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Looking Back at 2017 With Gratitude
As the year winds down, I look back with so much gratitude, especially when I remember the new friends I’ve made. The months seemed to fly by, as if on skates. It was late fall before I realized that I hadn’t sent a recent newsletter, so I have some catching up to do....
Alumna pens award winning booking about the holocaust
By William Lineberry The Richard T. Robertson School of Media and Culture May 11, 2015 10:54 am Nancy Beasley’s career as a journalist started with a wager—one that she lost. In 1979, Beasley’s husband bet her $10 and a haircut that she could get a job as a reporter...
Lohmann: A powerful story that won’t let her go
You just never know when something will grab hold of your life and take you on a wild, rewarding, unforgettable ride. Nancy Wright Beasley half-jokingly describes that scenario in her life as “Izzy driving the bus” — a reference to her first book: “Izzy’s Fire:...
Author is Guest Speaker at Eliezer: the Jewish Society at Yale
Having a great conversation with Professor Eugene Fidell, Senior Research Scholar in Law & Florence Rogatz Visisiting Lecuturer in Law at Yale University and Rabbi Shmully Hecht, one of the founders of Eliezer: the Jewish Society at Yale One of the highlights...
Photos of book club presentations
“Izzy’s Fire” goes to Brazil
Camila Shiffl, a history teacher in Brazil, was so interested in studying Holocaust history that she paid her own way to Richmond to participate in the Alexander Lebenstein Teacher Education Institute held each year at the Virginia Holocaust Museum in Richmond. Since...
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