As physician for the high school football team in Seneca Falls, N.Y., in 1961, Dr. Scott W. Skinner fretted about the fact that many of the hard-working but unbookish kids he knew probably would have a tough time getting into a college. A mediocre student himself at Muhlenberg, Skinner was convinced that many local youngsters would do all right if a school would just give them a chance. Impulsively he dashed off a letter to a man he had never met but had always considered "a hero of mine and a unique...
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