Word: hillyer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...incorrectly." But he did have a document to prove that he had a degree from Westminster College in Cochranville, Pa. He had-or so his papers indicated-taught in Newark, Del., and he had testimonials from a John Wagner at Pennsylvania's Lincoln University and from Professor Robert Hillyer of the University of Delaware. The board put him down as "slightly above average," and when the 1955-56 term began, Henry Fordham found himself teaching mathematics in the Robert A. Taft High School...
...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...
Advocate alumni have found time, however, to do more in a literary way than the titles above would indicate. Among their ranks are not only Eliot, Aiken, and DeVoto, but George Lyman Kittredge, Charles Townsend Copeland, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Wallace Stevens, Van Wyck Brooks, e.e. cummings, Robert Hillyer, Malcolm Cowley, and James Laughlin. In the dramatic line, John Mason Brown, Lincoln Kirstein, and Leonard Bernstein were Advocateers. A few have even become political luminaries: Teddy and F.D. Roosevelt, as well as A.M. Schlesinger, Jr. Such a list is certainly a telling justification for the Advocate's existence. That the alumni...
People Unadulterated. In discussing the faiths they live by, barely half of the contributors to This I Believe found it necessary to mention "God" and only ten owned up to having any formal religious belief. Among them: Poet Robert Hillyer, Educator Elizabeth Gray Vining, National League Umpire Ralph ("Babe") Pinelli. (Said Umpire Pinelli: "I believe in my God, my family, my country and baseball...
Born. To Iran's Princess Fatmeh Pahlevi, 23, who in 1950 remarried her husband in a Moslem ceremony in order to win back her royal prerogatives from her miffed brother, the Shah, and California Importer-Exporter Ali Vincent Lee Hillyer, 26, who, to help his wife, renounced Roman Catholicism and took no God but Allah: their first child, a son; in Santa Monica. Name: Cayvon Pahlavi. Weight: 7 Ibs. 110z...