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...wish to be buried on Mount Vaea was in keeping with that largeness," says Samoan-born writer Albert Wendt. But somewhere along the way, the writer got lost. "When we came to the scene, the memory of Tusitala was becoming almost mythical," says RLS Preservation Foundation president James Winegar, a former Mormon missionary from the U.S. who helped set up the Vailima museum with aloe vera millionaire Rex Maugham in 1994. Not only the memory of the writing had faded - Vailima, too, had seen better days. After a 1990 cyclone all but destroyed what had become the official residence...
...million budget deficit and raised the majority of student-achievement scores to equal or exceed the national medians in math and English. Garrity, too, seemed to be winning some converts to his tough policies. "He's the bravest guy in Boston in the past 15 years," says Jerome Winegar, headmaster of now thoroughly integrated South Boston High School...
Most noticeably, Telfeyan has a penchant for hats. Asked about this unique interest, Telfeyan’s roommate B. Reed Winegar ’05 comments “there are a lot of them.” Telfeyan’s original attraction to hats is rooted in nostalgia. He explains that he has fond memories of wearing baseball caps in Little League, he has worn hats since high school, and has continued at Harvard. His taste for hats evolved into more sophisticated territory as he grew up. He is very specific and has a quota...
...does the nation appear to lack leadership in its schools. When Jerome Winegar took over South Boston High School in 1976, 90 armed troopers were necessary to oversee a court-ordered busing program. Winegar began a program that isolated disruptive students in special classes instead of sending them home. Students in the special classes dropped to fewer than 100 last year from...
...study a foreign language. In addition to a mandatory English course, ninth-and tenth-graders must take a reading and writing workshop that continues hi the eleventh and twelfth grades if the student does not do well. Daily attendance rates have risen 14% in the past year. Says Winegar: "You don't change a school with programs. You change a school with philosophy. We want to help young people battle their way into the mainstream...