Word: fathering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...born son, John especially felt the burden of his grandfather's admonition that wealth is "a gift of God to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind." After graduating from Princeton in 1929, he dutifully went to work at his father's office. "My father had the idea that his sons would follow the same pattern he had," he once explained. The son eventually became a trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation and of Rockefeller Center, the family's huge real estate complex in Manhattan. He also oversaw the family...
...Riverside Church, the eulogy was delivered by Rockefeller's only son Jay, who is Governor of West Virginia.' Said he: "He endures in what he stood for, in what he did, in the inspiration and guidance he has given us. Let me say to you, my father, that you helped shape a country and a world in your own quiet way. You have set a standard for our family and for each of us as individuals. Let me say to you that we are strong and we are ready to carry that standard forward; that we know...
...father was a Communist Party member in the Ukraine who worked for a time on a party newspaper. A chess enthusiast, Anatoli had a talent for mathematics that led him to study computer programming at the Moscow Physical-Technical Institute. When he applied for a visa to go to Israel, he was refused on the ground that he had been privy to state secrets while working for an oil and gas company that promptly fired him. His fiancee Natalya Stiglitz, who had applied to leave with him, received her visa. They decided to marry before she left for Israel...
During the day, life in the mountain valley where the mission's 4,500-acre tract is located still appears as serene as it was in 1964 when the present rector, Father Keble Prosser, first came out from England to run St. Augustine's. The dirt road twists and turns its way up a hillside, into which are built low, one-story brick classroom buildings and dormitories, shaded by long verandas and heavy foliage. St. Augustine's 14th century bell continues to ring out across the valley. As the African sun climbs through the mist to strike...
...life at St. Augustine's is quickly changing, for the worse. Says Father Prosser: "Until recently we were genuinely a haven of peace. But after Elim, I was approached by a number of our senior African teachers who said they had certain knowledge that St. Augustine's would be next." The rector replaced his last five white teachers with blacks. Reluctantly, he began to spend his nights at the home of a friend in the nearby town of Umtali...