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Melissa A. Tanner ’03, of Huntsville, Ala., also underwent involved preparation for her debut. In between tea parties, she was schooled on the curtsy as well as seating arrangements. “It was a pretty big time commitment,” she says...
DIED. DOROTHY LOVE COATES, 74, high-spirited gospel singer whose fervid performances and gravelly voice inspired crowds of listeners during the civil rights years; of heart disease; in Birmingham, Ala...
...home! And what else do you do?") can be especially hard on women who don't have a long list of work accomplishments behind them. And taking an early break is tougher in some fields than in others. For Susan Stevens, 30, a mother of three in Birmingham, Ala., plans to have children early meant deciding to become a teacher rather than a doctor. "I'd be 30 before I was finished with medical school," she says. (She ended up leaving teaching with the birth of her second child.) Former fashion designer Daisy von Furth, 33, of Northampton, Mass., dropped...
...great surprise of many that Monro decided in 1967 to leave the comfort of the dean’s office in favor of the dilapidated classrooms of Miles College outside Birmingham, Ala. He became the director of freshman studies at the historically black college, developing a first-year curriculum and teaching students who lacked basic knowledge that would have been taken for granted at Harvard...
...helped give me perspective. I’m trying to be more sincere; I’m trying to cultivate a more genuine sense of friendliness. Spring Break couldn’t have come at a better time. I spent my vacation with 12 other Harvard students in Decatur, Ala., on a Phillips Brooks House Association Spring Break. Among our varied volunteer activities, we painted houses for economically disadvantaged elderly residents. At one of the houses, a local high school student named Boone helped out. He was incredibly quiet and never talked; he just seemed to paint and to stare...