THANKSGIVING '07 IN MICHIGAN

 

Many thanks to Damian for his excellent photos and for the hospitality provided by Arthur and Phoebe

 

 

Frank & Joanna's daughter Emma, age 9
Phoebe's daughter Fina, age 16
McCawley Suits
Damian Suits and Liza Hameline
The Kazarinoffs and Hamelines  with Sophie
(l to r) Zachary, Sophie, Peter, Holly, Michael, Liza, Wes. Byron and MacKenzie in front
Stephen Suits age 7
Timothy Suits age 11
Frank and Joanna ' s sons
(l to r) Holly, Michael, Fina, Wes, Sophie, Liza
(l to r)  Brenda, Emma, Joanna, Arthur
Sophie Lichenstein-Hill and Liza Hameline.
Sophie is a nurse and is enrolled to become a Nurse Practitioner.  Liza is part of the commercial litigation section of Godwin Gruber, LLP. A Texas law firm with over 130 attorneys.

MacKenzie and Byron Hameline

 

Joanna Batstone, Ph. D. and Frank Suits, Ph.D.
Joanna is Senior Manager and Senior Technical Staff Member, Solutions Development, IBM Healthcare and Life Sciences.  She manages three development teams worldwide.  Frank is Research Staff Member, Functional Genomics and Systems Biology Group Analysis of Mass-Spectroscopic data for Proteomic Biomarker Discovery at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Arthur G. Suits. Ph.D.
Arthur is a research professor in the Department of Chemistry, Wayne State University.  He is the principal investigator of a research group of six physics students and three postdocs.
" ... and this gray spirit yearning in desire to follow knowledge like a sinking star beyond the utmost bound of human thought. "
" ... for my purpose holds to sail beyond the sunset and the baths of all the western stars until I die . It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be that we shall touch the Happy Isles and see the great Achilles whom we knew. " (From Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
   
Frank and Arthur, two cutting edge scientists   (see above)
An impromptu brass trio: Zachary, Peter and Byron
   

 

Damian Suits
Damian is accounting manager for NCH Corporation in Irving, Texas. He has an MBA degree from the University of Missouri and a CPA certificate.
Jane Vieth and Frank Suits
   
Phoebe Gloeckner under the table
Joanna Batstone
   
Michael Kazarinoff and Daniel Suits
Brenda Mahar and Damian Suits
Fina and Christina Mattson (Chris is from Sweden)
Fina age 16 and Emma age 9
Phoebe with Demet and Ceyda (pronounced Jada)
(l to r) MacKenzie, Byron, Timothy, Stephen and Persephone
   
Brenda Mahar
Brenda is a librarian for the University of Texas in Dallas.
Wesley Hameline
Wes passed the Texas Bar Exam in 2006 and is a practicing attorney
 
The cat
Michael Kazarinoff. Ph.D.
Michael is a Cornell University professor.  Current Research Activities:
Polyamine metabolism and the regulation of gene expression by alternative RNA splicing and modulation of protein translation rates.