Word: manhasset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miss Helen Trask. 58, modish but motherly mistress in the third and fourth grades at the Munsey Park School in Manhasset, N.Y. A disciple of the learning-by-doing philosophy, Miss Trask keeps her classroom humming with activity. Most mornings begin with a "report period" in which her pupils exchange ideas or tell each other stories. After that, the class's regular work-social studies, science, reading, arithmetic-flows along with something of the ease of a stream of consciousness. Through spontaneous "poems," pupils begin to learn the power of words; through reading and trips around the community, they...
...Board Chairman William Paley, Financier John Hay Whitney); and James Whitney Fosburgh, 43, Yale-educated Manhattan artist and World War II Army glider pilot; he for the first time, she for the second (her previous marriage, to Manhattan Millionheir William Vincent Astor, ended in divorce in September); in Manhasset...
Nancy Barrow of Manhasset, L. I., has been awarded the Captain Jonathan Fay Prize for the member of the class who "by scholarship, conduct and character has shown evidence of the greatest promise...
...student at Curtis Institute."Her millions don't impress me," he told reporters. Papa and Mama di Bonaventura, who had already entertained the Whitneys at a lasagna dinner in their East 17th Street flat, reported back from a chauffeur-driven visit to the 900-acre Whitney estate in Manhasset, Long Island: "We just had a good time talking and looking around. All very nice people." Mamie Eisenhower, during Spring Week festivities at Brother-in-Law Milton Eisenhower's Pennsylvania State College, obligingly crowned Madeline Sharp of Herndon, Va. "Miss Penn State" then added a fillip by giving...
Naney Barrow of Manhasset, N.Y. and Bertram Hall came in second with 89 votes, giving her the post of Commencement Chairman. E. Adelo Gilmore of Quincy and Moors Hall was third with 81 votes. This gives her the position of Baccalaureate Chairman...