Memorials
UBUNTU – I Am Because You Are
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2013 “I am not a saint – unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.” – Mandela. …………………………………….If only that described all of us! The world is pouring out its grief, celebration, joy, gratitude, love for the life of Nelson Mandela. ………………………………………………………..Which has to make you…
Read MoreThe March on Washington
copyright 2013 Bettina Network, inc. This coming week we will remember one of the highlights of the Civil Rights Movement which changed so much in this country. It is such an emotional time that I have barely started to write this and the grief, tears and overwhelming feelings take over. I was very young during…
Read MoreA Tribute to The Rev. Patricia Riley Colenback (1931-2013)
taken from “Alla Bozarth-Campbell’s – From Womanpriest: A Personal Odyssey, Paulist Press 1978 Bakerwoman God Bakerwoman God, I am your living Bread. Strong, brown, Bakerwoman God. I am your low, soft, and being-shaped loaf. I am your rising bread, well-kneaded by some divine and knotty pair of knuckles, by your warm earth-hands. I…
Read MoreVeterans’ Day – 2012
copyright Bettina Network, inc. 2012 – by Marceline Donaldson We celebrated Veterans Day by piling all of our guests into our car and their car and going to Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. It was a great day for everyone. Memorial Church was dedicated in 1932 to the memory of the Harvard dead of World…
Read MoreDr. Alice Amsden’s Commemoration at MIT
Over the weekend of October 20, 2012 MIT held a commemoration/memorial for Dr. Amsden and it was recorded and published. One of the Bettina Network Community members called to ask that we post the email on Bettina Network’s Blog that we sent to those who purchased at Dr. Amsden’s Scattering Sale. She had forwarded the…
Read MoreIn Memory of Roger Fisher
by: Marceline Donaldson Sprinkled through Bettina Network’s Blog you will find memories of people we knew and with whom we have interacted over the years. This time, it is someone who was one of those – along with Larry Susskind of MIT – who were majorly responsible for the growth and survival of Bettina Network,…
Read MoreA Final Tribute
Ed. Note: Because we had so much response to the Bettina Network Blog on Whitney Houston and because we had questions we couldn’t properly answer and comments we didn’t want to put in the blog – there would have been many by now – mostly repetitive – we decided to reprint (with permission) – this…
Read MoreAlabama’s first licensed black female pilot dies at 90
Published: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:16 PM Updated: Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 12:35 PM By The Associated Press Mildred Carter, pictured here in 2003, shows her pilot’s license from 1941. (The Birmingham News/ file photo) TUSKEGEE, Alabama — Mildred Carter, who was Alabama’s first licensed black female pilot, has died. She was 90. Funeral services for Carter will…
Read MoreHail Mr. Gomes
copyright the Bettina Network, inc. 2011 by The Rev. Dr. Robert Bennett The Rev. Professor Mr. Peter Gomes – internationally known as Harvard University’s pastor – died February 28, 2011. He was 68 years old. The Rev. Gomes was such a presence within “the college” and its environs that to say he will be…
Read MoreIn Memory of Jaki Leverson – An email response.
Dear Bettina, my name is xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx. I was a student of Jaki Leverson’s in the Tufts-in-London program in 1983-84. I just learned that she died and am full of sadness. I remained in touch with Jaki ever since college and visited her in London every couple of years. I last saw her in August…
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