Word: alvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Pusey's other degree will be conferred by Pennsylvania on Jan. 14, the 250th anniversary of the birth of Benjamin Franklin, that institution's founder. At the Founder's Day ceremony four other educators will be so honored: A. Whitney Griswold of Yale, Alvin D. Chandler of William and Mary, Thomas M. Knox of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, and A. H. Smith, vice chancellor of Oxford University...
Chiefly responsible for the educational project is Cass D. Alvin, the Steelworkers' western regional educational director. Alvin likes to cite a page of labor history as the wrong way to cope with the problem: England's igth century "Luddites" tried to stem the infant Industrial Revolution by smashing up the new machinery. Says Alvin: "We could kick these new electronic machines like the Luddites did, but they wouldn't give a damn...
Last summer, instead of kicking the machines, Alvin and Joseph E. Doherty, one of the union's business representatives, asked Industrial Engineer Hauer to draft an experimental course that would make electronic technicians out of the union's semiskilled machine-tenders, the most vulnerable targets of automation. With the help of Donald B. Levinson, a Hughes Aircraft electrical engineer, and RCA Electronic Technician Joseph Schoen, Hauer settled on a night curriculum. The class will meet twice a week for four years, start with the simplest math problems but eventually lead the students through basic courses in radar, physics...
Meanwhile, three other professors who have participated in Stevenson's advisory group--Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy; Arthur A. Maas, associate professor of Government; and John Kenneth Galbraith, professor of Economics--could not be reached for comment on their roles in the campaign...
Britons and Test Pilot Roland Falk may be aloft [Sept. 19], but are no loftier than Boeing's top test pilot, Alvin M. ("Tex") Johnston...