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When he was 16, Jimmy enrolled at Rexford High, a private school in Beverly Hills, and started taking lessons from Pancho Segura, then pro at the Beverly Hills Tennis Club. To help pay his way, Jimmy's mother temporarily moved to L.A. to teach tennis herself. "Everyone said Jimmy was too small," remembers Segura. Undaunted, Segura began passing on his knowledge about technique, tactics and strategy, and at the club he and Connors would often pore over improvised diagrams that Pancho drew on paper table napkins...
...Patterson, 27, a Chicago teacher, wanted to learn German before she takes a trip to Europe this summer. Olga Howard, 86, whose family spoke German when she was a child and who lives in Evanston, Ill., was anxious to teach the language. They both called the Learning Exchange, a service that connects people who want to learn something with people who want to teach it. The women have been meeting once a week ever since, and Mrs. Howard has "high hopes that Dee will be understood when she asks where to check her luggage" upon her arrival in Austria...
Some of the teachers listed with the exchange work in the city's public schools, but many are people who simply want to share their expertise and enthusiasm. For example, Charles Spielman, an aquatic biologist for Chicago's metropolitan sanitary district, teaches clowning; David Porter, who is blind and is studying for a master's degree in social work, teaches several different stringed instruments. Some teach without pay; others negotiate a fee with their students. Grace Jaffe, a retired sociology professor, teaches French to four teenagers, who tend her vegetable garden in return. Says she: "The young...
Doctoral Students. The exchange was set up by Detzel, 29, and Bob Lewis, 34, former doctoral students at Northwestern University, who wanted to find new ways for talented people to teach outside a traditional classroom. Still dependent on grants, they are moving toward financial independence by selling memberships for $15 a year...
Very few of the concentrators here seem satisfied with what is offered to them. Course selection is limited and incomplete. The biggest problem is that the luminaries of the department are such experts in their small fields, so involved in their research, that none of them is willing to teach historical survey courses or introductions, or even generalize about their field. This gap has traditionally been filled by making the non-credit tutorials treat an historical author--more a formal solution than a real one, as the non-credit courses rarely cover more than one book, and that...