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\"However, there are a few more newspapers than there were five years ago,\" said Dr. Henry LaBrie, the BU journalism professor who conducted the survey, \"and circulation has also risen by about 700,000, or about 23 percent.\" Part of the retrenchment occurred, LaBrie said, because the establishment press in the 1950's and 1960's, began recruiting and training promising young black reporters, putting many black papers in the position of \"ships without rudders.\" Another factor was the simultaneous increased attention the mainstream American media focused on black issues. LaBrie, meanwhile, said the basic reason for the existence of black, and other alternative newspapers, is not very different from the need expressed on the editorial page of the nation's first black newspaper on March 16, 1827.

\"This is a fallout of very poor preparation and lack of standards in education in general,\" Prof. Henry G. LaBrie 3d said today. When LaBrie quizzed his students on the fourth anniversary of the accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant near Harrisburg, Pa., two-thirds of them didn't know where the plant was, and one student thought it was called Four Mile Island. On the other hand, when Interior Secretary James Watt tried to prevent a pop group from playing at a Washington concert, 90 percent of LaBrie's students knew the musicians were the Beach Boys.

AUBURN [Anita Evelyn] (Labrie) Usher, 84, of 2703 Forest Park Drive, a homemaker and 50 year resident of Auburn, died Monday in Saint Vincent Hospital after an illness. Her husband Daniel Love Usher died in 1984.

WHITINSVILLE - David Henry Labrie, 67, of 60 Robin Rd. died Tues. April 16, 2013.

CHARLTON - Arthur Henry Labrie, 87, formerly of Auburn, died Thursday, December 27, 2012 in Overlook Masonic Nursing Home in Charlton, MA after an illness. Arthur was a past commander of the American Legion 279 Tuttle Post in Auburn and a member of the Joel H. Prouty Lodge and the MA Veterans Service Officers Association.

Melvin B. Miller, a BU trustee and publisher of the Bay State Banner, remembers that when he went to the library years ago for material on the black press, \"it seemed that all the important works were authored by LaBrie.\" Miller got in touch with LaBrie and they became friends. When the job opened up at BU, Miller urged LaBrie to apply. Miller, who was himself criticized for bringing LaBrie to BU, praises LaBrie as open, honest and committed and argues that too much is made of him being a Maine farmer. \"He's been around cities,\" Miller said. \"It's not like he's a hick.\" LaBrie in fact was born in Brooklyn and lived there and nearby in New Jersey through high school. Despite his dubious reception at BU, LaBrie has gone on to make his mark. He has gained a reputation as a tough grader and effective teacher. \"He's a real tough professor but I think he's very good because he has real high expectations for his students,\" commented Karen Davis, a junior from Connecticut who took introductory news writing from LaBrie last year. \"A lot of students thought he was too tough,\" she added.

Asked initially for [Jeanne Kirkpatrick]'s identification, 22 percent knew her. After five more quizzes mentioning her, the percentage rose to 62, he said. Twenty-eight percent correctly identified [Pierre Trudeau]. These misguided identifications of Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister; Khadafy, the Libyan leader who is no friend of the Israelis; Kirkpatrick, the US ambassador to the United Nations; and the dioxin-ridden Missouri town have been among the responses to periodic current-events tests a Boston University professor has given his journalism students over the past three years.

Budgets for Boston University (Massachusetts) activities for the Afghan Media Project are revised

  Mr. Labrie was proud of his membership in the Uxbridge Rod and Gun Club, VFW, Whitinsville Fish and Game, the Italian American Club, American Legion of Uxbridge, and the Polish Hall. He took pride in cooking and catering for fundraising at these organizations. He enjoyed hobbies with his friends and siblings. He was an avid hunter, fisherman, and golfer. His favorite times were around a pitch table playing cards, going to bingo, working in his vegetable garden, and tinkering with his many woodworking projects.

After receiving his GED he joined the U.S. Navy and served in the Vietnam War on the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt aircraft carrier. He proudly served in the National Guard Unit 2181 headquarters in Whitinsville from 1975 - 1995. He retired from Westboro State Hospital and continued to work part time at Blissful Meadows Golf Course. [David Henry Labrie] was proud of his membership in the Uxbridge Rod & Gun Club, VFW, Whitinsville Fish & Game, the Italian American Club, American Legion of Uxbridge, and the Polish Hall. He took pride in cooking and catering for fundraising at these organizations.