Friday morning, Catherine and I had breakfast in our room at the hotel. Then, Arielle picked up Catherine and brought her to campus to do graduate critiques. I walked around Davis and the campus for a few hours, and then met up with Catherine, Karen (Wilkin) and the graduate students for lunch. See the previous entry and the following two entries.]]> Friday morning, Catherine and I had breakfast in our room at the hotel. Then, Arielle picked up Catherine and brought her to campus to do graduate critiques. I walked around Davis and the campus for a few hours, and then met up with Catherine, Karen (Wilkin) and the graduate students for lunch. See the previous two entries and the following entry.]]> Friday morning, Catherine and I had breakfast in our room at the hotel. Then, Arielle picked up Catherine and brought her to campus to do graduate critiques. I walked around Davis and the campus for a few hours, and then met up with Catherine, Karen (Wilkin) and the graduate students for lunch. See the previous three entries.]]> In the Afternoon, after Catherine finished doing graduate critiques, Arielle dropped us off at the museum for a walkthrough with Jennifer. See the following entry.]]> Gina introduced us to one of her favorite students (works at the museum). See the previous entry.]]> Catherine and I were taken out to dinner with some faculty members following our visit to the museum at UC Davis. See the following entry.]]> Catherine and I were taken out to dinner with some faculty members following our visit to the museum at UC Davis. See the previous entries.]]> From Davis, CA, we headed to Napa City, to Stephen and Patti's house. Stephen runs the Ox Bow School, and Patti is a chef (worked at the beginning with Alice Waters) and illustrator. We arrived around lunchtime and Patti served us lunch (homemade pizza, broccoli raab with prosciutto). We visited, and Stephen took me on a tour of the Ox Bow School. In the evening, Patti made dinner for everyone. For the first course, we had crab salad on endive leaves. For the main, we had West coast halibut, root vegetables, and a raita sauce, consisting of yogurt, dill, cilantro, and ginger (which was amazing). Daniel, Catherine, and I spent the night. In the morning, Daniel left early to go to Marta's (Renzi) sister's house. Patti made us a lovely breakfast of poached eggs. After breakfast, we left for San Francisco.]]> Christina and Adrian were in San Francisco visiting Christina's sister. So we made a date for lunch and went to the De Young Museum.]]> Tom and Joyce invited us to dinner for Tom's birthday.]]> I met them at Eugene's house, mostly so that Joyce could see if she wanted any of Elsie's clothes. She didn't want much. Tom acquired a game and a couple of other things. Judy got something. But I can't remember what.]]> We all met for dinner at Cinnamon in Rhinebeck]]> Annual Dinner and Memorial Presentations at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. See the previous entry.]]> Annual Dinner and Memorial Presentations at the American Academy of Arts and Letters. See the following entry.]]> We met Francine Prose and Howie Michaels at Upstate Films before going to dinner at Le Petit Bistro. On the way to our table, I saw Tim Liefer at dinner with some friends. You can see Howie Michaels and Catherine Murphy past the divider between their table and ours.]]> A weekend food symposium was held at Vassar College. There were lectures as well as this lunch. Before lunch, Thomas Parker did an introduction for chef Bun Lai, the chef and owner of Miya Restuarant in New Haven, Connecticut. Interspersed in Chef Bun Lai's talk, we were shown a film on him called "Blind Sushi". Then, we were served invasive species sushi rolls. There were more lectures after lunch, but I didn't stay.]]> Catherine and I went to New York City for the day. We went down so we could go to Rochelle's opening. We decided to go down early to see a number of exhibitions. We saw Dawn Clements at Pierogi, Jason Fox at Canada, Nancy Haynes at Regina Rex, Robert Breer at Preston, a group show at Derek Eller, Jennifer Coates at Freight and Volume, and Roy Dowell and Gary Kuehn at 1969 Gallery, all on the lower east side. See the previous entry.]]> Catherine and I went to New York City for the day. We went down so we could go to Rochelle's opening. We decided to go down early to see a number of exhibitions. We saw Dawn Clements at Pierogi, Jason Fox at Canada, Nancy Haynes at Regina Rex, Robert Breer at Preston, a group show at Derek Eller, Jennifer Coates at Freight and Volume, and Roy Dowell and Gary Kuehn at 1969 Gallery, all on the lower east side. See the following entry.]]> Catherine (Murphy) was invited to Skidmore to be the annual Malloy Visiting Artist. After Catherine's talk, there was a dinner held at the Surrey Williamson Inn in Saratoga Springs. This was also the place where we stayed overnight. See the following two entries.]]> Catherine (Murphy) was invited to Skidmore to be the annual Malloy Visiting Artist. After Catherine's talk, there was a dinner held at the Surrey Williamson Inn in Saratoga Springs. This was also the place where we stayed overnight. See the previous entry and the following entry.]]> Catherine (Murphy) was invited to Skidmore to be the annual Malloy Visiting Artist. The morning after Catherine's (Murphy), there was a breakfast with the students. It was part talk, part conversation. See the previous two entries.]]> Over the last decade, we have periodically gone out for Easter dinner. See the following entry,]]> Over the last decade, we have periodically gone out for Easter dinner. See the previous entry.]]> A critique of a student project in Sculpture II (Vassar College).]]> Every year there is an event that celebrates benchmarks in how long people have been working at Vassar. I am pretty sure the demarcations are in 5 year increments, so at each event the celebration would be for five years, ten years, fifteen years, etc of working at Vassar. The thing I like about this event, it is one of the rare times at Vassar when there is an event that crosses over all kinds of employees, staff, buildings and grounds, administrators, and faculty members. This event coincided with my being at Vassar for 35 years. Depending on how long you've been at Vassar you get to pick from an assortment of gifts I picked out a pair of binoculars that had a built in camera. It is now almost a year since this event and I haven't used it yet. It was the only thing that I could even contemplate picking.]]> See the following entry.]]> See the previous entry.]]> After Mel Bochner's opening. See the following entry.]]> After Mel Bochner's opening. See the previous entry.]]> Jennifer and Dennis had a dinner party. See the following entry.]]> Jennifer Gross and Dennis Cardone had Catherine (Murphy), me, Tom Nozkowski, John Yau, and Joyce Robins for dinner. See the previous entry.]]> Nancy Willard's memorial service, held at the Quaker meeting house in Poughkeepsie, NY. See the following two entries.]]> Nancy Willard's memorial service, held at the Quaker meeting house in Poughkeepsie, NY. There were at least 200 people there, and it was probably 100 degrees. See the previous entry and the following entry.]]> Nancy Willard's memorial service, held at the Quaker meeting house in Poughkeepsie, NY. See the previous two entries.]]> We met, as we have at least every month for the last year, to work on this website.]]> Elena and David invited us to dinner. We knew everyone at dinner except for Charles and Arne.]]> After Richard Bosman's talk at Vassar, a group of faculty and students went out to dinner at Formosa restaurant in Poughkeepsie. See the following entry.]]> After Richard Bosman's talk at Vassar, a group of faculty and students went out to dinner at Formosa restaurant in Poughkeepsie. See the previous entry.]]> Richard Bosman gave a talk about his work yesterday evening.]]> Majors and Correlates Critique, Pizza Break, Vassar College.]]>