Word: kalamazoo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...were in the pros, playing in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where hockey's a business, no one would care what was going on with my family or anything else, as long as I was out there on the ice," Weisbrod says...
Braden entered Kalamazoo College on an athletic scholarship in 1947, majored in psychology and played on the school's highly regarded tennis team. "I had 38 cents in my Levi's when I started college," Braden says, "and 37 cents when I finished. I had to save up to make a phone call." Later, while coaching tennis at the University of Toledo, he played in professional tournaments with a group of six stars (Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez, among others) and, in Braden's words, six "donkeys," including himself and Chris Evert's father Jimmy. "The donkeys made...
...produce executive from Kalamazoo, Mich., Hybels met Bilezikian while studying theology at Trinity College, outside Chicago. One day Hybels, then an idealistic 23, stunned the older man by offering to build a new church that would use Bilezikian's ideas to attract members. Although neither had the money for such an undertaking, Hybels was undeterred...
THOUGH highly controversial, Bennett's attacks on Harvard, Stanford, and other prestigious institutions have raised central questions concerning the mission of colleges and their proper role in society. And even a well-respected education leader like David Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, essentially admitted the validity of Bennett's complaints when he said that many colleges, including his own, increase their tuitions in order to gain the elite recognition usually accorded to high-priced colleges...
Carnes also echoed statements by David W.Breneman, president of Kalamazoo College, whoearlier this year charged that the nation's 100most expensive and selective universities increasetheir tuitions to maintain an elite status andthus enlarge their applicant pools. Brenemanadmitted that he was following the pack himself...