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...Buck, Director of the University Library and Librarian of Harvard College, will serve on a commission which has been formed to study the humanities. Established by the American Council of Learned Societies, the Council of Graduate Schools in the United States and the United Chapters of Phi Beta Kappa, the group will study problems of creativity, scholarship and teaching. Frederick Burkhardt, president of the American Council of Learned Societies, stated the aims of the commission: "Rather than simply bewailing the 'imbalance' between the sciences and the humanities, we must specify as precisely as possible the present and future needs...
...Oktay Sinanoglu was a budding short story writer in his native Turkey. But then he decided that Turks needed science more than fiction and switched to chemistry. Between 1956 and 1959, Sinanoglu managed to graduate from the University of California with a Phi Beta Kappa key, get an M.S. at M.I.T. and a Ph.D. at Berkeley, and become a nuclear notable for his "many-electron theory of atoms and molecules." Last week, 2½ years after joining the Yale faculty, where he teaches quantum chemistry to graduate students, Sinanoglu was named a full professor at the ripe young...
...went to a two-room schoolhouse with one room closed for lack of students. In high school and college bands she played the oboe and the bagpipe. From the State University of Iowa, she got a B.A. in art, an M.A. in oil painting, and a Phi Beta Kappa key. There, too, she married Composer John Gruen, now an art and music critic for the New York Herald Tribune. They have one crayon-crazy daughter, aged four...
...Russell Wiggins, editor and executive vice-president of the Washington Post and Times-Herald, will give the Phi Beta Kappa oration. Wiggins, who has been in the newspaper business for more than 40 years, has worked for the Post and the New York Times. He is the author of Freedom Or Secrecy...
John Hay '38, a poet and naturalist, will deliver the Phi Beta Kappa poem. Hay, the president of the Cape Cod Museum of Natural History, is the author of A Private History, a volume of poems published...