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...Cook said. “So, when the town reapproached me about a year ago and asked me if we would be able to sell,” he was able to give them the nod. The Case Estates was the property of the two Case sisters, Marian and Louisa, and much of it was acquired by Marian in the early decades of the 20th century. They donated their estate—202 acres in total—to the Arboretum in the 1940s. Some of the land has already been sold by the University to the town...
Name: Margaret Marian RossmanAliases: Mags, The Maglet, Tooth, Toothie, Marge, Cookie, Magledon, Magster, Maggie May, Ocelot, Magoo, Lucas, Magdog, Quiz, MMR, mmrface, Magli, and simply, Maggie.I’ve been called, and answered to, every name on that list, and I’m sure a few more. (There’s an easy formula—start with Mag and add anything to the end.) This doesn’t even include the long list of names I could have been called if you follow the listings of alternate forms for Margaret in any baby book. Feel free...
Four of King's close associates who later achieved their own successes offer their thoughts: Marian Wright Edelman President of the Children's Defense Fund Everybody is looking for Dr. King to come back. The issues were very clear-cut back then. Now it's about technical matters, monitoring government agencies. And how do you relate the complex relationships of injustices and basic wrongs and needy children with the legalese and legislation needed to right them to the general public? Dr. King's vision was clear; the voice was clear. That clarity was a great loss. While...
...TIME: If I read the book correctly, the genesis of the idea for the Poor People's Campaign comes from Marian Wright [who, under her married name, Marian Wright Edelman, later became head of the Children's Defense Fund]. TB: Absolutely, and the genesis to go to Selma comes from Diane Nash. In many respects, Diane was the most unsung heroine of the whole movement because in earlier times, she was right up there on the Freedom Ride. She's an innovator in nonviolence, and King gave her his highest award and I think he recognized...
...Harvard campus last faced an apparent suicide in February 2004. The death of Winthrop House student Anthony Fonseca ’04-’05 came about a year after Marian H. Smith, Class of 2004, committed suicide in December 2002. University spokesman Joe Wrinn said at the time that if Fonseca’s death were confirmed as a suicide, it would be the 14th student suicide at Harvard since...