Part of the article is Kamil's personal recollections of his time at Horace Mann.
He attended the elite Horace Mann School in the Bronx and graduated from Harvard College in 1948.
The Times article was written by Amos Kamil, a 1982 Horace Mann graduate.
Administrators told students and their parents that Horace Mann was incredibly lucky to have him, however odd he might be.
Eliot Spitzer grew up in the tony Riverdale section of the Bronx, where he attended the Horace Mann prep school.
Daniel Shapiro, who graduated from Horace Mann in 1973, says he was abused by a teacher when he was 15 years old.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
Last fall, lawyers representing about thirty survivors of abuse, including Gene, Fife, Seiger, and the bond trader, began negotiating with Horace Mann about compensation.
To date, as far as we know, the Horace Mann Board of Trustees has not yet made a decision to approve an independent investigation.
Lawyers for the alumni named more than a dozen teachers as abusers, accompanying their presentation with photographs of the alumni as teen-agers at Horace Mann.
When I was in high school, at Horace Mann, in the Bronx, in the nineteen-seventies, everyone took pride in the brilliant eccentricity of our teachers.
The son of a real estate investor, Spitzer was raised in the upscale Riverdale section of the Bronx, attended the Horace Mann School, and collected a B.
Some 20 clients have settled with Horace Mann, she said.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
Although investigators were told that abuse allegations were brought "to the attention of school officials without law enforcement being notified" at Horace Mann, that is legal under New York's current law.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
"We feel pain and regret for anyone who reports to have been harmed while a student at Horace Mann School, " board Chairman Steven Friedman wrote in a public letter in August.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
Many residents are also attracted to the area by the proximity of several well-regarded private schools, including the Ethical Culture Fieldston School, Riverdale Country Day School and the Horace Mann School.
Horace Mann officials didn't respond to requests for comment.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
He graduated from Horace Mann School, received his undergraduate degree from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and his law degree from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.
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After discussions with the district attorney's office, Horace Mann recently amended its policy on reporting child abuse to highlight the "importance of immediate notification to law enforcement, " said Bronx prosecutors, who urged other schools to follow suit.
WSJ: Bronx District Attorney Finds Abuse 'Pattern' at Horace Mann
The Bronx district attorney's office and the New York Police Department launched an investigation into allegations of abuse at The Horace Mann School after a New York Times Magazine article last summer that said the academy was plagued by teachers who sexually abused children in the 1970s.
"The District Attorney's conclusions, once again confirm to us, that we were correct in urging Horace Mann to conduct an immediate, independent and transparent investigation into what is clearly the worst case of child abuse in an American school in recent history, " she said in a statement.
Near the end of the second week, Horace Mann offered a financial settlement, with payments ranging from less than ten thousand dollars to more than a hundred thousand, depending on how badly the students had been abused and on whether they had alerted school authorities while they were still teen-agers.
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