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Unlike Sununu, the low-key Skinner is accustomed to playing the supporting role. A protege of former Illinois Governor Jim Thompson's, Skinner was reared in Illinois, received an accounting degree at the University of Illinois, served in the Army and then joined IBM as a sales representative. Though the | computer company named him Outstanding Salesman of 1967, Skinner attended law school at night and gave up his $50,000-a-year corporate job to be a $9,000-a- year prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's office. He rose to U.S. Attorney, earning the nickname "Sam the Hammer...
These distinctly low-key changes serve as an appropriate marking of the begining of the term of Virginia L. Mackay-Smith '78 as Acting Dean of Freshmen. Like her office, she isn't a far cry from what came before. For as Mackay-Smith discusses her priorities and approaches to governing first-year life, one thing becomes clear: she is largely following in the footsteps of her predecessor, Henry C. Moses, who left Harvard last spring after a 10-year stint to become headmaster of Trinity School, a prestigious private school in New York...
...would go to the freshman tea from time to time," Mackay-Smith says. "I liked the atmosphere, a nice low-key environment--I speak in jargon these days--to meet the community of freshmen...
...campaign so far has been low-key, although very, very hardworking," said Cyr. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be fought out in the neighborhoods. I'm feeling very, very excited...
...campaign so far has been low-key, although very, very hardworking," said Cyr. "It's going to be fun. It's going to be fought out in the neighborhoods. I'm feeling very, very excited...