What started out as a rainy Spring day transformed into perfect weather for everyone participating in National Walk @ Lunch Day. The first fifty people to pre-register received a free pedometer to help them track their progress as they trekked along the Nature Trail. While some were satisfied with a leisurely stroll in the sunshine, others kicked it up a notch.
Arboretum members, College staff, and local community members celebrated the 108th Arbor Day tree planting today. Attendees helped plant a native dogwood, Cornus florida, between Leeds dorm and Walton Road, across from the track. All participants were given a tiny tree or perennial to plant at home.
Arbor Day was founded by J. Sterling Morton in Nebraska in 1872.
Fords do end up in unusual places, with resumes unlike those of anyone else. Eri Tagaya ‘06 was a Swat linguistics major, a successful pre-med here, and as admired a student by her peers as I have known.
She is truly gifted in languages, speaking five languages like a native– English, French, Spanish, Japanese and Tagalog (the latter two representing her parents’ countries of origin). And if that’s not enough, at Duane Kight’s suggestion, she took on the extremely difficult task of getting my own dismaying attempts at speaking French into passable shape.
Since graduation, with medical school still a possibility, she has done some business things in SF and, I believe, was asked to teach at the prestigious American School in Switzerland next year.
So this is SuperWoman, but even she didn’t expect this to happen.
When I saw her in SF in January, she said she had entered this competition on a lark, and mainly to please some older friends to whom it meant a lot. She knew she had no chance of winning. The competition is quite a big deal in SF.
Well, for the only time I am aware of, Eri was wrong. See below.
Eri Tagaya Crowned 2009 Queen; Sarah Kasuga Named First Princess
-Greg Kannerstein ‘63
Spring has sprung!
It was so nice, some even had class outside.
I have to be careful how I word this since our posts get picked up by Google News and, removed from the context of this blog, the information contained in this photo might be somewhat alarming:
But it’s all make believe and in good fun, an April 1 tradition in our Koshland Integrated Natural Sciences Center where Physics & Astronomy students have at it every year. Here’s a ginormous molecular model in the rotunda, festooned with some bonus components:
A history of the tradition is included in the second item on this page.
