Word: mawr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Judy," 40, says: "What got to me was that I found I was not getting results." A Bryn Mawr graduate who always wanted to be a teacher in a big city, she successfully taught English for eleven years in a Manhattan high school. Her enthusiasm began to falter three years ago when each of her five high school classes crept above the union maximum of 34 students. Says she: "No English teacher should have five classes. If you're trying to teach kids how to read and write, you simply can't do it-that...
...presidency of Harvard represented the culmination of a standard, upper-class upbringing that had several curious twists. Born March 22. 1930 in Bryn Mawr, Pa. to a Main Line Philadelphia family, Bok was the grandson of Edward W. Bok--the first editor of the Ladies Home Journal and author of the classic autobiographical study, The Americanization of Edward Bok. Bok's mother was a member of the Curtis publishing family--and after she and his lawyer/father divorced when he was five, Bok moved to Beverly Hills, Calif. Bok received his high school diploma from the Harvard Military School (no relation...
...most widely publicized endorsement of National Service came in a 1979 study called Youth and the Needs of the Nation, a Ford Foundation-financed effort, co-chaired by Jacqueline Grennan Wexler, former president of Hunter College, and Harris Wofford, long time Kennedy associate, former president of Bryn Mawr, and, like Wexler, a pillar of the liberal community. The report calls for engaging "a million or more young people in a new system of voluntary National Service designed to help meet this country's non-military needs." Though the report's conclusion calls for a "voluntary" program, it repeatedly cites...