Word: stratton
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...introduction to Pioneer Women, by Joanna Stratton '76, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. recalls the iron-gray Auntie Em of The Wizard of Oz, the sexless and colorless lady of the Kansas plains who has come to represent the withered frontier woman in the minds of childhood readers. The transformation of Dorothy's maternal surrogate, one of the more familiar passages of the beloved novel, goes like this...
...Stratton's recent discovery of hundreds of memoirs from the women who settled the western wilderness against great odds in the mid-19th century has unveiled a female frontier population which seemed to strengthen and thrive and gain color from the prairie sun and wind. These women, who trailed west after their husbands, unwillingly at first, soon burst out in lively appreciation of and identification with the frontier landscape. Carrie Stearns Smith, one pioneer woman, recollects the liberating power of the prairie as it accosted her constricted New England sensibility...
Crimson forward Monroe Trout then turned the ball over with an offensive foul and the Elis' Doug Stratton--a 3.4 points-per-game shooter who led all Yale scorers last night with 20 points--hit an 18-footer to tie it up at the 9:45 mark...
Yale--Parker 0 2-2 2; Leondis 8 3-6 19; Daaleman 8 8-9 24; Graves 12 7-10 31; Williams 3 1-2 7; Hill 0 0-0 0; O'Keefe 4 0-0 8; Cooper 0 1-2 1; Stratton 0 0-0 0; Foley 0 2-2 2; Lang...
...INDIVIDUAL LEADERS Passing Com. Att. Yds. TD Int Buckley (H) 33 14 141 0 2 Rogan (Y) 8 5 81 1 0 Stratton (Y) 1 0 0 0 0 Phil Manley...