Date sent:        Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:02:51 -0500 (EST)
To:               johnny at charm.net
From:             s-kutler at sjca.edu (Samuel S. Kutler)
Subject:          Re: The final session of the Newton Confereence
Send reply to:    johnny at charm.net



Tom Geyer and all:

I can't take up your challenge to report on the final session because I
arrived only for the last two-thirds of it.  Howard Fisher, one member of
the three member Cttee (with Curtis Wilson & Adam Schulman), left the
conversation room at that moment to bring in an (a first?) edition of the
Principia.  There were still perplexities expressed about how the third law
could possibly work over distance. This was an aftermath of Dana Densmore's
talk.  There was certainly a comic moment when a student came up to the
board to show how he thought another body affected ,say, a moon going
around the earth.  Then several of the visiting lecturers--maybe all
three--rushed up to correct that student.  There were lots of miscellaneous
questions, as there were supposed to be, addressed to one or more of the
participating lecturers.  There was typical end of the conference
gemutlichkeit with the Cttee members expressing gratitude to the visiting
lecturers and to the other visitors, and the visiting lecturers saying what
a wonderful community St. John's has.  All seemed to me to be very sincere
in their appreciation.

Sorry that I can't be such an able reporter as Tom Geyer was, but he is a pro.

Best wishes,

Sam Kutler