This afternoon, Ack was inducted as a Fellow in the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters. Seated at our table to make the event even more wonderful were Mary and Joe Pryor, Orange and Dean Schroeder, Margaret Mooney, Ellen Pryor, Carrie Kruse and Ginny Kruse. Long series of talks but interesting. Ack talked about how to take a complex entity, make it simple and then deal with the problems caused from that simplification. Judy Faulker, CEO of Epic Systems, gave three rules, one of which was: what you put up with is what you stand for. Jeremey Suri, a historian, stressed that clusters of creative people is what incubates profound change. Maury Laws, the composer of the music in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer cartoon (yes, that one we see every year on TV), traced how music really is involved in all parts of life. 7 Fellows total, all with interesting ideas.
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