Word: gwendolyn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Past honorees have included poet Gwendolyn Brooks and Dr. Yvonne S. Thornton, the first black woman to become board-certified in high-risk obstetrics--and McClelland's mother...
Most frequenters of 24 have probably never met Larry, and perhaps never even seen him. But worry not--Larry watches. With the solid stockpile of sodas, candy bars and ice creams pint left by the "day crew," Larry is hardly a busy guy. In fact, as his co-worker Gwendolyn informs us, he spends the majority of his time flirting with "the Harvard girls that come in to buy 50 cent Snickers bars." Gwendolyn does a charming impression of their habit of prententiously slapping down platinum credit cards on the counter and asking, "Ah, do you take Visa?" Indeed, Larry...
...honestly, what would you think of Harvard if the only contact you had with the students was from 2 to 5 a.m. on a relatively uneventful Saturday night, during regular Store 24 pit stops? Certainly Larry, Josie and Gwendolyn have all seen us in a drunken stupor attempting to satiate the munchies. Perhaps Larry, puts it best: "I'm sick to hell of all you Harvard students, with your guys obnoxious requests, and your ladies' inane cackling...
...literary canvas or painted with hackneyed strokes. While a smattering of books have attempted to redress this problem, among them Jill Nelson's 1993 memoir, Volunteer Slavery, the lives of these women beg for further elaboration. Happily, Nelson's new memoir, Straight, No Chaser (Putnam; 225 pages; $23.95), and Gwendolyn M. Parker's Trespassing (Houghton Mifflin; 209 pages; $23) provide some of the missing detail...
BORN: July 21, 1934, Chadbourn, N.C. EDUCATION: North Carolina A&T State U, B.S., 1956; Adelphi U, M.S.W., 1973 FAMILY: Wife, Gwendolyn; two children RELIGION: Baptist MILITARY: Army, 1956-58 OCCUPATION: Professor; hospital administrator POLITICAL CAREER: Brooklyn deputy borough president, 1976-82; U.S. House, 1982- ADDRESS: 360 Clinton Avenue, Suite 6R, Brooklyn...