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...Montalvania, Brazil, David Knoll, 20, of Chatham Center, N.Y., lives in a hovel about the size of a U.S. bath room. Yet he has changed the whole economy of the village by persuading the peasants to pool their oxen in a farm cooperative. To Knoll, the experience has been inspiring. "After I leave the corps, I want to do more with direct contact between people and the U.S. We've got to get down into the soil with these people. White shirts and cocktail parties aren't going to swerve them away from Communism...
Fresh from her 2893 point woman's world record trick run is Dicksie Ann Hoyt, who should have little trouble winning the girls' Overall crown. Tom Chatham, who can run 2800 points, should run away with boys' trick honors...
...last week said a noted pulse taker of U.S. campus life, President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, before a meeting of U.S. state-university presidents in Washington, D.C. How to preserve small-unit living on big campuses is the problem, says Critic Eddy. The "three, four-and sometimes ten-story hotel which often serves as a dormitory" is no solution. But neither is preservation of fraternities: "Time has run out for the national fraternity system. It has failed to adapt itself to the demands of the new student and to a changing social pattern...
...born on Dec. 30, 1916 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kerr. By the time she was four, her mother had been divorced and was married to George H. Malcolm, a wealthy Otis Elevator Co. executive. Durie grew up in Chicago's suburban Lake Forest, attended Virginia's Chatham Hall, was a member of the Chicago Junior League. Slim and attractive, she was popular at parties in the early '30s at the Racquet Club, the Service Club-and as a charity-fashion-show model...
...sharp contrast to the many colleges that still keep students "in a state of perpetual puerility," says President Edward D. Eddy Jr. of Pittsburgh's Chatham College, are such citadels of learning as New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill. There, he points out, students "may study four years of the Russian language. After two years, they can begin on Chinese, which is then taught in Russian." At Florida's Melbourne High School, one lad recently gave a sample, in a scholarship essay, of the levels that high school research can reach: "Subjection of the eyed river...