SELECTED POETRY BOOK VIII (ePub)

received a full scholarship to participate in the Aspen Music Festival in Colorado. At the Aspen Music Festival, he studied violin with Szymon Goldberg (World War II concentration camp survivor with numbered tattoo), chamber music with Ralph Hillier (Juilliard String Quartet), orchestra (Salomon conductor), as well as musicology. With full scholarships, he attended Harvard College (BA), New York University Medical Center, NYU Washington Square Graduate School, and then Princeton University Graduate School (PhD). During the summers of 1962 and 1963 he worked at the Massachusets General Hospital, in the Biochemistry laboratory. While attending Harvard College, he worked at the Waltham Massachusetts State Mental Hospital for Children for a semester, under the auspices of Harvard Phillips Brooks House and the State Psychiatry Board. [His weekly job with several children at the Waltham State Mental Hospital was to discuss and teach Art - drawing and painting and as a potential therapy, he promoted non-objective art forms. He was on the college fencing team and had previously studied fencing at the Montecelli Fencing School. He was invited to be producer of the play, 'Bodas de Sangre' by the Spanish playwright, Federico Garcia Lorca, which was staged at the Harvard President Pusey Student Theatre. During 1962-1963, he co-chaired a Ford Foundation Cultural Grant Committee at Kirkland House. Guest speakers included Shelley Winters, William Golding, Yalta Menuhin, Paul Doktor, and Jao Martins. His courses included an English literature survey course taught by Professor William Alfred and a course on molecular biology taught by Professors James Watson, Sir Francis Crick, and Sidney Brenner. In his senior year 1963 departmental exam, he predicted that neutrinos have mass. He played violin and viola in the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, Bach Society Orchestra, Cambridge chamber music groups, and also conducted chamber music groups at Kirkland House, as well as open-air concerts at exam-time on the steps at Widener Library. In 1962, playwright Arthur Miller, a family friend, reviewed with him what his career choice would be. He became a Resident Fellow at Princeton University graduate school, attended math meetings (headed by Gilbert Baumslag) at the Institute for Advanced Study, and once ran into Kurt Gödel. He is ever thankful for the many gifted fellow-students, colleagues, teachers, and friends.