History Matters awards North Central College student with Judith Barlow Prize Gelaine Vestal
Updated 4/29/2021 1:55 PM
History Matters: Celebrating Women s Plays of the Past, a New York City nonprofit, has announced the winner for this year s Judith Barlow Prize. The annual prize is awarded to a student playwright for an exceptional one-act play inspired by the work of an historic female playwright. The first-place winner of the prize receives a $2,500 award and a reading of their work along with a $500 award to the participating professor.
North Central College s Gelaine Vestal won for the student s play, The Shop, inspired by Sophie Treadwell s Machinal and sponsored by professor Laura Lodewyck. A reading will be scheduled and announced in the coming months.
Scenes from a fake emergency
School of Nursing students learn by doing in a disaster simulation, complete with blood, chaos, and interfering bystanders.
Cathy Shufro teaches writing at Yale. Mark Ostow
As students enter the scene, they can hear the sirens of approaching ambulances. The room is smoky. Some of the café customers are screaming. The students’ first task is to find everyone who is injured.
There will be four iterations of this collapsed-ceiling disaster, and in all, 118 students will participate. Now they’ll find out how well they do in this kind of crisis. View full image Mark Ostow
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Audrey Web and her husband Howard Web in the waiting area after receiving their vaccination.
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The pair will return in a few weeks to get their second dose.
The vaccine delivery at Constable Country is primarily being run by GP staff; however, a number of volunteers were on site helping with traffic, parking and directing people outside the surgery.
Pete Keeble, the practice manager, said 346 people received their first dose of the vaccine on the first day of the rollout.
He said the majority of those were the over-80s cohort, but also some frontline workers.