Here's an article about technology and nature. Too bad they didn't study us, huh?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/16/technology/16brain.html?_r=2&hp
These folks, being scientists, are concerned about ways of measuring brain effects that occur when you remove technology and put yourself in a non-urban environment. They replace their normal, quotidien activities with rowing. Imagine if the results they'd find if they could replaced them with the activities we did this past week: barn cleaning, speaking Shakespeare's words, dancing and moving to his words, singing together, caring for one another, listening to one another, seeing deer, preparing for the great gift we gave our audience of friends, and so on. Their poor little CAT scans would evidence colors of a rainbow only seen by moon and starlight.
Missing you all so much already,
David
anyway
sorry
but
thanks 5 million times to y'all for helping me through
and
it was beyond lovely seeing you under the trees and the stars in a circle on
the tarps listening to doc tell ima hogg stories....
verily looking forward to next time
katey
--
Katey Gilligan
Masters in Science
Technology Commercialization
Red McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
hi
katey gilligan writing to express deep thanks for the day...wow.
some of you may know that i've just gone through a hellish bout with an eye
cancer rarely seen in the US - shortish story: sunburned my eye ball
sometime somewhere around the equator most likely in a place where ozone is
depleted like northern australia or the south pacific = many happy times on
the water way out there, even met madge darlington in new zealand on the
way... well earned...
our dr don brode actually identified it as a 'problem' in 2004, so i had it
surgically removed then and was told that surgery had a 99% success rate BUT
it failed and the cancer came back much worse and really busted me this year
right after UT graduation without safety nets in place...
my community, very much including you, literally saved my life.
i'm now two weeks out of a radical surgery at md anderson removing a
significant part of my eye and featuring sci-fi technology like cryogenic
freezing and amniotic stem cell grafts oh and two follow up visits to the
ER...and i had not really gone out of my house until i decided to attend the
reunion day before yesterday....because i always feel great about what
happens at that place and because i just love you people
after jon watson and i wept with pride and joy thru the last act of the
reunion play (amazing and totally bought the dvd) doctor ayres came up and
said hello and stood looking into my eyes, i have no clue wether or not he
knew about the calamity but all i wanted to do was burst out with lines from
that poem he reads sometimes....
--
Katey Gilligan
Masters in Science
Technology Commercialization
Red McCombs School of Business
The University of Texas at Austin
Dear Winedalians,
I am here in Austin for a few days after our lovely reunion, and have
lots of unstructured time, and I would love to spend some iof it with
any and all of you. I am reachable at this email address, or at
415-793-4446 (my cell), and will be in Austin until Thursday morning.
I hope to resume our mailing list updates/outreach this week.
Thank you all so much for your love and support and for our shared experience.
Mike
Hi,
In response to a couple of queries, here is the schedule of S@W events
for this weekend. I know that some of the Reunion folks will have
some other commitments, but come join us if and when you can. The
alumni brunch on Sunday at noon is a very casual affair--coffee,
kolaches etc.--it is free and there is no need for reservations. We
have done this each weekend for a different decade (00s, 90s, 80s), so
this is the 70s weekend, but other alums who are around are welcome to
stop by.
Tickets for all of these performances should be available at www.shakespeare-winedale.org
(follow links 'schedule and tickets' and 'box office'). However,
the August 14 Reunion performance is sold out.
We look forward to seeing you--
Thanks,
James
Shakespeare at Winedale schedule for this weekend
Thursday, August 5
7:00 Performance by Gonzales Youth Center Outreach students
7:30 Twelfth Night
Friday, August 6
7:30 Macbeth
Saturday, August 7
1:30: pre-performance scenes from King Lear and Antony and Cleopatra
2:00 Henry VI, Part 1
6:00 Barbecue reception under the pecan trees
7:00 pre-performance scenes from Coriolanus, Timon of Athens, Pericles
7:30 Twelfth Night
Note: tickets are $25 for the reception and evening performance
Sunday, August 8
12:00 Noon: 1970s alumni brunch under the pecan trees
1:30: pre-performance scenes from Cymbeline and The Winter's Tale
2:00: Macbeth
7:00: pre-performance scenes from The Tempest, Henry VIII, The Two
Noble Kinsmen
7:30: closing performance: Henry VI, Part 1
Dear folks,
We have learned that we have booked a bigger crowd for both the brunch
and the banquet than we have seating, tables and chairs, but you can
help. If you have folding chairs, lawn chairs, parasols, popups, or
anything else that provides seating or shade, please bring that stuff.
It is great that we have such a big crowd coming, but we want to make
sure nobody faints from heat stroke or lacks a place to sit. Picnic
blankets also welcome.
Your servant,
Mike
The slide show is done!!! I overnighted a DVD copy to Winedale. I hope it
gets there in time (it should) and that is is viewable! You should be able
to view it on any modern DVD player. You might have issues if the DVD player
is a very old version. I also included a DVD with a QuickTime version so you
would have other options for viewing. The slide show is about 25 minutes
long. The DVD loops, so if you wanted to play it in the background in the
lobby of the barn or the banquet, it would just go forever.
I did not include all the photos in the slide show. It would have gone on
for almost 2 hours. I selected a smattering from all the years I received
photos for.
Also, I uploaded a QuickTime copy of the slide show to my public folder as
well as a back up of all the photos I collected. If someone else wants to
copy these to their computer, please do so. It might be best if I wasn't the
only person with these treasures on their computer.
The public folder address is https://www.me.com/idisk/. Click on the
"Winedale" folder.
I still have the folders available at http://gallery.mac.com/vrangus for
photos additions. I'll just keep those there so anyone who comes across
photos or takes new ones can add them. By the 50th anniversary, we could
have every year covered. (Hope, Hope...)
I will miss seeing everyone this weekend. Have fun!
Virginia
Hi, all. I really need to talk to Stephen Price. Stephen, could I get your phone number and give you a call. I left my phone in Charlotte and lost all my contacts.
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From: Virginia Rufener-Angus
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This is the latest update to the photo collection that will be in the DVD.
There are some years that still have no photos. Especially the 2000s. If you
can upload photos for those years it would be great!!
If you still have photo submissions, I will add anything I receive before
tomorrow morning to the DVD Slide show.
After that, I would still love to take any photos you might come across.
I'll keep building the collection. We should have quite a slide show by the
time the 50th reunion rolls around.
Thanks again,
Virginia
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This is the latest update to the photo collection that will be in the DVD.
There are some years that still have no photos. Especially the 2000s. If you
can upload photos for those years it would be great!!
If you still have photo submissions, I will add anything I receive before
tomorrow morning to the DVD Slide show.
After that, I would still love to take any photos you might come across.
I'll keep building the collection. We should have quite a slide show by the
time the 50th reunion rolls around.
Thanks again,
Virginia
Virginia, this is exactly what I hoped someone would do with all the photos -
collect them in one place, and maybe make a document. Thank you so much. I see
that 1989 is criminally underrepresented, so I am scanning my photos RIGHT NOW
and will attempt to upload. Angela, Tina, can you upload your photos to
Virginia's site so the world can see us? Our class was small, but mighty!
I hope this message finds its way to the right thread - can't seem to get the
hang of replying properly to threads since I started getting e-mail digests.
Amy Carreon Oberst '89