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After graduating from Wapakoneta High School, Armstrong won a Navy scholarship to Purdue, the alma mater of three other astronauts (Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee, both of whom died in the Apollo launch-pad fire of Jan. 27, 1967, and Eugene Ceroan, a member of the Apollo 10 crew). Called to service in Korea at the end of his sophomore year, Armstrong earned a reputation as a hot pilot and three Air Medals in 78 combat missions. Returning to Purdue, he collected his degree in aeronautical engineering, and a wife, the former Janet E. Shearon of Evanston...
Most alumni seem to feel that alma mater's crisis is a time for loyalty, not desertion. Even long-indifferent alumni have renewed their interest and their giving. Astute presidents foster this new involvement with frequent explanatory letters to alumni and parents. After a sit-in at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, President Gaylord Harn-well sent a communique stressing that the protesters had obeyed Penn's rules for demonstrations. Back came many letters of support and $5,000 in unsolicited contributions...
...elderly gentleman climbed slowly out of his car, he gazed over the Hamilton College tennis courts, recalling the games he played there as an undergraduate. It was Poet Ezra Pound's first visit to his upstate New York alma mater in 30 years-and his first trip to the U.S. since 1958. One of the foremost poets of the '20s and '30s, Pound made propaganda broadcasts for the Italian government during World War II, and was charged with treason when he was returned to the U.S. He was then declared insane and committed to a mental hospital...
...Yard. However, I would not have one lock of their greasy looking, long hair shorn by edict nor force them near a drop of water nor insist that they wear perfume. But I certainly cannot say that I was proud of the outward appearance of the old Alma Mater as far as its students were concerned...
...President Quincy and the Gov- ernment of the University. On the other hand, the Boston Transcript, a Jacksonian paper edited by several recent graduates, put their sympathies with the students. "We have just heard of a new act of the wise men who guide the councils of our Alma Mater. . . ," the Transcript stated, "which threatens to ruin that ancient Institution...