Word: ueno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Takemi Ueno's junior-year tutor in History and Literature, graduate student Leslie Choquette '78, tells an interesting story about their initial meeting in September 1985. Having assigned French historian Georges LeFebrve's 600-plus page biography of Napoleon as the first week's reading, Choquette fully expected Ueno to arrive shell-shocked, as had all of her previous tutees. Not so Ueno. Although the modus vivendi of the assignment had been to encourage students "to learn how to skim, to pick and choose," Ueno walked into tutorial, obviously having read and absorbed the entire work, and inquired...
...seven zoos outside China in which they have taken up permanent residence, pandas are always the top act. If the adults cause a stir, their babies cause chaos. When Tokyo's Ueno Zoo had a blessed event last year, 270,000 people suggested names for the little cub. Tong Tong (Child) was the eventual choice, and 13,000 stood in line for the first glimpse of that particular child. Another 200,000 a day called the "Dial-a-Panda" hot line to hear him squealing...
...other History and Literature concentrators giving presentations in Burr Hall were Estelina L. Dallett '87, Edith Ervin '87, Valerie G. Scoon '87, and Takemi Ueno...
...twelve are Andrea M. Gauthier, Nikki A. Levin, Gail E. Nelson, Elizabeth Umlas, Takemi Ueno, Julia H. Flanders, Ingrid Boyum, Shari R. Finkelstein, Eugenia C. Katsigris, Hein Kim, Lisa Van Alstyne, and Elizabeth E. Shriberg, all of the class...
...deserve his widespread reputation in Japan as an accomplished marine biologist, but as a budding ornithologist Emperor Hirohito may just have to feather his reputation some other way. During a recent visit to Tokyo's Ueno Zoo, the Emperor dropped in on a special, eight-month-old friend-her parents were a gift from former President Gerald R. Ford during Hirohito's state visit to the U.S. in 1975. But Japan's most famous young bird seemed unimpressed with her imperial visitor. Hoping to change the fowl's nonchalance, Hirohito studied the crane avidly, then moved...