![]() ![]() Looking back, Gomez says, “It’s one of the moments I felt closest to my mom - us coming together to talk about something we each have experienced in our own manner. There was some kind of magic between the three women. Gomez remembered how the press jumped on her when she started speaking out about self-doubt and self-esteem: “I got so angry that my story was twisted.” Pierson was compelled to share that she suffered from OCD, something she’d never admitted publicly - in part because of stigma in the Hispanic community she came from. Teefey opened up about her ADHD and anxiety. And maybe because it was explicitly planned to discuss mental health, the conversation got deep fast. The interview - for The Newsette, a trendy Gen Z newsletter Pierson started five years earlier in college - had been made possible by a series of fortuitous connections. And then there was Teefey’s daughter, Selena Gomez, cozied up on her couch in a snuggly blanket. There was Mandy Teefey, the producer known for the Netflix show 13 Reasons Why, wearing sweats in her bedroom. But when the other windows popped up on her screen, she relaxed. The 25-year-old still couldn’t quite believe who she was about to interview - much less on something as intimate as mental health. Jim spent the final seven years of his life in western Washington, where he enjoyed exploring Washington’s natural beauty and spending time with his grandchildren.Just over a year ago, Daniella Pierson took a deep breath and clicked on a Zoom link. His work was cited most recently in 2016. Jim’s desire for his tune to become the traditional music for this beautiful song has been realized.Īs a post-doctoral chemist at Columbia University in the early 1960’s, Jim created the first reported organometallic compound of gold. His melody for the Silkie has been recorded by several major artists and performed by professional and amateur musicians since the 1950s. Jim’s MIT outing club friends remember him as a hiker, rockclimber, songfest leader, banjo player, and composer of the most familiar tune to Child Ballad # 113, The Great Silkie. He shared his enthusiasm for math and chemistry with students at UVM, Missisquoi Valley UHS and for nearly 20 years at Colchester HS, where he was known to all as “DOC”. His children share his deep love of the written word. He was an avid devotee of poetry, science fiction and fantasy. Reading aloud was a family activity long after his children were competent readers. Jim was an avid reader and shared that love with his family. He hiked, walked and snowshoed many of northern Vermont’s trails. On a 14-acre former dairy farm with views of Lake Arrowhead and Arrowhead Mountain, he tended his vegetables, milked his goats, learned the local flora, and foraged for a wide variety of mushrooms and other plants. He lived longest at the Waters family home on the western slope of Georgia Mountain in Milton. Jim was born in Oklahoma, migrated east for college, and made his way to Iowa and California for graduate school, ultimately making his home in the Champlain Valley for 50 years. He is survived and deeply missed by his beloved children Susan Waters (Randal Bays) and Eric Waters (Cheryl Kamiya), his grandchildren Willie Bays, Owen Bays, James Waters, and Mika Waters, and his former wife Barbara Waters. James Harvey Waters died peacefully in May 2021, a few weeks before his 90th birthday. ![]()
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