Word: valedictorians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class valedictorian at the all-boys Joliet Catholic High School passed up offers from Stanford, Northwestern, Johns Hopkins and MIT to come to Harvard. He says he hopes to row crew and concentrate in Engineering or Government...
...degree, summa cum laude, from San Francisco State University. At Lehman College of City University of New York, Joseph Lipner, 83, was named to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated with high honors. Foreign-born students, too, went to the head of their classes. New York's City College valedictorian, Chi ("Christopher") Luu, of Viet Nam, entered this country only five years ago, unable to speak English. Commencement speakers, an unprecedented number of whom were women, reflected the notable diversity of the graduates and ranged widely over topics from the dangers of nuclear war to the merits of wandering...
...wide as to make the actual emotions not only a source of confusion for the characters themselves, but also a mystery to the viewers. While neither Harry nor the audience doubt that he is a dying man, the Son seems oblivious to any trouble at all. A valedictorian two years ago, he is unable to keep a full-time job of any sort--in an attempt at the assembly line, he sabotages the whole plant, and chuckles smugly at his dismissal. A go at car theft proves him equally "temperamentally unsuited" for that profession. So, he resigns himself...
Young Bill was the class valedictorian and a standout athlete at Villanova Preparatory School in Ojai, Calif. He entered Stanford University in 1949 but found it "disagreeable." After a difficult year, he dropped out and enrolled in an upstate New York Augustinian seminary. Allowed only five hours of sleep a night and two hours of conversation in the afternoon, Clark decided the priesthood was not his calling. He tried to return to Stanford, but as he recalls, "the dean was good enough to tell me that I should consider some other line of activity...
...students and parents, up 190% from last year's more limited expedition. Things went so well that the Midwesterners decided to venture into Texas next year. "What keeps us going," says Macalester's Shain, speaking for the group, "is that we all keep hoping for the valedictorian around the next corner...