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Word: wrights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the Business School's Graduating Class, and the speaker was Donald M. Wright, director of Alumni Activities. An announcement of the "Last Beer Bust" had lured some six hundred students, wives and/or dates to spacious Carey Cage, and they were all seated in wooden chairs before the podium...

Author: By Edgar Beaver, | Title: The Old School Meeting | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Wright concluded his anecdote. There was a brief, controlled roar of approval...

Author: By Edgar Beaver, | Title: The Old School Meeting | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Wright kept on. "And when we're out in the Business World, what do we want to know? We want to know, 'Am I in the old groove?' And how do we find out? Why we look at the records of our old classmates and see how they're doing. Are we standing still, or are we moving ahead? That's what we want to know, and that's how we find out. That's why the Alumni Association is important...

Author: By Edgar Beaver, | Title: The Old School Meeting | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

There was applause when Wright finished and the next speaker was introduced: "Edward J. Hanley, president of the Alleghany-Ludlum Steel Corporation and head-elect of our Alumni Association...

Author: By Edgar Beaver, | Title: The Old School Meeting | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

...Hanley started with a reference to the anecdote that Wright had delivered. He looked uneasy when there was no response, but then his face brightened: "I'm really not the president of a steel corporation, but an assistant to Charles Sawyer in the employ of the United States Government." A short interval of unrestrained laughter seemed to throw him back into high gear...

Author: By Edgar Beaver, | Title: The Old School Meeting | 5/12/1952 | See Source »

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