Some stories of interest from this past weekend…
The New York Times published a profile of UConn Associate Head Women’s Basketball Coach Chris Dailey. For thirty-eight years she has been Geno Auriemma’s number two…or if this were the Navy…his Number One. The Times article describes Dailey as the yin to Auriemma’s yang and suggests without her the legend that is UConn women’s basketball would have been impossible.
There was a funeral this weekend for Ann Ucello the first woman to be elected mayor in Connecticut and the first woman to be elected mayor of a U.S. capital city(Hartford). She died earlier this month at age 100.
Follow up now on a story we told you about last week…
Veteran NPR foreign correspondent Sylvia Poggioli, born in Providence and raised in Massachusetts, gave a farewell interview Saturday to Weekend Edition host Scott Simon. Last week Poggioli announced her retirement after 41 years with the network, based largely in Rome. Her retirement came just days before the network announced it was laying off ten percent of the NPR workforce.
Neither here nor there…
This story has no connection to Connecticut, or even New England, but it’s funny enough to share.
This weekend, Alexandra Petri of the Washington Post published a column looking at the controversy that led to the resignation of a Tallahassee, Florida school principal who defended – to put it simply – the teaching of art in art class. It’s worth a read if you are looking for a laugh and who isn’t on a Monday morning?
