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Most recently, Erickson was an assistant coach at Northwestern—her alma mater—and she also coached...
...League equivalent of those older ladies—hoping for something at least mildly salacious. “Chloe” is the fictional debut of Natalie Krinsky, the former sex columnist of New Haven, and it chronicles the life of a female undergrad at her alma mater, who not surprisingly writes a sex column...
...Linowitz. Richard Nixon fidgets past, inviting Linowitz to the White House in the 1960s to discuss the author's work as chairman of a commission on campus unrest, then betraying his own insecurity by reminding Linowitz that "I went to Whittier College, not as good as Hamilton [Linowitz's alma mater], but a good school." Jimmy Carter is depicted as so preoccupied with minor details that Linowitz learned to play dumb with him. To give the President a number, he recalls, "would have been the first step down an endless path" toward ever more detailed and irrelevant questions. Egyptian President...
...million to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering for a new West Coast study center, raising his total gifts for 1985 to $72.5 million. But what makes Lang special is his passion for the personal growth of students. Five years ago, he handed over $6 million to his alma mater, Swarthmore College, near Philadelphia. It was the largest single gift ever received by that quintessential liberal arts college, where the 1,300 or so students are deeply imbued with the school's Quaker tradition of individual responsibility. Lang had already given $1 million to Swarthmore, principally for a music...
...when the Crimson faced off against Stone’s alma mater, her loyalties fell to Cahow...