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...Whose A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust has given away $157.8 million mostly to found Washington's National Gallery of Art and to educational and civic rebuilding projects concentrated in Pittsburgh during the last three decades. Among the various family trusts blooded by Andrew W. Mellon, the largest is Son Paul's Old Dominion Foundation, which has given more than $22 million to his alma mater, Yale...
Fradkin got his inspiration through defeat; in 1957, running on a platform that called for a scholarship plan of some sort, he lost an election for membership on the Fall River school committee. His dander up, Fradkin began collaring patients, hounding civic groups, beleaguering storekeepers and factory workers for support for his scheme. A $1 contribution entitled individuals to a membership card in the Citizens' Scholarship Foundation, and civic organizations that gave $100 got the privilege of naming the scholarship and presenting it in public...
...Romney, civic leader, Mormon churchman, president, American Motors Corp. LL.D...
...most of its 35 years, the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Fla., turned out many expert playboys, few true scholars. But the University of Miami has lately grown up, both in scholarship and civic responsibility. This week a group of 50 Negroes, mostly undergraduate students, started summer session in the first lowering of the color bar at the largest independent school in the Southeast. In the fall, the bar will be lowered further: 26 more Negroes have been accepted so far, as a result of a board of trustees decision last January to open the school to all qualified...
...Civic affairs and the University's handling of town-gown relations also bothered the Crimson. Particularly lively last winter was the "stills" controversy. An ambitious Cambridge developer proposed a 15-story office building on stilts on the edge of Cambridge common across from Littauer Center. The University privately opposed the plan, along with the historic-minded or traffic-wearied citizens in the community. The State Senate at first approved the special sale of public land for the building, but Governor John a. Volpe Vetoed the move...