Word: alma
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Although Kerr still plays professionally, he does possess quality coaching experience. After serving as a youth coach in Londons Football Association for two years, Kerr accepted a job as first assistant at his alma mater, Duke...
...wanted to teach right after college, but I didn?t want to go to education school - too many hours, too much money to commit to a career I wasn?t sure I wanted long-term. So I applied to my high school alma mater, a private day school in New Jersey. During the day of interviews my standard line, so earnest, so arrogant, was, "I want to give something back." It took the head of the upper school to call my bluff: "If you only stay a year or two," he asked, "do you really think you?ll be giving...
...alma mater did give me the job, and I stayed for three years. Maybe that wasn?t enough time to give something back. But those years did turn me on to the profession (hey, at least I now write about education), and in the future I do hope to return to the classroom. I?m not sure, however, if that makes it worth it to hire amateurs like...
...Einhorn won a teaching fellowship at Harvard in the '70s. In the '60s he had taught an alternative-education class at Penn, his alma mater, and once reportedly broke out the joints, stripped naked and danced in the classroom. Thirty years ago, not everyone was after an M.B.A...
...Hitchcock also sought the balance provided by humor in his personal life - as the show illustrates with family videos and photos. In a publicity picture from 1962, Hitchcock's wife Alma opens the refrigerator to find the director's head sitting on the back of the top shelf. Alma barely hides her laugh as she stares down at the dish. In home movies with his daughter, Patricia, he comes across as a normal dad, playing with baby toys...