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If you are looking to get admission to the best schools in or near Chennai, I would advise you to go for the Chettinad Schools which was well disciplined and based on Xseed Education. Chettinad has its school all across Chennai in different areas & cities. Out of them, 3 schools are performing best which are:-Chettinad-Sarvalokaa International SchoolChettinad Vidya Mandir, KarurChettinad Vidya Mandir, CoimbatoreLet’s have a brief about there schools here:-Chettinad-Sarvalokaa International SchoolChettinad-Sarvalokaa Education is an international school set in a 10-acre campus with state-of-the-art facilities situated within the lush green 108-acre Chettinad Health City in OMR Kelambakkam, Chennai. Sarvalokaa is an IGCSE Cambridge (Waldorf) School with day-school and week-boarding facilities. It is affiliated to Cambridge Assessment International Education. Its eclectic program brings the best of curricular approaches to provide holistic teaching-learning experiences. Children learn through a journey of creativity, imagination, and self-discovery, and develop as free human beings who bring purpose and direction to their lives. This school welcomes you to visit the world of joyful and limitless learning!Academics:-Kindergarten:- The school believes in an unhurried childhood and provides a loving environment that promotes a sense of joy, wonder, and reverence. Its Waldorf-inspired Kindergarten embraces Rudolf Steiner’s philosophy and aims to lay a strong foundation with its developmental-need based experiential curriculum. The program develops the physical, emotional, intellectual, cultural and spiritual needs of each child. The multi-sensorial approach uses art, music, movement and plays in educating the whole child – Head, Heart, and Hands.Primary:- The primary years' program places the utmost importance on developing the Inner-self of the child. It inspires in children a love for learning and fosters independence and free-thinking. The interdisciplinary approach integrates art, music, and movement in learning subjects like mathematics, science, and languages, thus bringing wholeness to learning. Children develop as resourceful, aesthetic and mindful individuals who are free and self-reliant, and with a zest for life-long learning.Lower Secondary:- In the lower secondary years, they believe that students should have broad exposure to a wide range of learning opportunities both within and outside the classroom so that they begin to better understand themselves and their interests. The school would like their middle school students to take greater ownership of their own learning, and It encourages them to think critically and creatively, to ask big questions, and to discover themselves. Through exciting projects and a continued emphasis on building core skills in literacy and numeracy, students develop the skills necessary to thrive and grow in their complex world.Facilities:-Infrastructure:- Chettinad-Sarvalokaa Education is an International school set in a 10-acre campus with state-of-the-art facilities situated within the lush green 108-acre Chettinad Health City in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The magnificent school building is an architectural delight in itself. The spacious corridors and hallways provide enough room for children to walk and move around freely.Track & Field: It is home to world-class sporting facilities which include an Olympic class track and an international standard football field.Theatre:-In order to provide holistic development to children, theatre classes are arranged for the students by Theatre Nisha – a known name in their domain in Chennai. The emphasis is on developing skills like confidence, public speaking, presentation skills, improved body language, and voice modulation among children.Organic Farming:- The school has a beautiful Organic Garden that is cared for and maintained by the children themselves. Greens like fenugreek, tomatoes, etc. are grown with the utmost care by the children under the supervision of their teachers.Dance:- Its choreographer and trainer ensure children use movements imaginatively and respond to music with physical balance and coordination. They are also encouraged to choreograph a dance on their own for short musical pieces.Library:- Its library houses a variety of reading material and resources that comprise of books in the digital and print format, fiction, and non-fiction books and material for pleasure reading and classroom reading - all of this in a comfortable and warm ambiance.Swimming Pool:- The swimming area has a hygienic and well-maintained swimming pool with a trained coach.Music:- A state-of-the-art music room comprising of musical instruments like percussion drums, guitar, keyboard, flute, etc. is a key attraction at Sarvalokaa. Its music teacher and the team prepare children for in-house programs and trains them in instruments as well.Art:- Art forms an integral part of the curriculum at Sarvalokaa. Children are introduced to various forms of art like preparing art pieces using mix-media, creating pieces from waste materials, etc.Composite lab:-It also have an equipped composite lab at Sarvalokaa that provides for scientific projects and extended learning opportunities for students.Boarding:- The boarding facilities at Sarvalokaa make for a homely and comfortable stay for the child. A safe haven for the child that is a home away from home.Indoor Courts:- The school has well-maintained indoor courts for basketball and badminton where they are regularly trained by a qualified Physical educator.Green Cover:- With