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...tradition of academic excellence that goes back to 1848, when Horace Mann moved the nation's first normal school there. Newton is probably the most creative school system in the U.S. today-an "island of change," as educators call it, that is rivaled only by the much smaller Winnetka, Ill. (pop. 13,400). "Newton never seems to be afraid of a new idea," says Harvard Education Professor Herold Hunt. "There ought to be a lot more Newtons all over the United States...
...Committee was chaired by Albert L. Nickerson '33, and included such distinguished educators as Wilbur J. Bender '27, former Dean of the College, William G. Saltonstall '28, former headmaster of Phillips Academy, Exeter, and William H. Cornog, superintendent of New Trier High School, Winnetka...
...Glee Club has elected its officers for the coming year. They are: President, Ralph W. Harbenson '64, of Leverett House and Princeton N.J.: vice-President, Marshall M Bouton '64, of Leverett House and New York City; and Secretary, Peter H. Darrow, of Leverett House and Winnetka...
Three days after he got his B.A. (cum laude) in 1935, Moore married Laura Benton Bartlett, a childhood friend from Winnetka, 111. They settled in Brookline, where they have raised a family of five. Moore got his M.D. (cum laude) in 1939. It was an exciting time in surgery. New theories, new techniques were being developed. Daring decisions were being made. American surgery was poised to leap ahead as Europe's medical centers lost some of their best brains to Hitler's anti-Semitism and to World...
Also elected were Michael H.P. Belknap, of Leverett House and Winnetka, Ill., Wade S. Hooker, Jr., of Lowell House and Holbrook, Mass., James G. Slaughter, of Quincy House and Haskell, Tex., and Loren Z. Clayman, of Winthrop House and Chelsea, Mass...