Sotomayor vs. First Amendment: An Interview with Avery and Lauren Doninger

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Fordham Prof Paul Levinson's
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Students are being taught the wrong lessons about freedom of expression in some of our schools, and courts are supporting these schools. One of those cases - involving a 16-year old high school student, Avery Doninger - made its way to the Second Circuit Appeals Court, where Sonia Sotomayor and two colleague justices supported the school.

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Sotomayor Cheered & Jeered In Meriden, CT Record-Journal

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Sotomayor Cheered & Jeered In Meriden, CT Record-Journal

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Meriden Record-Journal

06/19/2009
Meriden health care leader recalls Sotomayor
By George Moore
Record-Journal staff

MERIDEN - When Juan Figueroa started as president and general counsel of the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund in 1993, a promising attorney named Sonia Sotomayor had just left the organization's board to take a new judicial position.

She had just been nominated by President George H.W. Bush to the District Court for the Southern District of New York. But that was not the last Figueroa would hear or see of her.

In 1997, he and other colleagues supported Sotomayor during the confirmation process for her appointment to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. President Bill Clinton had nominated her, but there was some resistance from Republicans in Congress. Eventually, she was confirmed.

Figueroa, now president of the Meriden-based Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, has been watching as Sotomayor approaches an appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court. She awaits confirmation by the Senate after President Obama nominated her for the nation's highest court last month.

"I'm not surprised she's been nominated to the Supreme Court," Figueroa said Friday from his Pratt Street office. "From knowing her personally, this is an individual of utmost integrity who is extremely well qualified to be on the U.S. Supreme Court, and it's a bonus she happens to be a Latina."

Sotomayor brings a tremendous amount of experience and, more importantly, she follows the rule of law, said Figueroa, who is a lawyer himself. In addition to working as a judge for 16 years, Sotomayor served as assistant district attorney for New York for five years and has worked in private practice.

Some critics on the lookout for judicial activism have highlighted comments that Sotomayor made at a panel discussion at Duke University in 2005, in which she said the federal Court of Appeals is where "policy is made." But other observers point out that she quickly modified the statement.

"And I know this is on tape and I should never say that because we don't make law, I know," she said immediately after the statement. "I'm not promoting it and I'm not advocating it."

If appointed, Sotomayor, a Puerto Rican, would be the first Hispanic justice on the court. While her legal mind is the most essential factor in the nomination process, Figueroa said, her personal story and her ethnic heritage are also important.

The court system, he said, should reflect the society it serves. That is why there have already been significant efforts for gender and racial equality on the Supreme Court, he said.

"The law doesn't exist in a vacuum," he said. "It exists in relation to who we are as a people."

Sotomayor has a remarkable story of achievement: She dedicated herself to her education as she grew up in a Bronx housing project, the daughter of two working-class parents who had moved to the mainland from Puerto Rico. She secured scholarships to both Princeton and Yale universities, where she earned her undergraduate and law degrees.

Figueroa described Sotomayor as a "no-nonsense type of person" who is personable at the same time, a combination that would serve her well on the Supreme Court.

While Sotomayor has earned high praise for her legal work, she has had her share of controversy, especially in Connecticut. Sotomayor has ruled on two high-profile Connecticut cases that have stirred up debate.

In 2008, she sided against Avery Doninger, a Burlington high school student who was barred from student government because she called school officials derogatory names on her personal blog for canceling an event she had planned. Avery's mother sued, alleging First Amendment violations, but Sotomayor and two other judges ruled that the blog created a "foreseeable risk of substantial disruption" at the school, according to Education Week.

Connecticut blogger Andy Thibault, who writes about legal issues on The Cool Justice Report, has railed against Sotomayor's appointment to the Supreme Court for her ruling on the case. By siding against Doninger, he said, "she was refusing to enforce the Constitution," which protects free speech.

