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...newcomer to the neighborhood around Chicago and East Avenues was indeed a Negro. He was also one of the nation's ablest chemists. Percy Levon Julian A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes for the synthetic manufacture of important body-regulating hormones...
...such jobs, among the politicians and jurists, the pages pick up, for better or worse, the major part of their education; the school is still a minor influence. As Valedictorian Randall V. Oakes Jr., 18, understated after graduation last week: "You get to see a lot in the House...
...Candles. Porter's taste for a life of truffled trifles was whetted even before he went to college. As a reward from his grandfather for having been class valedictorian at prep school, he got a tour of France, Switzerland and Germany. He had also developed a talent for enchanting everyone within earshot of his piano (his mother, Kate Porter, now 87, made him practice every day). At Yale he moved about socially and expensively, wrote undergraduate shows, skipped regularly into Manhattan to see the Broadway output, and often got back to the campus on a milk train...
...years, Florence Iva Begay, a shy, dark-eyed Navajo, had never strayed more than 100 miles from the reservation at Window Rock, Arizona. Graduating as valedictorian of her high-school class at Flagstaff, she became the first to win a new $2,000 annual scholarship for Indian girls at New York's progressive Sarah Lawrence College. Florence wanted to become a doctor, so that she could go back to the reservation to help cure her people of tuberculosis and trachoma. Last week Florence was home again, without getting to New York. She had tasted white man's poison...
Class Unity. In Marion County, Ore., at eighth-grade graduation Howard Wilson was valedictorian, salutatorian, class historian, had been the only member of his class nearly all his school career...