Word: castilleja
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Susan E. Dean, director of college counseling at Castilleja School in Palo Alto, Calif., attributed the higher application totals seen by top schools to the fact that high school seniors have been applying to more colleges...
...Antonio Cabinetmaker Alvaro Alcorta was sentenced to death for the murder of his wife. At the trial, Alcorta vainly claimed that he had come upon his wife and one Natividad Castilleja kissing in a car; Alcorta admitted that he then stabbed his wife to death in a fit of passion, a crime punishable in Texas by no more than five years in prison. For the prosecution, Castilleja blandly testified that he had only a platonic relationship with Mrs. Alcorta. In 1957, after Alcorta had faced execution eleven times, the Supreme Court reversed the conviction on the ground that Castilleja...
...Castilleja (girls, Palo...
...Castellane, Harvard student with the class of 1925, son of Vice President Count Stanislas de Castellane of the French Chamber of Deputies, nephew of the Marquis Marie Paul Ernest Boniface de Castellane who was once husband of Anna Gould (she is now Duchesse de Talleyrand); and Sylvia de Castilleja de Guzman, daughter of the Conde de Castilleja de Guzman of Spain...
...seldom allowed to walk outside the gates. Virginia's Foxcroft stresses manners and sports, as does the more intellectual Rosemary in Greenwich, Conn. Westover in Middlebury, Conn., insists upon its selectivity. The Masters School at Dobbs Ferry, N. Y., is proud of its social standing and religious training. Castilleja School in California is the most famed of Western girls' schools...
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