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Scripps College Alumni: Gabrielle Giffords, Molly Ivins, Beth Nolan, Holly Kinser, Anne Hopkins Aitken, Judith Keep, Melanie Rawn

Scripps College Alumni: Gabrielle Giffords, Molly Ivins, Beth Nolan, Holly Kinser, Anne Hopkins Aitken, Judith Keep, Melanie Rawn


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Gabrielle Giffords, Molly Ivins, Beth Nolan, Holly Kinser, Anne Hopkins Aitken, Judith Keep, Melanie Rawn, Serena Altschul, China Chow, Susan Tierney, Mary Parker Lewis, Edith Pattou. Excerpt: Anne Arundel Hopkins Aitken (February 8, 1911 June 13, 1994) is considered by many to be one of the modern mothers of Zen Buddhism in the western world. Named Anna Stinchfield Hopkins when she was born in Cook County, Illinois on February 8, 1911 (birth certificate #6407), Anne told her husband, Robert Baker Aitken, that her name was later changed (when she was old enough to remember the event, perhaps six to eight years-old) because Stinchfield did not provide positive numerology readings. Her mother, Marian Stinchfield Hopkins, was born in Detroit, Michigan, and was 25 when Anne was born. Her father, Lambert Arundel Hopkins, born in New Mexico, was a 29 year-old "Railroad Supply Man" when she was born. Anne spent two years (1929-1931) studying abroad as an undergraduate at Oxford University and graduated from Scripps College in Claremont, California with a B.A. in English in 1932. She then pursued a Master's Degree in Sociology, first at Stanford University in 1933, and later at Northwestern University (1940-1942). In addition to her Oxford years, she also lived in England from January to June, 1937. She traveled to Sweden, Finland, France, Germany, Spain, Japan, Italy, Mxico, and much of South America before becoming a teacher and Assistant Director at Happy Valley School in 1949. There she met and in 1957 married English teacher Robert Aitken. Her new husband introduced her to Zen Buddhism, and her long relationship with the Buddhist community began with their honeymoon to Ryutakuji in Japan. She went on to study the Dharma with Haku un Yasutani, S en Nakagawa and Kou...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781155395708
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • Sub Title: Gabrielle Giffords, Molly Ivins, Beth Nolan, Holly Kinser, Anne Hopkins Aitken, Judith Keep, Melanie Rawn
  • Width: 229 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1155395700
  • Publisher Date: 03 May 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 4 mm
  • Weight: 104 gr


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