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Pets of Vanderbilt 2011
Feb. 3, 2011—Every year we ask for your favorite pictures of your dogs, cats and other assorted beasts. This year we had more than 1,000 pictures, so the selecting was very hard. Vote online for your favorites in the Dog, Cat, and Friends categories, and also see a lot more photos of pets that we didn’t have room for in the print edition.
More Pets of Vanderbilt 2011
Feb. 2, 2011—These pets aren’t on the ballot, but there are some great-looking dogs, cats, and other friends here, submitted by Vanderbilt staff and faculty. This is an exhibition, not a competition, so please…enjoy.
Sidebar for February 2011
Feb. 1, 2011—
Watch videos of Vanderbilt pets
Feb. 1, 2011—For those of you for whom it’s not enough to see still photographs of Pets of Vanderbilt, several people also submitted links to YouTube videos of pets.
Post-Transplant baby a “Miracle” to his Mother
Jan. 26, 2011—Kerrie Upchurch, who got a kidney transplant in her mid-20s, was more upset about the idea that she might not be able to become a mother than she was about the transplant. But, VUMC’s Heidi Schaefer, M.D., says, people who have had transplants can still become mothers. For proof, meet Kerrie Upchurch’s son, Gavin.
Writing Contest, 2011: Call for Entries
Jan. 26, 2011—Are you a poet or writer walking around disguised as a regular person? Enter the House Organ Writing Contest and come one day next summer you can be forwarding the link to your story or poem around to all your envious friends.
My trendy grandparents
Jan. 26, 2011—No landline? check. Free range chickens? check. My grandparents were the trendiest people I’ve ever known. As I read about hot new trends in how to live, I’m amazed at how many of these my Dad’s parents, whom I called Mamaw and Papaw, practiced decades ago. Trend # 1: Not having a landline phone. “Cutting...
2011 House Organ Photography Contest Winners
Jan. 7, 2011—Judges for this year’s House Organ Photography Contest were the Division of Public Affairs photography staff. From more than 1,200 entries, about 150 finalists were narrowed down to the extraordinary 12 images that you see in this year’s calendar. January: “Izzybelle.” Lu Ellen Davie, Institutional Review Board. February: “Night Blooming Cereus.” John R. Sparks, Space...
Jewel Kavanaugh, Long-Time Credit Union Leader, Dies
Jan. 7, 2011—Jewel Kavanaugh, Vanderbilt University Employees Credit Union’s first full-time employee who went on to the lead the organization for four decades, died Nov. 17. She was 77. The funeral was Nov. 20 at Woodlawn-Roesch-Patton Dignity Hall in Nashville. “There is great sadness in all of our hearts as we mourn the passing of Jewel,” said...
Pets next time
Jan. 7, 2011—The pictures of employee pets—all those slobbering dogs, cats curled up in bathroom sinks, unblinking fish, and the rest—will be printed in the February 2011 issue of House Organ, which will be on the stands the morning of Friday, Feb. 4. We should hasten to add that the deadlines for entries has passed, so if...