Archive - November 4, 2023

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“The Volunteer Who Published on Contemporary Life in America” — Laurence Leamer (Nepal)
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GAELS ON THREE by Don Schlenger (Ethiopia)

“The Volunteer Who Published on Contemporary Life in America” — Laurence Leamer (Nepal)

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ Jeremiah Norris (Colombia 1963-65) (The materials for this Profile were drawn heavily from Wikipedia)  • In 1964, after graduating with a B. A. in History from Antioch College, Laurence spent a year in France at the University de Besancon and worked in a factory. He then joined the Peace Corps and was stationed in the mountains of Nepal. After returning home, he studied at the University of Oregon and Columbia University’s School of Journalism. When he graduated from Columbia second in his class in 1969, he was named a Pulitzer International Fellow.  Laurence then worked as an associated editor at Newsweek before turning to writing magazine articles for a range of other publications, including Harper’s The New York Times Magazine, and Playboy. During this period, he also worked in a West Virginia coal mine while researching an article. During the Indo-Pakistan War of 1971, he was the only journalist . . .

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GAELS ON THREE by Don Schlenger (Ethiopia)

  Gaels On Three by Don Schlenger (Ethiopia 1966-68) Ink Start Media Publisher September 2023 318 pages $2.99 (Kindle); $13.99 (Paperback)   It’s the eighties in north Jersey with big hair and bad music,  and a love story set around a Catholic junior high school girls’ basketball team. Will and Ramona were childhood sweethearts and neighbors from age four, who tragically broke up weeks before high school graduation in 1976. Will went right into the army, Ramona to college on a basketball scholarship. Six years later, with no interim contact, Will calls Ramona and asks if she will help him coach the girls’ basketball team at St. Ethel of the Holy Oasis Junior High School, close by where they grew up. They negotiate, they bicker, use bad language, argue, and finally she agrees. With conditions: a sixpack of Schaefers and a box of Mrs. T’s on demand. Supporting them are . . .

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