Gary Schweitzer Tong
born in Budapest, Hungary, 1942
Emigrated to USA, 1957
Queens College (CUNY), B.A. in Classical Languages, minor in Linguistics,1965. Magna cum Laude
Columbia University, summer 1964
Harvard University, M.A. in Assyriology, 1968
Awards
Author of the Year -- Scholastic Books -- 1982
Woodrow Wilson Fellow -- 1966
Phi Beta Kappa -- 1965
National Defense Educational Fellowship in Chinese -- 1964
NY State Regents Scholarship -- 1961-1965
National Merit Scholarship -- Letter of Commendation -- 1961
Work
1969 to present -- technical illustration and cartography -- major trade and text publishers
Author
Modeling in Self-hardening Clay, Larousse, 1976
Modelling in Self-hardening Clay, Pelham Books, London, 1977
Gary Tong's Crazy Cut-outs, Scholastic, 1979 (Dutch edition., Gekke Knipsel) - paper engineering
More of Gary Tong's Crazy Cut-outs, Scholastic, 1980
Gary Tong's Crazy Cut-outs form Outer Space, Scholastic, 1982
Gary Tong's Crazy Cut-out Tricks and Puzzles, Scholastic, 1983
Gary Tong's Crazy Pop-ups, Scholastic, 1988 (French edition, Je fais un album anim?)
(Approximately a million copies sold for Crazy Cutout set)
Composer and accompanist</W>songs collection for two sopranos and mezzo-soprano</W>recital at Weill Hall in Carnegie Hall, New York City , December 9, 1988
Composer</W> music for the PBS documentary
Balancing Act, 2004
Other
Research assistant and photographer</W>Center for Cognitive Studies, Harvard University, 1968-1969
Research assistant (Harvard University / Boston City Hospital</W>experiments in stereoscopic vision), 1969
Photographer</W>T. B. Brazelton, Infants and Mothers, Delacorte, 1969
Photographer</W>J. S. Bruner, Processes of Cognitive Growth, Clark U. Press, 1968
Two U.S. patents in dental hygiene, 1997
Toy designs exhibited in New York Toy Fairs by Creatice Group Marketing, Stamford CT
ABC bus (educational toy) licenced by Schylling, 2002
Toy designated for promotional marketing in the USA of the British children's book series Mr. Men
Other book projects recently handled by the Altair Literary Egency (Washington, DC):
Dinosaur model building, in partnership with the Americam Museum of Natural History (paper engineering)
Card-based key for identifying the trees of Northeastern America, an adaptation of the classic pin-and-card
selection device
Additionally, for the past twenty years I have been occupied with topics in biology, speech production and with examining certain aspects of the interaction between body and mind. By employing a specialized tool of analysis it has been possible to s
uccessfully describe in considerable detail a number of topics listed below. Partly due to my lack of formal academic standing none of the material has yet been published.
The Uniformitarian theory of the origin of bird flight
The origin of human bipedalism (an extension of ideas proposed by C.Tudge)
Neptunians in the Trees</W>critique of the theory of the gliding origin of bird flight
The origin of insect flight</W>extension of research by Kukalova-Peck The evolutionary origins of speech
The speech mechanism</W>a full description of the physiology of speech production
Teaching correct speaking to the deaf
The integration of suckling, mastication and early (infant) phoneme production with verification and explanation of the theories of P. F. McNeilage
The physiological verification and the mechanics of built-in grammar and syntax as proposed by N. Chomsky
The explanation of the ambiguous figure-ground optical illusion
The myological image and mechanism of the "mirror neuron" effect
The mechanics of meditation and of Eastern body-mind structure, a function of the coactivity of the somatic and visceral components of the body</W>a neglected, but crucial notion first described by A.S. Romer