Word: hackley
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hard Way. At eleven, Lew went east to the Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y. While his father made a strike at the U.V.X. mines in central Arizona, Lew was studying history and playing baseball at Amherst, trying to make up his mind what to do next. After one postgraduate year studying metallurgy at M.I.T., World War I decided...
...came back from France a 1st lieutenant, with a citation from Pershing, a Belgian Croix de Guerre, and suffering from the aftereffects of a gassing in the Argonne. He tried teaching, first at Amherst, then at Hackley, where he could be closer to Peggy Zinsser (niece of famed Scientist Hans Zinsser), whom he had met at a Smith-Amherst dance. But teaching was not quite Lew's line. After he and Peggy were married, they moved back to Arizona...
Tutor & Technique. The late Arthur L. Clarke, first managing editor of the Daily News, wanted his son to be a diplomat. When Dick Clarke finished Hackley School, his father packed him off to Europe for a year, told his tutor to see that he did not read or speak a word of English. Clarke studied at Munich and Grenoble, spent three years at Harvard, got a "war degree" after World...
Charles T. Griffes: Poem for Flute and Orchestra (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting, with Joseph Mariano, flutist; Victor). Griffes was a music teacher at the Hackley School for Boys in Tarrytown, N.Y. Since he died in 1920, at the age of 35, critics have rated his small, carefully tooled output among the finest U.S. compositions. His Poem is fragile and impressionistic and is certainly one of his best works...