Word: middletowners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Genial, white-haired Rev. George B. Gilbert has lived near Middletown, Conn, for 42 years, never moving his residence more than a mile and a half. An Episcopalian, he calls himself a circuit rider. First with a buggy, then with a Model T Ford, now with a big, seven-passenger Nash, he has cared for an area 100 miles square. Three churches claim him in turn every Sunday, one of them giving him hot coffee to go with his picnic lunch: Emmanuel in Killingworth, Epiphany in Durham, St. James in Haddam...
...Gilbert has been chaplain of the Connecticut Senate, sat in its House from 1927 to 1929, has been on the Middletown City Council, is now on its school board. For 25 years he has written for the Rural New-Yorker a homely column, full of health and heart, called "Pastoral Parson and His Country Folks." Sample: "Here comes a man and says . . . 'Can any be possibly saved who are not Episcopalians?' 'Well,' the Parson answers humorously, 'hardly any, perhaps a few choice souls.' " Mr. Gilbert in his youth learned barbering, still cuts his parishioners...
...most famed modern sociologists is Robert Staughton Lynd, Princeton '14. Dr. Lynd is best known for the monumental studies he and his eminent wife made of the town of Muncie, Ind. and described in Middletown (1929) and Middletown in Transition (1937). Since he wrote Middletown, Dr. Lynd has taught sociology at Columbia University and brooded on the fact that mankind, busily using the knowledge of natural scientists to make dangerous machines, remains in different to the knowledge of social scientists. Looking upon a chaotic world, Professor Lynd decided that it was a great tragedy that "men build their cultures...
...graduate of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Connecticut, Olson studied at Yale in 1932-33 as an Olin Fellow in English. In 1933-34 he worked on his Melville project, one chapter of which, "Lear and Moby Dick," has been published. After two years on the faculty of Clark University in Worcester, he came to Harvard as a staff member and graduate student...
...months ago a workman in Armco's Middletown, Ohio mills suggested that the management sponsor a housing development for employes. His letter passed from executive to executive, 15 university experts were consulted, the Federal Housing Administration and Department of Agriculture queried. Finally 80 workers were called in to approve the management's ideas. They did, and last week President Hook announced the creation of Fertile Valleys Homesteads on 60 acres of farm land three miles south of Middletown...