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December 24 to 30, 1999
HEADLINES• Aetna unveils leaders of the century' calendar
• Plenty of fight left Florida state coach Bobby Bowden
• The gene hunters
• Lee denied bail; court cites risk
• Watch for bug carries benefits; offices plan Y2K
• Newman swimmer heading to Princeton
• Passages
• New jersey politics leave century in better shape
• Agent: nukes designer asked lee for codes
• The scientists
• Letter of the day 'to teach ethics is to question
• Jan. trial set for indian affairs head
• In his image; van breda kolff seemed destined to
• Computer gurus are ready, set, go for what they hope
• Quantum leap
• Spreading the word about bioterrorism; crusader: the
• Hey, what about us?
• Fort Worth star-telegram, texas, business book review
• An eye on the future; Jeff Bezos merely wants
• Others caught in 'persecution' net
• Emotional resonance
• Reader the lesser of two calamities
• Businessmen to take swing at stadium; but Lehigh
• Top 15 american poems of the century
• Readiness of American colleges and universities for
• (NH running) millenium mile is not just for elite
• Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski
• Images in black and white - calif. filmmaker focuses
• College hopefuls hiring experts to smooth path
• Another novel Gatsby
• Trial set for official
• A matter of gravity
• Engineering a cure
• Princeton freshman is the '99 veiled prophet
OBITUARIES• Woodrow Borah, 86, an expert on spanish conquest of
• David Bryson
• Herbert Martin Giffin, Washington surgeon
• Alan Rogers Johnston
• Lawyer Rufus King Sr.; sought decriminalization of
• Pension pioneer; Mole, of U.S. Steel and Carnegie
• Frank Sandstrom retired financial executive, 84
• Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, leader in cortisone
• Robert Lee Terry
HEADLINES
Business Wire
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December 30, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Aetna Unveils Leaders of the Century' Calendar; Twelve influential African Americans of the 20th century listed
DATELINE: HARTFORD, Conn., Dec. 30, 1999
Aetna today released its annual Calendar of African American History with the theme, "Leaders of the Century." This year's calendar commemorates 12 of the most influential African Americans of the 20th century.
The following people and the categories they represent were selected by a distinguished panel of historians:
--Booker T. Washington -- Education
--Sarah "Madam C.J." Walker -- Business
--Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- Performing Arts
--Howard Thurman -- Religion
--Langston Hughes -- Literature
--Charles Richard Drew, M.D.-- Medicine/Science/Technology--Thurgood Marshall -- Law and Jurisprudence
--Jacob Lawrence -- Visual Arts
--Jackie Robinson -- Sports
--Malcolm X -- Politics/Public Life
--Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- Human Rights/Civil Rights
--Oprah Gail Winfrey -- Media/Communications… Partnering with Aetna to produce this calendar was Earl G. Graves, publisher of Black Enterprise magazine and president and CEO of Earl Graves Ltd. Mr. Graves, an Aetna board member, and Aetna sought the counsel of a panel of distinguished historians to serve as the nominating committee: John Hope Franklin, Ph.D., professor emeritus at Duke University; Darlene Clark Hine, Ph.D., professor at Michigan State University; David Levering Lewis, Ph.D., professor at Rutgers University; and Nell Irvin Painter, Ph.D., professor at Princeton University. …
The Times-Picayune
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January 2, 2000 Sunday, ORLEANSHEADLINE: PLENTY OF FIGHT LEFT FLORIDA STATE COACH BOBBY BOWDEN SAYS THAT HE'S NOT READY TO RETIRE - REGARDLESS OF WHAT HAPPENS TUESDAY
BYLINE: By Jeff Duncan Staff writer
Bobby Bowden has come so far and scaled so many peaks he's afraid to look back.
College football's summit is a heady space. Up there, the air is rare and the drop precipitous. Few survive long before stumbling below the fall line. At various times, Notre Dame, Texas, Southern Cal, Oklahoma and Miami have planted their flags at the top. Eventually, each tripped and tumbled. …
"I'm one of those guys still looking ahead, still wanting to win national championships," Bowden said. "And if I won one this year, I'd want one again next year. I would not even have a desire to retire and ride that thing out." ….
FOOTBALL DYNASTIES The NCAA recently honored Florida State as one of college football's 11 great dynasties. Other dynasties: Yale (1876-1909), Princeton (1877-1903), Penn (1894-1903), Michigan (1901-09), Harvard (1908-15) …
U.S. News & World Report
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January, 2000HEADLINE: The gene hunters
BYLINE: By Leslie Roberts
HIGHLIGHT: Unlocking the secrets of DNA to cure disease, slow aging
One by one, new colors appear on the computer screen--red, blue, green, yellow--ticking off the previously unknown code of human DNA. Each color is one chemical base--one "letter" in the 3 billion-plus letter script of the human genetic code. Soon the screen is awash in colors, a pointillist painting that holds the secrets of human heredity.
Color by color, base by base, that scene is being played out in a handful of laboratories in the United States and England as scientists race to finish the Human Genome Project--the most audacious endeavor undertaken in biology. When they are done, perhaps as early as the end of 2000, they will have accomplished what many said was impossible just 10 years ago: uncovering the complete genetic instructions of a human being. …
… The turning point was a 1988 National Research Council (NRC) report, which unanimously endorsed the project--a surprise, as the NRC panel contained tough critics, including Botstein and mouse geneticist Shirley Tilghman of Princeton University, as well as Gilbert and Watson. They compromised on a phased approach that would begin not with sequencing but by constructing "maps" of the genome. Not only were maps relatively simple to construct, but they would greatly speed the search for disease genes. As for sequencing, the panel recommended that it be postponed until new technologies made it faster and cheaper. It was the panel's recommendation that the project also map and sequence the genomes of simple organisms, such as yeast, a bacterium, a roundworm, and a fruit fly, that carried the day. Most geneticists had cut their teeth working on these creatures, which share many of their genes with humans. Biologists had no chance of understanding the human genome without insights from these organisms, Tilghman argued. …
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 1999 Albuquerque Journal
December 30, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Lee Denied Bail; Court Cites Risk
BYLINE: Ian Hoffman Journal Staff Writer
7 Missing Data Tapes Worry Federal Judge
Nothing -- not wiretaps nor 24-hour surveillance can protect U.S. national security from former Los Alamos scientist Wen Ho Lee, a federal judge ruled Wednesday in declining to release Lee from jail.
