Description of Grover unfair

To the Editor:

The recent article entitled “Oxford Hills’ Future Women of History” was both interesting and informative and well intentioned I am certain. The lives of all of us in the Oxford Hills have been touched, or most certainly will be, by these exceedingly talented women.

However, I take exception to some of the words that were used to describe the talents of Suzanne Grover. The other two women mentioned never had the word “aggressive” used in their biographies, yet to become as active and as supportive as they are of community endeavors, they too had to be aggressive. This term was used to describe Ms. Grover in a negative way when a phrase such as “devoted to her cause or mission:” could have been used, thereby not projecting a negative image of this community leader. I do not know Ms. Hayes but I do know Ms. Grover, as well as Ms. Burns, and they are “devoted to their causes” in the Oxford Hills and, in being so, must be aggressive; both are, however, in an acceptable, necessary and understandable manner.

I often wonder if the political leanings of this newspaper ever have anything to do with the “slant” of the paper’s articles. It is a certainty that your political views favor a Democratic regime. But to partially turn articles about successful and talented women into one that tends to single out one of them who, in your prejudicial mind, appears to be negatively “aggressive” in nature, unfortunately diminishes the story you are trying to convey.

Try in the future to be more neutral in your stories; by being so, you will be more highly regarded.

Tom Curtis

Norway

Editor's Note: It was certainly not our intent to infer a negative "slant" toward Suzanne Grover and we apologize if the story appeared so.