In 2009, I ran the Disney Marathon with two friends. I am so glad I can help complete Suz’s life list. I wish I would have had the chance to run the Lake with Suzanne.
- Kristin Coker
Disney Marathon
January 1st, 2010Using chopsticks proficiently!
December 31st, 2009What better way to kick off 2010 than to cross off one of the (admittedly easier) tasks on Suz’s life list? Tonight, Kirst and I raised a chop stick and a toast in honor of the girl that taught us more about life, love and spontaneity than anyone else. Whether we mastered the art of chop sticks, only Suz and this photo can say. With fond memories of Ichiban, Sakura, Tiger Noodles courtesy of the Chi Phi fraternity, and Thai Village and Carolyn’s “adoptive parents,” xoxo and Happy New Year’s love!!
- Kirsten Solberg and Emily Holland, friends from Princeton
Water Lilies for Suz
December 30th, 2009During the summer of 2009, I visited Paris with my parents. The main purpose of the trip was to shop and eat our way through the city. I was only there for 4 days (which really isn’t that much time for shopping and eating when you’re in Paris), but at the top of our to-do list was a visit to Giverny, a small village an hour northwest of Paris that was home to Claude Monet’s famous gardens. As much as I love impressionism and water liles, I’m not sure that I would have tried to go to Giverny had it not been on Suz’s list, what with all the eating and shopping we had left to do. But off we went, and I’m so glad we did. The gardens were absolutely beautiful…peaceful, inspired, and full of life. I know Suz would have loved all the colors, the gorgeous wildflowers, Monet’s sunny yellow and blue kitchen, and the beautiful watercolors. Thanks, Suz, for getting me to stop and smell the sunflowers and water lilies.
- Carolyn Chao Sabat, friend from Princeton
Summer at the Koobi Fora
June 8th, 2009In the summer of 2001, I joined an expedition and spent 2 months in northern Kenya at Koobi Fora, the Leakey base camp. We spent our days learning how to excavate and identify fossils. It was the most memorable summer I’ve had yet and I was incredibly lucky to have had that experience. Pictures below are from Kenya (I’m the one in the blue hat).
- Katie Sutcliffe, friend from Princeton
Suzanne’s last task
June 8th, 2009Suzanne accomplished one final item when her residency program submitted an announcement of her passing in The New York Times on January 1, 2008. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9400E0DC1F3AF932A35752C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=suzanne%20munson&st=cse
MUNSON–Dr. Suzanne Frances. We are deeply saddened by the untimely loss of our dear friend and colleague Dr. Suzanne Frances Munson, an intern in psychiatry, medicine and neurology at NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center. A graduate of Princeton University and the Medical College of Virginia, Suzanne had recently completed a research fellowship at the National Institute of Mental Health. In her too-brief time with us, Suzanne inspired us with her gifts as a passionate physician and devoted friend. On behalf of the NewYorkPresbyterian Hospital community, we extend our heartfelt sympathies to the entire Munson family. Herbert Pardes, M.D. President & CEO NY-Presbyterian Hospital & Healthcare System Steven J. Corwin, M.D. Executive V.P. & COO NY-Presbyterian Hospital
A statue…of Emily
June 8th, 2009During my senior year at Princeton, I had time to take a class for fun, so I signed up for a sculpture class and had the assignment of making a clay bust of someone else in the class. Fortunately, I had Emily Holland in the class with me; I got to spend many hours studying the contours and proportions of Emily’s head and now have her gorgeous youthful face immortalized in both clay and plaster at my house.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton
Seattle mini-triathalon
June 8th, 2009When I was in high school, my dad was still in the Navy reserves as a physician for the divers. He invited me to take part in the Seals’ annual mini-triathalon with their families in Seattle, so I went. We swam in Lake Washington, ran 3 miles, and biked 6, I think. I was too wiped out at the time to keep track. The Seals all left me and my dad in their dust, but I managed to finish so I thought it was a success.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton
Teach piano lessons
June 8th, 2009I have had two official students so far. The first was a boy who lived in the town of Princeton, NJ whose mother really wanted him to take lessons at the University. She found me practicing on the beater piano above the dining hall in Wilson College and offered to pay me $40 an hour to give lessons to her son. Of course, in my perpetual quest for a campus job, I couldn’t refuse. It turned out she was much more interested in him learning to play the piano than he was, so we only had 2 lessons.
My second student is my husband, who got me a full-sized keyboard for my 30th birthday so that I finally have something of my own to play. He wanted to learn how to play a few things so I’ve helped him learn the basics. He can play Fur Elise now, at least the first part.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton
Golf swing
June 8th, 2009I moved to Texas to start my residency in Ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas and was amazed to discover how flat this part of the world is. There are no mountains, no major bodies of water. So what does one do when it’s flat and 90 degrees out on a cool day? One learns to golf. Once in a while I can get par on a hole, and I can hit the ball with a strong swing, but it’s the accuracy part that seems to be the kicker.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton
Sand Cities
June 8th, 2009As part of our annual camping trip to Sand Point, Washington, we would build not just castles but Sand Cities, complete with multiple moats and protective city walls on the sand bar as the tide was coming in. Before the waves were high enough to break over the city walls, the water would seep into the sand and fill the city’s many swimming pools and wells. The castles within the cities were the last refuge of the Sand People as the water started seeping in around them. The Sand Cities always met the same watery demise, but their construction and eventual inundation was highly entertaining for us and everyone passing by on the beach. This is a picture of the beach where we built our cities.
- Julie Enright Furlan, friend from Princeton