Warren Lubline:
CLASS OF 1977
Northeast High SchoolClass of 1977
Philadelphia, PA
Temple UniversityClass of 1982
Philadelphia, PA
Woodrow Wilson Junior High SchoolClass of 1974
Philadelphia, PA
Thomas K. Finletter Elementary SchoolClass of 1973
Philadelphia, PA
South Philadephia High School for GirlsClass of 1945
Philadelphia, PA
Warren's Story
Life
After graduating from Temple University in 1982, I moved to Sweden where I had worked as an undergraduate. I lived, studied and worked there until 1992. During these years, I studied Philosophy and the History of Ideas at Gothenburg University, and worked everything from language teaching to the mental health field to finally becoming a journalist, a jazz club MC, and foreign film importer to Sweden. I also played baseball, finally getting a chance to pitch and exorcize my baseball jones.
I finally returned, somewhat reluctantly, to the United States. I moved to Minnesota where I began studying at the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. I held many research positions there in subjects as varied as French cartographic history, public policy analysis, american philosophical history, Scandinavian health care, and finally and most importantly, at the Center for Holocaust and Genocide studies. I was awarded a masters degree in 2000 after doing work in philosophical hermeneutics and the literature of Samuel Beckett. I have passed my oral and written doctoral examinations and will hopefully finish my doctoral degree this year, 2005, with a dissertation on Alain Resnais'1955 French documentary, Night and Fog, an early attempt to establsh the significance of the concentrationary universe of Nazi Germany. The working title of this work is Night and Fog and the Cinematic Monument.
I am currently assistant director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies where I am working on a cirriculum on the Armenian genocide for High Schools. I taught history at the University of Minnesota as well as film history and theory at a local college.
I am a swimmer and a great lover of jazz music, ...Expand for more
a taste I developed while at Northeast, god knows how. I remember my friend Eric Solomen and I went to see Dave Brubeck and Paul Desmond, Ella Fitzgerald and Count Basie, McCoy Tyner and Sonny Rollins at the Academy of Music. Many of these greats are gone now and those memories exert a lasting and powerful force on my love of music and art.
My life is presently in transition as I finish my dissertation and move on. It was a lot of fun attending the 20th reunion but by the time of the last 25th, the small turnout and the fading memories of many ("I know that guy but I don't remember why or even if we were friends or enemies)produced a kind of temporal distortion which is no doubt common to many. Still, this was my High School and I would love to be reminded of things forgotten.
Warren Lubline
Workplace
When I first moved to Sweden I did just about anything, delivering papers, working in a dairy factory, helping with my girlfriend's father's plant nursery, working in a mental hospital, and teaching ESL at local schools. In 1986 I began working for a non-profit cinema organization eventually becoming the film importer for the organization while at the same time I was working with a cinematique type film club in Gothenburg, my home town. The film job required that I travel to film festivals all over Europe for several years. I had a blast.
I also became a journalist and worked for a critical quarterly as assistant editor.
When I finally returned to the United States I began graduate work at the University of Minnesota where I have worked in many different academic fields. Currently, while finishing my dissertation I am writing a cirriculum for studying the Armenian genocide for middle and high school students.
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