It was to be a time of celebration. On Wednesday, April 6, Sarah Kay
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who we are hoping to recruit from Cambridge for our French and Italian department appeared and then Kirk Unruh
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and Jody Friedman
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from Development came to prep me for the next night. Later, Liz Lunbeck
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from History came for a discussion.
The next day, I began my eating with a faculty lunch for
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Left to Right:
Tali Mendelberg (Politics), Martin Kern (East Asian Studies), Antoine Kahn (Electrical Engineering), Phil Holmes (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and PACM), David Botstein (LSIIG and Molecular Biology), Peter Meyers (Physics)
At the end of the day, old friends came to visit including Mark
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and Fran Berman,
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a computer scientist from UCSD who used to (as in 20 years ago) go to the same
conferences as me and their son Nick
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who was checking Princeton out.
That night was the dinner for endowed professorships and I sat with Susan
Goldman S'86
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and Eddie Niestat '86
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across from Arnold Fraiman '47 and Peter Kelly '05
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and the organist and the economics student
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and next to Edward Goodnow '47
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who had endowed the Frederick L. Moore '18 chair. Peter was
nice enough to capture pictures of
Mary Harman S'63, Ed Matthews '53, and Mary Ellen Bowen
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Marie Matthews, Bill Bowen and Ezra Zilkha
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Gerhard Andlinger '52 and Shirley Tilghman
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Tom Silhavy (Mo Bio)
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the Billingtons
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these people who are unknown to me
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and himself with Sally Lane and Jay Sherred
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