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Marcia Wirt made a big change from the police department to pediatrics, but her story in our class Book of Changes (aka “Bio Book”) doesn’t get to her “retirement” as a volunteer in prisons or serving in AmeriCorps VISTA.
Life changes mean that our stories have different chapters. That can make it hard to distill life into just one entry.
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Four classmates who just sent in their stories, with questions they inspired:
Marcia Wirt almost majored in mono before embarking on a career as a pediatrician.
“Did you have to pack heat at the PD?”John Tischer sent us a riff: “Nostalgia Isn’t What It Used To Be.” John, though, hasn’t changed a bit.
“Fifth Musser? Don’t you mean Fourth?”Pat Widdoes Bilke helped empower families and students to make their own changes.
“What’s the difference between a pop quiz and a dipstick?”Peg Salagovic Sweitzer was “google” before there was a Google.
“How much of your amazing journey did your parents get to see?” -
Jocelyn Riley discovered the word “caste” in the very first paragraph of our last Common Reading in 1967, John Gardner’s Excellence: Can We Be Equal and Excellent Too?
Let’s have a new Common Reading experience with Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson on Tuesday March 16 at 6:00 CST. Here’s more info and a set of links to reviews and interviews if you don’t have time to read the book
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Migrations is edited by Charlie Quimby, overseen by the spirit of ’71, and written by you. Get your story to the Book of Changes by May 1. Pretty please?
