To and from the editors
Last update: Jan. 5, 2001
HERE’S PEAS IN YOUR EYE
Shame on the editors of UMass for running a puff piece on so-called research by the nutrition department. "Canned foods taste, smell and look just as good as homecooked fresh or frozen items," indeed. No mention of how most canned food is extraordinarily high in salt, how they generally cost more than fresh or frozen, how fresh and frozen food lose less of their nutrition in cooking.
As a former investigative consumer-reporter, my guess is that this so-called research was funded by some noble-sounding institute — with a lot of money contributed by the canned foods industry. If there's no industry money behind the so-called research, I'll eat my . . . canned peas.
I dare you to report where the money for this study ultimately came from. Your story is not the kind of reporting that my UMass journalism teachers taught.
Don Glickstein '73
Seattle, Washington
An industry organization, the Canned Food Alliance, did fund the study. Researcher Ken Samonds has the following response:
The author of the letter raises the issue that frequently confronts investigators whose inquiries are funded by industry or other special interest groups. If we acknowledge that the research question under consideration is a legitimate one — Are recipes prepared with canned ingredients nutritionally equivalent to, and indistinguishable from, the same recipe prepared with fresh or frozen ingredients? — then who should pay to answer that question? Should it be funded by the government from taxes? Is this a question that Consumer Reports should address?
I must admit that I had some of the same biases against canned foods expressed by the letter-writer, but I was willing to design a study to provide at least a partial answer to the question. Perhaps a few more details will help to explain the results. We did not use a side-by-side comparison of individual canned items versus their fresh or frozen equivalents. Anyone, blindfolded, can tell the difference between canned and fresh green beans. Instead, the canned foods were ingredients in 40 complex recipes - the way many people might choose to use them. Second, the canned products were not specially-produced or special-purpose products, but were commonly available items from the local supermarket. Third, the nutrient composition analysis was done using the most recent USDA data, taking into account nutrient losses or destruction during cooking. These data are available, by the way, at the USDA website:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/cgi-bin/nut_search.pl
Finally, the taste-testing was performed
by paid volunteers who were given unmarked samples in random order. They
judged each food item on the basis of its appearance, color, flavor, texture,
aftertaste, and overall
acceptability.
The results were a surprise to my co-workers and myself. Nutrient differences per serving were small and usually accounted for only a few percent of the Daily Value (a measure of how much we need on a daily basis.) Sensory differences were variable - sometimes the canned version fared better for a few criteria, sometimes the fresh version fared better - but overall, for most of the recipes we tested, the versions were statistically indistinguishable.
I embarked upon this project with a slightly different intent from that of the Canned Food Alliance, the funding agency. Some of the most important nutrition messages for Americans today encourage the consumption of more fruits, vegetables, legumes, and lean meats. All of these are available, to some extent, in cans. Canned foods are convenient, easy to store, and frequently lower in cost than out-of-season products. If the results of this study can help to increase Americans' adherence to sound dietary recommendations, I think the project was worthwhile, despite the funding source.
The letter-writer expressed concern about the sodium content of canned foods. Perhaps he is unaware that low-sodium canned products are readily available. And perhaps his challenge to eat canned peas if this study was not funded by the canned food industry might be the best choice after all. The sodium content of one-half cup of peas (Item 11813; Peas, green, canned, no salt added, drained solids) is 1.7 mg; a similar volume of frozen peas (Item 11313; Peas, green, frozen, cooked, boiled, drained, without added salt) is 69.6 mg.
Kenneth Samonds
Associate professor of nutrition
Campus
OFFENDED BY FUND-RAISER
Your Fall 2000 issue contained an advertising insert inscribed with a fundraising message from Bruce Friend '79, whose claim to fame is that he is a senior VP for research and planning at MTV Networks International.
Everyone realizes, of course, that institutions seek out their most highly placed graduates to enlist them in the cause of fundraising. You should know, however, that there are those of us who regard being in an upper management position at MTV as something less than admirable. The programming that MTV peddles to the youth of the nation — programming that is a sordid brew of trashy music, sleazy and sensational shows, and soft-core pornography — is not a product that one should be proud of producing and selling. Was Mr. Friend involved in, for instance, the research and planning behind the overtly pornographic "Undressed," one of MTV's most recent contributions to the world of high drama?
I would suggest a tad more discretion in your choice of pitchmen.
