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...Austin said that cars in her grandmother's garage were floating in the overflow water and that 27 horses in a stable near her home were washed away by the flooding water...

Author: By Erica Westenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flooding Hits Home for Texans | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...There was also a woman who lived in my neighborhood and she got stranded in the middle of an intersection," Austin said. "She called her husband [for help], but he got there too late and they found her body in a ditch. It's just insane. I'm so disconnected...

Author: By Erica Westenberg, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Flooding Hits Home for Texans | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...better-than-normal attire and the tutors and administration sporting their academic robes. But while some of the seniors might have hoped that C-Day had come early, the occasion for ceremony was instead the installation of the new masters of Lowell, Diana L. Eck and Dorothy A. Austin...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Inventing Real Tradition | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...thing about tradition, though, is that, at its best, it fosters community and bridges the gap between the past and the future. What made Sunday's installation of Masters Eck and Austin so successful (besides the glorious weather and the tasty food) was that as a new ritual, it mixed history and promise, memory and hope. It was, for a few moments in the sun on Sunday, a mind-expanding experience, as we heard stories of some good times past and anticipated similar ones in the future...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Inventing Real Tradition | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

...ceremony assembled members of the Harvard administration and of the Lowell Senior Common Room, many of whom gave toasts to Eck and Austin. One tangible symbol of tradition was the presentation by the Lowell House Committee of the official "Lowell salt," a silver, Stanley-Cup-shaped salt shaker whose presence is required at high table...

Author: By Susannah B. Tobin, | Title: Inventing Real Tradition | 10/22/1998 | See Source »

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