Word: hinton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 15 years of teaching, bustling, buoyant Carmelita Chase Hinton in 1935 decided to quit the Shady Hill School in Cambridge, Mass. and start a school of her own. The Bryn Mawr-trained daughter of an Omaha editor and art patron, widow (with three children) of a Chicago lawyer, Mrs. Hinton was no ordinary schoolmarm. And as a disciple of John Dewey, she intended to found no ordinary New England boarding school...
...Putney School grew, Director Hinton kept the pioneer spirit fiercely alive. Her blue-jeaned charges learned their math and history in the mornings; in the afternoons they learned how to ski, tend cows, or run a blacksmith's shop. There were no rigid schedules of weekly exams, no report cards-not even football teams. After hours, students were urged to strike out on their own projects, e.g., sonnet-writing, musical composition, working with wrought iron. Nor were the sexes kept apart. Said one recent alumnus: "There is no 'problem.' After you've worked all afternoon around...
...Hinton's long-absent children, Joan, 33, and William, 35, made congressional-committee headlines as proCommunists (TIME, Aug. 9), the school caught a whiff of bad publicity. But, respected and liked in her Vermont community, Rugged Individualist Hinton attracted the children of some of the nation's top professional and amateur educators (e.g., High Commissioner for Germany James B. Conant, former Ford Foundation President Paul G. Hoffman, Pundit Marquis Childs), and unendowed Putney prospered...
...cautious student can receive a thorough examination at the Hygiene Building on Holyoke Street. Above is Henry Elkins '56, who is seated under the portrait of Roger I. Lee '02, the founder of the School of Public Health. The physician conducting the check-up is Dr. Elmer E. Hinton...
...Loyal American?" Hinton concluded: "I feel certain that no government can hope to lead the Chinese into aggressive adventures abroad." The committee which had heard about aggressive adventures in Korea and Indo-China, was dumfounded. Later, Chairman Jenner, struck by Hinton's repeated mention of cooperation, asked: "Why don't you cooperate with this committee? Why don't you want to make us as happy as those people . . . in Communist China?" Hinton was hurt. "Look," he remonstrated, "I have not been accused of any crimes. I'm a perfectly loyal American citizen...