Word: collyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants and Jews brought suit against the board of education for using "a tax-established and tax-supported public school system to aid religious groups to propagate their faith." Cause of the fuss: the board had approved the request of a citizens' committee, headed by Episcopal Mayor Jesse Collyer Jr., that a crèche be built on the lawn of the high school during the Christmas season...
...JANE COLLYER New York City...
Make It Tough. Such was the case last week when Moderator Bud Collyer introduced each of three men as "Thomas Carpenter, West Point cadet." One imposter was actually a Coast Guard ensign, the other a truck driver who had learned to brace his back in the Marine Corps. Both had spent the previous day at West Point, boning up on campus customs, getting regulation haircuts and uniforms fitted. Three of the panelists guessed the truck driver, an act he greeted with one of the most triumphant smiles ever flashed on the TV screen. Another time the panel had to pick...
...Jefferson Ward Keener, 48, was made president of B.F. Goodrich Co., nation's fourth largest rubber company, succeeding William S. Richardson, 63, who is retiring. Keener is slated for another early promotion, to succeed Goodrich's chairman and chief executive, John L. Collyer, 63, when Collyer reaches retirement age in September 1958. Born near Birmingham, the son of a Southern Railway conductor, Keener worked his way through Birmingham-Southern College, then the University of Chicago business school, in 1929 got a job teaching economics at Ohio Wesleyan. In 1933 he tried to go to work for Goodrich...
...Ward Keener and Arthur Kelly were named executive vice presidents of B.F. Goodrich Co., Akron. The positions were established to groom them as successors to Goodrich Board Chairman and Chief Executive Officer John L. Collyer, and President William S. Richardson, who must retire in 1958 at 65. Alabama-born Ward Keener, 48, made such a reputation as a business administration professor at Ohio Wesleyan University that Goodrich hired him as special analyst in 1937, gradually moved him up to vice president in charge of finance. Kelly went to the company straight from Purdue, has been with Goodrich...