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Show My Thoughts Are Not Still 295 Fulbright Fellowship to teach English and do research in India, earned a doctorate in Urdu and South Indian literature and civ ilizations at the University of Chicago, and married Sandra Robinson, also with a doctorate from Chicago. They taught at the University of Minnesota and Harvard, and then at Duke a University. In 1983 they adopted Laila Benazir, an infant girl abandoned at birth in India. Brian and Sandra were later divorced. In 1988 Brian married Shubha Sankaran, a computer specialist from India whose father, Doctor Ganapati Sankaran, in many ways mirrored Harold Silver's career as an inventive genius, and whose mother, Sachs, had been like Madelyn, a col lege teacher who gave up her career for marriage and child rear ing. In 1996 Shubha and Brian adopted Shubha's brother's son, Ganapati, after the death of his physician parents in 1995-96. In pursuing his new American identity, Shubha's and Brian's new son has taken the name Zaino Like Brian, Shubha is a perform ing musician of classical Indian music. All four of Madelyn's children were with Harold at the Christmas time after Madelyn's death. In addition to Harold and their four children, Madelyn was survived by two sisters: Ruth (Mrs. Junius) Romney, Salt Lake City, and Leonora (Mrs. Robert G.) Snow, also of Salt Lake City; and also by one brother, John Stewart, of Fort Collins, Colorado. In letters she had written to them for years, even as late as a week before she was stricken, Madelyn still signed her "Mac." Her mother, Leonora Mousley Cannon Stewart, died September 24, 1961, just two days before She name was eighty-six. Madelyn. In 1964 Harold married Ruth Stanlie Smith, a friend of Madelyn and daughter of Ruth and Joseph Fielding Smith, Honolulu. Harold sold Silver Engineering and Silver Steel to Amfac in 1965, was diagnosed with diabetes in 1981, and died in Denver on September 13, 1984, age eighty-three. VII Madelyn was a herald of a new age. She disliked the petty irritations of housework and cooking and sewing, although, of |
