Before the talk

I don't know which is more important, the foreground or the background.  The foreground is a little posed shot with myself and Jean along with Manel Camps, provost of Crown College.  We are getting ready to speak.  It's morning and we're a little confused about the location.  Somehow, last year, somebody or something convinced me that the Crown Dining Hall was gone; the space was re-used and only the Merrill side was used.  We had an alumni dinner there.  I think because the attendance was a bit small (still good sized) it was moved to the Crown Dining Hall.  Which was definitely still there, remodeled yes, but definitely still in use.  That's where we had the program.

In the background is Crown College.  All of the colleges have distinctive architectures.  

I'm not sentimental.  I don't wish to go back to those days.

These two programs are strongly linked, I now realize.  The Amsterdam/Baumann project and the Crown/Priscilla project.  Both designed to show light and illuminate and honor the memories.  As I see, only I can do it.  I must do it.  Early in the Amsterdam project, I told my cousin, we must lay this stolpersteine for David Baumann and his family who perished in Sobibor and Auschwitz.  We must do it, no one else can.  Obligation.  And we did.

And here I realized that the hefty scholarship bearing Priscilla Parkin's name was alive and well at Crown College.  Yet, still, nobody knew who she was.  So I must tell them.  My obligation.  I was very fortunate to get kicked upstairs like this.  I wanted to make it worthwhile, informative and touching.  I recruited Priscilla's and my friend Jean to help.