THE BERLIN TEAM

[20020606, updated 20030517, 20070826]

        The following photograph shows the team I had assembled at one point during my Berlin tenure.   To the left of me is Prof. (then Dr.) Peter Muhlhausler, who is now head of linguistics at the University of Adelaide in Australia.  To his left is Karl Maroldt, the very able senior (tenured) non-professor.   (Tom Perry, who had left before this picture was taken, is now a dean at Simon Fraser University) were there when I came.  Karl and I did a book on English phonetology together.  The late Prof. Willi Mayerthaler, who is not portrayed, but who did his Habilitation (in effect a second doctorate, required to hold a chair)  became head of linguistics and then communication at Klagenfurt in Austria.  Next to Karl is Dr. Jerrold Edmondson, who did his Habilitation and went on to become a professor and head of linguistics at the University of Texas, Arlington.  (The other time I was a best man in Europe was in Holland, when Jim Fidelholtz--we had known each other at MIT and later at Georgetown) married the daughter of the Argentine Ambassador, who had been a student at Georgetown when her Father was ambassador to Washington; they are now in Méjico.  Those Argentinians pronounced yo "i" something like "Joe."  I went with Pinky's [Rosa's] father shopping for his wedding present for her.])  He is now one of the very most eminent specialists is SE Asian languages--from Burma and Viet Nam to Thailand and China   I was best man at his wedding to a lovely Chinese woman, whose family have visited here.  In the front row is Helga Brummenbaum, my excellent secretary  (with head turned to check up on everything).  I got the idea of adding this photo to my site on receiving from the new secretary, Fr. Trellu, a picture of Helga and her at dinner at the apartment of a colleague (Dr. See-Young Cho), who is, inter alios, the current talented and amiable computer specialist of the institute. 

      Here is a later version of the teaching and secretarial staff:   We had two Freds.  In the back row, next to me is Dr. Frederick Jones from Sierra Leone; he had his doctorate in England and is now head of a university department in Raleigh.  He has given lectures around the world; one of our guests from Poona in India invited him there, and of course we stayed a week at Moani Lehua Gardens before heading for Australia, where both of us were attending a conference and staying with Dr. Barbara Horvath's family.  (She had been a student when I taught at Georgetown; she later became head of linguistics at the University of Sydney.)  Dr. Dan Maxwell is on the other side of me.  Prof. Friedrich Braun, who came to the Institute from another pedagogical college in Berlin, is next to Helga, and Karl is next to him on the left of the front row.   I have forgotten the name of Prof. Braun's secretary at the top left, next to Freddie.  Our British phonetician (same rank as Karl and also there before me and during the seventeen years I was at the Technische Universität Berlin) was not in the picture on the day it was taken.

     Dr. (later Prof.) Willi Mayerthaler is next to me (in white jacket) in the following picture, which includes also most of my immediate staff at the time--again the British phonetician is missing, and Karl's young boy was not part of the staff.   He invented the theory of reversals in marked contexts, which provided the solution for many reversals in English (be and get in passives, be gonna and will in posteriors, the reversals of pronoun forms rather like those in French, etc.).  Willi's wife Eva, both beautiful and talented, use our work on Romansch/Ladin dialects in Switzerland for her doctorate.)  Some of the rest of the staff are in the following photograph . . . along with some of those in the foregoing photographs.  Helga is second from right in the front row.  On the right in the back row is the person (name now forgotten) who took care of the spectrograph.  My memory being what it is, I have forgotten the names.  I do remember that the person who is second from left in the front row was a fellow from Canada that had been born in, if I remember, Wales.  I mention it to emphasize our international composition.  Two of the American faculty came from the University of Indiana, while Jerry came from UCLA.  Various of them have visited Moani Lehua Gardens at one time or another, but Helga has got flying Angst.

ANOTHER PHOTO RECENTLY FOUND

MISSING IN ABOVE PHOTO:  

Fr. Helga Brummenbaum, my secretary
Martyn Phillips, Akademischer Rat
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