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...Berea (1,300) .0.............. Berea, Ky., 40 mi. S. of........................... $420 (no tuition) Lexington
Learning & Burning. Kentucky's unique Berea College is designed specifically to serve poor students from the Southern Appalachians (90% of enrollment). Searching for talent amidst poverty, Berea charges no tuition (students earn their keep), is so successful of its kind that educators flock to it from underdeveloped countries in hopes of picking up ideas. Another bootstrap operation is Oklahoma City University, which is remodeling itself completely after M.I.T. (TIME, June 6). At Texas' Austin College, a hefty new Ford grant is aimed at building the school into a Southwestern Amherst or Swarthmore...
...schools), who pay $6,000 apiece for expert help. The council plans to get to work soon on science and English curriculums. The 23-man staff will also tackle any other problem that concerns the schools. The experts analyze bond issues and tax rates, even plan new schools. Suburban Berea originally planned to build a new high school in 1965, but the council's researchers proved that Berea, with its growing population, would need the school two years ahead of schedule. This month Berea voted $2,900,000 to start construction next spring. Says Council Director Baird...
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...