Word: grahams
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Carol A. Gilligan, a psychologist famous for her work on women's development, is named the first Patricia Albjerg Graham professor of gender studies at the Graduate School of Education. The appointment comes amid continuing disputes about the lack of tenured women professors at the University...
...Carol A. Gilligan became the first Patricia Albjerg Graham professor of gender studies last fall when the Graduate School of Education (GSE) received the $2.5 million from GSE graduates Elisabeth A. Hobbs and Emily H. Fisher and two other anonymous women donors...
Reno's name joins a stellar list of previous recipients: Elizabeth H. Dole, Katherine Graham, Doris Kearns-Goodwin, Jessye Norman, Jane Pauley and Alice Walker...
Debbie Hare, 40, director of administration at Hare Express, a Troy, Mich, trucking company, knows just how Graham feels. Last June she and her husband Ross, the firm's president, cashed in about 400,000 of their 2 million Northwest miles at a similar auction for the chance to build homes for the poor in rural Kentucky. Their partners on this Habitat for Humanity International project were Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter. "How often do you get to swing a hammer and help change someone's life, while being in the company of a former President and First Lady?" Hare asks...
Then there are the auction items like the one Steve Graham successfully bid for. Participants can attend in person or phone in or write in their bids ahead of time. Hotel companies offer auctions as well, but InsideFlyer's Petersen says the airline auctions tend to have sexier awards. Take Northwest's: since 1996, WorldPerks, the frequent-flyer program of the airline, based in Minneapolis, Minn., has conducted three bidding sessions--in Detroit, Minneapolis and at Sotheby's in New York City. No minimum bids are required, and the proceedings are open to any of WorldPerks' approximately 17 million members...