In an e-mail, Thibault said she has "stomped on the Bill of Rights" and that she should be considered carefully by the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Connecticut Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman and Christopher J. Dodd have praised Sotomayor for her legal credentials. Lieberman said he is hoping for a bipartisan effort to ensure a fair hearing process.

In another 2008 appeal case, Sotomayor voted to uphold the right of the city of New Haven to toss out the results of a firefighters test because no minorities would have been promoted. White firefighters received good scores on the test, but the city feared litigation for not promoting minorities.

Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., has pointed to the case as one of many items that will need a thorough review during the confirmation process, USA Today reported.

gmoore@record-journal.com
(203) 317-2275


Complete Text
Of Statement
By Andy Thibault
For Meriden Record-Journal

Whatever she is, Sotomayor is not a friend of the Bill of Rights. She has stomped on the right of citizens to petition the government for redressof grievances. It doesn't take an Einstein to figure out that any punishment by a government official in response to protected speech violates the First Amendment.

Beyond that, Sotomayor is also an abuser of parental rights. Since when do red-blooded Americans let moronic school bosses into the bedrooms of our children to police their Internet use?

Sotomayor is unfit for the bench at any level. If she likes government stooges so much, she should go work for the courts in Iran or China. Finally, Sen. Dodd and the Judiciary Committee should examine this case closely: Democrat or Republican, they won't like what they see.

Sotomayor: Just Another Political Operative Under A Robe And An Enemy Of Free Speech

Following is a Readers Digest version
of the Doninger case:

Avery Doninger, a volunteer in the Americorps national public service program, has a civil rights trial pending in New Haven U.S. District Court. [Among her duties on the job: helping hurricane victims in Texas.]

Avery, a 2008 graduate of Lewis Mills High School in Burlington, CT, and her mother, Lauren Doninger, sued Principal Karissa Niehoff and Superintendent Paula Schwartz [now retired] after they removed Avery from the ballot for class secretary.

Avery Doninger was among a group of four students who lobbied the community for support of an annual battle of the bands sponsored by the Student Council. The student council adviser suggested the students reach out to taxpayers and the students copied the adviser an on email to the community.

Schwartz became very upset after taxpayers called her and she cancelled the event known as Jamfest. Doninger subsequently referred to administrators in a live journal blog as central office douche bags, and Schwartz's son found the posting while trolling the internet for his mother a couple weeks later. While Avery Doninger was banned from school office, another student who called Schwartz a dirty whore was given an award and lauded for citizenship.

School officials suppressed the write-in vote in which Doninger was elected by a plurality. Schwartz refused to accept Doninger's apology for her choice of words. During an assembly, Niehoff banned free-speech and Team Avery t-shirts and seized at least one shirt.

The Doningers have been seeking -- among other remedies -- an apology for civil rights violations and recognition of the write-in victory.

New Haven U.S. District Judge Mark Kravitz denied a motion for a preliminary injunction [immediate relief] in August 2007. Based on errors in the record, Travesty Kravitz's injunction ruling was upheld by the U.S. Second Circuit in New York.

Travesty Kravitz held a hearing in November 2008 on Doninger's request for a trial. He cut off discussion about various frauds - including false testimony - upon the court and ultimately ordered a trial on Jan. 15, 2009. But, he limited the scope of the trial to the narrow issue of the suppression and seizure of free speech t-shirts.

Appeals are likely on a number of rulings narrowing the scope of the case.

On Jan. 22, 2009, Connecticut State Senator Gary LeBeau filed a landmark bill to protect student speech.

On Jan. 23, 2009, Travesty Kravitz scheduled jury selection and a trial for civil rights violations related to the suppression and seizure of free speech t-shirts. The trial is on hold now as all issues are back before the Second Circuit.

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Danbury News Times: Redding girl wins state writing competition

STATE PROSE CHAMPION EMMA LOWENBERG
CHECKS OUT THE VIEW FROM MARK TWAIN HOUSE
-- Chion Wolf Photo

By Lidia Ryan
contributing writer

Danbury News Times

Updated: 06/13/2009 09:22:11 PM EDT

REDDING -- Emma Lowenberg doesn't usually write for fun.

