Word: elders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peterson Elder, professor of Greek and Latin, has been appointed acting director of the New Center for Hellenic Studies in Dumbarton Oaks...
...briefly crossed paths in the U.S. Senate, then went their respective ways. At a reception for new members of Congress, Oregon Democrat Maurine Neuberger, taking the Senate seat held by her husband Richard until his death last March, got a brotherly buss from Democratic Elder Statesman Adlai Stevenson, U.S. Ambassador-designate to the U.N. Meanwhile, after 24 years in the Senate, Rhode Island's durable Democrat Theodore Francis Greene - having walked, swum and cerebrated himself to the hearty age of 93 - left that august body (voluntarily, because he could surely have been re-elected had he chosen...
Pusey will also serve as chairman of the Administrative Committee of the Center. The members, appointed by the Trustees, are J. Petersen Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Ernest Brooks, Jr. of New York City; David K.E. Bruce of Washington, D.C.; Huntington Cairns of Washington, D.C.; R. Keith Kane of New York City; Paul Mellon, founder of the Old Dominion Foundation, of Washington, D.C.; Adolph W. Schmidt of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Stoddard M. Stevens of New York City...
Rusk's father was an ordained Presbyterian minister who had to give up the pulpit because a throat ailment kept him from preaching. At the time Dean was born, the fourth of five children, the elder Rusk was scratching a living as a rural schoolteacher and a small cotton farmer in Cherokee County. When Dean was four, his father got a job as a mail carrier in Atlanta, and the family moved to a frame house on Whitehall Street, just beyond the edge of the Negro district. The children wore underwear made at home out of flour sacks, often...
...fellow executives. His mind, says a friend who has seen him in Ann Arbor discussions, "is a beautiful instrument, free from leanings and adhesions, calm and analytical." He and his wife Margaret (they have two daughters and a son) are active in Ann Arbor civic work. McNamara is an elder in the Presbyterian Church, practices such stern business ethics that he refuses all Christmas gifts from business contacts, rents a car on vacation rather than borrow one from the company pool. In politics, McNamara is a lukewarm, liberal Republican who often contributes to Democratic candidates. This year he voted...