Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These scholarships are made possible by donations from the W. T. Grant Fund, the James C. Melvin Fund, the Jerome Jones Fund, and the Commercial Credit Company. Similar to the National Scholarships given by the College, the awards constitute the second such group to be announced by a graduate school in the University...
...Melvin H. Kaplan '42, Cambridge, Mass...
Sears Prizes, of $400 each, given annually to the students in the School who have done the most brilliant work in their class during the past year, regardless of financial need, were awarded to Robert S. Ashby, Melvin Richter '37, Albert J. Rosenthal, and James P. Williams...
When Bridge returned to school the following Monday, he came with a bodyguard, a seaman friend named Morton Rosen, 19. Also tagging along were some 30 boys, mostly Jewish, from Baltimore's City College (a senior high school). Outside the school they met Melvin Bridge's tormentors. Words flew, then fists. Into the fight leaped two teachers, one with a baseball bat, which he swung at Bridge's bodyguard. Police quickly squelched the battle, arrested Bodyguard Rosen...
School officials promptly suspended 18 of Melvin Bridge's assailants, four of his avengers. A grand jury found Rosen guiltless, let him go. Baltimore's School Board started an investigation of anti-Semitic activities in Baltimore's schools; Jewish David Emrich Weglein, Superintendent of Public Instruction, and a 'group of prominent Jewish citizens followed suit...