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Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Ind. Law - IU Law Prof. Mary Hart Mitchell, 56, who died Nov. 4, featured in Dan Carpenter column
Updating these earlier ILB entries, Dan Carpenter, op-ed columnist for the Indianapolis Star, has a long column today on the November 8th memorial service. It begins:
A cherished ally, exemplar and inspiration was snatched away by a sudden, shocking illness early this month.Mary Harter Mitchell was a professor nearly 30 years at Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis; a devoted student at Christian Theological Seminary; an author; a poet; and a Quaker who took her religion of peace and justice at its word.
As a wife, mother and friend, she practiced a politics of love that chastened those of us who get so caught up in public perfidy we lose our personal moorings, our sense of self and human connection.
In a contemporary political atmosphere that is about as conducive to efflorescence as that of the planet Mercury, Mary bloomed bright and tough as a northern rose.
"A quiet person," said her husband, CTS professor Frank Burch Brown. "But she had a fierce side that so impressed us, that emerged whenever she thought people were not getting a fair shake."
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 18, 2009 08:20 AM
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