Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Episcopal nun now stationed in Boston had a very special Thanksgiving last week-and so did the people she had helped. In 1951 Sister Anne Marie Bickerstaff, a native of Richmond, Va., had gone to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to teach at a missionary school. She became impressed by the musical ability of some of her students, and was distressed that the island had no music school, no concert hall and no national orchestra...
...adding special services and cultural come-ons. The Chicago public library offers a debt counseling service. In Des Moines, the library publishes a monthly newsletter that includes tips on renting apartments. In Ohio, the Columbus-Franklin County library has made available a computer bank of statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods...
Last fall, Crimson racquetwoman Betsy Richmond copped the New England title. Richmond is now on leave...
...relics he left, could not have been an easy job. But it has resulted in a fascinating exhibition, 'Patrick Henry Bruce: American Modernist," now finishing its run at New York's Museum of Modern Art and due to open at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond on Nov. 27. It is the fruit of several years' research by Art Historians William Agee, director of the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, and Barbara Rose. As an American painter, Agee claims in his excellent catalogue, Bruce "ranks with or surpasses the best of his generation...
Playing well enough to make everyone forget about Betsy Richmond (last year's Boston champ) for a little while. Bougas lost only four games in her two matches to snatch the crown. She thumped B. U.'s Barbara O'Halloran, 6-1, 6-2, in the finals with the aid of a strong service return and several unforced errors by her opponent...