If your last name was "Brann" , would you name your daughter EVA?

[SoCalDem]

Someone needs to tell St. Johns that they now have pictures in COLOR :)
:rofl:



http://www.stjohnscollege.edu/user/MAG_W06_article01.aspx
Meeting President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush was exciting, but the best part, according to Christopher Nelson and Eva Brann, was hearing St. John's praised as a "National Treasure."

November 10 and 11 were whirlwind days for long-time Annapolis tutor Eva Brann: feted at an award dinner hosted by the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C., meeting George W. and Laura Bush in the Oval Office, and being one of the guests of honor at a State Dinner with luminaries including Judith Martin (Miss Manners) and actor Robert Duval.
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[MonkeyFunk]

1. Isn't it likely to be her

married name?

[SoCalDem]

2. Nah.. she's a spinster..

:ducks:

[Recursion]

12. She is, actually

Nice lady, though. Wrote really good books on imagination and time. Whenever a student complained about a word processor not working she would show us the #2 pencil she had written her last book with.

[Matsubara]

3. Am I too late to say I'd name her "Raisin"?

Ba dump-ump.

[Lobster Martini]

4. W. had dinner with Miss Manners?

Apparently it didn't help much.

[wakeme2008]

5. LOL I used to date a lady with a name of Belinda Screws

:rofl: but with that last name, there isn't a good first name.

[B Calm]

6. I would have named her Raisin. Something that is totally indigestable

and goes right through you..

[melody]

7. I know someone named Robin Hood (at birth)

There are a lot of, um, innovative parents.

[patricia92243]

8. I'd name her All

[Another Bill C.]

9. I suspect

that this Eva was born before the other Eva had become well known.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

10. Judging by the photo, she was born before WWII and her parents probably didn't have a clue. eom

[Recursion]

11. Dude, she's Jewish and had to flee Germany before WWII

When she was born nobody knew who Eva Braun was. She was part of the influx of academics who mostly became the New School.

[noonwitch]

13. The Lear (as in the Lear Jet) family named their daughter Crystal Shanda

At least that was the joke around where I grew up, in suburban Grand Rapids. We had a big Lear plant in my part of town and plenty of the kids from school had parents who worked there.