After a three-day hearing, U.S. District Judge James A. Parker denied bail for the 60-year-old scientist. The judge said there was a risk that Lee, if freed, might steer a foreign nation to seven missing data tapes loaded with U.S. nuclear weapons secrets. …
An FBI counterintelligence agent testified that Lee had to be locked up to prevent his uttering a potential coded message, a pre-arranged signal to accomplices to move the tapes or to spirit him out of the country. U.S. nuclear-weapons executives said Lee himself would be hugely valuable as a "consultant" to anyone wanting to use the taped weapons data to build high-performance nuclear weaponry. …
In Lee's garage, agents found three letters from scientists at China's primary nuclear-weapons institute, said FBI agent Robert Messemer. A leading Chinese weaponeer and an institute executive sought Lee's help in the letters, dated in 1989 and 1990.
"The letters specifically ask Dr. Lee to send LANL codes to the institute" or to a Chinese researcher at Princeton University, he said.
Defense attorneys attacked that testimony, forcing Messemer to admit that the codes named in the letter could have been unclassified. At the time, the U.S. Secretary of Energy had ordered Los Alamos scientists to collaborate with their Chinese counterparts and to share such unclassified codes with them, Messemer conceded under defense questioning. …
THE KANSAS CITY STAR
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December 30, 1999HEADLINE: Watch for bug carries benefits; Offices plan Y2K parties for staffs
BYLINE: FINN BULLERS; The Kansas City Star
Be prepared: It's going to be an upside-down, inside-out Y2K weekend.
Many people will be half-partying on New Year's Eve while monitoring computers at their offices, while many partyers will be half-working.
And over the weekend, some offices that normally would be closed will be busy, and some normally open to the public will be closed for Y2K testing. …
Princeton University will close its buildings for 48 hours over New Year's, fearing possible blackouts and computer problems. It also will disconnect its computer system from the Internet for seven hours around midnight Jan. 1. …
The Times-Picayune
Copyright 1999 The Times-Picayune Publishing Co.
December 30, 1999 ThursdayNEWMAN SWIMMER HEADED TO PRINCETON:Newman senior Jeffrey Yellin, The Times-Picayune metro swimmer of the year, has decided to attend Princeton University. The school admitted him on early decision.
USA TODAY
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December 30, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: Passages
BYLINE: Elizabeth Liptock
EDUCATION
Lawrence Stone, 79, social historian and founding director of a historical studies center at Princeton University, where he was chairman of the history department. Parkinson's disease, June 16.
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
December 29, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: New Jersey politics leave century in better shape than when it began
BYLINE: By THOMAS MARTELLO, Associated Press Writer
DATELINE: TRENTON, N.J.Just before the turn of the 20th century, New Jersey had a Republican governor and a Republican-controlled Legislature who looked forward to the following year's Republican National Convention right across the Delaware River in Philadelphia.
Just like today. …
At the turn of the century, top-of-the-ticket politicians often had New Jersey roots. Though he was raised in New York, President Grover Cleveland, who served separate terms in the 1880s and 1890s, was born in Caldwell and retired to Princeton. Paterson resident William Hobart was vice president until his death in 1899. And Wilson rapidly moved from Princeton University to the Statehouse to the White House. …
Albuquerque Tribune
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December 29, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Agent: Nukes designer asked Lee for codes
BYLINE: Leslie Hoffman
A FBI agent testified this morning that investigators recovered three letters addressed to Wen Ho Lee from a nuclear weapons designer in China, asking Lee to send weapons codes to a Chinese institute or an institute official who was studying at Princeton University.
FBI agent Robert Messemer said today that the codes were not among those contained in 19 classified files that Lee has been charged with downloading to an unclassified computer at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
But Messemer did say that when Lee was asked about possible communication from the Chinese weapons designer, Lee told investigators he only received Christmas cards from the man. …
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1999 The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 29, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: The Scientists
Terrence J. Sejnowski Neurobiologist The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Personal data: Age 52. Lives in Solana Beach. Educated at Case Western Reserve University and Princeton University
** How does consciousness relate to subconsciousness?
Consciousness is like the tip of an iceberg; although it is the most visible, it represents a small fraction of all the computational work that goes on in the subconscious, which is below the level of our awareness.
** Which is more important to our survival as a species?
Without the subconscious computation in the brain we would not be able to do anything. Consciousness is a nice luxury. …
The Toronto Star
Copyright 1999 Toronto Star Newspapers, Ltd.
December 29, 1999HEADLINE: LETTER OF THE DAY 'TO TEACH ETHICS IS TO QUESTION VALUES'
Re three Dec. 16 letters responding to the Nov. 29 article, Professor shakes up debate over questions of life and death. As a college professor who teaches ethics, I would like to offer a few points in defence of bioethicist Peter Singer's appointment to teach a course on life and death at Princeton University's Centre for the Study of Human Values.
It has been argued that ethics cannot be taught. A person is raised with them; therefore, what he or she has been given cannot, nor should not, be altered by someone else.
This is akin to saying that each of us is given a suit of values, morals and beliefs by our parents or caregivers when we are children and that the suit never changes throughout our lives.
To teach ethics is to question those values, morals and beliefs. By questioning, we either find answers, however temporary, or we create more questions, or we find a fit with our suit. …
Princeton University will bear the responsibility for appointing Singer to teach that course. Princeton is a first-class university with a solid academic reputation. It is obvious that its governing body believes the issue in question to be of academic value.
Time will tell whether Singer carries out that responsibility and lives up to that reputation. In the meantime, his students will make their own choices based on researching different points of view, questioning and discussion.
Richard Kerr
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 1999 Albuquerque Journal
December 28, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Jan. Trial Set For Indian Affairs Head
BYLINE: S.U. Mahesh Journal Northern Bureau
Man Charged With Creating Disturbance
SANTA FE -- The trial of state Director of Indian Affairs Regis Pecos on misdemeanor criminal charges stemming from a alleged conflict with police is set for Jan. 24.
Santa Fe City Prosecutor Art Michael said Wednesday that about 30 witnesses are expected to testify in the bench trial before Municipal Judge Frances Gallegos.
Santa Fe police arrested Pecos, 45, on the Santa Fe Indian School property after they responded to a call of shooting on May 29.
A security guard at the Public Health Service Indian Hospital, next to the school on Cerrillos Road, called police after he thought a bullet whizzed by him, according to police reports.
