Word: valedictorians
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...Regrets. Alan Lubliner, who had been an introverted bookworm with straight-A grades through junior high suddenly blossomed into an articulate leader in Denver's George Washington High. He became editor of the school newspaper, president of the Denver "Youth for Kennedy" organization, and class valedictorian-but his grades slipped just a shade. As a result, Harvard and Cornell passed Alan over "I don't understand it," complained Alan's father, a hard-driving businessman...
There's a greater chance today that the non-valedictorian will be accepted, Mrs. Stimpson said. Admissions criteria have changed and although "we could fill the whole class with valedictorians," personal qualities and extra-curricular activities bear greater weight than they did 10 years...
...girls don't fit into this style, however, they can do Radcliffe in chocolate. Perhaps they come from public high schools, where they started in conventional ways--as valedictorian or student council president or cheerleader. Perhaps they come from large cities in the South and West, or from the metropolitan area outside Manhattan. And perhaps their parents are middle class: high school teachers, doctors, clergymen, some lawyers, some scientists. They are often the first in some group they know, family, high school, or city, to come "here." And so, when thinking about college, they took care to apply...
Frost was born in San Francisco, Calif., March 26, 1874, but, after the death of his father, he moved to Lawrence, Mass., with his mother and sister in 1885. He was co-valedictorian of Lawrence High School in 1890 with Elinor Miriam White, whom he later married...
...excelled in everything he has attempted -and I know that he will excel on the highest court in the land." White grew up in Wellington, a farm supply center of 550 people in northern Colorado. His father, a lumberman, was town mayor-and a devoted Republican. Byron was valedictorian of his five-member high school class, went to the University of Colorado in nearby Boulder, where he waited table at the Phi Gamma Delta house, slung hash in a sorority, made Phi Beta Kappa-and became a Democrat. These were Depression years, and White was impressed by Franklin D. Roosevelt...