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Though 1988's graduates are deservedly getting their young lions' share of attention, commencement has always been a family affair -- and never more so than this year. At Immaculata College, near Philadelphia, Nora Gammon, 54, a mother of twelve children, proudly accepted her B.A. along with Daughter Laureen, 21. At New York City's Lehman College, Elyse Sanchez's brood of four proudly stood by while the 35-year-old welfare mother got her B.A. Elizabeth McCulla, 21, became the eighth in her family to graduate from William and Mary (Mom's and Dad's alma mater). Jesse Jackson stumped...
Andrea and Immaculata Cuomo came to America by boat from Naples. They had little money and no English. Mario, their fourth and final child, was born in the urban equivalent of a log cabin, the room behind his father's grocery store. Cuomo has turned his early life into a sepia-tinted parable of a polyglot neighborhood of hard work and love. He can spin out stories about everyone on the old block: Lanzone, the baker; Kaye, the Jewish tailor; Kelly, the Irish scrap dealer...
...astonishing that 80% got through within hours. Felix Frankfurter got through. Knute Rockne's health, mind and abilities were found to be acceptable. Irving Berlin, Bob Hope, Sol Hurok, Samuel Goldwyn and Elia Kazan were examined at Ellis Island, as were Louis Koch, the mayor's father, and Immaculata Giordano, Governor Mario Cuomo's mother...
...title in his pocket. The retirement of a successful men's coach has always been big news, but women's coaching has, until recently, been basically ignored. However, this week even The New York Times was quick to acknowledge that Cathy Rush had ended her seven-year reign as Immaculata's coach of women's basketball. In her tenure as the head of the three-time national champions, Rush compiled a 149-15 won-lost record--an amazing feat for a man or woman...
Because she is at Harvard, an Ivy League institution dedicated foremost to academics, Kleinfelder will probably never have the "do-it-all" superstars that go to teams like Delta State or Immaculata, two of the giants of women's basketball...