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...born here, and Southie is my alma mater," says one of "these people," a stocky truck driver who refuses to give his name. "My kids go to Southie, too. Why should I send them off to Amazonland? It's getting so the coloreds get everything...
Social Causes. After the machine's success had made millionaires of himself and at least 300 other investors, Wilson, a gentle man whom everybody called "Joe," increasingly devoted himself to many educational and social causes. He was chairman of his alma mater's board of trustees, steered it into making a $196,000 investment in Xerox stock that is now worth $120 million, and left the university some $20 million, plus millions more in trust. Wilson encouraged others at Xerox to become involved in civic affairs. "Those in the inner city have derived little benefit from technology...
...Alma Mater, hail to thee...
...Radcliffe's Alma Mater, from Information about Radcliffe College for Prospective Students
THERE is a story about Mary Bunting that goes something like this: one day early in her term as president she was trying to convince several wealthy alumnae to contribute large sums to their alma mater when she received a phone call from her housekeeper. The bees from her son's apiary had somehow escaped and were flying around the house and the housekeeper was distraught. Bunting, thinking of first things first, said, "Just tell them to be good and I'll be home as soon as I can," and returned to the alumnae...