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For 15 summers, he had spent his vacations on a farm high on Potash Hill, in the nearly deserted Vermont hamlet of Marlboro. Marlboro had once been a flourishing center, but its industry and population had gradually dwindled until three years ago even the postofice shut down. Now a few...
Pie & Pigs. In Vermont's hills, he found friends to back him. Over apple pie & cheese, Hendricks unfolded the scheme to Poet Robert Frost. "I'm going to start a college, Bob," he said. Replied Frost: "I'll be durned. I always wanted to, myself."
As Hendricks left the Frost cottage, with the poet's promise to lecture at the new college, the aurora borealis was flashing across the skies; Hendricks took it as a good omen. At midnight he reached the home of another summertime neighbor and friend, Dorothy Thompson. She liked the...
Things have been humming ever since. Last winter, Serkin and his father-in-law, Violinist Adolf Busch, gave a benefit concert in nearby Brattleboro and raised $3,800 to start the money-raising ball rolling. All summer, carpenters and masons have pounded nails and poured concrete to convert the colonial...
Call Me Mister. For the first year, at least, Marlboro plans to admit only 100 students, 60% of them ex-G.I.s, with New England solidly represented. Faculty members will have no ranks or titles; just plain "Mister" will do. (Hendricks picked up that idea at the American University in...