Word: schoolings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first anniversary in office of Adolfo LÓpez Mateos with editorials boasting of triumphs in every field, the President's own modesty and conservatism showed through. Just before climbing into a bus for a trip north to dedicate some typically modest public works (one road and one school) in Querétaro State, LÓpez Mateos declared simply: "The period of adjustment is behind...
...powered Boeing 707 chartered for the press. The cost for transportation and hotels would be $4,000 per traveler, and a letter of application would be considered a contract for that amount. After this announcement, applications dwindled magically to 83 men and one woman, Elaine Shepard of Prentice-Hall (school books, trade publications), as nonworking applicants who were just going along for the ride dropped out and big agencies and publications cut their lists...
Like thousands of other 17-year-olds, Marie Martin and Dave Newby sweated through a College Board exam last week. Unlike most of the others, they were delightfully distant from their high schools in Illinois and Ohio. Ten miles east of the dark mountains of Communist China, Marie and Dave pondered answers in a classroom near Hong Kong. It was another fringe benefit in the maiden voyage of the International School of America, creation of Karl G. Jaeger, a budding (29) industrialist turned teacher. Tuition: $4,650 (including air fare...
...family's thriving Jaeger Machine Co. (pumps, hoists, compressors) in Columbus, Ohio. A slight, intense young man, Jaeger had dabbled in engineering at Cornell, majored in education at Ohio State. Though his father gave him his own factory, Jaeger dreamed of Pied Pipering a study-as-you-go school around the world. Two years of teaching high school math in Columbus (while sitting on Jaeger Machine's board of directors) convinced him. Last year Jaeger earned a teacher's degree (Ed. M.) at Harvard, went to work setting up his globe-trotting school in earnest. Purpose...
Learn Abroad. To organize the trip, Jaeger visited 13 countries beforehand, arranged to borrow local classrooms, found English-speaking native families to take in his students (hotels are shunned). He got the school chartered by the New York Board of Regents, hired four top teachers. Among them: Ohio State Botanist Clarence E. Taft and Journalist-Author Edgar (Red Star Over China) Snow. Jaeger put in $30,000 of his own money to make up the difference between tuition and cost...