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...were pleased to attend classes at Harvard, but proud of Radcliffe's independence. In the Yard, you could invite a woman (a girl, they were called) to your room in the afternoon: one girl required two chaperones, two couples required one chaperone and three couples were on their own. Sergeant Toomey of the Yard Cops enforced these "parietal rules," picked up Bursar's Cards and was particularly active in November, 1949, when the visitors from Princeton raised a riot...
...programs are choosing teaching as a second career. At Chamblee, Loper is just one of more than a dozen teachers who have left other careers. Among his colleagues, there are an ex-paralegal, ex-talent agent, ex-chef, ex-engineer, ex-international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says...
...favorite stories involves Gregory Kirchner, a former Army medic and now a retired postal worker in Pennsylvania. He had written me asking for help in locating the widow of a friend, Sergeant Glenn Jones, who died in the Battle of the Bulge. Sergeant Jones' final words were expressions of concern for his wife and the child they were about to have. For more than a half-century, Kirchner had wanted to find Mrs. Jones to share her husband's last words...
...arranged a meeting between Kirchner and Mrs. Jones. Later I heard from Kirchner's son, who described driving to the reunion with his dad and his own son. By chance they passed the country cemetery where Sergeant Jones was buried beneath a prominent headstone. They stopped, and Gregory Kirchner made his way to the burial site of his old comrade-in-arms. His son described the scene: "My father uses a walker to get around and does well with it. As we stood silently at the grave my father's knees buckled, and we had to help him stand...
What pushes that small number of troops onto food stamps is a combination of little money and big families. Consider military pay. Certainly no one enlists for the dough. A raw recruit earns $930 a month, and even a sergeant with 10 years in uniform is paid less than $22,000 a year. Nearly half the members of the Army and Marine Corps, along with 26% of Navy and 18% of Air Force personnel, make less than $20,000. And this is where family size becomes key. Close to 60% of military families eligible for food stamps have six members...