The guard told police he saw two men then run into a residence on the Indian school property, the report said. …
Pecos, 45, of Cochiti Pueblo, was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and creating a disturbance stemming from the incident. He has pleaded innocent to both charges.
Pecos has been the director of the Office of Indian Affairs for the state of New Mexico for the past 16 years. He also served two terms as lieutenant governor of Cochiti Pueblo.
A graduate of Princeton University, Pecos also is a member of Princeton's board of trustees. He became the first Native American ever to serve on an Ivy League school's board in 1997 when Princeton alumni elected him to the post. …
The Daily News of Los Angeles
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December 28, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: IN HIS IMAGE; VAN BREDA KOLFF SEEMED DESTINED TO FOLLOW DAD'S LEAD
BYLINE: Chris Branam Staff Writer
DATELINE: MALIBUJan van Breda Kolff hated the stereotype.
He hated it even more because of who his father was and what his father did. As the son of one of the nation's most successful college coaches of his era, van Breda Kolff knew he had the same instincts as his father but was reluctant to pursue them.
''Watching my father go through the coaching, and moving, and adjusting to the pressures the whole time I played, I never once ever, ever thought I was going to coach,'' van Breda Kolff said.
Yet that he is what he became. And, just like his father, he is very good. In his first year at Pepperdine, the Waves - who play at UCLA tonight - are 8-3 and seeking to return to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1994.
Winter, 1968. As the Princeton men's basketball team's bus makes its way from Connecticut to New Jersey after a one-point win over Yale, Tigers coach Willem Hendrik (Butch) van Breda Kolff is treating his players to a story from his days as the lacrosse coach at Lafayette.
A writer from Sports Illustrated overhears Butch: ''My first year we were 0-9. So the guy asked me 'How will you do next year?' 'Can't do any worse,' I told him. So what does the guy do? He schedules 10 games. And we were 0-10!'' …
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Copyright 1999 The San Diego Union-Tribune
December 28, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Computer gurus are ready, set, go for what they hope is a "silent night"
SOURCE: KNIGHT RIDDER NEWS SERVICE
BYLINE: David L. Wilson
The people in charge of the Internet would very much appreciate it if you could refrain from hysteria on New Year's Day in the unlikely event that your favorite Web site appears to be ignoring you.
Thank you for not panicking. Have a nice millennium.
"There are probably going to be some things that break. But the things that are going to break are going to be things that we didn't think about because they're not important," said Mike Todd, president of the Internet Society's Los Angeles chapter, which is helping the U.S. government monitor Y2K's effect on the Internet. …
Princeton University will also be off the Internet from 11 p.m. Dec. 31 until 6 a.m. Jan. 1.
"The university is closed for the weekend anyway," said Ira H. Fuchs, vice president for computing and information technology at Princeton.
"I certainly think we're prepared in terms of our own systems and Y2K stuff. But since we're closed, what's the harm?" …
The Village Voice
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Copyright 28, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: QUANTUM LEAP
BYLINE: Erik Baard
Times are tough on Robert Mills Sr.'s 91-acre grain farm in Chester County, Pennsylvania. "This year is very, very bad," he confides. "I'm glad the kids got out."
His eldest, Robert Jr., has a water well drilling business, his daughter Raeleen is a massage therapist. And his younger son, Randell, recently bought a 53,000-square-foot space satellite manufacturing plant near Princeton, New Jersey, from Lockheed Martin. He then stocked it with millions of dollars of high-tech gear. Here the younger Mills plans to overturn quantum theory as it's been understood for decades.
Randell Mills, a Harvard-trained medical doctor who also studied biotechnology and electric engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says he's found the Holy Grail of physics: a unified theory of everything. A central part of Mills's theory explains the basis of the traditional, and paradoxical, "duality" concept of the electron as both a particle and a wave with a model where electrons are charges that travel as two-dimensional disks and wrap around nuclei like fluctuating soap bubbles. He calls them "orbitspheres."
Mills says that with this new understanding he's produced clean and limitless energy and an entirely new class of materials and plasma that will reshape every industry in the coming decade. Mills also claims breakthroughs inartificial intelligence, cosmology, medicine, and perhaps even a form of gravitational jujitsu. …
Despite howls from the scientific establishment that Mills is a relic of the "cold fusion" trend quashed a decade ago, BlackLight Power Inc. has raised more than $25 million from about 150 investors. While that's hardly a huge sum in this Internet-crazed era, it's coming from serious money and energy people. Prominent among them are multibillion-dollar electric utilities PacifiCorp, based in Oregon, and Conectiv, which serves Mid-Atlantic states. RS Funds, Eastbourne Capital Management, and executives retired from the top echelon of Morgan Stanley have also put in millions. With Mills holding on to controlling shares, BlackLight Power now is turning away private investors. …
"It's the American story," says Dr. Robert Park of the American Physical Society. "But he's still wrong."
Park has concluded that the hydrino theory is wrong in his upcoming book, Voodoo Science: The Road From Foolishness to Fraud. Park is not alone is being rankled by hydrinos. The hydrogen atom is the simplest, most common, and most tested element. It's nearly universally agreed that a free-floating hydrogen atom is in what's called "the ground state"--you can't bring its electron closer into its nucleus. Telling physicists that they've got that wrong is like telling mothers across America that they've misunderstood apple pie. It's that fundamental.
"If you could fuck around with the hydrogen atom, you could fuck around with the energy process in the sun. You could fuck around with life itself," claims Dr. Phillip Anderson, a Nobel laureate in physics at Princeton University. "Everything we know about everything would be a bunch of nonsense. That's why I'm so sure that it's a fraud." …
THE BALTIMORE SUN
Copyright 1999 The Baltimore Sun Company
December 27, 1999HEADLINE: Spreading the word about bioterrorism; Crusader: The man who led the fight against smallpox warns that the virus, and others, can be used as deadly weapons.; SUN PROFILE
BYLINE: Jonathan Bor
A man clutching an aerosol canister strolls down a street, sneaks off to the side and sprays a colorless mist into the air. Smallpox is on the loose in downtown Baltimore.
Fifty people on their lunch hour inhale the virus and become infected, then spread the deadly microbe to hundreds more before anyone figures out what has happened. The sick need to be isolated, but hospitals are overflowing. Baltimore, Washington and, soon, the entire Eastern seaboard are desperate for vaccine, but there's not nearly enough.
