Dept: Letters

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Spring 2012

Remembering Ray Bice Dr. Raymond Bice, U.Va.’s beloved psychology professor, left us on Dec. 23, 2011, and his memorial was at University Chapel on Friday, Jan. 20. As a student, being related to Dr. Bice placed me in a unique position of receiving frequent requests for stories about this U.Va. legend. My earliest recollections of Ray originate back to days riding on the shoulders of my father, Ray’s cousin on his mother’s side, through the streets of Manhattan, where we would attend the Christmas Spectacular of the Radio City Music Hall “Rockettes.” Ray...

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Winter 2011

Time Bomb I was delighted to find in the Fall 2011 issue the admirable account of the debt troubles caused by Uncle Sam’s fiscal recklessness (“Our National ‘Time Bomb’”). Were the article published by any institution other than U.Va., I’d not be moved to remark on it. But given that it appears in Virginia Magazine, I’m obliged to pick a nit. The article says, “Last fall [Peter G.] Peterson was awarded a Thomas Jefferson Foundation medal, the University’s highest external honor, for his role in addressing the nation’s fiscal situation.” Mr. Peterson has indeed long...

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Fall 2011

Still Rockin’ “Rockin’ the Grounds” [Summer 2011] brought back many good memories of my two years of nursing school. I still have my yellow T-shirt from the very last Easters. I actually cleaned out my drawers and almost got rid of it, as it is very old, faded and certainly doesn’t fit anymore. But one more look at it and all the good memories it brought back, and I stuffed it back in the drawer. I just can’t part with it—it’s too collectible. Lisa Nowicki (Nurs ‘82) Barboursville, Va. “Rockin’ the Grounds” was wonderful, but you forgot the...

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Summer 2011

Women at U.Va. I enjoyed reading your article [“A History of Women at U.Va.,” Spring 2011], however I was disappointed that there was no mention of women in the School of Engineering and Applied Science. I have always been curious about the first women and first black women to enter the Engineering School. When I entered in 1977, it was still very much a male-dominated area. Thornton Hall was a world within itself, where non-engineering students dared not tread. It would be great to see engineering share such an important part of the University’s history. Jane Seay Wimbush (Engr ’81)...

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Spring 2011

‘Absolute Gem’ The article about President Sullivan (“Welcome President Sullivan,” Winter 2010) captured her so well I felt as if I were there at the University. I’m hoping I’ll have a chance to meet her next time I’m on Grounds. In the meantime, I want to share a comment made during a recent college fair. I was staffing the U.Va. table as an alumna representative and was directly across from the University of Michigan admissions office representative. During a lull, she approached me and said, “I just have to tell you how heartbroken we were that Provost...

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Winter 2010

Viewing Progress The anthropologists featured in “The Trouble With Civilization” (Fall 2010)  seem a bit confused about the concept of progress and ambiguous about modern civilization. May I suggest an evaluative standard that might assist them? A progressive civilization will support researchers drawing upon a wide variety of social and technical science who can, in Patricia Wattenmaker’s words, “step outside of their own cultures and understand why we may value the benefits of civilization while overlooking or downplaying some of the costs.” It is modern and, specifically, European civilization that has institutionalized and rationalized this endeavor. I hope Wattenmaker and...

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Fall 2010

Yeardley Love It goes without saying that many of us alumni were devastated by the news that a young female student at our university was allegedly killed by someone who was also a U.Va. student. I graduated from college a long time ago, served 30 years active and reserve duty in the Army and taught for many years at the collegiate level. I would not pretend that I fully understand the student climate at U.Va. or elsewhere today. At the same time, it is clear that the apotheosis of athletes that I witnessed at my undergraduate institution (not Virginia)...

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Summer 2010

Then Again What a thrill to see the picture of Scott Stadium in 1964 (“Then and Now: An Illustrated Journey Through Time,” Spring 2010). After the Corps of Cadets and the West Point band exited the field prior to the game, U.Va.’s football team proceeded to dismantle the then-powerful cadets. I recall the score was about 35-14. I’m in the picture, somewhere in the crowd on the east side—a 19-year-old second-year—surely in my blue blazer, khakis and orange-and-blue striped tie. Thanks for a fond memory. Carl Markowitz (Com ’67) Virginia Beach, Va. The article “Then and Now” shows...

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