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Charles S. Maier '60 of Scarsdale, N.Y. holds the first Ray Atherton Fellowship for 1961-62. He is studying the history of modern Europe. Maier received the A.B. degree summa cum laude from Harvard, in 1960 and studied at Oxford on a Henry Fellowship in 1960-61. As an undergraduate, he was executive editor of the CRIMSON...
Lowell is the great-grandnephew of James Russell Lowell, and a distant relative of Amy Lowell. He studied at Harvard from 1935 to 1937 and was graduated summa cum laude from Kenyon College...
...approaching a "top-one percent" policy--the admission of only students who would stand, academically, in the upper one per cent of the country's students. "Would the College be a wonderfully stimulating and rewarding place," Bender asked, when every entering student was a potential magna or summa...
Married. Tenley Albright, 26, shapely winner of two world's figure skating championships and the 1956 Olympic crown, now a resident in surgery at the Beverly (Mass.) Hospital; and Tudor Gardiner, 43, son of a former Maine Governor and summa cum laude graduate in President Kennedy's Harvard class who abandoned the bar to work for a Ph.D. in classical philology; she for the first time, he for the second; in Boston...
...Navy chaplain, Hester went to high school in Long Beach, Calif., simultaneously earned a summa in humanities and a magna in history at Princeton ('45), served in World War II as a Marine Corps Japanese-language officer. Then he found himself bossing "the implementation of democratization" of Japanese schools in Fukuoka Prefecture. "Ridiculous," he now calls it: "One boy 22 years old was trying to do a job for 3,000,000 people." Hester went on to a Rhodes scholarship at Oxford, where he took a doctorate in international affairs; then he tried advertising research. Recommended by impressed elders...