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Officially Elmbrook has no house rules. There is tacit agreement, however, to maintain a minimum of noise, to wear coats to dinner, and generally to observe home manners. "We like to keep a family atmosphere," Richard F. Collier '72, one Elmbrook resident, said...
Elmbrook has no official policy on the use of drugs. "It's never come up," Collier said. "The people who live here and the people who come over a lot aren't going to use them...
...responsibility of a house committee, consisting of Schmitt and two residents appointed by him. The committee assigns cleaning and maintenance jobs to everyone in the house, but hires women to cook and to clean up after meals. Elmbrook students pay room and board fees to the house which Collier said were "slightly higher than Harvard...
Died. Armand G. Erpf, 73, Wall Street financier and art patron; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A senior partner in the investment house of Loeb, Rhoades & Co., Erpf was the driving force behind what is now the $183 million Metromedia organization, planned the expansion of Crowell-Collier that ballooned sales from $29 million to $220 million in a decade, made the financial arrangements for the transition of the Sunday supplement from the defunct New York Herald Tribune into New York magazine. Well known as an art patron, his own collection ranged from ancient Chinese snuff bottles to avant-garde...
...success. He studied literature at Wayne State University (B.A.) and at the University of Florence. But, as he traveled through Europe and Africa, he began to believe that his middle-class values "support the system under which blacks are degraded and oppressed." He worked briefly in New York for Collier's Encyclopedia, then took an editorial job with Ebony magazine...