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When I was in college at what was then a very small offshoot of U. Va, but which is now coming into its own as a major university, our Dean of Students was a charming but somewhat pompous fellow by the name of Halcott Mebane (call me Meb) Turner (of the North Carolina Mebanes, thank yew!) often referred to himself as an athlete, a gentleman, and a scholar, but not necessarily in that order.
Whence came my diagnosis of pomposity. Meb went on to become the President of the University of Baltimore and contributed greatly to the resurgence of that institution; I think I read just recently that he had retired with many accolades after hmmm 34 or 35 years of dedicated service there,
I wonder if Bobyoungbalt knows of him.
TEd
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