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...adolescent frivolity, he sails spontaneously, he bullshits for hours, he writes long letters to friends everywhere. Years after graduating from Yale, William F. Buckley, Jr., still reveals the same collegiate drive that propelled him to the center of the American conservative movement with the publication of his critique of alma mater, God and Man at Yale. His accomplishments would make the most energetic resume suffer blanche: editor and founder of his own conservative magazine (Reagan's announced favorite), television talk show host, syndicated newspaper columnist, lecture circuit fixture at $4,000 a fix, United Nations delegate under Nixon, and guru...
Holmes has had a keen interest in sports since his student days at Mount Vernon (N. Y.) High School, alma mater of such athletes as baseball's Ken Singleton and basketball's Ray Williams and Gus Williams. Holmes was an outfielder on the school's baseball team, but early on ("I was good field, no hit") he decided that journalism might be better suited to his talents. After graduation from City College of New York and the Michele Clark Fellowship Program for Minority Journalists, he got a job as a reporter at the Yonkers (N. Y.) Herald...
...groups have a stake in improving public schools. As private school fundraisers have shown, alumni are willing to donate time or money to the alma mater--aware that drunken cheers at the Homecoming game are inadequate support. For civic activists and businessmen, the interest is more concrete: graduates that can't read a ballot or sign a paycheck don't make good citizens or productive workers. These diverse groups share a common interest in making the schools run better, and could organize as Friends of, say. South Plantation High School...
Seniors entering the job market this spring may be competing with other "graduates" who have never gone to college. Their alma matters are "diploma mills" which the FBI suspects have sold tens of thousands of phony degrees throughout the country...
...arts. A 1966 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Mayman says she has studied the piano for 13 years, and taken painting, drawing and dance lessons. After college, Mayman's various activities included: working as an associate director of admissions at Mt. Holyoke College: acting director of admissions at her alma mater: and living in Puerto Rico and England for a year a piece For two years Mayman worked for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, one year coordinating the BSO's 90th anniversary and another fundraising as the assistant director...