A Bounty of Praise
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CHRIS CURTIS, ’73, founder and director of the Neighborhood Farmers Market Alliance, was honored when the University District Farmers Market was named one of the top 10 farmers markets in the nation by U.S. News & World Report and Forbes magazine. The Boston Globe also ranked it third nationally. The U District farmers market, which opened in 1993, is one of seven farmers markets throughout Seattle under Curtis’ leadership.
On the Shelf A Slave’s Story Lewis George Clarke published the story of his life as a slave in 1845, after he had escaped from Kentucky and become a well-regarded abolitionist lecturer throughout the North. His book was the first work by a slave to be acquired by the Library of Congress and placed under copyright. Now his great grandson, CARVER GAYTON, ’60, ’72, ’76, has written an introduction of a new facsimile edition of the book. During the 1840s, Clarke lived in Cambridge, Mass., where he encountered Harriet Beecher Stowe. His experiences are evident in Uncle Tom’s Cabin, published in 1852, and Stowe identified him as the prototype for the book’s rebellious character George Harris. Gayton served as director of Affirmative Action Programs at the University of Washington; corporate director of educational relations and training for the Boeing Company; lecturer at the UW’s Evans School of Public Administration; and executive director of the Northwest African American Museum. He also was president of the UW Alumni Association. JULIA DOUTHWAITE, ’81, ’84, professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Notre Dame, published The Frankenstein of 1790 and Other Lost
Chapters from Revolutionary France. GEORGE DUTTON, ’01 co-edited with colleagues a guide to two thousand years of Vietnamese history. The volume is called Sources of Vietnamese Tradition. JIM LYNCH, ’85, has his third novel, Truth Like the Sun. His novel, Border Songs, received a Washington State Book Award in 2009. RICK McPEAK, ’96, and Donna Tussing Owen have written Tolstoy on War: Narrative Art and Historical Truth in War and Peace. ROBERT W. MERRY, ’68, had his book Where They Stand: The American Presidents in the Eyes of Voters and Historians. Merry, former editor of The Daily and CEO of Congressional Quarterly, is editor of The National Interest. DEAN OLSON, ’64, ’65, ’68, had his book Crossing, a collection of his poetry, published by Daniel and Daniel, Publishers, Inc. KAREN S. ROBBINS, ’66, is the author of Care For Our World. The book is written in rhyme. STEVE ROWAN, ’65, has written The Baron in the Grand Canyon, a look at the life of mapmaker and explorer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Egloffstein. VAUGHN SHERMAN, ’51, a former CIA officer, has written Sea Travels: Memoirs of a 20th Century Master Mariner. DAN E. WHITE, ’69, has written So Help Me God; Becoming President. He is the headmaster of the Island Pacific Academy in Hawaii. UWalum.com/Columns
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