Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born in Powhatan County, Va. of an old Southern family, tall, good-looking Julien Binford was awarded the Ryerson Traveling Fellowship ($2,500) in 1932, spent three years studying in Paris. Returning to the U.S. with a charming French wife, Painter Binford bought himself "a more than primitive" house in Virginia, started farming, painting the local Negroes. He also succeeded in arousing the local white population. Commissioned last spring to paint a mural of the burning of Richmond (1865) for the Saunders Station Post Office, Binford submitted a preliminary sketch nicely calculated to lose him the job. His rough drawing...
...plan, which is a logical sequence to the University's new Labor Fellowship program, is not the first time that the Business School has tried to train older men. Summer courses for business executives have been held, and since the last war the Army and Navy have sent officers to the school...
...diamond mining engineer, Painter Haucke was born in Kimberley, South Africa, in 1908. He came to the U.S. as a child, later studied psychology in New York University. He was preparing his doctor's thesis at Yale, on a teaching fellowship, when he decided to marry one of his former pupils and to abandon psychology for painting. Yale objected to both decisions. Result: Mr. and Mrs. 'Haucke rented a cottage near New Haven, lived on home-raised vegetables and $5 a week. When war came, Haucke thought he ought to take some part...
...experiment in education" as well as a "progressive step toward intelligent labor leadership," the new Trade Union Fellowship Plan was given final form last night as the University announced the names of the 14 representatives who have been selected by their unions to participate in the program...
Hatmaker, labor leader, and beneficiary of Harvard's newest fellowship program, Edward Wagenfeld last night described the Trade Union Plan as "one of the greatest things that has happened to labor," but emphasized that the program would prove even more effective in furthering harmony in American industry if management could be subjected to equivalent training...