"In three or four weeks, you've got a situation spinning out of hand," said Dr. Donald A. Henderson, speaking recently to a crowd at Princeton University. " How are you going to contain the spread of disease without vaccine?" …
Business Week
Copyright 1999 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
December 27, 1999HEADLINE: HEY, WHAT ABOUT US?
BYLINE: By Michelle Conlin in New York with the BUSINESS WEEK Washington bureau
HIGHLIGHT: Most Americans feel the business boom has left them out in the cold
It seems as if they're everywhere, these legends of the New Economy. The millionaire janitors, Gucci-clad day traders, and set-for-life twentysomethings. Experience? You don't need it. Track record? Nobody's looking. Earnings? Better if you don't have 'em. VA Linux Systems, a computer company that has yet to make a dime and isn't expected to in the ''foreseeable future,'' saw shares of its initial public offering zoom a gravity-defying 700% on Dec. 9, the biggest first-day gain in history. The day before the IPO, founder Larry M. Augustin was still driving a beat-up, eight-year-old Volvo and living in a 1,250 square-foot house. The day after, he was worth as much as Donald Trump. Never before, it seems, have so many had it so good, so fast, and so easy -- at least on paper.
But even as the U.S. economy exits the millennium with an unprecedented bang, there are signs of unease. For every Larry Augustin, there are millions of hourly workers and even seasoned middle managers bumping along with 4% annual wage increases and not a stock option in sight. According to a new Harris Poll commissioned by BUSINESS WEEK (page 54), most Americans feel as if the New Economy's good-'n'-plenty train is passing them by. …
It's the puzzling anomaly of the New Economy. In the greatest period of wealth creation in U.S. history, the average American, it seems, is living in another era. ''In the real world, people are still living from paycheck to paycheck,'' says Princeton University economist Henry Farber. ''The tremendous wealth creation has by and large gone to the people at the top.'' …
FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM
Copyright 1999 Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
December 27, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Business Book Review Column
BYLINE: By Teresa McUsic
The holidays are nearly over, and the January bills are on their way.
As people begin to dig their way out of their millennium hangover, some might contemplate the finances of the rich and famous of the past.
While it might not provide you with great financial insight into your own money woes, looking into the pocketbooks of Lucille Ball, Albert Einstein, Babe Ruth, Warren Harding and a host of other celebrities does provide some entertaining January reading.
Their accounts are chronicled in a new book called "Money Secrets of the Rich and Famous" (Allworth Press, 272 pages, $24.95), by Michael Reynard. …
Einstein might have been the greatest mathematician in the world, but his skills were woefully undervalued until his second wife, Elsa, began to serve as his business manager. In 1932, when the couple immigrated to the United States, she got his salary of $3,000 a year from Princeton University changed to $16,000 annually for life. …
Time
Copyright 1999 Time Inc.
December 27, 1999SECTION: PERSON OF THE YEAR/JEFF BEZOS
HEADLINE: An Eye On The Future; Jeff Bezos merely wants Amazon.com to be Earth's biggest seller of everything
BYLINE: Joshua Quittner
Jeff Bezos loves being on the move. He sits in the back of a white van, beaming as usual, surrounded by an entourage of lanky young lieutenants from Amazon.com, the Web's biggest retail store and, someday, if Bezos gets it right, Earth's Biggest Store. The early-morning landscape of southeast Kansas hustles by: wood-frame houses, trailers, motels with lots of pickup trucks in their parking lots, a Kum & Go convenience store, cow pastures and the dull, forever flatness of the prairie. You've heard of places described as cow towns? Coffeyville was actually labeled Cow Town on maps on account of the stockyards here. In the 1860s the name was changed to honor Colonel James A. Coffey, who set up a grand trading post on the frontier, selling stuff to Native Americans.
Today's frontier is hidden from the physical world, burbling and buzzing along the interconnected wires, routers and computers of the Net. But the possibilities for trade are far more fabulous than could ever have been imagined 100--or even 10--years ago. That's where Bezos comes in. His van rounds a corner, passes an airfield, heads down a two-lane road and pulls into a long driveway that leads to the biggest warehouse you've ever seen. The place is known as the Coffeyville Distribution Center, and Bezos (pronounced Bay-zos), who's never been here before, is giggling with excitement. He tells the driver to stop so he can snap a picture of a workman pounding a HELP WANTED sign into the turf. Bezos, 35, a meticulous documentarian, is worried that his life is scrolling by too fast to remember, a life that is so fantastic as to verge on the unbelievable. So he takes plenty of pictures and awful, jittery amateur videos. At the very least, they'll help tell his story to the Bezoses' first child, a boy due in March. …
Bezos had graduated from Princeton University, majoring in electrical engineering and computer science. The field was unplanned: he had chosen Princeton for its legendary physics department. Shortly after arriving, however, he discovered that he wasn't the smartest guy in the world after all. He felt outclassed by the physics jocks and gravitated to comp-sci.
His first job out of school was at Fitel, a start-up that was building a network to handle international financial trades. He spent about two years there, worked about the same amount of time at Bankers Trust, then got an interview at Shaw.
Actually, it was one of Shaw's partners who interviewed Bezos first and urged the boss to meet him, saying, "He's going to make someone a lot of money someday." Shaw agreed, understanding that Bezos was unusual not only for his balanced intellect--he could handle complex logic as well as articulate his thinking--but also for the overall package: smart, creative, personable, precisely the kind of person they wanted. Over time, Bezos became a specialist in researching business opportunities in insurance, software and then the booming Internet. …
USA TODAY
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December 27, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Others caught in 'persecution' net
Alexander Nikitin, a retired navy nuclear-safety officer, is among several Russians subjected to searches, arrest and imprisonment after gathering and publishing information on nuclear topics. They include:
* Igor Sutyagin, a scholar with the Institute of the USA and Canada. FSB agents arrested him Oct. 27 in Obninsk outside Moscow.
Later that day, agents spent seven hours searching the apartment of Princeton University graduate student Joshua Handler, a friend of Sutyagin who is doing dissertation research in Moscow. Handler says agents questioned him about Sutyagin and took his computer, notebooks, articles, film, photographs, the cassettes from his answering machine and a copy of the U.S.-Soviet START I arms treaty. …
Copyright 1999 THE HINDU
Copyright 1999 FT Asia Intelligence Wire
December 26, 1999HEADLINE: Emotional resonance
In the concluding part of his article on experimental investigation of mind-matter interaction, DR. M. SRINIVASAN talks of the measurement of the "group consciousness field" using an electronic "fielding" device in recent research findings at Princeton University.
