Word: valedictorian
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Hector Motronl, the class valedictorian who learned how to play the piano while working as a bus-boy in a night club, gave the Harvard educators a picture of how much the project meant when he said, "I would be working now if not for the project. I needed to work, but the project was there, fortunately, I saw a big door opened and everything I wanted inside...
...officer and board chairman the following twelve years of Bethlehem Steel Corp., which he molded into the nation's biggest shipbuilder and second biggest steel producer, increasing sales from $218 million in 1916 to more than $2 billion in 1957; following a series of strokes; in Bethlehem, Pa. Valedictorian and baseball captain at Lehigh University ('99), Grace turned down an offer to play professional baseball to join Bethlehem Steel as a $1.80-per-day crane operator, in 1956 was the nation's highest-paid executive, with $809,011 in salary and bonuses. Though bitterly attacked by union...
...state practically classifies us as TV morons," countered Dick Combs angrily. "We watch it maybe two hours a night, three or four times a week." His favorites: Gunsmoke, Paladin, sports events ("Am I supposed to be ashamed of that?"). Said Gloria Combs proudly: "I was valedictorian of my graduating class at Middlesex County Vocational Technical High School, and I was on the honor roll straight through." The Combses promptly put up a book shelf in the living room, stocked it with an encyclopedia, books on child care, and such eclectic volumes as International Atomic Policy and How We Drafted Adlai...
...half-mile, sang second tenor in the operetta, blew the baritone horn in the school band, played piano. He was a Life Scout, captain of the debating team (his coaching methods were successful enough to propel his kid sister into the state declamation championship), and, inevitably, he was class valedictorian. A talent for leadership, too, was early manifest : at the frequent reunions of his mother's multitudinous Norwegian family*-there were eleven aunts and uncles, almost 60 first cousins-it was invariably young Hubert who organized the younger element into social activity...
Smiling as sweetly as a high school valedictorian, Callas graciously received photographers in her dressing room, heaped verbal bouquets on her English hosts: "They behave like gentlemen to me." Even more gentlemanly were the visiting Texans; they were savoring the announcement that Callas had agreed to help out next season in the Dallas Civic Opera's Barber of Seville by taking the place of Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza, who is pregnant. It was suggested...