"As parents, as taxpayers and as citizens, we have a need and right to know how the money pledged to Newark's public schools will ultimately serve Newark's public school students," said Laura Baker, who filed the initial request and has a granddaughter in the school system.
Mr. Crabbe, a retired systems analyst, told his granddaughter that even though they were catching and releasing other fish, hers was not a fish to return to the pond.
She lives in Larchmont, which is part of the Mamaroneck school system, and has a new granddaughter, born Friday, who is a future Mamaroneck student.
Mrs. Clark gave a dollhouse worth more than $10,000 to Mr. Bock's granddaughter; after the Sept. 11 attacks, she donated $1.5 million for a security system to the settlement in Israel in which Mr. Bock's daughter and her family live.
His granddaughter Lulla Rosenfeld writes, "Of the haskala [Jewish Enlightenment] as an organized system of ideas, he probably knew little or nothing".
Angela Neustatter, granddaughter of the school's co-founder, explained in a Guardian article that the system works because after hours spent climbing beech trees, you yearn for a formal learning environment.
"Why?" her granddaughter asked.
"That's my granddaughter.
Mandela's granddaughter, Nandi Mandela.
Love Yvette, children and granddaughter.
