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...Angeles. During his speech, on the value of higher education, he asked the graduating students how many had parents who had never graduated from high school. When some 30% stood up, he congratulated them for "breaking the chain" and said he hopes to return next year to his alma mater to finish his own education. Olmos, who dropped out shortly before graduating, added that he is planning to re-enroll at Cal State with the intention of getting his B.A. and possibly going on for higher degrees...
...Laureen, 21. At New York City's Lehman College, Elyse Sanchez's brood of four proudly stood by while the 35-year-old welfare mother got her B.A. Elizabeth McCulla, 21, became the eighth in her family to graduate from William and Mary (Mom's and Dad's alma mater). Jesse Jackson stumped up a storm as speaker at his alma mater, North Carolina A. & T., then beamed as Sons Jesse Jr. and Jonathan received their sheepskins. And at Benedictine College in Atchison, Kans., the day's loudest cheer went up for Dan Butler, 70. Butler had quit Benedictine...
...acknowledges that "it's nearly gold-watch time for me" and discloses his retirement plans: "Teaching and preaching." He hopes to find a podium at his alma mater, Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., where he is helping to raise $40 million for the Iacocca Institute, an industrial-policy center. Says he: "I'm going to try to be a cross between a savvy, street-smart guy and an elder statesman." In that sense, Talking Straight could turn out to be a future professor's best-selling textbook...
...second-seeded varsity boat will be racing against fourth-seed Rutgers (Lightweight Coach Charles Butt's alma mater), sixth-seed Cornell, Penn, and Columbia in its preliminary race. Princeton, which beat Harvard by three-and-a-half seconds, is seeded first, with Yale third and Navy fifth...
...Finished Man" depicts an old schoolboy returning in triumph to his alma mater as an honored alumnus, remembering long-gone grievances and basking...