Subject: followup
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:39:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sally Greene <sally@sunsite.unc.edu>
To: "Greene, Sarah -- Sarah Greene" <Gilmer@dal.cleaf.com>

Momma, I just figured out a mystery that had been dogging me about
Saarinen.  The librarian at N.C. State who knew so much about our
architect said he studied in Detroit with Eliel Saarinen; I thought that
either he or you or I was mixing up an l for an r and that it was the
same person.  Until you mentioned his father.  I just looked in the World
Book.  It must have been the father, Eliel, that Waugh studied with.
Eliel Saarinen was from Finland and began his career there which included
heavy duty city planning for the cities of Reval and Helsinki.  In 1922
he won a design prize for the Chicago Tribune Tower, which "had a
profound influence on later skyscraper design."  He and his family moved
to the U.S. in 1923 and his buildings include a music hall in Buffalo, a
church in Indiana, a school in Illinois and "many planning projects."  In
1947 he received the top architectural award in the U.S., the gold medal
of the AIA.  By that time, Waugh would have finished his studies by
several years.  Saarinen wrote two books, *The City:  Its Growth, Its
Decay, Its Future* (1943), and *Search for Form* (1948).  That explains a
lot to me about Waugh's interests in large-scale city planning.

Eero Saarinen, it says, "gained recognition for his imaginative work.  His
belief was that each building employing the forms and technology of our
day, must have a look of its own, but at the same time fit in with its
surroundings."  His buildings include women's dorms at Drake Univ., 25
buildings grouped together at the GM technical center near Detroit (which
I may have been to--I did go to one big GM center outside Detroit once),
the auditorium and chapel at MIT.  Note that this 1963 encyclopedia
doesn't even mention Dulles!

Tucker is down at last.  I forgot to mention that I had to deal with a
Pat crisis today.  When I walked him at noon I noticed two disgusting
white worms in his poop.  I called the vet and they said it was tapeworm;
I didn't have to bring him in but I did have to go pick up 5 pills for
him to take all at once at $21.  They said it's flea-related.  I say it's
creepy and I just hope the medicine works.  They warned me that the pills
were bitter so I cooked up some turkey bacon and smothered them in it.

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Sally Greene
Visiting Scholar
UNC-Chapel Hill

"Loopholes, just looking for loopholes." --W.C. Fields, thumbing the
Bible, as quoted in an Internal Revenue Service legal publication