Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Exchanges in cultural matters eventually evolved into an actual exchange of students in the late 30's. Miss Alice M. Maginnis, a Radcliffe graduate and an instructor in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, won the first fellowship to Kobe from Radcliffe. She was spending the summer of 1937 in Japan and China as a member of the study group under Robert K. Reischauer of Princeton University and was to study in Kobe that September...
When fighting broke out in Shanghai and Reischauer was killed in a bombing, Miss Maginnis fled to Manila, where she shared the city's worst earthquake in 30 years. When she reached Kobe, she decided the year was not a propitious one for her art study and relinquished the fellowship...
...Weidman was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, with which he created the ballet "Fables for Our Times." It has been produced on Broadway, at New York City's Golden Anniversary celebration, and on television...
...passed one more resolution applauding David E. Lilienthal's decision to grant an Atomic Energy fellowship to a qualified student, even though the student was a member of the Communist Party...
Money for the proposed fellowship would come from the Evans Carlson Memorial Fund established by the AVC in 1947. The $850 now in the fund was earned when the Chapter sponsored a talk by Henry A. Wallace in October, 1947. Although they did not know exactly what the fund would be used for at that time, the members tried to increase it but were unable to get more speakers...