Word: shain
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sell is soft, but the pitch is eager. William Shain of Macalester College in St. Paul brags about his school's Scottish festival. "You haven't lived till you've heard 150 bagpipes all playing together," he tells the group of high school students. To augment Macalester's appeal, he pulls out a picture of downtown Minneapolis and says, "You remember when Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat over the city? That's where it goes." Spike Gummere of Lake Forest College, which is in a Chicago suburb, tells students that the city is close...
...meetings with prospects in the four days, they tallied the number of visitors: 458 students and parents, up 190% from last year's more limited expedition. Things went so well that the Midwesterners decided to venture into Texas next year. "What keeps us going," says Macalester's Shain, speaking for the group, "is that we all keep hoping for the valedictorian around the next corner...
...expected to be mother, father, priest or rabbi, peacekeeper, police officer, playground monitor and lunchroom patrol," says David Imig, executive director of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. "Over and above that, he's supposed to teach Johnny and Mary how to read." Adds Edith Shain, a veteran kindergarten teacher at the Hancock Park School in Los Angeles: "The teacher doesn't know who she has to please. She's not as autonomous as she once...