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Katerina Lanfranco <
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John M. Eger <
Dear Katerina:
(1) It was my great pleasure to have visited the exhibition of your wonderful arts on 2/7th. I really enjoyed it!!
Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT I). Sorry for my belated response because our web/list server was down for the past few weeks.








Dear Sam:
(2) Many thanks for your msg (ATTACHMENT II).
You must be a very proud father!!
BTW, my wholehearted congratulations to your retirement!! You can now start your own life!! We would then very much welcome any suggestions to our Global University System (GUS) project from your vast experiences on global education.
Dear Katerina:
(3) I also thank you for your excellent write-up;

Below a Sea of Stars

This reminded me the “Marriage of Art and Science” which was advocated by John Eger for fostering creativity in the so-called Innovation Age. I am taking the liberty of distributing this msg to our list members (about 2,500).

Dear John:
This write-up may be of interest to you.

(4) You may be interested in reading John’s following articles;

(a) The Arts in Contemporary Education

(b) The Creative Community: Forging the Links between Art Culture Commerce & Community

You may also visit my list distributions about John’s essays which are red marked in ATTACHMENT III — as you see, he is a proliferated writer!!

(5) I also mentioned to you of John’s “Smart Community” project. Pls see;

John M. Eger, San Diego State University
"Athens in the Information Age"

This has a well written chapter on “10 Steps to Becoming a Smart Community.”
See also;

CITIES OF THE FUTURE: E-GOVERNMENT AND THE SMART COMMUNITY
Opening Keynote Remarks of John M. Eger, President & CEO
The California Institute for Smart Communities At San Diego State University
Muscat, Oman - May 10-12, 2003

I am sure that John’s concept can be the basis of any community development.
Pls feel free to contact John.
Best, Tak

ATTACHMENT I

From: Katerina Lanfranco <
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 11:23:53 -0500
To: Tak Utsumi <
Subject: Below a Sea of Stars catalogue statement
Dear Tak,
Here is the statement from my catalogue.
Thanks for your interest, and for sending it on to your colleague in San Diego.
Bests,
Katerina
--
Katerina Lanfranco
1.646.240.7903

ATTACHMENT II

From: Sam Lanfranco <
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 10:22:19 -0500
To: Tak Utsumi <
Cc: Katerina Lanfranco <
Subject: Re: My daughter's interest in Ikebana
Tak,
Thank you for visiting my daughter's show.
I finish my lectures this week, and finish regular teaching at York University, so I can once again put more time into things dear to our hearts in global education.
Regards, Sam
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Prof Sam Lanfranco, ECON, 2005 TEL Bldg, York University,
4700 Keele St Toronto, Ontario, CANADA - M3J 1P3
EconT: 416-736-5232 EconFax: 416-736-5188 Cell: 416-816-2852
email: Picton: 613-476-0429 Fresno: 559-478-0736
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ATTACHMENT III

John Eger’s Essays

(02/02/09) John Eger's new essay "An Envision Commentary on Art and Science in Education"

(01/18/09) John Eger, "An Envision San Diego Commentary on The Creative Economy"

(11/12/08) John Eger, "Nurturing a Creative and Innovative Community": prepared for the Knowledge Cities Symposium organized by the Arab Urban Development Institute, and the Municipality of Istanbul, Turkey, November 17 - 20, 2008

(07/13/08) John Eger's essay on July 4th celebration

(06/06/08) John Eger's essay on "Education in California and U.S. Still at Risk"

(05/13/08) Responses to (1) John Eger's essay "Moving Past the Color Line" and (2) "Social Mission" in medical field

(05/05/08)-B John Eger's new essay "Moving Past the Color Line"

(03/06/08) John Eger's essay on "Arts in Contemporary Education"

John said that this was prepared for the American Association of School Administrators (AASA) Magazine. AASA is the professional organization for more than 13,000 educational leaders across the United States.

(02/22/08) Most important institutions in the modern democratic world

(09/25/07) John Eger's two interesting essays

(07/16/07) John Eger's new essay on the importance of creative clusters and the new urban economy

(07/06/07)-B John Eger's new essay on "Technologies that promote freedom"

(06/27/07) John Eger's new essay on globalization

(05/23/07) (1) John Eger's new essay on Global Communication Policy and (2) "Stop the Utsumi" campaign

(05/19/07)-B Entrepreneurship of creative economy

(05/15/07) John Eger's new essay on importance of fine arts in new creative economy

(03/23/07) Possible community development network in Bolivia

(03/22/07) John Eger's new essay on Power Shift for flattening societal structure

(12/23/05) Interesting articles by John Eger and Season's Greeting from Bill Runyon to list members

(NOT COMPLETE)

List of Distribution

Katerina Lanfranco
Nancy Hoffman Gallery
520 W. 27th Street
New York NY
1.646.240.7903


Professor Sam Lanfranco
AK/ECON
SASIT, 2005 TEL Bldg
York University
4700 Keele St
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
416-736-5232
cell: 416-816-2852
Picton: 416-86-2852
Fresno: 559-478-0736
Fax: 416-736-5188

John M. Eger
Van Deerlin Endowed Chair of Communication and Public Policy
School of Journalism and Media Studies
Executive Director, International Center for Communications
San Diego State University
5500 Campanile Drive, PFSA 160
San Diego, CA 92182-4522
619-594-6933
619-594-6910
Fax: 619-594-4488



-- His paper on Smart Communities in InterMedia

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