Word: fellowships
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Elaine P. Tanner is the first girl to win a prized Henry Fellowship. She will study political science at the University of Cambridge, England. Phyllis Botner Davies will also leave the country, on a special grant from the World Government Association. With her husband she will spend two months in Israel as the group's representative...
...fellowship went to Jo'ann Jehl for work towards a doctorate in public health at the Harvard Medical School. Sizeable fellowships also were awarded to Mary S. Grimley and Patricia R. McMillin for graduate studies at the Universities of Chicago and Illinois respectively...
Dynamo. Elmer Lindseth calls himself "a beneficiary of the capitalist system." The son of Swedish immigrants (his father was a blacksmith), he won scholarships to Cleveland's Case Institute of Technology and Ohio's Miami University, later a teaching fellowship to Yale. He worked summers as a helper in one of C.E.I.'s boiler plants, got a full-time job as a "junior tester" in 1926. Within a year he became a production engineer, later moved up as an assistant to C.E.I.'s President Eben Crawford, stepped into his shoes (and an $80,000 salary...
...that. At 29, he has to his credit a ballet suite, Paul Bunyan, half a dozen short orchestral and choral works, and two string quartets. His second quartet, composed in 1944, won him a blessing from New York critics, a National Institute of Arts and Letters grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a job teaching composition at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music...
...world were presented one day last week to a shy-looking, silver-haired man as he stood before a gathering on the Main Line campus of Pennsylvania's Haverford College. There some 600 Friends and friends of Friends gathered for a day of speechmaking, picnicking and Quaker fellowship to honor Clarence Evan Pickett, 65, retiring as executive secretary of the American Friends Service Committee...