IN the first part of this article which appeared last week, it was reported that the extensive studies carried out at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) programme of Princeton University have shown that a "random event generator" (REG) responds to the influence of the "consciousness field" caused by the human mind. The statistical properties of the output of the REG device is found to be altered to a sufficient extent that the effect is measurable. The simplest measure of the effect is the change in the average number of ones obtained in a "trial" which typically encompasses 200 bits; the expected mean count rate of 100, either increases or decreases. In the initial phase of the investigations, the experimental method required volunteers to sit in front of a computer into which the microelectronic REG device is plugged and intentionally try to change the count rate either to a higher level or a lower level solely by "will power". In the later phase the need for the operator or group of operators to "intentionally will a change" was dispensed with. Instead it was found that the "group consciousness field" generated by a group of individuals involved in some form of focused group activity wherein all of them collectively think or pay attention together to the same event or activity or object in such a manner as to create an "emotional resonance" or "coherent bond" between members of the group, perturbs the output of the REG unit. …
The Edmonton Sun
Copyright 1999 Sun Media Corporation
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: READER THE LESSER OF TWO CALAMITIES
BYLINE: RHONA RASKINS
QUOTE OF THE DAY: "If you feel that you have both feet planted on level ground, then the university has failed you."
-Robert Goheen, president emeritus, Princeton University
The Morning Call (Allentown)
Copyright 1999 The Morning Call, Inc.
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: BUSINESSMEN TO TAKE SWING AT STADIUM; BUT LEHIGH VALLEY PROJECT WORTH $16.5 MILLION MAY BE THE TOUGHEST GAME YET FOR INVESTOR AND DEVELOPER.
BYLINE: TOM DAVIS; The Morning Call
Jim Petrucci stood on a concrete platform, one of the few dry spots at the Lehigh Valley Stadium last Monday. His coat, pants and shoes were spotless.
But it was a cold, rainy day, and the gathering who came to see the New Jersey builder fought hard to avoid the soft, deep mud. One woman lost a shoe.
"This is a mess," Petrucci said.
This mess is now Petrucci's.
Last week, Petrucci and Steve Kalafer, a New Jersey car dealer with a variety of business interests, took over the job of building the unfinished stadium into one of the area's pre-eminent sports and entertainment complexes. …
Petrucci, 35, has local roots. His mother was born in Easton, and some of his relatives are buried in a graveyard adjacent to the stadium site.
He's a whiz kid of sorts, a 1986 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University who served as co-captain of the varsity football team.
Upon graduation, he immediately rose to prominence in his business, J.G. Petrucci Co. Inc. of Asbury, N.J., specializing in the design and construction of industrial and commercial development for American and European companies. …
National Public Radio
SHOW: WEEKEND EDITION SUNDAY (12:00 Noon PM ET)
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: TOP 15 AMERICAN POEMS OF THE CENTURY
ANCHORS: LIANE HANSEN
LIANE HANSEN, host:
WEEKEND EDITION's history commentator Douglas Brinkley is also a fan of great poetry and he's prepared something special for our last program of the century.
DOUGLAS BRINKLEY:
In 1963, just two years before his death, grumpy T.S. Eliot bemoaned to a friend that poetry had become the forgotten art. With the advent of action painting, television talk and rock lyrics, poetry was becoming, Eliot complained, a hellbroth of bad soundbites and jukebox jive. He wondered how genuine poetry could survive the pop culture onslaught of Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry. Sadly, as the 20th century comes to an end, poetry's still the forgotten art.
This past year, I've encountered a steady barrage of top 10 or 50 or 100 lists, the greatest of the century roll calls, compiled and released by publishing houses, newspapers, radio stations and magazines. …
I'm pleased to report that the judges we commissioned were a formidable lot--John Rechy, professor of creative writing at the University of Southern California; David Lehman, professor of poetry at Columbia University and editor of The Best American Poetry series; Robert Politio, chairman of creative writing and professor at the New School of Social Research in New York; Naomi Nye, spoken word poet extraordinaire from San Antonio; Pulitzer Prize winning poet Carolyn Kizer who resides in Sonoma, California; Ishmael Reed, world-renown novelist, poet and essayist from Oakland, California; and Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakka who currently teaches at Princeton University. I rounded out the group which meant we had eight judges in all. …
Number 15: Charles Olson, "The Maximus Poems." Number 14: Robinson Jeffers, "Shine, Perishing Republic." Number 13: Gertrude Stein, "Lifting Belly." Number 12: e e cummings, "Somewhere I have never traveled, gladly beyond." Number 11: Robert Lowell, "For the Union Dead." Number 10 was Elizabeth Bishop, "In the Waiting Room." Number 9: William Carlos Williams, "Patterson." Number 8: Wallace Stevens, "The Snow Man." Number 7: Ezra Pound, "Pisan Cantos." Number 6: Carl Sandburg, "The People, Yes." Number 5: Robert Frost, "Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening." …
BRINKLEY: Number 4: Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers." …
BRINKLEY: Number 3: Allen Ginsburg, "Howl." Number 2: Hart Crane, "The Bridge." And the number one choice was T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland."
National Public RadioSHOW: WEEKEND ALL THINGS CONSIDERED (8:00 PM ET)
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: READINESS OF AMERICAN COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES FOR POSSIBLE Y2K PROBLEMS
ANCHORS: JACKI LYDEN
REPORTERS: AMY BERNSTEINJACKI LYDEN, host:
Have you heard enough yet about Y2K? Apparently, some American colleges and universities haven't. About 30 percent of the schools who responded to an October survey by the Education Department said they were not fully prepared for the turn of the millennium. …
Still, some schools are taking it a step further and literally pulling the plug. Justin Harmon, communications director at Princeton, says his campus will disconnect from the Internet and turn off most of its computers between December 31st and January 2nd.
Mr. JUSTIN HARMON (Princeton University Communications Director): I think that what we're trying to do is just be cautious. I think that we really don't expect that the sky is going to fall. But in the event that we have a little bit of trouble or there's some glitch that nobody anticipates, we just want to be prepared for it. …
New Hampshire Sunday News
Copyright 1999 New Hampshire Sunday News
December 26, 1999 SundayHEADLINE: (NH RUNNING) Millenium Mile is not just for elite runners
BYLINE: VIN SYLVIA
JOHN MORTIMER has just one concern regarding the caliber of the field for Friday's Union Leader/Whirlaway Millennium Mile. So many past and potential sub-4-minute milers have signed up for the New Year's Eve day road race that he worries non-elite runners may be hesitant to join the field.
