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Launched last year on a farm in Clackamas County, Ore., the Ecclesia Athletic Association camp professed a wholesome purpose. Founder Eldridge J. Broussard Jr., once a basketball star at Pacific University, said Ecclesia, an outgrowth of the Watts Christian Center in Los Angeles, would bring ghetto children into the clean rural setting and train them through a disciplined program of athletics...
Simmons said that her experiences at Hampshire College have taught her much about education. "[Hampshire's] stress on creativity and its multi-disciplinary approach to education overlaps the interests of the MacArthur Foundation," Simmons said. "This change provides me with a wonderful opportunity--it is an outgrowth of my career at Hampshire...
...stories she heard will serve as guidance about what to do -- and what not to do. But then Hallanan also has a role model closer to home: her mother has owned a real estate firm since 1984. "Many of those I spoke with saw starting a business as an outgrowth of the balancing act that so many of them perform at home, from budgeting the grocery list to planning family vacations," she says. "Being an entrepreneur and a woman can be a 36-hour...
...program was an outgrowth of Henry Kissinger's detente policies in the early 1970s," Fields said. "The goal is to open up interface between the two cultures and open up dialogue" on pressing international issues, he added...
...course catelogue notes that, by focusing on television, movies and rock music, "Popular Entertainment" hopes to address "entertainment as the natural outgrowth of a specific historical and cultural moment...