Louis Acompora manned his lacrosse goal, blocked a shot with his chest and prepared to make a play on the ball in his first high school game.
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And despite having played in the back three at school, his first incarnation in the sport at club level came as a lock at London Irish.
Kenneth Widmerpool is present from his emergence in the first volume out of the mist on a school run to his bizarre death in the last volume.
In 1976, when he was still in junior high school, Paul got his first summer job there in the drafting department.
Mom Dalia recounts with pride how her son wrote his first program in middle school.
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Like many Silicon Valley techies, he launched his first startup in high school, called Trax in Space.
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On his first day in a new school last autumn, Dr Farooq knew what he was up against.
Mr Grant cracked down on bad behaviour, temporarily kicking out a third of the school in his first fortnight.
Meanwhile, England's David Carter, who partnered Nick Faldo to World Cup glory five years ago, was successful in his first visit back to the school since he won it in 1994.
Edward Snyder, in his first year as dean of Yale School of Management, is interested in adding schools from India and Indonesia to the group and is in talks with a Polish university.
He serves as co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Coney Island Prep, the first charter school in his native Coney Island, Brooklyn, and has been actively involved with the East Harlem School at Exodus House for over a decade.
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Fred Houston was in high school when he saw his first Model T, rusting away on an Oklahoma farm.
Collins is the second Krzyzewski assistant in five years to earn his first head coaching job at a private, academically elite school in a major conference: Johnny Dawkins left the Duke staff to take the top job at Stanford in 2008.
His first job after law school was in the legal department at Amax, then one of the world's biggest mining companies.
Across a table in his cavernous Las Vegas studios, he tells me how he designed his first casino fresh out of architecture school.
Educated at Regent House Grammar School (from which he says he was "asked to leave") and Dundondald High School, his first break in journalism was as a trainee at the Newsletter newspaper in Northern Ireland.
On October 30, 1975, a twenty-three year-old teacher and coach from the exclusive Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut, spent his first night in residence as a tutor for the Skakel family children.
One of his first jobs out of school (he majored in film and English at Wesleyan University) was directing commercials.
Obama talked about the school during his first news conference earlier in February as evidence of crumbling schools across the country.
His school's revenues from executive education in the first quarter of 2009 were at roughly the same level as a year before, despite the downturn.
The software entrepreneur and his wife each were the first in their families to finish high school, let alone go to college, so they don't have outsize academic dreams for Shark.
He got his first pair of glasses in the third grade after years of fooling school nurses by memorizing the vision chart.
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Leaving high school to ride, Antley won his first race in 1983 at the age of 16 at Maryland's Pimlico Race Course.
In 1995, the top five draft selections were four first-year college students and a student in his final year of high school.
Chang owes his second career largely to an obsession with ramen noodles, which led him to Tokyo and eventually back to school for a culinary degree (his first had been in religion).
First thing that following Monday, I was in his office with the dead charter school application.
By early 2008, his novel "First Experience, " a story about love and sex in high school, was a top title in one of Tokyo's biggest bookstores.
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Graetz (a Treasury official under the first President Bush and now a professor at Columbia Law School) in his book, 100 Million Unnecessary Returns.
Two things to finish: Carwyn Jones' children may not thank him but you suspect Mr Jones the Dad will have reached parts of the debate Mr Jones the First Minister could not have by revealing his own children speak Welsh in school - and to him - but never socially, outside school or to their friends.
Dr. Varmus, the Nobel laureate and president of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, was daunted by the first of his two turndowns by Harvard's med school.
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