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Frederick's grandfather was the great conqueror Frederick Barbarossa; his father was Heinrich VI of Germany, the man who captured Richard the Lion-hearted and whom the Italians accurately called Heinrich the Cruel. His mother Costanza brought the Sicilian crown in her dowry, but Heinrich had to subdue Sicily before he could wear it. This done, he burned alive all of Costanza's relations to ensure that he could wear it in peace. It seems certain that Costanza struck back by conspiring with Celestine III (who, like all Popes of the period, worked to undermine a strong king...
...Costanza died soon after, and Frederick grew up in Palermo, an unseen and uncared-for ward of the Pope. The boy, living almost as a beggar child, learned Arabic from the seaport's Arab sailors. He was to learn more than half a dozen other languages, including Hebrew and English. At 14 he was crowned King of Sicily. He held no power and had neither arms nor money. But by his late teens, chiefly by force of an agile mind and a personality radiantly well suited to rabble-and noble-rousing, he had seized control of his inherited German...
...merger will take effect immediately, with Mary Costanza '58 honorary president and Roselyn Leinwand '59 honorary secretary. These positions correspond to former offices in the Radcliffe organization. The PBH service committees have also been integrated, and will be directed by co-chairmen instead of separate committee heads...
...members include Agna Boass of Greycroft House and Sherburn, Biology; Mary E. Costanza of Coggeshall House and Quincy, Philosophy; Rebecca Hoge of Everest House and Wayland, English; Ellen B. Kritzman of McIntire House and Glenhead, N.Y., Biology; Mrs. Dorothy M. Mermin of Cambridge, English; Lynn V. Moorhead of Cabot Hall and Poplar Grove, III., Biochemical Sciences, and Janice D. Rowe of Greycroft House and Woburn, Far Eastern Languages...
...Volunteers' remarkable record can be attributed to two factors; first, their serious interest in the work of medicine, and secondly, an acutely sensitive direction of the immense organization. Director Reiss has the help of six PBH Social Services Committee members. Mary Costanza '58 and M. Joyce Gahm '58 respectively coordinate Mount Auburn Hospital Volunteers and are promoting the new Tufts College extension of the PBH program; John L. Higgins '57 organizes Cambridge City workers, and Morton F. Goldberg '58 is in charge of PBH work at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary; David Chernof '57 directs the Program's relations with...