Word: alumna
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Kevin J. Mulcahy, a host parent whose wife was a Harvard alumna, said the “most gratifying aspect” of the relationship is witnessing students’ growth over the course of their college careers...
...Married his current wife, Jean, a Cheers alumna, in 1980. The Rev. Jesse Jackson officiated. In 1990, after suffering eight miscarriages, the couple had a daughter, Liberty Jean Kasem...
...concentrator. She kind of fell into the profession. “I became an art critic through a series of accidents and coincidences,” said Vaizey, now a celebrated art critic who has written for the British newspapers, the Financial Times and the Sunday Times. The Radcliffe alumna says her career started in an Oxford gallery, when its proprietor suggested that she write about the exhibit. “I always knew I would do something,” she said. “This just happened and it just snowballed from there.” Vaizey spent...
...some of its millions in debt, Morris Brown announced, it would have to close for the spring and possibly forever. Luckily, alumni stepped up to the plate: their contributions at two rallies in December and January - including $100 in quarters, donated by the 13-year-old son of an alumna - supplied the first $100,000 to start paying down the water bill, allowing the school to reopen this semester. (See pictures of Barack Obama's college years...
...economist—who took her first step on American soil when she arrived at Harvard in the early 1970s—through three decades on the upper echelon of global economics. And as a top official at the World Bank in this time of economic duress, the Harvard alumna with a reputation for her focus and passion is now working harder than ever...