But when her experiences with an owl named Bernard kept coming to mind, she decided to write about them.

On [May 31,] her story "Bernard" won the 16-year-old Redding resident first place for prose writing in the Connecticut Young Writers Competition. It also earned her a $1,000 prize.

In the 12 years the competition has been held, Lowenberg is the first home-schooled student to win first place.

Lowenberg, who has been home schooled since second grade, said her winning the contest validates home schooling in general.

"It's also nice to be the first of something," she said.

Lowenberg thinks home schooling gave her an advantage, because she's had the space and time she needs to develop her writing.

In "Bernard," she describes the day she first met the 1-foot-tall owl that lives at the nature center in Redding where she works.

She entered the competition for the second year in a row at the urging of her tutor, Cynthia McRuiz.

Lowenberg said she knew right away that she wanted to enter "Bernard" because she thought the story was as close to perfect as her writing could get.

"I thought that was kind of magical," Lowenberg said. "It was like an omen."

She also had a gut feeling about winning the competition on entering the award ceremony at the Mark Twain House in Hartford.

"It's one of those things where you can't explain it, you just know," she said. "And my mom felt the same way."

Therese Karmel, one of the judges in the final round, said the reason she liked Lowenberg's story was its ability to evoke the senses.

"You can feel and touch and smell that barnyard and the bird's cage," Karmel said. "It's like I always say, 'Show, don't tell.'"

According to Karmel, it took about two hours to pick the winner.

In addition to the $1,000 grand prize, Lowenberg won $500 for being county finalist.

Seven other contestants, including New Milford High School student Clarissa Burch, also won $500 country finalist awards.

Lowenberg is saving her prize money to use at Principia College in Illinois this fall, where she will be two years younger than most freshmen.

Lowenberg, who was born in Germany and speaks fluent German, said she does not know what her major will be, but she is interested in political science and foreign languages.

While she plans to continue writing, Lowenberg said she doesn't see it as a career.


STATE PROSE CHAMPION EMMA LOWENBERG WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE, RAVI SHANKAR AND RAND COOPER @ TWAIN HOUSE
-- Chion Wolf photo

Background, "Bernard" And More Photos @ CSU System Site

Waterbury Paper Cites State Poetry Champion Felicity Sheehy

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Groton Times Features Young Poet Jhyde Ryals

Part One: CHION WOLF photos for the Young Writers Trust @ Twain House 5-31-09

[Part Two] - More Young Writers Twain House Photos By Chion Wolf - - plus, Video Links

Sotomayor: Just Another Political Operative Under A Robe And An Enemy Of Free Speech

Via
The Chris Powell column

Manchester, CT Journal Inquirer

Federal Judge Sonia Sotomayor, just nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court by President Obama, may have a heartwarming personal story as well as the best mother who ever lived in the Bronx. But as a member of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals she has been on the wrong side of at least four important Connecticut cases.

Sotomayor voted against the New Haven firefighters who were denied promotion because no black firefighters performed well enough to pass a test whose fairness was questioned only as a matter of political patronage when its results became known.

Sotomayor voted against the free-speech rights of the high school student from Burlington, Avery Doninger, who was punished by school administrators for criticizing them in commentary on the Internet.

Sotormayor voted against a Journal Inquirer reporterwho was seeking access to documents about misconduct by FBI agents.

And Sotomayor voted to reverse a lower court's finding that Tribune Co. was monopolizing the news media in the Hartford area, contrary to Federal Communications Commission regulations, by owning two television stations and the state's largest newspaper.

While they usually pretend otherwise, Supreme Court justices are political operatives more than judges, insofar as they rely mostly on their politics to decide cases where the law is said to be ambivalent. Sotomayor may not be the flaming liberal of right-wing caricature, but nothing in her record in those Connecticut cases commends her for the Supreme Court.

Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer.

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Groton Times Features Young Poet Jhyde Ryals

New London & Windham County Champions
With Dr. Louise Feroe, the CSU System Vice Chancellor, center,
@ Eastern Connecticut State University Event 4-28-09
Young poets and writers, from left to right, are: Jhyde Ryals, Kianne Gaylor, Yarelis Rivera and Hilary Sunderland
-- Photo by Edward H. Osborn, Director, Office of University Relations

“It [the young writers program] gives us a chance to meet other writers and teachers and professionals working in this craft who show us that we can make our passion into a profession and be happy.”
-- Jhyde Ryals to reporter Amy Barry, 6-10-09


NEW LONDON COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION JHYDE RYALS AT MARK TWAIN HOUSE WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAVI SHANKAR
-- CHION WOLF photo

Fitch High School Poet Scores
In Connecticut Young Writer’s Competition

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The Groton Times
Posted by Interactive Desk on Jun 10 2009, 03:37 PM

By Amy J. Barry

Special to The Groton Times

Writing is a lonely profession and one that comes without a lot of fanfare—unless you’re a best-selling author. And if you’re still a high school student, there aren’t a lot of venues that recognize your hard work and creativity.

That’s why the Annual Connecticut Young Writers Competition, sponsored by IMPAC and the Connecticut State University System—which has awarded teenage writers across the state with thousands of dollars in prizes for the past 12 years—is such an important program for aspiring young writers.

Jhyde Ryals, a senior at Groton’s Fitch Senior High School was among 16 students selected as county winners out of 580 entries in the prose and poetry categories from Connecticut’s eight counties for her poem “To: Jhyde From: Daddy.”

Ryals and other county winners attended the annual awards celebration on May 31 at the Mark Twain House &Museum in Hartford.

Ryals confirms that she put a lot of work into her poem.

“I wrote the poem when I went to a summer camp last summer at the Center for Creative Youth (CCY),” Ryals says. “It took me the whole session to complete it—and nine drafts.”

Ryals says she was surprised to learn that she was a finalist.

“When I found out I was a county champion I was shocked that I even made it that far in the competition,” she says. “But I was proud of myself.”

Ryals’ relationship with her father is what she says inspired her to write the poem.

“A lot of my work is based on or around our relationship,” she explains. “He left when I was six and when I was 13 he passed away. So I have a lot of unresolved issues and questions.”

In the fall Ryals will attend St. Johns University in New York for journalism, but she says poetry will always be a part of her life.

“I don’t think I will be satisfied and happy without it.”

She is grateful there is a program like this for young writers.

“It gives us a chance to meet other writers and teachers and professionals working in this craft who show us that we can make our passion into a profession and be happy,” she says.

Ryals’ teacher, Donald Motzko, nominated her for the award after she came to him with her poem and told him about the competition.

“After reading her poem, I came to see Jhyde a little differently,” he says. “The emotion she placed within her poem was extraordinary and I was impressed by the fact that she was so willing to share it with others.”

Complete Listing, County & State Champions

NEW LONDON COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION JHYDE RYALS SEEMS TO APPROVE OF THE FARE AT MARK TWAIN HOUSE
-- CHION WOLF photo

To: Jhyde
From: Daddy

By Jhyde Ryals

On my ninth birthday,
My mother bought me
A dress, indigo like
Early winter dawn
When the sun rises and the cold
steams
And a purple light shines through the mist.

I dressed for my party. The zipper
was stuck.
I reached over my shoulder, pulled at it-
It broke off in my hand.
The bodice was tight,
I tugged at it;
Nicked a seam,
The dress unraveled.
Sequins fell to the floor like icicles breaking.

Opening presents, I sat alone
In that pitiful indigo dress, my hands
Moving through boxes.
Pushing aside gifts, ribbons + bows.
My eyes darted from tag to tag,
Searching for “To Jhyde from Daddy.”
Never found.