Robert Ruplenas ’67, '74
Weymouth
OUCH! SAID THE OVINE
Once again an institution of higher learning has succumbed to the temptation — or is it fear of being left behind? — to trumpet some (minor) accomplishment in the "new" millennium. I refer to the blurb on page one of the fall issue for the "Dawn till Dusk" photo essay: "The campus woke to a foggy morning and five UMass photographers chronicled one day in the first year of the new millennium."
It was not the beginning of the new millenium. It hadn't occurred yet. The new (third) millennium did not begin until January 1, 2001.
The first day of the first year of the modern era of counting began January 1, 1 A.D. This date followed by one day December 31, 1 B.C.
If our modern era begins January 1, 1 A.D., then it follows that that first century ended December 31, 100 A.D. and each subsequent century would end with the year ending in "00." Ten centuries make a millennium, Q.E.D., the second millennium would end on December 31, 2000.
Yes, I know what you're going to say. I'm just being a purist. If billions of people, and certainly thousands much wiser than I, could celebrate the close of the millennium on New Year's Eve, 1999, then who am I to say otherwise?
Well, it is lonely being out there all alone. I suppose that I shouldn't have expected UMass to be the one that just for once stuck her neck out and led instead of simply following? Or is that just some ovine remnant of Mass Aggie that I detect?
John Judge Jr. '68
Clinton, Maryland
GOODBYE TO ALL THAT
Distant memories stirred by the notice in last UMass concerning the closing of Mike's Westview [Exchange, Fall 2000]. I fondly recall, after reviewing class notes and a textbook for a couple of hours the night before a final exam, walking up to Mike's for a glass or two of beer and relaxing with friends. The tall glasses were 15 cents and we often had a pickled egg or, if so inclined, a pickled lamb's tongue. It all seemed so civilized a thing to do.
Herb Brandt '54
Austin, Texas
MORE MILLENNIANA
With all the discussions about time capsules [Exchange, UMass Gatherings, Extended Family, Fall 2000], I wonder if there is not a better way to preserve history. Where does UMass save its historic items now? Some place in the library? Then they could be rotated on display. Your discussion of the Tiffany window in Goessmann Lab in the same issue ["The Phoenix's Progress"] reminded me of an old scale of Dr. Goessmann's that was displayed in the entryway when I was a chemical engineering student in the 60s. There was a plaque beside the scale describing Goessmann's very methodical methods. I also recall seeing a very old rotating cylinder calculater which made me very happy to have my "modern" slide rule.
Chris Read ’67.
Webster, Texas
Alumnus Read will be glad to know that the campus does save historic treasures elsewhere than in time capsules. The reading room and exhibition cases — not to mention the superior views — of Archives and Special Collections are well worth a visit to the 25th floor of the DuBois Library.
HAPPY FAMILY
I’ve just finished reading the Fall 2000 UMass Magazine, and I am overcome with emotion because it summarized everything I experienced and learned to love about UMass. When choosing a college to attend after high school, UMass was at the bottom of my list because others referred to it as the party school or "ZooMass." Immediately after arriving on campus, however — it being the only school I could afford — those perceptions changed, for I experienced first hand the knowledge, support, and success that it had to offer.
UMass is nothing short of a second family that will provide the support to gain everything one desires to learn and become. It offers friendships that will last a lifetime, as exhibited in the Extended Family section; resources that can meet just about any need; and a distinguished faculty that can stimulate anyone and everyone’s desire to learn.
I came to UMass as an average student and left as an above average student, earning two full degrees in four years. I attribute my success to the faculty members who peaked my academic interests, to the many friends that I made, to the large support network provided, and to the outstanding athletics department — even though I never wanted to admit it, my coach inspired me to try harder and dig deeper than I ever thought I could.
The latest edition of UMass captures all of this and much more . . . thank you and keep up the good work!
Christy Mae Martin ’98
Hopkinton
"IN MEMORIAM" QUESTION
I enjoyed reading the Fall 2000 UMass. As a graduate of the chemistry department and a friend and associate of Professor Dick Stein, I was particularly interested in the article "The Phoenix's Progress." I also happened to glance at the "In Memoriam" list, and noticed, under Students, Rachel Selman '03. If she died this year then she graduated 97 years ago, and if she graduated at the age of roughly 20, she was 117 when she died! I would be very surprised and amazed if this is accurate.
Russell Gaudiana ’73G
Cambridge
Dr. Gaudiana is right that those two possibilities are improbable. Rachel was a member of the class of 2003.
