October 2019
Winner of Multiple Awards fromo Our college. Our news. Our voice. Naugatuck Valley Community College October 1, 2019 Waterbury, Connecticut Vol. 64, Iss. 2 “Once we start to act, Death of a Pathmaker Joseph Welles As we mark another October, National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, people worldwide pay homage to hope will be everywhere.” broadcast journalist, political analyst and best-selling Jason Hesse author, Mary “Cokie” Roberts. Survived by her husband, two children, and six grandchildren, Roberts died of breast cancer September 17th at the age of seventy-fi ve. Fellow journalists were quick to praise her. Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts, called her “a true pioneer of business and a revered col- league,” and ABC News President James Goldston hon- ored Roberts for “her kindness and generosity, and sharp intellect,” noting that she “made ABC a better place and all of us better journalists.” 60 Minutes correspondent, Lesley Stahl, said Roberts’ death was like “losing the best sister you could ever have,” adding that her friend’s pro- fessional mantra was always, “Do no harm.” Born December 27, 1943, in New Orleans, Cokie Roberts was raised in a highly-charged political atmo- sphere. Her father, Hale Boggs, served as Majority Leader for the House of Representatives and was an outspoken member of the Warren Commission, which investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. After Boggs’s death—a plane crash in Alaska in which wreckage was never found—his widow, Roberts’ mother, Lindy Boggs, was elected to the House of Representatives, the fi rst woman elected to Congress Photo Courtesy of Fortune Magazine from Louisiana.
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