DIVERSE VANITIES

About the Book

Clifford Richardson Bragdon of St. Louis graduated from Saint Albans Academy and Amherst College. While in Amherst he worked summers as a counselor at Camp Bonny Dune on Bass River, Cape Cod. He also pitched for Yarmouth on its semi-pro baseball team. He met Joanna Davenport of Beverly, Massachusetts when her family summered on High Bank Road just across from the Bonny Dune camp. She was the youngest girl in a family of six and was studying at Wheaton College at the time. When Clifford (known then as “Lefty”) returned to Amherst he began to compose the love sonnets to Joanna that are published in this book. Shortly after they married. The family summered on Cape Cod for many years and retired there. Clifford Bragdon taught at Smith College as Chairman of the Department of Education and Child Study, all the time writing poetry as gifts for Joanna’s birthdays and Christmas. Clifford chose, from all his work, the poetry he collected here in Diverse Vanities. I, his son, have the privilege of publishing it.

About the Author

Director Allen D. Bragdon shares practical information about how the human brain works and how to test and strengthen the brain's skills used everyday. His firm, The Brainwaves Center, monitors information is revealed by published research findings in the cognitive neuroscience and behavioral sciences. They translate the technical descriptions into non-technical language and create engaging, interactive, mental exercises that engage the brain functions in easily-understood ways. That material is presented in books, CDs with interactive exercises and in presentations using engaging power-point formats. These are tailored to match the audience's level of interest. Some material invites in audience participation by solving problems presented in everyday situations. Other presentations do not require interaction with the audience. Those describe and demonstrate useful mental skills presented in situations commonly encountered--memory aids, for example. To see some examples of how that works, go to www.brainwaves.com there you will find interactive brain-games and Tables of Contents for one of our most translated bestselling books "Building Mental Muscle."