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Dormitory Ground-Breaking, Leon Lederman Aug 1986

Dormitory Ground-Breaking, Leon Lederman

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I think I have participated in a lot of ground-breaking ceremonies. In 1968, I watched them dig the first shovel for the creation of Fermilab -- eighteen years ago. You wield a ceremonial shovel and go about your business and before you know it -- a building exists and you say -- "my God, where did the time go?" But it isn't the building that we are breaking ground for today -- it's the institution; the I.M.S.A. and it is here -- within this volume of space, in middle America -- that we will make history -- that legends will …


Letter To Ms. Marjorie G. Bardeen President, Board Of Education, Leon Lederman Oct 1983

Letter To Ms. Marjorie G. Bardeen President, Board Of Education, Leon Lederman

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This is to invite you to participate in a novel workshop to be held on December 9 - 11, 1983. The purpose of this workshop is to produce a curriculum for a new kind of "magnet" school, described in the enclosed proposal. You are one of about thirty-five invitees, including high school teachers, college teachers, and others, according to the recipe contained in the proposal. All expenses, including travel, meals, etc., will be covered by the Corridor Partnership for Excellence in Education (CPEE). The participating institutions are also listed.