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...careful whom he tells about his sexual orientation. When colleagues at a former job discovered he was gay, some threatened to quit and others began cleaning the phone every time he used it. "People become outcasts," he says. "Society doesn't want to have anything to do with you." Scholastica Mghallu, 28, a lesbian teacher in Kenya, says she looks forward to the day "when it will no longer be a crime to be gay. We need to uplift each other...
...moved to a country estate four miles from Yellow Springs and took much of the school's endowment and administration with him. That left the main campus without a permanent head for two years, until Francis X. Shea, 48, former president of the Roman Catholic College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, was hired as chancellor last summer. A white-haired scholar of 19th and 20th century literature, Shea was appalled at what he found when he unpacked his bags in Yellow Springs: "The entire administration has levitated out of sight, departed, or become otherwise incapacitated or unavailable...
Only during the past year has Segal begun to recover from the emotional shell-shock resulting from everyone's over-reaction--including his own. After all, his persona scholastica does include a Guggenheim Fellowship, nearly two dozen articles and reviews, a collection of essays on Euripides, Roman Laughter, the first study in English devoted entirely to Plautus--Rome's first comic playwright--as well as English translations of Plautine comedy. An extensive treatise on Terence, a kind of sequel to Roman Laughter, remains unfinished as Segal develops new insight from recent findings of the Greek playwright Menenader which may place...
...Manhattan specialty store with annual sales volume of about $5,000,000. She succeeds Ben Willingham, General Shoe vice president on temporary loan to Bendel, who will remain as director. Tall (5 ft. 6 in.), svelte (no Ibs.) and unmarried, Jerry Stutz was educated in Chicago's St. Scholastica convent school, won a dramatics scholarship to Mundelein College, where she switched to journalism, spent her spare time modeling for Chicago's Marshall Field & Co. After graduation she became assistant to the public-relations director of Chicago's fashion industry, in 1947 joined Glamour magazine, where she developed...
...feast day of St. Scholastica the Virgin, and a bunch of the boys from Oxford University were out on the town. At the tavern called Swyndlestock, they ordered wine, but when John de Croydon brought it to them, they decided that it was no good. De Croydon said it was; the scholars said it wasn't. To emphasize their point, they threw it in the tavern keeper's face. With that gesture-just 600 years ago-began the bloodiest town-and-gown riot in the history of Oxford...