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...following will hold office for four years beginning Jan. 1, 1960: George Z.F. Bereday, professo of Comparative Education, Teachers College, Columbia University; Henry S. Dyer '27, vice-president, Educational Testing Services, Princeton, N.J.; James A. Lewis, vice-president of student affairs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Ernest Stabler, professor of Education and chairman of the Master of Arts in Teaching Program, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn...
...Arbor, Mich...
...weighed with crushing force on Cheng Guan Lim, Chinese engineering student at the University of Michigan. He was doing badly in physics and math, thought he was sure to flunk out. Soon there would be nothing for it but to leave school, quit his job as janitor at Ann Arbor's First Methodist Church, and take the humiliating news back to his schoolteacher father in Singapore. Finally, one day in October 1955, Cheng disappeared. His friends, including the Rev. Eugene Ransom, pastor of the church, called in police. They found no clues...
...Cheng's Methodist friends had another mystery to ponder: strange bumping noises that came out of the deserted church by night. Early one morning last week a pair of private detectives, called in by Mr. Ransom, heard a trap door to the church attic slam. Together with Ann Arbor police, they climbed up, swept their flashlights about the attic. There, crouched above them in the rafters, was Cheng...
Physically Cheng seemed unaffected by his hermit's existence. But as Ann Arbor police hauled him off to the county jail, his four-year preoccupation with loss of face suddenly vanished. Said he: "I have been a coward. I'm glad I was found...