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...profile figures such as former University President James B. Conant ’14 were publicly vocal in their support for education reform. Conant received a grant from the Carnegie Foundation in 1957 to study American public high schools through “searching examination, city by city and town by town” over two years to see whether gifted children were adequately pushed to strive for higher education...
...Houghton, the former Lowell House resident called “Jamie” by his friends and colleagues, accepted the challenge, because despite the other commitments he was juggling, Houghton felt a sense of loyalty to the company. Since Houghton still lived in the town of Corning and was already familiar with the company’s inner workings, he thought the transition back to chief executive would not be too difficult despite the company’s dire financial straits...
...Growing up in a place like Corning gives you a certain stability because you’re nothing special, you are just one of the people in town,” he said. “That’s very healthy...
...middle class nerd in my home town of East St. Louis,” Hudlin said. “I never really understood how ghetto I was until I talked with my black Harvard classmates...
...Roger Mervis, the executive director of the Rent Control Board at the time, called the Craigie Arms dispute an “aggravating factor” in the town-gown relations of the early 1980s...