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Harry
Wasserman Symposium
September 13, 2014
We are deeply saddened to report that
Elga Wasserman, who so much enjoyed the symposium,
passed away on November 11, 2014, after a brief illness.
This link points to an encyclopedia article on
Harry's marvelous partner for 67 years,
this link points to Yale's and this one to President Peter Salovey's recognition of her contributions,
and this link is to her obituary notice in the Boston Globe.
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On September 13, 2014, the Chemistry Department of Yale
University, with help from Harry's friends at Tetrahedron publications
and the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, hosted a memorial
symposium featuring four scientific presentations and sixteen short
personal presentations about Harry. After dinner there were
another 10 short personal presentations. Of course many of
Harry's friends were unable to attend all or
part of the symposium, so this website makes it possible for them to
watch these presentations as movies in mp4 format or via YouTube.
Other
Memories
of this extraordinary person are contained in supplemental files.
Readers of this page are encouraged to contribute additional memories,
in any format, that can be included as updates. Please send your
contribution(s) to Mike McBride.
Scientific
Presentations
(Click on a link below to view each presentation
in either on YouTube or in m4v format.
Note that photos of the first three scientific speakers are stills.)
Bruce Lipshutz
(Univerisity of California at Santa Barbara)
Preserving Our
Environment via Green Organic
Chemistry
(
mov) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
Brian Stoltz
(California Institute of Technology)
Complex
Natural Products as a Driving Force for Discovery in Organic Chemistry
(
mov) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
John Wood
(Baylor University)
Recent
Progress
in the Synthesis of Complex Natural Products - Phomoidride D
(
mov) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
Steven Wasserman
(University of California at San Diego)
A Toll
of Two
Species: Signaling and Specificity in Innate Immunity
(
mov)
(YouTube) (
m4v)
Short
Presentations:
Facets of the Lives of
Harry Wasserman
(Click on links below to view
presentations either in m4v format or via YouTube)
First
Group: Harry as Teacher and Musician
(
YouTube) (
m4v)
Files may be viewed individually (click below) or as a
group (click above). The time for beginning of
each track in
the group is noted in parentheses.
1.1 Steven Wasserman excerpt
(0.00) (
YouTube) (
mp4)
1.2 Mike McBride on Harry
Wasserman and the Yale Libraries (5:45) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
1.3 Mitsuru Shiraishi for
Harry Wasserman's Japanese Postdoctorals (7:51) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
1.4 Nancy Angoff on Harry
Wasserman's Organic Chemistry Course (12:11) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
1.5 Don Berdahl on Harry
Wasserman's Margarita Lecture (16:41) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
1.6 Willie Ruff on Harry
Wasserman and Jazz (21:40) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
Second
Group: Harry as Artist, Editor, Administrator
(
YouTube) (
m4v)
Files may be viewed individually (click below) or as a
group (click above). The time for beginning of
each track in
the group is noted in parentheses.
2.1 Dan Wasserman on Harry
Wasserman's Art (0:00) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
2.2 Lara Weinstein Szewczak on
Harry Wasserman as Editor (9:58) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
2.3 Hank Walter on Harry
Wasserman and the Dreyfus Foundation (16:52) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
2.4 Joanne Bentley on Harry
Wasserman and the Yale Staff (22:03) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
Third Group: Harry as Faculty
Colleague
(
YouTube) (
m4v)
Files may be viewed individually (click below) or as a
group (click above). The time for beginning of
each track in
the group is noted in parentheses.
3.1 Don Crothers 90th
Birthday Greetings to Harry Wasserman
(0:00) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
3.2 David Spiegel reads Stuart
Schreiber on Harry Wasserman as
a Colleague (1:07) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
3.3 Fred Ziegler on Harry
Wasserman as a Colleague (3:32) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
3.4 Martin Saunders on Harry
Wasserman as a Colleague (8:34) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
3.5 Jerry Berson on Harry
Wasserman as a Colleague (13.23) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
3.6 Ken Wiberg on Harry
Wasserman as a Colleague (19:21) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
Harry
Wasserman in His Own Words
(
YouTube) (
m4v)
Files may be viewed individually (click below) or as a
group (click above). The time for beginning of
each track in
the group is noted in parentheses.
4.1 Harry playing jazz
clarinet on his 85th Birthday - 2005 (0:00) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
4.2 Harry on Establishing a
Marital Relationship - 50th Anniversary -
1997 (0:56) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
4.3 Harry describes Elga -
50th Anniversary - 1997 (3:23) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
See also Harry's Margarita Lecture - 1980 (
YouTube) (
m4v)
After Dinner
Presentations
(
YouTube) (
m4v)
Files may be viewed individually (click below) or as a
group (click above). The time for beginning of
each track in
the group is noted in parentheses.
5.1 Mike McBride on the
Grignard Reaction Song and Jon
Parr's Group Meeting Story (0:00) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.2 Elga Wasserman welcomes
Harry's friends (3:09) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.3 Diana Wasserman reads her
Poem "My father's dreams" (5:57) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
(click to read
"My
father's
dreams")
5.4 Wally Ewart on Harry's
Help with a Student's Love Life (14:55) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.5 Don Clagett on Harry's
Help with Sparkling Rice Wine (19:30) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.6 Don Berdahl on Acetone
(22:18) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.7 Jim Wu on Student Support
(22:33) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.8 Mike McBride on Prelog
& Wolfgang, "penz beszel", and "sukoshi" (25:11) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.9 Elga Wasserman on the
Retarded Clock (28:03) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
5.10 Fred Ziegler recalls
Harry's Chauffeur Story (30:08) (
YouTube) (
m4v)
The photo below shows the audience near the end of the afternoon,
watching the video of Harry speaking at the Wasserman's 50th
anniversary celebration.
(Click image for an enlargement; then click again for identification key)
Acknowledgements
Many thanks to
The publisher and editorial board of the Tetrahedron journals
and
The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation
for financial support of the symposium
Patricia Brodka, Bruce Lipshutz, and the many other
friends, students, and family of Harry Wasserman
who participated in the symposium
and
Florence McBride
who created and edited this video record
