Edith Emilie Deer Sutterlin : Coach

As Emilie's mother, Edith, I was happily surprised when this Memory team invited me to join as Michael's coach. Since my primary function has been to encourage, to question, and to prod, I admit all the credit goes to these three creative and hard-working students. Thanks!

Taking photos of our trips and special holiday celebrations is one way I preserve family and personal memories. You can see some of these on my personal website.

Personal Memory Strategies: I process information by articulating it either orally or in writing and by engaging in a lively interchange with others. This style of learning usually helps me to remember information to which I've been attentive.
Also, as someone with easy distractibility, I find both making lists and taking notes help me to keep track of things I need to remember. I use a calendar on our home computer; my only problem is remembering to enter appointments as soon as I get home!

TQ memories

1998 (Earliest) - Watching Emilie and Steve Kessler take apart a computer -C-Inside Computers

1999 - Meeting Don Hyatt, Gerry Wyder, James Reategui, Coaches M. Valli and J. Lakatos, Sleep from A to ZZZ team
- Meeting Michael Mülly (Muelly) at the 1999 TQ Awards Event, long before the Memory team's formation.

2000 - Taking pictures when Emilie met her new teammate, Giacomo/James, in southern Switzerland near the border with Italy, in June, even before they really started working on this site.
- Appreciating Gerry's family's generous hospitality in Lugano; Reading Schweitzer & DaVinci books.
- Exploring Zurich with Michael as tour guide, as we traveled through the beautiful Alpine country of Switzerland.
- Traveling with Gerry and Emilie to Denmark to meet a potential teammate, Peter S.

2001 - Taking photos of Michael and Emilie when visiting several Memorial sites this summer (U.S.)

Happiest TQ memories -Personal friendships that have developed. Believing that these and the new knowledge and skills gained by the students during the process of ThinkQuest website development are as valuable as the educational legacies they have created.

Memory of tastes & friendship!

Basic information:
Employment: Senior Information Resources Librarian, Congressional Research Service (CRS)
U.S. Library of Congress. (L.C. 1976-Present, Sept. 2001)
Education: Kalamazoo College, MI (graduated, 1974) - B.A., cum laude, History & Political Science
Georgia State University - master's coursework completed- Russian and European History
Catholic University, Washington, D.C. (1981) - M.S. in Library and Information Science.