what was that? is that all there is? who is this? this is it.

Tuesday I got this matted & framed photo at UW Surplus. Not for the photo, for the frame. However,  the photo has since haunted me and I’m not sure I want to mess with its mojo. I may just keep it intact as a true 1987 artifact. I can always find another thriftstore frame for the project I’m envisioning. 

The more I read about this quintet, the more respect I have for the frame.

Philip A. Trautman was a distinguished professor in the UW Law school for 50 years. He passed away in 2019. 

Mark E. Abhold fell off the internet, perhaps in an Applied Physics military secret nuclear engineering way. Let me know what you know about him. 

Ann L. Darling is in the UW Communications Hall of Fame. She went on to teach at the University of Utah for years.

Paul Pascal was a distinguished Classics professor at UW for 38 years. He passed away in 2015. 

Loveday Conquest is currently Professor Emeritus in School of Aquatic and Fishery Science. She taught at UW from 1978 - 2014. Even though she retired before my time, her name vaults her into the top 5 on my list of UW faculty-staff names that float through my vision as an electric ass bathtub mail man.

My mental list includes names like:

Velocity Rose

Bo Woo

Jade Cox

Tres Tracy Ballon

Sherri VanSickle

Loveday Conquest is an all-time-great name. 

PS::: I also found a Grinnell College T-shirt at UW Surplus in my size for $1. Sometimes you’re not looking for something, but it’s looking for you like the Ace of Spades.

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Abhold received the Teaching Excellence Award which means he wasn't faculty, he was lecturing in a Graduate TA/Instructor capacity. Looks like he left the UW in the early 90's to work for TRW, a large engineering and technology company that had a Nuclear/Environmental division which was handling parts of the Yucca Mountain Project (Nuclear Waste Repository Research). He was working on nuclear safeguards and waste storage safety at that facility. In 1995 he began work at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, which he retired from in 2016. Who knows what he does now. Maybe, hopefully, he enjoys ordering soft scrambled eggs and strong black coffee at his favorite neighborhood breakfast spot, somewhere in the suburbs of Santa Fe NM.

Prof. Trautman was married to my Property Law professor, Linda Hume. They both died in 2019. There’s a UW law teaching award named after Trautman. Prof. Darling was teaching in the U of U’s Communications department when I was an undergrad double majoring in Mass Communication, but I didn’t have her as a professor.

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