History of Natto and Its Relatives (1405-2012 - SoyInfo Center

16. 1998 Justine Lam. Hurdler. Freshman at Cal. Start
May 26. $9.50 -> $12.00. Works 4 days/week, Mon. off. 9
to 4:30. 30 min lunch. She accomplished a lot and taught me
a lot. Main project: Creating a keyword for each soybean
variety (SBV) introduced before 1924, then designing
a keyword check, running it, fi nding the earliest record
containing that keyword, and fi lling in a form for each
variety. We now have 109 SBV- keywords. The earliest is
1891. Justine is the fi rst Soyfoods Center intern who looks
fi rst to the Internet/Web for the information she desires. She
is very skilled at using it, and does some nice projects for SC
at her home.
16A. Cheryl Ishida (mother), Christopher, and Catherine
do volunteer work at Soyfoods Center and Cal Library from
time to time. Two color photos (May 1998) show the three
standing by trunk of liquid amber tree near Soyfoods Center
driveway.
17. 1999 Justin Hildebrandt. Cal. Start June 1. $10.50.
18. 2000 Michelle Chun. Start June 21. $13.00. Worked
3 hours/week since Sept. 30, 1999. Excellent typist. Summer:
Started June 1 at two days/week. From Aug. 1, after DVC
class, 3 days, Tues., Wed., and Thurs.
19. 2000/09. Alison Fruman. Last day 2001 Jan. 18.
Checking all books in SC bookshelves–only.
20. 2000/10. Olga Kochan. Campolinda. A wonderful
person. Start Oct. 7. One day/week (Sun.) for 3 hours, 11-
2:00. During summer 2001 works Sat. and Sun. 3 hours
each. 2001 Jan. 1, rate increase to: $10.50. 2001 Sept. 1. Rate
increase to $12.00. After 2001 Sept. 11 attack I am unable to
fi nd her replacement, so she very kindly continues on for 9
more months, until 26 May 2002, start of summer.
21. 2001/01. Michelle Leung. Takes Alison’s place
checking SC books.
22. 2001/05 Ryan Browne, Freshman at Harvard Univ.
Works one day/week. Extremely talented and nice. $12/hour.
Earns most money teaching tennis each day. Mom is Lydia.
22a. 2001/09 to 2002/05. Olga Kochan–see above.
Then from May 2002 to Aug. 2003 she helps SC greatly and
generously to fi nd early Russian-language documents and
to translate them into English. Then she enters college as a
freshman at U.C. Berkeley (Cal).
23. 2002/05. Loren Clive. Speaks good French. Works
one day a week, 3 hours a day. Then fi rst summer with no
intern.
24. 2002/09. Marina Li. She called to volunteer the very
day I was about to send out Help Wanted ads. Works one day
a week. Last day 2003 May 23. Very creative, fi ne values.
Has diffi culty with computer work. For rest of 2003 helps
from time to time with sorting, then have lunch together.
Color photos: (a) On Mills College brochure (Oct. 2001) of
Marina and 4 other students in Institute for Civic Leadership.
(b) With Bill Shurtleff (April 2003), with Soyfoods Center
in background. (c) With coworkers in Berkeley gardening
project.
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25. 2003/10. Loren Clive. One day a week for 7 hours/
day. $13/hour. First 90 min is clearing Bill’s soy in-box. Rest
of time is for entering records and abstracts from Vegetarian
Messenger, Jan. 1887-March 1889.
26. Rowyn McDonald, a Stanford student. 2004 June
15 to Sept. 3. She was instrumental in our starting to publish
books on the Web and in starting to learn Adobe PageMaker.
She reformatted all the chapters in our History of Soybeans
and Soyfoods book and sent them to Paul and Gail King,
who put them on the Web. Her work this summer has been
outstanding. She has an extraordinary intellect, is a fast
learner, has excellent focus and concentration, is a fast typist,
accomplishes a great deal each day, makes few mistakes, and
has become very skilled at asking questions and receiving
the answers in a selfl ess, clear way. She was a gift from God,
the perfect match for the job. Also, I learned more from her
about using computers (esp. the Web and WinWord) than I
have from any other intern.
27. Casey Brodsky. 2007 Oct. 26 to 2008 June 6.
Sophomore at Campolinda. Four main projects: (1) Make a
record for every article in Time magazine that mentions tofu.
I notice how Time has mostly negative things to say about
this new, healthy food; protecting the status quo. (2) Add
the exact date (to the nearest day) to thousands of records of
various types. Upgrading the YR fi eld is the main reason we
changed a record number of BIBLIO records (22,159) this
year. (3) Add info to the Abstract fi eld for about an hour each
Friday. (4) Complete the AD fi eld for hundreds of letters in
our library; e.g., “Typed, with signature on letterhead.” She
also found that many letters have been misplaced.
28. Hanna Woodman. 2008 June 17 to July 16.
Sophomore at Acalanes. She is a fast and accurate typist, and
likes typing projects, so (1) She typed in many abstracts and
contents. (2) Completed the AD fi eld for hundreds of letters
in our library; e.g., “Typed, with signature on letterhead.”
She also found that many letters have been misplaced. (3)
Entered every chapter with heads for the AOCS monograph
on the soybean. (4) Added missing exact dates in the AD
fi eld. (5) Sorted documents in boxes for WRS to fi le. (6)
Highlighted reference sheets in preparation for Bill’s trips to
Cal libraries.
29. Elizabeth Hawkins. 2008 July 22 to Aug. 21. Senior
at Campolinda. Main projects–to enter: (1) Natto book
bibliography by Hesseltine and Kato. (2) Lots of abstracts
and quotations. (3) Soybean in Asia proceedings + A and B
level heads. (4) All unentered articles from Bluebook Update
(Golbitz). (5) Mian Riaz book on soy. (5) Oak Smith’s
letters. When I am gone she always works on my computer.
30. Michelle So. 2008 Oct. 9.
31. Talat Mirmalek 2009 Jan/Feb. Sorting. “Talat” in
Farsi means “rays of the sun.” Being a young Muslim lady,
she was not allowed to work here unless her sister (Taliah) or
father were in the same room with her.
32. Molly Howland. 2009 June 15 to July 31. Senior at