I loved the first newsletter under your stewardship! Beautifully written, interesting and informative. I think this will revive interest among all our members in volunteering and keeping up with library affairs. Thanks for making us look so good!

  -- Corinne Savage, Friends of Oakton Library
I worked with Frank during 1996-99 at Discovery Institute. We co-produced books, analytical papers, media events and a website on generations. Frank proved to be a great listener -- invaluable for a chronicler, because it allows him to detect new links and connect ideas. In my view, his gift is in interpreting patterns that otherwise go unnoticed, and then turning them into beneficial assets.

  -- Rob Crowther, www.Discovery.org

Frank Gregorsky has brought his trenchant writing and broad knowledge to many subjects. I relied on his research extensively for a book on foreign policy and know that many Washington insiders consider him a treasure trove of information on politics and policy. If you want to write with punch and impact, Gregorsky is the go-to guy. Or, if your manuscript needs the services of a skilled surgeon to leave the critical list, Frank will nurture it to health.

  -- Mona Charen, syndicated columnist and author of Useful Idiots

cropped.jpg (10114 bytes) As executive-director of the Bionomics Institute, I worked with Frank from mid-1994 right through to our farewell Board meeting in March of 2000. His public-policy experience led us to ask him to speak at our conferences, but it was his keen ability to observe and chronicle our evolving movement that kept us inviting him back to attend strategy sessions and collaborate on side projects with Institute founders. You can rely on Frank to make a complex situation -- whether economic, political, or family -- both concise and complete.

  -- Steve Gibson, chief operating officer, NITA, 2006-2009

In 2003 I asked Frank to interview my parents. I was ecstatic over the product and my four siblings liked it too. Our father recently died and my sisters told me that listening again to a wonderfully edited and presented life story brought them solace and joy during a tough time. And we'll be able to enjoy these CDs for a long time to come and hand them down to the grandchildren and great grandchildren. A priceless asset.

  -- Don Morrissey, Huawei Technologies (USA)

Bill is at a loss for words and can't even speak right words during his periods of confusion. They call it 'Sundowners' in Alzheimer's. He has his days and nights reversed and has no sense of time. After listening to the CDs [we made with you in 2002], it made me realize how glad I am that we have a record of his voice in his good days telling the story of his life... You might use my testimony about doing one's life story while you have your memory as you never know if, or when, it might be too late!

  -- Marilyn Williams, Ellenwood GA
 

Mother asked if I would contact you to say thanks. She was so pleased you made the interview. It is a treasure, and it will be there for her grandchildren and great-grandchildren. I thought you did a fabulous job preparing questions and getting the family involved in what would be asked. You were also great with Mother, laid back and present with gentle questions. It was just right!

  -- Joanne Bowen, Ph.D. and President of The Murray Bowen Archives Project of Leaders for Tomorrow

Frank: As you know I wanted to give a copy of our oral history to both the U.S. Holocaust Museum and the Austrian National Fund Archive (that runs a library with such histories). Both wanted a written transcript for their purposes. I asked the Austrian Embassy to prepare such a written version of the portions of the history that dealt with our departure from Austria. Its product is attached. I thought you might like to see how well it turned out.

  -- Peter D. Ehrenhaft, Washington attorney and former Treasury Dept. official, in an unsolicited e-mail 5/9/11 

 
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