Word: schuylers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Commissioner of Patents William E. Schuyler Jr. refused registration of the circle and inverted "y" symbol in one case and then announced he is prohibiting its use for trademark purposes by other applicants...
...Schuyler Hollingsworth '40, Executive Director of the Harvard College Fund, predicts that "if the stock market doesn't fall out of bed anymore, we might do as well as last year." During the 1968-69 period, the College Fund set a record in total contributions, although the number of donors dropped from the previous year...
Died. Philippa Schuyler, 34, Harlem-born pianist with a strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent...
Place in the Sun. A graduate of the State University College at Cortland, N.Y., Becker was assigned to Schuyler in 1934 as a physical education teacher, eventually became principal in 1962. His working theory is that a slum school must be parent and guardian as well as teacher to its students, a combination that demands tough but unmistakable discipline. His goal, he says, "is to try to give them academics and help them find a place in the sun as valuable members of society who can earn a good living. If we can't do both, we will...
Thanks largely to Becker, Schuyler unquestionably does that. About 20% of its graduates go on to college-a high percentage for a slum neighborhood school. Beyond that, Schuyler has proved to be an educational magnet for what Principal Becker calls "drop-ins." One recent graduate was a married and divorced mother of two who returned to finish high school after a 13-year lapse. Still another was a 17-year-old Negro boy who had quit a New York City high school and entered Schuyler four years later after he had been sent to Albany by his parents to live...