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...panelists, Adele Logan Alexander ’59, Susan McHenry ’72, Angela Romans ’92 and Gail Snowden ’67, spoke about how being black at Harvard and Radcliffe has changed over the years and their experiences as a minority...
...Gail King ’01 was a recipient of a yearly grant from the Stride Rite Foundation, a sum of $25,000 that allowed her to work as a community outreach worker for the Youth Advocacy Project in Roxbury. In her first year after graduating from Harvard, she worked toward building a better-connected community for young people. The network of support depended on “partnering up”: schools with families, families with social workers and psychologists, Youth Advocacy counselors with delinquency lawyers—in short, every support institution with every other institution, all undertaking...
...years after entering the professional world of non-profits, Gail King is still impressed with Harvard’s singular approach to public service. “What program is going to say to an undergraduate, ‘Hey, direct my afterschool program?’” King was also able to make a seamless transition into professional work in Roxbury because she had already been part of the service community there for four years—as a volunteer and then director of the Mission Hill After School program...
Rawson is survived by his four daughters, Anne M. Hall, Zita Legere, Gail Potheir and Donna Rawson, his sisters Frances Hickey and Ann M. Friel, 15 grandchildren and 28 great-grandchildren...
Teachers who actually encounter children every day are just as appreciative. "I don't know that it is literature like The Grapes of Wrath," argues Gail Hackett, a librarian at Monroe Elementary in Des Moines, Iowa. "But it's not Captain Underpants either." Beyond their gratitude at anything that gets kids to read, parents and teachers appreciate how Rowling doesn't pander or patronize. "Generally adults in children's literature are horrible or incompetent," observes Debbie Mitchell of the Magic Tree Book Store in Oak Park, Ill., while Rowling shows adults being wise and fair and, in the gamekeeper Hagrid...