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Macy wins UHS Distinguished Alumni Award
Macy
This year’s recipient of the Urbana High School Distinguished Alumni Award is Beth Macy, a 1982 graduate of UHS.
Macy is also the first woman to receive the Urbana High School Distinguished Alumni Award.
After graduating from high school, she received her bachelor’s degree from Bowling Green State University in journalism and did an internship at the
Urbana Daily Citizen.
She received her master’s degree from Hollis University, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010 and was short-listed for the 2019 Andrew Carnegie Medal for excellence in non-fiction.
Macy was a reporter for the
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Photo: Erica MacLean.
Whenever I would tell someone I was cooking from Herman Melville’s
Moby-Dick for my next column, they would gleefully shriek, “Whale steaks!” And I would dither a bit and explain that no, those are illegal in America, and that I was instead planning to make two forms of chowder, clam and cod, that weren’t going to be very different from each other. In our Chowhound-fueled, extreme-eating kind of world, I felt a little silly. Chowder is an easy dish, and while there’s raging conflict over the primacy of New York style (tomato-based) versus New England style (white), and the finer variations of each, the topic seems to inspire passion in inverse proportion to its importance. (Potatoes or no potatoes? Avast.) In fact, as Perry Miller reports in