plants around, one feels at ease because they reduce stress and provide a feeling of well-being. Also, the air quality of the environment improves. These and many more benefits are what we get having greenery around. The Chettinad-Sarvalokaa campus provides the same serenity with a lush green cover with a variety of trees, plants, and shrubs.Auditorium:- The campus houses a large convention centre with a seating capacity of 1200 equipped with the latest audio and visual technology.Healthy Eating:- At Chettinad Sarvalokaa Education, It promotes the importance of eating a balanced and nutritious diet and developing healthy eating habits. Parents are requested to avoid sending their children to school with chips, candy, and highly sugared and carbonated beverages as lunch or snacks.Medical Assistance:- Chettinad-Sarvalokaa Education maintains health and wellbeing records for all its students. The school is located within the Chettinad Health City campus, which houses two full-fledged hospitals in addition to medical and dental colleges. School is also supported by the two hospitals for all medical emergencies.Address:- Chettinad Sarvalokaa Education International School, Inside Chettinad Health City, Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Old Mamallapuram Road, Kelambakkam, Tamil Nadu 603103phone: +91 44 4742 9900, +91 98 4159 2000, +91 91 2354 9717email: [email protected]. Chettinad Vidya MandirChettinad Vidya Mandir is managed by the Chettinad family through the Rani Meyyammai Achi of Chettinad Charitable Trust. The illustrious Chettinad family is renowned for its philanthropic service to society. The family has made invaluable contributions in the field of education over the decades by initiating and managing several institutions, colleges, and schools in Tamil Nadu. The establishment of the Annamalai University by Dr. Rajah Sir Annamalai Chettiar is just one such contribution. The family’s legendary service in the field of education continued as Padma Bhushan Dr. Sir Muthiah Chettiar took over the mantle. The commitment to this noble cause was sustained by the Chettinad Group through Dr. M.A.M. Ramaswamy and Mr. M.A.M.R. Muthiah.Established in 2008, Chettinad Vidya Mandir at present has 1121 students and a team of 83 teachings and 13 non–teaching staff. Growing from strength to strength the institution is dedicated to offering the best to every member of the CVM family.AcademicsCurriculumThe school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi and prepares children for the A.I.S.S.E. (All India Secondary School Examination)Class I to Class V – Follows the Xseed curriculum from iDiscoveriClass VI to X – Is governed by the N.C.E.R.T. guidelinesClasses XI & XIICourses available:Stream 1: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry & BiologyStream 2: Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry & Informatics PracticesStream 3: Mathematics/Informatics Practices, Accountancy, Business Studies & EconomicsEnglish is a compulsory subject in all streams.Address:- Chettinad Vidya Mandir (Senior Secondary), (Affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, Affiliation code no.: 1930247), Chettipalayam, Puliyur C.F,, Karur District, Tamil Nadu.Phone no:- T +(0)4324 251977, M +(0)9786696574Email: [email protected]. Chettinad Vidya Mandir, CoimbatoreChettinad Vidya Mandir is a CBSE school set in Coimbatore, Tamilnadu.To prepare children for the new millennium, It aims to develop individuals who are creative, collaborative, adaptable and resilient. Its humanistic approach empowers students to discover the joy of learning, embrace challenges and use earth’s resources mindfully.Its program brings the best of curricular approaches to provide holistic teaching-learning experiences. Children learn through a journey of creativity, imagination, and self-discovery, and develop as free human beings who bring purpose and direction to their lives.Academics:-Kindergarten:- The school seeks to provide a happy, safe and enriching environment in which children are encouraged to explore their potential, developing at a relaxed pace. Its versatile approach to teaching experience incorporates elements from contemporary methods upholding traditional value system simultaneously, in order to develop integrated skills and creativity required for students to grow as confident and independent individuals. It creates a calm and nurturing environment as the children learn, interacts and develop their self-confidence and competence.Primary Years:- It firmly believes that happy children make successful learners and so it provides a nurturing environment that incorporates a balance of structure and exploration. In its primary years, it prepares children for a smooth transition to school by developing independence, confidence and a love for learning. Its caring teachers stimulate natural curiosity in the students. It focuses its efforts on the development of 21st-century skills within the framework of the curriculum it delivers. The focus at Chettinad Vidya Mandir, Coimbatore is to foster independence and instill confidence in our students to explore their learning potential at their own paceFacilities:-Sensory PlaygroundCricket PitchFutsalBasketball CourtSchool TransportAddress:- Near Marutham Apartments, M. K. P. Garden, Behind Cheran Nagar, Koundampalayam, Coimbatore - 641 030.Phone No:- +91-422-240 6797, +91 80989 95433 / 96292 41131Email:[email protected]

