![]() ![]() Recalling one detail from decades ago leads to another and another. I found out later she was the gossip of the town: People thought she was a prostitute.” Mother wore red, red lipstick, had Theda Bara-style plucked eyebrows, and smoked while walking in the street. He writes, “Archie, our chauffeur, drove my mother up for a visit - the only member of my family to ever do so. The latter created quite a stir in Lewisburg during Blaustein’s first year. Babe Ruth lived a few floors above the Blaustein family - Joe his two older sisters his father, a Jewish refugee from the early 20th-century pogroms in what is now Ukraine who, Blaustein says, became “New York’s official bankruptcy auctioneer” and his decorative mother. His childhood home, a 16-story iron apartment building on Riverside Drive between 83rd and 84th streets in Manhattan, provides plenty of details to draw from. Joe Blaustein ’47 has that skill down pat. And two of her works - A Conversation as well as … and the Skeptic - are now in the permanent collection of the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, Neb. She has loaned two of her pieces to the State Department’s esteemed Art in Embassies program. She won a second Best of Show at Quilt National in 2019 for her piece A Conversation and judged the 2021 competition. Since that win in 2015, Schulz has earned the standing of one of the nation’s leading contemporary fiber artists. “Then I found out I had won Best of Show. “I thought, ‘Great! I won something,’ ” she says. “Someone is going to tap me on the shoulder and say, ‘We’re sorry, but you didn’t actually get in the show, and you’ll have to leave now.’ ”īut then a staff member guided Schulz to her quilt, prominently displayed with a medallion on it right by the front door. They must have made a mistake,’ ” Schulz recalls. But as she turned one corner after the next, she could not find her submission. She was thrilled to be accepted by this prestigious, biennial juried competition for contemporary art quilts on just the second time she applied. You can read Sara’s story of resilience in the article Shining a Light on 9/11.Īren Schulz ’75 wandered the galleries of Quilt National in Athens, Ohio, looking for her entry Girl in the City with Blue Hair. Sara Micciulli ’23 was only 9 months old when her father, William, died at his Cantor Fitzgerald office. Mary co-founded, with another survivor, the Voices Center for Resilience, a nonprofit that helps families and communities heal after tragedies.Īs the 20th anniversary approaches, we lift up the names of those Bucknell lost but also extend our condolences to their loved ones, including one of our current students. Bradley Fetchet left behind brothers Christopher ’11 and Wesley ’04 and parents Mary and Frank. Joseph Berry’s wife, Evelyn, and children Joe ’96, Kimberley ’03 and Todd survived him. Joseph Berry P ’96, P’03 and Bradley Fetchet ’99 were working at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods in Two World Trade Center that day. She was survived by her husband, now deceased, and two children, and he was survived by his parents and two brothers. ![]() In that same building worked two other alumni, Bonnie Jean Shihadeh Smithwick ’68, at Fred Alger & Co., and Mark Ryan McGinly ’97, at Carr Futures. He left behind wife Elodie Ferrante Coleman ’90, two small children and his parents. Keith Coleman ’90 worked at Cantor Fitzgerald in One World Trade Center. But those who lost loved ones still carry the permanent weight of that day, nearly 20 years later. 11, 2001, can recall where we were and what we were doing when two planes struck New York’s twin towers, igniting a horrific morning of terrorist attacks.
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