Riddle of America, The - Waldorf Research Institute

Norman Davidson was born in Scotland, where, as a boy, he supported thecause of Hiawatha with a collie dog, bow and arrows, and numerous campfiresin the woods fringing the Pentland Hills on the south side of Edinburgh.Later he fashioned his crow feather into a pen and became a journalist forten years, then laid aside the pen for the spoken word when he taught inWaldorf schools for sixteen years. In 1986, the call of the land of Hiawathacame again, and he became director of teacher training at Sunbridge College,Spring Valley, New York. He is the author of Sky Phenomenon: A Guideto Naked Eye Observation of the Stars.Tom Dews, a graduate of Davidson College (B.A.), and Emory University(M.L.S.), is an English teacher and librarian at Kimberton Waldorf Schoolin Pennsylvania. Over the past seven years, he has developed a folk musicelective for high school students, emphasizing ensemble playing and improvisation.Virgilio Elizondo, a native of San Antonio, Texas, has an STD./Ph.D.. degreefrom the Institut Catholique (Paris, 1978); an M.A. degree in religious studiesfrom the Ateneo University (Manila, 1969); and a B.S. degree in chemistryfrom St. Mary’s University (1975). He was founder and first president ofthe Mexican American Cultural Center and founder of Nuestra Santa Misade las Americas, an international weekly televised mass for the Americas.Dr. Elizondo has been a professor or a visiting professor at various majoruniversities throughout the United States and at the major pastoral institutesthroughout the world. He is currently senior research scholar for a projecton the study of San Fernando Cathedral as the cradle of the Mastizo Christianityof the United States.Juan Flores is a professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studiesat Hunter College and in the Sociology Program at the CUNY GraduateSchool. From 1994 to 1997 Dr. Flores served as director of the Centerfor Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College. He received his Ph.D. fromYale University in 1970. His doctoral training and early teaching career atStanford University were in the field of German literature and intellectualhistory. He is the author of Poetry in East Germany (Choice magazine award),and Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity. He is also translator ofMemoirs of Bernardo Vega and coeditor of On Edge: The Crisis of ContemporaryLatin American Culture. In the spring 1998 semester, he was visiting professorof Ethnic and Latino Studies at Harvard University.350