On Monday, Mr. Olegario was among the first 12 victims of Marcos's rule and family members to receive compensation checks in what legal experts said was a pioneering class-action suit against the family of Marcos, who died in 1989.
In 1889 Yale also established a teacher-training department at Clarke and introduced pioneering classes in manual skills and programs of athletics for deaf children.
At times it resembled an ad for Lee jeans or Jack Daniel's, but mostly it resembled other films about America's pioneering classes.
The middleweights Len Harvey and Frank Klaus and the welterweight Harry Lewis were honored in the old-timer category, and the 19th-century Irish heavyweight Dan Donnelly in the pioneer class.
From that pool the agency selected a pioneer class of six, each a woman of outstanding accomplishment: a heart surgeon, an electrical engineer, an astrophysicist, a geologist.
"And they would always point out — 'That's where the bad boys go!'" The new students — the pioneer class, as they came to think of themselves — were a more upright bunch and, as several of them recalled 70 years later, were thrilled to be there.
Mellony, from our pioneer class, says it best.
The family moved to San Jose, California in 1883, and George enrolled at Stanford in 1891 as part of the new university's "pioneer class".
national examinations were released this spring, and the marks of Daraja Academy's pioneer class FAR exceeded most of the doubters' expectations, those of us who knew the girls were only pleasantly surprised.
