Word: etherington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ETHERINGTON West Hartford, Conn...
...Shelf. Wesleyan gives its students plenty of say in deciding what the university's future will be. Two students serve on the school's permanent educational-policy committee, a group Butterfield calls "the key to change." Three students are helping incoming President Edwin Etherington, former head of the American Stock Exchange (TIME, July 22), on a study of education policies and programs. A student committee on university development offers advice on campus construction plans. Wesleyan undergraduates also rate their professors. And their voices are not ignored: when Senior Dave Eger objected to administration plans to build a hockey...
Where, with all its money, is Wesleyan heading? Etherington hopes that all of the planning committees and consultants will come up with a variety of options. Wesleyan might go coed, develop new graduate studies, add law or medical schools, or reach out to expand its community services. Whatever the eventual choices, Wesleyan can afford to take its time. Says Etherington, with comfortable and enviable assurance: "The worst way to spend money is to buy the first thing off the shelf...
...downs as well as ups. Insiders complain that he failed to strengthen his spotty staff and that he had a chip on his shoulder in dealing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Relations were much smoother between the SEC and American Stock Exchange President Edwin D. Etherington who, before he accepted the presidency of Wesleyan University this summer, was the favored choice to follow Funston...
...Etherington's acceptance of the Wesleyan presidency came as a surprise to Wall Street, which considered him the man most likely to succeed Funston, who is expected to retire from the Big Board in the fall. Etherington, however, says that he has always been interested in education, and sees no radical discontinuity between investment and learning. He left law practice to join the exchange in the firm belief that its "whole raison d'étre is public service.'' Education, he adds, is simply the highest type of service...