Word: magnolia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Breon studied English and philosophy. They figured he should be using his brainpower for engineering or physics." Breon, like much of the class of '60, moved away from Salina and now teaches at the University of Indiana. Sandy Van Cleef studied ballet, married a mortician and settled in Magnolia, Ark. Keith Cushman became an assistant professor of English and humanities at the University of Chicago; he is planning a book about D.H. Lawrence...
...Holland, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology, has been president of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a 201-acre waterfront campus occupied by 2,600 students-all but 250 of them black. Holland lives on the edge of the campus in a handsome white colonial house surrounded by magnolia trees. The living room is decorated with African masks and figures, Haitian paintings and other souvenirs of family travels to Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and even Sweden. Laura Holland is a good match for a college president. She has a master's in psychology from Radcliffe and two years...