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1970 (1 of 2 -more recent)Class Notes Archives----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Romana Lowe told us that she is still teaching Spanish and French at Boston University. ● Karin Link wrote that she "was reappointed by the Mayor’s office as a Commissioner on Seattle’s Pike Place Market Historical Commission in early 2007. The Pike Place Market has been listed as an historic district on the National Register of Historic Places since 1971. It was the second National Historic District in Seattle listed on the National Register and is a major local tourist attraction. It was founded in 1907 to allow farmers to sell their produce without the intervention of middlemen, who were often engaged in dishonest business practices. If only they had had a Lycee education, they would have been more honest!! (Please discuss this in a ten page dissertation)." ● For news on William Kristol, click on link below. ● "With his trim dark suits, gold cuff links and erect bearing, Philippe P. Dauman projects a sense of dignity and reserve that some in Hollywood regard as just this side of pompous. One industry insider called him 'the quintessential New York suit.' Dauman, 53, who just finished his first year as chief executive of the entertainment conglomerate Viacom Inc., is such a Manhattanite that he doesn't drive; he never even applied for a license ........Under his mother's firm tutelage, Dauman was well advanced in reading and math by age 6 when his family enrolled him in Lycee Francais, a New York institution that emphasized rigorous, rote instruction of math, science and the classics of French literature and philosophy. It was a mecca for the children of Francophone diplomats as well as for American children whose parents wanted them immersed in French language and culture. In a class behind Dauman was future French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin ['71]. A few classes ahead was romance novelist Danielle Steel ['65]......." (Los Angeles Times, October 7, 2007, by Thomas S. Mulligan; http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-dauman7oct07,1,3468781.story?page=2&cset=true&ctrack=1&coll=la-headlines-business) |
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