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Alice Randall, 35th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textAlice Randall is the author of The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell, and Ada\u27s Rules. Born in Detroit she grew up in Washington, D.C. After majoring in English at Harvard, she headed south to Music City and founded Midsummer Music with the idea to create a new way to fund novel writing and a community of powerful storytellers. In the process, she became the first black woman in history to write a No. 1 country song. Four novels later, the award-winning songwriter with over 20 recorded songs to her credit and frequent contributor to Elle magazine, is writer-in-residence at Vanderbilt University where she teaches courses on Country Lyrics in American Culture, Creative Writing, and Soul Food in text and as text
Interview with Mary Alice Whitfield
No full textThis video taped oral history with Mary Alice Whitifled took place at her residence in Wilmington on July 7th, 2004. It was conducted by LuAnn Mims for the Health Services Series. Miss Whitfield was a 1941 graduate of James Walker Hospital School of Nursing. She later attended UNC-CH Public Health Program and obtained her master's degree. Her career led her to the fledgling nursing program at Wilmington College where she was a clinical instructor for twenty years. Her recollections include time at James Walker and the associate degree nursing program at Wilmington College
Interview with Alice Brittain Brooks
No full textThis video taped oral history with Mrs. Alice Brittian Brooks took place at her office in Wilmington. Mrs. Brooks is a 1964 graduate of the James Walker School of Nursing, the 2nd to the last class from the diploma school. During her time in training she witnessed the transformation of nursing towards integration of hospital patients and staff with the opening of New Hanover Memorial Hospital. Her long career includes an expanded nursing role as a nurse practicioner in the field of pediatric nursing. She currently works at the Child Development Center in Wilmington
Senior Day Study Break Podcast: "Music city fiction: An introduction to the country song lyric"
No full textIncludes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file. "Vanderbilt writer-in-residence Alice Randall shared her insights on country music lyrics with graduating seniors and their parents as part of the university's Senior Class Day celebration May 10." Portions of numerous country songs are heard. Randall also discusses country music's roots in Celtic folk music, evangelical Christianity, African music and Tin Pan Alley
Alice and Cliff Donahue
No full textPhotograph - Friends of Alice B. and William Clifford Donahue, Athabasca, Alberta. Seated, left to right: Cliff Donahue, Joe Mikkelsen, Beryl Mikkelsen, and Marge Logan. Standing, left to right: Don Logan, Alice B. Donahue, Aaron Jones, Lorene Jones, and Beatrice Par
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