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Remembering Nancy Kirby

Recently, after a two-year battle with cancer which she faced with uncommon grace, we lost a former colleague, Nancy Kirby, who taught journalism at North Central College for 20 years.  She stabilized what had been an up-and-down program, turning it into a consistent … Continue reading

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Sedona & The Oak Creek Estados

The video below focuses on the Guzman’s place in the Oak Creek Estados complex and on areas just a few minutes from it.  Click on the video icon below to see it.  The picture to the left is the view from just … Continue reading

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Miscegenation and Me — Part 1

This is PART 1 of a piece originally written for a proposed book called “Leaving California.” It eventually wound up in SanSan Kwan and Kenneth Speir’s 2004 book Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects.  The book’s cover is reproduced below, and the … Continue reading

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