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Farewell Party
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Constance Mitchell)
Fri Aug 30 16:18:42 1996
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 96 15:06:51
From: cmitch@MIT.EDU (Constance Mitchell)
To: infosys@MIT.EDU, immer@MIT.EDU, nhopkins@MIT.EDU, jhmurray@MIT.EDU,
esdeb@MIT.EDU, cgwm@MIT.EDU, pwalsh@MIT.EDU, trhen@MIT.EDU,
dugan@MIT.EDU, rjfitz@MIT.EDU, khagan@MIT.EDU, rbloom@media.mit.edu,
hynes@MIT.EDU, valerie@media.mit.edu, staton@MIT.EDU,
sbrad@MITVMA.MIT.EDU, laugh@MIT.EDU, mory@MIT.EDU,
solof@applelink.apple.com, grady1@applelink.apple.com,
pcaissie@MIT.EDU, lita@MIT.EDU, roberson@MIT.EDU, lic-lib@MIT.EDU,
elibdev@MIT.EDU, gyoung@MIT.EDU, tegan@MIT.EDU, smwilson@MIT.EDU,
jlendall@MIT.EDU, romander@MIT.EDU, vmm@MIT.EDU, mcnamara@MIT.EDU,
cec@MIT.EDU, dmw@MIT.EDU, gjackson@MIT.EDU
Since I have not seen all of you in person this summer, the invitation
to my farewell party may have come as a surprise.
I am leaving MIT to re-enter monastic life. As of October 4, I will be
returning to St. Cecilia's Abbey, a cloistered Benedictine abbey on the
Isle of Wight, England, whose main work is singing the Divine Office in
Gregorian Chant (8 times a day plus mass).
My four years at MIT have been a delight, and it's all of you who have
made it so. When I came here, I barely knew the difference between a
transgenic mouse and the computer variety. I will always remember your
willingness to answer my endless questions - and to become happily
sidetracked in philosophical discussions.
The abbey doesn't have email (yet!) and correspondence is limited, but I
will keep you in my prayers. (It's a good thing prayers aren't dependent
on distributed computing.) If I don't have a chance to say goodbye in
person, thank you all and God bless.
Connie
