Word: stoneman
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DIED. MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS, 108, ever vigilant empress of the Florida Everglades, who led a half-century crusade to preserve the fabled watery wilderness; in Miami. A Wellesley College-educated New Englander, Douglas first came to Florida in 1915. She penned her classic book The Everglades: River of Grass in 1947, lyrically making the case for conserving the swath of swampland, long considered an impediment to real estate developers. She continued as the irrepressible mouthpiece for the marshes, in 1970 founding the Friends of the Everglades--dubbed Marjory's army. Her green streak was only natural, she told TIME...
Following the film clips, John F. Kennedy Jr. Moderated a discussion whose panel members included Eli Segal, assistant to President Clinton and director of the office of National Service: Dorothy Stoneman '63, Director of the National Youth Build Coalition, Elaine Jones of the NAACP Legal Defense and Litigation Fund, and Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities Robert Coles...
...Stoneman thanked Kennedy for being the "outstanding, lone voice in the Senate for some of the most humanitarian policies in recent memory...