Word: willard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Genuine learning has ever been said to give polish to man; why then should it not bestow charms on women?" Pioneer Educator Emma Willard 150 years ago answered her own question with energy and decision. As farmers jeered ("They'll be educating the cows next"), she started a school for girls in her home in Middlebury, Vt. A few years later she moved her classes to a remodeled coffee house in Troy, N.Y., and set up the school as a Female Seminary, where young ladies learned such novelties as science, philosophy, literature, foreign languages and history...
...virtue of this head start, "Fern Sem," now the Emma Willard School, is the oldest academic girls' school in the U.S. It is still as progressively rigorous as in the days of its no-frills founder. "No deb balls for us," says Principal William Dietel, 37. "The parents want their children to have a superior education. They don't want it all gummed up with manners...
White Gloves & Pink Diplomas. Ungummed social graces were much in evidence last week as 90 graduates carried pink diplomas in one white-gloved hand and pink roses in the other. An organ played, and as if on signal, the girls broke into tears-for Emma Willard will be hard to leave...
...Willard Wirtz, U.S. Secretary of Labor...
...studio, where bedlam ruled as technicians raced about to set up cameras, microphones and a room for the broadcast. CBS had 20 minutes' notice from the White House, and no one was even certain what the President had to say. Watching the confusion, Johnson quipped to Willard Wirtz: "I guess we got these guys a little upset." At 6:45 p.m. the President went...