Word: cappell
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...deeper understanding or an enduring passion, the ones we come back to visit years after graduating, the educators who opened doors and altered the course of our lives. I was lucky enough to encounter two such teachers my senior year in a public high school in Connecticut. Dr. Cappel told us from the outset that his goal was not to prepare us for the AP biology exam; it was to teach us how to think like scientists, which he proceeded to do with a quiet passion, mainly in the laboratory. Mrs. Hastings, my stern, Radcliffe-trained English teacher...
...Manhattan two days later, Tammany Hall was ready for him. Two bus loads of ward heelers were dispatched to Grand Central as the core of a crowd which swelled to thousands. A band marched up playing "Hail, Hail the Gang's All Here." All in white, Peter P. Cappel, head of New York Jewelers Exchange Inc. and a generous Democrat, brought to the station three pretty girls with baskets of roses which they sprinkled under the Mayor's trim little feet. From the hooraying throng an elderly woman wriggled through the police lines and planted a loud kiss...
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