cuke.com - an archival site on the life and world of Shunryu Suzuki and those who knew him. Home to the Cuke Archives and other stuff from DC. From December 1998.

Links to photos with Jack Elias from the Shunryu Suzuki Photo Archive. (Click thumbnail to view larger image in new window)

Group photo for Lama Anagarika Govinda's visit to Tassajara Front row L to R: Kobun Chino, Shunryu Suzuki, Li Gotami (wife of), Anagarika Govinda, Iru Price?,?, Jerry Fuller arms crossed,Bob Shuman to R of Jerry, Angie Runyan, Tim Aston to L of Jerry then ?, Rick Morton, Ken Sawyer?, Bonnie Miller?, Mary Quagliata?, Ed Brown, Louise Welch, Jack Elias, Sally Block, Craig Boyan, Bill Shurtleff, Dan Welch, Niels Holm, Katharine Thanas,David Chadwick behind Suzuki, ?, Jeff Sherman, ?, Jeff Broadbent, Tim Buckley on right with camera. - dc
Oldest Group Photo at Tassajara.

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 After the first practice period. L to R top row: Gossip Oak (tree), Jim Morton, _, _ (young couple from Midwest there summer & fall says Liz Wolf), Niels Holm, _, Buncie Shadden, EL Hazelwood, Liz Wolf, Tim Buckley, Kobun Chino, Chris Flynn, Mike Daft, _, _, Noah (dog), Doug Anderson, Nancy Lay.
Middle row: Bob Halpern, John Palmer, Paul Discoe, _, Helen Knox, Loring Palmer, Jack Elias, David Chadwick, Ed Brown, Louise Pryor (Welch), Dan Welch, Shunryu Suzuki, Clarke Mason, Bob Watkins, Sandy Watkins, Stan White, Fran Keller, Dot Luce.
Front: _, Ruthie Discoe, Peter Schneider, Jane Runk (Schneider), _.
Day of Mel Weitsman's shuso (head monk) ceremony at Tassajara.
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 Front couple of rows: Maya Dreimane, ?, Peter Schneider, Ruthie Discoe, Claude Dalenberg, Reb Anderson, Silas Hoadley, Mel Weitsman, Peter diGesu, Sotan Tatsugami, Alan Marlowe, Dainin Katagiri, Jean Ross, Louise Pryor Welch, Jim McGuire, Bill Kwong, Marian Derby, Mary Quagliata, Helen? ?, Angie Runyan. Mid Rows L to R: Araki, Jan Westberg (Schneider), Doris Griffin, Dianne Goldschlag, Ed Brown, Sandy Hollister, Deborah Madison, Amy Richmond, Meg Gawler?, Bonnie Miller, Lew Richmond, Bob Halpern, ?, Ken Straus, Paul Shippee, Lew Musto, ?, Frank Wood, David Chadwick, ?, Mark Lewis, Lucille Harris, Katharine Thanas, Kathy Cook Hoadley,?, Joanna Bull, Back rows: Reuvane be Yumin, Frances Thompson, Bob Shuman, E.L. Hazelwood, Jim ?, Niels Holm, Margret Kress, Jerry Fuller, Bill Shurtleff, Craig Boyan, Paul Discoe, ?,?, Donn DeAngelo Crockin, Jack Elias (another version in Tassajara 25th book, p. 14)
Okesa-presenting ceremony   - City Center Buddha Hall. L to R: Yoshida Eshuun, Pat Herreshoff, Shunryu Suzuki, Reb Anderson. Looks like Margret Kress behind Reb, Claude Dalenberg far R, then Jack Elias, who's the Japanese priest? See lecture of June 6, 1971. Yoshida was the okesa sewing teacher.
Lay Ordination Shunryu Suzuki, Jack Elias - Page St. City Center zendo - priest on left Yoshimura?

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