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WHAT WE’VE HEARD AROUND TOWN …
LOCAL BOOKS
“Bobby G, A Life Worth Celebrating,” a biography of UNC’s oldest living basketball and baseball athlete, written by Stan Friedland was published this past summer. Bobby Gersten, now 98 years old, lives in The Cedars of Chapel Hill, a retirement community, in the same building as Stan. WHAT AN HONOR East Chapel Hill High School senior Sara E. Zangi was selected to attend the 35th
annual Research Science Institute (RSI) held in October in collaboration between MIT and the Center for Excellence in Education (CEE). UNC professor Dr. Marcie Cohen Ferris won
the Craig Claiborne Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Southern Foodways Alliance Symposium at the University of Mississippi in October. The award goes to an individual “whom all thinking eaters should know, the sort of person who has made an indelible mark on our cuisine and culture, set national standards and catalyzed important dialogues.” Marcie has done transformative work at the Museum of Southern Jewish
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Experience in Utica, Mississippi, published genre-defining books, framed public dialogues about food and identity and helped pioneer the food studies discipline. Wendy-Jo Toyama,
executive director of PHOTO BY KATE MEDLEY the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association, received the Leanne Grotke Award for exceptional contributions to the women’s athletics program at her alma mater, Indiana University (IU), in early September. Wendy-Jo was an all-around gymnast on the IU gymnastics team from 1979 to 1983. United Way of the Greater Triangle (UWGT) named two Chapel Hill organizations and leaders, EmPOWERment, Inc. and Delores Bailey
(second from left) along with LatinxEd and Ricky Hurtado (second from right), the inaugural class of the 10 to Watch, a cohort of people selected for their impact and potential to shape the future of the Triangle. The new investment initiative was created to address the racial and cultural disparities between leaders of nonprofit organizations and the communities that they serve. Teresa Fang, a sixth-
grader at Smith Middle School, was selected as a kid reporter in the award-winning COURTESY OF Scholastic News Kids SCHOLASTIC NEWS KIDS PRESS CORPS Press Corps, a team of talented young reporters, ages 10 to 14, from around the world. She will write “news for