It was SO great to see Cranks, Scooby, Velma, ShockProf, Patch, & Mrs. Patch at the ASC Annual Meeting in St. Louis this year...and it was a real pleasure to meet and befriend NewSocProf! (Who says blogging can't pay professional dividends?!)Highlights of the conference for me included catching up with old friends, being part of a team that won twenty bucks and two rounds of free drinks in an Irish pub trivia contest, cheering fellow Spartans who were feted with various awards (congrats Merry & Kristy!), and heading up to the top of the arch with Mrs. Patch on a crystal clear autumn day. I must say, though, that the pinnacle of my conference experience came when I met Ted Gest. Yes, the Ted Gest! He chaired an exceptionally interesting (but, sadly, poorly-attended) panel on politics and crime featuring St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch, John Jay president and former NIJ director Jeremy Travis, and Charles Wellford of the University of Maryland Criminology & Criminal Justice program and the National Academy of Sciences. (I took copious notes and hope to write an entire post about it soon. It was seriously great.)
Below are some photos of the festivities. First up, here's MSU-SCJ professor Merry Morash acknowledging her receipt of an ASC Fellowship at the MSU reception Thursday evening (the other big winner was MSU alum Kristy Holtfreter, who received the Young Scholar award from the ASC Division on Women & Crime):
Dr. Cranky, Mrs. Patch, Patch, Scooby, & Velma sharing a laugh:
ShockProf, Velma, me, Scoob, Cranks, & Patch posing for a charming (though disappointingly fuzzy) GBOC photo:
The decorum lasted all of five seconds:
Finally, I believe efforts were underway to drive by and photograph Pap's boyhood home. I'm curious to hear whether that happened!
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Great time, I must say. Always fun to hang out with the crew. See you all in Boston in March. If not, be sure to make plans to attend the midwestern criminal justice association meeting in Chicago in late September. You can be special guests of the program chair and incoming president.
It was great to see you cats. I think in the last picture, we were all guessing who would win the sexiest man alive award. Clearly Cranks knew it was in the bag for him.
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