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1940 to 1943Class Notes Archives----- From December 2011 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ............................................................................... In Memoriam: ● Dr. Baruj Benacerraf ('40) (†August 2, 2011) (See In memoriam section of this newsletter for further details, or click on link below) ............................................................................... ● Dr. Ginette (Girardey) Raimbault ('40) est "Directeur de recherches à l'INSERM en retraite. [Elle est] diplômée de l'Université de Columbia de New-York, de l'Institut de Psychologie de Paris, [et] elle est Docteur en médecine, psychiatre et a suivi une formation de psychanalyste. Elle a suivi, à Londres, la formation du Docteur Michaël Balint, le fondateur du mouvement pour la formation psychologique des médecins et travailleurs sociaux. Elle a l'occasion de donner de nombreuses conférences en France et à l'étranger sur son expérience de psychanalyste à l'Hôpital des Enfants Malades à Paris, où elle a côtoyé des enfants atteints de maladies mortelles, leurs familles et leurs soignants, et recueilli leurs paroles." (http://www.canal-u.tv/auteurs/raimbault_ginette) ● Miriam (Lipschutz) Yevick ('41) wrote: "I attended the Lycée Francais de NY during the schoolyear 1940-1941, when I obtained my first bachot with mention - I forgot what. We had arrived from Europe in August 1940 after a three month flight from the Nazis' invasion of Holland and Belgium. I have written an account of our Odysee, starting from Antwerp on May 10, 1940, where we lived at the time......Most memorable from my educational point of view, was the interview I had with M. Brodin. I had first entered an American high school, where they put me back two years because I had not studied civics or American literature. I was desperate to get out of the trap and to continue my Lycée education. My father, since we had not brought much money with us, begged the principal to give me a scholarship (tuition at that time was $500). M. Brodin agreed and then had me tested. There was a wonderful math teacher (I think his name was M. Klein) who asked me to write down a fifth degree polynomial with positive coefficients, which I did painlessly. He then gave me some advice which I have harkened to always follow in my mathematical carreer. "When you have a math problem, don't immediately start writng and calculating. First see it in your head, see it as a whole and only then do the detailed work." I actually skipped one year since I had been in the troisieme in Belgium. The Lycée put me in 1ere. Then I went to NYU for college and they gave me a year of advanced standing for my Lycée studies. So I graduated in two years and went on to MIT, and ended up as the fifth woman to earn a PhD in mathematics from that Institution. Sort of a breathless career. But after the Ph.D. I was unable to find an academic job, being that I was a woman in the filed of mathematics." (Miariam also shared with us a true story of her youth entitled "Gloves." Go to Alumni Creative section of this newsletter, or click on link below.) ● Henry-Louis de La Grange ('41 or '42) "(b.1924) studied music at Yale University, then in Paris with Yvonne Lefébure and Nadia Boulanger. Music critic for numerous French and foreign journals and periodicals, and adjunct lecturer for the Université de Tours, he is also universally recognized as the biographer of Gustav Mahler. His monumental work on the composer was published in English [and in] French and is in the process of a revised, augmented, and complete edition (four volumes) in English. Furthermore he is the author of the two-volume « Vienne. Une Histoire Musicale » . He also organized the Alziprato Festival in Corsica (1974-1979); assisted the Musée d¹Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in 1985 with a large Mahler exhibition; and collaborated with the Théâtre du Châtelet with its Mahler cycle in 1989, as well as with that of Lyons in (1991-1994). He was the artistic director of the Mahler Festwoche in Toblach (Southern Tyrol) in 1986, and a co-organizer of the Mahler Festival of Amsterdam in 1995." (http://www.mediathequemahler.org/en/institution/henry-louis-de-la-grange.html) (Click on link below for an extensive biography on Wikipedia) ----- From July 2008 AALFNY Newsletter ----- Avis de Décès: ● Michael Woodbury's ('42) son, informed us that "My father passed away on June 2, 2007. I think that he really enjoyed his stint at your school even though he did not talk much about it until his later years." ● Betsy Jolas ('43) wrote to inform us that Mathilde Mortimer ('43) passed away in 1995, or thereabouts. She said: "Mathilde's Irst marriage was to an American - 3 sons, one deceased. Her 2nd marriage was to a scottish duke - she became Duchess of Argyll. The last part of her life was spent between the old castle of Argyll near Edimburgh and her Paris flat where I saw her frequently." ----- From December 2007 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Dorrit (Zucker-Hale) Cohn ('42) is the Bernbaum Professor of Literature at Harvard University. In 1999, the Modern Language Association of America awarded her its seventh annual Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary, honoring her for her book of comparative literary theory, The Distinction of Fiction. Cohn said the book began as a series of essays written for various periodicals. "One was on Freud's case histories, one was on Proust, and I decided that they all fit together. I added some chapters to the essays that I published, and it seems to be considered a real book. I am very pleased about the award, of course," she said. (Source: The Harvard Crimson, http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=98992) ----- From June 2005 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Betsy Jolas ('43) wrote: "Please visit my personal website: http://www.betsyjolas.com ('catalogue' for latest info on compositions -'actualités' for updated agenda)" ----- From November 2004 AALFNY Newsletter ----- ● Betsy Jolas ('43) wrote and invites her classmates to visit her website: http://www.betsyjolas.com/ In Memoriam ● Eléonore M. Zimmermann ('49) informed us that her good friend Alix (Hamburger) Deguise ('43) passed away. Eléonore wrote: "Alix, who had a truly remarkable career worth mentioning in your newsletter, was a friend, a person I was very fond of and admired." Eléonore sent us a notice from a Connecticut newspaper which can be viewed by clicking on the link. |
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