No youngster gets into holy Trinity High School each day without getting past Brother Philip Smith. He's there every morning at 5, pushing the papers around his desk before heading for the front door. There he shakes each student's hand (there are roughly 400 kids in the school), welcoming them by name to another day of shared adventure, and incidentally preparing them for that inevitable moment when they will have to greet a prospective client, or boss, or in-law. So it was entirely appropriate on grad- uation Saturday for Brother Philip, the school's president, to be standing on the stage of a grand old church on Division Street in Chicago, where 94 seniors of Holy Trinity High School marched toward him, a diploma in one hand, one final handshake in the other.
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