Word: depauw
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sleep. He was a tennis champion and a football star at the University of Southern California. Assigned to a rundown parish in the Los Angeles slums, he renamed it the Church of All Nations and rebuilt it into one of the showcases of his faith. He was president of DePauw University in Indiana from 1928 to 1936 and then became, at 44, the youngest bishop of his church at that time. Oxnam took the honor lightly, and with some wit. Shortly after he was elevated to the episcopacy, a friend began a conversation with "My God, Bishop . . ." "No," Oxnam interrupted...
...orders: "Get used to the field mice, screech owls, coyotes and katydids." Searching Their Faces. Apart from his performance, his brusque manner and salty language has endeared him to the corps. An Indiana farm boy who took a math major at DePauw University and went directly into the Marines from ROTC, Shoup earned a Congressional Medal of Honor by directing the 2nd Marine Division in its bloody, 76-hour assault on Tarawa, despite a badly wounded leg. Terse and tough, he constantly urges his commanders to know their men better. He asks them: "Do you search the faces of your...
Coach Floyd Wilson's quintet scored victories over Whenton, 93-63, and DePauw, 88-56, on successive nights to reach the final round against the Indiana school, which annually gives a good account of itself against some of the best teams in the Midwest. Denny Lynch, who was also high scorer against DePauw, led the Crimson in the final game with 16 points...
...semi-final victory over De Pauw must rank as one of the Crimson's best performances in many a year. The Indiana school had just returned from a trip to the West Coast, where it lost by only small margins to national powers USC and UCLA. Previously, DePauw, had defeated Butler, conqueror of a very strong Bradley team...