Word: teacher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youth and experimental nature, the group operates in a flexible, vague way. Once an applicant gets over the initial hurdle of Group IV, junior standing, and honor grades in his field, he arranges his schedule and program directly with the school principal or department head and with his classroom teacher. He reports back to HUT only occasionally...
Alexandria (no schools closed yet, but five involved in a pending integration suit). A 900-member, all-white Parent-Teacher Association voted a resolution calling upon the city council to break with massive resistance and push for local option on integration...
...Bergamo, aristocratic Monsignor Giacomo Radini-Tedeschi, to whom he still refers as "my spiritual father." Roncalli's ten years with the bishop gave him some of the polish that later helped make him a successful diplomat, and some of the intellectual zeal that turned him into a teacher and scholar. In addition to his secretarial duties, he organized Catholic Action groups, taught church history and apologetics at the Bergamo seminary...
...Parma and began studying voice. In 1940, when she was 18 and on a Christmas visit to her aunt in Pesaro, she got her big break: an audition with famed Soprano Carmen Melis, venerated in Italy as one of the great Puccini singers of all time, and then a teacher at the Rossini Conservatory. Melis took on Tebaldi as a fulltime pupil, made her into the kind of singer she is today. Melis worked on voice placement, taught Tebaldi the piano singing to which her voice is naturally adapted. As models, Melis pointed to the sweetness and purity of Muzio...
...scholar's pride former Dean Lawrence Chamberlain of Columbia College listed his school's most serious purpose: to assure "a small but steady flow of superior young men into our graduate schools." Then, in his final report to Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, released last week, Teacher Chamberlain, 52, detailed two courses that the college might follow in the next decade: 1) to aim for continuity, preserve in the college the same standards and values it has now; 2) to stiffen entrance requirements drastically, and insist that incoming freshmen possess much of the knowledge that now must...