Johns Adams is the most frequently performed living American composer. In the past three decades, he has written dozens of orchestral works, as well as film scores, piano solos and operas–including the highly controversial Nixon in China, which won a Grammy award in 1989.
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Elizabeth Schaaf has for decades been passionate about preserving Baltimore’s music history.
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On October 25, at 7 p.m. sharp, two chubby yet high-energy 8 year olds, Imani and Kyra, bounded into the lobby of the Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital in Baltimore. The girls had reason to be excited: it was graduation night.
Their moms, only slightly less enthusias- tic, followed behind, and chatted while waiting for an elevator up to the third floor. But Imani wouldn’t have that. “This is Weigh Smart,” she scolded, hands on hips. “We take the stairs!”
The two girls have taken some significant steps against America’s fastest growing epidemic – childhood obesity.
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As a third-year resident in the fall of 1973, Susan Folstein made daily rounds of the geriatric ward at Cornell Medical Center’s Westchester Hospital. Husband Marshal Folstein was the ward’s attending psychiatrist. Like the other residents, Susan was supposed to assess the mental state of each patient and identify any cognitive impairment. As Marshal remembers it, she’d report, “Mrs. Jones is doing better today, or she’s doing worse.” And he would always reply, “But how do you know she’s better?”
Hopkins’ legendary psychiatrist Paul McHugh, now retired, was then the residency training director at Cornell. “Because Susan was married to Marshal,” McHugh jokes, “she could only put up with this for so long.” One day, exasperated, she finally said, “Why don’t you just write down all of the questions you want me to ask these people?”
So that night, Folstein did.
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