Word: drayton
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Harvard's already record number of Rhodes Scholarship winners grew further when Richard H. Drayton '86, a native of Guyana raised in Barbados, was chosen as the 1988 Rhodes Scholar for the British Caribbean in mid-December...
...Drayton graduated from Harvard magna cum laude in History and Science, and began the Ph.D. program in History at Yale University in September 1986. The Rhodes award provides a full scholarship for two years of study at Oxford University in England...
Including Drayton, 12 Harvard students and graduates have won the prestigious award this year. That number breaks the previous record for any American college, which Harvard...
...Drayton described the society's fellows as having "a very high level of determination." He said they are often younger than commercial entrepreneurs but perform similar functions...
...very fact that Ashoka is now functioning is a statement that some of the supporting infrastructure [for international public entrepreneur programs] is coming into place," said Drayton, who also founded Enviromental Safety--an organization which unofficially monitors President Reagan and the Environmental Protection Agency...