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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap: break-word;-webkit-nbsp-mode: space;-webkit-line-break: after-white-space'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Very sorry to read this Michael. MIT is losing a great asset. Very best wishes for happy landings – it will be somebody’s win. (And we’re happy your wife’s work will keep you in the region).<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Dr. Arthur Dirks<br>BSU Theater & Dance<br><a href="mailto:adirks@bridgew.edu">mailto:adirks@bridgew.edu</a> </span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> usittne-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:usittne-bounces@mit.edu] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Michael Katz<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 21, 2012 11:49 AM<br><b>To:</b> USITT New England Section Mail List<br><b>Subject:</b> [Usittne] When one door closes......<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>Good Morning Friends,</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><span style='background:white'>I look forward to seeing many of you at USITT next week. I wanted to get this out to all of you so we can concentrate on good and not negative.</span><br><span style='background:white'>After 13 years at MIT (35 years working as a TD), The theater faculty here decided not to continue my contract. I am somewhat upset for myself but much more for the students and the program that I have worked so hard for.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>It was about politics in Academia, Who would ever guess that. :-) And no it had nothing to do with money, it was about power and power inequity in academia. As new Faculty were hired they chaffed more and more at having me (and my experience) in a position of responsibility. There are may stories that could be told but you all probably have heard or experienced them yourselves so I refuse to dwell on them.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><span style='background:white'>I am not sure what I will do next but I am not worried, My gorgeous and brilliant wife is a Director of Medical Writing at a major Biotech firm and she has and will continue to support me in the manner to which I have become accustomed. So I have time to find a good meaningful job and not just the first one that comes along. I am incredibly lucky to have that support.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>If any one has a inkling about a PM or TD job, or perhaps adjunct teaching on tech or management let me know, I will be at MIT through this semester. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'><br><br></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black;background:white'>I look forward to raising a glass (or 2) with you all soon</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br><br><span style='background:white'>Bruised but kicking</span><br><span style='background:white'>Mike</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:13.5pt'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:black'><br>-----<br>Michael Katz<br><a href="mailto:mkatz@mit.edu">mkatz@mit.edu</a><br>Technical Instructor<br>MIT Theater Arts<br>Rinaldi Production Center <br>34 Carleton St E33-110<br>Cambridge MA 02142<br>617.253.0824 Desk<br>617.258.7149 Fax<br><br>Lunacy Abounds<br><br><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>