The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 7, February 15, 2004, Article 7

THE UNIVERSITY OF ERIC NEWMAN

  The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently interviewed Evelyn
  Newman, wife of numismatist Eric Newman, about her
  life, her work, and her charitable endeavors.  Here are a
  few excerpts from an article published February 12th:

  "Evelyn Edison Newman, 83, has focused her
  considerable energy and imagination on St. Louis
  philanthropic causes for more than 60 years. A member
  of the family that founded the Edison Brothers Stores Co.,
  she used her retail smarts to invent the Greater St. Louis
  Book Fair, the largest of its kind in the nation; the
  Scholarshop; the Wishing Well shop for Barnes-Jewish
  Hospital and countless other enterprises that help to
  support nonprofit institutions, including the Little Shop
  Around the Corner, slated to open today and benefit the
  Missouri Botanical Garden.

  You married young. Did you consider going to college?

  I went to Goucher (College) for a year. I came home for
  Christmas, and I met Eric, and we got married. My family
  said, "You've got to finish college."

  I tried to go a little bit to Washington University for a
  semester, and I had a child, and then I had the books, so
  I don't have a degree.

  My degree is in the university of Eric Newman, I say,
  because I married a very interesting person who brought
  a lot to my marriage in terms of excitement, in terms of
  his interests. And his interest in travel, which was profound.

  Give a thumbnail sketch of your husband.

  He went to MIT and then Washington University law
  school. So, he's an engineer and a lawyer. His main
  interest is numismatics, the history of coins. He is the
  guru of early American coinage.

  A tremendous interest of his was travel, so together
  we've been to maybe over 200 countries. I feel so much
  about what travel has done, in terms of exciting me and
  giving me creative ideas."

  To read the full article, see:
  http://tinyurl.com/2kqsx

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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