Thanks for the A2A.The following spring to my mind on what the Ottomans invented, discovered or significantly improved.Concurrent legal systems: Ottomans developed a multi-religious, multi-ethnic governmental system where each community had its own legal, educational and social services system. Nothing like that is tolerated in the modern world.Big data management: Ottomans had sophisticated administrative data on production, population, natural resources, down to every single chicken in every village house. There were complex techniques to gather, calculate, proof read and administer these huge distributed databases.Massive artillery: Ottoman success in advancing into Central Europe in the West and Central Iran in the East depended on massive but reassambled artillery, the most advanced of its time utilising not the engineering design but metallurgy. A smaller Ottoman cannon from the end of the medieval ages shown.Military bands: Unlike modern military bands which are there for celebrations and occasions, Ottoman military band, the oldest known dedicated music regiment, was there to conduct the battlefield messaging and the overall tempo for the army, and even more for the navy. Ottoman battles were fought amazingly under actual film music.Modular furniture: Ottoman Turks were originally nomads, never forgot theirvroots and never liked permanent houses, especially stone houses. They partly continued the ready to move tradition by using spaces in the house for multiple purposes. Bedrooms were transformed to living rooms or other functions within a minute. Divans transformed to other things, tables turned to panels, and beds rolled inside the wooden furniture on the walls.Heavy industrial plants: Massive equipment demanded large permanent weapons manufacturing plants. Ottomans had several of those factories. One still remains as an exhibition centre in Tophane (cannon manufacturers) district of Istanbul from the late 15th century.Endowment system: The vakıf system made possible social services independent of the government and politics. Vakıfs were protected constitutionally, and their resources were not to be touched forever, providing autonomous permanent social services. That was the most advanced in its time.Heavier than air flight: Less well known is the flight of Hezarefen Ahmet Çelebi, detailed in the books of Evliya Çelebi. Hezarefen built a glider and flew from Europe to Asia mid 17th Century. Although initially rewarded, the powerful intercontinental boat services guild conspired before he could mass produce his design. Istanbul’s airport for small planes and gliders was named after him.Uniform citizen clothing: Much before Mao introduced uniform citizens clothing Mahmud II and then Abdulmecid I introduced a science-fiction uniform to make everybody equal, Muslim, Christian, Jew, rich or poor. Everybody was to wear a futuristic red fez instead of turban, and a grey istanbolin, similar to Stalin’s uniform. Istanbolin was dropped gradually but the fez remained. Not only in Turkey but from the Gambia to the Papua all over the Muslim world as symbol of modernity.Encyclopaedia: before the encyclopaedist movement in France in late 18th century, Katip Çelebi, a well-known academic, started to write a book of everything, Cihannümâ, that recorded all the key knowledge areas of the world geographically and to be updated periodically.Rockets: Ottomans experimented with very heavy ballistic artillery that was certainly a precursor of rockets. These contained very large shells which further exploded in the air. But there is little scientific data and evidence for the specifics of the experiments apart from North Korean style triumphant narratives.Science-fiction: Continuation of the above, an account goes further in technical detail that one rocket experiment had a man in it and went up to the moon. Since technical possibilities does not let us take it seriously, the account that is based on technology as its main narrative has to be categorised as the first science fiction setting aside utopian fictions of Farabi or Campanella.Pastrami: Dried and spiced meat go back to Roman annals on the Huns but the Ottomans advanced the meat preservation methods by slow drying of the quality meat with days of burning and then further preserving it with a mixture of salt, herbs and spices, called pastırma.Common red-dye: The monopoly on the colour red was the most lucrative possession of the Ottoman Empire so much as the lively red color was associated with the Turks. Until late 19th century European countries paid for the Turkish red which was a secret process held by the paints guild of Istanbul. Turkish flag still celebrates the old monopoly on colour red, which symbolises not blood and heroism but competetive advantage in global trade.Logo: Ottoman tuğra the imperial trademark was the first logo where the writing takes a picture form to denote a brand. The name of every reigning emperor was written to look like an Ottoman coat of arms. “The name, son of this, grandson of that, the khan, ever victorious” looking like spades, horsetails, drums and arrowbags, Central Asian symbols of khanate.Submarine: A century before the earliest recorded usage of submarine vessels during the American civil war, submarines were used for recreational purposes in the Golden Horn and streams flowing to it to impress party guests and sneaky surprises.The thoroughbred: English thoroughbred horses are direct descendants of the imperial Ottoman horses derived frombreeding of Arabian horses with European ones which were brought in massive amounts in 1683 to Vienna for the subsequent conquest of the German lowland, ideal for a kind of early tank warfare. Austrian emperor sent them to the English in return for their support during the 16 year war, which they gave.Croissants: The design and