Johns Hopkins Magazine -- September 1997

SEPTEMBER 1997
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Contributors
Johns Hopkins Magazine
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	Jeff Bohlander is a freelance illustrator who lives in Baltimore. He can be reached by calling 410/602-9296. (See Science and Technology)
	Mike Ciesielski is a freelance photographer living in Baltimore. He can be reached by calling 410/235-8274. (See Passionate Diversions)
	Doug Barber is a freelance photographer who lives in Maryland. Visit his webpage at: http://members.aol.com/ barberfoto/. (See Passionate Diversions)
	Jean Grigsby is a freelance writer living in Baltimore. (See Hong-Kong)
	David Harp is a freelance photographer living in Baltimore. He can be reached by calling 410/433-9242. (See Passionate Diversions)
	Ruth Sofair Ketler is a freelance illustrator who lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. She can be reached by calling 301/593-1236. (See Tenure Under Scrutiny)
	Mark Lee is a freelance photographer living in Baltimore. He can be reached by calling 410/663-3268. (See Passionate Diversions)
	Theo Lippman is a freelance writer who makes his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. He can be reached via e-mail at theo@dmv.com (See Imperishable Prose) and contributors note below.
	Adam Marcus (MA'96) is a freelance writer who specializes in writing about science and medicine. He recently moved to Michigan and can be reached via e-mail at: Marcus232@aol.com (See Death Be Not Painful
	Kevin O'Malley is a freelance illustrator who lives in Baltimore. (See Essay)
	Bonnie Matthews is a freelance illustrator who lives in Baltimore. She can be reached by calling 410/243-3514. (See Humanities and The Arts)
	Vince Rodriguez is a freelance photographer living in Baltimore. He can be reached by calling 410/796-3787. (See Passionate Diversions)
	Steven Rubin is a freelance photographer who lives in Baltimore. He can be reached via e-mail at: rubixpix.juno.com (See Death Be Not Painful)

When Theo Lippman Jr. called and offered to write a remembrance of Murray Kempton '39, who passed away in May, the decision was an easy one: Who better to write about one of this country's finest columnists than a veteran newspaperman himself? (See "Imperishable Prose".)

Lippman, who wrote for the editorial pages of The Baltimore Sun from 1965 through 1995, says he's long been a fan of Kempton. Their paths began crossing at political conventions in the early 1960s, around the time Lippman started covering the national political scene. "I worked and lived in an age in which journalists who tried to write about everything did it very poorly--except for him," Lippman says. "He was quite a rarity."

Lippman followed Kempton's work closely over the years. Before sitting down to write the tribute that appears in this issue, he revisited several collections of Kempton's work. "What reinforced my appreciation of him was how well it stood up," Lippman says. In daily newspaper journalism it's "typical for prose to be perishable," to lose something with the passage of time, he points out. "But the things I read of Kempton's did, in fact, last. It makes you sort of proud as a newspaperman to see another newspaperman doing something quite outstanding--something that survives, and has a quality of literature about it."

Lippman, who taught opinion writing at Hopkins in The Writing Seminars from 1987 through 1996, has now retired from both journalism and teaching; he makes his home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. --SD

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