FARFLUNG SIGNAL
I’ve picked up the signal for WFCR, the campus’s public radio station, on my car radio as far away as the top of Great Neck in Ipswich and as far south as Durham, Connecticut. The station, which was featured a recent issue ["Radio Free UMass," Spring/Summer 2000] now has a new, taller, transmitting antenna on Mount Lincoln in Pelham, and the result is an improved and wider signal pattern.
I encourage alumni in New England and eastern New York to check their radios and let the magazine know by postcard, email, or letter if they’re receiving the station.
Joseph Larson '56, G'58
Emeritus professor, natural resources conservation
Campus
DEPT. OF CORRECTIONS
Re: "Of Cavalry and Cows" [Exchange, Fall 2000]: The Air Force isn’t the cavalry, the story has nothing to do with Christ’s death on Calvary, so, exactly what is calvalry?
Roy Landstrom ’60
Cumberland, Ohio
An ignorant misspelling of an inept allusion, that’s what.
READER SEES SMOKE
Re. "Usefulness
U", Fall 2000: The press release distributed by UMass news services
almost required a thermal-imaging camera to see through the smoke obscuring
the story of the university's involvement with "Eyes of Life"
- a campaign that successfully secured three thermal-imaging cameras for
the Amherst Fire Department.
Even prior to the December 3, 1999 tragedy in Worcester, Amherst College and Hampshire College had each pledged $5,000 towards an $18,300 camera. UMass, however, orchestrated a "deal" whereby a rebuilt camera (for "training" purposes) could be had for half-price. In other words their "cooperative effort" consisted of a coupon.
Chancellor Scott's comment "the university is committed to employing its resources to benefit the community. In this case, our resources extend beyond mere dollars," added insult to parsimony.
Money spent on a good cause by concerned citizens and institutions denigrated as "mere" begs the question: If you have such a low opinion of "mere money" than why not contribute some like everyone else?
"Eyes of Life" raised over $47,000 of mere money. One long-time Amherst resident made it the designated charity in place of flowers and cards when her beloved sister died.
"Eyes of Life" is a heartfelt tribute to six fallen heroes. The thermal imaging cameras in Amherst and the ones coming to Hadley, Northampton, Easthampton and countless other communities will help to ensure that the Worcester tragedy never happens again.
Larry Kelley '83
Amherst
The writer is chair of the "Eyes of Life" committee and owner of the Amherst Athletic Club.
A response from the director of the UMass News Office:
The University's contribution toward the purchase of an additional thermal-imaging camera for use by the Amherst Fire Department has been clearly stated.
Through the efforts of Donald Robinson, director of Environmental Health and Safety, the University was able to negotiate a cost-savings of $12,000 for a second and more sophisticated model of thermal-imaging camera for use by the town.
That translates into $12,000 that did not have to be spent by anyone for the additional camera, thanks to the UMass contact. Many in Amherst, including the town's fire chief, have publicly acknowledged the value of the University's involvement and its very real contribution to this effort.
Barbara Pitoniak
Campus
SOUL SOLD
Re. “Getting
and Spending,” [Exchange, Spring/Summer 2000]: Outraged? Disappointed?
Yes. Surprised? No. After all, Ben and Jerry sold out; Barry and Eliot
sold out; and today I heard Necco will do the same. So why should UMass
Magazine be any different? You wrote of not selling your soul. Too
late. It’s been taken over by corporate sponsorship.
Irene J. Lang ’74
Waltham
BOOGIE BOY
Re. “Boogie
Night, Commencement Ball” [UMass Gatherings, Spring/Summer 2000]:
As past president of the Student Alumni Relations Society (STARS) and
an attendee at the first two commencement balls, I found a great exhilaration
in reading about an event I helped create and enjoyed immensely as a student.Thank
you for realizing the importance of this kind of event and for writing
such a positive article about it.
The commencement ball and other STARS programs represent everything I believe is right about UMass. Our students go to one of the best schools in the country, not merely a “safety school.” We have some of the best educational programs in the nation; one of the best athletic programs; an amazingly diverse and intelligent student body; and an alumni body that raises the bar for successive generations of alumni.
Although it is tougher now than it was in the ’40s and ’50s to know the entirety, or even a fourth, of one’s particular class, I believe a kinship or camaraderie can be felt. For the most part, we graduated from high school the same year and lived through relatively the same experiences. We do share something, even if we do not know who the heck half of the rest of the class is. We are the graduates of 1985, or 1994, or 1999, or whatever year. We have a bond.
