Word: fordham
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...work was only passable, but the teacher-shy high school was delighted to have another math instructor. Fordham moved his family into a house in nearby Hamilton, and his wife Geneva, who also had credentials from Westminster, landed a job in a Hamilton elementary school. For the Fordhams, the future seemed assured-until one day they applied for a small loan at the Household Finance Corp...
...Admittance. In the course of its routine investigation, the finance company wrote Westminster College in Cochran ville, Pa. to learn more about Fordham. Since there is no college of any sort at Cochranville, the letter ended up at the nearest Westminster, in New Wilmington, Pa. Yes, the college said, Henry Fordham had once applied for admission, "but we didn't admit him because of the poor quality of the work represented by his credits." Fordham's documents, complete with a most convincing seal, had nothing to do with that Westminster College...
From Newark, Del., School Superintendent Wilmer E. Shue reported that Fordham "has never taught in our schools." At Lincoln University, President Horace Mann Bond checked into the matter of the testimonial from John Wagner, declared that there was no such person in the phone book and that no one by that name had ever been connected with the university. Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, said that he had never heard of Henry Fordham...
...Yourself. Had the Cincinnati school system been dealing with any other sort of man, the case against Fordham might have ended there. But though found out, Fordham insisted that he had a legal right to his full year's pay. His Westminster documents, he added, were not really forgeries, for he himself had created the college with seat at Cochranville, Pa., and, had given himself and his wife degrees. To back up his argument, Fordham turned to the dictionary, where a college is defined as "a collection, body, or society of persons engaged in common pursuits." He, his wife...
Outdoor Mass. Manhattan's San Juan fiesta was held on the campus of Fordham University. In charge was handsome, energetic Msgr. Joseph F. Connolly. Working with him was young (29) Father Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Roman-trained linguist whose work among Manhattan Puerto Ricans was recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York...