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...teachings of Groton Headmaster Endicott Peabody and the example of his distant cousin, Theodore Roosevelt, according to Freidel, combined to produce in the adolescent F.D.R. a strong sense of social responsibility and a taste for the virile life. Freidel also noted Roosevelt's early concern with being well-liked and his adolescent willingness to accommodate himself to the ways of his prep school classmates in order to gain popularity...
...institutes, six more technical-and-agricultural institutes, twelve teachers colleges. There are also colleges of ceramics, agriculture, home economics, industrial and labor relations, and veterinary medicine (operated through special contracts by Cornell and Alfred Universities). There is only one Ph.D. program (in forestry), and only one campus-Harpur, at Endicott-offers the liberal arts...
...living quarters on the Gold Coast also reflected his social background. Endicott Peabody, official preacher to the University, often decried the "gap between Mt. Auburn Street and the Yard," and it was just such expensive dorms as Westmorly Court, where F.D.R. lived, that Peabody disliked...
...Korean War Memorial was given to David A. Norris '58, and the Endicott Peabody Saltonstall Prize was given to Michael A. Cooper '57. The prize goes each year to a pre-law senior of "outstanding intellect, character, and physique...
...Francis A. Johnson, 48, vice president of Endicott Johnson, became fourth president of the 63-year-old shoe company, succeeding his cousin. Charles F. Johnson Jr., 69, who became chairman of the board. Frank Johnson, grandson of the firm's founder, George F., and son of its second president, George W., began at the bottom as a tennis-sneaker worker in 1931, eventually managed two of the company's three upstate New York plants, served nine years as vice president of the flourishing family business (1956 net: $2,771,158), which is now the second biggest U.S. manufacturer...