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...Baxter, the first Master of Adams House, named the new House after John Adams and the Adams family. The House coat-of-arms is derived from the seal ring of John Quincy Adams. Master Baxter made the background gold to symbolize the Gold Coast and the five sprigs of oak leaves stand for the five buildings of Adams House. The House motto, “Alteri Seculo,” is from Cicero’s “he who plants trees labors for the benefit of a future generation...
...bombed Afghanistan this month, the students of Horace Mann Elementary School in Oak Park, Ill., mounted their own response to terrorism. More than 200 of them ran around the block and through an open field next to the playground, panting, laughing and earning a sticker for each lap they completed in the name of their "Moving Us Forward" program. After a fortnight of morning runs, they cumulatively completed more than 1,000 miles, the distance from their school to the World Trade Center to the Pentagon...
...Telfeyan regrets that he could not be there. Telfeyan, however, claims to have staged his own protest senior year at Mira Loma. His high school tried to stop Pajama Day, a popular school spirit activity. Telfeyan reacted by going on a hunger strike and chaining himself up to an oak tree for three days. He reports that he was not completely tied up, and could have left at any time, but the move was symbolic. Happily, Telfeyan’s efforts paid off: the administration reinstated Pajama...
Spence currently works for Oak Hill Venture partners, a company that invests in start-up companies interested in information technology...
...Gossip Guy’s tastes have turned sophisticated. Instead of his usual Gossip Guyweiser Lite, this week he’ll be savoring oak-barreled lies, ’61 premier-cru rumors and complex innuendo with hints of fruit and toast?...