Word: maters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Parents of successful students are advocates for their child but are supportive, rather than combative, toward the school. "These aren't parents who blame you and want to know why the system didn't come through for their child," says Shirley Harden, principal of Winand Elementary, Donny Williams' alma mater. "They want to know how they can work with you and make things best for their kids...
Last week, after being inundated with e-mail and phone calls from alumnae anxious about the fate of their alma mater, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson began a "National Outreach Tour" to facilitate discussion and ideas about Radcliffe's future. Unfortunately, at the tour's first stop last Thursday in Washington, D.C., alumnae instead merely shared stories from their time at Radcliffe...
...myself back at Harvard for a semester's fellowship at the Institute of Politics. I have been pleasantly reminded of how central to one's identity a great, good place like this can remain even through long absences. I delighted in seeing the strength and depth of my alma mater reflected in Nelson Mandela's gracious acceptance of the honor Harvard had bestowed upon him. Perhaps like many others in Tercentenary Theater that day, I found myself peering through the prism of my identification with Harvard to consider my other identities--as a politician, as a Democrat, but most...
...Harvard's famous dropouts managed to double the paper's subscription in just a year; by then, he was well on his way to becoming one of the century's most notorious media moguls. Unlike the new crop of deserters, though, Hearst discovered no latent love of his alma mater in later life; Harvard did not see a cent of the $200 million he left behind. The Lampoon, on the other hand, made out pretty well; Hearst donated most of the cost of the 1909 construction of their castle...
...only a year and has since been somewhat incognito in the alumni world. Aside from the occasional pornographic web page, it's hard to find much of anything about her. Raitt, on the other hand, having left after three years for a lucrative record deal, still remembered her alma mater fondly enough to write in her 20th anniversary alumni book: "I've spent the last 20 years having the great good fortune of getting paid to play music I love and to raise funds for various social causes I belive in. No sign of having...