When I come back for my reunions, I will enjoy meeting many fellow classmates for the first time – much as I did at commencement and commencement ball. I want to hear their stories of Southwest, the Hill, the various take-overs and rallies, where they were for the Final Four. It is these stories that link us to each other.
Wesley J. Dunham ’99
Greenwich, Connecticut
BLASTS FROM THE PAST
It was fun to see my photo in the last UMass
[“Time Capsule Memories – ’60s & ’70s,” Spring/Summer
2000]. Recently I found this snapshot of myself studying on Butterfield
balcony in May of 1975, my senior year. I hope it gives fellow alums from
my generation a positive “blast from the past.”
Linda Marston ’75, ’89G
Amherst
I have been following with interest your coverage of plans to encapsulate
the university community’s memories for future generations. I am
the archaeologist who directed the team that recovered the time capsule
buried by the Class of 1878. Contrary to the article in UMass (“Encapsulate
those Memories!” UMass Gatherings, Winter 2000), the box was not
“dug up. . .by accident,” nor did it contain “large mammal
bones [or] shell casings,” although we did find these in our excavations.
A detailed discussion of the recovery of the “time capsule”
buried in 1877 was published in Old-Time New England in 1996. Perhaps
the Time Capsule 2000 committee may want to include a copy in the box
to be placed in the crypt of the Old Chapel.
You may also know that the Class of 1991 buried a time capsule near the southeast corner of the chapel. They intended it to be opened on the occasion of the university’s 250th anniversary in the year 2113. Since this was not mentioned in the coverage of contemporary activities, I suspect the rest of the community has already forgotten about it. But that’s just the way time capsules turn out; they’re always more important to their creators than to the future. I can’t help but be struck by the hubris the originators of time capsules exhibit. To think that the future will care about what we deem to be significant about our lives, or be amused by bikinis, ballpoint pens, and Beatles records is probably a natural tendency of a society that overestimates its own importance.
Anyway, should students and faculty open the capsule in the crypt in the year 2100, they should know that the Class of 1991 buried a child’s coffin (no kidding, I was there for the ceremony!), filled with culture’s clutter, which they should try to find in thirteen more years. I bet it will have been long forgotten and extremely difficult to find and probably only get dug up by accident.
Michael S. Nassaney ’92G
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Alumnus Nassaney is assistant professor of anthropology at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo. His tale rang a bell with us, so we dug through our files and unearthed these photos published in Massachusetts Magazine and Campus Chronicle in 1991. In May of that year, Nassaney and company unearthed the Class of 1878 capsule near Old Chapel.
Thanks so much for publishing the list of women from Massachusetts State
College who served in World War II [“Time Capsule Memories –
’30s, ’40s, ’50s” Class Notes, Spring/Summer 2000].
I’d like to credit Mike Milewski ’77 of Archives and Special
Collections for helping me compile the list. I thought you might also
enjoy these responses from alumni who saw the list, and one who noted
my letter to the editor in the same issue about Robert Frost in Bowker
Auditorium in 1956.
“You did it! – brought together the women overlooked by the university for so many years. Congratulations” – Fred Oien ’79G, Brookings, South Dakota.
“Congratulations to you for the list of women in WW II. The magazine is well worth reading” – Alan Sica ’77G, State College, Pennsylvania.
“How wonderful to have heard Robert Frost with all his asides, and [to have compiled] the list of women serving in WW II. It is about time to honor them” – Barbara Totman Cutko ’58, Baltimore, Maryland.
One reader, not an alum, said the university ought to hold a reunion for the women listed. Not a bad idea.
Maida Riggs ’36
Hadley
Alumna Riggs is a professor emerita of physical education who served in the Red Cross in Europe in World War II.
What a surprise to find myself in a picture in UMass Magazine [“Radio
Days,” Souvenir, Spring/Summer 2000]. I was proclaiming “Mardi
Gras Day” to passing students by broadcasting “Come to the Mardi
Gras” at full volume on speakers hung out the window. As one of the
returning vets I had purchased a PA system and used it to supply extra
income for a family of four living in “Federal Circle” on campus.
I think I received ten bucks for several days of between-class promotion.