the sweet taste of this dessert was developed by the Ottomans and were first introduced in Vienna then to the rest of Europe. It was probably one of the many Muslim answers to the Orthodox Christian traditions associating different cookies and sweets with different religious holidays.Dried dairy products: There is possible evidence for milk products similar to yogurt and kefir in the past but Ottomans made it an everyday food. According to travel accounts yogurt and yogurt drink was the most widespread commoners’ food by the 17th century. Military raiders further developed them by drying them to powder and carrying more of it as food. All they had to do was to add some water to eat with dried bread, peksimet.Kaftan: Modern fashionable female kaftan was a unisex cloth that was worn by the wealthy and had all seasons functionality while displaying local arts and crafts and therefore a sense of power on them.Media as the message: Ottomans took calligraphy to a new level, introducing new techniques, reviving and developing old ones. Different scripts used to emphasize different areas, messages and urgency. A public inscription on a monument meant totally different meaning in a different calligraphic form.Data protection law: Ottoman empire was extremely complex in terms of its multiple legal systems hundreds of ethnicities, and based on records preserved in shari defter record books. Not only the data in them had to be correctly entered and double checked, tearing a page off a defter and thereby creating inconsistency was punishable by death. They developed control techniques and specialised cipher short-hands and long term preservation systems as well as early forms of modern business continuity systems. Millions of books are waiting to be decoded, read, translated and analysed at the Ottoman archives.Animated series: Southeast Asian shadow theatre traditions probably go back but the Ottoman traditional Karagöz theatre, which started in 14th century Bursa, was the equivalent of television series of the past. The shadow theatre on a back-lighted screen were staged accross the country by uniform scripts and music and there were standards all over the empire on Karagöz plays. The shadow theatre animators had their own union and training system.Vaccines: Circassians are a Caucasian highlander nation with whom the Ottoman urban elite were fascinated, on the men’s military endurance, and more importantly, women’s beauty. Beautiful Circassian women were being married to Ottomans, a substantial flow of income for highlanders. A smallpox outbreak hit this flow hard, and local elders ingeniously infected cows and then gave girls these infected tissues from early age so as to vaccinate (cow-apply) them. It worked, spread in the Ottoman Empire in telkikhanes for mass producing the vaccine, and then the Europeans applied the method for other diseases.Free psychiatric care: Ottoman Empire had endowments for psychiatric care of people who had trauma, depression or other mental problems, where they were looked after until they gained their well being. Entire dedicated compounds with gardens and recreational activities were built for people with mental disorders.Candy bar: With the introduction of starch and the well developed Turkish candy bar sweet technologies, er-rahat-ul-hulkum, better known as rahatlokum, lokum or simply the Turkish delight was introduced. These sweets would go long, could be carried in longer bars to be cut, more nutricious than sugar candies, contained nuts and were starter of industrial sweets, ancestor of the modern candy bars.Cadet system: Taking children for a life-long military career starting from early ages was first introduced in the Ottoman Empire, which also had one of the first full-time standing elite army, the Janissaries. Children were selected from poorer Christian villages who chose to send children for elite special forces training rather than military exemption taxes. Contrary to Romantic Era literature, Christian villages volunteered themselves for Janissary cadets because the later grown-up upper-class kid supported the family and the village even though he was converted to Islam.Vehicle sharing: It is not unknown in previous civilisations but the Ottoman han networks provided replacement of horses or horsecarts depending on condition and equivalance during long-distance travel.Cymbal: This percussion instrument was the peculiar sound of a marching Ottoman army and was perfected for transmission of music in long distances. Even today the best cymbals in modern jazz, rock or classical drum batteries come from Turkey.Explosion mining: Ottoman forte was engineering and systems rather than heroic self-sacrifice. They tediously started digging tunnels under fortifications before finding the ultimate weak spot and exploding it underneath. These engineering explosions further extended to civilian mining field.Environmental protection: Mehmed II having realised that cutting forests was getting out of control in urban development which eventually threatened the environment, established a harsh code in protecting nature and in particular the trees, which had holy connotations in pre-Islamic Eurasian culture.Air current filtration: Sinan the architect developed the technology of setting internal air currents inside buildings such that the smut of thousands of candles was channeled to a specific dedicated chamber, the smut room. The air dynamics not only filtered the air but also collected the black smut for ink production, consistent with the Ottoman principle of optimum usage of resources. Sinan and his students made sophisticated gas dynamics