High Point has more Doric columns than the Parthenon. The campus Nido has built over the past 18 years is a stage set in Hollywood for a movie about college. In order to grow enrollment, High Point would compete on amenities. When Nido, a motivational speaker, took over the struggling tuition-dependent Methodist liberal arts college – now nearly 103 years old – his strategy was neither subtle nor innocent. Leo’s subtlety and/or innocence stands in stark contrast to Nido Qubein, President of North Carolina’s High Point University, the subject of recent long-form pieces in Leo: So when her helper reads it to her, she'll know to yell. Leo: Dad, should I type her thank you note in ALL CAPS? My son Leo liked to type his on an electric typewriter, leading to this exchange: Even at that remarkable age she was as sharp as a tack, but had trouble seeing and hearing. Before she passed away at the age of 103, my kids would send her thank you cards for birthday gifts. She loved travel, hobnobbing, and making trouble, in that order. When the Duke of Bedford came to town – presumably to sell tours of Bedford and environs – she got media attention by starting a rumor that he was planning to buy In the 1950s she founded a travel business – World Adventure Tours – that marketed tours via celebrity talks on exotic locales a signed photo of Sir Edmund Hillary hangs right above J. She was a journalist in the 1940s a letter to her from J. My grandmother Estelle Craig was a remarkable woman. When The College Of Last Resort Is A Resort
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