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Academically, a perfect 4.0 is about as rare in colleges as a .400 batting average is in pro baseball. Nonetheless, Daisy's achievement was matched by other summa cum laudes at major universities in the class of '66. Bruce A. Wooley, a University of California electronics engineering student, racked up three years of 4.0 at Berkeley after an unblemished year at the University of Arizona. Thomas J. Messenger had perfect marks as a physical chemistry major at the University of Michigan. Air Force Veteran George Chartier, a 30-year-old psychology major, completed straight-A work...
...Secrets. How did they do it? "I just do the work until it's done," says Berkeley's Wooley. Daisy Hilse found no short cuts, employed no secrets. She took copious notes in her lectures, concentrated only on "doing well." She studied hard, but never past midnight, because "I get too tired." Her string of A's actually worried her, since "grade-grubbing is not a particularly healthy attitude toward education." She con fesses that she "might have been relieved if I had gotten...
...came in the seventh when a single by catcher Jack Singer, a sacrifice, and an error put men on first and third. Coach Ed Donovan sent up a pinch-hitter, Vic Wooley; Del Rossi struck him out. The next batter was Skey, the pitcher; Del Rossi struck him out, ending the inning with a flourish. Del Rossi's record is now 5-0, his earned run average...
...Sheb Wooley: That's My Pa and That's My Ma (M-G-M). Saga songs by one of Nashville's slickest practitioners. Composer (Purple People Eater) Wooley often sounds closer to Tin Pan Alley than to the hills, but his triple-tongued comic turns-Google Eye, Sweet Chile-have their own daffy, off-center charm...
...Grant, in an exciting contest at 191 lbs. against Penn co-captain Al Donzanti, went off the mat ten times but just missed a tie-breaking takedown. With the score 15-15 Penn's agile Denny Wooley pinned Harvard heavy-weight Bill Hurley to clinch the meet for the Penn team...