calculations to direct the internal currents within the massive mosques.Map of the Atlantic including Antarctica: Ottomans did not visit South America or the Atlantic but very early on admiral and cartographer Piri Reis developed the most advanced maps of the Atlantic gathered from pre- and post-Colombus data with methods still not fully understood.The toilet: A separate room in the house or a palace dedicated to personal hygiene and relief was a novelty even by the 18th Century French palaces where a chamber pot was the standard means of relief and throwing its contents from the window was the sanitary system. Ottomans strictly separated living and cleaning activities with water piping and sewage. Many Ottoman diplomats begged with their lives not to go to West European cities because of their horrific smell and health standards.Light-blue tiles: Ottomans were obsessed with light blue, or turqoise colored walls and objects and popularised this colour named after them by applying tiles in the walls of public constructions.Free hotel services: Ottoman hotels for business travellers for were usually free of charge with basic essentials. The han system business model was based on all business conducted around the han and making money from third party services rather than visits, an early example of the dot-com model.Humanitarian intervention: Ottoman Turks used their huge logistics and operations arm for saving populations under stress. Examples include the massive transportation of the Jewish population of Spain to Turkey on March the 31st, 1492 to save them from torture and execution under the inquisition or sending a flotilla of food to Ireland during the Irish potato famine.Coffee and café culture: Originally from Ethiopia and Yemen coffee entered global culture by the 17th century through adoption by the Ottoman Turks. The Viennese café tradition started when massive Turkish stocks were captured before the city in 1683.Common diplomatic convention: Ottomans started a pan-European diplomatic convebtion rather than bilateral relations because they needed the acknowledgement of their imperial superpower status by all states in the 15th and 16th centuries, which gradually transformed to international diplomacy.Heavy duty soaps: Ottoman Turks were particular about hygene and cleanliness as this was a key strategic advantage over other nations at times of frequent epidemics. Houses and cities were washed with strong chemicals.Reusable bridges: Ottoman engineering corps developed portable modular bridges to advance in the Balkans and Central Europe which was interrupted with rivers and hard terrain.Advanced battlefield communication: Ottoman Turks integrated all available technologies to control battlefield resources optimally, including military music messages, semaphores and flag languages, as well as mirrors, all to manage army or navy fighting as one.Music for clinical psychology: Based on Avicenna’s research and extending it the Ottomans associated hundreds of musical chords with personality and problem types and applied musical therapy as a cure for psychiatric diseases.Advanced medieval musqets: Although the bow and arrow meant the same thing a katana meant for a Japanese officer of samurai background, Ottoman infantry, even the special forces, from late 14th Century on were primarily a musqeteer force and utilised rifles as the primary advantage. They threw a misket a round mini-cannon, from Turkish from Arabic, hence the name.Public reading houses: Ottoman kıraathane, public reading house, was a gathering place where books and newspapers were provided with beverages and with corners of gathering for the illiterate with a literate who read a book or newspaper loudly. There were levels of reading houses depending on educational backgrounds including for scientific professions.Portable food containers and thermos: Turks were and still accustomed with warm food with juice, consuming dry kebabs on a row were considered not healthy, and modular metallic containers for bringing home cooked food was standard for work. These containers had standard four compartments with different types of watertight insulation.Kanun, precursor of piano: Cimbalom was the mechanical scaled version of the Ottoman centrepiece musical instrument kanun, with the addition hitting metal strings with a stick, led to more developed versions the harpsichord and piano, which added keyboards.Women’s high heels: Muslim women in the Balkans were associated with wooden high platform footwear and headgear making them much taller than their servants, increasing their authority as well as elegance.Kiosks: With two best examples inside the Topkapi palace, small open constructions for musicians inside recreational gardens were called köşk, also meaning a stately house. This was adopted in European gardens with small ensembles playing music in them and later in oriental looking small urban newsagents, cigarette sellers and ticket boxes.Public transport: Istanbul being set on two continents required constant boat traffic between the European and Asiatic sides. Although many had private boats and small taxi boats were also available, there were also larger boats taking several people at one go until they filled as early as the 16th century.Public housing estates: Large buildings housing many people go back to high-rise Yemeni and latter Roman cities. Ottoman urban planners designed entire districts and even cities. The name of the city Elazığ comes from memurat-ul-aziz, houses for government civil servants while Akaretler in Istanbul is after government housing estate for fire victims.Forward-dated bank