Word: berea
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Also elected were: Frank G. Hutchins, of Leverett House and Berea, Ky., History and Literature; James D. Lorenz, of Eliot House and Dayton, Ohio, History; Charles S. Maier, of Leverett House and Scarsdale, N.Y., History; John C. Miller, of Lowell House and Lockport, N.Y., Mathematics...
...second of three sons of Ohio schoolteachers, McElroy was born in Berea (pop. 15,000), grew up in a strict but comfortable Methodist household in Madisonville, a suburb of Cincinnati, early learned that "God will provide if you go out and scratch." By shoveling snow, wrapping laundry bundles, working in a cannery, he had saved $1,000 by the time he finished high school. A scholarship from Cincinnati's Harvard Club stretched the $1,000, allowed him to work part-time, have enough time left to become a big man on the Harvard campus-varsity basketball center, president...
While three North Carolina cities quietly announced plans for partial desegregation in the fall (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Robert D. Ingle, for almost 30 years pastor of the Berea Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., was all set last week to see that no such fate ever befalls his flock. In what Ingle claims to be the first move of its kind in the South, his congregation has approved the building of a new twelve-grade private school to take care of up to 1,000 white pupils. The church has okayed a $300,000 bond issue for the building; the sale...
...monstrous air dryer stocked with 1,890 tons of activated alumina, which soaks up 1.5 tons (ten bathtubs) of water per minute. On a muggy day the alumina has to be dried out after two hours, and this takes enough gas burners to keep the whole city of Berea, Ohio (pop. 13,200) warm in winter. The air in the tunnel must be cooled, and the job is done by cooling apparatus equivalent to 250,000 household air conditioners...
Over the years, the college has produced its share of doctors, lawyers, businessmen and college presidents. But half of its graduates still go back to their mountain communities, and of these, many become teachers. Thus the message of Berea returns continually to the mountains. To a whole region it has brought learning where no learning was before, but perhaps even more important, it has also brought its motto: "God hath made of one blood all nations...