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When the planes struck the Twin Towers on Sept. 11, 2001, Rick Rescorla embodied that spirit of survival. The head of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter at the World Trade Center, Rescorla believed that regular people were capable of great achievements, with a bit of leadership. He got Morgan Stanley employees to take responsibility for their survival - which happened almost nowhere else that day in the Trade Center. (See aerial photos of the World Trade Center's destruction...
Concertmaster Salley Koo '97 led the other musicians with her clean and superbly projected performance. Principal clarinetist Michael Rescorla '96 and principal flautist Aimee Gallardo '98 followed suit, each tossing off a note-heavy solo part with flair. Beginning with the Capriccio's first cadenza, principal percussionist Mary Kissel '99 turned heads and made jaws drop with her superhuman ability to sustain a snare drum solo...
...Leslie Rescorla, a Bryn Mawr clinical child psychologist, notes that it is currently common practice for educators to recommend that socially or physically immature children with autumn birthdays enter kindergarten at six, ( rather than five. The practice makes sense, Rescorla says, if parents have special concerns about their child's social development: "If it's interacting, cooperating, playing with others you're worried about, then keeping children in nursery school for another year is good. It's nursery school, not kindergarten, where these important skills are now being learned...