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...small patch of prairie last week, Greenfield, Iowa, graduated its 100th high school class. From a fragile start, the procession has gone through 99 years of corn crops, Presidents, wars, droughts, babies and blizzards. Six girls formed the senior class of 1883. They stood up for their diplomas in the Greenfield opera house on a June night. Greenfield was still tentative then, with wooden buildings, dirt streets and the scuffed look of any human habitation that dares stand before the scouring west wind. "A land without echoes or shadow," wrote John Madson in his evocative new book, Where...
...Social Security check No.1 for $22.54 went in January to Ida Fuller of Brattleboro Vt. who had paid a total or $22 in Social Security taxes. Fuller drew her last monthly check for $112.60 in December 1974 shorty after her 100th birthday. By then she had collected $20,944.42 in return for her $22. *Secretary of the treasury Donald Regan, Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan, and secretary of Health and Human Services Richard Schweiker
Hayes was one of the speakers at Harvard's Sanders Theater last week, as Emersonians observed the 100th anniversary of Emerson's death. It has been an important year in the Emerson business. Last fall arrived Gay Wilson Allen's handsome biography, Waldo Emerson (Viking, $25). The Harvard University Press next month will issue a volume of extracts from Emerson's journals, chosen and edited by Harvard's Emerson scholar Joel Porte. The journals, a lifetime accumulation of notebooks containing much of the raw material from which Emerson fashioned his essays and other writings...
...little red or grey plastic card. But Stephen Waters '85 will get an engraved Harvard chair, a new suit, and--just maybe--a date with Miss U.S.A. 1982. Waters is the Coop's 100,000 member and will receive his gifts today, as the Coop celebrates its 100th anniversary...
...Coop management, then, the store's 100th anniversary should be occasion not for placid celebration--for profits alone are nothing to celebrate--but instead for looking both back at the Coop's past and ahead to its future. The past should remind them of the forgotten ideals of the retail cooperative--fair prices, compassionate treatment of workers, and cooperation with its membership. The future, we hope, will allow the Coop to realize those ideals better than it has in recent years...