of the University; and John Wilkinson ’60, ’63 MAT, former Dean of Students and moderated by Mary Miller ’81 PhD, Dean of Yale College. Rounding out the weekend will be presentations from Yale faculty such as Sharon Oster, Dean and Frederic D. Wolfe Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the Yale School of Management; Tamar Gendler ’87, Professor of Philosophy and Psychology and Chair of Cognitive Science; Carolyn Mazure, Director, Women’s Health Research at Yale; and Priyamvada (Priya) Natarajan, Professor, Department of Astronomy and Associate Professor, Department of Physics. Wow! What a weekend!
We want you to be part of this exciting weekend and invite you to register now. This is a weekend you won’t want to miss. Again, see http://women.alumni.yale.edu/node/4 for all the details you need including our easy, online registration.
Martin Rubin on Isaiah Berlin Letters
Isaiah Berlin
ENLIGHTENING LETTERS 1946-60
Edited by Henry Hardy and Jennifer Holmes. Trafalgar Square. 845pp. $50. Illustrated.
By Martin Rubin, The Washington Times, Feb. 26, 2010
More than a decade since Sir Isaiah Berlin died aged 88 in Oxford, loaded with honors and distinctions academic and other, debate still rages in intellectual circles as to just where he stands as a thinker. Was he a brilliant and original contributor to the field of political philosophy or a mere synthesizer of what he had gleaned from recondite figures in past centuries? . . .
In this new volume of letters, superbly edited and annotated, readers have an extraordinary opportunity to taste just what that conversation was like, thanks to Berlin’s discovery of the dictaphone as a way of coping with the many demands on his time. Thus these extraordinary letters, transcribed with great difficulty and care, by those attuned in every sense to their author and accustomed to his ways, replicate to an extraordinary degree that torrential conversation with its preternatural mix of gossip, philosophy, and politics.
For Martin's full review, click here or visit www.washingtontimes.com.
Eileen Shim is Henry Scholar for 2009-2010
Congratulations to the winner of the William A. Henry III '71 Scholarship for this academic year. Gail Henry recently received a letter from Carol Hobbs, Yale's Recording Secretary, announcing the award. Carol's letter includes this bio of Ji Hye (Eileen) Shim:
I am pleased today to introduce one of these exceptional students: Ji Hye Shim, of the Class of 2012, who is the Henry Scholar for 2009-2010.
Ji Hye, who likes to be called by her nickname, Eileen, was born in Seoul, Korea, and now lives in Edison, New Jersey, where she graduated from John P. Stevens High School. Inducted into the National English Honor Society, she spent most of her free time writing for and editing the school's yearbook, literary magazine, and newspaper. In addition, she was one of only twenty-two high school students from across the nation to be selected for the Princeton Summer Journalism Program. "I had the chance to do workshops with professional journalists from the print and broadcast media," she enthusiastically notes. The first member of her family to attend college, Eileen is currently a Yale sophomore living in Berkeley College and is planning to major in literature. Her other academic interests are in international studies and political science. Since matriculating here, her absorption in journalism has not waned. She is a staff reporter for the Yale Daily News magazine, and is a staff reporter and videographer for the Daily News online. Eileen has also freelanced for the New Jersey Home News Tribune and the Morris County Daily Record. She reports that she felt honored to be invited back to Princeton last summer as a counselor for the journalism program she had attended in secondary school. She had the unique opportunity to create her own curriculum and to teach a workshop on new media. Eileen intends to make a career in print or broadcast journalism.
The Way We Were, June 1971
Chrissy Citron sent in a clipping from the Yale Daily News Commencement Issue, June 1971. Click below to read Mally Cox's story "First Women Graduate," with quotes from Chrissy, Kathy Bennett (not Cathy, as the article has it), and Jane Hunter (posted with permission of Yale Daily News).
1971 Article with Quotes from Chrissy Citron and Kathy Bennett
Calvin Hill Day Care Center Newsletter Winter 2010
The Winter 2010 issue of The Calvin Hilltop, newsletter of the Calvin Hill Day Care Center, is now available on the center's site---click the link below and scroll down. Featured is an article on the Calvin Hill DCC community's support for earthquake relief in Haiti:
Calvin Hill Day Care Center news