Barnidge:
Berkeley's Maggie Gee joins history's heroes
By Tom Barnidge
Contra Costa Times columnist
Posted: 09/11/2009 03:21:43
PM PDT
Updated: 09/13/2009 11:33:46
AM PDT
ALL YOU NEED to know about the Congressional
Gold Medal is that the first honoree was George Washington.
The list of recipients honored since
for "distinguished achievements and contributions" reads like a Who's Who
of modern history: Ulysses S. Grant, Thomas Edison, Charles Lindbergh,
Winston Churchill, Jackie Robinson, Martin Luther King Jr., Pope John Paul
II ... well, you get the idea.
And then there's the small, soft-spoken,
86-year-old woman who answered the door of her Berkeley residence the other
day. Maybe you don't know about Maggie Gee. (More) |
