Monday, June 30, began with Pilates as usual. Later that morning there was a reception to honor outgoing Chancellor John White and his wife, Libby (but I missed it while meeting with Teri Stafford and Dean Beard). Yikes!
At 11:30 a.m. one of my favorite folks came over (those of you who follow the blog have [...]
The conference started at 9:00 a.m. with a welcome from John Harvey, the President of AALS and Dean at Boston College. He is a very gracious and warm person. Professor Mike Green gave a few introductory remarks as well, as the chair of the planning committee for the 2008 workshops for all three conferences: new [...]
Leaving for the Workshop on Retention of Minority Law Teachers, I ran into a number of folks who were headed to the National Conference for the Minority Lawyer including our alums, Ben Cormack and Sonya Dodson, and Sonya’s darling daughter, Parker. Sonya’s mom was also traveling with her to take care of Parker while Sonya [...]
Tuesday, June 24, began with a meeting with Monika Szakasits. It was my last meeting with her in her role as Interim Director of the library because very soon Prof. Randall Thompson will join us to assume those duties. It was a great meeting, as always. Many, to Monika for all the hard work and [...]
Monday I didn’t have any of meetings, so I had time to catch up on correspondence and to return phone calls after having been out of the office for the trip to Texarkana. Monday evening I had a bittersweet social engagement, dinner with Professor Stan Adelman. Professor Adelman had been an adjunct and member of [...]
10 Years of Sisterhood: Phi Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Sunday started off with church as usual at 8:30 a.m. at Good Shepherd Lutheran followed by breakfast with the breakfast bunch. I finally remembered to take my camera and get some pictures of them, though not everyone was there. As a rule, [...]
The Saturday morning program was the official celebration which was billed as “The Saturday Hunt Event” at the Silas Hunt CDC. In addition to those who had attended the reception the evening before, including Stephanie Flowers, there were a number new faces in the crowd on Saturday. I was tickled to meet another of our [...]
Happy Birthday to Jacque Dunn, Senior Library Assistant!
After checking in that morning, I headed down to Texarkana, Texas with Chris Erwin from the School of Continuing Education & Academic Outreach. We left early because we wanted to have plenty of time to get there. We were going to an event at the Silas Hunt [...]
Happy Birthday to Jan Ingram, a member of our staff who is our travel czarina. We hope she had a wonderful birthday!
This was the day to speak at the Rotary Club, so that morning again, I pulled together the notes I’d put together for that speech and got over to the Rotary at 11:30 a.m. [...]
On the 18th of June I worked in the morning on a speech for rotary. I was invited to speak to the Fayetteville Rotary Club on the next day at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, so I wanted to make sure to be thoughtful about the remarks I shared with them.
At 11:00 a.m. I met [...]