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Brokaw grew up in a modest two-story home in Yankton, Souh Dakota, a farming community of 13,000 along the Missouri River...
...celebration of the traditional American verities. Struggling on against the ravages of the Great Depression, the elements (a devastating tornado) and the wickedness of the unenlightened (a hypocritical banker, a crooked cotton merchant, even the Ku Klux Klan), Edna is comforted and aided by her two utterly winning children (Yankton Hatten and Gennie James), by a shrewd, gentle, black man (Danny Glover) whom she redeems from rootlessness and petty crime, and by a blind man (John Malkovich) whom she redeems from bitterness. As these archetypes of disenfranchisement assemble in her kitchen, a bonding of proletarian fiction and gaslit theater takes...
Gibbens has been director of development since April 1977, when he came to Harvard after four years as president of Yankton College in Yankton...
After a nine-month search, the University announced yesterday that Alfred M. Gibbens, president of Yankton College in South Dakota, will fill the position of director of University development beginning March...
Peterson said that Gibbens, who holds a Ph. D. from the University of Pittsburgh in the economics of education, was instrumental in improving fundraising at Yankton College...