That was a lot of money in 1946, when my wife of now almost sixty years, Thyrza (Stevie) Barton ’42 and I were members of a great group of ex-GIs and their families. I cannot claim any connection to the WMUA radio station, but I am now an active HAM radio operator. Both Stevie and I have licenses: My call is AE4KE and hers is KE4JJD. We have been living in Florida since 1986, when we moved from Pennsylvania where I taught at PSU for over thirty years.
Our UMass days were tough, but happy, because all of us were in the same boat. When I recently returned to campus, I was depressed to see little of what I once remembered as idyllic. It was not a happy visit. This is probably what happens to many of us now in our eighties with visions of the past still vivid in our memories.
However, my picture in Class Notes gave me great pleasure. I had almost forgotten about it, and it brought back happy memories.
Hal B. White, Jr ’41C, ’47
Bradenton, Florida
MO' RADIO DAYS
The recent UMass [“On
the Air,” Spring/Summer 2000] swept me back in time. It was the
second half of the ’50s. Dwight Eisenhower was president, Korea was
a fading memory, and no one had heard of Vietnam, let alone Laos. WMUA
was way at the edge of the campus in the basement of the engineering building.
We were broadcasting on 91.1 FM and the “converters” in the
dorms were sending out a signal on 640 AM on the electrical systems (hardly
anyone had an FM radio in those days). Dick Bresciani [’60] (later
PR guy for the Red Sox) did sports color coverage. My sophomore year we
got together with Amherst College (one of the few cooperative ventures
between the two campuses) for a multiplexed stereo broadcast (stereo was
brand-new as well). One track went out on Amherst’s frequency and
one track on ours. To listen, someone would have to have two radios, each
tuned to a different station.
I had two programs – “Swing Time,” followed by something called “Shoes Off Session.” “Swing Time” was heavy on the progressive jazz of the day – Dave Brubeck, Stan Getz, the MJQ and more. “Shoes Off Session” was easy listening with jazz undertones: Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Johnny Mathis – you get the idea.
Later I was program director. We weren’t very innovative, but we had fun,we learned a lot about radio and broadcasting and how to reach an audience (radio is a personal medium and you have to have a conversation with the microphone). I became a speech major. Afterwards I went to BU and got a master’s in communication arts before going on active duty as an Air Force lieutenant.
My senior year, there was a freshman girl named Judy Abel in a corner room in Lewis House. I used to sign off “Shoes Off Session” with Julie London’s “Make Love to Me” dedicated to her. Corny, I know, but a year after I graduated, we were married and we’re still together thirty-nine years later and still in love. Another anecdote: Ben Benoit discovered a freshman girl who happened to be of Native American heritage who could sing like an angel and had the song-styling skills of someone years older (she did an absolutely brilliant rendition of “Tangerine”). We recorded and played her on the air, and I like to think that act started Buffy St. Marie [’62] on what has been a brilliant career.
So what happens to a communications major who’s fascinated with technology, but lousy at math and whose time in school came before anyone ever thought of computer science as an academic discipline? Why, he ends up in high-technology marketing. That’s where I am still, doing marketing and business development for a software company called BEA Systems in San Jose, California – the heart of Silicon Valley. It’s been a fascinating trip, but it started at “the Student-Operated voice of the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, WMUA, 91.1 on your FM dial.” And the Spring/Summer 2000 issue of UMass brought it all flooding back.
Lee Katz ’60
Foster City, California
One of my most memorable extracurricular activities was WMUA, then with
offices way up at the top of one of the buildings adjacent to the library.
We had one broadcasting booth, separated from an engineering hovel by
a heavy glass panel, and eventually we could also use a larger room for
multi-person broadcasts.
I began at the station, with my very good friend Fred Kiley ’53, doing an hour of classical music on Sunday mornings. WMUA at that time had NO record library; we had to ransack the music department’s. (Said department was most cooperative!) We had no recording facilities either. A small cadre of popular-music DJs broadcast their offerings during the evenings.
A technical matter which I shouldn’t even mention since I am so wanting in understanding, but will because it suggests the innocence of our budding radio station. My understanding was that we did not really broadcast in the conventional sense, but sent our signal out over what was called “carrier current.” This was described to me as using not the air waves, but somehow, the town and campus telephone lines.
