by Richard Kade – 17 November 2016Certain obvious things about the form on the last page such as the lapse in understanding of the differences between the words “no” and “know” as well as “attitude” and “altitude” tend to yell out at the reader even four decades later. Beyond the fact that the inset photo […]
“HE LOVED TO SING,” said Shirley Church, his secretary for 13 years. “Even if it was a bit off key, that didn’t matter. He just kept singing”. 😉 Arnold Fink was the Rabbi at Temple Beth-El — where Tom and Diana were cantor and cantoress until about a year or so before she and i […]
Diana and Frederick Fennell probably first met in the early-to-mid 1930s after the Pezzi Family moved from Detroit to Rochester. Fennell was working on his master’s degree in percussion at the Eastman School of Music. In his youth he attended the National Music camp at Interlochen (where the Pezzi family spent the summer of 1938) […]
Diana’s encounter with “Slick Willie” happened in the spring of 1993 and, yes, she did give him a “full Nelson” (that reference is now more than somewhat obscure: VP Nelson A. Rockefeller). The event occurred on a brightly sunlit afternoon on the sidewalk in front of our apartment in Sunnyvale. That particular day, both Clinton […]
Diana and i first met Manuel and Marzia (Faggin-) Terranova in 1996 at Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and they were the last visitors to see Diana in January to February of 2016. – Here are a few pictures that were taken at Marzia & Manuel’s wedding on June 17th, 2001 Beyond being a talented […]
