Word: claremont
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BORN: March 16, 1957, Normal, Ill. EDUCATION: California College of Law, B.S., 1979, J.D., 1980; Claremont Graduate School, M.A., 1985 FAMILY: Husband, Nat Genis RELIGION: Lutheran MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Judge; lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: San Bernardino County Superior Court judge, 1993- ADDRESS: 8311 Haven Avenue, Suite 150, Rancho Cucamonga...
Ferris' funeral was held Saturday in Claremont, N.H. A memorial service will be held in First Parish Church in Weston on September 7, according to Dockery...
Ants on the Melon is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime of writing. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant nothing; her delight was in the solitary pleasure of creation...
...terrible night in 1968 Douglass Adair, then a teacher at the Claremont colleges, walked into their bedroom and killed himself. His widow's agony and incomprehension, in poems reflecting lost love, all but leap from page to reader's eye. "One Ordinary Evening" revisits a moment of marital intimacy: entwined on a sofa, they listen to Wagner on the phonograph. Then...
...BOOKS . . . ANTS ON THE MELON: 'Ants on the Melon' (Random House; 158 pages; $21) is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime of writing. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Virginia Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant...