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Fifty years ago, on a hot, muggy day in mid-June, about 200 young women filed into Agassiz Hall, their long white dresses peeking through their black robes as they marched to their seats. At the graduation rehearsal earlier that morning, Ethelind Elbert Austin '30 recalls, one of the matrons had informed the anxious group of Radcliffe seniors that, after eating some spoiled dormitory food the previous evening, serveral young women had been stricken with upset stomachs. The graduation caps, the matron suggested, would make convenient containers during the afternoon ceremony. Fortunately, all the caps stayed pinned to the graduates...
Grum, the new executive vice president, graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and the Wharton School. He was vice president for finance at Temple Industries when Time Inc. acquired that Texas-based forest products firm in 1973. He later served as treasurer of Time Inc. and publisher of FORTUNE, and is now chairman of Inland Container Corp., a Time Inc. subsidiary that produces corrugated boxes. In his new post, Grum will supervise the activities of five group vice presidents. Says Heiskell: "Clifford is a very savvy, financially oriented man with a good knowledge of the forest products business...
...Supreme Court forbade mandatory prayers in public schools. A fellow plaintiff in protesting Bible reading and/or recitation of the Lord's Prayer in Baltimore schools was her teen-age son William J. Murray III. He went on to become a publisher, but later joined his mother in Austin, Texas. In 1975 he reorganized the headquarters of her American Atheists and revived its monthly magazine. In 1977 he broke with his mother and tried to start a rival atheist organization...
...letter in the Austin American-Statesman, William, 33, now says he believes in God and is apologizing to the nation for helping build up his mother's "personal empire," and for his adolescent efforts against school prayer. William has not joined any particular denomination, but he feels that "the best way to survive on this planet is through faith in a higher power." He remarks that his former atheistic colleagues "are entitled to their beliefs," but "faith is a strong binding force that can help any individual...
...college English departments, the shift from an all-out study of literature to a more rigorous blend of literature and composition can be a shock to the faculty. At the University of Texas' Austin campus, half the students in the 1960s were excused from fulfilling the freshman English requirement. Today that group has dipped to 28%. To staff the 256 sections of freshman English now required at the sprawling state campus. Liberal Arts Dean Robert King has ordered all English professors to teach one composition course annually. So far, none has carried out initial threats to quit from overwork...