"I'd really like to get people to run," the seven-time University of Michigan All-America said last Wednesday night after returning home to Londonderry. "I've had a few messages asking, 'Is this only for fast runners?' I just tell people, 'My mother's running, and she's not one of the people aiming to break four minutes'." …
Scott Anderson, a Princeton University graduate, ran a 3:59.8 in 1998. Paranya set a personal record of 3:57.6 as a Haverford College All-America in 1997. Sivieri, who ran with Andy Downin for Georgetown University, ran a 3:59.85 in 1994, and Nedeau, who did his collegiate running for Northeastern, clocked a 3:59.68 in 1993. …
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Copyright 1999 P.G. Publishing Co.
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: * IN ' 67, RED SOX OUTFIELDER CARL YASTRZEMSKI WON
* In ' 65, future presidential candidate and Rhodes Scholar Bill Bradley scored a Final Four-record 58 points for Princeton.
The Providence Journal-Bulletin
Copyright 1999 The Providence Journal Company
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: Images in black and white - Calif. filmmaker focuses on her family's prominence in the slave trade in Bristol
BYLINE: SAM NITZE; Journal Staff Writer
In a brief series of fractured, slow-moving scenes, first-time documentary filmmaker Katrina Browne presses her face to a building's stony flank, leaning forward like a woman caught in a sickness.
Three years ago, Browne, then 29, discovered that she was descended from the largest slave-trading family in early America. Now, on film, she begins to grapple with that inheritance. …
Browne, a 1990 graduate of Princeton University, conceived the idea for Traces of the Trade while a seminary student in 1997. Last December, she decided to go into debt to give herself to the project full time. …
Sacramento Bee
Copyright 1999 McClatchy Newspapers, Inc.
December 26, 1999HEADLINE: COLLEGE HOPEFULS HIRING EXPERTS TO SMOOTH PATH
BYLINE: Emily Bazar, Bee Staff Writer
As if high school seniors don't have enough to worry about.
While their parents and siblings enjoy holiday festivities, many seniors toil over college applications, agonizing over personal essays and whether to retake the Scholastic Assessment Test.
Now they must contend with even more distressing news: Last year's application season has been dubbed the most competitive in the nation's history, and educators warn that the situation will get worse.
As a result, anxiety-ridden parents increasingly are turning to "personal college consultants," who, for as much as $2,000, will navigate stressed seniors through the college application process.
Private college counseling is a booming, unregulated field that's feeding off fears that students will be shut out of the best universities. The commercialization of the college admissions process has roused critics who say the field is ripe for exploitation and shuts out low-income students who need help the most.
Parents nonetheless are clamoring for advice if it means their children might have a better chance at the University of California, Berkeley, or Princeton University. Or, if it means a private counselor can help ease the stress on their kids -- and themselves. …
St. Petersburg Times
Copyright 1999 Times Publishing Company
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: ANOTHER NOVEL GATSBY
BYLINE: JOHN FLEMING
DATELINE: NEW YORKJay Gatsby, the essential American dreamer in F. Scott Fitzgerald's ever-popular novel, has eluded capture in other media. It now remains to be seen if reincarnation in an opera leaves the greatness intact.
Just about any reader of The Great Gatsby has formulated mental images of Jay, Daisy, Nick and the Jazz Age world of wealth and power painted in the classic novel.
That was both the advantage and the disadvantage facing composer John Harbison when he set out to create an opera based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's work, probably the most widely read American novel of this century. …
Harbison, who turned 61 the day Gatsby premiered, first read the novel as a teenager. He was the son of a history professor at Princeton University, where Fitzgerald went to college. …
Albuquerque Journal
Copyright 1999 Albuquerque Journal
December 25, 1999, SaturdayHEADLINE: Trial Set For Official
BYLINE: S.U. Mahesh Journal Staff Writer
* State director of Indian Affairs faces misdemneanor counts stemming from an incident in May
The trial of State Director of Indian Affairs Regis Pecos on misdemeanor charges stemming from an alleged conflict with police is scheduled for Jan. 24.
Santa Fe city prosecutor Art Michael said Wednesday that about 30 witnesses are expected to testify in the bench trial before Municipal Judge Frances Gallegos.
Santa Fe police arrested Pecos, 45, on the Santa Fe Indian School property after they responded to a call of a shooting May 29. …
Pecos, 45, of Cochiti Pueblo, was arrested and charged with resisting arrest and creating a disturbance. He has pleaded innocent to both charges. …
A graduate of Princeton University, Pecos also is a member of the school's board of trustees. He is the first Native American ever to serve on an Ivy League board. …
The EconomistCopyright 1999 The Economist Newspaper Ltd.
December 25, 1999HEADLINE: A matter of gravity
HIGHLIGHT: Newton discovered it. Einstein complicated it. But nobody really understands the force of gravity. Part of the explanation may be that it is not really all here
NOT many people think that a small magnet is performing a remarkable feat when it grabs a nail off a table. Nima Arkani-Hamed, on the other hand, does. The nail, he points out, has the entire mass of the earth tugging down on it through gravity, but this still cannot overcome the force of the magnet. Why is gravity so miserably weak?
This is a question that has puzzled physicists for decades. But two recent papers in Physical Review Letters, by Lisa Randall of Princeton University and Raman Sundrum of Stanford University, suggest an answer. They build on an idea proposed earlier this year by Dr Arkani-Hamed, who works at the University of California, Berkeley, and two of his colleagues: Savas Dimopoulos of Stanford, and Gia Dvali, of New York University. Together, all these physicists believe that the reason gravity is such a weak force in the universe is that it does not actually spend much of its time here. …
In the traditional way of looking at things, gravity is one of four fundamental forces that hold the universe together. The other three are the strong nuclear force, which binds the particles in atomic nuclei; the weak nuclear force, which is responsible for some sorts of radioactive decay; and electromagnetism.
