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Senator Joseph Lieberman Follows In Late Mother’s Footsteps and Reads Children’s Stories at Stamford University of Connecticut Co-op Bookstore this Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 12:30 p.m.
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Senator Joseph Lieberman
Follows In Mother’s Footsteps and
Reads Children’s Stories at Stamford
University of Connecticut Co-op Bookstore Tuesday, January 10, 2006 at 12:30 p.m.
Stamford, CT – The UConn Co-op, located on the University of Connecticut’s Stamford Campus, will present to U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman a photo album of pictures of his mother, Marcia Lieberman, reading to Stamford area children over the past several years. In his mother’s honor, Senator Lieberman will also read two short books Reading Makes You Feel Good by Todd Parr and a Clifford the Big Red Dog story by Norman Bridwell. Senator Lieberman will be at the UConn Co-op Stamford from 12:30 to 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, January 10, 2006.
Traditionally, the late Marcia Lieberman, mother of U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, came to the UConn Co-op in Stamford to read to local school children at the annual Celebration of Children’s Reading Week. Other people that have participated in the annual Celebration of Children’s Reading Week at the UConn Co-op in Stamford include Stamford Mayor Dan Malloy and State Representative and Assistant Majority Leader Christel Truglia.
Clifford the Big Red Dog will also make an appearance to entertain the children. Forty children from the Hart School will be participating in the presentation and reading at the UConn Co-op in Stamford.
The UConn Co-op is a cooperative corporation, established to provide bookstore services for its members and the University of Connecticut community. Open to the public, it is owned by its members and governed by an elected board of directors. At present, there are approximately 30,000 members, primarily students, faculty and staff of the University of Connecticut. In addition to the bookstore on the Storrs campus, the UConn Co-op operates the NewsStand in the Homer Babbidge Library, the HuskyShop II on Pratt St. in downtown Hartford and bookstores at the five regional campuses of the University throughout the state, the UConn School of Law in Hartford and the UConn Health Center in Farmington.
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“School Activities,” one of seven murals painted by James Daugherty (1887-1974) for the Works Project Administration’s (WPA) art projects, was installed in the Jeremy Richard Library. The seven murals, covering over 1000 feet, were commissioned in 1934 during the New Deal era for an octagonal music room at Stamford High School. In 1970, workmen removed them for a renovation and put them on top of a heap of construction materials in a dumpster, where they were rescued by a student. Though they had been cut into 30 pieces, six of the murals were reconstructed by an art restorer who sold two of them. The City of Stamford bought back four of them with funds from the State of Connecticut, the Ruth W. Brown Foundation, and other contributors.
James Daugherty played a role as an important mural artist in America, painting murals in schools, government buildings, and public housing. He also became an author and his draftsman skills served him well as he illustrated and/or authored over 100 books. In 1940, he was awarded the John Newbery Medal for his Daniel Boone, the year’s most distinguished contribution to American literature for children. He returned to abstract painting in 1953 and his works can be found in the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Yale University Art Gallery, Hirshorn Museum, and many other public and private collections.
“School Activities,” visible for the first time in 35 years, is on loan to UConn Stamford from the City of Stamford. Conservator Joseph Matteis, Jr. completed its further restoration and mounting on a portable backing in 2005. Funding for this purpose was generously provided by Reba and Dave Williams of Greenwich.
A Stamford Advocate Article by Lauren Klein, published December 25, 2005:
FYI..
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New Books this Month at Jeremy Richard Library
Age of anxiety:McCarthyism to terrorism / Haynes Johnson. , 1st ed. Orlando : Harcourt, Inc., 2005. Stamford Library E748.M143 J64 2005
America’s “failing” schools : how parents and teachers can cope with No Child Left Behind / W. James Popham. New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2004.
Stamford Library LA217.2 .P65 2004
Cambridge history of English literature, 1660-1780 / edited by John Richetti. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2005. Stamford Library PR442 .C36 2005
Casablanca [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc. ; [Special ed.]. [Burbank, Calif.] : Warner Home Video, [2003] Stamford Video Disc PN1997.C87 C38
Changing face of China: from Mao to market / John Gittings. New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. Stamford Library DS777.55 .G53 2005
Columbia anthology of traditional Chinese literature / Vitor H. Mair, editor. New York: Columbia University Press, c1994. Stamford Library PL2658.E1 C65 1994
Concise companion to twentieth-century American poetry / edited by Stephen Fredman. Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2005. Stamford Library PS323.5 .C574 2005
Da Vinci code : a novel / Dan Brown. , 1st ed. New York : Doubleday, 2003. Stamford Library PS3552.R685434 D3 Issues in aging / Mark Novak. Boston : Pearson/A&B, c2006. Stamford Library HQ1061 .N883 2006
Kafka : a very short introduction / Ritchie Robertson. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004. Stamford Library PT2621.A26 Z856 2004
Radical wisdom : a feminist mystical theology / Beverly J. Lanzetta. Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, c2005. Stamford Library BT83.55 .L36 2005
Shame of the nation : the restoration of apartheid schooling in America / Jonathan Kozol. , 1st ed. New York : Crown Publishers, c2005. Stamford Library LC212.62 .K69 2005
Wal-Mart [videorecording]: the high cost of low price / Brave New Films ; produced by Jim Gilliam, Devin Smith ; produced & directed by Robert Greenwald. New York : Disinformation Co., [2005] Stamford Video Disc HF5429.215.U6 W35 2005
In the First Person: an index to letters, diaries, oral histories and personal narratives
This website provides an excellent portal to primary resources available on the Web. It indexes more than 2,500 international oral history collections in English. The title accurately indicates the content, and a quick review of the collections gives the scope. Best of all, it is free!
The home page is well organized, with links to a table of contents that includes sections titled Repositories, Collections, Interviews, Interview Date, Places, Historical Events, and All Subjects. The quick search feature allows searching by keyword; results show the search term as it appears in the context of the transcript. Links take users to the interview’s host institution.
Indexed collections include the Hollywood Film Industry Project, Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive, and Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive: Oral Histories. [Choice Reviewed 2006 January]
The library will be open from 9:00-5:00 (Friday’s closing at 4:30pm) during the Winter Interssion period ending January 13th.
Spring 2006 semester begins January 17, 2006.
