Word: finalist
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...mother she was never Alice Metzinger, the teacher and restaurant consultant who lived an exemplary life in Oregon. To her mother she was Kathy, a daughter she had last seen 23 years ago on a weekend visit from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. The National Merit scholarship finalist, the winner of a Betty Crocker Homemaker award, the valedictorian of Marycrest, her Catholic high school in Colorado, Katherine Ann Power was the family's "pride and joy," says her older brother. She gave no hint that she was anything but a sweet and bookish child happy to be with the large...
Aggressive recuiting and what she perceived to be a more tolerant campus led her to choose Duke, Jones says. A National Merit Scholarship finalist, a commended student in the Outstanding Achievement for Negroes Award and president of her school's African American Culture Club, Jones was recruited heavily by an array of top schools and was a hot commodity in the competitive college market for the limited pool of highly sought-after Black students...
Awards: Last week, Drury added one more award to his seemingly endless list of accolades. Drury won the John Tudor Memorial Cup as Harvard's most valuable player, adding this to the slew of honors that include All-America, ECAC Player of the Year, Hobey Baker Finalist, and Ivy League Co-Player of the Year...
...Verge or The Geography of Yearning, a sprightly fantasy about three Victorian women explorers that became one of the most widely produced plays of the '80s; David Feldshuh's Miss Evers' Boys, a drama about government experiments on black victims of syphilis that was a 1992 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in drama; and Overmyer's The Heliotrope Bouquet by Scott Joplin & Louis Chauvin, a musing on the turn-of-the-century black composer and an unknown peer that arrives off- Broadway this week. The company's longtime artistic director, Stan Wojewodski Jr., moved up to Yale two years...
Hobey Baker Awards: They've got zero. We've got three (the most of any school), and soon to be four. Northeastern has never even had a finalist. Let's face it, Harvard is to Hobey Baker as Notre Dame is to Heisman. Baker point to Harvard...