He had a longstanding interest in Cyprus, attending conferences, writing articles - one comparing the island and Northern Ireland - and was until the end of his life an active committee member of the Friends of Cyprus.
My job also allows me to maintain my own professional activities such as attending conferences, writing and reviewing papers, and keeping up on the literature--what I would otherwise miss most from academia.
Into old age, Kurtz travelled to international conferences, wrote editorials, appeared on television and published prolifically (a total of more than 40 books).
Mr. Gioia also helped found two different poetry conferences, writes and narrates programs for BBC Radio and is the classical music critic for San Francisco magazine.
Their staffs continue to produce news releases, organize news conferences, write speeches and even draft legislation working out of briefcases on cellphones and other wireless equipment.
Below, invite your students to invent their own fake science conferences; write lyrics that respond to a much-discussed new song; create new words to describe inventions the world still needs; and find "multiple perspectives" in any Times article.
"Why should Daddy always be the one to miss out on those precious Kodak moments -- the school plays and soccer games and parent-teacher conferences?" writes Mr. Jones in the introduction to the "Bastard on the Couch".
Toward this goal, we published six research monographs, held news conferences, wrote 87 articles, and made many presentations to groups that were influential in ECCE policy making.
She was the first presidential spouse to hold press conferences, write a syndicated newspaper column, and speak at a national convention.
While her husband Franklin D. Roosevelt was President, she gave news conferences, wrote newspaper columns, advocated for human rights, and worked on children's and women's issues.
It certainly is so in the case of Kathryn Craft who wrote and attended conferences, wrote some more, took classes, and then, after many rejections, acquired a great agent and...the rest is history.
