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Chalk Up Another for Marilyn Nelson
Professor Emeritus Marilyn Nelson added the 2017 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature to a list that includes the Newbery Honor, Coretta Scott King Honor, and the Pushcart Prize. “Her engaging, lyrical style builds awareness around sensitive issues through human, and even humorous, storytelling that both children and adults can relate to,” said Robert Con Davis-Undiano, executive director of World Literature Today, the award-winning magazine of international literature at the University of Oklahoma that bestows the honor.
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James V. Morgia ’46 (CLAS) has published Three Day Pass, a book about the unfinished ROTC Class of ’44 at UConn. The 56 students in this patriotic group couldn’t graduate because the U.S. Army needed every available recruit at the time. Instead, the students were ordered to Camp Wheeler in Georgia for 16 weeks of basic training in May 1943. Morgia and some of the infantry officers from UConn ended up with the 84th Infantry Division. They shipped out to Europe in September 1945 and fought in the Siegfried Line, the Battle of the Bulge, and the breakthrough to the Elbe River in Germany.


(Above are some of the recruits in Fort Benning, Georgia.)
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