Modern Family

I started this blog writing a fairy tale but after 2 days of trying to make it work, I've just scratched the whole thing.  My daughter and I have been on a marathon of funny TV shows - everything from "Arrested Development" to "Modern Family." In my opinion some of the best comedy writing today lives on the small screen.
 
Here's my interpretation of Human Ecology as a family comedy (sing along to the popular theme songs):



School of Human Ecology building, 1928

  The Beverly Hillbilies

"Come and listen to a story 'bout our favorite Dean

Their building was old but they sure did keep it clean

Until one day with students on the stairs

Robin looked up and said "It just ain't fair"

Space that is.. class-rooms...teaching labs"



The Brady Bunch



Associate Vice Chancellor Alan Fish



"Here's the story, of a lovely lady

Who was planning a building of their own

She presented, to Campus Planning

But she was all alone.

.

'till the one day when the lady met this fellow

they shook hands and pledged to work hard on the deal

That the Dean would somehow raise her monies

That's how Nancy Nicholas Hall became so real."

 

Theme song to Mary Tyler Moore Show

(little known fact - at the end of the clip where MTM spins and throws her hat into the air? That's a Zwicker Knit hat!)

"Who can raise a building with her wiles? 

Who can take the faculty and carefully make them all walk the miles?

Well it's you Dean, and you should know it

With each step and every single donor you show it


Space is our big need we cannot waste it
You can raised the funds, why don't you take it


You're gonna build it after all
You're gonna build it after all"


Rawhide Theme Song ( I only changed 2-3 words, it just seemed to work)

 "Rollin' Rollin' Rollin'

Campus keep on movin',
Though they're disapprovin',

Keep them planners movin' Rawhide!

Don't try to understand 'em,
Just rope and throw and grab 'em,
Soon we'll be living high and wide."

 

This past Wednesday we had a party to honor Robin, thank her for the last almost eleven years leading this School. The party was a fairly informal affair, just cake, ice cream and a wee bit of champagne. Robin has made the School a family - and in that spirit we welcome Dean Soyeon Shim. Please pull up a chair to our table - we are not the formal "eat in the dining room with the proper flatware" kind of family, we are the "pass the potatoes, stop hitting your sister, no texting at the table and how-was-your-day" kind of family. 

We are a modern family. But no giving the dog your lima beans....I can see that.