Word: minnich
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...type of sobersided teacher the fledgling university wanted. Last week, in a high-ceilinged room of Miami University's Alumni Library, 300 members of the McGuffey Society came to dedicate a museum to the sober scholar (and to his disciple, Miami's late Dean Harvey C. Minnich), who was to become one of the best-known names in U.S. education: the author of McGuffey's famed Eclectic Readers...
...fruits of nearly half a century's search for McGuffey memorabilia. They examined the octagonal revolving desk at which the Readers were written and the statue of the master himself, surrounded by children dressed in roundabouts and pantalets. The books in the collection, largely gathered by Dean Minnich, ran to nearly 400 editions, including one Japanese translation and some Southern reprints from Reconstruction days...
...highly pleased that the mess hall people are taking corrective action, however belated. As a civic-minded institution, you should offer praise, not criticism. Dwight B. Minnich...
...Benjamin Minnich '51, technical director of the network, said that the cables would hook up with the dormitories' electrical lines and produce a radio signal by radiation...
...improvement and repair work is the change of dial position. The present frequency is "uncomfortably close" to that of several local stations. On the advice of the technical director of a Boston station, WHRB has chosen 550, a frequency comfortably clear of the professional networks. Equipment has been ordered, Minnich said, and the change will be made as soon as it arrives...