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Apr 13, 2021
A Girl Named Al and
Beat the Turtle Drum, died on April 7 at the Connecticut Hospice in Branford, Conn. She was 96.
Greene was born on October 24, 1924 in Manhattan, the second daughter of Mabel and Richard Clarke, both journalists. Mabel Clarke was the first movie critic for the
New York Daily News, the same newspaper where Richard Clarke served as managing editor.
Greene grew up in Larchmont, and upon graduating from Marymount School in Manhattan, she enrolled at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, N.Y., in 1942. But after two years of study, Greene left college in 1944, noting in her
Something About the Author autobiography that “what I craved, what I needed, was a taste of the real world. A job.” She landed one in the mailroom at the Associated Press in New York. She worked her way up from there, soon earning a position as a reporter for the AP’s city desk during WWII, where favorite assignments included interviewing Frank Sinatra and Marlene Di
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She said there are more elders on the reserve who have similar complaints.
Mabel Clarke’s door at Birdtail Sioux Dakota Nation needs repairing. The door doesn’t close properly and isn’t flush with the doorjamb or the bottom frame. (Submitted)
Clark had a list of issues she said are not being dealt with: duplexes that do not have back doors, and therefore no emergency exit in case of fire, and elders are not receiving their home visits from nurses. The chief and the nurses don’t look at us. I gathered all the elders to have a meeting. I told the chief, and he pushed us away about four times, said Clark.