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Thank women for keeping us safe from nuclear disaster
Wendy Yost
Depending on how old you are, you may remember the 1950s and 60s “duck and cover” drills in elementary school and signs leading to the atomic bomb shelters in public buildings. Or you may remember the Cuban Missile Crisis when the world came dangerously close to nuclear war. Then, and now, most of us probably had/have no true idea of the devastation that such a war would bring.
We should thank women for bringing some sanity to the insanity of the Cold War. In 1961, Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson founded “Women Strike for Peace.” Their goal was to stop nations from nuclear testing. The movement brought 50,000 women in 60 different cities together in protest.
Thirteen undergraduates have been named 2021 Outstanding Graduating Students at the University of Maine.
Among them is Bailey West, the Outstanding Graduating Student in the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry, and Agriculture, and in the Honors College, and the 2021 valedictorian. Her profile story is online. Short biographies of the other UMaine Outstanding Graduating Students follow:
Photo taken in adherence with health and safety guidelinesMelanie Berry
Melanie Berry
Melanie Berry of Morrill, Maine is the Outstanding Graduating Student in the University of Maine Division of Lifelong Learning. The Dexter native will receive a Bachelor of University Studies with a minor in psychology. Her numerous awards during her UMaine years include the Nontraditional Student Scholarship, the Alpha One Powering Education Scholarship and the Adult Degree Scholarship. Berry is a human resources associate with athenahealth in Belfast, where she has worked full time since 2009. She started tak