Word: maters
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...wisdom and foresight to pick two people, each with their own spouses and homes, who both live in New Orleans and have children very close to my age. And my aunt had the good sense to pass down the genes for attending Loyola University in New Orleans (the alma mater of my mother and my aunt) to my same-age cousin Anne. They all have a strong sense of Southern hospitality...
Saddled with this fear about the future of my soon-to-be alma mater, I consulted one of the Senior Gift organizers in my house. (They're not hard to find around campus; there are 31 organizers on the letterhead alone.) This fellow senior allayed my fears. Harvard will probably survive without my $35, she reassured me. In fact, as I learned later, Harvard could easily get by without the entire Senior Gift. Last year, the Class of 1993 displayed its class spirit by handing over a not-so-whopping $41,000 to Harvard. To put that number in perspective...
Wendy Wasserstein has a knack for turning personal experience into brilliantly evocative plays that reach audiences of all backgrounds. Her first was about college students at her alma mater Mt. Holyoke; her next about young single women living in New York. The Sisters Rosensweig, her most recent Broadway success now on national tour, is about three sisters remarkably like Wasserstein and her two sisters...
...Madonna? Yale University? It's possible. Weiss speculated that alumni who want a continuing connection to their alma mater are attracted to the bonds for posterity's sake...
Jones is still very much tied to the apron trings of Alma Mater. Involved with many projects and goings-on at the university, he was invested time and energy into The Harvard Film Archive (HFA) and, if his "volatile schedule" allows, he will be a participant in Arts First, an annual celebration of the arts at Harvard-Radcliffe. For those of you who question the staying power of post-graduation college friendships, fear not. Jones and the Vice President are "still friends...