Word: prep
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kenneth Safford Parker, 52, president of the Parker Pen Co., is an internationalist-minded businessman. His father, the late George Safford Parker, an old-fashioned drummer who started the company in 1891, wanted young Kenneth to have the best of everything, sent him to Paris and Stuttgart for his prep-schooling. But Kenneth Parker has a much bigger reason for being an internationalist-Parker Pen does 40% of its business (last year's gross sales: $18.9 million) outside the U.S. market...
...would adopt some children (though he had a wife and two kids of his own). In 1913, with $60,000 he had inherited, he bought 40 acres of rocky land just outside Albion, Mich, and opened the Starr Commonwealth school. The entrance requirements were the reverse of most prep schools': he wanted no boys of good reputation...
Expensive ($1,400), Episcopal St. Paul's School, which is strong on hockey and respectability, has been headed by a churchman ever since its founding in 1855. Last week the trustees of the Concord (N.H.) prep school broke precedent by picking a layman to succeed the Right Rev. Norman B. Nash, now Bishop of Massachusetts. The new (and sixth) rector: Henry Crocker Kittredge, 57, historian of Cape Cod, self-styled spare-time beachcomber, son of Harvard's late, great Shakespearean Scholar George Lyman ("Kitty") Kittredge. To St. Paul's the choice was scarcely a surprise. Kittredge...
...official national game, Baltimore is now the game's capital. When American kids everywhere else are reaching for baseball bats each spring, Baltimore's small fry fondle lacrosse sticks. (Baltimore is the largest Eastern city without a major-league baseball team.) Over a dozen Baltimore prep-school lacrosse teams send skilled players into Johns Hopkins and three other Maryland colleges. There is no middle ground among Baltimoreans: they either love the game or despise...
...trick in picking prep-school headmasters seemed to be to find a chip off an old block. Milton Academy had chosen Arthur B. Perry, nephew of Exeter's retired Lewis Perry. Last week two more prep schools elected young men of name and family...