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Carolee Dean Books: Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of IDA.
Carolee Dean (1962-)
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Sidelights
Carolee Dean told SATA: "After spending most of my early years in southern California, I moved to Lubbock, Texas, with my family when I was a high-school sophomore.
When I turned seventeen, we moved to a tiny little farming town in west Texas called Happy (population 614). There were twenty-three students in my graduating class, but by the end of the year only sixteen made it through the final ceremony because seven girls got pregnant and dropped out.
"At the beginning of my senior year, out of desperation, boredom, and a yearning to write, I joined the school newspaper.
Carolee dean biography of barack
My teacher, Ilona Smith, required all of her journalism students to participate in the University Interscholastic League (UIL). I competed in news writing and editorial writing and became a state alternate in poetry interpretation.
As a result, I was awarded a four-year scholarship and was the first person in my family to receive a college education.
"When I wr