cheques: The practice is based on the Quran directive in chapter 2, verse 282, that all debts must be kept in writing on a paper under guarantee of two witnesses and with an expiry date, rendering every citizen to a bank and creating paper money when these debt papers were transfered. Ottomans used this widespread and modern Turkey’s relative immunity to global banking crises partly come from continuation of this practice banned in the west.Tulip trade exchanges: Much before Holland’s tulip-mania Ottoman Turks were already a tulip obsessed nation with tulip onions valued at high prices exchanged in dedicated halls with specific auction techniques adopted by the Flemish and generated the Dutch auction widespread over the Internet.Christmas tree: Turks considered trees holy and made tree decorations from very early ages, with a mythical tree of life between land and sky, especially fir trees. This practice with no Christian roots entered Europe as part of celebrations in the 16th century and fir trees were decorated the same way done in Turkish festivals.Storage-seating ottomans: Being lukewarm to static furnitures Ottoman Turks tolerated them by introducing a secondary function of storage, while using them in various forms, hence the name.

Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, born 1911, April 2, Scranton, Pennsylvania, graduate of Pennsylvania State University, small textile supply owner; died, April 7, 1993, in Little Rock, Arkansas The second of three sons, Hugh Rodham was the first in his family to attend and graduate from college, able to attend Penn State University on a football scholarship.Upon graduation, he found work as a travelling salesman of drapery fabrics through the upper-Midwest. He met Dorothy Howell, who was working as a company clerk typist and after a lengthy courtship they married and moved into a one-bedroom Chicago apartment. With the outbreak of World War II, he served in the U.S. Navy, stationed at the Great Lakes Naval Station, an hour outside of Chicago, where he worked as a chief petty officer. He oversaw sailor training. After the war, he began his own small, independent drape and fabric printing business in downtown Chicago.He assumed responsibility for his younger brother, Russell, a former physician who suffered from mental depression. Gruff, often highly critical of his children as a way to encourage their improvement in school grades and behavior, he taught Hillary the habits of hard work and study and that one had to earn success. Extremely thrifty, he also taught his children to never waste even the smallest amount of anything from food to toothpaste.Mother:Dorothy Howell Rodham at the time of her 1942 marriage. (WJCPL)Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham, born June 4, 1919, Chicago, Illinois; married to Hugh Rodham, 1942; died November 1, 2011.Beyond what might be considered a traditional closeness with her mother, Hillary Clinton has described Dorothy Rodham as a crucial figure in life, not just a mentor and role model but one who had a story that sparked part of her lifelong mission on behalf of children's rights and protection.Were it not for the care, direction and attention from a neighborhood woman who Dorothy worked for as a "mother's helper," it is unlikely the young girl would have developed a sense of her own potential. Poised to begin college in California, her mother contacted her, asking her to return to Chicago, where she had remarried, promising to pay for her education. When Dorothy returned, however, she discovered that her mother intended to have her work for free as a housekeeper and would not underwrite her higher education as promised.In California, she also witnessed the effect of racial bigotry on her fellow students who were Japanese-American. It left her with a rigorous sense of justice and recognition of how many children experienced disadvantage and discrimination from birth. She taught Hillary and her sons that they were no less or more important than any other human beings.Although denied the chance for a college education, Dorothy would take many college courses during her adulthood. She also read voraciously as a way of teaching herself about the larger world.The impact of her mother's early life proved to be of enormous influence on young Hillary Rodham's perception of parenting and childcare.As a mother, Dorothy inculcated her daughter and sons to never permit others to bully them and to defend themselves. She also passed on her belief that gender was no barrier to any potential endeavor, and that it was right to expect, and fight for equal treatment as a right.Dorothy Rodham with her daughter Hillary. (New York Times)Hillary Rodham as a toddler in Chicago. (WJCPL)Ancestry:Welsh, French, Scottish, Native American, English; Hillary Clinton's paternal grandfather Hugh Rodham was born in 1879 in Northumberland, England and immigrated to Pennsylvania to work at the Scranton Lace Company.Her maternal great-grandparents, the Howells, were immigrants from England and settled in California.Her maternal grandmother, Della Murray migrated from Canada to Illinois and married secondly to Max Rosenberg who was born in Russia in 1901.Birth Order:Hillary Rodham as a young girl. (WJCPL)Eldest of three; two brothers, Hugh E. Rodham, Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony Rodham (born 1954)Physical Appearance:5' 6", blonde hair, blue eyesReligious Affiliation:Methodist. In being raised within the original tenets of Methodism as preached by its founder, John Wesley, Hillary Clinton's faith inculcated her with a sense of duty towards not just those in need