Died: January 11, 2021. LIONEL Gossman, late Emeritus Professor at Princeton University in New Jersey, America, was described by his colleague Francois Rigolot as “one of the great humanists and scholar teachers of his generation.” Born in Glasgow in 1929, Lionel grew up in Pollokshields and after schooling graduated MA in French and German from Glasgow University in 1951. He completed his diplome d’etudes superieures at the Sorbonne the following year and graduated Ph.D from Oxford in 1958. A short period of teaching at Glasgow was followed by a move to John Hopkins University, Baltimore, where, in 1975, he was appointed Chair of the Department of Romance Languages. He left for Princeton in 1976, initially in a similar capacity, and retired as Emeritus Professor in 1999.
The final five names for the new Marblehead school are .
The public is being asked to weigh in on the choices
And then there were five.
School Committee members each offered up their choice of a name for the new elementary school along with a supporting reason. And here they are.
Name: The Joseph Story Elementary School
Chosen by: Sarah Gold, chairman
Why: “I think the school needs to create its own story and that is why my recommendation is going to be for the Joseph Story School,” Gold said.
Gold described Story as someone who aspired to be above politics, is well known for his opinion in the Amistad case (https://www.history.com/topics/abolitionist-movement/amistad-case), remains the youngest person to have ever served on the Supreme Court and served at very important time in history (https://supremecourthistory.org/?page id=406).
Real, imagined Berkeley celebrated in Berkeley Rep audio series ‘Place/Settings’
The East Bay company s audio series is grounded in specific sites in Berkeley, penned by writers with strong ties to the city
Lily Janiak January 8, 2021Updated: January 12, 2021, 5:47 pm
Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda is seen at Jewel Lake in Berkeley. Photo: Santiago Mejia, The Chronicle
When playwright Philip Kan Gotanda set out to write an audio short story about Jewel Lake for Berkeley Rep’s “Place/Settings,” the Tilden Nature Area reservoir lived only in his imagination. He had never been there before.
“I happened to be reading Berkeleyside at the moment,” he recalls, of getting approached by Berkeley Rep about the new series, whose first episode premieres Tuesday, Jan. 12. Gotanda was struck by an article on the Berkeley-centric nonprofit news site about the danger that the lake would dry and what that would do to visitors’ memories of the lake.