On my 19th Birthday,
My eyes are still
And I don’t clutch
Around that indigo dress anymore.
I don’t expect a box or anything from you.

On my 19th birthday
I’ll wear the new indigo dress that I bought,
The silk will wrap around my body,
Seams press into my curves;
Each year the ice will
Hold me, like ice over a lake

Freezing, layer by layer.

[Part Two] - More Young Writers Twain House Photos By Chion Wolf - - plus, Video Links

[Part Two] - More Young Writers Twain House Photos By Chion Wolf - - plus, Video Links

Editors / Reporters:
for use with credit
-- CHION WOLF photos
for the Connecticut Young Writers Trust

Chion Wolf

is an adventurous photojournalist

Part One: CHION WOLF photos for the Young Writers Trust @ Twain House 5-31-09

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THEN THE RAIN STOPPED
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LCT Notes County & State Champions

Part One: CHION WOLF photos for the Young Writers Trust @ Twain House 5-31-09

LCT Notes County & State Champions

Awards Made in State Competition

Litchfield County Times

06/04/2009

HARTFORD-A home-schooled student from Redding and a student from the private Westover School in Middlebury were awarded the top statewide prizes in prose and poetry last Sunday night in the 12th annual IMPAC-Connecticut State University System Young Writers competition.

Emma Lowenberg, 16, of the Lowenberg Home School in Redding, won for her story, "Bernard." Felicity Sheehy, 16, of Westover School of Middlebury, won for her poem, "Evening Conversation."

At the awards celebration held at The Mark Twain House &Museum, both students received $1,000 for their efforts. Miss Lowenberg and Miss Sheehy also were awarded $500 in April after being named, respectively, prose and poetry winners in Fairfield and New Haven counties.

Miss Lowenberg is the first home schooled county and state champion in the program's 12-year history. A number of home schooled writers have been county finalists over the years.

Miss Lowenberg's and Miss Sheehy's works will be considered for publication in Connecticut Review, the nationally-renowned literary journal published by the Connecticut State University System (CSUS).

The co-masters of ceremonies at Twain House were Rand Richards Cooper, the novelist and travel writer for Bon Appetit, Diane Smith, CPTV host and author, Colin McEnroe, The Hartford Courant columnist and author, and Ravi Shankar, professor and poet-in-residence at Central Connecticut State University. They all serve as judges for the program.

The 16 county state finalists were treated to tours of The Mark Twain House &Museum, a program on Twain and more. Reception entertainment was by the Jen Allen Big Band, and catering by Frank Rosa's La Cupola Ristorante of Litchfield.

The program has given more than $176,000 to teenagers since 1998.

The poetry county champions included Kevin Redmond, 17, of Torrington High School, for his poem, "The Cold Stare Of Infinity," and the prose county champions included Clarissa Burch, 15, of New Milford High School, for her story, "Missing You."

CHION WOLF photos for the Young Writers Trust @ Twain House 5-31-09

CHION WOLF photos for the Young Writers Trust @ Twain House 5-31-09

Editors / Reporters:
for use with credit
-- CHION WOLF photos
for the Connecticut Young Writers Trust

Chion Wolf

is an adventurous photojournalist


STATE PROSE CHAMPION EMMA LOWENBERG
CHECKS OUT THE VIEW


NEW LONDON COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION JHYDE RYALS SEEMS TO APPROVE OF THE FARE


NEW LONDON COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION
HILARY SUNDERLAND
and KEYNOTE SPEAKER MELANIE LIEBERMAN


CRAIG HOTCHKISS BEGINS THE HOUSE TOUR


WHAT'S FOR LUNCH?


