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...members of the administration. It was they, after all, who sent each of us not just an acceptance letter, but our very own Certificate of Admission, remember? Indeed, it is the rare student among us who has not proudly framed this revered document, and just as proudly displayed it, Magna-Carta style, in the most conspicuous location possible. Certainly, it is the sort of thing that would surely have proved impressive on a date, if indeed such a concept existed at Harvard...
...homeschooling certainly hasn't handicapped the Colfaxes' intellectual achievement. Grant is currently in New Zealand on a Fulbright Scholarship and plans to attend Harvard Medical School in the fall. A magna cum laude graduate in biology, Grant won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis...
...part of Washington, Kenneth Glover thinks he was lucky to get out alive. "One-third of the friends I grew up with are dead," he says. "Another third are in jail or on dope. The rest of us just made it." He did more than just make it. A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Maryland, the Chicago investment counselor recently co- founded the Harold Washington Foundation. Named for the late Chicago mayor whom Glover once served as campaign manager, it provides grants to blacks for education, health care and the arts. "The black middle class...
...magna cum laude graduate of Wellesley College, the Ohio-born Hope graduated from the Law School in 1964. Her classmates there included Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-Colo.), whom she still counts among her closest friends...
Born in 1919 in Longmeadow, Mass., Brewster graduated from Yale in 1941, having served as chair of the Yale Daily News. Brewster flew for the Navy from 1942-45. After the war, he enrolled in Harvard Law School and graduated magna cum laude...