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Sidwell, a tony Washington institution that counts Chelsea Clinton among its alumni, obviously has resources others don't, but schools don't need green to be green. Sultana High School in San Bernardino, Calif., used basic conservation techniques, like shutting off lights and equipment when not in use, to cut its energy bill by $100,000--half of which Sultana was allowed to keep for its own use. Like his counterparts at Sidwell, Mark Ziesmer, a Sultana science teacher, has designed lesson plans around conservation. "The students were really motivated," he says. "They want to understand what it means...
...after a fire had wiped out a nearby Chinatown, 600 Chinese workers got permission from orchard owner George Locke to build and inhabit a new settlement. Some of these men were farm hands; others worked in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, building levees by hand for as little as a dollar...
...Kirstin Woody, a fellow competitor for the Rhodes, first met Hanzich when both were in San Francisco for final interviews. Woody and Hanzich studied in England the next year and grew to be close friends...
...oldest polo field, lasted for six chukkers, or rounds, with the men playing four seven-minute chukkers and the women playing two. The women and men took turns on the field and shared responsibility for the victory over Myopia. The Harvard Polo Club was fresh from a retreat in San Saba, Texas, where they spent a week training on the ranch of the polo aficionado and actor Tommy Lee Jones ’69. The club plans to compete against Yale, Cornell, Skidmore College, the University of Connecticut, and possibly some other teams in the upcoming school year...
Kirstin Woody, a fellow competitor for the Rhodes scholarship, first met Hanzich when the two were in San Francisco for final interviews in the competition. Woody and Hanzich both studied in England the following year and grew to be close friends...