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Madeleine Blais
Madeleine Blais (born 1946) is an American journalist, author and professor in the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department. As a reporter for the ''Miami Herald'', Blais earned the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1980 for "Zepp's Last Stand", a story about a self-declared pacifist and subsequently dishonorably discharged World War I veteran. Blais has worked at ''The Boston Globe'' (1971–1972), ''The Trenton Times'' (1974–1976) and the ''Miami Herald'' (1979–1987). She has also published articles in ''The Washington Post'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', the '' Northeast Magazine'' in the ''Hartford Courant'', ''The Philadelphia Inquirer'', ''Newsday'', ''Nieman Reports'', the ''Detroit Free Press'' and the ''San Jose Mercury News''. She is from Amherst, Massachusetts. Personal life She graduated from the College of New Rochelle in 1969. While there, she roomed with Mercedes Ruehl and Suzanne Hampton. She is married to author John Katzenbach John Ka ...
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College Of New Rochelle
The College of New Rochelle (CNR) was a private Catholic college with its main campus in New Rochelle, New York, but also in Australia, England, and Germany. It was founded as the College of St. Angela by Mother Irene Gill, OSU of the Ursuline Order as the first Catholic women's college in New York in 1904. The name was changed to the College of New Rochelle in 1910. The college was composed of four schools and became co-educational in 2016. In early 2019, Mercy College and College of New Rochelle announced that College of New Rochelle would be absorbed into Mercy College before fall 2019, including College of New Rochelle's students, faculty, programs, and some facilities, as well as transcripts, history, and legacy of CNR alumni. Mercy College became the repository of CNR documents. On September 20, 2019, the college declared bankruptcy due to $80 million in liabilities. The campus was subsequently sold in an auction and purchased by New York Trustees of the Masonic Hall a ...
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Newsday
''Newsday'' is an American daily newspaper that primarily serves Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island, although it is also sold throughout the New York metropolitan area. The slogan of the newspaper is "Newsday, Your Eye on LI", and formerly it was "Newsday, the Long Island Newspaper". The newspaper's headquarters is in Melville, New York, in Suffolk County. ''Newsday'' has won 19 Pulitzer Prizes and has been a finalist for 20 more. As of 2019, its weekday circulation of 250,000 was the 8th-highest in the United States, and the highest among suburban newspapers. By January 2014, ''Newsday''s total average circulation was 437,000 on weekdays, 434,000 on Saturdays and 495,000 on Sundays. As of June 2022, the paper had an average print circulation of 97,182. History Founded by Alicia Patterson and her husband, Harry Guggenheim, the publication was first produced on September 3, 1940 from Hempstead. For many years until a major redesign in the 1970s, ''Newsday'' copied ...
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University Of Massachusetts Amherst Faculty
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university i ...
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Pulitzer Prize For Feature Writing Winners
Pulitzer may refer to: *Joseph Pulitzer, a 20th century media magnate *Pulitzer Prize, an annual U.S. journalism, literary, and music award *Pulitzer (surname) * Pulitzer, Inc., a U.S. newspaper chain *Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a non-profit organization for journalists See also *Politzer (other) *Politz (other) *Pollitz Pollitz is a village and a former municipality in the district of Stendal, in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Eu ...
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College Of New Rochelle Alumni
A college (Latin: ''collegium'') is an educational institution or a constituent part of one. A college may be a degree-awarding tertiary educational institution, a part of a collegiate or federal university, an institution offering vocational education, or a secondary school. In most of the world, a college may be a high school or secondary school, a college of further education, a training institution that awards trade qualifications, a higher-education provider that does not have university status (often without its own degree-awarding powers), or a constituent part of a university. In the United States, a college may offer undergraduate programs – either as an independent institution or as the undergraduate program of a university – or it may be a residential college of a university or a community college, referring to (primarily public) higher education institutions that aim to provide affordable and accessible education, usually limited to two-year ...
