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Courtesy Tro Harper
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Not ones for passive retirement,
Tro Harper, ’37, and
his wife, Jane Knight Harper, ’40, both published books
recently—his unabashedly nostalgic, hers as practical
as soap. Tro’s Remembered Treasures of San Francisco captures the sights, sounds and feel of the city he
fell in love with 70 years ago. Wistful as he is over
that bygone
ambience, Tro takes heart in the survival of a few
institutions like Albert, the man selling flowers at
Geary and Stockton
since Tro was a Stanford freshman.
Jane’s book is a
survival kit both for the neophyte who has to chair
a meeting, write minutes or audit a club
treasurer’s books and for any organization member who
wants to speed up endless proceedings. The Meeting
Will Please Come to Order features sample scripts for
every situation—a
user-friendly, spiral-bound “Rules of Order.” Both
are published by Oak Point Press and coming soon to
amazon.com.
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George R. Young
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INSPIRED BY family stories
of life in plantation-era Hawaii, graphic artist Corinne
Okada Takara has turned
to sculpture. Her thrifty forbears recycled candy wrappers,
cloth
and scraps of paper and plastics into dolls’ clothes,
blankets, dresses and toy boats. Takara, ’90, gives
new life to exotic, multicolored Asian food wrappers
and fabrics in creations fashioned with wire, like
Fireworks Kimono (left).
She also makes accessories such as hats and wedding-veil
ornaments. Takara’s sculptures have shown at galleries
across the country, and the Peabody Essex Museum in
Salem, Mass., recently
acquired one of the Cupertino artist’s pieces for its
newly opened contemporary Asian-American collection.
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