Elizabeth Sherman Elvy

Alas for the American elm! Your watercolors are quite wonderful. Beth

Posted on: Dec 31, 2017 at 11:46 AM

Ah -- it must have been JA who played "Midnight in Moscow" from the (then) new album Take Five by Dave Brubeck in the Dascomb Lounge. One of my fondest Oberlin memories. I heartily approve of your life -- but where are you ethics guys when we need you?

Posted on: Jun 01, 2017 at 9:40 AM

HI Barry, How clever of you to marry an architect--truly a sweet science! You are one of the few people I actually remember from Oberlin. So much seems to have happened since. Let me encourage you to make the trip. I didn't go to my HS 50th, and I regret it. I have been to several Obie reunions (sometimes with Pat Tarnoff, as was, now Goodkind), and I am amazed at what fine people Obies are. Even if I did not know them in the long ago, I am very pleased to meet them and hear their stories now. You will, too.

Wow -- I LOVE reading about the well-lived life, and yours is a grand example. Chapeau! And I am so glad your children, wife, travels, etc. continue to give you joy. Beth

That, John, is certainly changing the world.

Posted on: Feb 20, 2017 at 9:08 AM

Hi Gayna -- Finally! I have been waiting for you to sign up. Are you coming to the 50th? I do hope so. You are what I remember best from my entire time at Oberlin. Do you remember people used to tell us to pipe down because we were laughing so hard together? Love to see you again. Your (very) old roomie, Beth

This is a lovely Oberlin life--and something that warms the heart in these dark days!

Thanks so much for your Bangladesh write-up. Really interesting. I have worked from time to time for the World Bank and remember from that experience that Bangladesh is the most densely populated country on earth and visited by a positively Biblical host of plagues. So wonderful to hear that even with these drawbacks, they are making strides (unlike us Americans, who manage to take the earth's greatest cartload of blessings and create a science-denying, infotainment-based police state. May Providence preserve our beleagured Constitution! Thanks again--write more. It gives me a good excuse to avoid doing taxes.

I am  very glad to see Al Banner remembered here. I never really knew him--only saw him occasionally in Dascomb dining hall, where he was a waiter. I remember a sharp wit and dash of humor that made him memorable, and I was shocked to learn of his untimely death, so soon after graduation.

Posted on: May 22, 2016 at 8:41 AM

Any godchild of Dr. Bongiorno is OK by me. I remember going to a long-ago reunion (don't remember which), where Dr. Bongiorno was the speaker at the Saturday dinner. He had been my Metaphysical Poets teacher--one of the few memorable courses in my long academic career, and it was my pleasure to sit next to him at dinner. I then walked with him, lending an arm, to the block where he still lived. He told me he kept the Paradiso on his nightstand and read a bit every evening. A few years later, at another reunion, I stopped by one evening to see him in Kendall but was told the Professor was out (!) visiting the Illumination. What a guy. (Sorry you flunked out--come back anyway. Obies turn out to be great fun.)