May 1, 2024
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Icon: Carrie Meek
I made very good grades, and I was an athlete -- mostly basketball and track and field. During those days, women's sports did not have the kind of atmosphere that it has now. It was pretty much frowned upon outside of African-American universities.
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Published on 11/1/2006
Icon: Andres Duany
I'm from Santiago (Cuba). My family has been in that city since 1702. I'm the first male in my family not to live there. I feel at home in the Caribbean, which is one of the reasons I find New Orleans so interesting.
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Published on 10/1/2006
Icon: T. Willard Fair
When I came in 1963 to this community,we had a small staff of three people and very few services.
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Published on 9/1/2006
Icon: Bobby Bowden
I took this job here not with the idea of staying. I felt like we'd eventually move up to Alabama or Auburn.
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Published on 8/1/2006
Icon: Stetson Kennedy
The years in which I infiltrated the Klan was in part during WWII. The Klan was afraid to operate under its old name ... so the Klan adopted all kinds of front names, and in Virginia, for example, it called itself the American Service Patrol.
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Published on 7/1/2006
Icon: Don Francisco
In May we became 20 years in the United States and 44 years since we started with the program.
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Published on 6/1/2006
Icon: Janet Reno
I'm focused on one issue that is very important to me -- that is how we prevent the conviction of the innocent ... through post-conviction DNA testing that causes charges to be dropped against innocent people.
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Published on 5/1/2006
Icon: Reubin O'D. Askew
"It's a big year for me. Donna Lou and I will celebrate our golden anniversary in August, and I celebrate 50 years as a lawyer this year too."
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Published on 4/1/2006
Icon: Clyde Butcher
In the 20 years I've been walking around Big Cypress, I've never met another person. We go places where most men don't tread. There's no path.
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Published on 3/1/2006
Icon: Willie Gary
Some people are winners. They just refuse to give up. They just refuse to quit. I think sometimes you're born with it.
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Published on 2/1/2006
