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...Butte's copper mines. He entered Montana State University in Missoula in 1928, in his senior year married Maureen Hayes, a copper-haired Butte schoolteacher who had tutored him for a time in high school English. They have one child, Anne, a 25-year-old Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College who now works for the Alliance for Progress in Washington...
Ultimately both were to fail as integrationists. And this is one lesson to be inferred from Trillins' Education. As a student, Hamilton was successful, graduating with honors and a Phi Beta Kappa key. But he had drawn more and more into himself, falling back on the Negroes he had known in Atlanta. Although his example of excellence encouraged a few others to come to Georgia, his contact with whites at Georgia...
Aside from kinfolk, no man was closer to Jack Kennedy than Theodore Chaikin Sorensen. The son of a Nebraska liberal who was campaign manager for Senator George Norris, Ted Sorensen made Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Nebraska, graduated first in his class at law school and went to work in Washington. Late in 1952, Freshman Senator Kennedy hired Sorensen to help write his speeches and magazine articles. The two men were drawn together by a mutual fascination with politics and history, and it was Sorensen who compiled the research for Profiles in Courage...
...measure its methods, NSSFNS President Richard L. Plaut launched a survey of 1,278 recent proteges. The overall dropout rate turned out to be 33.4%-as against the national rate of 60%.* Of 509 willing to provide complete information, 1% made Phi Beta Kappa and 10% graduated with honors. Southerners topped the Northerners at high-standard campuses...
...Harvard Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa last night announced the election of the Senior Sixteen. They are: Millard H. Alexander, of Quincy House and Brookline, Mass., in, chemistry and physics; David M. Bear, of Quincy House and Akroa, Ohio, social relations; David S. Forman, of Dunster House and Huntington Woods, Mich., psychology; Donald A. Goldmann, of Winthrop House and Trenton, N.J., history; Ronald J. Greene, of Quincy House and Omaha, Neb., government; Richard H. Grossman, of Lowell House and Beverly Hills, Calif., English; William D. Hart III, of Kirkland House and Merriam, Kansas, philosophy; and Leslie Lessinger, of Lowell House...