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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...
...pretty "Toodie" Simpson, the bachelor met his match. Ever since her schooldays (at Virginia's fashionable, horsy Foxcroft), according to one of her friends, Toodie "had only one concern-to get married." She wore huge gold earrings in a gypsy style and had frizzy black hair. The effect, said her friend, was rather too exotic for an 18-year-old and somehow she "scared the boys away." Nevertheless, in 1946 Toodie married William Simpson, the son of a Chicago millionaire. Last year they were divorced. Now a sleek, mature 26 who "can afford a suit or two from Schiaparelli...
Poor Little Rich Girl. "I used to ride with him, fly with him, fish with him, and just shoot the breeze with him.," she says. She grew up with a fiercely loyal admiration for him. At 19, just out of fashionable Foxcroft School, she went to work as a $30-a-week cub on the Daily News...
Unable to maintain the large house after the death of her husband, Mrs. Hicks later moved her family two streets north to the present Winthrop Street. The house, now a relic at the tender age of twenty-two, was allowed to fall into disrepair. A new owner was found, Foxcroft by name, who enlarged the building with an ell to the back that included a kitchen that new houses Kirkland's collection on political theory...