Letters From Our Readers, Summer 2015
AUTHOR
Joseph Wakelee-Lynch
Articles by Author
A Mom’s Advice
A novelist learns that her mother is a truth-teller.
Freed at Last
Franky Carrillo Jr., now pursuing his LMU degree, was freed In March 2011 after spending 20 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.
A Conversation With Nathalie Sánchez ’07
Nathalie Sánchez ’07 is a full-time teaching artist with P.S. Arts and works in two Los Angeles charter schools. She is co-founder of Ceramic Studio 153, in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. Sánchez earned her bachelor’s degree in the College of Communication and Fine Arts with a double major in studio arts and art history. Follow her @Ceramics153. She was interviewed by Editor Joseph Wakelee-Lynch.
Meet George Jetson
The Chemosphere, a space-age house that Leonard Malin ’55 built with architect John Lautner, seems as if it was delivered intact by aliens. A windowed octagon resting on a hillside pillar like a platter, this symbol of 1960s modernist architecture looks like an impossible house, and a less likely home. Malin made it a place to live.
The Skyline and the Man
Today marked the passing of one of the most gracious public figures I have ever met: Stan Chambers. Over the course of six decades, Chambers become a symbol of the news business at its best as well as one of…
On Merton’s 100th Birthday
Today, January 31, 2015, marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Merton, monk, writer, poet and peace activist who lead readers to discover faith, to discover Catholicism, simply through his words. James Martin, S.J., editor at large for…
The River Journey of 1959
We learned this week that freelance writer Sandra Millers Younger hauled in an award for LMU Magazine on the strength of her writing. Younger wrote “Operation Huck Finn,” a feature in our fall 2013 issue about a group of students…