Word: mentored
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...This fall, she’ll teach at Vanderbilt University as a writer in residence.“She’s a little dynamo,” said Joan T. Bok ’51, former chairman of the Board of Overseers and a mentor to Randall. Bok met Randall more than 25 years ago through her son, Alexander, and since then the family has hosted Randall on vacation. The woman she considers her daughter, Joan Bok said, is now “softer, wiser.”“I learn so much from...
...life.”These are issues that can be traced back to classes he took as an undergraduate, Cuse says. He took a seminar with the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and former Agee professor of social ethics Robert Coles ’50, whom Cuse says became a mentor and a big influence.One of the authors who Coles assigned for his class was Walker Percy, whose writing influenced Cuse. As an homage to Percy, Cuse had “Lost” character Sawyer read Percy’s “Lancelot” while sitting...
...sassy skater showed off her business side this spring, with the release of her autobiography “Breaking the Ice.” The book represented Ruggiero’s attempt to capitalize financially on her popularity and success in the niche sport and signaled to her longtime mentor, Harvard head coach Katey Stone, that Ruggiero’s ambitions extend beyond the blue lines—a schema continued in her Apprentice bid. “She was one of the best players we’ve ever had and a great kid,” Stone said...
...skating, a lot of passing,” Fusco says. “He worked very hard to see his own values upheld.”More than just a coach, though, Cleary’s former students describe him as a “friend and mentor.”“If you talk to any of the players from that era he was a big influence on them,” Fusco notes. “You could talk to him about anything, he gave us a good perspective on life.”Donato agrees...
...protestors at Columbia shut down the university, she recalls.“It was a very interesting time to be a student and to be a teacher. And to be a human being for that matter.”Valentine credits much of her teaching style to her old mentor, William Alfred, and says that she tries to listen to and encourage her students in the same way that he did. “I just took it straight from him, as much as I could.” Like Alfred, Valentine likes to listen to students’ work...