Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have an extra ear in one's trousers, to hear better and different things?" Brauer's point is that any man may feel green from time to time. When he does, an extra ear would be a help-but probably not enough...
...become a Baker Scholar. Once a math buff, she shifted to economics because it was "more world-oriented, more people-oriented." This spring she traveled to Atlanta's Morris Brown College, a Negro school, to advise it on how to apply for more federal funds; with her help, Morris Brown got an added $136,000. She has applied for a White House Fellowship, and hopes to spend the next year as an aide to a Cabinet officer. "I love problem solving," she says, which is why she ultimately plans to join a Manhattan management-consulting firm, McKinsey...
...Casten, 26, Columbia, is entering the corporate world because he argues that "business is the only institution that has maintained its credibility in the ghetto. The blacks have been badly deprived of management experience, and if we can help them over that, we can go a long way toward solving our social problems." Casten spent four years in the Marines, made money as a part-time computer consultant while in graduate school and was co-founder of a Columbia business students' counseling service for Harlem entrepreneurs. He will continue that kind of work by directing venture-capital investments, including...
James McMonagle, 28, University of Pennsylvania, also helped start a counseling service for black entrepreneurs last year. When he confronts a student protester, he likes to ask: "What are you really doing to help society?" A Villanova alumnus and Navy veteran, he turned down 24 other job offers and signed on with Philadelphia-based Comserv, which markets computer services, for $15,000 a year. "Money is not my immediate concern," he says. "With this job, I'll have a chance to get fully involved in management decisions...
Bill Zimmerman, 27, New York University, will return to his native Baltimore and try to help build it up as a vice president of Commercial Hardware Inc., a small distributor of construction materials. He argues that the construction industry must be radically changed and modernized, and he has written two papers on ways to apply computers to do it. "The current system, under which materials are bought piecemeal, maximizes costs instead of profits," he says. "Building design can be programmed into a computer, and the more prefabrication you can accomplish, the less costly the building will...