Word: pottstown
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eight: Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, N.H.; Browne and Nichols School, Cambridge, Mass.; Taunton (Mass.) High School; Bronx High School of Science, New York City; The Hill School, Pottstown, Pa.; The George School, Bucks County, Pa.; Radnor High School, Wayne, Pa.; University High School, Urbana...
Early Life: Born in Lake Forest, Ill., son of a wealthy physician and Republican, he went to Hill Preparatory School in Pottstown, Pa., where his classmates voted him "biggest grind,'' and to Yale University (.'38), where he got his letter for boxing and football (end), though he had earlier won the unhappy practice-session distinction of dropping ten straight forward passes from Yale's All-America Clint Frank. He got a master's degree (1940) and a liberal bent from Harvard Business School ("I didn't raise my boy to be a Democrat," says...
...first pupils in Colonel Parker's experimental Chicago Institute. There Parker preached a doctrine of "freedom with a balancing responsibility" and of learning from actual materials as well as from books. In spite of the fact that Smith went on to the orthodox Hill School of Pottstown, Pa. ("So you're one of those rule-by-love boys," snorted one master), he never forgot the teachings of Colonel Parker...
Sensational Debut. Son of a Pottstown (Pa.) semi-pro player, Southpaw Shantz was first noticed, at 19, in Philadelphia's semi-pro Quaker City League, where he was a 9-1 pitcher and batted .485, playing center field in his off-pitching days. That was in 1944. He spent the next two seasons in the Army. Back in the Quaker City League in 1947, he improved his pitching (14-0), his batting (up to .497), and kept busy on weekends by pitching another team, Souderton, to the Eastern Penn League championship with eight more victories...
Providing a year of study in a French university, the Augustus Clifford Tower Fellowship has been awarded to Isaac Thomas, Jr., of Pottstown, Penna., and Lowell House. A music major, Thomas is a member of the Music Club and has been elected to Phi Beta Kappa...