Word: instructors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cherry Point, N.C., photographers caught the former Boston Red Sox outfield Slugger Ted Williams warming up in another league. Recalled to active duty in the Marine Corps last May, Captain Williams, who served three years with the Marines in World War II, one of them as aviation instructor at Pensacola, is getting a refresher course in the finer points of fighter planes...
Bowdoin's Halifax-born Kenneth C. M. Sills, 72, longtime (34 years) president of the college. A former Latin instructor, famed for his fidgets (he used to tear whole handkerchiefs to shreds while teaching), "Casey" Sills mellowed into a pleasant, paunchy "ex-scholar," famed for his love of Dante, for eating (so goes the legend) eleven lobster stews at a sitting, and for liking to run his piny campus just as if Longfellow were still there: "Excellent teaching in wooden halls is much better than wooden teaching in marble halls...
...problem of getting the right personnel worried faculty and student alike until after the April Overseers meeting when the College announced the first four Burr Tutors. They were: Ayers Brinser '31. Lecurer on Economics (Kirkland); Daniel S. Cheever '39, assistant professor of Government. (Winthrop): John J. Conway, instructor in General Education, (Eliot): and Joseph C. Palamountain. Jr., assistant professor of Government, (Adams...
They are Herbert I. Bruning, Principal of Emporia High School, Emporia, Kansas; Frank G. Dickey, Dean of the College of Education, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky; John W. Hanson, Instructor in Education at University High School, Urbana, Illinois; and Douglass B. Roberts, Assistant Superintendent of Schools in Westport, Connecticut...
...Reynolds Tobacco Co. (Camels), into paying for his lessons. By 16 he had got his private pilot's license, and by the time he graduated from the University of Arizona (he went there for his asthma), he had qualified as a commercial pilot and a flight instructor. He sold Piper Cubs, then formed Piedmont Aviation Inc. to combine plane sales, maintenance, flying instruction and charter service. When World War II broke, he began training Air Force flying instructors and ferry pilots. By war's end Davis had piled up $60,000 in profits and was ready to start...