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When Joyce found that the Germans were using soybean oil in paint, he built a soybean processing plant, used the oil himself and sold the meal to animal-feed manufacturers. To develop new soybean products, Joyce hired Dr. Percy Julian, a Negro chemist from DePauw University. The choice was good; Julian was the first to mass-produce sex hormones from soybeans successfully, gained further fame in World War II by developing a fire-fighting foam to smother gasoline and oil fires...
...customers several months ago. The newcomer to the neighborhood around Chicago and East Avenues was indeed a Negro. He was also one of the nation's ablest chemists. Percy Levon Julian A.M., Ph.D. (Harvard and the University of Vienna), the only Negro in his class at DePauw University, where he was valedictorian (and a classmate of David Lilienthal), is the highly paid chief of soyabean research for Chicago's Glidden Co. In that job and earlier, Percy Julian, the grandson of an Alabama slave, had made world-famous chemical discoveries. They ranged from processes for the synthetic manufacture...
...Heinke, our Indianapolis string correspondent. She told him that a story in Education referred to a poem by James Whitcomb Riley entitled Perfesser John Clark Ridpath, A.M., LL.D., TYTY. What, asked Researcher Burns, did the T-Y-T-Y stand for? Could Heinke find out? Possibly somebody at DePauw University, where Lecturer Ridpath lived and worked before his death in 1900, would know...
...called DePauw's public relations director who put me on to Dr. O. F. Overstreet, a contemporary and friend of John Clark Ridpath, and also suggested that I call Sam Rariden, editor of the Greencastle Banner. Dr. Overstreet didn't know about T-Y-T-Y and announced further that there were no living Ridpath descendants, thereby quenching that hope. Editor Rariden said I ought to call Mrs. Clyde Wildman, wife of DePauw's president, at Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis, where her husband was convalescing. Mrs. Wildman said it was all right to ask her a question...
...chairman graduated from DePauw University in 1920, where he received an honorary Doctorate of Laws in 1945, and practiced law in Tennessee, Chicago, and Wisconsin before being appointed a director of the Tennessee Valley Authority...