Word: mervyn
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Life has been good to Mervyn L. and Joyce Alphonso: four healthy children, a six-bedroom house, a Mercedes in the driveway. But a few decades ago, life was much bleaker. They were both surviving day to day in Guyana, their families crowded into small cottages without indoor plumbing. Mervyn's father had died when he was 13, casting the youngster into the work force as a messenger who also attended school; Joyce studied furiously in the hopes of getting a job abroad...
Emigration was the only way out--Mervyn left for the States and worked in hospital maintenance before joining a bank, while Joyce got a job as a nurse in Britain, then in New York State. The couple met and married in Albany, N.Y., and finally settled in Springboro, Ohio, where Mervyn's banking career flourished. He worked his way up the ladder to become the president of KeyBank's Dayton office. Joyce worked at local hospitals and raised the children...
...know how powerless we are,” said Mervyn W. Han ’03, who also participated in the rally. “All we can do is just yell outside, but we don’t have any voice in the decision-making process. We can scream, but it’s not heard by those in a position of authority...
...think that the [Bauer Center] is an excellent conception,” said Mervyn J. Turner, senior vice president at Merck Research Laboratories. “By funding it, we’d be providing some seed money to trigger these new areas of fundamental research in the biological sciences...
...Mervyn W. Han ’03. who is an environmental science and public policy concentrator, said he will use his $1,000 grant to “document hydroelectric development in Canada as a human rights concern...