Graham Duncan, WWII Veteran, Poet, Professor ONEONTA – Graham Duncan, 97, a published poet and 35-year SUNY Oneonta English professor who, with the 87th Infantry during World War II, witnessed Buchenwald’s liberation, passed away on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2019, at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, following a brief illness. He was born in Poughkeepsie in 1922 and attended the New York State College for Teachers at Albany and Cornell University. After completing his doctorate in English, he taught for three…
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Posting Too-Complicated Bills Serving No Purpose To The Editor: My hospital bill from a visit of six months ago just arrived. The bill says clinic visit $32 (for walking in the door?), laboratory $31.85, then it says contractual adjustment: +$55.46. Then says insurance payment Medicare -$93.54, then it says: Sequestration write-off: -$ 1.91. That was just to use the room!! Then the next line is the doctor’s fee … on and on it goes. How am I going to understand…