Word: vickie
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There was only one senior competing for the Crimson at Lehigh, Captain Allison Keller, whose time of 18:43.61 made her the fourth finisher for Harvard and 121st overall. The race was won by Villanova's Vicki Huber...
Because of the incoherence of the plaintiffs' claims, the only possible evidence for their sincerity was the determination the fundamentalist parents showed pleading their case in the courtroom. This boiled down to the determination shown by representatives like parent Vicki Frost, who stood at the witness stand for hours on end detailing a hodge-podge laundry list, citing textbook examples of everything from scientific explanations of tidal waves to witchcraft and astrology to pacifism and situational ethics...
...group of Fundamentalist Christian parents, led by Vicki Frost, a mother of four, attacked the school district's choice of such books as The Diary of Anne Frank and The Wizard of Oz on the ground that the works contained references that were contrary to what the parents regarded as God's teaching. The state of Tennessee argued that parents could not pick and choose from the curriculum; if they did, their children could not remain in school. Hull disagreed, ruling that parents could withdraw their children from the reading program but allow them to receive the rest...
...Vicki Sato '68, a Japanese American and a former Harvard instructor, said that despite her affection for Harvard, during her years at the University, she never felt that an active Asian student community existed. Sato said Asian students need to be more aggressive in that regard. "We're not just passing through providing cultural diversity for others," she said...
Such brilliant success, according to popular wisdom, must have left dark and dreadful shadows. Biographer Vicki Goldberg, an art and photography critic, has indeed dug behind the Bourke-White legend to find some details that the daring camera girl chose not to develop in her autobiography Portrait of Myself (1963). But these snippets hardly amount to the negative image of a triumphant life. Bourke-White did not outdistance her wildest dreams; she plotted her course to the top, assessed the costs along the way and willingly paid them...