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...special two-day symposium beginning on May 5, Jeff Musselman '85 and Ellen Hart Pena '80 will return to their alma mater each bringing tales of lives sidetracked by alcoholism and eating disorders...
...easy hire. Since his decision not to run, a lot of people have wondered what it would take to get the general out of semiretirement, off the phone (he is a well-known phone and fax abuser) and away from the mail (he answers every letter). Even his wife Alma was thinking he ought to get out of the basement more. He had a stack of offers from corporate boards, foundations and academia that if laid end to end would circle the Pentagon and make the Republican who actually did run weep. Then Ray Chambers, a philanthropist who has devoted...
...school does what it can to insulate its students. Two years ago, New Trier, formerly an open campus, started keeping its 3,000 students on school grounds all day, except for about 300 juniors and seniors whose parents give permission for them to leave. But even a wealthy, concerned alma mater like New Trier can't fill the shoes of parents who either don't care that their kids are smoking or fail at the task of stopping them. "How could a school eradicate it?" asks New Trier's superintendent, Henry S. Bangser. "Schools have a responsibility to address...
...that he returns to Harvard in even years to cheer on his alma mater out of loyalty and gratitude. Sportily dressed in a blue felt baseball cap and gray tweed coat, he admires a catch that advances the Crimson upfield, then later admonishes a drunken student for talking during the band's halftime performance...
When Jimmy Quach '97 went home last month, he returned to his alma mater, San Francisco's Lowell High, a public magnet school known for its racial quota system...