Barbara Lett-Simmons ( born 1927 ) is an American politician.

Although D. C. does have a non-voting delegate to Congress, Lett-Simmons's Electoral College abstention, the first since U. S. presidential election, 1864, was intended to protest what Lett-Simmons referred to as the federal district's " colonial status.

Lett-Simmons served on the District of Columbia's Board of Education from 1974 to 1986.

More recently, Lett-Simmons helped lead a 2004 petition effort to recall D. C. mayor Anthony A. Williams.

Mira Sorvino is an alumna of the Veritones of Harvard College where she had the solo on Only You by Yaz.

The term " Old Girl " is similarly used for a female alumna of such schools.

This expression derives from the wearing of school ties by former pupil, to indicate that the wearer is an alumnus or alumna of a particular school or university.

She is also an alumna of the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art of Paris, CNSAD.

Lindquist is married to Edward Buckbee and has two adult daughters, one of whom is an alumna of Northwestern University.

Barbara Pierce was born in Flushing, New York, attended Rye Country Day School from 1931 to 1937, and is an alumna of Ashley Hall School in Charleston, South Carolina.

She is an alumna of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and was recognized for being their leading orchid grower several times.

Cusack is an alumna of the University of Wisconsin – Madison.

* Dr. Patricia Gabow, alumna of 1965, became the chief of renal disease at Denver General Hospital in 1973 and is now the Chief Executive Officer of Denver Health.

In the movie The Nanny Diaries Mrs. X is a Smith alumna.

However, Gore's ex-wife, Tipper, is herself an alumna, receiving a master's degree from Peabody in 1975.

Ms. Jan M. Reimer, an alumna of the college, is the current Director of Student Activities.

Metcalf is an alumna of Illinois State University, class of 1976.

* Literature / Biography — Alice Walker, most notably the author of " The Color Purple ", is also an alumna.

She is an alumna of Long Beach Polytechnic High School and returned in 1989 in a performance to benefit its music program.

* The novel The New Girls ( 1979 ), by Beth Gutcheon ( a Miss Porter's School alumna ), is set in a school called Miss Pratt's based on Miss Porter's.

President of the United States Richard Nixon remains the college's most well-known alumnus, although Andrea Barber, who played wacky neighbor Kimmy Gibbler on the sitcom Full House, is a well-known alumna.

She is an alumna of Kappa Delta sorority.

* Dr. Cristina Yang, a character on the popular medical television drama Grey's Anatomy is a Stanford alumna and ' graduated first in her class ', despite Stanford's medical school not actually having grades or rankings

Interestingly, Nicole Stamp, who has been the host of Reach For The Top's Ontario Championships since 2004, is also an alumna of Richview Collegiate.

MSNBC anchor and a host of NBC's Early Today Christina Brown is also an alumna of the university.

DeLoach is an alumna of California State University Fullerton.

" Arguing that the college suffered from " a growing attachment to the status quo that, if unattended, is lethal to Bennington's purpose and pedagogy ," the Board of Trustees " solicit ... concerns and proposals on a wide and open-ended range of issues from every member of the faculty, every student, every staff member, every alumna and alumnus, and dozens of friends of the College.

She is an alumna of The Madeira School, a Virginia boarding school for girls, after starting out at The Chapin School in New York City.

It became the sole `` subject '' of `` international law '' ( a term which, it is pertinent to remember, was coined by Bentham ), a body of legal principle which by and large was made up of what Western nations could do in the world arena.

National responsibility for individual welfare is a concept not limited to the United States or even to the Western nations.

Historically, however, the concept is one that has been of marked benefit to the people of the Western civilizational group.

While the pattern is uneven, some having gained more than others, nationalism has in fact served the Western peoples well.

While it is hazardous to project the trend of history, it seems clear that a genuine community is painfully emerging in the Western world, particularly among the countries of Western Europe.

That time is now past and the Atlantic nations, if they are to survive, must develop a full-fledged community, and they must also look beyond the frontiers of `` Western civilization '' toward a world-wide `` concert of free nations ''.

So far as the record is concerned, the Western powers have not acquiesced and should not do so.

The Inter-american Press Association, which blankets the Western Hemisphere from northern Canada to Cape Horn, is meeting in New York City this week for the first time in eleven years.

It is quite evident that the people of Western Europe are overwhelmingly opposed to participation in a nuclear war.

Or the city can be a graveyard monument to Western intransigence, if that is what the West wants.

No matter that it is his troops who rape Western women and eat Western men.

No matter that the Katanga operation is strategically insane in terms of Western interests in Africa.

The gulf between the `` rich '' and the `` poor '' has narrowed, in the industrialized Western world, to the point that the word `` poor '' is hardly applicable.

The most unusual of them is the Ithaca 49 ( about $20, $5 for a saddle scabbard ) -- a lever-action single-shot patterned after the famous Winchester lever-action and featuring the Western look.

Certainly, it is the traditional clarity of his music which has endeared him to the Western World -- not his experimentations.

Now, you probably share the widespread Western belief that the Lord Buddha is the most compassionate of the gods, much more so than Jehovah and Allah and the rest.

And is Western influence greater or less than it used to be??

Fearful of inviting a military showdown with the West which they could not win, the Communists seek to undermine Western power where the nuclear might of the West is irrelevant -- in backwoods guerrilla skirmishes, in mob uprisings in the streets, in parliaments, in clandestine meetings of undercover conspirators, at the United Nations, on the propaganda front, at diplomatic conferences -- preferably at the highest level.

After Cuba and Laos, it was argued, Mr. Khrushchev will interpret the President's consent to the meeting as further evidence of Western weakness -- perhaps even panic -- and is certain to try to exploit the advantage he now believes he holds.

This is an area nearly as large as Western Europe ; ;

If Mr. Kennan is sometimes a little somber in his appraisals, if his analysis of how Western diplomacy met the challenge of an era of great wars and social revolutions is often critical and pessimistic -- well, the record itself is not too encouraging.