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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I am lucky beyond belief to share my birthday with two such fine souls.
I am overwhelmed by your kind wishes. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
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I have only ever met one person with my birthday of 2-24. This was while I was at the University of Minnesota Law School. She had the first name of Thane M. and sort of looked like what a Viking lass might have 1000 years ago. Tall, blonde and strong in spirit. I did not know her very well as there were 250 + people in the Law School Class of 1989. You got stuck with 50 people or so the First Year and had all the First Year Classes with these people. If you made a poor choice with friends like with my choice of Orlando H. that First Year it could seriously derail your law school experiences. You were also often put with people with your last name initials. Mine was H. Fortunately for me I had the friendship of a couple of University of Minnesota Law School Student Body Presidents like Jim H. and Julie R. and to a less extent Anne G. who put me on a better road. Plus, Julie R. pulled some strings and got me the job at the University of Minnesota Law Library. She was also a great help as my mentor at the program Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners.
Now if I had only not been so stubborn about helping survivors/victims of crimes through getting them better access to practical information in libraries based on my experiences with the Michelle Mitchell murder in Reno, Nevada on 2-24. I kind of put my friends from law school in a very bad position of also challenging the ways of doing things. There were other far more disturbing things going on but I doubt if any of these friends heard much about of any of it except for the scanty information I tried to get to them.
Have you and Red met Graciegirl??
I always wondered if I would have got along with Thane M. My concern about library holdings for victims/survivors of crimes was not extremely strong until basically I got chewed out for changing the name of a particularly notorious criminal while doing my job at Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners. The victim would have been notified right away because of the Minnesota laws on victims' rights about the name change. I still received a severe scolding by the Judge who had to sign the papers. It was his Constitutional Right to get a name change under the laws and cases of Minnesota and the United States.
I had of course investigated what was in the University of Minnesota Law Library looking at it from the point of view (POV) of a victim/survivor the first couple of weeks I was there as I have done in every library I have been in since late February 1976. I found very little of any use unless you went up to the Legal Reference person and asked for their help. I still feel that very few survivors/victims would want to tell their stories to Legal Reference or any other Reference Librarians because of just how painful it can be. I had learned more about the POV approach while a Graduate Student in Librarianship and Information Management at the University of Denver in 1983-1984.
Anyway, I hope you Graciegirl and Redwitch had great birthdays? I have had some very good ones. I remember a band of one Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners fellow students sang Happy Birthday to me at a party around February of 1989 after I had started to open up more about my own experiences related to the 2-24-76 murder of Michelle Mitchell to other Legal Assistance to Minnesota Prisoners' people.