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Katzenbach Family
Katzenbach may refer to: Places * Katzenbach, Germany, a municipality in the Donnersbergkreis district, in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany * Katzenberg, subdivision in Kapelln, Austria * Katzenbach (Werre), a river of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany * Katzenbach (Neckar), a river of Baden-Württemberg, Germany People * Frank S. Katzenbach (1868–1929), New Jersey Supreme Court justice * Edward L. Katzenbach (1878–1934), New Jersey Attorney General, brother of Frank S. Katzenbach, father of Nicholas Katzenbach * Nicholas Katzenbach (1922–2012), U.S. Attorney General during the Lyndon B. Johnson administration, son of Edward L. Katzenbach * Marie Hilson Katzenbach (1882–1970), American educator, wife of Edward L. Katzenbach * John Katzenbach (born 1950), American novelist, son of Nicholas Katzenbach * Jon Katzenbach, American management consultant and author Supreme Court cases * ''Katzenbach v. McClung'', 1964 case in which the Court held that Congress acte ...
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1946 Births
Events January * January 6 - The 1946 North Vietnamese parliamentary election, first general election ever in Vietnam is held. * January 7 – The Allies recognize the Austrian republic with its 1937 borders, and divide the country into four Allied-occupied Austria, occupation zones. * January 10 ** The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London. ** ''Project Diana'' bounces radar waves off the Moon, measuring the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon, and proves that communication is possible between Earth and outer space, effectively opening the Space Age. * January 11 - Enver Hoxha declares the People's Republic of Albania, with himself as prime minister of Albania, prime minister. * January 16 – Charles de Gaulle resigns as head of the Provisional Government of the French Republic, French provisional government. * January 17 - The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westmin ...
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Ellen Sussman
Ellen Sussman is a ''New York Times'' bestselling author of four novels. She was born in Trenton, New Jersey and resides in Sebastopol, California with her husband. Sussman's work features settings and characters from France to Bali to the United States. She lived in Paris from 1988-1993 with her first husband and two daughters. Career Sussman attended Tufts University for her undergraduate degree and Johns Hopkins University for her graduate degree in creative writing. Jonathan Strong was her mentor and teacher while she studied at Tufts University. Despite knowing she wanted to be a writer at age six, Sussman endured years of rejection before successfully publishing her first novel at the age of 49. In addition to writing, Sussman teaches private writing classes and workshops. One of the private classes is called "Novel in a Year" in which students write and entire novel over the course of the year with Sussman's guidance and critiques. She also teaches through Stanford ...
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Mercedes Ruehl
Mercedes J. Ruehl (; born February 28, 1948) is an American screen, stage, and television actress. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Tony Award, a Drama Desk Award, two Obie Awards, and two Outer Critics Circle Awards. Ruehl is known for her leading performance in the play ''Lost in Yonkers'' (1990) and supporting performance in the film ''The Fisher King'' (1991). Her other film credits include ''Big'' (1988), ''Married to the Mob'' (1988), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''Roseanna's Grave'' (1997), and '' Hustlers'' (2019). Early life and education Ruehl was born February 28, 1948 in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, to Mercedes J. Ruehl, a schoolteacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her mother was of Cuban and Irish descent. The family frequently moved during her childhood owing to Vincent Ruehl's assignments with the FBI, and lived in other states including Sil ...
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Amherst, Massachusetts
Amherst () is a New England town, town in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Connecticut River valley. As of the 2020 census, the population was 39,263, making it the highest populated municipality in Hampshire County (although the county seat is Northampton, Massachusetts, Northampton). The town is home to Amherst College, Hampshire College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, three of the Five College Consortium, Five Colleges. The name of the town is pronounced without the ''h'' ("AM-erst") by natives and long-time residents, giving rise to the local saying, "only the 'h' is silent", in reference both to the pronunciation and to the town's politically active populace. Amherst has three census-designated places: Amherst Center, Massachusetts, Amherst Center, North Amherst, Massachusetts, North Amherst, and South Amherst, Massachusetts, South Amherst. Amherst is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Springfield metropolitan area, Massachusetts, Metr ...
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