Word: hotchkiss
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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CHARLOTTE HOTCHKISS...
...applications and admitted 30%. Will NYU’s first place finish have any influence on future applicants’ preferences? “Rankings play a huge factor” in prospective applicants’ college decisions, said Betsy Beck, co-director of college advising at the Hotchkiss School, a boarding school in Lakeville, Connecticut. Beck said that her office tries to “encourage students to look past the rankings.” She recommended that potential applicants base their college choices on their own academic and extracurricular background. Students “should be looking...
...with his country-club world, anyway. His father William Clay Ford, brother of longtime chairman Henry II, chaired Ford Motor's finance committee and bought the Detroit Lions. His mother Martha Parke Firestone (yes, that Firestone) was already an auto blueblood. Although educated at the lite institutions of Hotchkiss and Princeton, Bill was especially interested in labor and what working people do. His passions tended toward sports, American history and the environment. His parents hoped he would not grow up a snob, and his mother drove him across town to play hockey in a working-class league instead...
...stranger to lacrosse, having played at the secondary level at Hotchkiss, though mainly as an attack...
...designed the perfect spy--someone they could groom from the start and then send out into the cold, only to have him return years later to save the agency at its most critical hour--he would have looked a lot like Porter Goss. Reared in Connecticut, Goss prepped at Hotchkiss, studied Greek at Yale and spent the 1960s in the agency's clandestine service, overseeing covert operations in Latin America and Europe. His years as a spy left little trace on his rsum. He quit the CIA in 1971 after a mysterious case of blood poisoning nearly killed...