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...brothers began experimenting with food recipes at their parents' pasta business during the 1930s, mixing ingredients like long-grain white rice, pieces of vermicelli and chicken broth. Eventually they hit the jackpot, creating packaged, easy-to-make rice and pasta dishes. In 1986 they sold their company to Quaker Oats for about $300 million. DeDomenico...
...holding tank for the oddities of Harvard)—it just seemed like everyone’s high school was awesome. They all had International Baccalaureate programs, nationally competitive debate teams, and cheerleaders. Their schools were practically teeming with geniuses. Meanwhile, in stark contrast, my easy-going Quaker school was teeming with people that loved to smoke pot at eight in the morning. To top it off, back in freshman year, I would inevitably run into someone from a New York prep school who would tell me about his or her uniform. “You had a uniform...
...birthday, Oct. 6, 1946, that the mother he scarcely recognized arrived, a new Tyrolean outfit in hand, including the hat with the feather. She took him to Rome, where he had his first bath in six years, and ultimately to the New World, where they settled in a Quaker commune outside Philadelphia...
...also during her senior year that Drew’s interest in the civil rights movement sharpened, along with other reform movements, leading her to pursue issues of peace and justice with a Quaker group in the South the summer after graduation...
Ultimately, they may come to understand even more than that. Sidwell is a Quaker school, and headmaster Bruce Stewart points out that Quakers have a familiar saying: "Let your life speak," which means let actions represent you. "Now we say, 'Let your building speak,'" Stewart says. "Let this be a testament to who we are and what we believe." If the next generation is going to be the planet's last line of defense, the least we can do is prepare them in an environment that values the environment...