Thanksgiving 2008
Ann Arbor, Michigan
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The Joanna Batstone and Frank Suits Family
Stephen is 7, Emma is 10 and Timothy is 12
Photo by Alan
| Steve doesn't play an instrument yet, but we will probably start him on piano soon. He likes anything "cool" and has a fixation on how the square root of a squared number is the original number itself. His class was making snowflakes that were four-sided, so we worked on making six-sided ones and he liked that. He is a very fast runner, and his main sport is soccer - though all the kids ski. |
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Su Suits and Phoebe Gloeckner
Su (left) is a professional pianist and Phoebe has a Guggenheim Fellowship
to assist in her research and artistic creation
Photo by Alan
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Joanna Batstone and Timothy Suits
Joanne is Director, Distributed Computing at the
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
Photo by Alan
Tim plays trumpet, after finally giving up on piano. His main sports are tennis and skiing, plus bicycling. His favorite activity is pyrotechnics, and we are doing some rocket work. He seems to like science at school, but right now his favorite subjects are those with his favorite teachers. When I recently encouraged him to practice trumpet, he replied simply, "I don't need to."
Tim just passed a milestone by getting taller than his mother. He is growing like a weed, and often has a corresponding temperament. |
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Su and Frank with Fina and Timothy
Photo by Alan
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Perko on the Phone
Photo by Brian
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Arthur G. Suits
Photo by Alan
He is holding a 14" telescope mirror blank which he is grinding
to a precise paraboloidal shape. He spends many hours
at this hobby which some would find tedious but he finds relaxing.
He is a research professor in the Department of Chemistry,
Wayne State University. He is the principal investigator of a
research group of physics students and postdocs, and recently traveled to China and Japan to attend conferences and give lectures. |
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Emma Suits
Photo by Brian
Emma plays saxophone and sings. Her main sport is swimming. She enjoys all school subjects, but has a particular fondness for creative writing and art.
She is ten years old and in the fifth grade |
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Frank Suits
Research Staff Member, Computational Biology Center,
IBM T. J. Watson Research Center.
And another college professor in the Suits family!
Frank is now an adjunct professor at Columbia University
in the Department of Electrical Engineering
For recreation Frank is currently focused on astro-imaging,
asteroid orbits, and timing measurements based on video.
Photo by Brian
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Su Suits
Photo by Brian
Su's Resume'
* Professional soloist and collaborative pianist, with concertizing in U.S.,Europe, and Latin America
* Adjunct Faculty University of Great Falls
* Faculty Montana State University Chamber Music Festival 15 years
* Recorded 2 LP's and 3 CD's, sold internationally
* Faculty University of Missouri-St.Louis
* Faculty Meramec Valley College-St.Louis |
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Brenda Mahar
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McCawley Suits
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Perko with two friends
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Emma, Perko and Liam
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Brenda Mahar and Damian Suits
Brenda is a Government Documents Librarian at the University of Texas at Dallas.
Damian is accounting manager for NCH Corporation in Irving, Texas.
He has an MBA degree from the University of Missouri and a CPA certificate
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Brenda and Arthur Suits
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Liam
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Perko with Hairdo
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Thaddeus Suits
Principal cellist with the Great Falls (MT) Symphony
Cellist with the Cascade Quartet
Cellist in the Mistral Duo, with wife, Su Suits
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Thad with the Cascade String Quartet |
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Arthur and McCawley Suits
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Emma and Perko Play Chess
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Brenda and Damian
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Thad & McCawley Suits
Photo by Holly
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