Fred and I stayed with this for some time, and interested our mutual friend Gil Waldbauer ’53 in the station. It was Gil’s thought that WMUA had never developed beyond being a community-wide record player, and overlooked the vast potential of an academically rich area. The station was then under rather liberal faculty control. After a few discussions with faculty members, we had a pretty free hand in coming up with – at last – live programming! Gil and I began a blatantly plagiarized version of the then-popular 20 Questions, using a mix of student and faculty talent as contestants. Such a show would never stand a chance today, sinc
NO PRIZES were awarded, but it turned
out to be quite popular.
In fact, it was popular enough that we were encouraged to try further
live programming ideas. It was also during these years that our good friend
John Kutolowski ’53 became a superb sports announcer. I don’t
recall whether we were able to come up with the necessary wiring and so
forth to allow John to broadcast games. But it does seem to me that he
was at least able to give football play-by-play on a public address system
in the stadium.
I’m afraid I kept no notes during those years, so this has all been from what I laughingly call my memory. Those four years were among my most memorable, and I would welcome any comments and corrections from anyone.
Thomas B. O’Connell ’53
Black Mountain, North Carolina
A WORLDWIDE PROBLEM
Re “Broad
Daylight,” Around the Pond, Winter 2000: I was intensely disturbed
to learn of the horrific incidents occurring within the campus grounds.
The coverage of the incidents by UMass Magazine, as well as the
attention that the university itself gave to this issue, are commendable.
I think, however, that it is important
to stop such terrors not only in the West, but in Asian countries as well.
Rape is now a problem worldwide. The number of cases that we read about
in Nepal is astonishing; at least once a week cases are reported by the
local newspapers. Statistics show that 50 percent of the female population
in Nepal is being raped yearly. The majority of the victims are servants
between the ages of eleven and twelve. Ninety percent of married women
are raped in their own homes. There are no laws to stop the repeated occurrence
of domestic violence.
Nepal does have institutes like CVICT (Center for Victims of Torture),
Saathi (Friend), and Sumitra (A Good Friend) to help victims of domestic
violence. These places provide counseling for those who have been hurt
psychologically, and medical facilities for those who have been physically
harmed. Still, far more action must be taken to stop this growing trend
of rape, especially gang rape and rape involving torture.
UMass has been taking various actions to prevent rape from happening, and developing countries like Nepal can learn from the admirable actions taken by places such as Amherst.
Urna Tuladhar
Kathmandu, Nepal
The writer is a tenth-grader at Rato Bangla School in Kathmandu. A former student at Marks Meadow School in Amherst, she reads UMass as the daughter of School of Education alumna Sumon Tuladhar ’94G, a researcher at the CERID Institute at Tribhuvan University in Nepal.
OF CAVALRY AND COWS
A recent UMass [“Usefulness
U,” Summer 1999] included several articles related to the Morrill
Land-Grant College Act that Congress passed and President Lincoln signed
into law in 1862. For approximately 100 years the law was interpreted
to require all students to enroll for two years in ROTC, but [in the early
’60s it was decided that] universities could meet the requirement
by merely offering ROTC on campus.
The administration decided to phase in the policy change. Students who had enrolled when ROTC was required had to complete that obligation to graduate, but new students could choose to enroll or not. I was a captain and assistant professor of air science at the time, and we were concerned we would have few volunteers because the Vietnam War was starting to heat up. But I had 90 percent of my sophomores sign up for an eight-hour exam on a Saturday, indicating a high degree of interest in an Air Force commission.
Getting a group of students in uniform on the drill field only to meet a requirement had not been a pleasant experience. We placed them all in one squadron under a “sharp” senior and told him he had the responsibility of keeping the group under control. He did a nice job, but I had to step in to help when one senior started mooing at the cows in the barns next to the field. I threatened him with an F and enough demerits to keep him from graduating. That got his attention and we got through the parade without incident. He went on to graduate from Harvard Law School. If he would call me at 508.867.6551, I’d like to see how he is doing.
Robert Gailey ’67G, ’87G
North Brookfield
HAIKU THERE
On my refrigerator door I have a haiku created with
a magnetic poetry kit given to me by my grown daughter, also a UMass alumna.
Having previously asked alumni for memories, news, and suggestions, you
might also consider haiku. Simple in concept and easy to attempt, a haiku
fits on a postcard. Here’s one of mine.
Muse playing pounding
Feet and legs easy time gone
With fast lively beat
Jane Shaw Pereira ’70
Brewster
Jane’s husband, Antonio ’70, and daughter, Janna ’93, both received their degrees from the university.
