Monthly Archives: November 2015

Roger Smith, “Al Anochecer” (“At Dusk”; in Spanish)

 

Roger W. Smith, ‘Al Anochecer’ (‘At Dusk’; in Spanish)

 

This exercise in creative writing was an assignment for an advanced course in the Spanish language at Columbia University taught by Professor Susana Redondo de Feldman, Chairman of the Spanish and Portuguese  Department.

Professsor Redondo de Feldman remarked, with irony, that the paper was by a would be Hemingway.

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

 

 

Roger W. Smith, spoof email to CEO

Roger W. Smith, spoof email to CEO of Watson Wyatt Worldwide

Rev. John Coffee, letter to Roger Smith

 

Rev. John Coffee to RWS 2-7-1964

 

Posted above as a PDF file is a letter from Rev. John Coffee, advisor to NERC, the New England Regional Committee of LRY (Liberal Religious Youth), to Roger Smith, dated February 7, 1964. The letter concerns NERC’s 1963 Mid-Winter Conference, which was held at Goddard College in Plainfield, VT.

Rev. John Coffee, LRY advisor

Rev. John Coffee

 

 

 

Norfolk-Suffolk Federation newsletters, Liberal Religious Youth (LRY), 1962-1964

 

Norfolk-Suffolk Federation of Liberal Religious Youth (LRY) newsletters, 1962-1964

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

  December 2015

“Remembering Rev. John M. Coffee Jr.”

 

Remembering Rev. John M. Coffee Jr.

 

The above PDF file comprises the memorial tribute to Rev. John M. Coffee (1928-2012) at Emerson College in June 2012.

Remembering John M. Coffee, Jr. / November 20, 1928 – May 8, 2012

A Collection of John’s Writings and Photos, and Remembrances of His Friends

Delivered at Memorial Service / June 18, 2012 / First Church, Boston

 

posted by Roger W.  Smith

   November 2015

 

Rev. John Coffee, LRY advisor

John Coffee

Roger W. Smith, email re Benjamin Franklin in American history texts

Roger W. Smith, email re Benjamin Franklin in history textbooks

John L. Hess, “The Culture Gulch of the New York Times”

John L. Hess, ‘The Culture Gulch of the Times,’ Grand Street, Winter 1985

Elinor Handy, Radcliffe College paper on Renaissance tombs

 

Mom’s Radcliffe paper on Renaissance tombs

 

This paper was written by my mother, Elinor Handy Smith a 1941 graduate of Radclifle College.

— posted by Roger W. Smith

 

 

 

Allison R. First, “I Will Always Remember Al”

 

Allison R. First, “I Will Always Remember Al”

 

Allison R. First befriended my father, Alan W. Smith, when she was a girl at the Chart Room in Cataumet, Massachusetts, where my father played the piano during summers.

 

— posted by Roger Smith

   November 2015

A. M. Rosenthal, examples of early journalism

 

A. M. Rosenthal, early journalism (examples)

 

— posted by Roger W. Smith

   November 2015