Alice
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Publishing |
| Occupation | writer, journalist, indexer |
| Location | Chautauqua, New York, United States |
| Introduction | Now that I'm retired from my administrative work at UCLA, journalism has become my retirement career and writing my retirement pleasure. During the 9-week Chautauqua Institution summer season, I write a summary of the morning lecture each weekday for the Chautauquan Daily newspaper. "Off-season," I concentrate on my own writing, doing as little editing and indexing of others' writing as possible. In 2008, my former students from Accra Academy, now in their early 50s, endowed a scholarship for a science student at the school, as so many of these "old boys" (alumni) have pursued careers in science: doctors, engineers, dentists, a fisheries expert, etc. They named the scholarship the Alice R. O'Grady Award for Excellence in Science, as I was their science teacher, and gave me a round-trip ticket to return to Ghana to present the first award, which I did in September, 2008. Many teachers never know of the impact they have had on their students; I am very fortunate that I do. arogrady@hotmail.com Also see my Web site at http://sites.google.com/site/ashantisaga |
| Interests | Africa, Travel, Singing |
| Favorite Movies | Babe, Pretty Woman, Chicago, Casablanca |
| Favorite Music | Just about anything by Bach, and Benjamin Britten's "A Ceremony of Carols." |
| Favorite Books | Just listened to a CD of "Water for Elephants, " and it's my current favorite. |