Music's Transformative Power
When writer Marjorie Centofanti attended a memorial concert
for cellist Gregor Piatigorsky last May, she left
Homewood's Shriver Hall feeling transformed. "You really do
feel changed in some way knowing there are people like
Piatigorsky," says Centofanti, assistant director of
science publications for the Office of Corporate
Communications of Hopkins Medicine. Upon learning that
Hopkins neurologist Dan Drachman is married to
Piatigorsky's daughter, Jephta, and is an accomplished
clarinetist himself, she was inspired to write "Theme and
Variations." Centofanti's work has appeared in The
Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Science News, and
American Health.
Cold Calls
While on assignment for "What's in the Fridge?",
photographer Will Kirk '99 didn't know what he would find
in the dozen refrigerators he opened across Hopkins, camera
in hand. The strangest thing Kirk came across (in a lab
fridge) was a herpes specimen from 1986. The most
surprising? The contents of an undergraduate's
refrigerator. Instead of finding cheap beer and soy sauce
packets, he encountered soy milk and Boca Burgers. Kirk, a
staff photographer at Hopkins since 1999, lives in Hampden,
where his refrigerator is filled with Berger cookies and
barbecue sauces.
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