Anne Petrie was most known as the host of Canada Live and Coast to Coast on CBC Newsworld during its early years. CBC Newsworld is a Canadian 24-hour cable news television channel operated by the CBC. It broadcasts into over 10 million homes nation-wide, as well as into some northern states in the U.S. It is the worlds third-oldest television service of this nature, after CNN in...
Prior to that she was the primary news anchor and host of CBWT's 24Hours LateNight from October 1985 to July 1989. CBWT is a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television station in Winnipeg, Manitoba. ...
The purpose of the Petry Prize is to encourage and recognize international research on the economic consequences of increased atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. It is made possible by the generous support of Dr. Glenn Petry of Bend, Oregon. Dr. Petry is Professor Emeritus of Finance at Washington State University.
Through Dr. Petrys generosity, a prize of $7500 is awarded for a scholarly paper published within the previous three calendar years on the economics of climate change. The paper may be theoretical or empirical but should have clear policy implications.
The selection committee for the Petry Research Prize was chaired by Charlie Kolstad of UC Santa Barbara, and included Carlo Carraro (University of Venice and FEEM), and Richard Somerville (a climate expert at the Scripps Intitute of Oceanography).
AnnPetry's The Street was the first novel by an African American to sell more than a million copies.
In 1946Petry was awarded the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship which allowed her to finish The Street, her first of three novels.
Petry told an audience in a speech published in Horn Book Magazine that she felt affected by numerous books as a child, to the extent of acting out scenes from some of her favorite books, a childhood trait which she indicated transcends generations when books and stories inspire childrens' imaginations.
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