Roque Tudesqui House - Historic Santa Fe Foundation

CORINNE SZE
Ruth Holmes, Publications
Chair
Each Bulletin highlights an individual
associated with the HSFF, giving
that person sparticular occupation, expertise
or contribution to the Foundation. The
following article is based on an interview
with historian and honorary Board member
Corinne Sze, whose research activities, although
essential to the basic objectives of
the Foundation, may be explained here to
some of our readers for the first time.
Corinne Sze
A conversation with Corinne Sze is like looking up a word in the
dictionary, or eating potato chips: you can't stop at just one (subject,
word, chip)--a process begins, thoughts and enthusiasms carry over into
further discoveries, successive topics, more ideas.
Dr. Sze came to New Mexico in 1974, with a background which
included degrees from Wellesley (Greek) and Yale (classics), as well as
intensive summer courses (architecture, archaeology) in Rome and Athens.
She taught the classics in various Eastern secondary and post-secondary
schools. Upon her arrival in the Southwest,
move to switch from the classics and the classroom
she made a conscious
to pursuing a vocation
with strong local relevance. She sought a more hands-on kind of experience,
yet one which would still require resolution and solving problemsan
area in which she has always felt confident.
Her objective was to use an interesting combination of skills, relating
the tangible evidence of "how people live" (as she puts it) with the
"creative substance." Her goal is the layering of solid research to form
foundations from which factual evidence can be ascertained. Sze has been
able to realize this endeavor in a number of ways, perhaps most obviously
evident in the name chosen for the company she founded in 1982: Research
Services of Santa Fe.
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