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A teacher in a makeshift classroom writes on a blackboard providing instruction to students from the refugee community 25, June 2014 Kule 1 South Sudanese refugee camp Gambella Ethiopia. ©UNICEF Ethiopia/2014/Ayene
Lea Flanders indulged passions for journalism and world travel
By Rebecca Jones, Special To The Rocky
October 5, 2007
Lea Flanders, who first took up journalism at age 41 and proceeded to write for the Longmont Daily Times-Call for the next 48 years, died on Sept. 17 after a brief battle with cancer. She was 91.
Mrs. Flanders, who retired from writing in 2005, worked as a community news reporter, special sections editor, columnist and photographer. She won many writing awards over the years. She served as president of Colorado Press Women for two years, and she was the first woman to serve as president of the Colorado chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists/Sigma Delta Chi. She is in Who's Who of American Women and Foremost Women of Communications.
"She loved the press in Colorado, and everyone in the media," said her daughter, Francea Phillips, of Longmont. Phillips said one of the highlights of her mother's life was organizing a group of 15 newswomen to attend the United Nations' Women's Conference in Beijing in 1995.
It was journalism that led Mrs. Flanders to discover one of her other great passions: world travel. It was sometime during the late 1950s that the newspaper challenged her to set up and lead a tour of Europe.
"She started traveling then, and she never stopped," her daughter said. "She's been around the world four times."
Phillips said family members are attempting to make a list of all the countries to which her mother traveled in her life. "So far, we're up to three pages. We believe she visited nearly every country."
Just this spring, Mrs. Flanders completed a three-month round-the-world cruise with her grandson, Andrew Phillips.
Mrs. Flanders also brought the world to Longmont. Hundreds of people stayed at her home while visiting Longmont, some for a night, some for a year or more. She sponsored two exchange students from Africa who spent a year with her, and she hosted a Japanese student, a British girl and a Swiss girl.
"She was constantly fostering an international spirit," Phillips said. "She totally believed the world was her hometown."
Born in Hugo, Mrs. Flanders graduated from high school in Colorado Springs and worked her way through college as a cosmetologist. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Colorado in 1941, and later did graduate study at Columbia University in New York.
She married Frank Flanders, a banker, in 1941. Soon after their marriage, her husband enlisted in the military during World War II, and Mrs. Flanders spent the war folding parachutes and working at the Lockheed Corp. in California.
The Flanderses returned to Longmont in 1947 and became an integral part of the community. Among the organizations in which Mrs. Flanders participated were the Red Hat Club, the Sunshine Club, the Longmont Arts Council, the Longmont Theatre Company and the Newcomers Club. "To her deathbed, she was still a member of the Newcomers Club," Phillips said. "She insisted on remaining a member all her years because she said that's where all the exciting people start."
Mrs. Flanders was preceded in death by her husband, in 1998, and by an infant son, David Harris Flanders. In addition to her daughter, she is survived by a son, Fred Flanders, and his wife, Melody, of Westminster; grandchildren Tiffany Merlo and Andrew Phillips, of Longmont, David Flanders, of London, and Rachael Flanders, of Westminster; and two great-grandchildren, Alexander and Benjamin Merlo.
A memorial service was Sept. 25 in Longmont. Contributions may be made to the St. Vrain Historical Society's Hover Home Project or a charity of choice in care of Ahlberg Funeral Chapel, 326 Terry St., Longmont, CO 80501.
"Write Me" is a video sculpture constructed with 100 papers tied together, hanging from the ceiling. The user may contribute to the project by writing letters or answering meaningful questions that will be projected onto the sculpture.
by Christine Nguyen, Hsin-Yi Chien and Rune Madsen
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Sponsored by The Writing Center, Washington University Libraries, The First Year Center, The Office of the Vice Chancellor, and Stressbusters sponsored WUSTL's second-ever Write-In event on Wednesday, April 16, from 7 to 11 p.m. on the first floor of Olin Library. Writing Center staff and research librarians were on hand to answer questions, help with the writing process, and provide research assistance. Refreshments were served, and Stressbusters provided free back rubs for some stress relief during the writing process. Pizza was delivered at 9 p.m. to fuel the late-night writing.
My friend Mira's friend Amsyar got this for her in LA , haha I am officially jealous ! :O
To Write Love on Her Arms is a non-profit movement dedicated to presenting hope and finding help for people struggling with depression, addiction, self-injury and suicide. TWLOHA exists to encourage, inform, inspire and also to invest directly into treatment and recovery.
www.twloha.com to find out more :)
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I tried to make it look old and grainy before you guys start bugging me on the out of focus grainy-ness. I don't know what I think about this picture. . .help me decide. AKA Comment!
400 words to write a story. Moleskine Words, the surrealist writing workshop at A.I.Friedman, returns, this time to New York City. During the event there were notebooks, journals and 400 stamps with nouns, adjectives, verbs and icons on the subjects of travel, writing and reading, connected to the new Writing, Travelling and Reading collections. www.moleskine.com/about_us/news/moleskine_words_nyc.php
I choose Lust
i liked that its the same word in dutch and english. The text behind is a page from the book "love letters to Olga" from Jan Wolkers. Its about two deers who are licking each others private parts.
I like this text because it makes you feel so many things (at least it did to me) one part is saying: "this is disgusting" but another part is saying, well this is just nature, and a secret part is getting sexual existed ;-)
I left some space blank and these are the words:
Drawn,
no fences
Through rocks where behind
You get
Drawn object
The rest you must find yourself, its very explicit - use a translation page if you're not dutch ;)
So i thought it would be a great background for my One Word page ;)