Word: cramer
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Chris M. Cramer '82 referred to Fagnani as an ideal roommate and an inspiration, and Randy Marshall '82 said Fagnani had such a powerful personality that his absence is noticeable...
...have come to see themselves as casualties in a losing battle for learning and order in an indulgent age. Society does not support them, though it expects them to compensate in the classroom for racial prejudice, economic inequality and parental indifference. Says American School Board Journal Managing Editor Jerome Cramer: "Schools are now asked to do what people used to ask God to do." The steady increase in the number of working mothers (35% work full time now) has sharply reduced family supervision of children and thrown many personal problems into the teacher's lap, while weakening support...
...ferocity of Afghan resistance to Soviet rule was shown in a remarkable pictorial report of a rebel ambush-and the subsequent execution of a hapless Soviet prisoner-that appeared last week in the Philadelphia Inquirer. Richard Ben Cramer, a staff reporter for the Inquirer, and Italian Photographer Salvatore Vitale spent eight days accompanying Muslim rebel units in the mountains near the Pakistan border. They were witnesses when a rebel patrol spotted a Soviet vehicle traveling cautiously through a gully, raked it with automatic weapons fire and killed the driver. His passenger, a lieutenant in his late 20s, was taken prisoner...
...schooner is used for college credit courses in nautical and marine science offered by the non profit Sea Education Association, Inc., of Woods Hole, Mass., a one-semester minicollege for liberal arts majors and others interested in learning about the oceans. As SEA's executive director, Corwith Cramer Jr., puts it, "America used to be a maritime nation. Today there are few places where you can learn about the sea. We're trying to reduce what I call maritime illiteracy...
...tends to attract students who are tinged with wanderlust. Says Greg Montgomery, 20, a University of Virginia junior: "At school I have a 3.5 average, and I take academics very seriously, but I was getting stale." "Most kids this age are dying for a way to prove themselves," says Cramer. "The Peace Corps appealed to that. How many other ways are there today for a 20-year-old to exercise real responsibility and show that he's good...