<p>Kalley427, this thread was started long ago. LTS has passed away. Obviously, her spirit still shines in this place and in this world though. She was a uniquely special woman.</p>
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<p>āFuwa (Japanese haiku poet, died 1712)</p>
<p>I think God just sent me a little messageā¦</p>
<p>Last week I sent off a semi-sarcastic e-mail to my sonās director of housing, asking him why we havenāt received any notice of move-in dates, with the start of school quickly approaching. Last spring, I sent him an e-mail complaing about the poor condition of my sonās apartment for this coming school year. Anyway, he gave me the date (22nd) and told me the letter was going out on the 1st and that my son was told last spring about the move-in date (like any college kid is going to remember?) On Monday, my son accidently left his school e-mail account open on the computer. There were about 10 messages, with 4 being ādeath noticesā. I clicked on one, wondering what a death notice even was. And low and behold, itās the death notice for this guyās wife. So Iām feeling a little guilty about my helicoptering.</p>
<p>toledo:
Why was it you who sent an email to the director of housing and not your son?</p>
<p>Toledo has already 'fessed to āhelicoptering;ā I imagine thatās part of it.</p>
<p>Well, the way I read it, the helicoptering parent sent a semi-sarcastic email to a college adminsitrator who was not sufficiently helicoptering toward her adult son. That email should have been directed at her son, who needed the reminder more than a college official (grieving or not).</p>
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<p>I think I remember the math problem being about the famous Monty Hall Three Door problem. LTS showed a tremendous amount of love for her daughter, but she loved all of us, even in disagreement. Classy, indeed!</p>
<p>My son wonāt have a car at school so heās relying on us to help him move in. So WE need to know for our schedules. This school is so laid-back. Our tuition isnāt even due until a week before school starts. Donāt you think the school owes it to their students to send out some type of info?</p>
<p>I havenāt yet had a chance to go out and take pictures, but the basement levels of the Texas Childrenās Hospital Maternity Center, with the Late To School Memorial Spandrel Beams, have now all been poured.</p>
<p>Hereās an earlier construction photoā¦
[Texas</a> children2527s hospital maternity center image by houtosme on Photobucket](<a href=āPhoto Storageā>Photo Storage)</p>
<p>The construction is now up to the top of the pit in the ground, with spandrel beams hugging the entire exterior of the three basement levels. May she stand tall and proud, with a well-supported basement, and save a million babies in your honor, LTS.</p>
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<p>Yes.</p>
<p>I first got to āknowā LTS, as I recall, through her posts on the thread(s) concerning the Duke lacrosse team/ārapeā case. What most struck me about those posts were two things. The first was her evenhandedness as the saga unfolded ā a period when many (most?) others seemed to be either, on the one hand, calling for the scalps of the players or, on the other, calling for the scalp of the complaining witness. The second was her curiosity. She seemed genuinely interested in trying to understand how the criminal justice system worked, how it could misfire in one direction or another, etc. Fairness and curiosity: a wonderful (and, alas, all too rare) combination.</p>
<p>(P.S. to aibarr: Thanks for the update!)</p>
<p>Xiggi:</p>
<p>If I remember correctly (and I cannot vouch for my remembering any math problem correctly), it had to do with merging different databases. S was studying probability at the time, which is why LTS thought he might be able to help more quickly than if she went to look for an outside statistician. Thereās a NYT article today that says that statistics is the way to go.</p>
<p>aibarr: thanks from me, too!</p>
<p>It is a small step, but anything that will get us close to new treatments is good news:</p>
<p>[A</a> Step Toward Preventing Lung Cancer From Spreading To The Brain And New Clinical Trial Results](<a href=āhttp://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090807135058.htm]Aā>A Step Toward Preventing Lung Cancer From Spreading To The Brain And New Clinical Trial Results | ScienceDaily)</p>
<p>Ooof. Last week was the first time that Iād ducked into the Parents Forum in months. Today, I found this thread bumped. </p>
<p>Oof. I canāt say anything that hasnāt been said many times. I wasnāt particularly close to LTS but we both went back on CC for quite a long timeā¦the rocks had cooled but ferns were still a novelty when we first met, I think. Iāll have to go back to the PMās I downloaded over the years, Iām pretty sure we corresponded privately about a number of issues.</p>
<p>Ack. </p>
<p>The thing I hate the most about getting older is that the list of people Iāve known who have died keeps getting longer and longer.</p>
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<p>Pictures, finallyā¦
Arrowed in blue is the edge of the LTS Memorial Spandrel Beam at Texas Childrenās Hospital Maternity Center, which you can follow all the way around the site. There are going to be three levels of these exterior spandrel beams; youāre looking at the second level.</p>
<p>When the full building is done in 2011, youāll be able to drive down into the parking garage below and see them, walk their perimeter, take pictures of them-- they wonāt be finished out, so theyāll be visible to all, if anybody is in Houston and has a yen to commune with LTSās permanent memorial.</p>
<p>aibarr, I donāt understand what Iām looking at in the photo but </p>
<p>it is so cool. Thank you.</p>
<p>Aibarr: Iām sure youāve posted this elsewhere, but how is the hospital related to LTS? Did she donate? was she working on it? please clarify, if you canāThanks!</p>
<p><a href=āhttp://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/397947-support-latetoschool-135.html#post1060017813[/url]ā>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parent-cafe/397947-support-latetoschool-135.html#post1060017813</a></p>
<p>Itās not actually related to LTS, other than the fact that I decided to name the spandrel beams for her. I was working on the structural design at the time, and was irritated at how the least worthy folks seem to get the most amazing hospitals named after them. The Texas Childrenās Hospital Maternity Center certainly has every wing named after rich people who have donated a great deal of money and who certainly care about the hospital itself, but I was fairly certain that nobody was going to actually dedicate individual beams and columns to anyone in particular, and since I was designing them, I figured I had every right to name them after whomever I chose. I was working on designing the spandrel beams, which surround and contain the fundamental levels of this soon-to-be 24-story fetal and maternal specialty hospital like a large concrete hug, and LTS was going through a particularly trying time during her treatment. It annoyed me to feel so powerless to help her, so I posted the linked post above and declared that they were LTSās spandrels. (A drink in Sinnerās Alley was named āThe Spandrelā in honor of LTS, too!) I gave periodic updates as to the design of the spandrels and sent good thoughts to her whenever I worked on them. I promised to post pictures as soon as they were built.</p>
<p>And now theyāre being built.</p>
<p>aibarrāgood for you! Letās hear it for the spandrels, beams, and columns that quietly and without fanfare hold up the most amazing structuresāand for the engineers who design them.</p>
<p>And now maybe Iāll mosey on over to the Alley and have a Spandrel. :)</p>
<p>aibarr:</p>
<p>It is such a wonderful gesture! To think that LTS will be supporting parts of a maternity center. Very appropriate because she was such a loving mother.</p>
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<p>aibarr, that is just such a lovely idea!</p>