Spring 2009: Alumni Ink

Literary Travels

Thinking Places: Where Great Ideas Are Born

By Franchesca Winters 10C

In Thinking Places: Where Great Ideas Are Born (Trafford Publishing, 2007), Jack Fleming 47M and his wife, Carolyn, travel to the creative havens of thirty-one of the world’s most imaginative people. From Jane Austen’s dining room to George Bernard Shaw’s tiny garden hut, the Flemings vividly depict the places these people went to find inspiration, providing insightful commentary along the way.

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Spring 2009

• Prelude
• Letters to the Editor

Of Note

• Traces of Tragedy An online database developed through Emory libraries sheds new light on the slave trade
• Emory’s second Gates Scholar
• Culture Clash Urban gentrification comes with a cost, says author Nathan McCall
• Eco-expansion at Emory Conference Center Hotel
• A Woman’s Touch University Woman’s Club nears ninety years of service and support
• Waiting for Mail The letters of Samuel Beckett open to scholars, public at last
• School of Medicine building named
• Ethics: Eight is Enough?
• Monkey models
• Seeing beyond carrots
• ‘Interaction All-Stars’ The Crossroads retreat builds confidence and trust among diverse freshmen
• Stepping up for Awareness
• Fighting Chance Black women with breast cancer find support can help tilt odds in their favor
• Perfect Pitch Emory in the news
• Ticker WCI earns National Cancer Institute designation

Features

• The Audacious Thing ‘One does not simply want to be the pastor of the Riverside Church in the city of New York. That would not do justice to the magnitude of this work. ‘You have to be called to it.’
• Living Legends The James Weldon Johnson Institute breathes new life into modern civil rights scholarship
• Facing Race A five-year, University-wide project on race has brought unlikely people together, with some remarkable results
• Fifteen Months of Fame The True Story of the Atlanta Times
• The Dream Center Emory adds voices to a new Atlanta landmark

Campaign Emory Update

• A Community that Cares Note from Susan Cruse
• Laneys’ Legacy Gift Includes Emory as Family
• Avoid Risk, Cut Taxes with Charitable Gift Annuities

Register

• Letter from the President Busy times in the railroad switchyard
• Letter from the EAA “In these economic times . . .”
• Exception to the Rule Atlanta Tribune publisher Pat Lottier 84MPH succeeds by giving readers—not to mention advertisers—what they want
• The Next Flu Pandemic Tracking the migration of influenza virus across six continents
• Leading the Way Sacred Places: A Guide to the Civil Rights Sites in Atlanta, Georgia
• Mark of Greatness Making My Mark: The Story of a Man Who Wouldn’t Stay in His Place
• Literary Travels Thinking Places: Where Great Ideas Are Born
• Emory, Abroad After coming to Emory by way of Tbilisi, Levan Vasadze 95MBA gives back to Goizueta
• Black and White Coda by Natasha Trethewey
• With Shades of Gray Coda by Taharee Jackson 10PhD