06-MAR-A-6
EXCHANGE WITH MICHAEL MARQUARDT AND MILIE MATEU
REGARDING THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF DISSERTATION
From: Glenn Geelhoed
To: mmateu@hq.nasa.gov
Date: 3/3/2006 12:39:31 PM
Subject: Thanks for your email!
Dear Millie (if I may be so informal, as it is also my
sister's name):
I feel I know you from not quite 2,220 pages of
careful re‑reading, but at least the entirety of your thesis!
I had been advised to seek your advice by Mike
Marquardt who has been very helpful to me as my advisor‑‑as you no
doubt appreciate even more than I at this stage!
I am leaving shortly for Africa, but would be
interested in talking with you. The
"frustrations" that he alluded to that I expressed in a hastily
jotted memo to myself (directed toward Jae Hoon Lim who had recommended the
Moustakas review‑‑attached) are in the details of the arduous work
you have exhibited in your masterful thesis against the post‑modern
assertion that all that on can come up with is still not sufficient for a
plausible prescription as a change agent.
I will see if you can relate to my current dilemma in
looking toward an appropriate instrument that may make it possible to measure
what I have witnessed so often, even if I cannot do the exhaustive work of
clearing my head in a meditative epoche in order to distill the essence of a
unique experience. The world I deal with
is not awaiting eternal verity in my
conclusions as desperate for plausibility in application of the
satisficing.
Thanks for your consideration and insight won the hard
way!
GWG
Thank you so much!
Your message was the most uplifting of my week, and
now I will fly‑‑the soaring at this moment being "Into
Africa" (one of those earthly specific details we all deal with
regularly!,) but while incubating the thoughts you have cultivated along the
way!
I have connected with Millie (see below) as you had
suggested.
Thanks for your help as the "Lion" in the
parable I had sent earlier!
GWG
Glenn,
Please e mail me more information about what you would
like help on and I
will be glad to see how I may assist you.
Millie Mateu
On 3/1/06 12:10 PM, "Glenn Geelhoed" <msdgwg@gwumc.edu>
wrote:
> I left a phone message advised by Mike Marquardt,
and will try to reach
> you before I disappear Into Africa with eighteen
students.
>
> GWG
‑‑
Milagros Mateu, Ed.D. (Millie)
University Program Manager
Code EU
NASA Headquarters
Washington DC
20546
tel: 202 358‑0954
fax: 202 358‑3745
email: mmateu@hq.nasa.gov
>>> <MJMQ@aol.com> 3/3/2006
10:28:12 AM >>>
Glenn,
Your attached paper is a "masterpiece." I was truly impressed with your
thinking, philosophical musings, writing eloquence,
and frustration.
It appears obvious to me that you are seeking research
that will have
valuable, clear generalizations that will have wide‑scale
benefits. Of course, all
of us would like that for our doctoral dissertations,
and eventually need to
settle for the a more do‑able, more focused,
more easily able to be accepted
study.
Glenn, I am more than eager to support you in whatever
methodology you
determine will get you to where you want to go. We
both need to recognize that
academic research moves more like a caterpillar than a
butterfly, but that
should not keep us from soaring with the eagles. So if
you can find an instrument
that measures what you want, and you have a large
enough population to get
meaningful statistics ‑ go for it!
All the best,
Mike
CC: MJMQ@aol.com