CONTRIBUTION TO FESTSCHRIFT FOR C T (Connie) MOYNIHAN
This
is an unusual paper for a professional journal that demands an
explanation. As a co-organizer of the Festchrift in Rochester NY in 2007,
I
solicited written papers from speakers and attendees for a special
issue of Journal of the American Ceramic Society. The paper
linked
to below was written for this special issue. I ran out of time to
follow up on the promise of a special issue (and thus left many of
the authors
stranded,
much to my embarrassment), to hound the editor about this, nor to
arrange for a Lulu publication of the submitted papers.
Only
this memoir was published. It is a terrible account of Connie's
contributions because I had intended to fill out the details of his
career in an Introduction
to
the planned special issue of J. Am. Ceram. Soc by noting how the
various papers were related to Connie's oevre. Instead, the paper is
a cursory history of
enthalpy
relaxation and how my knowledge of Connie's seminal contributions
allowed me to get into the field.
Several potential invited contributions to the Festschrift itself
were withdrawn by their authors because of the shortened time required
to accommodate
the
unexpectedly large number of positive responses. I could not
persuade my co-organizer and/or the American Ceramic Society to
extend the Festschrift for
another
day or two. What I should have done was to move all contributed
papers to a poster session but once again time ran out. Nor could I
arrange an independent
Festchrift
in time.
Connie passed away on 12/22/15 at the age of 76.