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...Frank Stinchfield taught me and a few hundred other residents in orthopedic surgery at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Hospital. He was our undisputed Grand Old Man of Orthopedics, in his time one of the most prominent orthopedic surgeons in the world. In my time he was wonderful, friendly and wise-a big, smiling, grandfather whose plain Midwestern manners stuck out like the sun among the darker heavenly bodies of the Upper West Side's professorial (read distant, arrogant) medical establishment...
...lucky meeting. Luny was a self-taught drum-machine prodigy; Tunes was a skilled keyboard player, working on hip-hop-influenced instrumentals in a small studio he’d set up in a closet at his family’s home. Soon the friends were talking about combining their skills and the far-off, thrilling prospect of stardom...
...Selective Service Act. In 1945, he spent a year in a federal penitentiary for similar charges until he was pardoned by President Truman. He then went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs in criminal justice reform. He later became a law professor and taught in the subsequent years at The University of Nebraska College of Law, Penn’s Law School, and finally at the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley, where he retired in 1987. During his twenty years there, he received the UC Berkeley Distiguished Teaching Award...
Philip H. Thurston, a Harvard Business School professor emeritus who taught at the school for 31 years, died March 24 at his Massachusetts home. He was 87. Thurston joined the HBS faculty in 1958 after receiving his doctorate in business administration at the school. As a faculty member, Thurston taught in both the MBA and Executive Education programs while also serving in administrative roles. Colleagues remembered Thurston last week as honest and warm. “He was a native of Maine...and it seemed to me he personified the good traits that I associated with ‘Mainiacs?...
...It’s great to see especially black males from Harvard,” said Ron E. Midkiff, 55, who has taught the school’s gifted program for 15 years...