All three of these other forces are much more powerful than gravity. But it was not always so. Most physicists believe that, at the time of the Big Bang, when the universe began, all four forces were symmetrical, and thus of equal strength. …
This theory would be convincing enough were it not for a rather awkward requirement. For gravity to have dwindled as it did, the starting conditions for the universe had to be exactly what they actually turned out to be. Even a minuscule deviation in certain values, such as the mass of an exotic particle called the Higgs boson (which bestows mass on other, more ordinary particles), would have meant that gravity could not have weakened as it did. The result would have been a universe in which stars, planets, human beings and so on could never have come into existence. …
Instead, he and his collaborators propose a different explanation. Rather than circumventing the hierarchy problem, they propose to abolish it entirely. In their view, the problem does not exist. The weakness of gravity is an illusion. It actually remains just as strong as it ever was, but not all of its strength is exercised in the perceptible universe. Rather -- and in contrast to the other three forces -- gravity frequently operates in two or more extra dimensions beyond the commonplace four (the three of distance, plus time). And the longer it spends in these other dimensions, the weaker are its effects in the dimensions inhabited by people. …
New Scientist
Copyright 1999 New Scientist
December 25, 1999HEADLINE: Engineering a cure
BYLINE: Nell Boyce (Washington DC)
HIGHLIGHT: Gene therapy will soon be tested on people with Alzheimer's
THE first trial to test whether gene therapy can slow the progress of Alzheimer's disease has been given the go-ahead. In theory the same technique could be used to enhance the cognitive ability of people who aren't suffering from dementia.
Alzheimer's is the most common cause of dementia in older people, killing brain cells called cholinergic neurons. As the number of elderly people in developed nations increases, it is exacting an ever more devastating toll (seeFigure), so finding effective ways to treat it is a top priority.
Researchers led by Mark Tuszynski of the University of California, San Diego, are betting that a substance called nerve growth factor (NGF) will stave off dementia not only by preventing the death of cholinergenic neurons, but also by promoting new connections between the cells. …
The researchers have had to resort to gene therapy because NGF injected into the blood stream doesn't readily cross the blood-brain barrier. However, any genetic technique that affects brain function has the potential to generate controversy. Earlier this year, for instance, when Joe Tsien and his colleagues at Princeton University in New Jersey created transgenic mice with improved memories by boosting levels of the gene for a receptor on the surface of brain cells called NMDA, there was widespread speculation about using the human version of the gene to engineer supersmart people (New Scientist, 4 September, p 15). …
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Copyright 1999 St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Inc.
December 24, 1999, Friday, FIVE STAR LIFT EDITIONHEADLINE: PRINCETON FRESHMAN IS THE '99 VEILED PROPHET QUEEN; ELIZABETH KEMPER WAS A TOP SCHOLAR AND ATHLETE AT JOHN BURROUGHS HIGH
BYLINE: John M. McGuire; Of The Post-Dispatch
Elizabeth Claire "Ellie" Kemper, 19, the 1999 Queen of Love and Beauty, was crowned Thursday night at the Veiled Prophet Ball in the Promenade Ballroom at the Adam's Mark Hotel.
Kemper is the 105th young woman to be so honored by the Veiled Prophet o rganization. She wore a white satin square-neck gown designed by Tomasina and purchased at Saks Fifth Avenue.
A freshman at Princeton University, Kemper is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Kemper. She is the granddaughter of the late Brig. Gen. and Mrs. John R. Jannarone and Mr. and Mrs. James M. Kemper. David Kemper is chairman and chief executive of Commerce Bank and Commerce Bancshares Inc.; James Kemper is a Kansas City banker. …
Her interests include running and musical theater. She's also done volunteer work with the St. Louis Crisis Nursery, Aim High and Habitat for Humanity.
OBITUARIES
• Woodrow Borah, 86, an expert on spanish conquest of
• David Bryson
• Herbert Martin Giffin, Washington surgeon
• Alan Rogers Johnston
• Lawyer Rufus King Sr.; sought decriminalization of
• Pension pioneer; Mole, of U.S. Steel and Carnegie
• Frank Sandstrom retired financial executive, 84
• Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, leader in cortisone
• Robert Lee Terry
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
December 28, 1999, TuesdayHEADLINE: Woodrow Borah, 86, an Expert On Spanish Conquest of Mexico
Woodrow Borah, a former professor of Latin American history at the University of California at Berkeley who documented the decimation of Mexico's native population resulting from the Spanish conquest, died on Dec. 10 at Kaiser Hospital in Oakland, Calif. He was 86 and lived in Berkeley.
Working with a colleague, Sherburne F. Cook, Dr. Borah began by studying the impact of the Spanish conquest and colonialization on the native populations in Mexico and elsewhere in Mesoamerica. …
He taught briefly at Princeton University before joining the United States State Department as an analyst in the Office of Strategic Services during World War II. …
The San Francisco Chronicle
Copyright 1999 The Chronicle Publishing Co.
DECEMBER 29, 1999, WEDNESDAYHEADLINE: David Bryson
Funeral services will be held tomorrow for David Bryson, deputy director of the Oakland-based National Housing Law Project, who died on Christmas Day after battling lung cancer. He was 58.
A lawyer who graduated with honors from Columbia University's law school, the Piedmont resident was an expert on national housing for the poor. Housing advocates around the United States called him for advice. Mr. Bryson cemented his reputation in 1987 when he worked with other public housing advocates to win a Supreme Court ruling. The court reversed an appellate court in a case from Roanoke, Va., ruling that public housing residents could sue over alleged violations of federal housing law. …
Raised in Westminster, Md., Mr. Bryson received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University. …
The Associated Press
State & Local Wire
December 29, 1999HEADLINE: National expert on housing for poor people dies at 58
DATELINE: OAKLAND, Calif.
David Bryson, the deputy director of the Oakland-based National Housing Law Project, has died of lung cancer. He was 58.
Bryson earned his reputation as a national housing expert in 1987 when he worked with other advocates to win a Supreme Court ruling. …
Raised in Westminster, Md., Bryson received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University.
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
December 27, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Herbert Martin Giffin, Washington Surgeon
Herbert Martin Giffin, 90, a retired Washington surgeon who was a founding member and past director and chairman of the Yater Clinic, died Dec. 23 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. He had a heart ailment. …
Dr. Giffin, who was born in Atlantic City, was a 1927 cum laude graduate of Princeton University and a 1935 graduate of Johns Hopkins University medical school. He interned and was a surgical resident in Philadelphia and was a surgical fellow and first assistant in surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota before serving with the Navy in the Pacific during World War II. …
Press Journal (Vero Beach, FL)
Copyright 1999 Stuart News Company
December 29, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: ALAN ROGERS JOHNSTON
VERO BEACH - Alan Rogers Johnston, an Illinois government and community leader, died on December 24th in Vero Beach, Florida. He was 85.