STATE POETRY CHAMPION FELICITY SHEEHY,
MARK TWAIN


DominiQue Rivers


KATELYN LEWIS, SHANNON GUNNIP, TAMARA ALMAI

YouTube Video By Meg Rivers: SAY A LITTLE PRAYER & RESPECT

THE BROOKES BROTHERS


DominiQue Rivers


MELANIE LIEBERMAN


RAND COOPER


MOLLY COOPER


JOSH LIEBERMAN AT CARVING STATION
WITH MARCUS THIBAULT, KEITH BISCIOTTI


CCSU PROF DAVID CAPPELLA,
RAVI SHANKAR, DIANE CREEDE


JIM SMITH, EXECUTIVE EDITOR,
BRISTOL PRESS & NEW BRITAIN HERALD


GEOFF BROOKES, BEN BILELLO


CHARLOTTE CROWE, 2005 STATE PROSE CHAMPION, NOW AT BROWN UNIVERSITY


COLIN McENROE


CINDY CORMIER,
SUNKEN GARDEN POETRY FESTIVAL


FAITH VICINANZA


CCSU PROF MARY COLLINS


PETER McEACHERN


CHRIS DeANGELIS


GEOFF BROOKES


STEPHEN BROOKES


KRIS ALLEN, LEFT-CENTER, ALTO


GOOD VIEW FROM THE BALCONY


AND FROM THE GROUND,
AS TAMARA ALMAI SINGS
BLUE SKIES


PEG CIBES


TAMARA ALMAI

YouTube Video By Meg Rivers: Blue Skies

WHO'S ON FIRST? -- CSU System Asst. Vice Chancellor Bernard Kavaler, poet and Young Writers Trust founding board member Franz Douskey and Dr. Louise Feroe, Vice Chancellor, prep the auditorium for the ceremony.


CHRISTINE PALM, RAVI SHANKAR


PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSIONER JOHN DANAHER, CHRISTINE PALM, RAND COOPER COLIN McENROE, JOHN SALATTO


KRIS ALLEN, JEN ALLEN


HAPPY AUDIENCE


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
VICTORIA NORDLUND, MELANIE LIEBERMAN
ARE IN THE AUDITORIUM


TWAIN HOUSE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
JEFF NICHOLS
WELCOMES THE THRONG


DIANE SMITH, COLIN McENROE


ENCORE


RAND COOPER, RAVI SHANKAR


VICTORIA NORDLUND


DILLON JONES, MIDDLESEX COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


FELICITY SHEEHY, NEW HAVEN COUNTY & STATE POETRY CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


CARA DORRIS, HARTFORD COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


JAMIE PHILLIPS, TOLLAND COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


MELANIE LIEBERMAN: "METAPHORS BE WITH YOU ... "


HILARY SUNDERLAND, NEW LONDON COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


KIANNE GAYLOR, WINDHAM COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


EMMA LOWENBERG, FAIRFIELD COUNTY AND STATE PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAND COOOPER


CLARISSA BURCH, LITCHFIELD COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAND COOPER


LEAH SHAFER, HARTFORD COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAND COOOPER


JESSICA RUMAN, TOLLAND COUNTRY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


ALIZA GANS, NEW HAVEN COUNTY PROSE CHAMPION, WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY AND LOUISE FEROE


LOUISE FEROE


ANDY THIBAULT, WITH RAND COOPER
AND RAVI SHANKAR


WINDHAM COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION YARELIS RIVERA WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAVI SHANKAR


NEW LONDON COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION JHYDE RYALS WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAVI SHANKAR


FAIRFIELD COUNTY POETRY CHAMPION AMANDA BALL WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE AND RAVI SHANKAR


FELICITY SHEEHY EN ROUTE TO COLLECT STATE CHAMPION POETRY PRIZE


STATE POETRY CHAMPION FELICITY SHEEHY WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE, RAVI SHANKAR AND RAND COOPER


STATE PROSE CHAMPION EMMA LOWENBERG WITH FRANZ DOUSKEY, LOUISE FEROE, RAVI SHANKAR AND RAND COOPER

Emma Lowenberg Photo Posted By Hartford Courant Blogger Rick Green

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