Word: fostered
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Yardling, Michael K. Clark, of Hollis Hall and New York City, was informed by mail that he and Miss Janet Thompson had been appointed as foster parents over a tiny Spanish refugee, Concha Romero Bonilla, who is at present being taken care of in a children's colony near Biarritz in Southern France...
Clark became connected with his now "adopted" daughter through the Foster Parents' Plan for War Children in New York. He and Miss Thompson will supply nine dollars a month to support Concha in the refugee camp...
Clark first found out about the Foster Parents' scheme when he was in France last summer. He wrote during the winter with Miss Thompson, but they made no stipulations as to whether they wanted a little Spanish boy or a little Spanish girl, and the child was picked for them...
Admirably managed by F. L. Foster, Jr. '42, Jack Barnaby's varsity tennis team gave Princeton's championship squad a run for its money last Wednesday in Tigertown. finally succumbing by 6-3. Captain Dave Burt and ex-Captain Langdon Gilkey each won their singles matches, and together they cleaned up in the first doubles. Said Coach Barnaby after the match, "Burt and Gilkey were O.K., but my eyes were on Foster. He's good...
Kentucky-born Dr. Nelson, an infantry lieutenant with the A. E. F. in World War I, educated at Howard University, Union Theological Seminary, Yale, the Sorbonne, University of Berlin, became Dillard's president in 1936. Dr. Nelson determined to give his students a useful education, to foster art among Negroes in the Deep South. He sent extension teachers of music and drama to towns in Louisiana and Mississippi to organize singers and players in schools, churches. At Dillard, Dr. Nelson made every sophomore take a course in art appreciation, also required both sexes to take courses in homemaking...