Your independent source for Harvard news since 1898 Fellow classics concentrators Sam Beck ’16 (left) and E.E They were denied citizenship; they could not be lawyers nor could they trade important commodities Avrom was challenged by an official: “Are you a foreigner?”“I have lived here all my life.”“Are you a Jew?”“Yes I’m a Jew.”“A Jew is the same as a foreigner So Avrom and his family left Tecuci and came to America They were among the millions of Jews from central Europe who arrived at that time Many settled in crowded cities where living conditions were considered unhealthy  A European Jewish philanthropist became concerned and created a charitable fund to settle such immigrant families as farmers in presumably healthier so my father left home in 1909 at the age of 15 for Cleveland He hawked newspapers on the street to pay for his room and board Cleveland was about as different from Arpin as could be imagined: more than half a million people a professional baseball team with its own stadium and a progressive school system that included a program in which home-room teachers counseled students individually recognized some intellectual capacity in this scrawny immigrant Jewish kid and recommended that he apply to Harvard Harvard accepted him for the class of 1916 which is important to my story 50 years later and Sam withdrew to go home to help support his family graduating from Harvard in 1926.  Although my father went on to become a psychologist recognized internationally for his work on the Rorschach test his graduation from Harvard was his proudest achievement he wrote in his twenty-fifth anniversary report “[T]he fact is that with the intellect under attack as it is today Harvard has so far kept her intellectual faith Whether our university can continue to be the star of the night is for the future historian to write there is only one college for my one son!” knowing exactly one of my 1,200 classmates My fifth-floor accommodations were spartan The floor showed the wear of 80 years of freshman feet and one somewhat splintered wooden desk and chair I had a rather nondescript freshman year but I did have one minor triumph Cummings gave the Norton Lectures during that academic year Cummings skimped on the lecturing requirement and then filling up the time reading from his poetry and I used to daydream that Cummings was my father so that he could read to me as I fell asleep at night Cummings remarked that when he had been at Harvard it was a privilege reserved to seniors to live in the College Yard and he wondered whether the freshmen who now lived there could properly appreciate the experience and I thought to engage Cummings based on our shared love of the Yard I live in the Yard and I like it very much Several of my friends and I would be very pleased if you would come to tea in my room,” and I named a date and time A postcard came back written in his signature style: “thank you: shall do my best to be there & then    e e cummings”        and I invited several friends who had literary interests or aspirations I borrowed a silver tea set and a white bearskin rug from the Boston Brahmin home of a classmate-friend Cummings and his wife trudged up the five flights of stairs to my room The bearskin rug was on the floor and the tea set gleamed on our borrowed tablecloth I made a fire in the fireplace for the first time with the result that I smoked up the entire room had to sit on the floor until I opened the damper and the windows and cleared out the smoke.       My impression was that they had very little contact with undergraduates and they were glad for the opportunity to spend time with us what do you think of the criticism of poetry?” Cummings replied in his dry so long as you know you’re killing the poem dead.” the follow-up to this social event was as important as the event I came home for Christmas quite pleased with myself Cummings.” And I sat back to wait for his response and Greek 6 with Post—‘C-plus Post,’ we used to call him That was my father—no clue about modern poetry but a clear memory of a College classmate almost 40 years earlier My friends and I did see the Cummingses one more time and of course he did not remember my father            I still have a clear memory of Cummings and his wife sitting on the only two chairs and five earnest undergraduates sitting on the bearskin rug at their feet I learned something about myself—what I could do if I tried and something about my father—what was important to him James C. Beck ’56, M.D. ’63, is a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School (jamesbeck56@gmail.com) Floods have affected Romania almost yearly since 1969 with historic high levels recorded on certain river segments Romania has sustained serious damages from rivers bursting its banks seven times department chief at the National Hydrology Institute in the last 42 years amounts to EUR 5 billion This statement was made during the 8th edition of ICAR a forum reuniting insurance specialist and natural disaster researchers Tecuci added that the most exposed areas are Suceava in Northern Moldova.Approximately 4 percent of Romania’s territory is exposed to flooding Earthquakes are also a potential danger for Romania’s territory. Sever Georgescu, engineer and scientific head of INCD URBAN-INCER, mentioned that the seismic source in Romania is unique, strongly affecting one part of the country, while the other one is partially impacted. Georgescu added that the earthquake in 1977 killed 1570 people and caused damages of EUR 2 billion. Recent re-evaluations show that this disaster inflicted a 20 percent loss in the GDP at that date mentioned that a disaster similar to the 1977 earthquake would inflict losses of approximately EUR 4.8 billion on the residential sector Bulugea cited international experts on this subject RON 3.75 million has been allocated for reconsolidation works 10 buildings are in the final stages of reconsolidation works Ovidiu Posirca We use cookies for keeping our website reliable and secure providing social media features and to analyse how our website is used News & Analysis on the Bakery and Snacks Industries 17-Jan-2023 Last updated on 17-Jan-2023 at 11:08 GMT A spokesperson confirmed Bimbo had “reached an agreement” to acquire 100% of the shares of the Râmnicu Vâlcea-based producer which is held under NCH Capital’s New Century Holdings fund Pic: GettyImagesVel Pitar was formed in 2001 through the merger of four NCH-owned companies – Mopariv Vâlcea Granpan Tecuci and Panegrano Cluj – with operations in bakery and milling The milling operations were placed under the Sapte Spice company which was not taken over by Bimbo and remains in NCH's portfolio Vel Pitar has grown into Romania’s second-largest player in the bakery and cereal sector with a 10% market share (GlobalData) with a 2,500-strong workforce managing 10 factories across the country It claims its products – including branded bread pretzels and sweet treats like doughnuts – are eaten by over 1 million Romanians daily Vel Pitar posted a 5% increase in turnover to RON 586.2m ($128.6m) and a net profit of RON 68.5m ($15.06m) "The shares of the company Vel Pitar SA were sold to the Bimbo group Vel Pitar is a company owned by American investors (NCH Capital) but built and managed by an exclusively Romanian team,” said Andrei Siminel Andrei The agri-business investor was set up in 1993 and is a serious investor in eastern Europe The Vel Pitar transaction is NCH’s 27th exit from owned companies Founded in 1943, Bimbo has a footprint in 33 countries, employing over 138,000 workers worldwide. It has one of the largest distribution networks in the world, with more than 55,000 routes and over 3.3 million sales points. In October 2022, Bimbo posted a 20% increase in 3Q sales to MXN102.8bn ($5.1b), a 37.6% rise in operating income to MXN11b ($585m) and adjusted EBITDA of MXN14.5b ($771m). Net income climbed 50.8% to MXN6.1b ($324m). Grupo Bimbo to invest $600m+ to build two new US plants, creating 600+ jobs11-Nov-2022By Gill HyslopThe Mexican bakery giant has announced plans to spend around $630m to build plants in Ohio and Georgia, expected to create around 615 jobs. Grupo Bimbo reports exceptional growth and snaps up St Pierre Groupe31-Oct-2022By Gill HyslopThe Mexican bread titan reported record sales and profits for Q3 2022, along with the acquisition of the UK bakery manufacturer, in a deal thought to be worth more than £300m. 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