Friday, January 4, 2008

Additions to Frank's obituary

While visiting the Valley of the Kings, we were reminded of how fantastic Frank's obituary was. However, we think it could be enhanced by a section on famous people Frank travelled with. For example, it is not commonly known that Jim argued Brown v. Board of Education. Although it is fairly well known that Jim is the decendant of two polygamous marriages, most are not aware that one of his ancestors carried the plates down for Joseph Smith.
Most know that Cathy was a "Betty Crocker Homemaker of Tomorrow", but few know that she ran Betty's test kitchen. Or that she was 'Mother of the Year" twice; once when her daughter Sara won the first Trump Prize for Landscape Architecture and once when her daughter Rebecca won the Bloomberg Prize for her public health work with Mother Theresa.
Catherine is famous for inventing the abacus. In addition, she is the keeper of the Coca Cola secret formula.
Besides the honors mentioned above, and as a direct result of the french they learned through conversations with Frank, Sara worked with Haussman laying out the streets of Paris and Rebecca worked with Paul Farmer on the public health issues of Haiti.
Frank never travelled with Jo, but only had dinner with her. But if he had he would have learned that Jo archived the charred remains of the library at Alexandria.

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