Archive for May 3rd, 2008

Not much to tell about the Broad St. Expo, though knowing how I am about Goody Bags, it may surprise you that I am not irked by the two meager goodies we got in ours – a bottle of Calcium and a chapstick. But this is only because I read one account of another runner getting zilch (besides the endless paper inserts) so I consider myself lucky.

On a non-running note, a very strange thing happened yesterday when, after returning from a fabulously fun chick Pot Luck last night, I drunkenly sat down at the computer to find this comment on my page “Why I Started Running”.

I knew my mom had worked for Frank Lloyd Wright in some capacity through Aaron Green’s office, but I was never exactly clear on the particulars, so Mr. Novie’s letter was truly a gift out of nowhere. And what a moving surprise to finally see a couple of the projects she worked on.

This is my mom giving a welcome speech at Cooper Union’s Ninetieth Anniversary Convocation, on November 2, 1949.

The men behind her are quite an esteemed crew. From left to right:
Edwin Burdell (director of Cooper Union), Frank Lloyd Wright, Great-grandson of Peter Cooper Hewitt-Green, Rene D’Harnoncourt (Director of Museum of Modern Art) and the napping guy is Francis Henry Taylor (Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

And with that, I’ll put my figurative running hat back on and say I’m excited to meet up tonight with Lara, Matt and his lovely wife Marianne along with some forum folks I’ve never met as we stuff our soon-to-be racing bodies with pasta galore. Here’s to a fun dinner and a sincere hope that the chance of rain predicted for tomorrow morning is all show, no action.