Dr. Alice Amsden, Barton L. Weller Professor of Economic Development, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Over the weekend of October 20, 2012 MIT held a commemoration/memorial for Dr. Amsden and it was recorded and published. One of the Bettina Network Community members called to ask that we post the email on Bettina Network’s Blog that we sent to those who purchased at Dr. Amsden’s Scattering Sale. She had forwarded the link to a couple friends and they said the content of the weekend should have a wider ciculation and encouraged her to have the commemoration put on the blog.
In that spirit, the link follows and we invite you to take a look. It was a tremendous couple of days and an opportunity to both pay tribute to Dr. Amsden and to learn about her ideas, work and family. We came away with a much greater understanding of what she was about and a different set of ideas about how the world could work.
We sent the following message to those who purchased items at this sale and decided to share it with the Bettina Network’s world.
http://amsden.mit.edu/program/
http://ttv.mit.edu/videos/21431-alice-amsden-commemoration-part-1
“A couple months ago you purchased items at a Bettina Network Scattering Sale which were from the estate of Alice Amsden.
There was a memorial service for Ms. Amsden at MIT recently, which is now on-line. We have included, at the top of this email, the link for you to use to see this service. It is a fantastic tribute to Dr. Amsden and it gives you an idea as to who she was, her work, ideas, colleagues and more.
Some of us keep as much of a provenance of the items we buy as possible. We assume you are one of us and would like to have this information that you can peruse as you wish. There are six parts to the video and it is excellent.
Thank you for being a part of the Bettina Network Community and for the purchases you made at the Alice Amsden Sale. We hope this video becomes a part of your collection and you keep it with the items you purchased from Dr. Amsdens estate.
At Bettina Network we are working on building a research library which would include such information on all the items we sell so the next generation will be able to search for and find the art, furnishings, everyday items and more of those who meant a lot to them. I still wonder what happened to some particular items from my grandmother’s estate. I would very much have appreciated being able to search for those items, so we are working to give others that opportunity.
We also hope the research library will be used by researchers, appraisers, historians and others to gain an idea into who owned what, why, its value when it was sold and its history before it was acquired by that particular person.
We hope this video is as meaningful to you as it was to us. Besides the ideas and discussion in this Commemoration, the video about Alice Amsden from baby to the end of life was beautifully done as was the tribute to Dr. Amsden by her family.
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