Word: madelyne
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...chance to go out there and say, ‘Hey, I could be an artist.’”Past ADF recipients have gone on to pursue a professional career in the arts, Bergmann says, citing a “real success story” of Madelyn M. Ho ’08, who signed on with the Paul Taylor Dance Company, a New York City contemporary dance group.Emily R. Kaplan ’08-’09 was awarded $3,000 last year to take a class about children’s book illustration...
...Obama. Tuesday was solemn. Obama took time to honor his late grandmother Madelyn Dunham, his mother's mother, whom he called "toot," his version of the traditional Hawaiian word for grandma, "tutu." He and his sister Maya Soetoro-Ng, a history teacher at local La Pietra Hawaii School for Girls, scattered Dunham's ashes at Lanai Lookout in the afternoon after a private service at a church in the Honolulu neighborhood of Nuuanu. Dunham died Nov. 2 at the age of 86, two days before her grandson's victory in the general election. (Obama visited her the week before...
Their maternal grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, died two days before the Nov. 4 presidential election in the two-bedroom apartment where Dunham raised Obama. The e-mail was shared with this reporter (and with the daily Honolulu Advertiser). (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...
...grandfather Stanley Dunham are in an urn behind a bronze plaque. Stanley Dunham was an Army sergeant in World War II; he died of prostate cancer in 1992. Officials at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific have since been contacted by Borthwick Mortuary about holding a service for Madelyn Dunham, says Gene Castagnetti, the cemetery's director. Stanley Dunham's niche is large enough to hold another urn. If the family decides on that arrangement, Sergeant Dunham's bronze plaque covering the niche would be removed and replaced with another that would include his wife's name, birthday...
...victory. "She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America," he said, and tears we had never seen before streaked his face. "They're not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day, they work hard." One day later, Madelyn Dunham's grandson would be the most famous man in the world. (See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree...