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Alumni August Newsletter Dear Milne Alumni and Supporters, In this issue: * Digitization Project Update! * New Book by Ginnah Howard, '57 * Sad News DIGITIZATION PROJECT UPDATE! As of 07/15/14 (not a misprint -- I was unable to get an up-to-date total yesterday due to a computer glitch at the University), our total is $13,677. As I have explained previously, the original estimate to complete this project was $25,000, but, as with anything else, the price will rise as time passes...so if you haven't yet donated or wish to increase your contribution, please consider doing so soon. Thank you very much to those who have already contributed. I have been advised that "the digitization vendors picked up the first set of books to be scanned. Should be on the internet by the end of summer." If you click here and then click on the donations link, you will see that although many alumni have donated to this important project, we still need donations, large or small, from others. Please help us reach our goal so that we are able to digitize all available Crimson & White and Bricks & Ivy editions, which will enable us to enjoy full-text web access of our Milne yearbooks and/or newspapers via searchable files. If we, as Milne School Alumni, don't ensure that our memorabilia is preserved...who will? For further information, see https://www.albany.edu/~milne/Project.shtml. A list of donations is available at https://www.albany.edu/~milne/DigitizationDonations.pdf. If your donation does not yet appear on our list, please note that the University sends updates every two weeks...or so. NEW BOOK BY GINNAH HOWARD, '57 Ginnah Howard's Upstate New York trilogy about two troubled families is now complete. Book 1, Rope & Bone: A Novel in Stories (Illume Publications, July 2014), traces the parallel, and eventually interwoven, lives of two very different women whose courage, originality, and humor will carry them through the darkest of times and the toughest things that life can sling at them. Rope & Bone’s thirty-four story/chapters, which span the years from 1946 to 1993, are told from the points of view of the members of both families so that they all have a chance to give their "take" on their formative years. Book 2, Night Navigation (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009), was a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Doing Time Outside,, Book 3, was published by Standing Stone Books in 2013. For more information visit: www.GinnahHoward.com. SAD NEWS Please note that I rely upon the Albany Times Union and input from other alumni for this information, so if you become aware of someone who has passed away, please let me know. If a name is underlined, it represents a link to the obituary. Many obituaries are available free for a limited time only. James PANTON, '49, brother of Mary PANTON McKinney, '51, passed away on July 3, 2014. Shirley SMITH Schamberger, '41 or '42, passed away on July 20, 2014. Dorothy Garth STRITE Alberico, '46, passed away on July 26, 2014. Shirley Hyman Auerbach, mother of Pamela AUERBACH, '70, passed away on Wednesday, August 13, 2014. Thanks to all of you for your interest in Milne Alumni activities. Judy (Koblintz) Madnick, '61 For contact information, see the Milne Alumni homepage: www.albany.edu/~milne/ |