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...honor of Becky Pocius '94, a catcher for the Harvard softball team during the 1990 and 1991 seasons. She died tragically in a car accident last August. Friends, teammates, and alumni donated money to the memorial fund with the express purpose of buying a scoreboard for Soldiers Field. Even grammar school children in her home town of Scranton, Penn., gave money. Saturday morning, I walked in the torrential rain to Winthrop for the beginning of the scoreboard dedication ceremony. Friends, roommates and parents all filed into the Gore courtyard to see the tree planting ceremony, a Winthrop house tradition...
...those families who do not live in the New England area, the travel time by car or train will effectively require family members to miss work for an entire week. In many cases, this is not possible. For example, my mother is a grammar school teacher. To require her to be absent from her own classes during the last week of the school year is not feasible...
Eastwood attended eight grammar schools in eight years, an experience that taught him self-reliance and a suspicion of the intentions of strangers. "When you're the new kid in town, you always have to punch it out with the other kids the first day or so before they accept you," he says. If they didn't, Eastwood did not let it trouble...
...persuading him otherwise falls to the local schoolteacher, Grant Wiggins, who has seen something of the world before returning south to teach at the black grammar school. Burdened with his own frustrations, not the least of which is downplaying his intelligence and college education when dealing with whites, Wiggins reluctantly undertakes to instruct Jefferson in his humanity. In short, to teach...
Charged with conspiracy and racial discrimination for allegedly forcing the predominantly Black grammar school out of their Brattle Street neighborhood, the defendants continue to seek an end to the case, now in its third year of litigation...