Eileen Condition:Good By turns funny and sobering

By turns funny and sobering

of the demands of tradition and the possibilities for compassion

Perlmutter Emeritus Professor of Social Architecture and Management The Wharton School

Jason Erik Lundberg was asked to deliver a plenary talk to Singapore's best and brightest young creative writers

Eileen Condition:Good By turns funny and soberingSo here we are. My name was Eileen Dunlop. Now you know me. I was twenty four years old then, and had a job that paid fifty seven dollars a week as a kind of secretary at a private juvenile correctional facility for teenage boys. I think of it now as what it really was for all intents and purposesa prison for boys. I will call it Moorehead. Delvin Moorehead was a terrible landlord I had years later, and so to use his name for such a place feels