in her community but also those in the world at large. She was baptized in the parish of her paternal ancestors, the Court Street Methodist Church in Scranton, Pennsylvania.Hillary Clinton with her influential youth minister Don Jones. (NPR)In 1961, her First United Methodist Church of Park Ridge's youth group was led by a new youth minister, Don Jones, who introduced the students to the "University of Life," that encouraged them into social action as a way of enacting the Methodist ideology. Jones would lead the group outside the comfort zone of their middle-class, white suburban neighborhood into areas of need and where they found ways to volunteer in community service. Discussions on matters of racial equality and social justice permanently altered her consciousness about the larger world and the problems within it.Hillary Rodham's childhood home, Park Ridge, Illinois. (politicalstew.com - Index page)Education:Eugene Field Elementary School, Park Ridge, Illinois, 1953-1957.In grade school, Hillary Rodham was an eager student lucky to have attentive and imaginative teachers, and she wrote an autobiography and co-wrote and produced a play about an imaginary trip to Europe. She also won her first "election" in these years, as a co-captain of the safety patrol.Ralph Waldo Emerson Middle School, Park Ridge, Illinois, 1957-1961Maine Township High School, East and South, Park Ridge, 1961-1965Hillary Rodham on high school student council. (WJCPL)In high school, Hillary Rodham was as immersed as her peers in popular culture, heading up a fan club for the singer Fabian, crushing on one of the Beatles and attending a Rolling Stones concert.She also succeeded academically, becoming a National Honor Society member, joining a debating society, and being elected to student council and as the junior class vice president. She later reflected on how influential Paul Carlson, her ninth-grade history teacher had been on her thinking about individualism and the rights of each person to determine their own fate, in the context of that era's anti-communism that was a large part of the agenda of the conservative wing of the Republican Party.Second from left, Hillary Rodham making her first television appearance on a local Chicago station, with her high school "Cultural Values Committee." (WJCPL)As part of an effort to create greater understanding among divisive sub-groups within her high school, she was asked by the principal to serve on a "Cultural Values Committee." The group's efforts to find common bonds among the disparate student body was her first recognition of what she would come to identity as the crucial "American value" of "pluralism," the idea that however different the details of their acculturation, all Americans were united by a set of values, most important among them being "mutual respect and understanding." Her work on the committee led to her first appearance on television to discuss their work.Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts, 1965-1969Hillary Rodham delivering her famous speech at Wellesley College graduation. (www.wbeegood.com)As Senior Class president, Hillary Clinton became the first student speaker at graduation, addressing the audience of faculty, graduates, their families, and guests in a speech that made national news. Here is an audio recording of that speech:Yale Law School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1969-1972Hillary Rodham in 1969. (Rex Features)At law school, Hillary Rodham was a member of the board of editors of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action, and graduated with honors.Yale Child Study Center, 1973-1974Upon graduating from law school, Hillary Rodham took a post-graduate year of study on children, exploring issues of early childhood development, child abuse, and medical-related matters. She also worked as a research assistant to the center's director, Dr. Al Solnit and one of her professors Joe Goldstein for their book, co-authored with Anna Freud, entitled Beyond the Best Interests of the Child.Occupation before Marriage:At the age of three years old, Hillary moved with her parents from their downtown Chicago apartment to a home in the booming, postwar suburb of Park Ridge. She was an active child, joining the Brownies and Girl Scouts, a girl's baseball team, and was often out biking, swimming and skating.Hillary Rodham with other children who raised funds for a local United Way campaign, presenting their earnings. (WJCPL)Even as a young girl, much of the diligence she would show later in her professional life were in evidence. In 1959, she organized backyard carnivals, sport competitions and gaming contests to raise money to raise funds, by nickels and dimes, on behalf of a local United Way campaign. It led to her first bit of publicity, appearing in a local newspaper photograph with other children handing over a paper bag of the money they raised. Hillary Rodham also worked as a babysitter both after school and during her vacation breaks, sometimes watching the children of migrant Mexicans brought to the Chicago area for itinerant work.Hillary Rodham as a "Goldwater Girl" in high school.