Word: monroes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When successful Ivy League administrators change jobs, they usually move on and up into government or business rather than back down into the world of small liberal arts schools. Last week Harvard College's highly popular Dean John Usher Monro, 54, announced that he will give up his post this summer to become director of freshman studies at Alabama's tiny (1,000 students), all-Negro Miles College (TIME, Nov. 8, 1963). Among his duties will be directing workshops to help prospective students overcome high school deficiencies and revamping the freshman curriculum. "If you do the job right...
Sitting in Cambridge, all John Monro could say about Glimp's folder at first was "maybe." Glimp was just another veteran--and the criteria for admitting veterans were still uncertain. His application didn't exactly cry for attention. "My record wasn't exciting," Glimp recalls. "Neither was I." His lack of an interview also hurt...
...What Monro saw in the forms Glimp submitted he can't really explain; it must have been more than Glimp's being rural and mid-Western, though that was something Harvard wanted. For whatever reason, he put the folder aside and read it again--and again. Then, with some misgivings, he recommended that the College accept the man who would 20 years later succeed him as its Dean...
Glimp spent the first few months wondering if it had all been a mistake. He was taking the equivalent of three Gen Ed courses and Gov 1, but it seemed like too much. His exams marks were low. Finally Monro called him in and practically ordered him to change two of his courses...
...picked young assistants because he was sure his kind of admissions office would be a perfect testing ground for their administrative skills and interest in students. Monro was hired by Bender in 1946, when all this was still an idea; eight years later, Monro was in charge of financial aid. And that year, with the same instinct, Bender hired Glimp...