Word: alvan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of 53 men in a small wooden schoolhouse on the Ripon College campus on March 20, 1854. They assembled on a cold night, held their discussion by the light of tallow candles. "We went into the little meeting Whigs, Free Soilers and Democrats," one of their leaders, Alvan E. Bovay, later recalled. "We came out Republicans...
...take over the direction of a U.S. thermonuclear retaliation. Through a multiple-checked series of authentications, he would break open a locked "red box" and issue the "Go" orders to missile sites and bomber bases that would send nuclear warheads toward preselected targets. Says one AEAO officer, Major General Alvan C. Gillem: "If I were the last remaining American, I wouldn't sit there and do nothing...
...grants established a new chair of radiological research at the Medical School, which has been filled by Henry I. Kohn, professor of Radiology. The new chair, known as the Alvan T. and Viola D. Fuller-American Cancer Society Professorship of Radiology, is one of 17 full-time research posts endowed by the Society throughout the country. Three of these research professorships are now at Harvard...
...case was appealed to Governor Alvan T. Fuller, who knew well that the decision of any one man would be unlikely to satisfy the extreme partisans of either side. He determined to appoint an advisory committee and immediately decided on A. Lawrence Lowell for one member. Lowell recommended the president of M.I.T., Samuel W. Stratton, for a second member, and retired Judge Robert Grant was eventually named to round out the group...
...Academie accepts no more than 30 girls a year. Members of the current crop include Henry Ford's daughter Anne (whose sister Charlotte graduated with the premiere class in 1961), Melinda Fuller, granddaughter of onetime Massachusetts Governor Alvan Fuller, and Genevieve du Pont of the Delaware dynasty. Tuition for the eight-month course is $2,800, covers the girls' social outings to theaters, balls, concerts and weekend house parties (escorted vacation cruises to Greece or Egypt are optional). Students do not live in dormitories, but (at an additional cost of close to $2.000) are placed with families...