(WJCPL)Ambitious at one point to become an astronaut, she wrote to NASA and received a response that stunned her when she was informed that women were not accepted for the astronaut program.Influenced by her father's strong loyalty to the Republican Party, Hillary Rodham was active in a young Republican group. She actively campaigned for Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater in 1964. Also influenced by her mother, who was a Democratic, she was inspired to work in some form of public service after hearing a speech in Chicago by Reverend Martin Luther King.In the summer of 1968, she was accepted into the Wellesley Internship Program in Washington, for nine weeks, assigned to work as an intern for the House Republican Conference. In that capacity, she was directly led by the future US President Gerald Ford, then serving as House Minority Leader, as well as congressmen Melvin Laird of Michigan and Charles Goodell of New York.Hillary Rodham as a congressional intern with future president Gerald Ford. (WJCPL)She was then invited by Goodell to continue working as an intern on behalf of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller's last-minute presidential bid at the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami, Florida. She attended the convention and watched as Richard Nixon was nominated for the presidency by his party.In her senior year, she researched and wrote a thesis on Chicago community organizer Saul Alinsky. Although she agreed with his premise that the disadvantaged of society had to be empowered to help themselves, she did not agree that social change came about best from working outside the establishment but rather from within. Although he offered her a chance to work with him after she graduated, Hillary Rodham decided instead to attend law school and work from within the system.She also worked at various jobs during her summers as a college student. In 1969, for example, she spent the summer washing dishes at a Denali National Park restaurant and sliming and boxing salmons in a canning factory in Valdez, Alaska fish factory.In 1970, she secured a grant and first went to work for what would become the Children's Defense Fund. Part of her research work that summer involved the concurrent Senate hearings held by Senator Walter Mondale's (Minnesota Democrat) subcommittee on migrant workers, researching migrant problems in housing, sanitation, health and education. Upon her return to Yale Law School, Miss Rodham determined to commit her focus to studying the law and how it affected children.Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton at the time they were dating. (WJCPL)On the final day of her law classes in the spring of 1971, she met fellow law student Bill Clinton from Arkansas and had their first date by going to the Yale Art Gallery to see a Mark Rothko exhibit. In the summer of 1971, Hillary Rodham worked as a clerk at the small law form Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein in Oakland, California. Bill Clinton, already declaring his love for her, followed Hillary Rodham and they lived in Berkeley, near the University of California campus.Upon graduation from law school, she served as staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In the summer of 1972, however, she joined Bill Clinton, living in a series of western states working for the Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern's campaign.In 1973 and 1974, while simultaneously working at the New Haven Legal Services during her post-graduate year at the Yale Child Study Center, she became exposed to severe cases of child neglect and abuse. The convergence of this work led her to help draft the legal process that the medical staff of the Yale-New Haven Hospital would use in dealing with cases where child abuse was suspected.Hillary Rodham as a member of the House Judiciary Committee's Watergate staff. (CNN)Hillary Rodham's first published scholarly article, "Children Under the Law" was published in the Harvard Educational Review in 1974. The article explored the sensitive issues involving to what degree judicial and legal powers should intervene in cases of child abuse and neglect.In the spring of 1974, she returned to Washington as a member of the presidential impeachment inquiry staff advising the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives during the Watergate Scandal. With Nixon's resignation in August of that year, the need for the continued work ceased.Marriage:Bill and Hillary Clinton on their wedding day. (WJCPL)27 years old, married 1975, October 11, Fayetteville, Arkansas to William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born August 19, 1946, Hope, Arkansas), professor of law.Although her education, legal and professional experience led to her being given a number of choices at well-paying and established New York and Washington law firms, she decided to instead "follow my heart" and go to the small-town of Fayetteville, Arkansas where her boyfriend Bill Clinton was working as a law professor at the University of Arkansas Law School. Hillary Rodham also joined the law school faculty there as assistant professor of law.While they were dating, Bill Clinton secretly purchased a small house in Fayetteville that she had noticed and remarked that she had liked. When he proposed marriage to her and she accepted, he revealed that they owned the house. Their modest wedding ceremony and reception were held in their new home.The Clinton home in Fayetteville, now a museum. (Wikipedia)They married and lived here, briefly. Following Bill Clinton's election in 1976 as state attorney general, the couple relocated to the state capital of Little Rock, Arkansas.In 1976, the newly married Hillary Clinton attended that year's Democratic National Convention in New York, which nominated Jimmy Carter as the party's presidential candidate. Carter asked Bill Clinton to head his campaign in Arkansas and asked Hillary Clinton to work as field coordinator in Indiana. After the couple took a two week vacation in Europe, she relocated to Indianapolis to work for Carter's campaign.