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California
Chapman University President James L.
Nov. 30, 2001
World & Nation
Famous test pilot Chuck Yeager joined eight other men Friday night as winners of the 1986 Horatio Alger Awards for turning adversity into triumph.
May 18, 1986
High School Sports
Mater Dei High School senior Van H.
Oct. 16, 1998
Business
Rockwell International Corp.’s Donald R.
Nov. 18, 1997
It’s 1992, and 16-year-old Andre Lamont Samson will tell you: Horatio Alger is dead.
Sept. 2, 1992
Sports
It’s first on every power-player’s wish list: the chance to dine with Gen. Colin L. Powell.
April 8, 1991
Entertainment & Arts
In June, “Jim Cooper’s Orange County” on KOCE-Channel 50 will examine air pollution in Orange County, Horatio Alger Award-winner John Crean, the national convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Orange County Performing Arts Center.
May 31, 1985
Food
Frieda Caplan, chief executive officer and chairman of Frieda’s Finest/Produce Specialties Inc. of Los Angeles, has received Working Woman magazine’s first Harriet Alger Award for Entrepreneurship.
Nov. 13, 1986
Orange County businessman George Argyros and his wife, Julia, have pledged $1 million to fund college scholarships for California high school students through the Horatio Alger Assn. of Distinguished Americans.
Jan. 24, 2002
Books
MARTIN DRESSLER: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser (Crown: $24; 304 pp.).
May 26, 1996