Collecting My Thoughts

I got an email from The University of Illinois System (Chicago, Urbana, Springfield) warning me that "Cuts to federal research funding ...

My first semester at the University of Illinois in 1958 I noticed the outstanding services for the disabled--buses, ramps, wheelchairs, eve...

Since it's October 1, I thought I'd post the October poem by Robert Frost, but some critic spoiled my plan by reminding the reader t...

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Congratulations on the record breaking enrollment at U. of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.  https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/802663?   Enrollm...

Be still my heart. A librarian's stroll down memory lane, a bibliophile's paradise, a film made in 1956 of la Bibliothèque nationale...

I saw this in a closed Facebook group, so I'll only share parts. A parent posted (with the texts) that his college student son (enrolled...

What was that Mr. Obama--the line about you and the media not having the bad relations of Trump and the media? "Over the past eight y...

In the late 1950's my college roommate Dora and I both dated architectural students named Bob whom we married. They both had taken ar...

Isn’t that just about the dumbest slogan?  I’ve heard it or seen it many times in many phrases, and it isn’t true, of course.  Get three peo...

Anniversary of our first date, 1959, for the St. Pat's Ball at the University of Illinois.  He told me he was going to marry me.  I wore...

I received an e-mail newsletter/update from the University of Illinois School of Information Sciences.  Lots of news about minority recruitm...

College graduation photo, 1961 After we married in September 1960 we lived in Indianapolis where Bob worked at Ayrshire Collieries as ...

Yesterday some guy from Apple (I’ve never heard of) got himself into deep do-do by commenting on how women search for music differently tha...

Or, the double whammy.  

We met in 1958 when we lived in McKinley Hall on Wright St. at the University of Illinois. Saturday we had lunch together at Panera’s and it...

Photos of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John F. Kennedy making a campaign stop at the University of Illinois. (U. of I. Archives ...

An article in today’s WSJ reports the average student graduates with $30,000 indebtedness.  I'm surprised the  debt is "only" ...

These photos do bring back some memories.  University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, on the Quad in the Fog. The first photo is the Illini U...

I don't know what generates the ads on the right side of my screen on Facebook, but this morning noticed one for yearbooks. I have my fo...