Lita Alexander Lunsford recently died after a long illness at the age of 93. For the last 16 years, Mrs. Lunsford was a resident of The Park Oak Grove where, despite progressive disabilities, she continued to be active in many of her life long interests, including birding, gardening, reading, and flower arranging. Mrs. Lunsford was the daughter of Dr. Lawrence Dade Alexander and Lita Berry Alexander. She was born in New York City and raised in Darien, Conn. Lita attended various boarding schools in the Northeast before enrolling at Hollins College, from which she graduated in 1939. After graduation, she was active in diving, swimming, and horseback riding, which she taught at Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia, Pa., before marrying Kirk Lunsford Jr. in 1940.
Lita Alexander Lunsford recently died after a long illness at the age of 93. For the last 16 years, Mrs. Lunsford was a resident of The Park Oak Grove where, despite progressive disabilities, she continued to be active in many of her life long interests, including birding, gardening, reading, and flower arranging. Mrs. Lunsford was the daughter of Dr. Lawrence Dade Alexander and Lita Berry Alexander. She was born in New York City and raised in Darien, Conn. Lita attended various boarding schools in the Northeast before enrolling at Hollins College, from which she graduated in 1939. After graduation, she was active in diving, swimming, and horseback riding, which she taught at Swarthmore College outside Philadelphia, Pa., before marrying Kirk Lunsford Jr. in 1940.
At the Thomas Indian School in Irving, 30 miles south of Buffalo, children from Native American families were systematically stripped of their native culture and heritage, and sometimes abused, for nearly a century. The school closed in 1957. Such schools are the focus of Ron Douglas' "Unseen Tears: The Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in Western New York," one of four documentaries in this year's "Channels: Stories From the Niagara Frontier.
Cecil Suwal grew up in an upscale New York State hamlet and attended one of the most exclusive boarding schools in New Jersey, surrounded by an elite group of classmates who went off to Ivy League colleges. But authorities say "Ceci" chose a far different path, becoming the 23-year-old madam of an international prostitution ring run by her boyfriend, a 62-year- old Israeli widower named Mark "Michael" Brener.
The fifth annual Buffalo Niagara Film Festival kicks off today with the first of its 30 documentaries, 28 short films, 20 features and nine music videos. Among them are a dozen student films, and perhaps three dozen with Western New York ties, all of which will be screened through April 17 in the Market Arcade Film & Arts Centre in Buffalo and the Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls.
... Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in Western New York." 31 minutes. Native ...
..., the School District contacted several schools, including the Pathway School in Norristown, Penns..., the Maplebrook School, a private boarding school in Amenia, New York, offered admission to S...
Convert low performers into charter schools A recent column by Rod Watson encouraged the Buffalo Public School District to accept blame for its chronically low-performing schools and look into a boarding school model. While the piece's premise is good, Watson overlooks a more cost-effective, less drastic solution that already exists here in Western New York.
... in capital cases) of eight persons); New York ex rel. Bryant v. Zimmerman, 278 U.S. 63 , 71 (1... Court struck down a state law forbidding schools from teaching any modern foreign language to any c... the mentally retarded in an area where boarding homes, nursing and convalescent homes, and fratern...
DANCE: The Polish Falcons Hall, 445 Columbia Ave., Depew, will host beginner swing dance lessons from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. and beginner Balboa and Charleston lessons from 7:45 to 8:45 Thursday. The cost is $7.50 per class. Contact Bill at 634-8874 or e-mail: Fabulous Fifties DJ@RoadRunner.com. ***
... Impact of Native American Residential Boarding Schools in Western New York," by Ron Douglas with...
Many people reading this article will not have lived someplace where the difference between success and failure relied on their ability to rip an engine block out of an early-'80s Trans Am. They will not have entertained notions of joining the circus based on their proclivity for throwing daggers, and they may never have been three sheets to the wind in a dodgy neighborhood at night, finding unexpected beauty in a crowd of teenagers at a bus stop-"one of them/ dribbling a basketball almost lyricizing/about his brother's makeshift condom/a bread sack and rubber band the backdrop/ a superette bars bolted over the windows." But such are the harsh lives of the characters of Dark Thirty, a moody, riotous and occasionally comic collection of poems by Cherokee writer Santee Frazier. The people...
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