Word: monro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Monro will continue to serve in his present capacity as counsellor for veterans and there will be no change in the present operation of his office. His primary concern in his new position will be with undergraduate problems, particularly scholarships, student aid, and employment...
...John U. Monro '35, University Counselor for Veterans, challenged Conlon's objections to federal aid to medical schools. Monro cited the lack of federal interference with colleges despite the large government payments to them under the GI bill, and questioned why payments to medical schools would necessarily entail government control...
About his future--for veterans are a sometime thing, after all-Monro is not talking. He would like to write a novel someday, and not about the war, either. He drops in at the Armory every week for whatever sort of reserve drill they give full Commanders in the Navy. And he talks, a bit wistfully, of the little vacation he's going to take "after everything gets squared away." Beyond this, his plans are vague, except for the assurance that he "aims to be useful...
...Today, Monro still has one of the most difficult positions in the University. His long, lean frame and intent features, crowned by straight black hair that sticks up in spikes, are a familiar sight around the Yard at all hours of the day and night. His shirt-sleeved figure has been seen at his office typewriter more than once by Weld Hall residents returning from late dates. His charges, which include veterans in all parts of the University, now number something over 7,000--only 2,000 below the peak of 1946-47. His office is the channel for about...
Many of his most difficult jobs remain unknown to the veterans they concern. Monro like to think of himself as a "shock-absorber" between the well-intentioned but sometimes confusing directives of Uncle Sam and the individual veteran. He tries not to disturb the latter too often with forms-in-triplicate or progress questionnaires...