The Quad is the student newspaper of my Alma Mater, West Chester University, in Pennsylvania. Most of the stuff they send out via email has not been nearly as interesting as this.
The Quad talks with Jill BidenFrank Stern
Issue date: 10/20/08
Dr. Jill Biden, a WCU alumna and wife of democratic vice-presidential nominee Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., granted The Quad an exclusive interview following a rally in Scranton, Pa., last week.
Dr. Biden received a Master of Reading from West Chester University in 1981. She said her time at West Chester University helped her understand what her current students go through.
"I was doing what my students do everyday," Dr. Biden said. "I understand their frustrations."
Added to the stress of her studies was the fact that she was pregnant with her only daughter Ashley while she attended West Chester University.
Dr. Biden continued her scholastic career, while raising her family, and obtained another masters degree from Villanova University in 1987. In January 2007, she earned a doctorate in education from the University of Delaware. Her dissertation focused on community college enrollment retention.
When she passed the driveway to her home, she saw two signs in her driveway placed by her husband. They read, "Congratulations Dr. Jacobs-Biden" and "Dr. and Senator Biden live here."
Currently, Biden teaches in the English Department at Delaware Technical and Community College. Previous to her employment with DTCC, she worked in public schools for 13 years as an English teacher and reading specialist. She also worked part-time with Rockford Psychiatric Hospital Adolescent Program.
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http://media.www.wcuquad.com/media/storage/paper676/news/2008/10/20/News/The-Quad.Talks.With.Jill.Biden-3495422.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition Wow, Jill Biden, Jeff Gannon and Erik B. Anderson.I'll have to find out if there are any other celebrities that attended West Chester University. I worked at the Chester County Historical Society as a Public Relations Intern in the mid-1990's, I should know this stuff.
The ground that WCU is now on used to be a training ground for revolutionary war soldiers. It is also where Frederick Douglass gave his last speech. Thomas U. Walter, who built the capital dome, got his start in West Chester, where seven buildings are designs of his. And Bayard Rustin, the man who told Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. about someone named Ghandi, and who organized the 1963 March on Washington, was born and raised in West Chester, Pennsylvania.
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