Between 1962 and 1970, Mr. Johnston represented the North Shore of Chicago in the Illinois State Legislature. As a State Representative, he served as Chairman of the House Committees on Election Laws and the 1970 Illinois State Constitutional Convention. He was the author of important legislation to protect the environment and was instrumental in the cleanup and preservation of Lake Michigan.
Mr. Johnston was born in Chicago and raised in Glencoe, Illinois, the son of Edward Raymond Johnston and Caroline Rogers Johnston. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and received a B.S. degree from Princeton University in 1937. He went to Law School at the University of Michigan, graduating in 1941. …
The Washington Post
Copyright 1999 The Washington Post
December 29, 1999HEADLINE: Lawyer Rufus King Sr.; Sought Decriminalization of Drugs
BYLINE: Claudia Levy, Washington Post Staff Writer
Rufus King Sr., 82, a lawyer who was a national leader of the movement to decriminalize narcotics, died of cancer Dec. 28 at his Washington home.
In practice here since the 1950s, Mr. King wrote extensively about organized crime, drug laws and gambling. His books included "The Drug Hangup," which made the case in 1973 for treatment rather than punishment of illegal drug users.
Mr. King was also a founding member of the American Bar Association's section on individual rights and responsibilities. Reform of the drug laws was a commitment for much of his career. …
Mr. King was a native of Seattle and a graduate of Princeton University and Yale University law school. He also studied law at Stanford University. He served in the Coast Guard during World War II. …
Pensions and Investments
Copyright 1999 Crain Communications, Inc.
December 27, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: PENSION PIONEER; Mole, of U.S. Steel and Carnegie fund, dies
SUMMIT, N.J. -- Harvey Edward Mole, who left Wall Street in 1950 to start the internal investment management operation at the U.S. Steel and Carnegie Pension Fund, died Dec. 17. He was 91.
At the pension fund Mr. Mole acted quickly. In his first year in charge, he took the fund heavily into equity investments, a radical allocation in those days when pension funds typically invested only in bonds and insurance contracts. He made the fund's first investments in Japanese equities in 1962, again an innovative move. Also under him, the fund was an early investor in private equity and real estate.
"He was a successful and innovative investor, investing in a way that became widely accepted 20 years later but was unusual at the time," said Gary A. Glynn, president of the fund, which continues to manage the pension assets of USX Corp., now at $12 billion. "He was really a pension pioneer in this country." …
He also had been a director of General Reinsurance Corp. and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co.; chairman of two mutual funds; a trustee of Corporate Property Investors; and a trustee of Princeton University.
Mr. Mole was born in Paris. A graduate of Princeton and Harvard University Business School, he lived most of his life in Summit. …
The family suggests contributions to Princeton.
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
December 30, 1999, ThursdayHEADLINE: SANDSTROM, FRANK
SANDSTROM-Frank., of Denver, CO, died December 21, 1999. Born in 1915, son of Frank O. Sandstrom and Virginia Foster. Survived by a sister, Barbara Gurtler, of Denver; daughters Virginia Emley and Judith Stephan; and four grandchildren. Graduated 1938, Princeton University, summa cum laude. Married the late Sybil King, 1941. Captain, U.S. Army. Chairman, Credit Policy Committee, Morgan Guarantee Trust Co. Financial manager to Kuwait Finance Minister. Consultant to Goldman Sachs. Board member, School of American Research, Santa Fe Opera, First Interstate Bank. Memorial gifts to Princeton, MIT or the charity of choice.
The Denver Post
Copyright 1999 The Denver Post Corporation
December 29, 1999 WednesdayHEADLINE: Frank Sandstrom Retired financial executive, 84
Frank Sandstrom of Denver, a retired financial executive, died Dec. 21. He was 84.
Private services were held. There was cremation.
He was born July 23, 1915, in Fort Collins. He attended East High School and the University of Colorado. He graduated from Princeton University in 1938. …
DENVER ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
Copyright 1999 Denver Publishing Company
December 26, 1999, SundayHEADLINE: FRANK SANDSTROM, 84, of Denver died
Dec. 21. Mr. Sandstrom was born in Fort Collins on July 23, 1915. He married Sybil L. King, 1947. He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and served in the Army during World War II. He worked at the Bank of Manhattan, Chase Manhattan Bank and Guaranty Trust Co. He became chairman of the credit policy committee and assistant to the chairman of the board at Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. After retirement, he was financial manager to the finance minister of Kuwait for five years. He was a member and later chairman of the board of the School of American Research in New Mexico. Survivors include daughters Virginia Sandstrom Emley of Missouri, Judith Sandstrom Stephan of Connecticut; sister Barbara Sandstrom Guntler of Denver; four grandchildren.
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
December 27, 1999, MondayHEADLINE: Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, 81, Leader in Cortisone Research
BYLINE: By WOLFGANG SAXON
Dr. Lewis Hastings Sarett, an organic chemist who received the National Medal of Science for his work with cortisone and other substances as the senior vice president for science and technology of Merck & Company, died on Nov. 29 at his home in Viola, Idaho. He was 81 and lived in Princeton and Skillman, N.J., before he retired in 1982.
The cause was advanced colitis, his family said.
Dr. Sarett was one of 15 scientists to receive the medal, the nation's highest award for scientific achievement, from President Gerald R. Ford in 1975. He was cited for his contributions to the chemical synthesis of various chemotherapeutic agents, including cortisone, used in the treatment of inflammatory, allergic and neoplastic diseases. …
In 1980 Dr. Sarett was elected to the National Inventors Hall of Fame, created by the National Council of Patent Law Associations and the Patent and Trademark Office in 1973. Among his other honors were the Wallace H. Carothers Award of the American Chemical Society (1986), the James Madison Medal of Princeton University (1983).
He was born in Champaign, Ill., and was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Northwestern University in 1939. He received a Ph.D. in chemistry from Princeton in 1942, then joined Merck in Rahway, N.J. …
The New York Times
Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company
December 29, 1999, WednesdayHEADLINE: Robert Lee Terry
Robert Lee Terry. Born June 20, 1919 in Princeton, N.J. and was brought up in Princeton. He attended Groton School & Princeton University. He had homes in both Princeton, N.J. and Palm Beach, FL. During his fifty year tenure with Florida Public Utilities, he served as Chairman of the Board, CEO and, most recently, Chairman of the Executive Committee. …
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