Word: kappas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best known for his work in labor law, is the Cabinet's only black so far. An Eastern Establishment Republican, the son of a prosperous dry cleaner and real estate man in the New York suburb of Glen Cove, Pierce was a star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa graduate at Cornell, where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner in a major New York...
...Sigma Alpha Epsilon is the big jock and lady's man house, and Phi Sigma Kappa is for duds, then I guess our House is in between. We're middle of the road." Tex, a dedicated student of the MIT fraternity scene, hunches forward as he lectures on the meaning of Brotherhood in one of the House's cramped four-person bedrooms. "We do things together, so that we can get to know each other, know each other well." he explains. "Like we take canoe trips and go out to restaurants and goof around. You don't know what...
...Brothers are so thrilled to be living under the same roof that they have trouble expressing their bliss in mere words. Everything works out right at Phi Kappa Sigma. Everyone is smiling. How can this be? These guys go to MIT, don't they...
Lillian Becker wanted to teach so much that she went back to college for her degree at age 42 and graduated from the City College of New York as a Phi Beta Kappa. Today, at Intermediate School 70 in Manhattan's Chelsea district, Becker scrubs the desks in her classroom herself and sweeps the floor three times each day. Says she: "Kids sense the order, and they like it. They behave differently in a clean classroom...
...TIME as one of 200 future American leaders. He left Polaroid to head Green Giant Co. Under his direction, the Chaska, Minn., food processor bounded from $293 million annual sales to $485 million in 1978, when it merged with Pillsbury. The 6-ft. 3-in. Wyman, a Phi Beta Kappa at Amherst College (he wrote his senior thesis on the poetry of William Butler Yeats), scarcely concealed from friends and executive recruiters that he was tired of being No. 2 at Pillsbury...