Word: betas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today also, the alumni will join students at the annual Phi Beta Kappa Parade and Exercises in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. I. A. Richards, University Professor, and Henry A. Murray, professor of Clinical Psychology, will deliver the poem and Oration...
Disappointing Date. Throughout his schooling, Halleck was an honor student and front runner. At Indiana University he graduated Phi Beta Kappa, was student-union president in his senior year. But he was so busy gathering garlands that he made few campus friends. Recalls a classmate: "Friendship takes time-and Charlie didn't have time." Always, he thought of his future, to the point where a coed returned from her first date with Halleck complaining of that strange lad who "spent all night talking about how he was going to be President." Halleck never got another date with...
...graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton, a philosophy major and valedictorian of the class ('08). He went on to score George Washington University's highest law marks to that date, got a bright start as a young international lawyer for New York's Sullivan & Cromwell. In June 1912 he married an upstate New York girl named Janet Avery, soon afterward interrupted his law practice to work for the World War I Trade Board (poor eyesight kept him out of the military service). After the Armistice, Foster Dulles got a gleaming diplomatic opportunity. President Woodrow Wilson and Secretary...
...Philadelphia's blue-blooded Germantown, son of a millionaire attorney-banker-industrialist who became president of the University of Pennsylvania (1930-44). Prepped at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy; majored in English at Penn ('28), played basketball, managed the football team, made Phi Beta Kappa...
...last three semesters. Winn is president of the 7,000-member student body, also wrestles, swims, plays golf, and runs the 100-yd. dash. ¶ Mrs. Bianca C. Stewart, 22, of New York City, has been blind for twelve years. A dean's list and Phi Beta Kappa Senior at Queens College, she majors in English and plans to get an M.A. at Columbia University for an eventual teaching career...