A Life: Sue Barnaby; ‘She so believed in play as learning’
Susan Barnaby reads to some of her nieces and nephews and other Tunbridge children during the time when she was running a home day care in the 1990s. (Family photograph)
Susan Barnaby holds her daughter, Erin, who is now 36, at the child s baptism at Tunbridge Congregational Church. With her are her mother, Elaine Cilley, left, and her grandmother, Ruby Keyser. Barnaby s family has been in Tunbridge since the 1790s. (Family photograph)
Susan Cilley, later Barnaby, back left, with her siblings, clockwise from back right, Patricia, Brenda and Dennis, in a photograph from the 1960s. (Family photograph)
A Commonwealth Club virtual event went forward on Feb. 11 despite heavy criticism from the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which charged the two speakers with holding “anti-Muslim” and “anti-Palestinian” views.
CAIR, a national organization with a chapter in Santa Clara, not only lobbied to have the event canceled at the 11th hour, but the resulting dust-up led to the resignation of a Jewish member of the Commonwealth Club’s Inforum board, an advisory group that co-hosted the discussion. The Commonwealth Club is based in San Francisco.
The event featured former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born author, in conversation with Jewish writer and pro-Israel activist Bari Weiss. The two discussed women’s rights, particularly in the context of Muslim immigration to Europe. Hirsi Ali’s controversial new book “Prey” was also discussed.
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As the first weeks of spring classes kick-off, so do increased opportunities for student engagement – even if they’re now virtual.
This Saturday, Feb. 6, Grinnell College held its fourth TEDxGrinnell conference. The event offered Grinnell students, alumni, staff, faculty and community members the opportunity to hear talks from seven different Grinnell College alumni and community members. But unlike in past years, this conference was all online.
TEDxGrinnell is an independently-organized TED event. The conference is organized by Grinnell College students and staff and is sponsored by the Wilson Center for Innovation and Leadership. Presentations resemble the style and format of a typical TED talk.