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Volume XIV Number 9 September 14, 2009 LEAFING
FROM EARLIER EDITIONS
© MMIX by Bob Dean |
Circulation Last Issue: 145 Year 2009: 880
BACK-TO SCHOOL TIME FOR TEN DEANS
Just last month, this relaxed family of ten spent a week at the beach. Now they're scattered into a variety of institutions, with every one of them engaged in learning or teaching: an educated and educating family, indeed. We've pulled them out of their vacation picture and tried to show where they've gone and what they're doing a month or so later.
Our most recent picture of Jim in these kind of activities is this, from his Facebook® page:
. Anna rides to Strawberry Park Elementary for her Second Grade Montessori classes.
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Smith poses at the door of his Montessori Kindergarten with his friend, Christopher.
Fiction
Elmore Leonard has written 40 books. We've probably read at least 20 of them, because we enjoy his "tight plotting and pitch-perfect dialog." In this one, two criminals become friends in jail, are released prematurely and become linked with the common-law wife of one of them. On the "outside" they make new friends and, ultimately, begin to kill one another. Doesn't sound like rewarding reading but, to us, it really is.
On the wall at our otolaryngologist's
office
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--Bob and Liz are
taking an
NCSU
class on The Korean War from self-described experts in that subject.
Then, in early October, they'll be joining an
--Paul will be teaching his adoring students
the basics and more advanced topics in graphic design at
Louisiana State University in
Baton Rouge. He's pictured
enlightening students in last year's Color
course. This term he's teaching two sections of a course
called Letterforms . . . the basic
typography class.
--Jim is managing the shop for students
in North Carolina State University's College of
Design. He explains the use and the risks of very
advanced fabrication equipment--and demonstrates many of these skills by
developing some of his own projects.
--Chloe's continuing her own studies under Dr. Cathy Crossland at
NCSU. This term she's enjoying a
Practicum in Special Education. AND teaching at
Conn
Learning and Technology Magnet School. She's working
towards a Master's Degree in Special Education.
--Also at
Conn
Learning and Technology Magnet School., Nick's beginning
the fifth grade with Mr. Good as his teacher.
--Bruce is conducting classes for young cellists--including his favorite
prodigy.
--Josie's
taking Anatomy & Physiology I at
Colorado Mountain College--Alpine Campus--as she accumulates credits
towards her nursing accreditation. This is an Internet photo of
Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus in
Steamboat Springs.
--Anna and
Smith are Second Grade and
Kindergarten Montessorians,
respectively, in Steamboat Springs.
They're both enjoying the Montessorian experience. (and you can
share their enthusiasm, perhaps, by 
Mary
Lyman, St. Mary's Street Diva,
awoke on Thursday morning to find that this huge tree had fallen
against her house, breaking a window, scraping the bricks, and
falling to rest against another tree--stopping just short of
destroying her neighbor's fence as well.
Alan
and Jill
Goldman were attacked at their
Gunnison Street residence by a huge tree which, in the early
morning hours, fell into their home, stuffed branches into their
bedroom closet, and nearly awakened them. This picture was
taken for insurance purposes and is on loan to
The Poland
Place News. 
Next
door to our editorial offices, the crape myrtle featured in
last week's News was trimmed up by Nancy Borngesser while
Bruce and
Helen McCallum were still
vacationing. Immediately on their return, however,
Bruce managed to pull the trimmed-up tree upright, push
the root structure back into the ground, and support the result
with various neighborhood sticks and boards. We'll be following
this attempted reincarnation carefully!
Road
Dogs by Elmore Leonard (HarperCollins, New York, 2009,
265
pp.) 
On
June 11, thirty dedicated staff members and volunteers gathered in the
Discovery Room of the N.C. State Museum of
Science and, using the new observation honeybee hive as a
backdrop, bestowed a large model of a Japanese
Elkhorn Beetle on Liz Dean for her
thirty years of dedicated service to
the Museum. Inscribed on the base:
Bruce,
Anna, Smith, Bruce & Grandmother Liz visited the
North Carolina Zoo in
Ashboro on August 19, just two days
before the Steamboat Springs Deans
flew home.
Nick
Dean took the photos which made this composite possible.
"The excitement from California is that Jim's and my daughter, Julia,
turns 1 on August 25. A recent picture is attached."
