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...American aristocracy, or what passed for one after the turn of the century, gave mostly lip service to the ideal of noblesse oblige. At morning chapel, prep school boys were earnestly implored to serve God and country, but as grown men most followed Mammon instead, heading directly to Wall Street to make money...
...many ways, they embody competing cultures within the black community. Bond's father and grandfather were both college presidents, and on the wall of his headquarters are pictures of him as a boy with such people as W.E.B. Du Bois and Paul Robeson. He went to a predominantly white prep school in Pennsylvania, then studied English at Morehouse College. Lewis was one of ten children born to a rural sharecropper. He grew up wanting to be a minister -- he used to preach funerals for the chickens on the farm -- and attended a Baptist seminary. Bond and Lewis...
...work for Harvard and for his other alma mater, Phillips Exeter Academy. At Exeter--where Libby Stephenson recalls spending two-and-a-half "wonderful years"--Stephenson coordinated alumni activities and ran reunions. Stephenson also managed to picked up a little more partying experience at the New Hampshire prep school; he planned Exeter's bicentenial celebration...
John A. Ten Brook Jr., who is a sophomore in high school, said he already wants to come to Harvard. In fact, he said he left prep school early and will have to take exams late so that he could attend the reunion. "I really didn't want to miss exams, but I'm looking forward to it because I've heard everybody talking about it," he said, adding that he's most excited about going to the beach and the Red Sox game...
Mario was the studious one; he would perch himself on some milk crates in the back room and read late into the night. When he was 14 he switched from Jamaica public schools to the more demanding St. John's Prep, and began an educational love affair with St. John's that has lasted for more than 25 years, from prep school through college, law school and 17 years as an adjunct professor of law. Every morning, without fail, Cuomo slips on his heavy St. John's class ring...