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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chester J. Boulris '60 was presented the Frederick Crocker Award--unofficially the football team's most valuable player award--at the annual team dinner held last night at the Harvard Club of Boston. The trophy is given to the letterman who, in the opinion of his teammates, "possesses initiative, perseverance, courage, and selflessness...
...praising his team, coach John Yovicsin spoke especially of the seniors, also thanking his staff, the alumni, and the students for their support. Particular words of praise went to Harold J. Keohane '60, 1959 captain, and Terry F. Lenzner '61, captain-elect, who also spoke...
...projects, are the marble interior of the shrine, eleven chapels which will project from the outside of the building, and some 20 altars within. Catholics will have contributed more than $30 million by the time the shrine is completed ($18 million has been raised so far). Says Monsignor Thomas J. Grady, fifth director of the shrine project: "God was good to us. In the five years it took to build the upper church-with as many as 200 men a day working 200-300 feet up-no one was killed or seriously injured...
...Waterville, Me., a tall, friendly man of 65 sat back and mused: "I think I was born to teach, not to be a college president." J. (for Julius) Seelye Bixler should have known better. Last week, as his successor prepared to take over solid little Colby College, retiring President Bixler's 17-year record looked hard to beat...
...steps Colby's Dean of Faculty Robert E. L. Strider, 42, who taught English at Connecticut College before switching to Colby in 1957. More "intellectual curiosity" is new President Strider's aim. It would not have been possible if Colby had not risen to the quality in J. Seelye Bixler. Colby no longer gets its students mainly from Maine; it is drawing bright applicants from all over the East. Says outgoing President Bixler, who will teach religion at the University of Hawaii next year: "They aren't all topnotch students, but most of them are eager. People...