Word: preps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schooling usually took place with other Americans and the elites of the country in which they were living, either at American schools abroad or top-flight prep schools of that country. Life on the military bases seems to have given the least day-to-day contact with local citizens. Whether contact was confined to the elites or to other Americans was up to the individual, the students claim. And though almost all had servants while abroad and lived among the upper-classes, they are quick to say that they were not exploitative, or Ugly Americans...
Diehl started out in the game by playing on a Somerville High School quintet that won the state championship. He captained Northeastern's squad and after graduating turned in coaching stints at Huntington Prep and Christopher Columbus high schools...
...mainly drug offenders. "It's kind of like officiating" he muses. "We have our successes and we have our failures but its also like officiating because we only know about our failures." On the side, Diehl conducts a five class clinic at Somerville High every year to prep young men for the ECAC examination...
Acquaintances remember Monette speaking occasionally of her fictional undergraduate days. Lucille Sprinkles recalls that Monette told her how disgusted she had been with the lesbianism of Radcliffe women. "She implied she had been a loner then," Sprinkles remembers. "Aloof," "protected," "rich," "prep-schoolish," "snooty" and "very bored and disinterested," is how others who knew her at the Business School describe...
...come out in the black "after a cost-benefit study of his life," as one student put it, remains to be seen. Many students at Harvard refuse to view Pavlovich as a common felon. One friends says he feels Spiro proved dramatically that "it was unnecessary to go the prep school, Ivy route in order to succeed at Harvard." Meanwhile, a few business students sport "Free Monica Cabot" T-shirts and have written a case study on her. Up at the Law School, the inevitable Spiro jokes are incorporated in the school's annual show...