An exchange of emails on Mark’s 70th birthday.
Category: Personal-Mark
Taft School 1964 – Recital
My project for the Fall of 1964 was to present a music recital. Half was solo horn work and the other half chamber music.
Taft School 1965 – Rise to Power of Stalin and Khruschev
In my second Independent Studies Program session, over the Winter of 1965, I worked on a paper that came to be titled, “The Rise to Power of Stalin and Khrushchev: the role of the party”.
Mark returns to tennis
June 2013 and on….
30th Wedding Anniversary Letter to Children
A letter from 6/20/2007 to the kids about marriage and life.
6/29/2003 – 5K race and Shulman brunch
Sunday The New Charles River 5K and 5 mile race. The guy to my left appears to be running. In fact, he is a race walker. I kept pace with him for the first mile. By the three mile marker, I couldn’t see him. He finished 3 minutes ahead of me. That’s me closing in…… Continue reading 6/29/2003 – 5K race and Shulman brunch
Year In Pictures – May 2003
Thursday May 1, 2003 Saturday May 3, 2003 I ran a 5K race along the Charles, The First Annual Asthma Fund Raiser at MGH, part of World Asthma Day. Here I am in the T-shirt from the last race (December 3, 2000) I ran in before the Lyme plague. Finished this one in 36’20”. Slow…… Continue reading Year In Pictures – May 2003
Forensics – the movie 2002
See 3/19/2002 – Mr. Wonderful Makes a Movie for a more complete treatment.
1/24/2002 – Long Live Marmite
“Long Live Marmite! Only the British Could Love It” from the New York Times January 24, 2002: from a page A4 article “Burton-on-Trent Journal: Long Live Marmite! Only the British Could Love It” “Being British, the company has had an appreciation of the public’s divided loyalties between those who find Marmite revolting and those who…… Continue reading 1/24/2002 – Long Live Marmite
Birthday Present ~1956
Mark’s father gave him a set of Buck chisels and a sharpening stone for his birthday in roughly 1956 – may have been a Christmas present. In his view the most memorable part of the gift was a lesson in how to sharpen chisels and by extension other cutting tools.Buck Brother chisels were the Cadillac…… Continue reading Birthday Present ~1956