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Kirkland College

Kirkland College was the perfect place for me. I wanted to be a writer and Kirkland was only one of . . .

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Finding the Elements of My Style

It was the first class on the first day of my freshman year at Hamilton College. The year was 1971. . . .

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Extraordinary Kirkland Women and an Extraordinary College for Women

What was Kirkland College like during its brief existence and what did it mean to the students? I ca . . .

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Cruising

My memories of my time at Yorktown are simple. First let me say I was at best just an average studen . . .

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On Mother's Day 2022

It was the the 1950s. I didn’t want to be a mother. As the fifth child of seven, I watched my mom . . .

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St. Patrick's Day

In honor of St. Patrick’s Day I would like to recount what I little I know about Henry McGavin, my . . .

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Concessions

"It's that you're simple." We were standing in the back closet, at the base of the attic stairs i . . .

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Rifle Club

The following discussion is from a Facebook page, "Yorktown High School Friends", and the photograph . . .

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Pete - The Ring (Phonetically - Petay)

It is a 14-karat white gold ring with four bands spaced a millimeter apart. Each thread follows the . . .

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Our last soccer match

Our senior year in high school, at the end of a miserable losing season. Back then, soccer season wa . . .

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Business As Unusual: Breaking It To Make Something Better

In 1952, in an effort to prevent clumsy or careless people from breaking items in a shop, a Miami Be . . .

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A Chinese Revolution

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