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...raise funds for institutions. In 1955, he was vice-chairman of the successful effort for the Divinity School. He has also served as executive vice-President of the Pratt Institute Development Fund, as building fund chairman of the Community Hospital in Glen Cove, L.I., and as president of the Groton School Alumni Fund...
Lamkin is a boy wonder from 'way back': he entered Harvard at the age of sixteen. "My family wanted me to go to Groton or somewhere. I didn't want to go there ... For one thing, we had a wonderful country place, and I had a horse. And I hate compulsory athletics. I don't like to do anything I'm not good at ... I said lemme take the College Entrance Boards and see how I do. So I took...
...Pessimism. Nothing in Alsop's upbringing, or, for that matter, in his early newspapering years, suggests his role as a soothsayer of doom. Born 48 years ago in Avon, Conn., son of a well-to-do tobacco raiser, Joe Alsop idled, read and ate his way through adolescence. Groton and Harvard, emerging a 5 ft. 9 in., 245-Ib. magna cum laude dandy addicted to French cuffs and French pastry, Proust, Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and the decay of ancient civilizations-Egypt, the Mayans, Greece and Rome. By then it was clear that Joe had no real interest...
...Railroad, Wells-Fargo Express Co., etc.), died in 1909, and left about $100 million to his wife and five children. Averell grew up at the zoo-room family mansion located on 20,000 acres near Arden, N.Y., learned to ride, shoot, swim, row, and play polo, prepped at fashionable Groton (average student), graduated from Yale (B.A. '13), was a bridge player (very good) and oarsman (topnotch). In 1921 he formed an investment banking firm with his brother Roland (who is still a Republican). His reported personal fortune: between $75 and $100 million...
...teachings of Groton Headmaster Endicott Peabody and the example of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, according to Freidel, combined to produce in the adolescent F.D.R. a strong sense of social responsibility and a taste for the virile life. Freidel also noted Roosevelt's early concern with being well-liked and his adolescent willingness to accommodate himself to the ways of his prep school classmates in order to gain popularity...