I had a vision, or an idea, that Mr. Darcy is going to be involved in the
technology of the time. We hear from Austen’s pen that he is a man of
letters and that he’s involved in business. In my book, I chose to make
Mr. Darcy a forward thinking man of the Age of Reason, a man who wanted
his wife as a partner, not his arm candy.
—Cisco co-founder and Austen scholar Sandy Lerner, MS ’81, on the inspiration for Second
Impressions, her “sequel” to Pride and Prejudice.
THE
DISH
Selden Edwards’s first novel was a labor of love lasting more than 30 years.
Fortunately for the 71-year-old author, the going was easier the second time
around. The manuscript that became the bestseller The Little Book, which
Edwards, MA ’ 75, began working on at Stanford, went through a half dozen
“final” drafts and numerous rejections before it was published—to wide
acclaim—in 2008. For his sophomore e;ort, The Lost Prince (Dutton; August
2012), Edwards revisits characters who traipse through time and rub elbows
with great artists and thinkers of the dawning 20th century.
PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF
COMMUNITY
LEED-ERS: Jessee
and McHenry
CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: JOANN CARNEY; BETTMANN/CORBIS; ADAM GARCIA
The United States Golf Association
Museum in New Jersey has dedicated
a gallery to Mary Kathryn “Mickey”
Wright, ’ 56. The fourth person to have
a room named in her honor, Wright
joins the ranks of Ben Hogan, Bobby
Jones and Arnold Palmer. Among the
memorabilia on display is the set of
1963 Wilson Sta; Dynapower clubs she
played with for 32 years while perfecting the swing Hogan once called “the
greatest golf swing I ever saw.” There’s
also the 1955 Bulls-Eye putter she used
to win all but one of her 82 LPGA titles,
including 13 major championships. A
four-time U.S. Women’s Open champion
(1958-59, 1961,
1964), Wright is the
only player in LPGA
history to hold all
four major titles at
the same time
(1961-62).
OH, MICKEY!
The U.S. Green Building Council has awarded its highest distinction, the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Platinum certification, to Posty
Cards of Kansas City, Mo. Of the seven manufacturing
plants in the country to earn the designation, the
65-year-old, family-owned greeting card company,
run by third-generation president Erick Jessee, ’89,
is by far the smallest. (Others include a Volkswagen
facility and a ConAgra operation.) One of the lead
architects of the expansion and renovation project—
which doubled the facility’s space while significantly
reducing its carbon footprint per square foot—was
Mark McHenry, ’ 73, with McHenry Sha;er Mitchell.
GREENER GREETINGS
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