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Mason Spirit is published three times a year by the Office of Advancement and Alumni Relations in conjunction with the Office of Communications and Marketing.
Alumni Profiles
Archiving a Troubled Past
By Mason Spirit contributor on October 1, 2008
People tell Rebecca Erbelding, MA History ’06, secrets that they won’t even tell their spouses, their siblings, or their children. As an archivist for the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., the Mason doctoral student gets to hear many of the survivors’ stories firsthand. Others she gleans from the diaries, journals, and photographs that arrive…
Conservation on a Half Shell
By Corey Jenkins Schaut, MPA '07 on October 1, 2008
Jack White, JD ’86, brushes some silt off the oysters he’s just plucked from the garden floating off his dock on Dyers Creek in Mathews County, Virginia. “Look at this one,” he enthuses. “There’s a strike on it.” He is referring to a tiny young oyster that has attached itself to the larger one as…
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