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Pittsburgh native Clarke on Pentagon front lines
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ^ | Saturday, April 26, 2003 | Kellie B. Gormly

Posted on 04/26/2003 7:35:51 AM PDT by Willie Green

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When Victoria "Torie" Clarke was a shy teenager at Sewickley Academy, she would beg her English teacher to excuse her from addressing the class. Clarke would even lay her head down on her desk in dread, her mane of long, 70s-style hair tumbling forward and concealing her blushed face.


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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: asdpa; clarke; military; pentagon; pittsburgh; publicaffairs; spokeswoman; torie; victoriaclarke

1 posted on 04/26/2003 7:35:51 AM PDT by Willie Green
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To: martin_fierro; xsmommy; mountaineer
ping
2 posted on 04/26/2003 7:36:41 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: Willie Green
Torrie Clark is another example of the fantastic product of a private school education, Sewickley Academy.
3 posted on 04/26/2003 7:44:36 AM PDT by lmavk
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To: Willie Green; 3catsanadog; agrace; annyokie; Atlantin; Badray; Benrand; bloodmeridian; buzzyboop; ..
'Burgh girl made good!

It's a 'Burgh


Thing.TM

Send FReepmail if you want on/off BPT list
Learn Pittsburghese!

4 posted on 04/26/2003 8:48:55 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Mr. Avuncular)
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To: Torie
ping!
5 posted on 04/26/2003 8:49:26 AM PDT by martin_fierro (Mr. Avuncular)
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To: lmavk
I'm married to the fantastic product of The Ellis School.
6 posted on 04/26/2003 9:09:11 AM PDT by billorites (freepo ergo sum)
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To: Willie Green
Tommy Frank's personal aide is a Lt. Colonel who graduated from Hampton High School in the N. Hills area of Pittsburgh. The whole region has to be proud of that guy. My alma mater....... the Talbots.........
7 posted on 04/26/2003 9:13:11 AM PDT by doosee
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To: Willie Green
shouldn't this be under vanity posts or something...?

...just askin'...

8 posted on 04/26/2003 9:25:47 AM PDT by Khurkris (Ranger On...)
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To: Khurkris
shouldn't this be under vanity posts or something...?

Freshly published biographical information of a public figure?

Well it certainly doesn't merit "breaking news', but I wouldn't call it a "vanity" either.

After all, "Willie Green" is NOT Torie Clarke. LOL!

9 posted on 04/26/2003 9:37:47 AM PDT by Willie Green (Go Pat Go!!!)
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To: lmavk
Torrie Clark is another example of the fantastic product of a private school education, Sewickley Academy.

How much of a difference do you suppose between tuition for Sewickley Academy and the Pittsburgh Public School system? Hint: Not much, last i heard, PPSS got about $12,000/year/student.

< Pittsburgheese>Got to call the Jagoffs that run the government schools to a reckoning soon an'at.< /Pittsburgheese>

10 posted on 04/26/2003 8:30:31 PM PDT by Calvinist_Dark_Lord (yunz'r a bunch a jagoffs an'at)
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To: Willie Green
thanks for the ping, i had no idea she was a local!
11 posted on 04/27/2003 4:37:07 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: xsmommy
Yeah, but is she a jagoff??
)8-])
12 posted on 04/27/2003 11:57:35 AM PDT by TheGrimReaper (o)(o)
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To: martin_fierro
Thanks for the ping!
13 posted on 04/28/2003 1:07:09 PM PDT by Ogie Oglethorpe
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To: TheGrimReaper
She ain't no jagowf, but that Don Cannin, awn ABC, he's a jagowf n'nat, maybe Kevin Gilbride, e's a jagowf, fer sure.
14 posted on 04/29/2003 8:46:02 AM PDT by Benrand
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