Word: diploma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Movie fans with fading memories of a freckle-faced little girl got a jolt when onetime Cinemoppet Margaret {Journey for Margaret} O'Brien, 18, winner of a special 1944 Academy Award (as the year's best all-round child actress), marched up and got a diploma from Los Angeles' University High School...
...Jonathan Fay diploma will be awarded to a senior who has high scholastic rank and who has made a significant extra-curricular contribution to the student life of the college...
...Conn. "Capt. Hale had changed his uniform for a plain suit of citizen's brown clothes," the sergeant recalled later, "with a round broad-brimmed hat; assuming the character of a Dutch schoolmaster." Before they parted company, Hale left all his valuables and papers, except for his Yale diploma (which he needed to establish his disguise) with the sergeant. Then a friendly sea captain ferried him across Long Island Sound to Huntington, and left...
...years ago had never had a day of formal schooling in her life. Then, after her discharge from the WACs in 1946, she took some special training at Endicott, N.Y.'s Harpur College, two semesters later enrolled in Buffalo's Hutchinson-Central High School and earned a diploma in one year. In June 1954, after another hitch in the WACs, she entered Syracuse University as a sociology major, this week graduated with a creditable "B" average. Total time it took her to get a B.A. after starting from scratch: three years...
Though not the youngest ever admitted to the University, Reade will definitely be the youngest graduate in the history of Weymouth High School when he receives his diploma at the June 3 commencement exercises...