Briefly Noted

Faculty/Former Faculty

Alumni/ae

1939-Donald B. Sparrow. Growing Up on Cape Cod: four brothers learning to stand tall. (Great Oaks Publishing, 1999).

1944-William B. Murray. Janet, My Mother, and Me: a memoir of growing up with Janet Flanner and Natalie Danesi Murray. (Simon & Schuster, 2000).

1945-Nicholas Benton. The Call of the Weld: five generations of descendants of Stephen Minot Weld, Jr. 1842 to 2000-a contemporary genealogy compiled by Nicholas Benton. (Middlesex House, 1999).

1966-Peter Thompson. Late Liveries (the road, the defilements). (Mellen Poetry Press, 2000).

1967-Jonathan Galassi. North Street, poems by Jonathan Galassi. (HarperCollins, 2000).

1969-Philo A. Hutchenson. A Professional Professoriate: Unionization, Bureaucratization, and the AAUP. (Vanderbilt University Press, 1999).

1972-John T. Young. Contemporary Public Art in China: a photographic tour. (University of Washington Press, 1999).

1975-John Davis. John Davis Plays Blind Tom [CD, Tom Wiggins, Composer]. (Newport Classics, 2000).

1975-Brooks D. Simpson and Mark Grimaley. Gettysburg: a battlefield guide. (University of Nebraska Press, 1999).

-Ulysses S. Grant: triumph over adversity, 1822-1865. (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).

1981-Beth Ann Ditkoff, M.D., and Paul Lo Gerfo, M.D. The Thyroid Guide. (HarperPerenial, 2000).

1982-Dan Brown. Angels & Demons [a novel]. (Simon & Schuster, 2000).

1984-Andres Martinez. 24/7: Living It Up and Doubling Down in the New Las Vegas. (Villard Books, 1999).

1989-Jacob T. Levy. The Multiculturalism of Fear. (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Briefly Noted

1939-Alan G. James. "The Master and the Laureate of the Jews: The Brief Friendship of Henry James and Emma Lazarus." In The Henry James Review 21 (2000): 27-42.

1967-Michael Burwell. "The Steamer POLITKOFSKY: The Chronicle of a Russian-American Tug." (Part IV- concluded) In The Sea Chest: Journal of the Puget Sound Maritime Historical Society. (vol. 33, no.2, Dec. 1999).

1976-Tim Borstelmann. "Jim Crow's Coming Out: Race Relations and American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years." In Presidential Studies Quarterly (vol. 29, no. 3, Sept. 1999).

-"Hedging Our Bets and Buying Time: John Kennedy and Racial Revolutions in the American South and Southern Africa." In Diplomatic History (vol. 24, no. 3, July 2000).

1977-Kathleen C. Engel. "Moving up the Residential Hierarchy: a new remedy for an old injury arising from housing discrimination." In Washington University Law Quarterly (vol. 77, no. 4, 1999).

1989-Jacob T. Levy. "Three Modes of Incorporating Indigenous Law." In Citizenship in Diverse Societies, edited by Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman. (Oxford University Press, 2000).

Faculty/Former Faculty

William Jordan. "W. E. B. DuBois's advocacy of protest for civil and political equality set the standard for future black activism and paved the way for the Civil Rights Movement." In History in Dispute, Volume 3: American Social and Political Movements, 1900-1945: Pursuit of Progress. (St. James Press, 2000).

Christopher A. Thurber and Jon C. Malinowski. The Summer Camp Handbook: everything you need to find, choose, and get ready for overnight camp-and skip the homesickness. (Perspective Publishing, 2000).

Ellen Wolff. "Mosaic of Lives" [Review of "Motherhood: Writings by Irish American Women About Mothers and Daughters," edited by Caledonia Kearns]. In The Irish Literary Supplement (spring, 2000).

Norval Rindfleisch. "In Loveless Clarity." In North Country Reader. (Minnesota Historical Society, 2000).

-A Cliff of Fall: selected short stories and novellas 1970-2000. (Xlibris Corporation, 1999).

Correction: The spring 2000 Exonians in Review column listed Albert L. (Bro) Halff in the Class of 1963. Mr. Halff was in the Class of 1964.

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The Summer Camp Handbook, by Christopher Thurber, Ph.D, and Jon Malinowski, Ph.D., offers the "fun factory" metaphor early in its pages. Fun is, after all, the reason for camp. The authors make no attempt to hide this fact. Of course, camps also allow kids to develop athletic skills, learn from positive adult role models and cultivate independence. But those benefits are byproducts of the fun.

The purpose of the Handbook is to help parents help their kids gain the most enjoyment, value and personal growth from the camp experience. The word "handbook" is used in the title for a reason. This isn't a long, verbose exploration of camp as an institution, nor is it an effort to argue camp's benefits in hopes of boosting nationwide enrollment (it's growing on its own). The book assumes that a parent is considering whether-or, more likely, when-to send his or her child to camp. It then charts a detailed course that leads the parent through the entire camp process.

Thurber and Malinowski don't miss a single step or detail. They begin by describing the camp experience, which includes important sections on what kinds of camps are available and the process of determining when your child is ready for camp. From there you will receive tips on how to choose a camp and, once selected, ways to prepare to attend. Finally, a chapter concentrates on the role parents should play during the time that kids are actually away at camp.

One of the biggest detractors from a child's camp experience is homesickness. Upwards of one in five children has a "bothersome" amount of homesickness when attending overnight camp. Perhaps the strongest portion of the Handbook is its exploration of this subject. Included is a detailed explanation of the condition and suggested ways to help prevent it.

The Handbook serves all parents. The most logical audience-and the one that will gain the most from the book's 243 pages-is parents who have not had their own overnight camp experience. But camp veterans who eagerly await the day when their own son or daughter continues the summer tradition should also spend some time perusing these pages.

— Sam Tucker

Sam Tucker is a manager of business development & strategy at RealNetworks, Inc. in Seattle, WA.