Word: grader
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Actually, she's Aileen Riggin Soule nowadays. But in 1920 Miss Riggin was the 14-year-old gold-medal winner in women's springboard diving at the Olympics in Antwerp. "At the time, I was just an eighth-grader from Brooklyn Heights competing for the Women's Swimming Association of New York," says Mrs. Soule, who now lives in Honolulu, where she still swims for the--brace yourself--Humuhumunukunukuapuaa Swim Club. "When Helen Wainwright, who was also 14, and I made the Olympic team that summer, U.S. officials tried to have us disqualified for being too young. But the manager...
Fifty years ago, Van Auken, a sixth grader from Alpine, Texas, flew to Harvard to speak with the admissions committee about the possibility of applying to the College, according to the July 5, 1946 issue of The Crimson...
...sixth grader, attempting to become the youngest applicant for admission since Cotton Mather, was disappointed to learn he could not apply until his senior year of high school...
OLIVIA RISS PEEBLES, 7, who drew the headline lettering for our cover and our inside story, may be TIME's youngest contributor. A second-grader at St. Luke's School in New York City, Olivia began painting as a toddler. "I like to make my own pictures, not copy them, because that makes them really mine," she says. Art is just one of her passions. Among the others: her Abyssinian cat Horatio, cooking pizza and cakes, swimming, modern dance and rock 'n' roll. "I go crazy for the Beatles," says Olivia. "I feel free as a bird when I dance...
...want the School Committee to hold the superintendent responsible for her actions over the last six months, as we have been held for ours," said ninth-grader Noah G. McIntire, an organizer of the walkout...