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...other--Centenary College in Shreveport, La.--was known as the alma mater of Celtic star Robert Parish. Despite a 21-0 regular season mark, the Gentlemen never received mention in the national rankings...
...shirt to school. Why should they tell me not to show my belly button?" Good thing she is a little too young to meet Brendan McReady at a mixer. McReady, a junior at Bethesda- Chevy Chase High School, has some sentimental regard for the school uniforms at an alma mater: "Everyone wore the same thing every day, so perhaps it was easier. You'd get up, throw on the clothes, and you looked slimy all day. But who cared? It was all boys...
...also gives generously to a number of charities. Last year, for example, she laid out $750,000 to fund ten scholarships at Tennessee State University in Nashville, her alma mater, then followed up with letters to each recipient, challenging a couple of them to get better grades. "My mission is to use this position, power and money to create opportunities for other people," she says...
...Angeles. During his speech, on the value of higher education, he asked the graduating students how many had parents who had never graduated from high school. When some 30% stood up, he congratulated them for "breaking the chain" and said he hopes to return next year to his alma mater to finish his own education. Olmos, who dropped out shortly before graduating, added that he is planning to re-enroll at Cal State with the intention of getting his B.A. and possibly going on for higher degrees...
...acknowledges that "it's nearly gold-watch time for me" and discloses his retirement plans: "Teaching and preaching." He hopes to find a podium at his alma mater, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he is helping to raise $40 million for the Iacocca Institute, an industrial-policy center. Says he: "I'm going to try to be a cross between a savvy, street-smart guy and an elder statesman." In that sense, Talking Straight could turn out to be a future professor's best-selling textbook...