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Sorcerer & Apprentice. There is no precedent for failure in Charles Erwin Wilson's career. Born in Minerva, Ohio, where his father, Thomas Wilson, was principal of the local public school, Erwin Wilson (as his friends called him) had a traditional boyhood: the swimming hole, a pony, stolen rides on railroad handcars, improvised shows in a neighbor's barn (with Erwin Wilson as the magician). The Wilson family moved to Pittsburgh in 1904. At Pittsburgh's Bellevue High and later at Carnegie Tech, Erwin was a fair to middling athlete (basketball and football), and a bright and dogged...
This does not mean that General Education and the Bender Plan emerged Minerva-like from the Decanal forehead, unaided by members of the committees involved and the Faculty. Rather, it was a matter of the Provost's ability to bring up ideas, to appoint good men to committees and to secure the best from them and to allow fully play for the wisdom of the Faculty as a whole without relinquishing the essence of either program. This combination of initiative, tolerance, and determination has steadily characterized his thirteen years in office...
Family & Early Years: Born in 1890 at Minerva, Ohio. Both his father and mother were schoolteachers. "Engine Charlie" has been fascinated by machines since he was a boy (two of the Wilsons' neighbors were locomotive engineers who often took him for rides). He went through a four-year electrical engineering course at Carnegie Tech in three years, graduated...
...tragic what has happened to the wonderful old pieces of furniture which were bought by the early Presidents. Except for the Blue Room suite, there is not a single stick of that original furniture left, and the two clocks [the Minerva, in the Blue Room, and the Hannibal, in the Green Room], along with a number of clocks in the various bedrooms, are the only early pieces that are left...
Police said the woman registered in Back Bay's Hotel Minerva under an assumed name...