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Those old school ties are not always as taut as alma mater would like, especially at solicitation time: about 5,000,000 alumni of U.S. colleges might just as well be in hiding as far as their schools know. In their pursuit of alms among alumni, college fund raisers are now finding missing grads by employing private gumshoes-the same kind that hunt down missing husbands, debtors, stockholders, heirs, and even swains who swindle widows. The detective work is sometimes hilariously effective. When found, one graduate of Pratt Institute came across handsomely, but pleaded: "Please don't send...
...hopes of the Brown coach that Harvard will be down have not mater ialized. The Crimson coaches called an unprecedented live-contact defensive praetice on Monday...
...blueblood son of Tiffany Board Chairman Walter Hoving, and descendant of Washington's second postmaster-general, he grew up in Central Park, meanwhile being bounced from the Buckley School (Lindsay's alma mater). He was later thrown out of Phillips Exeter for punching his Latin teacher, finally made Princeton via Hotchkiss, where his temper cooled and his intellect sharpened, and he graduated summa cum laude. After a hitch in the Marine Corps, he got a Ph.D. in art history and was snapped up by the Met, only to find himself in the last mayoralty campaign drafting position papers...
...colonial history at Harvey Mudd, American literature at Claremont Men's College, economics at Pomona. Penny will reside in a Pitzer dorm, most of the time eat in dining rooms at Harvey Mudd or Claremont Men's-but has no doubt about which school is her alma mater. Proud to be a Pitzer girl, she likes the idea of sampling courses at other colleges, says: "It's a bit of a challenge to live up to your school's image...
...mater of fact, the Stratford program does not even list a director. It turns out that Allen Fletcher left before the job was done and Margaret Webster was called in to take up the reins. This is not the first time that such unprofessional conduct has been in evidence at the Festival, and I wish it would be the last...