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After a 188-point high school career at Fairfield Prep in Connecticut, the speedy Drury was drafted in the second round by the Calgary Flames. Because he wanted to pursue a degree first, the soon-to-be history concentrator chose to attend college...

Author: By Gary R. Shenk, | Title: Sitting And Watching as The ECAC Playoffs Approach | 3/1/1990 | See Source »

...took a tough adult-education course in ! tailoring in order, as he says, "to get out of the boys' department." After a halfhearted pass at premed studies at the University of California at Davis, he moved East to attend Parsons School of Design, the classic prep school for Seventh Avenue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fashion: But Gordon, I Want It All: Gordon Henderson | 2/26/1990 | See Source »

...they do not. Fitzsimmons acknowledges that the legacies Harvard admits are predominantly white, affluent Northeasterners, many of whom come from elite prep schools. After all, the parents of most legacies went to Harvard sometime between 1945 and 1969, when Harvard was largely a white Protestant upper-class bastion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No More Aristocracy | 2/6/1990 | See Source »

...worked with Stuart for two summers at the fur shop. After Stuart's suicide, police discovered that she had used Charles' credit card to telephone him almost daily at the hospital. They also learned that several weeks before he killed his wife, Stuart and Allen visited her former prep school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Presumed Innocent: Charles Stuart | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

Flomenhoft is a 205-lb. freshman forward from Chicago who centers classmate Matt Mallgrave and sophomore Jim Coady on Harvard's fourth line. He played his senior season at Avon Old Farm in Connecticut, the prep school that produced the Rangers' Brian Leetch, last year's NHL Rookie of the Year...

Author: By Michael R. Grunwald, | Title: A New Enforcer Graces Bright | 1/8/1990 | See Source »

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