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...black community, Pitts increased the endowment tenfold, doubled the enrollment and won white allies like John U. Monro, who left his post as dean of Harvard College in 1967 to join the Miles faculty full time. Pitts left Miles in 1971 to become president of his alma mater, Paine College...
...stumbled on his new career one night in 1967 when he filled the Cleveland Arena for a benefit basketball game between his alma mater Bowling Green and Niagara University. "I figured if I could get 1 1,000 fans one night, night." I Soon could get Mileti 8,000 made every a $1.9 million deal to buy the arena and the minor-league hockey team that played there...
Tonight's game may resemble a cross-city rivalry more than an Ivy League contest. Rohan played for Columbia in the early '50s and once coached at NYU, Sanders's alma mater. His squad features several home area stars. Starters Byrnes (Bronx, N.Y.), Hardaway (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Avery (Ridgefield, N.J.) are all locals and most of Columbia's bench hails from the tri-state area. To top it off, the name of the Columbia freshman basketball coach is...Mike Griffin...
Died. Clarence E. Lovejoy, 79, author of the popular Lovejoy's College Guide, which has helped countless high school students choose a college; in Red Bank, N.J. Variously-and sometimes simultaneously-a sports reporter for the New York Times, army officer, professor and alumni secretary for his alma mater, Columbia University, Lovejoy also wrote prep-school and career and vocational-school guides. First published in 1940 with the backing of Lovejoy's college classmate, Publisher M. Lincoln Schuster, the College Guide has remained a Simon & Schuster bestseller through twelve revisions...
Woody Hayes and former Chicago Bear Star Gale Sayers (representing his alma mater Kansas) both visited Summit, N.J., recently-and for good reason. Summit is the home town of Running Back Willie Wilson, one of the East Coast's brightest high school football stars. The two football celebrities were only a part of a 40-man invasion force that, according to Wilson's coach Howie Anderson, lined up "like vacuum cleaner salesmen" to see Wilson...