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With new funds and increasingly upbeat faculty, Thiemann, who was acting president of Haverford College before accepting his Harvard post this summer, said he plans to modernize the school and revive its traditions...
...plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius ("Dr. J") Erving, 36, pro basketball star...
...summer of 1976, Judkins, then a 19-year-old New Hampshire boy attending Haverford College, signed on as a cook with a circus bound for broke. Cooking led to a truck-driving job, then magician, then fire-eater ("It's just basic common sense. Heat rises. Keep the heat going up. Keep your mouth wet--and your mustache trimmed"), then sideshow manager, then ringmaster. Then the show went bankrupt. Judkins' last task, in December 1977, was to return an elephant leased from D.R. Miller. Hauling a rented trailer that the elephant was systematically reducing to bits, Judkins reached Hugo penniless...
Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran minister, comes to Harvard after 10 years of teaching and administration at Haverford, a Quaker School. He received his B.A. from Concordia Senior College in Indiana and three graduate degrees from Yale. He was not available for comment yesterday...
...proven in administrative work and teaching at Haverford a style of leadership which enables people to cooperate without sacrificing particular aspects of their theological tradition," said Hanson...