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...self-described “working-class scholarship kid from California,” Gioia found the Harvard of the 1970s to be a place very much “steeped in wealth, privilege, and tradition.” His immersion in this foreign environment gave him a stronger “sense of self as a working class, Latin, Catholic intellectual...
Taking the Detroit Catholic high school placement test on a lark (my engineer father has always recommended that I keep my options open), I won a partial scholarship to Detroit Catholic Central High School, which was far closer and had many more course offerings than the Lutheran high school I would otherwise have attended. (Catholic Central also had a powerhouse football program.) Though my pastor feared that going to a Catholic school would confuse my Lutheran mind, I enrolled...
...hadn’t had dental work since I was eight. They took me to the dentist’s, and took care of everything,” Murray says of the scholarship program, which currently supports 100 students in colleges across the country, including several at Harvard. “They really step in and make sure that everything is all right...
...withdrawn, private attitude at Harvard has been mirrored in her relationship with the New York Times Scholarship Fund, with which Murray has not been in contact in recent months...
...When Liz became when of our first scholars in the college scholarship program, she was a dedicated student. But she hasn’t been in touch with our program about why she is no longer at Harvard,” Gelb says. “All I can say is that she is a wonderful young woman, and we all wish her the greatest success in whatever she decides...