Subject:
Re: follow-up on our conversation last Thursday
From:
"Karen Bryner" <kb2256@columbia.edu>
Date:
Tue, 3 Apr 2007 19:12:07 -0400
To:
"Herve Varenne" <hhv1@columbia.edu>

Dear Professor Varenne,
 
I apologize for the slow response.  I spoke with Bishop Pavon on Sunday and he has agreed to an interview.  
You can contact him at elpavon@hotmail.com.  As I mentioned, the leadership of wards (Mormon term for 
congregations) in the Mormon chruch is lay.  He has only been in this position for 5 weeks or so, 
but he had been attending the ward for a few years.  The previous bishop just moved to Idaho for a new job.  
Others in the ward may have better understanding of the history of the educational programs than Bishop Pavon. 
He asked that he be able to see the kinds of questions you will be asking the others in the ward that you interview.
 
I would be more than happy to participate in an interview as well (or answer general questions about 
the structure of the church), but if you are looking for information regarding education and youth, 
there are a couple of other people I would suggest you speak with instead. 
 
Also, there is a Spanish speaking ward that meets in the same building--but the youth 
program is largely conducted in English. If you are interested in looking into this 
congregation, I could make contact for you as well.
 
Please let me know if you have any questions,
Karen 

 
On 3/28/07, Herve Varenne <hhv1@columbia.edu> wrote:

    Dear Karen,

    I really appreciated your willingness to help us in our project on
    education in Harlem.  Just in case there were difficulties, the project
    public web site is at:
    http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu/project.html

    I wonder whether you have talked to your bishop and whether he would
    agree to an interview about his understanding of the educative functions
    of the church.  I would need his contact information.

    We would also like to talk to you about your own responsibilities as a
    leader of the women's groups (as I understood from our all too rushed
    discussion), and, we hope, observe examples of what these groups do.  In
    order to keep our various statuses distinct, it would be Linda Lin, the
    postdoc from Stanford I mentioned, who will be contacting you on this.

    If you need to talk further about this, I could see you tomorrow after
    my office hours.

    Thanks again!


    --
    == HERVE VARENNE ==
    Professor
    Programs in Applied Anthropology and Anthropology and Education
    "http://varenne.tc.columbia.edu "