Word: dixons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Across the road at Palmer Dixon, the women's tennis team captured a share of the Ivy title--its seventh-straight--with a 7-2 victory over Princeton...
April 8, 1989, Palmer Dixon Courts...
...many hours each week to fund raising from private as well as public sources. The cost for each teenager is about $1,500 a year, and the paid staff members are all indigenous to the community. "Most adolescent pregnancy programs are headed by white female social workers," says Cary Dixon, a 48-year-old black man who teaches the family-life course to boys at the Frederick Douglass housing project...
...Dixon serves as a crucial role model, particularly for the many boys who don't have fathers at home. "When I grew up, families were there to teach kids that there are certain boundaries," he recalls. "Now there is no discipline in their lives. Kids' lives are like basketball played without lines." He believes Carrera's approach holds promise. "By keeping these kids on a clear education track, by having them understand the importance of delaying pregnancy and by including parents, Mike is doing what others aren't," he says...
...Harvard men's tennis team made a clean sweep of things Saturday at the Palmer Dixon Courts...