Word: foxcroft
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Enthusiasm & Experience. The Peace Corps' youthful (average age: 24) teachers seem to make up in enthusiasm what they lack in experience. One of those with a classroom background is Dorothy Dee Vellenga, 24, who last year taught biology at the expensive Foxcroft school for girls in Middleburg, Va. Now she is in charge of all-male classes in biology and chemistry at the West Africa Secondary School in Accra. "It's certainly a refreshing change," she says. "The boys here are much more enthusiastic than the girls were at Foxcroft. They pay perfect attention, and you can hear...
...four generations, the Rockefellers have admired Wellesley College for women. No exception is Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller, wife of New York's Governor. Though not a Wellesley alumna (she graduated from Virginia's Foxcroft School, attended the Sorbonne for a year), Mrs. Rockefeller is a loyal and energetic Wellesley trustee. Two months ago, she fired off a letter to her husband's office, reporting that Wellesley's campaign to raise $15 million for faculty salaries was almost three years old and less than one-third to the goal. Last week she proudly revealed the tardy...