Word: maters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...going to Stanford. Courted by just about every top university in the country, the First Daughter has decided to head as far from Washington, D.C. as she can go, to join the Class of 2001 on the richly-endowed Palo Alto campus. Why not Georgetown, the President's alma mater, or Wellesley, Mrs. Clinton's? "I think she wanted to branch out and be her own person," the First Lady said. Thanks to her admirably protective parents, she?ll get that chance...
Roth has frequently celebrated his once predominantly Jewish alma mater as something like a yeshiva of assimilation. Swede, so called for his tall, blond, blue-eyed good looks, is built for a speedy launch into the American mainstream. His luck seems endless. He joins the Marines as World War II is ending; he returns from service to prepare to take over Newark Maid, his father's successful glove factory; and he marries the former Mary Dawn Dwyer, Miss New Jersey...
...special two-day symposium beginning on May 5, Jeff Musselman '85 and Ellen Hart Pena '80 will return to their alma mater each bringing tales of lives sidetracked by alcoholism and eating disorders...
Unlike some other Catholic revisionists, however, Cunneen identifies strands of Marian character and history with which she feels completely comfortable. The medieval idea of the Mater Dolorosa solaced her when she lost her own son. She associates the mysterious black Madonnas that popped up all over Europe in the Middle Ages and Mexico's "Little Dark One," the Virgin of Guadalupe, with Mary's affinity for the humble. She can muster historical support for the Mary described by spiritual adventurer China Galland--"a protectress who doesn't allow her children to be hunted, tortured, murdered and devoured"--and neo-Jungian...
...does what it can to insulate its students. Two years ago, New Trier, formerly an open campus, started keeping its 3,000 students on school grounds all day, except for about 300 juniors and seniors whose parents give permission for them to leave. But even a wealthy, concerned alma mater like New Trier can't fill the shoes of parents who either don't care that their kids are smoking or fail at the task of stopping them. "How could a school eradicate it?" asks New Trier's superintendent, Henry S. Bangser. "Schools have a responsibility to address the problem...