Re: Out-of-city students

On Wednesday, November 6, 1996 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Peter Shenkin wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>, J.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
> >I remember a few students who actually commuted from N.J. and
> >Westchester. One didn't actually need to live in NYC to attend Science.
> >All that was needed was a NYC address (e.g., grandmother, friend, family
> >dentist, etc.).
> > Remember Yonkers was a whole lot closer to the school than 
> >Brooklyn (four years of hour and a half commutes), Queens, or most of
> >Manhatten.
> In my class, there was a guy named Edgar Milford who commuted from
> out of the city -- maybe from Rockland County. I didn't know him 
> personally, but a friend told me that his parents paid a lot of money 
> to send him to Science. Most of my friends and I, though we liked 
> Science, couldn't imagine actually paying money to go there.
> (I remember seeing a friend from Science midway through our
> college years. He said that only then did he realize that
> Science had been the best of all possible worlds.)
> Edgar was also the only African-American student I recall in my
> class. Does anybody know what he's doing now?
> -P., '63
> 
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Only a quarter of a century late, but I stumbled upon a 1971 article on Edgar Milford in the magazine of Harvard Medical School.

https://hms.harvard.edu/magazine/connections/taking-history